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TD’s Wood

Ruger got TD’s brand new No.1 back to him, and I have to agree, his wood is fine.Â This is the gun he bought with the proceeds from selling me his FAL.Â It was bought through a local gun shop here, in fact.Â I talked him down in price a little bit, and in exchange for the favor, Bitter agreed to go to the local dealer and pre-inspect TD’s wood.Â What wasn’t apparent was the hairline fracture.Â Bitter, sadly, is not an expert wood inspector.

So good on Ruger for replacing with such a fine specimen.Â We do sincerely wish TD enjoys many days of quality big bore action with his new toy.

Commie Hordes At Bay (For Now)

Last night I moved the Blog Bash, The Bitch Girls, PAGunRights and soon to be Countertop’s blog off of Dreamhost and onto my server.Â I am unimpressed by Dreamhost’s lack of concern about a security breech on one of their systems.Â They were unable to help me track down how the hackers got in, because they only keep logs going back five days, and they dumped their shell kit in there a week and a half ago.Â Was it a weakness in WordPress?Â One of the plugins?Â A PHP weakness?Â Apache vulnerability?Â I’ll never know.

Dreamhost only charges like ten dollars a month, which means if they have to spend a few hours to help you with a security problem or a technical problem, they aren’t making any money off you.Â Bad incentives.Â One reason I’ve been self-hosted from the beginning is that I have total control over my server and security environment.Â I can make sure everything is set up securely, that the versions are all current, that mod-security is running on Apache, and that my logs go back a month instead of five days.

Quality hosting is expensive, and it you want to have an environment that’s difficult for hackers, you either have to do it yourself, or pay good money for someone who knows what they are doing to do it for you.

Obama Voters Kicked Out of Hunters Ed

Obama voters are exactly the people we need to reach, which makes this unfortunate:

Thirteen-year-old Lane Dunkley just wanted to go hunting with his grandfather.
What he got was a lecture on politics.

[…]

But when father and son arrived at the lesson, the volunteer instructor, Kell Wolf, asked if any of the students voted for President Barack Obama.

Reddy, a transplanted Californian â€” and former Marine â€” raised his hand.

According to Reddy and others in the room, Wolf called Obama “the next thing to the Antichrist” and ordered Reddy and Dunkley from the room. When Reddy refused, Wolf said he would not teach “liberals” and would cancel the course if Reddy didn’t leave.

So Reddy and Dunkley left, as did a few others.

I can sympathize.Â People who fled California because because the state has been made difficult to live or do business in, who vote for a guy who wants to make every corner of America just like California?Â It’s frustrating.Â There’s dozens of places today that are facing this phenomenon, and the natives are the ones who suffer for it.

But what if Lane Dunkley discovered he really enjoyed hunting with Grandad.Â What if Grandad, likely being a native Oklahoman, could have perhaps talked some sense into the boy on a hunting trip?Â The only way to make people interested in preserving your way of life is to make them understand it, and you can’t do that by excluding outsiders from it.Â I understand how Kell Wolf is feeling, but he’s being short sighted.Â The Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation did the right thing.

It’s Raining Canadian Geese in Pennsylvania

As if we don’t have enough of them, we don’t really need the sky to open up, and Canadian Geese fall from it.Â Next thing you know, it’ll rain fish.

Attacked by Russians!

All it takes is a few foreign policy gaffes and the Russians are attacking Bitter’s hosting site, and from there mounted attacks on the Blog Bash site, and our PA Gun Rights site.Â Pretty clearly they have been emboldened by Obama’s overtures, and are attacking on all fronts.

Took an hour or so to track down how they got in, and remove all the offending code.Â I can’t stress enough the importance of hardening your WordPress installation in order to frustrate hackers.Â Many hosting providers’s default WordPress installations are awful from a security standpoint.

Best advice is to make as little as possible writable, and if possible, make all files owned by root.Â There are only a few places WordPress really needs write access to.Â Don’t make your themes writable by default.Â If you need to change them, remove write access once you’re done.Â When I say write access, I really mean it ought to be owned by someone other than the web server account, with the web server account having no write access.Â Get rid of any plugins you’re not using, they are trouble.Â Keep everything, WordPress, PHP, Apache, and all your plugins up to date.Â If you do all those things, you should keep the Russkie hoards at bay.

What Fine Rhetoric

I like the idea that the big, bad, NRA is holding DC voting rights “hostage” by insisting that DC follow the constitution if it wasn’t to have representation in Congress.Â Couldn’t the exact same charge be leveled at Nancy Pelosi?Â Pelosi, Norton, and Hoyer are risking the timely passage of this bill to preserve draconian gun control, and to avoid forcing the President’s hand in signing pro-gun rights language.Â NRA would be pleased to pass the Senate version of the bill quickly.Â Who’s holding DC voting rights hostage again?

Keep The Pressure On

The Democrat leadership in the House is twisting arms.Â We have to be sure to twist back.Â Call your rep!Â Â See this Washington Post article:

Supporters continued to be hard-pressed to predict when the voting rights bill, pulled from consideration Tuesday by House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.), would reemerge.

“This is hard, man,” said Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.), who met yesterday with House allies to go over the list of the conservative members they intend to target. “It’s close analytical work, a lot like playing chess.”

We have to make sure they don’t win this one.Â There is hope:

House leaders have concluded that they have 190 solid votes in favor of blocking all amendments, 28 fewer than necessary for approval, sources with knowledge of strategy discussions said. To round up enough support, the voting rights supporters will target the group of more than 60 members from conservative areas.

Norton said she and her allies discussed a list of Democrats “to size up who was genuinely at risk [of repercussions from the NRA] and who was not. I can report to you going through the list that many are not at risk.”

Politicians who take political advice from Elanor Holmes Norton should have their heads examined.Â Call your representatives.Â If Holmes Norton is telling them they aren’t at risk, we have to tell them they are.

Credit Crunch

Not what I expected to get in my Inbox:

Because you are one of our loyal customers, we wanted to give your CitiÂ® Card even more value. So reward yourself with the spending power and flexibility that comes with a higher line of credit.

You’ve earned it. Now enjoy it.

Isn’t this how you guys got us all into trouble in the first place?

Demand For Glocks

From The Firearms Blog, it seems that Glock is churning out 4000 new pistols a day in its factory in Smyrna, GA.Â They are even importing some firearms from Austria to keep up with demand.Â That’s 1.46 million a year at that rate.

More on CeaseFire NJ

Apparently, in 2000, Corzine donated $2500 to CeaseFire NJ, and then received and endorsement from them.Â Bryan, I hate to break this to you, but it’s supposed to work the other way around.Â You’re supposed to give money to Corzine’s campaign, and offer him an endorsement that helps him win, with the idea that such support will not be forthcoming in the future if he doesn’t vote your way.

But it’s interesting that in New Jersey politicians buy interest groups rather than the other way around.