From a sign in San Francisco protesting China’s hosting of the Olympics:
Would we allow Nazi Germany to host the Olympics?
That sound you hear is history teachers beating their heads against the wall.
My buddy’s eyewitness account below the fold.
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As some folks may have noticed, I didn’t post about any new purchases for BAG Day, April 15th.
That is mostly because I spent my BAG Day monies back during Easter.
That spending, in turn, allowed Ken (aka The Step-Dad) to buy himself this, which he picked up the day after BAG Day, April 16th.
The new Ruger LCP in .380.
For another sense of scale, for anyone who has handled one of the 1908 Colt Pocket Auto (aka: Baby Browning).
Ken mostly carried the 1908 during his walks in the park with The Parent’s Pomeranian, Ricco, mostly for protection against other dogs. Ken has noticed that the other dogs have been getting larger, so an increase in caliber was in order and the LCP fit the bill nicely.
First positive point: .25 ACP vs. .380ACP.
Second positive point: The Ruger is about half the weight of the 1908.
I’ll have a range report for you all not too long after getting back from Boomershoot (hopefully, end of next week/beginning of the week after) though the number of rounds I’m going to be allowed to put through it may be limited as I’ll have to pry it out of Ken’s hands first.
Preliminary reactions from him are “excellent”. Much better than than any Kel-Tec he’s ever handled in all areas: Fit, finish, feel, function.
If you think that you can’t wait, then imagine my predicament.
Way up for shooting conditions at the Boomershoot site.
Joe is quite pleased with the conditions on site, and if Joe is pleased, then so am I.
Dry, but cold as a step-mother’s kiss. Bringing my thermals and wool socks.
And a big smile.
If you’re anywhere near the Washington or Idaho, I hope that you have made plans to come and see this event. For those that have not yet, Boomershoot costs nothing to come and watch, except for the unbreakable addiction you’ll leave with. It is all “Joe’s Evil Plan”.
It is also why I call it the premier Long Distance Precision Rifle Event in the PacNW.
Is by butting the word “Test” in front of it.
They’re against GM plants, but they’ll pay a cool million for GM meat because they can make a fortune from it.
Test tube steak? PeTA wants formula
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals wants to pay $1 million for fake meat — even if it has caused a “near civil war” within the organization.
The organization said it would announce plans today for the cash prize to the “first person to come up with a method to produce commercially viable quantities of in vitro meat at competitive prices by 2012.”
And please, no “Ingrid Newkirk doing the Tube Snake Boogie” jokes. That is just too frightening a mental picture.
Would be scratching their heads at this oddity that Craig at MTPolitics found
The headline that the blogger jhwygirl wrote:
Governor to Propose Reduction in Property Taxes
The Article she linked to says:
The Department of Revenue says it is closely watching the housing market to make sure values aren’t dropping as it finishes its statewide reappraisal.
Director Dan Bucks says the agency has extended its analysis of home values to include this spring’s real estate season. He says so far the agency has found no evidence prices are dropping on a widespread basis.
The new property values set by the agency will be used to set taxable values.
Bucks says the agency wants to make sure that people don’t unfairly get hit with valuations higher than the actual value of their homes.
Gov. Brian Schweitzer has promised there will be no statewide increase in property taxes as a result of the reappraisal. The details of that plan have not been released.
I understand that my math skills are not proficient as they used to be, but (and this is a Rosie O’Donnell sized butt) I do not believe that the term “No Increase” is not equal to the term “Reduction”.
This may be some combination of “New Math” and “New English” that they are teaching nowadays, and if they are, then those doing the instruction absolutely need to be shot.
I’ve heard of rooting for a politician. I’ve also heard of “Newspeak”. You can decide which this is.
As always, be on the watch for this combination in your locale.
Two must be stupendous!
And folks in the leftosphere want Obama to pick this guy for Veep
A prominent Senate Democrat on Wednesday said federal and local police should use custom software to monitor peer-to-peer networks for illegal activity, and he wants to spend $1 billion in tax dollars to help make that happen.
At an afternoon Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing about child exploitation on the Internet, Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.) said he was under the impression it’s “pretty easy to pick out the person engaged in either transmitting or downloading violent scenes of rape, molestation” simply by looking at file names. He urged use of those techniques by investigators to help nab the most egregious offenders.
The software, dubbed “Operation Fairplay,” was developed two years ago by Special Agent Flint Waters in the Wyoming Attorney General’s Office, who, by Biden’s description, is considered an expert in the field. The application is currently being used by all of the regional Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) task forces nationwide and internationally, Waters told the panel.
There is no love in the halls of RNS for pedophiles. I consider the death penatly too good for them, but if that is all we have, then so be it.
But this is not the way to catch them.
I do find it terrifying how those on the left would give the thumbs up for P2P monitoring to track and find pedophiles, but then do a 180 when it comes to those who would target civilians to be the victims of military style operations.
But logic never was their strong suit.
But then again, they’re not exactly in America.
Or even on the North American Contient, for that matter.
Found at Cowboy Blob’s
Of Blueberry PopTarts
Sorry folks. Last weekend before Boomershoot. Many preparations still to be made.
Catch thou on the morrow.
