The GOP is screwed

Read this.

And then read this.

Why is Trump still ahead in polls?  Because a huge chunk of former GOP voters are so pissed off at the betrayal of the GOP that they're willing to let things burn down than continue the charade of "representative" government.

We’ll be honest with you Mr. Erikson – Trump could have shot Megyn Kelly in the face on stage and we’d still vote for him. After all… one does not criticize their wrecking ball when it’s going about it’s assigned task. After 2015′s “year of congressional betrayal,” it is patently obvious that this war is no longer about “principles” or “beliefs” – such notions have no proper place when mentioned in the same sentence as “the Republican party.”

The GOP is reaping what it sowed over the past six years.  Or two decades.  Trump is what happens when the GOP alienates so many people that they would prefer to see the destruction of the modern Whig Party rather than suffer through yet another Republicrat.

Potato Cannon

....fired.

I got a spud to fly close to a football field of distance.  We'll see what I can do tomorrow once I start playing around with wadding and other avenues of keeping gas from leaking around the projectile.

It's been dry in the Northwest lately

So consequently, the farmland of the Palouse has been turned into a rather fine dust.  And the winds have picked that dust up and dumped it all over Northern Idaho.

I can feel the grit on my teeth right now.  Although my parent's yard is getting some great topsoil deposited on it.

Profit Margins

Hardcover books sell for what these days...  $20?  $25?

John C. Write responds to a review of his newest book Somewhither (which I'm reading right now, review to follow sometime later).

I am happy to be “shoplifting” under such circumstances: I get paid more than twice my cut of the take had the reader bought this book in hardback.

So he gets more than twice the scratch from a $4.99 purchase on Amazon than he does from a $20 purchase at a brick and mortar store.

Tell me again how Amazon is destroying the book market in this country?  I can't afford $20 for a new book.  I can afford $4.99.  And the author makes over twice what he would normally make when I purchase the $4.99 Kindle book.

Yeesh.

So, the new gun

Took it for it's maiden voyage today.  Put 100 rounds through it.  Please keep in mind that I'm not a gun writer, or a gun reviewer.  I'm just a guy who likes to shoot, so don't expect any chronograph measurements or physics lessons from me.

You can read the specs on it here.  I won't re-hash them.  Here's my initial impression.

It's a steel slide on a polymer frame.  I originally thought that might give it too much "kick" for a small gun.  The grip is textured and contoured to fit your hand.  The grip itself is small-to-medium, but the magazine has a small extention that makes it large enough for my paws to grip.  Without that I wouldn't have purchased the gun, as my pinky would have been hanging off the bottom.  Magazine holds 12 rounds.  Sights are white dot, with the rear sights being adjustable.

I shot the pistol while I was standing with no support.  Hey, I'm in the country.  My target was a cardboard box sitting on a brush pile that I made yesterday.  I figured that if I were to use this gun in a defensive situation, I wouldn't have a bench rest or sandbags.  Ammo was Blazer Brass 115 grain FMJ.

My first ten rounds downrange at 15 feet grouped at 3 inches.  I moved back to 25 feet and could still make a 4 inch group with the second ten round magazine.  My worries about the weight of the slide giving the gun more "kick" was unfounded.  In fact, the recoil was minimal, all things considered.  My .38 Special has more of a kick.  Acquiring the target was easy, and re-acquiring it was quick.  I had no problem getting the gun back on target for a second shot.  I did a number of "double-tap" shots, and while I wasn't as accurate as a single aimed shot all my shots hit within an 8x11 square.

The grip was comfortable; I didn't have to fiddle around or play with my grip in order to get the gun where I wanted it.  It's one of the more natural grips I've found in a pistol, and that's saying something.  My big problem with Glocks is that they just don't fit my hands.  I had no problem with this gun.

All I did right out of the box was wipe off some of the gun grease they had on it.  I gave it a good wipe-down after the range session, and there wasn't much to really clean.  It ran without a hitch right out of the box with no malfunctions or FTF.

Add in the fact that this gun's MSRP is just a hair over $300 - it's a steal.  I've fired guns that cost twice as much that aren't as accurate or as fun to shoot as the Taurus.

All in all, this is a fun gun to shoot.  It's accurate and easy to control, which is really what you want in a carry pistol.  I have a feeling that I'm going to be putting lots of rounds downrange with this gun in the next year or so.

Potato Cannon

Built.

If you have teenaged boys and enjoy watching them make loud noises, this is your book.

I'm letting the glue cure, and I'll be giving it a test run tomorrow.

I am sitting outside

Smoking a Gurkha Beauty, sipping Maker's Mark, and listening to the coyotes yip and howl in the woods.





This is what my life is supposed to be like.

It called to me

Who was I to resist?

So I now have a 9mm to go with my other guns.  I'd been looking for a carry gun for hot climates.  My .45 is nice, but it's a big frame and it prints in light clothing.  The Taurus should work just fine in a climate where I can't throw a sweatshirt or flannel over my t-shirt, but have to rely on much lighter clothing.

The reviews I saw on it were rather complementary, it felt good in my hand, and the sights fit my eyes.  I'll give a report once I run 100 rounds through it.

A new new computer

So, I had gotten a new computer a while back.  MacBook Air.  It's a sweet little job, fires up quick, nice and light.  And then the Ragin' Mrs' computer went Tits up.

Sigh.

As we're doing our reviews and figuring out what she wants, she keeps casting gazes at my MacBook Air.

Fine.  Let's go get one.

Since A) we're not rich, and B) I'm military, we go to AAFES and check out what they have.  MacBook Air?  Nope.  MacBook Pro?  Yep.  Price?  It's on sale, and the price is lower than we would be paying for a new MacBook Air OR a plain MacBook.  By a wide margin.

So she gives me those little eyes....

Anyways, I'm now using my MacBook Pro, while the Mrs. has reformatted my two-month-old MacBook Air and has claimed it for herself.

She's happy.  And the one thing that bugged me about the Air was the lack of a CD/DVD drive, and now I have one.  Plus more memory for my various things.

I'm still traveling.  On holiday, as it were.  Sorry for the light posting, but I'm not at a computer very much right now.

The Debate

I just saw a poll that showed the only politician to improve his standings after the debate is Ted Cruz. The other folks who improved their standings were non-politicians (Fiorina and Carson).

Ya think the GOP is going to listen?

Nah.  Me neither.

Traveling

No free ice cream.  Sorry.

No Irish Need Apply

One of the greatest harms of Leftist ideology is the way they inject their politics into everything they do.  Like claiming historical facts never happened just because the group isn't one of the favored victim status groups of today.

All of this would have been written off as a myth if it weren’t for Rebecca Fried, a rising high school freshman—who one of the preeminent scholars on the Irish diaspora in the United States now calls a “hero” and “quite extraordinary”—and who simply couldn’t believe it, either. 

Rebecca never set out to prove the thesis wrong. She was just interested in an article her dad brought home from work one day.

You cannot trust any "scientific" information that comes out of a Leftist.  Social Justice Warriors ALWAYS LIE.

As an aside, if you want to know how much the Irish (and Catholics) were hated, look up the Mass Rocks.  The Irish were forbidden by the English from celebrating their faith in their churches.  So they had to say Mass on rocks hidden from view of population centers.  And often, when the Brits would find a priest saying Mass, they would slaughter him and as many of the congregation as they could.

Think about THAT as you ponder how much you're willing to suffer for your faith in America today.

Aaaaaand, Puerto Rico defaulted

You do NOT want this as the 51st state, folks.

Take it from someone who used to live there.  They are not American.  And that's fine.  It's Puerto Rico after all, not Puerto America or American Rico.  But all the same, the Leftist ideology that ran PR into bankruptcy is NOT what we need to gather into the fold.

Let them work it out.  Hell, we already dump massive sums of cash into that island via federal funding.  We don't need to give them more.

This will continue

Until military members are allowed to shoot back.

The Mississippi National Guard says soldiers reported shots fired during a training exercise at Camp Shelby, but no service members were hurt. 

The Guard said in a news release Tuesday that the Camp Shelby Joint Forces Training Center is secure and all personnel accounted for. The news release says the shots were fired from a road near Camp Shelby, but not on the military post’s property.

Give the troops guns.  Let them fight back.  It's what they are TRAINED TO DO ANYWAYS!

The Fifth Planned Parenthood video drops

And it's just as ugly as the rest of them.

Those who defend Planned Parenthood after all the proof that has come out about their actions only confirm their complete and total lack of humanity.  Or a soul.  Or anything that might make them something more than a shell, filled with evil, walking the earth to cause harm to others.

Want

Wantwantwantwantwant.

Ah well.  We just picked up the Ragin' Mrs. a nice little booby trap that fits into her evening bag, so this might have to be item #2 or 3 on the list of things I want to buy.

GOP Establishment: Everything is Fine!

It's all awesomeness with a side of awesome fries!

Except no it's not.  And the GOP is going to run face first into a buzzsaw it created called "pissed off former GOP voters".

Hell, I'm already at that point.  The GOP wants to claim that everything is fine?  Screw them.  They want to tell people to just get in line and vote the way they're told?

Then let me paraphrase Bill Quick:  I will burn your entire corrupt party to the ground and sow the embers with salt.

Brains, hard work, and guts

In short, everything that is missing in the US government these days.



My generation is going to be the "What if" generation.  What if we hadn't wasted money on worthless government programs and instead spent it on worthwhile pursuits....

I have realized

That despite the massive sums of money spent....


All the hype...

All the new talent brought in....






All the promises made.....





I can't watch the Mariners send yet another abysmal season into the record books.  It's too painful.  It's like watching a wounded animal thrash around - you know the poor thing is done for, you know it's going to die. you know there's no saving it, but you lack the capability to put the poor thing out of it's misery.

Could the Mariners just please call the season over and give up?  Oh wait, they did that thirty days ago.

If'n ya want to read some writing

Go read Larry Correia's beat-down of the local sub-moron at the Guardian.

If it weren't for government subsidies, that douchbag at the Guardian would be begging for pennies on the street corner.

And to be honest, that's all he's really good for.