The Smallest Minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities. – Ayn Rand
I’m in the Hospitality room with a crowd of bloggers and vendors (pictures hopefully to follow), blogging from my iPhone (which sucks as a blogging tool, but hey, it’s what I’ve got.) Had a great breakfast provided by the NRA, a GREAT day at the range, and now it’s Show-n-Tell. Tactical Solutions has brought one of pretty much everything in their catalog. I want one of their 10/22 barrels!
Blogging like this is painful, so I’m going to stop now and listen to the presenters.
“Registry.”
So, the NRA has joined the ACLU in a lawsuit against the NSA? Does that give anyone else this image?
Or is it just me?
It’s 5:15 PM and the first day of GBR is underway. Just got back from the Roop County Cowboy Shooter’s range where they’re holding a major shoot this weekend, but were more than kind enough to let us step in and shoot some of their guns and ammo. I got to whack some 400 yard steel with a very heavy-barreled Remington rolling block in .45-70, and some closer steel with a lever gun chambered in .50-100-450. They even let me play with my 16″ stainless Rossi 92 chambered in .45LC. But any day where someone lets you shoot their guns with their ammo is a good day in my book.
Bill from Daily Pundit got in the first post of the day from the site.
Now I need a shower and back down to the Hospitality room! Don’t you wish you were here?
I’m in Reno – 13 hour and 40 minutes, 870 miles, two and a half tanks of diesel, but I’m here! Just ate dinner ( notice I didn’t say anything about stopping to eat?)
#firstworldproblems – The peel-n-eat shrimp at the buffet hasn’t been deveined. (Yes, I ate before posting.)
Dr. Furr is a professor of medieval English literature, yet he writes books on Russian history, specializing in the period where Stalin was in power. Mass murder under Stalin? Never happened, he says:
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRPTZF5zSLQ?rel=0]
So all those Kulaks that starved to death? Not Stalin’s fault or did they just not happen at all?
This guy teaches college students. And, I imagine, he has tenure, so he’ll never have to worry about working another day in his life.
No, no writing got done this weekend.
So here’s a Bill Whittle video:
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrp6uewkFTk?rel=0]
Looks like he’s got the message down pat now.
So, somehow I just discovered the webcomic Failure to Fire, which just today had its first anniversary. I spent some time last weekend reading from its inception. Main character works in a gun shop. Warning: The strip is occasionally NSFW.
For the People of the Gun, it’s freaking hilarious. Strongly recommended.
I have an EeePC 900A that I bought four years ago, and shortly after I got it I put Ubuntu on it. It’s been running like that since, but I understand it’s possible to install the Chrome OS on a bootable thumb drive and make it a Chromebook. All I use it for is web surfing and blogging when I’m on the road. I tried going to Hexxeh and using their latest and greatest (build 4028) – no bueno. Doesn’t seem even try to boot from the thumb drive. (And yes, I think I have that part set up properly.)
Anybody successfully done this on a 900A and know which build works?
Bueller? Bueller?
OK, I’m off for the next TEN DAYS!!! Maybe I can get a LITTLE writing done before I head off to Gun Blogger Rendezvous VIII.
Other people have fisked this Salon.com Slate.com op-ed, If You Send Your Kid to Private School, You Are a Bad Person, I just want to pull a QotD from the comments:
i am a teacher. the line ” But it seems to me that if every single parent sent every single child to public school, public schools would improve. This would not happen immediately. It could take generations. Your children and grandchildren might get mediocre educations in the meantime, but it will be worth it, for the eventual common good. ” took me aback. generations? we should not send kids to private schools so the children of this nation get mediocre education until public schools improve? are you nuts? are you a drug addict? mediocre education? hundreds of years of MEDIOCRE education would be the death of america. you think government is bad now? wait for the students with mediocre educations to be government leaders. — “yiersan”
It would appear that “yiersan” has a problem manipulating the Shift key (or thinks he/she/it is the second coming of e.e. cummings), but aside from that, “hundreds of years of MEDIOCRE education would be the death of america. you think government is bad now? wait for the students with mediocre educations to be government leaders.”? Not been paying attention, have we? We’ve had eleven decades of “mediocre” (I would say pathological) education, and the product of that education is running the nation NOW. How the FUCK do you think we GOT HERE?!?