Progressive Projection

Grrrr this frustrates me so much. I’m listening to Nerdist #113 with Mike Birbiglia. About halfway through they start talking about politics.

The sheer irony of saying that there are hardcore racists in America who get upset when they get a black waiter at a restaurant, so they must be really pissed now that Obama is President. I get that, and agree.

Then they go and say that “Those People” are the Tea Party. Nice! They also reference brain-dead bigot Bill Maher (whom they seem to think is a valid entity) who claimed “Not all Republicans are Racist, but all the racists are Republicans”.

Nothing like intolerance being projected onto innocent bystanders. There’s a bunch of other disappointing bullshit.

Too bad, as its a funny podcast, and I get that they’re all Hollywood Comedians, and they can afford to look at only the bright and pretty side of “Progressivism”, but man, leave the politics to the pundits, I want you to talk about the Comedy industry and make me laugh, thanks.

Your insight was rude, intolerant, and ignorant, and not thought provoking, you guys REALLY sold yourself short on this one.

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Great Video!

**Sorry, Found this Post floating in the draft bin. Its an old one, but still good**

Yeah all gun owners and people who advocate self defense are fat white men! Looks like a pretty good slice of demographics right there. I’m also glad to see people are starting to get the idea about self-reliance and self defense!

h/t Keads

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“Gun Death” Sword

Swords were the “Assault Weapon” of the pre-gunpowder world. They still work against modern people.

Authorities in west Georgia say a 14-year-old is in custody after his 77-year-old great-grandmother was stabbed to death with a sword and his grandmother was wounded.

Brutal, two generations felled. Of course those who use “Gun Death” wouldn’t count this crime at all. Does that make sense to you?

h/t Bob and Maddmedic and Sean

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Comfort and Convenience

We talked a bit about this here but I think we can talk about it more here.

I still have not settled on which loaders for my SP-101 and now am going backwards in my decision process. At first I was sure I wanted speed loaders of some type (HKS or Safariland) but now I am thinking I like the idea of the Bianchi Speed Strips better.

Speed loaders will be faster, but will either bulge in the pocket or require a belt carrying pouch. Speed strips will be easier to carry, flat in the pocket; but the reload will be slower.

Now some people are arguing that speed loaders are better, and therefor a better choice. They are right, of course. But I’ll say when I carry my S&W642 like I was doing today, I carry speed strips…and that’s if I have room.

Today I simply didn’t have a spare pocket or pouch to put a reload. Hardly ideal, but let’s face it. I didn’t need to draw or discharge my weapon today, but I was loaded up for self defense.

We could of course Take JP totally to the Ninja Woodshed and say that he needs to go out and get an FNP 45 because it holds 15+1 of .45 ACP, and you can reload it VERY quickly by simply slamming a new 15 round magazine home. Maybe we could discuss the Glock 20 as its 15+1 of 10mm Auto which of course is a more powerful load.

Or maybe if JP is set on Revolvers a Ruger Alaskan in .454 Casull, more powerful by far, and carries 6 instead of 5!

Of course all of the above a huge heavy guns. While I’ve seen all of the above concealed they are much more difficult to carry than the SP101. Again better to HAVE a gun than none, and better to have a reload than none.

Frankly when I’m carrying a revolver I don’t have much space for a speedloader, and I find that speed strips take up such little space carrying multiples is VERY easy, vs. maybe ONE HKS Speed Loader in the same pocket. I’d rather have a reload than no, and I’d rather have TWO reloads than one.

Still to grumble about the academics of reload time from Strips vs. a reload goes out the window the moment we’re talking about reloading a semi-auto.

The bottom line is carry your damn gun, and carry as much gun and reload as you can.

Be Safe!

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Play me Out: Tiger Army

Been Enjoying a bit of Psychobilly recently:

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FAL Love!

Every Day No Days Off has this great video of the FN FAL from the perspective of a Call of Duty fan

As I’ve said before with some deserved controversy I’m not a fan of Full-auto in an infantry rifle, and even without the bullshit of the NFA I’m perfectly comfortable with my go-to rifles not having the full-auto switch (tho I wouldn’t turn my nose up at a select-fire gun if all things were equal) and not worrying about the controlability of a light rifle on full auto, I’d prefer a full-power cartridge over the more in-vogue intermediate “Assault Rifle” cartridges, such as the 5.56x45mm and 7.62x39mm, and their variants.

Yes I know there are lots of people who have fallen in war from shots fired from 7.62x39mm and 5.56x45mm rifles, and I also know several people who have bagged Northeast White Tailed Deer (about as close an analoge to size and weight of an adult man) with AKs and AR-15s, and Mini-14s, and I know of many more. Still the Bubba’s around Maine and Vermont seem to like .308 Winchester, and .30-30 WCF, as well as the venerable .30-06 for dropping bambi, and certainly many of them have stories of tracking a deer with its vitals perforated for long distances in dense woods from one of these rounds.

So couple that with the weight and ergonomics of the FAL, its my choice of a go-to-rifle!

Now if only my state would allow me an 18″ Paratrooper rifle. 🙁

My only complaint is they don’t mention DS Arms being a modern company that still makes the FAL pattern rifle, so you can still get one today without having to look for surplus or parts kits!

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The Illegal Immigration Problem

So the latest Illegal Alien story is of course President Barry O’s Drunk Uncle.

President Barack Obama’s alleged illegal half-Uncle Onyango Obama, 67, who is likely known as Uncle Omar as well as Obama Onyango, was arrested for allegedly driving drunk in Framingham, Massachusetts outside of Boston. Additionally, he is being held for deportation just as President Obama’s Aunt Zeituni Onyango had been ordered to be deported in 2004.

Of course Aunt Zeituni (who lives on public assistance, and public housing as an Illegal Alien of this country) now has Political Asylum for reasons unclear to me. This article says “Violence in Kenya”, which simply says if your nation of origin is a shithole, like most of the world is, you can get US Political Asylum. (of course being related to the president has NOTHING to do with it). Of course Barry Socialism has no desire to actually HELP his relatives get off the public tit with, I dunno, those books Bill Ayers wrote for him.

Still in Mass was this story that Jay reported (I thought about scooping him on it, but frankly it made me so angry I couldn’t find the words).

But outside the sensational stories, this is not an isolated event. There is a local radio host who simply reads off the local Police Blotters in the paper reading off all the South American names cited for driving without a license, insurance, registration, false license plates, and often driving while intoxicated.

Its simple, first these people are violating federal immigration laws, which is a good litmus test to see if they respect the rule of law or not. Then for them to find work, and apply for public assistance they need to falsify an identity or commit identity theft to assume a “Legal” identity.

But then when they get caught doing something illegal they simply pay their bond, and dump their current Identity and slip into another.

This story got a lot of play when Martha Coakley was running against Scott Brown for the Senate Seat vacated by Ted Kennedy. Of course the man who was molesting the little boy vanished into the Ether, nobody knows where he is, and he never faced charges.

I know a guy who’s car was totaled late at night by who we assume was a drunk driver. The car was parked, and a witness got the make, model and license plate of the car. The cops ran the plates and found they matched a totally different car. The driver was likely an Illegal alien, and will never get caught, and of course probably doesn’t have on-paper funds to cover the wreck anyway.

And all of this is a big middle finger to the LEGAL immigrants who did the right thing and legally came to this country. Of course the apologists claim people who are against illegal aliens are xenophobic, as they give the finger to the people who obey the law.

Grrrrr

PS: Bob talks about the subject too, this morning., also interesting that its the same morning, but totally unrelated stories. This is a serious epidemic.

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“Gun Death” The Hammer

Why would ANYBODY own a hammer? They are only designed to kill!

A man who bludgeoned a grandfather to death with a hammer and seriously injured his de facto wife has pleaded not guilty on the grounds of mental impairment.

Can you imagine how much it would cost to build something if hammers were regulated the same way guns were? Hey but not a “Gun Death”, which of course is a valid metric, right?

h/t Maddmedic

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Play Me Out: For Vertel

Doing some chores with this tune in the background. Its a Good one!

As for the title, either you get it, or you don’t.

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STORM OF THE CENTURY!!11!

So it looks like the worst of Irene has passed over. The street flooded a bit, but nothing serious. I went into work at about 0900 and nothing bad had happened in the night. Saw a bunch of branches down, and one tree that had tipped over.

We lost power twice…for about an hour each. I had to cut short a game of Call of Duty, and light the burner on the stove with a match to heat up some soup for lunch.

I was just checking out my yard and my Neighbor said “hi”. I said “STORM OF THE CENTURY!!111!!” she said that she wished they were all this wimpy.

So there you have it. Irene didn’t amount to shit.

Hope everybody else weathered the storm as well as we did.

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