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There are 33 U.S. Senate seats up for election 2014.
source: www.senateconservatives.com/site/races
Senators up for re-election who voted to give your rights to the U.N.:
Mark Udall, Chris Coons, Brian Schatz, Richard Durbin, Mary Landrieu, Al Franken, Jeanne Shaheen,Tom Udall, Jeff Merkley, Jack Reed, Mark Warner
Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) introduced an amendment to prevent the United States from entering into the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty in order to uphold the Second Amendment. His amendment passed on a 53-46 vote.
Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tn.) said that the United Nations’ Arms Trade Treaty “violates the Second Amendment rights of all Americans by failing to protect the lawful ownership and use of firearms. Agreeing to the treaty would also threaten our nation’s sovereignty, as well as the U.S. Senate’s constitutional role of advice and consent by allowing the U.N. to amend the treaty in the future.”
source: www.chattanoogan.com/2013/10/24/261960/Alexander-UN-Arms-...
Democratic Sens. Jon Tester and Max Baucus of Montana joined Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota and Joe Donnelly of Indiana in announcing opposition to the treaty that Secretary of State John Kerry signed on to on behalf of the Obama administration last month.
source: blogs.rollcall.com/wgdb/arms-treaty-stymied-by-2nd-amendm...
Zoe's Dead Cow Hotspring
My first decent infrared photo. My set of three very cheap IR filters (less than $10US each) arrived yesterday:
720nm, 760nm and 850nm.
This one was made through the 720
These filters are probably made of plastic, but seem quite good for the price.
3-shot HDR, processed with Photomatix
Nikon D600 on tripod
Sigma 70-300mm f/4-5.6 Macro
Serfs UP! Photo courtesy of From Sovereign to Serf (www.serfs-up.net)
sovereign2serf.wordpress.com/2012/05/25/america-love-it-d...
It’s Hard To Imagine
It’s hard to imagine, today, the evils of yesterday; it’s hard enough to fathom the evils of today. It’s even harder to believe that different evils can come to us in the future than those we’re dealing with now; or that the evils of the past can recur, or that we could be faced with some different version of them; that the laws we pass now, to try to deter an attack from a particular front, could hinder us from protecting ourselves in the future.
We don’t really want to talk about what “could happen,” and it even sounds ridiculous to worry about some of the maybes, that only *possibly*, *might*, be. So we make it sound like a game, or at least we try to be non-specific, and we talk about things like “zombies.” Because we don’t want to imagine what we might need this or that for, but we know they might be useful someday. Or maybe we can imagine, or we’ve taken seriously the warnings of those who have imagined, but we don’t want to sound crazy. We don’t want to say things like “when the commies land,” or “if a whole section of the country suddenly floods, *after* a single, big storm passes.” Now that would be ridiculous, wouldn’t it?
Today, when we are concerned about what one or two people can do with a few high capacity magazines, or with access to explosives and the materials to make them, it’s hard to imagine that we may ever have to worry about what a large crowd can do to only one or two people. Or that, God forbid, instead of us worrying about what a terrorist can do to our government buildings, our lives and liberty will ever be in danger from our government, or some faction thereof, with no civil remedy with which to answer our attackers. But it is possible. And it’s even harder to imagine, because unfortunately it’s historically proven unlikely, that those in danger from the powerful will be able to reverse, in time to protect themselves, the laws that we have put in place to restrict the liberty of evil men, while in fact restricting the liberty of all men.
We’d like to limit power to wield a sword to those whose job it is to wield the sword of justice, but while we can limit the power to fight to our government, and to our paid fighting men, we cannot endow those men with the omniscience or the omnipresence needed to, in all ways and at all times, protect us. Neither can we guarantee that those in power are and will remain who we’ve known them to be, or that their successors will be as trustworthy as we believe they are. The best and safest protection the law can afford us is to first allow everyone the right to protect and provide for himself. After that we can worry about giving our government the power to further protect us - as long as we don’t give such unanswerable power to our government as we would be afraid to have fall into the hands of our enemies.
Maria shootin my AR. She is NOT afraid of the big bad wolf.....
I mounted the old scope on my AR and we gave it a try on a Cold day at the range. I could not get the scope forward enough to allow for adequate eye relief. Back to irons.....
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Dana Lynn Loesch, aka Dana Loesch, is a talk radio host and spokesperson for the National Rifle Association.
This caricature of Dana Loesch was adapted from a Creative Commons licensed photo from Gage Skidmores's Flickr photostream.
5/3/2013 - HOUSTON - Texas Governor Rick Perry is introduced at the 2013 NRA Leadership Forum with a video displaying his marksmanship before speaking to the audience and reaffirming Texas' commitment to promoting freedom, personal responsibility and the Constitution, including the rights of law-abiding gun owners.
for more information: governor.state.tx.us/news/press-release/18457/
Tribulus terrestris lies in the foreground. This weed is a notorious bicycle tire popper.
"Like many weedy species, this plant has many common names, including bindii, bullhead, burra gokharu, caltrop, cat's head, devil's eyelashes, devil's thorn, devil's weed, goathead, puncturevine, and tackweed."
--via Wikipedia
My "shaved" Rokinon 8mm f/3.5 fisheye lens was set at minimum focusing distance and f/22 to keep most of the foreground in the DOF (or near it).
Cropped.
Ruger, K10/22-TBBZ is Maria's new baby. Fancy 20" bull barrel and all, the jury is still out weather this shoots any better than her regular, barrel banded, stainless 10/22. We've tried Federal, Remington (Golden bullet), Winchester (target), Eley (target and club), Wolf (match), CCI (sv). CCI SV turned in the best 10 shot group at 100 yards of 2 inches. This is only a little better, if at all, than our other (cheaper) 10/22's with cheaper ammo. Only been out with it 3 times so we'll keep trying. O and I wrote to Ruger and they responded "The accuracy of this model is 1" at 50 yards. Has the firearm been cleaned? Are you using open sights or scope?" Well, if we had known it would only shoot 2 MOA we would have probably have bought something else. Also they ask questions in the response and you can not respond to the email as in "Please note: This e-mail is sent from a notification-only address that cannot accept incoming e-mail. Please do not reply to this message." And Finally the moron who wrote this asks the question "Are you using open sights or scope?"..... the rifle DOESN'T COME WITH OPEN SIGHTS. I ain't to happy about this.....
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