Mix them together, it’s delicious, but nothing is as good as Blue Edition Red Bull. Original, Red, and Silver are good, but I think Blue is the best.

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Some point soon, there will be legislation regarding gun control sent across the desks of everyone in congress. There are many different ideas about what it should include or if it should exist at all.  All I will say on the topic is that I do believe the 2nd amendment should exist (I cannot confirm nor deny if I practice it). However, it’s important to frame certain terminology in the right way.  Some say things like clip vs. magazine: what is the difference? Or why do you need an assault rifle?  A lot of this is all made up terms by anti-gun government officials.  Sometimes it’s even laughable to here them mis-used.  I hope that this post adds to the many that helps the public, and even congress get these terms right.

The Difference

The easiest way for me to illustrate the difference between a clip and a magazine is with a picture.  This picture shows 60 rounds, 30 in clips, and 30 loaded into a magazine.  Clips are on the left, they hold 10 rounds.  The magazine on the right holds 30 rounds.  In this case, these are for an SKS, 7.62×39 rifle.  The stripper clips are used to load the rifle, and the magazine is what holds the loaded rounds.  Equipping an SKS with a 30 round magazine, or loading it with stripper clips may, to some, constitute it as an assault rifle. The SKS is not an assault rifle.  I’ll explain why.

Not an Assault Rifle

For starters, it makes for a great hiking gone for deer hunting and has the so called ‘sporting’ use. Secondly, in it’s default form (although there are aftermarket stocks for it), it’s got a brown wooden stock and hardly looks like an ‘evil black’ assault rifle. However, generally speaking, the SKS, or at least a lot of accessories for it would be banned under some proposed legislation.

As you can see above, clips are already 10 rounds.  The default configuration of an SKS is 10 rounds.  However, since the SKS is semi-automatic (important of a ‘hiking’ gun), all the rounds are ejected after firing.  To reload it, all one needs to do is take a clip, attach it to the gun and push the cartridges down (not bullets (the metal pointy part that flies out the barrel) or shell/case (case being better, the steel or brass part which holds the bullet, powder, and primer at the bottom). With clips the SKS can be reloaded in seconds.

Short Conclusion

If anything, a 30 round magazine delats reloading, since there is more to reload.  In either case, banning either a clip or a magazine of a certain size does nothing.  When one human shoots another, they are already committing a crime.  Trying to justify new laws to stop those that already break existing ones should not make sense to anyone.

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The back story

Reggie Bush is a 7th year NFL Pro going to free agency after spending 2 years in Miami with no chance of making a Super Bowl.  Previously he spent a few years with the Saints, made the Super Bowl, and won it along with Drew Brees and company.  Knowing that he had a taste of Super Bowl Championship glory with the Saints, it’s undeniable that he probably wants another one.  The Green Bay Packers could give him that and I’m not the first one to propose this idea that Reggie Bush could go to the Packers.  It was proposed on ESPN’s NFC North Blog by Kevin Seifert originally. It’s also been discussed on other sites such as Cheese Head TV.

Update (March 11th, 2013): It’s even on NFL.com now!

Why Reggie Bush to Packers makes sense

As I mentioned in the first paragraph, Reggie Bush has the Super Bowl bug, and may take a smaller salary in the now for a chance to make some money later as well as return to a Super Bowl. He may be alright with allowing the Packers to get him at a discounted rate versus other teams who are in a re-building stage. You’ve also got a couple other big money free agent running backs looking for homes like Ahmad Bradshaw and Steven Jackson, so the market for Reggie Bush might be low among other nfl teams.

Next, it’s important to understand, with Aaron Rodgers at the helm, the Green Bay Packers will never be a run first team.  The Packers won’t benefit at all from a big ‘down hill’ run-first not so great pass catcher running back (think Ryan Grant). If the Packers have a 3rd and short, they already have John Kuhn. The best running back for the Packers is a shifty running back who gets open and makes people miss after coming out of the backfield.  That’s literally a description of Reggie Bush.

Conclusion (and Contract thoughts)

The Packers need a running back they can trust.  Reggie Bush has shown he’s a play maker and thrives in a good offense.  Some time this off season, I really hope to see a headline that reads ‘Reggie Bush to Packers’ or ‘Reggie Bush to Green Bay’. Should be fairly easy for the Green Bay Packers to give Reggie Bush a 3 to 5 year Contract which means that it’s likely he could even retire as a Green Bay Packer. As long as the Packers don’t do something crazy like use the franchise tag on Greg Jennings, they should have the cap room for Reggie Bush. I’ll watch and see, and would love any opinions on this topic.

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Secure Hidden Login is now part of EditSee (since v0.8)

Although I cannot give full details on the ultimate goal of the EditSee project at this time, it should be fairly obvious.  The aim of the EditSee project is to eliminate the need for a conventional ‘admin’ or ‘dashboard’ area.  The user should be able to edit their site, from their site, not some other hidden area. Secure Hidden Login is a big part of this in that it simplifies the login and logout process.

Secure Hidden Login passes a strict Debug check (since v0.9)

After attending Wordcamp Phoenix 2013, I learned the importance of debugging your code.  This is both for the purposes of security, and compatibility with other plugins and themes.  With full WordPress Debug mode on and the Debug bar plugin, Secure Hidden Login generates no errors. In addition to Debug check, v0.9.1 renames some CSS classes to further prevent conflicts with other plugins.

Secure Hidden Login’s new features since v0.1

Secure Hidden Login had some humble beginnings as a very simple plugin.  Thanks to a lot of great feedback, several features have been added over time and many more are coming.  Here is a list of some of the great features Secure Hidden Login now has:

• Color options for the buttons
• Disabling of the wp-login.php page (using the .htaccess file)
• Forgot password functionality built in
• User registration link (when registration is enabled)
• Automatic bypassing of the login page on logout
• Sidebar Widget for easy access to the Login bar
• 4 different visual ways to activate and a key combination

What’s next for Secure Hidden Login

• Captcha integration
• Better disabling of wp-login.php to prevent any kind of invalid access attempt to this page
• …and much more!

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In other news, Secure Hidden Login is now at version 0.8 with version 0.9 due out very soon. It’s over 2,000 downloads now! I’ve even received some donations for my hard work on this plugin.

Update:

Secure Hidden Login verrsion 0.9 will mostly be a bugfix release, but there are a couple of new features as well.

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I’ve also switched my theme to ‘Twenty Twelve’ (from a modified version of ‘Twenty Eleven’).  In honor of this theme change, I’ve also uploaded a new header from one of my favorite images on the web.  It’s Sunny Leone in a Green Bay Packers bikini.

Also, on a side note, this post is in the Babes, News, Packers, and WordPress Plugins category of my site.  By far the most categories a single post has ever been able to get put into.

Update – now updated wordpress to 3.5.1

It’s great to see WordPress 3.5 (and now 3.5.1 out in the wild).  With the combination of the Jetpack plugin, Wordpress is really pretty amazing out of the box now.

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I will add more to this post later.

Updated (now with opinion of the 2012 election):

Well, there is now no need to watch 2012 election coverage, the presidential results are in, and it looks like I was correct with this pick.  I can’t say I’m happy about it, as I wanted Gary Johnson (the Libertarian candidate) to win. Some day I hope we will get third party candidates to actually have a shot in the general election. The 2012 election was not that year, but I do think it’s coming. The republican and democrat ideas are basically the same, with slightly different details. Don’t be fooled!

Looking forward to the next presidential election

Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, to me are far to similar. The electoral college to some degree is one of the main elements still giving us a 2-party system in U.S. elections. I feel that more and more   people are waking up to the idea that the amount of change between the 2 major parties is getting thinner and thinner.  It’s often just a shell game of spending money on different things.  The federal budget never goes down.

Other ballot measures

More interesting to me is the fact that gay marriage and recreational marijuana use was passed by the voters in a few states .  Although neither of these will affect me at all, I applaud those voters for making the 2012 election a historic day.  I think that both of these ‘social’ issues passing in some states show the country may be headed in the right direction towards more freedom. We will have to see how these laws hold up against federal laws that may attempt to override them.

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Oh!  Happy Halloween

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My old Thursday team called ‘Slop Shots’ qualified for the 8 ball tri-cities tournament. The first step on the road to Vegas. However, we actually split up for this session.

With very little to play for (since we were no longer a team), there was hardly any pressure. I was very relaxed.

Amazingly our team did well, and we were in one of the Final matches. It came down to me playing against the captain of my Tuesday team and I playing against each other. I won! My ‘old’ Thursday team now moves on to the Cities tournament, and we’ll have to get back together in January.

Go ‘Slop Shots’!

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About as much of a chance as the Colts beating the Packers. Ironically, the Colts won…and so did I. My one Packer on my roster, Cedric Benson barely helped. It was mostly a good week for Drew Brees that pushed me over the top.

Though it was not the final score, the screenshot below shows my win! He had no one else playing on Monday night.

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