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bryan miller is a goofball

Really, how can you take someone seriously when he says inherently ludicrous things like this:

“Senator Van Drew, for whatever reason, is kowtowing to the pro-gun forces of darkness who want to turn this country into an armed society,” said Bryan Miller, executive director of Ceasefire NJ.

“Army of …

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whipping out the rulers

I am not exactly going to put a whole lot of faith into an online IQ test, but this falls more-or-less in line with previous carbon-tests I have taken:

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The funny thing is that if you look at folks like RobertaX (from whom I found the above test), Joe Huffman

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the importance of goals

A while ago, noted anti-rights bigot UBU52 made the rather disgusting statement that the “most important thing” for women to do is “learn how to survive rape”. “Disgusting”? Howzzat? Focusing solely and exclusively on recovering from a rape indirectly acknowledges that the rape is unavoidable and unpreventable, which is not …

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literary goodness

I will freely admit to being a little late on this (I am still catching up on my RSS feeds), but Monster Hunter Vendetta is finally out in stores.

Buy it. Buy it now.

And it kind of goes without saying that if you do not have a copy of …

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c.o. arms part vi

And so the saga continues.

In my last post on the topic of Tennessee’s new 1911 fabricators, reader and commentor Lynn H. promised to provide a report from his upcoming Friends of the NRA Banquet (I really need to get up off my lazy ass and go to one …

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occurred to me this morning

We all know about the halfwits around the country losing their collective gos-se over the new, not-really-”papers-please” illegal immigrant laws in Arizona.

I have to wonder how many of those same ignorant reactionaries have absolutely no problem with Kalifornistan’s, or Massafrakkingchusetts’, firearm- and firearm-owner-registration schemes? One greatly resembles that Godwinian …

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tactical pen aar

Neither the American, nor the Irish, nor the French, nor the Slovenian airport security authorities had any problems, whatsoever, with me carrying my Stainless Embassy Elite Pen onto any of my flights. No questions. No concerns. No “may we see that please”. No nothing. My DSLR received more attention than …

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still catching up

In something of a linky-no-thinky post, one of the primary reasons I have not gotten into reloading quite yet is that, if you are not exceedingly careful and concentrate exclusively on what you are doing, you can, very easily, destroy rather expensive firearms, and I know all about my …

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gorramed quote of the gorramed month

… if not year.

I could have written countless posts over the hundreds of RSS articles I have read, and am still catching up on, but I figured there was little-to-no point, given that two weeks in carbon-time is about equivalent to an epoch in blog years. However, I just …

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pop quiz

What is this?

Give up?

That would be me stealing borrowing a damned good idea and running with it.

It probably goes without saying, but I am a firm proponent of graphics making things easier for people to understand. In this particular case, Bob S. had an outstanding idea, but …

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never enough toys

Obviously I did not snag one of Toshiba’s Libretto laptops while it was available, but this might be a suitable replacement. …

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notes from the vacation

I am sure I will have more of these as we have time to process the past few weeks, but here are the first three lessons learned from our European vacation:

1. Always take more camera memory than you think you need, and then some more on top of that.

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constructive ball-playing

David Bowie has nothing on this guy:

(Courtesy of Irons in the Fire.) …

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Your depressing link of the day

www.mytaxburden.org

The Republican/Democrat Plans listed seem to be out of date, but I don’t think it matters. Even AFTER buying a house this year, my paychecks are going to be significantly lighter starting January 1. Like nearly 10% lighter.

Now, my wife and I are not normal. We don’t have …

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back in the saddle again

Despite losing my glasses; taking an entire day’s pictures at 800 ISO; dealing with frakking crazy Irish drivers while we both were driving on the wrong side of tiny-assed, hedgerow-lined roads; dealing with gorramed crazy Slovenian drivers while they were driving on the wrong side of tiny-assed, mountainside roads; a …

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not exactly what i expected

Deployments last far longer than people would like, and generally far longer than they are projected when people ship out, and after a while, your movie collection just is not enough. Word eventually got around on my last ship that I had a somewhat sizeable one with me (somewhere around …

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he just needs a backwards cap

In addition to having a fairly cute mascot, Hipmunk could be an interestingly useful tool for frequent fliers… at least, if they iron out the problems with international flights I encountered while fooling around with it. …

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friday fun: outer space

JayG has covered a lot of ground with his “Friday Fun” posts, but there is, I think, one topic he has missed out on: the top ten science fiction space ships! So, without further ado…

1. SA-23E Mitchell-Hyundyne Aurora-class Starfury: A single-seat, short range, non-FTL-capable, barely-armored, not-at-all-shielded space …

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they suspect nothing

I have to admit, this was probably the hardest I have laughed in a while, followed closely by this… and this… and this

If you have ever been on a cat’s staff, and are not yet reading Two Lumps, you should really correct that… …

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da runes o’power

I am enough of a geek to identify the Cirth runes on this guy’s arm, but I am apparently not enough of a geek to understand why he would want to tattoo something that looks remarkably like “zchithyip” on the inside of his arm (at least if you use …

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