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winding down the year

There are a few more posts rattling around my brain this evening, but, honestly, I have nothing I am overly inclined to write at the moment. As such, I would like to wish my readers a very safe and enjoyable New Year’s Eve, and thank them for continuing to come …

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Good thing I had that emergency fund

Because it looks like we won’t be closing until Tuesday, and I have to pay a $100 penalty for every day past last Tuesday we go. Including holidays and weekends. So this is probably going to end up costing me over a thousand dollars (since Tuesday is just the latest …

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not adhering to the narrative

Why is it that prognostications of blood in the streets / on the bars / in the aisles / etc. as we expand or further defend our Second-Amendment-protected rights here in the States never seem to come true, and yet countries with significantly tighter firearm restrictions (and recently increased …

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massively parallel

You know, I had never thought about that particular phrase in quite that way.…

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…and there it is

I’ll be driving more, thank you very much.
I haven’t flown in about 6 months, but only because my current client is based in Nashville. In 2008 I think I had 50 segments with American Airlines. My client then was in St Louis, so I was traveling there every …

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talk about a boom

I might be making a series out of these…
At any rate, twice before, I have written about common household and business substances at can be and occasionally are considerably more destructive than an individual with a firearm… sometimes millions of dollars and countless lives destructive. Today, rather than …

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No house this year

Even if we close tomorrow, we can’t take possesion until Monday. So I’ll have to take another day off work for that. And all the work we had lined up for this weekend has to get rescheduled. For instance, I bought a piece of furniture off craigslist on Sunday and …

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as if there was any doubt

In case I have not made myself abundantly clear in the past, my permanent address will never again have a zip code between 90001 and 96162:

California regulators have approved far fewer semi-automatic pistols for sale in the wake of a state law that required new safety devices in

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carriers

Carriers: It is almost sad, the things people will do to pay the bills, especially when the people in question have already scored the lead role in Star Trek.…

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blarg

I guess we should have known better than to spend Christmas with family when half of the individuals were recovering from some manner of icky bug. I blame the disease-carrier of the bunch (the two-year-old, naturally), but, either way, Better Half and I are down for the count today.
On …

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how long will it, or you, last?

Those big, ugly, loud, polluting monstrosities of semi rigs that always seem to take up too much space in the lanes, and never seem to go fast enough? The American economy pretty much rides on their wheels, and, you know what? Those wheels are spooling down:

Last week my

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the waiting game

Remember Charles Daly’s attempts at importing the Israeli Tavor for the American market? I have a somewhat unfortunate (though already expected) update: based on the two comments below from Michael Kassnar, the President of KBI Inc. (the company that owns the CD brand), the Charles Daly Tavor will not be

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catching some air

For those who want to know more about the iconic car chase scene I spoke of earlier, Jalopnik pulled up a copy of the original script, which, honestly, does not tell you too much you did not already know if you have seen the movie. Still, it is …

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correction to my last

According to various archiving systems on the cortex, I started my particularly nasty habit of defacing the internet with my scribblings during the week of 08DEC02, making this month actually my seventh anniversary of weblogging (rather than the fourth I initially reported). That mindless meandering actually took place at …

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getting feedback

If you are interested in such things, or curious about them, a VeriSign employee by the name of Mr. Joseph A’Deo has offered to answer any questions my readers might have about GunPal’s recent VeriSign accreditation (or, probably, anything else relating to online certificates and the like). Feel free to …

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No house today

Because people that are not me are stupid.
My bank account is significantly lighter, and I have nothing to show for it. Told we can close tomorrow.
‘Course, I was told that yesterday, too. And two weeks ago.…

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i think it is done

A few days back, I wrote about the inconsistencies of certain individuals fearing people with firearms, but not fearing people with significantly more-destructive materials and equipment. At the time, I touched on such common things as flour and gasoline, and branched into a few more-esoteric substances like bottled O2 and …

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the first glimmer of hope?

Damned if I ever thought I would be saying this, but I support the Tories (at least this time):

The Tories want to give people who kill burglars while defending their home more protection from prosecution, according to the shadow home secretary.

Chris Grayling promised a review of householders’ rights

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heisenday uncertainty principle

The pun… the pun… make it stop!…

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i support carry

To provide something of a counterpoint for my previous post, I openly carried my Walther PPS in its new rig twice this past week at the Trader Joe’s in Midtown, Atlanta, GA – possibly a more-trendy/hip/yuppy store in possibly a more-trendy/hip/yuppy neighborhood than the main Bliss Home store I

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