odds and ends
For those of you who did not check comments the fragrance that my wife is foisting on me, that I am appreciating is Mechant loupe. Along the same lines, and the thing which impelled me to post today is that I was reading about the .327 federal cartridge which Kim DuToit had posted about, and I mentioned to Domestic- that this might be a good cartridge for her. Her question was "well, what does it smell like?" Apparently brass and copper is not appealing. She told me to make it smell like orange blossoms and she would think about it. Then, it hit me; I could make a mint! If I could find a way to make pistol powder smell like peaches or vanilla, it would draw in a whole lot of females into shooting, and I would be rich!
In other news, I have been rotating in downtown Detroit, and have seen the violence that Detroit has to offer. So far, nothing terribly impressive. I seem to be seeing more stab wounds than I did in Texas. It is too small of a sample to have any significant power, but it does seem to support the idea that when you outlaw firearms, you only influnce the tools of violence, and not the violence itself. Yes, I know that you can carry in Michigan, but Detroit does not have near the prevalence of armed law-abiding citizens that Houston does. I have seen as many people killed by getting stabbed to death as shot to death here. Then again, I do not know about stuff that does not come to the hospital.
Last night, I was flipping around the channels and I saw Bowling for Columbine. I decided to go ahead and see it since I never had, and it's difficult to argue about a flick being garbage if you have never seen it. Also Micheal Moron doesn't get any royalties off of it. Well, I couldn't finish it. It was so absolutely offensive and un-American that I couldn't handle it. I was watching it, and having a background knowledge in some of the areas discussed, I was apalled at the level of misinformation, journalistic sleight of hand and outright lies contained in what I did see. I do not know where even to begin. Should I start with the insinuation that the NRA is just the klu klux klan with a paint job? Never mind that the NRA was founded in New York, which was hardly a bastion of the KKK. How about the use of the number of firarms related deaths in America? I noted that the homicide rate was not mentioned. I also remembered that those figures used for foreign countries were based upon official government reports that were later found to be grossly underestimated. As a for instance, Britain would not actually count a homicide unless someone had been caught and convicted of homicide. In other words, it cannot be a murder until it is a solved and successfully prosecuted murder. What he also distinctly fails to mention in all of these is that these countries also do not have a bill of rights.
there was also the tally of commy bastards killed by the US without a mention of the millions of innocent people killed by communists, which, by it's very definition, is propoganda. Michael Moore is a Communist, plain and simple. This explains why he espouses the cuban health control system, and mentions the thousands of communist insurgents killed in south America, but fails to mention the tens of millions of Russians killed by their very own communist government.
Most offensive, I found the cartoon history of America to make me want to smash Moore's face in with a nail-studded two by four. In it, Moore alleges that America was founded by a bunch of fearful white men, and has been driven by white men's fear of everything, and that the impulse to purchase guns is motivated by fear. Listen; people motivated by fear do not make dangerous and deadly crossing of the Atlantic. Men motivated by fear of violence do not gravitate tools of violence. If such were the case, then the Marines and cops of America must be the most frightened bunch of kittens in the world with the way they gravitate towards firearms. It is self evident that the fearful kittens of America not only fear violence, they fear even the symbols of violence, which is why they hate guns, or even pictures of guns.
Well, that was an hour of my life I cannot get back, but at least now I can tell those fuckheads who reference Michael Moore that yes, I saw his garbage, and yes, it really is packed with as much lies and disinformation as it's detractors say.
Well, I am going to go read. Maybe I will do some work on my rifle later.
Respectfully Submitted,
-doc Russia