National Ammo Day/Week 2005
"If you don't listen, the terrorists win." -- radio announcer transitioning to a commercial break
From clairefiles, discussing blind hatred for institutionalized violence:
"As a child I watched the last vestiges of a decent society destroyed by the War On Drugs, welfare and 'child protection' services that pulled children from happy and stable homes for no reason but financial yardsticks. I have an uncle who is crippled and insane from the Vietnam War. I have been imprisoned, beaten and humiliated by police for no crime other than smoking a flower and splitting a bag of flowers with a friend. I have been stolen from and seen those stolen monies being used to bomb cities and kill innocents in my name. I watch the aristocratic children of priveledge who have never worked a day in their life campaign for and win seats of 'leadership' from which to commit their crimes and atrocities. I have been officially denied the right to carry a firearm for my own protection or own said firearm to defend my family. To accomplish this natural, normal and human right I must put myself in the position to be once again imprisoned and enslaved.
"And all I have ever desired is to be left the hell alone.
"What is there not to hate?"
-- George Potter
# I made my National Ammo Day/Week purchase last night. 100 .44 mag cases, 100 Hornady .44 caliber 265 grain Interlock bullets (for full-house .44 & .444 loads), 500 Northeast Bullets .44 caliber 200 grain bullets (for Cowboy Action .44 loads), 9 ounces of Trailboss powder (pushes the 200 grainers at about 1000 fps), and 200 Remington large pistol primers. The actual Ammo Day is this coming Saturday, November 19, the Gun Guy's birthday, but you've got all week and the weekend to make your purchase of at least 100 rounds of ammo or reloading components for same.
# Claire Wolfe at Backwoods Home Magazine - Shedding Some (Flash)light on the Subject - lots of useful information about hand-held lighting tools. [claire]
"I'd rather have a flashlight and no food than food and no flashlight," Marty Harbibi announced one morning to all and sundry.
Actually, I was both "all" and "sundry" that day, everybody else being out watching the hot competition in the age 10-12 division in the Hardyville Kids Kombat Shoot. Marty and I pretty much had the big round table at the Hog Trough Grill and Feed all to ourselves.
"Huh?" I asked him, looking up from my copy of the Hardyville Independent, where I was perusing results for yesterday's six-and-under Kombat division, where Carty's tough toddlers had -- no surprise -- whupped the rest of the kindergarten crew with their tricked-out .22s race guns.
"Well, with a flashlight," Marty expounded, "I can get food. But food won't get me a flashlight."
# Ron Paul at LewRockwell.com - Too Little Too Late - on the joke (one percent) "slashing" of the federal budget. [lew]
Congressional Republicans and Democrats can posture until doomsday, but the needed course of action is clear. Declare an across-the-board ten percent cut for the entire federal 2006 budget -- this means every department, every agency, and every program -- including military spending and so-called nondiscretionary entitlements. If congressional leaders cannot take this simple step toward balancing the 2006 budget, they should at least not attempt to delude the American people that serious spending cuts are being made.
# Douglas Herman at Strike the Root - Heart of Darkness and the Fog of War - War is not the answer to any question. It is not the solution to any problem. It, like the governments that wage it, is itself the problem. [root]
Henchmen all. Not a single worthy soul among them. Fight a war for them? Toxic. Arrest and torture for them; lie under oath? Pestilent. Poisonous. Fatal.
Where had we seen this rogues gallery before, you wondered? Then you knew. On the History Channel.
Rove resembled a piggish Goering without the war medals; Cheney a brooding Martin Bormann; Rumsfeld an obliging Admiral Doenitz; Wolfowitz an owlish Himmler. Ledeen a sniggering Goebbels. Torturers all but restrained by the teetering Bill of Rights Reichstag building.
They only lack--God be merciful--a fiery demagogue, an engaging orator, a demonic yet mesmerizing presence. They only lack Hitler. For the moment the neocons are a dangerous cabal of Colonel Kurtzes.
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The heart of darkness in the fog of war. Every soldier, even McNamara and Rumsfeld, begins his life as a civilian, in a society where arson, illegal entry, wanton destruction and murder are not only felonies but heinous crimes. Suddenly in uniform, wandering around in his own personal fog of war, a soldier realizes that all those felonies--arson, arbitrary killing, demolition and torture--are company policy. And he works for that company!
# Steven E. Jones at the Brigham Young University Department of Physics and Astronomy - Why Indeed Did the WTC Buildings Collapse? - Mr. Jones doesn't believe the official story. He thinks explosives aided the collapse of the Twin Towers and WTC 7. [cryptome]
# Midsouth Shooter's Supply - LEVERevolution™ - they're selling the .30-30 and .35 Rem calibers of the neat new ammo I linked to yesterday. 70¢ a shot for .30-30. 75¢ for .35 Rem (plus shipping). Hornady expects to begin shipping the .444 Marlin, .45-70, and .450 Marlin versions in the first quarter of 2006. [clairefiles]
