I have a biz trip of sorts next week, so last night saw a visit to the range to re-qual on the .40 Glock.  Pretty sure it went ok…

The real trouble comes after the range time, when you have to walk through the retail area to the exit.  This walk invariably takes about an hour to accomplish, due to the extraordinary number of pretties on display.  I was particularly enamored of a shiny Stoeger coach gun, I’m sure you can see why:

I was less enamored of the new Henry 30-30 however, since it weighs a metric arseload.  Still beautiful though.

One note to gun store employees:  when I ask you a question regarding a firearm, if you turn to my husband to make the answer, I will never spend a dime in your establishment.  I am fairly certain you cannot tell just by looking the relative level of my firearm experience, so assuming I’m just along for the ride makes you a sexist fuck.  I appreciate the fact that you probably have to deal with a good many fingernail-clicking, gum-snapping home skillets who are only interested in the pink guns, but when I ask you for a Schofield-style top-break, you can pretty safely assume I do not fall into that category, and bloody well look me in the eye to make your answer.  Just something to consider.

…then you’re not paying attention.   Choice nuggets:

• Meanwhile, the president of Mexico recently blasted Arizonans from the White House Rose Garden, no less, apparently counting on the president of the United States to go along with this demonization of one of his own states.
• But then she goes on to explicitly include workers who are not documented and to promise them confidentiality, i.e., de facto federal protection for their illegality: “Every worker has a right to be paid fairly, whether documented or not.”
• Each voter was given six votes, and the explicit hope was that Hispanics would give all their votes to Hispanic candidates, voting on the basis of race rather than policy.
• Instead, this administration promises to “kick ass” and put a “boot on their necks” until BP coughs up, say, $20 billion in reparations.
• Instead of putting a moratorium on the sort of deep-drilling procedure and pipe fittings that BP used, the Obama administration simply issued a blanket ban on all offshore drilling — as if the real intent was not to allow the crisis of an oil spill to go to waste in the larger environmental effort to reduce carbon emissions.

If your lip is not already curling, your fists not clenching, then you need to wake the fuck up.

You know, I don’t sit around and constantly think of liberals progressives as limp-wristed, cheese-and-wine-consuming, tweed-wearing, polysyllabic, manicure-having, pretentious twats, so it would be ever so nice if liberals progressives could at least make a small effort to not sit around and constantly think of Republicans conservatives as tobacco-chewing, gun-owning, pickup-truck-driving, monosyllabic, violence-prone, uncouth and unwashed.

Just because I want you to spend less of my money does not mean I’m too stupid to know what you want to do with it, nor does it mean my first impulse is to grab the nearest gun and shoot you in the ass, even as fun as that sounds right this second.   Ever so much more fun to excoriate you in a distinctly sesquipedalian fashion.

Point of reference.

“Are you alright?”

Not the usual query you’d receive when placing a service call, but damned comforting to hear from Brinks tonight when I called in about the message on the house alarm panel.  Have to appreciate professionalism in customer service.

Oh, and the complete lack of an Indian accent.

Well, I thought my Tweet was everything I had to say on the extraordinarily laughable concept of “animal privacy rights” but it seems that is not the case because I would give good money to A) know what doctorate Msieu Mills actually holds, and B) where the fuck is East Anglia.  I can see how being a “senior lecturer in the School of Film and Television Studies” might give one the illusion that one has Important And Smart Things To Say, but this waste of oxygen knocks the shit right out of that notion.

“It might at first seem odd to claim that animals might have a right to privacy. Privacy, as it is commonly understood, is a culturally human concept. The key idea is to think about animals in terms of the public/private distinction. We can never really know if animals are giving consent, but they often do engage in forms of behavior which suggest they’d rather not encounter humans, and we might want to think about equating this with a desire for privacy.”

Ok, Sparky, I’m going to give you a skosh of credit for at least acknowledging that “privacy” is a human kink (one typically installed by your friendly neighborhood cult religion), but everything else you’re saying is WRONG WRONG WRONG.

Let’s engage the logical bits of our brain, shall we?  Two animals meet, like the smell of each other, instinct takes over, etc.  Any notion of “privacy” these two might in the least entertain has absolutely everything to do with not being predated in the middle of a vulnerable moment, and nothing whatsoever to do with those crazy bipeds ogling the process.  Survival of the fittest, you freaking moron, not modesty, not shame, not any of the bullshit baggage you bring to your own fumbling attempts.

I have a feeling this entire “study” stems from an embarrassing incident in someone’s pants while watching monkeys at the zoo, and “publication” in this case is simply a cheap form of attempted therapy.

Dear Ionia School System Administrators:

This past week you suspended a 6 year old for making the shape of a gun with his pudgy little pitters, claiming it “made other students uncomfortable.”

As the mother of a previously-6 year old, I shall now elucidate for you exactly what engenders a state of uncomfortableness for a child of that age:

• Having to go pee pee.
• Having to go doo doo.
• Being kissed on the cheek by Susie.
• Being kissed on the cheek by Grandma.

Pretty much everything else is met with 100mph enthusiasm and the same lack of worry exhibited by a 3 month old Labrador Retriever.

I know at least some of you have to be parents, have observed the same relative unconcern and resiliency in your own young children, so kindly do us all a favor and stop “showing your asses” as my mother would say.  A kindergartener is not going to set off the next Columbine, you astonishing pack of morons.

Original tweet:

bdomenech

#tweetoftheday on Edwards comeback possibilities: RT @RobGeorge: @pwire Yeah — after a “pregnant pause.”

My reply:

sekimori

@bdomenech Oh?? Is he going to support that pause after it’s born or have a staffer do it?

The Nooz is funny this morning.

Dubai police appealed for an international manhunt Tuesday after releasing names and photos of an alleged 11-member hit squad accused of stalking and killing a Hamas commander last month in a plot that mixed cold precision with spy caper disguises such as fake beards and wigs.

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Hamas has accused Israel’s Mossad secret service of masterminding the slaying and has vowed revenge.

Dubai’s police chief, Lt. Gen. Dahi Khalfan Tamim, did not directly implicate Israel at a news conference Monday to announce new details about al-Mabhouh’s death. But he noted the possibility that “leaders of certain countries gave orders to their intelligence agents to kill” al-Mabhouh, one of the founders of Hamas’ military wing.

Does it make anyone else LOL, this thought of the Mossad using 11 whole people to take out one Hamas dirtbag?

HoDo the Yarrrghhing One says Republicans are stewpid.  Um, again.

“One of the most disturbing things about the Republican Party over the last couple of decades is that just they don’t believe in science any more. And that is not an approach that is likely to generate any kind of creative thinking,” Dean said.

Well of course they don’t believe in science…you pussified liberals have completely excised the teaching of it from schools.  Ipso facto, dipshit.

Well, you can all relax now, South Carolina has it figured out:

Terrorists who want to overthrow the United States government must now register with South Carolina’s Secretary of State and declare their intentions — or face a $25,000 fine and up to 10 years in prison.

The state’s “Subversive Activities Registration Act,” passed last year and now officially on the books, states that “every member of a subversive organization, or an organization subject to foreign control, every foreign agent and every person who advocates, teaches, advises or practices the duty, necessity or propriety of controlling, conducting, seizing or overthrowing the government of the United States … shall register with the Secretary of State.”

I sincerely hope the good citizens of South Carolina take a look at the nard who sponsored this stinking waste of taxpayer dollars, and unelect them posthaste.