Ninth Stage

Armstrong a Peter?!?!

I’ve been tagged, I’m one-fifth “it”
What’s on my nightstand?
I don’t sleep on the nightstand side so I’ll do just get to the heart of the matter. Near to hand on my side of the bed is my carry pistol, a Glock 27. On my Wife’s side is an S&W 640- something or other. [...]

Read This
If you have time you can start at part one but make sure you read part two.

in Merry Old England.
Some may take exception to my post below by pointing out that Mr. Menezes should have known better than to run while appearing suspect.
We, in our corner of the blogosphere, like to point out that England’s violent crime rate has risen while gun ownership has been criminalized. To turn around and [...]

It turns out he wasn’t who they were after.

Police shot wrong man
Suspect was innocent Brazilian electrician
. . .
Witnesses to the killing of Menezes described how he was chased into Stockwell Tube station on Friday morning by armed plainclothes officers and killed with shots to the head while lying on the floor of a train.

I could [...]

This is the backyard air-gun range I set up.

I built some targets from 6061-T6 aluminum alloy plate. I knew that 7075 aluminum would be unaffected by air-gun pellets (cuz I tried it) but I was curious how 6061 would hold up. It turns out that, when hit by a pellet out of an [...]

Draft Eugene Volokh!
There’s only one downside if he is drafted, Arianna Huffington will claim victory for the blogosphere and herself as a longtime blogger and Volokh supporter.
Arianna’s first post on her blog The Huffington Post was 5/09/2005.
Eugene’s first post for Arianna’s blog was 5/10/2005 vs his first post at The Volokh Conspiracy on 4/10/2002 [...]

Don’t Panic my Leftist and Collectivist Compatriots
Our President won’t let you down.
There are rumors that three supreme court justices might step down during Bush’s term.
I said don’t panic. Sure the President won by a narrow margin and he had the bad manners to come from Texas but hear me out. This President has [...]

Thanks for the
image Robert.

We had a Great Independence Day Holiday Weekend
Mary’s parents drove down from Paducah to visit. We barbecued and talked and visited with the neighbors. On Independence Day we set off loads of fireworks and capped it off with a 16 shot mortar type grand finale when Mary returned from work at 10:30 that night.
Saturday [...]

My Friend Martin has a Groaner
During one of the times Keats and Chapman were low on funds, Chapman suddenly and unexpectedly inherited 500 large bolts of thick canvas from an obscure aunt. Determined to change this windfall into ready cash, Chapman offered Keats half the profits if he would help sell the material. [...]