May 2007

My First Rifle?

May 26, 2007 @ 7:43 pm

Here’s what’s currently at the top of my wishlist: the Kel-Tec SU-16C. It has an integrated bipod and can actually be fired with the stock folded. Cool, huh? Of course, I’ll have to get a nice scope for it, some bigger mags, and maybe a muzzle flash suppressor. This thing fires the same rounds as [...]

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My First Handgun

May 26, 2007 @ 3:43 pm

Pics for the handgun I bought at a Baton Rouge Gun & Knife show last month. It’s a Taurus PT111 Millennium Pro 9mm. Saj took the pictures.

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New Blog Format

May 25, 2007 @ 3:32 pm

What do you think? The three column format should make it easier to navigate I think. How about the color scheme? To get a three column template, go here. It’s the tutorial I used. BetaBlogger4 also has a lot of interesting things you can do to your Blogger blog.

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More Ad Hominem and Attempted Suppression of Dissent by CAGW Mindguards

May 24, 2007 @ 3:50 pm

Is there nothing leftist global warming activists won’t do in an effort to censor and silence critics? Desmogblog.com has posted a letter by Laurie David to the University of Virginia, urging it to fire Patrick Michaels for accepting money from coal interests and coal-burning electric utility companies to help support his research, advocacy and consulting [...]

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Global Warming & Funding (Non-)Issues

May 23, 2007 @ 11:49 am

In response to Al Gore’s attempt to enlist his help in discrediting skeptics of global warming alarmism by making a big deal of alleged or actual funding they had received from corporations, Ted Koppel responded: “Is this a case of industry supporting scientists who happen to hold sympathetic views, or scientists adapting their views to [...]

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Freeman Dyson on Scientific Organizations and Climate Models

May 23, 2007 @ 7:15 am

From the Tech Central Station interview, “Rebel with a Cause: The Optimistic Scientist” (April 10, 2007): Benny Peiser: In the first chapter of your new book, “The Scientist as Rebel,” you write that the common element of the scientific vision “is rebellion against the restrictions imposed by the locally prevailing culture,” and that scientists “should [...]

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A Vegan Diet Is Not Natural

May 22, 2007 @ 6:12 pm

You may have heard about the vegan parents who were recently convicted for killing their baby with a vegan diet. Put simply, veganism is not natural. Adults may be able to get by on a vegan diet in the modern world thanks to a global market economy. Ironic, considering that many of them are probably [...]

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Al Gore's Environmental Hypocrisy

May 22, 2007 @ 2:56 pm

David Boaz, “Why Won’t Al Gore Debate?” Cato@Liberty (March 21, 2007). Steven Milloy, “Al Gore’s Inconvenient Electric Bill,” Fox News.com (March 12, 2007). Tennesee Center for Policy Research, “Al Gore’s Personal Energy Use Is His Own ‘Inconvenient Truth’.” Criticism from the Left: Joshua Frank, “How the Kyoto Protocol was (Al) Gored,” DissidentVoice.org (July 18, 2006). [...]

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