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CSGV’s Facebook page is becoming an everlasting document to prove fear mongering to gather support.  Their latest attack was against AntiTango, for this post.  What’s interesting is what they chose to complain and then lie about.

Evidently making your kid eat his dinner qualifies as child abuse now.  These people are so obsessed with victimhood that they perceive every action as having a victim.  This even includes the act of self-defense. 

That’s right folks, they admitted that they believe the aggressor is the victim when someone being attacked defends themselves.  I have altered the situations below to reflect their process failure.

• The victim was shot while trying to rape a woman in her home.
• The victims were shot while breaking into a house on the east side of town.
• The victims were shot while robbing a liquor store.
• The victims were shot while mugging someone at gun point after shooting at their mark.

I could keep going but that should illustrate the process failure.  They do not understand that in each of those cases the person they are calling a victim is anything but.  They ignore and discard any defensive gun use, even if there isn’t a shot fired.  They then extended this victimhood mentality towards tango’s child.

If you skipped the drivel, just note comment #3 from Craig Hexham, as well as the comment from Joan Peterson herself, the last one is a gem as well (see what I did there).  They all seem to think that making a kid eat his dinner is causing the kid pain and suffering.  I was a picky eater when I was a kid, still am actually, but I will usually try anything once, doesn’t mean I’ll like it.  So was that child abuse by my parents growing up?  NO because if I didn’t eat I would be a starving kid. 

My dad when I was 6 months old was making sure I retained my natural ability to swim.  He was trying to get me to leave him and swim a foot to the wall.  I would hold on to him and eventually I would get upset and start crying for no real reason.  He was holding me and I was well above the water, his response, dunk my ass under water.  When I would come back up shortly there after, we’re talking seconds, I wasn’t gasping for air (note the dive reflex in babies), but I stopped crying.  Eventually I figured out the wall was a more stable object to hold onto and swam the foot.  A woman proceeded during this whole even to yell and scream at my dad that it was child abuse.  She had two kids, about 4 and 5, neither one could swim at all.  I swam competition through junior high and high school and still am an excellent swimmer today.  Some would claim it was child abuse, however I as the supposed victim by the method of CSGV’s thinking would vehemently disagree.

What we are actually seeing, it’s actually common even out side of this immediate realm, is the use of children as leverage by the threat of CPS  to force the other side of the argument to yield.  In this case CSGV lied, created a situation, and is now claiming to contact CPS because ultimately they disagree with the parenting style and politics of the parent.  That is not CSGV’s kid, that is not the governments child, neither has any business telling a parent how to raise their kid.  Child abuse is real and it is a problem.  This is NOT child abuse and to claim this as such, as well as other aspects that pertain to parenting and raising your child, demeans every person who ever actually suffered it at the hand of their parent.  My only hope is that whoever ends up investigating this turns around and fine’s your ass for filing a false report. 

H/T Sebastian who also has something to say on it here.

Joe says that he doesn’t get that close, but some time’s he does.  He just he selectively forgets about it. 

This was the fireball from my first Boomershoot in 2008.  He winged the gas can and needed to detonate a little bit quicker.

Sometimes you’re asked to do something.

When you find you why, it all the sudden makes sense.

The quick and dirty version is Joe didn’t know his zero and didn’t want to look the fool.  Instead he had me risk looking the fool, it was low risk but for TV it certainly ups the pressure.

Go to a drag strip and no one’s going to let you drive their car down the strip.  Come to Boomershoot and people will let you try out their rifles, and provide you the equivalent of a 3 gallons of gas and ask for nothing in return.  That’s why I LOVE this culture.

The only real thing that is asked remains unwritten, return the favor and be just as courteous. 

Incase you missed it, I created a blacklist plugin for Windows Live Writer.  So everyone who uses this thing but Joe failed.  There was a bug, I made a dumb mistake and it would error if you published a post with no links in it.  I missed it in my testing because I was more focused on catching links and not nailing good links.  Why would I think about a post with no links at all right?

I fixed it this afternoon and am releasing a hotfix that fixes that issue.  Along with the hotfix it now supports getting the blacklist from a URL.  A sample blacklist can be seen here.  This makes it much easier to pick up new domains as they’re added.  Currently the list is not automatically updated, but that is on the road map.

You can get the new version 0.2.0 Blacklist Plugin Installer here.

Some would think that stuff like this isn’t good wholesome family fun.  I think Abigail would beg to differ.

Anything that puts a smile on a kids face and makes family spend more time together is great in my book.  Just look at how Boomershoot was created.

Sometimes close is a relative term.  Rolf prefers entertainingly close so he can use his .357 to make them go boom.

The result usually involves raining dirt.

So it’s 10 days to the start of Boomershoot, for staff anyway, and hopefully this isn’t a sign of things to come.  Yes it can be a great wind indicator, I will shoot rain, shine, tidal wave, whatever.  I just do prefer to be comfortable at least one day of the shoot, mainly the day of.  I’ll take cold and wet Friday and Saturday.

Yes that is snow sticking to everything but the concrete, which it started to later.  I must say that’s a really neat HDR shot since it turned the snow above black and the snow below white.  Now for the proof that it is actually spring on the Palouse.

Still Don’t believe me, here’s another.

Here’s the storm as it left, blue sky came in behind and the temperature dropped extremely quickly.  How quickly, 6 degrees in 40 minutes.