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  • Friday Afternoon Is Too Damn Late Links

    Under crushing deadline from work, and my kids haven’t slept worth a crap this week. Friday afternoon has come too late… I started drinking at 11:30 this morning. I’m not sure this will help my productivity, but I FEEL better about the work I’m doing. How the hell are all of you? It made me wish the flavor of string theory with infinite little pocket dimensions were true. I’d set one up with a sweet little bedroom and nap every fucking day. Zero seconds lost in this universe. Get on this, eggheads!

    Here’s a list of the oldest building in every US state. Europe has underwear older than any of these.

    Fuck me gently with a chainsaw, BBC ponders whether Heathers is too much for today’s sensitivities. Name one other movie in the 80s featuring parental acceptance homosexual male behavior (and implied incest). Or one that offered such a hand up to the disabled as the ending. Ahead of its time, not insensitive

    Every man has a mother, and every mother thinks its someone else’s fault when her son goes bad.

    Thankfully, libertarians have the magic power of the autism spectrum to protect themselves from this new tactic in the robot uprising.

     

    A lot of mid-90s pop is not as good as I remember it. This one is at least fun.

  • Gun Leather For The Well-Equipped Six-Gunner

    Gun Leather

    Let’s talk about gunbelts and holsters for outdoor work.  No concealed-carry stuff here – let’s discuss rigs for carrying a heavy, powerful belt gun for serious outdoor business.

    But before we do that, let’s talk about guns and loads.

    Western drop holster with N-Frame Smith

    Woods-Bumming Guns

    While I favor my Glock 36 for everyday concealed carry, for outdoor work I like a big-bore wheelgun.  When woods-bumming, I usually have either my S&W 25-5 or my Ruger Vaquero, both in .45 Colt.  If I take it in my head to carry a semi-auto, it’s either the 1911 or the Glock 21, both (obviously) .45 ACPs.  In the revolvers I like 8 grains of Unique behind a Lasercast 250-grain hard-cast flat point.  That load will blow through a railroad tie and knock a big handful of splinters out the far side and will easily lengthwise a big mulie or a cow elk.

    For the .45 ACP I like the 200 grain Lasercast semi-wadcutter.  Like most Glocks, my 21 will feed almost anything; the 1911 is a little fussier but will feed SWCs fine with a good magazine.  I use Kimber magazines, and the 1911 will feed empty cases with those.

    Now, your mileage may vary; almost all my woods-bumming these days is done in the Rockies in Colorado and Wyoming, where there are several species of big, thick-skinned, toothy critters in residence, so I recommend a major-caliber handgun for hereabouts.  But if you’re outdoors in areas where the most likely targets for your sidearm are coyote-sized, anything from a .32 Long to a .38 Special will work as well, along with being a little easier to shoot.  The Ruger Single-Six is available in .32 H&R Mag, a fine revolver in a good round for medium-sized varmints and, with a mild load topped with a hard-cast lead pill, nice for whatever edible small game presents itself.

    Advantage of a drop belt rig: Fast into action.

    But, let’s move on to what I really wanted to talk about, and that’s how to tote your belt iron.

    Gun Belt Rigs

    The gun belt and holster should be comfortable and solid.  Choice of material is up to the shooter; some like nylon web belts and holsters, and there is certainly nothing wrong with such a rig; I’ve used many myself.  But it’s hard to beat good leather.  Heavy harness leather should be used in the belt, and good stout bull hide in the holster.  A heavy leather rig will start out very stiff, but wear and the application of a softening oil, like neat’s-foot oil, will soon make the rig softer and more wearable.

    A simple cartridge belt with the Vaquero in a Mexican loop holster.

    (Disclosure:  I am in no way connected to nor do I have any financial interest in the companies mentioned, I just like their products.)

    For my belt guns, I like (in fact, it’s my favorite rig) the America’s Gun Store #110 Wyoming Drop belt with the #114 Cheyenne holster, which rig hangs the butt of the gun at about wrist height when your arms are hanging naturally.  I find this near perfect for being able to get the gun into action quickly; if you use the leg tie down to hold the holster in place, you can wipe off the holster’s hammer loop with the shooting hand’s thumb just as your fingers wrap around the grip.

    Train yourself to keep your finger off the trigger while drawing; cock the single-action or start the double-action pull after you have cleared leather and are already pushing the muzzle of the piece towards the target.  I try to get in some reflex shooting practice every year, but draw and dry-fire won’t always work; most folks tend to shoot high when shooting instinctively.  Practice!

    The Wyoming Drop Belt also comes in a two-gun version if dual six-guns are your thing, and a cross draw holster is available for the one-gun version as well.  Personally, I don’t much see the point in carrying two revolvers; if you’re that concerned about running into some kind of trouble, best to pack along a rifle.

    Lots of folks like the Threepersons holster as well, and the same statements apply.  For that matter, there is nothing wrong with a simple leather cartridge belt like the Hunter Company Straight Cartridge Belt outfitted with the classic Mexican loop holster, like the one I tend to tote my Vaquero around in.

    Trouser Belt Holsters

    Full-size 1911 in Bianchi leather
    A flap holster is good for keeping the elements off your belt iron.

    There are options for folks who aren’t into dedicated gunbelts as well.  When talking belt holsters, I’m tempted to just mention Bianchi and let it go at that, but there are plenty of good holsters our there, ranging from Uncle Mike’s vinyl to high-end leather, prices from $25 or so to, well, as high as you care to go.

    Find a holster that holds the piece canted at the right angle for your natural grip and your gun hand and carry it in a position that’s comfortable for your build; I tend to favor a right-hand hip carry.  I’ve used a cross draw belt holster a time or two but don’t much care for them, as I find it awkward to reach across with my shooting hand.  Your mileage may vary; as noted above, continue your draw-dry fire practice until you find the holster position that allows you to bring your piece into action quickly with a minimum of extraneous movement.

    Bad Weather

    If your stomping grounds tend to be wet and snowy/rainy, like the Pacific Northwest or Alaska, Great America’s also makes their very nice K #17 flap holster, which keeps weather off the gun but makes it take longer to bring the piece to bear.  Bianchi makes a mil-spec flap holster for various automatics if more modern hardware is your thing.

    Whichever rig you choose, keep it clean and softened (saddle soap and water for leather rigs, good cleaning with clear water and a little clear soap for synthetics) and it will give many, many years of solid service.  A well-made firearm can last for a couple of generations if it’s well cared for; there’s no reason the carry rig shouldn’t last as long.

  • Friday Morning Links

    Its Friday.  Hooray!  We all need a break after this week.  All I did was drive nearly 2000 miles with three toddlers in the car, and then do 5 days of work in a 2 day stretch so I could play golf today.  So whether you need the break or not, I can assure you that I do.  Ooh, and speaking of golf, the WGC-Bridgestone kicked off yesterday with all of the big names playing.  Ian Poulter went loooooow yesterday, but Rickie Fowler is on his heels and will probably contend since this isn’t a major. Jason Day and Rory are just a few back and Tiger is one behind them with Tommy Fleetwood and Patrick Reed. Should be a hell of a weekend and a soft course and calm winds lend themselves to low scores.

    And in baseball news, the Rays beat the Angels, the Cards topped the Rockies, the White Sox beat the Royals, the Phils beat the Marlins, the Nats beat the slumping Reds, the Red Sox pounded the Yankees, the braves beat the Mets, the Rangers used a late field goal to put the game out of reach and beat Baltimore 17-8, the Pads topped the Cubs, the Dodgers drilled the Brewers, the Gigantes hammered the Diamondbacks and the Blue Jays took down the Mariners.  The world champion Astros had the night off.

    One of the most important inventors in history for city folk and the disabled, Elisha Otis, was born on this date. He shares it with: educator/litigant John Scopes, crooner Tony Bennett, actor Ramon Estevez (Martin Sheen), convicted felon Martha Stewart, Irish soccer legend Eamon Dunphy, bassist Morris Dickerson, comedic genius John Landis, hockey legend Marcel Dionne, rocker James Hatfield, football player Tom Brady, and knucklehead swimmer Ryan Lochte.

    The unsuccessful defensive formation employed against the Romans

    Its also the date when Tiberius beat the Dalmatians (all 101 of them) at Bathinus, Columbus set said on his first voyage for the “Indies”, the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company was founded, the US passed the first law restricting immigration, Calvin Coolidge became the 30th president when Harding was assassinated, Hitler assumed the title of Fuhrer after merging offices of Chancellor and President, Jesse Owens (Ohio State Buckeye) won his first of four gold medals at the Berlin Olympics, Patton famously slapped a GI for being a coward, the first VTOL flight was recorded, Paul McCartney formed Wings, Jeff Baxter left Steely Dan for the Doobie Brothers, the Air Traffic Controllers strike began, “Unforgiven” made its box office debut and the Superdome opened.

    Now that was a better date than yesterday!  Anyway, here come…the links!

    “I’m leaving on a jet plane. I don’t know when I’ll be back again.”

    I assume he was trying to get to Florida.  But seriously, it beats the lines at the TSA checkpoint.

    Tommy Robinson talks about what it was like being thrown in jail for exercising what we in America call “free speech”. Hell, I’m surprised he made it out alive.

    I can’t wait for Mexican Sharpshooter’s review of this one. I’ll say no more.

    I’m just wondering how the logistics for giving him NARAL’s “Man Of The Year Award” are gonna work. ::SMDH::

    Meet the new boss. Not the same as the old boss.

    Move over, Jesse “The Body” Ventura. Someone else has entered the political ring.

    Anti-violence protesters shut down street and prevent people from going where they want. Which, strangely enough, isn’t done with violence when the mob they create is big enough to intimidate anyone who would dare try to use a public street for its intended purpose.

    Every one of you that said “that Monopoly fraud thing would make a cool movie” the other day will be sad to know that it won’t make a cool movie. Not now, anyway.

    Dude, they’re fifth graders. Come on! Oh well, its Florida.

    That crazy killer is still running around Houston after the cops cleared his house following a false sighting. I hope I haven’t slighted this guy.  Jeez.

    For the birthday boy. (And before you say “its not as good as the original”, I know that. But what you gonna do?)

    Have a great day and a better weekend, friends!

  • Liberty-Leaning Candidates?

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    Nobody is as cynical as someone who has seen the legislative process from the inside in a corrupt place like Albany. I am that someone.

    Nevertheless, I sometimes find myself being forgetful and letting a tiny glimmer of hope into my heart.

    There are actually a few folks running for office this time around who don’t make me immediately despair. I have plenty of time to be disappointed in them later on.

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    Rep. Justin Amash, Republican incumbent from the 3rd District in Michigan.

    I like Justin Amash. He says reasonable things, and many, or perhaps even most, of his votes on bills are the way I would vote, too, if presented with the same dreck. Amash has one of the best records of doing the most basic part of his job: he shows up to vote. Then, he explains his votes and posts those explanations on various widely-available platforms.

    Amash’s seat seems pretty secure. The last time a Democrat was elected as Representative for his district was in 1974, and was soundly defeated 2 short years later.

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    Larry Sharpe is running for governor of my native state (NY) as a Libertarian.

    Sharpe has pleased me with his positions on many issues I find important: the NYS SAFE Act; public education; business development/corporate taxes; fathers’ rights; drugs; occupational licensing(!); victimless crimes.

    Significant to this Upstater: Sharpe doesn’t think the state ends in Larchmont. Sharpe and/or his running mate, Andrew Hollister, have been actively campaigning across the entire state, making appearances at veterans’ groups BBQs, libraries, tiny county fairs, farmer’s markets, vape shops, and coffee houses.

    Andrew Cuomo and friends have been a disaster for an already besieged state. Larry Sharpe is really the only viable alternative that I have ever seen to the same old corruption in New York.

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    And then there is Austin Petersen, who is running as a Republican for the Senate seat currently held by the completely unprincipled and not-too-bright Democrat Claire McCaskill.

    I’ve only recently begun paying much attention to Petersen, which I’m thinking might have been an oversight. There are some issues on which we don’t agree, but he is massively better than the incumbent or the presumptive Republican candidate, Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley.

    It’s a crowded field, with eleven people competing in next Tuesday’s primary for the chance to unseat McCaskill.

    Petersen has a background in media production and it shows in his use of social media. His Ghost Gunner II Giveaway is a brilliant combination of reaching out to pro Second Amendment voters and trolling the gun grabbers, garnering publicity on both sides of the issue.

    Best of luck to him next week. Regardless of the outcome, I predict we’ll be hearing from Petersen for a long time to come.

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    Rep. Thomas Massie, Republican incumbent from the 4th District in Kentucky.

    There are many issues on which I do not see eye-to-eye with Thomas Massie. However, he has been on the right side of the Second Amendment abuses which have been going on forever and are ratcheting up every day. And that goes a long way with me.

    Just a side note: The Kentucky list of candidates is pretty amusing. Take a look at occupations.

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    Illinois Races

    Unfortunately, our horrible Republican governor is likely to be replaced by an even more horrible Democratic governor. I hate them both, so lets focus on the fact that at least there are a number of candidates for all the state-wide offices from several other political parties!

    The Libertarian candidates for governor and attorney general have particularly amusing names.

    I almost want to like gubernatorial hopeful “Kash” Jackson simply for the truth-in-advertising nature of the nickname of an Illinois political candidate.

    And for attorney general, just a good ol’ boy from Southern IL: Bubba Harsy.

    Really, none of the Libertarian candidates have any chance whatsoever. But it heartens me that at least they are now on the ballots.

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  • STEVE SMITH DOES THURSDAY AFTERNOON LINKING

    LEE MAJORS OK BY STEVE SMITH

    STEVE SMITH TAKE OVER AFTERNOON LINKS FROM FUNNY FLORIDA GLIBERTARIAN. HIM FINISH TELLING STORY OF FALLING OUT WITH HOLLYWOOD.

    STEVE SMITH DISAPPOINT THAT HIM NOT LISTENED TO AS “SASQUATCH TECHNICAL ADVISER”. THEN HIM LOSE OUT ON ROYALTIES FOR TOYS. “FIRE” AGENT AND NOT KNOW WHAT DO. SURE, GO HOLLYWOOD PARTIES, MEET ASPIRING ACTORS AND ACTRESSES. BY MEET, MEAN RAPE. BUT JOY OUT OF JOB.

    LAST STRAW WAS SEEING CARTOON:

    THEM GET STEVE SMITH ANGRY RIGHT!

     

    THAT LOOK RIGHT TOO.

     

    NO! THEM GET BACKWARDS! STEVE SMITH DRIVER, NOT PASSENGER.

     

    STEVE SMITH NO MORE ADVISER, NOT GET ROYALTIES. WAS TIME LEAVE HOLLYWOOD. WENT FOREST LAW SCHOOL INSTEAD. NOW HIM PROMINENT FOREST LAWYER AND WORK MAKE CASCADIA FREE! IS GOOD JOB, BUT SOMETIMES DO MISS HOLLYWOOD PARTIES. BUT YOU NO COME HERE THAT, FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN PEOPLE HERE FOR LINKS!

    • UH-OH. STEVE SMITH NO LIKE EBOLA. MAKE HIM SNEEZE. IT WORSE FOR HOOMANS, WHO CAN DIE. HOPE NEW SHOT MADE FOR SICK HOOMANS.
    • STEVE SMITH LIKE WISCONSIN. VERY FUNNY HOOMANS THERE. LOOK WHAT THEM DO!
    • WHITE HELMETS BETTER THAN BLUE HELMETS. BLUE HELMET PEOPLE COMPETE WITH STEVE SMITH. BY COMPETE, MEAN RAPE BEFORE STEVE SMITH GET THERE.
    • FUNNY HOOMAN WITH DOG IN PIPE MAKE STEVE SMITH LAUGH.

  • Beginning Reloading

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    This article is for informational purposes only. Suthenboy is not a credentialed expert. Do not attempt any of these activities without first consulting an expert or a manual published by accredited experts or manufacturers.

     

    I developed a passion for shooting and hunting at an early age. I suppose my Grandfather’s and Father’s love of firearms rubbed off on me. Shooting for me was what golf is to others. It is an activity that requires discipline, an activity where focus and precision pays off. I constantly competed against myself always trying to improve and over time with effort the improvement was very evident to me. Like most the majority of my shooting was done with 22 Long Rifle because of economy. When I was about 14 years old my father gave me a wonderful Christmas gift – a Lee Precision handloading set and a Ruger No.3 rifle chambered in 22 Hornet. Suddenly I could shoot center fire for less than the price of 22 Long Rifle.

    Since that Christmas, I have reloaded hundreds of thousands of rounds, maybe approaching a million and a half, in every caliber you can imagine, save the new-fangled rounds that have come out in recent years. Yes, I said it. Get the hell off of my lawn.

    Since those days our economy has expanded dramatically, the cost of reloading components has risen and the cost of bulk ammunition in common calibers has fallen. For plinking ammo reloading is not as economical as it used to be but reloading still has an important place. Uncommon calibers can be exorbitantly expensive and difficult to find. Precision rifle shooters cannot obtain the quality of ammunition their sport demands off the shelf. For people like me, reloading is a very enjoyable hobby and an end in itself. With experience one can acquire one heck of an education about the sport, and with a small stock of components and tools never lack for ammo in a pinch.

    Many people, like me, got their introduction to reloading with a Lee Precision handloader kit. It is simple to use and at about forty bucks the smallest outlay of cash to get started making your own ammunition. I haven’t found any distributors for these little gems but you can buy them directly from Lee Precision.

    I am not aware of any other companies that fill that niche but if you want to step up to more sophisticated tools there are many manufacturers. The big names are RCBS, Lee Precision, Redding, Lyman, Hornady, Dillon, Forster and MEC. All of these companies have websites (links above) and are distributed through a large number of suppliers. I am not going to make strong endorsements for any of them because they all make quality products that are better in some ways than the others. Like choosing a firearm the beginning reloader will have to decide by their own personal preferences.

    As for distributors there is a plethora of them. If you prefer shopping in-store Bass Pro and Cabela’s keep a good stock on the shelf. There is also the odd and end small sporting goods stores around. For mail order there are number of large houses for comparison shopping. I find that their prices are very competitive, their stock reliable and their service top-notch. These include Midway USA, Wideners, Brownells, Precision Reloading, Natchez Shooter’s Supply and Cheaper Than Dirt. This is by no means a comprehensive list.

    The first step up from the Lee handloader kit is a single stage press. This press bolts onto a sturdy work bench and holds one die at a time. There are some very high quality single stage presses out there and these happen to be my personal favorite. I can concentrate on one step at a time and pay close attention to every detail. My personal press is a Forster. I consider it of the highest quality. It also has great advantage in convenience as the dies are held in a groove so you don’t spent time screwing them in and readjusting each time you change dies. Additionally it has clamping jaws to hold the cases so no large sets of shell holders are needed.

    Forster co-axial press
    Forster co-axial presses are not cheap but definitely worth every penny for the hard core reloader.

    The next step up from the single stage press are multi-stage presses. These presses hold more than one die at a time and each crank of the handle performs one step of the process on multiple cases as they progress around a turret. Spent brass goes in one end and a fully loaded case comes out with each crank of the handle. Obviously these presses produce loaded ammunition for the high volume shooter.

    The last step up would be motor powered presses. Many of the manual progressive loaders can be accessorized with motors and by now we are talking about high budget equipment. Dillon is commonly considered the top of the line motorized progressive loader and most competitive shooters use them but there are others that work well.

    I have a progressive loader but I prefer to use my single stage press. With the multi-stage press there are too many things going on at once for me to fully pay attention. If you are a novice intending to get into loading your own ammunition I highly recommend starting out with a single stage press. Safety must always come first so take your time. Don’t get in over your head. When you have learned all of the ins and outs of the loading process and all of the things that can go wrong then move up to a multi-stage press.

    Addendum

    A recent study showed that CCL holders are six times less likely to commit crimes than police officers.

    There is a reason for that. These are people who are law abiding by nature and interested in keeping their licenses. I suspect the same is true for reloaders. These people pay attention to detail. They follow the rules. That becomes second nature to them. Safety is a huge concern and they become accustomed to thinking that way. If you program yourself to behave that way reloading can be safe and rewarding. Never forget and become careless or have lax standards. You are dealing with inflammable materials that can develop very high pressures very quickly. Bullets, even travelling at low speed have incredible momentum. They carry more energy than you think even at speeds low enough to see with your eye. A relatively light lead slug travelling at the speed of an airsoft pellet can be deadly. You can lose eyes, fingers, get broken bones or severed arteries. You can receive severe burns. If you have a store of gunpowder in your reloading area, depending on how much, you might want to consider that if your house catches fire you may have to stand in the street and stop the firemen from approaching the structure. Let it blow. Nothing in your house is worth someone losing a life over. I threw all of the candles out of my house years ago. I don’t smoke in my reloading room.

    Safety. Safety. Safety. Always on my mind. In the forty years or so that I have been reloading ammunition I have never had a single failure. Every single cartridge I make is done with great care. I own about a dozen fire extinguishers. Kitchen, living room, Jeep, Honda, bedroom, garage, outside shed, mule, and two extra bedrooms.

    Don’t be that guy. Be Safe. Stuff can be replaced. People can’t be.

  • Thursday Morning Links

    Hey look, the Orioles beat the Yankees!  And with the Red Sox idle, that pulls them back within 41.5 games of the division.  Nice! Elsewhere, the Nationals topped the Mets, the Tigers dumped the Reds, the Indians blanked the Twins, the Cubs beat the Pirates, the Rays over the Angels, the Royals doubled up the White Sox, the Cardinals beat the Rockies, the Dodgers beat the Brewers and the Astros took two of three from Seattle to get off the slide a little bit.

    The person responsible for the abuse is over there, people! These are adults we are talking about.

    I won’t even attempt to gloss over the big sports news story of the day. Which is apparently this: Urban Meyer allegedly did not admit to knowing of alleged abuse (for which no arrests were ever made even under Ohio’s stringent domestic abuse statutes, the victim refused to press charges, and the entirety of evidence is hearsay) in a press conference discussing a situation that happened three years ago that the victim’s family, friends and everyone who knew her with the exception of Meyer’s wife told her to keep out of the media and legal process. And for that, he’s been placed on leave pending an investigation of…wait, what are they investigating? Oh yeah, whether or not he was aware of the aforementioned abuse. Abuse that the victim refused to pursue or even bring up publicly until her ex- was fired (upon his first arrest in the matter) and no form of income for her exists any longer.  Well, fuck. The media won’t let this one go until they claim a scalp from one of the three of four biggest football programs in one of the three biggest athletic programs in the country.  Let’s see if Ohio State caves or if they defer to the legal process, which the victim refused to do for years.

    Not ugly

    Pierre Charles L’Enfant, the designer of Washington, D.C., was born on this date. So was Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi, designer of the Statue Of Liberty (and by extension the developer of our immigration policy according to dumbasses who don’t understand an inscription on a statue isn’t binding law). Those two share the day with actress Myrna Loy, Israeli leader Shimon Peres, comedic genius Carrol O’Conner, American sports pioneer Lamar Hunt, brilliant actor Peter O’Toole, film director Wes Craven, celebrity judge Lance Ito, TV Land’s Butch Patrick, “musician” Mojo Nixon, drummer Pete de Freitas, and ageless knuckleballer Tim Wakefield.

    Its also the day Henry Hudson entered the bay which would be named after him, the formal signing of the Declaration of Independence took place, Lewis Carroll’s “Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland”, the first roller rink opened in London, the first Lincoln head pennies were minted, the Army Air Corps was formed, the Potsdam conference ended, Mussolinin signed a peace treaty with Ethiopia, PT-109 was sunk in the Solomon Islands, the survivors of the USS Indianapolis were spotted, the Beatles first played the Cavern Club, George Brett got his first MLB hit, American Graffiti, George Lucas’s best directing job, premiered, Iraq invaded Kuwait and George HW Bush ordered US troops to Saudi Arabia, and Rick James was arrested on sexual torture charges.

    What a day. And now…the links!

    Ugly

    Mad Max hit with FEC complaint over mailer money.  I guess in retrospect, it may have not been a good idea paying her daughter $60k a year to lick stamps.

    James Blake gets education on the difference in being a big-city union cop and being a little person.  And he’s not happy about it.  Well welcome to the party, James. Now go out there and raise hell.

    The Barnum-esque experiment known as “Tesla” recorded its worst financial quarter ever. And their stock rose.  Why?  Because apparently due to population growth, there’s a sucker born every 15 seconds now.

    Humanity will always find a way to circumvent stupid legislation. Still no word on when those lids that require 4x as much plastic as the straws will be showing up at Starbucks, by the way.

    Artist’s depiction of Manafort prosecutor

    Judge gets tired of prosecutors trying Manafort for his lifestyle. I’m sure they’ll circle back to wealth envy at some point in closing arguments. After all, nobody deserves an ostrich vest or a $21,000 watch.  Nevermind the fact that actual people are employed to make those things.

    All that is not expressly permitted is forbidden. No, seriously. That’s what its like to live in Massholechussetts.

    This is how much better Whataburger is than the others. You won’t see this at an In-N-Out or Five Guys. It makes me proud. Sort of.

    Here you go, 80s kids.  Enjoy greatness.

    Have a great day.  O-H…

  • Libertarian App-roved Collectivism

    Libertarian App-roved Collectivism

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    Socialism in the USA can happen any time now and I’d be cool with it.

    Seriously. It can happen any time that the Socialists in the USA want it, all thanks to Capitalist technology. And the Capitalists shouldn’t even mind.

    The Socialists can design a Meetup/Hookup-type app that matches Socialist Makers with Socialist Takers. Members would either be a Maker-Seeking-Taker or a Taker-Seeking-Maker.

    Those numerous guilty well-to-do Socialists, the Makers, those convinced of their regretful privilege, who have excess income/possessions/accounts/shoes/value can register on the site as Makers-Seeking-Takers. Likewise, the suffering masses of Socialists, the Takers, upon whose backs the Makers have trod in their patriarchal white-male-cishetero (regardless of whether or not you are such a thing, for if you’re a Maker it’s this oppressive identity class that forced you to be unwittingly successful) pursuit of greed, will register as Takers-Seeking-Makers.

    The Makers will be subject to the “From Each According to Its Ability” questionnaire to determine their Bougie-ness, their level of unacceptable indulgence. And in their turn, the Takers will complete the “To Each According to Its Need” profile, so as to determine their level of Victim’hood. The app will then find matches among these Socialists, appropriately pairing equal levels of Bougie-ness to Victim’hood. The ensuing orgy of wealth transfer will be epic!!!

    Naturally, the affluent Democrats suffering from white guilt will flock to the site, abandon their “you first” approach to benevolence, and shed their damning excess. No longer will obstructionist conservative legislators force Socialists to take lavish vacations, own expensive homes, patronize Starbucks. The Socialist Makers will finally be free to voluntarily give away to the Takers all that they are able. Existing charities already accepting donations and aiding the less-fortunate will cease to be a hindrance to the Socialists’ attempts at uplifting their fellow [insert preferred pronoun here].

    That’s all the brainstorming I’ve time for. I entrust the Glibs to naming the app, adding features, etc.

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  • Wednesday Afternoon Links

    As everyone can see (and Pie commented on), ZARDOZ stole my thunder. I couldn’t seem to get it through his thick head that I had already claimed that story. I was holding fine against his threat of cleansing, but then he produced some pictures of that time I went as Zed for Halloween. Meth is a hell of a drug and I was assured those pictures were destroyed.

    At any rate, as ZARDOZ said, we are going to keep hosting files and posting links that make the idiotic pointlessness of trying to ban information from being posted on the Internet. Here is a link to CodeIsFreeSpeech.com, which has CAD files of guns available to download. Here is a link to ZARDOZ’s post, where you can find the same set of files hosted separately.

    And now… the links

    You’ll be surprised to find out that corners of the Internet have more crazy than the day room at your local mental institution. And of course WaPo is reporting on this because it is a gripping issue affecting everyone. No, just kidding, it’s just a chance for them to associate crazy people and Donald Trump.

    Good news guys, commercial fusion is only 20 years away!

    Ruh, roh, Sloopy. #metoo is coming for Urban Meyer. For not firing a wife-beater coach. IMO, who else is going to teach those kids the line between correcting your woman and punching her out in a casino elevator?

    If you’re OMWC, 911 is a joke. (Because he’s in Chicago, not because he… oh never mind)

    That gave me the act, I picked a different song.

     

  • CODE IS FREE SPEECH

    CODE IS FREE SPEECH

    ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. WE HERE AT GLIBERTARIANS ARE FULLY DEVOTED DEFENDERS OF THE RIGHT TO SAY, THINK, WRITE AND PUBLISH ANYTHING WITHOUT GOVERNMENT INTERFERENCE OR PRIOR RESTRAINT. RECENTLY, WE CELEBRATED WHAT WE THOUGHT WAS A BIG WIN FOR THE RIGHT OF FREE SPEECH IN AMERICA. THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT VOLUNTARILY SETTLED A LAWSUIT WITH DEFENSE DISTRIBUTED AND CODY WILSON, REGARDING THE PUBLICATION OF SPECIFICATIONS FOR MANUFACTURING HANDGUNS ON VARIOUS TYPES OF COMPUTER CONTROLLED MACHINERY AVAILABLE TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC. TODAY, AUGUST 1ST, WAS SUPPOSED TO BE THE DAY THAT ALL OF THESE FILES WERE ONCE AGAIN AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC. HOWEVER, VARIOUS STATES AND LOCALITIES HAVE HAD FEDERAL JUDGES ENJOIN THIS BY EMERGENCY ORDER. WE DO NOT SUPPORT ANY SUCH RESTRICTIONS. IT IS THE CASE TODAY THAT PEOPLE PROHIBITED FROM POSSESSING A GUN BREAK THE LAW IN ORDER TO POSSESS A GUN. THEY CAN GO TO YOUTUBE RIGHT NOW AND WATCH “HOW TO” VIDEOS OF PEOPLE BUILDING GUNS WITH A DRILL PRESS, A HAMMER, AND AN ANVIL.

    IN SUPPORT OF DEFENSE DISTRIBUTED’S NOBLE WORK OF EMPOWERING CITIZENS TO BUILD AND POSSESS THE TOOLS TO FIGHT AGAINST UNJUST FORCE, OF ANY TYPE, WE PROUDLY FEATURE THIS LINK TO THE FILES. ZARDOZ BRINGS YOU THE GIFT OF THE GUN! CLICK HERE TO GET THEM FROM AN  END TO END ENCRYPTED SITE.

    THIS ACT IS PART OF THE REASON GLIBERTARIANS WAS CREATED, AND IS STILL HERE.

    ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.