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Thursday, August 02, 2007

Damn, a British tribunal with intelligence and honor!

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I took note here of the utter bullshit being used to refuse entry of Gurkha veterans of British military service to Britain for medical tre...

Well, that was interesting

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Went to the range yesterday afternoon, both for some general stress relief and to start testing something(more on that later). I was shooti...
Wednesday, August 01, 2007

It's confirmed: I won't be browsing through eBay anymore

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Fast response, at least. Got this this afternoon: "Thank you for your recent email to Matt Halprin in regard to changes to our Firear...
Tuesday, July 31, 2007

If true, won't be buying from eBay or Half.Com anymore

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Got a sale flyer from J&G today, and it included this: Also, for years gun enthusiasts have bought and sold gun parts on eBay, J&G ...

Found some pictures of a couple of knives

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and, having had access to a scanner for a bit, scanned them and decided to post a couple. This is one of the fanciest pieces I ever made. T...
Monday, July 30, 2007

Why Ahmadogcrap of Iran was so worried about squirrels

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What do you think, .17M2? Thanks to Theo

Putting pieces together

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Eric at Classical Values has this post on digging out details of a possible murder in Philadelphia, which ends up with: OK, if we play det...

What's more important? The matter at hand, or the time on stage?

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What I've been thinking about is the attitude and thoughts of some of the activist types who do things like threaten the careers- and so...
Sunday, July 29, 2007

Some more general stuff

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These globular warmering people are getting more unhinged : The head of the Environmental Protection Agency says he will investigate a threa...
Saturday, July 28, 2007

Just a combination of things

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For the enviroweenie on your eat it, you jerk! gift list, Kim has linked to a truly incredible(well, disgusting too) piece at Civilization ...
Thursday, July 26, 2007

If this turns out to be true,

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this is something else that's downright big. By the way, did Murtha actually wave a Purple Heart around to show what a hotshot he is? ...

So the lying little boob is unmasked

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Hot Air has it, with lots of links to more. Blackfive has several pieces on this, latest here ; more worth reading on this and other thin...
Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Remarkable things happen with you give simple orders:

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Go in numbers, kill or capture the bad guys and keep them from returning .

Survival

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Somebody linked to this post on the subject, specifically the way people just don't think about the fact that nature doesn't give a...
Tuesday, July 24, 2007

And yet more on the 'Shock Troops' bullshit

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Through Insty ran across two things. One is a different way of analyzing it, found here . Interesting read, although this pisses me off: W...
Monday, July 23, 2007

On dealing with the possessed

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Back when I was a dispatcher there was a guy working in another headquarters who was an EMT, and he'd occasionally tell a story about so...

Things do move along

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I just bought a 32mb jump drive for the grand total of $5. At the checkout counter. At Target. And Wally World has a 2 gig drive for $20. ...

More on the 'Shock Troops' story

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Emphasis on 'story'. Over at Q&O, found several pieces, from earliest to latest here , here , and here , and links to a Howard K...
Sunday, July 22, 2007

H&H Range had Dealer's Days

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on Thursday, Friday & Saturday. They've been doing this for several years now, and it's pretty nice. This year they had people...

'New Republic publishes 'Murdering Soldiers' story

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Smell of bovine fertilizer in the air I'm quite a bit behind on this. Some clown going by Scott Thomas had a piece in NR called 'Sh...
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