(From here)
Or, for something different, you can check out the specifics of Romney's tax plan.
Find the rabbit!
21 hours ago
Thursday, October 18, 2012
The Snark is Strong; "Binders Full of Women" Dept.
Mitten's comments that he had "binders full of women" has been generating a crap-ton of snarky comments in the products reviews for binders on Amazon.
Or, for something different, you can check out the specifics of Romney's tax plan.
Or, for something different, you can check out the specifics of Romney's tax plan.
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Shit Got Real
It's been a busy week and, when I've gotten hope ((PM last night), the last thing I felt like doing was blogging.
If you want to people-watch, ditch the airports. Go to a courthouse, especially one in a county where they don't have dedicated elevators for judges and criminals. In a few hours, you can see the widest spectrum of humanity outside of Greenwich Village back in the old days.
And with that, I'm going to have a glass of wine, a nice shower, watch some of the stuff stacked up on the DVR and then get some sleep.
Saturday, October 13, 2012
Bangity; PPC Edition
The weather today isn't exactly conducive for flying. It started out really foggy and then, once it burned off, the wind kicked up.
The local paper had a story about a fund-raiser at the local gun club for some charity. The fund-raiser was a PPC* match. The article said that you needed a handgun, a strong-side holster (no crossdraw or shoulder holsters), three magazines for an autoloader or two speedloaders for a revolver and 150 rounds of ammo.
I had that, so I loaded up the ammo along with two S&W revolvers (a M-10 and a M-19) and I went out to look. It looked like fun. The match director asked me if I was going to shoot. I said I had come out to watch and I had never even seen a PPC match before. Hell, I'd never fired a handgun from a draw before. He pointed out that I had never shot bowling pins until last month and I did all right.
So I signed up to shoot with my 4" Model 10.**
The first stage was at three yards: Three rounds from a draw, strong hand only, in five seconds. Then a reload of three rounds and three shots, weak hand only, from a ready-low position (the only time that we didn't shoot from a draw). That wasn't too difficult for me. In three relays, I kept all but two shots in the X-ring and those two went into the ten ring.
Second stage was at seven yards: Six rounds, strong hand only, ten second time limit. Then there is a reload and another six-round string. This wasn't too bad.
The third stage was at fifteen yards: Both hands, six rounds, reload, six more rounds and do that in twenty seconds. Piece of cake with an autoloader. It's a lot harder with a revolver. The first time I had the speedloader in a pocket and I fumbled it, leaving four shots unfired when time ran out. The second time through, I hung the speedloader on my belt and I didn't fumble it. I got the last shot off with about a half-second to spare. Third time around, I had maybe a second to spare.
If I do this regularly, I'll have to get a belt pouch for the speedloaders and try to fire the first six rounds faster. This is the only stage that come closest to "spray and pray", as it's better to hit the seven ring than to have rounds left over. The other thing I'll have to do is for every stage, even when it's the first six rounds, to load them from the speedloader so that I get used to doing that.
Fourth stage was at 25 yards: 18 rounds- From a standing position, two hand hold, fire six, reload, fire six more, reload, drop to a kneeling position and fire the last six, all in 90 seconds. If you're smooth about it, that's bags of time to carefully aim and fire and the last six are like shooting from a rest (and I shot the last six single-action). One of the guys gave me a tip and told me that this stage was the one to aim carefully and make hay in the scoring.
I don't know what my overall score was. But it was fun. As I said, I had never before fired from a draw, it was the first time I'd had to use a speedloader under time pressure, and I don't believe I had ever shot that much at one time.
It was a gas.
Most definitely, I'll do that again.
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* "Practical Pistol Competition" or "Police Pistol Competition".
** Whether it was a good idea or not to enter a match with a handgun that I had only shot twice before is a topic for another time. Or not.
The local paper had a story about a fund-raiser at the local gun club for some charity. The fund-raiser was a PPC* match. The article said that you needed a handgun, a strong-side holster (no crossdraw or shoulder holsters), three magazines for an autoloader or two speedloaders for a revolver and 150 rounds of ammo.
I had that, so I loaded up the ammo along with two S&W revolvers (a M-10 and a M-19) and I went out to look. It looked like fun. The match director asked me if I was going to shoot. I said I had come out to watch and I had never even seen a PPC match before. Hell, I'd never fired a handgun from a draw before. He pointed out that I had never shot bowling pins until last month and I did all right.
So I signed up to shoot with my 4" Model 10.**
The first stage was at three yards: Three rounds from a draw, strong hand only, in five seconds. Then a reload of three rounds and three shots, weak hand only, from a ready-low position (the only time that we didn't shoot from a draw). That wasn't too difficult for me. In three relays, I kept all but two shots in the X-ring and those two went into the ten ring.
Second stage was at seven yards: Six rounds, strong hand only, ten second time limit. Then there is a reload and another six-round string. This wasn't too bad.
The third stage was at fifteen yards: Both hands, six rounds, reload, six more rounds and do that in twenty seconds. Piece of cake with an autoloader. It's a lot harder with a revolver. The first time I had the speedloader in a pocket and I fumbled it, leaving four shots unfired when time ran out. The second time through, I hung the speedloader on my belt and I didn't fumble it. I got the last shot off with about a half-second to spare. Third time around, I had maybe a second to spare.
If I do this regularly, I'll have to get a belt pouch for the speedloaders and try to fire the first six rounds faster. This is the only stage that come closest to "spray and pray", as it's better to hit the seven ring than to have rounds left over. The other thing I'll have to do is for every stage, even when it's the first six rounds, to load them from the speedloader so that I get used to doing that.
Fourth stage was at 25 yards: 18 rounds- From a standing position, two hand hold, fire six, reload, fire six more, reload, drop to a kneeling position and fire the last six, all in 90 seconds. If you're smooth about it, that's bags of time to carefully aim and fire and the last six are like shooting from a rest (and I shot the last six single-action). One of the guys gave me a tip and told me that this stage was the one to aim carefully and make hay in the scoring.
I don't know what my overall score was. But it was fun. As I said, I had never before fired from a draw, it was the first time I'd had to use a speedloader under time pressure, and I don't believe I had ever shot that much at one time.
It was a gas.
Most definitely, I'll do that again.
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* "Practical Pistol Competition" or "Police Pistol Competition".
** Whether it was a good idea or not to enter a match with a handgun that I had only shot twice before is a topic for another time. Or not.
Thursday, October 11, 2012
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Of Course They're Lying
A dissection of Romney's budget promises in three parts. The shorter version: Romeny is promising to not cut Social Security, Medicare, increase defense spending, keep some aspects of Obamacare, slash capital gains taxes, cut income taxes, preserve deductions for most people and all of that will reduce the deficit.
| The Daily Show with Jon Stewart | Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c | |||
| Democalypse 2012 - Vague Against the Machine - Romney's Wizardry | ||||
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| The Daily Show with Jon Stewart | Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c | |||
| Democalypse 2012 - Vague Against the Machine - The Numbers Guy | ||||
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Tuesday, October 9, 2012
You Are Welcome to Kiss Mittens's Ass!
Either that, or he was showing those kids his "Etch-a-Sketch Reboot Switch".
That has to be the most unfortunate photo of ol' Willard since this one:
That has to be the most unfortunate photo of ol' Willard since this one:
Spare the Lethal Injection, Spoil the Child
Former Arkansas legislator Charlie Fuqua, a Republican, who is running again with support from the GOP, believes that it should be legal for parents to bring their kids to court and then try to persuade the judge that their kids should be executed for being disobedient.
I find it very odd that all of these clowns get so worked up about abortion, but then after the child is born, they spend their days dreaming up more reasons to expand the death penalty.
Beyond that, if the child is born into poverty, not their problem. If the child lives in a town where the school system is nothing more than a holding pen for the local juvenile detention center, not their problem.* If the air is fouled and the water is poisoned, not their problem.
They are "pro-life", but only so long as that life is in the womb.
UPDATE: Apparently Fuqua was pretty specific that the biblically-mandated method of executing the rebellious kids would be death by stoning. Which doesn't distinguish him from the Taliban, who also seem to favor that method.
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* Hell, a lot of those asshats would repeal mandatory school attendance and child labor laws, if they had their way.
I find it very odd that all of these clowns get so worked up about abortion, but then after the child is born, they spend their days dreaming up more reasons to expand the death penalty.
Beyond that, if the child is born into poverty, not their problem. If the child lives in a town where the school system is nothing more than a holding pen for the local juvenile detention center, not their problem.* If the air is fouled and the water is poisoned, not their problem.
They are "pro-life", but only so long as that life is in the womb.
UPDATE: Apparently Fuqua was pretty specific that the biblically-mandated method of executing the rebellious kids would be death by stoning. Which doesn't distinguish him from the Taliban, who also seem to favor that method.
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* Hell, a lot of those asshats would repeal mandatory school attendance and child labor laws, if they had their way.
Monday, October 8, 2012
Mitt Romney Agrees With You
No matter what your position, rest assured that Mitt agrees with you. Or at least that, at some time, he has said that he does.
See for yourself.
Rick Perry and Frothy might have been truly batshit-grade insane, but at least they probably believed what they were mouthing.
Not so much with Mittens.
(H/T)
See for yourself.
Rick Perry and Frothy might have been truly batshit-grade insane, but at least they probably believed what they were mouthing.
Not so much with Mittens.
(H/T)
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