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Finally a proper cellular phone for kids. Typically I detest seeing kids with phones no matter the good intentions. The exceptions thus far have been systems like TracPhone where all minutes are prepaid. That is if the parents make the child buy the minutes - unfortunately that is seldom the case.
But the Migo allows […]

In Wisconsin citizens are not allowed to defend themselves with firearms and while the idiot in the Governors mansion is contemplating once again vetoing concealed carry legislation citizens are being regularly beaten by roving gangs of teenagers in Milwaukee.
Worse yet what is the Milwaukee City Council’s plan to fix the issue? Pass an […]

If anyone wonders why the opinion of Europe matters little to me here is but one illustration.

I have to wonder because everything we read and are told today is to just let criminal go. Give them what they want and they’ll leave and that lives are worth more than the money. But sometimes its not the cash value we’re dealing with here and acting like sheep only encourages more to become […]

Despite the nay sayers the American dream is very much alive and well for those willing to actually work for it. Those who have not achieved the American Dream, or their own idea of it, are either lazy or don’t want it to exist.
Though arguably those who don’t want it to exist and have […]

It is good to see that I was wrong to believe the Gaza strip would be used as a terror launching pad against Israel when the boneheads gave it away. Its good to be wrong every now and then….

It must have been a really slow news day in Canada for them to report on the pending coffee shortage. Strangely the article goes into the 2 year cycle of growing coffee so this whole article is nothing new. They probably pulled it out of the 2003 archives to fill space. Besides its […]

And these are the people George Bush wants to give a “palastinian state”? The obvious question being “ever hear of Jordan?”

Fascinating - it wasn’t a secret that the same EU members who bash the US for not joining Koyoto are themselves fail ingto hit emissions targets of their own participation. More amazing is seeing it in an otherwise lefty leaning paper like The Scotsman.
The thing is that while the EU member states have signed […]

What happens after the 12 days of Christmas? Easy! Everything goes up on eBay!

Though read Cooper regularly I’ve never gotten that desire to hunt big deadly things on the Dark Continent. But a link on a bulletin board about a 4-Bore double rifle caught my eye. From that link I found the African Hunter website run out of Zim and with some very good writing. I was […]

In times of major popular crisis, we often propose a “Department of Public Security.” If we look at this calmly, we must realize that the Department of Public Security is the armed citizen. This is so obvious that there would seem to be no need to announce it further.
Jeff Cooper - Commentaries Vol. 13, […]

“How many observe Christ’s birthday! How few, his precepts! O! ’tis easier to keep Holidays than Commandments.” —Benjamin Franklin

For some reason the fact that there are now 122 electoral democracies in the world does not make me feel at ease. The Founding Fathers recognized that a true democracy was little more than taking the reins of tyranny and handing them to the whims of mob. It is one of my concerns with […]

Not too long after the Canadian Liberals vow to ban handguns some gun shops are reporting a spike in handgun sales.
In the meantime where handguns have been completely banned for some years now the under-gunned cops are considering whether every Bobby should be armed.
The most asinine statement I think I’ve ever read:
But Lord Brian […]

After a few weeks of insistence that my header graphic contain snow I’ve finally put up a new one. As before this image is from the neighborhood and was taken early 2005.
The previous Fall header:

The runners up were

I doubt I’ll leave it alone as I’m sure to take more pictures while on […]

On Monday morning its off to Fry’s with the misbehaving Abit UL8. As I suspected getting a refund was no problem but I did check the return sticker the Fry’s employee put on the box (twice returned remember) to ensure it was going back to Abit instead of back on the mainboard display.
Back […]

In 2000 I put a new chip in my computer. In 2005 I put a DVDR drive in it. I think that’s all I’ve done to the thing since other than keeping the OS up to date. In actuality my old Coppermine P3 733 still is adequate to most of the tasks but I’m […]

Could Microsoft moving graphics outside OS kernel be a preview of things to come? I’ve often commented to associates how this one move would greatly improve the stability of Windows but that is only a small part considering Microsoft’s desire to break fully into large scale datacenters.
One of the huge problems running Windows […]

Ann Coulter is asking Liberals bring trumped-up criminal charges against all the most dangerous conservatives. Why not me?

Truely the Darwin Awards were robbed of two 2005 finalists because the idiots don’t know how to aim.

There is such a shortage of natural gas resources that its shooting geysers out of the ground in Oklahoma. Maybe if the greens would let us pump it and it wasn’t over $10 a unit people would burn it instead of corn.
Where the heck are peoples brains? We hear on the news about […]

I have to wonder if there is a hidden message when all of the Christmas cards I’ve received to my office thus far are from head hunters.

In Marion County (IN) IPD officers removed a firearms collection valued at over a Million dollars and with pieces dating back to World War I on the grounds that they weren’t safely stored. The video showed them hauling out ‘08 Lugers, 98 GEW’s and the like.
Now instead of busting crooks IPD is busting gun […]

Having had Chinese twice in the last week I found this quite hilarious (don’t follow the link if you don’t want to contemplate whats on your plate).