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Article I, Section 2 of the United States Constitution:

Representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several states which may be included within this union, according to their respective numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole number of free persons, including those bound to

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such a temptation

Got $25 burning a hole in your pocket?
Yeah, this would be a pretty darned good way to spend it.
On top of the nice folks at the Idaho Automatic Weapons Collectors Assocation paying for the $200 transfer fee, transferrable fully-automatic M2 Carbines typically go for about $7,000. …

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four out of seven hundred

… or so.
So what was I up to this afternoon? Shooting through somewhere over 700 pictures, and these were among the best…ish.
Anywise, I got to watch these guys:

Be beat by these guys:

Before hanging out with these guys:


Good times.…

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a new window

A while back, I mentioned that I was upgrading my old-and-busted S200 to a new(er)-and-shiny XTi, and, well, the toy got here:

(As in most cases, click on the image for a much larger version.)
I rapidly wrapped said shiny new toy in some silicone armor (trust me, this …

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one flew over the cuckoo’s nest

In a strange turn of events, it would appear as though North Korea is going to help America celebrate Independence Day by providing us all some rather spectacular fireworks… After all, the last time North Korea tested their Taepodong missile platform, it went critical and disintigrated mere seconds after launch

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thousand words of history

The Nazis may have been murderous whackjobs, but they created and designed some amazing things.
In other news, how did I never know about Dark Roasted Blend before? I need to get out and take some pictures……

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are you so sure about that?

One of the favorite arguments of anti-rights activists when it comes to concealed carry boils down to something approximating this: “If the criminal gets the drop on you, which they obviously will, and they already have a knife/gun/club/whatever pointed at you, then how will carrying your own firearm help? They …

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there will be silence

On second thought, maybe I will not be attending AAC’s quiet little shindig… ever… on account of this.
The injuction appears to have been settled out of court, and the settlement is confidential and obviously agreeable to all parties, so we will never actually know the terms. Feel …

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it comes after “rinse”

It seems as though I was not the only one who noticed a bit of spin in the news, when it comes to the recent unemployment numbers:

Via Google Reader, I just noticed two headlines that seemed to report conflicting news. A click to the actual stories revealed

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truth in advertising

You have to love a company admitting that their previous webpage “sucked”.

It may seem like I pimp for Brownells a fair bit… and, honestly, I kind of do. But I have been consistently impressed with both their prices and their quality of service, and I see absolutely no …

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corporate privilege

While I will never again trust the All Barack Channel concerning the news, objective reporting, or really anything relying on or requiring honesty, this news does not really surprise me, and, in fact, I am relatively ok with it:

ABC is refusing to air paid ads during

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of all the stupid things

As you all have probably figured by now, I recently upgraded from IE7 to IE8. Really, I have not noticed much of a difference… except in one, particular area.
When viewing a webpage, in IE7, that has both secure and unsecure data shown on it, you were presented with this …

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tennesseeans have no right to privacy

Well, bugger.
My morning weblog crawl brought me this news report from Jeff at Alphecca who, even though he lives in Vermont, beat me to it:

The bill to close public access to records identifying Tennessee’s 220,000-plus handgun-carry permit holders fell three votes short of winning approval in the state

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we, the people, are coming

Today brings us another instance of quoting something for truth:

I’m a home grown American citizen, 53, registered Democrat all my life. Before the last presidential election I registered as a Republican because I no longer felt the Democratic Party represents my views or works to pursue issues important

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numerical misinformation

President Barack Hussein Obama lies, just like all politicians before him. The reality of this simple fact is pretty much undisputable, but sometimes it amazes me how bald-faced those lies really are:

“What you’ve seen is that the pace of job loss has slowed,” the president said. “The

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you know you were one

After watching the first Star Wars Trilogy in preparation, I can safely say that Fanboys gets the highest recommendation for a movie I can give… assuming you are anything even approximating a Star Wars fan.
If nothing else, the movie was worth it to see Danny Trejo deliver the following …

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big brother is reading

From here on out, you might want to be careful where you comment:

A Nevada newspaper says it has been served a federal grand jury subpoena seeking information about readers who posted comments on the paper’s Web site.

The Las Vegas Review-Journal reported Tuesday that its editor, Thomas Mitchell,

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be vewy, vewy quiet

And in another case of “if I had X”, one day, I will have a firearm I can take to this shindig, especially since it is basically in my back yard. I just have not gotten over the idea of paying the federal government $200 for the ability to …

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stronger, faster, lighter

Looks like Brownells went and updated their website. I approve, especially considering that they appear to have taken some of my suggestions onboard. Because, you know, I am sure I am the only person who suggested getting rid of a javascripty “Loading” screen between each and every individual page (though …

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On the TFA and permit holder confidentiality…

This story was brought to my attention by my co-blogger and host linoge. What seems to have happened here is that a TV reporter in Nashville logged on to the TFA’s web forum and cherry-picked a quote to make it sound like the TFA was lobbying for an exemption to …

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