Happy Mother’s day.

We may not always express ourselves very well, but we appreciate you.

More than you know.

Integration over Religion.

If the parents don’t want to conform to the local culture, then they should move to a place where their culture is the norm.

So says the Swiss Supreme Court.

Now if only our courts could take lessons from the Swiss.

Seems that there is a hidden thorn in all of those 800 or so pages of the immigration bill.

Facial recognition/biometric database containing all your biometric data….A HUGE database of all US citizens.

The excuse is, of course, to help find undocumented workers and keep them out of the workforce.

Can you think of ways that it will be abused? Especially when it becomes linked with the Obamacare database?

I can.

The modern version of “Papiere, bitte.” 

Coming soon to your neighborhood.

Remember, the original intent of the Social Security number was to track
your benefits…..now it is a part of your ID. You need it to find a (legitimate) job and as a ID to pay taxes…to open a bank account, to buy health insurance.Without it you can’t be tracked cannot function in our society.

H/T

Had a new member (and new shooter) at the range a week ago ask me to take a look at his newly purchased Ruger MkIII.

He couldn’t seem to get decent groups with it. So, being the helpful sort that I am, I loaded up some of his  .22 LR and stepped up to the the firing line (who doesn’t like to shoot someone else’s gun with their ammo?????).

I shot poorly with his new firearm too….like 6 inch groups at 50 feet. (I normally shoot 2 inch or so groups).

This brand new firearm had the most atrocious trigger I have ever seen in a Ruger firearm. Creep, slack, and enough grit to seem like it had been dropped on a beach….several times….like dragging a brick over gravel.  A trigger that broke like warm oatmeal…Now, I own several Ruger products and they, like most production guns, can often use a bit of work in the trigger department, but I have never seen one that was so bad that the gun was all but unshootable out of the box.

Detail stripping showed that this was not the most well finished firearm that Ruger has ever produced. Tool marks galore on the inside of the frame, the bolt needed polishing to function smoothly, the trigger group stampings were only marginally (if at all) polished, the pivot pins and their respective holes were…less than what one might expect from Ruger. Likely there will be an aftermarket trigger in this gun’s future, as the trigger group was so bad that it is likely that polishing the mating faces enough to make a good break will result in an unsafe trigger. Basically, this gun is a piece of crap.

While it is possible that this is a one off gun, made on a Friday afternoon and passed by QC on a hungover Monday morning, I think that it is indicative of the fact that Ruger is pushing their wares out the factory door as quickly as possible…even to the detriment of quality.

I do find it sad that they are selling substandard products. I think that it will, eventually, hurt them. Cosmetics are one thing, functionality is another.

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My favorite meat animals eat nothing but plants.

Unverified, but interesting.

Read.

If true, it explains a LOT about our money issues.

I am. apparently, “Neutral Good“….on this test.

Funny, I thought I was more evil than that.

Guess I am getting mellow as I age.

How is your alignment?

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Seems that one of the cops shot in the “exchange of gunfire” the night that the ‘splodey Tsarnevs got cornered and “Suspect #2” drove over “Suspect #1” (the elder brother), was likely shot by one of his brother officers.

Now, this is NOT an indictment of the police at the scene. Things got really, really sideways really fast, and they followed their training. Sadly, one of their fellow officers got hit by friendly fire. Luckily, he survived, but barely.

High energy, armed BOMB trowing suspects…in the dark.

Just shows how quickly things can go wrong.