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kung fu is not tae kwon do

… And it is going to take my natural body movements a good year to figure that out, I fear. Though, thinking back on it, kung fu stances bear a striking resemblance to some fencing poses…

In other news, why is it that no martial arts’ uniforms have pockets? …

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this is my wand. there are many like it, but this one is mine.

I will admit – my desires to turn my Mosin-Nagant into something that looks like a prop out of Star Wars is a little out there (and the kit is probably being built right now, after only a few months of waiting… of course I am not impatient!); however, …

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a not-so-hypothetical riot

You own a shop.

This shop cost you money to purchase/lease, and it is filled with an inventory of products that probably represents more than your personal net value.

This shop is in a decent part of town, and you have never really had a problem with shoplifting or other …

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how will you pay for it?

One of the topics that does not come up very often – but should – when individuals speak of self-defense and the consequences thereof are the financial implications of employing deadly force against another human being. Sure, you just defended your family from the mass-murdering rapist, and everyone except him …

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Never let a crisis go to waste

Remember when Mubarak shut down the internet in Egypt, and the leaders of the free world condemned it?

Well, in the wake of the riots all over England, guess what they want to be able to do?

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A good start

The judge who was paid send kids to detention facilities rather than the more appropriate fines, probation, or community service has been sentenced to 28 years in prison.

He got a little over $1 million and sent 5,000 kids to the facilities. 4,000 of those kids’ records have been …

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guns are bad news for women, the cartoon

I swear, people, you are just impossible to reach… I have shown the "extremist" behavior that can result from women taking responsibility for their security, I have brought your attention to the fabrications employed by those looking to arm women, I have documented made-up women who were supposedly

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taking the sky from me

Well, now, this is just sucky news:

Remember how Syfy ordered six episodes for a potential final season last week? Well, tonight the network decided that not only is the series firmly going to end, but those final six episodes are not going to happen after all.

The

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Way to be creepy, Zuckerberg

So I’m scrolling through Facebook, then I notice this:

Your freinds are saying bad things about Obama. Don't you want to "like" him?Your freinds are saying bad things about Obama. Don't you want to "like" him?

Nice, huh? People I’m friends with are saying negative things about Obama, and Facebook helpfully collapses them so I don’t have to read them! And then they provide a link so I can “like” the President! Notice that none of the …

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president obama’s downgrade

I firmly believe (and the evidence indicates) that the current economic situation, and credit downgrade, are the product of years’ and years’ worth of effort by short-sighted morons on all sides of the aisles, but this graphic was just too damned funny not to share:

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The not-really-"progressives" of our country …

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the inconsistency of "gun control"

Have you ever wanted to know, in a concise, short nutshell, just how stupid American "gun control" really is?

Well, here you go. This is not a gun:

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No, seriously, that is not a firearm… at least not in the BATFE-dictated, legal definition. Oh, sure, it and its brothers served …

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indulging in mind-rot

As I alluded in a recent Tweet, I will neither be watching nor weblogging about Top Shot (which apparently starts again tonight) – I have little patience for "Survivor with Guns", and the fast-forward button on my TiVo remote would be worn out trying to find the five minutes …

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my lawn. get off it you will.

Personally, if it came time to defend my property from an unruly, violent, and destructive mob of thugs, I would probably reach for something a bit more… capable… than a bolt-action rifle with all of five rounds in the magazine, but it obviously worked:

Roger MacBride says that he’s

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and the secret is out

Two weeks ago, I called your attention to the planned expansion of Coal Creek Armory.

Today, we have our answer:

Coal Creek Armory is opening a new location
1 mile off I-40 on
Gallaher Road in Kingston TN!
The new location will offer
everything our Knoxville store has

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not fitting the propaganda

Over the weekend, British subject Stuart Connick took it upon himself to lecture pro-rights activists on how much better once-Great Britain is than the United States thanks to the former’s draconian gun control, saying:

stuartconnicksafeenglandstuartconnicksafeenglandThe US needs to overcome it’s anachronisms. Come join the rest of us with our

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On having your wife as a battle buddy

I started this as a comment at Uncle’s place, but felt I needed to do it here instead as it got quite long.

My wife won’t carry. That’s her choice, and I respect it. I suspect a lot of us are in that situation. At some point she’ll get …

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Sad story

About a mile from my house last night, a woman was stabbed and killed on the front porch of her friend’s house.

Details are a bit sketchy, but it looks like the victim, 42 year old Kim Kuhlman, stepped outside to confront her friend’s ex-husband while the friend locked …

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I don’t follow

Democrats: STIMULUS!

Tea Party: Stop spending so much money!

Democrats: STFU, we know what we’re doing! OBAMACARE!

Tea Party: Okay, we’ll vote you out.

Democrats: ZOMG! We didn’t do a budget for like two years, and now we’re going to max out the credit card if we don’t up …

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things that amuse me

#Whothehellknows: When appeals to authority fall flat on their faces:

I’m not a religious person, but having been raised in Catholicism, the ethics of the Judeo-Christian Mediterranean culture were an integral part of my upbringing. For Jesus, the Bible character, there’s no justification for the use of force.

Apparently …

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Etiquette Question

What’s the proper salutation when you meet a uniformed TSA employee not at the airport? One was entering a fast food place as I was leaving.

The ones that went through my head were, in no particular order:

  • How many little boys did you get to fondle today?
  • Are you

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