Need a good argument for being prepared?
Here ya go. Spare a prayer for all those in the path of this true freak of nature.
Year: 2005
It’s different this time
(Via Chaos Manor) Maybe it is, maybe it isn’t. Harper’s Magazine has this piece in which 3 economists, representing differing schools of thought and holding…
PayPal
(Via Chaos Manor) I’ve been a PayPal customer since they were “little guys”. I’ve watched their “eBayization” with only small concern. That may be changing…
Thinking dark
(Via Chaos Manor) Peggy Noonan is thinking dark. It would seem that she’s a survivalist who doesn’t realize that fact. Excellent! And Jerry Pournelle’s thoughts?…
When the chickens come home to roost
If you’ve read this blog for any length of time, you know that I have this bug about any law enforcement agency that wants to…
More, more, more on the Richmond ATF follies
(Via VCDL) Showmasters has pictures on their website of various law enforcement officials at the Richmond Showmasters gun show (August 13-14, 2005) on their home…
Even more on the ATF/Richmond gun show follies
Cybercast News Service has put up their article on the ATF festivities at the recent Showmasters gun show in Richmond, VA. It makes for some…
You’ve been confiscated
(Via No Quarters) OK, so you know the Kelo decision means that you don’t really own your home or land, you just hold it and…
One of our own needs a hand
(Via Blackfive) Citizen Smash may be on his way to becoming Unemployed Citizen Smash. While he isn’t in desperate straits just yet, check out his…
Save the Skeets!
As noted earlier, The Freeholder had plans to venture to the range this past weekend to try out a new shooting sport–skeet shooting. We had…
du Toit on the Richmond-Showmasters-ATF “issue”
Kim du Toit has some further thoughts and information on the problem with ATF in Richmond 2 weekends ago. He has the answer to my…
Carnival of Cordite #27 is on the air
Gullyborg himself is hosting the Carnival of Cordite #27 at Resistance is futile! Oh, and Gullyborg? The proper Glock safety technique is to buy something…
Heading out again
The Family Freeholder is off to our weekend retreat. Weather cooperating, I’ll regale you with our first attempt at skeet shooting next week. Does anyone…
More on the ATF’s actions in Richmond
Yesterday, I noted an incident of harassment, by ATF agents and local LEOs, at the Showmasters gun show in Richmond, VA. A post on The…
Can we buy hunting licenses?
(Via Claire Wolfe) Elephants, lions to roam North America again? Plan to reintroduce large mammals, ecological history parks Now Claire is concerned that the eco-ninnies…
A kinder, friendlier ATF
(Via Kim du Toit) Of course, kinder and friendlier than what is a topic open for discussion. As reported by the Virginia Citizen’s Defense League,…
Something bugging you?
(Via Drudge) If you live in central Florida, it might just be your pest control company: Technicians from Truly Nolen Pest Control of America are…
The starting point for stopping illegal immigration
(Via WorldNet Daily) If anyone is looking for a place to begin a “War on Illegal Immigration”, it’s going to be difficult to find a…
Carnival of Cordite #26
The Carnival is in full swing at Resistance is futile!. Don’t miss the celebration.
Honoring the aggressors
(Via WorldNet Daily) I guess I’m just hopelessly old-fashioned, but I’m increasing disturbed by the trend, particularly evident overseas, to honor the aggressors in various…
Mr. Rumsfeld, we’ve found 30,000 fresh troops…
The Bush administration yesterday scrambled to repair a rift with South Korea that opened when Seoul proclaimed that North Korea has a right to develop…
Score!
Old Friend’s Older Brother had the task of helping with an estate sale yesterday, and he was looking out for me. 1000 round of .30…
“Hot enough for ya?”
Anyone who was born in the South or who has lived there any length of time will recognize the standard Southern gallows humor greeting of…
When is sauce for the goose not sauce for the gander?
(Via No Quarters) There have been a series of court decisions that hold that us proles we citizens have no expectation of privacy when it…
An addition to the blogroll
Normally, I don’t make a big deal about additions to (or deletions from) the blogroll. In this case, however, I want to call attention to…
RFID News, part 2
It never ceases to amaze me what people will do/give up in a quest for “perfect” security. The Brits want to put active RFID chips…
RFID News, part 1
Claire Wolfe brings us news of a demo project that premiered at the recent DEFCON where a homebrewed antenna system was able to read the…
FlakeFest ’05
(Via Drudge) WARNING: You will be entering a logic-free, thought-free and common sense-free zone if you click here. Please remove all breakables from your immediate…
I owe you a CCW post
Looking through the comments, I realized I owe you a post about my concealed carry class. As luck would have it, any time I plan…
Carnival!
The Carnival of Cordite #25 is up at Resistance is Futile!