A head the size of all outdoors...

Nobama's campaign plane has a throne...



...and check out the embroidery




Added to his personal seal, I think M'bonga is counting his chickens. The polls are no longer going his way.

What an arrogant dickhead. He is making McLame look good...something I would have considered impossible a few months ago. I bet there are a lot of Dim's that wish they could hit the ol' time machine and switch their primary vote to the Hildibeast.

I'm a conservativ...that means I'm not thrilled with McCain much either. However, if this was to be the year of the Democrat, I would much rather see it be Hillary.

It bothers me that Obama is forcing me to vote McCain.

I have voted Democrat in the past, but that party of 40 years ago is gone. Too bad. It seems that your Democats-in-control-of-the-party hate Republicans, and your typical Republican is where the Democrats were those 40 years ago.

Conservatives, however, see both parties as a lite and heavy version of each other.

There HAD to be a better choice than Obama. From a conservatives point of view he isn't just wrong for America, he's an anathema. No-one ever said that Hillary wasn't an American...left-of-center, yes, but an American first.

I can't tell if being an American is even on Obama's list.

Heyoka...

Heyoka: A Lakota way of being, a medicine way. A Heyoka is one who does things backwards or opposite. The idea that Heyoka is a clown comes from the opposite behavior; it is part of the medicine of Heyoka, to remind us we are merely human beings and not to become too serious about ourselves, not to imagine we are more powerful than we really are, reminding us that Spirit holds all the power. In this day there are those among the Lakota who pour Heyoka lodges, which are directed towards the West and full of laughter. If a Heyoka man messes up he has the Thunder Nation to deal with. Spirit chooses who is Heyoka; it is a very difficult path to follow.

- Laughing Deer From a comment thread on the Belmont Club. The liberal weltanshauung is burning down before our very eyes. Their irrational hatred of George W. Bush has set them against genuinely liberal principles such as freedom, tolerance, and democracy. The American left can sense that their creed is as desiccated and fragile as an oak leaf in October, but they seem to be helpless against their own rage. It consumes them and blinds them to everything else. If George W. Bush is for it, they are against it. The Left has become a group of modern-day heyoka, like the indian in Thomas Berger's Little Big Man who says "Hello" when he means "Goodbye", rides his horse backward, washes with dirt and dries with water. Except that unlike the Lakota Heyoka, the Left cannot comprehend that they are absurd and thus draw some sanity from the absurd. They lack that insight and consequently make themselves all the more ridiculous.

Comment of the Day...

The only Northern liberal Democratic presidential candidates since 1964 have been Humphrey, McGovern, Mondale, Dukakis and Kerry.

Comparing how they did in Gallup polling in July versus the eventual electoral result:

- Mondale and McGovern suffered swings toward the Republicans of 2% and 4% respectively, which in their cases didn't matter much because they started and stayed a devastating 20% or so behind

- In the closer elections Humphrey (1968) suffered a July-November swing to the Republicans of 6%, Dukakis (1988) 16%, Kerry (2004) 9.5%.

In each case in the fall the Northern liberal's support fell off sharply, when the public found out more about them and the policies they supported.

As a Northern liberal (and he's a very orthodox, rather left of center one at that) this 40-year history suggests that Obama would need to have a solid 10% lead in the polls now just to have an even chance in November, quite apart from any racial considerations (which if they materialize on polling day may well cut both ways). - Nomenklatura on Belmont Club

Why Dogs are Better Than Girlfriends...

Dogs love it when your friends come over.

Dogs don't care if you use their shampoo.

Dogs think you sing great.

A dog's time in the bathroom is confined to a quick drink.

Dogs don't expect you to call when you're running late. The later you are, the more excited a dog is to see you.

Dogs will forgive you for playing with other dogs.

Dogs don't notice if you call them by another dog's name.

Dogs don't mind if you give their offspring away.

Dogs love red meat.

Anyone can get a good looking dog.

If a dog is gorgeous, other dogs don't hate it.

Dogs don't shop.

Dogs like it when you leave lots of things on the floor.

A dog's disposition stays the same throughout the entire month.

Dogs never need to examine the relationship.

A dog's parents never visit.

Dogs love long car trips.

Dogs understand that instincts are better than asking for directions.

Dogs understand that everything smaller than it is meant to be chased.

Dogs don't hate their bodies.

No dog ever bought Kenny G, Cher, or Barbra Streisand albums.

No dog ever put on 100 pounds after reaching adulthood.

Dogs never criticize.

Dogs agree that you have to raise your voice to get your point across.

Dogs never expect gifts.

Dogs don't worry about germs.

Dogs don't care about or get jealous of any other dog you ever had.

Dogs like to do their snooping outside as opposed to in your wallet desk and the backs of your drawers.

Dogs don't let magazine articles guide their lives.

Dogs would rather you buy them a hamburger dinner than a lobster one.

You never have to wait for a dog. They're always ready to go.

Dogs have no use for flowers, cards, or jewelry.

Dogs don't borrow your shirts.

Dogs aren't catty.

Dogs seldom outlive you



Dog Diary:


8:00 am - Dog food! ... My favorite thing!

9:30 am - A car ride! ... My favorite thing!

9:40 am - A walk in the park! ... My favorite thing!

10:30 am - Got rubbed and petted! ... My favorite thing!

12:00 PM - Lunch! ... My favorite thing!

1:00 PM- Played in the yard! ... My favorite thing!

3:00 PM - Wagged my tail! ... My favorite thing!

5:00 PM - Milk bones! ... My favorite thing!

7:00 PM - Got to play ball! ... My favorite thing!

8:00 PM- Wow! Watched TV with the people! ... My favorite thing!

11:00 PM - Sleeping on the bed! ... My favorite thing!


CAT DIARY:

Day 983 of my captivity. My captors continue to taunt me with bizarre little dangling objects. They dine lavishly on fresh meat, while the other inmates and I are fed hash or some sort of dry nuggets. The hash tastes like a slurry of chicken teeth, claws, and half rotten fish liver.

Although I make my contempt for the rations perfectly clear, I nevertheless must eat the crap to keep up my strength. The only thing that keeps me going is my dream of escape. In another attempt to disgust them, I once again vomited on the carpet and hacked up a pretty decent hairball.

Today I ripped the head off a mouse and dropped its headless body at their feet. I had hoped this would strike fear into their hearts, since it clearly demonstrates what I am capable of. However, they merely made condescending comments about what a "good little hunter" I am. ... Bastards!

There was some sort of assembly of their accomplices tonight. I was placed in solitary for the duration of the event. However, I could hear the noises and smell the food. I overheard that my confinement was due to the power of "allergies." I must learn what this means, and how to use it to my advantage.

Today I was almost successful in an attempt to assassinate one of my tormentors by weaving around his feet as he was walking. I must try this again tomorrow -- at the top of the stairs.

I am convinced the other prisoners here are flunkies and snitches. The dog receives special privileges. He is regularly released - and seems to be more than willing to return.

He is obviously retarded.

Not Just No, but Fuck No...

The U.S. Senate soon could be debating whether you, your spouse and each of your children - as well as your in-laws, parents, grandparents, neighbors and everyone else in America - each will be spending $2,500 or more to reduce poverty around the world.

The plan sponsored by Sen. Barack Obama, the presumptive Democratic nominee for the office of president, is estimated to cost the United States some $845 billion over the coming few years in an effort to raise the standard of living around the globe.

S.2433 already has been approved in one form by the U.S. House of Representatives, and now has been placed on the Senate Legislative Calendar for pending debate.

WND previously has reported the proposal demands the president develop "and implement" a policy to "cut extreme global poverty in half by 2015 through aid, trade, debt relief" and other programs.

Cliff Kincaid at Accuracy in Media has published a critique asserting that while the Global Poverty Act sounds nice, the adoption could "result in the imposition of a global tax on the United States" and would make levels "of U.S. foreign aid spending subservient to the dictates of the United Nations."

He said the legislation, if approved, dedicates 0.7 percent of the U.S. gross national product to foreign aid, which over 13 years he said would amount to $845 billion "over and above what the U.S. already spends."

The plan passed the House in 2007 "because most members didn't realize what was in it," Kincaid reported. "Congressional sponsors have been careful not to calculate the amount of foreign aid spending that it would require."

A recent statement from Obama's office noted the support offered by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

"With billions of people living on just dollars a day around the world, global poverty remains one of the greatest challenges and tragedies the international community faces," Obama said. "It must be a priority of American foreign policy to commit to eliminating extreme poverty and ensuring every child has food, shelter, and clean drinking water. As we strive to rebuild America's standing in the world, this important bill will demonstrate our promise and commitment to those in the developing world.

"Our commitment to the global economy must extend beyond trade agreements that are more about increasing profits than about helping workers and small farmers everywhere," he continued.

Obama has continued to lobby for such massive expenditures on his campaign stops. During an address as recently as last week, he said, "I'll double our foreign assistance to $50 billion by 2012, and use it to support a stable future in failing states, and sustainable growth in Africa; to halve global poverty and to roll back disease."

Beck and Kincaid pointed out that the plan not only commits the U.S. to the anti-poverty spending proposal, it also adopts for the U.S. the United Nations Millennium Development Goal, which includes a variety treaties and protocols advocated by the U.N.

Objections have remained strong. On a posting also available at the All American blogger, a commentator warned that the U.S. has yet to be able to win its own war on poverty.

"On January 8, 1964, President Lyndon Johnson declared "all-out war on human poverty and unemployment in these United States." This "all-out war" would last through the presidencies of Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, H.W. Bush, Clinton, and George W. Bush. We have spent billions of dollars fighting this war, and what have we achieved?"

He continued, "Very little. In 1964, there were 36 million Americans living in poverty, or about 19 percent of the population. In the 40 years between 1964 and 2004: ... poverty never measured less than 11 percent of the population. In 1983, under President Reagan, poverty registered 15.2 percent; in 1993, at the beginning of Bill Clinton's presidency, poverty was measured at 13.7 percent of the population. In 2004, under George W. Bush, a president often accused by the political Left as not caring about the poor, the poverty rate declined to 12.7 percent. Still, some 37 million Americans remain poor."

Despite that performance, "Obama is ready to take the fight global," said commentator Duane Lester.

"In addition to seeking to eradicate poverty, that declaration commits nations to banning 'small arms and light weapons' and ratifying a series of treaties, including the International Criminal Court Treaty, the Kyoto Protocol (global warming treaty), the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, and the Convention on the Rights of the Child," he wrote.

Tom DeWeese at NewsWithViews said the plan "is very telling" about what Obama would do as president.

DeWeese, president of the American Policy Center, warned the over-arching plan includes the ideals of consolidating all international agencies under the U.N., regulation by the U.N. of all corporate environmental issues, license fees charged by the U.N. to use air, water and natural resources, a restructuring that would give hand-picked non-governmental organizations huge influence, authorize a standing U.N. army and require registration of all arms.

The day some UN puke announces I have to turn in my guns is just another one of the days the UN dies in blood.

Quote of the Day...

PETER KIRSANOW: "Judging from the local drive time radio shows, we bitter, religious pistol-packers here in flyover country remembered only two things from Obama's Berlin visit: the phrase 'citizen of the world' and Obama's failure to visit wounded troops at Landstuhl and Ramstein."

World of Warcraft...

Several guys at work play that World of Warcraft internet game. The HR manager, the Operations manager, and at least one senior director play. The HR guy was checking some stats for his character. On the side bar were political ads.

We started discussing what character McCain might be.

A level 70 asshole was the consensus.

Obama was a level 1 asshole naturally.

Split Brass

I saw some brass split at the base when I took the SMLE out last weekend. The firing sequence is as follows.

1. The firing pin shoves the case forward, rim against the breech.
2. The primer detonates. If it's not heavily crimped in place, it backs out, shoving the bolt and barrel as far apart as it can.
3. The thin, forward part of the case expands to fill and grip the chamber while the bullet moves out of the case and down the barrel.
4. The solid case head can't expand and grip the chamber, so it moves rearward, re-seating the primer, stretching the case walls just forward of the head, and stopping when it hits the bolt face. (In rear-locking actions like the Lee, the bolt and receiver also compress/stretch to add a little more movement. The higher the pressure, the more they move.)
5. If (and only if) the amount of head movement exceeds the elastic limits of the case, the cartridge separates into two pieces.

I was getting a lateral split, 180 degrees around the case, about an 1/8th inch from the base. There was also a slight angle to that 1/8th inch relative to the rest of the case...almost as if the ejector was trying to twist the base off. I've ordered go - no go gauges from Midway. Apparently there are 5 different bolt heads you can get to adjust headspace (update: the bolt heads are for the IV, not the III that I have)...or I had some bad brass. I was using factory Remington, so I wouldn't suspect the brass right off.



...and getting onto an Enfield forum gave me the answer.

And I am told the yellow paint was "tropical" camo and I shouldn't had taken it off. Tough, it was butt-ugly, covered the proof marks, and the rifle is certainly not a collector-grade piece anyway. I need to find a longer bolt-body. Something substantially longer than 5.493.

Anywho, the rifle was made in Ishapore in 1916 as a Mark 1 III with the mag cutoff and volley sights, referbed at Ishapore to the Mark 1 III* pattern in 1940, and referbed again in '67 or '68.

Can you love too much...

In ref to the media loving M'Bonga too much

I can't stand either of them.

Senators make lousy candidates...too much baggage. McCain is heavy with it.

Obama has so little baggage that he is supremely qualified to be a community activist for six square blocks in Chicago.

However, Obama is making McCain (spit) look Presidential.

Doomed either way.

Strange. If we have to have a far left President, Hillary is looking real good. If she was the candidate I'd have to agree that she would be a lock. M'Bonga not so much.

Rachel Lukas mentions a comment that it seems like the entire left side of the country is wearing Beer Goggles.

Joke of the Day...

One day a fourth-grade teacher asked the children what their fathers did for a living. All the typical answers came up - fireman, mechanic, businessman, salesman, doctor, lawyer, and so forth.

However, little Johnny was uncharacteristically quiet, so when the teacher prodded him about his father, he reluctantly replied, "My father's an exotic dancer in a gay cabaret. He takes off all his clothes in front of other men and they put money in his underwear. Sometimes, if the offer is really good, he will go home with some guy and stay with him all night for money."

The teacher, obviously shaken, hurriedly set the other children to work on some exercises and took little Johnny aside. "Is that really true about your father?"

"No", Little Johnny admitted, "He works for the Democratic Party National Committee, trying to get Barack Obama elected President, but I was too embarrassed to say that in front of the class."