Holy Crap!

This blog is now a decade old!

1. The Clue Meter: Test Shot -- Posted 02/21/2008, at 10:25 AM PST.
2. The Clue Meter: Let's see... -- Also posted 02/21/208 at 10:25 AM, when I somehow duplicated the Test Shot post and had to edit it...
3. The Clue Meter: Moving right along..., Posted at 08:20 on 02/26/2008,  spoke of the Clue Meter itself, which was the original header of the blog layout. Based on the "Chicklet Lights" used on the instrument panel of a UH60 Blackhawk (pic here), they seem to have confused everyone that never crewed a Blackhawk,and eventually went away.... 
4. The Clue Meter: "The Forgotten American" was my first post that contained actual content that was not all about me. 02/28/2008.

Going over old blog posts, I see a lot of bad links, including a lot of graphics that aren't there anymore. Plus, I started getting offers to "Turn your blog into a book!"

I have a hard enough time getting people to read this claptrap online, let alone in a dead tree edition...

"Down mit Kapitalism!"

Ooh, great selfie, bro...

Self-absorbed fascists in Hamburg

And here we thought the Occupy Wall Street cry bullies were pathetic...

Looks like we got us a movement here...

Man with AR-15 stands guard at Va. military recruiting offices - DC News FOX 5 DC WTTG

The local recruiting offices are right across the street from the Friendly Local Gun  Store and Indoor Range, so...

h//t Insty

Good! And also... Ridiculous!

Hiram residents hold watch at recruitment center - Atlanta News, Weather, Traffic, and Sports | FOX 5


To paraphrase a comment seen on Pistol Forum, a neighborhood watch of volunteer security guards are guarding offices that recruit Embassy Guards.

And Paratroopers.

And Military Police, for that matter.

Et cetera.

Did I Really Hear That?

Yes.

Yes, I did.

There really is an Official Shampoo of the Major League Baseball All-Star Game.

Snake Oil is the Best Lube!

As seen on Pistol Forums, "discussing" the latest alleged "last bullet you'll ever need":

"Developed by the Department of Extreme Research Projects!"

Heckuva view

Heckuva porch...

Time lapse video from the International Space Station.
That's Comet Lovejoy near the end.

I highly endorse embiggenating this to fill your biggest, best hi def screen.

Dear Guns and Ammo magazine

I have two words for you:

• Zumbo 
• Recoil

Now fix it, or piss off.

I was sure it was an article in The Onion

But, no, as seen on The Daily Caller (h/t Drudge), Health and Human Service's phone number for ObamaCare really is 1-800-318-2596.

If you look at the letters, that's

F1UCKYO.

I'm not sayin' it's raining hard...

...but some hippie in a bathrobe just led a parade of animals down the street to where he's been working on his damn' yacht...

Seriously, I don't remember the last time it rained this hard around here.  "Seattle rain" is usually a miserable drizzle that lets up just long enough to lull you into thinking it's done, and then starts again.

It's all George Bush's fault.

Holy Cow!

http://www.flixxy.com/the-incredible-power-of-concentration-miyoko-shida.htm

No embed code, alas, you'll just have to click through to see this incredible performance yourself...

Oh. Em. Gee.

WTF? of the day, 03/08/13

Wait!  What? She said what?  It's legal to hunt humans??!?!!

The time has come, America, to step up and ban these weapons. The other very important part of this bill is to ban large capacity ammunition feeding devices, those that hold more than 10 rounds. We have federal regulations and state laws that prohibit hunting ducks with more than three rounds. And yet it’s legal to hunt humans with 15-round, 30-round, even 150-round magazines.

Yeah, she sure did... Dem Sen. Dianne Feinstein: “It’s Legal To Hunt Humans” With High-Capacity Magazines… | Weasel Zippers, via Daily Pundit : Where do I go to get my license?

Shotgun Joe Biden's advice tested...

Holy carp!

I figured that it was a complete fake, because  I couldn't find it in a newspaper, just a scanned-in clipping with no details as to date, or what paper it was.

I still think it's an elaborate hoax, but it was in a paper...

Probably the funniest God-damned thing I read all week

Courtesy Malkin:

“As an American, and as a human being, I have a responsibility to not push — to not force anybody to do anything but to explain what I think and to educate people to the extent of what I believe that would be in their self-interest. And I think there are certain — lots of kinds of dangerous activities — if you want to do it, they may be things that I wouldn’t choose to do, but I would protect your rights to do that.”
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg

I seriously believe that this will win the award as the Most Ironic Statement of 2013. Also Most Self-Absorbed, Most Hypocritical, and Most Laughable.

Who's got the popcorn?

GOP congressman threatens impeachment if Obama uses executive action for gun control | The Daily Caller

A Shovel-Ready Project

From the Wile E. Coyote School of Gunsmithing:  DIY: Shovel AK - photo tsunami warning!
Note:  Thread is 17 pages long so far, there is little or no significant content after the original post.

FWIW, I do not actually belong to the WECSOG, since they demand an unreasonable amount of personal information for membership. I realize they're trying to keep criminals, terrorists, snitches, ATF agents, and other riff-raff out, but I am none of the above, so screw 'em.


h/t Robb Allen's twitter feed.

Sometimes, they write themselves...

The PJ Tatler » Holder Justice Department Recruits Dwarfs, Schizophrenics, and the ‘Intellectually Disabled’

The PJ Tatler has obtained documents from the Justice Department detailing efforts to recruit attorneys and staff who are dwarfs or who have “psychiatric disabilities” or “severe intellectual disabilities.” On May 31, 2012, Assistant Attorney General Tom Perez issued a directive to affirmatively recruit people with these “targeted disabilities.”

This DOJ policy does not merely involve prohibitions against discrimination, but rather the documents reveal deliberate recruitment efforts to hire as attorneys and staff for the Department of Justice people suffering from psychiatric disorders and intellectual disabilities. Moreover, applicants can “self-identify” their disability by means of the “Standard Form 256, Self Identification Disability.”

Those with “targeted disabilities” may be hired through a “non-competitive” appointment. That means they don’t have to endure the regular civil service competition among applicants, but can be plucked from the stack of resumes and hired immediately instead.

According to the documents, those with these “targeted disabilities” may be hired “before the position is advertised” and even “before the position’s closing date.” Moreover, lawyers with psychiatric disabilities and “severe intellectual” disabilities receive a waiver from the requirement that a new DOJ employee have practiced law for one year before being hired.

h/t Bill .

News of the Wierd--Beaver State Edition

Intruder calls police when Southwest Portland homeowner returns (9-1-1 tapes) | OregonLive.com

There is a reason Timothy James Chapek's hair looks so shiny in a mugshot released last night by the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office: authorities say he was showering when he realized he wasn't alone in a house in Washington Park.

The house he had reportedly broken into.

When Chapek called 9-1-1 just after 7 p.m. Monday, police say he reported to dispatchers what he had done. And he shared his worry that the homeowner outside the bathroom door might have a gun and most certainly had two eager German shepherds.

This story is dated Tuesday, March 8th, 2011.  Trying to figure out how I missed it when it happened...

I saw this on Facespace, and did a search on the perp's name. The search returned this story, and a link to a Portland/Multnomah County mugshot of him from January of 2011, offense unspecified, and another from Clackamas County from June of this year for four counts of probation violation, burglary, and one count of probation violation, theft.