On the facebook, someone I know from high school did a post that went roughly like this: God is so awesome. The surgeon got so-and-so breathing again.

No offense, but what about the surgeon?

Why don’t presidents fight the war?

Because if they did, Vladimir Putin would be king of the world.

Agent a few months short of retirement is being fired for giving a gun to a felon. Testimony against him is by informants.

Update: Fast and Furious in Knoxville? Well, giving guns to people who shouldn’t have them is how that worked.

From Plaxico Burriss: ignorant, dangerous and pro-criminal.

80,000 CCW applications downloaded in 9 hours. First permit issued to Attorney General.

I don’t usually like the bigot meme when it comes to gun rights. But, yeah, that’s pretty bigoted right there.

Government glossed over cancer concerns of scanners.

JT is cornfuzzled on all the cool kids getting S&W M&Ps. I like mine. I had honestly never thought twice about them, content to be a Glock guy forever (and I’ll likely always be a Glock guy). I was looking for a wonder nine one day, since I wanted a gun that held more than ten rounds to make anti-gunners cry. I was going to get a Glock 17. Then, at a gun show, I picked the M&P full size. I liked the ergonomics and read up about it. Then, I bought one, having never shot one.

I’m guessing I have now put about 600 rounds through it. I have never cleaned it. And I’ve not had a single failure. It eats everything I feed it. I like the idea of 17+1 rounds.

I’ve not been disappointed.

Caffeinated beef jerky

AL police officer on trial for keeping confiscated guns

Update: Convicted.

7 days of concealed carry.

While there, she’s also doing a fundraiser for the Wounded Warrior Project.

Need has nothing to do with it. You don’t get a say.

Bloomberg:

It was not the banks that created the mortgage crisis. It was, plain and simple, Congress who forced everybody to go and give mortgages to people who were on the cusp.

Mind you, the banks were cool with it as long as it was profitable.

For use in cannons.

In Florida, Miami gun control ordinances to be repealed after threat of suit.

The New Declaration of Independence looks more like a Declaration of Total Dependence. They demand immediate debt relief! For independence. Probably one of the dumbest things I’ve seen in a long time. But it illustrates exactly what’s wrong with the 99%.

Seattle gun ban struck down.

For the children

I felt a great disturbance in the Anti-Gun force, as if 10, maybe 15 voices suddenly cried out in terror and were basically ignored.

What a pussy.

Coal Creek Armory giving a custom 1911 to a local combat-wounded veteran.

Police technology can fool your phone.

At Shooting Illustrated.

Ruger Zombie Slayer.

S&W M&P15 in 300 Whisper

New ACR

Luxus Arms

This past Saturday was my birthday and you didn’t get me anything. I was fine with the fact that I was turning 40. I reasoned that, the day before, I was 39 and nothing was going to happen in a day to make me feel old. It was just a number change, my next doctor visit would result in a prostate exam, I’d start hitting the treadmill more (and by more, I mean again) and I think my car insurance might get a little cheaper. No big deal. My wife arranged for some friends to come over and help me mark the occasion with some good food, good drink, gifts and black balloons. Usual 40 year-old stuff.

Then at about noon, we got a call that a friend of mine’s dad had died.

And, then, about thirty minutes before the festivities were to start, my mom called to say that dad was on his way to the ER. They were driving to my party when dad’s vision got flaky. He’d had a heart attack. He’s fine now and home. Very minor but, still, gets your attention.

Other than that, it was a good birthday. Catching up with old friends, a nice little get together where we all say we should do this more and then we never do. One of my friends, I hadn’t seen since my wedding. It was good to catch up.

And here I was not fretting about being over the hill when life smacked me right up side the head with a dose of mortality.

In their quest to make everything look like Google +, they’ve mucked with google reader. I am not a fan and here’s why:

Too much space at the top. This is a problem when reading my RSS feeds from my netbook. I cannot see a whole post.

You cannot easily access your notes. You can actually follow this link and see them but there’s not button to click on the main page.

The Note in Reader function is gone, which is how I usually remember to blog stuff.

I’ve installed the minimalist extension and, while it helps some, it’s not that great.

I may be shopping for a new RSS reader soon.

Update: Oh and good job releasing and not updating the help section of your site.

Tactical Baby Vest

Tactical Stroller

Bloomberg donates $25K to anti-gun candidates in Virginia

Tam:

“Keep it from falling into the wrong hands”? It’s a government database! It’s starting out in the wrong hands!

9 = cache?