Apparently, I’m blogging for the chicks. Seems the women like the big blogs. If that’s the case, I’m doing it wrong. Actually, I think motivation for blogging is pretty easy: You start blogging because you got shit to say. It’s pretty simple. After that, I think maybe you start doing it for some other purpose (maybe even for the chicks but definitely for affirmation).

A while back, I posted The Stages Of Blogging which basically boil down to you got something to say and want to say it:

Stage 1: You start the blog because you got shit to say.

Stage 2: You say your shit, no one cares.

Stage 3: Having said your shit, you start criticizing or praising other people’s shit.

Stage 4: People notice you criticizing or praising their shit. People start to care.

Stage 5: You realize you get more input and affirmation when criticizing or praising other people’s shit. And it’s easier.

Stage 6: You just link shit and occasionally talk about shit you got to say.

Stage 7: You’re weary of talking shit. Same shit, different day.

Stage 8: You no longer have shit to say because you’ve already said it all. A few times.

Stage 9: You give up blogging, then occasionally post something insightful on other peoples blogs.

Update: The shorter version.

A weapons specialist should know to keep his booger-hook off the bang-switch. But, no, it’s someone else’s fault, of course.

Listen up, I thought we already had this fight. Seems that, once again, people care what Barack Skittles Obama’s middle name is (psst, it’s Ahmadinejad – no, I kid). And if you happen to point it out, then you’re a racist; or a fear monger; or something.

Grow up, people.

NRA endorses the write-in campaign of until recently Democrat Rosalind Kurita. You’ll recall that, in the fine tradition of fearing honest elections, the local Democrat machine invalidated her primary win because she doesn’t toe the line.

machine gun shoot pics here.

Apparently: Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA) says some congresspeople were told in private briefings that if they did not pass the bailout bill, circumstances would soon force the federal government to “impose martial law.”

In comments, Kit advises us to calm down over the recent ACLU v. ATF issue.

New PSH-inducing term: kill guns.

Bitter talks about gun bloggers as activists.

For good or bad, I live in a fairly safe state when it comes to guns and politics.

In Tennessee, the Crooks with Guns bill increases penalties for convicted felons found in possession of firearms by requiring mandatory sentencing with no jail-time reductions. And the Street Terrorism bill would make crimes committed by three people a higher classification of felony. More here.

I’m all for increasing penalties for violent crimes but, seriously, do we have to constantly go throwing around the word terrorism?

Buy an Aimpoint Comp M4 from Midway and Midway donates $100 to NRA.

I have a knit to pick.

Anyone else see Boston Legal tonight? Pretty damn funny, if you ask me.

NRA launches Obama ad campaigns in more states.

I’m sure I’m not the only one. (at about 0:55)

As mentioned here, You can get the sticker here.

I think I would have gone with: Boo ATF!

David Hardy on Obama and the Attempt to Destroy the Second Amendment:

As a presidential candidate, Barack Obama must demonstrate executive experience, but he remains strangely silent about his eight years (1994-2002) as a director of the Joyce Foundation, a billion dollar tax-exempt organization. He has one obvious reason: during his time as director, Joyce Foundation spent millions creating and supporting anti-gun organizations.

There is another, less known, reason.

During Obama’s tenure, the Joyce Foundation board planned and implemented a program targeting the Supreme Court. The work began five years into Obama’s directorship, when the Foundation had experience in turning its millions into anti-gun “grassroots” organizations, but none at converting cash into legal scholarship.

The plan’s objective was bold: the judicial obliteration of the Second Amendment.

He remains strangely silent quite a bit, I think.

So, Palin said that Obama was palling around with terrorists. Because she’s racist. Nothing to do with Obama’s association with a man whose group set off bombs that killed police officers. And even though Obama’s first campaign was launched in this guy’s living room and he gave him a job, it’s just a loose association. Right?

Meanwhile, compare that to the treatment of the First Dude’s genuinely loose association with the AIP.

Ed Brayton details False Allegations of Intimidation by Obama Campaign. Unfortunately, there is blatantly an attempt to intimidate. The guys at World Net Daily turned intimidate into prosecute before running the story which makes them look like idiots and doesn’t tell the actual story.

Still, a potential President using federal agencies to quash dissent is troubling. If you’re a TeeVee station manager and this guy has a roughly 50% shot at becoming president, I’d say that’s pretty damn intimidating.

Video of James Yeager doing a torture test on a Glock 19.

The bad: The guide rod melted.

The good: the Glock kept firing.

Over at traction control.

Robb talks with their marketing folks.

I know Tam has said she’s ran into them on various gun boards and that they are always helpful.

Video:

Shoothouse Barbie’s hair ornament

Via Greg.

Over at Rusty’s, details on available rifles.

Never really had a handgun with adjustable sights before. How far should one sight a handgun in at? And should I sight the laser the same distance?

I was thinking 15 yards or so.

Mad Rocket Scientist lost his mom to cancer. Sorry for your loss.

Really:

The ACLU filed the case on April 18, 2006, on behalf of Karen J. Kilpatrick, who claimed that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) violated her Free Speech rights.

Kilpatrick was driving her blue van in Pensacola on April 19, 2004, with the slogans “Remember the Children of Waco” and “Boo ATF” written on some of the windows when she was pulled over by police for questioning by the ATF.

The ACLU argues in the lawsuit that her First Amendment Rights to Free Speech and her Fourth Amendment right to be free from unreasonable search and seizure were violated when officers detained her for an hour, searched her car without consent, and ordered her to remove the writing on the side of her van.

“The ATF’s actions were unconstitutional and there was no legal justification to stop and question Ms. Kilpatrick. We believe that the ATF was trying to silence Ms. Kilpatrick and the 911 call substantiates this position,” said Bert Oram, ACLU cooperating counsel.

Via Joe, who is optimistic regarding potential future trends.

Update: Get the sticker here.

And for those just joining us, more on the ATF’s stellar record of performance can be found here.

Dolly Parton on Palin:

(We’re) both small town girls, both a Pentecostalism and we both carry an AK-47.

Steals a donation jar set up to benefit a child with cancer.

While hubby is in Iraq, wife cleans out bank account.

Wow.