Ninth Stage

Take your pizza targets to the range now!
If you can’t scan/photograph your targets by the end of the day please email me so we can arrange a way to get you included.

Attention! Today is the last weekend day of July’s ePostal pistol match. Monday is the absolute last day of the match. If you shoot it by the end of Monday and for some reason can’t turn it in by the end of the day, email me so we can work out some [...]

That old canard about “a gun kept in a home is 43 times more likely to kill someone you know then to kill a stranger in self-defense.” is debunked, again, at ChuBlogga
Reading the latest Carnival of Cordite I saw the link to ChuBlogga’s post. It reminded me of what I had read years ago [...]

Jimmy Carter with boobs.

…that they’re better than you and on the ground muthaf**kah. now.

The family of Neftaly Cruz said police had no right to come onto their property and arrest their 21-year-old son simply because he was using his cell phone’s camera.

I can think of no punishment too severe for Cops who do this sort of thing.
Via Coals [...]

This is the last weekend to shoot the Pizza ePostal pistol match. Scores are due by the end of Monday the 31st. Shoot only the pizza(s) you want or shoot tem all. It’s pizza your way.

Only this time they’re being told by the Wall Street Journal. Scary and quotable lines abound.
Teams design fast deadly ergonomic knives.
[T]the team produced knives whose blades could be flicked open with one finger faster than the widely outlawed switchblade — but were still perfectly legal.
The knives have ergonomic grips and are compact — [...]

I missed Lileks’ Friday post ’til now.

is up at Mr Completely’s place.

Bikini Tam. Tam. I said Tam, bikini Tam as in Tam wearing a Bikini!
Added: Just to be clear. Zoiks is meant to be read in the best way possible.

Commenter Ron L. defends the HK P9S from my claim that it has an atrocious trigger pull saying “Atrocious trigger? Maybe. Maybe not. I think that the single-action pull is one of the finest on an out-of-box pistol ever.”
To each his own I guess. In fairness I should say that in single action the [...]

I’m getting a lot of hits from image searches for katyusha rockets and Karima Adibebe. To make it easier, here they are.

I’m not, yet. But did you know you can get a budlight.com email address? I didn’t until this comment (his email is a budlight.com email, I thought it was fake until I checked out the Bud Light site.)

Idiot with gun, The Movie.

Despite the fighting in Lebanon, English rock band Deep Purple says that it plans to perform at the Baalbek Music Festival outside of Beirut later this year.

Found at Ace of Spades HQ where commenter Reddish Jode offers these new lyrics:
We all went down to Beriut
By the Mediteranian shoreline
To make money and bring Jihad
on the kaffirs [...]

Ten years later I still remember the evening TWA flight 800 plunged into the sea. I was at the Market Street Brewery with friends in Nashville. While we were talking I noticed images on the television over a crawl, no sound - just the pictures, pictures of flames on the dark water.
I used [...]

The ePostal pistol match for July is Pizza, three ways.

This is the target, available for download here (right click to download) or at Targetz.com (download target #20028.)
This Pizza can be shot three different ways. Shoot it for precision at ten yards. Shoot it quick at seven yards or shoot blazing at five yards. [...]

Feeling somewhat better now but still a bit fuzzy headed.
I started feeling poor Saturday evening and by Tuesday I wasn’t up to much at all. My Independence Day was a bust and consisted of sleeping on the couch and drinking liquids. The highlight was watching the Nashville riverfront fireworks show on television, a [...]