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Heh

Col. Barfoot gets to keep his flag. Don’t mess with the old guys.

December 9, 2009February 15, 2021
Happiness…
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Happiness…

Is a nicely organized gun safe (click for bigness). For those who are curious, the guns are held in the vertical position by these. I…

December 9, 2009February 15, 2021
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Of course, if our side did this to them…

We’d be haters and under investigation by no less than 6 Congressional committees. Chamber of Commerce CEO Tom Donohue is a wanted man — at…

December 7, 2009February 13, 2021
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Graphical unemployment

(Via the Confederate Sharpshooter) The progression of the depression from an unemployment point of view. Note how the areas least effected are the ones that…

December 7, 2009February 15, 2021
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Sleep through history class, Harry?

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid took his GOP-blasting rhetoric to a new level Monday, comparing Republicans who oppose health care reform to lawmakers who clung…

December 7, 2009February 13, 2021
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It’s the last chance to save the planet

So we’d better party like it! Most delegates to the climate change conference haven’t exactly been hoofing their way to Denmark’s capital, swarming the city’s…

December 7, 2009February 15, 2021
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Pearl Harbor mystery–solved?

(Via FoxNews) The remains of a Japanese mini-submarine that participated in the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor have been discovered, researchers are to…

December 7, 2009February 13, 2021
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I hate it when this happens

So how big of a gun geek are you when you start cleaning out the safe and find a rifle you don’t remember buying? I…

December 6, 2009February 15, 2021
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He’s “special”

Two Bettendorf, IA kids discover a revolver in a sewer in their neighborhood. The kids did the right thing by contacting an adult who contacted…

December 5, 2009February 15, 2021
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Suicide by cop

As I understand it, there is a well-known phenomena among law enforcement known as “suicide by cop”. This is where some cowardly so-and-so who doesn’t…

December 5, 2009February 13, 2021
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Obviously, this is impossible

A former student watching basketball tryouts was shot in the leg at a Massachusetts high school Wednesday afternoon, MyFoxBoston.com reported. Let’s see…”gun free zone”? Check.…

December 3, 2009February 13, 2021
Flashlight porn
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Flashlight porn

OK, so I finally bought myself a hand-held tac light. Now I’m all uber and tacticool and stuff. Sorry about the cat hair. You live…

December 2, 2009February 15, 2021
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I’m glad I’m not a Progress Energy customer

Because about now, I’d be getting really worried where my electricity was coming from 8 years from now. I wonder what it’s like to be…

December 1, 2009February 15, 2021
Apparently, the Reality Distortion Field is being overdriven today
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Apparently, the Reality Distortion Field is being overdriven today

And the effects on the Gun Grabbers and other anti-freedom forces is…predictable. Maestro, queue “Dancing in the Blood” in A Flat, please. There is much…

December 1, 2009February 15, 2021
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This is health care “reform”?

Insurance premiums would jump as much as 13 percent for millions of Americans under a U.S. Senate proposal that is supposed to make health care…

November 30, 2009February 13, 2021
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“This is your brain on political correctness”

At the Elm Tree Forge, the smith has some thoughts on political correctness and the costs associated with it.

November 30, 2009February 15, 2021
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The GOP Platform (product improved version)

Major Chuck fixes the current GOP platform.

November 30, 2009February 13, 2021
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Want to see a real maverick?

One of John McCain’s claims to “fame” in the last Presidential election is that he was a maverick–meaning that he wasn’t afraid to buck his…

November 29, 2009February 13, 2021
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In praise of e-commerce

I’m telling you, I love e-commerce. Sit down with the Christmas gift lists, clickity-clickity-clickity, get the confirming email and then sit around and wait for…

November 29, 2009February 15, 2021
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But…but…this couldn’t happen!

Because in the People’s Republic of Chicago, those evil guns are banned. Police say four people have been shot after gunmen stormed a Chicago restaurant…

November 26, 2009February 15, 2021
Happy Thanksgiving
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Happy Thanksgiving

Here’s wishing you and yours a utterly politically incorrect Happy Thanksgiving, complete with Pilgrims, Indians and all the trimmings. Hey! Somebody get the dog–he’s eying…

November 26, 2009February 15, 2021
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How to title this post?

I’m not sure…Would “There are obviously some weaselly bastards disgracing the uniform of naval officers” do? Because that what it looks like to me. Navy…

November 25, 2009February 15, 2021
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Calling Bullshit! on the gun banners

Michael “I Hate Guns” Bloomberg has “persuaded” two New York Congresscritters to introduce a bill to give the ATF 1500 more agents. Why? As Senator…

November 25, 2009February 15, 2021
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Handy information to have

Oral Rehydration Solution

November 25, 2009February 15, 2021
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Remember the Census worker found dead in Kentucky?

Much was made of the word “fed” scrawled on his body. Many seemed to hope that this was the opening shot of a revolution. (Dolts.…

November 24, 2009February 13, 2021
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*sigh*

I’ve been waiting to comment on this one until all the facts came out. I was hoping for something less…stupid, foolish…preventable…. Galen Elijah Ruble told…

November 24, 2009February 15, 2021
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Not all warriors carry a weapon

(Via an email reflector that must remain nameless) Paulette Smith-Kimble stood, stunned, in the entryway of a large room where she had helped put many…

November 22, 2009February 13, 2021
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So, how is that new shotgun?

Son and I went to the range, trying to beat the rain. We were semi-successful, finishing up the last of three rounds in light rain.…

November 22, 2009February 13, 2021
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Mary Landrieu isn’t cheap

(Via the Drudge Report) Not by a long shot. On the eve of Saturday’s showdown in the Senate over health-care reform, Democratic leaders still hadn’t…

November 22, 2009February 15, 2021
I can has new boomstick!
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I can has new boomstick!

Finally, I’ve found a shotgun that seems to fit me. Son and I drove down to Raleigh and the Dixie Classic Gun and Knife Show,…

November 21, 2009February 15, 2021

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