Ninth Stage

I bought a bunch of CDs yesterday, most of them used. I hadn’t been to a music store in a while and I forgot to bring my list but I did OK, remembering some of what I was looking for and filling in a few missing/unreturned items and duplicates for a some of my [...]

A woman on a Virgin Atlantic flight from Africa became ill and later died in London leading to fears that she may have died from the Ebola virus.
The unnamed woman is understood to work at an embassy in the African kingdom of Lesotho.
Before boarding a Virgin Atlantic flight from Johannesburg to Heathrow she visited a [...]

Peripherally watched “House” tonight. House gets shot, the rest of the episode is some fever dream. At the end some guy drops a bullet, just the projectile, from his hand. A pristine spire point bullet sans engraving marks from the rifling, presumably fired from the handgun shown earlier in the show hits [...]

First Ravenwood promises to stop posting and I put him in my MIA category (don’t look for it, I’ve moved him back to the regular blogroll) then a few weeks/months later he’s posting up a storm. I bet he’ll quit posting again in a week or so now that I’ve moved him. It’d [...]

The weekly Check on the Bias is up at Alphecca.
Added bonus this week - You can read an interview with Jeff Soyer, proprieter of Alphecca, at Bloggasm.

Bill Frist is “concerned” that the cops entered his house err Senate.
…they are disturbed by the raid. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) said that he is “very concerned” about the incident and that Senate and House counsels will review it.
House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) expressed alarm at the raid. “The actions of the [...]

Here’s my old 4″ 681 .357 Magnum revolver with aftermarket stocks. It’s an “L” frame square butt in .357 Magnum. The difference between a 681 and a 686 is that the 686 has an adjustable rear sight.
The action has been smoothed and polished to a double-action pull of an even 9 pounds as [...]

Another reason to fix our immigration problems now! Read this and you’ll see what I mean. What this poor woman goes through for a green card . . .

“A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity.”
- Sigmund Freud, “General Introduction to Psychoanalysis”.
Josh’s knife post inspired my own. Some comments later we have quite a few more stories about people shocked, shocked I say, that someone might produce a tool from their person. This one for instance.
I [...]

My only regret at leaving behind my biz travel to CA is the one thing that kept me going, Stone Brewing Co.’s India Pale Ale. They make other beers but their IPA is the standout in my opinion. I was finally able to find it in Tennessee at Macgregor’s Wine & Liquors in [...]

Racism rocks in Seattle. Since, being white, I can’t help but being racist I’ve decided to embrace my racist self. Let me count the ways.
Attribute value and normality to white people and Whiteness. Check. All day dog, that is exactly what I think about all the time.
Devalue, stereotype, and label people [...]

Finally, investment advice with a bang!
PDB gives us his thoughts on hedgeing your financial bets with non-precious metal.

Start taxing remittances to Mexico and Central America at an 80% rate, now.
Build a good fence.
Build up the Border Patrol.
Return half the 80% tax less $5000 (the fine for illegally crossing the frontier) at the border in a US side kiosk with one exit, an exit to Mexico.
Watch the exodus.
Oh, if there is any guest [...]

If you Stop Snitchin’ then Stop Bitchin’ about how poor your neighborhood is. Stop Bitchin’ about crime in your ‘hood. Stop Bitchin’ about how your kids are raised by “the street”. Stop Bitchin’ about how the dealers in your ‘hood treat you old woman. Stop Bitchin’ about how the man keeps [...]

I’ll follow Alan’s example and post here.
Like Josh I had an odd moment when I miraculously produced a knife in a social setting. I was at a birthday party for a transplant from California. It was at his house where he and his girlfriend, a transplant from New York lived. A package [...]

Google Trends is a cool new tool to get a history of search term’s popularity and even a list of cities where the term was most popular. Let’s try it out.
I did a search for “NSA” and Google Trends returned this graph:

There are actually two graphs here. The top one is the relative [...]

The latest addition to Say Uncle’s collection weighs eight pounds, three ounces and is 19 inches long. No it’s not some short barrel select fire rifle and no there wasn’t a BATFE tax stamp to buy. It’s a new addition to Say Uncle’s family, a son, a Mini-Uncle if you will.
Congratulations to the [...]

If everything else going on in the political world is a Rovian Plot then this new flash game must be a plot by the likes of the reconquista apologista, Gloria Molina, to engender sympathy for illegal aliens immigrants. ABC news says
“Border Patrol” is a Flash-based game that lets players shoot at Mexican immigrants as [...]

There’s a post up at The Gun Blogs talking about the “IPSC guys” having a field course day back in the day of Malcom X tee shirts. Maybe that was true but for us “USPSA guys” an “X” on a target means No Shoot.

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