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Monday, August 11, 2014
Round Ball vs Cut Lead
Oleg posted this on FB and I found it so interesting I had to post it here along with a comment from another user on FB
WR: Very interesting! I had never heard of the extruded bar bullets. A Confederate infantryman in Missouri described in his journal the practice of casting bullets in a thimble. He said they would pour in the lead, then very quickly jam a pointed stick into the thimble to make the base cavity. He didn't comment on the accuracy, but said they'd shoot clear through a box car at 200 yards!
When we exhumed the remains of 31 Confederate soldiers who died at the battle of Glorieta Pass, in New Mexico, several of the skeletons yielded the bullets that had killed them - everything from buckshot to a 12 pound howitzer canister ball, and several minie bullets. In the pelvic area of one skeleton, we found a .58 minie bullet with the skirts grossly expanded. The expansion was pretty uniform, and the nose of the bullet wasn't deformed, at all, and showed no rifling marks. A few days later in the dig, we found a group of about 15 bullets, identically deformed, in the pelvic area of another skeleton.
The bones didn't show any damage, so we concluded that the bullets had been in the soldier's pockets. The Confederates were pretty poorly armed, even by early war standards, and many of them had shotguns they'd brought from home. They had captured many thousands of rounds of .69 ammunition in paper cartridges at Ft. Bliss, and several mentioned in their letters and journals that a .69 buck and ball round made a 12 gauge shotgun a pretty effective close range assault weapon. (See how I brought in that terminology?)
The flaring of the skirts on those minie bullets baffled us until I took my 12 ga. muzzleloader out of the car and tried one of those bullets in it. It wasn't a tight fit, but was a lot better than a plain .58 bullet. Somehow or another, they were swaging the skirts out to use those bullets in shotguns. (They were too big to fit in an 1842 musket.) I have never tried to fire an altered bullet from my shotgun, but I have tried to swage the skirts of some, and they must have had some kind of home made die, because every method I've tried mangled the nose of the bullet, too.
Sunday, August 10, 2014
Friday, August 8, 2014
Some motivators and demotivators
Fisking of a "Gun Control" Expert
Bob over at 3 boxes of BS has done a fisking you should read. I found it to be rather informative. As such I won't excerpt it.
Click the link to go RTWT:
Dissertation Level Fisking ?
Click the link to go RTWT:
Dissertation Level Fisking ?
Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence what is 7 times?
"WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A top U.S. healthcare official involved in the botched rollout of the website HealthCare.gov may have deleted some emails that were later sought by Republican congressional investigators, administration officials said on Thursday.
The emails were from a public email account maintained by Marilyn Tavenner, who heads the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) agency chiefly responsible for implementing President Barack Obama's healthcare reform law."
I mean we are obviously past enemy action and way past conspiracy.
And yet the current administration won't do anything as it would reveal their culpability in the issue and open them up to criminal prosecution.
So they are going to do their best to bury the issue and destroy as much of the evidence as they can.
I think it's high time the courts order the Marshal's Service in to seize any and all computers and to start a detailed investigation WITHOUT the input of the FBI or any other agency. As they have been shown to be just as corrupt.
The emails were from a public email account maintained by Marilyn Tavenner, who heads the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) agency chiefly responsible for implementing President Barack Obama's healthcare reform law."
I mean we are obviously past enemy action and way past conspiracy.
And yet the current administration won't do anything as it would reveal their culpability in the issue and open them up to criminal prosecution.
So they are going to do their best to bury the issue and destroy as much of the evidence as they can.
I think it's high time the courts order the Marshal's Service in to seize any and all computers and to start a detailed investigation WITHOUT the input of the FBI or any other agency. As they have been shown to be just as corrupt.
A tick bite could make you allergic to meat?
"A bug can turn you into a vegetarian, or at least make you swear off red meat. Doctors across the nation are seeing a surge of sudden meat allergies in people bitten by a certain kind of tick.
This bizarre problem was only discovered a few years ago but is growing as the ticks spread from the Southwest and the East to more parts of the United States. In some cases, eating a burger or a steak has landed people in the hospital with severe allergic reactions."
Is there nothing more dangerous? Think about it. How much of the proteins consumed here in the US is meat? And not just meat but red meat?
Hamburgers, hotdogs, steak, roasts, briskets, and how much other red meat products find their way into our diets?
You might be thinking to yourself that I am over exaggerating, but think about it. If one of the least expensive proteins suddenly cannot be consumed what other proteins are there that those people can eat? And how much of them are available?
Go back to the law of supply and demand.
Right now due to the drought and other factors any proteins, meat, peanuts, milk chicken, turkey, seafood, eggs, beans and a few others.
According to the article for some of the people afflicted by this allergy even milk and dairy triggers the reaction. So that takes out just one more protein available.
Many people already suffer from seafood allergies, plus algae blooms are making more and more seafood toxic as well.
So what does that leave?
Legumes and beans such as peanuts and soy beans.
Do you really want to eat soy and peanuts all the time? Do you think there is enough to supply demand with the prices currently rising as they are?
So this allergy could be something rather bad. How bad remains to be seen.
Also consider this. What OTHER diseases are transmitted through tick bites?
Lyme Disease is one of the biggies.
So the main take away from this is use bug spray folks. Not just on you but spray your pets as well as ticks can hitchhike on your pets into your house and on to you.
This bizarre problem was only discovered a few years ago but is growing as the ticks spread from the Southwest and the East to more parts of the United States. In some cases, eating a burger or a steak has landed people in the hospital with severe allergic reactions."
Is there nothing more dangerous? Think about it. How much of the proteins consumed here in the US is meat? And not just meat but red meat?
Hamburgers, hotdogs, steak, roasts, briskets, and how much other red meat products find their way into our diets?
You might be thinking to yourself that I am over exaggerating, but think about it. If one of the least expensive proteins suddenly cannot be consumed what other proteins are there that those people can eat? And how much of them are available?
Go back to the law of supply and demand.
Right now due to the drought and other factors any proteins, meat, peanuts, milk chicken, turkey, seafood, eggs, beans and a few others.
According to the article for some of the people afflicted by this allergy even milk and dairy triggers the reaction. So that takes out just one more protein available.
Many people already suffer from seafood allergies, plus algae blooms are making more and more seafood toxic as well.
So what does that leave?
Legumes and beans such as peanuts and soy beans.
Do you really want to eat soy and peanuts all the time? Do you think there is enough to supply demand with the prices currently rising as they are?
So this allergy could be something rather bad. How bad remains to be seen.
Also consider this. What OTHER diseases are transmitted through tick bites?
Lyme Disease is one of the biggies.
So the main take away from this is use bug spray folks. Not just on you but spray your pets as well as ticks can hitchhike on your pets into your house and on to you.
Tuesday, August 5, 2014
Behind the Scene's of Kubrick's 2001" A Space Odyssey
"The Discovery
The vehicle selected for the Jovian mission is the impressive, 700-foot long spaceship Discovery. So-called "Cavradyne" gaseous core, nuclear reactor engines at the rear provide the craftls propulsion. Hundreds of feet of tankage and structure separate the spherical part of the ship where the crew quarters, the computer, flight controls, small auxiliary craft, and instrumentation are located. In the centrifuge, the crew enjoy Earth-like gravity conditions created by spinning; it is there that they spend most of their time and where the hibernating astronauts sleep in their hibernacula. Actual piloting, navigational checks, and the like take place in the zero-gravity environment command module. Other sections of the sphere include the pod bay, where three one-man repair and inspection craft are housed, and the HAL 9000 computer with its level-upon-level of memory storage and related elements."
2001 was a ground breaking piece of cinematic art. It showed the dreams of space travel that could become possible reality.
Stanly Kubrick wanted a realism so real, that many thought what he showed was actually exiting technology.
I have always thought, that NASA should turn to Hollywood when it comes to creating the tools necessary for our exploration of space.
Could you imagine, what would happen if Hollywood was tasked with designing and building a EVA Space suit that would cost less than 50 thousand dollars per suit? I bet you they could do it and do it so the final cost would be considerably less than 50k. The Disney Imagineers could probably do it for less than 20k a suit. Just give them the specs and turn them loose.
People like Elon Musk, and many others have the ability and the imagination to build the future of space travel. Burt Rutan has taken one of the many steps needed to bring the future about.
The largest problem we have currently, is the hindrance of big government.
I bet if NASA joined with private industry and offered a prize for the first private space station to reach orbit in one of the Lagrange points, inside of 7 years the prize would be collected.
Bigelow Aerospace, has already built several inflatable stations that are in current orbit. I bet if they were offered the opportunity to put a station in L2 with some help for launching their units, they would jump at it.
So we have the technology NOW to build Kubrick's and Clarke's dreams. Do we have the determination to do so?
The vehicle selected for the Jovian mission is the impressive, 700-foot long spaceship Discovery. So-called "Cavradyne" gaseous core, nuclear reactor engines at the rear provide the craftls propulsion. Hundreds of feet of tankage and structure separate the spherical part of the ship where the crew quarters, the computer, flight controls, small auxiliary craft, and instrumentation are located. In the centrifuge, the crew enjoy Earth-like gravity conditions created by spinning; it is there that they spend most of their time and where the hibernating astronauts sleep in their hibernacula. Actual piloting, navigational checks, and the like take place in the zero-gravity environment command module. Other sections of the sphere include the pod bay, where three one-man repair and inspection craft are housed, and the HAL 9000 computer with its level-upon-level of memory storage and related elements."
2001 was a ground breaking piece of cinematic art. It showed the dreams of space travel that could become possible reality.
Stanly Kubrick wanted a realism so real, that many thought what he showed was actually exiting technology.
I have always thought, that NASA should turn to Hollywood when it comes to creating the tools necessary for our exploration of space.
Could you imagine, what would happen if Hollywood was tasked with designing and building a EVA Space suit that would cost less than 50 thousand dollars per suit? I bet you they could do it and do it so the final cost would be considerably less than 50k. The Disney Imagineers could probably do it for less than 20k a suit. Just give them the specs and turn them loose.
People like Elon Musk, and many others have the ability and the imagination to build the future of space travel. Burt Rutan has taken one of the many steps needed to bring the future about.
The largest problem we have currently, is the hindrance of big government.
I bet if NASA joined with private industry and offered a prize for the first private space station to reach orbit in one of the Lagrange points, inside of 7 years the prize would be collected.
Bigelow Aerospace, has already built several inflatable stations that are in current orbit. I bet if they were offered the opportunity to put a station in L2 with some help for launching their units, they would jump at it.
So we have the technology NOW to build Kubrick's and Clarke's dreams. Do we have the determination to do so?
More people added to no fly list
"Of the 680,000 people caught up in the government’s Terrorist Screening Database—a watchlist of “known or suspected terrorists” that is shared with local law enforcement agencies, private contractors, and foreign governments—more than 40 percent are described by the government as having “no recognized terrorist group affiliation.” That category—280,000 people—dwarfs the number of watchlisted people suspected of ties to al Qaeda, Hamas, and Hezbollah combined.
The documents, obtained from a source in the intelligence community, also reveal that the Obama Administration has presided over an unprecedented expansion of the terrorist screening system. Since taking office, Obama has boosted the number of people on the no fly list more than ten-fold, to an all-time high of 47,000—surpassing the number of people barred from flying under George W. Bush.
“If everything is terrorism, then nothing is terrorism,” says David Gomez, a former senior FBI special agent. The watchlisting system, he adds, is “revving out of control.”
People have been added for being critical of the current administration. For unpaid tickets. For having a last name that is ethic in origin.
And there is NO Oversight.
The documents, obtained from a source in the intelligence community, also reveal that the Obama Administration has presided over an unprecedented expansion of the terrorist screening system. Since taking office, Obama has boosted the number of people on the no fly list more than ten-fold, to an all-time high of 47,000—surpassing the number of people barred from flying under George W. Bush.
“If everything is terrorism, then nothing is terrorism,” says David Gomez, a former senior FBI special agent. The watchlisting system, he adds, is “revving out of control.”
People have been added for being critical of the current administration. For unpaid tickets. For having a last name that is ethic in origin.
And there is NO Oversight.
Pat Condell - Hypocrisy over Gaza
Published on Aug 5, 2014
Israel doesn't owe a biased world any explanation for defending itself
against murderers.
Hamas sermon from Gaza strip: “Our doctrine entails exterminating Jews” - (Not Zionists or Israelis, but Jews).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7WAo...
Gaza civilians executed by Hamas for protesting against the destruction of their neighbourhood
http://www.jpost.com/Operation-Protec...
Hamas used child labour to build tunnels. Hundreds killed.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/20...
Arab apartheid against Palestinians
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/312...
No apartheid in Israel, lots of it in the Arab world
http://www.thecommentator.com/article...
Hamas glorifies the deliberate murder of Israeli civilians
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NgUa...
Hamas TV teaches children: Shoot all the Jews
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ORAM...
Meet the Hamas billionaires
http://www.globes.co.il/en/article-th...
Private jets, restaurants, luxury hotels: the good life of senior Hamas officials
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,73...
A thank you letter from Hamas to the media
http://www.thecommentator.com/article...
Egyptian TV hosts slam Hamas: “We are sick and tired of you.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VtEN...
Egyptian TV host tells Hamas they belong in a mental asylum
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xuYc...
Test yourself: Are you pro human rights, or just anti-Israel?
http://blog.unwatch.org/index.php/201...
Israeli Arabs: We do not want to live in a Palestinian state
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/411...
Queers for Palestine. Idiots supporting a regime that wants them dead
http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-Lo...
Israeli Fringe show closed down by BDS bigots
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-ent...
If you support the “Palestinians”, watch this short history of the region and educate yourself
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7ByJ...
Monday, August 4, 2014
Had a Doctors appointment today
My appointment was at 11:00 a,m. I showed up at 10:30 to be sure all of my paperwork was in order. It was. Sat down in the rather uncomfortable chair at 10:36, pain level around a 4 and a 1/4. 10:53 my back and right leg started to "Twinge", start shifting position constantly and reading Islands of Rage and Hope by John Ringo on my cell phone's Kindle app for about the 7th time since I bought it friday.
11:25 am, lower/mid back and right hip/leg feel as if they are being roasted over coals. Pain Level now 6. Still haven't been called back yet.
11:40 am, can't sit still as I can't find any position that ISN'T painful. Still haven't gone back, pain level 7.5
12:07 pm, finally called back. It took me 6 attempts to get up out of the chair/torture device. Pain level approaching 8.
12:10 sit in exam room, chairs in room even WORSE than waiting area. 12:35 pain level above 9, seriously considering calling 911 to be taken to the other side of the medical campus to the ER and to get knocked out.
12:45 pain is about to blow the top of my head off. I carefully scoot forward and down to the floor, if I hadn't had my cane I never would have been able to do it. Lie on my back and get my legs up on to the seat of the chair to take pressure off of my lower back. Pain is almost to the point where I give up and I am actually seeing dark spots in the corners of my vision.
After lying on floor for a few minutes, I carefully do a hip twist and shoulder press to try to get my back, back into alignment. It sounded like firecrackers were going off in the room. and while painful it wasn't as painful as the rest of my back and the pain started to fade the longer I lay on the floor.
1:07 pm, I carefully pulled myself up to a sitting position on the floor of the exam room., my neck, spine and hips popping on their own as I did so. Pain level is now down to about 7 and a half again.
1:15 pm I'm sitting on the floor with my head in my hands and my elbows on my thighs when one of the young ladies in the office comes in to take me to get an X-ray. It takes me almost 5 minutes to get up off the floor and you can hear all of my joints and spine popping the entire time.
1:23, I'm up and the young lady asks me to follow her. We walk less than 70 feet but it takes me almost 5 minutes to walk it as I'm in so much pain my balance is almost completely shot.
In the X-ray room, she wants me to lay on the x-ray table. I told her if I get on the table I won't be able to get up. So we do my x-rays standing up. I can barely stand and I'm swaying badly.
X-rays done, it's back into the exam room. I just leaned over the exam table and rested my head on the back of my arms.
1:40 Dr's P.A. came in and we discussed my case. He asked how am I in such bad shape.
I told him when I came in I was a 4 on the pain scale, his chairs about killed me and I'm close to calling for an ambulance.
So after we finished our talk, I'm now getting scheduled for a CAT Scan with contrast dye now, sometime in the next 2 weeks.
I'm home and after taking pain meds, my pain is about a steady 6.5 and slowly going down.
I'm going to lie down and try to get some rest.
11:25 am, lower/mid back and right hip/leg feel as if they are being roasted over coals. Pain Level now 6. Still haven't been called back yet.
11:40 am, can't sit still as I can't find any position that ISN'T painful. Still haven't gone back, pain level 7.5
12:07 pm, finally called back. It took me 6 attempts to get up out of the chair/torture device. Pain level approaching 8.
12:10 sit in exam room, chairs in room even WORSE than waiting area. 12:35 pain level above 9, seriously considering calling 911 to be taken to the other side of the medical campus to the ER and to get knocked out.
12:45 pain is about to blow the top of my head off. I carefully scoot forward and down to the floor, if I hadn't had my cane I never would have been able to do it. Lie on my back and get my legs up on to the seat of the chair to take pressure off of my lower back. Pain is almost to the point where I give up and I am actually seeing dark spots in the corners of my vision.
After lying on floor for a few minutes, I carefully do a hip twist and shoulder press to try to get my back, back into alignment. It sounded like firecrackers were going off in the room. and while painful it wasn't as painful as the rest of my back and the pain started to fade the longer I lay on the floor.
1:07 pm, I carefully pulled myself up to a sitting position on the floor of the exam room., my neck, spine and hips popping on their own as I did so. Pain level is now down to about 7 and a half again.
1:15 pm I'm sitting on the floor with my head in my hands and my elbows on my thighs when one of the young ladies in the office comes in to take me to get an X-ray. It takes me almost 5 minutes to get up off the floor and you can hear all of my joints and spine popping the entire time.
1:23, I'm up and the young lady asks me to follow her. We walk less than 70 feet but it takes me almost 5 minutes to walk it as I'm in so much pain my balance is almost completely shot.
In the X-ray room, she wants me to lay on the x-ray table. I told her if I get on the table I won't be able to get up. So we do my x-rays standing up. I can barely stand and I'm swaying badly.
X-rays done, it's back into the exam room. I just leaned over the exam table and rested my head on the back of my arms.
1:40 Dr's P.A. came in and we discussed my case. He asked how am I in such bad shape.
I told him when I came in I was a 4 on the pain scale, his chairs about killed me and I'm close to calling for an ambulance.
So after we finished our talk, I'm now getting scheduled for a CAT Scan with contrast dye now, sometime in the next 2 weeks.
I'm home and after taking pain meds, my pain is about a steady 6.5 and slowly going down.
I'm going to lie down and try to get some rest.
Saturday, August 2, 2014
Calling out hypocrites
John Dileo has a post up which I think you should read. I'll do a brief excerpt here.
"Christ didn’t put up with future sin, but He forgave past sins, and advocated leading by example. He would show the right way, and his apostles too would demonstrate the right way, hoping that as role models they could turn their audiences away from sin and into the light. He regularly forgave a sinner and then ended the speech with such words as “but from now on, avoid this sin.”
The message was clear: doing wrong can be forgiven, but advocating that others do wrong – through false teaching, through active endorsement of sinfulness – is another thing entirely, and a much more grievous sin than most. If you do wrong yourself, that may just be “between you and your God,” as the saying goes. But leading others astray is a crime with legs, a transgression that tears at the fabric of society, and must be treated differently."
I've had discussions with many atheists, and they all try to pick and choose Bible cites and try to throw them in my face because I believe in something larger than myself, ie: The Creator.
And yet these same people who try to throw their selected and sometime edited cites at me, totally ignore their own and their own sides hypocrisy on many issues.
Same Sex Marriage is one. I actually had a 4 hour discussion with someone where I tried to get across my belief that the government has no place in the issue as it is a "Religious Sacrament". Marriage IS for those who want the sanctification of their union by their chosen deity.
If two people want to join into a personal union, fine. They do up an agreement or contract had file it with the county or city. DONE!.
If they wish to get married, they do the same but then go to the religious person of their choosing and get the words said.
Either way, the GOVERNMENT has no place in it saying yea or nay.
The only thing the government does is to recognize that there IS a union.
Civil or otherwise.
And yet this person spent FOUR HOURS telling me I was anti Gay, Anti Same Sex Marriage and on and on.
They refused to even acknowledge what I was saying.
To quote a friend, that person heard what they wanted to hear, not what I was saying.
"Christ didn’t put up with future sin, but He forgave past sins, and advocated leading by example. He would show the right way, and his apostles too would demonstrate the right way, hoping that as role models they could turn their audiences away from sin and into the light. He regularly forgave a sinner and then ended the speech with such words as “but from now on, avoid this sin.”
The message was clear: doing wrong can be forgiven, but advocating that others do wrong – through false teaching, through active endorsement of sinfulness – is another thing entirely, and a much more grievous sin than most. If you do wrong yourself, that may just be “between you and your God,” as the saying goes. But leading others astray is a crime with legs, a transgression that tears at the fabric of society, and must be treated differently."
I've had discussions with many atheists, and they all try to pick and choose Bible cites and try to throw them in my face because I believe in something larger than myself, ie: The Creator.
And yet these same people who try to throw their selected and sometime edited cites at me, totally ignore their own and their own sides hypocrisy on many issues.
Same Sex Marriage is one. I actually had a 4 hour discussion with someone where I tried to get across my belief that the government has no place in the issue as it is a "Religious Sacrament". Marriage IS for those who want the sanctification of their union by their chosen deity.
If two people want to join into a personal union, fine. They do up an agreement or contract had file it with the county or city. DONE!.
If they wish to get married, they do the same but then go to the religious person of their choosing and get the words said.
Either way, the GOVERNMENT has no place in it saying yea or nay.
The only thing the government does is to recognize that there IS a union.
Civil or otherwise.
And yet this person spent FOUR HOURS telling me I was anti Gay, Anti Same Sex Marriage and on and on.
They refused to even acknowledge what I was saying.
To quote a friend, that person heard what they wanted to hear, not what I was saying.
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