Archive for March, 2018

Harry’s Alehouse is the Best Beer Bar in VA

By From http://www.musingsoverapint.com/ • Mar 7th, 2018 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Harry’s Alehouse was recently voted the 2018 Best Craft Beer Bar in Virginia by CraftBeer.com readers. This is quite an honor considering the establishment only recently celebrated its one-year anniversary.We’ve been enjoying Harry’s Alehouse…



[Infographic] Virginia’s Most Shocking DUI Statistics

By From https://www.andrewflusche.com • Mar 6th, 2018 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Virginia is known for having tough laws against drunk driving and has made efforts to reduce the rates of drunk driving and alcohol-involved crashes. Despite everything that is done to discourage drivers from drinking and driving, drivers continue to get behind the wheel after consuming alcohol. The infographic below highlights several of the most shocking […]

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"Gun Free Zone" Hypocrisy

By From http://www.musingsoverapint.com/ • Mar 6th, 2018 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

The irony runs deep.The anti-gun “elite” hypocritically require men with guns to defend them, while the children are left to rely on men guns who refuse to help them.H/T to The Miller for posting the meme.
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Consolation Range Trip

By From http://www.musingsoverapint.com/ • Mar 5th, 2018 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Despite missing out on this weekend’s IDPA match, I was able to get in some quality trigger time this weekend. On Sunday, Colleen and I headed down to the Winding Brook Range. My range bag was already packed, I sort of felt obligated to take it ou…



Must Watch: Delegate Nick Freitas

By From http://www.musingsoverapint.com/ • Mar 4th, 2018 • Category: Blog Entries.Local, Politics

Listen to this blast of truth from Virginia Delegate Nick Freitas regarding the lies and deceptions of the left.Freitas’s words triggered the snowflakes across the aisle and they ran from the room with hurt feelings. They demanded a rece…



Winds of Change (in plans)

By From http://www.musingsoverapint.com/ • Mar 4th, 2018 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

I’d been looking forward to shooting the Sanner’s Lake IDA match this past Saturday. This is always a fun match, and for a first time in a while it wasn’t supposed to be raining during the match! However, Mother Nature did have an extreme wind event in…



Gun Grabber Logic

By From http://www.musingsoverapint.com/ • Mar 3rd, 2018 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

I got pulled into a discussion recently on the “gun problem” and the usual “something must be done.” Someone posited the problem was keeping guns out of the hands of dangerous people. The liberal in the crowd responded, “Who’s going to determine that a…



Jefferson On Freedom

By From http://www.musingsoverapint.com/ • Mar 2nd, 2018 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

“Malo periculosam, libertatem quam quietam servitutem.”Roughly translated as “I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery,” the phrase was used by Thomas Jefferson in a letter to James Madison, on January 30, 1787. I find it quite applicable today…



City

By From https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/ • Mar 2nd, 2018 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

City Book Cover

I read City by Clifford Simak recently. If you haven’t read it, it is a dystopian cold war era novel in which man abandons the cities due to fear of nuclear war. Society breaks down as everybody lives in isolation, population dwindles, and eventually most humans abandons the earth, leaving …



February Cavalier IDPA

By From http://www.musingsoverapint.com/ • Mar 1st, 2018 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

As I dressed for Sunday morning’s IDPA match at Cavalier, I checked the weather app on my phone. The forecast was for cloudy skies, with temps in the upper 60’s. Great, finally decent weather at a match. After a rainy match last month, followed by a we…