Via a link to a young woman with a Tommy Gun from Uncle I found the more interesting (for me) video on guns in Hollywood and in particular the Miami Vice scene. I made a post on that scene 20 months ago and it still gets residual hits nearly every day from all over the world.
Category Archives: Blog Stuff
Brady visit
It appears the Brady Bunch stopped by for a visit. They just saw the one post. It was such a mildly worded post though. There are other posts I wish the Brady Campaign people had read instead.
Even if they don’t recognize it at first having their bigotry repeatedly pointed out will have an effect on their morale and dedication to their evil cause.
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Busybody Bachman bops by
I’d like to think Mr. Bachman made a visit:
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So that is what an Instalanche looks like
Just a couple hours ago I was showing Say Uncle what a high proportion of my referrals were coming from him via his link to me. Uncle’s referrals just became noise.
My blog just got an Instalanche via this post (my post was A time machine and scoped rifle ) by Glenn Reynolds (thank you Mr. Reynolds):
Update: At the dinner tonight (Glenn Beck was awesome!) I bragged to Kevin that I had an Instalanche. He said, “Yeah, I know. Ask me how I know.” I replied, “They visited you after visiting me?” “Yup.” I just looked at his sitemeter. Over 20% of Kevins hits were from referrals from my post on the time machine and a scoped rifle.
More numbers for most of the day:
Quote of the day–Dennis A. Henigan et al
Once the right to keep and bear arms is separated from its long-established tether to a militia purpose, it is unclear what legal standard gun laws would need to survive constitutional challenge. There is little doubt, however, that recognition of a broad private right to be armed will create a new presumption against the constitutionality of gun laws, whereas currently there is a virtually absolute presumption in favor of their constitutionality. Guns would achieve a specially protected constitutional status imposing unique limits on the legislative authority of the elected representatives of the people that would apply to no other dangerous products. Ironically, regulation of guns, the only publicly-available consumer product designed to inflict lethal injury, would be required to meet a higher constitutional standard than regulation of cars, lawnmowers and other dangerous products capable of inflicting lethal injury, but not designed to do so.
Dennis A. Henigan et al
Director of the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence Legal Action Project
Some time after March of 2007
Second Amendment Fantasy–The Brady Center’s Critique of the Parker v. District of Columbia Decision
Emphasis in the original.
[Henigan et al overlook two important points:
- Federal regulation of cars, lawnmowers, etc. is prohibited by the 10th Amendment.
- Regulation of a products unintended consequences is much different than that for which it is designed.
Ignoring the first point for today and concentrating on the second point a little thought will reveal the regulation Henigan supports is much different than that of cars and lawnmowers.
A regulation requiring a self-propelled lawnmower to turn itself off when the operator releases their hands from the controls would be analogous to something like requiring a gun to tolerate being dropped without discharging. Which, if it were done by a state legislature, I wouldn’t pick a constitutional fight over. A regulation which restricted self-propelled lawnmowers to government employees is analogous to the type of restrictions Henigan advocates.
Beyond the above points the 2nd Amendment specifically protects the right of the people to keep and bear arms. So yes, assuming the Heller (formerly Parker) decision goes our way, guns would achieve a specially protected constitutional status imposing unique limits on our government. This was the original intent of the 2nd Amendment.
Therefore a more succinct response to Henigan et al would be, “And your point is?”–Joe]
I almost used this exact paragraph from here as my QOTD but decided to look around some more and save that for some other time. I then saw this exact paragraph while visiting here and again was sorely tempted. As I continued to wander my RSS feeds revealed Sebastian and Kevin eliminated my backups. Either it is a conspiracy against me or great minds think alike. I’m inclined to think the later because Say Uncle has the same complaint as I do.
Book meme
I was tagged by The Unforgiving Minute a week ago which was right in the middle of Boomershoot. I’m still recovering and trying to catch up on things so this is a bit late.
The rules:
- Pick up the nearest book of 123 pages or more. No cheating!
- Find page 123.
- Find the first five sentences.
- Post the next three sentences.
- Tag five people.
When I read that I was tagged “the nearest book” was over a 1/4 mile away in someone else’s house so I decided to use the nearest book to my bed where I do nearly all my book reading these days.
From Explosives Engineering by Paul W. Cooper.
Page 123 is page 5 of “Table 9.1 Heats of Formation of Inorganic Compounds” and is not broken down into sentences. I’m going to page 124 which has some actual sentences on it.
Hydrochloric acid, HCl, will react with sodium hydroxide, NaOH, to form sodium chloride, NaCl, and water, H2O.
HCl + NaOH –> NaCl + H2O
Calculating the standard heat of reaction from the standard heats of formation, we have:
ΔHr0 = [ΔHf0(NaCl) + ΔHf0(H2O)]products – [ΔHf0(HCl) + ΔHf0(NaOH)]reactants
I would tag my daughter Xenia Joy and a few other friends but they always ignore me on the meme thing anyway. So if you sort of think you know me and want to participate go right ahead.
You are doing it wrong
Wrong search terms, wrong location, on the wrong website, with a webmaster that watches his log files. I’m filling out the police report now.
Greensboro is just 90 miles from Chesterfield (have you sees the news lately?):
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Speaking of search engines and the ATF
I wondered why I was getting so many hits from people using a search engine with the search terms “atf job description”.
I investigated just a little bit and discovered if you use those search terms with Google, Live Search, or Ask my blog post is the number one listing. I don’t think I know how to express how much that amuses me.
I just hope I can repress the urge to share my amusement with the next ATF inspector that visits me at the Taj Mahal.
Defying Say Uncle/shaming the ATF
Earlier today, Uncle demanded:
I’m here to ask you all to knock that shit off.
I’m here to defy his demands:
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Okay, so I’m not going to get bent out of shape and claim the ATF black helicopters are about to touch down. I’m not really in defiance of the Great and Wonderful Uncle.
What I do want to do is point out that we got the ATF’s attention when we pointed out their faux pas regarding Always Think Forfeiture. Whether they give the creator of that incentive tool a promotion and/or publicly flog someone is still up in the air. But you should note that we do have an effect on them. And every minute they spend deciding what to do about getting caught in the sheep pen with their pants around their ankles is less time they have to spend infringing the rights of the innocent. It will also be a very useful thing for our friends in congress to bring up during budget hearings with the ATF. Jed did good. Real good.
Books, explosives, and voodoo
Blogging will be light for a few days while I work on Boomershoot 2008 tasks. I give you Xenia as a substitute…
It’s becoming a tradition. During Xenia’s spring break we go to Portland, visit Powell’s, I buy books on explosives, and we get Voodoo Donuts.
And, again, Xenia captures it in pictures.
Web stickers from the Triangle of Death
I’m going to add some of these soon:
They must like me
DOJ and now DHS.
This time they are interested in the 5000 pounds of ammonium nitrate I bought and had my daughter pose for a picture with it.
I really need to do a Privacy Act request and get a copy of the file they have on me.
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I always wonder about these things
Are these people interested about what I have to say in a friendly manner? Or are they gathering material to put in my file?
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Another addition
I thought Sebastian (Snowflakes in Hell) was already on my blogroll. I’ve been reading him everyday for months.
That oversight has been corrected.
New to my blogroll
The VPC Blog is a must have. “Everyone” is talking about it and it’s good:
- New Addition to the Birdcage List!
- More Funny
- VPC Blog Satire Is Hilarious
- Han shot first
- American Hunters and Shooters Association Screech
- When it Becomes Difficult to Tell Parody from Reality…
The Adventures of Roberta X keeps me looking up words in the dictionary but anyone that likes guns, science fiction and geeky stuff is interesting.
Can bloggers make a difference?
Sometimes you might think you are just “preaching to the choir” and the people that can make a difference don’t listen no matter what you do.
Then there are other times when you think maybe someone in a position of power is paying attention:
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Second Amendment Blog Bash
May 16-18 is the NRA convention and the Second Amendment Blog Bash in Louisville. Initially I said I would wait and think about it until April or so. Uncle told me to make my reservations then cancel later if I decided to because the hotels fill up quickly.
I procrastinated* for a month or so and Kevin started asking if I was going. I talked to Barb and we decided if she didn’t have to work that weekend we would go. I looked it up on the calendar and found out she had to work and couldn’t go. So told Kevin no and dropped it.
Last week Barb said she wanted some time with her sister in California. I prefer to avoid repressive regimes** so Barb suggested she would go to California sometime and and I could go to Louisville.
I just finished making my reservations. I got a non-smoking King bed at Red Roof for $55.50/night (Fri and Sat, Thu and Sun it’s $45/night). Most of our group is staying at the Executive Inn but it is full. Red Roof is about two miles from the Executive Inn and Convention Center so I rented a car. I’ll willing to give people rides if you want to stay at Red Roof or the Super 8 next door.
See you in Louisville!
* Xenia, this is not justification for you to indulge yourself in the bad habit you inherited from me.
** Peoples Republic of Kalifornia, not Barb’s sister.
My day with Ry
The pass was still closed (they are saying maybe by midnight one of them will be open) when I woke up this morning. I chatted with Barb for a few minutes and was reading a few blogs and posting my QOTD when I got a text message from Ry:
We went to Beth’s and I finally got on the outside of one of their six egg omelets (they have two sizes, six and 12 egg, both come with all the hash browns you can eat).
I took a couple pictures of drawings on the wall:
From there we went to Kerry Park and took some pictures:
We left the park to visit Glazer’s.
At Glazer’s I bought a new camera bag and some minor camera accessories.
We then continued south to Cabela’s in Lacy. I have never been in a Cabela’s before and Ry had only been to the original store in the Midwest. The store was pretty amazing.
The most amazing thing happened there. Someone recognized our Boomershoot coats and my hat and said hi. He said he reads my blog!
I bought a bunch of strange flavored licorice (Piña Colada and blue raspberry among others) some bullets (not loaded ammo, just the Berger, .30 caliber, 210 grain VLD bullets). Wow! Those have gone up by a factor of two since I last bought some. But I figured they weren’t going to get any cheaper.
From way down south in Lacy we went way north to Monroe for the “Fun Show” as Ry likes to call them. Actually it was one of the WAC events. I walked by all the tables and didn’t really see anything of much interest.
We then headed out of town a little way to visit a friend of Ry’s that has a rifle range Ry has permission to use. “A couple hundred yards”, Ry said. Things were in the process of changing. Soon it will be over 850 yards! We stood around and talked with the owner and a friend of his for probably an hour. Maybe next spring when there is more daylight in a day and the longer range is available I might visit again with a long range rifle.
Next we ate dinner at the Old Country Buffet and I dropped him off back at his place and came back to my bunker.
That was a nice day. It was much better than moping around writing buggy code for The Borg like I had planned. Thanks Ry.
But the bummer part of it was Barb had an extremely light day at work and would have been able to spend a lot of time with me at lunch and then gotten off work early to spend more time with me had I been able to make it over the pass and back to Moscow last night.
That’s what I’m talking about
It was quite a while back that I invited Lyle to blog here. Via many long conversations and numerous lengthy emails it was clear he had penetrating, even brutal, insight that others would benefit from. He told me (IIRC) for me to offer him this forum was like the P.J. O’Rourke line about giving power and money to the government. But that he would think about it. Within a day or two the temptation overcame him and he made his first post.
Lyle hasn’t posted that often and I always thought he was holding back some. But then he would get links to his posts from certain bloggers I had never gotten links from and that made me a little bit envious. Still, the razor sharp penetration, straight to the bone, wasn’t on display as much as I expected.
His most recent post–now that’s what I’m talking about.
A New Years Eve Party?
From my Sitemeter it appears someone is looking for a good time on New Years Eve:
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Sorry, we won’t be having that type of party at our place tonight. It will be spent with our kids, Barb’s sister, and her family. And when I say that, keep in mind this is Idaho, not West Virginia or some such place.