“Gun Death” Broken TV

Posted on July 1, 2011 by Weerd Beard

Totally Senseless:

A New York City mother accused of beating her five-year-old son to death admitted that she lashed out at the child after he broke her TV while playing on his Wii video game console, according to prosecutors cited Tuesday in the New York Post…She is accused of beating her oldest child, Jamar Johnson, so badly that he suffered fatal injuries to his chest and stomach.

Initially, she said that she just meant to “pop” her son on the bottom, but over the course of five police interviews, she allegedly admitted she gave him more than just a routine spanking, prosecutors said.

Over a fucking TV! Also I wonder what the actual value of the TV was. When the Wii first came out people were showing that these things can happen, but seriously to kill somebody over?

Also “pop her son on the bottom”? No way that action can translate to a dead child without some ill intent.

Sickening.

h/t Bob

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Dollar Coins

Posted on June 30, 2011 by Weerd Beard

Alan links this little story about the US attempting to foist the Dollar Coin on us. Go read his post because he brings some grade-A snark at calling the “Progressives” on their Jackboot nature.

I just have a personal story. Back in my more Leftist times I LOVED the idea of Dollar Coins. As a matter of fact I bought some Canadian Dollar and Two Dollar coins off a Canadian student at a Band Competition in Northern Maine one year and kept them proudly displayed in my bedroom, as well as my college dorm room. I probably still have them somewhere. I knew that dollar bills had a VERY short service life and quickly wore out and needed to be replaced, often inside of a year or two of service. This cost the treasury money and just seemed like a bad idea when you think of the long service life of coins. I was all for the dollar coin.

Fast forward to my days as a deck hand and bartender on a small tour boat. I was mixing drinks when a gentleman payed for his booze with four Sacagawea dollars. I was excited to finally see some in the wild and I quickly replaced them with four paper bills and put them in the change purse in my wallet.

It took about a day for my love of the dollar coin to die. My pocket felt like a boat anchor, and it was only four bucks! At the time I was making tips tending bar so I’d often have $10-$15 in ones in my wallet. Can you imagine what that would feel like in Brass and Zinc? I couldn’t spend them fast enough.

Dollar coins are like bullpup rifles, they look AWESOME on paper, but as soon as you shoot one you quickly realize why so few people actually make the damn things.

And of course the crux of the story is that the US Mint cranked out the Dollar coins like they were the cure for Cancer, and now they have a huge surplus of coins nobody wants….just like the Susan B Anthony coin. You want something to do with those coins? Melt them and sell the metal.

That’s the best we can do. Dollar Coins suck!

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Another Good Show!

Posted on June 30, 2011 by Weerd Beard

In case you didn’t know JP556 has done Episode 2 of the Empty Mags Podcast.

Looks like he’s hammered out many of the technical problems (you sound great in this one, maybe you should listen to Eric from the Handgun Podcast when he advises people not to go crazy with mic quality that will pick up every dog in your neighborhood barking….or Dennis’ Cockatiel as heard on last week’s VC)

He talks about his S&W Bodyguard .380, as well as cross-eye dominance.

I really enjoyed the eye dominance part a lot, I may try putting some tape on my shooting glasses to see if that does help things along.

For handgun shooting being cross-eye dominant (ie I’m right handed but my left eye is the eye that sees clearly over the sights) is simple, just rotate your strong hand over a half-degree into your body, the gun will be right under your weak-side eye, and you can easily form a two-eye sight picture.

For rifles and shotguns I’ve found two-eye shooting to be a major problem with iron sights. (Using a holographic optic like JP’s Eotech is fine because both eyes will see the point-of-aim, and using a scope only one eye will be able to visualize the reticle) but when I shoulder a rifle or a shotgun with both eyes open, I CLEARLY see the WRONG front post or bead. I thought this might be easier with an aperture sight but it isn’t, the front sight as seen from an angle with my left eye is the clear one.

Right now for quick acquisition combat-type long-gun shooting, or when I’m shooting sporting clays I mount and sight the target with both eyes for a wider field of view and then close my left eye so I can visualize a clean sight picture before initiating my trigger squeeze.

I got one complaint JP, TOO SHORT! Dude I enjoyed every minute of it, but it was just over before I knew it! Maybe add one more topic to fill it out?

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More on the Floater

Posted on June 30, 2011 by Weerd Beard

I’m starting to think this woman was murdered and dumped in the pool.

The mayor of Fall River says “that health inspectors from the City visited the pool on Monday and on Tuesday and inspected the facilities,” which was during the time that body was believed to be in the water.

It would be a stretch, but you MIGHT be able to convince me that after the pool closed the lifeguards lit up a joint and skipped out on their evening maintenance and cleaning duties, and missed the fact that their was a dead woman on the bottom of the pool. But the HEALTH inspectors? I’d imagine these guys are looking for gross things like poop and dirt, let alone corpses. I think they’d notice if the pool hadn’t been cleaned in a few days and there was a good bit of sand on the bottom, let alone a dead woman. Also:

-She was a dark skinned woman. That means she’d stand out better against the light colored pool than us Crackers.

-She had 3 kids at home, and a long-time boyfriend, yet nobody called the cops when she didn’t come home?

-Supposedly she didn’t know how to swim and had taken a young boy to the pool where she accidentally slipped down a water slide. Kid didn’t pitch a fit when he was all alone? Kid didn’t feel the need to point out the helpless guardian at the bottom of the pool?

If I had to speculate I suspect she was a victim of domestic violence and was dumped.

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Straw Man, Counter Point

Posted on June 30, 2011 by Weerd Beard

So this video is making the rounds on blogs staffed by people who want to remove all doubt that they are idiots:

Of course anybody who can open a book, let alone read the squigglies on the page knows that Somalia is a Fudal system run by warlord tyrants. Not really all that “Libertarian”, given that the only people who have the individual liberty are the ones with the walled fortresses and the guns.

Also is it really a good idea to be slandering individual liberty? Let’s face it, left or right, its the Libertarians who are doing the hard work on gun rights, freedom of speech, 4th Amendment rights, opposing things like the TSA and the War on Drugs, as well as being the ONLY group who’s really showing any love to the gays.

Do you REALLY want to paint yourself as being opposed to those endeavors? Not to bight, as I said.

Still I’ll counter that if Somalia is a so-called “Libertarian Paradise”, then North Korea is the “Progressive Paradise”. And rather than a hyperbolic video I’ll post a document. h/t to Bluesun for the info.

This is what Progressivism looks like at night:

Just what we all want, right?

PS: Also if you want a REAL Libertarian paradise I New Hampshire is a pretty damn good choice, and unlike Somalia (which isn’t Libertarian at all) New Hampshire isn’t scary at all!

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Floater

Posted on June 30, 2011 by Weerd Beard

I don’t have too much to add, so I’ll just do linky. Sebastian and Jay have covered this bizarre story of a body floating in a public swimming pool for several days without notice.

All I have to add is that there was an indoor muni-pool near my home growing up. I spent a LOT of time in that pool, either just swimming, taking swim classes or getting my SCUBA certification, and for the various swim teams I was on in school. I also knew several people who worked in that pool, so I’ve been at the pool when the lights were being switched on.

The pool is empty and the water is like glass. If you don’t see an adult body resting on the bottom you didn’t look, and if you didn’t see an object floating in the pool you probably shouldn’t be out in public without a chaperone, and you have no business working in on or around a pool.

I wonder if there was foul play, or if this was just an amazing level of incompetence.

Very strange case.

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Gun Lust

Posted on June 30, 2011 by Weerd Beard

I can’t explain it. I really don’t much like Single Action Revolvers, and I rarely cock the hammer on my DA revolvers. I have little interest in black powder guns (Tho Howdah Pistols are wicked cool), but there is SOMETHING about cap and ball revolvers that really gets my juices flowing and puts me in a mad fever for a gun that you spend 2 minuets shooting, and 10 minuets loading, and 2 hours cleaning. Not a lick of sense, but just watching this video puts me all in a lather.

Also another thing that really gets me is how different they are from shooting the smokeless guns I butter my bread with. Even as a handloader, I really don’t know too much about greasing the ball, or patching, or wadding. I certainly have no idea about cap sizes, and hearing “Number 10 vs Number 11” is totally alien from somebody who stocks large rifle, large pistol, and small pistol magnum primers.

Also I’m quite curious about ball size. I always read in the catalogs that the Dragoon and Colt Navy are “.44 Caliber” tho he’s stuffing 0.454″ balls into that hog leg and getting VERY good results (2 for 3 on the 80 yard Gong! Have you seen how suck-tastic the sights are on those guns??)

Part of me wants one just so I can become proficient in loading, shooting, and cleaning it.

Some day.

Oh also what’s cool is by ATF rules those are NOT guns, so you can buy them no different than buying a knife or a power drill. So it would also be kind of neat to buy a pistol that would be 100% off paper and not apply to any of the Massachusetts stupid rules.

(FYI Mass Rules a Black powder gun is considered “Unloaded” if there are no caps on the nipples)

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How to Drum up Controversy

Posted on June 30, 2011 by Weerd Beard

You can prattle about politics, but unless its abortion you won’t get much. Hell I stated that all doctors who write prescriptions for Marijuana should have their license revoked for violation of ethics. We can talk the caliber war where I claim that in terminal ballistics there really isn’t much difference between 9mm and .45 ACP. I’ve also said that I don’t see much point in .40 S&W or .357 Sig, and I’ve advised people away from those cartridges over to 9mm or .45 ACP.

Still all that you wanna stir up some reactions, mention that Chili without beans sucks, or that you ate a Chicken Fried Steak at IHOP!

FYI the wife has fried me up a steak on an occasion or two (even tho she doesn’t much care for the great Southern Delicacy) so I do know what a good CFS tastes like.

And yes we’re talking about a trip to Texas sometime in the near future, and yes I’m gonna eat AT LEAST one chicken fried steak whilst I’m down there!

LOL Gun Nuts, where guns are just tools, but dammit you are what you eat! 😀

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“Gun Death” Where’s the Beef

Posted on June 30, 2011 by Weerd Beard

Everybody, make a point to eat a cow!

Iowa — A woman has died after being attacked by a cow on her farm.

She was feeding the cows and one of them decided it was time to fight the power. BTW another reason to carry ALL the time. I suspect the cow didn’t kill her immediately, and an old woman vs. a massive bovine is no fair fight, but add a farmer with even a .380 and the playing field gets better. Knew somebody in school who dispatched his own beef with a .357 Magnum, so that might be my go-to.

Just because they’re “Domesticated” doesn’t mean they’re safe.

h/t Whipped Cream Difficulties

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Play Me Out: God’s Waiting Room

Posted on June 29, 2011 by Weerd Beard

So I asked the wife if she was interested in going out for a fancy dinner tonight in celebration of the good news from the Doctor.

Of course she’s still not 100% so I suggested take-out, but she found a coupon for IHOP and thought that sounded pretty good.

I found it hilarious that she had Funnel Cakes, and I had a Chicken Fried Steak. Chicken Fried Steak is about as Rebel-Food as things get, and sadly IHOP and Denny’s are the only place one can really find a Chicken-Fried steak in the New England. And the Closest I’ve seen a funnel Cake is in New Jersey, I had no idea what the hell they were, we have fried dough in these parts! Yep so we both ordered “Exotic” food, LOL! 😛

Still the real subject is it appears that if you’re knocking on Death’s Door on a Wednesday evening, it appears that IHOP is the place for you to go. After the Mrs. and I I think the next youngest person there, guests or staff, were 60. This was the song I had to refrain from singing, and being a rude whipper-snapper! 😀

This version is a little better IMHO, but embedding is disabled.

Another really cool version here.

G’night folks!

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