Taurus Derp Gun

A review of the Taurus Curve: In shot: Inaccurate, recoil is bothersome (this to the reviewer, a woman who carries a .45), impossible to draw quickly and good luck to you if you need to switch magazines quickly.

Also, Taurus had to recall a mess of them because they forgot to stamp the caliber on the gun. You might feel like questioning the efficacy of Taurus's quality control/assurance* department.

(I've had a few things to say about the gun. And no, I'm not getting one, unless somebody gives it to me free for evaluation.)
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* Whatever the term du jour is.

Hospitalized Zebras Sure are Cranky!

At least, that's what this headline implies:

Arkansas judge mauled by zebra released from hospital

Punctuation, people. Now, if it had read:

Arkansas judge, mauled by zebra, released from hospital

Wouldn't that have been a lot clearer?

(The story)

Jeb Bush Claims to be Hispanic?

Apparently so.

You may now feel free to mock him at will.

TSA Sticks With the Witch-Docter Surveillance Program

The TSA's "Screening of Passengers by Observation Techniques" program (SPOT) is complete, utter, 100% bullshit.

They've known it's bullshit for awhile.

Tabbie Cleaing

Leave it to Frothy to come in on the side of the Westboro Baptist Church.

Another cop gets confused between a gun and a Taser. One of the few cops I know who carries a Taser carries it in a crossdraw holster, which probably minimizes the chances of making a mistake like this. Unlike in California, the Oklahoma cops seem to be taking the "oh well, shit happens, whaddya want from us" line. Which might change if video surfaces.

Old NFO has a couple of books out. The link will take you to the first one. I enjoyed them both.

Went to a bowling pin match yesterday. I continued my streak of being able to shoot far better with a revolver than one of those newfangled self-litterers. Bowling pins are devilishly hard to shoot, especially considering that if you don't hit them squarely on their CG, they'll fall over and roll around on the table (you have to knock them back off the table to score). And then there are the ones that have been shot up and have added weight from the bullets trapped inside. I didn't feel too bad at my performance with a revolver, considering I was using a Model 15.

Louisiana to Consider a "We Hate You Feelthy Faggots" Law

That's basically the thrust of a law proposed by one of the hate-based legislators in the state. And of course, Bobby Jindal, the Mouth-Breather-in-Chief, is all in favor of it.

The knots and twists these assclowns are getting themselves into by trying to couch bigotry and hatred as religious freedom is truly astonishing to watch. The backers of the original bill in India, for example, weren't originally shy about their law being a shield for bigotry, though they couched it, of course, as freedom of religion.

But telling the truth about their motivation isn't within them. So they bear false witness about what they are fighting against.

Funny thing: They are all upset at the idea of "participating in a same-sex marriage ceremony". I've been to a few weddings, both gay and straight, and I have never seen a caterer "participate" in the ceremony. The caterers show up, serve the food and then clean up afterwards. They "participate" to the same extent that a restaurant "participates" when a few businessmen get together for lunch. In both examples, nobody is asking the caterers or the waitress to chime in on the merits of (or approve) either the wedding or the business deal in question.

The line I've heard from the Talibanistas when I was younger was "love the sinner, hate the sin." Seems to me that they've shortened that up a mite.

Your Sunday Morning Jet Noise

A ground turn of an English Electric Lightening:

47 Years Ago Tonight, Shit Got Real Ugly

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot and killed 47 years ago.

Riots broke out in over 100 cities.

The FBI was tasked with investigating the assassination, but given that the Director, J. Edgar Hoover, hated Dr. King and had tried everything he could think of to destroy his reputation, well, you can guess how hard they looked into it.

As an aside, there's been a lot of criticism about the governor of Missouri and how the lack of response by the National Guard to the second Ferguson riot (the one after the grand jury verdict) may have contributed to some property destruction. Yet nobody got killed, which was not the case with most of the 1968 riots.

Easter Egging

This one never gets old.

Slice & Dice

I couldn't get the "child-safe" cap on a new can of TCP to open. But a few cuts with a utility knife, and voila!

I was a little surprised at the change in the can. I've been using the stuff for a long time.

This was the old can:

I guess they saved a little bit on the costs of each can.