CLEARWATER, Fla. — Evel Knievel, the red white and blue spangled motorcycle daredevil whose jumps over crazy obstacles including Greyhound buses, the Caesar’s Palace Fountain, live sharks and Idaho’s Snake River Canyon made him an international icon in the 1970s, died Friday. He was 69.
The pain is now gone, buddy - see ya on down the road.
Executive Safe
Model: E5251-T
Features:
* 14 long gun maximum capacity
* 3-number combination lock with lever handle
* Solid steel, pry-resistant door 5 mm thick
* 3 steel live-locking bolts/3 dead bolts
* Concealed hinges
* Hardened steel plate protects lock from drill attack
* Deep ash gray carpeted interior
* Ammo box with separate key
* 4 Adjustable interior configurations
* Flush floor for easy access
* Floor compartment
* Door back organizational hooks
* Bungee organizational system
* Color: Pewter with chrome hardware
Meets the insane California Department of Justice standards for firearm safety
Read the review at Cap’n Bob & the Damsel.
Christmas is a time for love, peace, family and of course, guns.
A store called Urban Outfitters is selling a Christmas ornament called the glittering gun. It’s just what its name implies - something you hang on your tree to celebrate the season.
The Toronto location of Urban Outfitters refused to comment on the controversial bauble but the company’s Philadelphia head office was more than willing to defend the product.
“The gun ornament is by no means condoning the violence that we face in our city or any other city and it is not meant to celebrate guns or gun violence,” a statement reads. “It is meant only to ironically celebrate the holidays.”
And while the company contends the entire idea is based on irony and many would never allow it into their house, there’s a telling ending to this story: the local outlet here admits it’s almost completely sold out of them.
Damn - and I really wanted one. I’ll have to settle for this maybe.
Condolences to the Family and Friends of 24-year-old Sean Taylor, an upcoming NFL star; likewise to the Washington Redskins and the NFL. It’s particularly tragic when young people - especially those with great talent - meet violent death.
Image - Sean Taylor (AP)
It turns out that there may be more to the story than a break-in and assault. Taylor, himself, was in the final days of an 19-month probation for misdemeanor charges in connection with a firearms-related incident in 2005.
David at War on Guns offers an interesting perspective in his post “Sean Taylor: Death by Gun Control?”
The post raises questions about the possibility that there is more of this story to be told. I only hope that the person(s) who did this to Taylor are brought to justice - or better yet, get the punishment that suits the crime (think eye-for-an-eye).
This post is so web robots can pat me down to see if I qualify for a Technorati Profile - or not - whatever.
Just don’t taze me, Bro.
. . . is this off-center grouping of ten 9mm rounds.
When I line up on the target center with my Glock 26, it seems like when I miss the center of the target, the rounds go off to the left. I checked the sights with a bore sight tool and it seems to be pretty close to on-target, but the left side misses just seem to happen. I will have to work on that.
If this is the only left-leaning tendency I have, though, I’m OK with that.
From Cap’n Bob & the Damsel:
Have you ever seen those little cartoons in the rear windows of SUVs? You know, the ones of Dad, Mom, Nancy, Billy, Timmy, Spot and Kitty? When I look at those, I wonder if people realize they’re divulging private information about their family - information available to everyone that sees the display, including predators. Don’t you think that a pedophile might be interested in knowing your children’s names?
Never allow household information out into the public domain. Shred everything with any personal information on it before it goes into the trash and if you must have a rear-window decoration for your SUV, use something like the picture below to send a message to anyone who might have an unwarranted interest in your family.
American Thinker Blog reports that a former French President Jaques Chirac’s wife, Bernadette, endorsed the Hillary Clinton campaign. Mme Chirac has also offered her support at the Democratic Convention.
Somehow, that doesn’t seem too surprising to me; both have socialist agendas, both enable presidential husbands to screw off on them and both are opposed to private firearm ownership. If you add the anti-American sentiment and pompous attitude of the Chiracs to the equation, then you might conclude that Clinton shares these tendencies as well.
