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In about 5 months (I hope).  Not sure about the slide-fire stock.  What the hell, who am I kidding?  I’ll at least try that out.

-BLT

(H/T Insty)

Marcus

Since I’m in silencer limbo (waiting on ATF paperwork), I’ve decided to accessorize to help pass the time.  Suppressing my AR-10 will be cool, but launching such a big-ass round and charge through that can is not going to make for an ultra-quite rifle.

So I ordered a Rock River LAR-15 pistol lower, and a 9” AAC Blackout upper.

The .300 AAC Blackout upper shoots the new .300 AAC Blackout round...which is a noble (and let’s hope CRAZY successful) commercialization of an old popular wildcat round.  When loaded with 125gr bullets and a full load of powder, it ballistically matches an AK-47.  When stuffed with big 220gr bullets and downloaded just a bit, it is sub-sonic (and hence VERY quiet out of a silencer).

So once I get this beast assembled, the shop holding my silencer will let me try it out on their range while waiting on the silencer paperwork to clear.  Then, if i like what I have, I can jump through another set of ATF hoops to get this little beast of a weapon registered as a short-barreled rifle and put a proper stock on it once that paperwork clears.  Meanwhile, I’ll just have an awkward looking pistol that can lay waste to lots of zombies in extreme CQD (close quarter decontamination).

-BLT

P.S. I should work with Marcus to locate another barrel for the 1919 that we can have milled down to accept a silencer adaptor.

Submitted for your consideration.

(H/T Six Meat Buffet)

Marcus

Mark Wahlberg recently stated that if he had been present, he could have stopped the terrorists and prevented 9-11.

Ranger has incisive commentary.

Marcus

Yes, SOPA/PIPA is all bad. The single portion which empowers an unelected, unaccountable bureaucracy to shut down a website with little to no recourse is unacceptable. It’s, frankly, un-American. No due process? No fucking way!

Our favorite lawyer on Free Speech has an excellent post on this:

But I’ll be damned if I’m going to stand by while my rights, or those of my clients, are sold to protect the franchises of Sony, Coach and Universal. And that’s what makes this more than an “IP” issue, and why it’s news, and why it matters.

As the man says…read it all.

with more than a few of the regulars around here.

In fact I think that a some of the JBM regulars here may have been the inspiration for the song. But I’m merely speculating on that point.

Marcus

Put 20% down on this baby today, and started the paperwork.

The only question is, will the ATF green-light my purchase before ZombieDeCon 2012?  It’ll be close…

-BLT

(H/T Ace)

Marcus

http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/12/us/video-marines-urinating/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

I’m sorry, I just can’t get worked up about this.  Yes, they shouldn’t have done it…but oh well.  The DoD’s official outrage at this event seems to only be because it was filmed and made public.  Clearly, lacking any video or pictures (i.e. Abu Graib, “kill squad”), out of sight IS out of mind I guess.

Also, those who want to act outraged seem to pretend they could never envision themselves pissing on a corpse.  Anyone who says “I could never piss on a corpse,” is actually revealing the following:
-A lack of morbid imagination
-The fact they don’t really know themselves
-Inability to acknowledge the possibility of sufficient motivation (any parent out there can imagine themselves doing this to people who hurt their children, if they think about it)
-A secret admission that they would skip the pissing and move on to something even more gross
-Or…they are lying.

This sort of thing has happened in basically every war since the dawn of time, on all sides.  Given the obscenity of war in the first place, urinating on a dead enemy is pretty much nothing.

-BLT

P.S.  I urinate on the cars of people who fuck up their parking jobs

So what’s the best opening sequence to a TV show that has ever aired? That’s the question I pose to you intrepid readers of JBM… what was/is the best one? I leave you with a few of my favorites… and I solicit your feedback in the comments.

Do it for the children.

This here video is almost as funny as the original film.

Almost.

Marcus

Marcus

It seems that they are remaking The Thing again. The 1982 version was pretty good, but I’m not necessarily opposed to them taking a crack at a re-imagined version. Through my extensive contacts, I was able to secure an exclusive sneak-peak at the latest production. Witness:

Looks like a “must see.”

Marcus

(H/T Ace)

Today the leader of Iran’s armed forces made the following statement.

“We recommend, advise, and warn them that this aircraft carrier (should) not return to its previous place in the Persian Gulf because we are not used to repeating a warning and give a warning only once…”

It’s no coincidence that this was made on the day of the Iowa Caucus. The Iranian regime is very attuned to dates having significance. The American news cycle has been dominated by coverage of the Iowa Caucus as well as Ron Paul’s isolationist statements. Ron Paul has stated exactly the same thing as the Iranian Regime...that sanctions against Iran are acts of war.

Nor is it a coincidence that Iran has test fired two new missiles specifically designed for anti-ship missions. Iran always does these sorts of things, just other tyrannies such as North Korea do, on days that they think has special significance. With every news channel featuring wall to wall coverage of the Iowa Caucus foreign observers can not help but think this is a big event, our news services themselves think it is. But not for the reason that foreign observers think it is.

The Iowa caucus is not a king maker, what the Iowa Caucus and the New Hampshire primary are is threshers. They separate the wheat from the chaff. They weed those candidates with poor organizations, low financial support and low voter support out of the race. They narrow the field. Only twice in the last eight election cycles has the winner of the Iowa Caucus won the Presidency of the United States.

But that doesn’t come across to foreign observers primarily because our own news outlets tell their audience a different story. What Tehran sees is a man who is a leading candidate in the Iowa Caucus who will buckle to their threats. And they are backing themselves into a corner trying to make a statement they think will push American voters, sick of war, into supporting that candidate. Ron Paul’s own words make that dynamic possible.

It is widely understood that the Tet Offensive, while a military failure, was a political victory for the Vietnamese Communists. It caused the Johnson Administration’s “credibility gap” to widen to a point where he was unelectable. Since that time America’s enemies have often sought to use America’s election cycles to try and win their objectives. Iran, itself, did so to an amazing degree with the hostage standoff during the Carter Administration. They truly thought that President Carter would buckle to their demands to take the hostage issue off the table. He didn’t, and the mullah’s couldn’t back down because of their statements…even if it meant a real warrior would ride into the White House. Totalitarian’s must always save face or risk falling from power.

The mullah’s are doing it again, this time with a much more dangerous situation and are doing so almost certainly because of the dangerous and deluded statements of Ron Paul.

Apropos nothing… I give you… girl directions!

You’re welcome.

Marcus