Gun Rights Examiner comes to Charlotte
Grass Roots North Carolina’s president Paul Valone has joined the ranks of those writing for the Examiner on gun rights. His column is available here. It’s great to see a local voice for gun rights.
Oh, and you can join GRNC here.
NRA contest results
Bitter has posted the final tally at the 2nd amendment blog bash site. I came in second, but was totally spanked by Dustin of Dustin’s Gun Blog, who brought in an incredible 44 members. Well done, sir!
I also got a nice note from Rachel Parsons at NRA-ILA, thanking me for my particiapation.
The fight is not over, people. Feel free to click the link on the right to join the NRA today.
BHO…gun salesman of the year
Just got off the phone with my Momma Newbie. She asked me to help her buy a handgun. “I just feel like I need to assert my rights,” she said.
Good for you, Mom! Welcome to the ranks of the gunnies.
Too cool!
Brownells has launched a Flash based tool to let you design your own custom AR-15, then print out the parts list for easy ordering. It’s really neat, and a great way to learn about what you can do with an AR.
http://www.ar15builder.com
Another good reason for gun rights
Dod at American Manifesto has a great post up on a study that the National Academy of Sciences has put out. In a nutshell, the NAS has concluded that solar storms of a sufficient intensity will do really, really bad things to our infrastructure and that the resulting chaos would be…bad.
I’d add that the probabilty of even a short term disruption having serious consequences is a very real. Modern IT systems and logistics management methods have shortened the amount of time material sits in inventory. Walmart, for example, literally cross loads trucks directly from suppliers to stores with no wait time in a warehouse. That’s great…it means that everything we buy is a little bit cheaper because there is less inventory overhead. It also means that when the suppliers trucks stop coming, there is very little play in the system to absorb the loss. When we had our mini gas crisis here in Charlotte a few months back, we saw gas stations selling out their entire inventory in a day. There just wasn’t enough capacity in the “pipeline” to absorb even a few days disruption.
It’s important, therefore, that you make sure that there is enough material (food, water, gas, etc) in YOUR inventory to be able to tolerate disruptions in supply. And that you have the means to protect those supplies shoud it become necessary.
Range report
I made Bitter’s Potato, Cheddar and Chive soup tonight. It turned out well. I made a few minor variations:
- The recepie doesn’t specify what kind of potatos to use. I think this is a major problem. Different kinds of potatos have different starch to sugar ratios. The choice of potato will change the ending texture and to a certain extent flavor of the soup. I went with a 50/50 mix of Russet (very starchy) and Yukon Gold (Less starchy).
- I changed from chicken stock to beef stock. I thought that the beef stock would add an earthy….no, I’m lying. I was out of chicken stock. But I was right, the beef stock did add a nice rich, earthy flavor.
- The blender got angry with the soup. It was just too thick. Switch to a stick blender, and leave everything right in the crock.
Delicious, quick and easy. Thanks Bitchin’ in the Kitchen!
P.S. Get it…range report? *Snicker*
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