Wishful Thinking

Wishful Thinking

But I LIKE how this guy thinks!

Well, THAT Sucks

Oh Boy! I've just joined the ranks of the unemployed. Due to lack of work, the entire Controls staff of my office (all three of us) just got laid off.

However, I do have an interview tomorrow morning. I'm not all that concerned about getting another job, but you have to admit, the timing SUCKS.

Your Moment of Zen

Your Moment of Zen

The last one scrolled off the front page, time for a new one (and I need it):


That's from Zion National Park, Utah.

Hopenchangen Hopenhagen Carbonhagen

Hopenchangen Hopenhagen Carbonhagen

So Obamateur is flying to Carbonhagen on his way to pick up his Nobel Peace Prize to inspire other World Leaders™ to Do the Right Thing^© and cut per capita CO₂ emissions back to 19^th Century levels in order to Save the Planet!^©™^® In the mean time, the Imperial Senate Democrats are preparing to throw their female constituency under the bus^® by prohibiting Federal funds from being used to pay for abortions just so they can get Health Care Reform^©™^® passed and fvck the rest of us, too.

Just when do the actions of our Congressweasels fall to the level of "a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object...a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism"?

Just askin'.

UPDATE: Who needs Carbonhagen? The EPA can just make sh!t up as they go!

Remembering Pearl Harbor Day

Sixty-eight years ago today, Japanese Naval aircraft attacked Pearl Harbor and surrounding Army and Marine air bases on the islands of Hawaii, precipitating America's entry into World War II. From an article in Sunday's Houston Chronicle about the addition of a Japanese Navy mini-sub to the National Museum of the Pacific War in Fredricksburg, Texas (birthplace of Adm. Chester Nimitz):

The youngest of the World War II veterans are now in their 80s and it's estimated less than 1 million Pacific war combatants, primarily from the Navy and Marine Corps, are alive.

I think I'd like to visit that museum.

Quote of the Day - Chicken Little Edition

This time it's me, paraphrasing what I've seen in several places recently:

"Environmentalism" is all about CONTROL. You can tell because no matter what the dire warning is - "Climate Change" (née Anthropogenic Global Warming), Global Cooling (The coming Ice Age), the Population Bomb (which Ehrlich is still not ashamed of [read that - how can someone be so wrong for so long and still hold a professorship?]), Nuclear Winter, and to a lesser extent Silent Spring and the Ozone Hole - the solution is ALWAYS THE SAME: CONTROL OF OUR LIVES AND CONTROL OF OUR MONEY BY OUR "INTELLECTUAL SUPERIORS," THE MORONS WE PUT IN PUBLIC OFFICE AND THE "EXPERTS" THEY APPOINT.

Quote of the Day - California Edition

Quote of the Day - California Edition

The State of California has been mismanaged literally for decades now. Governor Gray Davis was recalled because of it, and Arnold "The Governator" Schwarzenegger got himself elected - twice! - to the Captaincy of the Titanic on the promise that he could fix it.

He failed, because the electorate cannot figure out that you cannot spend money you don't have - at least not for very long, and Ahnold refuses to unsheathe the Clue-Bat™ on them.

He wants to keep getting re-elected (to something, anyway.)

So when I ran across this while perusing the internet this afternoon, I knew it would make the perfect QotD:

Mark's one sentence description of California:

California: where the Anarchists sound like Libertarians, the Libertarians sound like Republicans, the Republicans sound like Democrats and the Democrats sound like Leon Trotsky, and about the only saving grace is that they do not actually get all the government they pay for.

Can I get an "AMEN!"?

The Gun You Carry

. . . when you can't carry a gun.

I live in Arizona. It tends to be a bit warm here nine months out of the year. And (to put it mildly) I'm on the husky side. My preferred carry piece is a 1911, but it's tough (for me) to wear clothes that will adequately conceal such a piece, whether it's my full-sized Kimber Classic, my Para USA Commander-sized Gunblog 45, or my Kimber Ultra CDPII.

Well, conceal it and still give me reasonable access to it.

Recently I've been toting a S&W Model 60 2" snubbie .38 revolver in the front pocket of my jeans, but it's just a little bit lumpy. My (ex-)boss purchased a Kel-Tec PF9 a while back, and I found that I really liked it - 7+1 rounds of full-house 9mm (+P rated, but not as a steady diet) in a pretty tiny package that still offered reasonable sights.

I picked one up a couple of days ago. I still need to do a "fluff & buff" on it, then run a couple hundred rounds through it, but I think this will easily fill the bill for the gun I carry when I can't carry a gun. Mine looks just like this one:


The slide is hard-chromed on mine.

Get Offa My Lawn

Get Offa My Lawn!

Borepatch, creator of the Clippy cartoon that's drawn so much traffic to TSM over the last couple of days (odd how that works, isn't it?) has been on top of the AGW thing for a while, and has some more snark to bring. But on a more serious note, he asks (and answers) the question, Should you be a Global Warming Skeptic?

Worth your time.

What Socialism Looks Like

What Socialism Looks Like

From In Iraq Now (at 56):

In a Socialist system, all the money is collective--there is one budget. Just like us. There is an Army budget. If pay goes up, procurementgoes down. The opposite is also true. Reduction in Force (the Army's version of layoffs) means more money for equipment.

Medical care is free, or the same price for all, but no one gets to choose their doctor. Just like the Army.

In a Socialist system everyone gets the same pay if they have the same rank, regardless of their productivity. Unions work this way. In the Army an E4 with four years service who is a first-rate Blackhawk crew chief, fit, and fully qualified makes exactly the same pay as an E4 with four years service who is truck driver flunked the PT Test and still can't fill out a maintenance inspection form.

RTWT.

And also about Charlie's Angels.

FIX BAYONETS

FIX BAYONETS!

Congressional Candidate Lieutenant Colonel Allen West:


Hell yeah. I'd vote for him in a heartbeat.

First "Law Abiding Citizen" now "Harry Brown"

First "Law Abiding Citizen" now "Harry Brown"

Watch the trailer:


It was supposed to release in the US on 11/6/09, but I can't find it showing anywhere. It's also supposed to have opened in the UK on 11/11. Someone's seen it, because there are currently 40 User Comments at IMDB. This is typical:

This film accurately depicts life in modern Britain today.

Not the image of a flowing rolling countryside of middle class England which is often depicted in typical international films but one of an inner city "sink" estate - Elephant & Castle in London - with all of its associated problems.

I saw the film last night and it brought back all the memories I have of having lived in similar circumstances.

Michael Caine is excellent, this is probably one of his best films and I expect film nominations for his role.

The film gives a gritty but realistic view of the life most people live on the sink estates of Britain, all are there through no choice of their own, but some are aware of the conditions they are forced to live in.

I don't think we'll see the British government promoting this film as it portraits the country in a very bad light, though, if you are not from Britain and would like a taste of what some of us have to put up with I recommend you see this film.

I'd like to see it.

Interesting Question

Interesting Question

This is a serious question to all readers of The Market Ticker.

Where is your personal breaking point?
No, I'm not asking how far you have to be pushed before you "go postal" and commit random acts of violence. That's not a question to ask in polite company, even though for virtually everyone, there is such a point.

No, I'm asking how much abuse you have to have personally served upon you by the banksters and other scam artists in this country before you have had enough, and start doing unto the other guy - because he has done you.

-- The Market Ticker, Where's the Breaking Point?

RTWT, and the links.

The natives are getting restless. Billy Beck gives us the Quote of the Day:

I am beginning to consider this year since January as a fairly close comparison to events elsewhere in 1917, with the temporal slipped-disk of George Bush as Alexander Kerensky for eight years. If we take Obama as the first post-American president, then Bush was the president of a provisional government. In any case, the slow-motion revolution of Amsoc is no longer slow-motion. We're living a moment in history that will reverberate through history as the turn of a great wheel, into precisely what cannot be completely foretold right now, but it must surely be enormous in its consequences.

We are more and more in it, every day, and none it is anything good for anyone. As the struggle intensifies, every person's principles will be more clearly illuminated, right down to the street-level where you live. Pay close attention, and keep both hands on the wheel.

I'm a Smart Engineer

I'm a Smart Engineer


I love xkcd.

Best Joke I've Heard in a While

Best Joke I've Heard in a While

What's the difference between a golf ball and a Cadillac Escalade?

Tiger Woods can drive a golf ball 400 yards.

I Miss Michael Crichton

I Miss Michael Crichton


He was a very rare voice of intelligence and reason.

Found at Theo Spark.

I Can Haz M14

I Can Haz M14!

Cue the Mormon Tabernacle Choir for a rendition of the Hallelujah Chorus! Just over a year ago I sent a substantial check to Ted Brown at the recommendation of my readers, and I waited.

And waited.

And waited some more.

I finally got good news. My LRB M25 rear-lugged receiver shipped last Wednesday and should be at Ted's shop no later than the end of this week. My rifle is next in line for assembly!

I already have a scope (the Leupold Mk 4 LR/T I had on the Remington) and 11 magazines. The receiver comes with a built-in Weaver base:


All I need to get is some LaRue QD rings, I think, and load up some ammo.

I shouldn't have to wait more than another month or so . . .

AZ Blogmeet & Range Trip - Update

AZ Blogmeet & Range Trip - Update

OK, Saturday December 12 is the agreed-upon date by the majority of respondents. I've had one (1) recommendation for the after-range gathering, Ochoa's in Casa Grande on Cottonwood lane, between Pinal Ave and Trekell Rd. Since the range is just off Trekell, finding it shouldn't be hard. The description was as follows:

Family owned and family recipies. They have been a Casa Grande institution for decades. The hot sauce is hot, the enchilada sauce is smooth and the Green Chile is the best! They have tables in the back room for large groups.

Next question is: how large? How many people are planning to attend the range trip and noshing? Here's a new poll:


The poll only allows one vote per computer, so if you're bringing family/friends, please let me know in the comments.

Again, the range opens at 07:00, and I figure we'll shoot until about 1:00PM, then go eat, drink, and be merry for a couple of hours at least.

So who's in?

ZING!

Reader Russ linked to this:


All of the above?

UPDATE: The original creator of the artwork is Borepatch, Another gunblogger! Credit where credit is due!

This Made Me LOL

This Made Me LOL


I'm such a Geek.

(That's today's Argyle Sweater cartoon.)