United Airlines: what the HELL is wrong with you?

And do you have any idea how much future business your morons have lost you?

Be it noted, a couple of UA people who had some working brain cells and compassion- or maybe just realized how badly they'd fucked up- gave him help:
Eventually two United Airlines employees noticed Stanek's stress and helped him get on a different airline.
'Eventually'. Interesting word, isn't it?

And, not surprisingly, United Airlines(Abusing the vets so nobody else has to!) doesn't want to talk about it.
Action 7 News spent the day Thursday emailing and calling United Airlines for a response and never got through to an actual person.

Lucky Gunner did some eye-protection testing

They've got it up here, pics and video

One of the things they found: good impact-rated protection should be replaced regularly if it's out in the sun a lot; looks like lots of UV exposure weakens them over time.

Some Gunwalker stuff

Republican congressional investigators have concluded that five senior ATF officials -- from the special agent-in-charge of the Phoenix field office to the top man in the bureau’s Washington headquarters -- are collectively responsible for the failed Fast and Furious gun-tracking operation that was “marred by missteps, poor judgments and inherently reckless strategy.”

The investigators, in a final report likely to be released later this week, also unearthed new evidence that agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in Phoenix initially sought to hide from the Mexican government the crucial information that two Fast and Furious firearms were recovered after the brother of a Mexican state attorney general was killed there.
...
Two more final reports, they said, will deal with “the devastating failure of supervision and leadership” at the Department of Justice and an “unprecedented obstruction of the [congressional] investigation by the highest levels of the Justice Department, including the attorney general himself.”

The first report did allege some Justice Department involvement, however, notably that Kenneth E. Melson, then acting ATF director, was made into a “scapegoat” for Fast and Furious after he told congressional Republicans his Justice Department supervisors “were doing more damage control than anything” else once Fast and Furious became public.
Couple of possibilities here: one is that more is on the way, and Issa & Grassley aren't backing off on trying to get the documents Holder & Obama are hiding. The other is this is the Stupid Party backing down and letting this primarily be blamed on the scapegoats, who nothing will ever happen to.
We'll see which it is. And if it's the Stupid Party backing down, one more brick in the "After this election, start a third party" road.



Well, isn't this special?
On the morning of July 11, 2010, Ryan and others arrived at the hotel and began setting up Friends of the IDF banners, literature and piles of shirts for the event guests.

But the event was aborted after, according to one employee’s sworn testimony, the hotel’s owner told staff members, “Get the [expletive deleted] Jews out of my pool.” Then the hotel security and other employees began removing the materials and ordering the guests to leave.


On the attempts to bring back and expand the Clinton ban on 'magazines that make bigots wet their pants',
The free exercise of my rights is not contingent on the approval of some parasite government bureaucrat or their pathetic fan club.
More goodness involving some blunt words at the link(found thanks to Tam).




In short, the DEA here commandeered private property from a law-abiding businessman and ineptly deployed it in an operation that got a man killed and now endangers a family that had nothing to do with the case. There is a term for what the DEA did with that truck: grand theft auto.

The DEA is running neck-and-neck with the ATF for the title of most dangerous federal law-enforcement agency; in my view, both should be dissolved and their responsibilities handed over to some more responsible party, such as a group of drunken rodeo clowns or ADD-addled teen-agers.


Where Great Britian used to be:
A teenager has been arrested on suspicion of posting malicious Twitter messages directed at British Olympic diver Tom Daley, U.K. police said Tuesday.
Really? THIS is what you need to spend your time on?


I can sympathize; that's a lot more polite than what I've wanted to say to some media weenies at times.

Tam writes of lights, so I'll pile in(on?)

I’m a big fan of flashlights. Besides the ‘see what you might have to shoot/blind the bad guy’ options, I’ve been caught in the dark with no artificial means of light a few times, and it sucks. So I’ve got a bunch of them around. Here's the various 'carry around' stuff

Rundown, top to bottom:
My first high-performance light was a Surefire G2. Blinding-bright, tough, a good light. I would up buying one for each kid for Christmas that year so they’d have a good light. Of course, then came the LED lamps that produced actual white light, and I picked up one of those for the light. Which stayed in the truck, until a Surefire dealer at Dealer Days had a deal, and I got a yellow one(easier to find when I dropped it) for the truck and the green one went into the house.

Then, at a gun show, a guy had a sale on Fenix lights and I got a P3D: LED lamp, two CR123 batteries, four modes: low(9 lumens), medium, high(123 lumens) and SOS in extra-bright. Memory, so it stays in whatever mode you left it when last turned off. That one stays in the pocket of my winter jacket, generally.

A while after that, stopped at Cabela’s when in Texas visiting folks and they had a very nice LED light for twenty bucks: uses two AA batteries and about 60 lumens. Got one for a lady I was seeing, too, as her car had no flashlight. Next time I was down was going to pick up one for a lady I worked with, and the price had doubled(Yeah, she’s nice, but damn). No idea what they're running now.

Next one's a personal 'I just wanted' which I got from Lighthound. Company called Solar Force makes parts you can buy; I got this body and this lamp. So I had a tacticool light that’s held up very well.

At Tulsa the next year a light & water filter dealer had these little ITP lights on sale and I got one. Uses one AAA, low-medium-high modes. It stays in my bike jacket pocket. It hasn’t been used a lot, but it’s still on the original battery after three or four years.

And last, the actual keyring light. ‘Lights’ actually, as I’ve got one on the house keyring and the bike keyring, and I’ve given a couple of them as gifts. I like it because, like Tam’s Photon, you turn it on and it stays on until you squeeze again to turn it off. They're inexpensive, and if you get more than $20 of stuff, they throw one in.

I'll throw in this as well: The Larry worklight
Flashlight dealer at a show had these and I got one for the house. Now it's the light that stays on the bike in case of trouble. 60 lumens, three AAA batteries, lots of light and it'll run for hours. Damn good for finding things you dropped, as it's a floodlight instead of a narrow beam.

Yeah, there're more lights around the house, but these are the ones that get carried(keyring, pocket, jacket pocket, etc.)

And Lautenberg and McCarthy are off

The new legislation, dubbed the Stop Online Ammunition Sales Act, rests on four pillars, according to Lautenberg's office:

It requires anyone selling ammunition to be a licensed dealer.

It requires ammunition buyers who are not licensed dealers to present photo identification at the time of purchase, effectively banning the online or mail order purchase of ammo by regular civilians.

It requires licensed ammunition dealers to maintain records of the sale of ammunition.

It requires licensed ammunition dealers to report the sale of more than 1,000 rounds of ammunition to an unlicensed person within any five consecutive business days.
Buy two value packs of .22 ammo? You get reported. Get a deal on some 7.62x39 or .223 or 7.62x54 or whatever and grab the case? Get reported.

And don't forget, this will act as a backdoor registration system. "So, citizen, where's the gun you bought all that ammo for? " Etc.

Why are Democrats such bigots?

And can you imagine the Democrats and socialists screaming if some Republican or general conservative/libertarian said something about cheap, greedy Jews?

Oh, and that 'China will buy Canadian oil if we don't' argument

the Democrats said was nonsense?
It's not, and never was.

Bastards.

So the food police and Nanny Bloomberg are full of crap?

Whoda thunk it?


And please note at the end: the trans-fats they ordered everyone to eat instead of that nasty butter and lard and such:
Keep in mind, there is one type of fat that is implicated in high cholesterol, atherosclerosis, heart disease, and diabetes: Trans-fat. Trans-fats raise bad cholesterol, lower good cholesterol, and increase triglycerides, they also promotes inflammation and insulin resistance, according to a 2000 article in the Journal of the American College of Nutrition.

ATF head says "Oh, NO, I wasn't

threatening whistleblowers! Perish the thought!"
Well, Mr. Jones, considering the agency past, there's damn well reason for people to think you were. We'll see if you actually carry through, or not.


From the only reporter who's really dug into Gunwalker,
Expecting some potential #FastandFurious news this coming week, but am travelling. Will try to get to it all.


"We're too busy kicking your door in to make sure we've got the right place."


Dammit, Betty, not you too!!


Codrea also thinks they're just trying to work under the radar again:
Regardless, new ways to advance citizen disarmament “under the radar” are still being explored, anticipating a time when it will be deemed safe to green light them. Among these could be moves that bypass the legislature altogether, such as executive orders designed to limit imports of “non-sporting” firearms and ammunition, and new and costly requirements for licensed gun dealers that could drive smaller ones out of business.

Additionally, anti-gun legislative measures are still advancing, buried in pending bills that would escape notice unless watchful eyes were ever present. A case in point, The Hill reported Thursday, is a cyber security bill sponsored by leading “safe” Senate anti-gunners, containing an amendment that “would make it illegal to transfer or possess large capacity feeding devices such as gun magazines, belts, feed stripes [sic] and drums of more than 10 rounds of ammunition with the exception of .22 caliber rim fire ammunition.” The bill is scheduled for debate and amendment votes next week, and while survival of that provision is questionable, it illustrates that the public liberty must be guarded with jealous attention, and that the devil is always lurking in the details.


Screw being 'cautioned' this judge should've been removed from the bench. And disbarred.

"Latinos may lead the way to gun control in the future."

Not so fast, say other Latinos.
Borrowed from Sipsey Street(red emphasis is mine):

The other day I was doing an interview with a Mexican journalist and pointed out that the Mexican Revolution would have been impossible without American firearms. I also postulated that the solution to Mexican violence, where only the government and criminals have firearms, is to arm the Mexican people with Kalashnikovs and 300 rounds per to start -- especially the women -- as a counterbalance to both. She was shocked at the proposal. There was a recent debate at NBCLatino that applies to this subject.

First, Raul A. Reyes argued that Latinos were the key to gun control in the future.

While our political leaders worry about getting on the wrong side of gun control debate, Latinos are very progressive on the issue. An April report by the Pew Center found that Latinos are more likely to favor strict gun control laws that either whites or African-Americans. Similarly, a 2011 poll done by the bipartisan Mayors Against Illegal Guns Coalition found that 86 percent of Hispanic voters support requiring background checks on all gun sales. Sixty-nine percent believe the laws governing the sale of guns should be stronger. Perhaps in the future, as our numbers continue to grow, Hispanics will demand laws to limit the possibility of senseless gun violence.

Yes, the Second Amendment guarantees all Americans the right to have and bear arms. But let’s take a look at its actual words: “A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.” The key words here are “well regulated.” Our founding fathers clearly recognized that there might be a need for regulation of citizens and their firearms.

A good starting point would be to revive the ban on assault weapons. No one needs a semi-automatic for hunting, self-defense, or to protect their home. These are weapons designed for war. They are the weapons of choice for drug cartels and traffickers throughout Latin America, and they come from the U.S. If Holmes had not had an AR-15 assault rifle, surely we would not have seen so many casualties in Aurora.

Right now, Americans must call upon Congress and our candidates to fully discuss gun control.

Stephen A. Nuňo answers effectively with "Gun control is people control, with racist implications."

Some think that Latinos may lead the way to gun control in the future because they are more likely to favor strict gun control than others. Well, let’s hope not. Or at least, before Latinos enter into this debate, let’s hope they enter it with as much information about gun control than what they are learning from their liberal counterparts.

Last week’s tragedy in Aurora, Colorado has reset the debate over gun control with renewed hope by anti-gun advocates that Latinos may give them the electoral heft they need to increase the power of the gun control lobby.

First, let’s get one thing out-of-the-way. The right to keep and bear arms has nothing to do with hunting, collecting or sporting. The sensibilities of liberals’ anti-gun attitudes do not need to be assuaged as a prerequisite to owning firearms. The right to own firearms is a fundamental right recognized by the Constitution. It is not a privilege. It is a right just as voting, free speech or, dare I say, privacy is.

Second, the right to keep and bear arms is an individual right, not a collective right. It is not a State right. To say that a State can regulate firearms under the pretense of regulating a militia ignores the fundamental reason the 2nd Amendment exists, the connection between an armed citizenry and a free society.

This does not mean there should be zero regulations on guns, but the political standoff over gun control is fundamentally about mistrust. Gun owners simply do not trust the government or anti-gun folks to impose any regulations on gun ownership, and when gun control advocates create false justifications for the ownership of guns, such as hunting, gun owners are justified in that distrust.

Third, we should understand the historical connection between gun control and racism. Simply put, gun control is people control, and this has had deeply racist implications in the past. The roots of gun control in California are tied to white anxiety over Mexican-Americans and Chinese-Americans at the beginning of the 20th century.

Gun control gained renewed vigor in California after the Black Panthers armed themselves against white police officers intent on keeping their boots on the neck of the black community. Gun control in the South was explicitly designed to keep guns out of the hands of black communities who used firearms to defend themselves against the Ku Klux Klan. . .

Finally, the idea that Latinos are more disposed to gun control for any cultural reason is patently false. Mexico, where a majority of U.S. Latinos come from, is one of the few countries besides the United States to have its own version of the 2nd Amendment. Article 10 of the Mexican Constitution recognized over one hundred and fifty years ago that “every man has a right to have and carry arms for his security and legitimate defense”.

Unfortunately, Mexico’s recognition of the right to keep and bear arms included a direct avenue for government suppression of that right, with tragic results we don’t need to rehash here.

Latinos should acknowledge the greater historical context and meaning of the right to keep and bear arms before making a decision about gun control. Most important is the relationship between the people and the government. The government may indeed desire a less armed citizenry, or fewer armed Latinos, but Latinos’ answer to the government should be, fine, you first.

There was a quote I read a while back, and now I can't find it

Something along the lines of 'When someone says "There ought to be a law!" they're saying they're willing to send to police to kill you, if necessary, to force you to do what they want.'
Anybody know it, or where to find it?

Updated: Bob pointed to this one:
Each and every time someone says “there ought to be a law” they are saying that men with guns should enforce their will on innocent others.

Because you're too stupid to do the right thing unless Nanny Bloomberg

requires it.

To NYEffing City: screw you. You elected this statist dirtbag, over and over. I wouldn't give a rats ass what happened to you, except for his using his position to try and shove his crap on the whole country.

Yeah, there are some slight problems with their 'support' for gays

Like President Obama, Imam Qaradawi’s position on gays is in a state of “evolution”: He can’t decide whether to burn them or toss ’em off a cliff. “Some say we should throw them from a high place,” he told Al Jazeera. “Some say we should burn them, and so on. There is disagreement. . . . The important thing is to treat this act as a crime.” Unlike the deplorable Mr. Cathy, Imam Qaradawi is admirably open-minded: There are so many ways to kill homosexuals, why restrict yourself to just one? In Mayor Menino’s Boston, if you take the same view of marriage as President Obama did from 2009 to 2012, he’ll run your homophobic ass out of town. But, if you want to toss those godless sodomites off the John Hancock Tower, he’ll officiate at your ribbon-cutting ceremony.
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As an exercise in sheer political muscle, it’s impressive. But, if you’re a feminist or a gay or any of the other house pets in the Democrat menagerie, you might want to look at Rahm Emanuel’s pirouette, and Menino’s coziness with Islamic homophobia. These guys are about power, and right now your cause happens to coincide with their political advantage. But political winds shift. Once upon a time, Massachusetts burned witches. Now it grills chicken-sandwich homophobes. One day it’ll be something else. Already in Europe, in previously gay-friendly cities like Amsterdam, demographically surging Muslim populations have muted leftie politicians’ commitment to gay rights, feminism, and much else. It’s easy to cheer on the thugs when they’re thuggish in your name. What happens when Emanuel’s political needs change?

If Bush had put these kinds of restrictions and demands on the media

they'd have collectively shit their pants in indignation; Obama does it, they bend over and grease their butts for it. 'Unbiased' my ass.


Of course, they're kind of picky about what civil rights for who they care about reporting on, or getting upset about, too.
Our major media: not just biased, they're on the enemy side.


Yeah, we really need to copy this from the Brit NHS.


Either the security sucks, or somebody helped them get in; in either case, heads need to roll for this.

ATT isn't dead, the Administration cowards just wanted

to delay it.
UPDATE: According to Colum Lynch, UN reporter for the Washington Post and Turtle Bay blogger for Foreign Policy Magazine, the US isn't actually refusing to sign the ATT. They and the Russians are putting out a joint statement saying that they need more to study the proposed treaty. From his Tweet on the subject, "UN diplomat said Washington wants to put off action on a new arms trade treaty, after the US election."

From his blog :

The United States upended a major international treaty negotiation, telling foreign delegates at the final session today that they needed more time to consider the pact. Some diplomats said that Washington is seeking another six months, pushing off any decision on the politically sensitive treaty until after the U.S. election. Russia, Indonesia, and India also asked for more time.

Thomas Countryman, U.S. deputy secretary of state for international security and nonproliferation, informed representatives of the U.N.'s 193 member states that the United States still needed time to consider the text.

He continues:

The United States told delegates that it did not have "core" objections to the draft treaty under consideration, but that it needed more time, saying that while the U.N. negotiations have been playing out since July 2, they only received the final text in the past 24 hours.

In my opinion this is something for great concern. That the US doesn't have "core" objections and wants to wait until after the election spells trouble for gun rights. I say this because they have no real objections to a treaty that, despite their denials, has negative implications for the Second Amendment. Moreover, putting it off until after the election means a treaty could be approved by a lame duck US Senate. This may seem paranoid but I don't trust either Obama or his State Department on this issue.

I'd figured the 'won't sign' crap was because of heat on the upcoming election; I was right.

'The best reporting on guns' my ass;

that commenter is right, looks like they took a list from the Brady and CSGV groups of "What we want people to see" and published it. Including that Fortune piece on Gunwalker that's been eviscerated by a number of people.
Which is probably what they did.


Volokh opinion on the ATT collapsing:
...Likewise, there are a significant number of NGOs which have a strong commitment to global gun control, and to using international law and the UN to solve what they consider to be the problem of excessive gun ownership in the United States. The NGOs and their UN allies have successfully used the 2001 PoA to sharply restrict gun ownership in some parts of the world, and they would have used the ATT for the same purpose. That they did not succeed in creating an ATT may be very disappointing to them; they are not going to go away, or relent in the pursuit of their objectives.

But in their pursuit, they are not going to have the new weapon of an ATT. This is good news for human rights worldwide, especially for the fundamental human right of self-defense against violent criminals, and against violent criminal tyrannical governments.


A clown named David Hirst wrote about coming to America; and was very much full of crap when he did.


Oh my; no wonder the IOC doesn't want to have a moment of silence for dead Jews.
Recently, new information about the Munich Massacre at the 1972 Olympic Games was released by German police as a result of pressure from German investigative reporters. It was reported that the “Black September” terrorists were helped by a Nazi group in Germany to get fake IDs, weapons and access to the Olympic Village.

This was not too shocking, as the head of the IOC in 1972 was Avery Brundage, a Nazi sympathizer and anti-Semite. His protege, Juan Samaranch, eventually served the second longest IOC term as president, but his support of Nazis and the Spanish dictator Francisco Franco was kept a dirty secret. Most IOC members knew the truth but stayed silent because he organized a regal lifestyle for them -- with money diverted from sport.
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Gilady informed us that a moment of silence was not possible because if the IOC had a moment of silence for the Israeli athletes, they would also have to do the same for the Palestinians who died at the Olympics in 1972.

My mother said, "But no Palestinian athletes died."

Gilady responded, "Well, there were Palestinians who died at the 1972 Olympics."

I heard one of the widows say to Gilady, "Are you equating the murder of my husband to the terrorists that killed him?"

Silence.
Well, in his defense, I guess it's hard to speak when you're so full of shit that your remaining brain cells have drowned.

The IOC is a bunch of either bigots or cowards

And why I use that term 'palisimian'

The Arms Trade Treaty may be dead, for now at least Updated

BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms today applauds the decision by the United States to not sign the proposed International Arms Trade Treaty, and CCRKBA credits grassroots action for the gun rights victory.

CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb, who is at the United Nations in New York, said the announcement came Friday morning after a week of intense negotiations.

“I think the grassroots surge by American gun owners against this treaty convinced our government to not sign this document,” Gottlieb said. “The proposed treaty, as written, poses serious problems for our gun rights, and the sovereignty of our Second Amendment.”

CCRKBA has been active in raising public awareness about the proposed treaty, and Gottlieb said he is proud of members and supporters who made “stepped up to the plate” and contacted their U.S. senators.
Local radio news just mentioned this; apparently Russia and someone else said they weren't happy with the 'current draft'. Which probably means it didn't leave them enough holes to sell stuff to Syria and the Norks and whoever else they wish.


While we're at it, Sebastian notes the push for Obama to do something 'non-legislative' about firearms ownership; and I don't doubt he'd love to issue a royal edict. I doubt he has the balls to do much before the election, but after... we'll have to be ready to jump all over the congresscritters to stomp any actions of this sort.

UPDATE: According to Colum Lynch, UN reporter for the Washington Post and Turtle Bay blogger for Foreign Policy Magazine, the US isn't actually refusing to sign the ATT. They and the Russians are putting out a joint statement saying that they need more to study the proposed treaty. From his Tweet on the subject, "UN diplomat said Washington wants to put off action on a new arms trade treaty, after the US election."

From his blog :

The United States upended a major international treaty negotiation, telling foreign delegates at the final session today that they needed more time to consider the pact. Some diplomats said that Washington is seeking another six months, pushing off any decision on the politically sensitive treaty until after the U.S. election. Russia, Indonesia, and India also asked for more time.

Thomas Countryman, U.S. deputy secretary of state for international security and nonproliferation, informed representatives of the U.N.'s 193 member states that the United States still needed time to consider the text.

He continues:

The United States told delegates that it did not have "core" objections to the draft treaty under consideration, but that it needed more time, saying that while the U.N. negotiations have been playing out since July 2, they only received the final text in the past 24 hours.

In my opinion this is something for great concern. That the US doesn't have "core" objections and wants to wait until after the election spells trouble for gun rights. I say this because they have no real objections to a treaty that, despite their denials, has negative implications for the Second Amendment. Moreover, putting it off until after the election means a treaty could be approved by a lame duck US Senate. This may seem paranoid but I don't trust either Obama or his State Department on this issue.

"I hope we see people in handcuffs."

I hope starting with Geithner.

More here: TARP was even worse than you think

I needed a razor strop

Having written about my rendezvous shaving kit a while back, two things occurred: I needed to touch up the razor, and for that I needed a strop. So, being cheap and wanting to see how it’d come out, decided to make one.

Basic form, a razor strop is a strip of leather with some form of abrasive worked into it. Before shaving, you work the razor back & forth on it to polish the edge. I started with a piece of leather that allowed me to cut strip about two inches wide and twenty long. You also need a way to hang it and a handle.

Hanging was by making a piece of light leather to fasten to the top, and bending a piece of suitable steel to make a hook
Three screw posts will hold it in place.

The handle is two pieces of reasonably thick leather cut to shape.
I glued them together, leaving an inch or so at the top open. Cut a bit of a taper to that end of the strap so it’d wedge in nicely, then drilled three holes for screw posts to hold it in place.

That’s all pretty straightforward; so is getting the abrasive into the leather, but a lot more messy. What I did used a piece of buffing compound and some kerosene. Laid the strap on a suitable surface*, wet it with kerosene and then rubbed the compound all over it. Repeat, on and on, until you’ve got a fair coat of compound evenly over the leather. The kerosene dissolves the grease or wax the abrasive is suspended in and lets it soak into the leather. Do note that the strap should be left out in the air for a few hours, preferably overnight, for the volatiles to evaporate. And it’ll take a couple of days more for the smell of the kerosene to fade out**.

Once it’s done, slap the back on a smooth surface a few times as there will be some compound on the surface that comes off, probably some on the edges as well; rub the edges on something appropriate to clean them of excess. Then assemble.


No, haven’t shaved with the straight razor again as yet, that’s to come. But it also works well to polish the edge of just about any cutting tool.

I'll throw in, son ran across this before his last deployment, the Razor Emporium: safety and straight razors, strops, soaps and other stuff


*'Suitable' as in 'something you don't mind getting really messy'.
**There's probably something better than kerosene for this. However, the oil left behind after the volatiles are gone helps keep the leather from drying out; if you use something else, you'll likely need to add some neatsfoot or something similar to the strap afterward .

An interesting point of view

Tragically the United Kingdom, where Great Britain used to be, has fallen. Though you can tell by little things like the involuntary subjugation of the populace to the EU and the looting of the country by soi-dissant communists, the surest sign of their degradation is that weapons, even down to the kitchen knife, are banned from use by the general public. In the United Kingdom, you can be prosecuted for defending yourself.

Weapons and violence are certainly not gone from England. It still has an army. The police are increasingly heavily armed. And gun violence (along with other violent crime and terrorism) has increased. As in all societies through all time -- forever and ever, all the way back to Cain and Abel -- criminals in and out of government, both foreign and domestic, do not obey the law.

The United Kingdom has effectively returned to feudalism. The Knights are armed, they exist to protect their privileges and those of their superiors in the government, and the peasants farm -- or rather: are farmed. Like cattle.
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So let us posit that even if weapons were banned, bad people would do bad things anyway. So what do you do when bad things are done to you? When a bad guy shows up in your movie theater? What is the solution posed by the gun control advocates?

You should use your cell phone to call 911, presumably so that men with *GUNS* could show up and take care of the situation.

See what gun-control advocates did there? They went all feudal on you. The police are "the only ones professional enough" to handle weapons. These Knights can have weapons and privileges to protect you the serf. In return all you have to do is call them "Sir". And pay taxes. And don't get your daughter a nicer dress than their wife is wearing.

Yeah, Bill O'Reilly is an idiot

A shrill, pig-ignorant fool.


"Mr. Carney, what's the capital of Israel?"
"Um, whatever we said before."
"Where was that?"
"Next question!"



Not a surprise to find out that Empty-Hat Salazar has some of the same problems as Holder; including having been held in contempt and not caring.


From Britain, surprisingly, titled Denver shootings: the murder is in the corrupted mind, not in the legal guns:
The Denver Dark Knight shootings: first thing to note – despite the uninformed Irish wails about American gun laws – is that the number of guns per head in America is irrelevant to such a crime. Batman

If ownership of a weapon equalled homicidal intent, the ten most murderous countries in the world would include Switzerland, Finland, and Sweden.

The 15 most murderous would include France, Canada, Austria and Iceland.
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But, the broader issue: what we have here is a young man from Southern California (now, there’s a clue) who moved away from his family into Colorado, where drugs, drifting, sex websites and violent films simmered away in his brain.

For any reasonable assessment we have to weigh up how much of all of that led him to choose to abandon morality and embrace murder.

It wasn’t just that he had some guns, anymore than the nine stabbings last week at the Swedish House Mafia rock concert in Dublin occurred because every family in Ireland has some knives.


And yes, Schumer & Co. are already at it:
Democratic senators have offered an amendment to the cybersecurity bill that would limit the purchase of high capacity gun magazines for some consumers.
Translation: they want to ban any magazine that scares them. And it's 'common sense to do so', of course...


Appearing on Monday's Andrea Mitchell Reports on MSNBC, Time magazine editor-at-large Mark Halperin confessed a broad media consensus to curtail gun rights: "If you walk the halls of most major news organizations or of the OEOB at the White House or West Wing, I think you'd find overwhelming sentiment that there should be stricter gun control laws in the United States."
And these bastards control much of the 'news' most people hear.


Now, if you'll excuse me, I have some leather that needs shaping

Crap, YES I want one!

Wouldn't you?

Obama apparently decided he'd forgotten to zip up again,

and is now saying- through his spokesrat- that 'he won't push new gun-control measures, but is still in favor of banning assault weapons.' Which means the crapstorm that fell after his statements the other day was rather more upsetting than he'd expected, therefore another "I didn't exactly mean what I said. So stop paying attention to what I said" moment.

Also not exactly comforting, since he'd consider a Enfield or Springfield musket a assault weapon that must immediately be banned For The Children^tm.

Speaking of John Browning(pbuh) smiling,

they've dropped the 'lightweight .50 MG' project, and are making sure all the M2 guns in inventory get the upgrades.

Borrowing from Tam, Someday the U.S. Army will have a hovertank with a frickin' laser beam for a main gun, and it will still have an M2HB on a pintle mount above the commander's hatch.

Isn't it interesting that Emanuel, Godfather of Chicago,

can't stand Chick-fil-a for having non-PC views, but has no problem with a Jew-hating, America-hating, gay-hating Farrakahn offering help...

Ah, well, fits right in with why slimeball Corzine appears to be safe from our noble AG and the DoJ:
Those wondering why the Department of Justice has refused to go after Jon Corzine for the vaporization of $1.6 billion in MF Global client funds need look no further than the documents uncovered by the Government Accountability Institute that reveal that the now-defunct MF Global was a client of Attorney General Eric Holder and Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer’s former law firm, Covington & Burling.

There’s more.

Records also reveal that MF Global’s trustee for the Chapter 11 bankruptcy retained as its general bankruptcy counsel Morrison & Foerester--the very law firm from which Associate Attorney General Tony West came to DOJ.

And more.

As Government Accountability Institute President Peter Schweizer explains in the Washington Times Thursday, the trustee overseeing MF Global’s bankruptcy is former FBI Director Louis Freeh. At Holder’s Senate confirmation hearing Freeh served as a character witness for Holder and revealed that Holder had previously worked for Freeh. “As general counsel,” Freeh said, “I could have engaged any lawyer in America to represent our bank. I chose Eric.”

There is a nutcase named Marcotte

who occasionally dribbles venom about the place; she did it again:
I'm not going to say anything, it's already been said:
Where to begin? The modern civil right movement dates from the 1950s. The Second Amendment is a part of the Bill of Rights from 1789. How is it a response to something that came about a century-and-a-half later?

And what about the white NRA members who ran firearm training classes for blacks who wanted to protect themselves from the Klan in the ’50s and ’60s? I guess they don’t fit the narrative.
More at the link; I found it here

And John Browning smiles...

For the first time in several decades, the U.S. military is buying new batches of the Colt .45 sidearm that it used during both World Wars and for much of the 20th century.

Colt Defense LLC said Friday it has been awarded a $22.5 million, five-year contract to provide theU.S. Marine Corpswith the latest .45 caliber pistols that were originally provided to the military in 1911.

Oh, can you imagine when the soundtrack

first snapped on?
In addition to the shutdown of uranium enrichment equipment and computers, the virus also blasted the song "Thunderstruck" by AC/DC from several computers at full volume.

So the dirtbag didn't have armor

after all:
Chief Executive Officer Chad Weinman said despite its name, the urban assault vest is not bulletproof, but is simply a vest made for carrying accessories.
So all he had was a load-bearing vest.

So, even if it has no value, the IRS

can screw you on it.

Speaking of spiders and snakes,

The TSA: screwing with old people with health problems

and that bastard Pistole will assure us it's necessary.
”When I tried to walk towards him they surrounded me and told me I couldn’t touch him and I said I need..I told them like five times I needed to plug him in so that he didn’t lose his battery life.” Tonya Gahagan said, and they adamantly said I could not.”

...the Soviet propaganda machine began circulating a rumor.

It went, roughly: life in America is so terrible that the old people eat cat food.

This was…perplexing.

People didn’t quite get it: they have food specifically made for cats in America? What a country!
Read it all, it's worth it.

Og tells of a dumbass prii driver,

which reminded me of the moron in a black something a couple of days ago; who suddenly decided he HAD to go around me and then cut in front of me just about the start of the ramp from 40 eastbound to 44 northbound...

Could've just changed lanes behind me to make the exit, but noooo, not asshole. And I KNEW he was going to slow down right after he changed lanes.

Effing morons.

Yes, I sped up and got past him. And he did indeed slow way down after he changed lanes.

Again, how many 'Made In Iraq' labels

or the equivalent, are on some of this stuff?
The Syrian regime threatened Monday to use its chemical and biological weapons in case of a foreign attack, in its first ever acknowledgement that it possesses weapons of mass destruction.

On the subject of snakes,

goddaughter is very iffy about them. Her mom hates them, her brother's scared of them, Dad only worries about venomous ones and I'm on his side. Not long ago he found a snake about, oh, 15" long in the garage. Between trying to decide if it was a 'get rid of it' or 'take it away from the house somewhere'(Mom wasn't home) it got a bit exciting, and g-daughter was very excited. Finally got a good-enough look to be certain it wasn't venomous, which changed the mission to 'take it away'; he finally got it pinned and I grabbed it. With g-daughter asking loudly and anxiously did I know what I was doing?(no, I didn't actually answer that)

Once got it a ways from the house and released in the grass, got back to find that g-daughter was now giving Dad hell for possibly hurting the snake she's still halfway scared of. We explained that a snake like that can't hurt you, and they eat bugs.
Pause for thought.
"What kind of bugs?"
"Crickets and grasshoppers mostly, right now."
Longer pause.
"I don't like grasshoppers..."
She's much more sympathetic to Johnny No-Legs now.

By the way, if you're not familiar with where I got that name: where else?

Down in Australia, part of what the carbon tax

really means:

Last week in Dubbo I met with a local refrigeration mechanic to discuss his concerns regarding the Carbon Tax. Many people would not be aware that refrigerant gases will be hit with the Carbon Tax.

The popular commercial refrigerant R404A, widely used in industrial and supermarket refrigeration, will increase from $92.99 per kilo to $377.71 per kilo following the implementation of the Carbon Tax. This is on top of a 20 per cent increase as of June 13, 2012.

Refrigerants Australia, the peak organisation representing Australian refrigerant suppliers and users, states that the price of refrigerants will increase by the order of 300 to 600 per cent.

Unfortunately for us we will be the ones copping this price increase.

How does that work? The government explains.
'Explain' meaning "Here's one of the many ways you're going to be screwed."


At the range today, I had a chance to try a S&W M&P 9mm, full-size. Not bad at all. I like, among other things, the way the backstrap changes to fit your hand. I decide to get a polymer, that'd definitely be on the list. Up near the top.


Also Down Under, a leftist advises of her approved censorship method.


I've been pissed at OG&E a few times, but when things have gone to hell their statement is generally "We're grabbing all the help we can and working fast as we can; we WILL get to you." If they'd ever said this:
He insisted that it was “not reasonable for a person to be upset at all” after seven days without lights or air conditioning.
they'd be lucky not to have people with ropes looking for them. There WOULD be people going to the Corporation Commission demanding defenestration of the idiot who made the comment. Or calling the company to say "I'm coming."

Meanwhile, back in Chicago,

Yet more than twice as many people have been murdered this month in the president’s hometown of Chicago than were killed in the Aurora shooting. They are just statistics for whom there will be no presidential visits or flags flown at half staff.

Many of their deaths were very up close and personal:

Twenty-eight stabbing deaths have been logged this year compared to 27 of these deaths last year, RedEye determined. Stabbings have accounted for about 10 percent of homicides so far this year, compared to about 6 percent last year, RedEye data shows.

From Hoyt:
It occurred to me that our civilization has got lost in the weeds because of mission drift. We’ve gone from “making sure enough people have enough to eat and can raise the next generation and avoid getting killed” to “we want to make sure everyone is happy, has fulfilling life, never ever ever experiences anything even vaguely offensive and unfair, etc.

That is not the job of civilization. I don’t know whose job it might be, except perhaps G-d’s, but it’s not the job of civilization and can’t be done by a mere group of humans.


Well, yeah:
In the unarmed country the man with the illegal weapon rules


'Why look for a tea party connection?' Because they desperately want there to be one, they DEMAND there be one. And if there's not, they'll manufacture one to get the idea out there.


"What? A moment of silence? We can't do that!" I'm not sure, do you think it's mostly not liking Israel, not wanting to remember at all, or not wanting to make the muslim countries unhappy?


So CFLs can damage your skin. While they're working as designed. Wonderful.


The added soundtrack is annoying, but that's a warmup!




Why no, Algore and the gummint did NOT create the internet


On the current push by dirtbags like Lautenberg to start banning things again:
Actually, if the Australian Bureau of Criminology can be believed, Americans would be insane to concern themselves with what non-Americans think about American gun rights.

In 2002 -- five years after enacting its gun ban -- the Australian Bureau of Criminology acknowledged there is no correlation between gun control and the use of firearms in violent crime. In fact, the percent of murders committed with a firearm was the highest it had ever been in 2006 (16.3 percent), says the D.C. Examiner.

Even Australia's Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research acknowledges that the gun ban had no significant impact on the amount of gun-involved crime:

In 2006, assault rose 49.2 percent and robbery 6.2 percent.
Sexual assault -- Australia's equivalent term for rape -- increased 29.9 percent.
Overall, Australia's violent crime rate rose 42.2 percent.

Moreover, Australia and the United States -- where no gun-ban exists -- both experienced similar decreases in murder rates:


I call it "Jimmy Carter Syndrome", the disease that progresses with age and causes the mask of affability to fall away, revealing the bitter, petulant, sniping, shrewish character that lurked beneath the surface all along.


I'll note there was a gun show this weekend, one of the Metcalf shows; not many vendors, and they had WIDE aisles to try to disguise it. Most of the shows in the OKC area have gotten pretty sucky. Not a good thing.

Because I'm sick of serious stuff

I'd want a bigger boat






Now if they'll all keep the video handy when the officers misbehave...

When somebody talks about a 'state monopoly on violence',

they mean they like places like modern Britain, where defending yourself from an attacker can put you in prison. They want the State to have complete control*, including over your life and the protection thereof. Which means "We'll investigate and try to find the murderer after he kills you", which they really don't want us to think about. Etc.
One would presume, then, that a viable state is one which maintains a monopoly on violence.
I’ll pause, here, to let that sink in. *tick*tick*tick*tick*
Yes, it’s appropriate to bring historical examples to bear.
(You won’t need my help for that, unless you’re a Prog or attended a public school.)
Yeah, how's the crime thing doing in those places with a 'monopoly on violence'?(yeah, the article's a couple of years old; don't have time right now to dig around for more recent)


*Because they're planning on themselves and people of like mind being in charge

Since I'm on a trip down Memory Lane,

One of the questions I've been asked a lot while demonstrating was "Don't you/Do you ever get burned?" Oh yeah. Look at my forearms and the backs of my hands in good light; they're fading, but you can still see lots of little burn scars. The worst, there's no sign of.

Follow me back to the Old Days. The forge is still under a tree in the back yard, there's an old refrigerator crisper drawer under it full of water as a quench tub, and I'm working on a spring fuller(somewhat like this, but forged in one piece). It'd been a nice cool night and was a warm day, good weather for this kind of thing.

So I'm working away, on the fuller and a couple of small things as the piece of spring I was using was heating. I'd done one part of it, moved it along in the fire, let it heat while doing something else, came back and grabbed it.
Note to anyone: when you grab something and hear a hiss, it is a Bad Thing.
I heard that hiss, and before felt anything realized that that piece was a LOT hotter than it should have been where I grabbed it.

Remember that quench tub? It was full of water. And leaves, and the dogs drank out of it*, and it would not qualify as anywhere near clean, but after sitting out all night that water was cold; I think it took less than a second from 'hiss' to hand going into the water. At which point I'm bent over wondering what it's going to feel like when I take it out, and the dogs have wandered over to see what I'm doing in their sipping fountain, and I'm still shocked enough I'm not even indulging in language practice. I finally took it out when the throbbing made it plain that just cold water wasn't going to cut it, made sure everything was turned off and went inside to inform spouse that a trip to the doctor might be in order, what do you think?

The doc's office got me in fast, and the nurse looked it over, poured a pan full of antiseptic and had me stick the hand in: "Let that soak until the doctor can see it." I've been hurt before and since, in various ways, but with one exception I think burns are the worst, and sitting there with that hand in room-temperature liquid... I really don't remember if I was saying or thinking anything, because the pain was overriding all other memories.

I finally got up(only about five minutes, I think) and stuck the hand under the cold water in the sink for some relief, just before another nurse stuck her head in and asked what was I doing? I sat back down and she looked my hand over, frowned at the palm and asked "What is this?"
"Burn."
I swear, she actually wrinkled up her face and went "Eeew!"** Not a confidence-building moment, I assure you.

A minute later the doc came in and looked it over: Think of the parts of your palm and fingers that would contact a 5/8" rod if you gripped it; 1st, 2nd and a couple of areas of borderline 3rd-degree burn. Ointments went on, followed by bandages, followed by 'fill this prescription' and some instructions to wife who'd been called in. The pharmacy downstairs had the stuff- Tylenol 3, the stuff with codeine- and I took one as we started home.

Once home, I remember pacing back & forth in the living room, because that was, at that time, the worst pain I'd ever been in, and the kids on the sofa watching. Then it started fading a bit, and right about 45 minutes after taking the pill, the pain just stopped. I'd never had pain meds before and hadn't been sure what to expect; this exceeded all I'd hoped for. Not fuzzy, not seeing things, it just stopped hurting***. It was wonderful, Better Living Through Chemistry indeed. One of those every eight hours through the first 24, and after that it was just an annoying pain, nothing like at first.

Wife had a long-standing interest in herbal stuff, and mixed up some kind of oil and herbs mix, and when changed the bandages put some of that on. I have no idea what was in it, but it apparently worked; when went back to the doc he looked it over and was amazed at how well it was healing. Said he'd thought they might have to debride some dead tissue, but didn't have to touch it. And it healed up very nicely.

And that is the story of the worst injury I ever had from smithing.


*One reason I laugh at people who insist "Your pet must have a scrubbed bowl filled with fresh water every 'X' hours" and such; we're talking about critters who'll ignore a freshly-filled water bowl to drink out of that tub. Or the birdbath.
**Found out she was new, this was her second day on her fresh-out-of-school job. Apparently "Don't make noises that make the patient wonder what the hell is wrong" training had slipped.
***Told this to someone a few years later, and he said it was disappointing I didn't get any high from it. My response: "Fuck that, it stopped hurting. "

I am moved to write a bit about forging,

back when. As in when I was working it every chance I had(no, it's not quite the Devonian Age; shut up). Was married back then, and the house had a six-foot-square garden shed; after I built my big forge(more on that later) I fabricated a hood and chimney and put it in the shed. So figure a 6x6' space with a two-foot-wide forge, stump and anvil, and- after I found one I could afford and repair- a post vise mounted to a stud opposite the forge. No, not much room; but I did one hell of a lot of work in that place. Knife blades and guards and pommels, fireplace tools, camping stuff, candleholders and a bunch more(I've got pictures around somewhere, but right now I'm too beat to dig for them; I'll try to add them later).

Now, there were really only two drawbacks to that setup: one was heat in hot weather, and the other was noise. Yes, I had a pair of earmuffs, and wore them when I could(no earplugs; God, what I'd have given for a couple of sets of good ones); couldn't wear them all the time. Light pieces, no real problem, but when it came to big stuff- say, 1/2" high-carbon stock or 3/4" mild steel and up, or forging a damascus billet... that anvil rings. LOUD. The original Security Staff ignored it most of the time, but on those pieces, this one
would stand outside the door and howl; between the two, it got damn loud.

I mentioned heat, did I not? Ok, think of a 90+ degree day, and you're in a six-foot square space with a fire hot enough to burn steel, and a bunch of hot steel; I think working in a steel mill couldn't have been any worse. The rule is you wear long sleeves and pants, boots, etc.
Yeah, right.
In that weather I'd wear shorts and a t-shirt with a bandana tied around my head to try to soak up the sweat before it could drip down my glasses. And I'd drink constantly. Actually, 90+-degree days with low humidity weren't too bad: just drink enough. High-humidity days... On the former it really didn't feel bad to me(either my temp sense was fried or I was just used to it), in large part because in that heat the sweat dried fast. The latter days, you sogged. The shirt, the shorts were soaked and almost dripping, and no matter how much you drank it didn't seem to be enough.

God knows why I'm still alive.

Which brings me to what started this trip down memory lane: it comes and goes, and right now I've got that sound like something running in the other room living in my left ear. Between shooting when I was a kid, before plugs and muffs were commonly available, and all the hammering later, my ears give me hell at times. I guess they match up with the hell my hands(and sometimes an elbow*) give me over it all.

Oh, and add in the coal smoke, and oil smoke from quenching blades. Small ones weren't bad, but big ones... in hot weather I could set the quench tub just outside the door, but cold days I'd have to have it in with me: small pieces cool off so fast in cold weather there was no choice. When I finally was able to get a bucket of actual quenching oil, it made a big difference; still smoked, but not quite as much, and didn't smell as bad as motor oil.


*I don't blame the shoulder on this; it's from the damned bicycle crash. As I said at the time: "I've been riding motorcycles for years, gone rappelling, scuba diving, done SCA combat and other crap, and what damn near puts me in the hospital? A bicycle."
And if you're wondering, yes, the kids wore plugs or muffs from the time of their first shots; by that time I'd been able to get some of each.

This month's E-Postal Match

is up over here; its- SQUIRRELS!

Auroras as seen from orbit

Frikkin' amazing

About covers it:

Found over at Ace

Brian Ross of ABC: miserable, corrupt, bigoted, vile

scum-sucking excuse for a reporter. And ABC News for letting him go on the air with this without asking "What the hell do you mean
“There is a Jim Holmes of Aurora, CO, uh Paige, on the Colorado Tea Party site as well, talking about him joining the Tea Party last summer. We don’t know if this is the same Jim Holmes, but it is Jim Holmes of Aurora, Colorado.”
YOU DON"T KNOW IF IT'S THE SAME GUY? And you want to go on the air with this?"

ABC News: Still screwing the story around to be what they want.

Some first-aid gear on sale

over here, here, here, here. Looks like some other stuff, too.


The Stupid Party strikes again; more and more I'm leaning toward a third party, because neither of the two currently in the running are worth a crap.
“Through the lack of aggressive leadership by the Republicans, two things are happening,” this correspondent observed. “People who want to come forward with information, information that I have and can now not share, are backing off because they’re scared that they’re going to be left out to hang.”

“That’s frightening,” Walters remarked. “Frightening. Free society? Free? These people are petrified of their own government and won’t open their mouths.”

Indeed. And these are but two instances with which Gun Rights Examiner has had direct recent experience. That similar reluctance to get involved is probably more widespread seems a reasonable assumption, and it’s fair to ask what more the public isn’t learning-- and may never know--because those who do see no personal “up” side in coming forward and plenty of sobering reasons not to.


Southern California Edison: You suck. Cowardly, suck-up-to-politicians bastards.


I think I mentioned this before: why Make A Wish can kiss my ass.

Now, aside from the nearly Abbott and Costello level

of comedy provided by that clip, it also offers us a rare opportunity to observe, first-hand, a legitimate defensive gun use.
...
On the other hand, however, we also know that the .380 – underpowered or not – effectively stopped the crime cold due to one simple truth: people do not like being shot. The perpetrators obviously were not expecting armed resistance, and the very second that first shot was sent towards them… well, you saw their reactions.

The general saying is The ideal self-defense gun is the one you actually have on you when you need it. Which gets back to Yes, a .45 or a 15-round-mag 9mm is better than a .380 or .32 or .22; but the small stuff beats hell out of a goblin-stomper that's back home because you couldn't/wouldn't carry it today.

Dirty Laundry

Some definite NSFW language and goblin-stomping

Yeah, he just happened to be trying to get to Pakistan

through that area at just that time... and now he's a suicide bomber? Yeah, I'm sure it's Bush's fault


The new acting BATFE director: new boss, same "Cause a problem and we'll screw you" as the old boss. From one of the people they have/area screwing:
You need to know that when the Town Hall was scheduled to come to the San Francisco Field Office, I contacted San Francisco Management staff to advise I would like to participate. We had all been advised in writing by one of the ASAC’s that “All active employees (which I am) are encouraged to attend.” I was also advised that all questions and concerns must be submitted in writing ahead of time, so that ATF would have the questions or concerns by close of business one week in advance. So I submitted my questions. I drove (on my own dime) over 200 miles to attend. At close of business on July 10, (the night before) I was advised I would not be allowed to attend. You may want to know about this action by ATF against one of ATF’s so-called “whistleblowers.” I have said nothing publicly.
And this from another:
The problem is the whistleblowers I know have all played by the rules and presented complaints to first, second and third level supervisors, the Ombudsmans office, Internal Affiars, the EEOC, the OIG and OSC, Congress and finally the media. None that I am personally aware of immediately jumped tough and put themselves in front of a reporter or camera. What Acting Director Jones does not discuss is the utter lack of interest when whistleblowers follow the rules. He talks as if the process is balanced but the truth is it is a one-way street. You get NO attention or concern until an executive is embarrassed in the media. Not even an acknowlegement of a complaint beyond a boilerplate email - thank you for your interest; we are very concerned; blah, etc.

Lump the Changecast message with the institutional history of ATF retaliations (still ongoing). Then add in guys like Thomasson who openly state their intent to trainwreck whistleblowers (when interviewed on his statement claimed that he "did not know and does not care"). Take the managers in Phoenix who attacked and derailed the lives of honest agents like Forcelli and Canino and have not been held accountable (Thomasson's plan being enacted). And then top it off with a "no oversight" policy for the Office of Chief Counsel who has an undeniable track record of whistleblower ambushes. What does that leave you?
Screwed over by your 'leadership', that's what.

Went to Dealer Days this morning,

and tried out three guns*. First was the Sig P390:
Think of their little .380; now stretch it just enough to handle 9x19mm. A fraction under 6" long, 4" high and just over 1" thick; weight without magazine, 1lb the Sig site says. Can't tell that much from five rounds**, but it shot nicely, right to point of aim at 5 yards; and it was quite controllable, the recoil of 9mm ball was no problem.

Next, the new Ruger 22/45 Lite:
Take the 22/45 with a polymer frame, and make the barrel & receiver of aluminum with a stainless insert for the barrel, and the muzzle threaded in case you want to get a suppressor for it. Weighs a grand total of 22.8 oz. And yes, those are grip screws you see, you can change them out; the rep said standard 1911 grips will fit. Shot quite well(you get ten rounds of .22).


Third was this lovely:
S&W 1911SC; scandium-frame 1911 with a bobtail. A: I want one. B: at the price listed, not going to happen for the foreseeable future. That bobbed grip fit my hands beautifully, and the weight was about the same as my Officer's Model.


They had reps from Benelli, Springfield, S&W, Taurus, Beretta, Blade Tech, Trijicon, and several others, all with stuff out for you to drool over. I also found the ACOG I want; however, it costs more than the S&W above, which is also more than the value of any firearm I own. So that's not happening either.

*Trying out everything I would like to would cost about another, oh, way too much.
**Anyone wants to supply one of these various arms for a more extended test, I would be most happy to accommodate their desire(hint hint)

H&H range is having Dealer Days starting Thursday

and running through Saturday, I believe. Lots of factory reps showing new stuff, and you can buy tickets to try out guns that interest you.

Someone posted video of themselves doing 180

on a public road, and the expected uproar resulted. Marko notes a dumbass comment:
“Aaah…how, exactly, was a guy on a motorcycle going to kill anyone? Most likely case: he crashes into a car, and he dies.”
As Marko notes, that's a big physics fail: say 400 pounds of bike, 150 pounds of rider at those speeds... he hits a car, the people in the car are in danger, and the car's going to be trashed.
Which reminded me of something, and I was able to find this from Sweden: idiot on a Honda doing about 155mph hit a Volkswagon. The impact actually flipped the car, with the bike embedded. Three people dead.
At 250 KM (155 mph) the operator is traveling at 227 feet per second. With normal reaction time to SEE-DECIDE-REACT of 1.6 seconds the above operator would have traveled over 363 feet while making a decision on what actions to take. In this incident the Swedish police indicate that no [such] actions were taken.
I'll bet the dumbass never even realized he was about to hit something.

"What? TSA obey orders from a judge?

That's what you serfs do." Kind of like if you're a official pretend cop in Philadelphia, you can violate the laws you want to put other people in jail for.

Which reminds me of Amtrak and guns: a judge ordered them that, if airlines could safely transport firearms as baggage then a train damn well could so do it; and the bastards took a full year to 'study the problem and develop procedures'.

Someone noted another Penn State problem:

their 'investigation and clearing' of Michael Mann, someone else who was bringing in a lot of money.


Speaking of dirtbags involved in bad stuff, our tax-cheat Treasury Secretary:
But it doesn’t end there: There’s also evidence that top regulators, including Geithner, now Treasury secretary, knew about and largely ignored the mess.

On Friday, the New York Fed released documents that supposedly exonerate Geithner. Selective leaks to friendly news outlets ensured kind first-day coverage, with one headline reading “Geithner tried to curb bank’s rate rigging in 2008.”

But that’s a bizarrely generous read of Geithner’s action (or inaction) on learning that Barclays actually admitted to one of his investigators that it had submitted false data for the computation of Libor, and that other banks were doing the same.

As I wrote last week, the New York Fed has long enjoyed a cozy relationship with the banks under its regulatory umbrella — ignoring even the stuff that brought down the financial system in 2008.

Lake County So, FL: We'll knock at the wrong door

at 0130 in the morning, and then shoot you, and then say it's your fault you're dead.

"It's just a bizarre set of circumstances. The bottom line is, you point a gun at a deputy sheriff or police office, you're going to get shot," Herrell said.
Really? First, I've got that nasty suspicion he DIDN'T point it at them, they just saw it in his hand and murdered him. And that's exactly what it is.
Second, how about you, first, go to the RIGHT ADDRESS? Third- oh, hell, this is just sickening.

Wonder if any of them waved a blue dress?

Protesters threw tomatoes and shoes at U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s motorcade on Sunday during her first visit to Egypt since the election of Islamist President Mohamed Mursi.

A tomato struck an Egyptian official in the face, and shoes and a water bottle landed near the armoured cars carrying Clinton’s delegation in the port city of Alexandria.
...
Protesters chanted: “Monica, Monica”, a reference to Former President Bill Clinton’s extra-marital affair. Some chanted: “leave, Clinton”, Egyptian security officials said.
Provincials... don't they know getting blown isn't supposed to count as sex anymore?

Added: the Arab Spring Obama and Clinton were so happy about rolls on:
As published by The Christian Post, a video was recently shown on Egyptian television reportedly depicting the literal carving-off of the head of a bound Tunisian man who had abandoned Islam and converted to Christianity.

Having screwed up decongestants in the name of

Saving The Children In The War On (some)Drugs, the morons are now after cough medicine.


Speaking of morons, the title of this is The 40-year-old Reversion, but it ought to be Stupid Adults Who Want To Be Stupid Teenagers Again. The levels of weapons-grade stupid, arrogance and "But I WANT it!" is friggin' amazing.

McCain and Graham, two senators who need

a reminder that they can be removed from that taxpayer-supplied office if they betray us.*

And the Stupid Party needs reminding of what will happen if it kicks us again. If that happens, I think there WILL be a third party formed, because "What good does it do to support the GOP if it takes us for granted?" I think an awful lot of people registered as Democrats will move to it, too.