Poll Results

Here are the results from the last poll “Do you consider yourself a “Three Percenter“.

• 48 or 71.6% of respondents answered "Yes"

• 11 or 16.4% of respondents answered "No"

•  8 or 11.9% of respondents answered "Undecided"

The mathematically inclined will notice the percentages add up to only 99.9%, but it’s as close as I could get in three decimal places.

That reminds me, as some of you may have noticed, the poll widget I use is math challenged. This means the percentages it figures while the poll is running are off and when the poll closes I have to figure out the percentages by hand. If someone can reccomend a better poll widget, I’d be happy to hear it.

Also, I’ve a new poll up concerning the upcoming election. Does the addition of Sarah Palin to John McCain’s presidential race make you more or less inclined to vote for him.

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I want me one of these!

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McCain Does Something Right

I might just have to reconsider McCain… It’s about time he did something right:

McCain Veep is Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin

DENVER — John McCain tapped little-known Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to be his vice presidential running mate on Friday in a startling selection on the eve of the Republican National Convention.

In an announcement, the campaign said that Palin, who has been governor less than two years, “has the record of reform and bipartisanship that others can only speak of.”

“Her experience in shaking up the status quo is exactly what is needed in Washington today,” the campaign said.

UPDATE: Obama spokeswoman Adrianne March said, “Today, John McCain put the former mayor of a town of 9,000 with zero foreign policy experience a heartbeat away from the presidency. Gov. Palin shares John McCain’s commitment to overturning Roe v. Wade, the agenda of Big Oil and continuing George Bush’s failed economic policies. That’s not the change we need; it’s just more of the same.”

Excuse me? Isn’t that a bit like the pot calling the kettle…erm, black?

Seriously, who comes up with this stuff?

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Verdict in BATFU vs. Wyoming

More here:

Wyoming loses federal gun case

By BEN NEARY
Associated Press writer Thursday, August 28, 2008

CHEYENNE — A federal appeals court in Denver has ruled against Wyoming in a lawsuit over a state law that seeks to allow people convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence to regain their gun rights.

A three-judge panel of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday ruled that the procedure spelled out in Wyoming law fails to expunge the criminal record of people convicted of domestic violence.

The ruling is a victory for the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. The agency had informed Wyoming that if it persisted in using the state law, the federal government would no longer accept Wyoming concealed weapons permits as a substitute for instant background checks for gun purchases.

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Fake Only Ones

This is freaking scary!

Police Say Fake Officer Had Cache Of Police Equipment

TACOMA, Wash. — Lakewood police arrested a man Wednesday on suspicion of impersonating a police officer and discovered he owned a cache of law enforcement equipment, guns and a truck equipped to look like an undercover police vehicle, reported KIRO 7 Eyewitness News.

Police impounded the 52-year-old Dupont man’s Nissan Frontier pickup truck that was equipped with red-and-blue flashing police lights, sirens, K-9 stickers, a public address system and a police scanner.Also found inside the truck were two police-type badges, handcuffs and a handgun, police said.

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Neat photo from the plate match

I just had to post this photo I took yesterday.You can see an ejected case just above the shooters gun and another about to hit the camera, i.e. me. Click to bigify.

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Plate Match

Some days you’re the windshield, and some days you’re the bug…

Well, it’s not shooting at Blackwater with Todd Jarrett, but it was fun (mostly) all the same.I will state right up front that the gun performed flawlessly. All errors and misses were entirely my fault.

I did okay mostly, but it seems I’ve developed a bad habit of “losing it” when I shoot against someone else. Seriously, when I’m shooting the plates without being in competition, no sweat, I can do that all day, but put me head to head with someone and my grip falls apart and I rush things when I don’t need to. Below is a video of me doing it right for a change. I’m on the right.

In this video you can see me shooting five plates, four discs and one duck with six shots in about three seconds. Yeah I missed the duck on the first try.

Here’s a shot of the .22lr rack to illustrate what I’m talking about. The two poppers below are for the centerfire, autoloader and revolver divisions only. These are shot at 14 - 15 yards.

Piece of cake, right?

After the competition was over I convinced Jeffersonian to leave the plates up for a few minutes so people could practice. Wouldn’t you know it, I knocked them down repeatedly in five to seven shots; five shots being the norm.

There are at least three things I noticed about myself at the match. The first is my grip. If I concentrate on gripping the pistol in such as way as to leave my trigger finger “floating” I have much better luck hitting the target. Otherwise I find myself with a “death grip” on the gun and my shots tend to go low. I also need to work on not stressing out when shooting against someone else.”Hurry up and take my time” is a mantra I need to take to heart.

And the last thing…

Put a fracking magazine in the gun before shooting in a match! Yes folks, I actually did it, or didn’t do it, depending on your point of view. I don’t know how I managed to do it, I just know that I did it.

I hereby award to myself, the Special Bonehead Award for forgetting to put the magazine in my gun at the match.

Anyway, here’s a cool shot of me qualifying at the match. Notice the gas jets coming out of the compensator, the bolt on it’s way back under pressure and the empty case just clearing the ejection port. You may have to click the image to biggify it for the details.

Thanks to Jeffersonian for an outstanding photo!

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Yesterday etc…

I know I promised to blog about the plate match yesterday, but this ain’t it. Sorry about that. It’s coming, I promise.

I went to visit my mom at the “nursing center” yesterday. My dad and brother were there as were two of my nephews and a neice. I had the three kids with me as usual, having just picked them up from my oldest brothers house since he had graciously agreed to watch them while I was at the plate match.

My mom was awake and was able to talk, but very weak. I had to get close to her and concentrate to hear her above the noise the oxygen machine was making. It was a good visit.

…and then mom’s cranky roommate started complaining about the kids making noise. I distinctly heard her telling a nurse she called with her call button that “Someone should teach those kids some manners!” Now I’ll admit they can be loud, especially the boy, but in general they are very well behaved kids. I get people telling me how well behaved they are all the time. But still they are little kids. What am I supposed to do? If this bitch had her way, I guess I should just not take the kids to see their dying grandmother.

I have to admit to imagining a Greyhound bus flattening her (the roommate, not my mom), is that wrong?

So the rest of the visit we shushed the kids whenever they got much above a whisper to keep from offending the bitch’s delicate sensabilities.

Oh, and one more thing… This same old fart will play her TV so loud that my Dad can’t communicate with my Mom when he visits, which is everyday, almost the entire day. And she has the balls to complain about my kids being a little loud when they come down to see their grandmother?

Sorry, I just had to get that off my chest.

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Upcoming: Details of Saturday’s Plate Match

I know Jeffersonian linked me about this, and I promise I will have it posted sometime Sunday morning.

Scouts honor!

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Sex with hookers isn’t fun

Or at least that’s what one “Only One” would like you to believe. He was just doing his job, don’t ya know, and by gosh, if that involved having sex with a hooker, then he’d just have to take one for the team.

Give me a break!

A suspended Texas police officer testified Thursday that he was forced to have sex with two prostitutes during an undercover sting operation, saying he was “paid to do it.”

Officer Keith Breiner testified in Beaumont, Texas, during a hearing to be reinstated after he was suspended along with another officer after it came to light that the men engaged in sex acts with prostitutes while on the job, the Beaumont Enterprise reports.

“If you are asking if I had an orgasm, yes. It was a job, sir,” Breiner reportedly said during testimony. “I didn’t have pleasure doing this. I was paid to do it.”

Breiner admitted to being manually stimulated as well as engaging in oral and vaginal sex with two women at two spas during an undercover sting operation, the Enterprise said.

Police Chief Frank Coffin contends that Breiner and fellow officer Lt. David Kiker were suspended indefinitely after the sex acts came to light, the paper said. Breiner is trying to stop Beaumont from suspending him, saying that he was asked to have sex as part of the job.

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