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winding down the year

There are a few more posts rattling around my brain this evening, but, honestly, I have nothing I am overly inclined to write at the moment. As such, I would like to wish my readers a very safe and enjoyable New Year’s Eve, and thank them for continuing to come…

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Good thing I had that emergency fund

Because it looks like we won’t be closing until Tuesday, and I have to pay a $100 penalty for every day past last Tuesday we go. Including holidays and weekends. So this is probably going to end up costing me over a thousand dollars (since Tuesday is just the latest…

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not adhering to the narrative

Why is it that prognostications of blood in the streets / on the bars / in the aisles / etc. as we expand or further defend our Second-Amendment-protected rights here in the States never seem to come true, and yet countries with significantly tighter firearm restrictions (and recently…

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massively parallel

You know, I had never thought about that particular phrase in quite that way.

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…and there it is

I’ll be driving more, thank you very much.
I haven’t flown in about 6 months, but only because my current client is based in Nashville. In 2008 I think I had 50 segments with American Airlines. My client then was in St Louis, so I was traveling there every…

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talk about a boom

I might be making a series out of these…
At any rate, twice before, I have written about common household and business substances at can be and occasionally are considerably more destructive than an individual with a firearm… sometimes millions of dollars and countless lives…

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No house this year

Even if we close tomorrow, we can’t take possesion until Monday. So I’ll have to take another day off work for that. And all the work we had lined up for this weekend has to get rescheduled. For instance, I bought a piece of furniture off craigslist on Sunday and…

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as if there was any doubt

In case I have not made myself abundantly clear in the past, my permanent address will never again have a zip code between 90001 and 96162:

California regulators have approved far fewer semi-automatic pistols for sale in the wake of a state law that required new safety devices

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carriers

Carriers: It is almost sad, the things people will do to pay the bills, especially when the people in question have already scored the lead role in Star Trek.

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blarg

I guess we should have known better than to spend Christmas with family when half of the individuals were recovering from some manner of icky bug. I blame the disease-carrier of the bunch (the two-year-old, naturally), but, either way, Better Half and I are down for the count today.

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how long will it, or you, last?

Those big, ugly, loud, polluting monstrosities of semi rigs that always seem to take up too much space in the lanes, and never seem to go fast enough? The American economy pretty much rides on their wheels, and, you know what? Those wheels are spooling down:

Last week

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the waiting game

Remember Charles Daly’s attempts at importing the Israeli Tavor for the American market? I have a somewhat unfortunate (though already expected) update: based on the two comments below from Michael Kassnar, the President of KBI Inc. (the company that owns the CD brand),…

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catching some air

For those who want to know more about the iconic car chase scene I spoke of earlier, Jalopnik pulled up a copy of the original script, which, honestly, does not tell you too much you did not already know if you have seen the movie. Still,…

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correction to my last

According to various archiving systems on the cortex, I started my particularly nasty habit of defacing the internet with my scribblings during the week of 08DEC02, making this month actually my seventh anniversary of weblogging (rather than the fourth I initially reported). That mindless meandering actually took place…

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getting feedback

If you are interested in such things, or curious about them, a VeriSign employee by the name of Mr. Joseph A’Deo has offered to answer any questions my readers might have about GunPal’s recent VeriSign accreditation (or, probably, anything else relating to online certificates and the…

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No house today

Because people that are not me are stupid.
My bank account is significantly lighter, and I have nothing to show for it. Told we can close tomorrow.
‘Course, I was told that yesterday, too. And two weeks ago.

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i think it is done

A few days back, I wrote about the inconsistencies of certain individuals fearing people with firearms, but not fearing people with significantly more-destructive materials and equipment. At the time, I touched on such common things as flour and gasoline, and branched into a few more-esoteric substances like bottled…

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the first glimmer of hope?

Damned if I ever thought I would be saying this, but I support the Tories (at least this time):

The Tories want to give people who kill burglars while defending their home more protection from prosecution, according to the shadow home secretary.

Chris Grayling promised a review of

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heisenday uncertainty principle

The pun… the pun… make it stop!

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i support carry

To provide something of a counterpoint for my previous post, I openly carried my Walther PPS in its new rig twice this past week at the Trader Joe’s in Midtown, Atlanta, GA – possibly a more-trendy/hip/yuppy store in possibly a more-trendy/hip/yuppy neighborhood…

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i’m (not) melting

Now this is just priceless:

1881: “This past Winter, both inside and outside the Arctic circle, appears to have been unusually mild. The ice is very light and rapidly melting …”

I guess the North Pole has enough ice that it has taken it…

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legally losing friends

By now, pretty much the entire country has probably heard about Leonard Embody carrying his “AK-47-style” handgun into Radnor Lake State Park in Nashville last weekend, and I want to thank WizardPC for fielding the story while I was more-or-less away from the keyboard…

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Congratulations, Air Travelers!

You now know what it feels like to be a gun owner in America!

  • Unaccountable Government Agency with the power to ruin your life over seemingly minor transgressions? Check!
  • Assumption that you’re up to no good based solely on lawful activity? Check!
  • Ridiculous hoops to jump through that will

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Me and the new city are gonna have to have a sit-down.

Mrs WizardPC and I close on the new house tomorrow. If everything goes according to plan, that is.
As a part of all this, we of course have to have the utilities put in our name. Electric was not a big deal, except the electric company uses…

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just so you know

If your cute little aftermarket-modified Cobalt SS (complete with its from-the-factory supercharger) is emitting copious quantities of sparks from its coffee-can “muffler”, there is something seriously wrong.
Like in the “about to be impressive” kind of way.

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know them by their ranking

Tennessee is apparently the fourth happiest state in the union.
Kalifornistan weighs in at 46. Florida at 3.
Having lived in all three of those states in the past five years, I cannot say as though I am terribly surprised. In fact, the thing that amused…

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even where they are “winning”

… the anti-rights advocates of the world are actually losing.
Given a country where there have been numerous firearm confiscations disguised as “buy-backs”, unending legislation controlling and limiting the private ownership of firearms, and an overall anti-firearm leaning among the public, why am I not surprised that there is…

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four years

Over 2200 posts.
Over 2700 comments.
Over 138,000 visits.
I guess I can live with those kinds of numbers. To everyone who has stopped by my little corner of the cortex in those past four years, and whomever else might stop by in the future, please accept…

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merry christmas

To any of the poor schlubs who are spending time online today rather than with their families, have a very Merry Christmas!

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from the doctor’s mouth

A lot of not-really-”liberals” make a lot of pointless noises over citing “primary sources” when it comes to topics like health-care reform. Well, how does this primary source suit you?

…To those who would accuse me of greed: I don’t make as much as you think

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wheat from the chaff

One quick-and-dirty way to identify whether someone is pro-control or pro-freedom:
To a pro-control individual, the Bill of Rights grants rights to citizens, allowing them certain abilities within reason.
To a pro-freedom individual, the Bill of Rights sets boundaries on the government, limiting how far it can infringe…

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what are you hiding?

Remember: if you are silencing dissenters by force or by exploiting a position of power/authority, what you are preaching is not “science”.

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Man Doesn’t Break Law in State Park

…is detained for two and a half hours by NINE law enforcement officers.
To be honest, I don’t know what he was thinking, because according to the news story, he had an AK pistol slung over his back, walking through the park wearing BDU’s and a watch…

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and they are off

By this time, Better Half and I should be headed south to spend Christmas with family. I have a few posts lined up to generate over the holiday, but nothing too spectacular. Have a very Merry Christmas, and catch you all on the flip side.

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just cannot make this stuff up

Or, rather, you cannot make this kind of stuff up if you are not a member of the Violence Policy Center, which has been contining its age-old tendency of fabricating complete nonsense and passing it off as “facts”:

Would you trust the statistical and factual reporting acumen of

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the way things are going

I cannot say as though I can honestly disagree with this particular assessment of the situation we find ourselves in (as pointed out by David at RNS):

You’re looking at this the entire wrong way. They’re not listening to us. They have the polling data. You’re

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Tennessee appeals Guns in Restaurants ruling

Story here.

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So that’s how he’s able to feed the elves

Santa Clause pulls Glock, Robs Bank.
Complete with pictures.

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Must be the southerners

…because we all know the only racists in the world are Southerners.
So it must be the southern Chinese making those statements.
No wonder Obama can’t get them on board with his plans.

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Why would you ever need a gun at McDonalds’?

Gee, I dunno, in case a gang fight breaks out while I’m enjoying a tasty burger?
By the way, I’m pretty sure I drove by that McDonalds’ last night with my wife. For those that don’t know, the Greater Nashville Area doesn’t get much whiter/more suburban/sleepier than

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good news on all fronts

Well this is certainly good news for the pro-rights activists of America:

The number of people applying for and receiving permits to carry concealed weapons has risen dramatically throughout the United States during the last two years, and it continues to rise, yet the number of felony killings

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faster than

So where did that $10,000,000 figure come from?
Well, if you go back and watch the chase scene from Bullitt (an honestly unimpressive movie, but a fantastic chase), you will notice that Frank’s Mustang had a unique exhaust note – a sound that was…

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