BOO!!
Friday, October 28, 2011
Monday, October 24, 2011
M1 Garand - Recoil Experiential Citation Digging
In response to a post by Borepatch regarding his wonderful wife's shooting ability with the SMLE, I made a small addendum point about the difference between the M1 Garand and the bolt-action Enfield which was not about the speed of working the close-on-cocking action or lock-time, but of shoulder comfort and user-interfaqce issues. I repeated the synopsis of a M1 Garand story I read elsewhere, but can't now find:
I know I've read this story more than once, and the issue of felt recoil is a reoccurring question among first-time shooters of the M1 Garand who we train in our New Shooter Orientation on the first Saturday of each month at the club - but where is the source of this? The NRA?
Thanks in advance.
The gas-operation of the M1 Garand also is easier on the shooter's shoulder than the bolt-action, so the shooter with an M1 can keep on working the rifle after the bolt-action has beaten the other shooter black and blue.I am having trouble finding the exact source. Was it Gen. Julian S. Hatcher? I've skimmed through my hardbound copy of Hatcher's Notebooks and didn't find it there, and also his Book of the Garand". I checked my copy of Scott Duff's "The M1 Garand: World War II, and also The Fighting Garand Owner's Manual by Nolan Wilson, and a couple othe4r books to no avail.
In an early high-volume test of the M1 rifle they ran a squad of men shooting the '03 against a squad of men shooting Garands, and as the test wore on the '03 shooters' accuracy (and freshness) suffered - and on the second day of testing half of the '03 shooters declined to continue...
I know I've read this story more than once, and the issue of felt recoil is a reoccurring question among first-time shooters of the M1 Garand who we train in our New Shooter Orientation on the first Saturday of each month at the club - but where is the source of this? The NRA?
Thanks in advance.
Saturday, October 22, 2011
Doug Chandler 1993
Local guy (Salinas native) Doug got a ride with Cagiva for this event, and had quirky dude John Kocinski for a teammate, the eventual race winner after Mick Doohan crashed on the last lap coming out of the Corkscrew...
Friday, October 21, 2011
Shinichi Itoh 1993 Laguna Seca
Always a threat, I seemed to get a couple good shots of him during the event...partly that is/was due to his flawless form.
Scanning it in
On a beautiful fall day when the birds are chirping and the squirrels frolicking insanely in the pine-tree, I'm inside nursing a sprained foot that I re-injured, collecting digital bits and bytes - materials of my portfolio, from years ago when I cartooned a bit for CityBike. This one had to do with the return of Freddie Spencer and the issue of riding a Ducati vs. his weight...
UPDATE: That (above) was when Fast Freddie went to Superbike, after the diesels (4-strokes) took over Formula One. Before that, during the recession of '93 he was on a French Yamaha 500cc two-stroke with the semi-big-bang motor, and I was on the other side of the tape with a Media Pass and a long lens, thirty-feet from the track's edge. It was a time of great personal delight.
During practice I saw a bike come screaming into Turn #5 at Laguna. For the race (and from my Reg Pridmore class a few months prior) I remember #5 was configured as an intentionally confusing kind of nasty combination of three-apex left-hand corner with a couple dips, and a rise on exit that all played havoc with suspension and traction -- but was easy to get into from a photographer's POV, and had the potential to produced some great high-side crash-footage. A couple guys had already gone down within the hour, but in unspectacular low-sides when their suspension and traction came to odds with their braking-point.
And here comes a guy on a shabby looking nondescript blue-gray bike, well above the speeds seen earlier, practically sideways going IN and as out-of-shape as any guy who was just about to toss it away - and suddenly somehow through a series of twitchy miracles and judicious application of throttle, he snapped it through the dips, rises and apex on a completely different "line" than any rider previous, and was gone up the hill to #6... And I had to look in my book for the number: Freddie Spencer...And he was my hero after that.
I waited until he came around again and got a pretty ok shot.
UPDATE: That (above) was when Fast Freddie went to Superbike, after the diesels (4-strokes) took over Formula One. Before that, during the recession of '93 he was on a French Yamaha 500cc two-stroke with the semi-big-bang motor, and I was on the other side of the tape with a Media Pass and a long lens, thirty-feet from the track's edge. It was a time of great personal delight.
During practice I saw a bike come screaming into Turn #5 at Laguna. For the race (and from my Reg Pridmore class a few months prior) I remember #5 was configured as an intentionally confusing kind of nasty combination of three-apex left-hand corner with a couple dips, and a rise on exit that all played havoc with suspension and traction -- but was easy to get into from a photographer's POV, and had the potential to produced some great high-side crash-footage. A couple guys had already gone down within the hour, but in unspectacular low-sides when their suspension and traction came to odds with their braking-point.
And here comes a guy on a shabby looking nondescript blue-gray bike, well above the speeds seen earlier, practically sideways going IN and as out-of-shape as any guy who was just about to toss it away - and suddenly somehow through a series of twitchy miracles and judicious application of throttle, he snapped it through the dips, rises and apex on a completely different "line" than any rider previous, and was gone up the hill to #6... And I had to look in my book for the number: Freddie Spencer...And he was my hero after that.
I waited until he came around again and got a pretty ok shot.
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Next Up: Butternut Squash...
Roasting in the oven to add flavor and sweetness, it will require a cup and a half of chicken stock and some lemon to tone that sweetness down, and perhaps a touch of chipotle (which is just douchebag-talk for burnt jalapeno-peppers).
Puree'd into a soup, it will fill a quart and a smaller container...
Puree'd into a soup, it will fill a quart and a smaller container...
Great Green Soylent Gobs...
...Of soon-to-be asparagus soup: it needs some Half & Half and a pat of butter to lend a silky texture, besides s'more salt an pepper to taste once it get's on the heat.
A whole freakin' package of Costco asparagus, parboiled and chilled with a dash of lemon in the water to maintain the green, turned to a puddle.
Silky liquifaction provided by the Vitamix's 2-Hp motor at 37,000 rpm's that absolutely obliterates any concept of the word "solid"... Zoom!
(UPDATE: AND a cup-and-a-half of chicken broth - organic, or low-sodium, or otherwise.)
Now we understand how it is possible for a small household of two to buy and use-up a whole flat of vegetables or fruit before it goes bad - this thing absolutely makes the melting-pot...the downside being you have to pee all the time.
A whole freakin' package of Costco asparagus, parboiled and chilled with a dash of lemon in the water to maintain the green, turned to a puddle.
Silky liquifaction provided by the Vitamix's 2-Hp motor at 37,000 rpm's that absolutely obliterates any concept of the word "solid"... Zoom!
(UPDATE: AND a cup-and-a-half of chicken broth - organic, or low-sodium, or otherwise.)
Now we understand how it is possible for a small household of two to buy and use-up a whole flat of vegetables or fruit before it goes bad - this thing absolutely makes the melting-pot...the downside being you have to pee all the time.
Buddy Bleg
A non-blogging buddy picked up one of these for carry (and has a CCW) - and was wondering about holsters. Any suggestions among the Gun-Bloggerati? (It's a Roodger Elsie-Ninja)
Bug-Out Radio
I got this one, it's quite small but an effective and useful solar-powered emergency radio that ALSO hand-cranks for power, can be used as a flashlight, and is cell-phone re-charger (if your cell-phone re-charges from a USB port).
I thought I posted this already but I can't even find it in my own damn blog-search.
I thought I posted this already but I can't even find it in my own damn blog-search.
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
The Original OWS - Old Western Scrounger
Look, it's a Krag receiver! Original U.S. Krag Rifle Recievers
Save: 33% off!
It's the ORIGINAL OWS...
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Mastering OWS
I seldom come out in full support of certain movements because of my Libertarian side, but I can thoroughly and enthusiastically get behind this life-changing and even life-saving OWS program that can take a narrow-minded text-obsessed Facebookin' goober-yout' and turn them into skilled, world ambassadors of strength and fitness:
Remember, a bath is as good as a shower, and if you really master something you don't have to be beholden to some disgruntled grad-school 37%-er who can't even read between the lines and is obsessed with Proust or Marx, and has latent sexual jealousy of Womyns Studies majorettes.
Compare and Contrast the above disgruntled and entitlement-suffocated affluent in-bred perpetual-petulant with the optimism and energy of below.
Open Water Swimming, baby!! Win a Triathlon and BE somebody!
Take charge of your life, and get in the water!
And next to that is the AWESOMENESS of Ocean Paddling!
Remember, a bath is as good as a shower, and if you really master something you don't have to be beholden to some disgruntled grad-school 37%-er who can't even read between the lines and is obsessed with Proust or Marx, and has latent sexual jealousy of Womyns Studies majorettes.
Compare and Contrast the above disgruntled and entitlement-suffocated affluent in-bred perpetual-petulant with the optimism and energy of below.
Open Water Swimming, baby!! Win a Triathlon and BE somebody!
Take charge of your life, and get in the water!
And next to that is the AWESOMENESS of Ocean Paddling!
Monday, October 17, 2011
I hate Spiders
UPDATE: Creepiness Warning Level-Six-Plus-Dot.Seven -
During winter Vacation in 1979, to get away from cold and snowy Vienna I went south by train to Barcelona Spain for a week or so. I was staying in a cheap pensione run by an old lady who had spare rooms in her house, and climbinbg under the covers one night I got bit on the shin by a brown recluse spider. When I got up in the morning my leg hurt and over the next day the black bite-mark in my shin spread from about zit-size to a dime-sized hole.
I got myself over to the US. consulate one afternoon but the receptioonist only spoke Spanish and they were basically were useless for a long-hair Student-tramp, but they gave directions to the Free Clinic. The Dr. there said there’s nothing he could do – it’s an enzyme reaction - but I went and got antibiotics anyhow.
The center of my shin turned black and dead, and being curious I dug out the necrosis with an x-acto knife. My entire leg swole-up until you couldn’t see my ankle-bones and my hip was a size bigger. I had to loosen my belt and buy a pair of shoes in two different sizes (fortunately shoes are cheap in Spain), and threw one wrong-size shoe each. Blue, pink, yellow lines of veins in my stood-out - and it was scary. I drank a lot of fluids and it took about a month once I was back in Vienna to completely return to normal, and by then I had worn-out the shoes. Nasty little bastard creature – I hate spiders for a reason.
During winter Vacation in 1979, to get away from cold and snowy Vienna I went south by train to Barcelona Spain for a week or so. I was staying in a cheap pensione run by an old lady who had spare rooms in her house, and climbinbg under the covers one night I got bit on the shin by a brown recluse spider. When I got up in the morning my leg hurt and over the next day the black bite-mark in my shin spread from about zit-size to a dime-sized hole.
I got myself over to the US. consulate one afternoon but the receptioonist only spoke Spanish and they were basically were useless for a long-hair Student-tramp, but they gave directions to the Free Clinic. The Dr. there said there’s nothing he could do – it’s an enzyme reaction - but I went and got antibiotics anyhow.
The center of my shin turned black and dead, and being curious I dug out the necrosis with an x-acto knife. My entire leg swole-up until you couldn’t see my ankle-bones and my hip was a size bigger. I had to loosen my belt and buy a pair of shoes in two different sizes (fortunately shoes are cheap in Spain), and threw one wrong-size shoe each. Blue, pink, yellow lines of veins in my stood-out - and it was scary. I drank a lot of fluids and it took about a month once I was back in Vienna to completely return to normal, and by then I had worn-out the shoes. Nasty little bastard creature – I hate spiders for a reason.
Friday, October 14, 2011
Occupy Preparedness, or a Bicycle-Seat
Went for a bike-ride and came across this in a parking lot by a building near the overpass.
And meanwhile from a friend:
Just another insight on Occupy Wall Street movement which began their protest on September 17th in Zuccotti Park:
1. Zuccotti Park, located on 33,000 sq. ft. in New York City's financial district is privately held by the Brookfield Commercial Properties Asset Management Companies. It is not subject to the same municipal laws of a public park.
2. Brookfield holds over $100 billion in commercial real estate properties and is headquartered in Canada. It is currently listed as one of the largest commercial property management companies in New York.
3. Brookfield owns and has offices in the same building where Adbusters has its headquarters, in Vancouver, BC.
4. Brookfield's chief D.C. lobbyist is VP Joe Biden's son, Beau.
5. Brookfield was the last company to receive TARP funding as part of the Treasury Department's bailout in the Obama Administration.
6. Brookfield board member Diana Taylor is Mayor Bloomber's live-in girlfriend.
7. Brookfield Renewable Power - BRP ($13 billion in assets), a green energy company, is owned by Brookfield. It is a massive new global green energy player with substantial monetary and regulatory support from the Obama Administration's DOE. Interesting to note that BRP earned just $454 Million net income in the 2009 and increased to a whopping $3.2 billion in 2010!
PS: A QR code (abbreviated from Quick Response code) is a type of matrix barcode (or two-dimensional code) is being used by the Occupy Wall Street protest movement to organize and disseminate information among its supporters. I sure hope DHS and the FBI are attuned to this smartphone technology.
And meanwhile from a friend:
Just another insight on Occupy Wall Street movement which began their protest on September 17th in Zuccotti Park:
1. Zuccotti Park, located on 33,000 sq. ft. in New York City's financial district is privately held by the Brookfield Commercial Properties Asset Management Companies. It is not subject to the same municipal laws of a public park.
2. Brookfield holds over $100 billion in commercial real estate properties and is headquartered in Canada. It is currently listed as one of the largest commercial property management companies in New York.
3. Brookfield owns and has offices in the same building where Adbusters has its headquarters, in Vancouver, BC.
4. Brookfield's chief D.C. lobbyist is VP Joe Biden's son, Beau.
5. Brookfield was the last company to receive TARP funding as part of the Treasury Department's bailout in the Obama Administration.
6. Brookfield board member Diana Taylor is Mayor Bloomber's live-in girlfriend.
7. Brookfield Renewable Power - BRP ($13 billion in assets), a green energy company, is owned by Brookfield. It is a massive new global green energy player with substantial monetary and regulatory support from the Obama Administration's DOE. Interesting to note that BRP earned just $454 Million net income in the 2009 and increased to a whopping $3.2 billion in 2010!
PS: A QR code (abbreviated from Quick Response code) is a type of matrix barcode (or two-dimensional code) is being used by the Occupy Wall Street protest movement to organize and disseminate information among its supporters. I sure hope DHS and the FBI are attuned to this smartphone technology.
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
First Kar repost (2008)
All the cool kids are playing, and H/T Curses! Foiled Again! and Borepatch! (and Random Acts of Patriotism) so I’ll repeat...from Monday, July 28, 2008...
Paid $600 for it in 1981, and drove it out to South Dakota for a summer of Archaeological Fieldwork after Graduation from Uncle Charlie's Summer Camp - but not before rebuilding the worn-out motor on this Bondo-Bandit - the blow-by was so great you could purposely flick it into neutral and gas it to load the motor with gas, and then drop the clutch to produce big smoky backfires. It kept the old ladies in Cadillacs back a few yards at stoplights. You could also see the road through rust-holes in the floorboard. I filled them with some foamy junk to keep the water out.
On the way to SD it dropped a pushrod and blew a hole in the engine at 4:00 AM on a cold morning while crossing the Continental Divide about 40 miles outside Rawlins Wyoming.
After the tow I worked with Mel at AAJAX Automotive to install a new motor, and lacking funds for labor compensation, I painted a BIG NEW SIGN on the new glass, in his new location - lucky me he'd only been there a few days and needed a sign!
After four days it was done and I drove off - didn't want to be late for Archaeology class.
From SD I drove her down to a class-reunion in Ohio, and then on to see a friend in Chapel Hill, and out to Ocracoke where I saw mosquitoes the size of birds.
With summer closing I drove north up to stay with a friend in Arlington, where I got day-labor work doing gardening and yard-work with a bunch of recent ex-cons. That was unique...
After more job-hunting I finally landed a skill-set job as a stripper at Harbinger Photographic Services on N-Street in DC.
Stripping that is, assembling negatives into final composite camera-ready artwork - I worked in a darkroom. The real strippers and DC Pros were just down the street. Sometime I'd run across one or two of 'em in a little sandwich shop when I was out getting lunch for the gang. That's a HARD life and it showed.
Returned to California the following year when the household on Kenmore Street in Arlington disbanded and my sister announced she was getting married.
It's better to drive cross-country than to hitch-hike - I did that in 1978. Met some very interesting people...
I painted her myself, over time and with many cans of not always matching Krylon, The Egg was originally primer gray, and after a while using un-matching spray-cans to touch-up rust-spots, about four different colors of primer-gray - this was before "Urban Camouflage" was even invented.
She looked like a rolling speed-bump. That's a kind of dangerous condition for a long, cross-country trip.
I would occasionally get encouraging advice from other East Coast drivers who'd never seen an "Egg" before, (California surfer-lingo for the Ghia) like, "GET A FUCKING PAINT JOB YOU FUCKING FREAK!"
While they're driving a Ford Mavrick - bwhahahahah -- always glad to brighten another's day!
Paid $600 for it in 1981, and drove it out to South Dakota for a summer of Archaeological Fieldwork after Graduation from Uncle Charlie's Summer Camp - but not before rebuilding the worn-out motor on this Bondo-Bandit - the blow-by was so great you could purposely flick it into neutral and gas it to load the motor with gas, and then drop the clutch to produce big smoky backfires. It kept the old ladies in Cadillacs back a few yards at stoplights. You could also see the road through rust-holes in the floorboard. I filled them with some foamy junk to keep the water out.
On the way to SD it dropped a pushrod and blew a hole in the engine at 4:00 AM on a cold morning while crossing the Continental Divide about 40 miles outside Rawlins Wyoming.
After the tow I worked with Mel at AAJAX Automotive to install a new motor, and lacking funds for labor compensation, I painted a BIG NEW SIGN on the new glass, in his new location - lucky me he'd only been there a few days and needed a sign!
After four days it was done and I drove off - didn't want to be late for Archaeology class.
From SD I drove her down to a class-reunion in Ohio, and then on to see a friend in Chapel Hill, and out to Ocracoke where I saw mosquitoes the size of birds.
With summer closing I drove north up to stay with a friend in Arlington, where I got day-labor work doing gardening and yard-work with a bunch of recent ex-cons. That was unique...
After more job-hunting I finally landed a skill-set job as a stripper at Harbinger Photographic Services on N-Street in DC.
Stripping that is, assembling negatives into final composite camera-ready artwork - I worked in a darkroom. The real strippers and DC Pros were just down the street. Sometime I'd run across one or two of 'em in a little sandwich shop when I was out getting lunch for the gang. That's a HARD life and it showed.
Returned to California the following year when the household on Kenmore Street in Arlington disbanded and my sister announced she was getting married.
It's better to drive cross-country than to hitch-hike - I did that in 1978. Met some very interesting people...
I painted her myself, over time and with many cans of not always matching Krylon, The Egg was originally primer gray, and after a while using un-matching spray-cans to touch-up rust-spots, about four different colors of primer-gray - this was before "Urban Camouflage" was even invented.
She looked like a rolling speed-bump. That's a kind of dangerous condition for a long, cross-country trip.
I would occasionally get encouraging advice from other East Coast drivers who'd never seen an "Egg" before, (California surfer-lingo for the Ghia) like, "GET A FUCKING PAINT JOB YOU FUCKING FREAK!"
While they're driving a Ford Mavrick - bwhahahahah -- always glad to brighten another's day!
Monday, October 10, 2011
Occupy Astroturf - Direct Action & People to Know
Lisa Fithian: Career community organizer and anarchist specializing in direct action protests with close ties to labor unions has been on the ground at the #OccupyWallStreet demonstration since its inception.
She was Cindy Sheehan's organizer in Crawford Texas during the protests against former President Bush, and spoke-out against Israeli self defense against the bogus Gaza "Freedom Flotilla" that was staffed by violent Palestinian agent-provocateurs.
From the July 2001 interview with The International Socialist Review
Per Breitbart's: Meet the Anarchist Leaders Behind the Leaderless Occupy Movement Part One Lisa Fithian / by Lee Stranahan,
UPDATE FROM A FRIEND:
Here’s some info on the "non-organized" organized protestors... CANADA?
She was Cindy Sheehan's organizer in Crawford Texas during the protests against former President Bush, and spoke-out against Israeli self defense against the bogus Gaza "Freedom Flotilla" that was staffed by violent Palestinian agent-provocateurs.
From the July 2001 interview with The International Socialist Review
"Nonviolence is a strategy. Civil disobedience is a tactic. Direct action is a strategy. Throwing rocks is a tactic... I guess my biggest thing is that as people who are trying to create a new world, I do believe we have to dismantle or transform the old order to do that. I just fundamentally don't believe it will ever serve our interests as it's currently constructed."
Per Breitbart's: Meet the Anarchist Leaders Behind the Leaderless Occupy Movement Part One Lisa Fithian / by Lee Stranahan,
Last year, in a radio interview, Fithian confirmed these descriptions in talking about her own activist philosophy:
“I am not a pacifist. Part of the way I talk about that is that I was raised in this culture, which is a very violent culture and I understand that I have some violence in who I am."In that interview, Fithian also discussed (about 49:00 in) the tactical use of masks, describing how groups wearing black handkerchiefs were deployed during the Seattle protests.
It was many young people, masking themselves, covering their identity and engaging in property destruction…or not. They might just be more aggressive in their energy, right? They have some powerful and effective energy out there. But it has been really hard to build a mass movement because that type of approach is – vulnerable. It scares a lot of people and it makes it hard to do mass building, as well.
UPDATE FROM A FRIEND:
Here’s some info on the "non-organized" organized protestors... CANADA?
OWC - OCCUPY WALL STREET
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The Governor Giveth and the Governor Taketh Away...
We are losing our Constitutional rights in California, lead by a Democrat Governor:
Gov. Jerry Brown has signed legislation criminalizing openly carrying an unloaded handgun in public and requiring the state to keep records of rifle sales, as it currently does for handguns, Brown announced this morning.He did sign SB610 which is something of a reform bill in permit-processing requirements - not that many agencies are even willing to process permits. SB610 will require agencies to determine if an applicant has initial "Good Cause" to be issued a permit BEFORE the applicant is required to fulfill the requirements in training, classes, background checks and pay the sometimes extensive fees required to obtain a permit. SB610 will also specify that issuing agencies CANNOT require CCW applicants to obtain "Liability Insurance" as a condition for being issued a CCW permit.
Saturday, October 08, 2011
Time-Warner Corporate Guy
The Corporation (and its shareholders) owns this, and the pseudo-anarchists and bussed-in "protestors" - who pay to wear it. Occupy Reality, try it and see.
Thursday, October 06, 2011
Bye-bye Steve
Jobs House on Santa Rita...
I was thinking of him when I drove over to Mom's to do some Photoshop work on pictures of the old Missionary Days - and the new. My buddy Pete, while working downtown at the appliance shop, sold him a vacuum cleaner - he just walked-in and bought a Miele. The Santa Rita house is next to Jim's old house, a HS buddy who later moved.
UPDATE (from my comment at SayUncle): I hated the Apple price-point and snooty exclusivity having lived with that Palo Alto attitude shoved up on me most of my life, a cost that was always over my buying power - but he was inventing the future in a way that few are anymore today - all's we get nowadays are stupid 1930's Socialist RPG re-treads, what's so "progressive" about that crap? Gas masks?
I was thinking of him when I drove over to Mom's to do some Photoshop work on pictures of the old Missionary Days - and the new. My buddy Pete, while working downtown at the appliance shop, sold him a vacuum cleaner - he just walked-in and bought a Miele. The Santa Rita house is next to Jim's old house, a HS buddy who later moved.
UPDATE (from my comment at SayUncle): I hated the Apple price-point and snooty exclusivity having lived with that Palo Alto attitude shoved up on me most of my life, a cost that was always over my buying power - but he was inventing the future in a way that few are anymore today - all's we get nowadays are stupid 1930's Socialist RPG re-treads, what's so "progressive" about that crap? Gas masks?
Wednesday, October 05, 2011
Tripp Research 7R-45-WG
Haven't been feeling many probulations for the Bloggnostications and my colon test came back A+ #1 fine without any bending-over or digital inspection necessary - but then this came today.
Thanks to Gun Geek Rants and No Lawyers - Only Guns and Money I was alerted to the disaster that had struck Texas and one of our/my favorites in particular.
It's the 21st Century and now I have a thoroughly modern magazine for the 1943 Colt 1911A1. I am rather looking forward to running this bad boy.
Thanks to Gun Geek Rants and No Lawyers - Only Guns and Money I was alerted to the disaster that had struck Texas and one of our/my favorites in particular.
This fire destroyed at least 1,500 homes, most of Bastrop State Park, and resulted in 2 fatalities. One of the houses that burned belonged to Virgil & Shari Tripp of Tripp research and STI fame. Their shop survived but the house is gone.Tripp Research is Teh Awesomz! Go get yourself some of their gunny-love and superior-cycling magazines - and anything else to keep 'em afloat... Ok "Our Favorites" is bigger than I intended to suggest, since I'm a small-fry, but it provided an excellent excuse to buy a bulletproof 1911 mag!
It's the 21st Century and now I have a thoroughly modern magazine for the 1943 Colt 1911A1. I am rather looking forward to running this bad boy.
Monday, October 03, 2011
Carbon-Credits Kill
CARBON TRADING KILLS - but fake science and junk-bond trading continues.
Maybe something will happen to the "Science" behind Carbon-Trading, most likely not - but damp and emotional Europeen boo-hooing and hand-wringing is in evidence.
Backtracking quickly, an unknown scum-fed EU drone repeated the onerous difficulties associated with such a vague notion as Human Rights and said:
Instead the "right" to rip-off gullible and uninformed taxpayers with a Government-Operated fake-science ponzi scheme of "carbon trading" will continue:
The reported killing of 23 Honduran farmers in a dispute with the owners of UN-accredited palm oil plantations in Honduras is forcing the EU Clean Development Mechanism executive board to reconsider its stakeholder consultation processes.Among all the noisy "rights" listed by the report of the International Fact Finding Mission, from:
- 3.1. THE RIGHT TO LIFE,
- 3.2. THE RIGHT TO PHYSICAL, PSYCHIC AND MORAL INTEGRITY,
- 3.3. THE RIGHT TO FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT AND PERSONAL SECURITY,
- 3.4. THE RIGHT TO FREEDOM,
- 3.5. THE RIGHT TO FREEDOM OF ASSOCIATION,
- 3.6. THE RIGHT TO FOOD AND HOUSING,
- 3.7. THE RIGHT TO EDUCATION,
- 3.8. THE RIGHT TO HEALTH,
- 3.9. THE RIGHT TO EQUALITY AND ACCESS TO JUSTICE,
In July, a report by an International Fact Finding Mission was presented to the European Parliament's Human Rights Sub-committee, alleging that 23 peasants, one journalist and his partner, had all been murdered in the Bajo Aguán region, between January 2010 and March 2011.
The deaths were facilitated by the "direct involvement of private security guards from some of the local companies who are complicit with police and military officials," the report said.
In some cases it cited "feigned accidents" in which peasants were run over by security guards working for two named palm oil businessmen. In other cases, the farmers were simply shot, or "disappeared".
Maybe something will happen to the "Science" behind Carbon-Trading, most likely not - but damp and emotional Europeen boo-hooing and hand-wringing is in evidence.
"As a big buyer [of carbon credits], as an EU, we can say that these kind of human rights allegations are so fundamental that we will not allow them to be bought," the Green MEP Bas Eickhout told EurActiv.Not too surprisingly there were no exclamation points in the previous sentence, as evidenced by the following weasel-words that compose an entirely bureaucratic sentence...:
Martin Hession said that he felt "extreme sympathy" for Eickhout's suggestion but was concerned that the EU might not have optimal resources to effectively investigate rights violations.Didn't Belgium, whence the EU operates, show a similar disregard for Houmann Riightxs when it ran the Belgian Congo, and under who's predatorship that locasls were routinely relieved of their limbs?
Rubber plantation workers, punished for failing to meet quotas by having their hands cut off, Belgian Congo Free State, 1905, photo from Mark Twain’s King Leopold’s Soliloquy. (H/T Borepatch: Brave Little Belgium)
Backtracking quickly, an unknown scum-fed EU drone repeated the onerous difficulties associated with such a vague notion as Human Rights and said:
An official with the European Commission's directorate-general for Energy told EurActiv that including human rights in the criteria for assessing CDM projects would be "very difficult".Yes, very difficult - however there's one way to make it easier - let them have the RIGHT of Self Defense and the weapomns to procure, insure, AND ensure that it is a SUSTAINABLE right...
"You can say that 'human rights' means the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights and check every project for compliance, but I think that takes us very far and the practicalities of it would be very difficult," he said.
Instead the "right" to rip-off gullible and uninformed taxpayers with a Government-Operated fake-science ponzi scheme of "carbon trading" will continue:
For now, business continues as usual in Aguán and the world's carbon markets, despite the "systemic and grave human rights violations" noted by the International Fact Finding Mission.To paraphrase Shakespeare, First, kill all the Bureaucrats...
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