Rust!
There is no question that our opponents in the gun rights world are vile, disgusting human beings who are so blinded by their hatred of an inanimate object that it clouds their judgment. It is well and good that we continue to point out that the fruits of their labor actually result in more violence and highlight their logical inconsistencies such as supporting a woman’s right to do with her body as she pleases, so long as that doesn’t involve her being able to protect herself with the best tools available. Those efforts are to be commended, repeated, and shoved in their faces over and over again because they are true.
However…
We cross a line when we transfer their hyperventilation about some gun store raffling off a pistol and sending the proceeds to cancer research into “they don’t want cancer research!!!”.
Remember this post? It’s the one where I complain that I say one thing but others inject their meaning into it because it’s ideologically easier for them. For example, I believe we need to abolish the NEA. This doesn’t mean I think education is a bad idea. In the same vein, just because these bigots get their unmentionables in a twist because someone is using a gun to raise money does not equate to them not wanting cancer research done.
Let’s not go there, ok? Our opponents have enough real faults to point and laugh at without making up new ones.
Circuit popped at the house that held the server. Wife couldn’t reset the breaker so she had to relocate the UPS to another outlet that’s working and thus, we’ve been down all day.
One of the joys of being self hosted, when the servers go down, you have only yourself to call for help. And sometimes, you’re not available.
Tam shot hers and has good things to say
I still can't get over how mild this gun is to shoot. Tiny, lightweight nines tend to be vicious; the Kahr PM-9, for instance, is not the kind of gun with which you'd want to spend an afternoon plinking soda cans, but you could shoot the Boberg all day.
I hate shooting my Kel-Tec P3AT. It’s uncomfortably small for my hands, the recoil is unpleasant, the trigger sucks in a way that probably violates an Orek patent, but it fits in a pocket and even for all the complaints, I can put all 7 rounds into a fist sized target at 7 yard as fast as I can pull the trigger. Because it’s a .380, I’m probably going to need all of those rounds.
But a 9mm pocket pistol that doesn’t suck?
Man, that might be something worth budgeting for.
For Christmas, my folks got us a ‘grow your own mushrooms’ kit. I love gifts like these because they’re fun and things you’d have never thought of buying yourself.
The kit is from Back to the Roots in case anyone is interested. It comes in a box with everything you need. You remove a panel off the front, make a cross cut, take the bag out and soak it for 24 hours, then put it back in the box. In a few days, you start getting edible fungus! This is day 4 of growing, although our kit took about 7 days to start.
Can’t wait to harvest and eat.
Will It Blend? They don’t think it will
Why: For years now BlendTec, makers of the ultimate blender, has been blending iPads, pens and everything imaginable up to and including Chuck Norris to prove just how tough their handy kitchen appliance is and posting the videos all over the internet. We're convinced... almost. You see, for a few years now we've been emailing, Facebook posting and offering one of our pens up for the BlendTec "Will It Blend?" challenge and so far, nothing. Crickets chirping. Not a single reply. We're beginning to think that Tom Dickson doesn't want to try blending a Tuff-Writer pen. Fortunately, here at Tuff-Writer we don't know the meaning of the word "failure" (we appreciate the help but don't bother with the Facebook posts helping to clear it up, we're just being dramatic). So we've decided to take matters into our own hands. Yup, that's right... in the name of science (and a sense of morbid curiosity) we're going to put our money, and a pen or two, where our mouth is and do our own Tuff-Writer BlendTec Challenge. Admit it, you really want to see this too.
Why: For years now BlendTec, makers of the ultimate blender, has been blending iPads, pens and everything imaginable up to and including Chuck Norris to prove just how tough their handy kitchen appliance is and posting the videos all over the internet. We're convinced... almost. You see, for a few years now we've been emailing, Facebook posting and offering one of our pens up for the BlendTec "Will It Blend?" challenge and so far, nothing. Crickets chirping. Not a single reply. We're beginning to think that Tom Dickson doesn't want to try blending a Tuff-Writer pen. Fortunately, here at Tuff-Writer we don't know the meaning of the word "failure" (we appreciate the help but don't bother with the Facebook posts helping to clear it up, we're just being dramatic). So we've decided to take matters into our own hands. Yup, that's right... in the name of science (and a sense of morbid curiosity) we're going to put our money, and a pen or two, where our mouth is and do our own Tuff-Writer BlendTec Challenge.
Admit it, you really want to see this too.
If I had the requirement for a tactical pen, it’d be worth buying theirs just for this; because yes, I do want to see it.
Just because you incorporate guns into every day objects doesn’t make you edgy.
Busy. Busy, busy, busy. I’m behind at work, behind at home, and falling further and further each day it seems.
Brand new super computer at work is hosed, and I need to reimage it which means I’m going to be even further behind now as I get it reimaged. The people who can do that are in training this week. Luckily, I kept the old box around for just such a situation.
There are a few big items on the horizon I hope that will give me some good blogging material, but until then, feel free to curse at the free ice cream machine for not being powered on.
Yeah, pretty much like this.
I drink Starbucks every day, but that’s because I buy their Sumatra by the bag full. However, I’ll be making a special trip on the 14th so I can get a cup ‘o joe and a scone.
I don’t know what dictionary you’re using bub, but in my copy of Webster’s, Cliché has a link to your post.
I’m so hetero, it hurts. I love a good set of breasts and a firm butt like nobody’s business. I also love guns almost as much. Technically more since I can touch someone else’s guns without the Mrs. stabbing me in the neck with a set of poultry shears. If I wanted to see both at the same time, there's definitely a place for that. And yes, sometimes there are naughty bits involved. Yet, Oleg knows guns and women and somehow with his photography we don’t get a face full of some tarted up bint with poor trigger control.
Sex sells, sure, I get that. And I’m sure that other industries have face palming moments when someone selects a woman for her ability to adjust the topology of a sweater over her in-depth knowledge of the item she’s hawking. That doesn’t lessen the sting of seeing lingerie models mishandle guns in some lame attempt to appear edgy, and while our opponents would have a difficult time arguing with a salad, it still gives off the impression that gun owners are a bunch of chauvinist pigs. Ok, some of us are, but that’s besides the point.
As a gun owner and appreciator of women who can shoot, I’d prefer to see action shots of Randi Rogers, Jessie Harrison , or Julie Golob than a half-clad waif who doesn’t look like she’d know the business end of a pistol if it was shoved in her ear.
Hat tip Breda