H-S Precision: as of May, still dickwads

Via Breda, a link to this oldish Atomic Nerds piece about an interaction with the folks at H-S Precision, who I discussed here. Good piece, but the money quote is in the comments:

Hyman Roth:

Leave aside the whole murder/manslaughter issue.

I just read Jess Walter’s “Ruby Ridge”. Dead-eye Lon shot at Randy Weaver under the shoot-on-sight R.O.E., and only wounded him.

Then Lon shot at Kevin Harris, resulting in a wound instead of a kill.

Later, he claims to have been firing at Kevin Harris when he shot Vicki Weaver in the head.

That’s 0 for 3.

From a shooting skills perspective, how does this performance justify an endorsement for a precision-marksmanship product?

I looked around the Net a little to see if there was any more recent bad news, but I didn’t find any. As Billy said, they might as well torch the place.

Diplomacy? Whut dat?

Fred Reed nails it:

And so the good admiral and the SecDef come to pay homage to the American soldiers who conquered Mexico. What diplomatic genius.

While they are at it, why not lay a wreath in Hiroshima to the brave American airmen who died over Japan? Or maybe erect a statue to Sherman in Atlanta? What if the Mexican army chief went to New York to commemorate the courageous freedom fighters who took down the towers?

“The Palins used Levi”

I’m seeing the meme a lot from lefty commenters about the Levi Johnston media tour.  Let’s review what actually happened: Sarah begins the race of her political life, and suddenly Bristol is knocked up. So, how do we deal with this with Christian principles and political savvy?  We say, “They made a mistake, but they’re getting married.”  That might indeed have been a sincere intent. The couple gets trundled before the camera, proving that they’re a real couple and that Sarah isn’t afraid of this skeleton in her closet (mostly because it isn’t a skeleton, and isn’t hers).  It wasn’t a matter of “using”; it was a matter of Sarah squeezing the lemonade out of the lemon she was given by Levi and Bristol.  It was damage control, that wouldn’t have happened had damage not been done. And personally, judging by what’s happening now, I think that Levi wasn’t coerced to go on TV; I think he sucked up the attention like any kid his age.

The boy is a cad. He might grow up to be something; he’s not an idiot. But he threw himself into a situation he wasn’t ready for. He might have though it was cool to be diddling the daughter of the Governor of Alaska, without thinking through how that made him a public issue. I’m sure the campaign was hard on the couple. But I still say that if Todd didn’t bring out the shotgun, he has no reason to complain. And Springerizing himself and his baby mommy is not the way to make himself look like anything but rubbish; indeed, it’s compounding his original mistake.

Who needs Old Sparky?

It’s always satisfying when criminals electrocute themselves.

I like this comment, to somebody complaining about heartless and cruel commenters:

Tuffy, the laws of man don’t impose death as the punishment for theft. The laws of nature, however, which are not subject to political correctness or the concept of “cultural diversity”, and which cannot be appealed by the ACLU, Johnny Cochrane, or anyone else do proscribe the punishment of death for theft of wire that is currently conducting thousands of volts of electricity. I’m sorry if you have a problem with that.

I’m full of shit

I had an appointment for my first sigmoidoscopy this morning. After laying there butt-nekkid for an hour waiting for the doctor, I was told for the first time how I was supposed to have purged my system (news to me). Suffice it to say that I was acutely unhappy over the wasted time. It’s been rescheduled for April Fool’s Day, when, now knowing better, I presumably won’t be full of shit.

RLC-IL wounded while assaulting Radley Balko with Nerf hatchet

So what’s with the Republican Liberty Caucus of Illinois, anyway? Did the Sleazy Politics virus creep across the aisle from the Blagocrats and bite them? Or is it the Dondero Effect? (No, I don’t think Eric had anything to do with this. But anyone who would look up to Dondero is not the sharpest tool in the chest.) And this is the way these people treat folks who are on their side? Radley took it in good grace, even borrowing from the Loretta Nall playbook (“Toys for Troy Puma”). But really, these folks should just disband now and slink away, because their brand is ruined. Though I do see that the adults have taken over and banished Puma to its room.

Via Beck’s link to the Freepers.

UPDATE: Gene Koprowski is the culprit whose name needs to be immortalized. The RLC has made nice.

First law of the black market

Don’t call the cops over contract enforcement disputes:

CLEVELAND — A 20-year-old Cleveland man who called 9-1-1 Saturday night for help talked his way into City jail, police said.

He told a dispatcher that two men with guns were watching him about 10:40 p.m. near West 44th and Clark Avenue and hung up. The dispatcher called him back to get a description of the suspects. During the call, the man asked the dispatcher to hold on and made a drug deal, police said.

“What you need? A 10-pack? A 10-pack, alright,” a voice can be heard saying on a recording of the call. He said the cost was $75. A 10-pack is slang for a bundle of heroin.

The dispatcher redirected police to the caller.

“He’s in front of the Pit Stop selling drugs it seems like,” the dispatcher tells officers.

Patrolmen Edward Lentz, James Skernivitz and James Simone found the man crossing the street but didn’t find the gunmen. The officers found crack cocaine in his pants. The man didn’t have any identification.

So the officers had the dispatcher call the number the man used to call for help. The man’s phone rang. Simone believes the man expected the gunmen to rob him and steal the drugs.

I once lived around W. 44 and Clark, and can tell you that the average person there is no smarter or more moral than this guy.

Celebrity endorsement

When you have to kill a mother holding her baby, only the best will do. After Ruby Ridge and Waco, the FBI had to replace their aging sniper rifles, because the next time we have to kill patriot scum, it might be from twice as far away, and the government can’t afford to risk our asses, since it’s so hard to find skilled marksmen without a conscience. That’s why they bought the H-S Precision PS-2000 HTR for us. And that’s why I’m endorsing H-S Precision, because a consumer boycott means that fewer of these excellent rifles will be turned against us.

–Lon Horiuchi

That’s not actually what the endorsement says, of course. But it might as well be. As Beck said, “They might as well set fire to their whole establishment right now.”

UPDATE 12/5 H-S ain’t sayin nothin’, yet. But this is from Breda:

Kaveman: Good morning, I was wondering if your company supplied a sample target with the sale of your rifles to attest to their accuracy.

H-S: Yes, in fact we provide a sample target and the cartridge load data for every sale.

Kaveman: In light of your new spokesmen, Lon Horiuchi, I was wondering if you would send me a target of a dead woman holding a baby if I agree to buy one of your rifles?