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heard on the way home

Me: Huh. Lookit that – a Hooters To Go.

Better Half: Doesn’t that defeat the purpose?

Me: Yeah… pretty much.

Unless, of course, the sign is referring to waitresses rather than food… after all, no one goes to Hooters for the wings.

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memo to eastern tennessee drivers

Sweep the gorramed snow off your gorramed cars, and, yes, that includes their frakking roofs.
That is all.

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down south

Better Half and I are headed down to the land where even obeying the law can result in you getting legally arrested for a long weekend… Good fun. But, as they say, “concealed means concealed”. Unfortunately, for some stupid reason,Brigade Quartermasters decided to close their Kennesaw

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so cute!

Spoon, fork, bottle opener, flat-head screwdriver, prybar, three sizes of hex wrenches, caribiner, and a last-ditch defense tool.
I want one.
And while I was less-than-impressed with their Neckolas, CRKT’s new FLUX modular multitool system looks vaguely interesting.

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back away slowly

Now that I have adequately vented my spleen for today, it is time for something a little more amusing: the truth.

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ipad is super-absorbant

Ok, now that some of the messes of various bodily fluids have been cleaned up from the tubes comprising the internet, I have been able to determine a few specifics concerning Apple’s new ZOMGITZGLORIOUSANDWONDERFULANDMAGICALANDZOMG product:
1. It does not support Flash. Really? No Flash? Are you kidding…

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pino

If there was anything right in our country today, President Barack Hussein Obama would soon be facing impeachment charges.
And no, I am not just saying that for the hyperbole value.
Last night, during his STFU SOTU speach, Our Glorious President said the following:

With all

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Meteorology

The only non-government job where you can be consistently wrong and never get fired.

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quote of the day

As spoken by South Carolina Lieutenant Governor Andrew Bauer:

You see, for the first time in the history of this country, we’ve got more people voting for a living than we do working for a living.

Truth. And that is why proponents of larger governments (of either major…

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know your history

Any time an anti-rights advocate claims that pro-rights activism is useless, and increased “gun control” is undeniably part of our future, just point out to them how far we have come in the past 30ish years:

It’s 1974. No legal academic is thinking seriously of the Second Amendment;

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world’s tiniest violin

So the Bullitt has taken a little getting-used-to (especially with the doors – those are huge), but I have only been able to find one significant “problem” thus far – the shift knob. Unlike average Mustangs, the Bullitt’s knob is comprised of almost entirely brushed aluminum, which is then threaded…

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circular firing squad

Sometimes I wonder if the anti-rights advocates’ best tactic is to simply step back for a little while, and let the pro-rights activists tear themselves apart from the inside.
I suppose like all big groups of people, it seems as though we have no shortage of individuals ready and…

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iTraffic

I know Linoge already covered it, but he didn’t mention the name. iPad.
iPad
iPad.
Apparently, you have to say that.
Here is my analysis: Yet again Apple has released a “revolutionary new product” that is exactly the same as some older products, except it…

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iwhatever

One day, I will stop being amazed at how fanboyishly pathetic some people get whenever Apple releases something new. One day, but not today.
I hope they all had towels handy…

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cold, hard truth

Anti-rights advocates frequently hold up the National Firearms Act as a model by which we should regulate and control all other firearms, using the argument that firearms controlled by it (including fully-automatic weapons, short-barreled rifles, and short-barreled shotguns) are rarely used in crimes.
Turns out,

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a whole lot of zeroes

According to the official *.gov website, the publicly-held debt during President Bush’s eight-year term in office increased by about $2,969,254,680,319.93 – just shy of three trillion dollars (and you might as well round up, given that its numbers only started in late September of 2001). According to the…

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Nikki Goeser’s testimony before Ohio Legislature

My friend Nikki Goeser went up to Ohio last week to talk to the Ohio House about restaurant carry there. It’s HB203 for any Ohioans out there (like my sister).
Here is the testimony:

“The law didn’t stop [the man that murdered Nikki's husband],…

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calling out the future

Yet another quote from the inimitable Atlas Shrugged:

What we are now asked to worship, what had once been dressed up as God or king, is the naked, twisted, mindless figure of the human Incompetent. This is the new ideal, the goal to aim at, the purpose to live

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only in america

Would not Nazis picking up trash from the side of the road necessitate them bagging themselves for pick-up?
Sarcasm aside, I cannot help but to feel proud that I live in a country where such a thing is permissable – to be certain, I oppose that organization…

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friendly reminder

If a somewhat random one…
At any rate, the investment cap for your IRAs this year, and last year, is $5000. If you are like me, and you were unware of this change (up from $4000 in 2008), you have until Tax Day to add the missing $1000, and…

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take advantage of it

I was almost too late for this one, but it appears as though Gander Mountain is having a “Military and Emergency Personnel” sale. If you are active duty or Reserves for any of the branches of the military (but, sadly, not just a military veteran like me, and…

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call it what it is

A few days back, an individual got his My Little Pony panties in a twist over pro-rights activists discussing the possibility of using deadly force to defend and protect their private property, and as my brain is wont to do, it started spinning around building assocations. The one key one…

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progression of time

Thanks to Traction Control for pointing out a positively wonderful depiction of how Our Glorious President has done this year:

It is funny what happens when you do not listen to your constituents, is it not? Of course, those of…

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plumbing the depths

Why do anti-rights advocates consistently and repeatedly lose? Because they lie:

The historians’ McDonald brief inaccurately refers to the English provision as the “right” to have arms many times, significantly more than use of accurate terms such as “allowance” or “provision.” This indicates that these historians do not

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gamer

Gamer: Think “Gladiator in the 21st century”, only no quite as good and the family survives.

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splatter matters

So… anyone play Killing Floor? I have finally gotten a few abilities above “Hey, look, I am useless!” so I might die less often…

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memo to tennessee drivers

I know that it is not expressly required by state law, but if it is raining hard enough to warrant anything other than the lowest setting of your windshield wipers, TURN ON YOUR GORRAMED HEADLIGHTS. It has been positively diluvian here over the past few days, and there have been…

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one for you and one for me

Lotus engineers are crazy.
Geniuses, but crazy.
I can find no better explanation for a two-cycle, variable cylinder-size, variable-compression-ratio, side-valved engine capable of consuming any mixture of gasoline and alcohol, including all one or the other.
There is a shiny animation capable of…

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legion

Legion: Mediocre action, paltry gun porn, uninspired acting, and seriously screwed up theology – an underwhelming, disappointing “meh” if there ever was one.

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quote of the day

“Paranoid” is believing that everyone is out to get you. “Prepared” is knowing that some people are.

From Yours Truly, with a little inspirational assistance from Hsoi.

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not smiling kindly

The one day that it was above freezing and I am headed that direction already (to drop off Better Half at the airport), it rains sufficiently hard to probably make the Tail of the Dragon beyond treacherous.
Ah well. Next time.

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nothing is sacred

At least not to gunnies.

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common acceptance

One of the more-popular refrains of anti-rights advocates across the globe is, “Assault rifles have no sporting purpose!” (By “assault rifles” they typically mean any magazine-fed, non-bolt-action rifle.) Really? Then you might want to tell ESPN:

It is to reduce the likelihood of such faux pas that the

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quote of the day

In the process of thoroughly demolishing an anti-rights Canadian hoplophobe (but I repeat myself), Turk said the following:

As to the “revolutionary purpose” of the Second Amendment, this has been favorably cited by two liberal icons of the 20th century: Hubert Humphrey and John F. Kennedy. But my

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remodeling is recycling

If you are in the Knoxville region of Tennessee and looking to remodel/rebuild/build a house, I would strongly recommend that you swing by Stovers Liquidators, LLC at either their 4505 Ashville Highway location, or their 452 West Broad Street (in Cookeville) warehouse.
To be clear, Knoxville has…

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envious? me?

I would never buy it because I could never bring myself to shoot it, but this is one hell of an awesome pistol.
Also, given the position that the Taurus Judge is an answer to a question that was never asked (a position I certainly will…

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popped my bubble

One of the worst aspects of comment spam? For that brief time between GMail informing me that a “walls of the city”-related email has been shunted off to its appropriate folder, and me actually clicking on the message in question, I actually think it might be a real, honest-to-God comment.

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the bigots win

… at least this time.
Trijicon has decided to stop including encoded Bible references in the serial numbers of the products they sell to the United States Military. This decision was made by Trijicon itself, and does not appear to be precipitated by anything other…

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ammo for sale

Not here, here.
Despite my best efforts, TNProgrammer still has a fair amount of brass, lead, and copper that he does not exactly want to pay to move – I do not blame him. The prices are not bad (at or less than current fair market value), so…

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seeing clearly

Better Half and I have had to wear eyeglasses since our single-digit ages, and we both went through the same lectures with our parents concerning how we were to never do anything that would even potentially mar, damage, or scratch our glasses and if we did, our names were…

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false advertising

When a company says they are producing a “rail gun”, this is not what comes to mind.
*sigh* Got my hopes up, too…

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and so it begins

Well, aside from a few holes in the roofing seams between the flashing and the vertical wall next to it, a rotting centerpost in the two-car garage (not uncommon in this area), and one of the two heat pumps having a non-responsive compressor (though we do not know if it…

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