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Month: January 2013

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Scissors

(Via the Drudge Report) Really?  Scissors against a nut job with a gun?  Screw you, Homeland Insecurity.

January 31, 2013February 13, 2021
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A friendly reminder

Please remember to email your Congresscritters every week.  Tell them that the current round of gun control proposals are nothing more than the same old…

January 31, 2013February 15, 2021
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A capitalistic solution to the “guns on the streets” problem

(Via Claire Wolfe) “Why not offer them cash versus a gift card? I’m still taking the guns off the streets; they’re just going in my safe.”…

January 30, 2013February 15, 2021
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He gets it

January 30, 2013February 15, 2021
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Another weekend, another gun show

This time, the festivities were in Greensboro, NC at the Greensboro Gun and Knife Show, and again it was an interesting experience.  Guns shows have…

January 27, 2013February 15, 2021
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Not quite, Sparky

President Obama is suggesting that House Republicans on the issue of gun control appear neither willing to work with him nor listen to the American…

January 27, 2013February 13, 2021
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Awarding some kudos

Once in a while, you get some customer service that is just astounding for these times, or perhaps you run into a product that is…

January 26, 2013February 15, 2021
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As seen on Say Uncle

Publicola has returned home, found the place trashed and is threatening to ground us. Damn.  We hadn’t even gotten around to throwing the grill into…

January 26, 2013February 15, 2021
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Welcome to Obamacare, Episode 125: Let the Health Sinners Die

(Via the Drudge Report) Faced with the high cost of caring for smokers and overeaters, experts say society must grapple with a blunt question: Instead…

January 26, 2013February 13, 2021
Guns

I’ll say this for the new gun ban proposal

I’ve never seen a more cynical press conference to introduce a piece of legislation in my entire life.  I may have never seen such a…

January 25, 2013February 15, 2021
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Been busy at work this week

So the blogging has been non-existent.  However, I have taken time to contact both Senators and my Representative again.  Have you? We need to keep…

January 24, 2013February 15, 2021
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You’re not helping

So yesterday, in a single day, we manage to have not one, not two, but THREE IDIOTS shoot themselves or someone else at three different…

January 20, 2013February 13, 2021
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I believe this is called “winning”

Nearly twice as many voters say there would be less violent crime if more law-abiding Americans owned guns, than if guns were banned.  In addition,…

January 19, 2013February 15, 2021
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Yes, Virginia, the gun grabbers do want everyone’s guns

(Via the Drudge Report) Tom Gresham likes to tell the story of having a gun banner on his radio show.  I can’t recall the name…

January 18, 2013February 13, 2021
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Mind your language, citizen

The Directorate Department of Homeland Scrutiny Security has been forced to release it’s list of evil words that it scans the Intertubz for. I think…

January 17, 2013February 15, 2021
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I am (cautiously) heartened

So, Teh Anointed One has taken another turn at dancing in the blood.  He dance steps looked, well, timid. He called for, but did not…

January 16, 2013February 15, 2021
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So

(Via the Drudge Report) New York passes yet more draconian gun laws. Not too shocked by that one. But my question is this.  There are…

January 16, 2013February 13, 2021
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Because all that free speech is so damn inconvenient

(Via the Drudge Report) President Barack Obama’s deputies have quadrupled the number of signatures that petitioners on the administration’s “We the People” website must collect…

January 16, 2013February 15, 2021
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Chill already!

Yes, we know that the Firearms Salesman of the Century, Barack Obama, is going to surround himself with sweet-faced little innocents, Bloomburgites of all descriptions,…

January 15, 2013February 15, 2021
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Possibly useful

(Via the Survival Blog) If, of course, you can find any 5.56 ammo at all.  40,000 round steel vs. brass-cased torture test.  At the last…

January 14, 2013February 13, 2021
Guns

Because it works so well in Chicago

(Via the Drudge Report) A fatal gas station shooting involving a man found near the Eisenhower Expressway comes as Mayor Emanuel goes to Washington to…

January 14, 2013February 15, 2021
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You don’t need one of “those guns”

(Via Timebomb 2000) After all, no one uses them for self defense. There is an old saying to the effect of “You use a pistol…

January 12, 2013February 13, 2021
Guns Self Defense

Urk?

(Via the Drudge Report) Bad guys robs a victim who “doesn’t believe in guns”.  Armed good guys show up, go after the robber and for…

January 12, 2013February 13, 2021
Self Defense

What was your first clue?

(Via the Drudge Report) Homeowner awakens at 5 AM to a naked man trying to strangle one of his dogs.  Homeowner confronts him and is…

January 12, 2013February 13, 2021
Economics

“…the foundation of American society is at risk…”

In which the GI Bill, Interstate Highways and corporate reengineering conspire to eliminate the middle class.  Interesting read.

January 9, 2013February 15, 2021
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How hard is it to write a letter to your Congresscritter?

(Via Say Uncle) I don’t find it difficult, but this will surely lighten everyone’s burden.

January 8, 2013February 15, 2021
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Get loud and be proud

On 1/19/2013 you cansend a little message to all those who despise you because you’re armed.  The long-range weather forecast here looks kind of like…

January 8, 2013February 15, 2021
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There are a lot of ways to fight the gun grabbers

Words are one of them.  Be careful which ones you choose, and don’t let them define the terms.

January 7, 2013February 13, 2021
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Something to make you smile

(Via the Drudge Report) Seeing liberals get hit squarely between the eyes with a clue bat just never gets old.

January 7, 2013February 13, 2021
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Do you do business with Tactical Arms Manufacturer Inc. in Huntersville, NC?

If you do, you might want to reconsider that.  The owner is channeling none other than Bill Ruger himself. While he feared a ban on…

January 6, 2013February 15, 2021

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