Travis County officials are expecting approximately 10 to 12 percent turnout.
10%.
10% turnout is how we ended up being the San Fransisco of Texas. 10% turnout is how Leslie even has a prospect of getting on the ballot. 10% is why bicyclists are more important in the city council than automobiles.
You know who votes in an election with 10% turnout? Old people, environmentalist whackos, special interest action groups, and about nobody else except me, apparently.
This here is my Official Big Hearty F-CK YOU to the 90% of "normal" people who can't be bothered to turn out and vote on election day. Your great-grandfather would be ashamed of you. After he beat you with a his cane. Ungrateful b-stards.
You all deserve whatever you get. May your chains rest heavy on your cowardly shoulders. I consider myself unfortunate to have been your countryman.
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Monday, May 4, 2009
Gun Porn: Thompson Center Contender
First up in the current gun pr0n series, we have a Legitimate Sporting Weapon, with a bit of a naughty flavor. This is a Thompson Contender with a .44 Magnum barrel with a silencer mount. Because I am not and only one, by the time I got my hands on it, the only thing left of the silencer was its mount on the end of the barrel.
At first glance, it is quite nice.
Closer inspection reveals generally good cosmetic condition, with super smooth bluing. There are a few dings in the wood, however, and one set of rust spots by the hammer. Also, some soon-to-be felon put his phone number in the metal. And a beaver. Why a beaver? I have no idea.
The etched cougar on both sides is in really nice condition, as is the heel plate. The back of the hammer is a little gimped up, probably from the same "oops" that smished the top of the grip. There is also a cocking aid of some sort uglying up the top of the hammer.
When I first cocked the hammer and pulled the trigger, it was like buttered magic. Right around the 3lbs. mark, the trigger breaks and the hammer falls. I almost couldn't feel the break. There is NO creep. There is NO slack. It is like a switch. Truly impressive.
What's that? You want to see the silencer mount? Sure, here it is. Also note the very strong rifling and moderatly shiny bore. The silencer mount is inside threaded, so the muzzle of the barrel looks almost normal if you don't mind the set screws.
At first glance, it is quite nice.
Closer inspection reveals generally good cosmetic condition, with super smooth bluing. There are a few dings in the wood, however, and one set of rust spots by the hammer. Also, some soon-to-be felon put his phone number in the metal. And a beaver. Why a beaver? I have no idea.
The etched cougar on both sides is in really nice condition, as is the heel plate. The back of the hammer is a little gimped up, probably from the same "oops" that smished the top of the grip. There is also a cocking aid of some sort uglying up the top of the hammer.
When I first cocked the hammer and pulled the trigger, it was like buttered magic. Right around the 3lbs. mark, the trigger breaks and the hammer falls. I almost couldn't feel the break. There is NO creep. There is NO slack. It is like a switch. Truly impressive.
What's that? You want to see the silencer mount? Sure, here it is. Also note the very strong rifling and moderatly shiny bore. The silencer mount is inside threaded, so the muzzle of the barrel looks almost normal if you don't mind the set screws.
Obama Trying To Reduce Taxes Taken In By The Federal Government
Given the choice between staying in America, and operating out of Ireland, they will operate out of Ireland. Look for some large conversions to other-than-dollar currency exchanges out of the Grand Caymans starting ::checking my watch:: now.
Madness @ Work
Speaking of rats, I think this one may be dead. If it's not, it's fixin' ta be. . . .
Kidding. I'm kidding. It's a joke. Oh please don't call PETA on me! Unless of course, you call People Eating Tasty Animals. They'll tell you that a) rats should be cooked very thoroughly if you insist on eating them, and b) .44 Magnum is pretty much overkill for rats. Except New York Sewer Rats.
Kidding. I'm kidding. It's a joke. Oh please don't call PETA on me! Unless of course, you call People Eating Tasty Animals. They'll tell you that a) rats should be cooked very thoroughly if you insist on eating them, and b) .44 Magnum is pretty much overkill for rats. Except New York Sewer Rats.
Madness @ Work
You know you work in a small company when the monthly productivity meeting is ended after it degenerates into talk about urinating on the floor in the production area and blaming the smell on rats.
That is all.
That is all.
Sunday, May 3, 2009
The Egyptian Great Pyramid: Cast In Place Surveying Equipment?
This is something you are unlikely to see anywhere else, and I like to present that sort of information! This is an edited version of something I sent to my Pastor, who raised the point that nobody really knows how, or by whom, the Great Pyramid was made.
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It sounded from your sermon as if you had never heard of this particular theory regarding the purpose of the Great Pyramid in Egypt.
According to this page:
http://www.mondovista.com/nazca/nazca2.html
It was a measurement standard of sorts, to aid in worldwide surveying. . . by an ancient seafaring race of red-headed white folk, who had an open-air school at Nazca as well. This theory assumes a highly advanced skill set for the original surveyors. Like maybe the kind you have to study for a couple of centuries to obtain? (his sermon also briefly touched on the extremely long lives of the first several generations of people on the Earth, and how very well educated and skilled one could get over the course of a 900-year life span).
It is a bit of a read, and the numbers can get eye-crossing sometimes, but I think you will find it at least an interesting theory. It makes more sense than "space aliens built it" anyhow.
As for how the pyramids were built, some scientists (not: not necessarily previously-published, big-ego big-deal archaeologists) are seriously looking at the possibility that at least some of those huge, perfectly-fitted blocks were cast in place. To say that the "cast in place" theory is controversial would be a drastic understatement.
http://www.rosetjau.com/giza-plateau/pyramids-concrete.htm
Good night!
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It sounded from your sermon as if you had never heard of this particular theory regarding the purpose of the Great Pyramid in Egypt.
According to this page:
http://www.mondovista.com/nazca/nazca2.html
It was a measurement standard of sorts, to aid in worldwide surveying. . . by an ancient seafaring race of red-headed white folk, who had an open-air school at Nazca as well. This theory assumes a highly advanced skill set for the original surveyors. Like maybe the kind you have to study for a couple of centuries to obtain? (his sermon also briefly touched on the extremely long lives of the first several generations of people on the Earth, and how very well educated and skilled one could get over the course of a 900-year life span).
It is a bit of a read, and the numbers can get eye-crossing sometimes, but I think you will find it at least an interesting theory. It makes more sense than "space aliens built it" anyhow.
As for how the pyramids were built, some scientists (not: not necessarily previously-published, big-ego big-deal archaeologists) are seriously looking at the possibility that at least some of those huge, perfectly-fitted blocks were cast in place. To say that the "cast in place" theory is controversial would be a drastic understatement.
http://www.rosetjau.com/giza-plateau/pyramids-concrete.htm
Good night!
Christian Service Is Not Mandatory.
"When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?"
I am the acting head usher at my church. I am usually the one who co-ordinates between the ushering staff who will pass offering plates. We usually need three men to take up the offerings.
I had two of the men decline to serve this morning. I had one man volunteer, and one man was happy to do the job. Those two plus me, and we were all set.
No-one is paid to serve as an usher at my church. The only people the church pays for regular employment are the Pastor, his Secretary, and one Assistant. Everything else that goes on in the church is done by volunteers, including taking out the garbage and mowing the lawns. None of the ushers is required to serve. In a pinch, any of us would usher as required, and there are even a few men who are not regular ushers who will stand up if there are not enough ushers to fill in, at any given meeting. We are pretty much guaranteed to have enough ushers.
Still, it rubs me the wrong way when someone will sometimes and sometimes is unwilling to take 5 minutes of their time and maybe do a little extra standing around. If you don't want to do what you can do, that is up to you. But come on now! Sure someone else can work for God, but then that someone else will be getting a reward that could have been yours.
I am considering changing my tactics, so that the first people I ask to help at the church meetings are the ones who are more willing to do, instead of the ones that have been reluctant to serve recently. If you can afford a suit, bring it. But if you would rather bring it to a pew than the aisle or doorways, that is between you and God. I'll ask a guy in a shirt and tie who is eager for the blessing of ministry, before the guy in a suit who is unhappy to be called on.
If you do not wish to help, feel free to sit down. Someone else will take your place, or the else the job must go undone. If no-one stands up to do a necessary thing, will you then be shamed enough to do it yourself? Why?
Why bother yourself? It's not mandatory, after all . . .
"When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?"
(however, you might be well advised to consider the context of that verse . . . .)
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I'm hardly the one to cast the first stone, but I felt like getting this off my chest. Thanks for listening.
I am the acting head usher at my church. I am usually the one who co-ordinates between the ushering staff who will pass offering plates. We usually need three men to take up the offerings.
I had two of the men decline to serve this morning. I had one man volunteer, and one man was happy to do the job. Those two plus me, and we were all set.
No-one is paid to serve as an usher at my church. The only people the church pays for regular employment are the Pastor, his Secretary, and one Assistant. Everything else that goes on in the church is done by volunteers, including taking out the garbage and mowing the lawns. None of the ushers is required to serve. In a pinch, any of us would usher as required, and there are even a few men who are not regular ushers who will stand up if there are not enough ushers to fill in, at any given meeting. We are pretty much guaranteed to have enough ushers.
Still, it rubs me the wrong way when someone will sometimes and sometimes is unwilling to take 5 minutes of their time and maybe do a little extra standing around. If you don't want to do what you can do, that is up to you. But come on now! Sure someone else can work for God, but then that someone else will be getting a reward that could have been yours.
I am considering changing my tactics, so that the first people I ask to help at the church meetings are the ones who are more willing to do, instead of the ones that have been reluctant to serve recently. If you can afford a suit, bring it. But if you would rather bring it to a pew than the aisle or doorways, that is between you and God. I'll ask a guy in a shirt and tie who is eager for the blessing of ministry, before the guy in a suit who is unhappy to be called on.
If you do not wish to help, feel free to sit down. Someone else will take your place, or the else the job must go undone. If no-one stands up to do a necessary thing, will you then be shamed enough to do it yourself? Why?
Why bother yourself? It's not mandatory, after all . . .
"When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?"
(however, you might be well advised to consider the context of that verse . . . .)
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I'm hardly the one to cast the first stone, but I felt like getting this off my chest. Thanks for listening.
Friday, May 1, 2009
Where's The Outrage?
No links, because nobody deserves exposure or credit for this shame.
Those who were paying attention will recall several months of OUTRAGE!!!! and DEMANDS FOR ACCOUNTABILITY!!!!1!! over the revelation of something that Valerie Plame told her shack-up stud when they were sleeping together (that she was (formerly) an undercover CIA operative. That would be, a revelation YEARS after she had stopped doing undisclosed types of field work).
Now some small-time hack freelancing for a major news network has posted VIDEO online of two men who were civilian contractors for the CIA, advising The Good Guys how to properly interrogate recalcitrant enemy combatants. That would be video showing their FACES and calling out their NAMES repeatedly.
Main stream press: Can I get some outrage? A raised eyebrow, even? No?
Oh well I'm sure it'll be fine then. Nevermind that these two men now have bulls-eyes painted on their backs by this "reporter." Never mind that they are now "out" as agents of the Great Satan and therefore legitimate targets for members of the Religion of Peace. No no, this is just fine.
Maybe this post should have been titled: "People Who Should Be Shot: One More."
Those who were paying attention will recall several months of OUTRAGE!!!! and DEMANDS FOR ACCOUNTABILITY!!!!1!! over the revelation of something that Valerie Plame told her shack-up stud when they were sleeping together (that she was (formerly) an undercover CIA operative. That would be, a revelation YEARS after she had stopped doing undisclosed types of field work).
Now some small-time hack freelancing for a major news network has posted VIDEO online of two men who were civilian contractors for the CIA, advising The Good Guys how to properly interrogate recalcitrant enemy combatants. That would be video showing their FACES and calling out their NAMES repeatedly.
Main stream press: Can I get some outrage? A raised eyebrow, even? No?
Oh well I'm sure it'll be fine then. Nevermind that these two men now have bulls-eyes painted on their backs by this "reporter." Never mind that they are now "out" as agents of the Great Satan and therefore legitimate targets for members of the Religion of Peace. No no, this is just fine.
Maybe this post should have been titled: "People Who Should Be Shot: One More."
May Day 2009 Celebrations!
I am celebrating International Socialist Achievement Workers Day by . . . working.
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In related news, there were some Hispanic Heritage Month celebrations scheduled for the Round Rock, Texas Independent School District today. They have been delayed until May 30th due to fears over the potential to spread theswine flue from Mexico H1N1 virus among students. The irony is pretty thick around here today. . . .
(Get the bumper sticker at the Cheap Bumper Stickers Store)
In related news, there were some Hispanic Heritage Month celebrations scheduled for the Round Rock, Texas Independent School District today. They have been delayed until May 30th due to fears over the potential to spread the
PORN! Long Black Tubes Hot Metal Action!
. . . no, you filthy minded people, not THAT kind . . .
I've been shooting photos of several guns lately. There should be some gun pr0n posts coming up in the next little while here.
. . . please stand by . . . .
I've been shooting photos of several guns lately. There should be some gun pr0n posts coming up in the next little while here.
. . . please stand by . . . .
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