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never played that as a kid

I despise Daniel Craig with a small passion (in no small part due to his assassination of one of my favorite fictional characters, but you will probably find my tushy firmly planted in a theater seat for this:

Harrison Ford has that affect on me. …

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tactical stupidity

I have made a point of observing how little attention my County Comm Stainless Embassy Elite Pen receives at airport security checkpoints around the world, but SayUncle points us to indications that the TSA is even more devoid of common sense than we thought:

When is a pen not

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cannot have it both ways

… But you can have neither.

Anti-rights nuts seem to endlessly waffle between deriding the NRA as a powerless paper tiger, and decrying it as the evil gauntlet pulling the marionette strings of politicians and activists alike.

As is typical for hoplophobes, those kinds of claims are couched more in …

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new gun porn

Just before the trip out to my parents, I happened to procure a shiny new piece of hardware, and JP556 has been bugging the hell out of me ever since, trying to get me to reveal what it is.

Well, here we go:

So, any guesses?

The good news is …

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compromise with those willing to compromise

In addition to being a fairly appropriate warning to the “liberals” and “progressives” of our country, this all-too-appropriate venting also happens to represent my growing sentiments towards anti-rights nuts in general:

Realizing that you are losing your grip on the public schools, that the youth that propelled the boy-king to

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failure after failure

In another classic case of “support the authoritarians at all costs, no matter how idiotic they or I may be”, UBU52 comes galloping to the Thousands of Sexual Assaulters’ defense by saying:

The general flying public just wants to get on a bomb-free plane and fly to

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one million dollars!

If I had the money to refurbish this abandoned, dissolving Soviet naval weapons testing station and return it to a useable, liveable condition, I totally would, just for the fun of it. Weekly grocery trips might be a little difficult, and then there is that whole “power and water” thing, …

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feline away!

In order to start the week on a light note, I give you the Laser-Guided Cat:

Video was taken at my parents’ with our new HTC Droid Incredibles, and the dubious quality can probably be blamed on lighting, me not getting the autofocus right, and it being somewhat difficult …

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ducting it inside

If you live north of about Atlanta and have an electric dryer*, and you do not use something like this or this, you are wasting heat and money.

Just sayin’.

* – Gas dryers are typically disrecommended for this activity.

(As pointed out to me, Days of Our Trailers

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a humble hypothesis

The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence Ownership is suction-cupping to Colin Goddard like rats clinging to a piece of driftwood because Colin is young – all of 24 or 25.

How old is Sarah Brady? 68. How old is Paul Helmke? 62. How old is Dennis Henigan? Around 59. …

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never retreat, never surrender

I received this email a while ago, and have been somewhat negligent in getting it posted… I cannot say as though I am a fan of $25 shirts, but with 40% of that price going to the folks at Homes for Our Troops, you can easily rationalize it as …

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missing the forest for the trees

If you want to see what the Thousands of Sexual Assaulters think of American citizens exercising their rights as protected by the Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution, you need look no further than this all-too-gloating post at the TSA weblog (link obfuscated in accordance with …

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just a casual question

Is it any great surprise that the Thousands of Sexual Assaulters force American citizens to adopt one of the standard postures of submission when going through the “nudity scanners”?…

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do want, can never have

Things like this just annoy the hell out of me.

No, not the firearm itself – in fact, a five-round 12-gauge revolver shotgun with a folding stock like that seems like a very interesting home defense platform. But that is what aggrivates me – I will never have the opportunity …

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giving thanks

Even with generators, some lights, fireplace, lots of blankets, high-tech clothing, microwaves, battery-powered radios, and the like; it would appear as though “civilization” is defined as “hot shower and soap”.  Suffice to say, power is back online here in the Pacific NorthWet, for which we are very thankful. 

Likewise, we …

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the times are a-changing

There is something definitely strange about being in an almost-48-hour power outage, and being able to keep up with, and update, the internet on our phones.  Connectivity has been rough at times, and we have had to rely on the generator to keep the phones charged, but we have been …

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it will take over the world!

Apparently the “bolt on all kinds of unnecessary crap” movement is not only restricted to the firearm community, it is also finding new areas to infect:

The N-Control Avenger is a state-of-the-art gaming accessory for the Microsoft XBOX 360® controller. This powerful adapter, which promises to deliver the ultimate

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And they wonder why we don’t trust them

Janet Napolitano, 11-16-2010: “if people want to travel by some other means, they have that right”

Janet Napolitano, 11-23-2010: We’re probably going to make you go through naked scanners if you travel by some other means, too.

It’s only a matter of time before there is a riot in the …

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*snerk*

We are at the parents’ place in the Pacific NorthWhite, and along with another 60,000 Washingtonians, we are out of power (though it seems that the generator at the cell tower is working fine).  Anywise, we were listening to the news on the radio, and someone called in basically telling …

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Reminder

While reading about this TSA episode, which ended in two people being arrested for recording officers’ public conversations, I couldn’t help but remember this post from a couple of months ago.…

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