Friday, June 22, 2012

Random Bits & Bytes

Some random stuff out there, thought I'd provide some thinkin' fodder for the weekend...
I'll have my review of the KRISS up in the next week or so. It's a very nice firearm, it just didn't trip my trigger the same way it tripped Robb's. But I'll save that for the review...
 Yep. The only reason that Congress is trying to make Holder pony up the documents pertaining to Fast & Furious is racism. And in Sharpton's world, Black Beauty was racist, too... Thanks to Stretch for the note.
From the BLNN, yes, the EPA is at it again. Would all those people out there blaming gas companies and their "high profits" for soaring prices at the pump please STFU now?
I've always used the metric that 5.56 can shoot either, .223 should stick to .223 specifically. Then again, I also really only get .223 Remington... Good information to have, especially for folks just getting into the ZOMG EVIL BLACK RIFLE game... And in other news, Luckygunner has a blog?
He's also got a decent rundown of the process involved in getting a suppressor and the time it takes. In addition to costing close to a thousand dollars (a quality suppressor runs anywhere from $500 to $700, plus the $200 stamp, plus shipping, etc.), it takes over half a year to come in. All for a piece of hardware that is mandatory on my car...
Go take a read - Our favorite author takes the Washington Post - specifically Dana Milbank - out behind the woodshed and gives them whatfor. He's also got a really good rundown of the Fast & Furious scandal, and the comments are chock-full of additional information such as Operation Wide Receiver, which is the Bush-era program Holder is trying to blame F&F on. There's a few little problems with this, such as the Bush program informed the Mexican government, only lost two firearms, and stopped the program when it was revealed to be flawed and basically useless...

Okay, that's about it for now - now go enjoy the weekend!

That is all.

4 comments:

Borepatch said...

Wasn't Black Beauty the nickname that George Scott gave to his bat?

Phil L. said...

Wow: The best 5.56 vs. .223 explanation I've seen.

Paul, Dammit! said...

The EPA ethanol debate has been in discussion around my galley table for a while. Oil transfer dock workers who receive share options as part of their compensation are surprisingly well-informed!
The idea the EPA had was to force people to use sugarcane waste to make ethanol, rather than using edible corn, which makes sense. However, no one has offered to subsidize the cane growers, who like to burn their waste cane bits as fertilizer for next years' crop. So the EPA is also playing Lucky Pierre because their surprisingly cogent plan to reduce dependance on corn for ETOH is based on the palatability of offering people $, but so long as Uncle Sugar doesn't offer the cane growers enough $ to buy fertilizer to make up for losing their burnt cane waste, they're going to want to keep their cane waste.
One of those things... the EPA can and does recruit the unexceptional and the unmotivated among conservation and environmental science students, and thus they try to reinvent the wheel without hiring anyone to tell them what a wheel looks like.

Old NFO said...

Good explanation on .223/5.56 Worth the time to read! Thanks!!!