Categories Nothing Much

Non-ethanol gas

7 Comments by

Weekend Pundit commented on how just “lovely” ethanol gas is.

I’ve never been a huge fan, but untill recently I didn’t seem to have a choice in the matter.

Last spring a gas station not that far from me swapped a single pair of pumps over to non-ethanol gas.  It made sense, they’re the closest gas station to a fairly large marina on the local lake, plus we’re a fairly rural community with all sorts of odds and ends equipment that just runs better on non-ethanol gas.  That pair of pumps was so popular that they couldn’t keep the tank full.  Now the entire island is non-ethanol.  Price wise its sits between 10 and 20 cents per gallon more than their regular gas.

I also recently discovered that there are at least two fairly major local gas station chains who have premium non-ethanol at every pump at every gas station.  Now I’m not going to pay the price for premium, but when I can swing not to far out of my way to hit the gas station by the marina I’m doing so.  I’ve seen an uptick in my miles per gallon too.  Its hard to say an exact number, since I’m not ALWAYS able to get non-ethanol gas, and so there’s always a mix in my tank rather than pure non-ethanol, but my miles per gallon has been slowly inching upwards with each tank…..

Categories Guns, Politics

Three more links of interest

1 Comment by

Ruger has set up a way to send a quick and easy letter expressing your thoughts to the various .GOV officials.

(found via Dead Man Dance)

 

TX AG has put out ads in NY space inviting NYers to move to TX.

(found via The Next Chapter)

 

According to the ACRU, Harvard did a study comparing over all murder rates to over all gun ownership rates and discovered that the higher the legal gun ownership rate the lower the over all murder rate.  Amazing coincidence huh? (Disclaimer, I haven’t read the study for myself, maybe today…..)

(I forget who’s blog I found this one on, it was late last night…..)

Categories Bleg, Guns

Rifle bleg

6 Comments by

Well, I wasn’t going to do this for a while, after I’d done more research on my own, but with the passing of new laws……we’re not in a position to pick up and move unfortunetly.  Hopefully before to many years have gone by that’ll change.  Anyway….

Where we live its legal to hunt deer with a rifle (during the appropriate season of course).  If I’m reading it right NY requires a centerfire rifle for deer hunting.  Neither hubby or I have handled a rifle before.  He always did all his hunting with a shotgun, same for his dad.  As such we don’t really have anything to go off of for experience. 

Hubby’s got lots of shotgun experience, I’ve got some shotgun, some air rifle (I’m kicking myself right now for not having completed my pistol permit already, life got in the way dammit…..).  Suggestions of things we should look for, brands or models, or anything else?  Budget’s a bit tight for extras right at the moment till I’m working again, so as usual money’s an issue….

Categories Apollo, Dog

Apollo

by

To take my mind off my rapidly climbing Statcounter number (along with an incredibly amusing list of .gov agencies, not all of which belong to the USA), I present the following video.

There’s not much to see, sorry, we had a power outage earlier tonight.  It lasted all of 5 minutes.  But Apollo took offense.  He is now bouncing off the windows in full voice every time he hears something he doesn’t like.

This is what I’m listening to, several times an hour (turn up the bass on your sound system, and if you’re playing this on your phone without headphones or speakers you’re missing out):

 

Categories Politics, Rants

NY’s Secure Ammunition and Firearms Enforcement Act

11 Comments by

Update 5:30pm: NYS Assembly Passes Gun Control Bill (holy shit, I’m front page on Google for searches for the text of the act, I’m getting hits from DOD, DHS, FAA, State and County level government offices…..)

 

Text of the act.

Someone remind me why I live in NY?

Somewhere in the middle of nowhere in the mountains in VT or NH is looking better and better….

 

Edit:  its 11am same day.  I just doubled my  average daily hits just from people hitting this post.  Almost all of them coming in from a search engine looking for information on this act.  Am I the only person out there linking to the actual text of this today?

 

Categories Online Idiots

Is anyone else getting weird gun and freedom email spam?

by

Last few weeks I’ve been getting WEIRD “gun positive” and “freedom positive” spam from some odd sources.  I can’t figure out if someone I bought stuff from sold my email or what.  Its coming into my gmail account, not the ScaryYankeeChick account, so if its blog related they’ve dug it up from the old blog or by browsing comments on a Blogger based blog…..

For example the most recent one has the subject line: Sandy Hook Shooting Didn’t Happen [PROOF]

I refuse to post the whole email, its seriously weird and beyond out of line, talks about how children who died in the shooting are seen later on TV alive and the like….

I deleted the first few, but its starting to get annoying, the only good thing is that Google IS catching them as spam (which amuses me to no end since the most recent one contains a line about not including any links so as to avoid spam blockers).