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View From The Porch: The suck.
I don't know why I'm unburdening myself here, except that it's somehow a little easier to do it to the imaginary people in my computer than ...
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View From The Porch: Have you ever seen such a sight in your life?
Photo by Oleg Volk. Behold, the Buffington rear sight of the Springfield M1903, an intricate steel tribute to the Camp Perry mafia. Just wha...
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View From The Porch: You sound funny!
The Saturday morning cartoons on MeTV this morning included a 1935 Popeye short, " Be Kind to 'Aminals' ". It caught my attention not only b...
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View From The Porch: Birthday horror...
I was just scanning down the page looking for new comments, when I came across the " Sober Redneck " post, which references Jimmy Carter. Th...
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https://booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com/2012/01/endorsement.html
View From The Porch: Endorsement.
While VFTP is not in the habit of giving official endorsements to lying, thieving, hypocritical, egotistical, heirarchist wannabe-tax-parasi...
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https://booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com/2009/08/spring-ahead-fall-on-your-face.html
View From The Porch: Spring Ahead, Fall On Your Face.
The clocks are all wonky at Roseholme Cottage this week because Roomie is covering for a vacationing coworker. Said coworker works the shift...
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View From The Porch: Because I hate using good material at an away game...
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https://booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com/2025/01/tab-clearing_13.html
View From The Porch: Tab Clearing...
Jim Grey's first impressions of the Nikon 35Ti he purchased from me. (It's a really neat camera but I have reluctantly come to accept I'm n...
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https://booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com/2013/09/this-one-wins-all-internets.html?showComment=1379553852481
View From The Porch: This one wins All The Internets.
Want to really sting a Seattle Progressive? Watch how it's done: @Cameron_Gray Looks to me like @starbucksnews has adopted "Don't ask -...
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https://booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com/2013/11/stuff-like-this.html
View From The Porch: Stuff like this...
...is why I follow William Gibson's Twitter feed:
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https://booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com/2011/06/summertime-in-sobro-part-ii.html
View From The Porch: Summertime in SoBro, Part II...
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https://booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com/2008/11/odd-wikiwander.html
View From The Porch: An odd Wikiwander...
This date is the anniversary of the sinking of the White Ship in the English Channel, which drowned the son of Henry I and set in motion th...
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https://booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-suck.html?showComment=1349232146492
View From The Porch: The suck.
I don't know why I'm unburdening myself here, except that it's somehow a little easier to do it to the imaginary people in my computer than ...
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https://booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com/2010/04/more-knob-creek-pics.html
View From The Porch: More Knob Creek pics:
The crowd was decent, although it didn't seem quite the crushing, seething mass of humanity that it was in October. MG42 4SALE. SRS INQ ONLY...
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View From The Porch: The professional mourners have arrived...
" And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of ...
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View From The Porch: Mr. Romney, have you stopped beating your wife?
You know, you expect it from MSNBC, but from the national network shows down to the local news programs, the Party Convention-related blurbs...
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https://booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com/2015/03/tough-sell.html
View From The Porch: Tough Sell
Apparently even the people who were rah-rahing the imaginary "recovery" in the economy are having difficulty convincing themselves right now...
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https://booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com/2010/02/overheard-in-office.html
View From The Porch: Overheard in the Office:
Me: " It's a little known fact that there was a Welsh seaborne raid on the eastern shore of the Baltic back in the Middle Ages. The Welsh r...
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View From The Porch: Long drive yesterday...
Driving home from Knoxville yesterday, on I-75 in the hills south of Corbin, Kentucky, I saw what appeared to be a... was that a hawk? A buz...
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https://booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com/2008/04/blast-from-past.html
View From The Porch: Blast from the past.
http://www.youtube.com/v/z4KLXlE9ZU4 Luftwaffe Phantoms in da house! Found here .
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https://booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com/2012/04/locavore-ive-breath.html
View From The Porch: Locavore-ive Breath
Elsewhere on the intertubes, I find myself explaining the seeming dichotomy of me being willing to hoof over to Locally Grown Gardens on fo...
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View From The Porch: What she said...
" Whatever else their motives -- mental imbalance, loathing some person or group, wanting to begin war between sexes, races or religions...
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View From The Porch: Overheard in Gunsmithing...
No $#!+, there I was... I'm sitting there in gunsmithing yesterday, eating a slice of pizza, when in strolls one of those people who have ...
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https://booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com/2007/11/im-not-much-on-huckabee.html
View From The Porch: I'm not much on Huckabee...
...but I think I'd get along just fine with his wife. [Janet] Huckabee, the wife of Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, said in...
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https://booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com/2016/03/huh.html
View From The Porch: Huh.
So, I knew who Robert Capa was, but how had I not heard of Gerda Taro ? .
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https://booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com/2009/01/incidentally.html
View From The Porch: Incidentally...
The Para LTC 9mm continues to function fine. I hadn't cleaned or lubed it after its last range session, and ran another six magazines (48rds...
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https://booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com/2009/06/what-i-dont-get.html
View From The Porch: What I don't get...
...is if you're already using corked bats, why would you need the 'roids ? At least I know that my favorite baseball player, Greg Maddux, wa...
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View From The Porch: I'm so glad that someone else has thought about this
Phil at Random Nuclear Strikes asks one of life's important questions. If you were about to be overrun by a necrotic tide of shambling zomb...
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View From The Porch: The suck.
I don't know why I'm unburdening myself here, except that it's somehow a little easier to do it to the imaginary people in my computer than ...
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https://booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com/2008/10/prescience.html?m=0
View From The Porch: Prescience.
I've been reading Jeff Cooper's Gargantuan Gunsite Gossip . Like reading Miss Florence King's collected old "Misanthrope's Corner" columns f...
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https://booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com/2011/01/and-more-shot-videos.html
View From The Porch: ...and more SHOT videos!
Black Hills Ammunition discusses their two newest 5.56 loads: A 77gr Mk.262 clone and a 50gr Barnes Triple-Shock X . Travis Haley talks to R...
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View From The Porch: I just felt a great disturbance in the Force...
...as though millions of bank accounts cried out in anguish and were suddenly emptied. I didn't watch. Did He walk across the Reflecting Poo...
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View From The Porch: D'awwwww!
Timeline cleanser: The shock and awe on the face of this kitten upon realizing he has more than one paw to lick is just what I needed today....
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View From The Porch: Overheard in the car:
After an annoying experience with a bumper sticker slathered commutermobile: Me: " If more of these idiots would spend as much time worryin...
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https://booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com/2008/03/civics-101.html?showComment=1206016860000
View From The Porch: American Government 101.
Attention all you microcephalic monosynaptic moronic mouthbreathing media idiots who have been driving me up the fricken' wall the last few ...
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https://booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com/2009/10/move-over-elite-team-fighter.html
View From The Porch: Move over, Elite Team Fighter!
There are things on the intarw3bz that I wish every day that I'd never stumbled across. For example, yesterday I... Oh, jeez, I'm laughing a...
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https://booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com/2012/09/mr-romney-have-you-stopped-beating-your.html?m=1
View From The Porch: Mr. Romney, have you stopped beating your wife?
You know, you expect it from MSNBC, but from the national network shows down to the local news programs, the Party Convention-related blurbs...
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https://booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com/2010/11/flash-choir.html
View From The Porch: Flash choir...
ASM286 linked to this Random Act Of Culture that took place at the downtown Macy's in Philadelphia, with its historic Wanamaker Organ : Mis...
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https://booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com/2020/05/low-and-slow-across-ocean.html
View From The Porch: Low and Slow Across the Ocean
Following a conversation with Marko about X-Plane and sim-flying ferry routes in a Cessna 172RG, a bit of googling turned up this neat BBC ...
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https://booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com/2013/12/rcob-moment.html
View From The Porch: RCOB Moment.
The network morning show is in full wallow down the hall, with their Gucci hairshirt cosmetically daubed with the 364-day-old blood of dead ...
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https://booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com/2015/02/fun-show-find.html
View From The Porch: Fun Show find...
You don't run into many first-year production FN 1899 s in the wild. Especially bargain-priced ones. It's pitted and it was re-blued ove...
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https://booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com/2022/12/doing-right-thing-wrong-way.html
View From The Porch: Doing the Right Thing the Wrong Way
I've written numerous times that I'm pretty ambivalent about capital punishment. There are some crimes so heinous that you can't just walk b...
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https://booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com/2010/10/hey-doc-this-horse-dont-seem-to-be.html
View From The Porch: "Hey, Doc, this horse don't seem to be recoverin'!"
" Well, shoot it in the head again . " Dig faster! You'll get out of that hole eventually! (H/T to ThunderTales .)
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https://booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com/2009/08/hope-and-change.html
View From The Porch: Hope and Change!
Barry O. gives Ben a new helicopter .
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https://booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com/2010/03/flashback-half-prophet.html?showComment=1268540754033
View From The Porch: Flashback: Half a prophet...
My post from 9/07 : Right scam, wrong scammer... Now look at that Clinton , that's the way you do it You play the class war on the ol' tv Th...
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View From The Porch: Overheard in front of the Rose Bowl...
TV Golf Commercial: "The days get warmer, the azaleas bloom..." Me : " ...but if Tiger Woods sees his shadow, we'll have six more weeks...
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https://booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com/2011/04/econ-101-in-tha-house-fools-2011-style.html?showComment=1304100508060&m=0
View From The Porch: Econ 101 in tha house, fools! 2011 style, suckaz!
It appears that the other Keynes v. Hayek video was, in fact, actually round two. Here's round one: (H/T to Les .)
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https://booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com/2009/06/no-we-cant.html
View From The Porch: No we can't!
Remember when you were little and you were whining to go to Disneyland or order a large pizza for supper or to get that shiny new toy, and y...
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https://booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com/2008/06/happy-hundred-kay.html
View From The Porch: Happy Hundred Kay.
Congratulations to The Breda Fallacy and The Unforgiving Minute , both of whom celebrated the hundred thousandth hit on their blogs recentl...
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https://booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com/2010/04/pride-of-lions-herd-of-cattle-flock-of.html
View From The Porch: Pride of lions, herd of cattle, flock of seagulls, militia of Hoosiers...
Apparently I am living square in the middle of the Vast Conspiracy of Seditious Suburban White Guys, or so saith the Fort Wayne Journal Gaze...
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https://booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com/2025/01/who-down-wit-pid-yeah-you-know-me.html
View From The Porch: Who down wit' P.I.D.? Yeah, you know me!
Gorillafritz has an excellent post on the importance of positive target identification in averting tragic, and potentially fatal, mistakes: ...
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https://booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com/2022/01/heavy-metal.html
View From The Porch: Heavy Metal
I mean, having your very own Rolls-Royce Griffon that you can fettle in the garage and start up to delight the kiddies of all ages every now...
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https://booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com/2005/12/blog-stuff-urggh-saturday.html
View From The Porch: Blog Stuff: Urggh... Saturday...
If you walk up to someone at this time of year and greet them with a cheery "Merry Christmas!" and they respond by curling into a fetal ball...
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https://booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com/2008/01/teewee-alert.html
View From The Porch: TeeWee alert.
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https://booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com/2022/01/book-reports.html
View From The Porch: Book reports...
Having finished re-reading The Number of the Beast and concluding that it is, indeed, Heinlein's second weakest effort, I went on and re-re...
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https://booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com/2013/11/sharps-container-iii.html
View From The Porch: Sharps container III
Very small fixed blade "neck knives": Randall King Knives Syphon (boron carbide coated) Spyderco SPOT Randall King Knives Snitch J...
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https://booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com/2014/04/vehicle-update.html?m=0
View From The Porch: Vehicle Update.
Scheduled the Zed Drei at the shop. Planning on a rental for the weekend. The Subie may sit for a bit. Thanks, guys. .
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https://booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com/2011/08/save-soybean-eat-vegan.html
View From The Porch: Save A Soybean, Eat A Vegan.
Driving through Broad Ripple the other day, I ran up behind an elderly Volvo with a faded "HOPE" sticker and one that said "Vegetarians Tast...
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https://booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com/2012/03/overheard-in-office_30.html?showComment=1333168888102
View From The Porch: Overheard in the Office:
Me: " Wait, what? Roseanne Barr tweeted the address of Zimmerman's parents ? That's... that's just... " RX: "No, Spike Lee tweeted..." Me...
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https://booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com/2008/02/us-vs-them.html
View From The Porch: Us vs. Them
Good work, Officer Doughboy . Way to serve and protect, there. I'd be pissed off if they made me dress like John Belushi in a Killer Bees s...
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https://booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com/2012/03/obama-rocks-mic-like-vandal.html?showComment=1332852622355
View From The Porch: Obama rocks the mic like a vandal...
"This is my last election," Obama told Medvedev. "After my election I have more flexibility." While Obama put his hand on Medvedev's arm, th...
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https://booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com/2014/08/random-stuff.html
View From The Porch: Random stuff...
Joel needs writerly technical help . Jennifer writes about depression . Brent Wheat writes on owning your %$#@ups .
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https://booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com/2024/12/brace-for-arglebargle.html
View From The Porch: Brace for the Arglebargle...
The laws surrounding the manufacture and sale of firearms, or even of what is and isn't a firearm in the first place, are complicated enough...
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