Monthly Archives: September 2006

Quote of the day–John Ross

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One of the biggest mistakes that freedom advocates make is we often fail to take the moral high ground on freedom issues, and we let our enemies define the terms. This is a huge mistake. Never forget: We are in the right on this issue. We are on the side of the Founding Fathers. They are on the side of Hitler, Stalin, Mao Tse-Tung, Pol Pot, Saddam Hussein, and every other leader of an oppressive, totalitarian regime.

John Ross
Mistakes We Make in the Gun Culture or How to Be a More Effective Advocate for Freedom
From Ross in Range September 14, 2005
[I’m working on a “high moral ground” piece. Here Ross is more succinct than me. The major point to be made is that we need to put them on the defensive. If we are defending we are losing. If you are defending any compromise is a loss. They need to be defending their alignment with tyrants.–Joe]

Not quite ready for a polite society

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If you didn’t already figure it out from the Danish cartoon incident and about 100 other examples the incident with the Pope should give you some more guidance. Here is another article:

A hardline cleric linked to Somalia’s powerful Islamist movement to call for Muslims to “hunt down” and kill the pope, while an armed Iraqi group threatened to carry out attacks against Rome and the Vatican.

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Gunmen shot and killed an elderly Italian nun Sunday at a children’s hospital in the Islamist-controlled Somali capital of Mogadishu, in what Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi denounced as a “horrible act.

And a third day of attacks on Christian places of worship in the Palestinain territories saw unknown assailants throw Molotov cocktails and a burning tire at two Catholic churches in the northern West Bank.

I especially love this observation:

…the former “moderate” Iranian president criticized the Pope, stating that it is strange to observe how ignorant Benedict is about Islam, a faith of tolerance and humanity.

I think their tolerance and humanity needs a bit more work before they are ready to introduce to polite society. Is there a charm school that would accept them?

Hillbillys blow up a microwave oven

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From Dave at Ozark Pyrotechnics:

It was just over 2 pounds of HE, that was heard over 12 miles away at a lake party, and neighbors 3 miles away came up wondering what in the hell I had blown up this time, as it shook their windows. I’ve set off as much as 10 pounds before that did not get this response. If I keep doing this I will need a seismograph and a deciblemeter.

The video is here.

He was testing a new mixture. He was pretty pleased with the results as he didn’t use any chlorates. Chlorates are considered rather hazardous and something we do use at Boomershoot which makes his experiments all the more interesting to me. Unfortunately when I asked for the recipe and an approximation of the cost per pound he told me:

I have no idea how sensitive the formula is, or really what I actually did. It was at 150 yards with a 20″ barrel Mini-14, with that cheap Russian Wolf 55 grain JHP steel case ammo. You know better than I how fast that bullet was going at that distance. Let me know what you do think the bullet was traveling at that distance.

I estimate between 2200 and 2300 fps.

I was just throwing stuff in thinking that the AN was of no value…

…I measured nothing, but did guess by volumes I’ve used before. The base was 400 mesh AL, with 200 mesh MG, 100-200 mesh MG/AL, the smallest Ti that I have (I’ll have to look up the size), powdered Graphite, and Antimony Trioxide 200 mesh? If I had Zr, I would have thrown that in too.

The AN was so bad that it was nothing but a mush that left your hand wet holding it. The only thing I can think of is that it still had great oxidizer properties and allowed a more complete mixture. The mixture was dry when finished, but was so completely mixed that it is was more like pouring silver colored garlic granules while cooking.

From the fireball (see the picture below) it’s obvious he had an excess of fuel. But that makes for a more interesting display for the participants.

More videos are here.

Anyway, Dave plans to put on another explosives shoot in October. Check with him before finalizing your travel plans I don’t think the date has been pinned down yet.

Boomershoot 2007 will be April 29th

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I have set the dates to be be the last weekend in April but the survey showed that enough people were interested in reserved positions that I want to implement that before accepting the entries.

The price will remain the same as last year. There were only a few in the survey that disagreed with the statement that the price was reasonable and one that strongly disagreed with the statement. But this last guy said he thought the price should be $4000/person so it sort of balances out.

The Precision Rifle Clinic will be April 27th and 28th.

The hotel package option isn’t going to happen this year. Too much work for me to do at this time. Maybe next year. The survey did show some interest in that. So you can go ahead and make your hotel reservations if you want. Suggestions are here.

Quote of the day–Mujahedeen Shura Council

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The worshipper of the cross you and the West are doomed as you can see from the defeat in Iraq, Afghanistan, Chechnya and elsewhere. … We will break up the cross, spill the liquor and impose head tax, then the only thing acceptable is a conversion or the sword.

Mujahedeen Shura Council
An umbrella organization of Sunni Arab extremist groups that includes al-Qaida in Iraq
Iraq al-Qaida says pope, West are doomed
[The Pope says Islam has a reputation for violence, the Muslim are insulted and express their displeasure with violence and threats of violence. The Religion of Peace has me convinced.–Joe]

Just weird

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First willy swap is lopped off:

AN accident victim who became the first person to have a PENIS transplant has had it removed because of psychological problems.

The 44-year-old man was given the 4in manhood taken from a brain-dead patient half his age.

Surgeons in Guangzhou, China, said it had a rich blood supply and he was able to pass water through it ten days after the complex 15-hour op.

But despite the success doctors had to remove the organ after just 14 days due to “a severe psychological problem with the recipient and his wife”.

Transplant expert Prof Andrew George, of Imperial College London, said: “It’s not clear if the patient would have been able to have sex with it.”

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Careful with those toys

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Just so you know (from The Sun):

SEX toys could make you seriously ill, a study claims.

Research by Greenpeace Netherlands has found that 7 out of 8 sex toys contained high levels of chemicals linked to hormone and reproductive disturbances – which means they could stop women having children.

Apparently ‘phthalates’, which are used to soften plastics, accounted for between a quarter and a half of the offending items, including dildos and vibrators.

The substances do not easily biodegrade and can be dangerous – even in small amounts.

Lab rodents who were exposed to high levels of phthalates reportedly suffered damage to the liver, kidneys, lungs and developing testes.

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Visiting Seattle

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Barb and I went into Seattle today. For some reason it was all a bit surreal to me.

We were just walking down the sidewalk and I saw a couple guys looking at speed loader filled with hollow-point cartridges. One guy was explaining, “This are 180 grain…” I kept on walking and didn’t hear the rest. How odd I thought. In broad daylight on the sidewalk in Seattle openly exercising their right to keep and bear arms. Who would have thought it would happen in Seattle?

We walked on toward the library (Barb was going to do some genealogy research) and we saw this vehicle all of a sudden stop then back up, fast, for several hundred feet out of sight over a small hill on 4th. Something is going on. I looked around and saw two guys, in plain clothes, with radios on the corner next to us. Across the street ahead of us were two more people with radios. A siren in the distance was getting closer. And I noticed the street was completely empty except for the vehicle I had seen earlier which had parked almost out of sight on the opposite side of 4th from where I had seen him back up at high speed. It was a strange vehicle. It was a very flat shade of dark greenish blue and the headlights were covered with the same flat color. It had a boom on top with some sort of small platform at the end of the boom. It was too small to hold a person but I couldn’t figure out what it was. Here is a picture which I took later:

I decided it was time to leave but one of the guys with radio asked us to go in a different direction, “There’s going to be a vehicle coming around the corner right away and I don’t want you in the way.” Fair enough, we can go the other direction. I then figured it out, or pretty close anyway. “Is there some filming going on?” I asked. “Yeah, we’re filming a Lincoln Navigator commercial.”

We stayed to watch and a minute or so later the vehicle with the boom and a black Lincoln Navigator came zooming up the street at probably 35 or 40 MPH with the Lincoln not more than 15 feet behind the first vehicle. The boom did a smooth dance from one side to the front and then to the other side. As they came to the corner the boom vehicle went straight and stopped beside us as the Lincoln did a sharp turn to the right with it’s tires squealing and went up the street we were about to cross. The end of the boom finished it’s dance as the two vehicles stopped.

We were given permission to cross the street and were thanked for our patience.

We went on the the library and I set up my laptop at a desk while Barb did her research. I looked at a sign with the rules and regulations of the library. No weapons allowed. This was the Seattle I expected-violating state law on guns (gun laws are the sole domain of the state). I need to send a letter to the city prosecutor asking them for “clarification” on that sometime.

There were a couple people outside my window on the Federal Courthouse lawn with dogs that looked like they were training the dogs for searching. I watched for a while and some people came up to them and appeared to ask them to leave. Hmm… Law enforcement doesn’t like them sniffing around the courthouse? Unknown–but they left without much discussion as far as I could tell.

Later the boom vehicle and two black Lincoln Navigators parked on the street outside my window while people milled around setting up something else. It took quite a while as they unpacked some equipment and I mostly ignored them until a tall very slender black guy in a ragged jacket, so ragged that looked as if it were about to fall off him in several pieces, came up to me. He softly asked if I had any idea what was going out there. “Yes, we saw them earlier and I asked someone what was going on. They said they were filming a Lincoln Navigator commercial.” His eyes got a little bit bigger and he became very somber. “Someone is sending a subliminal message. Certain people had better leave town if they don’t want to get killed.” “Huh? I don’t understand.” He didn’t answer for several seconds and finally he told me his reasoning, “Lincoln freed the slaves. And to navigate sort of means to move.”

The conversation didn’t get any better from there. He went on about how the CIA could program people to do whatever they wanted them to do. And he had first hand knowledge of that. They could make people commit crimes they would never do on their own. And they could plant devices in them so they could track them by satellite. Then he told me I had a vague resemblance to Joe Kennedy. “You know who he was don’t you?” “Yes, he was John Kennedy’s father.” He got just a little bit intense and said, “He was much, much, more than that. He was a bootlegger, a slave trader, and ran gambling and prostitution. People don’t talk much about that but it’s true.” Not wanting to engage him any more but not wanting show any disrespect to him either I said I knew about the bootlegging but not about the other stuff. But I did tell him that it was all very interesting. And that I was no relation to Joe Kennedy. “Is that your name too?”, he asked. “Nope, my last name is Huffman”, hoping he didn’t know any famous slave traders by the name of Huffman. He asked if I was from around here. “No, I grew up in Idaho. Where are you from?” “You are still a northwesterner and that’s good. I’m a man of the world. A man without a country. Sort of like Dr. King.”

He rambled on for a while more about Congress putting people in their place, about we don’t have freedom of speech anymore, and about people being put in prison without a trial. I was glad when the announcement came over the speakers that the library was closing and Barb showed up and was ready to leave. As I packed up my computer my conversation partner walked away–much to my relief.

We went to Coyote Creek Pizza in Kirkland for dinner which is one of our favorite places. Then we watched the chick flick, The Last Kiss. It was a pretty good movie. It won’t be a classic and in some ways it was a rip-off of The Big Chill but it was nice enough.

End of the day. Time for bed now.

The stories of two losers

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Ian Robinson writes about two losers:

Here he is again, the loser with a grudge and a gun slithering up from the basement of a middle-class home where he fermented his immaturity, anger and resentments to full and deadly potency “interacting” with like creatures on the Internet.

His mom says he was “a good son.”

The neighbours’ comments — the banality of this would be screamingly funny were it not for the horror of the event — amount to this: He was quiet and kept to himself.

Aren’t they always.

His resentment and anger are perfectly understandable.

He’s a loser and losers spend their lives being angry and resentful.

And more importantly:

Wendy Cukier, the mastermind behind Canada’s obscenely expensive and ineffective gun registry — she’s president of the Coalition for Gun Control — along with her Liberal Party lapdogs promised us more gun control would make us safer.

Way to go, Wendy.

See, this loser jumped through all the hoops, complied with the gun legislation and guess what?

He passed. His firearms were legally owned.

When questioned in the aftermath of this event, Cukier told CBC that: “The argument for gun control has never been based on individual cases. (It) has always been based on the general principle that if you have adequate control on all guns, you reduce the chances that dangerous people will gain access to them. You don’t eliminate them.”

Her statement is disingenuous to say the least.

“Disingenuous” is a fancy word for “lie.”

Yup. Ms. Cukier helped convince Canadians to spend over $1 billion (some reports say as high as $2 billion) on a gun registry after an eerily similar shooting in 1989. Ms. Cukier created losers of all Canadians. They got nothing in return from all that money spent. All the while gun owners were telling them it wouldn’t do any good. Yet the press gave her high praise and flashed her flattering photo.

Losers. All led by the Queen of Losers–Wendy Cukier.

Thoughts on illegal Immigration

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I haven’t put much effort into the topic but I keep thinking there must be a better way than a fence or trying to catch them once they have made their way 20 miles or more inside the border.

Can’t this be broken down in to a simple exercise in controlling a “black market”? It seems to me that if there were no minimum wage, welfare, free schooling, and no guaranteed health care the immigration problem would go away. Employers in this country have to pay a “tax” for domestic, legal, labor. It’s just like a tax on anything else. As soon as the tax rate on a marketable product goes above about 15% the government ends up creating a black market for the product.

In other words I suspect the government could solve the immigration crisis by repealing laws and spending less money rather than trying to come up with more complex government solutions to a problem they created to begin with.

How can anyone not “get it”

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The Muslim extremist culture must be destroyed. The apologists in the west think we need to get out of the Mideast, or stop supporting Israel, or “something”. In other words we did something wrong.

So tell me what Thailand has done to deserve this:

Two bombs exploded in front of a pub and parking lot at the mall. The third was set off at a massage parlour. The other two bombs exploded at departments stores, including one in a restroom.

Authorities quickly blamed separatist insurgents for the attack. Since 2004, they have waged a bloody campaign that has left at least 1,700 dead, mostly civilians.

“We do believe that the insurgents are responsible for the bombs attack,” said military spokesman Lt.-Gen. Palangoon Klaharn. “Their intention is to spread fear in the region.”

The Thai army warned military personnel in the deep south to be on high alert from Saturday through Wednesday, after reports of possible attacks by the Gerakan Mujahidin Islam Pattani to mark an anniversary.

Last month, Thai militants launched a series of daylight attacks against banks in Yala province, killing one, injuring nearly 30 and forcing the temporary closure of financial institutions.

Even the Thai military is trying to do the “peace thing.”

The attacks, in Songkhla province’s commercial centre of Hat Yai, came hours after the military staged a peace rally in the south, site of a Muslim insurgency, where it expressed hope people would work with authorities to end the violence.

The only peace the Muslim extremists want is the peace of submission. The only peace they deserve is that of death or a prison cell.

This is what happens in places without guns–Case XVIII

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Lucy Braham was stabbed to death in her own home. Disarmed by her own government and unable to defend herself against an attacker armed with only a knife she died at the age of 25. The attacker had virtually nothing to fear entering her home. If someone enters almost any home in the U.S. and they will be hyper-alert for the sound of a 12-gage shotgun being racked and prepared for firing. Not in this home, not in this country.

How many more tragic deaths do the people in these countries need before they start asking Just One Question then demand their government stop infringing on their inalienable rights?

I love sick humor

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This probably doesn’t quite meet the definition of a sick joke but it’s close enough for me to get a laugh.

Jake was dying. His wife sat at the bedside.

He looked up and said weakly: “I have something I must confess.”

“There’s no need to, ” his wife replied.

“No,” he insisted, “I want to die in peace. I slept with your sister, your best friend, her best friend, and your mother!”

“I know,” she replied, “now just rest and let the poison work.”

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Quote of the day–Stephen Harper

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We can’t just jump into the dark and make conclusions without facts. That’s how we got the gun registry in the first place. That’s how we spent a billion dollars on a policy that didn’t prevent the tragedy.

Stephen Harper
Prime Minister of Canada
September 16, 2006
$1-billion didn’t prevent tragedy
[I have Just One Question for Canadians.–Joe]

Clayton’s Armed America is almost out

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Clayton Cramer lives near Boise after having escaped California and it’s repressive gun laws and taxes. He played a major part in bringing down Michael Bellesiles with his fradulent book Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture which was widely praised by gun grabbers all over the U.S. Now Clayton’s book, Armed America: The Remarkable Story of How and Why Guns Became as American as Apple Pie is almost ready to ship.

Another book to be added to my library.