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people of the gun, reloaded

For those who might have lost track in the intervening years, People of the Gun is still alive and well, and is currently being updated by Jeff over at Alphecca. Not only is the site a great listing of various gunbloggers, gun owners, and gun shooters, but, as with …

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i blame global warming

I cannot help but to be amused at how Our Glorious President, the most adamant believer in the cult of global warming ever to ascend to that lofty office, is currently having to dig himself out from underneath record-breaking amounts of snowfall… ggrecord amounts of snowfall that have literally

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around the tubes

A lot of anti-rights advocates make a lot of noise about how firearms are not considered to be part of “normal” society, and thus anyone who owns or uses them should naturally be considered as far-out whackjobs engaged in eccentricly dangerous activities. This opinion is, quite obviously, nonsense, but it …

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bummer

Walter Frederick Morrison, the inventor of the ubiquitous Frisbee disc, died on Tuesday, his long and energetic life finally having caught up with him.

I think it is safe to say that one would be hard-pressed to find a person in America who has not at least tried his …

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an idea

It should be added to whatever passes as Congress’ rules that the only documents which can be read during a filibuster are the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States, including all Amendments. Sure, it would get a little repetitive… but that is the point. …

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things i did not know

Fishing lure companies will actually give you money for roof-rat tails – up to $0.26 a tail. (Information courtesy of Standard Mischief (who is having a linktacular few days here at wotc) and by way of this post at Marko’s (a post that should not be viewed by those …

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oren’s war

A few weeks back, a gentleman by the name of Stephen P. Merlo wrote me an email, and asked if I would be interested in reading and reviewing a book he wrote. Being a closet book junkie (though reading on the internet has stolen a significant amount of time away …

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speaking from experience

This is exactly right. The only thing that gets you more clueless looks from a civilian is asking, “Where is the head?” …

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making an impression

Everyone remember Leonard Embody / “kwikrnu” and how he painted the tip of a pistol-receiver’d AK-47 orange (to make it look like an airsoft toy) and then paraded it around Radnor Lake Park over near Nashville?

Turns out, the attention whore individual is now suing the park ranger who detained

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pulse of the news

Twitter may be an internet-clogging, pointless exercise in self-aggrandizement and Too Much Information (C)(TM), but it is occasionally a good way to keep up with the news.

Granted, some of the information being propagated, 140 characters at a time, was misleading or just plain incorrect, but those people who …

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Tech bleg

Ok, this is probably a long shot, but I’ve run into a problem that even Google hasn’t been able to help me with.

What I’ve got is a VBScript file that’s got to run as a Scheduled Task on some Win2k3 servers. I want to redirect the output to a …

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potentially stupid question

Why are there not more AR-15 stocks that can hold/contain/latch on to spare magazines?

Having a spare magazine on the rifle, already ready to grab-and-go, seems like a fairly decent idea, and in talking with the gunsmith at my local shop (who is also an active-duty police officer and a …

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Machine Gun Shoot in AZ

Video shamelessly stolen from ace.

ETA: Well crap I can’t figure out how to embed youtube videos, and it’s past my bedtime. Try this.

(You are welcome ;);) . – Linoge)

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going the way of the dinosaurs

It turns out that red light cameras here in Tennessee were just like red light cameras all over the country – they were never about “safety”:

Cleveland city officials said red light cameras in the city seem to be effective, but the company furnishing the cameras has asked that

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how it should be

Personally, I find the modern incarnation of HUMMERs to be disappointing at best, and Tonka-truck-ish at worst… But, that said, I can almost see tooling around in this bad boy.

Actual off-road suspension + actual off-road tires + universal coyote tan color scheme + military-style rear lights + six-point …

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quick-draw canon

I am not sure I would trust even my $700 DSLR to a $14 belt “holster”, but, why, for the love of God, would anyone ever need to openly carry a camera!

IWB people! Keep it hidden! You do not want to scare the common people! …

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requesting technical assistance

So, for those of you who know more about WordPress and its internals than I do, I have two quick questions:

1. How does one edit the text that gets sent along as the post excerpt for pingbacks? Because, right now, it is pretty much pulling gibberish.

2. How does …

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let me in!

So this is an interesting Mustang weather-related bug… As has been the case with (I think) every generation of the car, the 2008 Mustang has frameless door windows, in that when you open the door, the glass is completely unencased on 2.75 out of its four sides (the side mirror …

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huh. lookit that. facts.

My primary complaint with those reflexively and compulsively railing against the NRA’s involvement in the McDonald v. Chicago Supreme Court case is that their “arguments”, such as they are, have largely consisted of, “The NRA sux0rs, so their representation of this case is going to sux0r too!” Up until today, …

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“circular firing squad” indeed

A few days ago, a particularly cranky individual got his panties in a twist over me calling people like him out for being reflexively obstructionist nitwits in regards to the NRA selfishly tacking themselves onto Alan Gura’s McDonald vs. Chicago Supreme Court case. As I said in that post, and …

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