Month: August 2005

TEOTWAWKI is a term, coined by Mike Medintz on misc.survivalism IIRC,that stands for The End Of The World As We Know It. Hurricane Katrina isn’t…

Sheila at The Sheila Variations has a 20th birthday celebration of the 1985 movie “The Breakfast Club“. This is a great movie. If you didn’t…

Via an email list I subscribe to, here’s the latest on the Richmond/ATF/Showmasters festivities. VCDL filed a Freedom of Information request with the Virginia State…

The Carnival of Cordite #28 is up, again hosted at Resistance is futile!. As usual, much good stuff–particularly the gunfighting rules.

Here ya go. Spare a prayer for all those in the path of this true freak of nature.

(Via Chaos Manor) Maybe it is, maybe it isn’t. Harper’s Magazine has this piece in which 3 economists, representing differing schools of thought and holding…

(Via Chaos Manor) I’ve been a PayPal customer since they were “little guys”. I’ve watched their “eBayization” with only small concern. That may be changing…

(Via Chaos Manor) Peggy Noonan is thinking dark. It would seem that she’s a survivalist who doesn’t realize that fact. Excellent! And Jerry Pournelle’s thoughts?…

If you’ve read this blog for any length of time, you know that I have this bug about any law enforcement agency that wants to…

(Via VCDL) Showmasters has pictures on their website of various law enforcement officials at the Richmond Showmasters gun show (August 13-14, 2005) on their home…

Cybercast News Service has put up their article on the ATF festivities at the recent Showmasters gun show in Richmond, VA. It makes for some…

(Via No Quarters) OK, so you know the Kelo decision means that you don’t really own your home or land, you just hold it and…

(Via Blackfive) Citizen Smash may be on his way to becoming Unemployed Citizen Smash. While he isn’t in desperate straits just yet, check out his…

As noted earlier, The Freeholder had plans to venture to the range this past weekend to try out a new shooting sport–skeet shooting. We had…

Kim du Toit has some further thoughts and information on the problem with ATF in Richmond 2 weekends ago. He has the answer to my…

Gullyborg himself is hosting the Carnival of Cordite #27 at Resistance is futile! Oh, and Gullyborg? The proper Glock safety technique is to buy something…

The Family Freeholder is off to our weekend retreat. Weather cooperating, I’ll regale you with our first attempt at skeet shooting next week. Does anyone…

Yesterday, I noted an incident of harassment, by ATF agents and local LEOs, at the Showmasters gun show in Richmond, VA. A post on The…

(Via Claire Wolfe) Elephants, lions to roam North America again? Plan to reintroduce large mammals, ecological history parks Now Claire is concerned that the eco-ninnies…