Thursday, March 21, 2013
Can We Nuke Mecca Now?
The Aurora Theater mass murderer now says Allah made him do it.
Just Call Him James bin Holmes Al-Kook.
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Meanwhile, At Cross Creek, Florida...
...The Yearling Restaurant, named after Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' famous novel, is for sale.
The Yearling Restaurant is a true Florida institution; I remember eating there as a boy. In addition to the usual fish camp fare (the restaurant is located at Cross Creek, between Orange and Lochloosa Lakes) it has also been possible to dine on wild-caught Florida food such as alligator, possum...and cooter. As a matter of fact, t-shirts, license plates and other items emblazoned with the slogan EAT MORE COOTER AT THE YEARLING RESTAURANT! have been popular for decades.
What's a cooter, you might ask? Well, it's one of these:
Cooter is also a euphemism. You can visit the Soylent Sage blog and see lots of cooter, although he calls it "snooch."
Anyway, the restaurant is for sale, so if you always wanted to own a piece of true Florida, now's your chance.
The Yearling Restaurant is a true Florida institution; I remember eating there as a boy. In addition to the usual fish camp fare (the restaurant is located at Cross Creek, between Orange and Lochloosa Lakes) it has also been possible to dine on wild-caught Florida food such as alligator, possum...and cooter. As a matter of fact, t-shirts, license plates and other items emblazoned with the slogan EAT MORE COOTER AT THE YEARLING RESTAURANT! have been popular for decades.
What's a cooter, you might ask? Well, it's one of these:
Cooter is also a euphemism. You can visit the Soylent Sage blog and see lots of cooter, although he calls it "snooch."
Anyway, the restaurant is for sale, so if you always wanted to own a piece of true Florida, now's your chance.
Do Ya Feel Lucky, Punk?
Death Wish Coffee.
A U.S. coffee company is claiming to produce the first and last cup of coffee ever needed to kick start your work day.
Death Wish, a medium-dark roast coffee blend roasted in Upstate New York, claims to be the 'most highly caffeinated premium dark roast organic coffee in the world.'
The brand, featuring a menacing black skull and cross bones, says they use coffee beans containing close to 200% of the amount of caffeine found in a typical coffee shop coffee.
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A U.S. coffee company is claiming to produce the first and last cup of coffee ever needed to kick start your work day.
Death Wish, a medium-dark roast coffee blend roasted in Upstate New York, claims to be the 'most highly caffeinated premium dark roast organic coffee in the world.'
The brand, featuring a menacing black skull and cross bones, says they use coffee beans containing close to 200% of the amount of caffeine found in a typical coffee shop coffee.
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Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Lost In the Woods
Looks as if 90's folk singer Michelle Shocked can't find her way.
In the annals of the Most Disastrous Shows Ever, there is a new entry. Folk-rock singer Michelle Shocked had the plug pulled on her concert Sunday night after launching into an anti-gay-marriage speech that led most of the audience to walk out.
Did we mention that her fans largely lean well to the left, thanks to the liberal politics that previously infused much of her music, and that the gig where she chose to come out (so to speak) as an Old Testament-citing preacher on homosexual issues was in the heart of San Francisco?
Click the link to read the rest. Shocked made one really good, popular album, and then wandered into the forest of leftist politics, even joining Code Pink for a while. Now it seems that, trying to find her way out, she stumbled into the area where Westboro Baptist Church finds its inspiration. I hope that she finds her way out.
I'd link a few of her tunes, but it looks as if she doesn't want any of them on YouTube.
In the annals of the Most Disastrous Shows Ever, there is a new entry. Folk-rock singer Michelle Shocked had the plug pulled on her concert Sunday night after launching into an anti-gay-marriage speech that led most of the audience to walk out.
Did we mention that her fans largely lean well to the left, thanks to the liberal politics that previously infused much of her music, and that the gig where she chose to come out (so to speak) as an Old Testament-citing preacher on homosexual issues was in the heart of San Francisco?
Click the link to read the rest. Shocked made one really good, popular album, and then wandered into the forest of leftist politics, even joining Code Pink for a while. Now it seems that, trying to find her way out, she stumbled into the area where Westboro Baptist Church finds its inspiration. I hope that she finds her way out.
I'd link a few of her tunes, but it looks as if she doesn't want any of them on YouTube.
Monday, March 18, 2013
Magpul Prepares To Leave Colorado
They aren't by any stretch of the imagination joking.
Magpul Industries Corp.
Apparently Gov Hickenlooper has announced that he will sign HB 1224 on Wednesday. We were asked for our reaction, and here is what we said:
We have said all along that based on the legal problems and uncertainties in the bill, as well as general principle, we will have no choice but to leave if the Governor signs this into law. We will start our transition out of the state almost immediately, and we will prioritize moving magazine manufacturing operations first. We expect the first PMAGs to be made outside CO within 30 days of the signing, with the rest to follow in phases. We will likely become a multi-state operation as a result of this move, and not all locations have been selected. We have made some initial contacts and evaluated a list of new potential locations for additional manufacturing and the new company headquarters, and we will begin talks with various state representatives in earnest if the Governor indeed signs this legislation. Although we are agile for a company of our size, it is still a significant footprint, and we will perform this move in a manner that is best for the company and our employees.
It is disappointing to us that money and a social agenda from outside the state have apparently penetrated the American West to control our legislature and Governor, but we feel confident that Colorado residents can still take the state back through recalls, ballot initiatives, and the 2014 election to undo these wrongs against responsible Citizens.
Sad to see your country Balkanized.
Magpul Industries Corp.
Apparently Gov Hickenlooper has announced that he will sign HB 1224 on Wednesday. We were asked for our reaction, and here is what we said:
We have said all along that based on the legal problems and uncertainties in the bill, as well as general principle, we will have no choice but to leave if the Governor signs this into law. We will start our transition out of the state almost immediately, and we will prioritize moving magazine manufacturing operations first. We expect the first PMAGs to be made outside CO within 30 days of the signing, with the rest to follow in phases. We will likely become a multi-state operation as a result of this move, and not all locations have been selected. We have made some initial contacts and evaluated a list of new potential locations for additional manufacturing and the new company headquarters, and we will begin talks with various state representatives in earnest if the Governor indeed signs this legislation. Although we are agile for a company of our size, it is still a significant footprint, and we will perform this move in a manner that is best for the company and our employees.
It is disappointing to us that money and a social agenda from outside the state have apparently penetrated the American West to control our legislature and Governor, but we feel confident that Colorado residents can still take the state back through recalls, ballot initiatives, and the 2014 election to undo these wrongs against responsible Citizens.
Sad to see your country Balkanized.
The Walking Dead: Return of Gun Control
WARNING: SPOILER ALERT!
In Sunday night's episode Prey, guns are "collected" from the citizens of Woodbury so that they can be used in an attack on Rick's group. Andrea has to hand her pistol over to Martinez, thus leaving her unarmed when she leaves Woodbury and is chased by the Governor. This handicaps Andrea, of course, leaving her to fight Walkers with nothing in hand but a small knife; likewise, she is unable to effectively combat the Governor. In the end,that decision is what leads to the final scene of the show: Andrea ball-gagged in the Governor's "torture chair," waiting for him to show up and start indulging his twisted fantasies.
In a zombie apocalypse, you can't afford to be disarmed - - by anyone. The world is such that you need a weapon at hand at all times, and no one has the right to tell you otherwise; and anyone attempting to disarm you is no more or less than an enemy who desires your death.
It's interesting to me that, in the world of The Walking Dead, that attempts to organize healthy, sustainable communities are so unsuccessful. Has the essential goodness of humanity deteriorated to such a degree that no one willingly takes in the stranger on trust? A few episodes ago, Rick, Carl and Michonne ignored a hiker screaming for aid - - twice - - along the side of the road; and, in the closing credits, you see them finally stop to loot his backpack after he's been attacked and devoured by the dead. Would southern country people really behave in that fashion? I'd think that they'd more likely organize quickly around their church groups/neighbors/friends and form defensive communities, and quickly expand in size as new people showed up; each newcomer provisionally accepted into the group, depending on good behavior and willingness to contribute to the community's survival. Woodbury isn't an example of this because the townsfolk have surrendered their autonomy to the Governor and his minions: just who "elected" him Governor, anyway, and how do the townspeople get rid of him when he proves inadequate? If they aren't armed at all times, they don't; and you'll notice that the folk of Woodbury are mostly unarmed, most of the time. This state of affairs might happen in a zombie apocalypse later on, when most of the zombies have been destroyed; not in the early stages, when to leave the security of the frontier fort (and that's what these communities are: forts, castles; refuges from the dangers outside) is to take one's life into one's own hands.
In Sunday night's episode Prey, guns are "collected" from the citizens of Woodbury so that they can be used in an attack on Rick's group. Andrea has to hand her pistol over to Martinez, thus leaving her unarmed when she leaves Woodbury and is chased by the Governor. This handicaps Andrea, of course, leaving her to fight Walkers with nothing in hand but a small knife; likewise, she is unable to effectively combat the Governor. In the end,that decision is what leads to the final scene of the show: Andrea ball-gagged in the Governor's "torture chair," waiting for him to show up and start indulging his twisted fantasies.
In a zombie apocalypse, you can't afford to be disarmed - - by anyone. The world is such that you need a weapon at hand at all times, and no one has the right to tell you otherwise; and anyone attempting to disarm you is no more or less than an enemy who desires your death.
It's interesting to me that, in the world of The Walking Dead, that attempts to organize healthy, sustainable communities are so unsuccessful. Has the essential goodness of humanity deteriorated to such a degree that no one willingly takes in the stranger on trust? A few episodes ago, Rick, Carl and Michonne ignored a hiker screaming for aid - - twice - - along the side of the road; and, in the closing credits, you see them finally stop to loot his backpack after he's been attacked and devoured by the dead. Would southern country people really behave in that fashion? I'd think that they'd more likely organize quickly around their church groups/neighbors/friends and form defensive communities, and quickly expand in size as new people showed up; each newcomer provisionally accepted into the group, depending on good behavior and willingness to contribute to the community's survival. Woodbury isn't an example of this because the townsfolk have surrendered their autonomy to the Governor and his minions: just who "elected" him Governor, anyway, and how do the townspeople get rid of him when he proves inadequate? If they aren't armed at all times, they don't; and you'll notice that the folk of Woodbury are mostly unarmed, most of the time. This state of affairs might happen in a zombie apocalypse later on, when most of the zombies have been destroyed; not in the early stages, when to leave the security of the frontier fort (and that's what these communities are: forts, castles; refuges from the dangers outside) is to take one's life into one's own hands.
Meanwhile, In the Holy Land...
...medical science, courtesy of the nation of Israel, allows the lame to walk.
Liable to cause "dust in the eye" syndrome.
Liable to cause "dust in the eye" syndrome.
For You Airplane Fans
There's a restored British Mosquito bomber at the Military Aviation Museum in Virginia Beach, VA.
Sorry, no pics with the article. It's the only flyable Mosquito in the world. Here is the museum's website.
Sorry, no pics with the article. It's the only flyable Mosquito in the world. Here is the museum's website.
Sunday, March 17, 2013
Happy St. Patrick's Day.
I've been busy reading the Captain Alatriste novels of Spanish author Arturo Perez-Reverte. I've been hearing of Perez-Reverte for years now; I think that his The Fencing Master was the first book review that made me want to investigate further. Anyway, Oleg Volk recently reviewed the books and the resulting movie, and pronounced them worthy, so I decided to plunge in; read the first one in the series, liked it, and quickly acquired all the others that have been published and translated into English. Part of the additional draw for me was my three years in Spain itself, being able to see many of the places described in the books: Seville, Cadiz, Sanlucar, Puerto de Santa Maria.
They are worthy books; Perez-Reverte speaks in aphorism at times, so I constantly find myself reaching for a highlighter pen:
In this Spain full of crooked, rapacious functionaries,you could get anything you liked, so long as you had stolen enough to pay for it.
I had once heard the captain say that the thing that helps a man die well is knowing that he had done all he can to avoid death.
Honor is a very complicated thing to acquire, difficult to preserve, and dangerous to sustain.
It is said, and it is very true, that the moment when vice becomes the custom marks the death of a republic, for the dissolute person ceases to be considered loathsome, and all baseness becomes normal.
...but there are things you must say when it is time to say them, or risk regretting it all your life. Although what one may later regret is having spoken at all.
...this was the custom of veteran soldiers, who establish escape routes before a combat, for when a bad card is dealt, there is not always sufficient time or clarity of judgment to make such useful appraisals.
But no one is in complete control of whom he hates or whom he loves.
I'll have to re-read the series again in the future, so as to highlight some more of these; I didn't realize at first that there would be so many of these scattered throughout the texts.
The series isn't yet complete; two proposed books remain unwritten, and one has yet to be translated. Hopefully Perez-Reverte, a man still in middle age, will find time to complete the series.
They are worthy books; Perez-Reverte speaks in aphorism at times, so I constantly find myself reaching for a highlighter pen:
In this Spain full of crooked, rapacious functionaries,you could get anything you liked, so long as you had stolen enough to pay for it.
I had once heard the captain say that the thing that helps a man die well is knowing that he had done all he can to avoid death.
Honor is a very complicated thing to acquire, difficult to preserve, and dangerous to sustain.
It is said, and it is very true, that the moment when vice becomes the custom marks the death of a republic, for the dissolute person ceases to be considered loathsome, and all baseness becomes normal.
...but there are things you must say when it is time to say them, or risk regretting it all your life. Although what one may later regret is having spoken at all.
...this was the custom of veteran soldiers, who establish escape routes before a combat, for when a bad card is dealt, there is not always sufficient time or clarity of judgment to make such useful appraisals.
But no one is in complete control of whom he hates or whom he loves.
I'll have to re-read the series again in the future, so as to highlight some more of these; I didn't realize at first that there would be so many of these scattered throughout the texts.
The series isn't yet complete; two proposed books remain unwritten, and one has yet to be translated. Hopefully Perez-Reverte, a man still in middle age, will find time to complete the series.
Saturday, March 16, 2013
What Do You Do With a Drunken Sailor?
Bust him down to Seaman Recruit/three days bread and water, the brute!
PORT ORCHARD, Wash. — Authorities say a 31-year-old intoxicated sailor kicked in the door to a 70-year-old woman's home and told her to pray because he was to "blow her head off."
KOMO News reports hat active-duty sailor Matthew Clark was arrested early Friday after a neighbor called police because he heard yelling.
When officers arrived, they heard screaming from the residence and saw a man leave the house. Officers saw the woman's door kicked in and found her cowering in her bedroom.
Officers approached the man, who said he was doing a military exercise and had been drinking. He then started crying.
Yep, cry for your lost career. Dumbass.
PORT ORCHARD, Wash. — Authorities say a 31-year-old intoxicated sailor kicked in the door to a 70-year-old woman's home and told her to pray because he was to "blow her head off."
KOMO News reports hat active-duty sailor Matthew Clark was arrested early Friday after a neighbor called police because he heard yelling.
When officers arrived, they heard screaming from the residence and saw a man leave the house. Officers saw the woman's door kicked in and found her cowering in her bedroom.
Officers approached the man, who said he was doing a military exercise and had been drinking. He then started crying.
Yep, cry for your lost career. Dumbass.
Friday, March 15, 2013
Well, They ARE the Ebil Republicans
After all, who else has so much motive to poison President Obama?
Yes, that was sarcasm.
President Obama took to the Hill this week to mend fences with the GOP but he stopped short of actually breaking bread with conservatives in Congress, supposedly because he didn't have his cup bearer in tow at the Capitol.
The Secret Service won't confirm if the president does indeed have a 'Taster-in-Chief' to monitor the president's food but Republican Senator Susan Collins revealed the president wasn't able to eat at the Thursday luncheon given in his honor because of the security measure.
While Republican Senators chowed down on a delicious menu of lobster, potato chips and blueberry pie, the president was left salivating and longingly eying the delicacies.
Senator Collins had organized the Thursday pow wow, held in the Lyndon B. Johnson Room off the Senate chamber, and paid homage to her home state of Maine with a bevy of local delicacies. She said that the menu included, 'University of Maine recipe for healthy lobster salad - I pointed that out to the president in keeping with the first lady’s initiatives and Fox Family Potato Chips made in Aroostook County where I’m from and wild blueberry pie full of anti-oxidants,' according to an audio clip obtained by the Daily Caller. 'We did have a little ice cream on the pie too, also made in Maine, Gifford’s Ice Cream. So in all seriousness this was well received,' she told the press, after the lunch meeting that lasted 90 minutes.
Though GOP Senators who attended the event enjoyed the cuisine, the honored guest had to exercise self control and watch the others pleasure their taste buds.
'Apparently he has to have essentially a taster, and I pointed out to him that we were all tasters for him, that if the food had been poisoned all of us would have keeled over,' Sen. Collins said.
'He did look longingly at it and he remarked that we have far better food than the Democrats do, and I said that was because I was hosting.'
The article goes on to say that Obama isn't the first president to submit to this practice, apparently it goes back several administrations.
Here's the thing: I can't believe that Obama is so craven that he doesn't kick back against this practice. It tells me that thePraetorian Guard Secret Service enjoys too much power over the president's life.
Yes, that was sarcasm.
President Obama took to the Hill this week to mend fences with the GOP but he stopped short of actually breaking bread with conservatives in Congress, supposedly because he didn't have his cup bearer in tow at the Capitol.
The Secret Service won't confirm if the president does indeed have a 'Taster-in-Chief' to monitor the president's food but Republican Senator Susan Collins revealed the president wasn't able to eat at the Thursday luncheon given in his honor because of the security measure.
While Republican Senators chowed down on a delicious menu of lobster, potato chips and blueberry pie, the president was left salivating and longingly eying the delicacies.
Senator Collins had organized the Thursday pow wow, held in the Lyndon B. Johnson Room off the Senate chamber, and paid homage to her home state of Maine with a bevy of local delicacies. She said that the menu included, 'University of Maine recipe for healthy lobster salad - I pointed that out to the president in keeping with the first lady’s initiatives and Fox Family Potato Chips made in Aroostook County where I’m from and wild blueberry pie full of anti-oxidants,' according to an audio clip obtained by the Daily Caller. 'We did have a little ice cream on the pie too, also made in Maine, Gifford’s Ice Cream. So in all seriousness this was well received,' she told the press, after the lunch meeting that lasted 90 minutes.
Though GOP Senators who attended the event enjoyed the cuisine, the honored guest had to exercise self control and watch the others pleasure their taste buds.
'Apparently he has to have essentially a taster, and I pointed out to him that we were all tasters for him, that if the food had been poisoned all of us would have keeled over,' Sen. Collins said.
'He did look longingly at it and he remarked that we have far better food than the Democrats do, and I said that was because I was hosting.'
The article goes on to say that Obama isn't the first president to submit to this practice, apparently it goes back several administrations.
Here's the thing: I can't believe that Obama is so craven that he doesn't kick back against this practice. It tells me that the
What's News About That?
"'Moonshiners' Star Arrested For Public Intoxication."
Man, that's like busting Willie Nelson for smoking weed.
Man, that's like busting Willie Nelson for smoking weed.
The Charlotte Observer...
...is sponsoring a BBQ competition of Charlotte-area BBQ restaurants.
Personally I think they should have limited this contest to restaurants no further away than a 20-mile radius from Charlotte. Two of the contestants are in Shelby, 50 miles away.
If you're familiar with Charlotte and want to vote in the contest, click the link above. Or hell, even if you aren't.
I can't say I've eaten at all of the restaurants listed. I've eaten at 9 of the 16 listed, though. More than half.
Personally I think they should have limited this contest to restaurants no further away than a 20-mile radius from Charlotte. Two of the contestants are in Shelby, 50 miles away.
If you're familiar with Charlotte and want to vote in the contest, click the link above. Or hell, even if you aren't.
I can't say I've eaten at all of the restaurants listed. I've eaten at 9 of the 16 listed, though. More than half.
Thursday, March 14, 2013
Meanwhile, At Wrightsville Beach, NC...
...there won't be a Joe's Crab Shack at Johnny Mercer's Fishing Pier after all.
I can see now it was probably a bad fit; although the location on the pier itself is a great idea, there just isn't enough parking in that area to make anyone happy, and no way to increase parking without destroying existing buildings, which ain't happening.
I can see now it was probably a bad fit; although the location on the pier itself is a great idea, there just isn't enough parking in that area to make anyone happy, and no way to increase parking without destroying existing buildings, which ain't happening.
Regulation Nation
With SWAT teams to enforce those rules.
Meet Eustace Conway, 51, the owner of Turtle Camp near Boone, North Carolina. He's a back-to-the-land guy who bathes in a creek, grows his own food, and welcomes others to learn some survival skills at his place (which he runs as an educational nonprofit) for a small fee.
He's been doing this for 30 years, but he was recently featured on a reality TV show. That bought local planning officials sniffing around his campfire.
Want to guess what happened next?
A team of health, construction and fire officials showed up for an unannounced inspection of the preserve, acting on an anonymous tip. Escorted by two sheriffs' deputies, they executed what Mr. Conway describes as a "SWAT-team raid"—peering into outhouses, stomping around log cabins, and climbing hand-hewn ladders.
Their findings are compiled in a 78-page report with a bullet-point list of violations. Mr. Conway's sawdust urinal and outhouses? Unpermitted, according to the officials. The wood he used to erect two dozen buildings? Built with lumber that isn't "grade-marked," meaning it doesn't specify the mill where it was produced.
The open-air kitchen, with its crates of potatoes and stacks of pots? "Not protected from insects and animals," according to the report. "It is, in fact, outdoors."
The county says Mr. Conway must rebuild or tear down his cabins, barn, kitchen, blacksmith shop and sawmill, and create a septic system before hosting any more classes and camps.
"These buildings aren't fit for public use," says Joseph A. Furman, county planning director.
Meet Eustace Conway, 51, the owner of Turtle Camp near Boone, North Carolina. He's a back-to-the-land guy who bathes in a creek, grows his own food, and welcomes others to learn some survival skills at his place (which he runs as an educational nonprofit) for a small fee.
He's been doing this for 30 years, but he was recently featured on a reality TV show. That bought local planning officials sniffing around his campfire.
Want to guess what happened next?
A team of health, construction and fire officials showed up for an unannounced inspection of the preserve, acting on an anonymous tip. Escorted by two sheriffs' deputies, they executed what Mr. Conway describes as a "SWAT-team raid"—peering into outhouses, stomping around log cabins, and climbing hand-hewn ladders.
Their findings are compiled in a 78-page report with a bullet-point list of violations. Mr. Conway's sawdust urinal and outhouses? Unpermitted, according to the officials. The wood he used to erect two dozen buildings? Built with lumber that isn't "grade-marked," meaning it doesn't specify the mill where it was produced.
The open-air kitchen, with its crates of potatoes and stacks of pots? "Not protected from insects and animals," according to the report. "It is, in fact, outdoors."
The county says Mr. Conway must rebuild or tear down his cabins, barn, kitchen, blacksmith shop and sawmill, and create a septic system before hosting any more classes and camps.
"These buildings aren't fit for public use," says Joseph A. Furman, county planning director.
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