I won’t be updating the remainder of march and most if not all of april, real life including work and moving to a new city have to take the focus. See you all in a few weeks
Quote of the Post:
Every Man dies, Not every Man truly lives
-Mel Gibson, Braveheart
Reality is an illusion created by a lack of good alcohol
-Ralph Puke
“I’d be tempted just to bust it out at a con, chug it like I was a Gummi Bear, and hop around like a maniac until they haul me away”
-Dom
So I was on sabbatical, I was taking a break, focusing on work and moving and all the insanity that comes with it but I keep running in to people who need education on my favorite subject, the one thing I believe in over all, the right of every man, woman and child to own firearms to defend themselves. their homes, their country and the rights and freedoms we are so privileged to have in this country that we are so fortunate to live in.
“A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed”
-Second amendment to the constitution
So what is that saying? Well it’s fairly simple. It’s empowering the common man with the right and the duty to own weapons for the purpose of defending their nation and their rights and freedoms. “the security of a free state” isn’t talking about being attacks by forgein nationals intent on our death and conquest. It’s talking about defending ourselves from the oppression of goverment. It’s talking about defending ourselves from any one who would enforce their will on us and strip us of our rights and freedoms. The second amendment is the guarantee for the other rights and freedoms.
Seems fairly cut and dry, so what’s the issue? what’s the problem? Well it’s interesting to note that everyone focuses on is stopping certain kinds of guns, keeping weapons out of people’s hands that seem for lack of a better term “scary”, they are scary because these tools allow the people to fight back and defend themselves and those who would oppress us don’t like that.
Those who would take our weapons away place all sorts of bans and restrictions on our right to keep and bear arms even though it fairly obviously says that those same rights shall not be infringed. They use misleading and scary terms and out right lie about things to make people think their voting to prevent crime and protect ourselves and out law enforcement officers when really we’re only hobbling ourselves and our ability to keep ourselves safe.
For example steel core ammunition also known as “cop killer” bullets has been banned in this country, the real story is that steel core bullets are no more lethal then any other bullet, and that most ammunition labeled as a “cop killer” has never harmed a law enforcement officer. This is an example of fear mongering specifically designed to cripple our ability to own guns and purchase ammunition for reasonable prices.
Then there’s something that came up in my last debate with an acquaintance of mine, the assault weapon ban, to the uneducated the assault weapons ban sounds perfectly reasonable, assault rifles are scary things that go full auto and etc right? Dead wrong the assault weapons ban is a ban on guns with a “military” appearance. It’s an ugly gun ban is what it is. The out and out of it is that it’s plain stupid, and it’s clearly unconstitutional, if you read the second amendment. The whole idea is for us to be able to keep a “well regulated militia” now if you cant be sure here’s the definitions from dictionary.com
mi⋅li⋅tia
–noun
1. a body of citizens enrolled for military service, and called out periodically for drill but serving full time only in emergencies.
2. a body of citizen soldiers as distinguished from professional soldiers.
3. all able-bodied males considered by law eligible for military service.
4. a body of citizens organized in a paramilitary group and typically regarding themselves as defenders of individual rights against the presumed interference of the federal government.
These are all correct definitions but they all have a collective point, it’s a military or paramilitary group, a group that is, according to the constitution a vital part of the freedom of our nation. So if it’s a military group that we as citizens are supposed to be purchasing weapons for, as a duty to protect our rights, our nation and our homes why is owning “military” weapons a problem? especially when all so called assault weapons are no more or less dangerous then any other gun, they just have a specific look to them. So if I spray paint my AK pink does that make it less scary? what if I put a smiley face on it? It’s not changing the fact that it’s a mid-caliber semi-automatic rifle, no more or less dangerous then the semi-auto sporting rifles of the same or larger caliber available for purchase so what’s the fuss about?
A video from my friends at the JPFO:
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Oh yes, it’s the best time of year again, the best holiday of them all, the most unique holiday of them all and have I mentioned that it’s the best holiday of them all? St. Patrick’s day is fantastic because it combines the traits of over the key holidays with the most powerful force on earth, being fucking Irish. What traits are these? and what is that mystical power that is being Irish? Well I’m going to explain in this article as well as outline some helpful hints on how to celebrate right.
Trait 1: Awesome food
Good food is a hallmark of pretty much every major holiday, Thanksgiving Turkey, Christmas Goose, Turkey or Ham (perhaps Roast Beast if you live with Dr. Suess…) Chocolates and fancy dinner’s out for valentine’s day and of course cadbury eggs on easter (if you think they aren’t a meal… you need to live more my friend). St Paddie’s day provides amazing food in general because it can include so much food. Lots of food is irish food, from corned beef and cabbage to bar food, steaks and my beloved reuben sandwhich. Now of course there’s always the staple of all irish foods, Guiness, king of all things edible and cure to all known issues/diseases that may or may not exist. (Yes I like Guiness stout, you may dislike my taste in beer, but remember, my beer can kick your beer’s ass)
Trait 2: Gifts
St Paddie’s day is also a traditional gift giving day now those gifts primarily consist of drinks, shots and rounds for the whole bar (after you get enough of the first two) and then of course there’s the sacred St Paddie’s day gift granted to all imbibers… err celebrants, the tradtional st patrick’s day hangover.
Trait 3: Booze
If you honestly need help understanding this one then you need a serious dose of irish upside your head. St Patrick’s day is the most widely celebrated “get smashed” holiday ever, German’s Octoberfest with longer amounts of time and more food to consume to keep the mean evil booze from getting them too drunk doesn’t even hold a candle. Spring Break? Amateurs. Mardi Gras? Primarily an excuse to act like an idiot (much like spring break) regardless of alcoholic involvement and I suspect most people who act like morons during both Mardi Gras and Spring Break are pretty thick regardless of how many shots and beers they’ve had, I think youtube pretty conclusively proves my point in this case. St Patrick’s day has way more stones then all of these other “drinking” holidays because of the simple fact that St Patrick’s day is just that, one single day. The others are week long or multiweek events. St Pat’s forces you to do a couple week’s worth of drinking in one single night.
Being Irish:
To be an irishman or woman is to be in a state of insanity so sublime and absurd that the meager masses cannot help but be in awe, fear and shock at their doings.
Typical Irishman:
Now some of you may want to protest that being Irish isn’t all that great, that we are no where near as awesome as we make ourselves out to be. I’d like to point out that no other cultures have their own genre of rock music. I’d also like to point out that, bagpipes, whiskey, the perfection of beer are all irish inventions. We invented a whole bunch of other things to, but that was before the whiskey came in to play.
Historical Footage:
The ultimate proof, the final proof that being irish is something wonderful is that the non-irish populace of the world wants to be us and emulates us where they can, what proof is there of that? Well to start you all adopted and party because of our big holiday, for the soul reason that St Patrick’s day is “the one day a year where everyone gets to be Irish”. (At least according to some T-shirts I saw…) So in the end, welcome to the family, grab a seat at the bar, add an”O’something” to your name and grab a drink. Just remember, Ordering an Irish Car Bomb in an actual Irish Pub is about as funny as ordering a “Holocaust” in a Jewish bar.
Tips for Celebrating:
Drink
Eat
Have fun
do not fake an Irish accent, we know it’s not yours
Some Music to Get You in the Spirit:
fuck this is alot of videos…
Quote of the Post:
God invented alcohol so the Irish wouldn’t conquer the planet.
-?
Twas a woman that drove me to drink and I’ve never quite had the chance to thank her
A man should believe in something, and I believe I’ll have another drink
I’ll have what the gentlemen on the floor is having
-From the Menu and walls of McGuire’s Irish Pub of Pensacola, Florida
Note: Off for the week due to hangover recovery, see you monday if I find the hair fo the dog in time…
So I cheated, and got really lazy with this review, I did not see this movie on the 8th of March when it came out, rather I saw it on the 28th of February during a special pre-screening at my local theater. Yeah, 10 days before it officially came out and I’m just now writing my review… feel free to begin pelting me with rotten vegetation trust me I think I deserve it, (my wife will be happy because with all that vegetable matter around and on me, I might just eat something vaguely healthy…)
On to the review!
Holy shit this movie was utterly fantastic, I enjoyed it alot and I found it to be an excellent adaption which is an oxymoron if ever I’ve typed one. If we literary people know anything that except in insanely rare exceptions hollywood cannot do anything but fuck up adaptions, it just can’t possibly work out properly. I am pleased to report that they did a very decent job of transmitting watchmen over, did it have the same depth as the comic? was it able to raise the psychologic issues, moral issues and etc that are brought up by the comic book? For the most part, yes. Some of it was really lost in translation like the depth of Rorschach’s insanity or some of the finer grain of the Comedian’s paired sociopathy and PTSD but the primary psychologic focus was always. Dr. Manhattan and the real question of a superhero. If a man, a human man gets incredible powers will he still view himself as “just human”? Jon obviously doesn’t and his humanity is gradually washed away to be replaced with something else.
The moral issues as always are the highlight of the piece with questions being raised like the often heard “kill a few to save many” and so forth. Again they used a lot of text with only minor adaptions from the book for all of this and that really makes it shine in my mind. The other excellent use of material from the comic was the flashbacks which are alot easier to accomplish in a verbal medium but a lot more difficult to have flow in to the script, plot and timing in a movie. These were seamlessly handled and fit in well where they were placed, so that even movie goers who had no idea what was going on when they walked in could grasp and understand the whole story.
On to my cons, there really wasn’t alot of negatives to the movie, though I do think that the movie was almost unnecessarily graphic on alot of scores, I know hollywood has had to step it up in light of how the world’s been going and how dark our entertainment’s been getting but some of it’s just plain to much in my mind. Like I didn’t need to see Dr. Manhattan’s manhood hanging out pretty much the entire movie, some of the gore seemed kind over the top and gory merely for the sake of gore as well. Again that’s all probably just me being a bit of a prude and not exactly being a gore fan.
Trailers (again)
Quotes of the Post:
The world will look up and shout “save us!” and I will whisper “no”
-Rorschach
“Quis custodiet ipsos custodes”?
“Who watches the watchmen?”
-Juvenal
http://www.viruscomix.com/page474.html
I honestly have nothing to add, the comic says it all
Quote of the Post:
To thine own self be true
I will never, ever understand how the hell people can let their parent’s completely control their lives. Not even as teenagers and children, it makes sense to let them have some control then, they know what the hell is going on and you don’t because your a kid or even worse a teenager and thus utterly distracted by whatever in the nine hells is going on in your own little world. That’s just how things go, it’s life it’s natural. However… it’s also natural for that shit to end, and like fast. Yeah you can still have a relationship with your parents after you’ve gone and “grown up” but that relationship is supposed to change to one of adult to adult, no longer does that parent have that controlling influence because your ass is in the captain’s chair for the S.S. Your Freakin Life.
Apparently some people don’t get that, apparently they don’t get that at all. We (being my wife and I) just got in to a situation where a friendship was utterly ruined between my wife and a very good friend of hers thanks to the actions and manipulations of her mother. The sad reality of it is that this woman’s mother rules that household and she (Nalora’s friend) doesn’t have the spine required to stand up to her, not even in the slightest does she have the necessary spine.
The thing about that is not that it’s rare, it’s fucking common as hell. Controlling psychotic parents just utterly dominating their children’s lives I mean come on, grow some spine and actually get out there for yourself. Unless you do things and live for yourself, all you really are is an outlet for your parents to do it all again and they’ve had their fucking shot, if they want to live vicariously through you, you need to tell them to fuck the hell off and get them to go out and live some more, hell my 65 year old aunt is a freakin nun and she’s still out there living and having incredible life experiences, there’s no reason no one else can do that.
Cut the apron strings, wiggle out of the leash and liberate your self from your folks, it’s your life and existence, live it the way you bloody well want to.
Quote of the Post:
“Give me liberty or give me death”
-Bonus cookies for whoever can name the man who said this before it got turned in to a liscense plate slogan
Now I’ll confess, I text and IM all the time. It’s pretty much the primary way my wife and I communicate when I’m away for work (like this current three month stretch) but I 100% with out a doubt, with out failure hate those two forms of communication like nothing else.
Don’t get me wrong, I like letters, after some of the stuff I’ve been through, getting a letter is the most beautiful thing in the world, except when it’s bills to pay I can’t get enough letters.
I’m similer for email, though given how much of my email is spawn and how much of the rest is random forwards that threaten to kill me if I don’t pass it on myself perhaps I could do with a bit less of that…
But I still fucking hate, hate with a burning firey rage exceeded only by my hatred for rap music and socalists. I absolutely hate the constrictions imposed on communications by texts and motherfucking IM, there’s no tone, no emotion that can honestly be communicated except by freakin emotes… I mean fuckin A it drives me literally up the bloody wall.
It really, really starts to piss me off when Nalora and I start to get aggravated or even worse have an all out fight over words that would have had a completely different meaning if you could actually understand the tone with which it was said. Nalora and I are both very literal people so words are taken at face value, however we tend to believe that other people (aka each other) can understand the tone we’re trying to set and thus that we’re joking or whatever the hell.
Sometime it would be alot easier if everyone could just read your mind or your intent with this type of communication, but the pain in the ass part is we can prevent all of that annoyance and agravation simply by dialing instead of typing.
Quote of the Post:
“Nobody likes a telepath”
Unknown, from Necropath by Brown
From Wikipedia:
Thermite is a pyrotechnic composition of a metal powder and a metal oxide, which produces an aluminothermic reaction known as a thermite reaction. It is not explosive, but can create short bursts of extremely high temperatures focused on a very small area for a short period of time.
Translation: this shit gets psychotically hot and makes serious amounts of fire, the military uses thermite to destroy things like artillery pieces and sensitive stuff to prevent it’s capture in the event of over run, the blackhawk that went down during the battle of mogadishu (Blackhawk Down for those missing the obvious) was destroyed by thermite charges to prevent capture of senstive avionics and comm equipment. So what does this mean to you? One you can have some fun with this stuff, two this stuff can ruin your shit in a burning and painful manner so don’t fuck around. Also depending on what and where you do it playing with this shit can be as illegal as hell so make sure you check local laws before doing anything.
Obtaining the Aluminum
1) Go to a machine shop. They will usually give you aluminum powder for sweeping the floor or something.
2) Break open an Etch-A-Sketch, the stuff inside is pure aluminum powder.
3) Go to a paint store, they usually have powdered aluminum that people use to mix into paints to give it pigment.
4) Get a grinder, and something made of aluminum. Good ideas are soda cans, bike frames, and lacrosse sticks. Start grinding the aluminum and collect the sparks in a container.
5) Search eBay, they sell it for pretty cheap.
Obtaining the Iron Oxide (Rust)
1) Take some steel wool then put it in a jar and then cover it wool with water. Use a magnet to make sure the steel wool doesnt float during the reaction process. Next, put in 5 tablespoons of regular bleach into the water and 5 tablespoons of regular vinager. Wait a day or so and then filter the brown paste with a coffee filter. Leave it out to dry overnight.
2) Go to a paint store, they usually have powdered iron oxide that people use to mix into paints to give it pigment.
3) Connect wires to a direct current (9-volt battery), strip both ends and put them into a saltwater solution. Let them sit for five minutes. One of them will start bubbling more than the other. This is the POSITIVE(+) wire. Put a nail tied to the positive wire into the jar. Now put the negative wire in the other end. Now let it sit overnight and in the morning scrape the rust off of the nail & repeat until you have a bunch of rust on the bottom of the glass. Let it dry out, and crush it into a powder.
4) Search eBay, they sell it for pretty cheap.
Mixing the Stuff
Thermite is 8 grams of iron oxide to 3 grams of aluminum. The formula is by weight but because aluminum is very light, it will appear to be approximately a 50-50 mix. Put them together in a container and mix them until it is an even mixture. If you want, mix four parts thermite with one part clay or Play-Doh and knead thoroughly for moldable thermite.
Igniting
Thermite needs a lot of heat to light, that means magnesium. Find some magnesium ribbon, or a sparkler that contains magnesium and put it into a pile of thermite. Light it with a torch, and run! (run fast bitch, very, very fast)
I don’t know about you but this stuff certainly sounds like fun I highly reccomend your goddamn careful though. Chances are this would be a good time with a junker car you want to trash preferably on a concrete pad somewhere on your property. Shooting at said car and getting legal explosives would also be a good time for said vehicle, if all that’s fun then of course a traditional sledge hammer is always entertaining too.
Warning: I don’t reccomend you doing stupid, retarded shit. If your going to play with fire, legal explosives and guns do it in a safe manner. I am not liable for you and whatever the hell happens if you decide to go play with thermite or any of the other stuff I may put up on the site. Fuck you I have lawyers.
Quote of the Post:
“That’s hot”
-I shouldn’t have to credit this
So I had yet another letter bomb from the masses (okay one goddamn letter… fuck you) ask me about what I’m currently reading and what I read in general. They also asked what Nalora reads so I’ll do my best answer all those questions right now. Nalora is big in to fantasy novels it’s pretty much all she needs, just to head off any questions on that score her favorite books are The Sword of Shannarra series (no idea if I spelled that right). I’m a big fantasy fan too but I’m heavier in to the Scifi side of the house and I love history books that
actually tell a story, 96 Confirmed Kills, and Blackhawk Down are excellent examples of the type of book I mean there.
For me I have a vareity of favorite books but my number one is now and forever Robert H. Heinlein’s classic Starship Troopers, series wise I enjoy The Dresden Files, Star Wars (I’m a nerd, sue me) the STAR FIST novels (come on, space marines are always cool), the novels from “The Black Library” which are the collected stories of the fictional universe of Warhammer 40,000 (yes still a nerd, but I will be damned if this game and series does not prove the space marine point)
My current books in hand and on deck are:
Warmachine – Andy Remic
One of the Combat K novels fucking kick ass military Scifi
Storm Front – Jim Butcher
an excellent reread for me, the first of The Dresden Files
Valentine’s Exile – E.E. Knight
part of the SciFi/Horror Vampire Earth series looks really good, can’t wait to get my paws on it…
Quote of the Post:
“You know a couple of biblophiles are getting hitched when the first place they think to put their wedding registry is a book store”
-One of my buddies on Nalora and I
PS this cop out article and no update on the 27th are my bday gift to myself, we’ll see y’all in march
