Scien-Clima-Tology

Proving that "Global Warming" has more in common with Scientology than Science and that Al-Gore has more in common with El-Ron as a fabricator of a devious religious methodology to extract funds from gullible True Believers, the shrill cries of "Heretic!" and "Unbeliever!" whistle from the mouths of the Climate Priests and the Papal Climate Protectorate who demand consensus - or the bonfire.
With those chosen terms, the voice of Climate Religion is revealed across the land.
The Papal Summit in Copenhagen will reveal the political Truth, and it has nothing to do with Science.
Meanwhile The Media has so heavily bought-into advancing this secular religion that it cannot easily or in any direction extract itself - which may be the final nail it its own coffin of lies.  It has no exit-strategy, while the ship it is on (and helped build) sails over the falls.
Indeed as Armed and Dangerous illustrates:

In response to the mounting evidence of fraud, data falsification, and criminal conspiracy by the "hockey team" clique of climatologists pushing anthropogenic-global-warming (AGW) theory, there has been serious and concerned speculation that the collapse of this scam may damage the credibility of science in general.

BorePatch also has some good coverage leading to The Devil's Kitchen and (among other excellent points) the utter failure of the MSM to grasp or comment on the significance of this precipitous event - that they are members of a cult becomes more obvious.
Politicians are attracted to it because as policy-makers they get to become instant Priests, and guide to themselves large chunks of money and power - bigger even than Murtha's double-dealing, earmarks, and corruption.
That's also why this Administration is so committed to the objectives of Cap-and-Trade, as it makes for a rich environment where slush-funds, political patronage, and thuggish power-politics smoothly operate.


Hell, even the French have figured out it's a scam.

Happy Turkeyday

Aloha. We're back from a (very) brief hiatus of sun and warmth and incredibly sparkling clear water.
If you're tired of turkey and noisy crowds of smelly shopping-people, how about a quiet fish?

A Yellow Tang off Captain Cook's Memorial and a blue Parrotfish off the Menehune Breakwater - click to enlarge.

Hope you all have a happy Thanksgiving.  I am thankful for being privileged to be given the opportunity to waste a small portion of your time!

Old 1909 Colt New Service - Philippines Edition...

Ok, it's working, but I got nuthin' but the same old same old. So here's the Reynaldo A. Carr again.

Cliquez Youse tu Zumbigulate

I'm gonna take a break from this - not like anyone would notice the difference. 

mEMOry prOBlems

BSoD #2 already. Damn.



Aw crap.

Running Memtest86+ I am earning my nerddentials.  I burnt an image to a CD and booted to Linux to do the nasty. My Back-East expert (dirtbike computer whiz buddy in NC) tells me there is a failure in one of the new 512MB DDR DIMM modules.
Or is there?
Maybe the motherboard is whack.

Veterans Day Thank You

Aisne-Marne, France. 2289 of our military servicemen.


Ardennes, Belgium. 5329 of our military servicemen.


Meuse-Argonne. 14,246 of our military servicemen.

Blue Screen of Dirt-Nap - CrashedToDirt

My main machine took a huge stinky dump.  It won't even boot to Safe-Mode.  I got hit by some kind of Trojan while downloading a DVD-ripper that was supposedly "clean."   The AVG virus scanner Resident Shield went crazy announcing infestations - infestations that reportedly were un-killable. 
So I turned the box off, and when I turned it back on, BlueScreen.

It actually boots to the black and white screen with the choices of going to Safe Mode, with or without networking, or Regular Windows, etc - but in each case it goes straight to BSoD.

The stop code is: 0x0000007E (0xc0000005, 0x86F3FC21, 0xF7B2DC44, 0xF7B2D940)...whatever.  (What's in parenthesis changes each time.)

I could re-boot with the installation CD and get to the "Recovery Console" option but I forget all my old DOS tricks and don't know what to do from there.

I figure I'll put the drive in a SATA enclosure and spin it up to collect data that was accumulated since the last backup.

Meanwhile I'm running the Asus EeePC 1000HA out to my big monitor at 1920x1200 in 32-bit color with the full-size keyboard plugged-in, and I have about as much computing power as the old P2 machine - and more drive-space - on a little netbook with the Atom processor.  Yee-haw!

Magazine Function Testing

Midway delivered my latest magazine order; a Chip McCormick 8-round stainless-steel, a Gen-u-wine Colt 7-round blue, and another Kimber Kimpro 7-round TacMag - and now it's time to gather up the assortment and do some testing.

Right away some differences are noted, the old-school split follower design and the modern "improved" (or whatever they call it).

 Magazines need cartridges so I dug around and came up with a bunch of the "bullet-blight" rounds from Reno - the White-box stuff that had crusty-rusty fungal growth, and from somewhere-I-don't-know-what an OLD mixed box with some Remington-Peters 125-grain hollow-points, and other old ball ammo.
Some of the ammo appeared to be crimped in the middle, and the hollow-points I expected would serve as tap-rack-bang clearance drill material - the old gun was designed only to shoot 230-grain FMJ ball and I figured the nickle plated hollow-points would impede function.

After shooting some pics I gathered it all up with my ear-protection and proceeded to Reed's Indoor range, not my favorite place because I like shooting outdoors better - but Louis Awerbuck teaches there so it can't be all bad.  I also brought along the Sig P220 for comparison purposes.

At the lane I hung up a big old target and loaded some magazines.  Actually I asked a neighbor-shooter to load a magazine for me, mixing up the hollow-points with the old and crusty ball-ammo to see what surprise was in store.   Surprise-surprise - no malfunctions with the old HP bullets in the 1943 1911A1.  In fact it readily digested them, spat fire and made holes.  Hmmm.  So I decided to try and find the Colt's link - the reset click-point where the trigger is immediately good-to-go again.  I had found it on the Sig but the ergonomics were quite different (more on that).


Wow! The Colt's re-set is a very-very short release compared to the Sig.  So I started blasting, trying to find (and hold) the link, trying to shoot with the thumbs forward, trying to find the right place to put my finger on the trigger - and getting the gun dirty.
After a few magazines and a bunch of holes no malfunctions were apparent.  So I taped up some VisiShot targets onto my backer and loaded some more magazines.


And that's where I ran into a problem.
I couldn't see the Colt's sights - the (tiny) front sight really just disappeared against the black background. So I approximated like it was a dark hallway - some shots were better than others.  I kept emptying magazines and getting the gun dirty until I had a FTF where I had to push the slide into battery - still no stovepipes.

Using the bright green tape I found somewhere I created an aiming point with a lot of contrast that would allow the front sight to stand out.  That was fun too, and after trying it out I think the gun shoots a little to the left.

Well that's it for now - more later...

As always click the pics for big-sizing.

NOW IS LATER:

With the gun, "February's Child" dirty I began to experience some failures-to-feed from an old parkerized magazine that had a fake WWII-style "two-tone" finish effect - and an electro-penciled "Colt .45" on the baseplate.  Not a stovepipe, but a failure to go all the way into battery.
I removed it from the lineup.


I fully expected the Viet-Nam (?) era "Colt" magazines to have a hissy-fit with the hollow-points, but none did.
I'm not even sure if they are actually Colt or some clone or not - but now I'm beginning to think they might be.
The new stainless ones ran flawlessly even with 8-rounds in them, but I had an occasional hiccup with an older Kimber magazine - one with the curvy "Kimber" lettering on the baseplate, but the gun was getting pretty dirty after around 100+ rounds.  You could visibly see the front end getting sooty.  So I switched to the Sig P220 for a bit in order to just have a front-sight that I could actually see.

The bright green tape did help to establish contrast and when I hit off to the side the orange showed up nicely.

The gun continued to run even with the hollow-points while dirty, if the stainless magazines were used.
I'm surprised -- there's nothing to indicate that it should digest 'em at all.



And it's dirty as all get out.

It's a WWII High Standard barrel, a replacement unit - go figure.

So over 168+ rounds later now it's time to clean-up and re-lube.  I understand you're supposed to put some on the barrel where it rubs against the hood.

As always clickez-vous ilPictorio to embigulate.

EcoWeenie Lead Ammo Lawsuit Alert

From my NRA Members' Councils of California I got an alert that the morons who make up the so-called "Center for Biological Diversity" have plotted a lawsuit of leverage against the BLM and the Fish & Wildlife Service - two agencies already heavily infiltrated by tree-huggers, enviro'tards and eco-taliban.
They are alleging that the agencies have "illegally" mismanaged federal lands in Arizona by not considering the *potential impact* on local wildlife resulting from legal and authorized activities, including livestock grazing and off-road vehicle use. Sheesh. They further claim that California condors in Arizona are becoming ill or dying as a result of scavenging carcasses with lead ammo.
Because the NRA has been at the forefront of debunking the fakery, made-up statistics, and outright lies behind the theory that lead bullets are responsible for condor failure, and because NRA attorneys in California recently defeated a proposed state hunting regulation that was based on the unproven condor/lead bullets link (rooted in "pseudo-science," as one California Fish and Game Commissioner described it), they have asked to join the lawsuit and kick some hippie ass.
Check out the link at California Gun Laws.