Wait for it...

Bing

Most of my life, Bing Crosby was ruined for me because I though he was a child abuser.  He beat his kids like they were rented mules.  Made hearing his wonderful music come with a reminder of that from about 4th grade on, or so. 

Turned out that was just the opinion of one child of his.  The others were, "WTH are you talking about?  Yeah he spanked us, but you seem to have gone WAY overboard."

So Bing might not have been the monster I thought he was.  So, F--- YOU  Gary Crosby, for making me think ill of your father.  Apparently Gary didn't like spankings.  Spoiled SOB.

It sounds like Bing wasn't an outlier, and Gary was a bit over-sensitive.  Very well.  Bing isn't a monster.  Good.

On

Dream Chest

I have a chest on chest of drawers similar to this.

But not nearly as nice.  I had a dream that the legs gave way and the thing collapsed.  And it didn't even disturb the stuff on top.  Just a clean break of all legs simultaneously and fell straight down.  Odd.

What do you keep in your dresser?  Me?  Just some revolver reloads in the sock drawer.  It the furniture closest to the bedroom door, and the doorway is well position to afford nearly bullet proof protection from shot coming from the front door in my living room.  I have some cover and it is even positioned, by happenstance, to be left-hand friendly.

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Then a dream where I am camping.  I hear jet noise and took up.  An F-18 is doing an aerobatic manuever known as the Hammerhead.  Even non-pilot me thinks he is too low for that.  He is, and is coming right for me.  He strikes the ground behind me and to the right and is in a right nose down bank when he does so.   The rudders came close enough to reach out and touch when they pass, I can feel 'ripple' beneath my feet with the impact shaking the ground like it was water.  The crash was on the lip of a gully that the plane plowed through, so most of the jet fuel fireball is down there and I am not instantly incinerated by the fireball.   One empty tent is gone.  No immediate known casualties aside from the pilot who rode it in (I could see him as he passed.)

After that I needed to spend some dreamtime with my cat.  A cat that has been dead 30 years.

Boobie Hatch

We used to have insane asylums. It was where we put mentally disturbed folks. Some cases of abuse existed, yes, but they did good too. They were expensive and paid for by the State. Then they went away starting in the 60s and just about all gone by the 80s.

 But it seems they are gone EVERYWHERE. US. Europe. Western nations. Non-Western nations. All at once... with a few exceptions, deinstitutionalization happened.  Just Japan has added beds.  We in the us have 1/20th the number of beds.

The idea is to push the patients out of a big federal system to smaller community based programs.  The opposite of what government likes to do, usually.  Instead of giving themselves more and more power they divest the power back and make it not their problem.  This is partly practicable because of somewhat recent pharmacological advances so local communities aren't overwhelmed.  And while we are squeamish about putting innocent crazy people in prison we have no problem waiting for a mentally deranged person to commit crime and THEN putting him away.

Now I know treating the insane is not a happy topic.  Like running a prison.  And not too much money in it or chance for graft or donations, but their is SOME money in it.  Tax money.  In the US they have no problem getting more and more money for prisons.  In furren lands they have no problem running a single payer great big socialized-medicine state.

I really don't know how we, the whole wide world, got to where we are now with regard psychiatric institutions.  I think about this because at least some of the spree killers of late would have been safely locked away.  That theater guy in Colorado, the guy that shot Gabby Giffords, that school shooting bastard.  Some of the killers overseas.  Maybe that Norway summer camp guy, maybe not.  Maybe that Aussie lady that killed 8 kids the other week.

Let's See How Long

Shannon Watts, shill for genetically modified foods and Michael Bloombergs gun-confiscation organization.

I don't tweet much.  Let's see if she blocks me early or late.  I just started following her.

She was real proud when @NRA blocked her because they are scared of her or something, but apparently she blocks folks at the drop of a hat because... I dunno...  Scared?  And she does pre-emptive blocks of pro gun types, I am made to understand.  Anyway, a relatively minor tweeter like me might not be noticed for a while.  But there is a hashtag devoted to it:  #ImBlockedByShannonWatts

No, I'm not going to do anything specific to draw her attention to me.   No harsh language or insults or 'Molon Labe'.  

She might get a little confused because I follow some other liberals for OPFOR Intel purposes.  And my Rep is Chris Van Hollen...  Super-Lib.

That Looks Like

My neighborhood, a bit.  Woulda been '52...  Archie would be the guy with the boat.

Loosie

The racialists took the lead on this, now that they are melding the two together, Ferguson MO to Staten Island looseys (loosie?  dunno the spelling.  have bought a few in the past, tho). And that's fine. But they obviously don't want to solve anything. They, race hustlers like Sharpton and DeBlasio, just want to pot to simmer and boil so they have power in the process.

They could have moved the ball by aligning with folks across the aisle.

Oh, not with the Michael Brown thing. Sure it's a shame that man had to die and a town had to get it's businesses burned to the ground. (might as well salt the ashes as nothing is gonna come back there if history is any guide) But the evidence seems to more than indicate that that was pretty much a 'good shoot.' A violent thug had it coming, so to speak. Why? You NEVER try to grab a cops gun. Might as well commit suicide some other way. What an ass.

"T-Bolt you are SUCH a raaaaacist!"

Wait one!

But, with the Eric Garner thing? I am outraged! The cops practically executed a man for avoiding paying taxes. And doing that avoidance on another day. It doesn't seem he was even selling cigs at the time of his take down and death. Now I don't blame the cops too much on this. Maybe only fire them. Nothing else. Nothing worse. The truly responsible parties are the cops BOSSES that send them out with a policy of aggressive minor tax policing. THEY need to go to prison for life. And I'm not talking about the precinct chief. The pols. Bloomberg and DeBlasio types.

Something could have been done that would have made everyone's lives better.  Instead of just generating sound and fury.

"I don't understand T-Bolt... How can you be raaaaacist on the one thing but not the other?... Shouldn't you hate all black people?... I don't... How?... "

BECAUSE THIS ISN'T ABOUT RACE, FOOL! Or, it doesn't have to be. Just because YOU view the world through racism colored glasses doesn't mean everyone does.

If the leaders of the New York protests had tapped this angle they'd have 75% of the country behind them. Conservative Libertarians manning the barricades with Swamp-Butt Rent-A-Hippies. But they didn't choose that option. They chose the old standby: Race Hustle 101. And no one does well whent he dust settles after RH101. Well, except the Sharpton types.

I mean, WHO thought it was a good idea to kill otherwise innocent people for selling Loosies? Because that is the law they passed. That's what LAW is. If you don't toe the line on loose cigarettes the law will kill an obstinate you. And that's what happened.   Too many dang laws to enforce, and no one can do it.  The .gov has too much on their plate.  They need to pare back.

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I rail against the race hustlers, and, sure, they deserve a lot of rancor.  But to really get a liberal cause going and going deadly you have to get commies involved.  Like them fools at A.N.S.W.E.R.  Who funds those guys now that the Soviets are kaput?

You don't enforce the laws we have now

Or, punish them, at least.

So, this crazy dude with a record that executed those cops... shoulda still been in prison, huh?  Crazy dude with that many beefs on the street again in less than three years to kill cops or anyone.

How do we know he had a record?  In  2011 plead to theft, property damage, possession of a gun by a felon and discharging a gun near a public park in 2011.  The possession charge should have put him away for at

Violent murderers are, statistically, violent felons known to law enforcement and the corrections department long before they actually murder.  So when given a person proven violent but not yet murderous, maybe, just maybe, keep tabs on them in a controlled environment with a custodian for more than a couple years, huh?

Why pass more laws about gun control when you don't even bother with the ones you have now?  You only make the otherwise good-citizen, responsible, law-abiding types get tripped up in the byzantine machinations which, frankly, are just your incrementalism toward a full ban and confiscation of all privately owned firearms.  That's not going to happen here.  SCOTUS sez so, and you bumbled your execution and have lost the support of a majority anyway.

~* Master List *~

Here is where I will keep the master lists. Please ignore, this is for me and my reference. I'm trying to organize and centralize my thoughts to make them more concrete. Stuff will move around, get added to, and subtracted from, on this list.

PRIMARY means, "I'm gonna git this. Prolly soon." SECONDARY is, "It's of interest, but may be a while, if ever." TERTIARY is, "Would be cool to pick up if the price was right, but probably not."


PRIMARY

1. Nuthin...
2. ...
3. I want an official Red Ryder, carbine action, two-hundred shot range model air rifle! 
4. More 1911s?  Lots of cheap ones and bare frames so I can bork them all up with gun butchery and try to learn something.  I guess I have 2 of these already.
5. S&W M&P .45ACP.  Two.  One and a spare.

SECONDARY

1. ?
2. .45 Carbine,  DeLisle custom repro? That would be my one suppressed item.  I lean toward a no-compromise DeLisle reproduction custom job. First I need to find a lefty donor rifle.
   
   

TERTIARY

1.  Blaser 93? Remington 700 model 84229.  Sniper type scoped rifle.
   
   
2. Double Barrel 12 gauge. An "Over the Door" gun. Cheap. External hammers preferable.  Maybe 2.
3. I like the Smith and Wesson R8.  8 rounds of .357, a light rail, tritium sights, moon clips.  Heckuva revolver.

4. Springfield M6.
   Or combo gun equivalent.
   
5. Chiappa Rhino...  Dunno, it just appeals.
   

6. A revolver that shoots .45 ACP like the S&W 625, Model 22, or a vintage Colt 1917.
7. .17 rifle of some kind
8. Something in .45-70. That sounds fun. Quigley Down Under, mate. Or, if I have an AR, the .458 upper... A Thumper of sorts.
9. Krag Jorgensen .30-40 Why? To have the issue rifles of the US military. With this, the AR above, and the .45-70 below, I'll have the lineage from 1870 to the present.
10. Sprinfield 1873 .45-70 Trapdoor

Getting beyond the Secondary tier may take a while. For one, my safe will be full. The Primary is in order of desire, but maybe not order of future acquisition, though I am trying to tweak it so it MIGHT be close to desired order of acquisition. A lot depends on budgeting. A VERY good deal (or free) on any list item cannot be accounted for, timing wise. Ideally, gifts of the cheaper guns would be great, but less doable. The Tertiary are all "Huh, that'd be nice" but I could go my entire life, maybe, not getting any and never having too big a pang of desire.

A Century Ago

This happened.  The Christmas Truce.




When i scheduled this post months ago, I hadn't counted on everyone and their sister also posting this in the intervening time.  Merry Christmas one and all.

Animated gif 1911

So, everyone and their brother has been linking to nice animated .gif (pronounced like gift without the 't', not like the peanut putter) on how a 1911 works.  It's good, yes, but my go-to animation is STI's swf file of a 1911 in action.  You select what parts are transparent or semi transparent.  It even shows that little jiggle a case does as the rim goes up under the extractor. 

T-Bolt sez check it out.  Check both out.

Undergunned

Inspired from Tam.  She reached back to an older Sean post.

I noticed how nice XD full size pistols were to CCW from Newbius (RIP).  He carried the full size and it disappeared.  XDs are slightly better than fatty-fat-fat SIGs but still.  It's not a small pistol.  Worrying about hiding it in normal 3 season clothing isn't the issue, clearly.  I have other things that worry me

I generally carry a snub .357 with .38 in it.   I don't feel under gunned, but I would prefer to have more.  Than that.  I'm not so worried about printing as I am that thunk they make when you sit down at a wooden bench or chair at Denny's.  Even that is no biggee.

For me the real issue is comfort.  Until you get used to it a gun feels like wool church pants when you were 10.  Did that stuff seem EXTRA itchy and irritating to you?  Compounded by the fact you never got used to them because you only wear em once a week.  Same with me, in MD, and CCWing.  I have fewer opportunities to.  So the pocketed revolver is the go to.  I don't notice THAT too much.

And a full size IWB?  It's long enough to touch my sciatic nerve that bugs me back there...  

Oops

Double posted on the schedule.  Maybe I'll get something fresher out later today.  Sorry bout that.

Let's eat our own

Yay, Fudds.



I’m a hunter, but....,

I am willing to vote for something that will ban all hunting if it will allow me to defend myself with a modern firearm without hassle.

Guns, 1964

So, I am reading Guns Magazine from 50 years ago... What?

Anyhoo...  Noticing stuff.

By November 1964, it had been a year since the president was shot by a cheap surplus mail order rifle. The magazine has taken more of a political bent in reaction to pols and their gun control talk. Fighting the good fight with the same rational arguments we still use.

 And the ads seems to be drifting away from cheaper guns at any rate...

At least the rifles.

Fewer Carcanos to be had...  Maybe 20 years since the War the source of supply is starting to dry up.  Good stuff available tho.  $80 Garands and the like 

Even Kleins of Chicago (where Oswald got his gun/s). If you want to assassinate anyone now you can't be a dirt poor Marxist. And M1 Carbines are getting more prevalent of late.  Like I said maybe the furren surplus is drying up. But hold the phone...  Hmmm, the .303 Enfield, sporterized with a scope is still less than a double sawbuck... You pay 15 bucks more for an Enfield with the issue stock. And a flash hider so they can call it 'Jungle' Enfield.  So if you got a bone to pick with LBJ you might need to use a venerated Limey model.  Not much use for an M1 Carbine on a killing spree.   Unless you are Charles Whitman.  He had one with him in 66. 

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Same issue, there is an ad for this new sproting rifle from Armalite that shoot a good gopher round.  Earliest ad for an AR15 I have seen.


Plus a controversial article denigrating snubbies! You snubby really sucks, apparently.  You can hit jack with it.  According to some guy name Chic Gaylord. Who actually was kind of a halfway big deal gun writer back then.  Unfortunate name...  Anyway, your barrel length should be at least 3" if you want a chance to hit anything beyond bad breath distances.  AND you need a lot of geegaw after market parts on your gatt.  The more things change, the more they stay the same.

M1911A2

Why didn't anyone tell me there was a new and improved version of the venerable M1911A1?  I'd  have bought 4 or 5 by now.  THE 1911 for the 21st Century.  Poor S&W, I guess they are gonna lose the pistol contract to Detonics.

Snark aside, I am half intrigued.  Love to play with one.  I am too jaded.

But wait!  Beretta, late of Maryland, is ready with an offer of their own!   

So, Smith and Wesson M&P45, a now new M9, and a clearly superior to all the rest except for the plastic bits 1911A2 with a double stack...

I'm a Hunter's, butt

(Like Tam, I hate wasting good material on an away game).

Bill Engvall is just fine with Gun Bans worse than they have in Maryland, New York, or California, as long was hunting irons aren't really impacted. 

Now I have a bit of experience with hunting and really like doing it.  Same with fishing.  It's a lot of fun and can be delicious.  It's even really good when you DON'T get anything.  Just time outdoors, out of the office...

"I’m a hunter, but, I am willing to vote for something that will ban all hunting if it will allow me to defend myself with a modern firearm."

I am willing to sell you, and all like you, Bill Engvall, down the river to secure my 2nd Amendment rights.  No really.  Control whitetail populations with poison, fine by me.  Make it a felony to hunt.  Fine by me.  And if you turn in a poacher after hunting is banned, the gov't gives you a free Glock and AR15 as a bounty and reward.  That would be appropo.

But let's not we and you fight.  Hunters should be our allies.  So, defenestrate Bill Engvall and we can go back to like it was before, with outdoorsmen (hey, like ME) fighting the good fight for our rights along side us, instead of with us.

Jeb Bush

I voted for his father twice, his brother twice.  I voted for Colonel Tighe because he flew A4s and picked a great VP.  I didn't vote for Mittens because that was a bridge too far.

I am not voting for you, Jeb.  I don't care if Zombie Stalin is your opponent. 

Don't take this as encouragement, Santorum and Huckabee.  If either of you unlikelies actually got the nod not only would I not vote for you, I'd vote for that Stalin guy.

Jeb, if I wanted someone that will run an administration just like Democrat Hillary I'd just vote for Hillary.

Are you my Mummie?

And here I've been worried about the Zombie threat when a much worse menace was lurking 'neath the dunes. A cemetery with ONE MILLION MUMMIES in it! What caliber for mummies? IT DOESN'T MATTER! They are impervious! You need a flamethrower or tracer rounds. Then you have to defile the corpse.

Note Mummies. Not Daddies. Just further proof of how far back the feminazi conspiracy goes.