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Saturday, August 18, 2007

More on the jackass reporter in Boston

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whining that the nasty 2nd Amendment types are out to get him. The Real Gun Guys have a nice roundup of the situation. Oh, and they were t...
Friday, August 17, 2007

As my experience now says, Don't Buy Pentax

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They may make good cameras, but their red-dots suck. And so does their 'customer support'. About a month ago at Dealer Days at H...

Dammit!

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Couple of days ago I ran across a blog which had-among other things- a very good recipe for making smoke bombs. Anyone know who it might ha...
Thursday, August 16, 2007

And we're supposed to trust Federal authorities

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why ? In one eye-popping exchange , two congressmen—one Democrat and one Republican—confronted Wayne Murphy, the assistant director of the F...
Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Another reason not to vote for Giuliani

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I've mentioned before that I could not vote for him, if for no other reason than his hostility to the 2nd Amendment. Well, I was over a...
Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Old movies

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Some are bad, some are good. And some are very damn good. Not necessarily 'won an Oscar' good, but very good movies. Over at Sera...

I started agreeing with Charles and calling them Palisimians

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when I saw things like this : GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Saraa Barhoum picked at the buttons on her pink bellbottom jeans as she twisted on a c...

Oh, for... If you actually needed further proof that Once Great Britain

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is in the toilet, here it is : DOCTORS and health workers have been banned from eating lunch at their desks - in case it offends their Mus...

A bit more on point-shooting

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I've heard it referred to as 'shooting without aiming', but that's not the case. It's flat wrong, in fact. No, you don...
Monday, August 13, 2007

The son is now off to a hot and sandy place

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I'm not sure what might or might not be a problem so far as information goes, so for the time being all I'll say is left Germany(in ...

Shameless pimping of a relative's blog

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My daughter has decided to start a new one, on the subject of putting together a Writer's Guide to Weapons. It's just started, The ...

Just a handy little knife

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With a bit of fancy Blade's O1 and about 4", grip is antler, fittings are brass with a bit of filework on the edges.
Sunday, August 12, 2007

Just what IS going to happen to Russia?

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The Geek had this up a few days back, and there've been other discussions about this for some time. Barring a miracle, I think Russia ...
Saturday, August 11, 2007

Well, Murtha? We're waiting

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And waiting. For you to actually show some integrity, considering what a jerk you've been proven to be : In his recommendation, Lt. Col...

Human-caused Globular Warmering Updated

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my ass : These graphs were created by NASA's Reto Ruedy and James Hansen (who shot to fame when he accused the administration of trying ...
Friday, August 10, 2007

Point shooting, and the current e-Postal Match Updated with Bill Jordan pictures

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The current match is at Carnaby Fudge , and the first stage is 'no sights, point and shoot'. Which I rather like. Current handgun t...
Thursday, August 09, 2007

Yeah, just a nice little multi-culti school

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As long as it's the RIGHT multi-culti : The first New York Charter School for Arab girls is selling T-shirts emblazoned with the words ...

Only thing I'll post on this piece of idiocy

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is the same thing Uncle , Xavier and Kevin said: "Rule 4, Goddammit!"
Wednesday, August 08, 2007

Here's another one to hold you over

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Spent a couple of days visiting my parents(not long enough, but what time I had) and I need some sleep before work. So here's another p...
Monday, August 06, 2007

Cutting tests

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One thing I've always done, with every blade I've made, is test it. Both for cutting ability, edge-holding and toughness. Reason i...
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