He says he is sorry about bringing down Microsoft.com today. He didn't even have to use any Boomershoot technology.

As people say, his brain is a very powerful CPU but it's running a buggy operating system.

Last night the cops visited to try to help resolve an incident when Boyfriend From Hell of the landlady at my underground bunker kicked in her bedroom door. I was at work at the time but Barb was there and called me to let me know what was happening. I left work immediately and told Barb to tell the cops I would be entering through the rear tunnel and that we would stay away from the action going on above ground.

Shortly after I arrived and greeted Barb the landlady knocked on our door and wanted to talk. A couple of cops showed up a minute or two later and stepped into my bunker to offer some advice to the landlady. I was packing with the only thing concealing my STI Eagle and a spare 18 round magazine was my Boomershoot coat. It was much too warm in there and I wanted to remove the coat without alarming the cops. Even wearing the coat probably seemed a little odd and the cops might have guessed I was packing just from that but there was no need to openly display the gun on my hip. In full view of the cops, but hidden underneath my coat, I untucked my Boomershoot golf shirt and used the tail of it to cover up the equipment on my belt and then took off the coat. I draped the coat over the target on the back of a chair from my testing the Gun Blog 45 a few days ago:

About five feet away from the cops, leaning up against a dresser was a rifle case. About eight feet behind the landlady they were talking to were two IPSC targets on the wall I use for dry fire exercises.

I wonder if the cops suspected there were guns nearby? If so, they didn't give even the slightest hint of noticing. I did find it a little odd that one of them gave me his card and told me his cell phone number was on there--but they didn't give the landlady a card or even their names.

I find it hard to believe they were so incompetent to not notice and would rather believe they were cool with it. Especially since they said they couldn't leave her there if she was afraid for her safety (which she said she was) with the boyfriend who can't currently be evicted. My offers to give her advance rent money on the spot to stay in a hotel or to stay on our couch went over well with the cops and they finally left.

Barb and I took the landlady to a restaurant for some food and she slept on the couch in our room last night. She left my underground bunker this morning without Barb or I talking to her and I can only presume she is working on getting him legally evicted today since she called work last night to take a day of vacation today.

I'd offer to loan her a gun but Boyfriend From Hell manages to keep stealing cell phones and keys from her purse so I don't know how she would manage to keep a handgun away from him.

More details will be posted as they become available.

There is, of course, no reason why the new totalitarianisms should resemble the old.  Government by clubs and firing squads, by artificial famine, mass imprisonment and mass deportation, is not merely inhumane (nobody cares much about that nowadays); it is demonstrably inefficient and, in an age of advanced technology, inefficiency is the sin against the Holy Ghost. A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who  do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude. To make them love it is the task assigned, in present-day  totalitarian states, to ministries of propaganda, newspaper editors, and school teachers.

 ....[such propagandists] accomplish their greatest triumphs, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing.  Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.  By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have done by the most eloquent denunciations, the most compelling of logical rebuttals.

Aldous Huxley
Brave New World, 1946 revised foreword
[In other words, far more important than what the media does say is what they don't say. For example, on gun control, they don't tell you no one has been able to answer Just One Question. For example when school funding, health care, or social security is being discussed they don't tell you 90% of what the Federal Government does is not authorized by the U.S. Constitution.--Joe]

If you have been following my Twitter account you will know there were five cops here at my Seattle area bunker tonight and that Barb, my landlady, and I escaped to the local Chinese restaurant without any shots being fired. And that the landlady's boyfriend from hell can't be evicted yet.

This has been building for a couple years now. I and a lot of other people are hoping she finally manages to stick to her position and actually gets the guy out this time.

Walking to bible study while listening to Disney music. I'm so badass.

Xenia Huffman-Scott
Via Twitter
[That's my girl.--Joe]

What news organization would call the KKK and their ilk "public safety groups"? Don't these groups think of themselves as protecting their white women from being raped or "polluting the race"? They were bigots and most of the press treats them like bigots. Yet we get this crap from a major newspaper, the Washington Post, where the anti-gun organizations are referred to as "gun safety groups" six times in the article. These are organizations that have never taught a single person a gun safety class. Having probably taught millions of people gun safety and with it's 50,000 instructors it's the NRA that is the leading gun safety group in this country and probably the world.

And I "love" this comment to the article:

How to spot an NRA member:
-lives anywhere South of DC or West of Pennsylvania, but east of California.
-Especially between Virginia and Texas
-sports mullet
-drives an old beat up pick up truck with bumper sticker that says "keep honking im reloading"
-still lives with mom at age 30
-lives in a trailer
-thinks voting 4 Bush is a good idea because he will make guns easier to obtain
-trash can filled with Bud cans
-wears an old faded out cap with a nascar logo
-reeks of the smell of urine and booze

What will Obama cling to when voters question his commitment to the Second Amendment?

Jacob Sullivan
September 23, 2008
Revenge of the Bitter Gun Owners
[Obama pissed off the wrong people with his "clinging" remark. Gun owners are probably more inclined than any other group to be one issue voters. And what is incredibly telling to me is that Obama could neutralize all the skepticism of his "support for the Second Amendment" by saying he as President would veto any anti-gun legislation that came to his desk. He could easily win the election by continuing his current plan and then repeatedly and convincingly saying that one sentence. But he hasn't. He wants to cling to the possibility of further restricting our civil rights.--Joe]

Daughter Xenia sent me these links:

• Change is coming
• Pretty Woman
• McCain Who?
• Palin Power

I like the last two best:

An email from Molly H. over a month ago got lost in my in box and I just now found it while procrastinating about something else.

Remember those reinforced doors they put on the airplanes to help prevent hijackers from getting control of the plane? It turns out there aren't any restrictions on taking lock picks on board. And even if there were restrictions it is trivial to get them past security.

As Molly said, "More proof that TSA is just a security theater..." or as I like to point out the acronym TSA really should be AST for A Security Theater.

As I reported a few weeks ago I did a bunch of earth moving at the Boomershoot range. Last Sunday Kim, Xenia, and I went back to plant grass on the fresh dirt, winterize the Taj Mahal and deliver 800 pounds of decorative concrete blocks to the Taj. Barb's Jeep was sort of dragging it's tail as we drove out to the range. We will use the concrete blocks as stepping stones around the Taj to keep the explosive workers out of the mud when it is wet. As a side note on Thursday Barb took her Jeep to be "detailed" which consisted mostly of removing mud and small pieces of concrete from the interior.

I didn't take my camera but Xenia brought hers and I planned to post some of the pictures she (and I) took of the work we did. Unfortunately the mechanism involved in transferring the pictures from her camera to me failed with the crash of Barb's desktop computer (it's complicated, don't ask because it's not worth it). I could have worked around it in any number of ways but I had, and have, more important things to do.

I did want to get a post up about the grass planting just so people would know the chances of the area being nothing but mud next spring are less than 100%. Also this gives me an excuse to post a link to Xenia (our artist) pictures from the day. As you can see from the sample below it's an artist taking the pictures and not her engineer father.

Xenia reflected in the solar panels on the Taj Mahal.

Kevin wraps his mind around why the left, and to a lesser extent the right, has so much hate and shares the result via quotes as is his style.

Very good stuff and I highly recommend it. It explains so much.

The shorter and even simpler version is, "You can't fool the free market forever even if the politicians think they can. The laws of economics can no more be changed than the laws of physics. Obama and other Democrats were the biggest contributors. Vote for McCain." Set to music:

H/T to George for the email with the link.

Update: The video was pulled and via Kevin I found the replacement.

As I reported earlier I had a dead battery in the Crimson Trace Lasergrips. As Rob pointed out the case is tight enough that if the master switch was left on the grip switch would be activated when the gun was cased.

I installed the new battery and the laser came to life but wasn't right. It was just like it was when I tried to use it at Summer Camp. It appeared to be hitting the pin for the slide lock and what light hit the target was a blob instead of a laser beam. Further testing indicated the laser lens was either dirty or possibly defective. I tried using an ordinary cotton swab with alcohol but I couldn't detect any improvement after repeated cleanings.

Say Uncle sent me an email saying he had similar problems with his laser and when he used the swab supplied with the grips rather than ordinary cotton swab it cleaned up and worked correctly. The cotton swab is just too large to deep down to the laser lens. I was able to confirm his results. My laser now works as expected.

I practiced drawing and dry firing with the laser probably a 100 times. I discovered that frequently I don't have a solid grip on the gun with the middle finger on my strong hand. It isn't gripping the gun strong enough to turn on the laser. It turns out sometimes my weak hand will push it forward as I wrap my weak hand around my strong hand during the process of gripping the gun. I'm going to modify the process some so I get a better and more consistent grip.

I also used the draw and dry fire exercise to observe the movement of the gun as I put the sights on target and pulled the trigger. One observations instructors in the past had made that I was not pushing straight out to the target but instead was pointed the gun above the target then bringing it down. It appears I have fixed that error in my draw stroke.

These laser grips are proving to be useful even before I have fired a single shot with them.

... I don't see the real world playing out like the last few chapters of Atlas Shrugged. We're a bit short of Galts and Gulches an' Midas Mulligan's been in a Federal pen for a good long while now, accused of "redlining."

Roberta X
Meanwhile, Back At The Launch
[Atlas Shrugged is a great book but there are lots of deviations from reality. It does have some wonderful points to make but as a plan for restoring our country's freedom it obviously won't work. Economic collapse may be required but an organized strike by the truly intellectual to force that just isn't going to happen.--Joe]

I review my Sitemeter referrals fairly frequently but today I got too much information:

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I'll be busy with lots of other things today trying to get that image out of my mind.

The only motivation for the above web search I can think of is there that must be a shortage of sheep in Mesa.

This isn't definite of course but it's a reasonable indicator that the New Jersey DOT wants to build a shoot house:

Domain Name		state.nj.us ? (U.S.)
IP Address		160.93.145.# (New Jersey Department of Transportation)
ISP		New Jersey Department of Transportation
Location		Continent  :  North America Country  :  United States  (Facts) State  :  Pennsylvania City  :  Newtown Lat/Long  :  40.2647, -74.9535 (Map) Distance  :  2,126 miles
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I have to wonder why they would need a shoot house. Aren't carry guns already outlawed there? If none of the private citizens can carry guns why would the DOT need them? Oh, that's right, they already have the guns off "the streets" and now they need to go into the home to collect what is left. After all, New Jersey has officially decleared, "When it comes to firearms, the citizen acts at his peril."

This is the sort of thing you can expect once Big Brother has taken your firearms away:

"CrimTrac has told us there will be 5000 cameras around the country, overwhelmingly in populated areas, taking some 70 million photos every day.

"There'll be maybe 1000 cameras in downtown Sydney, close to that number in Melbourne, perhaps 100 or so in Brisbane.

"If you use the main roads, you're likely to be snapped several times a day, and all those photos and any related data will be held by CrimTrac for up to five years."

Mr Vaile said it was false to represent the proposal as number plate recognition: "It's a photograph-all-drivers system."

At present, there are an estimated 300 fixed ANPR cameras and 100 mobile units in Australia.

CrimTrac is due to hand a $2.2 million scoping study for an integrated ANPR to the Minister for Home Affairs, Bob Debus, and the Ministerial Council for Police and Emergency Management in November.

According to a privacy consultation paper issued in June, all ANPR data collected would be made available to participating agencies in real time, and retained for five years for future investigations.

This fails my Jews in the Attic Test with such authority it takes some thought to imagine ways to fail worse.

As my Austrialian friend who sent me the link said, "This is some scary shit..."

There has been some concern about the potential for restrictions on lead ammunition in Washington State. A recent email from Jason with a pointer to the Department of Ecology web page Lead Chemical Action Plan finally got me motivated enough to take a look.

After spending an hour or so scanning through the 335 page draft I was somewhat less concerned. Yes, as the NRA says, there is a "Mandatory" section to "Ban lead from certain products". This is on page 208 where the NRA pulled it's quote, "Products that do not need lead and directly expose wildlife include wheel weights, small fishing weights, and some ammunition." But this is misleading because this is just one of several alternatives under the subject of "Mandatory". Other mandatory options mentioned in the draft plan are much worse (ban all lead with some exceptions) and some are much more tolerant such as "Require labels" which is also on page 208.

Yes, the plan goes through the cost estimates of shifting to steel shot and this certainly raises concerns if the intent is to eliminate the use of all lead shot not just in the hunting of water fowl as is currently the case (someone correct me if I am wrong on this point) under Federal Law.

I haven't written my comment letter yet (email: hdav461@ecy.wa.gov by October 6) but it will be centered on questioning the utility of restrictions on lead shot beyond that of water fowl hunting. Basically, is there any evidence non-hunting lead ammo is a significant sort of involuntary human or wildlife lead levels? Until there is evidence of this and other more significant sources are addressed then it would be inappropriate to take action against lead ammunition in general.

Barack What First Amendment Obama has sent threatening letters to new agencies in Pennsylvania and Ohio demanding they not run NRA advertisements. This act should be immediate disqualification of him as a candidate on at least two different levels. One is the obvious disrespect he has for the First Amendment (as well as the Second). The other is the crass stupidity. In addition to this being the Internet age where everyone can upload or download almost any video they want in a manner that is virtually impossible to block outside of a hard core police state this makes a news story out of the NRA ads. Which means TV stations are likely to start showing the ads for free!

As Dave Hardy said people will want to see what they are forbidden to see. A psychology prof lecturing about advertising once did a quick survey in his class about signs that were effective in getting the students to spend their money on a product. He was somewhat surprised to find one of the most compelling signs was "Under 17 not admitted without parent or guardian." Has Obama never learned that people buy and read banned books (get your button here) because they are banned? The same thing applies with guns, ammo, and accessories.

Just think of the headlines (the following are copyright exempt) this act of stupidity will enable:

• Obama Campaign Running Scared (NRA web page headline)
• What Obama doesn't want you to know
• See the video Obama wants censored!
• Obama attempts to ban free speech!
• Obama jumps the gun and goes for the First first
• Obama imposing "reasonable restrictions" on human rights
• What's next? Restrictions on the right to trial by jury?

Someone this out of touch with human nature and the Bill of Rights has no place in American politics.

Update: Barack Enlightened Leader Obama also has local law enforcement pledged to come down on certain anti-Obama ads. This reminds me a lot of the early days of Adolf Hitler. Only here we have these rights specifically enumerated and Obama is, in essence, saying, "Bill of Rights? We don't need no stinking Bill of Rights!"

Update2: It's not just Obama! The Democratic Party is trying to suppress free speech. But that is to be expected I guess. It was one of the most liberal Republications and a liberal that brought us McCain-Feingold. Repression of economic and political freedom--it's what liberals do.

When will people learn? Upon hearing "you should not be allowed to see this," every real American feels a Pavlovian urge to see it at once, even if it's a Sanskrit manual on chariot repair.

David Hardy
September 25, 2008
Obama campaign tries to get stations to refuse NRA ads
[Apparently Obama is trying to get an early start on gutting the First Amendment. Apparently just signalling his attitude on the Second Amendment wasn't enough. It's obvious that he and his followers think of him as the Great Leader but one would think he could control himself until he seized power. Could it be that he just can't help himself?--Joe]

Via an email from Simon--Political Fact-Check Sites Proliferate, But Can They Break Through the Muck?

I think the answer is, they could, but they won't because most fact checkers don't know what facts are and freely substitute opinions. See the Heinlein quote for assistance in determining the difference.

Via an email from Oleg I read his Live Journal post Going to court.

This time and energy would be much better spent defeating those that would violate our specific enumerated right to keep and bear arms. Let's get this resolved quickly and with as little money expended as possible.

It’s the public school system. Let’s be honest, it’s full of liberal loons.

Dann Dalton
September 23, 2008
Fifth Grader Suspended for Wearing Anti-Obama Shirt

I just received a visit to my blog from Handgun Control (now known as the Brady Campaign). It looks like it might have been Dennis Hennigan:

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ISP		Verizon Business
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Unfortuntionaly he only visited the one page but that probably was enough for him to realize he wasn't going learn anything here which he has any interest in knowing. I wish he had at least checked out Just One Question. But that probably is a nightmare he doesn't want to think about.

As we were filling out the paperwork so I could be approved to exercise my Constitutionally protected right to own a firearm the clerk behind the counter asked, "What model is that?" I thought about it a moment and said, "I guess we can call it a 'Gun Blog 45' just like what it says on the side." He agreed and after 45 minutes of paperwork and a phone call to the FBI (the first NICS check ever done on me--I always managed to avoid them with my concealed weapons permit in the past) I got my Para-USA Gun Blogger Summer Camp gun last night. The same one I shot last month at Blackwater. Yeah, I purchased the gun I said has a Pri 0 bug. I was convinced by several people that learning to shoot it right wasn't that outrageous of a suggestion.

Para-USA LDA with Crimson Trace Lasergrips
(Click to see higher resolution version)

I immediately bought some ammo--230 grain FMJ Magtech (the cheapest ammo on the shelf) and 230 grain Winchester Ranger (hollow points). I went to the range and loaded up one magazine of each. I put my targets at 30 feet which is the same range as the target that came with the gun:

I loaded the FMJ ammo and fired a shot. The gun failed to feed the second round into the chamber. Grrr... I had lots of problems with that at Blackwater but the problem went away after shooting a few hundred rounds and then lubricating the dirty gun. But this time the gun was clean and fully lubed. I racked the slide and continued to fire and had no further problems.

I was fairly satisfied with it: 

Magtech 230 grain at 30 feet.

I fired all eight rounds of the Winchester Ranger without incident except the last round which I pulled a little bit when I fired:

Winchester Ranger 230 grain at 30 feet.

This was better than the factory target!

Ammo makes a difference!

I didn't do any fast shooting as I had other things I wanted to do last night. That will be coming up soon. I need to see if I can train myself to shoot fast while taking my finger nearly off the trigger between shots.

The batteries appear to be dead in the laser grips. There is just the faintest glow coming out of them. I bought some new batteries but haven't installed them yet. A report on Crimson Trace Lasergrips will be coming soon. I have two guns equipped with them now.

Others who have received their Gun Blog guns from Para-USA:

• David Hardy
• JR has his waiting at Rick's place
• John D got the .45 and the 9mm

The Arithmetic of Cooperation:
When you're adding up committees
There's a useful rule of thumb:
That talents make a difference,
And follies make a sum.

Piet Hein
[Does this remind you of banking regulation committees?--Joe]

At this time-- this very day when Congress is plotting the final stroke in yet another, years-in-the-making, offensive against capitalism, Bill whittle has brought our attention to his doctorate level thesis on American exceptionalism.  It's called, Trinity (part 1).

If you believe, as I do, that wealth can be manufactured out of thin air, then there is no limit to the amount of wealth you can amass. And since you are creating it out of thin air, there is no moral onus on making money - you work hard to create it and have stolen from no one. There is an expression for this: you earned it.

Indeed, since charity depends on excess wealth, excess capacity, the more you make for yourself the better off everyone else is. You can even throw charity out the window if you are so hard-hearted; the fact remains that you will spend that money to get the things you want, and the more you have the more you can spend. That money goes to other people. This interchange is called "the economy", and rich societies are rich because they understand in their bones the centerpiece of Capitalist thinking: Wealth can be created from thin air by human ingenuity and hard work.

Now people on the left have, in their guts, a revulsion towards the rich and the wealthy, because whenever they see wealth they naturally assume that it was stolen...

So true, Doctor Whittle.

If any of you haven't read Bill's piece, you've missed out.  We know at least 99% of politicians have never read anything like it.  Either that or they were unable to understand it and wandered off to catch happy hour down at the watering hole.  Certainly nothing like this is being presented within our public schools.  Ever.

Well, now's your chance.  It'll take some time, but you'll thank Bill for it, I guarantee.

For you lefties out there; don't bother.  Something like a curse in a foreign language, you won't understand it but it will upset the hell out of you all the same.  Like when certain people ask me how to do something and I say, with total sincerity, "I'm sure you can figure it out."  Curse in a foreign language.

Reading the blogs today I'm reminded of a Heinlein quote:

If it can't be expressed in figures, it is not science; it is opinion.

-Robert Heinlein-

Apparently certain "fact checkers" didn't get the memo. There is a big buzz in the gun blogger world today:

• FactCheck.org’s Bad Facts Go Mainstream
• Fact Checking Fact Check
• More on FactCheck.org’s Bad Fact Checking
• Unmitigated Garbage from FactCheck.org on Obama’s Second Amendment Record
• Liar With “Facts”
• Two Simple Questions
• Square peg round holes

Our friendly Apex of the Triangle of Death has probably the best information with On Obama's Gun Record, Who Will Fact Check the Fact Checkers? I found this to be the most illuminating:

There's another possible explanation behind FactCheck's positions. Just last year, FactCheck's primary funding source, the Annenberg Foundation, also gave $50,000 to the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence for "efforts to reduce gun violence by educating the public and by enacting and enforcing regulations governing the gun industry." Annenberg made a similar grant for $100,000 in 2005.

I see three simple questions, inspired by the Heinlein quote above, to get to the bottom of the controversy. Everyone can answer them for themselves with only a small amount of work using the above links. Those questions are:

1. How many laws which restrict gun ownership and use has Obama supported?
2. How many laws which encourage gun ownership and use has Obama supported?
3. In the last few years how much money has FactChecker given to pro-gun organizations and how much to anti-gun organizations?

There no need for opinions on this topic. There is a need for facts. If "FactCheck" is to honor it's name then it should emphasis numbers and not words.

Something I don't see much of in Idaho is how the NRA spends it's advertising money during elections. Spending the money in my area of the country would be a waste of time. Any money spend getting an election victory greater than 50% of the vote is wasted. Seeing how my money is spend is nice.

Here, for your education and enjoyment, is the latest propaganda from the Apex of the Triangle of Death:

• Video Ads
• Radio Ads
• Print Ads

Philip Elmer-Dewitt
March 14, 1994
Who Should Keep the Keys?
[Those that criticize Republicans for "spying on U.S. citizens" forget how hard the Clinton administration worked to do the same thing.--Joe]

Women are at a severe disadvantage when confronting a likely stronger male assailant. In general, women simply do not have the upper body stren