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In shooting, LAPD SWAT is supposed to be right up there, and someone pointed to this modified pistol qualification:
25 yds: 2 body under 4 sec--3x (same as the Defoor Test #2 shot in DOW #40)
15 yds: 2 body under 3 sec--3x
10 yds: 2 body then 1 head under 3.5 sec--2x
7 yds: 2 body then 1 head under 3 sec--2x
5 yds: 2 body then 1 head under 2.5 sec--2x
3 yds: 2 body then 1 head under 2 sec--2x

Modifications are for ranges where you can't draw from holster.


From three years ago, BRM notes the idiocy of blaming objects instead of the people doing things; the gun bigots and hoplophobes didn't listen then, they won't now.


"What to do instead of something" from Chicago, current version.


On the MSM,
Interesting that Andrea Mitchell had no issue with the press being called “liberal” and found nothing worth remarking on, here except “did you really mean to call the president lazy”, and then narrowing her eyes about it. She’d be a formidable apparatchik in a re-education camp, wouldn’t she? “I’m going to give you a chance to take that back…” I know I’d be terrified.


Also,

I think the Obama administration — the whole boiling of them, and Mrs. Pelosi, Mr. Reid and their posses and pals — have become so confident that a victory in this election means they will never again have to answer to anyone about anything, that in their heads, they’re already there.

I said she gets it almost right. So what are my reservations? Winning this election will only solidify the process, but I think they already reached the point she describes quite some time ago.


"I did not try to mislead you; I was lying my ass off."


Ok, this is going to get really nasty:
 A preliminary investigation has found friendly fire likely was to blame in the shootings of two border agents along the Arizona-Mexico border, the FBI said Friday.


And on the social side,
No, you're not going to 'the wrong wedding', you have a friend who is insane.

The ACLU tends to do a fine job of demonstrating

why so many people think they suck.
The last paragraph is classic. ACLU is calling for more transparency by the Border Patrol. They have yet to call for more transparency from the Department of Justice over Fast & Furious. The ACLU is very concerned for Mexican citizens, but I guess the 300+ who have died by Fast & Furious weapons do not matter.

They also say the Border Patrol “carries responsibility to be accountable to the American public” since they’re the largest law enforcement agency in the US. That’s odd. They haven’t demanded the DOJ to be accountable for their actions in Fast & Furious. No one within the DOJ has been held accountable. They’ve been allowed to resign quietly and take other cushy jobs or reassigned. No one has been fired or arrested despite the fact that there are hundreds of deaths linked to the operation.


Also sucking at a high level, Rep. Cummings(Race-Mongering Jerk-MD).


Rebel Pundit caught up with supporters of the President at an Obama for America rally in Madison, WI on Thursday. When asked if it was “fair” that the President was unable to use a teleprompter during the debates, overwhelmingly the supporters said “no”.
The level of dumb in this, it's painful.


Desmond Tutu; someone else not as shiny as painted

And since someone started the game, I'll play

What's on my playlist I use while working out, or riding the OKCPV to the library:

Ashrei Ha’Ish

La Grange

The Butterfly Jig

Heartache Tonight

Sweet Dreams

Celtic Circle Dance

Barracuda

Sweet Young Thing

Ain’t No Rest For The Wicked

Sexy & 17

Bad Girlfriend

All American Nightmare

Weapon of Choice

White Lightning & Wine

Sea of Tranquility

Winterborn

Classical Gas(guitar solo)

The Night

Unionhouse Branch

Long Cool Woman

Rhythm of My Heart

Gimme the Prize

Snakedriver

Pickin’ Wildflowers

God’s Gonna Cut You Down

Dead Souls

Let's see, country, rock, Israeli dance... I do have a bit of a mix there

The Guitar Saga, Post VII

This past Saturday I very lightly sanded with 800 finish paper, cleaned, and then put several coats on.  Sunday wet-sanded to level, cleaned, and then the last, very light, finishing coat.  Here's what it looks like now:

Yeah, looks a lot better than with the original finish flaking off.

The lacquer instructions say to let it dry 6-8 days before stringing; I'm going to give it the full eight, so I'll string it Tuesday, and see how it sounds.

Remember all the Fusion Centers? The ones that said the tea party

should be considered a terrorist group, that prepping for natural disaster(in tornado season like they'd said people should, yet!) should be considered suspicious and so on?
Homeland Security Secretary Janet A. Napolitano repeatedly misled lawmakers about one of her department’s signature initiatives, the special centers where state and local police share information about terrorism with their federal counterparts, a key lawmaker who helped author a damning report on the project said in an interview Thursday.

A bipartisan report from the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations states that Ms. Napolitano and her department failed to report to Congress serious problems with the so-called “fusion center” program.

“She was not straightforward to the committee about what she actually knew at the time and what had been documented by [the department’s] own look at the problem,” the subcommittee’s senior Republican, Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, told The Washington Times on Thursday.
What?  Napolitano & Co. lied?  And covered-up?  Who could have imagined such a thing?

Mr. Coburn said the department had deliberately stonewalled the subcommittee’s oversight function.

Department officials “threw up roadblocks in every area. They didn’t want this report to come out because they knew how bad it was,” he said.
But don't worry, Homeland Security spokesman Matthew Chandler dismissed the report as “out of date, inaccurate and misleading.”
Of COURSE it is, has to be, right?


About all those non-union people connected to GM who were screwed out of their pensions?  Yeah, Obama was connected to that being done.  Anybody surprised?


A lot of people have talked about how bloody awful Obama was in the debate; I wasn't surprised by what I read, for two reasons:
A: Had you ever listened to any of the recordings of him when he went off teleprompter?  Unless he was in a audience of total supporters(and sometimes even then), he's awful; stuttering, hesitating, "Uh, ah, uh," on and on.  Someone would talk about how wonderful a speaker he is, I'd mention those, and they'd either ignore it or dismiss those as 'cherry-picking'.  Well, in a way they were: they were the ones the major media never played if they could avoid it; they didn't fit the image of Obama as The Great Orator.  So a lot of people had either never heard those, or- if they heard about it- dismissed.  So when he did it in the debate...
B: Like everyone pointed out, with very few exceptions the media hasn't actually challenged him on anything for years: they've insulted/dismissed/slandered anyone who did, they've carried his water, so he flat was not prepared- maybe could not imagine anyone daring to- for being hit hard.  It showed.

Obama's not stupid.  Arrogant as the devil himself, insulated, yes.  I'd imagine he'll be a lot better in the next one.  I'd guess the big thing for Romney is to keep not letting him lie and get away with it; challenge him on it when he lies, when he throws out fake numbers.


New Jersey: where the facts and truth don't mean squat.


On the That was upsetting post a few days back, yesterday afternoon I went through that .45 brass; either the case the little piece of brass came from wasn't picked up the day it was fired, or that's not where it came from; none of the primers showed any bits missing.  So that mystery continues.  I did fire that pistol again Wednesday, no problems.

Don't they know they're hurting Mother Gaia?

In linking al-Qaeda to the deadly wildfires, Mr Bortnikov pointed to calls to launch a "forest jihad" by various extremist websites which he said also publish detailed instructions about how and where to best carry out arson. 

He said it was very difficult for special services to find and prosecute such arsonists.


On the 'Only Ones trained enough' front,
Armed Internal Revenue Service agents need more thorough firearms training and they need to be more consistent in reporting accidental firings of their guns, said the tax-collecting agency's watchdog on Tuesday.

"Special agents not properly trained in the use of firearms could endanger the public, as well as their fellow special agents, and expose the IRS to potential litigation over injuries or damages," said J. Russell George, Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.

A: If' they're 'not properly trained', then why the hell did you turn them loose with sidearms and police powers?
B: Just how many 'accidental firings'(what we call 'negligent discharges') are we talking about here?  Inquiring minds want to know.
C: You maybe get the feeling they're more concerned about being sued than about the other stuff?



Found at the Irishman's


To the ladies out there: why do so many women seem to consider that act of checking tire pressure to be something done, oh, every few months or so?  If they think of it?


Oh, and to people like Tingles Matthews,

Now that's a comment!

From Bob Owens:

Some people eat when they get depressed. I hope Michelle put Bo outside for the night.

Hehehehehe.....


While the USDA- pushed by Mrs. Obama- is telling students to eat like she doesn't,
While students pick at their vegetables, USDA’s cafeteria menus are loaded with unhealthy options for government employees — from pesto chicken pizza to BLTs with cheddar cheese, Cuban pork paninis to Philly steak subs, cheeseburgers to French toast.

“If the USDA demands that 100,000 school districts change their menus and justifies this mandate because schools receive federal money for lunches, then taxpayers should demand that the USDA cafeteria meet the same standards, as USDA operates in taxpayer-funded buildings,” Huelskamp challenged Tuesday afternoon. “Let’s see if they eat enough to function. Let’s see if they like having choices taken away from them.”



A: Why the HELL would you 'need' the SWAT team for this?
B: Nobody on the effing raid could tell the difference between marijuana and daisies?  Really?
People need their ass kicked for this.  And, if they're so desperate for things to do that they're used for crap like this, their SWAT team needs to be disbanded.

Oh, this'll be interesting:
On Thursday, the New York Post reported Zimmerman is suing the Peacock Network. 
According to the Post, the complaint will be filed against NBC News President Steve Capus and correspondent Ron Allen who was the Today reporter involved in the March 27 broadcast. 

A source told the Post, “The suit will be filed imminently against NBC and its news executives. The network’s legal department has put everybody in the news department involved with this incident on notice, telling them not to comment.”
No idea how this'll do in court; to a non-lawyer, looks like NBC could lose its ass over this.

Hillary Clinton: "Please let us put our 'investigation' off

until after the election!"

And in the meantime, while the FBI has been kept away from the 'crime scene', Deity knows what's already been stolen by the bad guys.  And curious locals.  And the Libyan government...

Freaking marvelous

Why it should be possible to fire teachers

The teacher allegedly told the girl to take off the shirt, saying it was like wearing a Ku Klux Klan sheet. The teacher allegedly threatened to use a marker to cross out Romney’s name and that of Rep. Paul Ryan, his running mate.  The teacher also allegedly tried to throw the student out of class.

The teacher also allegedly said that Carroll was "a Democratic school."

Typing with my right hand & wrist wrapped up

does nothing for my speed.  Or spelling.

Did something to my self a few days back, not really sure what; the hand is better(mostly) but the wrist is making its displeasure known on a number of actions.  Like dry-firing; actually having to draw and shoot with speed would not be fun, to say the least.

And, as Tam noted some months ago when her right was somewhat out of commission, I don't have a left-handed holster either.  I guess it's pocket pistol for the next week or two.

And yes, I usually try to get some weak-hand practice in when I hit the range.  Good thing.

speaking of .gov agencies we have no reason to trust,

Environmental Protection Agency officials are keeping mum today about a potential landmine of a lawsuit that claims senior executives there have used secret email accounts to conduct public business without being subject to the Freedom of Information Act.

The suit was filed last week by the Competitive Enterprise Institute's senior fellow, Christopher C. Horner, Hans Bader, CEI's counsel for special projects, and Sam Kazman, the conservative think tank's general counsel.

Ih the suit, CEI asks the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to order EPA to produce "certain records pertaining to 'secondary,' non-public email accounts for EPA administrators, the existence of which accounts Plaintiff discovered in an Agency document obtained under a previous FOIA request."
...
Federal law requires all government employees to use only official email accounts. If they do use a private account to do official business, however, they are required to make that available to their employing department or agency.

On that earlier post on 'vertical integration of LE',

something noted at Sipsey,

Mind you, the eTrace system upon which this proposal is based is shot full of chaos and inefficiencies -- multiple traces, administrative traces having nothing to do with crime, etc -- and this proposal would provide trace information to people and organizations who, according to one of sources, "have no business in the law to it." And Arends understands the legal mienfield he is proposing to defeat by evasion:

While the ATF’s policy of not sharing one agency’s trace data with another agency does exist, there are still ways in which multiple agencies can work together using trace data.

Fancy way of saying 'there are ways for us to break the policy and the law, and get away with it.'  Just the kind of crap we've come to expect from these people.

Sharyl Attkisson, apparently one of the only real reporters

in the major media, is getting some recognition for it. 

And, since it also concerns government agencies we've got no real reason to trust,
Vertical integration of all law enforcement under federal command raises red flags citizen journalist Mike Vanderboegh of Sipsey Street Irregulars warned yesterday in an exclusive analysis, citing an attorney source characterizing it as “the ‘single scariest proposal’ he'd read recently.”He’s referring to a report published in the September issue of Police Chief Magazine, “The ATF’s iTrafficking Program: Linking Firearms Trace Data with State Fusion Centers.”
...
As should a partnership with the IACP, itself a major beneficiary of the notoriously anti-gun Joyce Foundation, a United Nations-approved leader in global disarmament and monopoly of violence maintenance efforts, and a signatory to the Brady Center’s brief against the landmark McDonald case, where the Supreme Court ruled the Second Amendment applies to the individual states. 

Likewise, fusion centers themselves have been the focus of concerns, from absurd warnings issued under the FBI’s imprimatur about “domestic terrorism” to include “the purchase of popular preparedness items and firearms accessories as ‘suspicious’ and ‘potential indicators of terrorist activities,” and with Homeland Security adding “Constitutionalists” for good measure. And it’s not like Operation Fast and Furious has given Americans cause to view the Justice Department or ATF as purely-motivated honest brokers of just about anything.
Read it all; along with everything else, there's some- let's say 'sloppiness'- along with the previously-demonstrated crookedness of some of these agencies that ought to scare hell out of anyone who gives a damn about honest law enforcement, and the 2nd Amendment(among others).

The University of Wisconsin lets itself be used fror the Obama campaign

and screw the students.  Except the information they can extract from them for the Obama campaign.
For that, they pay tuition? I could email my notes for the whole semester, but these are students who pay$40,040 tuition per year! ($21,350 if they are Wisconsin residents, a break they get because their parents pay the exorbitant Wisconsin taxes that help keep this stellar university going.)

From an earlier post:
 "President Barack Obama will hold a campaign rally on Bascom Hill this Thursday." Openly announces the University of Wisconsin—Madison. 

After I went to all that trouble to critique the earlier attempt to frame the visit as historical and presidential, when it was really a campaign rally. 

I can't believe the University is shutting down, closing buildings such as the Law School, depriving us of the rooms for regularly scheduled classes, for an entire day, to accommodate a campaign rally. The grounds and the students are provided for a massively intrusive photo-op. Of course, the students don't have to attend. But they will. They've paid their tuition for classes, which they're not getting, and their bodies are repurposed for political exploitation.
Hey, what's losing a day of classes you've been charged out the ass for when they can use you to push The Lightworkers' campaign?

Gordon Lightfoot, just because

Oh, pretties,

I want some.

Damn, I miss making things.

Today, first time in a loooong, time, pulled out the portable forge and lit it; had three knives needed heat-treating(still can't do much in the way of forging).  Right now I still smell like coal smoke; a very familiar scent.

Just stuff

TSA: Taking child molesters off the street by hiring them

First he was fired for allegedly groping young girls, then hired to frisk them at an airport.

A disgraced former priest, defrocked from his New Jersey diocese over allegations of molestation in 2002, was three months later given a job as a TSA officer, it has been revealed.

Thomas Harkins was employed in a role where his duties would include doing pat downs on children, according to local news, after the agency failed to do a thorough background check and offered him a position at Philadelphia International Airport.

So the biggest threat to freedom of speech is people who depend on it

but don't like other people having it; freaking wonderful.
I'm sure they'd object that they don't mind other people having it as long as they don't say anything that causes trouble.  At least, trouble that they don't approve of...


Few days back we hit 2000 troops killed in Afghanistan(with, I'll note, no countdown from the media like they did when Bush was President); what does Obama & Co. do?
Team Obama didn’t mark the occasion by capturing or killing Bin Qumu. They also didn’t hold a memorial service to honor the ultimate sacrifice of 2,000 military men and women.
Instead, they gave Omar Khadr, a convicted murderer detained at Gitmo, a one-way ticket to Canada. This is the same Khadr who pled guilty at a military commission trial in 2010 to killing one of those 2,000 troops, Army Sergeant First Class Christopher J. Speer.
Hey, the President doesn't like the idea of actually winning the war, or using the word 'victory'(except when he's trying to claim credit for Iraq, that is), and seems to loathe the military as much as Bill Clinton; you expect him to give a rats ass about the troops?


I'd heard something about a guy 'shooting his son by accident' the other day but hadn't dug up the story; turns out it's not what that headline would have you think.


"How dare you say you're not a racist for posting on this?  That PROVES you're racist!"  Etc. ad bullshit.


Surveillance cameras in the bathrooms and locker rooms... you can't get away from the damn things ANYWHERE...