Because they've done it every time before

While the Benghazi hearing are going on and being studiously ignored by the MSM, I have to wonder. 

What is this regime trying to sneak behind our backs while we're distracted?

They've operated this way every time that any sort of scandal has popped up.  They aren't gonna suddenly change their stripes, snakes don't do that.  So what are they up to?

Just one thing to say about all this.

I've notice that non-radical Muslims are quick to point out that these Muslim terrorists do not represent the vast majority of Muslims in the world.  Their words.

Okay.

Well, they are Muslims and they sure as hell wont listen to non-Muslims, so how about you "vast majority" of peaceful Muslims police up your own backyard.

Oh boy, will I get hate mail now.

Oh Frantabulous Joy! Buy a Gun (BAG) day post (Pic heavy post)

Happy BAG day everyone! We're ignoring what today is in other regards.

Anyway, For my BAG day purchase I actually bought something last week hoping that it would be delivered today.  AND IT WAS! Delivered direct to your humble author's doorstep.  Meet my new baby. 

That, my friends, is a Martini Henry produced by Enfield in 1878.  Specifically a MkII chambered in the ever popular 577/.450.  It's not a Khyber Pass copy as they're referred to, it was built in Jolly Ol' back during its hey day of colonialism.  It is marked as N.S. NEP, meaning it was shipped to Nepal for use in "Native Service".  It's showing really well for 135 years young.  The butt stock split at some point and was repaired with putty.  There isn't a spot on the wood that doesn't have at least a ding or two.  But the rifling is good and you can still see "W" shape to it.  I'd put the bluing at 80%, which was better than I expected actually.  Function checking looks like the trigger and action are good with the ramp locking up and down well.

Here are some more pics of the markings on the metal bits.

 

 

I can now scratch this off my bucket list of guns.  I may never shoot her, I may shoot her a bit. I don't know.  Considering ammo for this is more expensive than feeding my Barrett, and more scarce than Hen's teeth, a bit may be all I can afford. 

Have you ever....

Been at the grocery store, wandering up and down the aisles, seen something and said to yourself, "Hmm, haven't had that in a while. Might be nice to try some again."?

This is how I end up with bags of succotash in my freezer and cans of Spam® and Corned Beef Hash in my pantry.

a couple of random thoughts on the state of our society.

So, I'm standing in line at the checkout counter at my local grocery store and I glance at the impulse rack. At the top is adult gummi vitamins.  And I'm left wondering why. 

Have we sunk that low that we can't, as adults, suck it up and take simple vitamins without lacing them with a spoonful of sugar?  I mean, I can understand children's gummi vitamins.  It's hard enough to explain to a little kid that "because it's good for you" is a valid reason to take something.  But seriously, if we're at the point that we have to do that for supposed adults, maybe it's time to rethink how we're raising people.

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I've been hearing a lot of talk from the once and current swamp that is our nation's capital about Immigration reform.  They're talking of this reform. 

Now, I thought that if you were going about reforming some system, there was something broken with the system.  But the only thing that I can see that is broken is the government's willingness to enforce it.  The system was not and is not broke.  The system works absolutely as it should.  Which leaves me wondering what they're trying to cover up by calling it reform.

 

All is not lost.....

In the coming zombie apocalypse. I may have found a suitable substitute for the loss of the Hostess Twinkie.




Of course, there will have to be extensive testing involving lab mice and fluffy bunnies and other things with kind eyes.

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Thinking again.

It can be a bad thing.

I haven't blogged much in the last months, and I've avoided politics like the plague it is. But I've decided to say this.

You may like it or not, agree with it or not. I've gone past caring.

I've looked at my politics, I've looked at the parties we have, I've looked at the Republican Party and it's current leadership. I've decided that the GOP is no longer a party that I can stomach anymore. The Republican Party is pretty much dead to conservatives. It's time to let that party fade into the irrelevance it seems to so want and create a new party that understands its constituents and what they want.

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Wow, look at that.

Nothing special, this is just my 12:12 12/12/12 post.  Thought that was cool.

It happened.

I was there.

Are you sure about that?

Old_NFO was mad as all get out. And I'm right there with him on this. This "Sales Person" was more than happy to go about infringing our rights, all the while waiting to scream 'STRAW PURCHASE,' if one of us had even so much as thought about getting the rifle for him.


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Things you think you'd never hear...

After being slobbered on by phlegmmy's puppehs...

Me: what's the technical term for being ear raped by a Chiweenie?

LawDog: 35 bucks per hour.


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