This is not meant for the regular Caturday post…rather the Overnight Open Thread, as you’ll soon see why:
Definitely not some parody of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, that’s for sure! OK, you know what to do!
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Caturday SPECIAL OOT
by Macker ( 90 Comments › )Filed under Caturday, OOT at February 9th, 2013 - 9:00 pm
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We're not easily offended and don't want people to think they have to walk on eggshells around here (like at another place that shall remain nameless) but of course, there is a limit to everything.
Play nice!
I want my 5 minutes back/
I’m measurably less human
Sorry, I could only handle 45 seconds before I had to bail. Wow, that was like some bad fever dream.
I managed to get through the entire video and thought afterwards: What a FUCKING Waste!
Well, now that we have that painful demonstration of why youtube is part of the downfall of modern society….
My next toy hopefully…
http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=328406863
/galt
@ Macker:
Couldn’t just suffer alone, eh?
@ CynicalConservative:
Sweet! Good luck.
@ CynicalConservative:
Now there’s a real BANG BANG!
I posted on this earlier:
(Zip hates our ‘h,’ methinks…)
Anyhoo here’s the gist.
I heard this lib flounce on the air yesterday.
I actually e-mailed the station last week after he promoted the MSNBC video purportedly showing pro-Second Amendment supporters “heckling” one of the parents of the Newtown slayings. (It had been heavily edited to achieve this affect.)
I was pretty civil, and made clear that I’m sure he wouldn’t give me the same respect. I’d have never sent anything if he hadn’t misrepresented his “facts” in order to use a 30 second soundbite to make the entire political right look bad.
He’s been doing it for weeks, throwing potshots around and not allowing any discussion.
This wouldn’t have happened if he’d have stuck to talking about sports, girls, and beer.
Went on a big rant though, and then MUSIC! In the AM! Imagine that!
Apparently, before the flounce he posted this to his official station Facebook account:
@ AZfederalist:
@ Macker:
May be just a dream, but if the stars align, it could happen. Also, ammo’s pretty rare, average $5 per round. That’s an expensive Bang. Interesting reloading options, but still not cheap.
/galt
CynicalConservative wrote:
Looks like a nightmare.
May I suggest a Springfield Armory XDM 45 AUTO?
You can convert it to a 460 Rowland with 300 bucks and no tools (ported kit), then switch back to shoot 45 AUTO.
@ CynicalConservative:
Brass is 32 cents a pop at Starline, bullets are common.
Finding extra mags and keeping the gun together would be my concerns.
Apparently there could be lots of damage.
auto-mag-buyers-guide
CNN anchor ‘Is oncoming asteroid an effect of global warming?’
Dear God, that’s on a stupidity level of ‘Guam may capsize’.
@ mfhorn:
Makes about as much sense as the rest of the AGW argument.
@ Prebanned:
. This is a fully acknowledged want/toy vs. need.
No worries Pre, I’m fully engaged in what I need and what’s available. At least before I lost them in the last earthquake/flood disaster up here
/galt
@ CynicalConservative:
My wallhangers include a 7.35 carcano, which I will never ever reload for and a 17HMR (accurate, not much better than a .22 at much greater cost per round, a ruger 10-22 (inaccurate and therefore boring) an SKS (innaccurate, boring).
So many rabbit holes, so little time.
mfhorn wrote:
Let’s hope someone doesn’t show him this video.
He’ll have nightmares for years from the trauma…
Speaking of weapons grade stupidity:
@ lobo91:
Some Mushrooms are way beyond just ignorant and there’s no way to reach them. They will believe every word coming from the good Rev. Jackson because they all knows that all the Right-wingers do is lie about everything…
@ Da_Beerfreak:
Jackson was yapping about how the guy in Aurora was “right next to the airport fence” and “could have shot down an airliner.”
Leaving aside the stupidity of believing that a semi-auto AR-15 is going to shoot down an airliner, that theater is at least 10 or 12 miles from the airport. Maybe nobody told Jackson that they built a new one back in the mid-’90s that’s 10 miles north of I-70.
With all the ignorant talk I’ve been hearing from the Liberals since the election I really do wonder if the these people have become too stupid to survive their own ignorance.
That Auto-mag is definitely a collector’s gun, not a shooter. I briefly owned a collector’s gun a year or so ago (a Ruger Speed Six in .357 mag, full Class B engraving, then polished, never fired), but as soon as I could, I sold it to an actual collector. Nothing wrong with collecting, but I can’t afford it and don’t have any proper room for displays.
And BTW, if your Ruger 10/22 isn’t accurate at reasonable ranges, you need to find out why and get it fixed. They are not inherently inaccurate, even though they are not bench rest rifles.
@ Mike C.:
Oh, and be sure to look at today’s DBD…
http://www.daybydaycartoon.com/
Heh.
Note to self: Read the Comments before watching any video link! That would have saved me the 47 seconds I wasted on that!
BBC has a history documentation where they praise Margret Sanger as one of the greatest social reformers in history
@ Guggi:
Hey, if you’re into genocide, she’s one of the top theoreticians of your field. What’s next? A hagiography of Stalin? Oh, yeah, the New York Times already took care of that…
Wow! Ordering from the CMP involves jumping through a bunch of hoops! Who knew? I had best get cracking on that ASAP, while there’s still something left to order.
I have 2 antique firearms, although not particularly collectible. One is a Nickel plated 1906 Hopkins & Allen Safety Police breaktop .38. The safety police was in a class then known as a “suicide special” as they were cheap and commonly used as a weapon of “last resort”.
The other is a 1917 Amberg K98 Mauser. Again, not particularly collectible as they were made by the 10′s of millions. I suppose the one I have is a little more unique as it is stamped with the royal crest of Kaiser Bill. Actually, they both belong to my wife. the H&A was her grandfather’s and her dad brought the Mauser back from Europe after WWII.
Hmm. Nothing old here. Oldest gun I still own was probably manufactured in 1975 (I could check.) I have some old-fashioned, but none that are actually old, much less early 20th or 19th century.
@ Mike C.:
Funny thing about the Hopkins & Allen. When we brought it home after her dad’s funeral, I promptly bought a box of .38 and put about 20 rounds through it. That was about 20 years ago. I’ve done more research on it, and from what I’ve picked up in various forums, using modern smokeless powder rounds could result in “catastrophic failure”. Gee, I wonder what that means? Glad I didn’t find out.
Towering intellect and deep-thinker Magic Johnson is certain that Obama has done more for the cause of AIDS than G.W. Bush.
@ huckfunn:
Yup. Those old heirloom pieces need to be kept as exactly that. Shoot the modern ones. I have a BiL who has several original Sharps, Ballards and Hepburns, but he stopped shooting those in BPC competitions and now shoots a .40/60 Hepburn repro. Which cost more than any of his originals are worth. But it’s made with modern metals and machining and is fully capable of taking smokeless powder loads, much less the BPC rounds he shoots in competition. He’s got a fair number of original percussion and flintlocks as well, plus a few dozen old but much more modern rifles.
The oldest gun I have is an old Side-By 12 Ga. Spanish rip off for an American importer. Good upland game gun!
Being born in raised in the Hills of NC it was my 14th Birthday present!
@ AZOlddog:
My 15th Christmas present was a High Standard 12 guage pump shotgun. Like an idiot, I sold it. Wish I still had it, even though it was a cheapo gun. I do remember that when I got it, it cost $ 59, new from Sears. That was a lot of money to me and mine back then.
@ AZOlddog:
@ Mike C.:
Very telling that an item bought within one’s lifetime is now an antique. I never had anything of any value whatsoever before I bought it myself. The oldest thing that I have, that I bought, is a big green ceramic elephant that I bought in the market in Saigon in 1973.
“The oldest thing I have that I bought” -- now there’s an interesting concept. I’ll have to think on that one. Bought new or bought as an antique at time of purchase? I have a small map that was printed in 1762.
@ Mike C.:
Are you still in the southern hemisphere or is that gig up?
Has anybody tried going to Michael Yon’s website?
Why does the warning pop up?
http://www.michaelyon-online.com
huckfunn wrote:
That gig is in the history books. I got back to the house very early Feb. 2.
Peter wrote:
I’m not sure how it’s done, but the same thing has been happening to conservative blogs with increasing frequency. Sort of a digital version of “swatting”.
@ Peter:
Works for me.
huckfunn wrote:
Actually, the oldest gun in the house is an OLD Stevens 311 Side-By 12 GA. that was my fathers and is older than I am (which puts it a week or so younger than dirt). Technically it is not mine, it is merely in holding until my Son can drive out here or I can drive to NC (not on business) so it can be delivered to him. Dad was pretty explicit where his and Moms guns were to go!
Of course Moms go to her Granddaughter so it is in the same status.
@ Bumr50:
The site works, but it has a virus of some sort.
Yes, WE’RE the hearttless bastards, we know.
//
ht- Breitbart
Empathy gap.
WTF?
More shameless exploitation of dead kids:
@ Bumr50:
That socialist bitch needs to STFU.
Her husband is the ex-con who wrote the plan for Obamacare.
lobo91 wrote:
An economy that works for EVERYONE!
ht -- AT
Emph mine.
Tricky.
huckfunn wrote:
Like with WZ I get a “internetexlorer not working any longer”. It drives me crazy
lobo91 wrote:
For “heartbroken” read “scared shitless because it happened less than a mile from their Chicago house.”
@ Bumr50:
no infringement there…nope
@ heysoos:
I’D be a “prohibited individual” if I lived in CA, and by virtue of that I’d not only not have access to Second Amendment protections -- I’d prevent anyone with whom I lived from having them as well.
Bumr50 wrote:
it’s getting to the point where this stuff is humorous…charging off in exactly the wrong direction, spittle flying
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Michelle said during the first campaigned that she feared that Obama could
get shot pumping gas. The discussion was about his race.
What she didn’t say is that in their area the odds are overwhelming that
he would be shot by a Black Gang banger.
@ 40 huckfunn: That’s a google problem with the new browser the aggregate techonology behind. Yon has a link in it some where that Google doesn’t like. There was a huge flood of these a few weeks ago.
She totally deserve a leadership position./
RIX wrote:
i thought that was the secod…oh never mind.
@ 40 huckfunn:
Here is what Google Says. So It does look bad. The google webmaster tools probably have the exact error message. I would think it hard to compormise the actual web site unless someone has grabbed the login credentials. If that was the case he need to shut the site down and rebuild it with a new account. Or it has compromised ad networks. Once compromised groups of hackers evaluate it not individuals. And they set up pretty sophisticated attempts to phish visitors. In Yon’s case I would think he would be the target of muslim hackers. And I don’t recall him as updating his site a lot. He might be better off going to a wordpress/fickr combinations on a dedicated wordpress host.
What is the current listing status for michaelyon-online.com?
Site is listed as suspicious -- visiting this web site may harm your computer.
Part of this site was listed for suspicious activity 8 time(s) over the past 90 days.
What happened when Google visited this site?
Of the 383 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 79 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent. The last time Google visited this site was on 2013-02-09, and the last time suspicious content was found on this site was on 2013-02-09.
Malicious software includes 63 trojan(s), 4 exploit(s). Successful infection resulted in an average of 6 new process(es) on the target machine.
Malicious software is hosted on 49 domain(s), including whattofeedchickens.info/, vercolos.com/, africanmangoextract4u.info/.
15 domain(s) appear to be functioning as intermediaries for distributing malware to visitors of this site, including statistic-online.com/, eurorscginteraction.com/, neelnetworks.com/.
This site was hosted on 1 network(s) including AS33070 (RMH).
Has this site acted as an intermediary resulting in further distribution of malware?
Over the past 90 days, michaelyon-online.com did not appear to function as an intermediary for the infection of any sites.
Has this site hosted malware?
No, this site has not hosted malicious software over the past 90 days.
How did this happen?
In some cases, third parties can add malicious code to legitimate sites, which would cause us to show the warning message.
Next steps:
Return to the previous page.
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@ RIX:
@ brookly red:
Possibly a meme?
Be interesting to see if it happens again.
Sometimes they say things that are so stupid, I find it impossible not to suspect a play in the larger game.
Feinstein thinks Drones are a bad idea because they violate the intent of the constitution. If she respects the intent that well she should be pro gun. If she is only a fair weather friend to the American Revolution she need to get out of office.
@ Bumr50:
If it were anyone but Pelosi, maybe.
She actually is that stupid.
lobo91 wrote:
I am inclined to agree.
@ darkwords:
Google had a note up that his site delivered a virus yesterday
but also says this.
He should move to a wordpress/flickr setup on a robust wordpress host.
Well Hillary would say, “What does it matter?”
RIX wrote:
lemming in chief ?
If you don’t like it, you could always go work somewhere else…
@ 61 lobo91: I think misdirection is ok in security issues and in rough and tumble elections. But not in everyday legislating. It just becomes a pathological lying then.
This is Pelosi, I think that she actually is that stupid.
I wonder if she & BHO agree on the number of ststes.
lobo91 wrote:
they could do us all a favor and go on a nice long strike…
At the very least.
I didn’t used to but I was not paying that much attention…yes, I believe Pelosi is that stupid…there is something very dim witted there
@ 69 brookly red:Most government workers are just glad to have a job and don’t care about the increase. One could close all non emergency govt offices on Fridays year round and no one would notice. Especially with all the online services these days.
Bumr50 wrote:
Interesting factoid: Until 1968, there was no “Prohibited” class of citizen with respect to firearms ownership. The only American citizens prohibited from owning a firearm up until the 1968 Firearms Control Act, were those who were physically in jail or prison, and that right was returned to them upon their release from custody.
heysoos wrote:
no one ever mentions it but more that a few of our “leaders” are at the age where, well let’s just say in her case I think it is natural to sometimes repeat herself, or misplace things…
darkwords wrote:
… and reduce their pay 20% ? Brilliant! /we could use the savings to pay down our debt
darkwords wrote:
Feinstein should be spending the rest of her life occupying Randy “Duke” Cunningham’s old Federal Prison Cell. That bitch illegally funneled HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS of tax payer dollars to her husbands company.
doriangrey wrote:
well we also could nationalize the company, you know… for the children.
See how smart & sciencey the Left is?
This question would get her up dings at LGF.
doriangrey wrote:
Which is houw it should be.
@ brookly red:
Hey now- Mrs MF is a government employee! She does audits. At least her job pays for itself!
Iron Fist wrote:
I most cases I would agree… depending on what they were in prison for.
mfhorn wrote:
audits? hmmmmm… I that case I would say approve the OT
@ brookly red:
If sentences were actually handed out judiciously and effectively, it wouldn’t be much of a problem, IMHO.
I think the citizens of CA should be more afraid of the cops than the killer on the loose…
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-torrance-shooting-20130210,0,3955268.story
Bumr50 wrote:
agreed
brookly red wrote:
My answer to that is simple. If you are wooried about someone being able to get a gun, you shouldn’t be letting them out of prison in the first place. I have no problem with a sentance of life without parole for rape, murder, or even armed robbery. For real, serious crimes you should lock them up[ and throw away the key. The problem is that today so much is a felony crime. Martha Stewart is a “Prohibited Person” based on the ’68 GCA. Are the Feds really worried that Martha Stewart will get a gun? There ae more important things that the Federal Government shoudl be concerning themselves with. They get away with it because Republicans want to appear “tugh on crime”, and Democrats never met a gun control law they didn’t like.
Iron Fist wrote:
no argument from me…
There is a new thread upstairs, wasting away for lack of comments…
Iron Fist wrote:
Well, it is what the founding fathers intended when they wrote the 2nd amendment.