You might have noticed that I admire classic cars, firearms and anything nostalgic. I am not a collector of those things, although I still have my first shotgun I ever owned. I had it out to the range a couple of weeks ago and took this picture of where the hammer, the lever, the stock and the trigger come together. I still like this gun a lot, in spite of the obvious mileage.
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The whacko PETA-types and misguided vegans in California have placed an initiative on the November ballot to wit: Standards for confining farm animals. The initiative portends to set standards to allow animals to be ‘comfortable’ for the majority of the day.
What it actually does is drive the livestock business out of the state. It will result in a loss of revenue and allow for Mexican imports to bring more of their diseased livestock into the markets in California. I look at it as an analogy to the whacko ammunition stamping laws whose actual intent is not to solve crimes but to drive firearms from the state.
I paraphrased a popular bumper sticker with Proposition 2 in mind . . .
We put this classic in the DVD player the other night, for the nth time. In spite of having seen this flick many times, we enjoyed it just as much and heard and saw things we had either forgotten or missed. One example is the sequence when a blustering Faro dealer (Billy Bob Thornton) is reduced to a simpering blob (Thornton was still chubby back then) by Wyatt Earp (Kurt Russel) and Doc Holiday (Val Kilmer). The comic banter between the characters was much funnier than I remember.
The following lines, in context, were very humorous:
Of course, most of the flick was devoted to reviving those times and events with authentic costumes, props and, naturally, firearms.
Tombstone is one of our all time favorites. On a scale of sucks, bad, weird, so-so, good, very good, excellent, outstanding and sensational, we rated this one outstanding.
Reprinted from the Orlando Sentinel (via NRA-ILA):
NRA has ‘anti-gun’ Obama in its sights
The National Rifle Association is spending more than $10 million to keep Barack Obama from occupying the White House.
The formidable gun-rights group is waging a full-court press against the Illinois senator and Democratic nominee for president, claiming that Obama would be the “most anti-gun president in American history.”
Chris W. Cox, executive director of the NRA’s Institute for Legislative Action, the political and lobbying arm of the group, said Obama’s talk of supporting the Second Amendment does not match his record.
“It’s shameless at best for a candidate like Barack Obama, who has a lifetime of support for a radical gun-control agenda, to somehow think that gun owners are so foolish in this country that we’re going to forget,” he said.
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. . . or so I’m told by some of the guys at the range.
Not only does the better half faithfully go to the range with me, but carries some of the artillery. She’s even a good sport about wearing the ‘Punisher’ to the range once in a while. Here she is pausing to pose in the midst of polishing one of her favorite guns.
I guess I’ll add to the hysterical left-wing character assassins debunking of Joe the Plumber by declaring that he’s not a plumber at all - actually he’s secretly Joe the Kayaker.
From the blog of Wayne LaPierre:
10/16/2008
Barack Obama’s still claiming to be a Second Amendment supporter, and gun owners around the country are continuing to tell their friends, neighbors, co-workers and even strangers the truth about Obama’s anti-gun agenda.
Second Amendment scholar David Hardy is shedding light on Obama’s time with the Joyce Foundation, the anti-gun organization that funneled tens of millions of dollars to gun control groups while Obama served on its board of directors.
It turns out Obama didn’t have a problem with the Joyce Foundation buying issues of law reviews and turning them into gun-control propaganda pieces. Yet Obama, who taught a constitutional law seminar at the University of Chicago, keeps saying he’d never do anything to hurt the Right to Keep and Bear Arms. It’s too late for rhetoric like that. He already has hurt the Second Amendment, and he’d do a lot more if given the chance.
Read David Hardy’s article, and be sure to pass it around. We can’t rely on the mainstream media to get the word out about Obama’s hostility towards the Second Amendment. It’s up to us this year.
I had an appointment with the dentist today. My dentist’s office is in a ‘colorful’ part of town, known to be frequented by the homeless and largely populated by aging hippies.
I passed a residence with a mural on the wall - it had a caption that said “Remember who you are.”
So, I remembered who I am and thought “I wonder if the hippie that painted the mural remembers who HE is through the substance abuse haze.”
