Author Archives: Joe

Quote of the day—David W. Guth

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Need to ramp up mental health programs? Damn straight – starting with the afflicted folks that comprise the “from my cold, dead hands” lobby.

David W. Guth
January 25, 2013
Vol. 7 No. 7 — Mental Health and Guns
[H/T to Hognose.

This is the same Guth who expressed a desire that sons and daughters of NRA members be killed in mass shootings.

Interesting view of the world. He is wishing for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent children and he thinks people exercising a specific enumerated right and defending those rights need mental health care.

I’ve got news for Mr. Guth. The purpose of the Second Amendment was so the people could defend themselves against those that wished death upon the innocent. In other words the Second Amendment was about people protecting themselves from the likes of Guth.

And what is it with those on the left and mental institutions? It must be the projection of them at some level knowing they need help with their mental problems that they advocate that we get treated for mental health problems. If you listen to them for very long you will almost start to believe it yourself. It’s only will you start looking at the data and listening to them advocate for the deaths of thousands of innocents that you realize these people are nuts!—Joe]

Source of pro gun material

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I received an email from a Ms. Leanne W. yesterday suggesting this web page as a good source of pro Second Amendment material. Yup. Lots of good links there.

Quote of the day—Rabid Soledad Badger

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@linoge_wotc @bostonraider13 I really don’t give a fuck what you call your boy toys. I call them all little dick replacements.

Rabid Soledad Badger (@rabidbadger)
Tweeted on February 28, 2013
[It’s another Markley’s Law Monday! Via another tweet from Linoge.—Joe]

Quote of the day—Barack Obama

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As long as there are those who fight to make it as easy as possible for dangerous people to get their hands on guns, then we’ve got to work as hard as possible for the sake of our children … to do more work to make it harder.

Barack Obama
President of the United States
September 21, 2013
Citing shootings, Obama says must ‘go back at’ gun-control push
[One of the criminals that supposedly prompted this renewed push to make the exercise of a specific enumerated right more difficult via enhanced background checked had a military security clearance. How much more thorough of a background check does this guy think one should have before they can exercise their rights?

The only conclusions I can come up with are that he, and others like him who advocate for more rigorous background checks in response to the Washington Navy Yard shooting, are either totally irrational and/or evil. Regardless of the conclusion there is no point in “conversation”, “compromise”, or “debate” with people who are insane and/or evil. There is nothing to be gained from talking with crazy and/or evil people. I’ve been there and done that. It will only drive you crazy. Your only option is to get them out of your lives.—Joe]

Quote of the day—Charles Krauthammer

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A civilized society must disarm its citizenry if it is to have a modicum of domestic tranquility.

Charles Krauthammer
April 8, 1996
Both Sides Blowing Smoke In Gun Debate
[Reference needed.

I would cite Lenin, Chicago, and Washington D.C. for starters.—Joe]

Quote of the day–U.S. Rep. Henry Waxman

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If someone is so fearful that they are going to start using their weapons to protect their rights, it makes me very nervous that these people have weapons at all.

U.S. Rep. Henry Waxman
May 15, 2001
Supposedly from MSNBC Investigates report on The .50 Caliber Militia
[I haven’t been able to verify the quote so if someone finds that it is bogus let me know.

If someone is using weapons to protect their rights Waxman wants to take them away? Then he has a lot in common with the KKK (see “No Guns for Negros”). The only conclusion I can draw from this is that Waxman has plans to infringe the rights of the people and he wants to avoid resistance.—Joe]

Quote of the day—Judge Robert C. “Brunes” Brunetti

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No one in this country should have guns.

Judge Robert C. “Brunes” Brunetti
September, 2013
Second Amendment Rights Attacked Behind Closed Doors
[Don’t ever let anyone tell you “No one wants to take your guns away.” People who say that are lying. It’s what gun grabbers do.

See also Nobody wants to take your guns (via correia45).—Joe]

Quote of the day—DumbGeezer

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To them Stalin is a feature, not a bug.

DumbGeezer
September 2013
Comment to Dr. Grover Furr – An Example of Recto-Cranial Inversion
[I believe there is more than sufficient evidence to support this hypothesis.

Do not forget that in every genocide the victims outnumber the perpetrators by at least 100:1 and that you have an inalienable right to keep and bear arms and use them in defense of innocent human life.—Joe]

Something I don’t think I wanted to know

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Video instructions on coffee enemas.

I don’t like coffee and this certainly doesn’t change that. On the other hand I know Susan and know she credits this therapy (and some other unconventional therapies) to surviving typically fatal cancer (melanoma) . See also here.

Quote of the day—Mike

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A couple weeks ago I moved a guy that was really into audio stuff. His place was filled with speakers. He loved them more than anything. They are his life. We move different things for different people. For him it was his speakers. For you it is books and lead.

Mike
September 15, 2013
[As I mentioned earlier I moved to a new clock tower on Sunday. Rather than climb all those stairs with all those heavy boxes, two gun safes, and other stuff I hired  movers. For the most part Barb and I just directed and supported them with fluids and food. One of the movers was more chatty than the others and told me the story above.

Interesting observation even if it wasn’t entirely complete. He didn’t see the assembled bed or some of the other articles from that room.—Joe]

Random thought of the day

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Barb and I frequent have talks about “crazy people”. This morning was one of those times. I don’t remember exactly what she said but something she said gave me a new insight and I told her my new hypothesis.

We get frustrated, grumpy, and angry from dealing with people that aren’t entirely in touch with reality. I’ll bet they feel the same way when their world view doesn’t match reality and they try to deal with us.

Then this afternoon Lyle left the following comment on a blog post:

when you take an irrational position and hold that it is rational, when you look at sane people and consider them insane, when you look at justice and consider it injustice, when you take on the victim mentality and blame the self sufficient, then slowly but surely, reason and sanity themselves become your enemies, and insanity your friend, for reality makes you face your faults and insanity protects you from facing them.

There is more. It’s as if he read my mind and extrapolated.

One year ago today

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About three weeks ago Barb L sent me an email with this note and the picture below.

I found this in my wallet. I wrote it when we were dating for about a week (or less). Still all true!

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I met Barb one year ago today via match.com. We talked and talked. I was still in the parking garage in Bellevue Square where I had “drinks” (I had lemonade, she had something more conventional for a bar) when I sent my friends (and romance coaches) Kat and Maggie the following email:

From: Joe Huffman
To: Kat; Maggie
Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2012 8:20 PM
Subject: I’m in love.

I just meet someone. She is awesome!
I can’t wait to tell you….
Joe

Kat met Barb a few days later and after an hour or so when she had a few seconds of privacy Kat told me, “She’s a keeper!” I already knew that but it was nice to get a second opinion.

We are still doing great together.

What caliber for rampaging boat?

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A shotgun worked in this case.

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Quote of the day—Morris Davis

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The point they prove is that a nine millimeter on your belt doesn’t make the nine millimeters below it any bigger.

Morris Davis
February 22, 2013
Comment to A good day to NOT go to Starbucks
[It’s another Markley’s Law Monday!—Joe]

Quote of the day—Barb L.

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You don’t get to be your own museum.

Barb L.
September 15, 2013
[I moved to a new clock tower today. I now have a clear field of fire into the lawns of homes over a mile away. It’s awesome!

I sorted through dozens of old boxes of stuff. Some of them contained stuff from 40 years ago. I’m a packrat and it’s difficult to let go of things. But I threw out garbage bag after garbage bag of stuff.

There were some things I had received from Microsoft that I considered historic. I help build Direct X and Windows Phone 7. I participated in the attempt at worlds record for the largest number of paper airplanes in flight at the same time and have one of the airplanes.

When I came across an artifact from the launch of Windows Phone Seven I wanted to pack it for the move. Barb was there and said to throw it. I started to explain how it was from the launch but she interrupted me with the above quote.

My response was:
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Picture by Barb.–Joe]

Quote of the day—owlstead

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So says the NRA. Which by the way stands for:  ‘Nuts, Retards and Assholes.’

owlstead
September 9, 2013
Comment to In Colorado Recall, It’s Michael Bloomberg vs. the NRA
[You need to know what the anti-gun people think of you. It helps you do your part to keep things civil.—Joe]

Field Ballistics update

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I released a new version of Field Ballistics for Windows Phone earlier this week and it made it through Microsoft’s test gauntlet this morning.

Here are the changes in version 1.1:

A crash that occurred when measuring inclines has been fixed.

Auto conditions retrieves air pressure from the weather service and allows manual input of air pressure independent from altitude for user defined conditions.

Target range can now be set in the range edit box in addition to moving the target push pin on the map.

Quote of the day—Billll

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Sen. Morse is proud of his accomplishments and has said that if they cost him his job then it’s still worth it. He has the mindset of a suicide bomber.

Billll
September 11, 2013
Comment to Senator Says MAIG Should “Fold It Up”
[His accomplishment was to pass a repressive and unconstitutional anti-gun owner law.

It’s trivial to imagine scenarios where his actions kill more people than any one suicide bomber has ever killed. Senator Morse should be held accountable for his actions. He lost his job but he should be arrested and put on trial for violation of civil rights under the color of law.—Joe]

First shots

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After separating from my wife last year I moved everything out of the house without any sorting and disposing of old stuff that really should have been thrown away years ago. There were hundreds of used targets. Over 99% of them should have been thrown. There were a few that I was pleased to find as I was sorting and throwing away stuff today.

This is one of them:

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These are the first two shots son James ever fired. It was July 11, 1993. He was shooting the first gun I owned. That was over 20 years ago when James was nine years old.

I remember daughters Kim and Xenia first trip to the range.

Kim’s first target was a milk jug filled with water which she hit. I’m pretty certain that would have been throw away even by a packrat like me.

Xenia, IIRC, missed the target (shooting a 9mm handgun as I didn’t have a .22) and didn’t want to shoot again that day. But what do you expect from a four year old kid?

Quote of the day—The Denver Post Editorial Board

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We hope the outcome of Tuesday’s recall elections closes an ugly chapter in Colorado’s political history, an instance when recalls were used against elected officials not for malfeasance or corruption in office but for simply voting their consciences.

The Denver Post Editorial Board
September 10, 2013
Time to move past Colorado recall elections
[“Simply voting their consciences?” Would they be saying the same thing if the lawmaker in question had come out of the closet as a KKK member and had helped passed laws which forbid mixed race marriages? How about “simply voting their consciences” to reinstate slavery? Or outlawing all non-Christian religion? Or outlawing books having more than 150 pages?

It is an ugly chapter in Colorado’s political history but not for the reason they believe. It’s ugly because bigotry and prejudice is a terrible thing regardless of the people being targeted.—Joe]