Seen on the drive home from Chicago last weekend: an honest-to-God “Girls Gone Wild” RV. And a big one, at that. Also, a tractor trailer towing a flatbed with both a Unimog of unknown model and a Porsche of unknown model strapped down upon it. I wonder if both…
Wifi on planes is somehow just wrong… it takes away the whole “but I am on a plane” excuse for not doing work while travelling… Anywise, time to go wave at Joe Huffman as we fly over. Y’all have a good Thanksgiving.
Better Half and I are visiting my parental units out west, so do not expect too much in the way of posting over the next few days. Have a happy Thanksgiving, and be thankful that we live in one of the freest, if not the freest, countries in the world……
I have been intentionally avoiding commenting on the charges brought against three Navy SEALS, simply because I believe that the full facts of the situation have not been adequately documented or exposed, and are not likely to be so until after those SEALS’ courts martial. However,
Now that we have figured out how to properly augment frozen pizzas, as well as create our own from more-or-less scratch, Better Half and I buy take-out/delivery pizzas… well… never. However, Papa John’s just earned a metric butt-ton of respect from me:
Over at The Firearm Blog, Steve adequately puts to rest the theory that “high-capacity” firearms are a new and recent development. I would point out that all three of those antique firearms were designed and produced in the 1859 to 1878 range, and were designed…
The tragic results of victim disarmament were made real with the shooting at Fort Hood, Texas. If this were a moral and proper world, as soon as the suspect, Maj. Nidal
When it comes to the Fort Hood mass murder, it would seem as though the only thing the anti-rights advocates of America can bring to the table is lies and more lies (which bear a striking resemblance to the first set of lies). …
Ok, my Google-fu is failing me. For my readers in various other states in the Union, if your state allows concealed or open carry of firearms, and if your state further allows those who are carrying firearms to also consume alcohol, please send me the chapter and verse of…
Want. *sigh* What is it with me and firearms who are designed for things I never do, include functionalities I do not need (I guess crazy-arsed German laws are to blame for the double-barrel, single-shot arrangement), use calibers I have never heard of, are priced where I could never dream…
Seen last Friday at work: a SMART car… with a U-Haul hitch. *blink* … the hell? (Yes, I know, it is probably for a hitch-mounted bicycle rack, but still.)
I am now and forevermore going to be deleting comments by mikeb302000 because all he ever does is come here and try to stir up arguments. This is not a person who wants a real debate, or who can
There’s been a lot of misreporting, assumptions, and insinuations about what actually happened with Restaurant Carry and what it means. I can’t seem to find a PDF of Bonnyman’s ruling yet, so anything in this post is my recollection of what happened. IANAL, YMMV.
TN 39-17-1305(c)(3) is unconstitutional because it violates the due process clause. Basically, Bonnyman ruled that its unreasonable to assume that the restaurant you’re in serves meals 5 days a week, and its unreasonable to require you to ask if they do. More later from other sources.
I got Internet, and there’s other people with laptops here, so here we go. Refresh for updates. 1004 – Nikki Goeser and Mary Purcell are here in the gallery with me. We’re waiting on the judge to come back in. Adam Dread notes “He’s not here. I guess the…
In about 90 minutes the hearing on Restaurant Carry starts in Chancellor Bonnyman’s courtroom. I’ll be there, hopefully with the technical ability to provide updates. My netbook is kind of a lemon, and I don’t even know if the Chancellor will allow such things in her courtroom. At the…
I just saw it–for sale–with my own eyes. No adjustable backstrap. Dunno about the recoil spring. It did have the stipling and the fish gill slide serrations which werent as ugly as I thought. Didn’t notice an ambi mag release but I wasnt looking. Guy at the shop…
It is looking like Better Half and I will be headed up to Chicago this weekend by way of Louisville and Indianapolis on the way up, and part of Route 66 on the way back. If any fellow gunbloggers (or readers) want us to wave at them as we scoot…
Pardon me while I vent for a moment. I was just having a conversation in the hallway with a couple of coworkers about finances and credit cards, and somehow Universal Health Care came up. The context was that Health Insurance Companies charge more for people in their 50′s than…
It would seem as though modern America is more like the Roman Empire of old than any of us originally thought… or have you not heard yet? Apparently, Christians are to blame for the recession. I guess condemning Jews for financial problems has finally become passée.
Oddly enough, when you shoot back at pirates, they tend to go the other direction. Quickly. Who’d’a thunk (aside from anyone with a functioning brain), huh? (Courtesy of Traction Control.)
Not having the appropriate hardware myself, my opinions on this topic might be somewhat meaningless, but I cannot help but to echo the general “WTF” reaction to this news, as originally expressed by Wizbang and Free in Idaho:
So I made my choice last night and went to the Metro Council meeting. They didn’t talk about Guns In Parks, and I didn’t get to talk to Sam Coleman about his reversal, so from a gunblogger prospective I chose…poorly. However, I did get to see how those…
Apparently this sticker is posted at Lili’s Authentic Oriental in Pulaski, TN (a restaurant that will receive my business if I am ever in that particular town, which, unfortunately, seems unlikely): We are winning.
Today’s bigotry-exposing word-replacement exercise subject is UBU52, a regular commenter troll at Robb‘s and Joe‘s places. Have you ever had a person loudly, obnoxiously, and rudely try to correct you on something, only to find out, in very short order, that the person in…
Thanks to the culinary educational genius that is Alton Brown, Better Half and I (though mostly the former) were able to make our own miso soup last night. Well, strictly speaking, we had to forego both the katsuobushi and niboshi due to Better Half’s…
Just when you think Comcast’s suckage cannot get any harder… As previously mentioned, Better Half and I have a contract with Comcast for cable internet and television. After doing the research, it would appear as though Comcast is our only option for both, with our sole…
…even if your client asks you to never patch them. I’ve got something like 160 billable hours since November 1 because my client “didn’t want to see popups” on some customer-facing kiosks. The popups they were complaining about were operating system updates being pushed out, so we stopped pushing updates…
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