We got this nice crockpot from our son for Christmas. Today we’re breaking it in with a tri-tip bottom sirloin roast covered in red bliss potatoes, carrots, celery, onion, garlic and a sweet potato. The meat is partially immersed in beef broth which will later become the base for a delicious gravy.
It looks like we’re in for a bit of rain here in Southern California. We can use the rain, but it’s going to be showers all weekend. It reminds me of our trip to Alaska in July 2005, when it seemed to rain everyday in Anchorage and Denali. This is a shot of our train pulling into Denali station as we were getting ready to go to Fairbanks. Of course, it was pouring.
Fairbanks, thankfully, was dry when we visited there.
Excerpt from an editorial by Senator Fred Thompson:
In general, lawful gun ownership is a pretty simple matter. The Founders established gun-owner rights so that citizens would possess and be able to exercise the universal right of self-defense. Guns enable their owners to protect themselves from robbery and assault more successfully and more safely than they otherwise would be able to. The danger of laws like the D.C. handgun ban is that they limit the availability of legal guns to people who want to use them for legitimate reasons, such as self-defense (let alone hunting, sport shooting, collecting), while doing nothing to prevent criminals from acquiring guns.
The D.C. handgun ban, like all handgun bans is necessarily ineffectual. It takes the guns that would be used for self protection out of the hands of law-abiding citizens, while doing practically nothing to prevent criminals from obtaining guns to use to commit crimes. Even the federal judges in the D.C. case knew about the flourishing black market for guns in our nation’s capital that leaves the criminals armed and the law-abiding defenseless. This is unacceptable.
Fred seems to have the most acceptable views on the Second Amendment and Law and Order of all the candidates running for President. You can read the entire editorial in the Hawaii Reporter.
Hat tip to NRA-ILA.
UPDATE: Minstrel has information on the recent firing of a lawyer for D.C.
According the the Natural Sciences Department at Cal State University Long Beach, this is a translational landslide. Slides like this move pretty slow. This one, in particular, has moved about 600 feet over the past 50 years. The motion is enough, however, to keep the road builders and line painters busy along this stretch of Palos Verdes Drive South. After a few months movement, however, it looks as it does in this shot taken by Damsel last week.
Damsel took me for a drive today to Malaga Cove at the south end of Santa Monica Bay. It was nice enough that we could wear short sleeves and have the top down on her little convertible. We went out and about to get some last-minute items in preparation for our new year’s eve at home.
On our last session at the target range for the year, we left the 9mm pistols at home and took the .357 magnum and the .38 special Smith & Wesson revolvers. In addition to the revolvers and our shotguns, we also took the Glock 30 and Damsel’s Para Warthog. The hand guns are shown ready for cleaning in Damsel’s photo below.
When it was my turn to put up a target for my .45 caliber Glock 30 pistol, I surprised myself when I got 9 out of 10 rounds in the red and black part of the target. Four rounds were in the red, two grazed the red and three were in the black (the one at the left below the 8 is a double).
I shot one round which missed badly and nicked the bottom of the target (out of the frame).
If it’s true (like Robb Allen says) that Sarah Brady cries when you hit a bullseye, I wonder if she snivels when you come close?
I hope so.
