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i never would have guessed

I hope Mr. Michael van der Galien does not mind, but this article definitely deserves quoting in its entirety:

It’s really quite simple: gun control legislation did not reduce violence. Secondly, people started actually reading the text of the second amendment of the United States Constitution. Thirdly, ‘laws allowing

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english as a second language

You know, living in Southern Kalifornistan as I do, things like this should not surprise me any more:

Can anyone venture to tell me what, exactly, is wrong with this particular sign? And, no, there is nothing faded out or anything on the sign – that is the way it …

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country of the gadarenes

You know, I am not a terribly religious person… I do not go to church every Sunday (and, in fact, have not been in quite some time), I have a hard time narrowing down what my beliefs exactly are (outside of the generic term “Christian”), and I am hardly what …

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spray-from-the-hip sculpture

One of the things the Brady Bunch always goes on and on about is the danger of “spraying from the hip”, when it comes to semi-automatic weapons. On that I agree with them – shooting from the hip is wildly inaccurate, and will not result in terribly many rounds hitting …

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minifigs… attack!

For any of you who are as addicted to Lego bricks as I (still) am, this comprehensive Lego-brick-related post over at Gizmodo should answer just about all the questions you could probably ever think of, and then some. For instance, my two favorites are:

Approximately 19 billion Lego elements are

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darwin runner-up

People are stupid. In this particular case, I do not blame the Darwin Award candidate – i.e., the child – but I lay every last ounce of blame at the feet of his incompetent, irresponsible, and generally idiotic parents. I would like to say this kind of thing is …

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mene mene tekel upharsin

Daniel, Chapter 5:

1 Belshazzar the king made a great feast for a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.
2 Belshazzar, while he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was

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More “no-knock” nonsense

This may not be directly related to a US law enforcement no-knock warrant situation, but it is a good example why no-knock entries are potentially dangerous to an average American as well as the law enforcement group performing it.
From judicialwatch.org
Key quotes:
“The three invaders were dressed in military

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sensor ping XLIV

In exchange for the blatant self-aggrandizement I did in a previous post (hey, Google-bombs are kind of fun!), I figured I would put up another one of these. The general premise is that you are free to ping this post (and every other post in this category), as long as …

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law abiding gun owner

In celebration of the recent Heller decision, I performed one of my many duties as a law abiding gun owner and procured another method for safely storing my rifle and pistol. This is not to say I did not have one already – I do – but I am …

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oh hell(er) yes

First off, I would like to state that all of the hoplophobes, anti-rights activists, and anti-self-defense folk out there can respectfully get bent.
As you can probably guess at this point, the decision concerning District of Columbia v. Heller (07-290) has been passed down, and I think …

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obama misses the second

As with just about any other weblog owner, I do keep an eye on my traffic and what sites are referring to me – after all, it is sometimes interesting to see what other people write about you and your writings. More often than not, though, most of my traffic …

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peanut butter and heller sandwiches

So, needless to say (since my own weblog demonstrates the validity of what I am about to write), I have been pretty quiet on the whole Heller case situation, simply because I lack the expertise, experience, and general-purpose knowledge of the situation, how the mechanics work, and the finer points …

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he seems familiar


Oh, right, he reminds me of… me. Righto…
You definitely need to check out the videos and vignettes on his webpage to fully comprehend my meaning…
Hey, I figured you Heller Dwellers could use a distraction from your incessant F5-ing… not that I blame you, granted – I will, after …

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mugshot

Remember that big fraking bug I encountered a few weeks ago that could withstand 70-mile-per-hour wind?
Yeah, his buddies know where I live. And I am not sure if they are too happy with my removal-by-carwash method of dealing with him.

So anybody got any clues as to what to …

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it is infectious


Yeah… I know… There really is no excuse.
(Though, in my partial defense, that is my cat (even though my parents are his current staff, they refuse to take ownership of him – cranky little twit, he is), and I did take the picture.)…

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what a rush

So, thanks to some leftover credit from hooking up my TiVo to Amazon‘s Unbox service (a concept which, by the way, still blows my mind – I hop on my computer, go to a webpage, order up a TV show, and it appears on my TiVo, and eventually my …

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iso monster strikes again

Excuse the shoddy quality of the following images… I did not want to use a flash at the range (for more-or-less obvious reasons) so my camera compensated by boosting its ISO through the roof (1600 for both images, I believe). Of course, on the flip side, it is useful to …

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words of wisdom

I should be in bed, but this goes along with my previous post:

“The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by evil men for evil purposes, but there are more good men than evil, and while the

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observations from the range, part the second

M1A SOCOMs are loud. Or at least that is the impression I am getting. The below is an actual exchange from the range:

Me: *shooting for the first time since two new guys got to the lane next to mine*
Guy 1: …the hell?!
Guy 2: SOCOM.
Guy 1: Oh…

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