All the cool kids are doing it.
Frankly, I’ve never been into knives that much. I have an Old Timer given to me by my dad that I keep in the nightstand. And all I carry in terms of a knife is a Leatherman Skeletool (my brief review is here).
Handy tools to have.
Kinda funny. A couple of incidents in traffic recently that I would have never thought much of other than regular stupidity that were made a bit funny because of personalized license plates. First up, is the Prius with the plate that said, and I am not making this up, 1LESSUV. Trouble is, this guy was in the left hand lane going slow beside another car and had traffic backed up as far as I could see. So, in his honor, I made sure to rev the engine while behind him to waste all the gas he was saving. And then I got home and poured a gallon of diesel fuel into some wetlands.
Up next was the Corvette with the plate that read TCBQUIK, which I presume was Taking Care of Business Quick. Except that this guy was doing less than the speed limit and driving like a granny. If you have a Corvette, you’re supposed to drive it like you fucking stole it. I mean, if I was driving one, that’s how I’d drive it. Because if I was driving it, I probably did steal it. Or someone loaned it to me. Which, if you have a Corvette, you should never loan it to me because I will be driving it like I stole it. It’s a Corvette, ferchrissakes. It wants to go fast. It’s made for it (by commies, but that’s another story) and who are you to deny it that?
A look at Cerberus’ adventures in the gun business:
Cerberus’ gun play is one of the latest moves for the secretive Feinberg, 50, who founded Cerberus in 1992 to buy the debt of struggling companies. The firm’s strategy evolved over the past decade to include private equity takeovers, and its assets have grown to about $23 billion.
In Illinois, neighbors report a burglary. Police show up to investigate, get in the house and see ammo. Obviously, ammo must mean crime so they search the house and find 300 guns. Which they then take as evidence of some sort of unspecified crime. Nowhere in the article does it mention any sort of crime or what law was broken. Just that the police and the neighbors think 300 guns is too many to own. Exercising your rights just a little too much, I guess.
A round up of gun videos that you have probably seen before. But they are good reminders of the stupid things people do.
Never tried. Doesn’t look comfortable. And I like my gun where I can draw it. But Paul Rackley looks at ankle holster carry.
For several months, gun and ammunition stores across the nation have struggled with a supply shortage that has hurt business and made life difficult for gun owners.
Fortunately, however, store owners in Dothan say the shortage is mostly over and it is safe for hunters and other gun enthusiasts to buy their weapons and bullets of choice
The introduction of the flintlock coincided with the largest decline in homicide in English history.
My rep, Jimmy Duncan:
The reason the states are in so much trouble is the same reason the federal government is in trouble. It’s always easy to run as Santa Claus. It’s always hard to run against Santa Claus. You just have people who won’t say no to anybody. Both parties are at fault.
Jimmy Duncan usually votes the right way on legislation. But his primary job seems to be funneling pork into the district.
A push for a semi-auto ban. Did they forget what happened in McDonald?
NRA is challenging the referendum.
NSSF:
In an effort to keep Federal firearms licensees (FFLs) abreast of changing firearms laws and regulations, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) provides semiannual FFL Newsletters.
Odd. I don’t recall any recent changes to firearms laws.
Per the EEOC, refusal to hire someone with a criminal record or because they have bad credit may be racist. They blame technology.
I like all the ingredients but I don’t think mixing them all together would be a good thing.
My little girl’s growing up.
In the car, I have an iPod that feeds the stereo system. I keep a couple of playlists of kids’ songs for when they’re in the car. This weekend was kinda depressing. Junior was telling me which of her new songs she wanted in the car and that she didn’t want some of the old songs anymore.
I replaced Animaniacs, Jack’s Big Music Show, and They Might Be Giants with Justin Bieber, Hannah Montana, Taylor Swift and Lady Gaga.
*sigh*
Determining who is going to go crazy at work and start shooting people is almost impossible. And policies are unlikely to stop them.
Via Sebastian, who notes: I’m glad workplace consultants are recognizing this.
They should maybe think about this whole backing incumbents thing. They’ve backed a troubled Texas Democrat who has, in the past, received an F-rating and voted for a number of gun control measures.
Update: Reader Stranger says Chet Edwards endorsement doesn’t show up on NRA’s endorsement page.
But NRA did email a statement about it. Looks like they did endorse him.
We have this discussion about NRA being single issue. That seems to get people upset, given that some folks think the R stands for Republican. I found another single-issue bit interesting. Seems a gay rights group is upset that Target gave $150K to a politician who opposes gay marriage. Now, does that mean Target is anti-gay? No. Probably means that Target thinks this guy is better for their business. But the gay rights folks say:
Send the company a message right now, urging them to explain why their money is being used to fund a politics that not only serves to prevent LGBT equality, but breeds homophobia, transphobia and hatred.
But that’s likely not Target’s goal.
Remember, I do this to entertain me, not you.
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