ROBOTECH Tactics Has Arrived

Outside of the whole 594 thing in WA and the petition in NV, the gun front has been relatively quiet and I'm not in the mindframe to deal w/ politics. Others have been dealing w/ the UBC issue better than I've been able to so I haven't spent much time writing about it. Instead I've been dealing w/ work and looking forward to the new ROBOTECH mini's game to arrive which, after countless delays, it finally did (Wave 1 at least).

Cat was already present.  Opening it up. I got the 'Showdown' package so x2 of everything.

Of the core boxes, I opened up one.  I'm debating whether I'm going to gift, sell, or piece out the 2nd.

Main box:

Opened up , most of the items were sloppily loosepacked but all the accessories were present and there didn't seem to be any damages:

 Sprues (per box).  5 veritechs in the three forms (+1 battloid), 12 battlepods, , 1 ea recon, officer and recovery pod, 2 Excaliber/Tomohawks, 2 Raider X/Defenders.

Game accessories including cards, dice, stands, decals, and rulebook etc.

Then I tore open the KS bonus bags including tons more veritechs and battlepods and including artillery pods, Gladiators/Excalibers, Phalanx/Spartans, and accessories.

Now comes the assembly, painting, etc which it what I dislike most about minis and why I have others take care of it for me.  Until that gets done, it will be rule reading and devising tactics for the game.

Target Shooting = 'Increased Aggression'?

Did you know that it's been 'proven' that target shooting, plinking, and competitions increase aggression in participants?

Yeah, neither did I. 

GSL received a very well coached letter from an alleged HS student who doesn't believe citizens should own these 'killing machines'.  Go take a look.

The Stupidity of the American Voter

“This bill was written in a tortured way to make sure CBO did not score the mandate as taxes. If CBO scored the mandate as taxes, the bill dies. Okay, so it’s written to do that.  In terms of risk rated subsidies, if you had a law which said that healthy people are going to pay in – you made explicit healthy people pay in and sick people get money, it would not have passed… Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage. And basically, call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically that was really really critical for the thing to pass… Look, I wish Mark was right that we could make it all transparent, but I’d rather have this law than not.”

This is the contempt that the current administration has for the political process and US citizens.

Any questions? 

More at SCC. 

Only One Upset He Got Caught

Near 30 yr. veteran police officer slaps around a guy to get 'consent' to search his vehicle.  Gets recorded, placed on leave, resigned, and arrested for assault.

His only regret?  That it was filmed.

“I was concerned. It was a public safety issue,” the sergeant said. “If I had to do it all over again … I’d probably do the same thing. If I knew the camera was there, no, because it does look bad.”

That's right.  In his mind, the 'right thing' is to assault someone in the name of 'public safety'. Sounds like the next spokesman for the CSGV or MDA.  That's exactly the type of behavior they encourage towards firearm owners.

Well This Should Be Entertaining

On or about November 10, 2014 the Grand Jury decision will be announced. Darren Wilson will NOT be indicted on ANY charges related to the murder of Mike Brown.

Followed by:




Yeah. We all know what happens next.