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One thing I did not anticipate on finding at today’s Indy 1500 Gun & Knife show was Taurus’s entry into the Single Action revolver market, the Gaucho. Initial feel on this is excellent, better than the top of the Italian guns.
In the search for more info I trotted over to Taurus’s What’s New […]

The character of America never ceases to amaze me.

It never ceases to amaze me how unabashedly bias much of the media is. An excellent example is this article from Reuters on “research” showing it’s too late to do anything about global warming, anyway.
Virtually no one disagrees human activity is fueling global warming, and a global treaty signed in Kyoto, Japan, […]

Our good friends at CBS’s 60 Minutes are airing a hatchet job on .50 BMG rifles this coming Sunday. The commercial that just aired went something like “this rifle can shoot over a mile. where did Osama Bin Laden buy his? Right here in the United States”…. Since they failed to get the […]

Hm.. looks like either EDS cannot make up their Linux mind or more likely they have a secret agenda. Were they bashing Linux earlier in the week to try and scare competitive vendors away from it? The case study is on implementing IM with Jabber which I’ve advocated before. (The company I work for has […]

Here is a big part of the “Health Care Crisis” the politicians don’t want you to know about.

The AP couldn’t resist running this story, Alaskans Wary of Vote on Oil Drilling, after yesterday’s Senate vote. I wonder if the AP bothered to read this story on the 75% of Alaskans that support ANWR drilling? Rumor has it Alaskans really dislike the lower 48 bossing them around all the time. Imagine […]

Well maybe the Italians won’t feel we singled them out now.

As a spammer to stop and what do they do? The sue the victim and keep spamming him. Only in America. 50 years ago, maybe not even that long ago, the victim would have been within his rights to take an oak 2×4 to the spammer. Today we’re all too “civilized”. How unfortunate as this […]

For years we’ve hoped MS would ante up and actually make Internet Explorer standards compliant… looks like we’ll have to wait a little longer…

This has to be the most asinine thing I have seen yet this year. Remember that civil rights are only violatable if the specific civil right is politically correct.
The guy lives close to a school owns camoflage and bought some guns. How scary! So they lock down the school?
ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We’ll see what more comes of […]

The new Iraq Assembly today swore in the new Lawmakers. Unprecedented and a victory so don’t expect to see it on the front page of tomarrow’s papers. They’ll be too busy whining about ANWR or something similary stupid. (The Bambi-esk pictures are a nice touch.)

Someone worth $42Billion can’t tell you your language is being discontinued whether you like it or not. How can Microsoft expect to get Partners on the .Net bandwagon while trying to pull the rug out from under those same Partners who have legacy VB6 (or older) applications they must still maintain?

Partisan EDS and friends are loudly proclaiming Linux is insecure, unscalable. Go tell it to Google who in 2001 was using 10k servers. Not to mention all those people buying Linux servers. Kind of shows what EDS knows, eh?

Gee… Do ya think? Lunacy… used to be no one could require your social security number from you largely for this exact reason. But it has become commercially expedient to track consumers by this government issued non-ID number and enough people gave in, or didn’t know their rights, that it became defacto. […]

There are 21 murders in 8 days and what do the idiots do but suggest a full moratorium on the issuing of gun permits!!
When these kind of brains are our “leaders” it’s no wonder things are going from bad to worse in the “city of brotherly love”. And looking at the history of murdered witnesses […]

Hm.. looks like Planned Parenthood is using a bogus ‘rights’ lawsuit to stop Medicaid Fraud investation by the State AG. Follow the money…. Abortion “rights” isn’t about “reproductive freedom” it’s about profits for the providers.

The Indy 1500 gunshow is at the state fair grounds this weekend (March 18th, 19th and 20th).

“It is a singular advantage of taxes on articles of consumption that they contain in their own nature a security against excess. They prescribe their own limit, which cannot be exceeded without defeating the end purposed — that is, an extension of the revenue.” –Alexander Hamilton

“Captain Baylor’s” article on Ruger’s New Vaquero covers a bit more ground than the last review I linked. If you’ve any interesting in Mercedes cars or Cowboy Action Shooting check out the rest of Curt’s site.

In the corporate world at least. All the more reason for anyone needing secure instant messaging services to switch to Jabber.

Ah-ha, the creditors wanting the screws tightened on consumer credit bankruptcies must fears an implosion. I can’t say as I blame them. America has been living off it’s credit cards, rather than wages, for the last decade. Sort of like the Government we publicly lambaste for doing largely the same thing. Eventually these […]

Good Op-Ed: 30% interest rates: Sound business or loan sharking?.

My ‘little’ brother believes he’s the exception, naturally.

You simply don’t know how much it pains me to agree with
Sen. Russ Feingold on anything. Not because I disagree with the sentiments of the Republican position but because those the Republicans are siding with this time have dirty hands and are as culpable as those this legislation would effect.