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About TMM

TMM is the owner, editor, and principal author at The Minuteman, a competitive shooter, and staff member for Boomershoot. Even in his free time he’s merging his love and knowledge of computers and technology with his love of firearms. Many know his private name and information however due to the current political climate, many are distancing themselves due to the abandonment of Due Process.

Ooohhhh I’m Special!

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We’ll I’ve known that for a long time.  I would say I’m short bus special but alas I never rode it.

Now there’s been a blogger award running around amongst the gun blogs, geared at the less read blogs.  Arms are the Mark of a Free Man put me in his award list. 

Liebster Blog Award:

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The rules are:

  1. Copy and paste award on your blog. Check.
  2. Link back to the blogger who gave you the award. Did you miss the link?  Check.
  3. Pick your five favorite blogs with less than 200 followers and leave a comment on their blog to let them know they have received an award.  Huston we have a problem,  yeah most of the blogs I follow are well beyond the 200 mark.
  4. Hope that the five blogs chosen will keep spreading the love and pass it on to five more blogs.  Yeah, I could care less, it’s up to them if they want to or not.  God knows I’m having trouble finding 5 that haven’t been done.

I’m probably flirting with the 200 followers now.  I have 124 subscribers when I just checked feedburner, that’s a more accurate count than just looking at google reader stats.  However my daily traffic is now about 120.  I say flirting because a lot of that traffic aren’t really daily readers but people searching for stuff.

So I will try and come up with 5, that haven’t been listed, and these are in no real particular order:

  1. Gun Geek Rants 
  2. Men Are Not Potatoes
  3. Bayou Renaissance Man
  4. The Clue Meter
  5. Black Sunday Society

*As a random note, my cat failed me and I was attacked by a spider while writing this.  Best part is it looks like she pulled the insulation out that runs around my antenna wires which is how it got in.  She’s planning to kill me!

Quote of the Day – Weer’d Beard (2/10/2012)

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Honestly the times when I have been MOST miserable in my life have been
as a child because you are unhappy and helpless. When bad shit happens
now in life, I’m a grown-up, I don’t sit there and cry, I get to
fucking work and fix the shit.

Weer’d Beard – Another Good Video

February 10, 2012

[I will admit that there are times I look back and my childhood and think it would be fun to go back.  Mainly those things that I think about going back for are those “Groundhog Day” type instances.  That entertaining night in Philly while going to the National Jamboree in scouts, hiking through Philmont, being staff for JLT with a bunch of friends.  It was fun!  It’s the fun and memories I remember that calls to me.

Thing is, I wouldn’t really want to go back and stay.  Why?  I can go out when ever I want and shoot stuff and blow stuff up.  If I feel like going to the range, I can hop in my truck and go.  No asking my dad and hoping he has time.  Yeah when something goes wrong I have to deal with it.  Does it suck, not really.  Why?  Because the buck stops with me and I like responsibility.  When something goes wrong I have to figure it out and solve the problem.  Yeah there are times I hate the stress that goes with it, but you know what, I learned from those mistakes.  Yeah stress sucks, but I have a wonderful wife there to help me find my way to the other side.  It’s life, get used to it.  Besides, as an adult I can actually do something about it.  As a kid, I’d just have to deal with it.

I think Sunday I’m headed down to the range.  Why?  Because I fucking can!  I’m good with being an actual grown adult.* -B

*This is opposed to those people who are grown up in physical size and stature but never emotionally matured and became adults.**

**This is not in reference to those with mental disabilities.  The wife works with people who do have those type of issues, I’m talking about the people coddled by their parents and shielded from the real world to the point where they want the government to become a parent to keep coddling them.]

SSCC #256 – TSA

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It appears some TSA agent has figured out how to commit the perfect theft while being a TSA agent.

“TSA blames Air Canada, and Air Canada blames TSA, and nobody wants to take responsibility,” Jan Dewar said.

See, they stole property for an airline headed out of the country.  That way they could blame it on services outside their control.  What was so valuable to steal though?

They soon noticed that a number of items were missing: $240 in brand new
clothing and shoes, as well as two packages of unopened cigarettes.

It’s the missing cigarettes that clinched it for me though.  With the missing cakes and all, they obviously forgot their smokes and needed some for their smoke break.

State Sponsored Criminal Count 256: John Doe

Because the TSA is nothing but a kleptomaniacs wet dream of an organization.

SSCC #255–Tennessee

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Suspected marijuana was found by three police officers at the home of the director of the state Alcoholic Beverage Commission, whose mission is to eradicate marijuana.

Wohoo, maybe there will be some equal treatment under the law.  Oh wait, what was I thinking!?

The TBI investigative file into how the suspected drugs were handled ultimately ended up with District Attorney General Dan Alsobrook, who declined to press charges.

Go read the story, it’s just one long list of excuses and protecting their own.

State Sponsored Criminal Count 255: Danielle Elks

Sponsored by District Attorney General: Dan Alsobrook

Because all those anti drug laws are really just for those lowly peons and to protect our racket. 

via Uncle

Quote of the Day–Emily Miller(02/08/2012)

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When I first started the “Emily Gets Her Gun” series, I thought  I would be waiting in long lines and filling out lots of paperwork. I never could have imagined that the D.C. gun laws made it so unearthly difficult to get a legal handgun. However, I also never could have believed that this newspaper series would encourage change in Washington’s gun laws.

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Now, this series is far from over. As I’ve found, the hurdles placed before gun owners do not end here. I need to figure out the laws on getting ammunition and transporting the gun to a state that allows practice shooting.

Most of all, I intend to keep pushing the Council of the District of Columbia to rewrite the its laws to make them fair and constitutional for law-abiding Americans.

(Emphasis mine)

Emily Miller – Emily got her gun!

February 2, 2012

[That last line is a wonderful statement.  She started off with the belief that the laws were “reasonable” as our opponents claim.  As she worked her way through the quagmire of bureaucratic red tape she realized it was anything but.  The deck, especially in DC, has been stacked strongly against those who would exercise their right to keep and bear arms.

Her eyes have been opened and she sees the truth and what needs to happen.

Welcome to the “Dark Side” Emily.  Enjoy the cookies.  It’s much better than the hopelessness and despair offered by our opponents.  -B]

Ear Worm Wednesday–02/07/2012

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This one’s going to be a twofer.  First up is Hollywood Undead – Hear Me Now.

Been to Hell has been rolling too.

Which leads into the second.  For some reason Pandora decided to start playing Dubstep on my Hollywood Undead station.  This one’s been covered by Weer’d but it’s just so awesome here it is again!

It started playing dubstep and I didn’t even know it, I just recognized it as industrial from when I was in school.  Ends up that genre morphed into what we have today. 

SSCC #254–Washington DC Police

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 Matthew Corrigan, who lives alone with his dog, sued the District of Columbia in D.C. Federal Court.

Confronted with a massive police presence after his plea for help, Corrigan says, he denied officers permission to enter his house, but they entered and trashed it anyway, saying, "I don’t have time to play this constitutional bullshit!"

What exactly happened though, maybe there was a mistake?  Yup there was.

 "Corrigan telephoned what he believed to be the ‘Military’s Emotional Support Hotline’ because he was depressed and had not slept for several days," the complaint states.

"The number Corrigan called was in fact the National Suicide Hotline. When he stated that he was a veteran, he was asked if he had firearms, to which he said yes. He said nothing about being suicidal or using a firearm or threatening anyone. After a short conversation, Corrigan hung up, turned off the phone, took prescribed sleeping medication, and went to bed.

Here we have a veteran who was depressed, reaching out for help and the response of our wonderful state is to kill his fish, seize his dog, and violate his rights.  Yeah, I can’t blame that veteran for being depressed.  With the way our police act now, who isn’t?  Seriously go read the story and tell me that doesn’t make you loose faith in those who go into law enforcement.

State Sponsored Criminal Count #254: John Doe –Every one of those officers shares fault.

Because when someone is depressed that must mean they’re suicidal and we should trample all over them right.

via Ry.

*Before anyone emails me about how horrible suicide is and how insensitive I am, you should know my uncle, a friend in high school, and a friend of mines father all committed suicide.  Two of those were with a firearm.  I am quite familiar with how serious it is.  However being depressed doesn’t mean you’re suicidal.

Quote of the Day–Disavowed With Honor (02/07/2012(

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Like they have done such a bang up job of it. If it were a class teaching how to molest a teenager and arrest her mother for speaking out, stripsearch elderly grandmas, or identify an old west gun design on a purse, or conduct a cupcake threat assessment.

Disavowed With Honor – TSA: Teaching People How To Spot Terrorists

February 4th, 2012

[Yeah, I have nothing to add on that one.  Well, I really do but I’ve previously stated my thoughts on the TSA numerous times.  Go there, I’m freaking annoyed with these dough-assed asshats. –B]