Boomershoot Picture of the Day

From Boomershoot 2000. Click to embiggen.
Photo courtesy Joe Huffman.

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Boomershoot Picture of the Day

From Boomershoot 2000. Click to embiggen.
Photo courtesy Joe Huffman. He titled this pic “Cold Amanda,” so perhaps there’s a story behind that title. Hey, I’m not shy about bringing blankies to Boomershoot. It can get coooold!

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New Years’ Blog Resolutions

Okay, top on the list is actually posting a Boomershoot Picture of the Day every day, which I miserably failed to do in 2009.

Next, I’m gonna be making Costco runs to resupply our over-the-counter meds and first aid supplies. All the lists, etc., that I see are good, but not many preppers include price estimates for what it will cost you to duplicate their super-duper-everybody-needs-it list of stuff. I’m going to include the prices I actually pay, so you all can estimate yourselves what coin you need to set aside for a similar venture.

Same thing with all our canned goods — we’re down to very few, and they were yummy, but it’s time to restock and I’ll give you pics, stats and prices.

Finally, I’ve joined FreezeDryGuy’s monthly buyers’ club and will be reporting on how that works out. I have always liked Mountain House goodies, and I’ll be able to compare prices with similar fare offered at our local preparedness store and at outdoor stores like REI.

Oh, and one more thing. I’m currently fighting a nasty ear infection, but assuming I knock it and am able to help my wife progress to a certain point on her thesis…

I’M GOING TO SHOT SHOW!

I’M GOING TO SHOT SHOW!!

I’M GOING TO SHOT SHOW!!!

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Fumee d’Ambre Gris

As a kid, I fell in love with this painting. Now, thanks to the magic of giclee reproductions, a close-enough-to-the-original-not-to-matter reproduction hangs in our parlor — matted, framed, and less than $200 shipped from Accents-N-Art. There are other vendors doing the same out there — just Google your favorite art piece with the word “giclee” and you’ll find ’em.

If nothing else, this alone proves to me that we’re living in the greatest time in human history — and it should only continue to get better in lots of ways that the media will never notice.

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SARCO BM-59 Kit

Droool….

Yeah, it involves major surgery to your Garand receiver. So what? Gunsmith who does it at the link. You’ll have to sign up for FAL Files Forums, but why aren’t you already, hm?

Now if you could work a Shuff’s Mini-G conversion on that bad boy, you’ve got yourself a Socom 16. Yes it costs a hell of a lot more by the time you’re done, but need I remind you that in California, Garands are among the few rifles that can be lawfully passed between residents with no paperwork or background check whatsoever?

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Baby Elephant Seals!

Alison Hayward found ’em, latched onto their mamas, near San Simeon on the California coast.

If we ever get all the ridiculous gun-bigotry excised from this state, it’s still a pretty awesome place to live.

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More work, Less play

Need to pass out so I can start work early and get home before the PST ball drops.

You and yours have a good day and safe night and we’ll you on the other side of midnight.

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RNS Quote of the Day: 12/31/09

There used to be two daily newspapers in Seattle. A liberal one, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and a not quite as liberal one, the Seattle Times.

The P-I went under not too long ago and was sorely missed by the local leftists who honestly believe the Times to be a “Conservative” paper. On just about any day you can hit up the local leftosphere and find one of them bitching about how “right-wing” the paper is.

If there is a common denominator that links the shootings in Seattle, Lakewood and Eatonville, it is fools with firearms. The proximity of weapons to the angry, delusional and addled is astonishing.

Two of the shooters died in circumstances they brought on themselves, and another awaits a full, rigorous determination of legal accountability.

Application of the law, and all its protections and consequences, is separate and apart from assessing how the culture became awash in guns and embraced a mindless proclivity to use them.

A constitutional right to own a gun does not carry a subsequent right to put others at risk, or to amass a personal armory with a lethal capacity beyond some hypothetical need for household defense.

The shocking assault on law enforcement over the past eight weeks suggests uniform officers have become strange surrogates for all the simmering frustrations in the culture and economy. Bitter people armed to the teeth have taken a horrific toll.

The Seattle Times Editorial Staff

As the facts have shown, Clemmons was on parole and had multiple felonies, and so was breaking existing laws. Also,the only reason Crable still had his guns was because the prosecutor and judge who worked his Domestic Violence case didn’t do their jobs. Lastly, no one knows what kind of weapons Monfort used or how he acquired them, because the Seattle Police Department refuses to divulge the information. Taking into account how anti-private ownership of firearms the SPD Administration is, their silence probably means he possessed stolen firearms of no propaganda value.

Yet, as any leftist in Seattle will tell you, the “conservative paper” says we need more gun control and that is proof that the NRA and their members are “extremists”.

If you want to see a sample of those leftists voices, click this link to read their screeds wishing death upon a hospitalized Rush Limbaugh. That “conservative paper” is allowing them to use their comment section to spew hatred that should be reserved for the likes of the murderer, Fidel Castro, and not for a talk show host. Sure, there are moderators, but they seem to be “off for the holiday”. I’m sure they’ll clean things up when they get back.

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The Drums of Anthrax

Not what you metalheads are thinking

A New Hampshire woman diagnosed with a rare gastrointestinal anthrax case may have swallowed spores propelled into the air by vigorous drumming, a state health expert said.

Officials haven’t confirmed how the woman contracted the disease but are focusing on a drum-circle gathering she attended Dec. 4 at the United Campus Ministry center in Durham shortly before becoming ill. Public-health officials who learned of her diagnosis last week immediately began investigating, and earlier this week shut down the ministry center after anthrax spores were found on two drums.

Hippies cause disease.

Pass it around.

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Refusing to adhere to our national history

For reasons unknown to me, one of the Crooks and Liars frontpagers decided that yesterday was a good day to reminisce about 1951.

Among the items from 1951 that were noted: The Cold War,  MacArthur being relived of his command and the Kefauver Crime Committee Hearings.

Also remembered: “the trial of accused spies Julius and Ethel Rosenburg.”

Excuse me? “Accused”?

Umm, no.

“Convicted” would be the proper term. By both a jury of their peers and by history.

I can understand the want to remember their brethren kindly, but let the factual record reign, please.

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