After-Action Report from Dealer Days

at H&H.
Went this morning; lots of dealer reps with lots of stuff. And you can try them out; buy a ticket for $4(or 3 for $10), give the rep the ticket and sign the list and you get the firearm, a target and five rounds to take out on the range. Here's what I tried:
SiG 1911-22
Same size as a full-size 1911A1, not quite the weight. Very good trigger, shot very nicely. The sights had neon lime-green dots that showed up quite well.


Uberti Schofield:
The one at the shop is nickel-plated, and in .38 Special. With that weight, .38 ball ammo had very little felt recoil, shot nicely. The grip shape is such that I had to roll it back in my hand for my thumb to reach the hammer, or- with a two-hand grip- use the left thumb to cock.


Kimber Solo:
This is a single-stack 9mm, very short, slim and light. Uncertain about it due to the trigger; it's considered single-action and has a thumb safety, but the trigger is a cross between a true single-action and a double, not much weight but a fair amount of travel. And I could not tell when it would break. Probably something you could get used to with some practice, but if you're going to have a thumb safety, why not a proper single-action break? 'Course, that's my opinion, you may well like it.

STI Shadow
True single-action semi-auto, sub-compact 1911 size, the one I fired was 9mm. Aluminum frame, a little thicker than the Solo and a few ounces heavier. I liked it. Very clean trigger, fit the hand well. If I had that much disposable cash, I'd get one. If it had the bobtail on the frame it'd be even better for a CC pistol, but still very nice.

Lots of other stuff on display, shotguns, rifles and pistols from a bunch of companies. One other thing I'll pass on, saw a guy coming off the range with one of the Taurus mare's leg- pistol? rifle?- things,

and asked what he thought; the one he'd fired was .44 Magnum, and his comment was "Try it out and you'll probably save yourself $500."

Bullet sale, and a postal match

Midway has a blemished bullet sale; rifle and handgun.


Mr. Completely has the current e-Postal Match up.

Two things this morning:

First, I have a hard time believing the fire department in someplace like San Francisco does not already have any equipment or training for cold-water work.


Second, I'm really sick of someone dismissing information entirely because "It came from Faux News!" They can't point out where the information is actually wrong or something, but that they assume that's where you got it, or heard Fox did a story on it, is all it takes in their mind to dismiss it entirely.
But Media Matters and such is considered an unimpeachable source of information...

One of the people Leahy wanted confirmed

to get his 'cooperation' on investigating Gunwalker?
To recap, James Cole is no stranger to serious misconduct occurring during his alleged “watch.” Cole was the “Independent Consultant” stationed at AIG by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) before, during and after the financial meltdown of 2008. Despite his oversight responsibilities, Cole looked the other way as the AIG Financial Products Division in London ran the corporation off the rails, ultimately driving the international economy off a cliff. The cost to US taxpayers of the AIG bailout was more than $150 billion.

Fast forward to January 2011. After President Obama installed Cole at DOJ as the Acting Deputy Attorney General through a recess appointment, Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) and House Oversight & Government Reform Committee Chair Darrell Issa (R-California) began asking Cole’s office for information about F&F. On January 27, Grassley wrote to ATF Acting Director Kenneth Melson, requesting information. Four days later, Grassley again wrote to Melson about reports that whistleblowers on F&F were being silenced, stating “Rather than focusing on retaliating against whistleblowers, the ATF’s sole focus should be on finding and disclosing the truth as soon as possible."
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Grassley, of course, has crossed swords with Cole before. Through 2010 and into 2011, Grassley blocked Cole’s confirmation in part because Cole had failed in his oversight at AIG. In June, however, Grassley withdrew his objection to Cole in exchange for information from the DOJ about F&F (Just for now, let’s ignore the dubious practice of forcing Congress to exchange votes for information from executive agencies about wrongdoing). Cole was then confirmed on June 27, and shortly after the vote, DOJ turned over documents about F&F to the Senate.

In the documents, Grassley discovered that Cole had been informed about F&F in March by Melson and had participated in concealing the details of the operation from Congressional investigators.
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Let's recap:

Cole ignored or failed to recognize financial risk at AIG for years (while collecting a hefty fee).
Grassley blocked his confirmation as Deputy Attorney General.
Using a recess appointment, President Obama appointed Cole to Deputy Attorney General in December of last year, and Cole took up his position at DOJ.
Cole’s office at DOJ withheld information from Congress about F&F at ATF, a program that allowed thousands of firearms bought in the US to fall into the hands of criminals in Mexico.
In a deal with Democrats, Grassley agreed to allow a confirmation vote on Cole in exchange for access to information from DOJ about F&F.
Upon receiving that information, Grassley learned that a DOJ official partially responsible for withholding F&F details from Congress was … Cole himself.
And if you don't believe Leahy knew, well, I've got some bridges I'd like to sell you.

In my list of obscure quotes that tell me someone's been

reading/watching the same stuff I do, in addition to "Not in these trousers" and "Whales do to have wings!", I can now add "Bring me my fighting trousers!", possibly preceded by "No, those are my time-travel trousers."

And ifr you think UN Peacekeeping missions are a mess

think what they can do with this bullcrap:
A special meeting of the United Nations security council is due to consider whether to expand its mission to keep the peace in an era of climate change.

Small island states, which could disappear beneath rising seas, are pushing the security council to intervene to combat the threat to their existence.

There has been talk, meanwhile, of a new environmental peacekeeping force – green helmets – which could step into conflicts caused by shrinking resources.
The UN can't keep the bad peacekeepers from stealing, extorting and running prostitution rings(not to mention not actually helping peace- ask Srebrenica); so just exactly what- other than giving itself even more power over other peoples lives- they intend to accomplish here?

Ah, some clues:
However, small island states in the Pacific, which face an existential threat due to climate change, have been pushing the council to act for years(bullshit, but they still push it).

"The security council should join the general assembly in recognising climate change as a threat to international peace and security. It is a threat as great as nuclear proliferation or global terrorism," Marcus Stephen, the president of Nauru, wrote in a piece in the New York Times.(AHA! So we need to ACT RIGHT NOW, even if we don't know what we're doing!)

"Second, a special representative on climate and security should be appointed. Third, we must assess whether the United Nations system is itself capable of responding to a crisis of this magnitude."
"We need someone in power! Right now! So if we decide we need someones' national treasury looted to pay us off for what we claim, they can do it."

Only way Government Motors will sell many of these

is if the gummint forces people to buy them.
Its most recent EN-V (Electric Networked Vehicle) is called the Jiao and it offers far more than just a diminutive size to future drivers. The Jiao can be programmed and set up on a grid to perform autonomously.

The Jiao travels up to 25 mph and is supposed to be uncrashable due to an onboard collision avoidance system. GM says they'll run about $10k apiece.
Makes sense from the Socialist-in-Chief's point of view: can't go very fast, can't go very far, takes control out of your hands and allows the government to control how/where/when you go somewhere.

Did you know that the real reason Rev. Wright

was a problem for Obama(still is) is that he's a 'angry black man'? Being a Jew-hating racist and a socialist, no, that's no problem.

Becuase in science the Consensus is FAR more important

than asking troublesome questions. Right?

I mean, where would we be if people kept insisting on finding actual answers instead of going with the consensus in the sciences?

The mail anthrax attacks:

even more followup. Back in March I ran across a piece that noted the man accused of carrying out the attacks was, well, just 'accused'; there was no actual proof he did it, no confession. Now we have this:
The Justice Department has called into question a key pillar of the FBI’s case against Bruce Ivins, the Army scientist accused of mailing the anthrax-laced letters that killed five people and terrorized Congress a decade ago.

Shortly after Ivins committed suicide in 2008, federal investigators announced that they’d identified him as the mass murderer who sent the letters to members of Congress and the news media. The case was circumstantial, with federal officials arguing that the scientist had the means, motive and opportunity to make the deadly powder at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick, Md.

Now, however, Justice Department lawyers have acknowledged in court papers that the sealed area in Ivins’ lab — the so-called hot suite — didn’t contain the equipment needed to turn liquid anthrax into the refined powder that floated through congressional buildings and post offices in the fall of 2001.
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Earlier this year, a report by the National Academy of Sciences questioned the genetic analysis that had linked a flask of anthrax stored in Ivins' office to the anthrax in the letters.
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In excerpts from one of more than a dozen depositions made public in the case last week, the chief of USAMRIID's bacteriology division, Patricia Worsham, said the lab lacked the facilities in 2001 to make the kind of spores in the letters.

Two of the five letters, those sent to Democratic U.S. Sens. Patrick Leahy of Vermont and Thomas Daschle of South Dakota, were especially deadly because they were so pure that they floated with the slightest wisp of air.

Worsham said the lab's equipment for drying the spores, a machine the size of a refrigerator, wasn't in a contained lab.

"If someone had used that to dry down that preparation, I would have expected that area to be very, very contaminated, and we had nonimmunized personnel in that area, and I would have expected some of them to become ill," she said.

In its statement of facts, the government lawyers also said that producing the volume of anthrax in the letters would have required 2.8 to 53 liters of the solution used to grow the spores or 463 to 1,250 petri dishes. Colleagues of Ivins at the lab have asserted that he couldn't have grown all that anthrax without notice.
Damn, you think maybe?

So. It could be argued that the DoJ is saying this to protect the government from the lawsuit mentioned in the article; in which case they've opened up the "So if he couldn't have made it in the lab, where the hell DID he make it? Did you somehow manage to miss a whole friggin' lab somewhere? Or did he dismantle it right under your noses?" mess all over again. And they've also opened the "DID he do it?" question.

What a bloody mess.

I should note, if you read the comments at the end of this article, you'll find an awful lot of 9/11 truther idiocy floating about, along with "The Bushitler did it to get rid of the Democrats!" stupidity. Ever notice how he was simultaneously evil genius enough to set up various things, but- in this case for instance- the intended targets are still walking around using up oxygen?

Project: loose forend

Was looking at a Marlin 1894 carbine, and noticed it had a loose forend. Not a 'you can feel a slight motion if you put some torque on it' thing, a 'it will rattle if you shake the gun' loose forend. Something to fix!

Box o' Truth has a nice piece on using JB Weld to bed the action of a rifle into the stock, and this is just a variation on that. You can use actual bedding compound, or I've heard of people using regular epoxy after mixing chopped-up fiberglass in to thicken it, but for something like this JB works quite well.

Process went like this:
Pull the screws to free the magazine tube(one, and when you tilt the tube out the spring WILL launch the plug if you don't watch it) and forend(two, one on each side of the metal cap).

Pull the tube, which lets you remove the cap and forend. This rifle uses a piece that dovetails into the barrel(top arrow in the pic below) , that's what the two screws go into, and it may be loose(this one was), so watch for it to fall somewhere.

Use something for a resist so the glue won't stick where you don't want it to. I use Johnson Paste Wax, the furniture polish that comes in the yellow can. Wipe a coat EVERYWHERE the epoxy MIGHT come in contact: in this case, the magazine tube, the piece that fits in the dovetail, the dovetail, the barrel, the cap, and the socket in the front of the action where the back end of the forend fits(bottom arrow).
And the two screws! Do NOT forget them, as their being permanently locked down might be a bit of a problem. Let that coat dry, then do a second, just to be sure. Also be sure that you get it all the way into any corners, like those of the socket. You might want to put a coat of wax on the outside of the forend just to help cleanup, but make damn sure you don't get any on the ends where you want the JB to stick.

Mix the JB. If you then let it sit for 15 minutes or so, it'll thicken enough that it will stay where you put it, not run into possibly embarrassing places. When it's ready, use something like a popsicle stick to put some into the socket, mostly around toward the outside; when you put a little pressure on, the stuff will spread around. Then I set the mag tube in place and slid the forend down into the socket. Then put the dovetail piece- ah, found it, it's called the forend tip tenon- in place in place. Put some JB on the front of the forend where there should've been a lip to fit the cap, and slid the cap on. Put the mag cap in place and put the screw in to hold the tube in place, then push the cap & forend back to set them in place, then put in the screws.

At this point you'll likely have some JB that's squeezed out; I've found that a cloth with some wax on it, or an oily cloth, will wipe it off nicely. When that's all done, put it down and leave it for three hours. A little more probably won't hurt, but give it at least three; you want the stuff to cure enough that it'll be fairly solid, not still soft enough to pull out of shape.

Time's up. Pull the screws. The tube tilted out with no problem, but the forend cap was stuck enough that I took a brass punch, set it in one of the screw holes, pointing toward the muzzle, and tapped it lightly; the cap popped loose. The mag tube and forend were not stuck, but the stuff had filled in well enough I had to wiggle things slightly to get the tube and forend off.

I don't know if someone in the past had messed with it, or if it was a sloppy job at the factory, but there was very little of the tenons left on the forend; that's fixed now. Here's the back end,
and here's the front. Which doesn't show quite as well.
If there's anything that needs trimming you can do it now(carefully) or let it still till the next day so the stuff will be cured completely. I'm letting this cure before I do that.

That's it. Pretty straightforward, and about the only way to mess it up is to forget to put wax on something or use the epoxy when it's still fluid enough to get somewhere you don't want it.

I do believe the NSD Wasserman(isn't that a test

for a venereal disease?) Schultz done pissed off Rep. West:
Look, Debbie, I understand that after I departed the House floor you directed your floor speech comments directly towards me. Let me make myself perfectly clear, you want a personal fight, I am happy to oblige. You are the most vile, unprofessional ,and despicable member of the US House of Representatives. If you have something to say to me, stop being a coward and say it to my face, otherwise, shut the heck up. Focus on your own congressional district!

I am bringing your actions today to our Majority Leader and Majority Whip and from this time forward, understand that I shall defend myself forthright against your heinous characterless behavior……which dates back to the disgusting protest you ordered at my campaign hqs, October 2010 in Deerfield Beach.

You have proven repeatedly that you are not a Lady, therefore, shall not be afforded due respect from me!

Steadfast and Loyal

Congressman Allen B West (R-FL)
Oh, I like this man

What stupid politicians do instead of something

Otis Rolley said he would, if elected, propose a $1 per bullet tax on all bullet purchases in the city. The idea was part of an overall crime plan he unveiled Tuesday.
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"This is not a revenue enhancement tool," Rolley said of the tax idea. "It's a 'make it difficult for you to buy bullets in the city' tool."
Yes, because everyone knows that evil people bent on mayhem are very careful to buy their ammo through legal outlets and pay their taxes. Just like they obey the 'felons can't possess firearms' laws and 'robbery and rape and murder are illegal' laws.

Gee, does he actually mean 'bullet' and the rest of the cartridge is somehow taxes separately at the previous rate? Or does he just not know what the hell he's talking about?

Friggin' moron.

Know what'd be funny? If this idiot were elected and got this passed, and Gura & Co. showed up to sue the city for making it prohibitively expensive for lots of honest people to get ammo for the arms they have the right to possess.

First: look through the damn peephole, or just don't

answer the door. Second, why the hell wasn't he either in prison or a mental facility for the terminally confused?
Byars was arrested last night. Records show a criminal history first beginning in 2009. Three separate charges ranging from assault to throwing body fluids on a government worker to throwing objects at a vehicle were filed against him in the past two years. Each time, Byars was given a suspended sentence and competency hearings. But he never went to prison. The most recent suspended sentence was given to him last November.


On the subject of a lousy excuse for law enforcement, how the hell did this guy get his pie into Parliament? I can see three possibilities:
The security is so incompetent they let the guy in;
Security was told to let the guy in with it;
Some member got it in for him.
If first or second, people need to be fired. If the last, the one responsible needs to be thrown out of Parliament.


Added:
An elite team of computer technicians assembled by the Obama administration to protect Pentagon networks from cyberattack shockingly includes a former Clinton official who "lost" thousands of archived emails under subpoena and who more recently left the Department of Homeland Security under an ethical cloud related to her qualifications, WND has learned.

The administration in May quietly hired Laura Callahan for a sensitive post at the U.S. Cyber Command, a newly created agency set up to harden military networks as part of an effort to prevent a "cyberspace version of Pearl Harbor."

The move raises doubts about the administration's vetting process for sensitive security positions. In 2004, Callahan was forced to resign from Homeland Security after a congressional investigation revealed she committed résumé fraud and lied about her computer credentials.

Investigators found that Callahan paid a diploma mill thousands of dollars for her bachelors, masters and doctorate degrees in computer science. She back-dated the degrees, all obtained between 2000 and 2001, to appear as if she earned them in 1993, 1995 and 2000, respectively. She landed the job of deputy DHS chief information officer in 2003.
'Vetting process'? She worked for Clinton, 'lost' e-mails that might have been a problem and it appears can be trusted to do what she's told by her masters; she DID pass the Obama vetting process!

A guy is 86 years old and loves to fish.

He was sitting in his boat the other day when he heard a voice say,

"Pick me up."

He looked around and couldn't see any one. He thought he was dreaming when he heard the voice say again,

"Pick me up." He looked in the water and there, floating on the top was a frog.

The man said, "Are you talking to me?"

The frog said, "Yes, I'm talking to you. Pick me up.

Then, kiss me and I'll turn into the most beautiful woman you have ever seen.

I'll make sure that all your friends are envious and jealous because you will have me as your bride."

The man looked at the frog for a short time, reached over, picked it up carefully, and placed it in his front breast pocket.

Then the frog said, "What, are you nuts? Didn't you hear what I said?

I said kiss me and I will be your beautiful bride."

He opened his pocket, looked at the frog and said,

"Nah, at my age I'd rather have a talking frog.


Stolen without hesitation from this guy

Dealer Days at H&H

this Thurs-Sat.

Ah, the health nazis, NO level of interference in other people's lives

is enough to suit them.

DeSaulnier, you're nothing more than one more nanny-state dirtbag who wants to control other people's lives. And you really ought to remove yourself from any position of power.

Of course, there are enough idiots in Californicated to allow you into office in the first place; I'm sorry for the people whose businesses you'll screw up, but I hope the idiots who voted for you suffer for it.

A couple of quotes that seem appropriate to current conditions:

From Codrea:
"Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption for authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters."

From Mamet:
Contemporary Liberal sentiment endorses the abrogation or elaboration of law to ensure that NO one suffers, but the first and most important task of law in a democracy is not to right individual wrongs, but to ensure that no one suffers because of the state. And the simple, tragic truth is that this may be accomplished not by a Czar or committee, or by reorganization, or by accession to office of the Benevolent or Wise, but only by limiting the State’s power.

Something else that cannot be forgotten about Gunwalker:

It wasn't just Phoenix:
Once again, "Fast and Furious" was merely the Phoenix branch of a much larger operation -- a NATIONAL POLICY -- mandated by the DOJ at the behest of the White House.

Remember that things done in a bureaucracy, any bureaucracy, are done according to policy and areas of operation and responsibility. Dallas, where the weapons which the Feds say were found at the scene of the Zapata murder, is NOT in the area of the Phoenix Field Division. It IS in the area of the Dallas Field Division.

So I asked some long-time ATF agents this question: "What coordination is required when a case straddles FD's AOs? Is one FD allowed to proceed with investigations in another's AO without coordination or handing it off?"

One answered tersely: "No investigation without notifying the affected other division."

Said another:

Cross division cases are rare. The SACs hate losing the glory and hate poaching. If there is a cross division operation, I guarantee you BOTH SACs are read in and up on the details it would be highly -- I repeat highly -- outside policy to operate in another division without the bosses' approval.

"The bosses' approval" refers to national ATF headquarters.
And that cannot be forgotten. And is one reason DoJ & Co. are so busy lying and stonewalling the investigators.

Oooooh, let the flopsweat REALLY break out!

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa and Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley today pressed Attorney General Eric Holder about the Justice Department’s unsatisfactory responses and lack of cooperation with an investigation into the highly controversial Operation Fast and Furious. A letter sent by the two lead investigators highlighted testimony indicating internal disputes within the Justice Department and a statement from the Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) that the Justice Department is attempting to protect its political appointees

“It was very frustrating to all of us, and it appears thoroughly to us that the Department is really trying to figure out a way to push the information away from their political appointees at the Department,” ATF Acting Director Kenneth Melson said of his frustration with the Justice Department’s response to the investigation in a transcribed interview..
Oh, that's good. And it gets better.
“The Department should not be withholding what Mr. Melson described as the ‘smoking gun’ report of investigation or Mr. Melson’s emails regarding the wiretap applications,” wrote Issa and Grassley. “Mr. Melson said he reviewed the affidavits in support of the wiretap applications for the first time after the controversy became public and immediately contacted the Deputy Attorney General’s office to raise concerns about information in them that was inconsistent with the Department’s public denials. The Department should also address the serious questions raised by Mr. Melson’s testimony regarding potential informants for other agencies.”
So Melson told the committee of at least one specific report and his e-mails that DoJ did not hand over to the committee as ordered, and- if I'm remembering right- denied even existed, or said "We can't find anything like that" along with "The dog ate it." It would probably be simpler for Grassley and Issa to just say "You do realize, at this point, that we know when you're lying to us, don't you? Or we will find out when you do? So maybe we should just drag you down here and put you under oath, would you like that?"

From the LA Times article:
Melson said the Justice Department repeatedly thwarted his attempts to tell investigators about the failures of Fast and Furious, which was run out of the ATF's Phoenix field office. When the ATF reassigned managers in Phoenix, he said, "the department resisted" his offer to tell Congress about the changes. Melson said he was told not to issue any news releases about Fast and Furious and was instructed not to brief rank-and-file ATF agents about the growing scandal.

When Grassley sought to meet with Melson this year, the Justice Department blocked that interview too, Melson said. "This is really just poking [Grassley] in the eye," Melson said he told Justice Department officials. "He's going to get it through the back door anyway, so why are we aggravating this situation?"
Because they're scared to death of the consequences and want to stave it off as long as possible? Hoping the friendly media and GFW clowns in the House and Senate will have more time to try to save their sorry asses?
You know, sooner or later a bunch of these people are going to be sitting in front of the committee and be placed under oath; it's going to be interesting to see how many are willing to commit perjury or otherwise try to conceal.

A quote

Now let's be clear: I have no space for bigots in my life. Every person should be judged as an individual, not as a class. I went through some serious soul searching on Mtali over that. But to force people to have the "right mindset" is more heinous than any ignorant bigotry, because it is intentional destruction of free will.
Kenneth Chinran
The Weapon

Oh yeah...

I wonder how Bonnie Raitt and Carlos Santana

and all the other musicians and actors who just LOOOOOVE Castro excuse this?

Or do they just ignore it, like they do the racism and filthy hospitals for the commoners?


It should be noted by all proper government-hating ingrates(i.e. 'people who want to be left the hell alone') that the FDA should not be forgotten when compiling the list of agencies that need to be seriously cut back. If they've got time and money for this crap, then they've got an excess of both. And personnel, too.
No, I'm not forgetting the dirtbag politicians who passed this crap and who fail to rein in these bastards.


Speaking of bastards, the House decided we can be allowed to buy 100-watt incandescent bulbs for a year longer. But the bastards still want us to be forced into using those damned fluorescents. As Claire asks, if the amount of mercury is so small and "Don't worry about it!", why this list of how to so carefully clean up after one breaks?


Ah, the Only Ones:
Two policemen are recovering after they were shot by fellow officers as they tried to arrest a man on child pornography charges outside a crowded move theatre.

The incident happened as undercover officers tried to apprehend the unarmed man in the parking lot as he left a screening of Harry Potter in Plainville, Connecticut.

The officers opened fire after Eric Gothberg, 45, suddenly reached for his waistband after resisting arrest.

One policeman arriving as back-up was hit by a bullet in his arm. Another was injured by shards of glass.
They did manage to hit the suspect once, in the foot, during all this.
Only THEY can be trusted to possess firearms; remember that.
Speaking of which,
According to a 2010 Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General report, DHS employees had 243 firearms lost or stolen between 2006 and 2008. Of those, 64 were lost because of circumstances beyond DHS's control — such as during an assault on an agent or officer — or despite having the weapons secured in safes or lock boxes.

But 74 percent, or 179 guns, were lost "because officers did not properly secure them," the report said. Officers left them in restrooms, vehicles and other public places, according to the OIG report.


"Please don't sue us again! Will figure something out!"


Note that while Mayors Against Guns is trying to keep honest citizens from having arms, they've got some pretty dodgy characters as members of their group. Child porn? Hey, Nanny Bloomberg, how does this sit with your "We know what's good for you" attitude?


Finally, to the people in the parking lot at the grocery store: I get that you ran into a friend, and you're glad to see each other, but could you MOVE YOUR ASSES out of the geometric center of that lane intersection so people can get by? It might even keep the kids from getting run over.

Among the reasons it was so damn lucky the Germans

ran so many- primarily Jewish- scientists out before the war began: they were able to build crap like this
as it was; if they'd had the foresight to keep those researchers in Germany, or grabbed them from other countries before they could escape to Britain or here...

This thing had a 800mm- 31.5"- bore, fired a 5.25 ton HE or 8.25 ton AP shell up to 29 miles for the HE, 23 for the AP, muzzle velocity around 2700fps. Damn.

The good thing about this? Hitler & Co. had people and other resources tied up with crap like this instead of working on other things. As was they developed the first tv-guided bomb and a lot of other things, so any oversized time-consumer like this was a Good Thing for us.

You, Dumbass! Yes, you, the one taking the exit

from 44 southbound to eastbound. Y'know, it's generally considered a good idea, after finish the actual curve part, to at least attempt to accelerate beyond 37mph BEFORE you enter the highway. C'mon, you moron, you're out of the scary curve and have pretty straight road ahead of you!

From here(where the bastard is currently blogging from Brazil)



From here
And they should have checked with Frank, first

From here


Newspeak:

Gun Collection	Arsenal of Weapons
Swamp	Delicate Wetlands
Illegal Alien	Undocumented Worker
Synthetic Fiber	Cruelty-Free Materials
Well-protected	Heavily Armed
Righteous	Narrow-minded
Coerced Theft	Taxes / Your Fair Share
Gun Confiscation	Commonsense Gun Control
Stump Removal Powder	Illegal Hazardous Explosives
Unborn Baby	Nonviable Tissue Mass
Socialism	Equal Access to Opportunity
High Crime Area	Multicultural Community
Marxism	Fairness / Social Progress
Self-Employed	Upper Class / "The Rich "
Big Government Scheme	Progressive, Change
Bums /Welfare Leeches	Homeless or Disadvantaged
Scoped Deer Rifle	Sniper Rifle
Higher Taxes	Investment For the Future
Socialized Medicine	Healthcare Reform
Conservative	Extremist, Judgmental, or Hater
Homeschoolers	Truants
Criminal or Lazy Good-For-Nothing	Victim or Oppressed
Standard Capacity Magazine	High Capacity Magazine
Church-going	Religious Zealot
Employer or Land Owner	Exploiters / "The Rich "
NRA Members	The Gun Lobby
Semi-Auto (Grandpa's M1 Carbine)	Assault Weapon
New Taxes and Higher Taxes	Fiscal Stimulus
Chinese Mercury-Laden Light Bulbs	Mandated Eco-Friendly Lighting
Say again?	Same Sex Marriage
Undocumented worker	Mr.President

From here



Now this would really suck:

Also from the Feral guy; he was on a roll:




Getting raped? Be sure to arm yourself with a smartphone - because the White House will soon have an app for that.

Kimber J. Nicoletti-Martinez, director of multicultural efforts to end sexual assault at Purdue University, has some design suggestions:

“Maybe people could add more components to it to ask people to confront their beliefs,” about what causes sexual assault, she said—like building an app that resembles Angry Birds. “Is there some kind of bird you can fling against misogynistic attitudes?”

Sigh.

Isn't there some sort of device that would fling heavy metal projectiles at high rates of speed directly at, and hopefully through the vital organs of, your attacker?

(Radical idea, I know, but I suspect it could be very effective.)
Why yes, I would think so...

and




After the 'managing threats' link the other day Tam provided, RNS reminded me of two more, these from Xavier, well worth reading:
Recognizing threats
Standing on the X


From here

Just some links today; it's hot, my back hurts, I'm pissed at DC(so what else is new) and that's it for now.

I should probably note that Jane Fonda

doesn't like it when people remember things she's done and won't shut up about them.
Especially when it costs her money.


Bottom line, this has gone on far too long, this spreading of lies about me! None of it is true. NONE OF IT! I love my country. I have never done anything to hurt my country or the men and women who have fought and continue to fight for us.
Really, Fonda? So those pictures with NVA troops and on the NVA antiaircraft gun were all pre-Photoshop fakes? All those things you said on film and otherwise on the record, you somehow didn't actually say? Truly?

You're a despicable sort, aren't you?

So Britain is sliding further down the drain

Waltham Forest, an area identified in the most recent census figures available as having the fifth-biggest proportion of Muslims – 15 percent – of any local authority in England or Wales, has been singled out by radicals behind the group calling itself Muslims Against Crusades (MAC).

“As part of our Islamic Emirate Project, Waltham Forest is to be the first borough to be targeted for an intense shari’a led campaign, introducing the prospect of Islamic law for the Muslim community to abide by,” MAC said in a statement this week.

The project aims to “gradually transform Muslim communities into Islamic Emirates operating under shari’a law,” the group said.
...
Citing injunctions from the Qur’an and other Islamic texts, it says Muslims in Britain must, among other things:

- reject democracy
- not have non-Muslim friends
- not celebrate non-Muslim festivals including Christmas and Easter
- not join the police or armed forces
- not vote for lawmakers, or stand for election
- demand the release of “all Muslim prisoners in the hands of the disbelievers”
- reject integration with non-Islamic society
- abide by shari’a and not any “man-made law”

“A Muslim must believe that all Christians or Jews will be destined for the hellfire and that only Muslims will be eligible to go to paradise,” the pamphlet says in an entry on why Muslims must reject interfaith activity.

“Any Muslim who opposes any policy in this pamphlet should be confronted.”
In the CNS article a guy says "no way the government will allow this"; problem is, they've been allowing various clowns to get away with acting like this for quite a while.
Also, I imagine the 'don't vote' will be followed by protesting that they don't have to obey any election results because "We didn't have a say in it!"



Over here we have the TSA acting like fools and messing with grandmas because- well, because they're a bunch of fucking morons, that's why.
But there's a bit of blowback occurring:
Court records show 61-year-old Yukari Mihamae grabbed the left breast of the female agent Thursday at the Terminal 4 checkpoint.
...
There's no word why she touched the agent.
Yeah, it's a damn mystery, ain't it?

Ever heard of the Katyusha rocket? Russian system, used a lot of them in WWII; here's some information on it.


DoJ says "We can force you to decrypt your computer's contents for us", various people saying "Screw you." On general principle I go with the "Screw you" crowd. Especially after reading this part:
Because this involves a Fifth Amendment claim, Colorado prosecutors took the unusual step of seeking approval from headquarters in Washington, D.C.: On May 5, Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer sent a letter to John Walsh, the U.S. Attorney for Colorado, saying "I hereby approve your request."
Especially with his involvement in Gunrunner, I consider ANYTHING Breuer is involved in to be a threat to the general welfare.


Well, it is a disturbing resemblance...


"Ok, I'm ready, let's go!"



And, from a taxidermist with a sense of humor,

A modified holster

Couple of years back, after reading of the wonders of the in-waistband holsters, I picked one up to try(Don Hume, to be specific). Overall I really liked it, if for no other reason than it does not move. I’ve got a couple of belt holsters I like, but they have a tendency to slide back & forth a bit, especially if you have to lean over to do something; the IWB holster stays put.

There were two things I had problems with:
1. With it inside the pants, in hot weather it could soak up sweat, which is not good for firearms, and can be hard on the leather, too.
2. The mouth had a second piece of leather stitched around to stiffen it a bit, but if you had the piece out of it for a few minutes, the mouth closed enough that it was difficult to reholster without having to work the muzzle around a touch to get it started in.
The fixes were
For 2, I cut the stitching, cut a thin strip off an old saw blade* and shaped it to fit, put it between the holster and reinforcing piece and stitched it back up.
For 1, I waxed it the same way I used to do knife sheaths to stiffen & help waterproof them. I used a mix of ½ paraffin, ½ beeswax and just a little Lexol or neatsfoot oil added in. In the case of the holster, I cut a piece of wood to just a touch taller and wider than the front sight and taped it on the slide between the sights, then wrapped the pistol in plastic wrap(or a plastic bag, either works). Put the wax in a shallow pan in the oven with a big piece of aluminum foil next to it and left it on ‘warm’ until melted. Stuck the holster in for a few minutes to warm, then used a leather dye swab to wipe wax all over the holster, inside and out, then laid it on the foil and closed the door. After a few minutes the leather had soaked all the wax up, so repeated until it seemed almost saturated. At which time you stick the pistol in, make sure everything’s lined up as it should be, and bone it: take something smooth and hard and rub the holster all over** to fit it to the piece, then let it cool. It’ll usually be sticky to draw, but when you take the plastic and the sight spacer off it should slide in & out nicely.

I’ll note that with heavier, stiffer leather the wax may take care of stiffening the mouth.

I’ve been happy with it, It does have the one drawback of any other holster: you have to wear something over your shirt or whatever to hide it(no open carry in OK); uncomfortable this time of year. The solution to that was found in a book on self-defense handgunning: the tuckable holster. If you’re not familiar, it’s a IWB holster with the clip being long, and attached at the bottom. That leaves a space between the clip and holster where you can tuck your shirt. Procedure:
Unbutton pants.
Pull up shirt.
Clip holster on belt.
Insert pistol if not already in.
Twist and pull like a Cirque du Soliel clown to get the shirt tucked between without dropping your pants.
Tuck rest of shirt in and button pants.
Yes, that’s awkward, and it’s not as fast to draw from as a uncovered holster; however, under a loose dress or casual shirt it disappears. A very handy rig.

I picked up one of the de Santis rigs linked to. It worked well, but I did give it the wax treatment to protect the leather and gun a bit. The one problem I noticed after a couple of hot days was that when you took the pistol out I actually had beads of sweat on the slide above the holster. Not good. Two obvious solutions(besides an undershirt):
Find another holster that rises up enough in back to protect against this, or
Take off the reinforcing leather piece and replace it with one that rises enough to protect.
Or, being me, you dig out some leather and make another holster.

I mostly copied the de Santis, including- as I’ve not gotten hold of the stuff to make a similar clip- using the clip off it. Here’s the holster, just finished:
Back view

The clip has one hold and one curved slot and uses screw posts. There's a piece of leather sewn to the toe that holds the female side of the posts(this is the original)
A star friction washer goes over each, then the clip, then the screws, so with this you can adjust the angle to suit.

I’ll give it a try over the next while and see how it works. Holds up ok. I’ll find some kydex to make the body of a clip and make one for it(the spring clip is steel, riveted on; the steel I have)



*Also useful for making scrapers, small blades and other things.
**One of the best things to use was a piece of polished bone, thus the name. Nowadays plastic works well, too.

The other day it was that e-mail

asking for 'anecdotal cases'; now we have this:
Even more damning: the existence of more emails that confirm these same ATF officials and others were colluding to use the Operation “Fast and Furious” guns that they helped smuggle into Mexico as a pretext for the new reporting regulation.

Something so effing stupid it could only come from a nut-level feminist

And the fact that the effing NAVY thought it was a good thing to post...
3. If you pull over to help someone with car problems, remember not to assault them!
10. Carry a whistle! If you're worried you might assault someone "accidentally" you can hand it to the person you're with so they can blow it if you do.
Bloody jumping Jeebus on a pogo stick, the idiot that put this together is SERIOUS:
The poster was not a Navy-produced document, but rather a product of the feminist blog TumblinFeminist.
and some PC-minded idiots at the Navy thought this was a good idea to post? Really? And the idiots at TF considered this a realistic thing? 'Remember not to assault them', bloody fucking hell.

The fundraiser's over,

so take a look at what came of it. Didn't quite make the $100k target, but took in a lot.

Did Fast & Furious violate the Arms Export Control Act?

That is an interesting question.

And a bunch of Gunwalker links at Sipsey.

'Sometimes drowning doesn't look

like drowning.

Good information, especially this time of year

Project Valour-IT

Some words from Blackfive.

If you've got a few bucks you can spare, hit that button over on the sidebar. Or go here.

I have always been the person I should fear most.

I think sometimes that should be my motto, but I've never quite taken it to this level

Well, well, well, such an interesting e-mail

Found here

Under the heading of 'Things I'd like to see'

is an idea that occurred the other day:
Take the old Colt Pocket Hammerless in .380:
Put on bigger sights.
Make the thumb safety a 'click on & off'.
And, just to gild the lily, make the frame of suitable aluminum.
Wouldn't that be a sweet thing?

Oh boy, the reaction to this must've been something

to see; fly on the wall, etc. All bolds mine:
Dear Attorney General Holder:

As our investigation in Operation Fast and Furious has progressed, we have learned that senior officials at the Department of Justice (DOJ), including Senate-confirmed political appointees, were unquestionably aware of the implementation of this reckless program. Therefore it is necessary to review communications between and among these senior officials. As such, please provide all records relating to communications between and among the following individuals regarding Operation Fast and Furious:

1. David Ogden, Former Deputy Attorney General;

2. Gary Grindler, Officer of the Attorney General and former Acting Deputy Attorney General;

3. James Cole, Deputy Attorney General;

4. Lanny Breuer, Assistant Attorney General;

5. Kenneth Blanco, Deputy Assistant Attorney General;

6. Jason Weinstein, Deputy Assistant Attorney General;

7. John Keeney, Deputy Assistant Attorney General;

8. Matt Axelrod, Associate Deputy Attorney General;

9. Ed Siskel, Former Associate Deputy Attorney General;

10. Brad Smith, Office of the Deputy Attorney General;

11. Kevin Carwhile, Section Chief, Capitol Case Unit; and

12. Joseph Cooley, Criminal Fraud Section.

These records should include e-mails, memoranda, briefing papers, and handwritten notes. Additionally, any records related to communications referring to a large firearms trafficking case within the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) or in Phoenix should be included in any production.
Full letter at Sipsey, or at Codrea's link.

This has to have some people saying bad words and reviewing their(they hope) legal cover; this covering 'a large trafficking case and/or in Phoenix' covers Houston and Tampa and anywhere else they may have been running such an operation. Which brings up another "If you lie to us, when we catch it, we won't be happy" moment for these people.

Some serious motivational posters

over here: pics and words from some of the guys from Band of Brothers

More on the Gunwalker companion operation

in Texas:
The men were trailed as part of a multi-agency operation similar to Fast and Furious, that to date has not been named, in the Dallas Field Operations area, which encompasses southwest Texas, north Texas, and Oklahoma.

This is in addition to considerable circumstantial evidence that the Houston Field Operations area, which is made up of central and southeastern Texas, may have been responsible for shipping a large percentage of the recovered guns linked to Mexican cartels in central and southern Mexico. How large is the alleged Houston operation? It could possibly dwarf the Arizona operation now so infamously known as the source of the weapons recovered at Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry’s murder.

On March 3, Senator Grassley sent a letter to Kenneth Melson, the acting director of the ATF, “concerned that the ATF may have employed the same risky strategy of encouraging weapons trafficking that was employed elsewhere by the ATF, beyond the Phoenix Field Office and its Operation ‘Fast and Furious.’”

Melson and the ATF never answered, prompting a follow-up letter on March 28, in which he revealed that the Department of Justice knew Otilio and Ranferi Osorio and Kevin Morrison were straw purchasers of cartel weapons as early as August 7, 2010, 193 days before Agents Avila and Zapata were murdered with a “walked” Texas gun.
I wonder what Melson was asked about this by the investigators, and just what he had to say?

Added: It's like a daily feature, including
The new regulations will require ATF bureaucrats in four border states, California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas, to file new reports with themselves each time they illegally send more than 2 high-powered, semi-automatic rifles across the border within a 5 day period.

Damn! An off switch for cats!

Looks like Tingles Matthews has competition

for the biggest suckup to Obama.
...can we just enjoy Obama for a moment? Before the policy choices have to be weighed and the hard decisions have to be made, can we just take a month or two to contemplate him the way we might contemplate a painting by Vermeer or a guitar lick by the early-seventies Rolling Stones or a Peyton Manning pass or any other astounding, ecstatic human achievement? Because twenty years from now, we're going to look back on this time as a glorious idyll in American politics, with a confident, intelligent, fascinating president riding the surge of his prodigious talents from triumph to triumph. Whatever happens this fall or next, the summer of 2011 is the summer of Obama.
...
But even if you disagree with him, even if you hate him, even if you are his enemy, at this point you must admire him. The turning point came that glorious week in the spring when, in the space of a few days, he released his long-form birth certificate, humiliated Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, and assassinated Osama bin Laden. The effortlessness of that political triptych — three linked masterpieces demonstrating his total command over intellectual argument, low comedy, and the spectacle of political violence — was so overwhelmingly impressive that it made political geniuses of the recent past like Reagan and Clinton [FIG.2] seem ham-fisted. Formed in the fire of other people's wars, other people's financial crises, Obama stepped out of Bush's shadow that week, almost three years after taking over the presidency. Etc., etc., 'Oh come let us adore him' etc.

No, I'm not linking directly to this drippy, disgusting piece of worship; I'd feel like I'd contaminated the blog if I did.

This is a fine example of why I despise AGW True Believers

PRIMARY school children are being terrified by lessons claiming climate change will bring "death, injury and destruction" to the world unless they take action.

On the eve of Prime Minister Julia Gillard's carbon tax package announcement, psychologists and scientists said the lessons were alarmist, created unneeded anxiety among school children and endangered their mental health.

Climate change as a "Doomsday scenario" is being taught in classrooms across Australia.
Go read it for all the disgusting details. Please note this:
Psychologist Michael Carr-Gregg called on educators to be "more circumspect and present both sides (of the climate-change debate)".

"When you repeat things over and over to young people who don't have the cognitive maturity and emotional maturity to process this stuff, you end up creating unnecessary anxiety," he said.

Federal Schools Minister Peter Garrett said the government would not stop the teaching of climate science, despite moves in Britain for the subject to be withdrawn.
Got that? 'present both sides of the debate' means "STOP TEACHING IT!" according to miserable little assholes like Garrett.

Damn these people; for their arrogance, and what they're doing to kids.

Know something about Gunwalker or the other

(possibly two) operations? There's some confidential contact stuff out there

Fine, it's a venomous spider, but this

seems a bit of overkill:
The store in the town of Bexbach was immediately evacuated and the police were called in. A spider expert from a nearby zoo helped a team of 30 people who gingerly searched the shelves, at times switching off the lights to lure the nocturnal beast out of its hiding place.

Disturbingly, they found nothing. On Saturday night, pest controllers decided to solve the problem by spraying the entire 5,000-square meter store with poison. All the perishable food was discarded but the store plans to keep tinned goods, arguing that the pesticide dissipated quickly and wasn't dangerous to humans.

It was due to reopen later on Monday. "Experts believe the spider should be dead," a police spokesman said. They haven't found the body, though. And it can't be ruled out that it left the supermarket and is now roaming Bexbach.

Below, a better shot of one of these:

"OOpsy!" says Holder

when he gets the letter.
A startling new allegation about possible tainting of potential witness testimony before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has surfaced in a letter sent yesterday by Congressman Darrell Issa and Senator Charles Grassley to Attorney General Eric Holder. In their letter,obtained by this column, Issa and Grassley reveal:

“We have recently learned that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) has afforded potential witnesses for the Committees’ investigation into Operation Fast and Furious access to a shared drive on its computer system replete with pertinent investigative documents, including official ATF e-mails. Although our staff has been advised the Department has since terminated access to this document cache, we write to seek additional information relating to this egregious decision. We also ask that you promptly self-report this matter to the Office of Inspector General (OIG).”

Also noted at Sipsey, where I first ran across this

Dear Tax-Cheat Geithner:

Screw you
"The president has proposed some very sensible tax reforms that would eliminate loopholes and ask the wealthiest Americans to pay a modest additional share of the burden," Geithner said.
Does that include you and Charlie Rangel?

I think that goofy economist Feinberg made a mistake

Other than screwing with people over dinner, that is. Specifically,
She claimed that someone was “in the process of buying” Ryan until she confronted him.
A lawyer I am not, but that sounds like she's accusing Ryan and the two guys he dined with of committing federal crimes. And unless she's got some proof, some evidence to back that up, I'd think she just opened herself up to getting her ass sued off.

And Obama's attack begins

The Obama administration on Monday granted new powers to federal regulators fighting gun traffickers on the violence-plagued Mexican border.

Issued by the Department of Justice (DOJ), the new rules require border-state gun dealers to report bulk purchases of assault weapons made by individual buyers over short spans of time — a tool requested in December by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).
Actually, if they would begin by firing and prosecuting ATF and FBI and DEA and whoever else took part in helping smuggle weapons into Mexico, it'd do more good than this crap.

Added: the NRA is acting:
“They don’t have the statutory authority to do it and we’ll file a lawsuit as soon as the first letters are sent” demanding the sales information from dealers, the NRA’s legislative director Chris Cox told POLITICO Monday afternoon.
As noted, Via Joe, who notes: What isn’t explicitly stated is that the requiring the reporting of gun sales cannot be done by executive order. A change of this type requires legislative action.

So the LA Sheriff is a PC idiot

who's spending a lot of OPM on something he really shouldn't be.
Steve Whitmore, LASD Senior Media Advisor, confirmed the Muslim Community Affairs Unit receives taxpayer funds approximating $128,400 per year for two full time Deputies. When this reporter asked Mr. Whitmore if any other , religions, had a LASD Community Affairs Unit and received equal taxpayer funds, Whitmore replied, "There are no other religious Community Affairs Units in the Los Angeles Sheriffs Department."
I'm wondering if this was his own bright idea, or if some politician or activist came up with it.
...The MCAU has another function, "The unit also trains department members about Islam and Muslims, touching on issues such as religious beliefs and customs. Academy recruits also receive a two-hour class on Muslim cultures and background as part of the cultural awareness training program." A program tasked with teaching Shariah Compliant Islamic values to incoming police recruits, while excluding the values of every other religion in Los Angeles County.
Sheriff Baca needs his ass kicked for getting this started. And if you want some real fun, start insisting that all the money spent on this needs to be repaid.


Speaking of dumbassery, this has been floating around the last couple of days, and it is a fine demonstration of leftist thought: "You shouldn't do things I don't think are nice. And I can mess up YOUR evening and expect to be patted on the head for doing it." I love this part:
Ms. Crabtree felt the need to go to DEFCON 1 for this outrage that a member of Congress and his two economist friends would buy expensive wine with their own money. She's never, ever written horribly about Barack Obama using taxpayer money for fancy wine at State Dinners. She's never written salaciously about the liquor bills on Nancy Pelosi's government funded plane.

But by God you get some failed Rutgers economist out on a birthday date with her husband at a hotel restaurant who gets all jealous that she's not cool enough to hang out with Little Eddie Munster and his econ pals and . . . well . . . fire up the broom stick and quill pen, we've got a hot story and a little scandal on our hands.

And that's all I've got tonight. Assuming I get some sleep, the usual bitching and yelling will resume sometime tomorrow

A picture from a long time ago

Friend of mine knew a gunsmith, who had a select-fire subgun he'd let you shoot if you provided the ammo and he got the brass. So one day we headed out with a box of .45acp each and gave it a try
First time I'd ever fired an automatic. I found that with a silhouette at about twenty feet I could put the first round center, the second upper-left chest and the third consistently went just over the shoulder. And I was wishing for either a can or a barrel extension up front, as that muzzle felt just a bit close to my fingers. It isn't, really, but it felt that way. And I learned the true meaning of 'turning money into noise'.

I'll throw in a story: son got a chance to hit a Special Forces range a couple of times and play with their toys, including a H&K machine pistol. Before firing was warned that they had a number of guys missing the tip of their left index finger, because if you were firing one of these
in the earlier version of this did not have that extra finger protector up front and you let your finger straighten, then sometimes...

It would appear that Miller Beer needs to go unsold

since they've apparently partnered with these people.

Soviet sub, sunk in the Winter War,

found.

More pictures here

There's cheap, and there's cheap

The Swede's wife steps up to the tee and, as she bends over to place her ball,
a gust of wind blows her skirt up and reveals her lack of underwear.
'Good God, woman! Why aren't you wearing any skivvies?' Ole demanded.
'Well' she said, 'you don't give me enough housekeeping money to afford any.'
The Swede immediately reaches into his pocket and says, 'For the sake of decency,
here's a 50. Go and buy yourself some underwear.'


Next, the Irishman's wife bends over to set her ball on the tee.
Her skirt also blows up to show that she, too, is wearing no undies.
'Blessed Virgin Mary, woman! You've no knickers. Why not?'
She replies, 'I can't afford any on the money you give me.'
Patrick reaches into his pocket and says, 'For the sake of decency,
here's a 20. Go and buy yourself some underwear"!


Lastly, the Scotsman's wife bends over. The wind also takes her skirt
over her head to reveal that she, too, is naked under it.
'Sweet mudder of Jaysus, Aggie! Where ta friggin hell are yer drawers?'
She too explains, 'You dinna give me enough money ta be able ta affarrd any.'
The Scotsman reaches into his pocket and says, 'Well, fer the love 'o decency,
here's a comb. Tidy yerself up a bit.

Want

Can get here

If you're looking for some pants,

here's some I can suggest. I got two of the 'basic operator pant' a while back, and I like them: solidly made, more comfortable in hot weather than jeans and more pockets. And I can say that something like dropped-food stains wash out quite well.

Prince Charles is visiting an Aberdeen hospital.

He enters a ward full of patients with no obvious sign of injury or illness and greets one. The patient replies:
"Fair fa your honest sonsie face,
Great chieftain o the puddin race,
Aboon them a ye take yer place,
Painch, tripe or thairm..."

Charles is confused, so he just grins and moves on to the next patient. The patient responds:"
Some hae meat an canna eat,
And some wad eat that want it,
But we hae meat an we can eat,
So let the Lord be thankit."

Even more confused, and his grin now rictus-like, the Prince moves on to the next patient, who immediately begins to chant:
"Wee sleekit, cowerin, timrous beasty,
O the panic in thy breasty,
Thou needna start awa sae hastie,
Wi bickering brattle."

Now seriously troubled, Charles turns to the accompanying doctor and asks "Is this a psychiatric ward?"

"No," replies the doctor, "this is the serious Burns unit."

And if you don't get it, look up Robert Burns, you uncultured bastard

I can't say I ever heard of John Cook before,

but now I know that if I meet him I should spit on his shoes.

Do these clowns not have ANY working brain cells? Or is it they like the idea of getting someone(or their family) doing dangerous work to protect this country killed?

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Hit it.