May
14
When I travel, I peek into gunshops. I look at their stock; their arrangements; their people. Occasionally, I am treated to an exceptionally good place to do business. Today was one of those days. Allow me to present: Midwest Gun Exchange 3415 Grape Road Mishawaka, IN Gun Shop of the Year (so far) Nominee: [...]
May
14
Inconvenient
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Sometimes air travel has its disruptions – even on a bright and sunny day. My flight connection yesterday afternoon was to link through New York’s Kennedy airport, but as soon as our plane left the gate, the pilot shut down the engines and announced that JFK had a ground hold in effect while a ‘certain [...]
May
5
Aerosmith drops Indonesia show over security fears
May
3
US Global Entry System: Nationwide Outage
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The kiosks for the US Customs and Border Protection’s Global Entry program went dark today. The agent manning international border checkpoint at the DFW Airport claimed the outage was nationwide. Seems like anything the Federal Government can control fails to work under the sequester plan. Solution? Let’s find less things that the Federal Government can [...]
Mar
31
Guadalajara, Jalisco
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Muy buen clima. 90 degrees and sunny all week!
Mar
26
Steaks Rib Eye Steak 10 oz $26 House rub marinated Angus rib eye, maitre-d butter, onion strings, Yukon gold mashed potatoes. Yummy!
Mar
26
Here again for most of the the week at the Santa Clara Hilton. … with a picture of the Mount Hamilton Observatory. Temps to be in the mid 60′s, rising to 75 degrees by Friday. Spring!
Mar
23
Home again. Took a picture of the Grand Canyon on the way, but at 33,000 feet altitude and 25 miles away it looks like a drainage ditch.
Mar
22
One Hundred Trillion Banknote
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For just 90 cents. What a deal!
Mar
20
62 Degrees with highs in the mid 60′s forecast through the end of the week in Fremont/San Jose, CA. Too bad I’m always rushing to go here and there – I could have grabbed some interesting pictures along the way.
Mar
17
Back to work in Guadalajara. 73 degrees and partly sunny on arrival. Temperatures in the low 80′s are expected next week!
Mar
16
Texas
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It’s great to be back in The Lone Star State. 81 degrees and sunny!
Mar
15
California
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Greetings from California! Does anyone in the area want to get together for a cocktail or two? Hilton Newark/Fremont
Mar
6
Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
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Tomorrow’s High: 84 degrees. Same for Thursday & Friday! The flight cost from DFW was just $340. Come on down.
Mar
5
Hugo Chavez, Dead
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Hugo Chavez, dead at 58
Mar
2
Cold Outside? Let’s go to Guadalajara.
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Today’s High was 75°F – tomorrow should be 77°F.
Feb
10
Happy (Chinese) New Year 恭 喜 發 財
Jan
26
Gun owners and even some lawmakers are planning what has been dubbed potentially the largest act of civil disobedience in state history New Yorkers are in defiance of the law hastily conceived with little debate that restricts their Constitutional Rights. Defy Them! We Citizens from the other States, will support New York Gun Owners’ liberties. [...]
Jan
12
E.E.F. – Marauder
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It’s the Marauder for the E.E.F. WIN! (See Say Uncle’s EEF definition) Hat Tip to Borepatch. The Marauder is a product from the Paramount Group of South Africa. For £100,000 I would definitely be interested in owning a Marauder. Who is the US Sales rep I need to contact?
Dec
8
Critter Sighting – Mule Deer
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Dec
3
A critter sighting summary from Canada. Two Foxes Three Moose Small herd of Bison Twenty-two Deer (two bucks) Good News! It’s supposed to warm up to just below freezing tomorrow.
Nov
27
The AT&T Android app AT&T Smart Wi-Fi on the Samsung Galaxy Note II disables Wi-Fi while purporting to connect to ‘free’ AT&T Wi-Fi hot spots. It doesn’t connect to ‘free’ spots. Instead, it redirects to billable ‘on-air’ spots. Actually, the AT&T Smart Wi-Fi app disconnects your legitimate Wi-Fi connection and reverts to AT&T or roaming [...]
Nov
19
Temperature Dropped Some, eh?
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From 63 degrees and sunny to 8 degrees with freezing fog. See Google Earth location: 53.0701593244, -116.792034411 View Larger Map Today’s News from Edson, AB, Canada’s Weekly Anchor: Rob Merrifield announces destruction of long-gun registry records On Oct. 31, Hon. Rob Merrifield, M.P. for Yellowhead, announced that the long-gun registry, with the exception of registry [...]
Oct
25
Lookout Mountain
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Picture at dusk: 10/25/2012
Oct
19
The TSA which has not complied with a court order demanding safety hearings for the devices, is replacing them with a radio wave technology. The ‘old’ machines are not being taken out of service though. They will be deployed in smaller airports. As a frequent flyer, I recommend that no one go through ANY of [...]
Oct
15
Will it Hurt Obama’s Reelection Chances If …
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he were to claim he was not informed that militants stormed Benghazi, massacred our ambassador to Libya and his guards, and then and tried to blame in on a video no one had ever seen, or a budget that hasn’t been passed for four years? And he denied protection the compounds after multiple attacks and [...]
Sep
26
Where in the World?
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I travel. A lot. And sometimes, I backtrack to places I have been to earlier in my life. These places provide interesting before and after snapshots for the ‘camera’ of my memory. Rock Hill, South Carolina – the home of my great grandparents, is where I find myself today. Since the last time I was [...]
Sep
22
Sneaky: Munich Starts Oktober in September
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Oktoberfest Begins in Munich Beer and Boobs! What’s not to like?
Sep
15
As Embassey’s Around the World Burn – Other Important World News:
Kate Middleton’s Boobs
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Are fabulous. h/t Pat Dollard
Sep
9
GBR VII: And So It Ends
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Arrived into the home airport slightly behind schedule, but all is good. I met some more interesting folks at GBR VII and look forward to the next GBR meet-up! I’m looking for who to credit for donating the Sig-Sauer Adaptive Carbine Platform (ACP-Enhanced) that I won in the Saturday raffle. It’s very cool. I installed [...]
Sep
8
Gunbroker.com, where I have personally purchased several interesting weapons sponsored our GBR VII breakfast. Yummy! We met up at the range for some always challenging Steel Challenge shooting. The fastest time I saw was posted by Derrick – The Packing Rat – with a total time of 2.24 seconds for five targets. Amazing! Tonight is [...]
Sep
7
GBR VII: Day 2, Part 2
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Hugely fun day the range. I even hit the 300 yard steel target with my 1911! More magazine weirdness, though. This time from Triple K. Manufacturer: Triple K 974M Item: Triple K Colt 1911 Magazine .45 ACP 7 Rounds Stainless UPC: 730745009746 It may be hard to see, but the yellow arrows point to bulges in [...]
Sep
7
Thanks to the NRA and Staphanie Samford for breakfast, we’re off to the range for some shooty goodness.
Sep
7
GBR VII: Day One
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A new addition to the GBR participants is none other than Bill Quick from Daily Pundit – the first blog I read some seven (?) years ago. Welcome to GBR VII! We’re looking forward to a great day at the range tomorrow. Our afternoon stock-up run to Cabela’s provided an unexpected finding: Kimber Magazines do [...]
Sep
6
VII Arrived in Reno last night. Here we go!
Sep
1
GBR VII
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Reno – September 5-9, 2012 I’m in!
Aug
17
Verdict deemed by German Chancellor Angela Merkel to be “excessively harsh”. Update: Pussy Riot release new single: Putin Lights Up the Fires
Aug
5
Chattanooga
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I just arrived this afternoon. Anyone want to have a beer at the Marriott? Ruby Falls 1720 South Scenic Hwy Chattanooga,TN 37409 423-821-2544
Jul
22
Congratulations to Ernie Els
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South Africa’s Ernie Els won The 2012 Open Championship with an overall score of 7 under par. Great job Ernie. Perseverance pays off. The four bogies on the back nine for Adam Scott put Ernie Els into contention. Adams’ missed putt on 18 sealed Ernie El’s victory and avoided a playoff.
Jul
16
TSA finds suspicious ‘package’ at SFO
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On July 9 at SFO airport, the TSA’s suspicions were aroused by a ‘package’ found in a man’s trousers. They worked ‘hard on‘ their screening methods to ascertain the 13.5″ of manliness belonged to none other than Jonah Falcon – the man with the world’s largest penis. Note to TSA: Get out of our pants! [...]
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