Every night, before bed, I tell Junior she can watch one last TeeVee show. And it’s usually Little Bear, which I hate. I mean really hate. Each show is not really a story but rather a random series of events strung together with no discernible point. But I digress. Any way, the one last show usually gives her enough time to calm down from the latest activities and get ready for bed. The other night, she was watching her last show and I noticed she was laying on the floor and acting very tired. It was getting late, compared to her usual bed time, so I decided that since she was tired and wasn’t particularly paying attention to the show that I’d occasionally hit the fast forward 30 seconds button on the DVR. I do that and in a few minutes the closing credits come on and I say Show’s over. Time for bed. She looks at me and says You did that! Uh oh.

I’d done this a hundred times before and she never noticed.

Border agents get new weapon that they still can’t shoot. In other news, I didn’t know FN made an airgun. The FN 303 looks snazzy.

In an update to The War on three-dimensional devices designed or marketed as useful primarily for the stimulation of human genital organs, seems Alabama won’t allow the sale of dildos and the supreme court did not take the case. Proof that politicians really have nothing better to do.

Meanwhile, Aunt B. has said she’ll start an underground dildo railroad.

In an update to Google being anti-gun (but apparently pro-hooker), here’s the latest correspondence:

Thanks for your thoughts on the wording of our program policies. I’m happy to pass along your comments to our engineering and product teams.

Sincerely,

Scott
The Google AdSense Team

I reply:

Thanks. Please tell them that their support for free speech speaks volumes.

You may also wish to inform them that Google ads are currently displaying items that focus on firearms at my other websites. Quite ironic that you guys will sell them.

Regards,

I just want to see how long it takes for them to shut off ads at this site. Full disclosure: I make about $120/month with Google ads. Meanwhile, I hope MS does come out with an alternative to Google ads.

So, if I, a law-abiding guy, own an AR-15 it is an assault weapon. If the police own one, it is a patrol rifle.

I do fear for the future:

Our grandparents survived the Depression and gave Hitler a stomping. Our parents invented Woodstock and made the cops invent tear gas. We watched TeeVee and played Atari, and our children are swaddled in bubble wrap. Devolution in four generations

Students there will vote on whether or not to allow law-abiding, handgun carry permit holders to pack on campus.

And there’s a poll.

It’s having an impact. Seems there’s a cocaine shortage. Victory is at hand in only 240 more years!

Say you’re someone who makes your living putting bad guys in jail. Well, in that line of work, you’d probably piss a lot of people off. And maybe you’d need a weapon for self-defense. The trouble is, your boss is an idiot.

What media bias against guns?

As you may know, Ko-tonics will be sending a 6.8SPC upper to me to take to the Gun Blogger Rendezvous. I’m on my own for ammo. A couple of folks have recommended Silver State Armory. But I just don’t want to spend almost a dollar per round. Anyone know of some less pricey ammo?

In an update to my conflict with the neighbor’s dog, I went for a ride again last night with The Second. The dog is still running loose. But, since I kicked him in the face, he just chases the bike now from a safe distance and doesn’t get close enough to be a danger. He’s smarter than his owners.

A pink shotgun.

A pink XM-8 and a race gun.

Pink guns past: Crickett. bARbie-15. pink Glock.

Don’t tell Laura Washington but a Black Woman Leads Important Self Defense Case. And she’s even city folk.

But today, I did.

From military.com:

There is no such thing as the “Veterans Disarmament Act.” There is no pending legislation that would take firearms away from veterans. There is no pending legislation that would prevent a person with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), veteran or not, from purchasing a firearm or ammo.

[..]

The bottom line for veterans concerned about H.R. 2640 is to just use some common sense. Read the legislation. You may not agree with it. But, if you’re a veteran or you have been diagnosed with PTSD, don’t worry, they aren’t coming for your firearms. The NRA put it correctly when they said, “H.R. 2640 is NOT gun control legislation.”

There’s quite a bit of bleating about HR2640 from the anti-gun crowd and from some in the pro-gun crowd. I don’t see cause for concern.

Good catch:

I would like to think that maybe, just maybe some folks on the “hunting side of the 2nd” have taken a look around. I hope that perhaps some of the us and them mentality is waning.

I think Gunshots might be a good start.

In Burma.

And Darfur.

And Rwanda.

Etc.

Seen at Dr. Helen’s:

Have you ever met a person who left you wondering, “How could someone be so twisted, so evil?”

The Doc notes that the book she’s discussing suggests that some people are just born evil. And, from my personal experience, that is true. Let me catch you up.

See, I’m a finance guy. I wasn’t always. I had a career before that. In that career, I was (and you’re going to laugh your asses off) a counselor. Yeah, me. The guy who calls people retarded, idiots, and invented the term PSH. More specifically, I counseled a whole special subclass of bastards: sexual offenders. They were a pleasant crowd. I had an epiphany one day when talking to a young lad and the conversation went something like this:

Miscreant: [describes his overwhelming desire to do very bad things to innocent children]

Me: And that urge for you is natural?

Miscreant: Yes.

Me: You know, most people don’t have that particular urge

Miscreant: I think they do.

Me: Really?

Miscreant: Yes. It seems normal to me.

Me: Excuse me a minute.

At that point, I’d had my epiphany. And I realized that the conversation would have ended badly. Because I had a thought at that moment and it was this: the world would be a better place if this guy wasn’t in it. That’s something that I realized could not be cured. I mean, no amount of duct tape would fix this guy. Well, unless the duct tape was used to restrain him prior to tossing him in a river.

Even if you convince this guy that doing very bad things isn’t acceptable, he will still have the overwhelming urge to do it and, honestly, it’s probably only a matter of time.

Needless to say, I soon got out of counseling. Wishing your clients dead isn’t healthy for you or you clients.

During my time there, I learned a few fun things about sexual predators:

And there’s more. In short, they were fucked up. Bad. And no amount of talking to them was going to cure them. And, honestly, talking to them disgusted me.

Evan Nappen:

Misguided NRA bashers are doing a better job of helping the anti-gun movement than the anti-gunners could do themselves.

Ayup. I’m all for criticizing them when warranted. I’ve done it myself. But a lot of this bashing is detrimental to gun rights and some of it is just flat out false.

Via SIH.

DAMIT had his dudes severed. Me and the Mrs. are now 99.9% sure that we do not want another little rugrat. Maybe, mostly, kinda, sorta, except on Tuesdays when we’ve had time to think about it, err but almost definitely. Maybe.

At some point, when we pick up the additional 0.1%, I’ll be getting the ol’ snip snip. It doesn’t sound too bad, from what I hear. But it does come with the added benefit of giving me back about a 20X5 area of my workshop since we can get rid of all the baby clothes we’re keeping just in case.

Tom King is advocating that the military make the switch to something with more oomph. I’m not opposed to the notion. And there will be 6.8SPC combat edition upper at the Gun Blogger Rendezvous provided by Ko-tonics. You can see the combat edition here.

I’ve never done it. I don’t shoot enough and, honestly, it looks like a pain in the ass. But now that ammo is pricey enough that it may be worth it, I’m not opposed to the idea. But this ain’t a post about that, it’s a post about linking to Kevin’s guide to reloading.

Judgement for the plaintiffs, the Knoxville News Sentinel and 9 individual citizens. The verdict is unanimous.

Chancellor Fansler will prepare his remedies which may take several days.

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Win a fifty cal.

As you may know last week I took the reigns of Nashville’s television station WKRN website blog NiT “Nashville is Talking”. No one including me knew what to expect. NiT was a pioneer in having not one but two blogs with paid commentators. Brittney Gilbert commented at NiT and Adam Kleinheider commented at Volunteer Voters. Brittney Gilbert resigned from NiT after being harassed by the extremist left wing bloggers from the Jesus General blog. Shortly after this program director Mike Sechrist left WKRN and changes were seen at both WKRN blogs.

A string of guest bloggers who were unpaid came through NiT. None could find the magic formula until William took control of NiT. For months posts of extremist leftist yellow blogism spewed forth. These were reruns from the Daily Kos, Media Matters, Democrat Underground, Moveon.org, Pandagon, and of course Jesus General. It was the worst kind of Hate America First tripe available in Tennessee, which is no small accomplishment. It was as if George Soros had a telepathic link to William.

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Tam:

Hey, Phil, if I decided to take up setting myself on fire tomorrow, arguably even more hazardous to my health than smoking, it would still be none of your damn business.

In an update to this and this, Sailourcourt notes some confiscated weapons:

So, in support of the premise that AK-47’s are a problem on the street and are “the favored weapon of…the common criminal”, not one could be shown to have been confiscated recently?

SigArms is now going by Sig Sauer.

And that’s why we practice.