Ken Holly
From: "WOLF Performance Ammunition" <info@wolfammo.com>
To: "Bill St. Clair" <bill@billstclair.com>
Subject: Re: 308 and 30-06
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 16:12:53 -0700
Dear Mr. St. Clair,
We have had some delays with the .308, so it will be a bit longer, the .30-06 should be sometime after that, and I have been told to expect the .30 Carbine after the first of the year.
Unfortunately, I do not have a specific release date for you at this time.
Thank you for your inquiry and interest in WOLF Performance Ammunition.
Sincerely,
WOLF Ammo
Thomas Gale Moore at Stanford - Global Warming: A Boon to Humans and Other Animals - Why global warming would be good for you.
Climate extremes would trigger meteorological chaos -- raging hurricanes such as we have never seen, capable of killing millions of people; uncommonly long, record-breaking heat waves; and profound drought that could drive Africa and the entire Indian subcontinent over the edge into mass starvation. ... Even if we could stop all greenhouse gas emissions today, we would still be committed to a temperature increase worldwide of two to four degrees Fahrenheit by the middle of the twenty-first century. It would be warmer then than it has been for the past two million years. Unchecked it would match nuclear war in its potential for devastation.[1]Senator Mitchell's forecast and his history are both wrong. Warmer periods bring benign rather than more violent weather. Milder temperatures will induce more evaporation from oceans and thus more rainfall -- where it will fall we cannot be sure but the earth as a whole should receive greater precipitation. Meteorologists now believe that any rise in sea levels over the next century will be at most a foot or more, not twenty.[2] In addition, Mitchell flunks history: around 6,000 years ago the earth sustained temperatures that were probably more than four degrees Fahrenheit hotter than those of the twentieth century, yet mankind flourished. The Sahara desert bloomed with plants, and water loving animals such as hippopotamuses wallowed in rivers and lakes. Dense forests carpeted Europe from the Alps to Scandinavia. The Midwest of the United States was somewhat drier than it is today, similar to contemporary western Kansas or eastern Colorado; but Canada enjoyed a warmer climate and more rainfall.
-- Senate Majority Leader George J. Mitchell
Raising the specter of disaster as well, Vice President Al Gore has called the threat of global warming "the most serious problem our civilization faces."[3] In fact, he has styled those who dispute it as "self-interested" and compared them to spokesmen for the tobacco industry who have questioned the relation of smoking to cancer. But Gore is misinformed; many disinterested scientists, including climatologists with no financial interest other than preventing wasteful expenditures of society's limited resources, question the evidence and the models that underlie the warming hypothesis.
Jeff Quinn at Gunblast - Snake Stopper - an unusual, but effective load for a .38 or .357 magnum.
The basic ingredients: R-P .38 Special case, 4.3 grains W-W 231 powder, cut cardboard wad, 70 grains #9 hard shot, and a .375 pure lead ball.
BBC News - Cell transplant restores vision: A blind man can see again after being given a stem cell transplant - far out! [samizdata]
8:x at One Little Victory - Playing with guns - a mother of two boys explains why she will allow them to play with toy guns (and, hopefully, real guns when they get old enough). [kimdutoit]
Andrew P. Napolitano at The Los Angeles Times via Mark Valenti's Liberty Page - 'Enemy Combatants' Cast Into a Constitutional Hell - "Enemy combatant" my ass. Every one of these people deserves due process and a regular trial. [notreasonblog]
For more than 200 years, judicial review, by which the courts enforce the Constitution's guarantees against the wishes of reluctant prosecutors, has been the salvation of our freedoms.
The very core of American history, law and culture condemns the ideas of punishment before trial, denial of due process and secret government by fiat.
Jeff Cooper's Commentaries - September 2003: Hot Spell - the hottest summer on record in Arizona; don't lightly put your faith in gun writers; Kimber's light rail 45 automatic; street crime rising steadily in England; saddened by anti-French propoganda; Weaver Stance considered effective, feature piece in G&A forthcoming; revolver largely obsolete for military and law enforcement duty, but not for personal defense; musings on protection from hazardous wildlife; the 19th century Boers of South Africa; short-case magnum cartridges are more accurate. Not!; disarming our troops; culling elephants in Africa's Kruger Park; beware of taking running shots on game; Ann Coulter's "razor wit" in Treason; will handheld artillery supplant marksmanship?;
My father was something of a Francophile, and spoke the language to a useful extent. He insisted on one occasion that the French must be a truly great people when you consider they can cook a carp and make it taste good.
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Reports from the front indicate that the Arabs cut down all their power lines in order to steal the copper, and then complain bitterly that power is out. Nation building, indeed, has its problems.
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It has been said that war is too important a subject to be left up to soldiers. To follow that point we may say that legislation is too important a matter to be left up to legislators.
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On the other side of the world, it has just been made possible in Alaska for the private citizen to go armed without a license. Alaska and the state of Vermont are today sparkling bastions of liberty remaining in the world. God Bless America - regardless of what they say in Alabama!
Ken Holly - Nothing But Hope - an interesting Novella, once you get past the disgusting violence at the beginning. Ayn Rand Elementary School, Alan Greenspan High School, Ludwig von Mises Middle School, aliens at Area 51, Vin Suprynowicz, John Stossel. A little corny, but fun. Mr. Holly has another novella in progress, a couple of novels, and some true stories linked to on his home page. [smith2004]
