A Dixie Carpetbagger

In this post, Tam points out the absurdity of an armored golf cart, and here she reveals a high priced two wheeled tricycle.  I can best both of these, however.

Toyota is building a motorized chair.  With a built-in social networking computer, to find other chair owners who want to hangout with you… in their chairs.  Or something.

Logic versus penis jokes.  (Hey, at least it gave Robb an excuse to use this image… secure your beverages before clicking.)

Also, gunnies will recognize that sometimes the hill you happen to be on isn’t the one you need to defend.  The antis don’t.  As one commenter points out, Starbucks has allowed CCW holders and OC citizens into their establishments… and nothing has happened.  Not to mention that a majority of Americans think that no more gun control legislation is needed.

This little spat not only makes the antis look a little overzealous, it makes it easy to point out that their predictions of doom never come true.

“What happens when an irresistible force meets an immovable object?”

I don’t know, but I think we’re about to find out.  If you’ll excuse me, I have to go pop some popcorn… hold my seat, I really don’t wanna miss this fight.

Via Sebastian, a quote from Abby Spangler (founder of Protest Easy Guns) regarding the whole Starbucks open carry scuffle:

And to Starbucks corporate management: How’s it feel to be kissing up to guys carrying guns drinking your coffee? FEEL GOOD? Wouldn’t you rather be kissing up to the women of America? FEEL OUR HEAT at Saturday’s Starbucks protest.

1) Starbucks isn’t “kissing up to guys carrying guns,” they’re following state law.

2) Time and again, the pro-gun side proves to outnumber the antis by huge margins (like 170 to 1, for instance), so Starbucks is probably enjoying a nice sales boost right now (seriously, ever known a gunnie who didn’t like coffee?).

3) Since I am pro-gun, I can kiss up to women like these and these, and maybe these ladies, too.  No offense, Mrs. Spangler, but I’d rather feel their heat.

Robb got an email from the owner of Ghillie Suit Resource and decided to pass on the word.  Seeing as I’ve come very close to ordering some of their products (curse my lack of spare time to use them), I’ve decided to spread the word, too.

One of the commenters at Robb’s pointed out an unusual use of Ghillie suits.  Very cool.  Not the music… the suits.

Side note: the name of this post comes from a Call Of Duty 4 level, which involves a crazy Scottish SAS Captain, one of the most engaging game experiences ever designed, and extensive use of your ghillie suit.

Finally, the evil Big Gun Companies are sending out those wheelbarrows full of cash!  Maybe I’ll get mine soon– I’ve been shilling spreading the word for a while now…

Imagine what you could buy with all that money… like a few items off the dollar menu at your local McWhata King, or half a book of stamps.

(H/T Uncle)

Assuming one gun each.  Also assuming each NICS check passed , each check was for only one gun, and discounting all private transfers in states that allow their residents to be adults (or as I call them, Free America).  I would assume that 99+% of these checks resulted in a gun sale, due to the fact that most people with felony records don’t go to gun stores to buy guns.

The article also states that if each NICS check resulted in one sale, and each owner purchased 1,000 rounds of ammo, that would mean 14 billion rounds of ammo sold in 2009.  That’s discounting existing gun owners who didn’t buy new guns in 2009.  Kinda puts the ammo shortage into perspective, doesn’t it?

Now, for some fun with the numbers.  Assume that each NICS check resulted in one gun sale, each new gun owner bought 1,000 rounds of ammo, and that the average overall length of the cartridges used was 1 1/2″.  This means that if you were to place the ammo bullet to primer, the length would be… (works calculator) that can’t be right… (does calculations again) sweet mother of pearl…

331, 439.39 miles.  That’s equivalent to the distance to Luna at perigee and halfway back.  No wonder I can’t find .380 ammo…

(H/T Cocked and Loaded)

Watch and enjoy.

As far as a response, give me a second, I think I have it around here somewhere… okay, here it is.

I actually didn’t watch the whole thing.  I felt my mind going, so I decided to save myself and shut the window.  Also, I doubt the scope on a Galil is as high as they show it… that looks to be even higher than a scope mounted on the carry handle of an AR.

The best part is the comments… for once, decent comments on a YouTube video.  You know, any second, I expect to see four odd horses come over the horizon…

(H/T War on Guns)

For fun, and so I can editorialize.  (Hey, I blog, it’s what I do…)

“25 wssm upper”  You’ve given me three words, I’ll give you three:  ABANDON ALL HOPE.  An upper in .25 WSSM costs almost as much (or more) as one in .450 Bushmaster.  Also, hope you like Olympic Arms… because I don’t think anybody else makes uppers in this caliber.

“is charlie crist a carpetbagger”  No.  While he is from the North, the carpetbaggers came to the South for good reasons.

“damnation alley shower scene”  Err… shower scene?  Not that I know of, and isn’t the cast almost all gu… oh.

“6.8 spc for hunting black bear”  Not unless you like going mano-a-ursa with an angry black bear.

“sellier & bellot lcp”  S&B ammo works very well in a LCP.  So far, besides Winchester and Speer , S&B is all my LCP has gone through.

“insomnia is fun”  For the first 24 hours.  The nest 24?  Not so much.

“p-64 for self defence”  Rates right around the same place as a LCP– 9×18 fits between .380 ACP and 9×19 in power.  In short, a little more power than a .380 ACP, buts still more concealable than most 9mm pistols.

Okay, I finally am catching up on everything.

The (not so) long version is that my PC got a very nasty infection.  Multiple Trojans, multiple viruses… core Windows components (task manager and the login manager to name a few) became unstable, and I had to do some serious work on the machine.  New hard drive,  new video card,  stepped up to Windows 7, and threw in some more memory.

The upside?  Machine acts almost new again.  The downside?  Not only am I having to play catch-up, I’m having to learn how to use a new operating system… and Windows 7 is more like Mac OS X than Windows XP.  (Want proof? Here’s a screenshot.) I halfway expect my DVD drive to eject if I drag its icon into the trash.  Everything is there… it’s just… different.  Even Paint and Solitaire are different.

So, expect the writing to pick up.  However, I did lose my bookmarks file during the whole crash-a-rama on the old machine, so I lost 6 months of bookmarks.  Note to self: backup more often.