A Dixie Carpetbagger

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.

I’ve seen it in the lightning,
heard it in the thunder,
and felt it in the rain;
My LORD is near me all the time,
My LORD is near me all the time.

… today is PSH Day!  Guns in national parks!  Snow in Florida!  Dogs and cats living together!  MASS HYSTERIA!

I just have to point out the first line in the Sun-Sentinel article: “Just what we need — maybe a submachine gun while people are trying to get a look at bison or deer in Yellowstone.”

I thought it was the gun owners who watched too much Red Dawn…  I mean, what are we going to do, LARP Red Dawn, with the tourists playing the Communists?  Will guns in national parks lead to CCW holders running around Yellowstone like Able Team on steroids?  Will there be blood in the streets streams?

Or has the anti-gun lobby simply begun to grasp at their last straws?  First, it was “blood in the streets,” which never happened.  Then it was “vigilante justice,” which never happened.  Now it’s “SMGs in Yellowstone, run for your lives,” which… well, I’m gonna go out on a limb here and say it’s never gonna happen.

SMGs aren’t that concealable, after all.

I’m still alive.  Just encountered a bit of a virus problem.  Ended up just upgrading– it was time, and I want to slag the hard drive that the infection was on.  Literally.

Observations:

Windows 7 is awesome.  Installed in less than 30 minutes, very user friendly, and secure.  But it does cost an arm and a leg.  Also, 64 bit OSes (in spite of all their flaws) are here to stay.

Onboard sound has become viable.  The sound on my Gigabyte motherboard is better than the Audigy 2 that I just yanked.  7.1 vs. 5.1, better clarity, and it’s pushing a stronger signal.

Creative can go take a run at a galloping goose.  In the past 4 1/2 years, I’ve worked on my PC over a dozen times, and every single time, the Audigy has worked its way loose, and refused to seat without hard pressure.  Which I why I now am using the onboard sound.

While the Radeon HD 5770 is shorter than the old 7800 GTX, it’s wider.  Wide enough that it’s in the second PCI-E x16 slot… the memory slots are in the way of the first PCI-E slot.  Awesome performance, but the fans at speed are… well, it reminds me of a jet engine.

It’s now snowing.  In the Florida Panhandle.  I have food and water, spare propane, and I have chosen which of my housemates I will eat if the canned ham doesn’t hold out until spring next week.  Our Sheriff even called an let us know that we needed to make our peace, because most of us won’t make it.  If this place goes silent, you know that even cannibalism wasn’t enough.

Our only hope now is that Al Gore repents– otherwise, we’re doomed.

(Yes, this is entirely sarcastic.  Except for the phone call, he actually did call and say that nobody needed to be on the roads.  And that we needed to stock up on food.  Which would require us to drive to the store.)

You’ve been President just over one year. You’ve achieved nothing, and while the percentage of people who like you hasn’t fallen much (around 10%), the number of people who don’t like you is skyrocketing. Every candidate you’ve campaigned for has lost, but the one member of your party who won a race not only didn’t seek your help, he was endorsed by the Republicans… and he promised to vote against you.

What do you do?

Try even harder in the next year, of course! “What the president will not do is let this moment slip away. He hopes to have Republican support in doing so — but he is going to move forward on health reform.” Oh, and you admit that you and your predecessor are alike in a lot of ways. And you call your detractors terrorists. And you have your Treasury Secretary (who can’t figure out TurboTax) say that your spending money like a drunken sailor in a Hong Kong bar will “never” hurt your credit rating.

I… I… oh, blood and martyrs. (shakes head) You would think that his approval rating dropping like a thermometer in an icebox would be a hint that his ideas were crap, but apparently not. But, hey, at least he’s not Bush, right?

(H/T Uncle, Robb, Gun Free Zone )

“You can’t say nuclear, that really scares me, sometimes a brain can come  in quite handy…”

Breda has a post with video of Dear Leader saying “corpse-man” instead of “core-man.” Man, I’m so glad we have an eloquent President now, not a drunken, mumbling cowboy.*

The irony of the Bush “new-coo-lar” is that that pronunciation has been used by four Presidents: Eisenhower, Carter, Clinton, and Bush 43.  Two of these four were mocked for being raving dumbasses who couldn’t talk right.  (Hint: it’s not the Democrats.)

One of the weird things I have about Carter’s using “new-coo-lar” is that I can’t find any reference to how Hyman Rickover pronounced “nuclear.”  Carter was a prospective reactor officer, and Rickover would latch onto any little thing to harass a candidate with, like not being able to pronounce a word correctly.

* True story– right after the coronation inauguration, I was eating lunch at my favorite watering hole when the President came on, making a speech.  The gentleman down the bar (who had killed half a bottle of wine in 20 minutes)  looked at me, said “damn, it’s good to have a President who’s not a drunk, mumbling cowboy!”  He then got up, put on his cowboy hat, made sure his jeans came over his cowboy boots, then walked out to his duallie diesel truck and drove off.

Irony, they name is “Obama voter.”