Rossi Ranch Hand Now Available
The Firearm Blog is reporting that the Rossi Ranch Hand is now available. The mare’s leg style lever action pistol has already been much maligned by armchair gun fighters and mall ninjas who claim that anything that isn’t a Glock is a useless hunk of junk, but a ATF approved short barreled rifle is a handy woodsrunnung gun for we who like to travel light.
Now the Ranch Hand has avoided running afoul of the ATF’s arcane rules is technical mumbo-jumbo you probably won’t ever need to know. The point is that the 12″ barrel and short “stock” (which doesn’t count as a stock because it’s part of the reciver?) makes it easier (if not comfortable) to shoot long distances and the lever action is as reliable an action that has ever been invented. The Ranch Hand can fit inside a bag or be lashed to a pack andbe out of the way until you need it. Easy to cache and easy to maintain, the new Rossi is also selling for under $500 which makes it a good deal. I’m currently putting calls into the local guns stores to get one now.
California Tuition Protesters Attempt to Murder Police Officers – A Lesson in Mob Tactics
Multiple officers were injured in “protests” by students and outside agitators over hikes in tuition proposed by the University of California’s Board of Regents.
From The Daily Nexus:
Three officers were injured while subduing angry protesters, according to UC San Francisco Chief of Police Pamela Roskowski. Chaos first erupted around 9:15 a.m., she said, when students outside the meeting pushed through metal barricades and charged a group of campus and city police officers, intent upon storming inside the meeting. One officer was hurt in the process as the barricades came down.
Officers administered the first round of paper spray minutes later and prevented protesters from entering the building, blocking all accesses with outstretched batons.
The next three or four hours then turned into a tense hold-out between police and protestors. Time after time, dozens of protestors linked arms together to charge the barricades, were pepper sprayed into submission by authorities, fell back in the lines to recover and were replaced by a fresh wave of dissidents.“Fifteen people were exposed to pepper spray in lieu of using a weapon,†Roskowski said. “The officers conducted themselves really well — they had been rushed, barricades were used to injure the officers, officers pepper-sprayed to defend themselves.â€
The so-called peaceful protesters goal was to storm a meeting of unarmed bureaucrats – at which point what? The crowd had been primed for violence by outside agitators (mostly communist and anarchist groups) and injured cops. The first lesson you need to learn is that if lefties start to protest you must do everything possible to not be in the area. Especially if you are in some way involved with the target of the protest. Cops barely controlled this crowd and in the coming months protests will get more violent. Continue reading
Hong Kong Confirms Human Bird Flu Case, Florida Hit with Cholera and Dengue Fever
Just what we all need. According to Time a woman has been confirmed to have H5N1, the first case in seven years:
(HONG KONG) — Hong Kong has confirmed its first case of human bird flu in seven years.
Health Secretary York Chow said late Wednesday that a 59-year-old woman had tested positive for H5N1 bird flu after returning to Hong Kong from the Chinese mainland, and is in serious condition in a local hospital.
With the announcement, the government raised the bird flu alert to “serious,” meaning there is a risk of contracting the disease within the territory.
Chow said Hong Kong officials were meeting Thursday and would determine whether additional measures are needed to safeguard local residents.
The bird flu virus first struck Hong Kong in 1997. Six people died in that outbreak and all chickens in the territory were culled.
Time to stock up on masks again? Maybe. New diseases are not the only problems we have as illnesses once thought extinct in the civilized world make a comeback. Florida is now reporting a Cholera infection as well as an outbreak of Dengue Fever both of which have not been seen in the area in decades:
TAMPA, Florida — State health workers say it’s official: Florida is now witnessing incidents of two diseases we haven’t experienced in years, if not decades.
“It’s of course important for Floridians in all parts of the state, but especially South Florida,” says Dr. Carina Blackmore with the state’s health department.
The diseases being discussed are cholera and dengue fever. Cholera is spread by unsanitary conditions. Dengue fever, by mosquitoes.
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The other disease being watched closely is dengue fever, which is transmitted through mosquitoes. Dengue fever can cause severe headaches, muscle pain – and in some cases, even death.
Miami-Dade confirmed its first locally-acquired case of dengue fever this week. That means the disease did not come from a foreign source into the U.S., but rather it originated here.
The state of Florida has seen six times as many cases of dengue fever this year as in 2009. So far, 120 cases.
Seven of those cases were in Hillsborough County. All seven, say officials, were people bringing the disease from another country. In each case, the person was identified and spraying in that person’s neighborhood was intensified to kill mosquitoes.
Only about one percent of the mosquito population is the type of mosquito capable of carrying the disease. But officials warn, that still is enough for them to be concerned.
I bet. Aside from the usual precautions studies have shown that green tea aids in antibiotics in combating resistant infections and light therapy has shown promise. Dengue and H5N1 are viruses so their treatment is different , but because both can require hospitalization it is likely that we will sufferers pick up secondary infections of “superbugs” like MSRA if these outbreaks get large enough.