Saturday, January 29, 2011
Monday, January 17, 2011
Monday, January 03, 2011
Saturday, January 01, 2011
This Year To Come
Some things I'll be doing or looking for in the coming year:
1. Be True.
2. Nail down my grasp of AutoCADD, at least enough that I am able to effectively resource CADD data to my surveying software.
3. I'd like to see a Fair/Flat Tax act introduced, preferably by spring. I know it won't pass until after 2012 but getting every franchised citizen a skin in the game is the first most important step toward possibly saving the Republic.
4. I know there won't be any rescinding of Obamacare. The most we can hope for is complete defunding of its provisions. While the socialization of the health care system is a crisis for myriad reasons, remember that the primary goal behind Obamacare is that it is designed to expensively and emotionally distract and entangle the House and Senate from addressing the more lethal threats launched by this administration - exponential growth of regulatory agencies and regulations, specifically EPA, FCC, FDA, and FTC, and the transformation of Justice into a political hit squad.
Destroying the world's premiere health care infrastructure is just a step toward controlling the people, not a goal.
It's an attack. Not an administration.
5. Glass bed one of my Mosins. Just because I can.
6. Find a silver coin with my metal detector.
7. Read three good books I haven't read before.
8. Take a straight week off during the summer and see something of the world with the One True Love.
I hope you have a wonderful New Year. Just be ready.
1. Be True.
2. Nail down my grasp of AutoCADD, at least enough that I am able to effectively resource CADD data to my surveying software.
3. I'd like to see a Fair/Flat Tax act introduced, preferably by spring. I know it won't pass until after 2012 but getting every franchised citizen a skin in the game is the first most important step toward possibly saving the Republic.
4. I know there won't be any rescinding of Obamacare. The most we can hope for is complete defunding of its provisions. While the socialization of the health care system is a crisis for myriad reasons, remember that the primary goal behind Obamacare is that it is designed to expensively and emotionally distract and entangle the House and Senate from addressing the more lethal threats launched by this administration - exponential growth of regulatory agencies and regulations, specifically EPA, FCC, FDA, and FTC, and the transformation of Justice into a political hit squad.
Destroying the world's premiere health care infrastructure is just a step toward controlling the people, not a goal.
It's an attack. Not an administration.
5. Glass bed one of my Mosins. Just because I can.
6. Find a silver coin with my metal detector.
7. Read three good books I haven't read before.
8. Take a straight week off during the summer and see something of the world with the One True Love.
I hope you have a wonderful New Year. Just be ready.
Friday, December 24, 2010
EVERYBODY!
Please have a merry, merry Christmas. May your life be filled with joy this most holy of seasons.
May you be surrounded by loving family, and good friends.
May tomorrow bring you opportunity to succeed at being a better person than you are today.
God bless, and may he keep you well.
I am a lucky guy.
May you be surrounded by loving family, and good friends.
May tomorrow bring you opportunity to succeed at being a better person than you are today.
God bless, and may he keep you well.
I am a lucky guy.
Thursday, December 02, 2010
Came to Understand
We don't have a governing class.
They have presumed to be a ruling class.
It's nice to see honest and appropriate descriptive vocabulary every once in a while... but the attack on the Republic is probably going to end up being fought out in the streets.
Fought to the end, in the cold, hungry, dark.
A few years ago some Islamist mook made waves saying that our grandkids would be moslem.
I think there's a better chance they'll be slaves, myself.
They have presumed to be a ruling class.
It's nice to see honest and appropriate descriptive vocabulary every once in a while... but the attack on the Republic is probably going to end up being fought out in the streets.
Fought to the end, in the cold, hungry, dark.
A few years ago some Islamist mook made waves saying that our grandkids would be moslem.
I think there's a better chance they'll be slaves, myself.
Friday, November 12, 2010
Sunday, November 07, 2010
Energy Delivered At A Distance
What's a max load for a .280 Remington, using the 160 grain Nosler Accubond bullet over IMR 4350 powder, new Remington nickel plated cases, Winchester standard large rifle primers?
I'm thinking it must be around 53 grains, just looking at case capacity. I'm also thinking that would be a compressed load.
The available industry info I've been able to research indicates they want folks to use another powder... but I'm working with what I've got. IMR 4350 gives excellent results with heavy bullets in this caliber range.
Rifle is a well- cared for Remington 700 from the eighties.
Take your time. This is for a friend, and for next year's hunt.
I've already put together the varmint knockers - 110gr TNT's over 52gr of 4350. They zip right along.
I'm thinking it must be around 53 grains, just looking at case capacity. I'm also thinking that would be a compressed load.
The available industry info I've been able to research indicates they want folks to use another powder... but I'm working with what I've got. IMR 4350 gives excellent results with heavy bullets in this caliber range.
Rifle is a well- cared for Remington 700 from the eighties.
Take your time. This is for a friend, and for next year's hunt.
I've already put together the varmint knockers - 110gr TNT's over 52gr of 4350. They zip right along.
Monday, October 25, 2010
Unfortunate Word Choice
Now I saw the teaser on Drudge, so made sure that it wasn't just a goof. Nope:
"He said Republicans had driven the economy into a ditch and then stood by and criticized while Democrats pulled it out. Now that progress has been made, he said, "we can't have special interests sitting shotgun. We gotta have middle class families up in front. We don't mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back.""
Make no mistake about it: we have a childish ideologue occupying the highest office in the land.
His not being very bright is just spice for the mix.
He's about out of my prayers. Even with two years of lame duck to go.
"He said Republicans had driven the economy into a ditch and then stood by and criticized while Democrats pulled it out. Now that progress has been made, he said, "we can't have special interests sitting shotgun. We gotta have middle class families up in front. We don't mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back.""
Make no mistake about it: we have a childish ideologue occupying the highest office in the land.
His not being very bright is just spice for the mix.
He's about out of my prayers. Even with two years of lame duck to go.
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Didn't See That Coming.
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Required reading:
"These are good men who just happen to hold different beliefs. Like, for instance, you believe in free enterprise and unalienable rights, while they believe you should be their bitch."
Now that's some wisdom.
Jeff Goldstein has been a daily read for me since my earliest days on the web.
If you have ever witnessed or been a participant in an important public event and then found the subsequent reportage to be not quite on the mark... then you might consider following Mr. Goldstein around, too.
Language, intent, control, and what tomorrow may look like. Depending on who controls who gets to think and what they think, of course.
"These are good men who just happen to hold different beliefs. Like, for instance, you believe in free enterprise and unalienable rights, while they believe you should be their bitch."
Now that's some wisdom.
Jeff Goldstein has been a daily read for me since my earliest days on the web.
If you have ever witnessed or been a participant in an important public event and then found the subsequent reportage to be not quite on the mark... then you might consider following Mr. Goldstein around, too.
Language, intent, control, and what tomorrow may look like. Depending on who controls who gets to think and what they think, of course.
Monday, October 11, 2010
Have You Noticed?
Reloading powders are suddenly very expensive. Or maybe I just noticed. I knew that black powder was already way past silly as far as cost goes.
I'm in the middle of working up some Mosin food, using projectiles pulled from some truly horrible Pakistani production milsurp .303. I have arrived at the end of an inherited can of H4895 and went out to pick up another pound and found they wanted $25.00.
The election hasn't even been stolen yet. Sheesh.
I'm in the middle of working up some Mosin food, using projectiles pulled from some truly horrible Pakistani production milsurp .303. I have arrived at the end of an inherited can of H4895 and went out to pick up another pound and found they wanted $25.00.
The election hasn't even been stolen yet. Sheesh.
Tuesday, October 05, 2010
Thursday, September 09, 2010
Oh My Goodness!
What kind of outfit lets a drunk monopolize a microphone at a public event?
"Later in his impromptu speech Mr. Sha turned to an American colleague, singling out Bob Orr, from the executive office of the secretary-general.
"I really don't like him: he's an American and I really don't like Americans," he said.
A second senior UN official who was at the dinner said: "It went on for about ten or fifteen minutes but it felt like an hour.""
Mr. Sha needs himself a cold beer in the Rose Garden. That would set him right up.
(via Instapundit)
"Later in his impromptu speech Mr. Sha turned to an American colleague, singling out Bob Orr, from the executive office of the secretary-general.
"I really don't like him: he's an American and I really don't like Americans," he said.
A second senior UN official who was at the dinner said: "It went on for about ten or fifteen minutes but it felt like an hour.""
Mr. Sha needs himself a cold beer in the Rose Garden. That would set him right up.
(via Instapundit)
Tuesday, September 07, 2010
School is Back in Session
Prepare and eat a light meal, refill your glass, then open your philosophy book to:
"That is, the Founding Fathers took the English constitutional principles, the institutional forms that already existed in the colonies, and set them down on paper. They were not inventing a new society. They only unified and systematized already existing principles. So this is not a revolutionary movement in any way. As a counterbalance to this, some movements which, in the Brazilian popular culture, in the Brazilian mass media, and school textbooks, are regarded as reactionary and anti-revolutionary, such as the Italian Fascism, or even Nazism, are obviously revolutionary. Why? Because they raised the proposition of a radically new society: they would destroy all existing institutions and rebuild everything from scratch. In the German case, this was an even more radically revolutionary because the foundations of the new society to be created were derived from a recent science, evolutionist biology."
You may need to break this up over a few sittings. It's worth your time.
What makes a revolutionary a revolutionary? Just where did the movement of "movements" origniate? I never really gave it much thought.
(via protein wisdom)
"That is, the Founding Fathers took the English constitutional principles, the institutional forms that already existed in the colonies, and set them down on paper. They were not inventing a new society. They only unified and systematized already existing principles. So this is not a revolutionary movement in any way. As a counterbalance to this, some movements which, in the Brazilian popular culture, in the Brazilian mass media, and school textbooks, are regarded as reactionary and anti-revolutionary, such as the Italian Fascism, or even Nazism, are obviously revolutionary. Why? Because they raised the proposition of a radically new society: they would destroy all existing institutions and rebuild everything from scratch. In the German case, this was an even more radically revolutionary because the foundations of the new society to be created were derived from a recent science, evolutionist biology."
You may need to break this up over a few sittings. It's worth your time.
What makes a revolutionary a revolutionary? Just where did the movement of "movements" origniate? I never really gave it much thought.
(via protein wisdom)
Saturday, September 04, 2010
Monday, August 30, 2010
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
It's a Circle. (Updated)
Tyrants fear those they rule and they will go to great lengths to keep them unarmed.
Sometimes it works.
Sometimes not.
It's about ... 1936 again, give or take a season. No Olympics, of course. But the stage has certainly filled with quite a few interesting players. Who will step out of the shadows now that the cop has officially left the beat?
UPDATE 2000 8/28:
EPA decides to lay back on this one. For now.
Sometimes it works.
Sometimes not.
It's about ... 1936 again, give or take a season. No Olympics, of course. But the stage has certainly filled with quite a few interesting players. Who will step out of the shadows now that the cop has officially left the beat?
UPDATE 2000 8/28:
EPA decides to lay back on this one. For now.
Friday, August 13, 2010
Monday, August 09, 2010
Coin Toss
Read the essay here: Borepatch: The Bonfire of the Vanities.
Then go check out the essay and comments I linked to in Positive Waves.
I'm done with the philosophy for a while. About two years back I undertook a short study of litcrit, semantics, and rhetoric using books recommended by Jeff Goldstein. Time well spent, but not an education by any means.
I think it's better for me just to go out and build some big stuff. Foucalt, Gramsci, and company just piss me off, anyway.
Have a fine one.
(H/T American Digest)
Then go check out the essay and comments I linked to in Positive Waves.
I'm done with the philosophy for a while. About two years back I undertook a short study of litcrit, semantics, and rhetoric using books recommended by Jeff Goldstein. Time well spent, but not an education by any means.
I think it's better for me just to go out and build some big stuff. Foucalt, Gramsci, and company just piss me off, anyway.
Have a fine one.
(H/T American Digest)
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