Doncha' Hate It When...

...you're thinking about where you're going for dinner on your anniversary tomorrow when you realize you have the date wrong, and it's today?

The good news is, Mrs. Drang made the same mistake.

I think it was my taking Saturday off to go to the gun show, threw us both off.

Well, so here we are.

Happy 24th, Bearcat!

oops

Accidentally hit "publish" when I meant to hit "save draft." I hit "revert to draft", but an incomplete training review/AAR may show up in your newsfeed, if you use one.

In the meantime, Tam has fortuitously published a post on a related topic: I see a pattern forming...

WTF? Blogger Edition

A while back I posted a review of The Birth of Korean Cool, by Euny Hong, which was mostly a link to a Via Meadia review of same, with my own observations.

Now it's gone. Poof! Disappeared, along with comments. (Which were about the mechanism of blogging, not the book.)

I'm pretty sure I haven't deleted any published posts.

I wonder if I deleted what looked like an untitled draft...?


Crap.  See, this is why people turn into hoarders, you never know when the useless thing might turn out to be important...

Whoops

Accidentally hit "Publish" instead of "Save" on my draft After Action Review of the Urban Defensive Tactics class at the local range.

Apologies if a nowhere-nearly complete set of notes showed up in your RSS feed...

Helpful hint

If every single driver you pass on the interstate starts flashing his brights at you, this is what we call A Clue: Your headlights are off.

The "interstate" portion of my homeward commute generally lasts all of 15 minutes, and I saw two, count 'em two, idjits running dark.

As one of them passed me I could see that she also needed to hang up the damned phone and drive.

These were far from the only behind-the-wheel jackasses I saw today, but they may have been the most egregious.

Maybe.

Shotgun Joe Biden's advice tested...

QOTD, 01/17/13

So, apparently, then drafters of NY state's brand spankin' new gun laws made a slight boo-boo: Law Enforcement officers are NOT exempt from the restrictions on magazine capacity. The oh-so-wise keepers of the public flame are scrambling to fix that little oversight.

State Senator Eric Adams, a former NYPD Captain, told us he's going to push for an amendment next week to exempt police officers from the high-capacity magazine ban. In his words, "You can't give more ammo to the criminals"

In other words, "Criminals won't obey this law..."

Um... Oops?

So, I just received notification that a thread on The Firing Line that I had subscribed to had a new reply.

Logging in--mirable dictu, I remember my old password!--I realized I have not visited there in one day shy of four years.

And I've had a private message waiting for me there since July of 2010...

Sigh.  If AnadarkoS is out there, somewhere, shoot me an email, I'll forward you the .pdf if you haven't found it.

OOPS!

This "post" was just a collection of links, was saving it for later, planning on posting it as two or more seperate posts.  Didn't realize I had hit "Post" instead of "Save"...

Most of the original links in this collection had to do with alleged Republican politicians supporting various and sundry liberal/progressive/collectivist/communitarian/socialist causes...
Justice Department seeks mandatory data retention | Privacy Inc. - CNET News
The Adventures of Roberta X: GOP A-OK With DOJ Internet Snooping
Return of the Internet Kill Switch

View From The Porch: The little engine that couldn't.
Powerline: Quest for the Holy Rail
Anthroblogogy - on the brink of civilization, or off the edge...: High-Speed Rail to Hell
Chuck addresses the issue as only Chuck  can in The fallacy of high speed rail: vroom vroom twains! for the mildly retarded
The Antiplanner :: State of the Federal Budget & The Antiplanner :: High-Speed Train Wreck & High-Speed Pork & High-Speed Rail Hearings &... Well, here's his posts tagged High Speed Rail

Stossel on rail.
New Geography: Obama's High-Speed Rail Obsession.
Wired:  Put Up or Shut Up.

And...
well, if it catches one crook….
the lying liars of the gentry gop establishment

To whom it may concern

This holiday season at Schloss Drang is looking to go down in history as "The Year The House and Cars Stole Christmas."  Nothing we can't handle and still meet our obligations, financial and social, but if we seem grumpier than usual--if that's even possible, in my case--we have provocation.

Bah, humbug!

When You've Lost the WaPo...

h/t Say Uncle:

Opinion | One and done: To be a great president, Obama should not seek reelection in 2012

By Douglas E. Schoen and Patrick H. Caddell

Sunday, November 14, 2010

     President Obama must decide now how he wants to govern in the two years leading up to the 2012 presidential election.
     In recent days, he has offered differing visions of how he might approach the country's problems. At one point, he spoke of the need for "mid-course corrections." At another, he expressed a desire to take ideas from both sides of the aisle. And before this month's midterm elections, he said he believed that the next two years would involve "hand-to-hand combat" with Republicans, whom he also referred to as "enemies."
     It is clear that the president is still trying to reach a resolution in his own mind as to what he should do and how he should do it.
...
     (W)e believe Obama should announce immediately that he will not be a candidate for reelection in 2012.

I would argue that it is much too late for His Imperial Majesty Barak Hussein Obama to ever be considered a "great" president. 

In fact, he'll be lucky to be regarded as a "mediocre" president.

Geek FAIL

You can field strip an M16 and an M1911 blindfolded.

You can plan and deploy Radio Direction Finding Net, you can keep it supplied with beans and bullets, and run the analysis and control element that will have the enemy headquarters pinpointed in an hour, along with reporting  the commanders laundry list and what he had for breakfast.  (Fish head soup and rice.)

You can trouble shoot a radio and get it on the air with a hand full of this-and-that that would have MacGuyver shaking his head.

But when the door guy is done, you have to call a technician out to determine that you re-installed the alarm system sensor backwards--actually, upside down--and fix it.