A Hippie, I am not...

No surprise in any of this... Linked to it from Crucis'. I do not think that, because I ponder before a declaration of war and recycle things that make sense, I am even 4% hippie.

You are 4% hippie.

Ok, you conservative soul. Do you even believe in global warming? Loosen that necktie a little, and try some organic food. It actually does taste better. And go to a farmer's market--they're fun.

Are you a hippie?
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Okay, so I suck...

I haven't posted since Christmas. Lots of stuff has been going on and, truthfully, I have had nothing of any use to say.

In the last six months, I have moved forever into my, now our, home... y'all should get to meet her sometime. Seriously, if it can make my grizzled self a better person, it should be therapeutic to anyone.

In the last four months, the company that I work(ed) for was sold to a supplier and I was to move away from Sweet Home Alabama to rot in hell North Carolina or good God no, Delaware.

In the last two weeks, I have accepted an offer that will keep my happy ass right here where it belongs.

If I happen to get unlazy, I will write a bit about the new Harley (FLHR), how I have chosen to pack important items, the mail-order odyssey of gunsmithing via DVD (I might be an idjit, but it never hurts to remove any doubt) and various/sundry other items.

Foot Soldiers in the Great War of Reparation?

Firearms & More in Texas!

I have the combined "You MUST be shitting me." - "I am so not surprised by this." reaction going on here.

Jimmie Hale...

just because.

Interesting bit of Technology

But, the catchy part is where it shows a time lapse google earth depiction of an Iranian nuclear site about halfway in...



http://www.pbs.org/kcet/wiredscience/video/231-touchtable.html
Thanks Tom

I had NO idea...

This explains more about the Kennedy clan than mere incidental loathing could ever...

H/T Dirtcrashr

"We Bring Fear"

Honestly, I haven't (and shame on me for not) researched the actual conditions in Mexico as they are a much closer neighbor than any other nation save Cuba and a few of the Caribbean. This is something that I am not surprised by. I have spent zero time looking for the sourcing of this story and verifying it.

H/T Kaveman @ Days of Our Trailers

Mike over at...

Sipsey Street reminds us to mind our manners, prove that we deserve our thumbs and pick up after our damn selves.

Because it is aiming toward hot...

and I am avoiding any real work for a little longer...

Iran. I Ran. IR an. IRA n. --North Korea, Pakistan, etc--

Yes, the treatment of the people by their leadership is... I don't really have a word for it... despicable (but that is weak). Yes, bullies of the world do this. Yes, I have never much cared for bullies. And, herein lies the problem.

For all that lives in my soul, I would (and have) protect(ed) those who cannot protect themselves. But, I will not even ponder on it for those who will not protect themselves.

For my coin, we butt out of Iran, much farther (as in the removal of nuclear weapons and technology, then butt out) in Pakistan via Afghanistan (now that we have helped to destabilize both) and tell N. Ko to watch what happens and no, China won't save you this time. All meaning... Leave us be... Period. If the citizens of those lands want regime change (and they don't, not by their own labor anyway), let them organize and begin the battle. Then, if it suits us, we can lend aid. Seems that is how it was done in the 1700s anyway. The only reasons for intervention (as I see it) are as follows and this applies to any foreign state...

1. Attack us directly. See how that works out for you.
2. Attack an ally. See item 1.
3. Make a global menace of yourself on the scale of atomic weapons. See item 1.

We are not on this Earth to be the nanny for the rest of it. First, it is presumptuous. Second, it is arrogant. Third, it just pisses them off anyway. Why do we think that our Wonderful Way of Life™ fits anywhere else in the world?

The innertoob, teewee, etc will always be able to find enough angry people to fill the camera lens... on any topic. So, as long as we let the "leaders of the world" and the "media" guide our foreign policy... we will always be the asshat of the world.

The weekend of rain has been beneficial in many ways...

I have zero firearms that have been fired more recently than they have been cleaned. :)
Carpets are clean, kitchen is clean and more items are dust free than dust laden. :)
With nearly four inches of rain in the last three days, there will be no watering requirements in the yard for the near future. :)
E-mail and blog reading is caught up for the first time in who knows how long. :)
My office only looks like one major disaster instead of the several it has resembled since before going on vacation a couple of weeks ago. :) :)
Oh yeah, and the napping to the thunderstorms has been most excellent. ;)

Well, Springtime Mashed the Pause Button...

To Y'all who keep posting no matter what time of year it is... H/T to ya... as for my aging, under-exercised, perpetually wore out engineer @ss, I hope to get back to it in July... when it is too hot outside to sensibly plant anything. Out of curiosity, those of you Jay G, Brigid, Handbasket, Tam, ET, Xavier, etc. who post in spite of tremendously full "Other Lives"... how?

And, because I have to. To all my current and prior military brethren... I am sooooo sorry that you are stuck with your current C-in-C, just (IMHO) be more wary of who stands behind him (don't mean the handlers, I mean Biden, Pelosi, et al). And to my patriot (and occasional Threeper) brethren, patience is a virtue, don't allow patience to override good sense... and never, NEVER provocate until it is really ON. Last, there is no real hope in negotiation (especially from a position of weakness)... peace through superior firepower is the human way (yes, we, as humans, suck and we are the TOP of the current evolutionary ladder)... Just sayin'.

I truly hope to have some meaningful and useful stuff for posting by July. Maybe pictures of the landscaping and an itemized review of the 'Bama legistlative process will suffice... doubt it, but hope springs eternal without the stinking change. And, by the way, tonight's short backyard session with some .44 Mag and the Desert Eagle Mk VII was tremendously therapeutic.

-Dan

From Days of our Trailers...

The first is a point to a fella who is fixin' to get some coins minted. I just recently sent my request for a few.

The next is a point to a YouTube with a 10 minute long pretty much must watch cartoon from about 50 years ago.

Got here from a link to another...

post from Kellene over at Women of Caliber that links over to Hsoi... Therein lay a youtube of Metallica which got me back on the path to...

Rammstein... True the first song I heard from them was Du Hast... and my German is too slow to keep up, but I got the concept. And, I think it is funny. Also true that this lies a bit afield from my current standard listening habits, but is fun to cross over (to the past) once in awhile.

Or... from Linkin Park


Or... throw some KORN in the way


Or... from Iron Maiden


"Ozzie and Randy had something to say too"


And then back around to... Metallica


"Don't overlook the Idol..."


"Before that there was..."


"But it started somewhere around here... AC\DC


"No Matter what... David...


But one of the prettiest songs ever is here...

They are mad about illegal guns...

Good. I am mad about illegal immigrants. If 90% of the guns found in Mexican crime scenes originate in the US, then 90% of the criminals found in US crime scenes originate in Mexico.

More later...

Yup, been doing the least that I could do...

I am going a fair bit back in time with this but I am tired of the distractions. If they want a Socialist utopia... lets get on with it.

Big Daddy "fires" the CEO of GM. Assures the American sheeple that their GM warranties are back by the US .gov and tells Dodge to be absorbed by Fiat or else. Oh yeah, and tells members of the banking community that his administration is the only thing standing between them and the pitch forks. At the end of all of this, Big Daddy proclaims that he sees "light". I say only from the blistering pit which issued him forth.

Banks that didn't want TARP funds to start with are not being allowed to pay it back.

Christian, conservative, caucasian, veteran who is over Big Brother = I am a terrorist, er... extremist. Isn't that special... meanwhile Ayers, et al, who have actually perpetrated crimes against this nation, are still moaning that they did not do enough.

Pirates of the Somali coast diversion. As I recall, our Secretary of State wanted desperately to send troops to Africa (Darfur) during her candidacy... seems like an easy in to me. This has intelligent friends proclaiming ground war (although they call it raids on pirate property) in Africa is a good idea. Trust me, we do not want Africa to unite against us --think children with machetes (and REAL AK-47s, as in automatic fire) that don't know anything else. That is scarier than the UN, Chinese and Russians put together. Another inane idea around candidacy time was Big Daddy wanting to go to ground war in Pakistan. I trust that his handlers have told him to back off as the Pakis are nuclear armed. I still maintain that forceful response to aggression (force on force) at the point of aggression is the only way to get these toads to quit it.

Speaking of the UN, secretary general needs to hush about our rights as American citizens, he has no clue.

Repeating the lie enough times to cause intelligent people who I know to ask me why we can't ban some guns to help the .mx with their problem... I refuse to even get started on this... again. No, the number is 17 (or less) not 90.

Warming up to the Cubans. great we are going to overlook all of that atrocious past behavior... Plus, we are going to push the CIFTA treaty as another back door effort to curtail second amendment rights. And today, I read about how the .dems were holding talks with the FARC and now they (FARC) are fixin' to make some demands of their own.

The Iranians are now making demands because they see us as the weak (insert derogatory term here) that we are. Oh yeah, the North Koreans are also. And, I read that we are possibly planning retaliatory efforts against Israel should they plan to preempt Iran. Who, along with the North Kos, are spinning the centrifuges a little bit faster today. Oh yeah, and Big Daddy bowing so low to the Saudi royalty I thought he was going to blow an MCL.

And, there are things I am leaving out... mostly because this list is already long enough. So, let me ask a question... With all of this weakness being shown to the world and all of the discussion around firearms restrictions and all of the devaluation of the US currency and ALL of the distractions being presented to us, what is the end game? Yes, dear... the question is rhetorical in nature.

Happy Easter to All...

This is (or likely will be) my last post for the weekend. Y'all take care and have a wonderful holiday weekend.

Dan

The worst of all worlds...

My prayers to all involved... this is... painful.

The Argus Leader (Sioux Falls, SD) has this story. Apparently the young man entering had the wrong house... as in, it appears that his house was just down the street and it appears that he was intoxicated.

Reading the story I can only think about two things. The families involved and firearm use & safety.

The families involved. My prayers are with you. I still do not know what God's plan is and that is part of the problem with religion... you never know, you can believe, you can believe that you know, but in the truest sense of the engineer you do not know. Personally, I believe.

Firearm use & Safety. Let me start with, I know it is day time and after the fact, so no commentary on the Monday morning quarterbacking. Also, I do not know the state of minds involved at the time of involvement. So, I am going to make simple statement of the four rules and let y'all puzzle out which ones slipped. Also, Xavier treats the "Rules" topic much more deeply and probably better than I ever could... so, his thoughts are linked below.

Rule One: All firearms are always loaded.

Rule Two: Never "cover" anything with the muzzle of your firearm unless you are willing to destroy it.

Rule Three: The only time your finger touches the trigger is when you are ready to fire.

Rule Four: Make certain that your target is... what you think it is and that nothing beyond it can be harmed or damaged should your shot go astray.

For what it is worth, Rule Four is my selection. BUT, late night / early morning encounters tend to blur all (not just firearm) of the rules.

Again, my prayers to all involved. If you go to the Argus story, a goodly many of the commenters are talking on what happened, as if they know. A few, are doing what is best, in my opinion, and offering condolences and leaving the rest alone for now.

Less than 4 Percent

Sebastian over at Snowflakes in Hell has this bit about the generosity of the HSUS (Humane Society of the United States) or lack thereof. Less than 4% of their annual budget actually spent on animal shelters.

A VERY important distinction here, these cretins are in no way (or at best, a very limited way) associated with your local Humane Society.

Have yet to see anything like this anywhere else...

ET over at To which I replied has this short bit about Obama go home...



I just smile about the veneer beginning to truly peel off. I almost feel bad for Katie Couric, et al. They will never get their minds around it. It must be truly awful, living one's entire life in denial.

I have been actively AND purposefully forgetting

about our duly elected President bowing so low to the Saudi royalty that he damn near fell down and got new rug burns on his... oh you get the point. Don't suppose that is an involuntary muscle movement in light of the Muslim influence during the younger years do you? The video plays a bit loud on mine, so you might want to turn it down before hitting play.



Firehand reminded me again today with this post, of that which I have been mercilessly purging from my active cranial files. I find that I must concur with a comment under the YouTube video that I just read, what a complete tool. My only point of contention is that there has not been a real choice to make (unless you count the lesser of two evils) in decades.


Just in case there is a problem with the video, here is a little pictorial reinforcement.