Friday - February 11, 2011

Rat In A Drain Ditch, Caught On A Limb

He’s Gone
Mubarak calls it quits for reals this time, steps down

A furious wave of protest finally swept Egypt’s President Hosni Mubarak from power on Friday after 30 years of one-man rule, sparking jubilation on the streets and sending a warning to autocrats across the Arab world and beyond.

Mubarak, the second Arab leader to be overthrown by a popular uprising in a month, handed power to the army after 18 days of relentless rallies against poverty, corruption and repression caused support from the armed forces to evaporate.

Vice President Omar Suleiman said a military council would run the affairs of the Arab world’s most populous nation. A free and fair presidential election has been promised for September.

Ecstatic Egyptians celebrated in carnival mood on the streets and people embraced in Cairo’s Tahrir, or Liberation, Square, the main focus for protest. Many simply sobbed for joy.

Egypt exploded with joy, tears, and relief after pro-democracy protesters brought down President Hosni Mubarak with a momentous march on his palaces and state TV. Mubarak, who until the end seemed unable to grasp the depth of resentment over his three decades of authoritarian rule, finally resigned Friday and handed power to the military.

“The people ousted the regime,” rang out chants from crowds of hundreds of thousands massed in Cairo’s central Tahrir Square and outside Mubarak’s main palace several miles away in a northern district of the capital.

The protest movement that began on Jan. 25 grew from small groups of youth activists organizing on the Internet into a mass movement that tapped into the discontent to become the largest popular uprising in the Arab world.

Up to the last hours, Mubarak sought to cling to power, handing some of his authorities to Suleiman while keeping his title.

But an explosion of protests Friday rejecting the move appeared to have pushed the military into forcing him out completely. Hundreds of thousands marched throughout the day in cities across the country as soldiers stood by, besieging his palace in Cairo and Alexandria and the state TV building. A governor of a southern province was forced to flee to safety in the face of protests there.

His fall came 32 years to the day after the collapse of the shah’s government in Iran.

Switzerland has frozen assets possibly belonging to Hosni Mubarak, who stepped down as president of Egypt Friday after 30 years of rule, a spokesman for the foreign ministry said.

“I can confirm that Switzerland has frozen possible assets of the former Egyptian president with immediate effect,” spokesman Lars Knuchel said, declining to specify how much money was involved.

GAZA (Reuters) – Palestinians in Gaza let off fireworks and shot into the air to celebrate the resignation of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak Friday, and the Islamist group Hamas called on Egypt’s new rulers to change his policies.

“The resignation of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is the beginning of the victory of the Egyptian revolution,” said Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri.

“Such a victory was the result of the sacrifices and the steadfastness of the Egyptian people,” he told Reuters.

Your Foreign Aid Dollars At Work

Booty Boat Ferries Frisky Giraffes

In an attempt to increase the range of the endangered Masai Giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis tippelskirchi), wildlife biologists have taken to ferrying young adult males and females about to enter estrus across Lake Tanganyika from Tanzania into the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Due to the massive size of the lake, it would take longer for even these long legged creatures to walk around it than their mating season gives them, so the biologists built them their own ferry.

“Putting a cage on the barge wasn’t hard” states Mbulati Gahlwana, chief biologist for the Giraffe Project, “but rounding up half a dozen giraffes and getting them all aboard without injury was a challenge. They are very energetic creatures, and a kick from even a young one can kill a man in one go.”

The land and climate in most of the DR Congo is not perfect for giraffes, but the area on the western shore of Lake Tanganyika is moist enough to support the kind of vegetation and cover that these giraffes need. The Giraffe Project hopes to be able to move 4 dozen pairs of Masai Giraffes this year, enough to establish a small breeding population.

“We worry about poachers over there” says Gahlwana, “but if they don’t know the giraffes are around they might not go looking for them.”

The Giraffe Project is funded both by US foreign aid to Tanzania and by the World Wildlife Foundation.

Oh GAK

NASA takes first step in their new role as islamic ambassadors.

Cairo, 10 Feb. (AKI) - The United States space agency NASA has okayed the naming of one of its spaceships after a young Egyptian woman killed in late January during an anti-goverment protest, according to Egyptian daily Al-Masry-al-Youm.

The paper quoted Essam Mohamed Haji, a young researcher at NASA as saying on Thursday he had received approval to put the young woman Sally Zahran’s name on a spaceship heading for Mars.

Zahran, a 23 English graduated and translator died after she was beaten about the head on 28 January with a truncheons during clashes with security forces in in the Upper Egyptian governorate of Sohag. Anti-government protesters claim her killers were thugs in the pay of police.

“This is the least we could provide to Egyptian youth and revolutionaries. This step represents transferring the dreams of Egyptian youth from a small stretch of earth to the enormous expanse of space,” said Haji was cited as telling Al-Masri Al-Youm by phone from California.

What the fuck is this saccharin dhimmi bullshit? Will the Navy now be naming it’s next ship the USS St. Pancake?

Cold and Bloggy

Woke up early this morning because the house was so cold. Flip on the Weather Channel. “Currently in your area it is -2 degrees.” Yikes. Sure, other places are colder, but -2 (-19°C) is plenty cold enough. So while I work on two cups of coffee at once - one to drink and another to just warm my hands up with - here are some links from the old inbox. Happy reading!

• Lucidicus writes about the MA tax form he calls the 1099-Romney. Prove to the government that you have health insurance or get fined. Coming to an Obamacare near you soon!!
• Videos, we’ve got videos! Get ‘em while they’re fresh!
  
  • Carey B links to Bill O’Reilly noticing a similarity between the Muslim Brotherhood and MSNBC. No kidding.
  • Aunty Dhimmi gives us a funny link to a new kind of highway speed trap. Damn right it works. Once and for all!
  • Katie D connects us to those machine-talking cartoon characters again, this time talking about border security and getting inside the head of the left. I kept waiting to hear “the Bernanck”, but alas.
  
  
• 3 from Doc Jeff on the national energy front.
  
  • EPA drags it’s feet and remands permits, so Shell won’t be doing any Arctic drilling this year. So no new oil for you!
  • Remember Obama’s campaign promise to bankrupt the coal industry? Have you been subject to the rolling blackouts going across Texas and parts of the Midwest? They’re connected! And now Texas is buying electricity from Mexico. Gee, that’s wonderful; now we even have to import friggin’ electricity! That’s the kind of Change I can believe in.
  • When those blackouts shut down the power grid, there’s no power to run the pipeline pumps that bring in natural gas, so New Mexico is having a state of emergency in the midst of a cold snap. Government and school closing etc. Hey Texas, flip the damn switch back on already!
  
  
• How big was the cyclone that nailed Australia? Continental! Carol sends a link. Amazing.
• A little old - my fault! - but still great. South Dakota legislature wants all adult citizens to buy a gun. And not any old peashooter either. Righteous. WTH, this is the same logic as the Obamacare mandate, right?
• Is it un-Christian to eat halal meat? This guy thinks so. All the more reason to stick to pork chops.
• Fantabulous! Chechen(?) splodeydopette uses her own cell phone to trigger bomb in Moscow, forgets to tell friends not to text her. Oopski! Another one from Carey B
• Let’s see what the prolific Rich K has for us today ...
  
  • Things that make you saw EEEEWW! Strange plants from around the world. The root of the fleeceflower probably got ancient farmers burned for witchcraft. Horry Clap! This link gets a bit naughty towards the end.
  • 2011 is the first year you can’t get a cassette deck in your new car anymore. You’re kidding right? I haven’t even seen a cassette in almost a decade. I guess some folks are even slower on the technology uptake than even I am.
  • One of Washington’s biggest lies about federal spending will be endlessly repeated in coming weeks by President Obama, congressional Democrats, special interest advocates and the liberal mainstream media. The myth is that the federal budget really cannot be cut except on the margins because government programs are managed efficiently, with minimal waste, fraud and abuse, and they deliver essential services that cannot be provided any other way.

    You know, any other way other than letting the free market do it in half the time for 80% less and at a higher quality standard.

• Finally, what better way to start your day than with machine gun fun? Carol links us to a great video where a pretty TV reporter gets to rock ‘n roll big time. Pretty sure I saw this one last year, so I guess it’s a classic in the making. Class III weapons and truckloads of ammo. Sweet.

And good old CBullit links to the very naughty bits. But he’s doing it for freedom, for those poor protesting Egyptians, as a reminder of what they will loose when Big Brotherhood takes over! But CB, even our government knows that the Muslime Brotherhood is peaceful and secular! They just told us so!! [ reaction to that inanely insane statement by Clapper, our Director of National Intelligence, can be read here. I will personally lend Obama my extra tall bus jack to help lift up the axle if he will throw this dumbshit underneath. Clap on? Clap teh Eff off!! Update: Bolton and Beck weigh in! ]

So enjoy the babes while you can. Because if [Drew: when] the Muslim Brotherhood takes over, they will cut off your camel-whacker, then your head, and then the Internet–saving the snoochables for evidence, of course. Hey, I didn’t say they were stupid, just fucked-up.

Absolutely Not Safe For Work!

And my inbox is clean, woo hoo!!!

   Thursday - February 10, 2011

multiculti beauty

Alicia “Shay Maria” Kozlowski is almost 20, one part German, one part Chilean, and at least four parts smokin’ hot. She models for several clothing catalogs and dances in a few music videos. A little acting on TV as well. Seems to be popular with the skateboard and stoner crowd. Gee, I wonder why?

[ I had to put this post up just in case any of Roger’s readers stopped by. I’m tellin’ ya, get your hands on this TinEye add-on and learn how to use it. It kicks ass! ]

cities cut services to save money in hard times while top dogs keep their high salaries and perks.

The economy is a mess all agree. What isn’t agreed is how to cure it but the coalition govt. is in charge and so they set the agenda. 

There are serious and deep cuts being made in many social services, some which are actually not wasteful or bloated. Of course, as you’d imagine, many are.

Local councils are also cutting back on services and finding ways of saving BUT,
hands off our salaries.  The Prime Minister says “We’re all in this together.” What we all know is, that’s bullshit.  Only in his dreams and maybe not even then, are we all in this together.

For example, the head of the Manchester city council, the countries third largest city, is a Labour Party member, as are ALL members of that city council.  His basic salary is £233,000 per annum. That’s even more then the Prime Minister gets. None of the council salaries or perks have been cut. But they are proposing to close city libraries and the public swimming pools among other front line services.
They are politically targeting the front line services to make sure when the next election rolls around, that the Tory Party, that is the conservatives, get the blame.
But their fat cat life style continues.

Well, among the things the city apparently can afford is the following.
You could not make this up. And it’s only the tip of the dung heap. I wouldn’t bet against cons playing the very same game.

· Translating a guide to pigeon-feeding into Urdu – just one of the documents which contributed to a bill of thousands for translation services last year.

· Spending £2,000 giving 16 residents the chance to try stand-up comedy last year, in order to help them develop their confidence and make friends.

· Pumping £120,000 into B of the Bang, Britain’s tallest public sculpture, later nicknamed ‘Kerplunk’ after its giant metal spikes began falling off. The architect and contractors paid the council £1.7million in an out-of-court settlement over safety problems which led to it being scrapped in 2009.

· Spending £8,000 on a sex guide for the over-50s, featuring advice including watching a ‘sexy movie’. Around 5,000 free copies of what campaigners branded ‘an extraordinary and misguided pamphlet’ were sent to men and women across the city in 2009.

· Advertising three communications posts on salaries of up to £39,000 in October despite a recruitment freeze, including a social media manager described by critics as a ‘Twitter tsar’.

Just another example of politicians at work play.  No wonder so many have so little faith in govt. of any party these days.  How do you justify spending even one lonely penny on a translation service for feeding pigeons?  And get this. The city will close all but one of it’s public restrooms.  But the council chief gives up what?  Right.

Meanwhile, back at the treasury, millions are still being given away to foreign countries as aid. Millions and millions. While Brits are being told to tighten their belts.

It’s really discouraging.

Through The Looking Glass

A glimpse of the other side, a news article that has Pieper boiling ...

If we have to single out a U.S. ­President
who brought about the end of the Cold War,
it would be Jimmy Carter.

The 100th anniversary of Ronald Reagan’s birth has seen a mixture
of marksmanship, ranging from accurate to deranged, the latter as befits a dangerously deluded man who brought the world so near to a nuclear holocaust.

Yes, of course he was charming and engagingly modest. Yes, he understood a great simplicity of economics: that lower taxes could increase ­government revenues.

Simplicities were, indeed, his ­speciality. The Cold War was, to him, an extension of Hollywood B-movies where there were good guys and bad guys, with the white hats eventually defeating the black hats in the final shoot-out.

Those journalists who followed his campaign trails wondered if they heard him correctly. Did he really say Russia had ‘hardened’ all its ­factories against nuclear blast? Did he actually say that the ­Kremlin was preparing an attack and that war was likely?

If we have to single out a U.S. ­President who brought about the end of the Cold War, it would be Jimmy Carter.

In 1979, he inveigled the Soviet Union into its war in Afghanistan, thus creating the ­Taliban. It proved an unwinnable ten-year war — how history repeats itself!

The intense unpopularity and ­outright failures in that conflict were a ­serious factor in bringing to ­power Mikhail Gorbachev, long sceptical of the sustainability of the Communist system.

To Reagan’s admirers, the end of the Cold War blotted out everything else. And there was a lot else. He came as near to formal indictment as President Nixon. The ‘Iran-­Contra’ scandal involved defying a specific Congress ruling by sending aid to Nicaraguan exiles seeking to overthrow the Left-wing government.

Blah blah blah ... go read the rest from this useful idiot. Andrew Alexander in the UK Mail Online.

Hey Andy Alexasshole - feast your eyes on this one, baby!

Fire In The Hole!

Thanks to everyone who sent me this graphic. You know me too well. So here’s another curry video for your enjoyment. Better living through chemistry!







Notes: what she calls capsicum peppers are what Americans call Cayenne peppers. You can substitute red Serranos for a slight reduction in heat, or use Chiles de Arbol for the same amount of hot. Her green chilies are NOT New Mexico greens. I’m pretty sure they are the mild ones you can get in a can in the Goya section of the grocery store. If you want to take most of the heat out, substitute red Anaheim peppers for the capsicum ones. So this is really a recipe for what New Mexico folks would call a Christmas chili, only not as hot as the ones they usually make.

   Wednesday - February 09, 2011

the lights of europe are going out ….. is anyone listening? not the multi-culturists

One brave man alone I’d say.

I mentioned I was going to try and stay with this, and so I am. He’s worth listening to. Or in this case, reading too.
This court could jail him ya know.  This trial will prove to be as defining a moment in euro history as I can think of.  If he wins, it could open a floodgate of free speech and thought.

Stay Tuned.

English sub titles

HAS AOL LOST ITS MIND ALONG WITH ITS MONEY?

Since I can’t say it better, I’ll say nothing except ... Mary Ellen is correct in all particulars.  This Brit has it pegged.

As America’s conservatives see it: ‘Huffington’s House of Horrors’

By Mary Ellen Synon

The online news website The Huffington Post is being bought out by internet giant AOL for $315m (£196m). To anyone under 40 the deal is just another internet manoeuvre, this time between the tired and in troubled AOL and the American leftwing’s favourite ‘news aggregator’ Arianna Huffington.

Or Arianna Stassinopoulos as she will always be to those of us over 40 and who were around London when the Greek was making her climb up the ladder.

The last time I saw her she was sitting across from me at a small private dinner party at a club in Pall Mall. The party was given for Enoch Powell and his wife Pamela. Arianna was working hard at impressing Powell and all the rest of us (some Fleet St stars were there, so I mostly kept my head down and stayed grateful for escaping the newsroom that night). But the abiding impression was that everything she said had been rehearsed, even down to the hand gestures. She was like a sixth form girl competing for a prize in ‘declamation.’

Now she’ll be pocketing AOL’s millions to add to the millions she took from her failed marriage to a bisexual oil heir. But there’s more to this than just another lotto win for the Greek. Here’s what Brent Bozell, Media Research Center president and publisher of NewsBusters had to say about the deal. Bozell, if you don’t know his work, is one of America’s sharpest commentators on journalism. (His mother, just by the way, was the sister of William F Buckley):

‘This proves AOL News has lost its mind. They must be in such dire straits that they’ve been blinded by the millions and think an acquisition of The Huffington Post is worth sacrificing credibility and objectivity. AOL News is fooling only itself in thinking there is no journalistic conflict in merging with a hate-filled, vicious, radically left-wing rag.’

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Inventive Weaponry

Homemade Lever Action Revolver Shotgun

Using his own ingenuity, a welding torch, and some spare parts lying around the shop, a gunsmith has built a rather unique firearm. He figured things out as he went along, and came up with what may be the first lever operated single action revolving cylinder shotgun ever made. Pretty neat. In the above picture the teardrop shaped knob you see behind the cylinder is the handle for the swing out loading gate, just like on a single action revolver. The ejector rod assembly runs along the right side of the barrel over the forearm and is used just like the ones on a single action revolver. The shotgun has a great 1880s look to it, right down to the red color of the wood which was popular in those days.

This is one of those posts that takes me forever to write, because I can see several approaches to it. I love the “lever action revolver shotgun” part, because it makes me wonder if this gun project wasn’t designed from the get-go to take a swipe at pulp fiction authors, who are historically awful at describing guns. Seriously, they write such colorful nonsense, like “emerging from the misty night, he lifted his .44 millimeter magnum double barreled automatic and drew a cowardly bead on the detective’s head from behind.”, proving yet again that they have even less awareness about actual firearms than Hollywood producers. That’s a challenge, because I didn’t think it was possible to actually have negative quantities of knowledge. So it strikes me that this could have been a “gotcha” project.

The other direction would be to point out that there is nothing new under the sun when it comes to firearms. Everything has been done before, and it was usually done 100 years ago if not longer. Old ideas get reinvented, improved a bit with modern materials and technology, and hit the market as something brand new. The revolver shotgun is one of those ideas. And that’s where a 30 second post of “oh, look at this neat picture, here’s a link, now move on” turns into hours, because I go and do the research so you don’t have to.

The revolving barrel / revolving cylinder idea is probably almost as old as firearms themselves. I would not be at all surprised if some ancient Chinese proto-gun someday turned up that had 5 or 6 bamboo barrels strapped around a wooden axle that allowed the shooter to fire off half a dozen rock balls in quick succession by touching a burning brand to the flash holes. Gunpowder came along a long time after the wheel and the lever, and reloading has always sucked, so the axial repeater is probably Thought #2 when it comes to inventing a better gun.

Metallurgy and ignition methods being what they were, it took until the early 19th century to make a revolver that was even somewhat reliable (the pepper mill pistol) and it wasn’t until the mid 19th century when Samuel Colt figured out how to properly do things. From then until now it’s only been a matter of improved materials and precision, with a few side steps along the way for such tricky bits of innovation like metallic cartridges and smokeless powder.

Somewhere around 1855 Colt enlarged his clockwork pistol mechanism and hung a long barrel off the front of it, thus creating the revolving rifle. It looked really cool but wasn’t very powerful. He further stretched the idea and turned out revolving cylinder shotguns. And between the two long arms, he invented the problem of blow-by. You see, in order for a cylinder to be able to spin around, the front edge of it can’t be in actual contact with the back end of the barrel. You need a little gap so the parts don’t rub on each other. But when you fire a revolver of any kind, some of the burning powder gas is going to squirt sideways out of that gap. So is some of the bullet if the parts aren’t perfectly aligned (and they never are). In a pistol this doesn’t really matter. You hold a pistol in one hand a stick it out in front of you. Any blow-by goes off to the side. But when you grow a revolver into a rifle or a shotgun, your other hand is out in front holding on to the fore end. Which means the blow-by hits you right in the arm. White hot gas and little shavings of high speed lead. Not cool.

Technology has come a long way towards mitigating the blow-by problem. Modern steels and modern machining can make that gap very small; just 2 to 4 thousands of an inch. Modern smokeless powders burn very cleanly. They don’t leave a bunch of sticky crud behind them like the old black powder did. That allows those close gaps to work; no crud builds up on the front of the cylinder to jam things up. Well actually it does, but these days it takes hundreds of shots to build up enough gunk on the front of a cylinder to jam a revolver. Back in the old days a dozen or two shots would have been enough, which is why the old guns had such big gaps between the breech end of the barrel and the face of the cylinder. And more blow-by because of it. So the revolver rifle/shotgun idea didn’t work out too well back in 1860, and it got set aside.

But it wasn’t set aside by everyone. Around 1866 Sylvester Roper found a better way. Roper was a prolific inventor, and like many other inventors of that era he turned his mind in several directions. He built a steam powered car. He may have invented the motorcycle: his was steam powered, and it was one of these two wheeled wonders that eventually killed him. But along the way he also invented a revolving cylinder shotgun, that used metallic cartridges before metallic cartridges were actually invented. So he made his own, out of iron. Chalk up another first for old Sly.

The Roper Revolving Shotgun was highly unusual, and at first glance appears to have solved the blow-by problem by putting a hinged shield around the cylinder (which is Thought #5 in repeating firearms development, once the burns have healed from Thought #2. It works but is really clumsy). This is not the case. Roper built his gun in a recursive, cart before the horse, kind of way so that cocking the hammer retracted a long bolt that ejected the spent cartridge out the back. Pulling the trigger advanced the cylinder, and released the bolt. The spring powered bolt slid forward, pushed the cartridge out of the cylinder and into the breech of the barrel, and then fired it. If you think about it, there had to be some kind of bolt locking mechanism inside somewhere, otherwise this thing would have been a machine gun. Here’s the video:

It’s a pity the NRA curator doesn’t work the mechanism using one or two of the iron cartridges because that would really make it clear how this one functioned. And the curator’s remark about blow-by is ill founded, since firing a cartridge in a locked chamber will have just about zero blow-by. But it was a really neat invention, and you could honestly say that what Roper built was actually a bolt action revolver shotgun, a description which should send detective novel authors into fits of orgasmic glee. Thank God it only had one barrel.

And here’s where the fun begins all over again. With divergence! It must have been a triple bear to cock that hammer, seeing how much mechanical complexity it eventuated. The guy had a good idea, but took what to us was an ass-backwards approach, rather like building a giant skillet under your hen house so your hens would lay fried eggs. It works, but the cost in chickens is going to bankrupt you. Which is exactly what happened to Roper. Like just about every firearms inventor of his time, he went broke. But you can’t keep a good mind down, even if it keeps coming up with backwards ideas rather like our old friend General Buffington, so with his partner Spencer (yes, that Spenser, the guy who invented the Spencer repeating carbine that was used so effectively in the Civil War), he looked at his creation, looked at the new tubular magazine that Henry had hung under his ”Yellow Boy” lever action rifles (this rifle would soon evolve into the Winchester lever action “cowboy rifle”, the so-called “gun that won the West” and make Oliver Winchester millions. Henry also went broke.) and it’s cartridge lifting mechanism, put two and two together, and then invented the pump action shotgun. 11 years before Winchester. More than a century later, the pump shotgun remains essentially the same. It’s prettier, stronger, smoother, better made and better balanced, but today’s model isn’t really much different than what these guys developed way back when.

But in doing so they gave up the revolving cylinder idea. Had they hung onto that, and just added a lever to do all the hard work, they would have built a creation rather like the one shown above that our unnamed inventor put together 130 years later. It would still have the blow-by problem, but perhaps “hardly noticeable with normal shirt sleeve” as our modern inventor at the top claims.

Ah yes, the divergence. Let’s go back to the turn of the 20th century, and take Roper’s revolving cylinder gun idea and add that lever. Let’s shorten the bolt so that the used cartridge gets ejected out of the top of the gun instead of out the back, and let’s make sure the lever does all the mechanical work. While we’re at it, let’s utilize those new fangled carbon steel coil springs so we can get rid of that clunky old hammer and put all the firing pin and striker parts inside the gun. We’ll keep the locking bolt and the idea of pushing the cartridge out of the revolving cylinder and into a chamber in the back of the barrel. Finally, let’s make it a rifle, since the repeating shotgun thing is all figured out. My gun savvy readers are smiling now, because they know what’s coming.

Behold the Savage 99. Arthur Savage did exactly what I said in the above paragraph, and in 1889 brought the rifle to market. It was a hit. He improved the design a little in 1899 when he was trying to get a military contract, but the improvements were mainly in robustness. It’s the same design concept as the 1889 model. Lever action, fully shielded internal rotary magazine (ie revolver cylinder), sliding bolt with a sturdy locking mechanism.  No blow-by. For the next 80 years this Savage rifle was the darling of American hunters everywhere. It’s a fast pointing, fast shooting, perfectly balanced little gun that can handle the strongest modern cartridges, and unlike the tubular magazine lever guns made by Winchester and Marlin, the Savage is perfectly happy with pointy bullets. It’s a very robust design without a whole lot of fussy little parts, and that makes for a easy to maintain rifle that lasts forever. Many 99s built many decades ago are still out there hunting today.

Hey, while we’re at it, since the market is clamoring for super high velocity cartridges, let’s put a famous cartridge designer on the payroll, one Charles Newton, and have him develop the hottest cartridge out there to pump up sales! And he did, inventing the .250-3000 Savage, a short little wonder cartridge that could push an 87 grain quarter inch diameter bullet at the unheard of phenomenal velocity of 3000 feet per second. Which means Savage invented the Assault Rifle Cartridge. In 1915. 50 years before such rifles even existed, and 75 years before they got that label. Just for fun, a few years after that Savage took the .250 cartridge and necked it up to .308, and made a short length cartridge that matched the ballistics of the popular military .30-06: a 150 grain bullet at 2700fps. The .300 Savage is a fantastic deer hunting round, and did the “short action” thing 50 years before the rest of the market had “invented” the idea.

Like I said, there’s nothing new under the sun in the firearms world.

h/t to Rich K

there’s just too damn many white,middle class ppl enjoying themselves. lets put a stop to that

This won’t mean anything to our American reads. Won’t even mean a thing to many in Europe either. But it bothers the heck outta me.

Why?  Because the jerk that wants to upset the applecart is talking about me and I don’t like it. Well, not me specifically but ppl here in the South and Southeast of the country.  We’re too white and too middle class for his likes and we listen to BBC Radio 4, and many minorities don’t. And, there are not enough minorities as ‘presenters’ on BBC 4.  Presenters is what Brit speak for announcers.  Had I worked here in radio instead of America, I’d have been a presenter instead of a DJ.

I’ll grant ya that the BBC is often biased to the left a bit. But as an ex radio guy and a listener, I can say honestly that even with all the stuff they broadcast that I do not care for, over all they have better radio programing here.  No point in going into reasons for that, it’s just an honest fact.  And frankly, American lifestyle just isn’t conducive to the same kind of listening and programing as here.

There have been times I’ve gone to bed with eyes so tired I couldn’t read, as is my habit. So I turn on BBC4 and listen to some books dramatized. For example, not long ago it was the Mark Twain biography and recently I heard a book read about Issac Newton. I heard things about him I never heard of before and it got me to buy the book from Amazon. And it isn’t the first time I’ve done that.  Then too there are public interest panel shows, like tonight’s Moral Maze at 8pm. There history and there’s religion and overall just a lot on offer. BUT ... maybe not for teens and 20’s.  I guess you could say it’s ... well .... middle class.
Yeah. Put a stop to that before it spreads.

So, this is really upsetting and I want you to see the sort of distorted mindset of some of these brain dead socialist schmucks.
And btw ... this is not the first time we have heard that there’s too much for the white, middle aged and middle class to enjoy.  A few years ago it was a national park so described. 

There is something called the BBC Trust and I guess they oversee that things are politically correct. I think anyway.

What does the BBC think of Radio 4’s 10m loyal listeners? Too many are white, Southern and elderly
By LIZ THOMAS

You might assume that being declared a ‘national treasure’ and boasting 10million listeners a week means Radio 4 is doing ­everything right.

Yet the station’s output is still not good enough for the BBC Trust.

In a performance review, it has ruled Radio 4 needs more northern presenters, a younger audience and to improve its appeal to ethnic minorities.

Stalwarts: The Today programme’s John Humphrys and Desert Island Discs host Kirsty Young attract thousands of listeners to Radio 4, but the BBC Trust says the BBC Trust says the station should appeal to a younger, more diverse audience

the BBC Trust says the station should appeal to a younger, more diverse audience

But the verdict prompted a fury yesterday from listeners, broadcasters and ­politicians, who branded the Trust’s ­findings ‘ludicrous’ and ‘patronising’.

Today presenter John Humphrys said: ‘Radio 4 is not too white, too middle class or too old. You would have to be daft not to think about how to bring in the next generation of audiences, but it should be done through quality.

‘Our listeners come to us as they mature, but also because of the content. If I am doing an interview I don’t think about how to make it appeal to a 16-year-old or a 95-year-old – I think about doing the best job.’

I am not a huge fan of Mr. Humphrys. He interrupts the ppl he interviews too often, he asks a question which sometimes takes three minutes or more and before the person he is asking it of can answer, he’s in again with his own answer.

The BBC Trust - the corporation’s governing body - is estimated to have spent £10,000 on a consultation with 16,795 licence fee ­payers on the quality, distinctiveness and value for money of Radios 4, 3 and digital station 7, which is to be rebranded Radio 4 Extra.

The report, by BBC trustee David Liddiment, acknowledged Radio 4 sets ‘a high standard for speech radio’ and is seen by many as a ‘national treasure’ – but claimed it still needed to change.

The station should find ‘ways to build loyalty amongst younger, lighter listeners’, and needs to be promoted ‘among minority ethnic opinion formers through special content and marketing events’.

But his verdict prompted wide-ranging anger. Former MP Ann Widdecombe said: ‘Radio 4 is ­probably the only thing that caters for middle-class, middle-aged audiences. There is precious little for us on television.’

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Oh no! Don’t let the dumb-down brigade ruin Radio 4. It’s the last bastion of civilised, aspirational broadcasting
By QUENTIN LETTS

The remarks came from David Liddiment, a paid-up member of the liberal media elite while discussing a BBC Trust report which has passed lofty judgment on Radio 4’s performance.

There was grudging admission that the station, which has ten million listeners a week, delivers good value for money and is greatly loved. But Mr Liddiment was not content. His sort rarely are.

He insisted that Radio 4 needed to change its ‘tone of voice’. As jolly hockey sticks interviewer Sarah ­Montague put it, summarising his complaint: ‘So, we’re white, getting on a bit, living in the South of England.’

At this point I’m afraid my inner ­rubber band snapped and I shouted at the radio: ‘What’s wrong with that?’

Radio 4 sets out to talk to an educated elite, and if a lot of them happen to be white, middle-aged people who live south of Manchester and happen not to speak like Sir Jimmy Savile, well, so be it. What will Mr Liddiment be demanding next? That those listeners move house to the Pennines?

Such finger-wagging is depressing for two reasons. First, it shows that the militant egalitarianism of the Labour years — the cause of so much bog-­standardisation and so much ­ossification of opportunity — has not yet been defeated. Second, it is an example of officialdom’s genius for trying to fix something that is not broken.

why should Mr Liddiment & Co want to alter it?

Now we come to the nub of the matter. The BBC Trust’s report emphasises the Corporation’s alleged duty to promote ‘diversity’ and ‘the delivery of this purpose’.

I don’t know about you, but I find the use of that word ‘purpose’ slightly sinister. Why should the BBC be an agent of ‘diversity’? Is that properly any of its business? Yet this is what drives the Liddiments of this world, as created by their past ­ masters in New Labour.

It is a creed which is irrevocably Left-wing, being driven by an obsession with otherness, with minorities and the margins at the expense of cultural unity.

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   Tuesday - February 08, 2011

road built by romans and hidden for 1900 years is found.  awe-some!!!!!

WOW! How is this for awesome?  What I don’t quite understand is how whatever has been buried for so long can still maintain enough of itself, so that ppl a thousand yrs later can say exactly what it was.  But no matter ... it’s still a great find.
This kind of thing just blows me away. I get all kinds of excited by this. Wish I could go there and visit and snap my own pix. Of course, they wouldn’t look like much more then a mound in the woods. 

Motorway maximus: Unearthed, a stunning Roman super-highway built 1,900 years ago
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER

The 15ft-high road ran from London to Exeter
It was a route once trod by legionnaires as they marched across a conquered land.

But, eventually, the Romans left Britain and the magnificent highway they created was reclaimed by nature and seemingly lost for ever.

Now, some 2,000 years after it was built, it has been uncovered in the depths of a forest in Dorset.
And, remarkably, it shows no sign of the potholes that blight our modern roads.

Half-mile long: Laurence Degoul from the Forestry Commission stands on a 15ft-high section of Roman road uncovered in Puddletown Forest in Dorset

Constructed by the Roman invaders as part of a route from London (Londinium) to Exeter (Isca), the 85ft wide earthwork stands more than 15ft high and consists of a sweeping road with deep ditches at the side.

It was so densely covered by trees, however, that although its existence was known about, it simply could not be found until now.

One of the country’s first roads, it was uncovered when the Forestry Commission, acting on advice from English Heritage expert Peter Addison, cleared the Norway spruce fir trees in Puddletown Forest.

Mr Addison said it was the biggest Roman road he had come across and that it was probably designed to make a statement. It is thought that it might have been built shortly after the Roman conquest in the first century and its scale would have been chosen to intimidate people living nearby.

The sight of a Roman legion marching along it would surely have had the desired effect.
It is thought the road would have been made from layers of gravel and the fact it still exists is testimony to the skills of the builders.

There is a central cobbled ‘street’, which would have been used for rapid troop movements, and outer ‘droving’ roads for livestock, as well as ditches for water drainage.

Mr Addison said: ‘It’s extraordinary. It has been known about but when the Forestry Commission wanted to find it, they struggled.

‘The trees were planted so tightly it was difficult to move through them. But they called me in and I managed to find it.

‘It is part of the road that goes from Badbury Rings to the fort at Dorchester and was part of the network of roads from Old Sarum (now Salisbury) to Exeter.

Artist’s impression: The Roman road being built in the Dorset forest 1,900 years ago

‘It is absolutely huge and unlike anything I have ever seen. Here you have a large road with huge ditches either side. It is raised very high which is unusual. It is only speculation, but the height might have been to make a statement.

‘It is thought this was a road made early in the occupation and not used for long. If so, then it would have been incredibly impressive to the local people.

‘In other parts of the forest we know the road was made using gravel and they probably used layers to build up the agger (embankment). They built ditches on either side to act as soakaways to prolong the life of the road.

‘But more work needs to be done to find out these details.’

It is hoped that archaeologists will be able to examine the road.

A Forestry Commission spokesman said it would not be planting any more trees on it.

The road will probably be grassed over in the future, he added.

‘We have painstakingly uncovered one of the UK’s most remarkable sections of ancient Roman road,’ the spokesman said.

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AH, THE WONDERFUL ADVANTAGES OF SOCIALISM WHERE ALL IS EQUAL.

Nothing wrong with helping out kids who can qualify with good grades who need help. But this does not read that way, unless I misunderstood something.
Oh well, never mind.  Commissar will see to things so that comrade students of the oppressed proletariat will be made equal even if they aren’t.

Nick Clegg orders universities to lower entrance requirements - but only for poorer students
By JAMES CHAPMAN

Deputy PM declares class war on ‘instruments of social segregation’

Nick Clegg is to make an explosive attack on British universities as ‘instruments of social segregation’ as he orders them to stop taking so many middle-class students.

The Deputy Prime Minister will this week insist that top institutions must ‘throw open their doors’ and lower their entrance requirements for the less well-off.

It could mean top institutions such as Oxford and Cambridge, that usually ask for three As at A-level, accepting disadvantaged students with only Bs and Cs.

Universities that want to charge tuition fees of £6,000 or more will be forced to sign up to ‘access agreements’, ensuring they admit more students from disadvantaged backgrounds.

The move will prompt fears that bright pupils from good schools or middle-class homes could lose out on sought-after places.

Cambridge University today revealed it is planning to charge students the maximum £9,000 in tuition fees from next year.

Poorer students would be offered reductions of up to £3,000 per year, plus bursaries of up to £1,625.

Mr Clegg will on Thursday write to the Office of Fair Access – the body set up by Labour to police university admissions – setting out the new system.

Institutions are expected to be allowed to draw up their own methods of broadening their intake.

But critics fear teenagers from comprehensives will increasingly be given easier A-level offers than candidates from fee-paying schools.

One headmaster suggested to the Times that universities that usually ask for three As at A-level from candidates could accept disadvantaged pupils with Bs and Cs.

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