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The inimitable man behind the daily Second Amendment Round-Up, Mr. Anthony Martin, is headed for some rather serious medical examinations and, hopefully, treatments. He could use whatever prayers and happy thoughts you might be willing to send his [...]

deal with the devil

Do we really want to go down this path:

The new legislation, the “Pay for Performance Act of 2009,” would impose government controls on the pay of all employees — not just top executives — of companies [...]

back and forth

Ok, this is just starting to be funny… Richard Locker is turning into the Star Trek movie series of the Commercial Appeal. First, his bias appears to know no bounds. Not surprising, given the company he works [...]

in the mail

Yesterday, I received a monitor for computer that was dead at the time of order and delivery (but now is barely working), and a hard drive enclosure for a drive extracted from a very dead laptop.
Today, I [...]

too funny

i am simon jester

After some relatively careful thought and consideration (I know, I know, how strange for me, eh?), I can only come to the conclusion that I am Simon Jester:

We are Simon Jester.

We are not [...]

government motors

I can hardly put together a coherent response to this news:

It is my hope that the steps I am announcing today will go a long way towards answering many of the questions people may have [...]

anonymous sources

The below blockquote came from a forum I routinely read, and the sources for this information are alleged to be eployees within the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, and thus are requesting to remain anonymous (for obvious reasons, [...]

honesty is (apparently) overrated

Wow. I have to admit to being somewhat impressed. It would appear as though the Commercial Appeal somehow managed to go over a full week without putting up another hoplophobic, anti-rights editorial. At least it [...]

blame america

The Wandering Minstrel pointed me towards someone who handed Secretary of State Clinton’s recent trip to Mexico far better than I ever could have, so I will simply tell you to head over and check it out. [...]

big badda-boom

Apparently, the technicians at Mythbusters need to recalibrate their definition of “safe distance“:

A big explosion, in the name of science, scared a lot of people in a small town.

Mythbusters went to Yolo County and ended [...]

mother nature’s emp

Once you dig past the self-demonization of the human species, the environmentalist claptrap, and the “we did it to ourselves” self-flagellation, this could be an interesting problem:

IT IS midnight on 22 September 2012 and the skies [...]

pure filth

It is gos-se like this that makes me positively disgusted at what portions of America, and American culture, have become:

With the Oakland Police Department mourning the violent deaths of four of its own, a group Wednesday [...]

and so it ends

Well, after all this time, my short-and-sweet review of the Battlestar Galactical finale is this: “That was predictable.”
For those who are concerned about spoilers, I would recommend against reading any farther, because I am going to get [...]

scheduling the shindig

Gun Blogger Rendezvous IV is currently scheduled for the 10th, 11th, 12th, and 13th of September, and hotel registration is already open (just be sure to call the Silver Legacy directly at 1.800.687.8733 and use [...]

happens in pairs

Apparently, when I turned off my computer by way of its power button (due to my monitor being unable to display anything, and me not remembering the keystrokes necessary to shut down Vista), my sole, solitary hard drive decided [...]

no-see-um

Posting, commenting, or doing much of anything else computer-related might be somewhat difficult for the forseeable future, on account of my monitor deciding to go and die on me last night.
And while this whole “Internet-on-the-phone” thing is [...]

doltish devaluation

I am starting to get the impression that everyone in our new President’s administration has been taking public speaking lessons from Vice President Biden (whatever has happened to him, anywise?). Case in point: Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s [...]

those darned expectations

I am not sure which is more amusing:
Option 1 – Our glorious President’s transparent teleprompters have been replaced with a big-screen television us peons can only dream of having in our living rooms (

restaurants and rights

While I was castigating Mike Chase’s hoplophobic comments here, and getting quoted (but not credited) at a Tennessee newspaper’s site, I was also filling out the “Contact Us” section of the appropriate [...]

worth a thousand words

One of the things all of my engineering, management, and even english classes repeatedly stressed is that, “Pictures are good things.” If you can express your concept in an accurate, representative graphical construct, then you probably stand a much [...]

calling it like it is

Rather than just repeat the Brady Campaign and VCP talking points, some reporters and journalists actually head down to Mexico and gather some first-hand information:

As it turns out, they couldn’t wait to invite me over [...]

let my alcohol ship free

Make no doubt about it – I consider moving from Kalifornistan to Tennessee to be a net positive change. Furthermore, I have been generally very impressed with the people we have representing us at the state level, and their [...]

greasing the rails

This should come as no surprise to anyone paying attention over the past two months, but it would appear as though President Barack Hussein Obama’s approval ratings are not what they once were:

Pollster John Zogby said [...]

playing it safe

If you took the hoplophobe’s arguments at face value, firearms are just an excuse for people to shoot each other, and guns themselves are nothing but demonic injury-inducers and crime-perpetrators. As such, one would think that hobbies like hunting [...]

this does not bode well

Ok, this is just more than a little freaky:

The mayor said there is another option – and that would be declaring martial law. The governor would have to declare it and then the National Guard would [...]

bbq and bullets

After eating at a “Calhoun’s – Taste of Tennessee”, and being generally unimpressed with both the quality of the food, and the flavors of the BBQ sauces, I cannot say as though that particular chain of restaurants was very [...]

you are doing it right

While writers at the Commercial Appeal are trying to conflate law-abiding citizens with murderers, expose their bigotry at every available opportunity, and be as anti-bipartisanship, anti-firearms, anti-firearm-owners, [...]

my sympathies

So, for my readers who are like me, and live under a rock and almost never pay attention to the news, a repeat-parole-offending convicted felon murdered three police officers, and a fourth is brain [...]

up to speed

For those of you who were waiting for Dollhouse to start “being good”, or somesuch stuff, before you started watching it again, you should have turned it on again last Friday.
It took Joss a little while, but [...]

$1800 more a year

Via The Liberty Sphere, I find out that President Barack Hussein Obama is planning on raising utility bills by $1,800 a year, on average, per family.
Our glorious President says not to worry, and [...]

this has always bugged me

This is not a difficult differentiation, but you would be amazed at the number of people who succumb to the misuse of these two words with very different meanings.

Magazine:

A recepticle for a firearm that holds a plurality [...]

times are tough

I sincerely doubt this has anything to do with the Commercial Appeal pointlessly invading the privacy of over 218,000 law-abiding handgun carry permit holders, but it would seem as though they just laid off 19 [...]

pledging allegiance

Fair warning for those who would come to my door asking me to pledge loyalty to President Barack Hussein Obama: I will be wearing my “People of the Gun” hat, my “Unorganized Militia [...]

hindsight

File this under “Things I Should Have Weblogged About”.
Back when the British Prime Minister gave our glorious President a pen holder crafted from the timbers of the HMS President, and a framed commission of the HMS Resolute [...]

pwned

The top bowler for the Special Olympics looks forward to meeting President Barack Obama in an alley.

“He bowled a 129. I bowl a 300. I could beat that score easily,” Michigan’s Kolan McConiughey told The Associated Press [...]

regression

Just as we started to have a little hope for Richard Locker, he goes and screws it all up:

Nine days after an Alabama handgun-carry licensee shot and killed 10 people — three of them [...]

too good to be true

Well, crap:

A federal judge today blocked a last-minute rule enacted by President Bush allowing visitors to national parks to carry concealed weapons.

U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly issued a preliminary injunction in a lawsuit brought [...]

not all that

For a book that centers around a hardcore, Von Clausewitz-reading, Sun-Zu-preaching, live-by-the-sword-die-by-the-sword, mercenary badass, the author said some pretty stupid stuff concerning firearms:

On the first, three brand-new 9mm automatic Berettas, compact calibers with high rapidity of fire, [...]

the same old tune

Just as Richard Locker takes significant strides towards simply reporting the news without bias or agenda, the editorial staff of the Commercial Appeal goes and makes up for his progress with yet another [...]

making an art of backstabbing and backpeddling

Like a child caught with his hand in the cookie jar, our glorious President has decided to continue funding veteran healthcare for wounds, injuries, or disabilities caused by their service to our country:

“In considering the third-party [...]

tab a goes in slot b

When it comes to resources on monolithic scope mounts for AR-15s, or anything else with a dorsal picatinny rail, this is pretty much the best one out there. Some of the information may be a little out-of-date, [...]

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