Month: June 2014

This cartoon made me sad…

Congratulations to the United States World Cup team for surviving a brutal game against Ghana. Ghana played a very physical game and put more balls on net than the United States, but luckily Tim Howard, Team USA Goalkeeper, had a great game.

Even being up a point for most of the game, it was a scary game to watch. After the first, almost instantaneous goal from Clint Dempsey Team US was out shot and barely seemed to keep position for more than a few touches, all the while getting pushed and smacked around. Then, with less than ten minutes left we let up a goal, only to get an awesome header from a corner to put us back up.

For a game where we had the lead for the vast majority of the time, I was tense the whole time.

Now we just have to wait until Sunday and hope Team USA can recover and put forth a strong showing against Portugal.

My youngest and I went out to the range today to shoot some clays. I unknowingly had purchased some “Dove” clays which turned out to make for an interesting day. The picture below shows the “Dove” clay at 60mm next to a more standard “Quail” clay at 90mm. If you are used to shooting at “Standard” 108mm clays or “Quail” clays at 90mm – the 60mm “Dove makes for a much harder to hit flyer.

My son shooting “Dove” clays with his Franchi 12G. He’s only gone through maybe three or four hundred shells with his new Franchi but is rapidly getting used to the 12G.

During my rounds I would put one round in the side saddle and one in the chamber. My would launch a clay, cycle it, and launch another as fast as he could.

Fast reload with a stove pipe failure to eject thrown in for fun:

Another fast reload with no failure to eject:

I have to say that this is actually why I much prefer a pump. Most failures can be quickly cleared and you can keep shooting. Give me a pump action any day in a survival situation.

And Maggie…

At least he doesn’t have arms.

Pulp Fiction is the movie that brought John Travolta back from the dead, and quite honestly it didn’t hurt Bruce Willis’s career either. Pulp Fiction is the story of two mobsters who are sent to get back the “BRIEFCASE”.

This is where things start to go sideways, spiraling into an awesome mess….

that ends with Zed dead.If you haven’t seen Pulp Fiction, or haven’t seen it in a while – it’s the perfect Saturday movie.

Chosen by the Soviet Union in 1951 for its simplicity and relative stopping power:

Is this what goes for discourse now?  I get that everyone has the right to voice their opinion, and if he said something like, “I don’t support gay rights.”  Or even , “I think gays will pay in the afterlife.” I would have been equally dismayed, but at least it would have been ignorant – but not grotesque.

I can’t even say how wrong his post is.

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Crosses and salt, and maybe a little fire is called for too.