Tuesday, November 08, 2011

Well, Mr. Engvall, here's YOUR sign...

Seeing as how you announced you wouldn't mind seeing AK47-type rifles banned
I don’t believe there’s any reason for a person like myself to own an AK-47…I’d be willing to meet you halfway and say I think you can ban guns if you can pull the trigger and 60 bullets come out—there’s no need, it’s not usedLink for hunting, it would ruin any of the meat…
I have a couple of things to say:
First, screw you. You don't want a semi-auto of that style, fine. But when you say "...you can ban guns..." that you don't like? Screw you twice, you jackass.

Second, maybe you haven't heard, but the gun bigots you just gave ammunition to consider the scoped rifles you probably use for deer and such to be 'intermediate sniper rifles', and say they should be banned. Good going, dumbass; you just helped people who want to ban the guns you think you SHOULD be allowed to own.

Third, either you don't know- or don't care- that there's a bit of difference between a semi-auto firearm and a automatic. We're back to your sign, again.

Fourth, I have to wonder: do you consider AR15 variants something that can also be banned because you don't care for them?

You know, I've wanted to attend one of your shows for a while now; I'm going to have to reconsider that.

The kind of idiotic nanny-state gun bigot

stupidity the Brits are living under. And that the CSGV, and Obama, and Bloomberg would like to impose on us.

On the current loud Cain accuser,

the story just sets off my bullshit alarm. Bits and pieces not adding up. Then, today, hear that she apparently let her 13-yoa kid know about it AND ASKED HIS ADVICE WHAT TO DO?!?

A: I'm tending to think this is bullcrap.
B: True or not, this woman is freakin' nuts

The other day noted a former SEAL calling bullshit

on the official 'We Whacked Osama' story; from Blackfive, we have a bit more.

The Daily Mail story has more. One thing I'd wondered about in the original story was the '45 minutes' timeline. Considering they had to plan on getting in, getting him and getting out before the Pakistani forces could get involved, that time was insane; from what this guy got from team members it was also bullshit.

And- again- there's despair on how Obama's announcements screwed the intelligence value of all the stuff they found. So the question becomes, did he just not understand this, or not care? Or, if you want to get into further-out territory, did he WANT to blow that?

Holder is lying his ass offtestifying

before the committee today; be interesting not only to see what crap he comes up with, both as excuse and to cover his and Obama's butts, but to see just what kind of "We need more gun bans and restrictions" garbage various Democrats use this to push.

From the gentleman at Sipsey:
My favorite headline: Holder on 'Fast and Furious': Never again.

"Never again"!?!? Eric Holder taking the pledge on gunwalking is like Reinhard Heydrich swearing off Holocausts or Jeffrey Dahmer announcing that he is an enthusiastic convert to vegetarianism. Like every other criminal, Holder's not sorry he committed the crime (in his case to advance the gun control agenda), but he's damn sorry he got caught.

This Patrick Leahy goat rope ought to be an exercise in alternate realities, with the GOP trying to get the lying sumbitch to answer the questions under oath, and the Democrat gun-grabbers saying it is all the fault of "weak gun laws" and George W. Bush. There are rumors that Grassley has a document or two up his sleeve, but that's all they are at this point -- rumors.
and the links he has on this:
Politico: Eric Holder: Effects of Fast and Furious will linger

FOX: Holder to Testify Again on 'Fast and Furious'

Matthew Boyle: Holder to face gun-walking music at Senate hearing

Another theme to watch for during the hearing is Democrats and Holder pushing a theory that lax gun control laws drove ATF agents to conduct Operation Fast and Furious. California Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein floated the idea during a hearing last week, even though it was the law enforcement agents responsible for upholding gun laws that facilitated the sale of weapons to drug cartels. Holder’s prepared testimony also mentions his belief that weak gun-control laws were a factor.

Followon test of Mr. Completely's Lube

Short trip to H&H this morning, only about 60 rounds each through the Sport King and the 1911 conversion. The conversion had not a single hiccup. Had three 'not quite all the way' cycles on the HS, but I'm calling that on the ammo; that box has had some noticeable variations from round to round. Even with that, it was better cycling than it would originally do with the Federal ammo in question.

I'll add that the two pieces in question were not cleaned after the previous range trip, and still functioned as well as did.

Also, after the first range trip I took an old knife blade, brightened it up with some fine sandpaper, wiped a light coat of the Lube on and left it in the bed of the truck; so far, no sign of rust. He does NOT say this stuff is a protectant, just a lube; still nice to know that it seems to do a decent job of protecting from corrosion.
Here's where he has the stuff, if you want to get hold of some. And if some snoopy nanny happens to read this: screw you. Nobody paid me to review this stuff, so go do something useful for a change, like clean up dog crap in the park.

So last night, in total had severe storms,

tornadoes and another quake; I may have this made into a poster to put up

No, don't think the materials are really robust enough,

but this is still pretty impressive work. I would not have thought of using a AA battery as projectile.

Monday, November 07, 2011

Screw these OWS nutcases

Lanier said the Occupy DC movement had been relatively peaceful since it started on Oct. 6, but has grown increasingly violent. She said the protesters were using their own young children at the front of the blockade, including putting them in traffic.

To emphasize her point, Lanier released links to YouTube videos of Friday night's demonstration.

One woman, who was seen in the videos in the blockades with her 4-year-old twins, told The Examiner on Monday that children were an important part of the movement.
Ah, but don't worry, she's not responsible for any problem...
"The only one who's putting my kids in danger are the police and the motorists," said the woman who identified herself as a 26-year-old living in McPherson Square.
Nice way to insulate yourself from blame, huh? If anything happens to the kids you're pushing into traffic to block things, "It's the drivers/police fault."

Effing stupid bitch.

Crap on this: storms to the west, and we just had

another bloody earthquake. 2049 hrs by my clock

Update: USGS says 3.4, located same area as the bigger one and aftershocks the last couple of days
Update: now say 4.7, at 2058

If zombies haven't jumped the shark,

some of this crap certainly has.

So we've now got a .380 and a bloody .454/.410 revolver both marked for zombies... and yeah, Tam, they'll probably sell a buttload of them.

Saw this the other day; I had wondered about the 'long gunfight' story

Maybe it’s the fog of war.

Chuck Pfarrer, a former SEAL Team Six assault-element commander, raises serious questions about the official story of Osama bin Laden’s takedown in his new book, “Seal Target Geronimo.”

“The further I got away from the Beltway, the more accurate information I got,” he said.

Pfarrer says it only took the SEALs 90 to 120 seconds -- from landing to the firing the final shot -- to take out bin Laden, far shorter than other accounts have claimed.

He says the forces entered the compound on the third floor via the roof, not from the ground as the official version has said.
...
President Obama’s role, too, was largely inflated.

He was out playing golf only 20 minutes before the raid began.

“If this had completely gone south, he was in a position to disavow,” Pfarrer claimed.


About some of the celebrity supporters of the OWS actions:
But the rank hypocrisy of these celebrities is a bit much to bear. Take Cornel West, for instance. I like West. He is willing to debate people he disagrees with, which is a sign of intellectual engagement, and he does so with flair. But his histrionics over “corporate greed” seem a little over the top considering he commands between $30,000 to $50,000 for a speech, according to the International Speakers Bureau. That’s an astounding figure. I hardly begrudge him for demanding such an exorbitant fee, of course. If people are willing to pay it, God bless him. But to go around lambasting others for greed when you are demanding $1,000 a minute to speak takes some gall. Susan Sarandon and Rosanne Barr have lent their support by visiting Occupy Wall Street’s protests and speaking out for its cause, while George Clooney and others have more passively backed the protests in interviews. (RELATED: Moore won’t admit he’s part of the ’1 percent’) While it is difficult to glean exactly what Occupy Wall Street’s main gripes are — after all, many of their supporters tend to be preliterate — one clear point of contention is the high rate of compensation CEOs earn, compared to the average worker. But I have never heard Clooney or Sarandon complain about the high rate of compensation top-market actors receive compared to garden-variety struggling thespians.


A number of aftershocks, one I believe they noted as a 5.2. And they've decided the initial quake was a 5.6. When it kept on for more than ten seconds, I had a moment of thinking "Did New Madrid decide to turn loose? Be an interesting next while if it did." Ace had a different thought: And when does the volcano break through? Which may seem odd, but... (USGS: "Because we didn't KNOW about the hot spot, THAT'S why we didn't warn people!")


What happens when the police consider themselves above the law, and anyone who actually enforces it is the enemy.
Together with a string of other recent cases, the Bronx case suggests that a culture of corruption and entitlement has spread through the ranks of the thin blue line. Worse, it is clear that police union officials are the mainstay of the illegal ticket fixing enterprise, so much so that prosecutors considered indicting the union as a corrupt organization under racketeering laws. The police demonstration in the Bronx was apparently orchestrated by the union, which sent text messages to officers urging that they show up to support colleagues involved in ticket fixing. “It’s a courtesy, not a crime,” was the slogan.


Ok, so the DC police department needs to fire some people. Assuming they give a damn about, y'know, impartially enforcing the law and such.


Ruemmler, you got a SUBPOENA, not a request for arguments; if the Stupid Party brass had the balls, they ought to cite you for contempt or something and go from there.


Ok... if the information is truly as Yon says, people need to lose rank. Or just be flatly thrown out of the military.


I appears some people at the Federal Regulatory Commission need to be added to the list of "Those direly in need of acquaintance with tar and feathers".


So OWS is taking lessons from the palisimians: "Use your children as tools; after all the Movement is far more important than they are."


Sooner or later, some of these clowns are going to block traffic and, either through putting someones life at risk or just pushing someone over their limit, pepper spray is going to seem like the mild outcome.


Actual illustration of Cain's sexual harassment!



Two U.S. lawmakers will introduce measures to impose a transaction tax on financial firms that resembles a proposal released by the European Union.

Senator Tom Harkin, an Iowa Democrat, and Representative Peter DeFazio, an Oregon Democrat, will introduce the bills tomorrow in their respective chambers.
Translation: "We want to steal more of your money, but if we say it's a tax on the banks, we think you'll go along with it."


And that's it for now.

Yeah, I imagine this book will tick off the leftists

During the question period, Glavin was asked why he had chosen to begin his address with a moment of silence for Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan rather than for the Afghan people themselves.

“It was one of these dirty insinuations,” says Glavin about the incident, “framed in the most passive-aggressive way in the form of a virtuous question.”

The award-winning writer’s recent book, Come From the Shadows: The long and lonely struggle for peace in Afghanistan, has been slammed by critics on campus and nationwide for its overt pessimism toward what Glavin says is the Canadian left’s embarrassingly short-sighted and extremely vocal “troops out” mentality — which is, in his view, a dangerous political phenomenon.
...
Come From the Shadows is an unabashedly personal account of Glavin’s journeys outside the wire of a country that he says has been falsely portrayed by the mainstream media as a type of “Absurdistan” — an imaginary nation that has been collectively built up by Western audiences as an apocalypse of bombs, bodies and constant fear.

Its major criticism, one that Glavin admits has made the book so controversial, lies in the implications of this fraudulent paradigm on Canadian left-wing activism — which he says has been destroyed by both cultural relativism and widespread anti-Americanism.

Yet, points out Glavin, it is a typical, Canadian form of anti-Americanism coinciding with anti-war sentimentality that’s used almost exclusively with American inflection.

A general pic dump

A couple of possibly NSFW at the bottom





When you discover that he is not, after all, a 'nice kitty'

"I have power over gravity, I will spike you, unbeliever!"

A little bit of knowledge...

Seems like it here at times, too

One of these is not like the others


Because I like her, that's why


I tried this idea from Uncle, it works

Self-explanatory

Well, yeah

And, just because

Sunday, November 06, 2011

'Amazing' is definitely a word

for this

Under the heading of "At this point, putting him down

like a rabid dog is likely the only realistic option."

One of the saddest things I've ever seen came out of Chicago ten or fifteen years ago, video of the immediate aftermath of an arraignment. The criminal career had started at age 9 with stealing from stores. It had steadily escalated to more thefts, burglaries, robberies, and at every arrest some judge had slapped him on the hand and advised him he'd better straighten up or else, etc. And now the little waste had hit the bigtime: while robbing a store he'd committed murder. The judge had just informed him that he was going to file to try the suspect as an adult, so a conviction would mean life in prison.

The suspect was thirteen.

It was taking two deputies to drag him out of the courtroom, because- faced for the first time in his life with real punishment for a crime, he was hysterical; crying, screaming, terrified.

Like the dirtbag that started this post, you have to wonder if, had he been slapped down hard the first time, harder if there was a second, would he be there?

I do have to wonder,
Was there a father anywhere around?
Was there a PARENT who gave a damn anywhere around?
Probably not.

I don't remember where I found the link to this lady,


but whoever it was, thank you

In todays homekeeper tips,

a while back my Foodsaver crapped out; the vacuum pump wouldn't vacuum, which meant it wouldn't seal. This one only lasted about a year and a half, and the new ones are even more spendy. Plus the cost of their bags/rolls of material... So decided to try the Ziploc vacuum bags; the bags come in quart and gallon sizes, and use a hand pump to suck out the air. The bags are washable and reusable.

So far, quite good. You could wash out and reuse a Foodsaver bag a time or two, but since you had to cut it open each time the bag got smaller each time; these you don't have to cut. The one thing I did find is that if you vacuum the bag, let the pressure in the pump drop and then lift the pump, there's a tendency for some valves to leak. If you pull the vacuum, give one last pump and then lift the pump so it 'pops' off the valve, the seal seals much better.

The bad thing: if you want to vacuum-seal a gun for storage, you're stuck with handguns, as they don't have 'make your own bag' rolls of the stuff.

I am stealing Tam's post

because I want this read as much as possible:
"It's legal to carry a concealed weapon in a restaurant! Somebody help me! But it is illegal to carry a gun in the state legislature!" -Mayor Coleman, of Columbus, OH
Well, Mr. Mayor, that's because we can trust waitresses to rarely do things that make people want to shoot them.

So some OWS dimwits got in front of a car-

one of them jumped ON it- trying to block the street and got knocked down. And, of course, the jerks have fits because someone dared to not cower before them.

Those three are lucky, minor injuries only. If they'd been crippled or killed it'd still be their own damn fault.

I had the rules of "If someone not a cop tries to make you stop in such a situation" explained to me by Dad a long time ago:
Don't stop. If they get in the way, keep driving. If they don't move, drive over them. Legalities can be sorted out later, if you're alive.
Those are the rules I explained to daughter(and to a friend of daughter who was somewhat outraged by the rules) and son when they were starting out on their own. This came up during the Rodney King riots in LA, when daughter's friend said something, while watching video, of "You can't do anything in that situation, you're helpless!" My response: "You're sitting at the controls of at least a ton of steel, capable of moving at high speeds; you drive." followed by the rules. She was upset by them("You'll hurt people!"), to which I pointed out what happens to people who try to be reasonable and not hurt anyone.

I've pointed before to the three posts at Seraphic Secret on what he & family went through during that riot: to borrow one part,
Robert’s Rules for Driving Through a Riot 1. Do not stop for anyone or anything. 2. Not even to help someone. My first responsibility is to my family. 3. If rioters try to blockade the car, drive straight through. 4. If the car stalls, don’t leave the car. 5. Unless the car is on fire.
Got a flat? Keep driving, you can get a remarkable distance on flat tires, and replacing tires and wheels is cheap compared to the alternative.
In a riot situation, you have to assume that the only reason someone wants to make you stop is so they can hurt you. So don't stop.