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best of the worst, part the second

Ok, so the longer write-up to go on top of my previous comments is that I had the pleasure of partaking of an indoor, IDPA-ish shooting competition today at Gunny’s Indoor Range. Caleb was there, along with 21 other shooters, and even…

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best of the worst

Well, I did get summarily spanked by Caleb, and scored 16th out of 23, but I still managed to walk home with a Mossberg 500, thanks to some funky-assed Lewis scoring system (I was the best of the lower third of shooters). I consider that a…

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educational experience

I am totally about to be owned by someone who can draw, bead, and shoot in less than .5 seconds, but I am off to my first IDPA-ish event. Supposedly there will be prizes, including a 1911 and a few shotguns.
Maybe I will walk out with…

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aliens vs. vikings

How is it that I am just now finding out about Outlander, and how is it that it only got a limited release?

As an age old battle rages amongst the stars, Kainan’s ship burns brightly as it crashes into the Nordic coast. As his space craft comes

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sensor ping LVI

Time to put up another one… The general premise is that you are free to ping this post (and every other post in this category), as long as you link back to it. Consider it free Google PageRank inflation, or something.
  

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anecdotal evidence

In the fifiteen or so minutes I spent hanging out in my local gun shop while we dorked around with Janus, the proprietor had three physical customers and four call-in customers. And this is in a town with less than 50,000 people, and a gun shop that takes up a…

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cleaning up

For those of you who believe one man cannot make a difference, Sebastian‘s efforts in Baltimore’s Pigtown stand as a strong example to the contrary.

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janus

Sometimes, knowing the right people makes all the difference in the world.
I mentioned I was having some difficulty with tools earlier… Basically, I purchased a new forearm to go on my new home defense shotgun, and then I found out you have to be able to…

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woah

I just realized I have written over a thousand posts.
Lot of typing, that.

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what contract?

A while ago, I wrote about Verizon signing me up for a $45-a-month data plan without my knowledge, consent, or agreement. Well, all these weeks later, an explanation finally surfaces.
Our monthly bill showed up a few days ago, and, for some reason, was about $15 higher…

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armament adjucator

Every day I get a little more happy that I am living in Tennessee, especially with people like Judge Bob Moon here with me:

General Sessions Court Judge Bob Moon on Wednesday told a female home invasion victim she needs to buy a gun to protect herself.

“There

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monolith

Note to self: “No gunsmithing required” does not necessarily equate to “no tools required”. And firearms sometimes require the damnest of tools…
*headdesk*

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semblance of a spine

Unsurprisingly, the House passed the pointless “stimulus package” yesterday. However, surprisingly, there was not one single, solitary Republican vote in favor of putting the American government even further in debt.
You heard me right – the Republicans in the House of Representatives, to a man (and woman),…

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i was wrong

And I am man enough to admit it.
A little over a week ago, I made a prediction that President Barack Hussein Obama was going to sign an executive order relating to firearms, ammunition, and/or the sales/transportation of them within the first week of his new administration.

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too obvious

So the government is about to pass some multi-billion (moving towards “trillion” with every passing minute) dollar “stimulus plan” to try and “stimulate” the American economy. Basically, they are going to take some of the money the government has (or says it has), and dump it…

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i hate snakes

A cashier at my local Wal-Mart just pre-emptively apologized for possibly offending me before she said that I looked like Indiana Jones.
Come on… what red-blooded American man would object to being compared to this:

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got it right here

Iran said on Wednesday it would welcome President Barack Obama’s offer of a change in U.S. policy provided it involved a withdrawal of U.S. troops from abroad and an apology for past “crimes” against Tehran.

I will tell you what, President Ahmadinejad, we will load up a couple…

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avast

If I could spare the 100% markup over a “normal” variant, the $200 tax stamp, the necessary waiting for approval, the time required to navigate the creative and often-changing legalities, and the additional funds for the supplemental hardware to complete it, one of these would so be mine.

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missed the point

Something tells me that the folks behind this never intended for me to do something like this:

… what?

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logical extension

For all of the consummate idiots out there who are drawing comparisons between our new President and President Lincoln, they would do well to remember history.

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not far from the tree

Looks like the Democrats are settling some of their debts:

Republican lawmakers are raising concerns that ACORN, the low-income advocacy group under investigation for voter registration fraud, could be eligible for billions in aid from the economic stimulus proposal working its way through the House.

House

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not only no

But hell no.
It is this kind of gos-se that make me seriously concerned for the future of our country:

Printed in a size that easily fits into pocket or purse, this book is an anthology of quotations borrowed from Barack Obama’s speeches and writings. POCKET OBAMA

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pointless button-push

Go forth and vote.
And before you start on the impending rant, yes, I understand that the Second Amendment “gives” nothing, and instead protects our natural right to self-defense, as granted by us being living, breathing human citizens. So just email USAToday and let them know…

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domination

Unfortunately, I am a little behind on this:

In an exchange with Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.) about the proposal, the president shot back: “I won,” according to aides briefed on the meeting.

“I will trump you on that.”

Not that Obama was gloating. He was just

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showing the way


Now that is a serious case of badassery. Many, many thanks to the unknown benefactor who sent the necessary fiddly bit my way – it was a breeze to get set on the rail and arranged, unlike the TangoDown vertical grip behind it (note to self –…

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compare and contrast

1824:

“I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.”
- Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to William Ludlow

2008:

We now have more people employed in government than manufacturing and construction.

I have said…

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in a bookstore

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candid captures

Just to back up a previous claim I made, I present you with…

I still think it is a stupid idea.
And just to show off some of the things that corporate entities give out at fairs…

Yes, that is a…

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it is for the children

Maybe it is a byproduct of me getting older, and perhaps turning more into an adult (Ack! Ick! Poo!), but I find myself wondering, more and more, what kind of examples we are setting for our future generations.
Take, for example, the curious case of Tim Geithner.…

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just… wow

You’re sound asleep when you hear a thump outside your bedroom door. Half-awake, and nearly paralyzed with fear, you hear muffled whispers. At least two people have broken into your house and are moving your way. With your heart pumping, you reach down beside your bed and pick up your

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language of the land

I am probably about to be branded with all manner of dirty names for writing this, but this is just complete and utter bullshit.
For those unfamiliar, Nashville just failed to pass an “English-only” law, which would have mandated that English was the official (and only)…

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after all this time

All I have to say about the new Battlestar Galactica episode is this: I am not amused.

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barn raising

Out of curiosity, do either of my two readers happen to know the cost (in dollars per square foot, if you have those numbers) of building homes in your respective areas? With or without land is fine.

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can you hear me now?

Despite Joe Huffman proclaiming, “I hate Windows Mobile,” at the most recent Gun Blogger Rendezvous, the phone that replaced my now-very-clean KRZR turns out to be an Audiovox XV-6700 smartphone… with Windows Mobile 5 as its operating system. The phone is a little chunky (which is…

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hearth and home

Leave it to the Box o’ Truth to have an understandable, concise, clear, and experienced write-up on how to fight with a shotgun. Considering that I just snagged one for home defense purposes, something tells me I need to start practicing with it.

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drunkenly spinning

This has to be one of the coolest home-addition ideas I have ever seen in my entire life. The only downside is that I would have to fill it at some point, which would probably be a little difficult, given the $30,000 baseline pricetag associated with these things… Two-Buck Chuck…

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the first 48

The good.

Obama rescinded Bush’s 2001 executive order allowing former presidents, vice presidents, and their heirs to claim executive privilege in determining which of their records get released to the public. Even better, he’s requiring the signature of both his White House counsel and the attorney

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i’m william shatner, i can score anything

Want, you do.

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batting average

Well, it turns out that I was right on one of my pre-inauguration predictions.
This does, however, raise the question of where, exactly, the President’s public and private lives end and begin. OpSec experts are going to go ballistic over this (considering that it is now…

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cards on the table

This comes as no surprise to anyone who has been paying attention, but President Barack Hussein Obama’s new WhiteHouse.gov webpage has the same copy-pasted “Address Gun Violence in Cities” section that was on Change.gov, and, in turn, copy-pasted from his campaign webpages. This error-fraught paragraph has already been…

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keeping up appearances

I will admit it – I did not watch the inauguration yesterday (excepting the two-minute clip where our current President and Chief Justice Roberts managed to make a joke out of the Oath of Office). The entire event just struck me as a wierd amalgamation of an MTV award event…

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personal patriotism

I am going to take the liberty to expand upon a list Rustmeister started:

…what didn’t happen was the following:

Bush didn’t suspend the 2008 election

Bush isn’t going to have a third term

Bush didn’t declare martial law and become our

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