Equipment Change Proposal

Haven't done one of these in awhile.

I'm gonna try real hard to keep this somewhat clean.

The latest thing that has my blood boiling is my YORK gas furnace. It seems the engineers at YORK haven't the slightest frickin' clue as to the magical force known as gravity.

Way back in the mid 90's when my house was built, YORK engineers were too busy playing D&D and smoking pencil shavings to actually pick up the part about gravity in school. Apparently on their first job, they decided to put the condensation drain outlet on the furnaces they were designing four feet off the ground, so that when the outlet jams up with crud it leaks all over the fucking furnace and gets all over the floor. Also, the outlet is positioned so that the PVC pipe that you stick on to it to allow it to drain can't be tilted downward to give that gravity a chance to work.

Keep in mind that in the mid 90's we had ICBMs that could rain death on hundreds of millions of people, and there were space stations in space. Mankind could build all of that, but can't place a drain on a gas furnace in a spot that lets gravity work. I guess those that can, build space stations, and those that can't build furnaces.

The next thing that engineers have jacked up is the "Limited Slip Differential," known to those who have actually been offroad as the "Un-limited Slip Differential." What it all boils down to is car manufacturers are a bunch of cheap-ass swindlers.

Stop me if you've seen this before: your bad ass four wheel drive truck right off the show room floor, in all its 35" tire glory, with all its skid plates and Z20-something "off road" shocks bought as part of that "SVT/NISMO/SR5/Goat Hoof Ninja Traction "racing package," gets hung the fuck up in a wet grassy field with a 5 degree pitch because the "Limited Slip Differential" lets the right rear tire spin at will, while the left rear tire is. . . . .limited?

Seen it before, haven't you? There is an amazing piece of technology that is finally, Finally being incorporated in brand new cars so that you don't have to buy one yourself and pay thousands to have someone install for you. This technology is called a "Locker" and it lets the driver lock the differential at will so that both wheels spin with equal traction. One cannot spin more than another, because they are locked together. They don't work so well on the street where you have to take corners and all, so that is why lockers are activated by the driver when needed.

Every single time I have ever been hung up in the mud, and every single time I have witnessed someone else hung up in the mud, without exception, was because one wheel in the front and one wheel in the back are spinning their little asses off, while the other two wheels do nothing. Limited Slip is for every day driving on the street, and absolutely useless for serious off road. It kills me to see the truck industry pushing these so called "off road" packages with winches, shocks, skid plates, and shiny stickers, and then equipping both axles with FAIL so that the very moment you get into six inches of mud, you essentially have a two wheel drive truck with a glowing light on the dash saying you're in four wheel drive.

My XTerra was not equipped with lockers, although the newer ones have lockers in the rear differential. It's criminal that manufacturers do not equip both axles standard with lockers on newer trucks. And before you bring up cost and how silly it is to add such a simple and cheap device to a truck, let me ask you, do you have "traction control" on your truck? These devices apply brakes to the wheels that are spinning, with the idea that the wheel not spinning will somehow get motivated and actually do something. While traction control may have some worthy application on sports cars and minivans, in my opinion they are a shitty gimmick for off road vehicles, and they are much more expensive.

I mean, that's the answer for the ol' "one wheel drive" problem? Install some complicated computer controlled doohickey that slows down the wheel without traction? Why not install something that works from the very start, and stop screwing the consumers with your pathetic junk.

I've got three kids in diapers and I'm gone at work for eleven hours most days, so when I've finally acquired the two hours to go out and do some shooting, I don't have the time to be dicking around with a fucking shovel trying to dig my truck outta the mud because you douchebag engineers at Nissan don't have the common sense to build axles that lock.

Lockers. Live them. Love them. Install them on every automobile so that we may not get stuck when the going gets rough.

Nanny-State FAIL Trifecta!!

Cellphones, cameras, and cops. . . .Oh my!!

David at Fighting for Liberty lays out a post on a self defense FAIL.

The way I see it, the good Lord gave me the gift of life for a reason, and I aim to have it. I owe my kids a father, and my wife a husband; those responsibilities are far too important to leave to a third party.

It seems that there are vast amounts of Americans who do not mind Natural Law; that is to say that they rely on other human beings or technology to save the day, when they should have been there for themselves all along.

Choose you path.

Way of the Ninja

Sneaky ninjas steal a bunch of stuff from a school without tripping the alarm. Not known is whether they used a grappling hook to get onto the roof of the building, or whether they got up there using the power of the mind.

Even if they were caught and brought to justice - we're talking hypothetically here - how could they even be tried? Being ninjas and all, how would a judge even be able to see them to issue a sentence?

Whomever installed the security stuff in the school is incompetent. I mean, you've got motion detectors that can't detect people crawling around on the ground (not that they can detect ninjas to begin with), but didn't bother to place a security device of any kind on the hatch that leads to the roof? Did that slip your mind?

It's like bad TV or something.

Another assault with a deadly assault thingy

A very highly trained police officer injured an innocent when he used his patrol assault thingy inappropriately.

I do point out that this is the second example in recent history where an innocent was injured with one of these Assault Utility Vehicles (there is nothing "Sporting" about them). Their big knobby tires are only designed for one purpose, and that is to shred stuff like mud, sand, baby harp seals, and innocents. And who really neeeeeeds four wheel drive?

Something not quite covered in detail is whether the suspicious "child" acting in a such reckless manner as to distract a very highly trained police officer operating a 5,000 lb Assault Utility Vehicle on a crowded beach was close to the age of consent, and happened to be wearing the minimal amount of clothing as required by law.

These crucial details may help further exonerate the officer from blame, so that Daytona Beach Citizens can go about sunbathing without fear.

A difficult case to crack

"We don't know why they were here; we don't know what brought them here; we don't know why they were shooting at each other,"

DC Council Member Jim Graham is no Sherlock Holmes.

I would say that the Escalades brought the several men to the night club, where they were probably there to. . . oh I don't know, seems like such a long shot. . . but I guess they were there to drink, dance, and have a good time. Marvel at my powers of presumption!

I'm totally lost though on what could possibly compel men outside of a DC nightclub to start shooting at one another. Aren't guns illegal to carry in DC? Perhaps nightclubs should post "No Guns" signs at every door to prevent such things in the future, as signs and laws clearly have that effect.

You know, it bothers me these days to see so many articles just like this one. They're all exactly the same, in the same format like the news agency has a frickin SOP for day to day multiple shootings: several people are shot, the venue around the shootings is usually somewhat dubious, no names are released, and then some "official" mouthpiece starts rattling off obvious stuff, like the fact that there are no facts. Nobody has a clue.

I'm sure it's just like this in major cities all across the world, but I think the real difference in DC is that when a guy like Jim Graham gets in front of the camera, one can't help but get a Gothamish type feeling about the whole thing, with those radar-like voodoo glasses and the little bow tie. It seems like something you would read in a DC comic. Appropriate, no?

Malice Aforethought Gun Violence

That's a mouthful, huh? You saw it here first!!!

Anyways, Utah is going to execute a murderer via firing squad in about a week, and there is an outcry from some about how mean it is:

"The firing squad is archaic, it's violent, and it simply expands on the violence that we already experience from guns as a society," Bishop John C. Wester, of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake City, said during an April protest.

There's a lot wrong with that statement.

First, can it really be considered archaic if it's still in use? That it's violent is about the most stupid thing I've heard in a long time; exactly how do you expect someone to be put to death non-violently? Sprinkle poisoned fairy dust in their last meal? Death by pillow squad?

People are always bitching about how violent, barbaric, unfair, unethical, immoral, inhumane, or disgusting state sanctioned executions are, and they may be right, but every type of execution arguably meets all of that criteria, so what's the controversy? It's like protesting that water is wet. So a firing squad is too violent, and lethal injection may hurt too much, so what's the answer? Hanging? Guillotine? Ol' Sparky is probably the most violent way to go, yet people still ask for it from time to time. This scumbag asked for the firing squad over lethal injection, so what does that say?

Lastly, how does execution by firing squad expand on violence in society committed with guns? Does lethal injection expand on violent poisoning? Does the use of the electric chair cause scumbags to run out and electrocute somebody? Pretty silly.

Of interest to me is that one of the five rifles is alleged to be loaded with a blank round of ammunition, under the idea that none of the executioners will know for sure if the fatal round came from their rifle. This is really stupid in my opinion, mainly because if you can't tell the difference between a real shot fired and a blank round fired, then you have no business shooting at someone who is owed a clean death. If you have never fired a blank round of ammo, there is virtually no perceived recoil, and the report from the rifle is noticeably different, although it's likely that an executioner firing amongst others won't be able to hear his rifle anyways. Considering that these executioners should be experienced marksman, and are probably mandated to familiarize themselves with the rifles to be used by firing them on a range with live ammunition, they should definitely be able to tell from the recoil of the rifle if they are one of the unfortunate souls who fired a live round into the heart of a fellow human being. There's just no way.

On a lesser point, if executing condemned human beings is in your job description, and you volunteered for that job under your own power, why exactly does anyone think you're owed the opportunity to have a cloud of doubt cast on your duty? It just seems kinda pointless.

The thing that gets to me the most in all of this though is that there seems to be no question of his guilt. Nobody is arguing that he shouldn't be shot to death because he's not guilty; the argument is that it's wrong to shoot someone to death because it's too brutal, which brings us back to the whole death by pillow fight thing. Gardner shot his victim to death without consideration of the cruelty of his method, so really this sentence satisfies pretty much every criteria that I can think of in Exodus.

Again, I'm not advocating state executions. That I'm pretty torn on. Ultimately though, there is no real argument that putting someone to death one way is less nasty and cruel than another. We can have a round table discussion on what is the best way, and we can even invoke methods and ideas from the likes of Tom & Jerry or Roadrunner, but at the end of the day there is a heavy job to do. Here we have a man who has chosen his way, and he should have it.

Illegal rifle smuggler caught at the border and the media doesn't care

We're talking .50 caliber terror, Glocks, and the dreaded .300 caliber of doom.

Oh, and by the way, did I mention that the smuggler is Iranian, here illegally, and was caught smuggling weapons from Canada into the US? Yup, and to top it all off, the guy was caught from his own incompetence, and not by Jack and Cloe.

Nothing to see here.

Running a business selling "Police Supplies" one has to wonder if these rifles qualify as "patrol rifles." Also, who would be stupid enough to fire a .50 caliber rifle at a tank?

Really though, this story should be all over the news.

Citizen told to leave coffee shop for Open Carry

And would you believe that he is a Portland Police officer who was in uniform at the time?

The realist in me sees this both ways. I understand what the author is trying to convey, that the guy is a cop and cops have guns. I can also see the store owner's point of view that some cops have a bad reputation associated with them, or perhaps their department, and he has the right to tell anyone to leave.

Cops are supposed to be the good guys, so it surprises some people to know that some Americans don't like them.

I do have some empathy for the cop, especially considering that he had a good attitude about the whole thing, but I also agree with him that they are failing themselves. Stuff like this doesn't help, and isolated incidents in no name counties like mine sometimes give an us vs. them mentality that doesn't have to be.

A case in point.

None of the responding officers bothered to even knock on the only neighbors door despite having dozens of deputies with rifles staged throughout the property for hours. It's hard to have respect for officers when they won't let you leave the house, won't tell you what's going on, don't care about their rifle barrels dinging your car doors, and are otherwise callous to the very people they claim they're protecting. And go ahead and file a complaint; you'll be pulled over and ticketed 100 yards from your driveway once a week for the next year. The above linked article turns out to be nowhere near the truth of what happened, but hey, the deputies got to handle their new rifles, so it's all good, right?

Then there's incidents where cops treat peaceful armed citizens like they're criminals, pull guns on motorcyclists and people throwing snowballs, and to the extreme side of things, where they mistakenly shoot someone's dog or a mother and her kid. It all ads up. I no longer trust the Sheriff's department in my county after the above case in point.


But back to the article at the top. I found this piece amusing, and wondered if it really applies to everyone:

My daughter and I were so distraught by this negative experience, about the way the café treated the police –when they should be treated with gratitude and respect and honor – that we went the next day looking for a café with class and dignity for all people, no matter what they are wearing.

We found the Palios Dessert & Espresso Bar in Ladd’s Addition, http://www.palio-in-ladds.com/ and we mentioned the situation we encountered, and the man behind the counter, and he said they treat all people equally there.

And what if John Q. Public strolls in with a handgun openly visible on his hip? Would they be treated equally?

Young boy shot to death while breaking into home

How devastating. As the reporter points out, the kid wasn't breaking into the home because he needed money or drugs; him and his friends were just doing something they weren't supposed to be doing.

The police haven't released any details other than the other two boys ran when the homeowner confronted them with a gun, but Devron didn't.

I'm sure the homeowner is torn up about this as well. That the parents aren't blaming anyone, and are using this as a warning to other kids says a lot about their character. Good on them.

Delicious wounding

"Four young girls had been watching a bunny in a wooded area near the park as it played in the grass.

Kishpaugh took his dog away, then returned to where the children were still watching the rabbit. The mother of one of the girls told police that Kishpaugh then got a "smirk" on his face as he ordered his dog to "get it."

Something tells me that this guy is going to get these charges dismissed. Sure, he may be a cruel dude to subject four kids to the type of thing that their parents let them watch on Animal Planet, but the reality is that he cannot compel his dog to do anything. The only thing that could potentially stick is the leash law, and even that is pretty flimsy.

The idea that he "siced" his dog on a poor defenseless bunny is a stretch; even more so that he's being charged with animal cruelty for letting his dog do what tens of thousands of years of genetics tell it to do with every fiber in its body.

Porno man gets stabby

Who uses a samurai sword as a prop for a porno movie? Strange.

Anyways, this is another example of a sword being a deadly weapon. I'm not inviting them to be banned, only pointing out that sharpened pieces of metal can still be used as effectively as they were a thousand years ago.

Common sense law now in effect!

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed into law yesterday a bill that makes it illegal for violent felons to wear body armor. Violent axe-murdering psychopaths and spree shooters hardest hit.

To the unintelligent, this may sound smart, but read the article to discover the reasoning behind it, and thus the reason why this is such a dumb ass law.

"On Jan. 20, an armed man suspected of killing eight people in Virginia was wearing a bulletproof vest when he was apprehended by police. On March 19, a parolee with 19 arrests and four convictions was found wearing body armor after a high-speed chase in Los Angeles."

What Senator Padilla and Gov Schwarzenegger are saying is, a guy who would murdered eight people with a rifle, and a guy with 19 arrests and many violent convictions would now opt out on putting on their body armor before heading out for a night of mayhem, all because of this shiny new law and it's mandated 2 - 3 year sentencing.

Beware all you wannabe killers out there: if you already have a violent felony conviction or three, that ninety year sentence that you scoff at could wind up to be a ninety two year sentence. Best leave your second chance at home.

Next on the legislative agenda is a law to make thinking violent thoughts a felony. You know, why doesn't California pass a law mandating world peace? Seems logical, right?

Lawmakers really are as dumb as a box of rocks.

More ammunition shortages ahead

The Nosler ammunition plant in Bend, California blew up yesterday; fortunately everyone made it out safely. No word on what caused it, but it sounds like the emergency policy at Nosler was followed to a T, and that may be why everyone survived.

This does not fare well for an industry that cannot keep up with demand as it is. Godspeed on getting a new and better facility, Nosler.

This slope sure is slippery

The DC fire chief wants to ban consumer fireworks in the district. As it stands right now, the fireworks that are legal in the district are pretty pathetic, but the sheep can't be trusted because apparently they're not highly trained firework specialists, so they must be taken away.

You can bet that the citizens living in DC will gladly hand over the win.

I've always laughed at fireworks laws like DC's, or even Virginia's, which are equally pathetic, because I find it absurd that governments that can't seem to balance a budget year after year insist that us incompetent commoners can't be trusted with firecrackers.

We can be trusted to hand our children burning hot sticks of molten steel to wave around in the dark and light fountains that shoot ten foot jets of thousand degree flame. Those things are safe. Little firecrackers that can be lit and backed away from, or that launch up into the air to pop from the safety of a hundred feet or so, are way to dangerous so they have to be taken.

It just seems so petty.

I expect the 4th of July this year to be no different than any other year, with Virginians passively defying fireworks statutes and celebrating our independence as they please.

Who really neeeeeeds to be a cage fighter anyways?

They're much too deadly to allow anyone but the most highly trained people to use. Oh, wait. . . .

A U.S. cage fighter ripped out the heart of his training partner while he was still alive after becoming convinced he was possessed by the devil, it was alleged today.

Jarrod Wyatt also cut out Taylor Powell's tongue and ripped off most of his face in a brutal assault that police said looked like a scene from a horror film, officers said.

People who are skilled at fighting should be registered and taxed just like a suppressor, machine gun, or sex offender. Think about it, what would happen if an unregistered cage fighter was loose near a school amongst children? Crazy, huh?

Good slideshow

NBC Washington News has a good slideshow from Arlington National Cemetery this weekend. The first picture is a doosy, and there are several in there that will make your eyes well up.

President Obama decided to check out of this Memorial Day at the Cemetery, and instead went home for the weekend. Personally, I think that was the better move for a president that hasn't the slightest clue about the sacrifice our military goes through every day. Vice President Joe Biden was there though, and although he never served in the military, his son is in the Delaware National Guard, so he has some respect for the men and women in uniform. I'll even give him brownie points for not having a silly grin on his face during the wreath laying ceremony like some of the political looking folks in the picture; instead he has a hard grimace as one would expect during such a service.

Good stuff!

Memorial Day roundup

Good morning folks, and happy Memorial Day. Gratitude to all our veterans out there dishing out justice to America's enemies. Stay safe and keep your heads down.

For this morning, I thought a quick roundup would be good to go.

Starting out, it would be appropriate to see what our military is doing this weekend. There are events all around the world depicted in this thread, but there are also lots of Marines kicking ass!

Armed defense against a bear in an Alaska state park. The final word is still out on whether it was a good shoot.

The AP News has a hit piece on Oath Keepers, lamenting the group's 10 "vague principles" and otherwise smearing them. You can always count on the media to only support the first amendment, and know nothing of the rest. It's not surprising that they consider holding government accountable to the Constitution "vague principles."

Lots of shootings last night in "Gun Free" DC. Also some stabby, too. Why is DC so violent?

The 17 year old girl that appeared to be abducted in Virginia is safe and sound. That's the good news. The bad is that people will still not be bothered to even find out what the hell is going on when three people jump out of a van, grab a girl aggressively, and then drag her into the open van.

That's all for now. Y'all take it easy!

Assault thingy negligence

A sun bather was "mowed down" by a New York cop using a deadly assault thingy on the beach. Why an assault thingy was even allowed on the beach in the first place is unknown.

Injuries and fatalities resulting from the improper use of these assault thingies, erroneously referred to as "Sport Utility Vehicles" by advocates, is extremely common. Something must be done to prevent more accidents like this.

What do you think the outcome would be if you or I were wielding one of these dangerous assault thingies (cops call them "patrol vehicles") and hurt an innocent?

Ya think!?!?

Wow, DC drivers are almost the worst drivers in the nation. What's odd is that there had to be a study for people to believe it.

This explains why morons insist on riding slow in the passing lane.

Give them what they want!

Thank goodness this guy was unarmed! He may have hurt his attackers, who were obviously just trying to get gas money to get to choir practice, and meant no harm by throwing him off a parking garage from fifty feet up.

Do it yourself

I have a few holsters for the Kel-Tec, but none of them fit my needs perfectly, even for the specific tasks of which I ask it. I have decided to make my own; if this turns out to be something I am good at, I'm going to make them for all of my guns.

I haven't even bought anything yet, but this post at DefensiveCarry.com gives me some hope. I'm pretty handy at building stuff, this looks like it's no sweat.

I've also been planning on forming my own rifle stocks, just haven't had the time to order blanks yet and get to work. There's also that whole time thing, of which I am in short supply. If anyone has any unused minutes sitting around, let me know and I'll give you my address.

I'll put up pics if I can get this thing started.

Bizaare story of the day

This one's for the "There aughta be a law" edition:

Dubbed "sack tapping" by some students, the practice is now featured in dozens of homemade videos on YouTube.

"We're gonna see who our first victim is," says a student in one video before punching an unsuspecting male student in the groin as he walked down a school hallway.

It's pretty unfortunate for the kid, but like I said yesterday, kids will be kids. Sure, parents should have to pay for their children's stupidity; my worry is that this will turn into some zero tolerance law, or the parents will sue for some ridiculous amount of money as society today thinks that that's the thing to do.

Hey Speedo people

Riding a bicycle is cool and all, but seriously, do you really have to ride down what is possibly the most deadly road in all of Virginia in the morning when everyone is heading to work?

I've been pretty torn about bicyclists in the past; it's good exercise, it's economical, it saves pandas and shit. . . . but I lost a bunch of empathy this morning when I watched a car trying to pass some spandex clad bike warrior almost take out an oncoming driver. I look at it like this, you're not really endangering my life with your hobby when I'm riding behind you because I can choose not to risk trying to pass you. But what about if I'm coming the other way, and I collide with another vehicle that's just trying to pass your slow ass on some twisty back road? Not all that cool anymore, now is it?

In Europe, a lot of the roads have bike lanes built in from the start, as it would seem that municipalities actually consider the roads and other infrastructure beforehand, instead of just building houses with wild abandon and damn the repercussions. The extra four feet of pavement would be good here, in my opinion, because maybe some of the hippies that have infiltrated from up North would be able to bike to their work, instead of running me off the road or rear ending me while I'm on my way to mine.

But that's just not the case. Oh no. Instead, we have many of them that like to take the scenic route during morning and afternoon traffic hour, down the not so straight road that follows the river - River Road, imagine that - where the lanes are narrow, bumpy, banked the wrong way, with random creeks running across them, with visibility of about thirty feet, and overall just treacherous. Good decision.

And every one of these guys - every time without exception, gets miffed when you're tailing behind them and tries to wave you by angrily while going around a tight curve, like I'm gonna look back at my three kids buckled into their car seats and say "hold on tight now! Speedo man assures me that the way is safe!" and just nose my 5,000 lb. SUV across the double yellow line so I don't interrupt his tranquil bike ride. I'll tell you what, jackasses, if the decision between collisions boils down to me hitting a tree, an oncoming Tahoe, or your squishy ass, guess which one I'm gonna chose every time?

Please, for pete's sake, ride your little bicycle on a different road, or try riding at a different time.

Violence in smalltown Virginia

A carjacking and an armed robbery in Fredericksburg, an armed robbery in Orange county, an armed robbery in Culpeper, and this friggin guy who murdered a woman an then some in Spotsylvania. The savages are restless these days.

In the latter case, the scumbag in question has a lengthy record of ten felonies; using the Virginia Court search thingy I found a bunch of misdemeanors, a 2nd DUI charge, a felony Malicious Wounding charge for which he was on parole for when he committed the above linked atrocities, a felony charge for "DR AFTER DECLARED H.O." whatever that is, some forged checks, and a felony Burglary charge, and that's just from a search of three counties. Why was this guy not in prison in the first place? Also, it seems most of the charges for these crimes were dropped, meaning that these charges are in addition to the ten felonies that he's already been convicted of. What law enforcement official(s) are responsible for this, and why are they not being held accountable? Perhaps such reckless negligence warrants some jail time too?

Update: Geodkyt comments that "DR After Declared H.O." probably means "Driving after declared a Habitual Offender", which makes perfect sense since the guy has multiple DUIs already. Thanks!

Virgin stabbed in face

I have noticed the clear pattern of in vogue crime terms that begin in the twisted mind of some dumbass politician and get spread around by the media. We have the War on Drugs, the War on Poverty, the War on Guns, the War on Terrorism, sex offenders, and now hate crimes.

How stupid.

So some kids broke into a church, broke some stuff, made a cross, pooped on a chair, and stuck a kitchen knife into a portrait of Mary, and a bureaucrat is quick on the draw with the "hate crime" BS crime word of the day. Well good for you Captain Awesome. What a witty determination.

How about kids will be kids, just like they have for thousands of years? I'm sure at one point, two teenage cavemen pooped in their neighbor's mortar and pestle before stabbing a bone knife into a cave painting of Grothgar's mom, just for kicks. Teenagers do stupid stuff because they're teenagers. Nobody is really sure why.

Pompous bureaucrats and lawmakers get on my nerves with this stuff, like they're actually serving humanity by wordsmithing new criminal acts. Well thank you for saving the world, Jack Bauer, but how about we leave the heavy thinking to the mortals. Thanks.

Glad that went down well

Crazy Mofo walks into Pennsylvania church, pulls out a gun, and hits a Deacon in the ear with it before a bunch of dudes knock him down and take his weapon.

I'm glad he didn't manage to shoot that Deacon in the head.

BTW, church carry is legal in PA, so take that for what you will. Just because you're in the house of the Lord does not mean that crazy people won't come in. Actually, last I heard, churches welcome crazy people as they need all the help they can get.

Get your knife rights on

Aaron at Sharp, Bright, and Tactical WebMagazine brought to my attention a knife rights win in New Hampshire!

Good to go!

The 2nd Amendment is more than just firearms. Now, if they can just get blackjacks, "slung shots" (?), and metallic knuckles crossed off the list, life would be even sweeter!!

Running my mouse

About a month ago, I got a text on my crappy BlackBerry from my brother about a sighting of the ever elusive .380 autoMus Musculus in Wal-Mart. Once my wife got home from work, I made the four mile, forty five minute trip down there and sure enough, two one-hundred round boxes sat in plain view on the shelf. Thankful for good comms, I snagged both boxes - one for me, and one for my mom to help her break in her new heater.

This weekend my family and I made our way to the local gunshow, where peddlers of death and destruction were handing out AK-47s and fistfuls of money to all who dared to enter (if you didn't speak English and didn't have a driver's license, all you got was a lousy RPG). While we were there, I found .380 ammo aplenty, so I got another hundred rounds of target fodder for some close range draws, and thought what the hell, I'll buy a pack of Glaser Blues. I can't knock it if I haven't tried it.

I want to test these rounds in some stuff to see if they're all that, and so far I only fired one round to see what it would do to a gallon jug of water:



The round did exit, and if you look at the bottom of the split in the jug you can see the lead shot. It clocked in at 1,047 fps, which is about as fast as the Buffalo Bore Hard Casts that I use for carry move, although the Buffalo Bore rounds are 30 grains heavier.

I'm going to shoot more stuff with the Glasers; maybe a coyote or something. I'm not drinking the frangible koolaid, I just want to see what the fuss is about. A couple of years ago, I watched a friend shoot a Glaser Blue from a 4" .357 Magnum through five walls that we had built to shoot rifles at. The walls were built to code with drywall, and the round didn't break up at all. After that test (which I have pictures of, but still haven't posted) I am convinced that the little .223 Remington is better for blasting inside of a home in regards to self defense and minimizing penetration in walls. Most of those bullets broke into little pieces while leaving the second wall, and a 9mm went through all five without a sweat.

As for the mighty Kel-Tec, it's got several hundred rounds through it now without a hiccup. I'm really impressed with the beast. My dad noted how the shell casings were thrown twenty five feet back behind me as I was shooting; this gun doesn't play around. I'll tell you though, never in my life would I have thought that I'd be picking around in the grass for every measly .380 casing that I fired. Strange times call for strange measures.

Terrorist mountain lions

They can give the Bear Cavalry a run for their money.

The cougar was found just blocks away from an elementary school. But, no one was hurt.

Fortunately! That thing could have massacred them all!

No human has ever been attacked and killed by a mountain lion in the valley, wildlife officials said.

That is not to say that it won't happen! We need to act now!

This was ultimately a provoked attack, but the question has to be posed: what are California lawmakers doing to prevent terrorist animals from preying on our schools? Think of the children. Mountain lions were only designed for one thing: killing; so it makes sense to put up some signs around schools to keep dangerous fury things from entering the grounds and running off with someone's child.

The Predator Free School Zones Act should close this loophole.

Told ya so!

Well now, it would seem that my earlier thoughts on this stupidity came true, as Virginia has decided that as far as budget cuts go, lawn mowing is low hanging fruit.

To get this straight, if you live in one of the mentioned counties and you let your grass get too tall, the county now won't send "its agents or employees" to cut it for you because they aren't funded, but they will ask you to volunteer to do it for free! Awesome! Glad we cleared that up.

I'm sure they will still add the $100 fine, but I wonder if they will charge you "the cost and expenses . . . chargeable to and paid by the owner of such property and may be collected by the county as taxes and levies are collected?"

To that I say: Bring It On Bitches!!!!

My suburban kingdom is chock full of foreclosed on houses, which means the county has to cut all that grass as they are the title holder. If they can't even afford to pay govt' employees to do the key task in order to extort your hard earned Federal Reserve Notes via statutory fiat, they sure as hell can't afford to be penalized by John Q. Public for the same crime.

Let he who is free from sin cast the first stone. I wait patiently!

Breaking news, a Confederate flag has been spotted in Fredericksburg!!!

I still am astonished at how clueless Americans are about the Civil War in general, and the Confederate flag in particular.

There is a new movie theator in Fredericksburg, Virginia that bears a mural with both the Union flag and the Confederate flag on the outside wall. This would be the same Fredericksburg that, for a time, was the center of the Civil War, and still bears many ugly scars from that time. Really, the only reason people have ever heard of Fredericksburg is because of the tens, if not hundreds of thousands of Soldiers that died there during the Civil War.

If there was a place in this country to spot a Confederate flag, or any other flag flown during the Civil war it would be here, so to hear some bumbling kid get his offense on at the mere sight of something he hasn't a clue about, in what is perhaps the most historic place for the Civil War makes my teeth chatter. What a fucking idiot.

I haven't been inside this theator yet, but I hear it's lovely, and you can order a beer. The inside of the theator has a Civil War theme, so a little heads up to all you brain washed, public educated pussies out there, you're going to see the dreaded Confederate flag in there too, so bring plenty of bleach for your eyes.

Actually, before you drag your family to my town and congest it with your fleet of Priuses, do us all a great big ass favor and order a fucking history book on the war before you pass judgement on something and make yourself look like a moron.

Up for air

Sorry about the lack of posting folks. This drive to Fairfax every day is killing me; I've added three to five additional hours on to my work day just to sit in traffic screaming at all the other cars.

Really, where in the world do all these people come from? Of all the places to screw up, why does everyone want to live here? I don't understand it. It's 42 miles from a to b, so I'm averaging about 24 mph round trip, which is probably a little more on the way there and less on the way back. There are simply too many cars on not enough road, and it gets worse every single day.

People, listen to me, stop moving to Virginia. It sucks here. It's no longer beautiful. Do yourselves a favor and find another place to destroy.

A little on the bitter side, yes.

How is everyone else doing?

High Tech terror listing

He’s laughing now. But this New York native says it isn’t funny how hard it is for him to visit his daughter, a Fox 5 producer, in Gaithersburg, Maryland. About three years ago, Harris discovered he could no longer check in for a flight online. Instead, he now must arrive hours ahead so the airlines and the Transportation Security Administration can clear him to fly.

“Harris is a very popular name. You'll look in the phone book and you'll find pages and pages and pages of Harrises", Harris points out.

If you think about this, if he's on the no fly list the every Jim Harris is on the list. I would gather that this is a problem for other people with common names as well. I found 19 Jim Harrises in Virginia Beach.

And wait til you get to the part about the 12 year old getting interrogated by TSA agents. How would you feel if that was your son? Would you stand by, or make a scene, ultimately putting yourself on the list too?

The worst part is that scumbag lawmakers want to strip the rights of people who are on the list without due process of law. Keep in mind that people on the list don't know that they're on it, and can't do anything to get off of it other than to apply for a "Redress Number" that doesn't remove you from it, but gives you something to offer to government agents instead of your body.

Touch and go

Blogging will probably be light for a week, maybe two. I may get in some phone blogging on my shitty BlackBerry (who designed the browser on this thing anyways?) during that time, and I will also strive for some real bloggy bloggy on a for really real computer early in the mornings, we'll see.

I'll be slogging up the interstate every day for the next two weeks, bumping fenders with other happy commuters on their way to earn monopoly money in DC. Work is fun!!!

HIGH POWERED assault pellet gun pistol confirmed by HIGHLY TRAINED veterinarian

And. . . .it was loaded! Duh duh duuuuuuhh.

Veterinarians have to first go to medical school, and I hear that's where they also get 1st class firearms training. Everyone knows schools of higher learnin' have constitutional gun professors on staff to pass such knowledge on to our youth.

So I kinda doubt that the man intended to kill the animal considering he shot it with a pellet pistol. To all you ignorant, loathsome journalists out there, I would appreciate it if you would stop tacking pointless terms like "high powered" onto things that you have no knowledge about. It was a freaking airgun for pete's sake, one that has a barrel like four inches long. I guess "high powered" is subjective and all, but y'all sound like pants wetting morons when you state things like that.

Yes, the guy is kinda a scumbag for killing a family pet, I agree. I do not agree with the two douchebag writers Alan Gathright and Lance Hernandez digging up dirt on the man with the obvious intent of making him out to be a villain. He did quite enough of that himself, and without the help of self righteous pricks.

Violent times in California

Sounds like it was a pretty good shootout in LA this weekend between rival gang members. Someone should have told them that it was illegal to discharge firearms in public. Fortunately, nobody was killed which leads me to believe that gang bangers can't shoot. Good.

Now, raise your hand if you think these yahoos were a) sober, and b) carrying unloaded holstered guns. Thought so. Perhaps all the Cali hippies should stop picketing Starbucks for not discriminating against regular folk, and instead direct their wrath towards businesses that rent out Hummer limousines. Who rents those things anyways? Gangsters, right? Lets stop gangsters in their tracks by banning Hummer limos.

Also, some little scumbag stabbed a bus driver to death. What possible good did that guy think would come from killing a bus driver? I generally could care less if violent scumbags kill other violent scumbags over something as trivial as colors or whatnot, but leave the working folk alone.

Never back down

Fighting men like US Navy SEALs are selected because they don't run from fights; they finish them.

So I'm not at all surprised to hear that Special Operations Petty Officer Second Class Matthew McCabe was acquitted for hitting a detainee; after all, sacrifice is the measure of credibility, and he who leaves the field of battle first loses by default. I've never heard of SEALs leaving the battlefield first, and I appreciate their determination.

Well done, fellas!

Assault with a deadly K-9

Sure, it was all an accident, and the police feel bad about siccing a dog on an innocent man, but tell me, do you think you or I would get off scott free without an aggravated assault charge, malicious wounding, or some other arbitrary stack of codes if one of us sicced a dog on the wrong person? A racoon knocks over your trash can, so you send Cujo out to investigate and he ends up peeling the scalp off of your neighbor: what do you think would happen?

How about some of that equal protection in and of the law!

Making a deposit during a withdrawal

A robber in Florida tried to rob a man at an ATM, and for his troubles got three shiny new holes put in his body by the victim.

Everybody lived through it; I'm just glad that the victim ended up without a scratch despite what sounds like a close range gunfight.

TSA workers have feelings too

Just know that the humiliation you feel when getting electronically fondled at the airport is sometimes shared by the very people who get to do the fondling.

Boo hoo!

It's about the layers of incompetence

According to the Obama administration, the airline appeared to drop the ball on Monday by not consulting an updated list when the Times Square suspect purchased his ticket. A post-9/11 requirement that airlines provide Customs and Border Protection officials with lists of passengers 30 minutes before departure kept Shahzad from leaving the country.

Obama administration officials say this is why the aviation security system has multiple layers. Emirates airlines officials did not respond to requests for comment about their role in the security lapse.

Many, many layers, you see?

It all starts with a secret list of like a Yahzillion people on the planet who may or may not want to blow up a plane. A list like the no-fly list needs to be as comprehensive as humanly possible, because you never know who may be the next terrorist; so that means at least half the country needs to be on it just to be certain that we have the right bad people, only now we need lots of government worker bees to constantly scrutinize the list to make sure we stop the terrorists at the 11th hour. Lots of oversight, baby!

The solution of course is more money! More money is needed to purchase uniforms and brass badges for the ten thousand new employees who will slave away night and day frisking babies and the elderly, just to keep them from doing anything stupid.

I guess the next thing that needs to happen is to make sure we strip the rights from those jaded people on the no-fly list so they can't buy a gun or open a bank account, because it seems that the terrorists, like Faisal Shahzad, pay for their plane tickets with cash. To stop them from getting on a plane, we must stop them from getting cash. Too easy! And who the hell would argue that barring half a million peaceable people from buying a gun isn't a small price to pay to stop one wannabe terrorist from buying one months before he tries to detonate a car bomb in a crowded city? Sssssssmart logic!! We must close the terror gap!!

Think about how crazy it is to actually let those hundreds of thousands of good people on the no-fly list purchase a firearm without so much as a body cavity check, or even a good water-boarding just to make sure that they don't "try to go out and kill some Americans;" amongst those people are the two hundred who are denied a gun purchase every year for being on a list that they can't see. Two hundred!!! These are bloodthirsty citizens, folks; they're on the secret list!

And how could they ever claim that they didn't know they were on the list? Sure, it's secret and all, but you can't claim ignorance when you're certain that you're a terrorist. When you know, you know; and those who are not terrorists that somehow make it on the list. . . .not saying that that happens or anything, but if it did and they get arrested for buying a Marlin .22 for their grandson. . . .well fuck it then - serves em' right for having a stupid name like Ben Ladden. Besides, we're talking about saving lives here!

Personally, I would also include citizens who wear underwear. Hell, we should even go as far as banning SUVs. They seem to be used a lot in attacks against the home land. Can't be too careful these days.

In case you wanted to handle a machine gun in Boston

It's Marine Week in Boston! This is about the only chance for non-criminals to hold that kind of firepower.

eNinja

Remember that ninja who slashes in the woods? Yeah. . well. . .he did it to save the trees.

Okeey Dokeey then.

I see that the machete that he used is the same crappy type available at Wal-Mart for the nominal sum of like $6. I would know because I have one. Unbelievably, Wal-Mart does not do a background check or even a simple retinal scan to determine if a customer is eligible to own one.

Ask for a warrant signed by a judge

Thugs posing as FBI ransacked a house in Georgia after pistol whipping the homeowner. It does sound like they may have kicked in the door, but all too often people willingly open their door for anyone with a shiny thing on their chest.

Always ask for a warrant, and make sure it's signed by a judge before you allow entry.

Of note, the victim's neighbor responded to the four armed intruders with a gun in his hand, and instead of a "Wild West" shootout, the scumbags instead decided that the stakes were too high and left the area in a big hurry. Who would have thought that one armed good guy would deter four armed bad guys? Weird.

Noting the delay

We see this most readily on Metro. After an incident somewhere in the world, our Metro stations suddenly have bomb-sniffing dogs and fierce-looking officers carrying automatic rifles.

Indeed. Also, noticeably lacking on the Metro and NYC subway are regular everyday folk who are armed for their own protection. Though after an attack somewhere in the world, there are plenty of these guys with rifles.

That sort of governmental distrust - explicitly shown via infringing gun laws - makes my blood boil, but I still have to see that many of the people from these cities asked for it, and thus have nobody to blame but themselves.

I'm pleasantly surprised to read an article about this from a news site; normally I browse the pages looking for something to mock. Good on NBC News for posting something that actually questions the typical response to events that scare the sheep. I do wish that someone in the organization would question the lack of armed Americans from time to time.

Thompson SMG pr0n

Four pages and counting of beautiful Thompson Sub Machine guns, courtesy of MilitaryPhotos.net.

It's like you could have seen this coming

There have been some arrests in the murder of DC middle school principle, Brian Betts. That's the good. The bad is that three of them are teens that have extensive criminal histories, and were supposed to be under the control of the juvenile justice system in DC.

I'm not even going to bother digging for all the times I've brought this up on this blog: when you catch violent scumbags, you put them in a box for the rest of their lives. So they're a juvenile? Then sure, give them a second chance if they haven't ruined someone's life; but if they can't control themselves to the point where there is a determination that they have to be monitored in order to be released into the public, then that pink squishy thing in between your ears should tell you that they shouldn't be walking free at all.

Just because they aren't 18 years old does not mean that they cannot be held accountable for their actions, and someone does not magically turn into an adult on their 18th birthday. There was a time when a 12 year old was considered an adult, and that if they wandered around in life damaging people then they would be controlled by people who didn't.

Also, I'd hate to hear that these three spineless scumbags were released from detention to make room for some non-violent youths. The wheels of the machine need to be greased and all, but for pete's sake make some stinkin' room for the crazies!

The Assault Knife menace must be stopped

As wrongheaded as the idea of violence prevention via gun ban may be, I can at least see the primitive motives behind the thought process. The typical reaction by the ignorant is to ban firearms from ownership by all in the idea that scumbags won't acquire them because they're illegal. By simple deduction and reasoning, one can generally enlighten the ignorant that gun bans don't work.

I find it hilarious though that people would suggest to apply the same flawed "banitforthechildren" logic to knives, as if you can actually prevent someone from sharpening a piece of metal by writing a statute in a book somewhere.

Oh, but there are people who suggest such a thing:

Guns are strictly controlled in China, but until recently possession of large knives were not. Chinese authorities have recently issued a regulation requiring people to register with their national ID cards when they buy knives longer that 15 centimeters.

Thank heavens!!! The next time some mental case gets dumped by his fiance' after losing his job and his house, he'll think twice about buying a big ass blade and taking his frustrations out on the helpless public!! HAHAHA, it's illegal now, sport! Better measure that knife!

See how awesome legislators can be? They make the world a safer place with the clever application of some words!

So what to do about saving the children from a future attack by a crazy killer who decides he doesn't give a shit about the knife laws?

The ministry instructed schools across the country to hire security guards, install security facilities and ensure that pupils are escorted home. Schools are also urged to teach pupils to how to protect themselves.

We're talking about China here, so don't expect the same level of government care in regards to kids as in countries that actually respect human rights. With that said, I'd be interested in what kind of things they plan on teaching kids in order to stop an attacker with a weapon. Perhaps the children should carry around a copy of the knife laws to stop the miscreant in his or her tracks? More than likely, nothing with any substance will be done.

That they're passing out poles to cops to stop someone with a knife should tell you something about the mentality. What good are those poles going to do against someone with a bomb? A gun? A sword?

I swear, the more advanced society gets, the more stupid it becomes.

Peacefully armed Hollywood citizen thwarts slasher

. . .and by peacefully armed Hollywood citizen, I mean an off-duty cop. Most Californians can't carry a loaded arm because they might freak out and start trying to off other shoppers; luckily, this is all prevented by smart legislation that keeps dangerous weapons out of the hands of crazy people.

Or not.

Criminal control fail in DC last night

Nine people were shot last night in DC, two of them fatally, in four separate shootings. The story doesn't mention a peep of the usual outrage from the standard cast of characters about how they're going to "get them," nor does it mention anything about prevention.

I'm not at all surprised.

As I've said before, this type of violence is practically called for by the people that live in that city.

When a community is plagued with violent criminals, traditionally able bodied members of the community bonded together and took care of business, often times working in unison with the local police to bring the peace. This is not 'vigilantism' at all, and suggesting so is disgusting. Cops are given special tools and powers by the people, and paid to commit to the task of finding violent people full time; whereas citizens, ultimately responsible for their own safety, would be hindered during their day to day affairs if they kept that full time responsibility. In the end, every soul is charged with protecting their gift of life as the protector of the last resort, but that is not to say that many souls cannot act as one to bring order to their community.

The mentality of DC citizens, from my point of view, shows that instead of using the strength of numbers to stop violent scumbags, they novate all responsibility to police and other government wholesale along with some of their rights. There are groups in DC that get mad and roam the streets in an attempt to prevent more attacks, but they lack the tools and the power to have any impact simply because they are so used to giving those things over to 'officials' in a uniform with a shiny thing on their chest. They can no longer see that they have a right to protect their person, their home, or their community, and that right is held by a higher form of law than any that are exercised by the courts.

The officials they gave powers to don't like it when the mortals take matters into their own hands, but the people are so scared of that implied authority that they are no longer able to challenge it. For that reason, I see much more bloodshed in the district's future. DC government has put themselves on the hook to provide relief from the violence, and to an extent they have done just that, but one needs only to look across the Potomac River to see how things are when people have the means and the attitude to not allow scumbags to operate with impunity.

Going Commando

Fox is looking towards a remake of the movie Commando.

Sahweeeeeet!!!

Friday morning roundup

A 9mm handgun "accidentally fired," all on its own of course according to the news, sending a bullet through an adjacent apartment. Fortunately, the bullet didn't hit anyone, and the moron who negligently fired it called 911 and owned his stupidity. He was arrested. Of note is that the bullet went through three walls, two of them exterior, before stopping on the fourth.

Mmmyaah. . .life sentence, schmife sentence. . . .who cares that he shot five people to death; he's cooperating!

Nothing in this article interests me, with the exception that I firmly believe that it's dishonorable and disrespectful to wear chevrons that you didn't earn. It makes a pretty stupid fashion statement too.

Look for pens to soon be banned in courthouses, schools, and public buildings because they can obviously be used as weapons.

A Florida man obviously compensating for his penis retrieves his pistol from his car and stops a bank robbery without managing to fire a shot in all his bloodthirsty anger. It's ok though because he was an OFF DUTY SECURITY GUARD. No mention of whether he is an armed security guard, though he bothered with the permit stuff to exercise his rights, so it's doubtful.

Beware! Ninja roam the woods, and are armed with machetes. Someone should make a law banning kids from putting on masks and slashing people with primative weapons.

"Guns are not allowed on campus, absolutely," - Spoken right after a woman fires a handgun in a bathroom stall on a campus in Denver. Maybe there should be a sign or something.

Kure Beach, North Carolina mayor hates, Hates thongs so bad he bans them. Californians and New Yorkers are happy he did. OK then. I have to ask then: how much cheek is too much?

China schools have become so dangerous despite the almost complete ban on firearms in the country that the government has to put armed cops in schools to stop the killing. That "police restraint stick" is so cool that I'm going to buy one and order a holster for it. Can't be too safe these days.

How could he possibly think that was a good idea?

"Hey, the kids asked for it right? Who am I to disappoint them by not Tazing the snot out of them?"

Great idea.

This is definitely the guy I want looking after my community.

Attack!

Senators John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Jon Tester (D-Mont.) are planning on taking DC's gun laws down with a law of their own. Sweet!

While you're at the NBC News article, hit that poll on the left, would ya?

Enforcing Gun Free Zones for Dummies

Let's say that there's a big city that has a violence problem, and lawmakers in that city decide not to address the violence, but to ban firearms instead because it's easy. Many years later the city is still wracked with violence, so what do lawmakers propose to stop evil people from shooting each other with guns that are obtained illegally?

Send in the military!!

No, really. Stop laughing. That's what two Illinois Democrats asked the governor to do.

The problem, see, is that guns cause violence and had to be taken away. It has nothing to do with the people themselves, or their actions. Uh-uh. People just can't be trusted with them, period, and because of that we need to send in a brigade of National Guard Soldiers with guns to make sure that order is maintained.

Clear as mud?

To stop evil people with guns from shooting the good people, we need to import lots of good people with guns from outside the city, and not allow the good people that already live in the city from obtaining their own guns, because they would unethically use them to stop the bad people who already have them.

Good people with guns - bad.

Bad people with guns - bad.

Good people wearing camouflage with guns - good.

Hopefully the governor will recant his position and allow troops into the city to restore order, but only after he ensures that their weapons are empty, just like the Soldiers on the Mexican border.

Tunnels of love

It always amazes me how crafty mankind can be when they are hellbent on accomplishing something.

Check out this ABC News photo essay on tunnels that Mexican drug cartels build in order to smuggle drugs and people (and RPGs, mortars, and missiles purchased cheaply and without scrutiny from US guns shows) across the border into the US. That takes time and talent.

Getting hammered

Hammers can be very lethal as an Ohio man found out when he was shot dead by police for beating a woman with one.

A lucky Hamilton, Montana police officer

Dashcam footage from a Hamilton, Montana (could be Wyoming; I don't know why they don't ever bother posting the state somewhere on a news site) police cruiser during a traffic stop that went bad. Fortunately the drunken gunman didn't get his shot off when he intended to, giving the officer a second chance.

I bet the cop has watched this footage a hundred times now in complete disbelief, but absolutely thankful he came through.

Do note that drunken and deceased scumbag has a lengthy and violent record, but was still out and about while armed.

When swords are outlawed. . . .

Only violent, suicidal teens will have swords.

Maybe there should be a length limit on swords to prevent teens from slicing their wrist with em'.

Say 24" for people under the age of 25; and we should limit them to one sword a month. It's just common sense.

The cops have nothing better to do?

The Stafford County Sheriff's Department claims it's about keeping teens sober, but I think that they're really trying to cut down on teen pregnancy considering that prom is right around the corner.

What? You don't really think that the little blond thing down the street is that interested in fogging up the windows of your pimply faced son's primered Dodge Neon without some liquid help, do you? Considering that your bird chested baby boy still flips his underwear inside out to get another day out of em', why do you think that he would go for a pint of Old Harpor before graduation?

Navy looking at the Bulldog762?

It appears that the SEALs have had some interest in a bullpup M14 rifle. Cool stuff!

There's an Ap for that

Cellphones that detect Chemical and Biological warfare agents? Really?

It will make everyone like Syndrome from The Incredibles!

This is a piss poor idea for like a thousand different reasons. Just to name a few - Chem/Bio detectors are notorious for false positives; having a phone that constantly updates "authorities" is a terrible idea that doesn't even need to be explained; and even if the phone can accurately detect vapors from GB amongst all that Drakkar Noir that you hosed yourself down with, you would be dead before the phone hit the floor.

But hey, who doesn't want a James Bond phone, right?

89 year old woman thwarts home intruder

From his mugshot, he appears to be a large fellow too.

It seems that errant one shot from granny's .22 caliber revolver was enough to make big scumbag rethink his position, as he fled without any blood-loss at all. The police were also kind enough to reload the lady's revolver; such chivalry gets noticed and noted by the citizenry these days.

Your bizarre story of the day

This one has it all: guns, drugs, sexual assault, ski masks, crossbow violence, car crashes, intoxication. . . .it all ads up to one hell of a story. It seems that possession of narcotics in the home attracts this sort of thing. Glad to hear everyone survived.

Now, when you think of the type of people that you would want to prevent from obtaining a firearm, these guys are at the top of the stack. How they made it into their twenties without choking to death on a hot dog is anyone's guess, but the fact remains that people like this are bound to screw up at some point, and you're not going to stop them with a background check at a gun show. It's not going to happen.

The place to stop them is, sadly, after the fact, which in this case is here and now. Good to know that one of them is going to get a permanent residence in a Virginia state prison, but the other two will walk free eventually. The drunken rapist will walk free right after he's fifty, and the other guy gets twenty eight years of his sentence suspended. What gives?

Arrested over fowl cock

Sorry, I couldn't help myself!

So two people in Spotsyltuckey get arrested for running a cock racket (snickers). I'm really not swayed much by this as there is no way to possibly stop people from making animals fight. Not that I'm condoning it, but people have been fighting animals since the beginning of time, and they will continue despite the best efforts of law enforcement.

Speaking of best efforts, the animals were 'saved' from cruelty by animal control officers, and then promptly exterminated. Government folk have a funny way of saving life.

So mere possession of animals used for fighting is a felony worthy of prison time, but the swift intervention and euthanizing with a syringe saves the day. Good to know.

Update: The Free Lance Star reports that this is the largest seizure of cock in Virginia state history! Also, this:

There is no evidence that any actual cockfighting went on at the residence, prosecutor Tom Shaia said. It was not clear yesterday if authorities know where any cockfighting took place.

Seems like the case of fighting cocks is getting pretty flaccid.

Robbed at gunpoint? Impossible; guns are banned in DC

Must have been some kind of misunderstanding.

Thinking about it, it's really swell that DC politicos decided to abandon voting rights in the district because letting dangerous people like Kal Penn carry the most effective tool to prevent such violence was too heavy a burden to bear. We wouldn't want "the opportunity for criminals, mentally unstable persons and juveniles to purchase weapons [to] increase dramatically," now would we?

Can't have citizens who are empowered with both voting rights and the right to bear arms.

Here I am

I've been sick as a dog the last three days, so that is the reason for my lack of posting. I thought being home from work for two days would buy me some blogging time, but that's an impossibility in my household, as is getting any rest. What sleep I did get was interrupted with hot and cold spells, sweating, and a sore throat that had me getting up and eating popcicles for relief. Getting sick sucks.

Is that smell coming from your dirty arsenic?

So, apparently America's best and brightest from about seven or eight decades ago didn't exercise any good judgment at all in the use and disposal of some really scary shit; they should have been more cautious.

There is a definite trend in how chemical and biological agents have been treated from their inception to the present, and that trend can be sized up as either complete recklessness, blissful ignorance, or malice. To know that you have been entrusted with public property that is of the highest danger to mankind, and then just bury it in the ground and quietly retire requires a little bit of all three.

Let's recap so that we have visibility:

• In the case of Spring Valley, scientists from Ft. Detrick thought it was safe to take chemicals that were known to them to be of high lethality and bury them in shallow pits at random and not keep track of where those sites were. That, and they didn't even bother containing them in anything, they buried them in glass jars and mortar rounds and such like they had just scooped them off a table and dropped them in a hole. At least secure them in something that stays watertight for awhile, and won't break when struck with a shovel.
• Generations of scientists at Ft. Detrick were trusted to work with the planet's most toxic biological agents, and none of them thought it was a good idea to maybe keep track of how much agent they had on hand because they were too lazy and stupid to defrost the freezers where the agents were kept. "Fuck! When the hell is that lazy janitor gonna clean up in here!?!? This fridge looks like a pig sty!" No ledgers; no restricted access to the freezers; no accountability; no simple upkeep - Fail.
• Scientists were entrusted to work with blister agent, arsenic, and who knows what else at American University, and they thought that the best way to wrap up their work and protect their community was to bury the live bombs, mortars, and shells, as well as glass beakers full of agent, into shallow unmarked pits around the campus. It worked out great!
• US government agents that were entrusted with chemical and biological agents thought it would be best to find out how they worked by surreptitiously dosing the US military, the American public, and foreign citizens with them. "Wow! Holy smokes is that stuff contagious! Didja see that shit! Hey, how about a beer to celebrate our hard work!"
• Our president has opened the doors to the amount of people in the military industrial complex who have access to these things in the hopes that research will win the day; and nobody seems to have given the thought to history and how this stuff was treated in the past.
  

If you work in the military industrial world, I want you to stop what you are doing right now and quietly peek over your cubicle and look at the guy next to you . . . . . yes, the hungover gentleman or lady who doesn't bathe, collects cats that look like Hitler, and still plays D&D with their pet cockatoo. Now imagine that person coming in to work in the morning after a long night of arguing with their ex who's out on parole, putting on a level A protective suit and pulling a glass jar of hemorrhagic fever out of the freezer that the janitors of yore have neglected to clean out, and getting to work. Now, think of the word trust. Puts things in a different light, huh? Would you trust that person to be responsible enough to dispose of that hemorrhagic fever in a way that wouldn't effect your neighborhood? Do you think the government is a responsible enough trustee to ensure that Mrs. Level 21 Eternal Seeker properly disposes of the hemorrhagic fever, and doesn't accidentally pour it into her Star Trek thermos and take it home?

Me neither.

I thought it might be useful to catalog some of this stuff since the media seems content to just post a two paragraph article about it. There's a sexting scandal at a school right now, you know, so there's much more important things going on to waste the space. Fortunately, I have plenty.

A gun related poll to hit

At NBC4 Washington regarding gun owner's rights next week at the 2nd Amendment March. So far the natives are 'thrilled' about it, but more love from my fellow gunnies wouldn't hurt. There's also an article on DC getting voting rights passed despite another rider amendment that would further cripple DC's silly gun laws.

On another note, a group of Americans took DC's DMV to the mat over wearing a hijab for their driver's license photo and won.

Arguing over state benefits is the cool thing to do these days, but none the less, people are waking up and finding out that they can collectively make a difference. Whatever your proclivities may be, people flexing their might in a peaceful fashion aught to be celebrated.

**So this post is going to be a roundup post, as I've been super strapped for time the last few weeks, thus the reason for the light blogging.

A new war museum got the nod to be built in Prince William county, Virginia. It sounds like it's gonna be huge! I have some pics from a recent trip to the Marine Corps museum that I haven't had time to post yet, but will get to it eventually.

The 4 Rules, modernized

Sometimes you have to be flexible; Marines call this Semper Gumby - always flexible.

Were you aware that the 4 Rules of gun safety had other applications as well? That's the sign of good doctrine.

Please, Please, Ple-e-e-e-e-ease save me from myself

Here is a stark example of the kind of person that would gladly throw away their rights in return for someone else protecting them from their stupidity. This person suggests throwing away what little rights everyone else has in the process, just to keep you safe too. "There aughta be a law!!"

They are breeding among us. Keep that in mind.

That policy is working out so well

12 year old takes a pistol to school and points it at his head. There aughta be a law!

OOOh-ooooh that smell. . . .

Last week, I noticed a whiffy emanation in my truck that my senses told me was originating from the back seat somewhere. My first thought was that the higher temperature outside was agitating the fabric on one of the carseats, which at several points in time last year captured barfed material from the kids; those of you with rugrats know exactly what I'm talking about.

I removed the seat at once, but the smell did not go away.

Several days later, I detected the smell coming from the floor of the rear driver's side, and upon further investigation I discovered a rogue, unsecured sippy-cup leaking weapons grade, homogenized bovine lactates, the potency of which increased three-fold with every degree above 90F.

Sippy-cups pose a unique problem for parents: you issue full cups to your children several times a day, and when they go missing you have to track them down lest the contents spoil. The last thing in the world that you want to see is one of your kids sucking from a cup of partially hardened milk that they dug out from behind the couch.

In my house, when a sippy-cup of milk goes unaccounted for we go to DEFCON 12.

Beware, the apocalypse has begun!

Alright all you gunnies out there, tell me you wouldn't do a triple take upon the sight of this coming toward you!

Imagine getting out of your car to make your way into Target with the family in tow, and all of a sudden you notice the undead is danger close! Yikes!

The DC mentality

Here's a video from NBC News in Washigton, DC about the upcoming security crackdown for the nuclear summit. The po-po and G-men are going to have the place locked down around the convention center, even going as far as to stop and ID people who are shopping nearby, and possibly not allowing them to enter parts of the city.

What interests me though is not the blatant violation of everyone's rights during this time - DC residents happily gave away their rights wholesale in return for some benefits, so they can only blame themselves - what I thought was striking was the guy at the end of the video clip that actually enjoys living in a place that restricts your freedom to move about.

The security crackdown is in the news because it's going to piss people off; naturally, there will always be freedom loving people in any city that are offended that their actions would be halted because of some pompous foreign elites that they don't know are coming to town. What's sad is that there is a majority of folk there who have no reservations about giving away their rights and the rights of others over some security.

Et Tu, Navy?

It seems the US Navy is jumping on the anti-smoking bandwagon by turning off the smoking lamp in submarines.

Don't those guys already have enough stress in their job? Do non-smoking Sailors really bitch about the smoke on a sub?

Sheesh. I'm a non-smoker and all, but I don't think I could tell a blood brother that his smoking offends me while we're under the surface for months on end. Just go ahead and pass me one of those, friend.

What's wrong with a little history?

Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell signs a declaration bringing back Confederate History month, and the media tries to smear it.

I really can't bring myself to blame the media or angry citizens; the whole history of the Civil War and Confederate States of America is shrouded by a smokescreen generated from our public education system. The visceral reaction from many is the outcry against slavery, when in reality slavery only played a mild part in the war. The anger and hatred towards the mere sight of the Confederate flag is telling. Americans really are blinded.

There are people in this country who enjoy celebrating their heritage. That does not mean that they want to relive slavery any more than they want to relive firing volleys of mini balls at their brother.

Gunfight at Gunsight Ranch

If you're a youthful adventurous type, you may want to avoid getting into a gunfight at a place that sounds like it promotes marksmanship.

BTW, this is not Gunsight Academy in Arizona; this is a hunting ranch in South Western Texas.

War, through the looking glass

The news being ever more depressing these days, I tend to only skim for the abundance of articles that allow me to mock the media's view points. I haven't found any of those yet.

This morning there is much ado about video footage of a gunship doing dirty work in Iraq. The armchair warrioring going on is disturbing, as looking at grainy IR footage is not the way to best judge a situation. This is one reason I think the public at large should be cautious about how much war they watch on TV.

There are so many war videos available now that a majority of people are seeing a part of life normally reserved for the few who actually go into harms way and become a part of it. I can't bring myself to say that it's unhealthy, as time will be the final judge of that; but when the non-warrior population watch 24 hour streams of war, they are going to have a bias that leans towards condemning what they see. That is natural.

Maybe the crew of that gunship had black hearts and just wanted to kill some people, but I highly doubt it. Maybe they mistook cameras for weapons, but again, I highly doubt it. The footage is raw warfare in black and white; you can say all you want about what you would have done, but your opinion is entirely after the fact.

If you really want to know how you would handle yourself in the situation, go get your commission and fly a gunship, or enlist and go fight with a rifle. If you outright condemn war on its face, then you are irrational. War is Natural Law, and we shall have much more of it in our time.

Gunshots outside a forum on gun violence. . .

. . .in a "Gun Free Zone." No surprises here; this is DC we're talking about.

My heart goes out to the families who lost a loved one. I couldn't agree more that the murderous perpetrators are animals; and the grieving mother is spot on that her daughter wasn't the one in the wrong place at the wrong time.

These grieving parents are the community members that should have the means of protecting their neighborhood from the violent thugs. Unfortunately, they have all signed away their rights, so they do not have the means, and they can't count on justice being executed on the matter. Their hands are tied.

I wouldn't be surprised if those responsible for the latest mass shooting get twenty years or less. We already know that at least one of them has been through the revolving door many times before. This cycle will continue until the DC residents wake up and take control of the situation with their own hands.

Brandishing or self defense?

There's not enough information to tell from the story alone, but look at that police response over the "display" of a knife!

That's DC for ya. Luckily he didn't dare display a can of mace!

Because gangs fear the curfew

That right there should be enough to enforce a ban on the movement of regular folk. Gangs are out and about killing one another, so let's make it so nobody can go out.

That's some problem solving, I gotta say.

To see that people are calling for this preposterous edict to be permanently enforced shows just how far down this country has become. Keep giving away your freedom. Just don't bitch when you get pulled out of your taxi past curfew because you needed a gallon of milk.

Quick, subsidize it!

I'm waiting for the USDA to move in with a quick subsidy on this one any day now. Any. Day.

DC official's outrage in 3. . .2. . .1. . .

????????

Now we know who the perpetrators are, and I'm not surprised. There's lots of sadness and rhetoric, but nobody is digging to the bottom of the deeper problem.

What about the question that Fenty, Barry, Mendelson, and Lanier, should be asking? Why is the question not on the front page of the news?

It is perfectly clear that the question will not be asked because it's too hard. Instead, we have DC police chief Cathy Lanier talking about how it doesn't make any sense. Ya think? Perhaps it's because the genesis of this madness is not in a bracelet; there's a deeper problem. Until you start asking about that, dragging that problem out into the light where we can all see it and do something about it, then it's not going to get solved.

US AG Eric Holder asked the question, although it was far too wide in scope, and for that reason it was inflammatory. Narrow the scope and we can focus on a lethal issue that is the cause of the deaths of many people in this country every year. This can be prevented. Stop focusing on the peripheral stuff like the type of weapon used or the stupid reason for the argument and we can get somewhere. Not focusing on this question does indeed make us cowards.