Jul
29
40,000
Category: Admin Notes |
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Visitor number 40,000 stopped by today! A referral from HotAir.com! Kewl!
Jul
22
Niccer, Please!
Category: Politics |
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Niccer – since the other N-word is officially dead and buried – now describes smokers for use of nicotine. See: When They Came for the Smokers … by L. Neil Smith at http://www.lneilsmith.org/niccers.html
Jul
20
Traction Control – from New York City
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Could be fun times – I sent some notes to some NYC area bloggers. … let’s see what we can get into around here! Blogging my be even slower than normal (if such a thing were possible). Update: What’s the appeal of the Big Apple? I’d have to say it’s the wimmin! (And I’d be [...]
Jul
19
We look forward to her return to the blogosphere!
Jul
19
deportthemnow.com
Category: Border Security |
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http://www.deportthemnow.com/ Law-abiding Americans and legal immigrants are sick of the revolving door that allows convicted criminal aliens to be set free to wreak havoc and violence across the country. These crimes were 100% preventable. How many more criminal alien rapists, kidnappers, and murderers will be let loose before politicians finally act? If you would like [...]
Jul
18
Fred Thompson now leads all Republicans in Zogby Poll for May 17-20. (Details at Say Anything).
Jul
17
But that’s Unpossible! Congress voted to build the Wall!
Category: Border Security, GWOT |
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… and, and The President Signed it, too! It was on TV and everything! from Captain’s Quarters ABC: Middle Easterners Smuggled Across Southern Border This news flash from ABC came across my desk during my CQ Radio show: The FBI is investigating an alleged human smuggling operation based in Chaparral, N.M., that agents say is [...]
Jul
16
A Thompson-Gingrich Ticket?
Category: Politics |
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Political Wire: Momentum Grows for Thompson, Gingrich Sweet
Jul
16
Hotel Fun in Birmingham, AL
Category: Travel |
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A Video Football Game. A Projector. And a huge wall by the swimming pool, and it’s Hotel Fun in Birmingham, AL! Way Cool!
Jul
16
An Open Mind
Category: GWOT |
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Chris posted this video at The Anarchangel – An Open Mind from Global Defense Group. Closing message from the video, “It’s time to take sides.” Go see.
Jul
15
Obama Calls for Permanent Assault Weapons Ban to Combat Inner-City Violence Sunday, July 15, 2007 CHICAGO — Standing before a church congregation that has witnessed inner-city violence firsthand, Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama said Sunday that more must be done to end a social ill that is “sickening the soul of this nation.” Obama told [...]
Jul
14
Steampunkt Blogging Console – Fun with DVRs
Category: Admin Notes |
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The Steampunkt Pegboard PC has a new addition! The drive from an old DirectTV DVR was popped into the Serial ATA port and voila! 160GB of Western Digital fast hard-drive goodness. The white box to the left of the screen is the formatting progress for the new drive Helpful hint: Empty .223 brass, some plastic wire [...]
Jul
11
Billboard Top 100 Countdown
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Just a – maybe – thought …. I recently completed a collection of ALL the Billboard Top 100 Songs since 1957 1950. Anyone interested?
Jul
9
Mexican cartels outgun towns
Category: Border Security |
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NACO, MEXICO — The message came on police emergency radio: An army of drug traffickers with machine guns mounted on their pickup trucks was headed toward this town of 5,000 people on the Arizona-Mexico border. Like a sheriff in a western, police chief and part-time schoolteacher Juan Bracamontes gritted his teeth and assembled his 15 [...]
Jul
8
BAGHDAD — Prominent Shiite and Sunni politicians called on Iraqi civilians to take up arms to defend themselves after a weekend of violence that claimed more than 220 lives, including 60 who died today in a surge of bombings and shootings around Baghdad.The calls reflect growing frustration with the inability of Iraqi security forces to [...]
Jul
8
From BBC There were no armed police officers at Glasgow Airport when the terminal building was attacked last Saturday, BBC Scotland has learned. Armed police were on duty at most other major British airports at the time. The two men arrested at the airport were tackled by an unarmed officer, an off-duty policeman who was [...]
Jul
7
Update on the Flight 93 Memorial Abomination
Category: Flight 93 |
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Alec Rawls at Error Theory posts (July 6, 2007): New book exposes the planned Flight 93 Memorial to be a terrorist memorial mosque … Put pressure on the Memorial Project’s upcoming public meeting (July 28th, 2007). Read more here
Jul
7
XHTML: Validating the Blogroll
Category: Admin Notes |
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As I was puttering around and cleaning up the HTML on the site, It occurred to me to run my blogroll entries through the W3 XHTML Validator, too! Congratulations to Michelle Malkin and River Dog for 100% validation! Ace and Jawa, not so much. Number of errors by site 0000 http://www.michellemalkin.com/ 0000 http://rivrdog.typepad.com/ 0000 http://tractioncontrol.well-regulatedmilitia.org/
Jul
7
Option 6: Shoot Him
Category: Gun Stuff |
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Townhall.com has a post on personal safety. Read .357—Don’t Leave Home Without It by Allison Aldrich, Friday, June 29, 2007
Jul
6
AK-47 Inventor Doesn’t Lose Sleep
Category: Guns |
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From Fox News / AP: AK-47 Inventor Doesn’t Lose Sleep Over Havoc Wrought With His Invention MOSCOW — Sixty years after the AK-47 went into production, Mikhail Kalashnikov says he does not stay awake at night worrying about the bloodshed wrought by the world’s most popular assault rifle. “I sleep well. It’s the politicians who [...]
Jul
6
Proposed OSHA rules target Ammunition
Category: Gun Stuff |
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From Gun Law News and the National Shooting Sports Foundation: The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the government agency charged with assuring the safety and health of America’s workers, is proposing a regulatory rule affecting the manufacturing, transportation and storage of small arms ammunition, primers and smokeless propellants. As written, the proposed rule would [...]
Jul
5
Way Cool GBR Tee Shirts!
Category: Gun Stuff |
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Get yours at Ride Fast and Shoot Straight’s shop! Close-up of the graphics – it’s the masthead images from the bloggers at GBR I. Groovy.
Jul
4
‘Crazy Lady’s’ House
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The bottle rocket was staged to launch harmlessly over the peaceful neighborhood. We waited until dusk; then until nightfall. At 9:45 it was time to launch. To explain the post title, ‘Crazy Lady’ is the name by which my kids know our next door neighbor. The name is well deserved. When we were building the [...]
Jul
4
Independence Day
Category: Support for Our Military |
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Jul
3
Lest we forget …
Category: Border Security, Politics |
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What about the Border Patrol Agents? Everyone is going on and on and on about how President Bush commuted Scooter Libby’s sentence: Just when things looked darkest for I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, when prison seemed all but certain, President Bush wiped away the former White House aide’s 2 1/2-year sentence in the CIA leak case.Bush’s [...]
Jul
2
July’s ePostal Contest is Up
Category: Gun Stuff |
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The Conservative UAW Guy hosts Circular Thinking, the latest of Mr. Completely’s ePostal matches. Read the rulz and download the targets here. Print ‘em out and punch some holes!
Jul
1
What’s this? Texas economy braces for immigration bill impact
Category: Border Security, Politics |
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By JAMES PINKERTON, SUSAN CARROLL and LORI RODRIGUEZ Copyright 2007 Houston Chronicle Many business leaders are lamenting last week’s death of the landmark Senate immigration bill and predicting dire consequences for the Texas economy. Already, labor shortages have caused onions to rot in the fields, delayed wheat harvests and docked Gulf shrimp boats because of [...]
Jul
1
Those who would prey on the elderly and the seemingly defenseless may find out why concealed carry permits are issued; and why they work. Senior: Man I shot robbed me strong> 12:00 AM CDT on Sunday, July 1, 2007 By JAY PARSONS / The Dallas Morning News jparsons@dallasnews.com An elderly man shot a 31-year-old man [...]








