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I guess it never occured to them

That when your movies are offensive and/or suck, people don’t come to see them.

December 11, 2011February 15, 2021
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“Atlas Shrugged” was a Warning, not a Manual: Climate Courts

The similarities between the fictional world of Atlas Shrugged and the things we see in our everyday lives are getting to be downright scarey. Take…

December 10, 2011February 15, 2021
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Life in the 13th Century

Sorry, Muslim women–no veggies or fruits for you!

December 9, 2011February 15, 2021
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I am so torn

(Via Guns.com) The Kel-Tec PF9 has been my everyday carry gun for some time now. It’s solid yet unpretentious, and it has the cardinal attribute…

December 8, 2011February 15, 2021
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And finally, on this December 7th

(Via the Drudge Report) Their numbers get fewer all the time, butthose who can still return. Also, somerarely seen photos on and near that day…

December 7, 2011February 15, 2021
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“Atlas Shrugged” was a Warning, not a Manual: You can’t tax a business

It’s an old saying in economics–“You can’t tax a business.” Why? Because they will simply pass that additional cost on to the purchaser of their…

December 7, 2011February 15, 2021
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Another small win

It could have been better, but it also could have been worse. Note that the vote was 6-1. The Hickory City Council has approved a…

December 7, 2011February 15, 2021
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“Atlas Shrugged” was a Warning, not a Manual: Cain and Palin

(Via the Drudge Report) It appears to me that, as Sarah Palin was before him, Herman Cain has been the victim of a left-media coalition…

December 4, 2011February 15, 2021
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Slow(er) blogging likely

My already reduced posting pace may be getting slower for some time to come. Outside of being in the midst of the holiday season (My…

December 3, 2011February 13, 2021
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Free money!

No, not the kind currently being generated by central banks the world over. This kind comes the old-fashioned way–extracted from the citizenry for a “crime”…

December 3, 2011February 15, 2021
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California East is a bit less California starting tomorrow

And it’s about freaking time that North Carolina’s mish-mash of self-defense laws were normalized. Changes to the state’s Castle Doctrine Law that take effect Thursday…

November 29, 2011February 15, 2021
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Some idiots have entirely too much time on their hands

(Via The Email List That Shall Remain Nameless) Locked up in the bowels of the medical faculty building here and accessible to only a handful…

November 28, 2011February 13, 2021
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Santa and Machine Guns?

I am so there!

November 28, 2011February 13, 2021
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AAR–the Hickory Gun Show

So…me, Son and Old Buddy (Look! A new character!) journeyed to Hickory, NC to hit the Hickory Gun Show. Even though it meant getting up…

November 28, 2011February 15, 2021
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Off to the gun show

Well, we will be tomorrow, at any rate. Hello, Hickory! Not looking for anything in particular, except a magazine or three for the Olympic repro…

November 27, 2011February 13, 2021
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Happy (somewhat non-traditional) Thanksgiving

November 24, 2011February 15, 2021
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Can’t remember if if I noted this or not

But once again, the gun banners lose one. But don’t forget, they’ll be back. (Sorry about the broken link. It’s fixed.)

November 24, 2011February 15, 2021
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Global Systemic FAIL

(Via the Smallest Minority) I have a saying that I use a lot. It may not be original to me. “Being stupid hurts. It’s supposed…

November 23, 2011February 15, 2021
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Another of the great SF writers is gone

(Via Middle of the Right) This is getting to be a depressing thing, my occasional noting of the science fiction writers whom I have read…

November 23, 2011February 15, 2021
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Proof that age <> wisdom

“Those with criminal intent are not going to be deterred by placing a sign at the front door or by declaring the prohibition of concealed…

November 22, 2011February 13, 2021
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Methinks thou doest project too much

Read an amazingly juvenile…something…on the subject of guns at the Raleigh News and Observer. Comments seem to be out of order (this is my shocked…

November 22, 2011February 15, 2021
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It seems we’ve pinned down the difference between liberals and everyone else

(Original link (now broken) aia the Drudge Report) Everyone else apparently has a conscience. Who’da thunk it?

November 22, 2011February 15, 2021
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Really

I’ve been busy dealing with a real-world feces outbreak, but I have been keeping up with the news. One of the stories that I find…

November 21, 2011February 13, 2021
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Honest officer! We were all in the back seat!

No one was driving!

November 18, 2011February 15, 2021
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Put your best thumb forward

Guns.com has an interesting article/video on a “thumbs forward” grip to improve your pistol shooting. Given my accuracy with a pistol, I’m going to give…

November 18, 2011February 13, 2021
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“Chu: Taxpayers Unlikely to Recover Much From Solyndra Loan”

So sayeth the headline at FoxNews. Of course not. Looters don’t repay their victims. Did the Bringer of Light not teach you that when you…

November 18, 2011February 15, 2021
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I bet it’s going to suck to be an Occupier…

In New York City within 24 hours. You don’t mess with the cops, morons.

November 18, 2011February 15, 2021
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Kahr CM9 vs. PM9: doing the math

Guns .com takes a look at the Kahr CM9 and it’s pricier sibling, the PM9 in terms of price per unit of performance. Short version?…

November 16, 2011February 15, 2021
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Diodes and triodes and pentodes, oh my!

This day in Nineteen Hundred and Ought Four, British engineer John Ambrose Fleming invents and patents the thermionic valve, the first vacuum tube. And from…

November 16, 2011February 15, 2021
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The sound of freedom

Urbanites “freak out” over it. Well, they’re going to need to get over it. While I don’t care for the government owning any land outside…

November 16, 2011February 13, 2021

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