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they are watching

Taken through the window of my apartment, so excuse the poor quality:

They appear to be chowing down on the flying insects (not ants) that are infesting our potted plants on our porch. That is perfectly acceptable, and something we would like to encourage, really.…

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wee people

Meet Dave is highly recommended from the family here at wotc… Situational comedy, double/triple-entendres, and a quirky view on the human species from some folks who are not from around here. And it manages to be damned hilarious while still maintaining a PG rating. Works for us.

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bringing out the inner metrosexual

Building supply surplus stores are awesome.
Now all we need is a house

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lookit the purty pictures

Our glorious President really has no clue:

Obama: What do you do Walter?
Walter: I work at, uh, NGA, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
Obama: Outstanding, how long you been doing that?
Walter: About six years
Obama: Yea?
Walter: Yes.
Obama: You like it?
Walter:

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politicians are politicians

By way of a comment left here by the folks at Pax Parabellum, I learn that Governor Phil Bredesen broke a promise to support the bill allowing handgun carry permit holders to carry their firearms into restaurants that serve alcohol. Back in

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the customer is always right

For those of you who have been reading this weblog for about two years now (all… none of you, probably), you might just remember that shortly after purchasing my M1A SOCOM II, I stumbled across an interesting offering from a company called Kel-Tec – their…

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government-endorsed racial intimidation

Over at Alphecca, Jeff points out a positively absurd turn of events:

Justice Department political appointees overruled career lawyers and ended a civil complaint accusing three members of the New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense of wielding a nightstick and intimidating voters at a Philadelphia polling place last

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we need a towel, stat!

Unsurprisingly for those who have been paying attention to Tennessee politics, our governor, Phil Bredesen, decided to veto the bill allowing law-abiding handgun carry permit holders from carrying their firearms into restaurants that serve alcohol. This is, as I said, relatively unsurprising, given that Phil has reached his…

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ruining my odds

Even though I will not be at the Gunblogger Rendezvous shindig this year, something tells me I might be purchasing a few of these tickets.
Like Kevin said, it could be a ten-dollar 1911… how can you complain about that?

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*zot*

Want.
Granted, the darned thing weighs 11 pounds, its rounds only travel at 100 ft/s, their impact energy is only somewhere around 13 foot-pounds (a .22LR’s bullet hits with a minimum of about 100 ft-lb), and the recycle rate is an atrocious 8 seconds… as long as it is plugged…

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millennium manor

Coincidentally appropriate for the day, while North Korea was testing their new nuclear toys, Better Half and I were exploring Alcoa’s own “Millennium Manor“. Les Jones has probably the best collection of news concerning this fascinating bit of American architecture, so I will just…

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doing your “part”, whether you want to or not

What happens when the federal government cannot balance its books and spends itself flat broke? Does it have to file bankruptcy and reorganize its spending to be balanced, while simultaneously paying off the debts it has?
Of course not! When the government goes broke, it just increases…

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choices and information

Unfortunately, it would appear as though Mr. Jerome Ersland is being charged with first-degree murder concerning his defensive gun use in his pharmacy last week.
If you read both of the above-linked news articles, and view the video at this one, you will see…

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this is just sad

This is probably the worst movie tie-in product I have ever seen.
Oh, and the movie? Yeah, it sucked. It was not bad, per se, there was just nothing there – no real story development, no real character development… it seemed like the viewers were trapped in a low-quality…

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consequences

It is unfortunate that it takes drastic police lay-offs to teach people what they always should have known, but I guess that is life these days.
Here is the simple truth, folks: you are responsible for your own safety. You cannot count on the police, because

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the inertia just keeps building

Unlike the editorial staff of the Commercial Appeal, who still cannot be bothered to provide links substantiating the claims and assertions in their editorial writings, Richard Locker appears to have figured out the magic of hyperlinks, and was able to sneak one such link pointing to the

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what the future holds

North Korea tested short-range military missiles a few days ago in defiance of international sanctions. That is bad.
North Korea tested its first successful nuclear warhead a few days ago in defiance of other international sanctions. That is really bad.
North Korea just decided today that

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point and shoot

So, does anyone have anything good, bad, or ugly to say about the Canon Rebel XTi DSLR? I am considering snagging a factory refurbished one for $350 (including an 18-55mm lens), and was wondering if this was worth it for my first foray into the world of DSLR.

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two-way street

For those who were not paying attention this morning, it would appear as though President Barack Hussein Obama has selected federal appeals Judge Sonia Sotomayor to succeed retiring Supreme Court Justice David Souter.
In what some will no-doubt herald as a masterful stroke, our glorious President has…

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pay no attention to the man behind the curtain

It is always good to see the staff of the Commercial Appeal continue with their rampantly anti-firearm agenda – it makes it so much easier to call them out as being the discriminating bigots they are. Consider this “news” article, entitled “Memphians debate guns in parks”,…

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c'mon back

So, over a month has passed since I started using FreeNAS – what do I have to say about it?
To put it simply, it works.
The networked drives are always on my network and accessible from any computer on my network (not a…

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words have meanings

With this predictable and unsettling news, I only have one solitary question:
Does anyone actually remember that “czars” were bad things?

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you may open your test booklets

Well, it seems as though this past weekend was a bad one to take a break from news and a mostly-hiatus from weblogging.
On Monday, North Korea nuked itself in their first successful nuclear warhead test ever, and the first nuclear warhead test on our globe since…

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cheap is cheap

You will probably only have about six hours to jump on this deal by the time you read this post, but GoGamer.com has BlackSite: Area 51 for PC and Prey for PC for $1.90 and $1 respectively. I have demoed both, and while neither first-person shooter…

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in memorial

General Orders Number 11, Grand Army of the Republic Headquarters:

I. The 30th day of May, 1868, is designated for the purpose of strewing with flowers, or otherwise decorating the graves of comrades who died in defense of their country during the late rebellion, and whose bodies now lie in

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we are all thinking it

Internet Relay Chat (otherwise known as “IRC”): Definitive proof that some people never should have left high school… and that some people never did.

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america is bankrupt

I do not think I can even come up with a coherent response to this:

SCULLY: You know the numbers, $1.7 trillion debt, a national deficit of $11 trillion. At what point do we run out of money?

OBAMA: Well, we are out of money now.

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’cause that helps

It is a bad thing when my shredder has a difficult time processing the copious amounts of gos-se the NRA sends to me on a weekly basis…

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and this is when you lose

Attention all hoplophobes, anti-rights activists, gun-grabbers, Brady Campaign members, Violence Policy Center members, victimhood projectionists, anti-self-defense scoundrels, nanny-statists, and anyone else who would strip us of our naturally-granted and Constitutionally-protected rights and freedoms:
Our current President – you know, President Barack Hussein Obama, the man you heralded…

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vikings… in… spaaaaace…

When you get right down to it, Too Human is a fairly uninspired rip-off on Diablo and just about every other dungeon-diving third-person game out there… But God bless it is addictive.
Oh, and the whole technoviking thing is just cool.
Anywise, if you can find it used…

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overcast

Since I have the joy of having today off, I thought I would introduce you all to the weather that prevented me from going to the range last Saturday:





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stupid question

When doing a Google search for “walls of the city“, the first hit is predictably this site, but how does one go about adjusting what shows up in the two columns of links under it?
Example:

I have no idea how those links were even chosen…

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frakking engineers

Why do city planners insist on placing residential districts on the sides of relatively busy highways, and why do developers insist on building relatively nice neighborhoods on those tracts?

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experience talks

You really cannot make up things like this:

It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American decent(sic) into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed, against the back drop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people.

That quote is…

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google is hard

The Tennessee Senate recently voted that handgun carry permit holders should be allowed to carry their firearms into state and local parks unless the specific municipalities in charge of those parks say otherwise… and, predictably, Chris Peck and the rest of the editorial staff of the Commercial Appeal

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momentary lapse

I strive to keep this weblog somewhere around a PG-13 rating, just because I want to. As such, I am going to go ahead and issue a fair warning to any and all reading this particular post – if you read any further in this post, or click the “More…

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breaking ranks

Mr. Huffman reminded me of this and while I have been postponing writing about it, I guess I should go ahead and bite the bullet… What I am about to say will probably surprise a few people, but that is all the fun of weblogging, right?
Simply and specifically…

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the easy button

Botach Tactical has what I would politely describe as a “rudimentary” webpage – as ecommerce sites go, it is about as bare-bones as you can possibly get and still have images. However, they were running a 10% off sale this past week, and I decided to give them a shot…

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joy of joys

My non-IRA mutual fund actually clawed its way back to breaking even today. Holy crap on a pogo stick.

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soaking wet

And in another dose of Life Lessons From Linoge, this is a prime example of how not to handle a public perception fiasco.
Given my age at the time, my first-hand knowledge of the incidents at Ruby Ridge is pretty much non-existent, and, unfortunately, as with all incidents…

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spreading the good word

In case I have not made it abundantly clear in the past, the upper on B.O.M.B.E.R. was constructed by Michael Z. Williamson, who appears to have done a fantastic job with it given its performance over the weekend. You can find out about his…

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do not adjust your internet

Bias in the media? What bias in the media?
(Read the whole thing… it is worth it.)
Courtesy of RNS.

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