Ninth Stage

Many blogs hosted by Hosting Matters experienced a Denial of Service attack. My blog wasn’t the target but access to this site among many others was sporadic through most of the day.

I didn’t realize that the “show me your carry gun” meme started with Xavier. Not only did it start with him but he has a blog devoted to it, Carry Gun Gallery.

When the moratorium is lifted for illegal aliens to get “driving certificates” I’m going to get one. With one of those babies I can say bye bye to speeding fines.
I got this email back from Frist:
Dear Friend:
Thank you for contacting me regarding comprehensive immigration reform. It is an honor to serve you as the [...]

PDB has translated his shop across the surface of the earth and seems to have lost his mind, in a good an odd way, in the process. Read his tale of abacii, gold and Barons.

This month’s ePostal Pistol Match Results Are Up! Having let the deadline slip by me I forgot to shoot it. Go on over and congratulate the winners and shooters.
Sorry I missed it Mr. Completely but I will shoot next months match.

Earth will likely dodge a bullet er “death ray.”

Childproof locks needed for Leominster police guns. From The War on Guns we learn of a shot fired, in a police station, from a cop’s weapon, by the cop’s seven year old son.
The [unidentified] officer was reportedly showing someone a demonstration model of a holster for his semiautomatic gun.
At some point, he put [...]

SoPaPu takes a trip to a free state. Did they ask for your “papers please”?

Alphecca has the weekly check up.

The latest thing going around the gunblogs is a if you show me yours I’ll show you mine kind of thing involving carry guns. Well here is my array:

Glock 27 most of the time carry. Glock 17 lies in wait in my car. S&W 640-3 a sometimes carry piece.
Can you guess what [...]

So they’re gonna make the gun mark the brass. I’m cashing in the IRAs and buying a bunch of pre-ban brass catchers. I’ll make a million!

Those who would rob, maim, rape and kill have it much too easy. Sure there are laws against what they do. Sure if only there were those few extra dollars that would for sure this time we promise get the job done for the children we’d have it made. Since those dollars [...]

Plenty of internet problems mean no blogging.

Noel at Sharp Knife posts an excellent essay about pacifism.
Chesterton was also a vigorous enemy of militarism. Both ideas, he argued, were really a single idea — that the strong must not be resisted. The militarist, he said, uses this idea aggressively as a conqueror, as a bully. The pacifist uses the idea passively by [...]

You’ve probably heard the quote “consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds” but the full quote is “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines” - Ralph waldo Emerson.
There is nothing wrong with consistency per se but there is plenty of foolish consistency to go around. [...]

The Dogwoods are blooming in Tennessee.

This image was captured later the same day as the tornado below. A few hours can make all the difference in the world.

I promised to post the photo I took with my cell phone of the Gallatin Tornado. I only got this one since I was apprehensive and awed at the same time, I really wanted to see it.

Shortly after this image was taken the tornado passed to the left in this image, to my south, [...]

Me and Mrs. Ninth Stage purchased his and hers Walther/S&W P22 pistols. What’s in your pocket?

Say Uncle spanks S-townMike, a Nashvillian with a blog.
S-townMike is disappointed that “Conservative Bloggers” didn’t “start promoting shooting local looters on the heels of last week’s tornadoes as they did in the wake of Hurricane Katrina last year” without evidence of such promotion during Katrina.
Not being a conservative I can’t speak for them but for [...]

James Rummel’s post about shooting how you train should be a lesson to us all. He talks about IPSC/USPSA, IDPA and CAS matches as well as police training techniques and how they relate to the real world. Cops gunned down while looking for a bucket to dumpo their brass into? Makes you [...]