Sunday, December 30, 2012
Talk without spitting on me..
My words for the antigun taking heads are..
If you gungrabbers want raving talking heads as representation all the better. Its clearly significant of their mindset. That and someone I'd not waste my time talking to because, they already talking at.
If they want a dialog, they can find me. If they want to talk at me then talk to my back as I have no use for yammering fools.
I hunted down many a gungrabber site the things I find missing are use of facts or truth, an absolute lack of critical thinking beyond the immediate, such sensibilities over harsh language to require only the anointed ones can speak while they apply the same language on others. They love ad hominem and reductio ad absurdum as argument tools. The use of anecdotes are still not make them fact. They love the 1st when they can talk, not so much when they have to listen. For them to have a debate listening will be a acquired skill.
We should observe and use it against them. For the loudest vessel is often the empty one.
They I'd say on that basis they approach a vacuum.
Eck!
Friday, December 28, 2012
Irrational national 2
Last post it was a bit on how some just done think.
A bit more and specific. The jackhole in upstate NY that shot and killed firefighters got the guns from a neighbor woman that bought them for him.
A very good story about what will happen to her: http://www.startribune.com/nation/185078221.html?refer=y&refer=y
Yes there is a law that says if its not for you and you lie its 10 years in the FEDERAL pokey and the state of NY has their special gift for that too. So Yes, there is a Straw purchaser law.
The problem here is a excon that did 17 years asked someone to buy guns for him and they did it. Now the real question was is it ignorance or outright stupidity to provide a person that did time for murder a gun?
I suspect the answer is part social engineering on his part and maybe she didn't know or even know to ask why he could buy a gun. Heck, the regular Jane or joe doesn't need to know this. NOT.
Even if you do not own or want a gun, ignorance of the laws is not an accepted excuse. That is a universal aspect of the law. So when I see a quick article saying its easy to buy a gun its at best a half truth as every gun purchased from any firearms dealer will have a valid federal 4473 form. Even some states require a transfer of firearms record (MA, form 10). You lie on the form it might just get you some trouble.
We had a newspaper try and vilify gun gun owners by printing their names and addresses. Yes we do not even make the slightest effort to acknowledge that they have to know those laws and more as ignorance is not a defense.
So we have those that went right out can called the NRA dirty names or worse that likely will not acknowledge that EVEN THE NRA would agree what was done is illegal and should be.
I'm not a member of the NRA. I just don't play the blame someone else game.
Don't let the bastards lie without calling them on it. They will lie to you and smile.
Eck!
A bit more and specific. The jackhole in upstate NY that shot and killed firefighters got the guns from a neighbor woman that bought them for him.
A very good story about what will happen to her: http://www.startribune.com/nation/185078221.html?refer=y&refer=y
Yes there is a law that says if its not for you and you lie its 10 years in the FEDERAL pokey and the state of NY has their special gift for that too. So Yes, there is a Straw purchaser law.
The problem here is a excon that did 17 years asked someone to buy guns for him and they did it. Now the real question was is it ignorance or outright stupidity to provide a person that did time for murder a gun?
I suspect the answer is part social engineering on his part and maybe she didn't know or even know to ask why he could buy a gun. Heck, the regular Jane or joe doesn't need to know this. NOT.
Even if you do not own or want a gun, ignorance of the laws is not an accepted excuse. That is a universal aspect of the law. So when I see a quick article saying its easy to buy a gun its at best a half truth as every gun purchased from any firearms dealer will have a valid federal 4473 form. Even some states require a transfer of firearms record (MA, form 10). You lie on the form it might just get you some trouble.
We had a newspaper try and vilify gun gun owners by printing their names and addresses. Yes we do not even make the slightest effort to acknowledge that they have to know those laws and more as ignorance is not a defense.
So we have those that went right out can called the NRA dirty names or worse that likely will not acknowledge that EVEN THE NRA would agree what was done is illegal and should be.
I'm not a member of the NRA. I just don't play the blame someone else game.
Don't let the bastards lie without calling them on it. They will lie to you and smile.
Eck!
Thursday, December 27, 2012
Irrational national
Well we have at least one senator that wants her rules to be our rules. The starting point will be to ignore the Constitution and then created yet more expanded powers for the government.
She is just another idiot grandstanding and also doing the polka in the blood of the victims for her agenda. There are a few of them around that know what is good for all of us.
What it still ignores is many of the laws that exist don't work as they attack the honest civilian and do little to impact the criminal or the insane.
Things that do not work.
State laws that are a patchwork, confusing, or unintelligible. We need some consistency.
Gun Free Zones, someone has to be made to explain why that should work and clearly doesn't, being as criminal don't give a shit and honest people do. In the end it just means was have a defined place without any useful protection or anything other than imagined safety.
Large capacity magazine bans, Yep this one has the "but we are the anointed ones" all over it. We now this doesn't work as DC has a ban and some idiot appeared on TV with one despite that and got dispensation. Again no one has proven a thing that this helps.
The concept of self defense, right having a gun as a best means is for something improbable and never happens like home invasions. They call those that prepare paranoid.
So what have we got. Criminals that get out if they were ever in to do more of the same AGAIN. People arrested and given excessive bail and imprisoned for months for wearing a fake ammo belt before they even get to a trial.
We have the near do wells who have the critical thinking ability of a 12 years old, that stamp there feet and in their tantrum do the I want, I want, with out any thought or reason. Then they expect others to to the work. Their version of We is someone other than thee.
Then there are the privileged few that make their safety business for someone else and personal to them but try to deny average Joe or Sally the idea that they just might need to protect themselves.
Other than the few the good news is most of them are just so much hot air that mostly will contribute to global warming as as soon as the fiscal crisis warms up in a short while they will be far to busy dealing with the fallout.
Then we have the blame game. The NRA armed the bad guys, come on, get real, and think about the utter stupidity of that. The NRA is an organization of DUES paying members and criminals and other
sorts do not even match that little detail. the NRA does not give out guns. The NRA oddly does do safety training and safety programs.
So for the blame game participants, who's next. Try the mirror. Every time you do nothing and practice the outright denial that evil exists while saying it can't happen to you your extending the possibility that indeed it can. Every time you make your safety someone elses job you make it more unsafe for me and everyone else. I'm putting it all on those whining, denial mongering, liars who believe in magic talismans like signs.
Lets start telling them that their request is unacceptable. Vote, notify the senators and congress critters and the local gov as well.
For the rest of you stay safe, keep the powder dry and well hidden as they pledge to take it.
Eck!
She is just another idiot grandstanding and also doing the polka in the blood of the victims for her agenda. There are a few of them around that know what is good for all of us.
What it still ignores is many of the laws that exist don't work as they attack the honest civilian and do little to impact the criminal or the insane.
Things that do not work.
State laws that are a patchwork, confusing, or unintelligible. We need some consistency.
Gun Free Zones, someone has to be made to explain why that should work and clearly doesn't, being as criminal don't give a shit and honest people do. In the end it just means was have a defined place without any useful protection or anything other than imagined safety.
Large capacity magazine bans, Yep this one has the "but we are the anointed ones" all over it. We now this doesn't work as DC has a ban and some idiot appeared on TV with one despite that and got dispensation. Again no one has proven a thing that this helps.
The concept of self defense, right having a gun as a best means is for something improbable and never happens like home invasions. They call those that prepare paranoid.
So what have we got. Criminals that get out if they were ever in to do more of the same AGAIN. People arrested and given excessive bail and imprisoned for months for wearing a fake ammo belt before they even get to a trial.
We have the near do wells who have the critical thinking ability of a 12 years old, that stamp there feet and in their tantrum do the I want, I want, with out any thought or reason. Then they expect others to to the work. Their version of We is someone other than thee.
Then there are the privileged few that make their safety business for someone else and personal to them but try to deny average Joe or Sally the idea that they just might need to protect themselves.
Other than the few the good news is most of them are just so much hot air that mostly will contribute to global warming as as soon as the fiscal crisis warms up in a short while they will be far to busy dealing with the fallout.
Then we have the blame game. The NRA armed the bad guys, come on, get real, and think about the utter stupidity of that. The NRA is an organization of DUES paying members and criminals and other
sorts do not even match that little detail. the NRA does not give out guns. The NRA oddly does do safety training and safety programs.
So for the blame game participants, who's next. Try the mirror. Every time you do nothing and practice the outright denial that evil exists while saying it can't happen to you your extending the possibility that indeed it can. Every time you make your safety someone elses job you make it more unsafe for me and everyone else. I'm putting it all on those whining, denial mongering, liars who believe in magic talismans like signs.
Lets start telling them that their request is unacceptable. Vote, notify the senators and congress critters and the local gov as well.
For the rest of you stay safe, keep the powder dry and well hidden as they pledge to take it.
Eck!
Saturday, December 22, 2012
What drill..
The name of the blog is Mozambique Drill.
The gunny version is to stop your attacker, two in the chest or heart, one to the head. It's a defense drill.
The human version is, most things cause two hits to the emotional heart and one hit to the to the rational thinking part... and rational thought rarely survives.
We had a situation that occurred that was a huge blow to the heart, children, people died. The follow up was to take a hit to the head in the form of total wipe out of reason and logic.
The assault to the head was WE, yes the formal everyone else not me, should do something to prevent this. With the rapid follow up of WE have to ban things.
Here is the problem and why my head hurts now. Seems the whole thing was banned or illegal acts that only a criminal would do. They were already banned. Yet we have the steadfast that truly believe that just one more law will fix that. Save for the one further thing, the criminal in this case was bent on destruction of anyone and themselves. We have laws about suicide as well, they are ironic.
So now that collective WE wants to punish the innocent as well. After all somebody has to pay for this why not those that didn't have anything to do with it and would never.
Yes, it's the age of not me and your or some inanimate thing is the cause.
There is a rising feeling of alarm over what may be the next wave of riots that no one wants. Who will be the ones hearing from the have-nots that were denied was they had or what they worked for. It may be money, property, or the civil liberties that are being eroded daily by those that either want it for themselves or are elitist enough to believe no one should have it. In the end there will be pain and suffering.
Reminder, in the spring 1775 there were troops of the British army under the rule of the Crown commanded to go and take the arms and powder of the colonials and any that should resist. The rest we know as history. What was never clear to some who were obviously sleeping is was the unjust taking of property that added the extra straw that broke the colonials back. It was one too many of the intolerable acts that preceded it. This was the beginning entry into six years of war.
I finish on this. Only a portion of the colonials were active in the revolution, more than a third were and preferred to be un-involved and maybe as many were on the British side. It was long and bloody and not the last war we as a nation would fight against a foreign power on our land.
Consider our history and why our most basic laws are what they are.
Eck!
The gunny version is to stop your attacker, two in the chest or heart, one to the head. It's a defense drill.
The human version is, most things cause two hits to the emotional heart and one hit to the to the rational thinking part... and rational thought rarely survives.
We had a situation that occurred that was a huge blow to the heart, children, people died. The follow up was to take a hit to the head in the form of total wipe out of reason and logic.
The assault to the head was WE, yes the formal everyone else not me, should do something to prevent this. With the rapid follow up of WE have to ban things.
Here is the problem and why my head hurts now. Seems the whole thing was banned or illegal acts that only a criminal would do. They were already banned. Yet we have the steadfast that truly believe that just one more law will fix that. Save for the one further thing, the criminal in this case was bent on destruction of anyone and themselves. We have laws about suicide as well, they are ironic.
So now that collective WE wants to punish the innocent as well. After all somebody has to pay for this why not those that didn't have anything to do with it and would never.
Yes, it's the age of not me and your or some inanimate thing is the cause.
There is a rising feeling of alarm over what may be the next wave of riots that no one wants. Who will be the ones hearing from the have-nots that were denied was they had or what they worked for. It may be money, property, or the civil liberties that are being eroded daily by those that either want it for themselves or are elitist enough to believe no one should have it. In the end there will be pain and suffering.
Reminder, in the spring 1775 there were troops of the British army under the rule of the Crown commanded to go and take the arms and powder of the colonials and any that should resist. The rest we know as history. What was never clear to some who were obviously sleeping is was the unjust taking of property that added the extra straw that broke the colonials back. It was one too many of the intolerable acts that preceded it. This was the beginning entry into six years of war.
I finish on this. Only a portion of the colonials were active in the revolution, more than a third were and preferred to be un-involved and maybe as many were on the British side. It was long and bloody and not the last war we as a nation would fight against a foreign power on our land.
Consider our history and why our most basic laws are what they are.
Eck!
Friday, December 21, 2012
Newspeak and oldspeak and Big Lie.
My favorite things is when people use language to obscure things or flat out lie. I have a name for
that and it's propaganda.
The most common tool in propaganda is the big lie.
Usage: Assault weapons need to be banned.
Lets analyse that. What they are... really.
Assault rifle; select fire or full automatic, magazine fed, intermediate caliber rifles are the single most common military rifle in the world. For the USA that's the M16 or the M4 in the past it would be the
M14, and the Thompson machine gun may even qualify. Hard to buy or own legally since 1994 mostly due to scarcity and cost. But if you can find an eligible one and navigate the paper work and pay the $200 tax it's legal and its expensive to purchase and shoot. In the end we call it a machine
gun in plainer language.
Assault weapon; the made up name for the semi-automatic, magazine fed, intermediate caliber rifles are the single most popular type of gun in America. With one addition... they may look like an assaul rifle.
What makes assault weapon different from the common auto-loading hunting rifle? Often only looks.
But the big lie calls it an "assault weapon" which is a made up pejorative name for it.
But.. they have assault in the name and one is a machine gun and the other is supposed to
be confused with it. This is their way of making that evil and then they assign "bullet hose"
as a way to make it visualize as even more so. See how the big lie works. Two things
somewhat similar but different masked behind obfuscated language and terms.
In some states [I really mean the volksrepublic of MA] that means a auto-loader with a wood stock
is less regulated than the similar or same rifle with a plastic skeleton stock and a metal barrel shroud.
If you add any other feature to that rifle to make it look like a assault rifle its a felony[in MA]. Why?
Fear. Just like taking a 30-06 hunting rifle and adding a telescopic sight and painting the wood
in camouflage colors makes it a sniper rifle to those that fear. It of course will magically
kill at a distance on its own, not. The difference here is often the rifleman's training and
less the tool. That however makes use of the big lie again as sniper rifle is more menacing
sounding than a high caliber sport hunting rifle. Well the real big lie is that the sniper rifle and
the assault weapon are more dangerous and need to be regulated [more than already are] to
excess or out right banned.
I will not go into the redundant language and error filled line "high capacity stripper clip bullet magazines" save for the description appends two different things into one even more incorrect one. Stripper clips are the fast load tool for old rifles like the 1903 Springfield. Magazines are those boxes that hold cartridges that attach or may be permanently attached to a firearm [or the ammunition storage
area on a warship]. Also bullets are part of a cartridge and not the complete ammunition .. The
big lie requires the use of ambiguous language or made up words to sway those without the
knowledge to know or recognize its a sham. It has to sound right and have a good flow even
if untrue or worse meaningless.
Enough for now as the telescreen gives more Newspeak from Minitrue.
Keep your powder dry and ears open,
Eck!
Saturday, November 3, 2012
VOTE DAMMIT
Seriously strong words, they are.
Why? I do believe in one thing as a citizen you have the obligation to vote.
IF you fail to do so any and all the fail of the next four years, you are not exempt. However,
any bitching or crying are going to be ignored. You didn't make a choice, you are affected,
but your choice is not in there so what every happens to you it still your fault.
Be responsible, VOTE.
Eck!
Why? I do believe in one thing as a citizen you have the obligation to vote.
IF you fail to do so any and all the fail of the next four years, you are not exempt. However,
any bitching or crying are going to be ignored. You didn't make a choice, you are affected,
but your choice is not in there so what every happens to you it still your fault.
Be responsible, VOTE.
Eck!
Monday, August 20, 2012
I'm aching from the idiot.
We all know what Akin said and it's plum crazy. But he believes that and that is whats more than scary.
But rather than rehash that as others have done well I'll take the other tack.
ITS ABOUT THE FREEDOM TO SAY NO AND TO CONTROL ONES BODY!
What he said is a woman has limited rights and those are ones he believes are granted to him and his.
In short girl, hes saying he gets to say what legitimate and when, your say don't count,
What do I think? Hrrumph! Thank Darwin I don't live in that pisshole state.
He's trying to tell me or more correctly anyone he can influence control over is, hon you have no say. That's a direct statement we wimmin are chattel and in servitude. Ain't that cute and all condescending. All you women that vote for that thing this election both deserve to be at
the head of the line as you have done gone to Gilead. If that is disagreeable to you just remember
hes saying, you don't have a say. Lay back and enjoy it.
My cut is hit them good old rethugican boys where it hurts, I'd suggest nine months sleeping on the couch, tub, or floor and no sex for that long too. It's about time they get to relearn what NO really means. Might as well start with your body as it's all you have left.
Powder up and tell them to blow it out their arse.
Eck!
But rather than rehash that as others have done well I'll take the other tack.
ITS ABOUT THE FREEDOM TO SAY NO AND TO CONTROL ONES BODY!
What he said is a woman has limited rights and those are ones he believes are granted to him and his.
In short girl, hes saying he gets to say what legitimate and when, your say don't count,
What do I think? Hrrumph! Thank Darwin I don't live in that pisshole state.
He's trying to tell me or more correctly anyone he can influence control over is, hon you have no say. That's a direct statement we wimmin are chattel and in servitude. Ain't that cute and all condescending. All you women that vote for that thing this election both deserve to be at
the head of the line as you have done gone to Gilead. If that is disagreeable to you just remember
hes saying, you don't have a say. Lay back and enjoy it.
My cut is hit them good old rethugican boys where it hurts, I'd suggest nine months sleeping on the couch, tub, or floor and no sex for that long too. It's about time they get to relearn what NO really means. Might as well start with your body as it's all you have left.
Powder up and tell them to blow it out their arse.
Eck!
Saturday, August 18, 2012
13 percent
What does 13 percent mean to me..
Well if I got to pay only that I'd get the equivalent of one whole month work this year back as cash.
Seem us in the trenches get the higher rates.
That is one whole hell of a lot of money to any person working I'd bet.
But you see I'm not Rmoney, I have to buy a silver spoon as mine was not given to me.
Now, does that seem right to you?
Keep your powder dry as it's all ready tax paid.
Eck!
Well if I got to pay only that I'd get the equivalent of one whole month work this year back as cash.
Seem us in the trenches get the higher rates.
That is one whole hell of a lot of money to any person working I'd bet.
But you see I'm not Rmoney, I have to buy a silver spoon as mine was not given to me.
Now, does that seem right to you?
Keep your powder dry as it's all ready tax paid.
Eck!
Sunday, August 5, 2012
Rmoney's legacy
I live in the Volkspublik of MA.. That means we have that individual mandate to have health insurance. If we don't we pay a fine, err rather, a tax.
Like and good law abiding sort I have that insurance and it's damn expensive.
I go to the doc for a routine renewal of medication, the doc charges $542 for a office visit with no labs or procedures. Nothing complex or involved or even life threatening.
The insurance company of big blue and the cross refuse to pay.
I get a bill that I have to now pay with post tax money to the tune of about 20 plus hours of my time. I really wish I could charge 20X my current hourly rate, but the doc does.
Yep the system works just fine. Thanks Mittens for all the costs.
Keep your powder hidden as someone is surely ot to steal it.
Eck!
Like and good law abiding sort I have that insurance and it's damn expensive.
I go to the doc for a routine renewal of medication, the doc charges $542 for a office visit with no labs or procedures. Nothing complex or involved or even life threatening.
The insurance company of big blue and the cross refuse to pay.
I get a bill that I have to now pay with post tax money to the tune of about 20 plus hours of my time. I really wish I could charge 20X my current hourly rate, but the doc does.
Yep the system works just fine. Thanks Mittens for all the costs.
Keep your powder hidden as someone is surely ot to steal it.
Eck!
Friday, July 27, 2012
YAAGT
We wander down the lane of those that listen and those that might
if they did.
The problem is not guns it's the people that often are criminal to
start with that have them despite many layers of laws imposing
sanctions on their actions. It's real easy to blame the NRA. It's
also just that, the lame blame game. There is NO correlation
between guns and death that is unique to guns. There is a very
strong correlation between violence and death. Guns are a
means, not the cause.
People even make up stories about lax gun laws. Yet here in
the USA in Chitown where gun ownership is was banned, DC
and NYC too, yet bad guys do criminal things. Doesn't
work, never worked. Here in the volksreplubik of MA the laws
are draconian regarding guns yet criminals still hurt and maim
some with guns most without. The most common shootings
happen to be criminal on criminal and ignoring murder it's
illegal in all 50 states for a criminal to possess a firearm and in
many cases a weapon of any form. Generally the criminals
involved are out on bail or even parole.
So far the most horrid examples of violence were often committed
in one of two cases, in declared gun free zones (gee can't criminals
read) and by criminals on criminals. Like drugs which are illegal
yet any fool can easily buy them, banning guns will work at least
as well. Not going to work. Best example, prohibition, then we
only tried to ban booze.
As to gun play being "shocking, deplorable, preventable" We
react the same way to the first two, but prevention is best left to
jailing (not a slap on the wrist) the criminals and becoming s
elf aware enough to know the wolf exists and likes his sheep
docile and defenseless. Murder is still a capital crime and
carries one of the highest criminal sentences. Yet we have killers.
You do have violence I really don't care if its gun, machete, or
baseball bat in the bad guys hands it's still mayhem and death
about to happen. The first problem is violence and usually
unless it's a insurgency problem, the cause is local and criminal.
There is no 100% solution, look at all the shootings is England
and Austraila. Then look at the violence there, the non gun type.
Look at the people committing the crimes and not how. In the
end the kid that was busting heads then going on to robbing the
corner store and ends up moving on to bigger and worse criminal
activities before he/she either gets killed or finally incarcerated
for a long time.
Evil exists, it is the hand and the rest of the body holding a weapon.
It's not rational, nor frequently correctable or predictable. Most
people choose to wander through life and say it does not exist in
their realm, that is mostly due to statistical luck and faith in
fantasy. The choices are there, but the first step is be alert
and aware, avoid those places and times. When all else reaches
ends you may find you need a plan that does not include running.
If you say that will never happen, I offer the this, Virginia tech.
In life always, never, and can't often sneak up and get real
because they don't reflect the exception nor reality.
None of this is to say packing heat is a solution. For some it's
an unacceptable one and others are better off without anything
dangerous including a car. The reason is they all imply
responsibility and require being aware. In this case
responsibility is not who we blame but the obligation to
insure what they do is conducted safely without undue
risk to others.
Ponder that, going though life trying to not induce undue
risk on others.
As always keep the powder dry and the family safe.
Eck!
Oh, I forgot what is YAAGT.. Yet Another Anti-Gun Troll.
Saturday, July 21, 2012
Beliefs
Short and to the point..
Some believe they are safe, only to find they are not. What is the difference?
Never confuse the illusion with reality. The latter may be harsh and ugly but the key word is
real.
Keep your heads down and powder safe, those that might take that from you believe in the fantasy of illusion.
Eck!
Some believe they are safe, only to find they are not. What is the difference?
Denial and a profound lack of awareness.
Never confuse the illusion with reality. The latter may be harsh and ugly but the key word is
real.
Keep your heads down and powder safe, those that might take that from you believe in the fantasy of illusion.
Eck!
Monday, July 2, 2012
...Priceless!
When someone writes a post about the radical nuts running off at the frothing mouth what happens..
The frothies attack,
they foam,
and they say all the crazed things..
Damn, That's priceless irony.
Hey ya all keep your heads down and watch for the crazies..take care now.
Eck!
The frothies attack,
they foam,
and they say all the crazed things..
Damn, That's priceless irony.
Hey ya all keep your heads down and watch for the crazies..take care now.
Eck!
Monday, May 28, 2012
Memorial day
Over the years I've pondered the day and its meaning to a lifelong civilian, me.
I thought back to my dad and WWII.
GI Joe, was inducted and served in the Army.
Inducted x/xx/42 FT JAY GOVERNORS ISLAND NEW YORK
Private Warrant Officers,
USA Selectees (Enlisted Men)
His training included the Army basic down south in red mud country and he excelled as a Rifleman. I know that from the badge and the ladder under it. From there he was part of of Clark's 5th Army in the Chemical Mortar Division. Hard to remember now what division but eighty something sticks in memory. I knew he was in North Africa likely after Rommel's demise, I knew that more so because he knew some french and told a favorite story about those crazy yanks eating the Arabs corn, seems that was only eaten by animals and never people there. He went to Italy visited all the big names including Monte Casino. never knew if he lobbed mortars, shot at things, or did paperwork as a corporal. I did see at one time samples of V-mail back home to mother. Quite the artist. Returned home and the only admitted casualty was malaria, but that never explained the second purple heart or the other metals including a small star. Nor did he.
Why all that. As well as I knew pop, he never spoke of the war. To this day I do not know what he saw or did not see. He taught me to shoot a BB rifle the way the Army taught him but it was a one time, this is how to do it right, and he never touched it again. However reading history and other accounts being in country during the action meant he did see something and it was not the thing talked about. So what's the point.
War sucks, we know that. War leaves other wounds, hidden wounds, we see people that suffer those outwardly too. What we do not see is those that went served, maybe left some part of themselves there and returned changed forever. I just don't know.
On this Memorial Day we talk of those that gave life, some are still giving a little every day. To those serving, I wish you safe and secure, those that served your stories are important as they are part who
we are.
As usual I bid you heads down and powder dry, and a good meal.
Eck!
GI Joe, was inducted and served in the Army.
Inducted x/xx/42 FT JAY GOVERNORS ISLAND NEW YORK
Private Warrant Officers,
USA Selectees (Enlisted Men)
His training included the Army basic down south in red mud country and he excelled as a Rifleman. I know that from the badge and the ladder under it. From there he was part of of Clark's 5th Army in the Chemical Mortar Division. Hard to remember now what division but eighty something sticks in memory. I knew he was in North Africa likely after Rommel's demise, I knew that more so because he knew some french and told a favorite story about those crazy yanks eating the Arabs corn, seems that was only eaten by animals and never people there. He went to Italy visited all the big names including Monte Casino. never knew if he lobbed mortars, shot at things, or did paperwork as a corporal. I did see at one time samples of V-mail back home to mother. Quite the artist. Returned home and the only admitted casualty was malaria, but that never explained the second purple heart or the other metals including a small star. Nor did he.
Why all that. As well as I knew pop, he never spoke of the war. To this day I do not know what he saw or did not see. He taught me to shoot a BB rifle the way the Army taught him but it was a one time, this is how to do it right, and he never touched it again. However reading history and other accounts being in country during the action meant he did see something and it was not the thing talked about. So what's the point.
War sucks, we know that. War leaves other wounds, hidden wounds, we see people that suffer those outwardly too. What we do not see is those that went served, maybe left some part of themselves there and returned changed forever. I just don't know.
On this Memorial Day we talk of those that gave life, some are still giving a little every day. To those serving, I wish you safe and secure, those that served your stories are important as they are part who
we are.
As usual I bid you heads down and powder dry, and a good meal.
Eck!
Sunday, April 22, 2012
Saturday, March 31, 2012
The slime is Pink??
Pink slime chemically refurbished renderings of beef waste..
Soylent Blue for the 2012 set.
We know what Soylent Green was.
Heads down, powder dry, don't eat it if your didn't shoot it.
Eck!
Soylent Blue for the 2012 set.
We know what Soylent Green was.
Heads down, powder dry, don't eat it if your didn't shoot it.
Eck!
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Ya gotta be kiddin..
The anti-gunners are at it again..
What now? They want a boycott Starbucks as they have no wish to play politics and run with what is legal shall be. So here they go again. Their plan is Valentines day to issue a protest letter and boycott.
I suggest we cop-opt their stupidity and turn it around.
Now I generally don't do boutique coffee. But I will BUY Starbucks on that day as a statement of support for a company who wishes to sell coffee and all the trimmings and not be a political entity. I suggest you do same and let them know why too. Oh, if you can open carry where you are please do so. It gives the 'phobes fits.
As usual keep your powder dry and be safe.
Eck!
What now? They want a boycott Starbucks as they have no wish to play politics and run with what is legal shall be. So here they go again. Their plan is Valentines day to issue a protest letter and boycott.
I suggest we cop-opt their stupidity and turn it around.
Now I generally don't do boutique coffee. But I will BUY Starbucks on that day as a statement of support for a company who wishes to sell coffee and all the trimmings and not be a political entity. I suggest you do same and let them know why too. Oh, if you can open carry where you are please do so. It gives the 'phobes fits.
As usual keep your powder dry and be safe.
Eck!
Sunday, January 8, 2012
Screw the dark, I weild light!
I propose a display that will show we have the same goals, but our side is actually interested in results." - Weerd
Here here!
Our anti gun fiends who suffer the cognitive dissonance of fear can light a candle. I suspect they fear the flame. Cowards one and all they be. Go live with your fears and bow to those rough men that would do what you cannot for they will surely rule you.
I'm in the Volksrepublik (Ma for the uninitiated) so a firearm is a process that requires money and time. So I can 't have a good looking picture of my gun as it doesn't exist in this state yet. However, for those that read that as being unarmed foo on that.
Light always pushes back darkness.
I have the enemy of evil, light. Portable bright ones that kill night vision and general light that makes the inside and outside bright. It is also the symbol of knowledge and understanding. I light the light to make the statement that if you fear the dark, light a light and learn. With both I can push back the dark as I do not have to fear it. 'Id argue that the Constitution does not say I have he right to be armed, to me it says the government has no right to disarm a citizen of good standing and that is me.
Unarmed, that is their wish.
I don't buy in to being unarmed. There are tools of all sorts to avoid a bare hand fight. But lo there are things that propel lead that even our fair stasi permit. Rifles and pistols of .22 caliber and .177 that are good for velocities far higher than so called called BB guns. Yep, the Ruger may only be the UMAREX springer but a pellet at 1000fps punches a clean hole through a 5/4ths fir board. The long barrel target pistol pushes a .22 pellet through things too. Yes, like the sometimes maligned .22 rimfire, you have it, you learn to be good with it, and use what you have. If all else that Ruger looks like an EBR with a black stock and at over 8 pounds it would hurt to get butt stroked by it.
So for the night there will be the three weapons handy by me, two rifles, a pistol of non toy air propelled plus the light that fights back the dark. One would argue it's a weak gesture but the line goes, care to take a chance on that? Can you tell from 20, maybe 10 feet that your evil intent to continue carries no risk?
Of course a firearm is better but, I'm far from unarmed. I do so in the light. I have taken the first steps long ago and decided that being a victim is a terrible choice. Being a unarmed by anothers choice is unacceptable.
I light a light to be far from the dark. I keep tools handy and learn to be sharp with them. I do plan to fight ignorance and the evils that live by it.
Eck!
Here here!
Our anti gun fiends who suffer the cognitive dissonance of fear can light a candle. I suspect they fear the flame. Cowards one and all they be. Go live with your fears and bow to those rough men that would do what you cannot for they will surely rule you.
I'm in the Volksrepublik (Ma for the uninitiated) so a firearm is a process that requires money and time. So I can 't have a good looking picture of my gun as it doesn't exist in this state yet. However, for those that read that as being unarmed foo on that.
Light always pushes back darkness.
I have the enemy of evil, light. Portable bright ones that kill night vision and general light that makes the inside and outside bright. It is also the symbol of knowledge and understanding. I light the light to make the statement that if you fear the dark, light a light and learn. With both I can push back the dark as I do not have to fear it. 'Id argue that the Constitution does not say I have he right to be armed, to me it says the government has no right to disarm a citizen of good standing and that is me.
Unarmed, that is their wish.
I don't buy in to being unarmed. There are tools of all sorts to avoid a bare hand fight. But lo there are things that propel lead that even our fair stasi permit. Rifles and pistols of .22 caliber and .177 that are good for velocities far higher than so called called BB guns. Yep, the Ruger may only be the UMAREX springer but a pellet at 1000fps punches a clean hole through a 5/4ths fir board. The long barrel target pistol pushes a .22 pellet through things too. Yes, like the sometimes maligned .22 rimfire, you have it, you learn to be good with it, and use what you have. If all else that Ruger looks like an EBR with a black stock and at over 8 pounds it would hurt to get butt stroked by it.
So for the night there will be the three weapons handy by me, two rifles, a pistol of non toy air propelled plus the light that fights back the dark. One would argue it's a weak gesture but the line goes, care to take a chance on that? Can you tell from 20, maybe 10 feet that your evil intent to continue carries no risk?
Of course a firearm is better but, I'm far from unarmed. I do so in the light. I have taken the first steps long ago and decided that being a victim is a terrible choice. Being a unarmed by anothers choice is unacceptable.
I light a light to be far from the dark. I keep tools handy and learn to be sharp with them. I do plan to fight ignorance and the evils that live by it.
Eck!
Friday, January 6, 2012
That Damn Cat!
That Damn cat had a name, Ming.
Ming was a domestic shorthair of the lopsided grey and white. Cute, cuddly and a purr that wouldn't quit.
That Damn Cat could shed. Winter or summer the fur would fly.
That Damn Cat started peeing on the rug. Never stopped the habit though later at about 11 years old we found out she was diabetic. The cat was type 1 insulin dependent and we gave her insulin twice a day and tested her blood to make sure it was right.
That Damn Cat at 15 developed arthritis, we did pills and later injected drugs to help her move and be a cat. Then they didn't help any more.
That Damn Cat peed in the bed, her bed, and then anywhere. Seems at 17 almost 18 years of age moving was too hard. The kidneys were going and the left leg didn't work anymore. She'd drink water and lay on the floor all wet. That cat was fat and so enjoyed eating. But, then she couldn't get to the bowl to eat without help it was a sign.
Today I took Ming to the vet for the last time. I knew it was time when she didn't flinch or try to get away. There was no hope, age and disease took what made her a cat. It was hard to do. It was a matter of dignity for her. The vet understood and was exceedingly gentle. She is gone now.
I miss her. She did things that annoyed me and I loved her and petted her and tried to keep the fur brushed. I did what i could to keep her healthy and safe. For all the years it was a good life for a cat someone dumped, someone rescued, and someone loved.
That Damn Cat left a big empty hole right in my heart.
Eck!
Ming was a domestic shorthair of the lopsided grey and white. Cute, cuddly and a purr that wouldn't quit.
That Damn Cat could shed. Winter or summer the fur would fly.
That Damn Cat started peeing on the rug. Never stopped the habit though later at about 11 years old we found out she was diabetic. The cat was type 1 insulin dependent and we gave her insulin twice a day and tested her blood to make sure it was right.
That Damn Cat at 15 developed arthritis, we did pills and later injected drugs to help her move and be a cat. Then they didn't help any more.
That Damn Cat peed in the bed, her bed, and then anywhere. Seems at 17 almost 18 years of age moving was too hard. The kidneys were going and the left leg didn't work anymore. She'd drink water and lay on the floor all wet. That cat was fat and so enjoyed eating. But, then she couldn't get to the bowl to eat without help it was a sign.
Today I took Ming to the vet for the last time. I knew it was time when she didn't flinch or try to get away. There was no hope, age and disease took what made her a cat. It was hard to do. It was a matter of dignity for her. The vet understood and was exceedingly gentle. She is gone now.
I miss her. She did things that annoyed me and I loved her and petted her and tried to keep the fur brushed. I did what i could to keep her healthy and safe. For all the years it was a good life for a cat someone dumped, someone rescued, and someone loved.
That Damn Cat left a big empty hole right in my heart.
Eck!
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