Chuck Norris and the NRA… part of the Trigger The Vote campaign.
Regardless of your political stance, registering to vote is an important first step. The other part is to ensure you get educated about the propositions and people on the ballot, then get out and vote!
And I love the choice of Ted Nugent song. 😉
The KR Training September 2010 Newsletter is up.
Have you wanted to take one of KRT’s half-day live fire courses (DPS1, DPS2, Competition Pistol, AT-3, AT-4, AT-6) but haven’t been able to because of your schedule or the KR schedule? Well, what are you doing Saturday September 18?
Between now and September 13 you can email KR Training and vote for what class you’d like to take! The class with the most votes will win and be offered on that date. Winner will be announced on the KR Training website and the KR Training Facebook page.
Vote now!
Bacon wrapped suppressors.
Don’t neglect to empty the milk jug that catches your spent primers. You may find the reloading press backs up because the tube doesn’t empty.
While it’s nice to listen to music while reloading, it’s nicer to listen to the sound of silence broken only by the sound of morning rainfall.
I’m getting tired of reloading 9mm… been a lot of rounds loaded and I’m wanting to move on, but no… must stay with it. I see the light at the end of the tunnel, and I know it’ll feel sweet when I get it all done. Must stay the course, must see it through.
When it comes to breakfast, what’s the difference between cornflakes and milk, or chips and queso? It’s all ground corn pressed into flakes consumed with milk product, so have your nachos for breakfast (call it a Bill Cosby breakfast — “this is not your child!”) and be happy.
Seeing ducks in the morning makes me smile.
Seeing my children in the morning make me smile more.
Seeing Wife in the morning, makes me smile most.
It’s easy to find something that will spoil my day… but I’m not going to seek it, something will come along sooner or later. Going to ride my wave of happiness while I have it for as long as I can. 🙂
This past Sunday Metal featured the Texas Hippie Coalition.
Since then, I bought two of their albums, “Pride of Texas” and “Rollin'”. Been listening to them while I’ve been working. My verdict? They’re OK and have potential.
The bad: lyrics. While I don’t have their lyrics memorized yet, there are some lyrics that I think are just stupid sounding in a song…. like the chorus from “Leavin'”. I mean, the rest of the song seems alright, and then… the chorus. I’m not sure how to describe it, but it feels like something you might have snickered over in junior high school, or certainly Beavis & Butthead would giggle over it.
Their big single, “Pissed Off and Mad About It”. I mean, what else are you going to be? Pissed off and pleasantly OK with it? And the chorus is a little cliché too… “so let me scream and shout it”.
But that said, that’s also what makes that song so damn catchy. The chorus is one major hook. The song has such a groove to it, you can’t not start banging your head and finding that chorus stuck in your head the rest of the day. I had to take my kids shopping and the whole time I had that song rolling through my head. I do think it’s a cool song, because it has attitude.
Big Dad Ritch’s voice is pretty cool; very powerful and works very well in this context — it’s metal, but it’s southern, and all Texas attitude. Guitars have a real groove to them, certainly a lot of Dimebag and Zakk Wylde influence but certainly they are their own sound and style. I think that’s what I dig the most about the band is their groove, their sound. It’s heavy, but it’s accessible.
Check them out. It took me some listening to songs via YouTube searches and MySpace to see if I liked them enough to plunk down my money for their albums, but I don’t regret it. If they come to Austin, I’d like to check them out live.
Precision marching is fun to watch. Generally you see it performed by military groups, but here’s a non-military group doing precision marching.
It’s in Japanese so I have no idea what’s being said, but it’s still pretty cool to watch.
The above is merely a clip. If you want to watch the whole performance, click here.
What I liked about this is because it’s non-military they weren’t constrained by needing to act military, so they have some different elements that I’ve never seen before. Pretty neat.
I’m well aware of how I look and thus the general way I’m perceived by people who don’t truly know me.
It’s always given me moments of eye-rolling humor throughout my life, especially the past 20+ years that I’ve had long hair.
I get an extra special giggle when it comes to politics.
Why?
Well, most people assume that someone with long hair is not going to be conservative (in the true sense… remember, I politically identify myself with Libertarian philosophy). Consequently, people I may vote for may belong to parties other than Democrat (and typically so), and modern Liberals generally turn my stomach.
But it’s funny… it’s usually those same Democrats and Liberals that tend to judge me by my looks, yet they’re the same people who think judging someone by how they look is a bad thing. Ah, the irony is so sweet, and I get to savor it so often. 🙂
Queensland lawmakers don’t get it, but it’s not about getting it.
ANY ITEM that looks like a gun will have to be licensed under several changes to the Weapons Act being considered by the Queensland State Government.
Even guns made out of materials as unlikely as soap or plastic may have to be kept under lock and key if they could “reasonably be taken to be a weapon”.
The draft act says an imitation is a “reasonable copy” of a weapon that is not capable of causing death or injury.
“If it looks like a gun and feels like a gun, it will have to be licensed,” said a government source.
“We just want to know where they are.”
Emphasis added.
Registration leads to confiscation… and if you want to confiscate, you need to know where they are.
Oh Cabela’s.
You are so evil.
I go in just to buy some dry boxes.
I walk out with a lot more than that. Granted, most were things I eventually needed anyways, but still…. 🙂
My buddy W just told me about these guys, the Texas Hippie Coalition.
Not bad. I hear some Pantera-like undertones, some stoner-rock (THC, get it?), a Texas vibe and attitude. I’ll be looking more into them for sure.
Stuff From Hsoi 