Mad Saint Jack thinks that he’s seen the questioning of AG Holder by Darrell Issa before.
Spit-take warning – don’t drink and read.
Month: October 2011
Bowling Pin Match, Sunday Oct. 9
Usual place, the Tucson Rifle Club action range.
Time: 8:00 AM sign-up, first rounds downrange about 8:15
Handguns only
.22 rimfire, centerfire revolver (.38 caliber minimum), semi-autos (9mm minimum, unless you’ve got a S&W Model 52)
You’re welcome to shoot your revolver against the semi-auto crowd, but we think it’s more fun to shoot wheelgun-vs.-wheelgun.
Cost: $10 for the first gun, $5 for any additional guns. Bring about 100 rounds for each. You probably won’t need ’em all unless you’re really good at missing fast, but 50 probably won’t be enough.
Hope to see you there!
Racist Rant! (NSFW)
(Language warning!) It’s anti-Obama – it must be racist!
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_veRCThylI0?rel=0&w=640&h=480]
What a fine rant!
Movie Review: The Killer Elite
Typical action film. Lots of stunts, some explosions, lots of gunplay.
Major film stars: Jason Statham, Clive Owen, Robert De Niro.
Overall, not bad. I’d give it three out of five stars, but I have one teensy little gripe:
Why oh why does Hollywood worship the three-day beard? Especially when it comes to Jason Statham? It’s his signature characteristic. “Now performing, Jason Statham’s beard!” This film takes place over literally weeks, yet his beard never gets longer, nor is he ever clean-shaven, even when the situation he’s in suggests he ought to be (impersonating a doctor, for instance). It’s one of those “suspension of disbelief” things. Beat the hell out of a guy while you’re zip-tied to a chair with your hands behind your back? OK! Wear a three-day beard for weeks on end? Don’t think so. He shaves his head but not his face? WTFF?
That is all. My “profound” gland seems to be all tapped out at the moment.
The Two Americas
Quote of the Day from a comment by The Geek with a .45 to the last piece by Bill Whittle I posted.
Whittle absolutely resonates if you have woven into your mindspace the right strings and sounding cavities that were once baseline American libertarian concepts. In other words, if you’ve got certain ideas and mental referents knocking around your noggin, you’re going to be totally lit up by Whittle.
We have to remember that as illuminating as Bill is for us, there is a very large segment of the population that lack these key bits of mental infrastructure.
I’ve seen them, and it’s really disturbing. They react to Whittle as if he were speaking Mandarin while wearing a belt of pelts and skulls and painted in woad. That which he speaks is so foreign to them that it is literally incomprehensible, they have no handle with which to grasp the concepts. Without such traction, such mental anchorpoints that make association with anything else in their lives, the whole thing passes through like undigested corn, leaving behind no impact or effect in its wake.
And I contend that this division is the intentional result of a century of “public education.” As the “Father of Modern Education” John Dewey stated:
Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society which is coming, where everyone is interdependent.
Can’t have baseline American libertarian concepts interfering with the coming utopia.
Operating System Humor
My brother gave me this one. I hadn’t seen it before:
He has a desktop unit he “upgraded” to Vista back when it first came out. It became an instant doorstop. His new machine runs Windows 7.
My new work laptop is running Windows 7. So far, meh. My home machine is running XP Pro.
Arizona Gun Politics
Well, I went to the annual meeting of the Arizona Citizen’s Defense League and ran into Capitalist Pig and his lovely wife. I stayed until after AZ Representative Frank Antenori spoke, but my a$$ was dragging, so I called it a day at about 2:00 PM.
While I was there, however, the President of the AZCDL told of how, six years ago, the first annual meeting was held consisting of about five guys and one extra-long submarine sandwich. This year there were about 400 people eating catered barbecue. Not bad in that short a period of time.
If you’re an Arizona resident, you should look into membership. These guys fight the good fight.
OK, So the First Week at the New Job is Over
Man, it’s nice to be back on the retail side of the electrical equipment business. Know anybody who needs a 35′ diameter 26,000Hp Semi-autogenous grinding mill or two? I’ve got a lead on a pair of new ones, never installed, with full warranty! A mere $24 million each! No 58-week lead time, they’re ready to go (well, except for the drive systems – those would need to be built, and they’re extra.)
I’ve got to spend another week up in Phoenix, but the new office should be ready a week from Wednesday. One nice fringe benefit is I will have an office again instead of a cubicle beige fabric-covered box. I missed that. Another will be that I can walk to work – it’s 1.0 miles from my front door to the new office. The exercise will do me good. I may need to put together a 40lb. rucksack to carry.
Let’s hope that economic Armageddon remains at bay for the foreseeable future.