Ruger SR1911 goes Lightweight!

Posted on January 8, 2015 by Weerd Beard

And in a Commander too!

Commander-length light-weight frame, thin grips, single-side safety, and a standard commander guide rod. Right from the factory this gun is nearly identical to my carry gun that I needed to swap some parts on.

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I still like the Scandium frame on the Smith better because it is stronger than the more ubiquitous aluminum alloys. Still that rare earth metal, even in the small quantities it takes to make the aluminum alloy Smith uses to get the near-steel strength costs a good bit of money. The Ruger you can probably get a gun brand-new for about what I paid for my well-used gun….plus I paid another $100 for a guide-rod and plug, and some thin grips…

I’m really digging what Ruger is doing these days!

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Say it With Me: DISCO CLAM!

Posted on January 8, 2015 by Weerd Beard

Yes, I checked, and it does have an urban dictionary entry…not as exciting as I had hoped!

But reality always trumps fiction!

Ever since the ‘disco clam’ was caught on camera ‘partying’ on the ocean floor, its behaviour has fascinated, and baffled, scientists.

Last year, an expert revealed that the clam’s lips are packed with ‘mirror ball’ style reflectors that help it produce its strobe light effect.

And now the same scientist has discovered this impressive light show is designed to lure prey towards the mollusc, before the clam paralyses its victim with toxic mucus.

…The disco clam is an active, filter-feeding mollusc that lives in crevices and small caves in Indo-Pacific coral reefs.

Their flashing is so bright, it had been previously thought to be the result of bioluminescence.

However, using high-powered transmission electron microscopy, Ms Dougherty discovered that the flashes are caused by specialised tissues that form a double layer, reflective to light on one side, but absorbent on the other.

When the tissue is rapidly rolled and unfurled by the clam, the reflecting light gives the appearance of flashing.

These tissues are so reflective that they can even flash using the low levels of blue light found in the caves.

Fucking amazing!

Thanks to C-90 for all the messed up Marine Bio stuff he sends me!

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Quote of the Day: Erin

Posted on January 8, 2015 by Weerd Beard

Erin really knocks one out of the part at Joe’s

“Tell you what: I’ll support restrictions on the 2nd Amendment to reduce firearms violence the moment you support restrictions on the 1st Amendment to reduce Islamist violence.”

Now note that Erin is being intentionally coy in this comment. Still she REALLY hit it out of the park.

First up, let’s note that there are HUGE swaths of American Citizens that have ZERO protection under the 2nd Amendment. These are felons, people with protective orders, people who have been sentenced to over a year in prison, those who have been committed to mental health treatment by a court of law, and those convicted of domestic violence. You know all the stipulations of the GCA ’68. Oddly when you hear about a shooting in your local news, chances are the dude who pulled the trigger was already a convicted felon.

Also just like removing 2nd Amendment rights doesn’t seem to stop violent people from committing violence, removing the right to a religion does not stamp it out. Just look at the early Christians!

Yeah, there is a LOT of violence being done by Islam right now, but banning it’s practice won’t stop it, just like banning guns does little good for public safety.

Of course like places that have banned guns, good guys comply with the law, so it could be assumed if Islam was banned, all those GOOD Muslims might comply.

….maybe. But it would also be a pretty nice incentive for them to be BAD Muslims….

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“Gun Death” Stabbed By Hobo

Posted on January 8, 2015 by Weerd Beard

This is a sad one:

A graphic designer on a biking trip from Maryland to Miami was stabbed to death by a homeless man outside a Florida McDonald’s while he spoke on the phone with his girlfriend, authorities said.

Kevin Adorno, 28, of Unionville, Connecticut, stumbled into the restaurant Monday after the attack, witnesses told police. He had been talking on the cellphone with his girlfriend, to whom he planned to propose at the end of the trip, Scripps Treasure Coast Newspapers reported.

Adorno’s girlfriend told investigators she didn’t hear any sounds from a confrontation. But she did hear the phone drop, then silence, and eventually sirens in the background.

Sounds like the reason for the fatal attack is a paranoid psychotic episode. Now I have no idea if this cyclist owns guns or carries for self-protection. He was from Connecticut, but these days you never know who’s armed as every state that actually issues carry permits (they all have them, but places like NYC and New Jersey, or DC, don’t actually GIVE the permits out to eligible people) are seeing record number of card holders.

Still unless you’re traveling through the western planes states where a Utah permit will probably cover you almost everywhere, the East coast is IMPOSSIBLE to traverse armed. So he was VERY vulnerable to attack, and that doesn’t mean just by guns.

But the antis don’t care, because this wasn’t a “Gun Death”.

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Play Me Out: Closing Time

Posted on January 7, 2015 by Weerd Beard

The final track on Tom Wait’s first album

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Muslims Attack French Magazine

Posted on January 7, 2015 by Weerd Beard

We’ve all read the horrible reports by now. I found some re-prints of some of their comics.

And in solidarity with the dead and injured, I thought I’d post this.

Sorry asshole’s nobody’s cow is too sacred.

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Images of the Antis: Emanuel Goldstein

Posted on January 7, 2015 by Weerd Beard

**Note update at the bottom on the real identity of the man in the picture**

This is a bit of an odd one, but I decided it’s better to post it than not:

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Link to the pinterest page here

I did a ton of google searching, both using the name cited as well as the details of the event in the caption, and I found nothing. I clicked on the source and it 404’d.

So as far as I can tell the event detailed never happened, and I can find nothing on a “Jebidiah Ashton”, real or fake. I hope I’m not spreading somebody’s puerile defamation campaign, as that IS a real dude in the picture, and it seems pretty clear the crime being alleged never happened.

Still I felt it was more important to show how filled with hatred antis are. They find an image detailing a fantastical story, and rather having a grain of skepticism, or even curiosity at why this isn’t the top of all the local news feeds, given that this would be an even BIGGER story than George Zimmerman.

So yeah, I decided to post it with a reference to the same behavior exhibited in Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Just like in the book, Goldstein likely doesn’t really exist, nor Big Brother for that matter, but the antis NEED somebody to hate so badly that they’re willing to create one out of whole cloth.

So if you have any further information on this image, or recognize the guy in it, let me know. Also if it turns out I’m doing more harm than good hosting this image, I’ll take it down.

**UPDATE** Ratus found the original image here Looks like he’s a computer programmer named Donald K. Burleson who’s written a ton of books on stuff I don’t understand, and lives in NC. If anybody has some contact information for him please let me know via email weerdbeard (AT) gmail, or simply forward him my email address, as I’d like to let him know about this libel, and get his personal feelings on it.

**UPDATE 2*** Looks like the initial libel happened in this article.

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Oops!

Posted on January 7, 2015 by Weerd Beard

So a “Progressive” blogger I enjoy reading (but don’t encourage through links or name mentions) has disappeared. I strongly suspect this blogger has uncontrolled bipolar disorder, where he CONSTANTLY posts disjointed and foolish posts for a period of time, then vanishes. I suspect this if the cycling of a manic phase due to his mental illness.

So that lead me down a wiki-wander on Bipolar disorder, and I stumbled upon this:

Pressure of speech is a hallmark of mania and is often seen during manic periods in patients with bipolar disorder. The pace of the speech indicates an underlying thought disorder known as “flight of ideas” where the information going through the person’s head is so fast that it is difficult to follow their train of thought.

People with schizophrenia, as well as anyone experiencing extreme anxiety, may also exhibit pressure of speech. Pressure of speech usually refers to the improperly verbalized speech which is a feature of hypomanic and manic illness.

Pressure of speech has commonly been observed in people with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

Hmmm, I suspect that’s the origin of the stutter many of you may have noticed in my podcasts. It’s not a true stutter, as I tend to repeat individual words, and not single syllables.

When I’m talking about something I’m passionate about (such as podcasts, or debates) my thoughts are racing and I want to get them all out, but my voice can only go so fast, and there comes the stutter.

And for those that don’t know, or couldn’t guess, I have ADD (I was diagnosed in the 80s before ADHD became the standard diagnosis, plus I’m not hyperactive in any way).

So yeah, those listening to podcasts, the stuttering will continue! 🙂

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Images of the “Progressives”: Hatred and Rage

Posted on January 7, 2015 by Weerd Beard

This one just gives me the creeps:

This reminds me of when I read the Communist Manifesto. On the surface the book reads as a compassionate, altruistic plan for propping up the underprivileged of society, but beneath that paper-thin veneer is a self-loathing man who is filled with rage against those who are better off than him through hard work and sacrifice.

Really the take-away I get from this is “Progressives” REALLY want a civil war where all the people who think differently than them are locked up or killed that they can watch on TV from their couch while wearing sweat pants.

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“Gun Death” Serial Beating

Posted on January 7, 2015 by Weerd Beard

Wow, this is a crazy story!

A person of interest in the beatings of four men found dead in separate homes in the same Ohio community remained jailed on a probation violation as authorities on Wednesday refused to discuss details of the slayings or any possible motive, citing the pending investigation.

Police have said the deaths in Bucyrus, about 65 miles north of Columbus, were likely related. Friends and relatives say at least some of the victims knew each other and the man in custody.

Two bodies were found Monday. Authorities said a man came into the police station and led officers to two more bodies Tuesday morning.

Bucyrus police Chief Dave Koepke said each of the four men suffered trauma above the shoulders, but he wouldn’t give specifics.

“All the victims suffered,” he said.

Antis who fixate on “Gun Death” tell us this kind of carnage can ONLY happen if the killer has a gun. I would say that this kind of carnage can only happen if the victims are unarmed.

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