Here is a graphical representation of why the TSA is pointless.

Found via JP556 in GBC.

Went into town to help administer a ham radio exam.  Dropped by to visit some friends from work at the “man shack”.  That visit dropped a quote of the day.

If all these hippies want to grow green food, why don’t they just go back to the days of plantations.  Human labor is green right? –Anonymous

We all realized some would be offended by that quote so it shall be posted into the internets by anonymous. 

Some of the guys are very into brewing cider, how serious you ask?

Some at Boomershoot feel like shooting irons for an extra challenge.  Last year Lyle nailed an IPSC @580 with this Mosin Nagant last year and Dan picked off a boomer @400 this year. 

Solid principals means any rifle can do in a pinch. 

The President has decided to create a new position in the White House, Director of Progressive Media & Online response to remove any negative media about him from the public eye.

Lee will essentially be responsible for building up Obama’s online presence as he prepares for his reelection bid, and squashing any negative stories

Translation: Remove all negative commentary that is derogatory towards reelection despite the truth.  Use the power of government and the threat of force to silence anyone who would dare speak out against the second coming of Jesus our fearless leader.

This is going to go over as well as chocolate over pork.  These are the few things that our dear President doesn’t seem to realize or understand, especially since he still thinks it’s 2008. 

1. The internets are forever.  Just because you demand something be removed doesn’t mean it’s gone.
2. The first amendment protects speech by the people from the interference of government, including elected officials.  As the American public is going to be funding this position will this individual also remove false and derogatory statements about others running for election?  In all likelihood, this individual will be issuing statements to websites that he would remove if it were about the President.
3. Doing something like this is completely contrary to his transparency policy on government. 
4. It is yet another example of the government attempting to meddle and control the people without regard for the law or legislative process.  There is a large group of people who don’t like this type of behavior.

The Führer President is attempting to stifle criticism and speech about him.  Soon there will be a politburo which will censor all writing prior to publishing.  It is disconcerting that so many people do not take issue with this type of behavior or see a problem with it and would ignore the fact that these same individuals are asking to be vested with the power to shut down the internet.  Then again there are people who respond with “Heavy Boots.” 

Note: I will not remove any information that is critical of the President or any other elected official.  While the President is deserving of the respect granted him by the office, that does not render him able to do anything without criticism.  Any federal or state employee works for me and I can be critical of how they conduct their business, treat my rights, and behave while spending my money.  The office does not make them a pure soul, they are like you and me, a human being.  If the elected representative dislikes the criticism maybe they should alter their behavior to decrease criticism by me and others like me.

H/T: The Minutewoman

Hearing about all the suckers who believed that the rapture was yesterday was already depressing enough.  Then the heavy boot’s story spread closer than I would have liked.

I can some what understand how it could happen given unused knowledge and skills are lost.  How in the name of Zeus's butthole is the concept of gravity so lost?  If gravity can pull heavy boots to the surface, why wouldn’t it pull down a freaking pen.  Hell Apollo 15 dropped a hammer and a feather to prove Galileo right.  The feather didn’t float off into space.  Those thoughts cause the minor depression, then I remember that these people also vote and I break out the whiskey.

At least the wife is about to finish “Unintended Consequences”, I guess that’s a glimmer of hope.  She also said the pen would fall to the surface.  Then again I am obsessed with the Apollo program.  While the cost was hugely immense, I cannot help but step back in awe as engineer and look at what all those young men did.  There is no limit to the possibility of human achievement other than the limits created by bureaucratic red tape.

H/T Ry Jones

This man did not rely on the government to save him.  Instead he, with the help of friends and family, saved his house.

It puts a serious smile on my face. 

H/T Alan.

[I discovered this after investigating a probable case of reasoned discourse involving CSGV lying yet again.  Ignoring the fact that it was Twitter that made the final decision to suspend the CSGV account.  Facts and the truth mean nothing to these people. 

I do not understand how the pro-rights side of this argument is scary.  You have absolutely nothing to fear from any of us.  There is claim after claim that we are just going to go and shoot people we disagree with, yet it has NEVER happened.  I subscribe to the same philosophy as Capt. Malcolm Reynolds:

"You don't know me, son. So let me explain this to you once: If I ever kill you, you'll be awake, you'll be facing me, and you'll be armed."

Again and again we are portrayed by them as nothing but maniacs who wish death upon everyone else but ourselves.  The facts though is that we wish for every person to be able to make the choice to defend themselves and prevent someone else from forcing death upon them.  We are not murderous, we are not short tempered, we do not want to see people needlessly injured or hurt.  Scary we are not, if you do fear us your fear is irrational unless you have behaved in such a way as to threaten us or our families.  We do not wish ANYONE harm yet again and again the other side has wished it upon us. 

Are we relentless, you bet your ass.  That is but one of the many reasons as to why we are winning.

CSGV attacked Linoge and was attempting to intimidate and harass him publishing information that is no one’s business for no other reason than intimidation.  If that isn’t the case, then why would the CSGV, Joan Peterson, or anyone else on the other side of the aisle make exactly that claim if we did the same thing.  Names are one thing, listing information geared at locating an individual, tying him to specific employment, and other acts is intimidation.  Blogging under a pseudonym isn’t to hide, it is done to separate one’s professional life from their personal life.  Blogging is personal, tracing down employment is an attack on their professional life.  So why shouldn’t Linoge be relentless in this case?  Their behavior could cost Linoge his job if his employer supports the anti-rights bigots.  It’s happened before. 

We are relentless because to enjoy freedom and liberty requires eternal vigilance from those who would seek to destroy it.  The Brady Campaign currently is using the crisis of terrorism to attempt to deny people an explicitly enumerated right without due process of law.  We are relentless because to do otherwise would mean that we think the rights that we fight for are without meaning or unnecessary.  Ultimately we are relentless because we do not think that anyone should have the ability to force their will upon another by use of force.  Should someone attempt to do so, that person should have the ability to fight back with the best tools for the job.  The anti-rights bigots would disarm us by force without our consent, to then be at the mercy of someone else.  Forcibly disarmed to not be able to defend ourselves.  Relentless, you bet and we don’t stop until the threat has stopped!

One thing though my wife took direct offense at was that Joan Peterson referred to all pro-rights bloggers as men.  This side of the fence is not just men, it is full of women and frankly I find it down right sexist and offensive as well.  Never do the bigots make mention of the fairer (and much more beautiful) sex.  My wife thinks its because it’s known that all the good looking ones with great figures are on this side of the debate.  I think it’s much more simple than that.

They can not argue against them.  Attempting to argue against them shows what they really think about self defense.  It shows that they don’t want women to be self reliant.  It shows that they think they should be at the mercy of anyone stronger who would do them harm.

All of these facts, don’t matter though because the other side has made up their mind.  We are sub-human to them and unworthy of life.  For that reason we will relegate those bigots to the dustbin of history.

-B]

H/T to Weer'd on the citation for the hypocrisy.

8. ENGINEERING
The disassembled parts of a high-powered rifle have been placed on your desk. You will also find and instruction manual, printed in Swahili. In ten minutes a hungry Bengal tiger will be admitted to the room. Take whatever action you feel appropriate. Be prepared to justify your decision.

My Answer:

Assemble the gun to the best of my knowledge, disregarding the Swahili manual since all firearms operate on the same basic principle and can usually be easily and intuitively assembled.  If the hungry tiger is admitted into the room before I am finished, pull my side arm and kill said tiger.  Then continue with the task at hand.  Also, there is no mention of ammunition being provided with the rifle, so, to err on the side of caution it is assumed that there is none. Therefore,  my side arm would be used, PERIOD.

Justification:

Self defense.

Guns on campus may be a heated issue, but liberty purists can take the controversy out of the question when we remember that being armed in large numbers is just as shrewd as teaching CPR to everyone for the Café Coronary which can take a life faster and sooner than EMS can arrive. The entire purpose of an armed citizenry is how to resist violence in the absence of first responders, e.g. police. Not only do police have no duty to protect individuals from the criminal acts of others, but there simply aren’t enough officers anyway.

John Longenecker, Guns on Campus, Churches, Workplace, Bars and Restaurants

[This is what the anti-rights organizations refuse to see or understand.  They project their own feelings and behaviors on to what they would do if they owned a firearm and assume all owners are that way.  Believing that we are all hell bent on killing others ignoring the fact that we are trying to protect our selves and families.

The pacifist methods of the CSGV and Brady Campaign have proven pointless and a method to ensure one’s one demise.  Yet time and time again, armed citizens fight off their attackers and survive. This movement on their part towards self reliance ensures that they do not become a victim, yet the Brady Campaign gladly counts the criminal as a victim to inflate their statistics.  The Brady Campaign and CSGV has done more than any other group to increase violent crime overall.  They are ok with this outcome, because really they don’t care about crime, they just care about “gun crime".  The fact is though, the choice of tool doesn’t matter, the victim is still violated and I care about the victim, not the criminal.  -B]

I’m doing some site maintenance and configuring the Drupal multisite configuration.  I was maintaining about 4 Drupal installs and was about to add one more.  I decided for my sanity I needed to move to the multisite configuration.  This blog is the main install but previously when uploading pictures I was dumping them into a non-site specific folder.  All old links will still exist, but from now on I’m going to use site specific locations and upload through the blogging service.  Here’s hoping it works.

This is the same rifle the owner, pictured at bottom, let me test drive. 

Barrett M82A1

Bob Parks did a wonderful article recently on the history of the Democrat part and detangling their web of lies.

This is the kind of BS spewed by Democrats on a daily basis, and unfortunately the media and other so-called watchdogs are so apparently ignorant of American history, Democrats continue to LIE through their teeth to their constituents, and via academia, to our kids. Despite the truth being out there for years, it’s probably not going to explode until some big shot news anchor gives us an “explosive expose” bringing us all those facts first, so he/she can proudly receive a Pulitzer…

He proceeds to cite examples of how the democrats have been bigoted since 1858 all the way up to the present.  Go read the whole thing, I applaud him for his effort and work since those are facts that are all to often ignored.

H/T Patrick

So I’m still fighting this bug what ever it is.  I slept most of the past 16 hours and still generally feel like crap.  I have a few ideas for write ups but I just don’t have the energy to write it up.  So instead here’s some more Boomershoot gun porn.

Springfield M1A, pictures courtesy of Oleg.

TJIC:
You can't expect to wield supreme executive power over a bunch of individuals just 'cause some aged Hippy  threw a degree at you!

-Borepatch, I told you, We’re an anarcho-syndicalist commune

[Bore patch won the internets today with this wonderful piece of snark.  If you haven’t read it go read the whole thing.  It’s funny because it’s true and he’s saying what we’re all thinking.  Well done sir! –B]

Perhaps, though, this kind of thinking explains CSGV's insistence on referring to "our democracy" with such regularity, rather than acknowledging that our nation is a republic. Promoting the notion that we live in a society where the majority rules, meaning that 51% can legitimately vote away the fundamental human rights of the other 49%, fits right into CSGV's agenda, especially when coupled with the VPC's latest theme, of gun owners as a minority.

-Kurt Hoffman, Down the Memory Hole with @CSGV

[One of my pet peeves is referring to our government as a Democracy.  We are a Constitutional Republic, a democracy is nothing more than mob rule.  A republic is supposed to prevent one group from controlling the other protecting minorities in the process.

As I have said previously there are certain rights that do not require recognition from the government.  Not only that, some rights may not be voted away or removed from the people.  Many of these though were specifically enumerated by the framers of the constitution to provide them extra protection.  The CSGV and Brady Campaign believe they're in the majority, yet event after event is showing they are anything but.

The CSGV and Brady Campaign are waging a war of manipulation.  Just look at CSGV’s name, who could be for “Gun Violence”?  Just the same, they manipulate people into believing that we have a democracy instead of a republic.  Ultimately representatives should be representing all of their constituents and protecting their rights, even the one’s who didn’t vote for them. –B]

If you only have one leg how the hell are you supposed to run away?  If you're wheelchair bound how are you supposed to duke it out with someone ablebodied?  Anti-gunners don't care.  In their world perhaps Americans with physical impediments don't exist or don't matter, but in the real world those people are frequently victimized.

-Mike W., Gimp Hate

[Many have posted this already however this strikes a chord with me.  My father-in-law is a below the knee amputee.  My wife has radial nerve palsy which limits her use of her right hand.  Lastly I had the muscular equivalent of a total hip replacement after my auto wreck.  While I can run, I can not run far, fast, or for long.  Swimming is a different story, but the impact from running starts to send sharp pain through the area they cut up.

The CSGV, Brady Bunch, and every other anti-gun organization out there want to disarm the American public for their safety.  When in reality they are doing nothing but making sure people lack the tools and ability to fight back.  With a firearm my wife stands a chance to be able to fight back against someone who is considerably larger than she is.  She can effectively defend herself despite her disability.  I have been in fist fights, they’re not fun are extremely nasty and the winner is usually the person who is the strongest.  It is the ultimate in might makes right.  Just because you’re right doesn’t mean you’re going to win a fist fight, and if you have any disability, it is going to count against you.

The Brady Bunch is claiming their laws help make us safer, yet when you actually analyze the statistics, it shows that is anything but true. –B]

So the ATF personally handed weapons across the border, including NFA weapons?

In a second, equally explosive disclosure, a law enforcement source tells Fox News, that ATF undercover agents were acting as the straw buyers and purchasing guns using government-issued false identifications and then providing those guns to cartel traffickers to gain credibility in their undercover roles. In that capacity, the ATF "provided 2, 50 cal. machine guns to traffickers that are loose in Mexico and unaccounted for," the source said.

I would like to point out that they sent weapons knowingly into Mexico and then magically lost the hardware.  This is pure conjecture however I would NOT be surprised to hear that agents received private cash payouts from cartels as part of this investigation.  What better way to smuggle equipment across a border than to have a government aiding and abetting.  

Then after shoving all these weapons over the border the ATF then says that straw purchasing is a serious problem and a long gun registry needs to be created.  This whole thing smacks of an engineered plot to achieve political goals by committing crimes and then blaming the law abiding.  Every agent who broke the law while operating on an “investigation” should be prosecuted under the law.  Just because you are an LEO doesn’t exempt you from following the law.  If anything you should be held to a higher accountability.

As Dave Hardy said:

While opinions may vary, I've always thought that undercover operations should stop short of committing acts of war.

H/T: Dave Hardy

My only hope is this anger is real and they find every person who is responsible and hold them accountable.

The video of Issa nailing Holder to a wall.  Issa did a wonderful job nailing Holder.

Here is Jason Chaffetz.

One of these days I’ll probably write up a nice post with all the info I have.  Every time I start trying to make a post on this I feel my blood start to boil.  The amount of negligence and how it was being manipulated to destroy the rights of law abiding American’s is staggering.

So Ry saw someone cook bacon on their MG-42 barrel and had a bright idea.  His suppressor gets scorching hot, why not cook bacon on that.  So the games began.

I was up at the line when Ry actually fried the bacon up.  Thankfully Rolf and AntiTango got pictures.

Here is a quick post on some of the more broad points of Boomershoot 2011.  I was out there Thursday-Sunday, and camped Friday and Saturday night.  I must say, from now on I’m camping out there, it greatly simplified things even though I only live about an hour and twenty minutes away.

This post is going to focus on Sunday, I’ll make one that covers Friday and Saturday later.

Sunday kicked off with a wonderful fireball created by Ry.