- A fascinating thread on an outdoors forum about strange stuff people have found in the woods. (CAUTION: SEVERE TIME SINK WARNING!)
- U.S. Secret Service Officer is the only one in this patrol car qualified to have a Negligent Discharge out front of the Russian Embassy.
- This doesn't look like such a bad deal. Too bad I'm poor at the moment.
- Roundup of AAR's for the one-day TigerSwan pistol class Sean organized down in NC. I've got to get down there if they do it again.
- How does this invertebrate manage to muster up the courage to peek out from under the covers every morning without having a therapist on speed dial?
Books. Bikes. Boomsticks.
“I only regret that I have but one face to palm for my country.”
Gander Mountain and Academy Sporting Goods also sell the Federal ammo in a can for $10 to $20 more.
ReplyDeleteYou weren't kidding about that thread being a time sink. My favorite so far:
ReplyDelete"I found one of the "satanic" altars way up in the MtHood Natl Forest once. We were about a mile back off a popular hiking trail and stumbled across a pentogram arranged out of medium sized peculiar looking stones, in front of a large flat-topped boulder at the base of a rock wall. My buddies who were with me got really scared and wanted to leave ASAP, but I made them wait until I rearranged the rocks into a smiley face."
The whole thread makes me want to go hunting, or hiking, or camping, or something. I've never been, but I know I'd enjoy it.
Thanks for the link. I will make sure that you are invited to the next class. We will be doing it again.
ReplyDelete"I found a dead midget."
ReplyDeleteWinner hands down of the Time Warp Thread.
Wait.. never?!
ReplyDeleteThere's gotta be somebody local who can go with ya! (edit - awesome Sean!)
Now I'm jealous at those stories!
Let's think... a gal's garter, a tin bucket from the late 19th century (guessing by construction), a weird little parachute thing off an old army airstrip, a little girl's geocache, old appliances, at least one Alaskan plane wreck :( , scads of bottles, several shelters over the years..that's all that comes immediately to mind.
We sure are a messy species. :p
... no
Joanna and Miguel stole my thunder. Thank you for the time sink on my do-nothing day.
ReplyDeleteKane sure is an idiot, but he has some intelligent commenters; he should read them.
Jenny: My uncle offered to take me hunting a couple years ago, but nothing ever came of it.
ReplyDeleteI've wanted to go north ever since I read "The Call Of The Wild" in college. My goal is a reasonably self-sufficient existence in the woods, or at least someplace rural with trees.
(CAUTION: SEVERE TIME SINK WARNING!)
ReplyDeleteYou weren't kidding!
The strangest thing I ever found in the woods was a massive six foot tall gravestone with a thirty foot flagpole affixed to the top to commemorate a particularly successful stud bull back in the 20's.
Picture.
His entire article seemed to be summed up in one sentence “Oh noes! I will actually have to be polite to people and not walk around oblivious to my surroundings anymore because people might have guns!”
ReplyDeleteThe absurdity is myriad.
His premise that because the government previously didn’t allow it, that no one around him ever carried a gun.
His idea that now because law abiding citizens will have guns that he has to remain vigilant of his surrounds, whereas before, when only criminals had guns, he didn’t.
His total reliance on a “no guns allowed” sign actually meaning that there are no guns inside his building.
It is to laugh. This guy obviously has some serious issues with viewing the government as some omniscient force that can protect his life with a rule and a sign.
Tam, how do you know he doesn't have a therapist on speed dial? He's a journalist, after all...
ReplyDeleteGoober,
ReplyDeleteIt's like Tinkerbell. She exists only so long as you believe in her (you do believe in Tinkerbell, don't you? You don't want poor Tink to go away, do you?).
It's a strange sort of duality. At the same time as he has such faith in people that they'll obey all laws and policies (a murderer will be stopped from his crime by the existence of a sign), yet he has such little faith in people that they won't obey decency or morality (people shooting each other over trifles).
Someone in the comments section observed that it had to do with the belief that people have to be managed and guided by those smarter/better than them.
Lots of "mommy issues" in liberalism.
gvi
Re Invertebrate: Well, he can go run and hide in Illinois, like the Wisconsin Democratic Lawmakers did this Spring if he's so scared of the Armed Citizen.
ReplyDeleteI *so* wanted to leave a comment on the "things found" along the lines of "I found a partially rotted bag full of money and a skeleton all tangled up in the remains of a parachute."
ReplyDeleteHopefully the invertebrate will just stay home and piss his diaper.
ReplyDeleteMy goodness, you mean that WI will become a shoot-em-up, blood in the streets wild west hellhole like New Hampshire or (gasp) Vermont! Say it isn't so!
ReplyDeleteRE: Invertebrate
ReplyDeleteMan, will this "DODGE CITY!" meme EVER go away????
Palmetto State Armory has the same xm855 a couple of bucks cheaper w/shipping.
ReplyDeleteRe: Milwaukee's Best-
ReplyDeleteRead his interview (or don't) with the "Truth" about Guns guy. Claims he pulled the race card on him. 'Because that's MY job' was all I could make of his post. His world view is threatened by the McDonald decision, so it simply didn't happen Kinda like Daley, Rahm, hell, all of Ill. now that I think about it.
Are you sure that Eugene Kane is ONE person (I refuse to use "man")?
ReplyDeleteThat whole article reads like it was written by a committee - "You write paragraphs 1, 2, and 3. I'll write 4 and 5, while the janitor writes the conclusion. No peeking!"
The internal inconsistencies couldn't exist in a sane mind ... oh... wait.
*assumes the hunched over posture of someone who may be carrying a concealed weapon*
ReplyDelete"Igor! Cut that out!"
"YESSSS MASSSTER!"
I was fishing for brook trout up Greasy Cove Prong in Pisgah NF and found a nekkid dude sitting on a rock in the middle of the creek.He was in the lotus position chanting oohhmmm over and over.The creek was only about 10 feet wide and the banks are thick mt laurel so the creek is the trail and I said hello(but was thinking hell no)and said hey as i waded past but he never opened his eyes or acknowledged me.
ReplyDeletehootie11bravo
Spineless One should just do what Others who believe as he does have done...move to Chicago.
ReplyDeleteThe ILLness there guarantees they'll never have CCW, so he'll be nice and safe.
Of course he'll need bodyguards who *will* be armed...like I said, just like Others who share his belief system, aka protection for Me but not for Thee.
Damn. When I saw "AAR" I immediately thought you found a gathering of Plymouth AAR 'Cudas. :-(
ReplyDelete"SEVERE TIME SINK WARNING!"
ReplyDeleteDa-yum!
No kidding.
Dude, where did the weekend go?