Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Primaries, Magazines, and Pumpkins

It's still a little early, but it looks like Ralph Smith is going to eke out a win in the 22nd district Republican primary for the State Senate, pulling in, at last count, 51% of the vote over incumbent Brandon Bell. I'll be really interested in the coming days to see why voters (at 6%) turnout) picked Smith, although I have previously listed my rationale for supporting him. Either way, congratulations, Mr Smith.

Good local coverage here:

http://www.wdbj7.com/Global/story.asp?S=6648897
http://www.roanoke.com/politics/wb/120435

Up at the shop, we got in a couple of MagPul polymer AR-15 30 round magazines, their new PMag. My previous experience with plastic AR mags, in the form of Orlite (Israeli), Thermold (Canadian) and RamLine (US) has been less then stellar, but I'm hoping for good things here. MagPul doesn't turn out junk - I have their enhanced followers in all my USGI magazines, and either RangerPlates or MagPul's on about half of them. I'm going to buy a couple of these magazines this week and get a range report up soon.

http://www.magpul.com/catalog/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=80_120&products_id=268

Pumpkin update: all three plants are up to eight very healthy leaves. I let two thunderstorms do the watering over the past couple of days, but tomorrow, they're getting fertilized.

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