Jimmy's Obamatron The Healing Electrical Orb

The aging cobwebb-skinned vacuum-brained dolt who dragged the U.S. into and presided over a disastrous economic tailspin including gas-rationing lines and reduced-capacity military and years of Hostagery confesses his likes for the Obama. HT to Jules Crittenden, but Oh-F#%*ng-Great.
Oh great Cartroon.

Former President Jimmy Carter lavished praise on Illinois Sen. Barack Obama during an interview at his home on Monday, though he won't formally endorse any candidate in the race for the Democratic nomination.

"Obama's campaign has been extraordinary and titillating for me and my family,""He has an extraordinary oratory...I think that Obama will be almost automatically a healing factor in the animosity now that exists, that relates to our country and its government."

The same animosity that's regularly played out by Code Pink and other Leftist extremist moonbats and blamed by them on external forces to which their tinfoil headgear is no solution. The same that desperately need healing in a lunatic asylum? Yeh right.

Stinky Weather

As another storm comes through there's not much gunnery to do outdoors, or even see through the screen...

Liberal Fascism

Just finished reading Jonah's book and came away thoroughly impressed. There's much that rings-true based on my experience growing up Liberal, including a dissection of what remains of the American Left's religious doctrine - "Liberation Theology." I grew-up hearing a lot about that and especially Harvey Cox's book The Secular City, which was a major focus of my church-activist parent's Bible-study classes.
Anyhow, it's kinda thick but worthwhile and well researched - I could go on at greater length about confirming views from the inside, but one thing that struck me was the illumination of the Totalitarian principle and from where it came: it's Holistic. Go check out Whole Foods sometimes and tell me if it isn't the Vegan-Wiccan Nanny-State incarnate. Mussolini, the Duce of Socialism, originated the term to describe the entirety of the State and it's totality - it's all encompassing reach and Utopian ideal - and how similar impulses were acted upon by Woodrow Wilson and FDR, and the extent to which America had already been penetrated by pragmatists and progressives. Fascinating stuff, particularly the constant linguistic hop-scotch and myth-churning that goes on.

Meanwhile another book soon to be hitting the shelves at Amazon was brought to my attention by blogger nineme. It is a book titled Counterknowledge by author Damian Thompson. In it he dissects the utter bullshit being put forward under the guise of multicultural relativism as "truth" - including the demented paranoia of Truthers. From the Lies, damn lies and 'counterknowledge' article in the UK Telegraph we get:

In the 21st century, bogus knowledge is no longer confined to self-selecting minority groups. It is seeping into the mainstream, cleverly repackaged for a mass market. This crisis goes beyond traditional political ideology. Yes, the Left has helped to spread counterknowledge by insisting on the rights of minorities to believe falsehoods that make them feel better about themselves. Afro-centric history aims to raise the self-esteem of black youngsters by feeding them the fantasy that the origins of Western civilisation lie in black Africa. Last year, a British government report revealed that some teachers are dropping the Holocaust from lessons rather than confront the Holocaust-denial of Muslim pupils...

The fingerprints of the alternative medicine lobby are all over the worst British health scare of recent years, in which thousands of parents denied their children the MMR triple vaccine against measles, mumps and rubella following the dissemination of flawed data linking it to autism. In that case, distrust of orthodox medicine increased the danger of a measles epidemic.

But that is nothing compared to the impact of medical counterknowledge in underdeveloped countries. In northern Nigeria, Islamic leaders have issued a fatwa declaring the polio vaccine to be a US conspiracy to sterilise Muslims: polio has returned to the area, and pilgrims have carried it to Mecca and Yemen. In January 2007, the parents of 24,000 children in Pakistan refused to let health workers vaccinate their children because radical mullahs had told them the same idiotic story.

In another instance and article How Da Vinci Code tapped pseudo-fact hunger he references the Himmleresque manipulations of The Da Vinci Code to capture public attention and belief:

In reality, The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail was pure pseudohistory. Laura Miller, writing for Salon in 2004, described its technique: "A preposterous idea will first be floated as a guess, then later presented as a tentative hypothesis, then still later treated as a fact... The miasma of bogus authenticity becomes impenetrable; you might as well use a rifle to fight off a thick fog."

I bring attention to this because in so may ways they bolsters Jonah's argument about the Left in general, its manipulations of the "facts" and the Media's culpability in particular, and the maintenance of such Left-dependent crisis myths such at Global Warming.

Aw Crap, Fred is out.

For those of you who think I'm a Republican think again, I'm a Not-Democrat. With Fred out there's no consistent pro-gunner in the running - and I'm not counting My Favorite Martian with that bit of toilet-paper stuck to his heel from a trip to the political outhouse.
As a gun-owner and a Californian with experience colored by decades and decades here, NOTHING leads me to trust in any way or for any reason either The Ronomnydroid From Planet Hair, or Rooty-Julie Anygun - both of whose fifth-column track-record of easy gun-management is deceptive at best and dangerous and disingenuous at least. Hucky is simply (to use Leftoid jargonomics) not possible by any means available. I remember much too well the Jimmy Carter years and can only imagine what a disaster that would be again even in Republican-drag, record on gun-ownership notwithstanding. And John-John-Hero-John....Democracy isn't just what's convenient, it includes free-speech but not Amnesty and more free-stuff for illegals. That's Liberalocracy and its Welfarestatism.

Remember, I'm a 9/11 Democrat raised as a Youth-Party Communist by Leftwing, Statist, Religio-Socialists with a strong missionary-philosophical underpinning. As I grew-up and matured and stopped drinking the Kool-Aid I saw with open eyes - and fled to the other side, but to Conservatism, not "Republicanism."
I'm in-and-from a State where we threw out the thoroughly defective former Governor who's own State-Party's machine politics had run our First-World economy to utter ruin not unlike that of Mugabe's Zimbabwe. We replaced the puppet Governor with a Rhinocrat from Austria who proceeded to get spanked by The Political Machine, and turned into Nancy-boy Environmentalist, marching lockstep with the rest of the Socialist Cadre - who in various fits of pique banned the .50 BMG and lead ammo, and introduced the ridiculous phrenology of Micro-Stamping.
I have no evidentiary experience where trusting Republican leadership per-se has any value whatsoever, because as we speak we're back to square-one with a huge deficit and even more state-on-state spending than when we kicked out the Machine's Puppet.
As Joe's Crabby Shack has to say;

God, I feel like the ex-girlfriend that just figured out her ex- only tries to get back together with her long enough to get laid. She keeps taking him back, putting out, then finds him in shower nailing her roommate Cindy.

Enough. I’ve had it.

...How is voting for McCain, Huck, Mitt, Rudy, Obama, Hilary, or Edwards NOT WASTING MY VOTE?...

Tell you what, GOP.

If you decide you want the gun vote back, then get us an honest to God pro-Second Amendment candidate. Give him or her the support you never gave Thompson.

Thing is, and maybe the only Good Thing is I've already voted. Hating what politics does to people in the irregular cycle of charades I get it over-with ahead of time. I'm a permanent Absentee Voter who already voted for Fred.
What I don't believe is that the Republican Party has a brain and is capable of learning anything - it's as much a Frankenstinian product of winning-oriented political monster-machinery as the Other Party - and that's a problem because sometimes I forget which is the Evil Party and which is the Stupid Party.

The rest of you can go outside and play now.

January Match

The early morning sun was blasting straight into my eyes as I drove the 30-some miles down to the range Saturday morning, and it was cold. The rain had paused for a break and the weather was clear but only a small contingent showed up to do battle with distant paper - so we had a full, single-relay Match.

I have been away from it doing other things and it showed. Shooting is a perishable skill, if you don't keep after it your abilities decline. I shot a 399-5x. At least it wasn't too much worse!

After the Match I pushed out the pins on the White Oak Service Rifle upper and installed the Noveske N4 Light Low-profile upper.
I shot on the #3 target to check the sights. They were way-high and I tried holding in different locations, high and low on the target. Uncertain and without anyone spotting for me, I decided to shoot at the 200-yard gong to check windage.

click for larger pictureIt's an old oxy-acetelyne cylinder hanging from a piece of railroad rail and held-up by two more railroad rails cemented into the earth - club work that I helped with, there's one on the left and one on the right.
Without doing anything else it was dead-on. Every time I squeezed off a shot I rang the 200-yard gong until it got boring.
I got a buddy to spot for me and I went back to shooting at the #3 target. He called it, "Way high!" I got out the Leatherman tool and wound-out (up) the Noveske's front post about two and a half turns, to lower the barrel and get it down and hitting in the 9-ring on the sighter-target.
That's the only elevation change you can make on these kind of sights, the threaded front post goes up and down... Since I had just kinda blasted at the target and put some holes into it already I wasn't able to be precise about exactly where my shots were going, and decided to fine-tune it another time and just go home. Time for lunch! :-)
Incidentally, while shooting at the gong the shot-to-shot recoil was much more manageable/repeatable with the shorter barrel, I really like it. The thing moves around very nicely and holds easily.

HBTMFive-Oh #2

So yeh, I bought the Noveske N4 Low-Profile. I like it a lot and the Aimpoint goes on and off like a charm. We'll test it tomorrow after the Match. I hope my tendinitis holds-out - my elbow is still sore from whacking it back around Thanksgiving.

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HBTM 5-0

I also got a Picatinny sling-swivel stud and an Uncle Mike's loop that will fit my Turner's sling, and positions it like "normal" for Service Rifle - since that's all what I know. I know it's not Tactical Kosher but it's that which I'm most currently familiar.

I can get a quick-detachable side-mount swivel and one-point sling when my inner Tactical Ninja matures...

Eliminate Dangle

When I put the bench back up against the wall, I screwed some little hook-eyes into the back to contain the elusive little electrical cords for the measure and the scale.
Before they were dangling from a couple little square shelves and getting tangled-up in stuff, but that's fixed now.

I also got some A.R.M.S. throw-lever rings for the Aimpoint so I can more-readily take it on and off the M1 Carbine.
Quick UPDATE: Oh yeh, there's a little gap underneath the rings through which I can see and use the iron sights, so that worked out perfect!

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Office Complete

This is gonna make working from home a bit nicer and easier, I never had grown-up furniture before (and I still don't this is pressboard shit from Office Max).
My clothes are in a taller dresser, which holds more - and the closet you can't see to the right out of sight. The loading bench as its own light and power, and we swapped out the 40-watt heater-lamps in the hutches for more rational 25-watt bulbs - they were cooking the books in there.

It's not as big as it appears, that's the wide-angle lens and Photoshop talking.

As I sit hear listening to laundry slosh and rotate I believe that I am hearing the sounds of a machine in its near-death throes - oh great, and the water heater is over ten years old too. Too bad you can't just paint some stuff with fixit-paint and have them work better again.

Lust

Now that I've made more room with the office furniture, there's a gap in my closet and a serious gunnyitch, bit by the Blackrifle Mosquito and it's swellin' up as I rapidly approach a significant milestone - but I'm not sure if it's at all possible given my finances and permissions required. One is less expensive than the other.

And I'm not all so sure about the whole rail-rail-rail thing on the spendy one since I really just wanted it for the Aimpoint to be switchable over from the M1 Carbine - not into lights and lasers and buzzers and grenade launchers and jack-tactical things - I just don't have them....not yet anyhow.

It is much more about want than need, but the inevitable changes would be a swap to free-floating guards or rail, and so why not start out that way? Still the point is having a light and short, happy fun-gun upper, and a bit cheap - not a Guccigun all botoxed with stretched skin and bulbously poofed lips like Donatella. Yeesh!

UPDATE: I lurve the names of the Noveske 5.56 and 6.8 and 7.62 products: Leonidas, Crusader, Afghan, and Infidel -- and I get better feedback (more anyhow) from my small circle of readers than any other resource, please submit more!

San Francisco Gun Ban Down in Flames - YEAH!

The California State Court of Appeals announced today their decision to overturn one of the most restrictive gun bans in the country, following a legal battle by attorneys for the National Rifle Association (NRA) and a previous court order against the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.
Today's decision came in the form of a 3-0 opinion in favor of the lower court ruling overturning the gun ban.

The corrupt SF Board of Stupidvisors knew that this was just demagoguery and feel-good political grandstanding with no hope in hell of it standing - but actual knowledge rather than emotive whimsy and "belief" never stopped stupid people from making stupid, Darwin-award things and it would never stop the SF Board of Stupes.

In 2005, NRA sought an injunction against the San Francisco Board of Supervisors to prevent them from enacting one of the nation's most restrictive gun bans. NRA won the injunction, but the City's mayor and Board of Supervisors ignored the court order and approved a set of penalties, including a $1,000 fine and a jail term of between 90 days and six months, for city residents who own firearms for lawful purposes in their own homes.

"Today's decision by the California State Court of Appeals is a big win for the law-abiding citizens and NRA Members of San Francisco," declared Chris W. Cox, NRA's chief lobbyist. "We beat them once in court and the City's attorney appealed based on his personal disagreement with the court's first decision to overturn the ban. Now we've beat them again. The California State Court of Appeals has upheld the state preemption law." (Darwininan emphasis added)
The Leadership of a once fine city couldn't be more of a joke anymore.

New Happy Paint!

It was a helluva time to take on such a challenging reorganization, what with the year-end thing and nobody particularly lively, and then the Big Storm and everything particularly wet and nasty - but at least we got the paint color worked out. Pretty much.


The furniture was built in a grueling process of many little screws and pins and only a few mistakes, with heaving heavy glue-board upright and dragging it around the carpet. The shelves need to be re-filled with their clothes and contents, but first the essential 'puter assemblage has to be returned and re-installed, the desk slid into final place - and for that I need a power-strip with a 9-foot cable...so I have to unplug now.


But still, what sexy upper? LaRue Stealth, Noveske Light or Afghan, or MGI?