If you’re not from New Hampshire, you’re probably not completely aware of the whole Black Fly thing.

They are residents of this Granite State just like I am. Only, there’s a lot more of them, and unlike me (most days at least), all they do is fly around and eat people.

They’re one of the more annoying pests on the face of the planet, and I’ll even go so far as to include House Democrats and Code Pink in that grouping. Here I am at the range this weekend, doing my best to throw some lead downrange and have a little fun, and those little buggers were everywhere. They’re almost to the point of being a joke here. A local store sells a T-shirt with a huge nasty picture of a black fly on it and the words, “Meet the Locals” on the bottom. That’s about as accurate as you can get.

I have at least 20 bites on various parts of my body. Like mosquito bites, only they take a little longer to go away and don’t get quite as big.

Still, even with all these things flying around, and gnawing on me … even with other people at the range packing up and leaving because of the damn things … I had a blast with some serious Mosin-plinkage and general, casual target practice.

Pictures forthcoming …

I’m not a big fan of banning things, but I can’t say I’m sad to hear that this isn’t taking off for a few reasons.

There are three things you can do with a body once a person is dead.

1) Burn, baby burn. Stick the ashes in a can, and off you go.

2) Bury it.

3) Smear on lipstick and stick on some of your mom’s old clothes, prop it up on your porch in a sexually suggestive position, and serenade it for the purpose of horrifying anyone unfortunate enough to be taking a walk in your neighborhood that day.

But this thing … Resomations?

The process of resomation turns human remains into a liquid. Supporters said it’s more environmentally friendly than cremation, which can release mercury. But lawmakers who reacted against what the process involves decided to ban it, even though it has been legal in the state for two years.

I’m torn. A Democrat introduced the bill wanting to “study” it and prohibit it until they can find out more, NH decides to ban it outright. On one side, I don’t think an outright ban is really warranted, on the other side, I’m more than pleased to see Democrats slap down an enviro-whacko even if it’s because they think the process is icky.

Environmentally friendly … dead person liquid. Geh.

Resomation is done with a machine that uses hot water, high pressure and lye to dissolve a body. The liquid remains can be disposed of in the sewer system, and ash from the bones can be put in an urn.

“Hi, Mrs. Smith? Thank you for calling. I know this is a difficult time and your husband was a very good man. We realize he lived his life with great dignity and I’m pleased to let you know that we completed the process of his environmentally friendly resomation and my associate Ronaldo said a prayer for your husband before pouring him into some old milk jugs and dumping him into a sewer drain out by the street… ”

This is what happens when global warming drives invention. I won’t bother linking, but if you end up finding the home page for this resomation thing, you’ll be treated to all sorts of environmentally friendly liquid goodness with a healthy dose of global-warming-guilt thrown in … and go figure, they’re based in the UK.

UPDATE: Just another thought … You know, if they found a way to liquefy enviro-worshippers and turn them into automotive fuel, I’d be in full support of it … I’d easily pay $5 a gallon in a guzzling hunk of an automobile just to drive up the demand.

Bruce pretty much sums it up for Mr. Obama:

Four words: Cold. Dead. Hands. Bitch.

Heh. What more need be said?

Would that be a Googun?

Click the pic for full screen …

Found over at SayUncle. Sure doesn’t look like it has an orange tip. could be a squirt gun, could be a toy that unfurls a little flag that says, “BANG”, could be a lighter, could be some newfangled thug cellphone where you put the barrel up to your ear to hear what someone’s saying and that kid could be handing his little brother the phone because Mom wants to talk to him.

Or … it could just be a gun. But we know that can’t happen in Chicago, right? How silly of me!

In all, 40 people were shot. Seven died. Seven children were shot, five of them out after curfew. And by Monday, a national media spotlight focused on the blood spilled in the streets of Chicago.

Oh. Yeah. How’s that gun ban working out for you?

No matter what that picture is of, it doesn’t look good for one of the most locked-down cities when it comes to firearm ownership.

I’ll tell you what, it’s a DAMN GOOD THING that you have to re-register your firearms in Chicago every year, and if you forget, you’re out of luck! Except for the ruling class, of course. We should give our stewards a free pass. After all, even Mayor Daley supports the 2nd!

Welcome my new baby! In honor of PSH everywhere, I went ahead and purchased a Yugo SKS! Complete with folding blade bayonet, and grenade launcher … oh yeah. This is actually the 2nd SKS I procured. I got the first one two weeks ago, spent three hours cleaning it, took it to the range, and ended up getting about 15 faulty ejections and eventually a case firmly stuck in the chamber, locking the bolt in place. Took it back, got the new one ordered and … well, the new baby has finally arrived.

Now, like any new baby, when you first see them they’re … well … covered in slime.

Only this …

… this is kind of horrifying, to be perfectly honest. Borderline Aliens. Here are some up-close snapshots of this miasma-dripping mess. I have two bottles of Hoppe’s #9, two packs of latex gloves, and a pile of rags up to my knees. Cleaning will commence soon, but for the archives, I wanted to get some up-close high resolution pictures of …

… of …

… just look … and if you’re really intent on vomiting, click the pictures for a most delightful close-up …

This gives you an idea of how much nasty grease this particular semi-auto lead-hurling machine is equipped with. It’s everywhere. When I went to the store the owner told me, “I refuse to touch this thing, so I stuck it in a gun case for you. I won’t charge you for the case.”

Then I walked up to the counter with a bottle of Hoppe’s and he said, “Just … just take it. You need it more than I do.”

Gotta love small towns …

Please hammer, don’t hurt me! Okay … I hate to say this but … it really looks like somebody stuck this gun up a large animal’s ass for 30 years and just pulled it out before shipping it. That little … ugh … nugget-looking-thing sitting there just … really …

… I think I just threw up in my mouth.

In a normal world, you’d flip that little latch and all the unfired rounds would just dump out the bottom of the gun. This is not a normal world, and thus I had to PRY the bottom off, serenaded by the sounds of a sort of *splucksplortsqueesh*.

And again, I say this looks like it’s been up an ass somewhere.

Geh. I don’t even know what to say. That’s just … nasty.

TOUCH MY FILTHY HOLE! In the background you can see my out-of-focus latex-gloved hand holding up this ichor-dripping filth-stick.

Hopefully … maybe in a few weeks when I’m actually DONE cleaning it, I’ll have pictures of it’s purdy-ness. For now, all you get is nasty, smelly, filth-slime!

This is so out of hand.

Paul Baldwin probably knew the routine as he was being arraigned in Portsmouth District Court this week because he has been arrested 152 times on charges ranging from theft to arson.

I mean, really. How much money can you squeeze out of the guy? I say get him out of New Hampshire. There are three options …

#1: Shoot him. Messy, but cheap.

#2: Send him to Canada and wipe your hands of the bastard. Risk pissing off Canada, but they’re already pissed. No harm, no foul.

#3: Stuff his ass in a circus cannon and blast him into MA where they love spending state money caring for little shits like this. It’s a match made in heaven.

Canadian Guns …

It’s a long-ish piece, filled with your usual, “Huh?” Observe:

The cache of firearms seized by Canadian border guards swelled by 30% in 2007, but the vast majority of gun runners were unwitting American tourists, not gangsters or criminal smugglers.

Translation: We’re confiscating lots of guns, most of them by law-abiding gun-owners who didn’t do the paperwork.

This is standard fare when legislating a problem - create laws that ensnare those who don’t do the paperwork and travel across the border at a crossing point, while the actual criminal gun-runners avoid you like the plague in any number of un-patrolled roads going to and from our Northern Neighbor.

And while many of the seizures are linked to the black market and organized crime rings, most were confiscated from visiting Americans who didn’t declare their guns, according to the documents obtained by Sun Media through Access to Information.

Boy, I feel safer:

“Most of the firearms seized by CBSA at the land ports of entry are the personal firearms of legitimate U.S. travellers who neglected — intentionally or not — to declare their personal firearms,” one report reads.

Thanks for disarming those killers!

Reports also show firearms seizures peak in the summer months of June, July and August, and that 94% of the weapons are seized at highway entry points.

… because that’s where you hand in your paperwork and get interrogated crossing the border. It would make sense that most of the weapons are seized where there are people to seize them.

One Canadian man managed to make it back to Toronto’s Pearson International Airport from the Ukraine carrying an AK-47 fully automatic assault rifle with an over-capacity magazine.

Over-capacity magazine? Inventing new language much? That phrase gets exactly 39 results on Google. “High-Capacity Magazine” gets 73K+. Just sayin’.

Gun smuggling is a lucrative trade, with mark-up prices at about 300-400% for traffickers, and Thompson said many ordinary Canadians also sneak in guns to keep in their bedroom closet for personal protection.

Illegal BASTARDS!!!! They should all be swinging from a crane in the public square! How dare you attempt to protect yourself and your family!

“There is no doubt in anybody’s mind that the firearms and the drugs that are coming up aren’t even crossing at the border crossings,” he said. “In Quebec alone there are 108 unguarded roads and over 300 across the country.”

… pretty much indicating that you’re catching legal gun owners who forgot to declare, or the biggest criminal morons there are.

And now, for a totally AWESOME PSH break, running down “Gun Busts At The Border” …

- At Toronto’s Pearson International Airport, an AK-47 fully automatic assault rifle with an overcapacity magazine was seized from a Canadian returning from a trip to Ukraine on Czech Airlines.

Oooh, this time “overcapacity” sans hyphen! They’re getting serious …

This next one is one of the most delicious helpings of PSH I’ve ever read:

- 720 replica firearms made in China and declared as toys were seized in Edmonton. They were black and appeared genuine.

Holy shit … THEY WERE BLACK!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!

- At Ottawa’s Macdonald-Cartier International Airport, two courier packages from Hong Kong were intercepted. The shipper declared the contents were plastic toys but the shipments contained components for a fully assembled MP5 machine gun.

Can I have it?

- The Highwater Quebec Port of Entry had a seizure of a sawed-off 12-gauge shotgun, two handguns, six large.capacity magazines, 75 rounds of ammunition and two bulletproof vests. The two male passengers in the Ford Explorer, both U.S. military students, claimed they were on a Canadian pleasure trip

What the hell? First, “Over-Capacity”. Then “Overcapacity”. Now, “large.capacity”. I hate to be all nitpicky, but this pretty much shows that you have no idea of what you’re attempting to communicate.

- A cleaner tending to the men’s washroom in the baggage area of Toronto’s Pearson International Airport found a gun in the trash bin.

Probably just wanted to shoot the shit …

Because this really can’t happen in a gun-free socialist utopia:

Rahman, an immigrant who was sending money home to his wife and eight children in Bangladesh, was working the night shift when the two men arrived.

Clemons drew a handgun during the robbery and shot Rahman dead, Bernardi said. A neighbor heard gunshots at 11:22 and called police. The gunman and his accomplice fled and threw away the weapon, Bernardi said.

Someone should really make an effort to reach out and understand New Jersey youth. They should probably pass out fliers door-to-door that lets people know it’s illegal to kill someone. And you shouldn’t have a gun in the happy-fluffy shangri-la that is disarmed NJ.

Wait … I have an idea … more gun laws! And they should make it extra-double-dog-dare-you illegal to kill someone!