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June E-Postal Match
June 6, 2008The June edition of Mr Completely’s e-postal match is up, over at Sebastian’s place. He’s using pictures of animal shaped “Metallic” Silhouettes. This is the first e-postal match I have decided to enter, and wouldn’t you know it would be one of the toughest I have seen so far.
I measured - at actual size those silhouettes are only about 3/4 - 1 inch tall and about 1/2 - 3/4 inches wide. To be shot with a pistol at 10 yards. Zoiks!
I’ll report back later how I do and where I fall in the pecking order once all scores have been posted at the end of the month…
Go get the targets and the rules at Snowflakes in Hell. It don’t cost nuthin’! Also, all matches are originated at Mr. Completely’s blog.
The Answer To The Kilt Question
May 8, 2008No…no, they don’t.
This was inflicted on me by my one regular reader, TSNunya. With friends like that…
Technorati Tags: Kilts,Lack O’ Underwear
Today in History - April 19th
April 17, 2008Because both of my loyal readers will likely have better things to do on Saturday, I am posting this one day early. We’ve got a lot of ground to cover, so try to keep up…
First and Foremost:
1775:
The battle at Old North Bridge in Concord, Massachusetts, on April 19, 1775. Believe it or not, this was the first American battle against GUN CONTROL, and we are still fighting it 233 years later.
From Wikipedia: “About 700 British Army regulars, under Lieutenant Colonel Francis Smith, were ordered to capture and destroy military supplies that were reportedly stored by the Massachusetts militia at Concord. The first shots were fired just as the sun was rising at Lexington. The militia were outnumbered and fell back. Other British colonists, hours later at the North Bridge in Concord, fought and defeated three companies of the king’s troops. The outnumbered soldiers of the British Army fell back from the Minutemen after a pitched battle in open territory.”
The Concord Hymn
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1837)
By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled;
Here once the embattled farmers stood;
And fired the shot heard round the world.
The foe long since in silence slept;
Alike the conqueror silent sleeps,
And Time the ruined bridge has swept
Down the dark stream that seaward creeps.
On this green bank, by this soft stream,
We place with joy a votive stone,
That memory may their deeds redeem,
When, like our sires, our sons are gone.
O Thou who made those heroes dare
To die, and leave their children free, –
Bid Time and Nature gently spare
The shaft we raised to them and Thee.
Also on this day in history - April 19th…
1012: Martyrdom of St. Alphege in Greenwich, London.
1529: - At the Second Diet of Speyer, a group of rulers (German: Fürst) and independent cities (German: Reichsstadt protests the reinstatement of the Edict of Worms, beginning the Protestant movement. (And then commenced a century of people killing each other over the proper way to worship in the religion of peace and compassion).
1587: - Sir Francis Drake sinks the Spanish fleet in Cádiz harbor.
1936: First day of the Great Uprising in Palestine.
1943: World War II: In Poland, German troops enter the Warsaw ghetto to round up the remaining Jews, beginning the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
1961: The Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba ends in success for the defenders.
1971: - Charles Manson is sentenced to life for the Sharon Tate murders.
1976: - Executive Order 9066 is rescinded.
1993: - The 51-day siege of the Branch Davidian building outside Waco, Texas, USA, ends when a fire breaks out. Eighty-one people die.
1995: - Oklahoma City bombing: The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA, is bombed, killing 168. That same day convicted murderer Richard Wayne Snell, who had ties to bombing suspect Timothy McVeigh, was executed in Arkansas.
Man, if there was an office pool to pick the date for Armageddon, I’d let all my dinero ride on this one!
Swear to God, that’s a lot of warrin’ and killin’ and breakin’ shit for one date! In the words of that great peacemaker, Rodney King “Can’t we all just get along [and quit blowin' up each others' shit and people and buildings and stuff?]“
Happy Easter…
March 23, 2008
Technorati Tags: Easter Bunny,Roadkill
And just to show that I am an equal-opportunity Pol-basher,
February 27, 2008
Asshole…
Homeless: Can you build a life from $25?
February 25, 2008But Shepard’s descent into poverty in the summer of 2006 was no accident. Shortly after graduating from Merrimack College in North Andover, Mass., he intentionally left his parents’ home to test the vivacity of the American Dream. His goal: to have a furnished apartment, a car, and $2,500 in savings within a year.
One option everyone always seems to overlook is the military one…three hots and a cot, and along the way you get paid, get training, and in many cases, get to travel the world for free.
‘Course his experiment was only for a year, but he could’ve joined the reserves, spent 3 months of that at Parris Island getting paid and being not-homeless.
Holy Crap!
February 25, 2008Farrakhan Praises Obama as ‘Hope of Entire World’
“This young man is capturing audiences of black and brown and red and yellow. If you look at Barack Obama’s audiences and look at the effect of his words, those people are being transformed.”
I think he meant the hope of the entire “non-white” world.
How insane are we as a nation to be seriously considering a guy for president who is endorsed by Louis Farrakhan?!?!?!
From Nicki
February 24, 2008at The Liberty Zone:
I have often railed on the sad, pathetic state of our society, where children are taught that no one is to be responsible for anything, and that nothing is their fault. I’ve spoken out against the self-entitled attitude most children grow up with and the lack of parental guidance that marks most families.
Well, an NIU grad and author is saying basically the same thing (albeit in a much nicer manner than what my obscenity-laced diatribes often offer).
“I am drained from these shootings, the feeling of helplessness they bring, the fear they create which hangs over every campus like a dark cloud, and the net cast out for causes which always comes back empty of solutions. Instead, it is filled only with speculation, blaming everything from video games to guns to the lack of legally concealed firearms to mental illness to Godlessness to the Internet. Shooters share three traits: they are unhappy, they blame others for their unhappiness, and they don’t know how to express or deal with their problems within socially acceptable norms. It’s not just shootings among youth that’s on the rise; it’s drug use, alcoholism and violence in general. More and more, our children are growing up in a culture of irresponsibility and blame (as an educator I have witnessed this first- hand), and are being taught that their community is responsible for their unhappiness. They are not learning how to function properly in their community or how to deal with their shortcomings. Whatever we do, little ears are listening, little eyes watching, and little minds forming. If you lose the Presidential election, the other guy cheated; 26,000 Patriots fans are contesting the Super Bowl, blaming inaccurate timekeeping for the loss; when schools punish student misbehavior, parents intervene by threatening to sue and schools renege; the most influential Presidential candidate plagiarizes and shrugs it off; simple games like tag are being outlawed because some students aren’t as skilled as others. The erroneous message is that you don’t have to learn to function within your community; rather, the community will change to cater to your needs and whims. In an increasingly complex world we are robbing our children of the tools they need to cope. The battles I fought on the playground and in school built my character, enabled me to deal with my shortcomings, and prepared me to face the realities of life and disappointment, leading to my successes. It is our culture to where we need to turn our studies to find a solution to shootings. An exceptional response strategy is not the solution. NIU taught us that; they are to be commended on their strategy and quick response but even that proved ineffective to stop bloodshed. I don’t know if this statement will make a difference or circulate; I only know that I had to make it.”
“It’s going to circulate, Mr. Coburn. I will do my damnest to make sure of it. You have hit the nail on the head. As much as we want to blame firearms, lack thereof, drugs, alcohol, etc., the blame lies squarely with what these parents are teaching future generations.
Nothing is their fault. Their widdle feewings come first - before others’ rights. They’re victims. They are to be pitied, not to be held responsible. Is it any wonder they grow up miserable?
When they realize that they’re not entitled to the world bending to their will merely by existing…
When they realize that others have rights too, and they’re not entitled to infringe upon them merely because they can…
When they realize that their precious little angst matters to no one but themselves…
They drink and drug themselves into a stupor. And when they’re unable to shake years of indoctrination into the “my misery is everyone else’s fault” mentality, they kill.
AFTERTHOUGHT: I know I get a few hundred unique hits here daily. Those of you who have a blog, I ask you to at least give some thought to posting Mr. Colburn’s thoughts on your blogs. For those of you who don’t have blogs, please consider emailing this to as many people as you know. I think it’s important that we begin to change the mentality of our society.”
What she said…
Zoiks!
February 21, 2008
