Mr. C, the organizer behind the Gun Blogger Rendezvous and avid shooter was hospitalized with gall bladder problems the other night. He’s not going to make it to the Blogger dinner tonight, which is a real bummer (on top of gall bladder surgery) since I’ve been trying to run into him for a year or so now.

His wife, KeeWee has an update posted on his site.

I hope that he gets well soon.

Blogger Dinner tonight with Joe Huffman, Phil from RandomNuclearStrikes and more. Should be a good time, I haven’t had a chance to meet any of these guys yet.

I am really liking this gun! I have about 300rds through it now and it shoots like a champ. I’m now to the point where I’d trust my life to it and carry it every day — which means I’ll have to get another Undershirt holster made since it won’t fit in the one for the Kimber. I continue to have some problems anticipating recoil so I’m hitting low to the left as usual.

I went to the range with a couple of friends yesterday. It was pouring down rain, but thanks to the cover at the Kitsap Rifle and Revolver Club we were dry. Lots of fun was had with the Ruger Mark III. The only problem there is that the 10 round mags are just too small. The AR-15 worked like it was supposed to, with the exception of a couple of rounds of Radway green that didn’t fire the first time.

I hope all the followers are happy with the next 4 years. You bozos elected him, not me. Remember that.

And now I have to figure out how I’m going to survive this mess. I’ll be back later.

Vin Suprynowicz, who has been a huge influence on my political views over the years with his columns and books, has decided to vote for the GOP.

I have only one marginally effective way to tell those who have spent the past three months libeling and trashing Sarah Palin — and with her, every “regular American” who owns a gun or goes to church and lives outside their oh-so-correct urban enclaves of Washington, New York, Atlanta and Los Angeles — where to shove it. And that’s to vote against the communist sympathizer who would make legally owned self-defense weapons as rare as whooping cranes, and for a true American hero — to vote a Republican presidential ticket for the first time in my life.

Via spankthatdonkey

In his own words

The full audio can be found here.

From stoptheaclu.com, hat tip to Dave Workman.

Sebastian at snowflakesinhell and Steven at Bucks Right have also posted about this.

This morning I re-discovered The Ayn Rand Institute. In an article from yesterday Amit Ghate makes some excellent points about the current financial ‘crisis’:

Overlooked here is that in a free market business failures are not just normal, they’re crucial for the best products and ideas to emerge. Most restaurants fail in their first three years because customers have other preferences. Many mom-and-pop grocers go out of business because Walmart offers better selection and lower prices. Even whole industries–think typewriters, 8-tracks and horses and buggies–vanish because new inventions and competitors arise.

None of these failures are a problem, nor do they threaten the system. On the contrary, they are an inherent part of the progress which only capitalism makes possible.

So why would failures in the financial industry be any different?