It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas
The only White Christmas I ever saw was when I was around 5. There are pictures in a family album to prove it actually happened.…
Working out rimfire magazine riddles
(Via Ride Fast) Mr. Completely has two of a n-part series on fixing .22 rimfire magazine problems up (Part 1 and Part 2). Right now,…
Woo-hoo!
It’s coming in March! If you’re an older geek like me, this is your history. I played this on CP/M systems and on DEC VAXen,…
Socialized medicine
(Via Chaos Manor) In the nascent People’s Republic of Great Britain, one of the darlings of our unAmerican health care “reformers” is falling on hard…
Linkage
I felt crappy when I got home after work yesterday. I felt crappy when I went to bed and crappy when I woke up at…
Happy Bill of Rights Day!
And just in case you need a refresher, look here. If you are a statist, you may want to take an antacid before looking.
Old lies
(Via Random Nuclear Strikes) The Lies of Rachael Carson What a shock–environmental nutjobs that lie. At least it’s a tradition.
Celebrating a meaningless milestone
For the first time in the history of this blog, I have had over 100 visitors per day for 7 days in a row. Well…
A mother avenged
(Via one of my Intertubz Spies) The Navy SEALs accused of giving a terrorist a fat lip get some love. Now if the Navy brass…
Hm-m-m
What do you call a DWI checkpoint that nets 63 charges, but only 3 of them are DWI? I like the concept of getting the…
Glory be!
(Via Of Arms and the Law) A front-desk staffer told authorities that she’d received a complaint from a hotel guest who said the door to…
OK, so he’s a “liberal studies major”
Which means he’ll soon be asking me if I want fries with that. You still have to admire the kid’s intestinal fortitude. Living in a…
I don’t want to say this…
But if this story is half accurate, bring the troops home right now, because we’re going to lose too many of them in the name…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
“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.
The GOP Platform (product improved version)
Major Chuck fixes the current GOP platform.