Intellectually Crosseyed: Part 1

You may have heard, we had a bridge collapse up this way.

It was/is an old bridge in need of updating. But several factors have kept the update on the backburner. Most notably, I would like to point out, the waste of money the Democrats and their Progressive friends keep pouring my local tax dollars and your federal tax dollars into: Light Rail.

But how do they respond?

Does anyone here remember the American Jobs Act proposed by President Obama in 2011? The one he introduced while standing in front of a bridge in Ohio that was also structurally deficient? The American Jobs Act that Senate Republicans killed with glee and great pride? That one?

You think maybe if they had taken it seriously instead of playing gotcha politics those people wouldn’t be in the water right now?

Is it too soon to ask which Republicans will not only be fired, but go to jail for injuries and or deaths caused by their inattention to our infrastructure? Not for me, it’s not.

Nowhere in that original post or in any of its multiple updates does the original poster or subsequent updaters mention that it was not the bridges lack of structural integrity that caused it to collapse, but that one or more support beams was hit by an overweight and over sized truck.

An oversized truck slammed into the overhead span of an Interstate 5 bridge, causing an entire section of the bridge to collapse. The accident happened north of Seattle, Washington on Thursday night.

The basic information is of no matter to their hatred of those who oppose their agenda.

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Intellectually Crosseyed: Part 2

A pair of “Islamic extremists” hit a British soldier with their car near his  barracks and then proceed to hack him to death with meat cleavers.

What does the leftwing of the blogosphere have to say about it?

“Countdown to the NRA using this in some unnecessary, unrelated ad in the US begins in 5, 4, 3…”

“Basically, christian countries in Europe will retaliate. I wouldn’t want to be a Muslim living in England right now.”

“Gotta think the skinheads are just preparing for a war. This may be a brutal time coming ahead.”

Not a single word about the soldier or his family or about how the UK government has, essentially, been asking to be punished by their immigrant influx for “having to be at war.”

They simply cannot blame the actual actors for their actions. It is always someone else’s fault.

As proof of the British wanting to penance for their self-perceived crimes

Commanders have advised troops not to wear uniform travelling to and from work or outside bases following the brutal killing of a member of the military close to Woolwich barracks.

It was the uniform that provoked them. Yes siree.

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Geekery

A potential Unified Theory?

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RNS Quote of the Day: 5/23/13

The problem for the IRS, and for those who support its current level of intrusion in American lives (and its expanded one under Obamacare), is that this scandal is coming at a time when American distrust for government institutions is at incredibly high levels. Consider this poll: http://vlt.tc/vgs 68% of Americans answer “yes” to the question: “Does it feel like the federal government has gotten out of control and is threatening the basic civil liberties of Americans, or doesn’t it feel this way to you?” The sample is plurality Democratic; and the proportion of independents who agree that the federal government threatens civil liberties is a whopping 76%. While overall the IRS scandal is deemed the worst, Independents and Democrats think the White House attack on journalists is the most pressing of the scandals. The ultimate effect of Obama’s second term could be a crumbling faith in governmental institutions, which is only going to spread in an era when no one in government is trusted on civil liberties.

–Ben Domenech, in The Transom, 5/23/2013. Emphasis mine.

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iPad Camera Rig

Oh, this, I like.

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Archangel Mosin Stocks Shipping

I finally placed my order for an Archangel stock and a batch of 10-round mags for my Mosin Eddie. And good timing, too, because they’re shipping!


I can’t tell if that’s factory background noise, but it sounds like the opening bars to “Money,” which would be very appropriate! This is a fantastic example of how easy it still is to create wealth from nothing — “nothing” being an idea, well-executed.

Here’s a nice overview and mag test from a fellow who got his already. This thing has even more well-thought-out design features than I’d realized.

I cannot wait to get mine. I suppose I should buy some 7.62x54R ammo one of these days….

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Hen’s Teeth

The FFL’s ammo shelves looked fairly normal today. I got these two boxes, left more for needier folks.


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Paperless Rifle

 


Stumbled across a nice Remington 721 from 1952 in .270 at the FFL today and snapped it up. Has a 2.75x scope and a decent, if slightly heavy trigger. Looks well-used but cared for.

 

 


I’m not much of a .270 fan, so why?

 

Here’s why:

Being more than 50 years old, once in my hands it’s legal to transfer twixt consenting adult Cali residents without any paperwork –at least until January 1, 2014, when even that loophole gets plugged.
I’m no straw purchaser; just like the idea of owning rifles with some flexibility built in.

 

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Rape Self-Defense License

We would not allow cities or states to require poor women to spend several hundred dollars on training and licensing before having a child or an abortion and I don’t see how it is any more constitutional to require a woman to spend several hundred dollars to obtain a license to defend herself against rape.

–scholling, in this thread on Calguns.net.

I think this is an excellent term and we should use it often in making the case for 2nd Amendment rights.

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RNS Quote of the Day: 05/20/13

Joe Scarborough has a sad that his talking points were flushed down the toilet after a wipe of reality. And not the soft & quilted kind.

One cannot be sure if he actually believes all of what he says. He is, after all, a politician who went into broadcasting.

Maybe one day he’ll say something as true as Ace did last week.

We have gone from having a country with a government to having a government with a country.

Ace @ the AosHQ

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