Monthly Archives: April 2013

Boomershoot charity raffle

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I just had my bank send the Boomershoot 2013 raffle proceeds to Soldier’s Angels. This included some private cash donations given to me before and after the Boomershoot dinner and raffle.

I received $150 from G. before dinner, then $200 from D., and $40 from someone else (sorry it was quick and I didn’t catch his name) after dinner.

Here is what my bank says about the payment they are making on behalf of Boomershoot:

Soldier’s Angels
145 N. Sierra Madre Blvd. Unit 5
Pasadena, CA 91107

Phone: (615) 676-0239

Pending Payments

Amount Send On Deliver By
$1,361.00 04/30/2013 05/07/2013

The Stars Came Back -065- Quiritis

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Fade in

INT – day – ships garden

Allonia and Helton are chatting in the hydroponics garden. The light panels are bright, there are many levels and racks of trays full of lush deep green plants – some obviously lettuce, melons, and tomatoes, a few compact blueberry bushes, and a lot of less obvious greenery. Some trays are hydroponics, some trays just look like they are filled with good dirt. Quinn is playing in some of the dirt, putting it into small pots. Continue reading →

Quote of the day—Lyle

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The answer is pretty simple. It can be found in the basic tenet (which is a lie) of communism; “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.”

You get more stuff by asserting your need. You assert your need by asserting your status as victim. Victims need perpetrators from which the goodies are coerced. And so it’s very simple; if you’re in the business of looting, you go where there is the most wealth to be looted. That’s the U.S.

Lyle
April 29, 2013
Comment to Quote of the day—Bill Maher
[I have nothing to add.—Joe]

Quote of the day—Lefty (@LeftofLeftMA)

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If you need one of these 158 weapons of war listed in #AWB2013 to go target shooting, you should really consider penis enlargement surgery.

Lefty (@LeftofLeftMA)
Tweeted on January 24, 2013
[It’s another Markley’s Law Monday! Via still another Tweet from Linoge.—Joe]

Quote of the day—Max L.

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It was totally worth it.

Max L.
April 26, 2013
After completing the Boomershoot High Intensity Event.
[Max had spent the day working in a crowded hot shipping container helping to make reactive targets. A few minutes of Boomershoot therapy was apparently compensation enough.

Video and pictures in a day or three.—Joe]

Quote of the day—Bill Maher

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I’m so sorry, but this is the problem with the gun debate — it is that it’s a constant center-right debate. There’s no left in this debate. Everyone on the left is so afraid to say what should be said, which is the Second Amendment is bullshit. Why doesn’t anyone go at the core of it?

Bill Maher
April 2013
Starting at 2:20 in this video:

[No Bill. The left is bullshit.

And the core of “it” is Molon Labe.

H/T Tyler Durden in Guest Post: The Goal Is To Destroy All Constitutional Culture.—Joe]

Gun Song – Dana Lyons – Cows With Guns

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What can I say. A classic. With animations.

 

Hope to see some of you at Boomershoot.

Quote of the day—Phil

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The hatred of folks who vote for civil rights will continue until “full progress” is reached. In other news, water is wet.

Phil
April 23, 2013
Here It Comes
[I have nothing to add.—Joe]

Quote of the day—Adam Winkler

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Focusing on assault weapons played right into the hands of the NRA, which has for years been saying that Obama wanted to ban guns. Gun control advocates ridiculed that idea—then proposed to ban the most popular rifle in America.

Adam Winkler
Professor of Law
UCLA School of Law
April 17, 2013
Who Killed Gun Control? The gun-control bill is dead. Why?
[No one has ever accused the gun control people of being too logical, smart, or internally consistent.

Even in Winkler’s own article there is some inconsistency. You would think that as a law professor he would know that the Heller decision says that weapons in common use are protected. Therefore when in the context of the “assault weapon ban” he says, “The courts have … approved of restrictions on assault rifles” you have to wonder if his brain is working right, because he also says the ban covered “the most popular rifle in America”.

[Shrug]

As near as I can tell “gun controller” is synonymous with “crap for brains” so what should I expect?

H/T to Thirdpower for the email.—Joe]

Another joke comes to life

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Today’s sarcastic jokes are often tomorrow’s real life. And here we are once again. No doubt, many gun owners said after the event at the Boston Marathon, or thought to themselves sarcastically; “I guess we’ll have to ban pressure cookers then. That’ll stop future bombings.” Well, it turns out that a company halted sales of pressure cookers after the Boston bombing.

Sure; it’s not an actual ban imposed by out-of-control law makers. They halted sales of pressure cookers voluntarily for a while “out of respect”. You may think; “What’s the big deal, Lyle? Jeeze.” and to that I say that this is quite insane, and that this sort of insanity is rampant. It is promoted.

It’s a cooking implement, for Pete’s sake! Put out some flowers if you want to show respect, or, you know, actually reach out and offer help to the victims and their families? Ever thought of that? Hmm?

What if someone used a pair of crutches to commit a crime? You going to halt the sale of crutches “out of respect”? Idiots. Hmm…you know it would be entirely possible to make a bomb using a fire extinguisher as the containment vessel. Let’s ban those then. Same goes for guns – we restrict the tools of self protection in response to crime. What a bunch of blithering idiots we’re becoming.

This is yet another in a very long line of cases of punishing the innocent for the actions of the guilty. They punished the whole city of Boston too, with that lock-down. I’m disgusted that there wasn’t a city-wide defiance of that order. Such cowards as we are, such zombies, maybe we deserve to be slaves.

Boomershoot status

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The weather is looking pretty good this year.

Details are here.

The short version is:

  • Friday: Partly cloudy. High of 68F. Winds from the WSW at 5 to 10 mph.
  • Saturday: Mostly cloudy in the morning, then overcast. High of 63F. Winds from the SSW at 5 to 15 mph shifting to the West in the afternoon.
  • Sunday: Partly cloudy in the morning, then clear. High of 54F. Winds from the WSW at 5 to 15 mph.

So far I have been concentrating on getting Boomershoot Mecca ready for target production. Staff will start showing up for a full day of work tomorrow and I want everything to be ready for them. It’s essentially ready now. Just a few odds and ends still to do.

The portable toilets were delivered yesterday. Brother Gary brought the ATV and trailer over yesterday as well.

I had some exciting times when my tent blew away on Sunday night just before I was going to take a nap about 6:00 PM:

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A heavy suitcase prevented it from ending up several miles away in the lake. I had heavy rock on the stakes on four corners but it worked its way loose somehow.

There was no way I was going to get it staked down in that wind so I just took the suitcase out and rolled it on down the hill and put it in the shipping container:

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My Verizon phone does not have nearly as good a reception at Boomershoot Mecca as my various friends have reported. Ry ordered a Verizon “Network Extender” (a femtocell) for me which is supposed to arrive today.

My AT&T microcell wasn’t working either. I had to reactivate it and got it working on Sunday.

That was the worst of things so far.

I’ve rearranged Mecca some:

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I moved the 3350 pounds of ammonium nitrate twice (“vitamin I” is my friend) before I was happy with things.

I did detonation tests on round targets Barb L. and I had built and stored over two weeks ago. Typically targets go dead in as little as a week during the summer. I figured that if even a small percentage detonated it should be considered a pass. In the first batch only 20% detonated. The others got solid hits but just popped open. I switched to hollow points and 80% of the rest detonated. It didn’t seem to matter if the boxes had the shrink wrap plastic on them or not. That is good to know. There is no need for that time consuming step.

Bottom line is that everything is looking good for a great Boomershoot 2013.

Quote of the day—Hawk

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I believe that comment sums up the gun grabbers pretty well… I’m from the city and I didn’t think.

Hawk
April 21, 2013
Comment to Schumer/Obama astroturf rally
[It’s not that they don’t think at all. It’s that they restrict their thinking to a very small domain that doesn’t include the potential benefits of gun ownership or the potential disadvantages of restricting gun ownership.—Joe]

It’s the Religious Right don’t you know

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Heard on my way to work today – Network news break;

“Boston bombers blah blah blah Religious Right blah blah bombers blah blah Chechnya blah blah blah Far Right.”

As always, Progressives refer to all icons of evil as “The Far Right” or the “Religious Right”. That was the sole purpose of the “report”.

Back in junior high school in the 1970s I was taught the same thing, only then it was (and usually still is) that the Nazis were “Far Right”. Never mind that they referred to themselves as national socialists, and were inspired by the American Progressives and the Eugenics movement. Oh, and they were pretty tight with the Middle Eastern Muslims.

Yeah, so we’re to believe that the more you advocate freedom, the more you support the American founding principles of liberty, the more you support the concept of minimum government and maximum individual responsibility, the closer you get to Nazis and Islamofascists. Stupid as that is, there are those who believe it. And so they keep beating that drum.

As expected, the report did not contain the word “Islam” or the word “Islamist” or “jihad” or anything similar. They were so upset that, yet again, the perpetrator was not a teapartier, they went ahead and made the connection anyway. As usual also; they did it with innuendo. Just plant the little seed and watch it grow.

Cold dead hands

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I don’t much care for country music but this one is okay.

Via Don S. from the gun email list at work who says, “This made the hair on the back of my neck stand up and sent a chill down my spine!  So COOL!!”

New shooter smile

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Via email from Will:

NewShooterSmile

It was taken at the Norpoint range in Arlington WA.

And that is part of why we win.

Quote of the day—Dan

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Bad people in power WILL NOT STOP. They will continue to do bad things to us until we stop them…. and stopping them will require the use of force. All other discussion on the matter is window dressing.

Dan
April 21, 2013
Comment to Quote of the day—Senator Charles Schumer
[I have nothing to add.—Joe]

Red Girl Red State

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Nice! I like them and you can buy them:

RedGirlRedStateARRedGirlRedStateRifle

Subtitled “We have you outgunned and outnumbered.”

Via http://imustnotthinkbadthoughts.wordpress.com/

Ain’t it so

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This does sort of put it into perspective.

Quote of the day—Brian Lydon

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Quote of the day—Senator Charles Schumer

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We have foot soldiers everywhere answering the foot soldiers of the NRA and the gun owners of America, and I am telling you, we are going to win this fight a lot sooner than you think.

Senator Charles Schumer
April 20, 2013
Schumer Cheers On Gun Control Advocates In Midtown
[Dream on.

Our activists outnumber theirs 100 to 1. We have the facts on our side. We have the Bill of Rights on our side. And most importantly we have rational people on our side (compared to Joan Peterson and many others).—Joe]