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views of america

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…

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the power of images

Once again, Chris Muir knocks it clean out of the park:

When you gave the state your responsibilities, you gave us your rights.

Indeed.

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blending in

I have been a little light on hints about it, so here is another: it can be found in two different colors… this time. Last time it came in three.

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hie thee hence

Brownells is having a Black (Rifle) Friday sale. Need I say more?
(Yes, I was a blithering idiot with the above link. Such is life.)

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QOT(turkey)D

The U.S. Marine Corps has long noted the success of the U.S. Air Force AC-130 aircraft that SOCOM uses. But they couldn’t afford them, as an AC-130 costs more than three times as much an a marine KC-130J aerial refueling aircraft. But the marines developed a solution. This is something

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current altitude: 40011 feet

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.

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give thanks

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……

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piss poor planning

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,

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a topping of awesomeness

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:

Earlier this year, “Papa” John Schnatter

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*splat*

Remind me to not drop fully-loaded magazines from a height of 8.5 feet. Seems as though the folks at MagPul have some catching up to do, which I am sure they are more than capable of… Of course, that said, I am not sure I dig the…

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the truth will always out

A few days ago, the Hadley Climate Research Unit got its happy little butt hacked, and somewhere over 60MB of data was exported (and is available here, if you want it). The Research Unit has admitted to the hack, and while they will not confirm whether…

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got to leave a mark

What do 58 Senators, 251 Representatives, 891 state legislators, 38 state Attorney Generals, 42 district attorneys in two states, and various other civil rights, academic, law enforcement, professorial, conservation, and

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old-skool capacity

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…

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speaking up for his rights

I really have to give Sergeant Singer credit for standing up and saying what he believes in:

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

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layers of editorial oversight

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).

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in search of information

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…

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double-tap

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…

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talk about a mental image

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.)

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the plot thickens

Your next hint as to what it is (and this may be sufficient for some people): it is originally from a town called “Flat Rock”.

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clearing out the rodents

I really cannot blame Breda for going this route:

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

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Let’s talk specifics, shall we?

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.

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check your common sense at the door

I admit that I have not had a chance to read the entire idiotic ruling from Chancellor Bonnyman, but this is an interesting take on the situation, from someone who has more experience in the process than I do (and someone who is a lawyer, to…

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look, ma

It followed me home!
What is “it”? Well, here is your first hint:

Now, I have to go relax from driving 20 hours out of the past 48.

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(Probably) Illegal gun porn

Behold the belt-fed 12 gauge 6″ AR upper.
On a full-auto lower, too.

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Restaurant carry lawsuit ruling: We lose

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.

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Restaurant carry lawsuit live blog

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…

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Restaurant Carry Lawsuit–TODAY

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…

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4th Gen Glock 22 in the wild–UPDATE: or not

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…

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road trip!

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…

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Wherein I have an aneurysm

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…

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repeating ourselves

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.

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argue not with things that work

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.)

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is this the government’s job?

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:

Women in their 40s should

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Is it really a tea party

if you charge $549 per ticket?

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STIMULUS!

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…

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the right kind of posting

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.

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commenters are required to submit fingerprints

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…

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food of the information age

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…

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comcast sucks harder

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…

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2012

2012: Bogus science abounds, but if you are just there for the gratuitous special effects (which, thankfully, I was), then you should be good to go.

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Interesting turn of events

It appears that the Metro Nashville City Council will be reconsidering guns-in-parks:

Councilman Sam Coleman wants to allow guns in Metro’s rural parks, so visitors to isolated parks could protect themselves.

The thing I find interesting is that Sam Coleman was one of the most vocal opponents of…

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Patch your machines, people…

…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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