Brown Truck of Happiness

The Brown Truck of Happiness came and left a burning pile of magazines on my doorstep. Lucky me, they're the C-Products (of Newington, CT) ones I ordered last month! It may seem retarded (and it is) but they're 10-rounders with which we must comply here in CA. I eschew the use of fake 20-rounders reduced in capacity just because they look cool. I don;t need that kind of attention, and I want to learn my manipulation skills on what exists, not as I imagine it might. Also I think the short little 10'ers are just dandy in a semi-auto anyhow.
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One thing I noticed is that they don't have the MagPul followers like my other ones that came pre- the Barak Gunsales-Hussein Hysteria-Obamaammo run-up - so I might have to switch those out. Any opinion on the gray followers?

UPDATE: From an aesthetic request in comments - how does the gun look with the mags in place? For the match-rifle:

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And for the Ninjaboomer:
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Droopy Drawers

Now that I got a holster I'm gonna need a more heavy-duty belt to hold all this crap up off the floor.

Even though the Sig is twenty-years old I call it new, and it's a far cry from the old days and another era - but still there's a lot to be said for the old stuff, and the '43 Colt still works a treat, sixty-six years later.

Two of a Kind - One Old and One New(er)

Passing Cramps

From dear Phlegm Fatale we learned that a hero of the pre-Revolution has passed. Frontman of the Cramps, Lux Interior is dead. Her notice sparked a cascade of memories that lead to a peeling back of time and an interesting equation.
I enjoy remembering that era because it ignited the first substantial counterpoint and chainsaw thrust to the bloated corpulent body of the Boomers and their ilk. Finally even in the sweltering hodgepodge and cult of asinine Political Correctness like Santa Cruz, Punk arrived - and long haired hippies on Acid slam danced and flung fists at each other in a semi-sanctioned way for fun - and they liked it. And I liked slamming them too.
Rebellion, especially against stupid, rich, fat, semi-hippie guys in aloha shirts with neatly trimmed Chuck Mangione beards and panama hats who listened to the excruciating stylings of the band "Warmth" at the Cooper House - with skinny blond-bitch cokeheads - was in the air!
During a party at our rambling old 60'S-era house up on High Street, Joe Cuba and the Tokyo Negroes played Ready for War by John Cale.
Joe was in a University class with me doing cell-Animation and lived down-off "the Circles" - and was a better artist. He did a walk-sequence that was without a hitch, of a Human Fly Guy bopping down a hallway that sync'd perfectly to the music. I was amazed. My own work sucked.
From a list of Top 10 Santa Cruz Band Names of All Time (from that era mostly) we have:

• 1. Ass Baboons of Venus
• 2. Hit by a Semi
• 3. Joe Cuba and the Tokyo Negroes
• 4. Exploding Crustaceans
• 5. Vicious Midgets
• 6. Tao Chemical
• 7. Gash Palace
• 8. Pro Choice and the Coat Hangers
• 9. JFKFC
• 10. The Huxtables

Tao Chemical wasn't bad either, the lead singer Rob Brezsny did the Horoscopes in the local alt-weekly boulevard-blatt and his stuff has gone nationally syndicated.
I laughed especially hard when I read JFKFC! Suck it up Kennedys! Die Baby Boomers, Die! And that lead me to think, who is it the Media is telling us is JFK NOW - and does he and his Jackie-clonic wife like KFC?
This horrible, ennui-driven administration has already begun the stifling downward spiral of Suck that was so massive and reminiscent of the dwindling Carter-turd era. Late 70's brown plaid sofas and pimp-chic that played so well in Burt Reynolds Chicagoland films of that corrupt era. Massive suck and fail will be visited upon the land by pseudo-benevolent technocratic martian jar-brain zombies lead by the ACORN grunge-activist panhandling storm-troops.

Cop Time

On the first clear, non-rainy day since Saturday's brief lull I headed down to join the casual Wednesday gathering of Old Retired Guys and Otherwise Unemployeds for some offhand practice. Evidently another group had their minds wrapped around the same notion and had commandeered our range for their own purposes. Dang.
I watched for a bit and then another club-member arrived. I had been looking to give him some roof-construction photos I had taken, to upload to the website. We chatted for a bit and discussed fiscal policy and the impending doom facing our Nation, driven by the mad power-grab and the folly of Democrats now in charge, and rolling out across the country. Sigh.

Key Time

"Key time" when you're riding an Enduro is the time you set-off through the gates and the time you must maintain throughout the course to stay "on your minute" or else you "hour out."
Here in CA we have a law specifying that you must carry a gun from place to place in a locked and unloaded condition - and the gun-rug qualifies if it has a lock on it. Key-time here is that I just got fed-up with all the mess and confusion that a bunch of non-matching little luggage locks provided, so I stopped at Sears and picked up this matched set - One key to rule them all and in the darkness unlock them.

Newspeak Newsweek - 1984 all over again...

Socialism is a path of human misery, degradation, and death. It's a dream succubus who eats the heart and liver of the living, a flat-lined lotus-eater whose brain has ceased to function - fuck that skull-eyed bullshit.

UPDATE: Hat-Tip to Les Jones re Jonah Goldberg on Newspeaks's celebratory cover.

Goldberg:

In and of itself, I have no problem with news organizations becoming more opinionated. Publications are not honor-bound to go out of business clinging to outdated business models. Still, the transformation does illuminate some things.

First, it demonstrates that mainstream reportorial and editorial staffs were always exactly as liberal as conservatives said they were. If mainstream journalists were as objective as they always claimed, you’d think that at least some of them would reveal themselves to be conservative once it became acceptable for them to express their biases openly. And, yet, time and again whenever “objective” reporters are permitted to let their hair down and express their opinions it turns out — surprise! — that they were liberals all along. For example, with possibly one exception (John Tierney’s short-lived column), every time The New York Times gives an opinion column to one of its reporters, they reveal themselves to be perfectly conventional liberals or leftwingers (off the top of my head: Maureen Dowd, Anthony Lewis, Bill Keller, Thomas Friedman).

Read the cover story, “We’re All Socialists Now” by Evan Thomas and Jon Meacham in the latest Newsweek, and you’ll see what I mean. Amidst the analysis, there’s a certain — totally predictable — tone of celebration.

What a cesspool of scum and villainy TehMedia has become - haircut Pravdaniks "reporting" on the next 5-Stimulus Plan with all the shallowness of the economically ignorant, driven by the pure intense greed of a lying Bernard Madoff.

eMail to my Idiots in DC; Boxer and Feinstein

I reached a Feinstein staffer in DC named Adam and said I wanted to go on record that this is a really-really-rally bad idea, and we're rushing into way too fast, and doubled-up and said the same thing to a staffer named Rose at her San Francisco office. I left my name and zip code.

Boxer is incommunicado. Her phone-lines are tied up and I could only leave a voice-message.

I emailed Boxer and Feinstein this:

What's the big rush? Why not let AMERICA vote on this? You guys obviously don't have a clue what you're doing besides funding the usual pork-projects.
Altogether this humongous pork-bill is one of the most stupid and heinous Acts that Congress and the Senate have undertaken. This stupid-stupid Frankenstein thing will destroy the economy.
Government-subsidized borrowing gave us the housing bubble, precipitated financial Armageddon, and helped prompt recession and mass unemployment.
Now the pork-filled "stimulus" will do even more long-term damage.
Quit your job, get out of Washington DC, and stop hurting America.

I know it won't make a dent in their philosophy and they are gerrymandered safely behind a brick-wall of partisanship, but it's one more voice - a voice in the wind. I hope to hell they hear the wind howling like a wolf at their piggy-sanctuary.
Porkulus - wrap a dildo in bacon.

Unorganized Militia Propaganda Corps Patches

Not steenking BADGES!
You need these gears and patcheses.
Kewl stuff from the Corps in full-bright (Senator Fullbright?), subdued khaki (Dude?!), and OD (Olivia D'rabhavilland - my dad went to school with her). Also MARKSMAN and INFANTRY patches in Subdued Green (OD).
Enjoy.

Elephant Pharm bites the dust

In our colon-cleansing products we only use sustainably harvested, ecologically sensitive, shade-tree grown Vitamine C from the diverse rain-forests of Borneo, with a hit of flavor added by introducing the piquant floral notes of recycled Flax from the community gardens of cooperative farms in Mozambique.
/satire

Whatever.

Booth Duty

Lite-blogging - I'm busy at the annual trade-show manning the booth and collaring passers-by to get them interested in this wacky cutting-edge 'Scope stuff.
The downturn has reduced the size of the show somewhat but has also made this product more compelling so interest is up.
Among the "characters" (and besides the gasbag CEO's) some of the same crazy-coots from last year are recognized prowling the aisles, apparently living off the candies, chocolates and treats some booths have...

Rootin' Tootin' Sig Shootin'

I went to the indoor range on Friday and shot about 65-rounds. I don't frequent this place much but I decided to give it a go - what are you kidding? I could hardly wait!
I bought a couple targets, clipped 'em up, and sent them downrange. This was the first.
I fired a magazine at each of the lower targets at fifteen feet, then did it again at the the higher pair at twenty-one feet, and finally I unloaded two mags at the center one at thirty feet.
One thing that I did seriously noticed was that of my glasses prescription, the lenseses are not workin' good for the shootinz'.
But I'm not a handgunner so I don't know how this merits, except for a bit of wild verticla stringing...
The red 10's are 7/8" of an inch in diameter.