Redhawk Training details The Nine Worst Holsters.
I’ve had at least two of these, mostly because I didn’t know any better.
Right now, I use a Bravo Concealment IWB and a Raven Concealment OWB.
What I really need are good kydex IWB mag holders.
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Metal Tuesday – 2019 Top Albums
Editor’s Comments:
For the end of the year, I have asked The Brother to compile his favorites for 2019. As you can see, his tastes run a little bit different than mine.
Again, I bring lists of musics for everyone to enjoy. This year I have tried to supply Bandcamp links where possible so you can listen to each album. In the case that the album is not on Bandcamp I have provided a link to Apple Music (because that’s what I use).
Album of the Year
I love Disillusion. Their album Back to Times of Splendor is one of my favorite albums of all time and The Liberation sits right up there as well. I am elated that after a long hiatus, Disillusion return with an amazing album.
The Heavy Stuff
Lots of death metal here… pretty much all forms of death metal, really. I like death metal.
- Soilwork – Verkligheten – Melodic Death Metal
- Insomnium – Heart Like a Grave – Melodic Death Metal
- In Mourning – Garden of Storms – Melodic Death Metal
- Damnation Defaced – The Devourer – Death Metal
- Whitechapel – The Valley – Deathcore
No Death
As per last year, I have a second list of great albums that are not death metal, though several of them are still quite heavy (and the Lacuna Coil album has some vocals that come very close to deathy-growls).
- Lacuna Coil – Black Anima – Metal
- Pray for Sound – Waves – Post Rock
- Sabaton – The Great War – Metal
- Daddy Rock – Daddy Rock 2 – Rock
- We Lost the Sea – Triumph & Disaster – Instrumental Rock
Honorable Mentions
These are the albums that were in the running for the other lists but did not make it. These are still really good albums, but the lists have to be capped somewhere.
- Arch Echo – You Won’t Believe What Happens Next! – Instrumental Rock
- Belzebubs – Pantheon of the Nightside Gods – Melodic Death Metal
- Black Therapy – Echoes of Dying Memories – Melodic Death Metal
- Crepuscle – Heavenly Skies – Melodic Death Metal
- Pelican – Nighttime Stories – Post Rock
- Russian Circles – Blood Year – Post Rock
- Tomydeepestego – FEARS – Post Rock
- Valence – Cognitive Dissidents – Instrumental Rock
GO FORTH AND ROCK
Hero Passes On
One of the heroes who helped rescue trapped boy scouts from a cave in Thailand has died from a blood infection he got during the rescue.
Petty Officer Beirut Pakbara, a Thai Navy Seal, contracted a blood infection during the rescue at Tham Luang cave.
My deepest condolences to his loved one.
Friday Quote – Jordan Peterson
A harmless man is not a good man. A good man is a very, very dangerous man who has it under voluntary control.
Let’s Play With Your Mind
The Brother sent me this video.
Merry Metal Christmas
For your enjoyment:
Metal Tuesday- Secret Rule – The Song Of the Universe
Another good female-fronted metal band.
The Afghanistan Papers
The Washington Post has done some excellent investigative work about how we’ve been lied to for the last three administrations about the progress of the Afghanistan War.
Essentially, we’re not winning. We’re not even holding the line. The Bush, Obama, and Trump administrations were/are aware of that, even while telling the public that things were going great. We are making the same damned mistake that we made in Vietnam – staying in because we would look bad by losing. Worse, we’re killing our soldiers and their people by staying there. Love him or hate him, but John Kerry was right when he asked “How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?”
Some are complaining that these revelations haven’t had the impact that the Pentagon Papers had almost fifty years ago. Some of that is the fact that we aren’t the same nation. We know that our leaders lie to us. It also doesn’t help that this landed in the middle of the President Trump Reality Show (Impeachment Season 2).
Friday Quote – Larry Lambert
The problem with socialism is that you can vote your way into it, but you need to shoot your way out of it.
So, That’s How You Say It
I’ve always pronounced it as LA-poo-ah.
H/T Say Uncle