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I hate moving

After a brief, 9 month stint with Blogger and Google, I'm closing up shop on What Would John Wayne Do and moving to new digs, graciously hosted by Bitter of the Bitch girls.

You can find my new blog, and all of my old posts at Call me Ahab.

I'm not quitting or anything, just moving to more fertile ground.

-Ahab

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We'll be right back.

Looks like I missed all the fun

Serves me right for not blogging on the weekends; it seems that Robyn from Underfire has quite enough of us pro-gun people correcting all her all the time and is shutting down her comments.

She maintains that its because she has received some "ugly" and hateful comments in there, and you know what? I believe that she has. We can get pretty fired up about stuff, and when add to that the Internet Troll theory (take a normal person, give them anonymity, and an audience and they turn into an idiot), and sometimes it does lead to people saying some pretty foolish things.

That being said, I don't think that the negative comments were why she shut the comments down. She shut the comments down because she was tired of her blog being used by us to disseminate pro-gun information and facts.
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Jabberwocky

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves

Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:

All mimsy were the borogoves,

And the mome raths outgrabe.

"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!

The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!

Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun

The frumious Bandersnatch!"

He took his vorpal sword in hand:

Long time the manxome foe he sought—

So rested he by the Tumtum tree,

And stood awhile in thought.

And, as in uffish thought he stood,

The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,

Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,

And burbled as it came!

One, two! One, two! And through and through

The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!

He left it dead, and with its head

He went galumphing back.

"And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?

Come to my arms, my beamish boy!

O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!"

He chortled in his joy.

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves

Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:

All mimsy were the borogoves,

And the mome raths outgrabe.

In response to Sebastian

Who is responding to Tom Gresham's question about what we should call the AR-15. Sebastian says we should call it a service rifle, which seems to be pretty accurate to me. Kevin thinks the whole thing is stupid, and I sort of agree. I don't think that coming up with a new industry term for the Evil Black Rifle is going to change people's perception about AR15s.

But in the spirit of cooperation, (and because I can't think of anything else) I have a top ten list of new names for the AR15.

1. Pansy Poodle Shooter
2. A Girl's Gun
3. The M14's retarded little brother
4. A .22 on steroids
5. Evil Black Rifle
6. The Rifle I bought so I could look cool at the gun shop
7. I can't believe I spent $1400 on this
8. Seriously, I could have bought two or three good lever actions for what I paid for this
9. PSH Inducer
10. The Underwhelmer

Or, you know, we could just call it what it is. A self-loading rifle.
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I haven't pissed people off in a while

And today is as good a day as any. In all seriousness though, these shenanigans need to come to a close.

Allow me to explain something here. Renting is not financially superior to owning a home. Yes, by renting you have avoided the whole sub-prime mortgage collapse, and you are not currently getting raped because your ARM just shot through the roof. Newsflash bucko - not everyone who owns a home has an ARM. We all know that you weren't renting specifically to avoid this fiasco, so stop saying that you were.

Now, someone who rents because they've realized that they're not in the financial position yet to own a home and would prefer to put money into savings, etc; that person is smart. Similarly, people who buy homes that are inside their price range and get good, stable financing because they can now afford a home are smart.

Stop saying that you're smarter than people who bought with ARMS because you're renting. Owning real property is better than paying someone to live on their property.

Now, don't think that homeowners aren't going to get some of this. If you got an ARM, or bought a home that was beyond your means and now you're getting screwed, stop blaming other people. It is no one's fault but your own. The mortgage company did not put a gun to your head and tell you to sign on the line, you chose to do that yourself. If you expect the government to bail you out of your own financially foolish decisions, then you should be beaten with a Louisville Slugger until you aren't retarded.

Honestly, what the hell is wrong with all these people? I swear, basic principles of economics should be beaten into every man, woman, and child in this country so that people will not do stupid things like this.

Finally, to the mortgage companies that are coming apart right now because of a shitty business model: You guys are retarded. Seriously, that was your plan? Talk about an utter lack of foresight. Stupid wankers.
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I agree

With Sebastian, who is tired of being a cheerleader for the NRA to his fellow pro-gun people.

I hate being a cheerleader for the NRA. I would love to be able to sit down with pro-gun people, and have a reasonable discussion about things that I think the NRA could be doing better, things I wish they wouldn’t do, and things I wish they’d pay more attention to.

I am 100% in agreement with him on this. Additionally, I'm tired of defending the NRA from my left-wing friends, who can't seem to realize that the NRA is not a titanic organization that eagerly feeds babies into the barrels of cannons.
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I feel your pain

Chris discusses his desire that Midway USA would stop sending him fliers, because he is going to go broke.

As I said, I feel your pain. I currently have fliers Beretta, Cabelas, and Cheaper than Dirt. Midway USA sends me catalogs, emails, and fliers. Century International sends me catalogs and emails.

I only have so much money that I can spend on gun stuff, and I just don't know. Not that I want them to stop, because otherwise I'd never have known that Century has Manurhin Walther PPs for sub $300.
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New gun

Short story - I won the auction for the vintage 1920s-ish Beretta .25 Auto. I literally got it for a steal, so as soon as I get my FFL and the money out to the seller, it should be on its way home to me.

I love having a C&R license.

Now if I could just get Midway USA to get some Speer Gold Dots in stock in .25 ACP, I'd be all set.
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