The founder of the company that sells Enzyte sentenced to 25 years on counts of “conspiracy to commit bank, wire and mail fraud, as well as multiple counts of money laundering.”
Sounds a bit like this case which, to the best of my knowledge, hasn’t been heard yet. This can’t be good news for those folks.
Oh, and for the record, I think 25 years is a bit much.
Tam has her review up now. Long story short: She’s likes it enough to buy it.
Earlier I presumed that they had all shot LDA pistols but that wasn’t the case. Tamara was running a single-action version. Joe Huffman was rolling with the LDA for the weekend and reports it has a serious bug.
If the gun cycles, you let up on the trigger to the first click, squeeze (it will hit a hard stop without firing), then let up until the next click, the pull the gun will lock up. You have to manually cycle the slide (roughly the equivalent to a computer reboot) to recover. I mentioned this to Kerby, the Para USA guy, and he said, “Yes. It will do that. Don’t do that. After the gun cycles move you finger until the nail touches the front of the trigger guard then do your pull.”
Call me crazy, but I’m not comfortable with the notion that a pistol can malfunction when you operate the trigger at an inopportune time. That’s sort of a deal breaker with me.
So, one of our cats has taken to urinating in a certain corner of our basement lately. Yes, I know, it’s disgusting. We’ve started the cleaning process to get the funk out.
To keep her from going back to the corner we bought an ssscat device. It’s a stupid name, but it works. It’s an air canister with a motion censor on it. If something comes within a meter of the sensor it spits out a stream of air. Freaks he hell out of the cat. It works.
Oh, and yes, we had her tested for a urinary tract infection. She’s fine, it’s just a behavior thing with her.
Apparently trying to check into a hotel with cased guns will get you arrested in Denver, CO. Seems that there was increased police presence at the hotel because Nancy Pelosi (and I’m sure other elected officials) were staying there for the DNC convention.
From what I can tell that man didn’t do anything illegal, but Denver PD arrested him anyway. I’m sure this guy can relate. Denver has some ability to duck state preemption of state laws but it should still be impossible for them to redefine what carrying a concealed weapon means. Provided that all the guns were unloaded and cased he should be clear. “Should be” being the operative phrase here.
Remind me never to vacation in Denver.
Here’s a handy aggregator sucking up all the posts from the various bloggers that were there as they write about the event.
I can’t wait for Tamara’s take on the LDA pistols they used. This is why. She eventually stopped carrying them as stock items when she was working for Coal Creek Armory due to QC problems.
One of my home machines (Ubuntu AMD64 8.04 Desktop) can’t get to this website anymore.
The name resolves.
I don’t have an override in /etc/hosts.
I can ping it.
But I can’t access it through any browser or FTP to it. Firefox, Konqueror, and lynx all fail. So do ‘ftp’ and ‘netcat’ clients from the command line.
This is annoying, and I’ve run out of ideas. I already killed my ‘tor’ server on it, thinking that maybe it was trying to proxy all my requests for me, as a stab in the dark, but that didn’t work. Obviously.
Anybody have any ideas? I’m kinda stumped.
So, I tuned into freestyle wrestling tonight, not having seen any since the 2004 games, and immediately had a WTF moment.
Somebody went and fucked this sport up!
The winner is now the best of 3 periods, scores are cleared out at the end of every period, there’s overtime on a period-by-period basis, and well here’s an article on this fucking disaster.
Here’s the kicker: I knew why they did it as soon as I figured out the rule changes. FILA thinks it’ll make the sport more whiz-bangy and actiony and people will start tuning in. You know, the same reason they’ve made every other rule change in the last 20 years. Sure enough, right from the linked article
Wrestling’s world governing body made the changes because it wants to stimulate action. In this Olympic age of beach volleyball and BMX racing, it wants to hold its own as entertainment.
Women’s beach volleyball gets viewers because it’s women with tight bodies in tight outfits. We don’t have much to work with on that front:
And yes, I know Rulon wrestled Greco-Roman and I’m talking about freestyle here. Deal.
You want to attract viewers? Stop fucking with the sport! I honestly don’t think there’s been a single 6 year period in the last 30 years where FILA didn’t jack with the rules.
Knock it off.
Oh, and if they are going to change them again: Just start rolling back the changes. Don’t get creative.
I’d hoped to post regular stuff on the Olympics but haven’t found time thus far. So, here’s a quick update on what I’m paying attention to.
There’s no way that the entire Chinese gymnastics team was actually of age to compete. A blogger has now dug up official state documents on official state websites confirming that. Personally I don’t think there should be any age limits, but they’re there, and the competing nations should adhere to it.
I watched a bit of the swimming events. Michael Phelps is off the fucking chain! There’s not much I can add to what’s already been said.
Track & Field has finally started, so I’ll be paying more attention from here on out. The excitement so far has come from Usain Bolt, setting a world record in both the 100M and 200M, and doing them easily. Absolutely amazing. This guy is going to be chipping away at his own world records for a few years.
I got mine in the mail the other day.
Six of ten questions mention Barack Obama, one mentions Charles Schumer, and none mention John McCain.
Here’s the last question, the only one that asks a general question:
Would you knowingly vote for any candidate who supports any portion of the gun-ban lobby’s anti-Second Amendment agenda?
The possible responses are:
What they really need there is a 4th option: “I’d never knowingly vote for a gun-ban candidate unless he was only concerned with eliminating the private sales of firearms between citizens. That’s the only way this survey could honestly come out as showing NRA members are pro-McCain instead of just anti-Obama. Given their original 3 choices, and knowing how NRA folks feel, the responses to question #10 would totally eliminate John McCain as a choice for president.
Every time I open up my mail from the NRA, NRA-ILA, or NRA-PVF, I get the feeling that they think we’re all a bunch of knuckle dragging morons. Do they honestly think that we don’t know of John McCain’s feelings on the “gun show loophole?” Hell, he mentioned in his speech at the NRA convention this year. It’s not exactly a secret he’s trying to keep from us.
Why don’t they ask us how we feel about that particular issue? You can then send the results back to the McCain camp and let him know that he needs to fix this to get the NRA behind him 100% in this election. What’s wrong with that?
Airline pilot placed on terrorist watch list.
Airline pilot placed on ‘no-fly’ list.
Two different pilots, two different lists. In the first story the pilot has to go through extra screening, even though he’s authorized by the TSA to carry a gun on a plane. In the second story the pilot is going to lose his job if he can’t get off the list soon.
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