What a difference a day makes

In the garage last night, I made some candles for the wifey. Apple flower aroma still lingered today.

See post below, the smell of burnt gear oil totally overwhelms all lesser scents. Ahh, burnt gear oil. Smells like fast hooliganism. Makes my heart go pitter patter.

A gremlin maybe?

It's a good thing I'm not stupidstitious, or I'd shopping for an exorcist or witch doctor. I swear every time I fix something on my old Vette, something else goes wrong. Like all I'm doing is chasing a gremlin from one part of the car to another.

Cleaning up some problems with the drive train, I installed four new universal joints, two new camber rods, a host of rubber goodies, changed the differential oil and double checked the brakes while I had every thing apart.

I finally get it all back together and aligned (close enough for government work anyway) today. I take her out for a test ride and the instrument lights have gone out. It's not the switch, fuse or fuse box. Sheesh.

On top of that, now there's a fuse and a fuse puller tool down in the lower air vent. I can't even see them with a dental mirror and I just know they're going to rattle.

Blaming the FN Herstal Five-SeveN pistol

Confederate Yankee has a good article in PM on how the Brady's and the MSM have come to blame the weapon for the Ft. Hood massacre. Of course, they always blame something other than the perpetrator.

The MSM people in general and the Brady's in particular know they can't be trusted, so neither can you. This kind of projection is not only disingenuous it's dangerous.

Then again, if they can't figure out what caliber means (if they read Captain of a Crew of One they would) they'll never understand ballistics.

Politically correct murder and mayhem

U.S. Army Major Hassan seems to have ended his career as a traitor, but I have to wonder how bad he could have gotten before the Army decided to do something about him.

He seemed to be advocating for the enemy (voicing support for suicide bombers), was opposed to the war (and agitating against it), tried very hard to avoid overseas deployment and God only knows what he said to his psychiatric patients. At what point does the Army call "disloyal" and strip someone of their commission?

Jerry Pournelle - "The politically correct spin is coming like a tidal wave. He is a crazy guy who happens to be a Muslim. All of that misses the point: he was disloyal to the United States, and said so openly and many times; yet he remained a commissioned officer of the United States. That is the point that is being overlooked. Whether the disloyalty is due to a psychotic episode or some other cause is not important."

In hindsight, I could sort of see Army policy keeping the average soldier disarmed in public, but surely they trust the non-comms and officers to be armed? But no. Does the Army trust colonels and up?

Then again, whatever forces conspired and succeeded to make U.S. Army bases into gun free zones shows that even exceptionally criminally stupid ideas can worm their way into policy. If shooting 43 U.S. soldiers on an Army base on American home ground doesn't kill these ridiculous PC rules I don't know what will. Maybe shooting 43 generals?

Emergency maintenance vs. blogging

EM wins. It doesn't matter how nice a cage you drive, if it doesn't have brakes, it's a paperweight.

Added to Commanderess' long list of exceptional talents is:

Brake Bleeders Team Member

That gal can pump, but I knew she could. Thanks babe!

My troublesome neighbors

I've blogged in the past about my problem neighbors. The people next door (I called them The Banzai, plural of Bonzo) , and the father (I refer to him as Bonzo) in particular, were a real bitch. Late night parties all the time, trespassing, threatening my wife, shining lights in the bedroom window at 0300, etc.

I was getting so good at ruining their lifestyle though, they moved away. Win!

But then Bonzo rented his house to the A**hole family. More winners, but we finally got them more or less under control.

So yesterday a nice looking woman of, oh say, early sixties pulls up in a new Prius. After scoping out Bonzo's house, she parks and walks up to the house. I'm standing out front letting the dog we're dog sitting do his business and she stops to admire him and said something nice.

Then she asks me if Mr. Bonzo lives here. I don't know why but I mind farted and said yes. After no one answers the door she took several pictures of the house and left. It was only then that I remembered she asked for Mr. Bonzo, not Mr. A**hole.

But that's OK because someone will be back looking for Bonzo. Skip tracer, bounty hunter, private detective, somebody will come looking for Bonzo. I hope they ask me about him so I can explain my mistake and sell them Bonzos address in the East Bay. If they won't pay, just giving it to them will make my day.

And that is today's lesson in civility. Even someone dumber than a chimp can be civil. People that are always mean and hurting others always get their comeuppance. It may take some time, you may never find out about it, but they'll get it. They always do.

Promoting open carry

This mode of open carry is allowed on the Ride Fast Campus, even though it may be NSFW. No, really, they're open carrying.

New way to support my activities, GunPal

A new alternative to PayPal is GunPal. Unlike PayPal, GunPal can be used to purchase any legal product. As you probably know, PayPal discriminates against gun owners, gun sellers, gun buyers and anyone who has anything to do with guns.

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How bright is my interwebz star?

This guy posts nothing and even says "ignore this post". He gets more comments than I usually do.

Maybe I should re-brand this blog as a first person hit-woman contractor hired out of Corleone, Sicily and working in Tennessee. Maybe then you'd comment. Heh.

What your beer brand can reveal about you

A market research company investigated beer drinkers and not beer drinkers. They found some surprising similarities, based on the beer people drink.

People who drink my brand are:

(...) sensible, grounded and practical. They are the polar opposite of daydreamers and don't easily get carried away. These beer drinkers also don't like authority—can anyone say union?—and are emotionally steady people who live in the here and now. However, what may be a bit surprising is that people who prefer X can also be very spontaneous and tend not to do much advance planning.

X drinkers are 42% more likely to drive a truck than the average person, 68% more likely to choose a credit card with flexible payment terms and 42% more likely to use breath-freshening strips every day.

That is actually pretty close, except my breath freshener is a Budweiser.

See what your beer, or lack thereof, says about you.

via Neatorama

No handguns in Maryland upheld

In news to me, it is apparently almost, if not virtually impossible, to carry a handgun in Maryland. No concealed carry, no open carry, no nothin'. I thought 'worse than California' wasn't even permitted nationally.

Can they open carry rifles and carbines? If not, it sounds like a good place for a sniper massacre. Oh, wait....

How to refuse a gun buyer

A gun seller is accused of racism if he won't sell a gun to a diversity. I saw two good ways to deal with this.

In a pawn shop, a woman trying to buy a pistol was clearly a wacko. I don't know what her problem was but I wouldn't have sold her anything either. The counter guy said, every time she wanted to even look at something, "Sorry, that's on consignment".

At the gun shop where I bought my Thompson, a similar scenario. The shop owner just said, "Sorry, we're all out of those" until the guy got the hint. It was funny because a few times the were all out of the five or six .25 semi-autos in the case.

Open carry normalization

You're all probably familiar with the admonition or advise to dress professionally when representing the good gun culture. You know, like at protests or other venues where the MSM is present, or in court. In short, Don't Scare The White People. ™

I was wondering what would be best for open carry normalization. Your normal gear or your Sunday go to meeting gear and church gun? I tend toward my normal gear. What say you?

Open Carry - Normal or Fancy?
	Normal carry gun and holster.
	Fancy gun and holster.
	Doesn't matter.
	Both!
	I am against open carry.
pollcode.com free polls

The California Way - Stealing from the wage earners

As of yesterday, California is stealing an additional 10% of wage earners pay, by pre-deducting today your future taxes of tomorrow. They say it's all wonderful and rainbow, unicorn farts, cause you'll get the money back.

Ah, no, you won't. They won't be paying interest. And since they didn't ask, it's stealing. I say they're breaking the law by not passing a tax increase. Borrowing isn't a tax increase, they say. Raising fees on everything isn't a tax increase, they say. I call bullshit on that.

Since even that isn't enough to cover what Sacramento is spending, they may have to do it again, harder and deeper, and soon. All that liquor and hookers all around in Sacramento isn't going to pay for itself, you know.

Book Review: Death Traps by Belton Cooper

Over at Anthroblogogy. By some cosmic twist of the rifling, DirtCrashr and I happened to be reading the same book at about the same time. Swing on by and read his review.

Although the book touches on many things hors d'combat, it's mostly about the nightmare of keeping an army of American army vehicles running during the European campaign in War Two. Mr. Cooper really lays into the faults of the M4 Sherman tank, which got a lot of good men killed, on the American side.

An interesting contrast to Mr. Cooper's impressions, is to watch a show like Tank Overall. When some Brits are rebuilding a Sherman, they almost marvel how any part from any Sherman will easily bolt right up to any other Sherman without modification. We Americans tend to take that for granted.

It's an interesting book, especially if you have an interest in engineering or heavy armored vehicles.

The California Way - Richmond gang rape seen as nearly inevitable

Last weekend's gang rape at Richmond High School was almost bound to happen. All it needed was a spark - the elements were already there.

Richmond's culture is broken, the local Tribes have failed and the official response isn't going to fix the problem. The officials want to install more lights, higher fences, working surveillance cameras and hire more security. Which might help for awhile. At least until the lights are broken, the fences cut, the cameras shot out and security realizes they aren't paid enough for the danger theyll face.

That rape was twenty on one. For two and a half hours. Richmond schools need sheep-dogs, not more sheep in security costumes. Richmond can't afford enough cops to guard every school adequately. Armed security guards may be cheaper than cops, but not enough.

Due to a union strangle hold on California schools, anyone hired has to be union. There's no money for that.

An easy and almost free solution is school childrens family volunteering to help secure the school. The unions will howl, the police won't like it and the law says they can't be armed. It's the California way. And it leads directly to violence like this.

Armed family members has worked before, and very successfully. Some years ago, Palestinian monsters thought it would be just peachy to attack Israeli schools and murder a bunch of Jewish kids. It worked out pretty well for the fucking bastards, until the next day.

The attacked school and everyone around it were being guarded by family, armed family. The attacks stopped cold. Grandpa with an Uzi, Mom with an M-16, Uncle Hiram with a shotgun is pretty scary indeed, to the bad guys.

The California way of running things is coming to an end. There is no money to do it that way anymore. We're going to have to come up with a better way, and soon, let's we lose the next generation entirely. What I suggest here isn't the only way. It's just a method that would work, instantly, and is cheap.

We could do it today, except it's not The California Way, so those in power won't let us. It's just our kids at risk, so what do the politicians care? Their kids don't go to public schools.

Riding three up

[click to Hog-ify]

via Oleg Volk