Paid Soros Stooge Propagandist Promotes Global Whoreming From NASA Bully-pulpit

NewsBusters reveals an editorial in Investor's Business Daily on Monday that that billionaire Leftist George Soros's foundations gave $720,000 in 2006 to James Hansen, the head of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, who today blasts the Administration for "censorship" while promoting the leftist's Globular Warming agenda.

The claims against anthropogenic global warming skeptics are often the same: they're all shills for big oil or other industry wishing to poke holes in the 'consensus theory' of global warming (which isn't a consensus at all).

$720,000 can buy a lot of carbon-offsets, if you believed in such nonsense, or a few "research" trips to Tahiti...
To quote NewsBusters:

As is typical, a global warming obsessed media don't find this newsworthy. Think they'd be so disinterested if this smoking gun involved an oil company giving money to a Republican official?

While you ponder, forward to page 143 (emphasis added):
note: The Strategic Opportunities Fund includes grants related to Hurricane Katrina ($1,652,841); media policy ($1,060,000); and politicization of science ($720,000).

As an advocate of Scientific neutrality as essential to understanding information - bit-neutral information rather than political information which is propaganda no matter how you look at it, this exposes their interests and advocacy as a complete sham.
If anybody in the future wants to analyze the collapse of Civilization in the 20th Century, they can look to the Left's destruction of Scientific intergrity as a beginning point.

Rainy Day Reloading Post

It's the first rainy day since back in May, more drizzly than anything, but still three dry months have passed. My wife had to go into work, Closing didn't go well and there are beans to count and funds to transfer.

I thought I'd reload some .223 - and these are the first steps involved. First use brass that's clean, I had a bunch of 1-x fired Nosler brass in the Dillon vibrator that was clean. I separated it in the rolling hopper-basket thingy.

Sort your clean brass by headstamp - different cases have different internal volumes and create different pressure curves.

The Black Hills remanufactured ammo was good and ran flawlessly, but it wasn't entirely Lake City brass...

A couple Winchester cases found there way into the mix.
The range pickup Lake City brass shows a more clearly defined headstamp. It's fresh and hadn't been run through a cleaning cycle, and the red ring of sealant shows it's milsurp stuff that has the mil-crimp and has only been fired once.

I'll be able to tell the two apart after cleaning by the red circle, unless I just decide to make life easier and clean them separately.

Meanwhile I have a bunch of clean brass to prime. Since I'm switching from Large to to Small rifle primers I need to change-out the shell-holder, primer-feed, and primer-rod.

The little bench-rest primers have a cute little "B" stamped into them!

Then it's just loading the tray, shaking them to roll turtle, and squeezing them into the brass.
I like to rotate the brass a couple times and give it a couple squeezes, hoping to ensure some kind of uniformity to the depth. You need to also inspect each one to be sure it's seated below the depth of the brass. Squeeze, rotate, squeeze, etc.

...Squeeze...that felt weird, what have we here...WTF! Jeebus it's in SIDEWAYS!
Do I try to decap a live primer? I guess so.

No problem, but first I have to set up the newly purchased .223 decapping-die...Yeh ok. It worked-out.
Squeeze, turn, squeeze - only 88 more to go...
After filling one shell-box ass-end up, showing the primers, I start to fill the loading tray, necks up, ready to receive the powder. I finish with 99 done, and one left without a primer.

Ahmadinejad's Erupting Ass-pimple

This is what the nutball I'mA-DinnerJacket from Iran has been sending into Iraq to maim, do damage, and kill.
Gigantic erupting asspimples are a feature of his corrupt administration and a typical diagnosis of late-onset syphilis. We let this ass-bandit into our country, why? He's being hailed by his own monkey-men as the "Socrates of third millenium" - so I guess that means he's a NAMBLA member, probably the Presiding Grand Schlong. Meanwhile Oliver Stone has abandoned any pretense of sanity, objectivity, or self-composure and is all set to roll film on a documentary of this evil homunculus - no doubt complete with such Vaseline-inspired "Socratic" scenes...

An Unknown Quantity

Some people get the kewl (or bizzarro) hits at the end of a Googliscious search.
It seems I get little traffic that way. There were a couple of evergreens that dropped off recently, some old hits that keep giving back - one linked to pictures of the impossibly unselfconscious irony of Islamotards threatening violence if described as such, and the other of flag-burning pseudo Anarchist-Leftist pimplehead 'youts.
What I do seem to get lately is the brown-paper bag visitors.

It's OK, messing with Sitemeter is just a navel-gazing effort anyhow - until it's pants-wetting time when somebody like the BATF or some Only-Ones pops in... Occasionally I get a cool hit from a military site, and for some reason I've been getting a 2% share out of Italy?? I like Italy! :-)

The Nightmare of DREAM

UPDATE: The DREAM Act is being stealthily worked into the Defense Appropriations Bill of all things. BASTARDS!
(September 19) Today, the Senate is considering H.R. 1585, the Defense Department authorization bill for fiscal year 2008. At some point during the debate, open-borders senators will attempt to attach three proposals that, when taken together, would grant amnesty to millions of illegal aliens and dramatically increase the importation of foreign workers at a time 10 million Americans are looking for jobs and can't find employment.

Backdoor, reverse-tag amnesty, making the children do the lifting.

The illegal alien who applies for this amnesty is immediately rewarded with "conditional" lawful per­manent resident (green card) status, which can be converted to a non-conditional green card in short order. The alien can then use his newly acquired status to seek green cards for the parents who brought him in illegally in the first place.

Read more about it at Fausta's Blog.

What is less well known about the DREAM Act is that it also allows illegal aliens to receive in-state tuition rates at public universities, discriminating against U.S. citizens from out of state and law-abiding foreign students. It repeals a 1996 federal law that pro­hibits any state from offering in-state tuition rates to illegal aliens unless the state also offers in-state tuition rates to all U.S. citizens.

And it gets better and better - or more beneficial at lest.

The DREAM Act also makes the illegal aliens eli­gible for federal student loans and federal work-study programs another benefit that law-abiding foreign students cannot receive all at taxpayer expense. A consistent theme emerges: Illegal aliens are treated much more favorably than aliens who fol­low the law. There is no penalty for illegal behavior.

Further details here at The Heritage Foundation.

GlobaLawsuit Whoremining Brown-on-Brown HOT Legal XXX action

This from Injsty, a report in the San Diego Union-Tribune vindicating the Federal Court's up-chuckign of the regurgitated nonsense-suite against automakers.

Last summer and fall, I had an in-person interview and two phone interviews with a brilliant Yale Law School graduate who thought little of the global warming lawsuit against six automakers pushed by then-California Attorney General Bill Lockyer.

Among the things he told me:

1) "One of the principles of tort law is that damages should not be speculative," so Lockyer's lawsuit failed that very simple test.

2) He wondered how Lockyer's suit could assert "causation" between vehicle emissions and the size of California's mountain snowpacks.

3) There was an urgent need to do something about global warming, but seeking national and international cooperation on the issue made a lot more sense than a lawsuit.

Yesterday, a federal judge vindicated the brilliant Yale-educated lawyer's take on Lockyer's lawsuit.

"The kicker, of course, is that the Yale-educated lawyer who ridiculed Lockyer's lawsuit to me was Jerry Brown -- who either lied to me back then or changed his mind later when he saw being an anti-global-warming crusader as his ticket back to the governor's office in 2010. He embraced Lockyer's lawsuit as his own even though he doubted its wisdom, because he believed it to be a political winner."
Har-har-har. Politicians crapping in the Public trough.

Rear Aptertures

My White Oak Armament CMP upper came with three rear sight hoods of varying micro-diameter, .038", .042", and .046" - they're squeeky freaking small.
I had the .038" installed, but with my old eyes it was like I was peering through cobwebs. Talking with another older, wiser clubmember at Saturday's Match he confirmed that for us aged and feeble-sighted types a bigger rear aperture was required. So I went up a size to the .042" - jeeze it's still small...


UPDATE: Linoge at Walls of the City inquires about rear apertures - his M1A Socom II has a big-ass one that seems self-defeating. I thing it's an attempt at a ghost-ring - but sometimes too much peripheral space can seem like too-damn-much. I dunno.

Since the M1A Socom is ostensibly built on the M1A model I think some parts must interchange - but I'm not sure about interchangeability with the Garand.
On the left is the sight that mine came with, on the right is the hooded National Match aperture. Question? Can either one can be fitted to a M1A, or even just the peep sight on it's "stalk" alone be interchanged with the Garand? If so it's a simple job - and with young eyes a quick way to increase accuracy.
Hmmm...The Fulton Armory has a good link to "The M1 and M14/M1A National Match Rear (and Front) Sights."
The NM peep-hole is .0595" diameter, so it's a bit bigger than what I switched the AR up to, while the rotating hood moves the bullet up (or down) 1/2 minute, and on the AR have 1/4-minute sights installed, disrequiring that need. ;-)
But if you're not worried about the fine-pitch threads and 1/2-minute elevation adjustments you can get a Garand sight for about $10 I think from Armscorp or from Northridge, or from Fulton...or hell, me if you want to give it a shot to see if it works...

Match Techniques

Kalashnikitty found her stablemate, however reports from the user-front indicate that the forward grip is really not ergonomic or useful-feeling AT ALL
when held in the standard, ready position. It's really a weird-shaped little nub and not comfortable in the least - until it comes into it's own as shown in the lower picture.
It's evidently an artifact of urban experience, and even a little sideways-tilt is accommodated. So now we know.

Match tomorrow

Just prepping my gear - looks like I'll be mixing in the PMC with some Winchester since I didn't get around to reloading this weeek - the painters have been doing a job on the building.
Sunday is dad's 83rd birthday - he's in fine shape and I expect to see him to hit 100, if I manage to live that long.

UPDATE: Started out shooting Remington green-box from Wal-Mart.
Sighters - the first cold shot was a 10, then a 9, then an X, then another 10 and another 9.
Offhand I shot a 77 and picked upo an X.
Rapids - got an 84 in each.
Slow prone I changed ammo to the PMC and my first two shots were side-by-side 1/2-inch apart, but down in the 6-ring at 6-o'clock - so gave the elevation knob four clicks up and the next shot was a 10 at 9-o'clock, just off the X-ring. So the evidence was in, it's slightly slower.
Overall - managed a 401-3x.

Yår, Šverige Ji-Hadibøømer mit Volvo

Good thing I dropped in on The Strata-Sphere to catch the latest on Europe's decline. Evidently a couple of Swedish Jihadi-Meatballs were caught smuggling an giant IKEA-bomb in the Volvo down to Turkey...

Late Thursday, security authorities announced they had intercepted a van carrying up to 500 kilograms of explosives on the road to Ankara. The van, which was registered in Germany, had crossed into Turkey via the Kapikule border gate with Bulgaria.

They're evidently intent on breaking their own record, a 300-kilogram (660lbs) bomb was found on Tuesday... Thanks, Volvo-Nation!

Reports say that four persons, including two Turkish nationals, were detained by security forces. It is believed that the van had traveled from Sweden.

My Grandpa's ancestral homeland ain't what it used to be, and the Minnesota Vikings may have to re-think their branding...

UPDATE: Sorry, Švenski should be Švenska, and actually without the cute little Viking horns over the "S" - but really that's the Language - it actually should be Sverige - for Sweden... But I just like messin' with it.

Fry-Brains - Moron.Org Has Cooked Their Own Kool-Aid...

From The Atlantic's very experienced military and strategy reporter Robert Kaplan, who has reported on assignment for the magazine from Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Latin America, and the United States, and is author of several books including Imperial Grunts (2005), and Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History, we learn things about Genenral Petreaus that GeorgeMoronSoros.Org doesn't care to tell us.

The idea that General Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker are front men for the administration is ludicrous. Until he took the job as overall ground commander in Iraq, Petraeus was a favorite of liberal journalists: the Princeton man who enjoyed the company of the media and intellectuals, so much so that he was vaguely distrusted by other general officers who envied the good ink he received. (my emphasis) As for Crocker, he is a hard-core Arabist, a professional species that I once wrote a book about: He is the least likely creature on earth to buy into neoconservative ideas about the Middle East. Neither of these men are identified with the decision to go to war. If I had to bet, I’d say that Crocker especially would have been against it, like his other Arabist colleagues. Thus, these men have no personal stake in proving the president right. They and their staffs are much more likely to provide a balanced analysis of the reality in Iraq than senators and congressmen looking over their shoulders at opinion polls and future elections. As Petraeus said, "I wrote this testimony myself," meaning, the White House had nothing to do with it. Watching them brief Congress Monday, I came away convinced that they made a better impression on the public than anyone else in the room.

The heinous lies and the NYT attack-ad put forward by the Leftwing lost-cause doomsayers, including Hillary The Beast Clinton with her nasty little "willing suspension of disbelief" lawyerese quip, is as ridiculously inane as the brain-fried Truthers who's thick and viscous insanity is that 9/11 was an inside job and that steel and concrete buildings can't burn.

Probably the two most interesting statements in Petraeus’s report will get little coverage. First, that the data analysis he used to brief Congress was found by two intelligence agencies to be the best available on the Iraq war, and that reenlistment rates of troops in Iraq are above average: 130 percent among younger enlistees and 115 percent among those in mid-career. Those statistics constitute telling evidence that the troops themselves continue to find great meaning in their work, suggesting that they certainly don’t believe the cause is lost.

This doesn't fit with their only past experience, losing the Vietnam war. Betrayal is their chief weapon, and with their inverted psychology they project the same message as they purport to fear, one that is intimate with their own designs and actions. Their continued effort remains to lose this war - it's all the strategy they have to go by - and that old experience continues to be their motivation. And only through defeat can their twisted psyches experience fulfillment, only through the repetition of failure can they find hope - and retain Power.

Say, Friend...Can You Spare a Vote?

Like pod-people in the Bodysnatchers, I've been sloowly assimilated by the Fredosphere - just waiting, wearing my tinfoil chapeau, for the next talking-points memo from Haliburton now...
George Will can kiss my ass, I read him in the 80's and remained and unconvinced and still a weenie Democrat. A the height of Regan there was no big angelic conversion or revelation - he waxed way too-much about goddamn Steroidball, how's that for Neuvo Diet-Rite.
Rudolphus Rex and Mittoumitsony are too damn ready and agreeable to compromise my rights with the "needs" of the anti-gunners - and with the Big-Machine-Politics by which my State is already run, naively expecting them to return the favor. Bah. Those are groups that over and over again do not indicate in any way that they are capable of anything more than take and tax, to support their own agenda. Compromise is something other people have to do with them.

Meanwhile MoveGeorgeSorosOnward.Org, the scabrous and nasty old fecal-coated sponge that scratches George Soros' flabby backside reveals the exact, true nature of their BigMachinePolitics - backstabbing and betrayal of the troops worthy of Brutus or Judas - blood on their hands for it. So if you havn't done so already, go ahead and sign the Stand By The Mission Petition!
Ok, see ya later.

UP-F*NG-DATES: I messed around with the style="float: left; padding: 8px; margin-right: 8px;" attributes of the pictures, to wrap the text - and I also changed the Victory Caucus blurb on the left to see if it was farging my linespacing.
Or something...

Logic of the Leftivists - Unreasoned Nondiscourse

From Say Uncle (thanks Lyle!) and other sources:

There is no right or wrong, just the inability to get along, therefore you must either agree with me or be accused of causing an argument.

It takes two to make a fight, so stop fighting me.

If you don’t have anything nice to say about me, you must refrain from criticizing anything I choose to do to you.

If anything I do to you makes you angry, it proves you are a hateful person.

If you cannot accept what I do to you, it means you are closed-minded.

If you don’t give me what I want, it proves you are materialistic and selfish.

AND (paraphrasing)

We will only be safe once we are stripped of the best means of protecting ourselves.

To which I added the recent Vegansexual twist:

Sexual restraint is the height of bourgeoisie repression, you should be able to have sex with any willing partner including animals - but extreme dietary restraint and the avoidance of all meat and dairy is an exemplary display of moral character, and as such Vegans should not have sex with non-Vegans.

Never Forget, Never Submit

Never surrender, always remember.


There are those who hide behind false smiles and barricade themselves with words of confusion, disbelief, and betrayal.


"No Surrender"

A Bright Twinkle in Time, Ended.

Madeleine L'Engle, passed away last Thursday September 6 at age 88. She wrote A Wrinkle in Time that won the John Newbery Medal in 1963. It was the first Science-Fiction book I read, not too long after it was published and we had returned from Overseas - it was a very puzzling book and a good one to read at that age. Godspeed Madeleine.

Not so Nerdacious

I took the Nerdacious-Nimrodiferous N'ticement Test 2.0 and the news I get from that is that I'm not Super-Nerdly, but my Dork factor is perhaps more significant than I'd like at 18%. No surprise I scored low in the Math categoricals, and only marginally more in the Computertistical - guess nobody ever heard of coding in a little known John Bridges program called GRASP.



It's all a trap.

UPDATE: I took it again and scored worse.

October 11-12-13-14

Gunbloggers Rendezvous - I finally got my reservations in to Circus-Circus. Support for the gathering benefits Project Valour IT (Voice-Activated Laptops for OUR   Injured Troops), a program-mission of Soldier's Angels .

Eat Your Carbon, There's Children Starvin'

Via Tim Blair we are tipped to the pulchritude of the SUV-driving Global Warming Eco-Talibanista's latest Ponzi scheme of Enviroguilt-assuaging trading in carbon "ofsets." Phew, details details, let's have another gin and tonic there Subedar Major, pedal faster!

The latest wheeze of this carbon-offsetting company is to provide ‘treadle pumps’ to poor rural families in India so that they can get water on to their land without having to use polluting diesel power. Made from bamboo, plastic and steel, the treadle pumps work like ‘step machines in a gym’, according to some reports, where poor family members step on the pedals for hours in order to draw up groundwater which is used to irrigate farmland (1). These pumps were abolished in British prisons a century ago. It seems that what was considered an unacceptable form of punishment for British criminals in the past is looked upon as a positive eco-alternative to machinery for Indian peasants today.

(1) To cancel out the CO2 of a return flight to India, it will take one poor villager three years of pumping water by foot. So is carbon offsetting the best way to ease your conscience?, The Times (London), 28 August 2007.

Apparently this sort of hugely bogus idiocy is just flying off-the-hook over in Britain where the offset company Climate Care does it's guilt-tripping business among the throngs of self-flagellating Econitwits whose moral vanity needs carbon-stroking:

Climate Care celebrates the fact that it encourages the Indian poor to use their own bodies rather than machines to irrigate the land. Its website declares: ‘Sometimes the best source of renewable energy is the human body itself. With some lateral thinking, and some simple materials, energy solutions can often be found which replace fossil fuels with muscle-power.’

Where I grew up I've seen these pumps in action and it is absolutely backbreaking, diversionary, labor that ties the farmer to the pump instead of tending the crop - unless he has a kid to do it for him...

In these various scandalous schemes, we can glimpse the iron fist that lurks within environmentalism’s green velvet glove. ‘Cutting back carbon emissions’ is the goal to which virtually every Western politician, celebrity and youthful activist has committed himself. Yet for the poorest people around the world, ‘reducing carbon output’ means saying no to machinery and instead getting your family to do hard physical labour, or it involves collecting cow dung and burning it in an eco-stove in order to keep yourself warm. It is not only Climate Care that pushes through such patronising initiatives. Other carbon-offsetting companies have encouraged Kenyans to use dung-powered generators and Indians to replace kerosene lamps with solar-powered lamps, while carbon-offsetting tree-planting projects in Guatemala, Ecuador and Uganda have reportedly disrupted local communities’ water supplies, led to the eviction of thousands of villagers from their land, and cheated local people of their promised income for the upkeep of these Western conscience-salving trees (4).

Stupid #@*%*ing BASTARDS.

Kennedy's M1 Garand

Les Jones clued me in on a nice looking rifle for sale! People should know, especially those who adore him and revere his memory, that JFK was an NRA Life Member.
There are more, bigger, and better pictures and memorabilia included at the auction page linked above, including a nice target to show its accuracy.

UPDATE (thanks Hammer!):

“By calling attention to ‘a well regulated militia’, the ’security’ of the nation, and the right of each citizen ‘to keep and bear arms’, our founding fathers recognized the essentially civilian nature of our economy. Although it is extremely unlikely that the fears of governmental tyranny which gave rise to the Second Amendment will ever be a major danger to our nation, the Amendment still remains an important declaration of our basic civilian-military relationships, in which every citizen must be ready to participate in the defense of his country. For that reason, I believe the Second Amendment will always be important.”
John F. Kennedy, April 1960

“Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as the basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom.”
John F. Kennedy

Happy September

Saturday - clockwise from the left: Winchester Super-X PSP's, Remington green-box FMJ's from Lonoke AK, and PMC Bronze FMJ-BT's from Seoul Korea...
I shot Offhand with the Remington because the little bullet insert fit into my black leather Champion's cartridge holder. Slow-prone was with the Winchesters just because they sat there all-nicely in the styrofoam holder. Interestingly when I separated the collected brass by headstamp it was clear that the Remington brass remained the cleanest, followed by the Winchester-with-dirty-necks, and lastly the PMC which I shot in the rapids was the most smoke-blackened of all. I figure that indicates something about the different cartridges' chamber-fit.
I did much better overall in every stage than the last Match, and ended the day with a so-far personal best of 416-3x. Yee-haw! 450 makes expert.

Sunday was Mom's 77th birthday and we went to Scott's - Older Sister and the nephews came along, but my Brother missed. We stunned the waiter with the "dry" table and simple order of entrees-only and no appetizers or desserts -- afterwards we adjourned to my folks place for cheesecake and some presents.