ANFO
Last night I was thinking about ANFO. That's Ammonium Nitrate and Fuel Oil, the stuff Timothy McVeigh used in Oklahoma City to blow up the Murrah building. Ammonium Nitrate is used as a fertilizer by farmers, I think they try to control its sale now, but you know how efficient and effective the government is at controlling anything. Fuel Oil is fuel oil. Duh, any questions?

When the two substances are mixed, as McVeigh did, you get a powerful explosive, as we saw in OKC. In fact, Ammonium Nitrate all by itself is nasty stuff; go read this horror story about Texas City in 1947.

Why was I thinking about ANFO? Well the average person is not allowed to purchase or own C-4 or Semtex or any of the really effective commercial grade explosives, so you have to improvise.

I was thinking about the mosque that's going to be built at the 9/11 site in New York. I know that obama bin soetero said that it's freedom of religion and they have as much right to build a mosque there as we do to build churches and temples all over the Middle East, but it's just not right.

They build mosques to celebrate victories. It an "In your face" thing. That's why they built a mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem and why they converted the great cathedral in Constantinople into a mosque when they conquered the Eastern Capitol of the Holy Roman Empire and renamed it Istanbul.

They're going to start building the 9/11 mosque on 09/11/10 and finish on 09/11/11. Did you know that? Hell of a coincidence, isn't it.

Anyway, I was laying awake trying to calculate how much ANFO it would take to blow it across the Hudson into New Jersey during the opening ceremonies.

That's enough for today. Some diddlybopper at NSA is probably throwing PVCs from all the adrenalin in his blood after all these mentions of ANFO. Next time maybe I'ii tell you about the time I thought about Ricin. (and I wonder if they still call those dorks "diddlyboppers?")

AMMO
How much ammunition is enough? I read several gun-blogs from time to time and see this question a lot. I'm not what you'd call a hard-core gun-freak; I have a few rifles, a half dozen pistols. I have a Concealed Handgun License and I carry 24/7. I will admit that the piece I strap onto my pajamas is uncomfortable when I roll over onto it.

The gun-bloggers generally agree on about 2,000 rounds per weapon for when it hits the fan. Then they usually specify weapons and calibers for keeping your family fed and those for keeping the oppressors at a distance. There's always a "Rambo" or two who brags about keeping minimum ammunition on-hand and having a plan to acquire heavier arms and more ammunition from the oppressors.

I can't deny that I haven't thought of that myself. - In principle I despise automatic weapons; they're good for movies and getting rid of excess ammo. But, if I ever found myself in need of an M-16, I know the nearest source would be a police or federal LEO vehicle. No telling what other goodies you could forage from that source too.

Full Metal Jacket or Jacketed Hollow Points? The Hague Convention of 1899 forbids the use of bullets which expand or flatten in the human body in warfare between signatory nations. That's why I had to fire FMJ when I was in the military. I'm retired now, and I'll fire any f**king thing I want. At a distance, to hit a target behind glass and sheet metal, FMJ is probably best. If someone comes through a door or window, my pistol is full of JHP. The target will get a face full of hollow points because he is probably wearing some kind of body armor.

Arma virumque cano..., "I sing of arms and of a man..."
- The Aeneid by Virgil

Hard to believe that 50 years ago I was translating that in a high school classroom in America. Now I'm babbling about arms and me in a collapsing socialist nation.

Finally got enough ammo.
Now I'm waiting for magazines.

DOORMATS
I want to get a new doormat for our front door. My wife thinks the plain mat we have there now is just fine. We used to have one that said "welcome" or something cute like "wipe your paws". That's just the point. Why can't we get something that I think is "cute":



It was the same deal with the sign. I don't like answering the door to find some asshole trying to sell something, or finding flyers hanging all over the handle. So we got a nice polite "No Soliciting" sign and put that on the little post that supports our "Protected by Brand-X Security" sign. (Which I'd prefer to have say "protected by Glock", but that's another story.)

I suppose I could have a custom sign made that says: "No Sales Persons, No Flyers, No Business Cards, No Telephone Books, No Proselytizing, No Surveys, No Scams, No WhateverTheFcukYouAreHereFor". I could then have it translated into Spanish, Ebonics and pictographs and post it prominently by my front door, making my porch look really crappy. Or, I could just post a neat, classy sign like this:

Have YOU ever walked past a sign like that?