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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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

morons on two wheels

Sorry, Ride Fast, but this is a perfect example of why cagers like me generally hate scoot-jockeys.
Today, on my way back from the range (more on that later), I had to navigate Oceanside, [...]

shrinkwrapping the goods

You know, I have seen a lot of random things scroll across during this suprisingly long Woot-Off… but this one definitely takes the … um … cake:

Well, I guess it is [...]

can’t stop the serenity

Ok, so I am a little behind on this, but that is nothing new for me. Can’t Stop the Serenity is a project started by Joss Whedon (I think) to help support Equality [...]

plying the aether

Oddly enough, I do have a few hobbies apart from scribbling on this weblog and going out and perforating paper… And below, you will find a few images of an example thereof:

all dressed up

… and no place to haunt. Ok, so Halloween is still a little ways off, even for the most optimistic of children and other dress-up artists, and there is more than sufficient time to plan accordingly for all of [...]

observant, he is

You know, I am entirely uncertain as to which is worse:
Option 1: I somehow managed to tear off a sizeable chunk of my right big toe’s nail while unpacking boxes. Cardboard boxes. Filled, largely, with towels, bedding, [...]

the obamessiah just loves his honey

Supposedly, Barack Husein Obama is a good orator. Honestly, I would not know… the sheer amount of stupidity, ludicrousness, and idiocy that spews out of that man’s mouth is enough for me to turn him off seconds [...]

brave new media

You know, it has always struck me as amusing how scam artists, hoplophobes, and other people afraid of the truth being exposed have made use of this new, digital media age around us.
For instance, after writing my [...]

preying on the ignorant

Fuel prices are going up. The cost of a barrel of raw oil has more than doubled, and is working on tripling, since last year. Food prices have gone up accordingly, and other products seem to be following suit. [...]

day five

Date: 22 May 2007
Start: Tucumcari, New Mexico
End: Holbrook, Arizona
Distance Travelled: 431 miles
Duration: 10 hours, 30 minutes (including accounting for MDT to MST change)

someone is on the ball

Ok, this webpage is just too funny.
Granted, it might seem as though either definition might work (from dictionary.com):

insure: 1. to guarantee against loss or harm.

ensure: 1. to secure or guarantee: This [...]

learn to stop

Now, I know a lot of you drivers down here in Southern Kalifornistan are unfamiliar with the below image, but it is damned well time for you to start recognizing it again.

Why would I say [...]

historical flashback

The below picture was taken just a bit over a year ago in small town in southern Georgia, though something tells me the gas station in question had closed a considerable time before. By the same token, I doubt [...]

container stickers

For those of you with a little more entrepreneurial spirit than I happen to possess, opening a new business is always an option for future career plans. A random, whimsical idea I have had in the past is opening [...]

i need a water gun

A large-caliber, high-volume, quick-reload water gun. Preferrably with the option to load ice cubes, should I so desire.
I grew up a cat person… My family always had at least two, most of the time three, cats in [...]

new sharp-and-pointy

Like I mentioned previously, Better Half and I hit up a store called Big 5 Sporting Goods a few days ago. Unfortunately, we were unsuccessful in our quest for new shoes for her, but we [...]

decrees of the obamamessiah

For those pro-Second Amendment, pro-rights, pro-guns, pro-self-defense types out there who are curious what life could be like under the kind and gentle tutelage of Barack Hussein Obama, the Pajamas Media put together [...]

sensor ping XLIII

Let us get these back to the Sundays the are supposed to be on. Anywise, the general premise is that you are free to ping this post (and every other post in this category), as long as you link [...]

people of the commercialism

So a little while ago, I had to take down my CafePress store since it was not making enough money to pay for its “premium” existence. The short explanation is that CafePress has free stores, and “premium” [...]

hiding in not-so-plain sight

So this is something of an odd story… There is a sporting goods store in Southern Kalifornistan (and most of the rest of the South and North West) called Big 5 Sporting Goods, and, honestly, I have [...]

darksucking follow-up

As I mentioned previously, my Surefire 6P Defender had something of an issue a little while back. A rather catastrophic, disappointing issue. Well, the same day I wrote that post, I emailed Surefire [...]

backups on the go

One interesting aspect of the past few months for me is that I have been hopping online from a variety of locations, on a variety of computers, with a variety of log-in permissions. I almost always had my thumb [...]

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