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see to it

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 way.

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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 that have received a capital investment from the U.S. government. It

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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 for. But, then, he tries to hide that bias,…

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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 picked up 1000 rounds of .223, for an upper I do…

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too funny

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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 anarchists.

We are not Far-Right or Far-Left. We are the seventy

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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 about the future of GM and Chrysler. But just in case

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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, given the nature of the below allegations). I present the quote…

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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 gives me something to write about, right?

Considering the energy state

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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. Short, sweet, to-the-point. I like it.
I might add a…

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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 up with a bigger bang than expected.

“It was a boom

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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 above Manhattan are filled with a flickering curtain of colourful light.

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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 staged a vigil for the man authorities say gunned down the

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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 all manner of spoileriffic. But, suffice to say, this series could…

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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 the group code of GBLOG09 to get reduced rates). For those…

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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 to go and kick the bucket as well.
I have…

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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 undeniably shiny, it is far from a long-term solution.

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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 attempt to unwittingly assassinate the American dollar.

Geithner was initially asked

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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 (TOTUS would like to make it clear that it was still

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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 webpage.
The exact content of what I sent them is…

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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 better chance of getting your point across to your audience than…

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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 to their place on a Friday night to show me their

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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 response to feedback from their constituents.
However, as with all…

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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 his poll out today will show Americans split on the president’s

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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 would start to become prohibitively dangerous, given groups of armed men…

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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 come in. The mayor said it’s more for a transition to

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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 high on my list of place to go back to. However,…

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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, anti-reality, anti-self-defense, and anti-Second-Amendment as…

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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 dead on life support. My prayers and thoughts are with the…

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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 we are finally getting somewhere…

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$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 that this all will be offset by an $800 “tax cut”…

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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 of cartridges or shells under spring pressure preparatory for feeding into

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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 employees:

The union representing the editorial staff of The Commercial Appeal

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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 Propaganda Corps” jacket, and my Walther PPS (probably somewhere…

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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 (the same ship who gave her timbers to be the President’s…

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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 in an interview Friday.

I really cannot add anything to that.

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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 on the streets while driving his car — the Tennessee House

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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 by gun-control advocates and environmental groups. The Justice Department had sought

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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, twenty-four-round capacity triple-chamber magazines, and a pistol machine gun Uzi. On

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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 bigoted diatribe.

Open government advocates were midway through the annual Sunshine

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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 billing issue, the administration was seeking to maximize the resources available

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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, and some of the newest options on the market may not…

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