Wednesday, June 30, 2010

I Collect Stuff - Gun-DudeBlogger Links

I just happen to bookmark a LOT off stuff - it's like all OCD with me, organizing...My set of Gunchick links is smaller.
I took out a lot of the "The" and "A" prefixes so I could better alphabetize them.

#'s:
Bunnyman
C: 
Citizen Pamphleteer
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XDA   
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Your Philosophy Sucks 
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Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Ramshackle Saint Wooden Poodle

I'm looking forward to Waterworld. Go south young Horatio Alger, there's Oil out in them thar' swells! But for Gubb'mint intervention it would be %97 clean - but they kept the little Dutch boy from putting his finger in the dike and continued to enforced a stupid Law that is easily relaxed and restored as necessity requires but was politically inconvenient...

But this Algore meltdown - I can't hope for this to put a nail in the coffin of globAl Warmisting. Showing clear evidence of the High Priest's durable, second-Chakra insanity is not enough. Plenty of pseudo-Saints reveal themselves initially as crazed crackpots and sex-fiends (LRon Hubski)- but also the standard of religious persecution has been raised by the Left's demonization of Catholic Priests and with that the tarring all Catholicism itself - not to mention the financial shakedown and demands for redistribution of wealth, so for the moment anything less is insufficient.  But Fearless Leader is hustling a BP shakedown as taught by the Chicago School, so at least the trend continues.
Just because the patron Saint has feet of clay, only makes his wooden puppet more adorable to the True Believers. It's a favorite meme among the self-Righteous who mock real religion but ape its standard dynamics - they also believe suffering is necessary and will continue to believe in Globular Warmering one way or another - and especially as long as the Media and the JournoList 400 feeds them the Host Narrative of Greenery and sustains the teetering relic. It's a Religion with them, those who generally despise and disparage all religions.  No Blood for Seawater!

Fortunately we have the McDonald decision with Justice Thomas' excellent originalism in support of the 14th Amendment and his concurrence, (as Sebastian says, ...Stare decisis should not stand when it’s in clear conflict with the text and meaning of the Constitution, and Justice Scalia's Concurrence that demolishes with Van Helsing like agility and firmness the departing Justice Stevens' near-senile dissent. (descent?)
In other words, a right, such as the right to keep and bear arms, that has long been recognized but on which the States are considering restrictions, apparently deserves less protection, while a privilege the political branches (instruments of the democratic process) have withheld entirely and continue to withhold, deserves more. That topsy-turvy approach conveniently accom­plishes the objective of ensuring that the rights this Court held protected in Casey, Lawrence, and other such cases fit the theory—but at the cost of insulting rather than respecting the democratic process ... JUSTICE STEVENS begins with the odd assertion that “firearms have a fundamentally ambivalent relationship to liberty,” since sometimes they are used to cause (or sometimes accidentally produce) injury to others. The source of the rule that only nonambivalent liber­ties deserve Due Process protection is never explained — proof that judges applying JUSTICE STEVENS’ approach can add new elements to the test as they see fit.
Thank God he's out of there now, but he has a maniac replacement in the wings.

Friday, June 25, 2010

YouCut - and Vote 'em Out in November


Stupid Congress, no Donut. Stop the Madness.
Consolidate and Reduce Funding for Federal Advisory Committees: The National Endowment for the Arts spent $1.3 million on two separate advisory panels both of which makes recommendations to the NEA chairman and the U.S. Geological Survey, the Scientific Earthquake Studies Advisory Committee actually recommended the creation of the National Earthquake Prediction Council. WTF?
Terminate Duplicative Federal Bicycle and Walking Programs: The program even requires that every state employ a full-time person dedicated to coordinating this federal program despite the fact that the law already requires every state to employ a separate full-time person to coordinate bicycle and pedestrian activities.
Suspend Federal Land Purchases: Last year Congress spent $266 million acquiring additional federal lands at the Departments of Interior and Agriculture, a 138% increase over the comparable amount of funding just four years ago.
Require Collection of Unpaid Taxes From Federal Employees: In 2008, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) reported that over 97,000 federal employees were delinquent on their federal income taxes, owing a total of $1 billion in unpaid taxes. This includes 1,151 employees who owe $7 million at the Department of Treasury which oversees the IRS.
End Taxpayer Subsidized Union Activities:Currently, some federal employees spend up to 100% of their workweek, paid by taxpayers, doing work for their union. In 2008 the Federal government spent $120 million paying employees for their time spent working on union activities - over five years this would total a minimum of $600 million.

Thursday, June 24, 2010

The Best Gun-Name...

I'm not in the habit of naming such things as trucks or cars and whatnot, mostly because I can't decide - but some folks can decide and do it well, and I like to think that I recognize brilliance when I see it.
And the Award goes to, for a Walker Colt: Locomotive Breath.

Pic stolen from Caleb and altered. Click to Embigulate.

UPDATE: Clean video with good sound.


2:48 is particularly good...

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

King Sights

Among Grandpa's stuff we have some old front blades, and dovetail inserts - or whatever you call 'em.

White, gold, and red.

Monday, June 21, 2010

Borkin' USA

Gidget Kagan says, "Let's get Borkin' now, everybody learning how - Kagan on Safari, this time!!!"

    Early in the morning we'll be startin' out
     The hearings will be comin' along,
     We're loadin' up the Congress
     With the weasels all inside
     And they're heading out singing our song



If she liked it so much and felt it was so good for Democracy (if not the Republic), maybe she should enjoy the same pleasure and experience the awesome-massage of it personally, first-hand.  Borkin' Kagan!


Do the Kagan Twist!!
(Phew that is fugly organ music)
Sheesh.

Free Case of 9mm Ammo!

M.D. Creekmore at The Survivalist Blog is giving away a case (1,000 rounds) of 9mm ammo that was donated by the good folks at LuckyGunner. (see link, below left)
I don't have a 9mm and I'm already touting the services of Lucky Gunner even though I have no commercial advantage. But maybe you want to go find out how to win some.

Blogging the Conundrum

In an email conversation about the grave consequences of business decisions, a friend sent me a conundrum/situation that is open to a variety of methods and means for solution.
It came about as a result of a business position that had an in-built capability for some stunning unintended negative outcomes, so my friend used game theory and the discussion, to look for quantifiable analogies:
You wake up as a soldier, pinned down in a fox hole with an enemy pill box 50-yards away. Escape is 500-yards. behind you. High rate of fire but very bad accuracy.

In the fox hole with you are Gomer Pyle, a monkey, a flame thrower, an M1 rifle, and a banana. Thoughts?
I'll withhold his comments to protect the not-so-innocent. I said, "kill the monkey."

Friday, June 18, 2010

Buy Arizona!!

Buy American, buy Arizona. HPR ammunition is a new kid on the block and Scottsdale Ammo is selling HPR stuff.  HPR stands for High Precision Range - and they can haz boolitz, with a new factory that has all the latest technical SAMMI stuff and MilSpec wizardry - in the great state of Arizona.

Sounds good to me. I get nothing from this but pure gunny joy and ballistic happiness - and that it might make Sarah Brady cry, and Josh Sugarman a sad panda pounding sand - it's just a real treat and a blessing.  Forget about Paul Helmke, he's old and he's toast.



Shiny!

Application of a little jeweler's rouge by the Dremel, as advised by Jim of The Travis McGee Reader. Thanks Jim! I have a Dremel I haven't played with much so it was a new opportunity, guided by the words, "not to change contours or remove any measurable amount of metal."

Monday, June 14, 2010

Free After 12 Years Captivity

H/T Fausta of Fausta’s Blog.

Colombian Military Rescues FARC Hostages.
God bless 'em.
The rescue operation yesterday freed General Luis Mendieta and Colonel Enrique Murillo, who were captured by the rebel Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, in November 1998 in the eastern provincial capital of Mitú.

Arbey Delgado was also freed, a soldier held since an August 1998 rebel attack on an anti-drug outpost in the southern jungle town of Miraflores.

The military said the rescue took place in the south-eastern province of Guaviare and did not involve help from the US, a major contributor of military aid to Colombia.

The defence minister, Gabriel Silva, said the 300-strong raid, which took six months to plan, was carried out with "surgical" precision. But he conceded that another rebel-held Colombian soldier, Lieutenant Colonel William Donato, fled during the confrontation and his fate was still unknown.

"We have high hopes that he is in hiding and that he will be found in the coming hours," Silva told reporters.

In July 2008, soldiers posing as members of a humanitarian mission freed former presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt, three US contractors and 11 police and military officials held by FARC.
More dead FARC the better.

Tony Gay Fascism

While watching the very gay-friendly opening of the Tony awards in New York, when it came time for the Green Day on-stage musical interlude, I was struck by the powerfully militaristic iconography and thought, "Well isn't that a bracing tonic of sell-out Fascism!"

The wannabe Dead Kennedy's song featured long red banners with alternating pictures of planes in formation with grenades, backed up by a motley chorus of fist-pumping street-comrade thugs from the highly touted Broadway show, "American Idiot." The lead guitarist struck a deep-stance rock-pose exactly like one of The Ramones, but without a hint of Dee-Dee's head-bowed introspection, or the vulnerability of Joey - or even Johnny's humor.

Indeed there was not a bow in sight but rather an aggressively pointed finger (or fist) in the air, perhaps attempting to feel the wind direction or maybe in response to the question sung, "Do you know the Enemy?" A strident song/question that was received with wildly enthusiastic applause by Michael Douglas among others, who appeared ready to get out of his seat and "kick some ass" if he knew anyone who might oppose his political views.

Indeed most of the establishment audience was unabashedly rocking out to the militarism with fist-pounding vigor, including Will Smith and his scary wife Jada who's teeth were clenched in a bright, white, smile. Only Nathan Lane seemed bemused and clapped lightly in rhythm with the song - but that is his signature expression which has earned him so much on Broadway - The Great White Way. If they had shown the event in black-and-white rather than color I would have been even more closely reminded of 1930's Europe and the glittering who's-who that made up the inner-circle of fawning party-loyalists. Never has the counter-culture so perfectly reflected the desires and will of the elites, and never has a "protest" song begat so little protest - what would they be protesting against? "Their" play won two awards for best scenic and lighting design - should they throw it back? Such is Anarchy in the US today.

Rock-and-roll stridency with hints of pop-culture militarism have been around for a long, long time - from Jimi Hendrix to Michael Jackson there's been a flirtation with gold braid and army hats - but it is generally known that none of such people were any more fit or actually desirous to be in the armed service which they mock. Besides the Nuremberg banners and marching tunes however, the boyz from Berkeley seem to have taken up the mantle of on-stage Social Activism as black-hand anarchists - and done so with a kind of glee and gusto indicating their complete agreement with it. Rather like fellow Berkeleyites Country Joe and the Fish, and so I briefly wondered whether lead singer Joe Armstrong was likewise named after Joseph Stalin as was red-diaper baby Country Joe McDonald, who's parents were keen Communists in the 50's and 60's? Which begs the question - which country? Maybe they haven't sold out as much as they have totally bought-in.

So it comes as no surprise to me to see a vicious Congressman in action, attacking a college student while asking, "Who are you? Who are you?" - it's practically a Who song.


UPDATE: Meanwhile I am pleased to learn that Memphis picked up some awards, since old theater colleagues of mine originated and debuted the show locally before moving it to San Diego, and then to New York.

Friday, June 11, 2010

Sticky Wicket or There's a Hitch in My Gettyup.

Let's belabor everyone with International Cricket metaphors as an antidote to World Cup Hooliganism.
At any rate the barrel doesn't ease it's way down the slide - there's a sticking point.
It can be pushed past with a rap or a tap, but that doesn't seem to me to be ideal under the circumstances.

Upon closer inspection it seem associated with the link.

So what's with the link? One edge of the pin seemed to stand proud.

I got out the calipers and measured them both. The Colt was wider at the link-pin than the High Standard (which easily slid back and forth).
The Colt went into a vise with soft jaws and I put a block under the link to steady it and relieve strain - and gave the pin two taps.
No longer proud above the edge, it slides right good now with no offending bits sticking out or digging a channel in the slide.

Now where's my 1943 Lubriplate? I gotta put this thing back together.

Roll out the Barrels - 1943 1911A1 Colt

Here's mine, what does yours look like?
1943-'45 Colt on the left, same-era High Standard on the right.

The upper one is the HS - as seen on the tang of the link-lug - or whatever it's called.

The ramps-view: Colt (l.) High Standard. (r.).

Thursday, June 10, 2010

Colt Barrel - from SN#710,001 to end of production 1945

I finally found one.  My current barrel is a High Standard WWII replacement issue.

This one has the standard government "G" mark on the bottom of the chamber forward of the link.

Do pistol shooters ever get their barrels re-crowned like rifle-guys?

The rifling looks ok from the breech and visa versa.

And down towards the barrel-end.

Side-by-side - Colt on the Left, High Standard on the right.

The High Standard digests 230gr. JHP hollow-points faithfully, will the Colt?
I don't think so.

The High Standard barrel definitely has some trim-work on the barrel hood that the Colt does not...

Monday, June 07, 2010

Stevens Creek Trail Under 101 Over Moffett etc.











The ride out to the turn-around is about three and a quarter miles, so the whole loop is around six-and-a-half miles, if you go all the way out out past Hanger-1.
On the return you descend under Highway 101 and then take the bridge over the off-ramp. And then zoom down again.

Thursday, June 03, 2010

The Sause of Mideast Strife.

Blog post re-named.
UPDATE:
The following passengers on board the Mavi Marmara are known to be involved in terrorist activity. The Mavi Marmara attempted to break the maritime closure on the Gaza Strip on Monday, May 31st 2010, and was boarded by Israel Navy forces.

Fatimah Mahmadi (born 1979), is a United States resident of Iranian origin, and an active member of the organization “Viva Palestine”, she attempted to smuggle forbidden electronic components into the Gaza Strip.

Ken O’Keefe (Born 1969), an American and British citizen, is a radical anti-Israel activist and operative of the Hamas Terror organization. He attempted to enter the Gaza Strip in order to form and train a commando unit for the Palestinian terror organization.

Hassan Iynasi (born 1982), a Turkish citizen and activist in a Turkish charity organization, is known of providing financial support to the Palestinian Islamic Jihad Terror organization.

Hussein Urosh, a Turkish citizen and activist in the IHH organization, was on his way to the Gaza Strip in order to assist in smuggling Al-Qaeda operatives via Turkey into the Strip.

Ahmad Umimon (born 1959), is a French citizen of Moroccan origin, and an operative of the Hamas Terrorist organization.

So that's what happened.

I think this weird fluid must be what the stupid terrorists were trying to smuggle into Gaza on their phony "Humanitarian Flotilla."-- or else they drank this noxious crap and came up with the stupid notion of pretending to be "Peace Activists." Ha. Retarded Leftists.









It was a nice morning to ride. At the end of the trail is a turn-around loop - the trail will be continued southwest between the towers and left over the freeway into Sunnyvale - with YOUR (and my) Stimulus Dollars!I like my bike - I'm no Charles Johnszixggson from Little Green Fubar, whisking along the PCH but it's a better bike than I've ever had before.

Wednesday, June 02, 2010

One Thousand Words


That's all.

Why are "Peace Activists" so violent?

Peaceful?? Pfft!
The passengers on board the Mavi Marmara were armed with bullet proof vests and night-vision equipment, had no identification papers, and their boat was organized by a known terror-finance organization.
Peace Activists??  Pfft!
Found on-board the "Peace Ship" after the counter-attack were a cache of weapons including many knives, slingshots, bottles filled with rocks, smoke bombs, metal rods, improvised sharp metal objects, sticks and clubs, 5KG hammers, firebombs and gas masks.

The Israel Defense Force soldiers intercepting the "Humanitarian Flotilla" were armed only with paint-ball guns used for riot dispersal, and pistols - personal defensive sidearms - that they were ordered to use only as a last resort.

Peaceful??  Pfft!
On the other five ships of the "Peace Flotilla," the Naval interception took place with no violence, but on the Mavi Marmara "Peace Activists" used metal rods and chains to attack the soldiers, and in an ambush took two soldier's guns and shot at them. As a result 7 soldiers were injured and 9 activists were killed. In committing a felony like that here in the US, those who were responsible for the deaths - the activists - would be charged as co-conspirators in a premeditated murder and subject to capital punishment.
Humanitarian Crisis?? No, not really, just another lie.
Steffen Jensen, a journalist from Denmark has pictures and a report on the pretend "food crisis."
This time, I had expected to see real suffering, because with all the fuss in recent days about bringing tons of humanitarian relief in - so much that people actually sacrificed their lives for it - there certainly had to really be a deep, desperate situation in the Gaza Strip. No food. Long queues in front of UN food stocks. Hungry children with food bowls.



When I yesterday morning drove through Gaza City, I was immediately surprised that there are almost as many traffic jams, as there always has been. Is there not a shortage of fuel? Apparently not. Gasoline is not even rationed. Many shops were closed yesterday, Hamas has declared a general strike in protest against Israel's brutal and deadly attack on the Turkish flotilla with pro-Palestinian activists on board. So it was difficult to estimate how many products on the shelves. Therefore I went over to the Shati refugee camp, also known as Beach Camp, one which has become entirely surrounded by Gaza City and immersed in it. Here is one of Gaza's many vegetable markets that sell much more than just fruits and vegetables. And the first woman we interviewed in the market confirms this strange, contradictory, negative outlook: "We have nothing," she said. We need everything! Food, drinks ... everything!"
It disturbed her not at least that she stood between the mountains of vegetables, fruit, eggs, poultry and fish, while she held his doomsday prophecy solid...

This story I have written NOT to postulate that there are no problems in the Gaza Strip, because that would be untrue. There are problems. Many problems indeed. But it is not lack of food which primarily concern people down here. The biggest problem is the lack of jobs and a sustainable domestic economy.

Psycho-stinians. Gaza created it's own miserable hell through years and years of following the "leadership" of murderous Hamas/Hezbollah nitwits, dressing their children as suicide bombers, constantly called for the death of all Israelis, and firing missiles on Israeli children. The "Palestinians" love death too much. Torture and executions are common under the Hamas regime, along with the murder of women and gays - just as in Iran, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia.