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May 16th, 2005 Didn't See That One Coming - I woke up this morning and was wondering what to write about for today's posting. I caught the last half-hour of Star Trek Enterprise last night and thought about kvetching about that, but Lileks beat me to the punch. Anyway, after the morning plant watering, I come in to check the blogs, and apparently Newsweek magazine died over the weekend, or at least its credibility did. A short synopsis:
All kidding aside, this is serious stuff. Its one thing to chase down a story about potential abuses, but its quite another to apparently be taken in by incomplete fact-checking ala CBS & Rathergate. It gets worse if there's rioting and death involved. Having been in fights that are harangued by the press and having been ridiculed & mocked, Blackfive is in no mood for hearing excuses:
Read it all. And yet Big Media still claims they should have special protections for their work from the government, which extends to not identifying their sources in criminal investigations, even though those sources may have committed a crime. This incident does nothing to help their claim. I'm coining a new term: Ra·ther·i·tis (noun): The inability to distinguish between the real and the imagined due to one or many preconceived notions, especially in regards to news stories casting a bad light on conservatives, conservative values, and the military. Someone better come up with a vaccine, quick. People are dying out there. Anyway,
about that Enterprise thing - I know, I know, I can't stand the series - but nothing. else. was. on. Apparently, it was the
final episode, and coming in half way through puts a crimp on
comprehension something fierce. Riker & Troi are on screen, so I
thought almost immediately that they brought out their time-warp
schlep again - oh, what a pleasant surprise. It was just a holodeck
setup, with Riker as the ship chef for Enterprise and wants to
interact with the "crew" so he can figure out how to solve a complex
ethical problem. The problem is that once upon a time the It seemed better, as a plot device, than most other things Star Trek has come up with. The characters had to deal with death in a way that didn't involve a resurrection, lack-of-religion style. And they did so in a way that made the Vulcans look like a bunch of weirdoes who didn't have the maturity to confront painful emotions - that's why they "suppress" them. Sorry, I thought they just didn't have them, but apparently I was wrong. Hopefully Star Trek will stay dead for a while, or at least until they can figure out new ways to explore their universe. I hear that J. Michael Straczynski isn't doing anything right now... Guns - The Thompson/Center Contender & Encore lines are today's featured guns.
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If
you're interested in the challenge of hunting with single-shot
weapons but don't want the black powder hassle, this is the weapon
for you. Both weapons feature a break-action single shot receiver
that has interchangeable barrels, held to the receiver with a pin.
The barrel lengths vary, with pistol barrels & rifle barrels
available. Grips and fore-ends are also interchangeable. This
flexibility gives the weapons a tremendous amount of flexibility -
instead of packing three different rifles on your hunting trip, you
could pack just your receiver and three different barrels. Once you
had your deer you could switch out for the .22 LR barrel and go
rabbit hunting, then come back and switch out something else.
There's even a muzzle loading option available, in .45 caliber.
