Category Archives: By Ourselves, For Ourselves

Early Soundboard: Cheer the Fuck Up Edition

Posted on June 22, 2011 by Alaska

Entirely too much doom-n-gloom circulating among my favorite gunbloggers these days. First Kevin closes shop, then Barron follows suit, Breda’s muttering threats of packing up, ai yi yi! I’m gonna have a mini-megapost up tomorrow or Friday (aw hell, this … Continue reading →

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RNS Quote of the Day, 06/15/2011

Posted on June 15, 2011 by Alaska

Police SWAT teams under fewer restrictions than troops in Afghanistan: …SWAT teams frequently fail to conform to the basic precautions required in military raids. For instance, after reading about a drug raid in Missouri, an army officer currently serving in … Continue reading →

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Waste Not, Want Not

Posted on June 15, 2011 by Alaska

Kudos to AP and the Atlantic for some awesome photojournalism. Click the link and check them all out. This photo of a Libyan rebel removing a tank cannon from the turret is pretty cool. I love the sci-fi look of … Continue reading →

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Jose Guerena Massacre Photos

Posted on June 8, 2011 by Alaska

Here. Four points: 1) That’s a well-cared-for smaller home with nice furnishings. Looks like a nicely-kept starter home to me. From my conversations with cops, most criminals’ homes are not nearly this tidy. Could this be your house, dear reader? … Continue reading →

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Hell On Earth

Posted on June 7, 2011 by Alaska

Oh, lovely, it appears that the mysterious Clovis extinction event just twelve thousand years back was caused by intense radiation from a gigantic solar flare. A few hours’ warning, that’s all we’d get. Inconstant Moon, indeed. (If you don’t get … Continue reading →

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On Hardening Your Front Door

Posted on June 1, 2011 by Alaska

Seems like it worked against the Pima County SWAT. Not for Jose Guerena, but for another of the houses they raided that day: 12:57 p.m., Bertha Guerena’s house, 5500 block of South Lemon Tree Drive. No one home. An officer … Continue reading →

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RNS Quote of the Day: 05/25/11

Posted on May 25, 2011 by Scott

Why is it that Hollywood screenwriters so consistently portray preparedness-minded people as lunatics? – James Wesley Rawles The Left assumes you must be a kook if you do not want to rely on the government for help in tough times. … Continue reading →

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Political Ennui, Turning Inward, ?

Posted on April 21, 2011 by Alaska

Eric at Classical Values has a confession to make: I’m feeling so burned out by politics that I am genuinely worried. … I cannot remember a time in my life that I was so burned out and literally drained during … Continue reading →

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The Federal Reserve Has Piggy Banks — in, um, Reserve?

Posted on April 20, 2011 by Alaska

I had to go into San Francisco today and upon exiting BART at Embarcadero I spotted this collection of piggy banks in the SF Fed’s display window. (Sorry ’bout the reflections on the glass.) Snarky commentary left as an exercise … Continue reading →

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Spooky Inflation

Posted on April 14, 2011 by Alaska

I don’t watch much TV. I happened to have CNBC on just now to check the commodities and stock tickers, and found myself watching an ad for SunSetter Retractable Awnings. (You know, the one carefully targeted to retiring baby-boomers’ images … Continue reading →

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