Doormats

Posted on November 2, 2012 by Alaska

Joe’s is pretty cool.

I’m currently looking for a real-world version of this I can buy for our house.

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I can build that

Posted on November 2, 2012 by Alaska

Mine would look like crap, though. I do rough carpentry, not fine furniture.More here.

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Picture Time!

Posted on November 2, 2012 by Phil Kadath

I was taking pics the rifles Wolf wrote about here that I recently picked up from riflesmith extraordinaire, Mike Palazzo.

As you all probably know, once you take a few pics of firearms, it doesn’t hurt to take more pics of other firearms, since you already have everything out and all……

I decided to try and get a co-witnessing shot on my XM177 clone

(Click to Enlarge on all pics)

Not too bad for a photography yutz such as myself with a camera that was made in 05.

And since I’m being a proud papa and all, here is the Israeli K98 Mauser that I attempted and failed to turn into a Col. Jeff Cooper style scout rifle.

I childishly sold the rifle off when I couldn’t do with it what I wanted. I did make sure that it went to a good home though,  and I recently found a trade Rivrdog was willing to make so that I could get it back. Yay!

I’m sure that Wolf will fiddle and improve the pics I’m sending him and get them up on the RNS frontpage in short order. They are oh so very nice.

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Cleaning more than just their conscience

Posted on November 2, 2012 by Phil Kadath

You have to wonder just how bad next Tuesday could be for The Won when P&G puts these messages into their commercials

Ouch! That has to sting a bit.

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RNS Quote of The Day: Model Destruction Edition

Posted on November 1, 2012 by Alaska

Dan McLaughlin. Read the whole thing, it’s excellent.

nearly everybody involved in the mortgage-backed securities market (buy-side, sell-side, ratings agencies, regulators) bought into mathematical models valuing MBS as low-risk based on models whose historical data didn’t go back far enough to capture a collapse in housing prices. And it was precisely such a collapse that destroyed all the assumptions on which the models rested. But the people who saw the collapse coming weren’t people who built better models; they were people who questioned the assumptions in the existing models and figured out how dependent they were on those unquestioned assumptions. Something similar is what I believe is going on today with poll averages and the polling models on which they are based.

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Justice Scalia’s Luncheon Talk

Posted on November 1, 2012 by Alaska

As promised, here’s the video of Scalia speaking with Peter Robinson at the luncheon I attended.


 

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Here we are, sitting around the cannibal pot….

Posted on October 31, 2012 by Alaska

Creepy story for you. The “Chichi-Jima Incident.”

Gothic cannibalism.

Japanese atrocities.

George Bush.

And it’s all true.

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Monster Roll

Posted on October 31, 2012 by Alaska

Just watch. It’s a short film that works equally well on its own or as a teaser. You’ll like this. Trust me.

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Shouldn’t there be a test or something?

Posted on October 30, 2012 by Phil Kadath

A simple test about what the US Constitution says, as per the current SCOTUS rulings?

I mean, you can’t swear to uphold and defend something you don’t understand, right?

Case in point:

Toni Preckwinkle, president of Illinois’s Cook County Board, which includes Chicago, has proposed new taxes of $25 on each gun sold and a nickel for each bullet sold. According to the Wall Street Journal, the bullet levy would amount to a 200% tax on .22 caliber ammunition.

Preckwinkle’s message to the NRA? “You’re welcome to sue,” she said. “We’ve looked at this and we believe we can survive any challenge.” She must not have looked very carefully at the issue, or she never would have proposed the tax in the first place.The Supreme Court has recognized that the Second Amendment guarantees an individual right “to keep and bear arms,” which cannot be denied by the state. That means government cannot banish guns directly — nor can it do so indirectly by taxing guns out of existence.

It would save a whole lot of time if, when filing paperwork with the elections office, they could easily determine if a person had their head up their ass before they somehow convinced a majority of voting people to give them law-making capabilities.

Of course, then only non-wackoloon Libertarian candidates would ever be allowed to run for office.

Still not exactly seeing a downside to this one.

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Don’t Watch, Jim — it’s Live from New York

Posted on October 29, 2012 by Alaska

I’m currently livestreaming the webcam from the S. S. Gizneyland, which appears to be berthed at Manhattan’s 79th Street Boat Basin.

As a landlubber, I’ve no idea whether or not the Gizneyland’s in danger, but all that bouncing around just doesn’t look healthy to me. The cap’n of the late Sloop Sunk New Dawn may not want to watch. Just sayin.’

The USS Intrepid’s berthed along the same shoreline, but it’s a mite more stable, as you can see here.

Say, I haven’t heard anything about how Global Warming’s causing this here weather event, have you?

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