Ninth Stage

The Palin choice gives a lot of people in the freedom wing of national politics an excuse, or maybe emotional cover, to vote for the despised McCain. The choice also relaxes those same people to express the secret hopes we all harbor: Palin + Heart Attack, 2008.
If god in his heavens cared about U.S. [...]

“I just left a sporting goods store and you would think that the number-one selling item would be plywood or potable water or gasoline right now,” he said. “Apparently it is AR-15s and .223 ammo. I watched at least 20 people buy AR-15s and cases of .223.”
At The Gun Shots via dabiguy.

Anyone who can’t find excitement watching the Olympics isn’t paying attention.
Watching the men’s 3-position final I was on the edge of my seat. The American Matt Emmons started the final in second place and shot himself into a 4 point lead. As the final shot neared, his lead narrowed to 3 points with [...]

Well, call me Mr. Wrong then.  Apparently, the pill makes women choose macho assholes.  Well, if truth be told, I’ve also lost out to greater, machoer, assholes too, but I’ve had my share if you know what I mean.

Stop using swat teams on civilians. That’s a reasonable request. One that will go unheeded of course.
There’s an old saying, if you don’t use it you lose it. That is the primary reason that SWAT teams being used for routine search warrants will not go away.
Another reason is that being on a [...]

Found at Ace of Spades via Inoperable Terran.

must be spinning in his grave over this Mini-14 20 round magazine promotion.
Actually, I think that wiser heads in the company are trying to wipe off the stain the big man’s words left on the name Ruger, and 20 round magazines seemed like a nice place to wipe.
Via The Shooting Wire.

Watching men’s air pistol I see a French competitor is named W. Lapeyre.  An NRA connection?  You decide.

On CBS’s Flashpoint, a police sniper shoots a gunman with a Model 700. Best part is he shoots the rifle with it’s bolt open.
Episode” “Who’s George.”
ADDED: Here’s a photo of the actor and the rifle.

They managed to close the bolt for this shot.

I upgraded to Wordpress 2.6 a couple weeks ago.  I hadn’t noticed that the upgrade had broken my permalinks until last night.  I was able to fix the issue with these instructions.
After the upgrade I’d noticed that the usual flow of spam caught by akismet had dwindled from 1000 or so per day to 5 [...]

Fourteen years ago, when I was planning a move the the Nashville area, I started taking The Tennessean (they’re happy to mail it to wherever you’ll pay for it).  I wanted to develop a feel, a connection to my new home to be.
Living my life ’till then in Los Angeles, I’d stopped taking the L.A. [...]