Linking to NPR

Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Thu, 20 Jun 2002 12:00:00 GMT
From a-human-right.com's home defense page:

From The Federalist:

A man can fail many times but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame someone else. -- Waite Phillips
and:
Aim at heaven, and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth, and you will get neither. -- C.S. Lewis
and:
Alleged mobster John Gotti was buried today in the family plot. Well, most people call it the East River. -- Jay Leno

From Quotes of the Day:

Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. -- Ronald Reagan
and:
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die. -- Mel Brooks
and:
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. -- Elbert Hubbard

Ken Holder corrected the attribution of the Spike Milligan quote I copied yesterday from samizdata. Spike played characters in The Goon Show, not The Good Show. The error was over at samizdata. Not having ever heard of The Goon Show, I missed the typo. Thanks for the correction, Ken.

Howdy Bill!

In today's 'blog entry you quote:
Are you going to come quietly, or do I have do use ear-plugs?
-- Spike Milligan in The Good Show
I suspect that's supposed to say "The Goon Show", the classic BBC radio comedy that preceeded and inspired "Monty Python's Flying Circus".

Ken Holder

I wanted to reduce the trigger pull weight on my Savage 111, so I started a Firing Line thread asking which trigger to buy. The few who responded recommended the Sharpshooters Supply trigger over the Timney trigger, but SK's recommendation was the best:

Why don't you just adjust your Savage trigger? Got my 111 down to 3lbs.
Shore 'nuf. It was easy to adjust. Looking forward to testing it at the range.

Daniel Chisholm - Adjusting the Savage 110 Trigger - instructions for doing the adjustment that I figured out last night. I need to go back in and play with the sear adjustment.

Last night I played with some CCI CB long rifle ammo. This is a low-noise load, similar to the Aguila Colibri that I talked about on 6/10. It didn't have enough oomph to cycle my 10/22's action, but it DID feed from the magazine if I cycled the bolt by hand. Well, it fed most of the time. Quite often, the extractor didn't engage and I ended up pushing a new round into the back of the old one. It makes a little more noise than the Colibri, but still not enough that the neighbors would notice. Like the Colibri, it's quite dirty. According to the CCI reference chart, CB fires a 29 grain bullet at a muzzle velocity of 727 fps, 33 foot pounds of energy. At 100 yards, it's down to 610 fps, 24 foot pounds. That's a drop of less than 2 inches at 25 yards and less than 4 feet at 100 yards. They recommend it for pest control, plinking, and low-noise practice.

J.J. Johnson at Sierra Times - Electing Your Local Sheriff - your local county sheriff can make a big difference in the effect that unconstitutional laws have on you. Some questions to ask the candidates to find out if they will protect you. [kaba]

jonkl at Slashdot - Blogspace vs. NPR - NPR has a linking policy that requires you to ask permission to link to their site. Quite a bit of noise about it at Slashdot. [/.]

Linking to or framing of any material on this site without the prior written consent of NPR is prohibited. If you would like to link to NPR from your Web site, please fill out the link permission request form.
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I will link to NPR's web site whenever and however I please. That's how the web works. Get used to it.

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