Fun with spell check

Something tells me that the spell check creators are not big fans of the military.

I found this screenshot today on my external hard drive:


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So the Air Force is suave, and the Marine Corps are scum. Hmmmmmf. I'll have to check out the Army and the Navy now. Sheesh.

Knife p0rn!

Check out a review of the HTM-DDR Gun Hammer by Darrel Ralph at Sharptactics!

A good knife is a welcome investment.

On the Discovery gunman

The media reports he was an extremist, which quite frankly doesn't impress me that much. Plenty of people are extremists without resorting to violence, and this guy at first glance doesn't have the history to suggest that he would wind up in a building full of people with a bomb strapped to his chest. Thankfully he didn't blow any one up.

Also, kudos to the cops for taking him out and saving all the hostages; with the police presence there yesterday, and all the rifles, armor, armored vehicles in all, it was about time that a crazy hostage taker lost his life via the good guys on national TV.

Now, while I can see how watching back-to-back episodes of Kate Plus 8 would drive anyone to madness, I just can't get over this:

Video taken by a Youtube user that day reveals an individual throwing money to gleeful crowds in Silver Spring. That individual in the video may be Lee -- who was arrested that day in Silver Spring for littering and disorderly conduct after he threw thousands of dollars to people. ABC 7 News released video of Lee's arrest after police determined that he was creating an unsafe environment. He served a 10-day sentence.

Who would have thought that throwing cash to a consensual crowd would constitute creating an unsafe environment? I can see the littering charge if you consider that cash is really just worthless paper, but only in America would it be a crime to throw money at people.

In another article, we find that the gunman had some unregistered destructive devices. Maybe we should make people register them or something, and make public buildings bomb free. We have such wonderful and successful security measures in place already at airports; it seems like common sense to me to extend it to other places like where you work, Wal-Mart, and Kroeger's and stuff. What's the harm?

Looking at some photos of this mess gives me some concern. The guys in green are presumably police officers of some sort, most likely FBI HRT, who look to be more geared towards fighting in Afghanistan than Silver Spring; indeed, the guy in the first photo is wearing many of the things that US Special Warfare troops wear, like the Crye Precision combat uniform and MSA Advanced Combat Helmet. I'm all about SWAT having all the toys that make their job safe and all, but what's with all the green and camouflage, and the armored vehicles? When did the boys in blue become Soldiers in combat outfits? I believe these guys are Maryland State Police -- do they look like it to you?

When I think of police, I think of blue uniforms and eight point covers; when I think of county Sheriff's deputies, I think of the brown uniform with a neck-tie and Smokey; and when I think of SWAT teams for the exact type of incident that happened yesterday, I envision black and/or blue clad cops in armor with kick ass weapons and battering rams. Sadly, today it's more likely to be cops in multicam riding in on an APC complete with M2 BHMG, and it seems that every small town has them, but is strikingly absent of hostage or terrorist situations.

When there is trouble, you are supposed to know exactly who is the police officer charged and sworn with addressing the miscreant - we have that with the eight point cover and Smokey. There is no mistake in a crowd. Why is it then that we can't accurately determine who is a police officer, who is a federal agent, and who is a Soldier in our country anymore? When did we let that change? Something's not right with that.

I still commend the cops for taking that scumbag out without loss of decent life.

Just when you thought it was safe to go into the water. . . .

A pretty big shark was caught in the Potomac.

Nasty!

The shotty thread

More shotguns than you can shake a stick at, at ARFCOM.

Now I have some ideas!

The response one would expect

"Anguiano took the stand Tuesday and said he hoped to be sentenced to probation after pleading guilty to aggravated assault for cutting his niece with a butcher knife. But the judge, influenced by the defendant's five previous prison stints, instead sentenced him to 40 years."

Honestly, if you've been in and out of the prison system many times, and are acclimated to the idea that you can do horrible things to people and get a smack on the wrist, than you would probably be surprised when a judge finally hooks you up and rids society of having to deal with you forever more. It's just a shame that it took six times to do it.

And how about those weapon free courts? Just another example of how getting a blade into a prohibited area is so easy even a felon can do it.

Nun's Guns

Would the opposite be Hell's Bells?

Anyways, there are some people there who are easily offendable, and apparently some of those people are Catholics. At least, that's what the article is trying to say. Also, are you sitting down for this. . . .Hollywood at times instigates emotional reactions in human beings by using shocking, bizarre, or inflammatory media!

Hollywood is "trying to shock!"

You can't hear me through the internets, but I just gasped!

The lesson I learned from this is to never pass out an offensive survey to Catholics in the first place, so that they won't get offended. And also, don't show anyone guns. Guns are icky, and if you own one, you should repent at once you heathen!

Dirty, dirty guns.

Shooty

I fired of a baker's dozen from the LR308 this afternoon, and things weren't up to par. I'm convinced that the barrel nut is not as tight as it needs to be. There is just no other explaination for the inconsistent performance.

Updates if it does the trick.

My bad

The EPA dropped its proposal to regulate/ban lead bullets because it realized it had no authority to do so. I bet there was way more to it than that, and there were probably some congress critters making phonecalls and such. Elections are right around the corner and all.

The circus is in town

It seems like the more people that cram their way into town, the more the violent weirdos show up. Why can't married folk lead normal lives and love their spouse without having to resort to kidnapping and raping homeless hookers, beating them with sticks, and then stabbing them with kitchen utensils?

Enough already! Go somewhere else!

That's not a gun. . . . .

. . . . THIS is a GUN!!!

The A-10 is saahweeeeet!! You have to watch the whole video to see the finale.

Your ammunition rights are under attack!

When a political critter can't take away the guns, they go for the next best thing - ammo.

It doesn't seem likely at all that this EPA petition will get enacted, but still. . . .whoa!

Baltimore cop is fired

I vaguely recall seeing these videos sometime back whereas a Baltimore cop goes ballistic on a young skateboarder. I almost passed by this article this morning, as I don't find much interest in YouTube justice unless it is over something extreme, but watching this guy get his rocks off by yelling at a teenager piqued my interest.

When my kids become youthful teenagers, who may not be all that appreciative towards police officers or the day to day tribulations they face, I would still expect that they are treated better than the lad in the video. Think about if you had to drive over to some incident between your kid and some cop, and the cop is calm as a cucumber but your kid is mouthy and disrespectful, or even just really wound up. My default reaction would be to deal with the less childlike person, which nine times out of ten is probably the cop. Not so much in the video here.

Anyways, the cop was fired, which means nothing, really, as he will surely be picked up by another department. The act though was appropriate, and may send a message to that ten percent that might take their job a little too serious.

New cutting edge holster material sighted!

Duct tape! - http://whitetrashrepairs.com/white-trash/gun-holder/

H/T to my wife

Premeditated spree shooting

Sponaugle's sister, Kitty Cooper, was among the wounded. Cooper says Sponaugle indicated months ago that he planned to kill his son and two others relatives.

And Cooper's husband, Mark A. Cooper Sr., who also was wounded Sunday, said Sponaugle told a relative two days before the shootings that "he was going to kill a bunch of people."

What more do you need? If someone indicates that they're going to kill a bunch of people, what do you do with that information? Why did these folks sit on this, and not act?

This is the same story that I posted about yesterday. Who knows why they didn't do anything about it; maybe they didn't believe him. These folks that live out in the middle of a nowhere county are known for following through with what they say.

Dog's worst friend

This is one bizarre story. It's starts with a drunken man shooting his dogs indiscriminately and ends with a police standoff. All human beings involved are alive and well, but several canines lost their lives.

I'm a dog lover and all, but just can't see sending a man to prison for six years over killing his own property. I mean, Virginia seems to think six months is reasonable for stabbing someone multiple times in the chest, so a dog shouldn't seem like that big of a deal. The lone commenter to the article sounds like he would be cool with stringing the man up. Compassion for animals is higher than for people it would seem these days.

Also, who knew that there was such a charge as maliciously shooting a companion animal? Who thinks of that and turns it into a law?

The earth opened its mouth and swallowed. . . .

. . a Sonic Drive-In Restaurant! Ooooooooohh!

Theater safety

So, typically, you feel safer when you know security guards will detect weapons on people entering a building they’re assigned to protect, right?

Aaaah, no, jackass. It usually pisses me off to no end because it typically means a trip back to the glove box. One case in point is the Marine Corps museum, but that's another story.

It’s hard to have that kind of peace of mind with District schools and offices.

Peace of mind? Isn't that what an ostrich does when it sticks its head in the sand? I do agree with him to a point though; I don't have any peace of mind with any area in the District as long as it continues to prevent the community at large from using modern means of scumbag prevention. The community is mostly responsible for that, which is a shame, and it appears that things are not going to get any better:

Last year, the District fired security contractor Hawk One, which had a four-year record of poor supervision, inadequate training, ineffectiveness, and “fraternizing with students.” To replace Hawk One’s 200 guards, D.C. hired two firms on one-year contracts totaling $22.1 million.

So they hired a company to put uniformed human beings with guns in buildings for the sole purpose of disarming everybody, and the end result was that determined people were still able to gain entry with weapons while the guards were aggressively tutoring the youth? Who could have seen that coming, and why do they think hiring armed human beings in different uniforms will have a different outcome? And holy smokes - $22 Mil? Seems like it would be more effective and less costly to have the parents of students holster up and provide security in shifts; if there's a liability question, there are ways around that. Human beings are human beings, and the security folks would be much more inclined to do a good job if their interest in the matter consisted of their flesh-and-blood, and not Federal Reserve Notes.

With security contractors like these, who needs criminals?

Thinking that you'll have a better outcome if the human factor is clad in new duds is going to lead to more disappointment. You'll probably have more failed "penetration tests" too, in more ways than one.

Bad guys are afraid of the light

Well, it's not the kind of light that I would choose to deter a scumbag who would gun down someone in a "hail of bullets." I'm quite fond of this deterrent light source; I hear it frightens the boogey man somethin fierce!

Too bad folks in that area, like the victim in this tragic tale, could carry only the light, and not the device that it clips to.

Repetitive vicious maliciousness

A Stafford county Virginia woman was arrested last Friday night for aggravated malicious wounding. She had stabbed a woman multiple times in the "upper body" which I construe as being in the chest.

So big deal right? Some trashy scumbag in some no-name county in the Old Dominion got her stabby on, what's that got to do with anything? Who cares?

With that question I point you to the Virginia Court Case Information System where you can look up this woman's name in the same county and see where she was convicted last year for the same damn thing - stabbing a woman repetitively with a knife. And what severe sentence did she receive for this reckless act? Five freakin' years, which seems pretty appropriate for a first time offense of that nature where the victim lived. The problem is that four years and four months of that sentence was suspended, and she got out after six months in state prison and promptly and repeatedly rammed a pair of scissors in a girl's chest.

What is it about arresting and locking up crazy people, and then cutting them loose way before you said you would so that they can go out and paint the town red? If you say that the state demands five years for stabbing someone, then make it five years! If this woman had been caught with a pound of pot you know she would still be in prison. Keep the loony toons behind bars where they belong!

Oooh, check out the second comment for some humor!