I've had ideas in my head but outside factors..............
Ever have someone you must deal with on a daily basis that is N E V E R willing to compromise. No matter the situation, no matter the problem. ZERO compromise. Even if by "compromising" they get everything they want just at a little different time, and I'm not talking something that is time sensitive.
Once they have staked out their position they are unmovable, possibly because that might mean weakness, I do not know.
I realize that only one side of the story is presented here, but I am a tired man. I work around the clock. My situation is much like dealing with Obama. You can plainly see what he is doing, but he calls it something completely different and insists YOU are the scoundrel, idiot, uncaring boob, whatever. You also know that reform is beyond the possible, you are just waiting out the term.
Thats me, waiting out the term. I suppose I could leave "the country" but there's other citizens involved, teammates, if you will. So I stay in the game, hoping I still have my sanity, wondering if I can still call myself a man on the next inauguration day. Looking forward to the day that the office is cleared out.
BTW, this past Monday was my wedding anniversary, 26 years. Thats a long time.
If you are not keeping up with whats happening in Ukraine, maybe you should. These people are setting an example for an apathetic society that is always bitching about their tyrannical government, I have my hand raised, me too, guilty as charged.
These people are staring the devil (Putin) in the face and refuse to let their chains set lightly upon them.
Wednesday, February 19, 2014
This is from a post at Free NC, "Punishing Sherman's Vandals."
This is an excerpt from that post which is itself an excerpt from a letter written by a soldier in the War of Northern Aggression;
"“A passage from a letter written by Enoch John, one of Shannon’s Scouts, on December 18, 1864, reveals the hard nature of the war waged by these men.
“I have enjoyed myself on this trip but think, sometimes, I am getting hard-hearted,” he wrote. “But I notice the tears of a lady always
bring tears to me eyes and the smoke and flames of a dwelling prevents the prayers of the Yankees for their lives, even when on their
knees, being heard, and steadies my nerves to kill them all . . . I have a brace of pistols that never snap.”"
Can anyone else foresee feeling this way in the coming counter revolution?
I really hate stupidity. I figure I'm about as dumb as anybody really needs to be and when someone starts shooting for lower than that, well...........
First of all, if I am working somewhere, let's say a fish market- even if I don't want to work there, I'm am going to at least make a little effort to learn something about.....wait for it.......FISH! Especially the fish I am dealing with. That said.
I stop at my most local walmart this morning. I needed diesel and some stuff that no other grocer sells in town. So while there I cruise the ammo case, you know you do it too. The had gotten some russian 223 in.
I bought my 3 boxes easy peasy and go about my business.
Later on I am in another town on business and can easily go by that walmart, so I do. Nothing for me there. BUT, I overhear the cashier asking for ID, from a grandpa so no age thing, on an ammo sale. I asked why.
"The ATF was in here just 2 days ago and said it MUST be done" she said.
I related how I had only 2 hours before bought at a WM 30 minutes away and was not required.
The lady very enthusiastically replied that "They can be fined $10,000!"
I knew this was baloney. I keep abreast of anything as big as this from the ATF thugs, but just in case, I checked, and NOOOO. It ain't happened,......... yet.
Now, did some doofus stooge ATFer really say that or is some WM weiner going about weiner-ing things up? My money is on the later. But the question is, is this a 1 store weiner or do they have several stores?
Maybe this is like "those" emails, the ones with all the bogus urban legend stuff that go around every so many years just like the cyclic locusts and it's just time for the local WM's to be foolish.
It took me three nights but I just finished watching Age of Heroes. A team of Brit Commandos in WW2 go into occupied Norway to sabotage a German radar station. The movie came out in 2011 but I only heard about it the other day on maxvelocitytactical.com.
It has been brought to my attention that the poem posted as Kipling is not by him.
Figures, I've seldom read a Kipling poem that I easily understood.
My apologies if anyone passed it
along.
In the future I promise due diligence.
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BTW, if this post looks odd, it is being typed on my phone
ETA; The poem may be a reworded or "plagiarized" version of "The Beginnings"
http://www.poetryloverspage.com/poets/kipling/beginning.html
It was not part of their blood,
It came to them very late
With long arrears to make good,
When the English began to hate.
They were not easily moved,
They were icy-willing to wait
Till every count should be proved,
Ere the English began to hate.
Their voices were even and low,
Their eyes were level and straight.
There was neither sign nor show,
When the English began to hate.
It was not preached to the crowd,
It was not taught by the State.
No man spoke it aloud,
When the English began to hate.
It was not suddenly bred,
It will not swiftly abate,
Through the chill years ahead,
When Time shall count from the date
That the English began to hate.
Prescient, or history rhyming.
AMERICANS HAVE THE IMPRESSION THAT CONSERVATIVES AND PROGRESSIVES ARE OPPOSITES. IF THIS WAS EVER TRUE, IT NO LONGER IS. TODAY, BOTH SIDES WANT THE SAME THING - MORE POWER IN THE HANDS OF THE STATE.
"The Bill of Rights: In their desire to have The State control the personal activities of other people, the conservatives have been as ignorant as the Progressives on what Freedom of Speech, assembly and religious neutrality really mean. Both have begged "The State to grasp even more power. While the Progressives want to control “hate speech” the conservatives want to control any speech that does not reflect their religious values. Both sides are grasping for control of the government schools, but the end result is the same; more power to The State."
"Both groups eviscerate all of the Bill of Rights but excuse it as necessary for the "National Interest." If anyone protests, they are accused of being not just unpatriotic but traitors deserving of immediate hanging."
A couple of months back a blog friend mentioned BudK. They sell all manner of things, knives, swords, wire saws and on and on.
I was looking at their site and noticed a deal for 2 Tapco "composite" magazines for $14.99.
All of my AR magazines are aluminum and I have them numbered. The reason they are numbered is so that I can identify the ones with bent lips or whatever the problem is that makes them make the gun not go bang.
Curious, I ordered a few of the magazines. They did take a few days to get here, of course Amazon has me spoiled rotten as far as shipping times.
The magazines are thickly made with waffle pattern reinforcement, the base plate is also thick and less likely to be damaged being dropped during a mag change.
In this second picture (apologies for quality or lack of!) you can see the base plate just under the spring behind the follower. The base has a long slot with which you can use a field knife or screwdriver to disassemble the mag for cleaning. The spring is SS, and the anti tilt follower has relief cuts around it to allow debris to pass through into the mag body instead up jamming your rifle.
You can see that 3 of the mags fit well inside a GI 3 mag holster.
The one problem I did have is with this Tactical Tailor mag holder.
The magazine on the left fit OK, the one on the right was very snug, the one in the center will go in no farther at all. Gi aluminum mags fit fine in this panel. I believe that the problem is the panel itself. First because the mags fit my old Alice holster fine. Secondly, this TT vest with accessories was bought used but has never seen dirt yet. It had tape all over it, but I'm sure it hasn't been outside, not in anger at least.
Ok, so how did they shoot? I only shot with 2 of them. One reason is the weather, the other was the price of ammo. I shot 60 rnds from 1 and 40 from a second.I never had a single malfunction at all.
In a few weeks I will go to a "class" where these mags will get a decent workout, if they fail I will let you know.
The best price I have found on P mags, which are by all accounts the gold medal standard, used by our troops in bad places, is about $12 from Midway. I think for just $3 more, for 2, I am going be ordering some more of these.
I am in no way connected to Midway, Budk, or Tapco.
BTW, thanks Harry Flashman, with out seeing Budk on your site, I would have never known.
Tom Perkins, the venture capitalist that recently compared the attacks on wealthy people to Nazi persecution of the Jews, came up with another "supposedly" outrageous idea a few days ago.
His new idea, proposed in the interest of keeping his name "in the news" I feel, is to allow the wealthy to vote more often. If a person pays $1 million in taxes, they should get 1 million votes.
I don't agree totally with this idea because it wouldn't take much more for George Soros to be running this country even MORE so than he is now.
But I do agree, and have for a long time, with a statement he makes early in the article;
"The Tom Perkins system is: You don't get to vote unless you pay a dollar of taxes," Perkins said.
Of course this will never happen due to the tender sensibilities of liberals, both those self identified and the ones that call themselves republicans, who brainwash and bribe their voters to remain inside The Matrix.
How fair is it, and by fair consider that the fed.gov courts proudly allow illegal aliens to vote by refusing EVERY voter id law, to allow people that have never known anything but the govt tit vote on whether or not to pull them off the tit and send them out to work?
Nobody that receives more in welfare than they pay in taxes should be allowed to vote in any election that has a bearing on how much welfare they get.
And as a bonus, a 10 question test of the government being voted for should be required. For example, fed.gov = how many branches of gov, what is a bicameral legislature, does the constitution declare all men are created equal, etc etc.
Of course there would be quite a few people that vote against the libs that would be excluded after such tests.
I don't intend to post pictures like this here, my daughter might be reading one day, not that this picture is bad per se. Also, I'm not a "safety nazi" about pictures, hopefully they are STAGED renderings of imagination. That said, this pic reminds me of a gun show I went to a few years ago.
I had a 41 mag Blackhawk that I wanted some new grips for. Approaching the table to safe my piece I drew the hammer back to half cock, opened the loading gate and held the revolver by its barrel.
I handed it to a local police woman involved in a conversation on her cell phone. She took the gun by the grip, put her finger on the trigger and turned it toward her nose and looked down the barrel/cylinder to see if it was loaded........... with the hammer back.
BTW, just because they put a ty-wrap on the gun at the door doesn't mean the gun cannot be put into action by some idiot. Keep your head on a swivel.
I read something a few weeks ago that made a lot of sense and unfortunately can not remember where I read it. The idea being that the recent victories of Second Amendment supporters in many courts are just pacifiers handed out to Libertarians and Right Wingers to do what pacifiers do, get us to shut up!
I mean, consider what fed.gov is doing now, killing US subjects without benefit of trial with drone strikes, the guy living in White House public housing using the constitution to wipe his islamo marxist keester every day (with a big shite eatting grin, no doubt,) the irs goons suppressing those that want out of "The Matrix," the irs, social security and even dept of education et al buying enough ammo to kill every Amerikan subject several times over, the TSA molesting our wives, daughters, sisters, etc when they are not assaulting our disabled veterans and the infirm or ill unless of course the person looks arabic in which case they breeze effortlessly through security, the list goes on and on and on, DNA swabs at checkpoints, OH and don't forget the N. S. A, cue ominous music, which should have been cued a long time ago.
Are the "courts" or are they really "Star Chambers" just throwing us mindless bumpkins a bone? Do they figure that we are finally so afraid of standing up to their tyrannical ways that it doesn't matter what "rights" the GIVE us. And make no mistake they are GIVING us the right not recognizing it.
A couple years ago I took my kids to DC. It was my first trip there as well. The very first time we "SAW" the city was coming off the METRO on the mall. You get off the tube and walk over to some steps. Upon reaching the top of the steps, BAM! you are standing on The Mall.
At first I was awestruck, thinking of the history surrounding me, the pride inside me, but as we toured, the nagging feeling of big brother shone through my sunny mood.
I went to the Archives alone, the wife and kids mutinied on me late in the week, tired of trying to see so much in just a week. As I stood there in the dark room, looking at the Declaration and Constitution, etc, I was struck with the fact (and thought) that they are fading. The ink has faded so much on the documents that if not backlit they would be mostly unreadable. I wept, for who we were, who we are and who we are becoming.
So ask yourself, considering all that this govt is up to, when are they so suddenly, "giving" us our rights?
Calif. concealed weapon law tossed by fed appeals court
Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO – A divided federal appeals court has struck down California's concealed weapons rules, saying they violate the Second Amendment right to bear arms.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Thursday that California is wrong to require applicants to show good cause to receive a permit to carry a concealed weapon. The court ruled that all law-abiding citizens are entitled to carry concealed weapons outside the home for self-defense purposes.
My youngest son is 13 today. We will have to celebrate over the weekend as the Great Global Warming Southern Blizzard of Feb 2014 has kept his mother at work since yesterday morning and I'm finishing up 7 days straight on 12hr shifts. But his sister did make him a chocolate cake today.
He doesn't read blogs so this is a record for me, maybe he will see it later.
A true blessing he is seldom, if ever, down. Even with the stomach flu just a few weeks ago he wanted to know why he had to miss school, not that he enjoys learning, few kids do at 13. The rest of us miserable, he would run outside or to the bathroom, take care of business and be right back to his bouncy, happy self. Every situation is ALWAYS looked at with energy and enthusiasm.
He has a quick mind and remembers most anything he hears or sees, he enjoys movies very much, and I'd have to bet he will likely be involved in the creative production of them one day.
He is by far the most loving child of mine (4) and it probably will hurt very much the day he leaves my home.
As Clyde Wilson once pointed out, the symbol of America started out as “George Washington on his white horse” but is now “a corporate lawyer/lobbyist in an armchair.” The latter refers to the Lincoln Memorial, which is not so much the symbol of “America” but of the governmental regimein Washington, D.C. That is why Lincoln must be idolized, worshipped, and compared to Jesus Christ (“He died on Good Friday and died for America’s sins just as Christ died for the world’s sins” his idolaters and cultists have been saying for generations), and referred to as “Father Abraham.”
Lincoln did not create “a new birth of freedom” but a new birth of mercantilism, crony capitalism, and centralized government monopoly of the sort the American colonists had fought a revolution against. A real statesman would have followed the British example (and the French, Danes, Dutch, Spanish, and Swedish), and the example of all the Northern states in the U.S., and found a way to end slavery peacefully through some kind of compensated emancipation (See Jim Powell, Greatest Emancipations: How the West Ended Slavery). Instead, the ending of slavery eventually became associated with a war that, according to the most recent research, resulted in as many as 850,000 deaths (the old death count was 620,000).
This is a good point from the column, one among several. "As the twentieth-century literary critic Edmund Wilson once wrote, it was Lincoln, Lenin and Bismarck who did more than any other individuals in their respective countries to introduce highly centralized governmental bureaucracies. Lincoln did this in America by destroying the system of states’ rights and federalism that was created by the founding fathers by destroying the rights of secession and nullification. He destroyed the original American union and replaced it with a Soviet-style coerced union held together by mass murdering literally hundreds of thousands of fellow citizens for simply asserting the truth of the founders that the original union was voluntary, as described in Article 7 of the U.S. Constitution."
Do any of my many, many (lol!) readers have any experience, or know anyone, using a Freechex or a Checkmakerhomemade gas check maker?
This is an area of my preps I'm lacking in. I've probably got enough lead to last for more than a few years of shooting nothing but Pb. Store bought checks are outrageous so I'm looking to get some of these punches. So far everything I've read or seen on youtube has been positive.
This is the Freechex, the Checkmaker is basically the same.
This is the same guy shooting a K31 with his homemade checks.
I need 30, 30r, 8mm, 38, 41, 44, and 45. I'm debating getting a 22. If the country goes totally fubar, I don't see me casting bullets in the swap a la Mel Gibson in The Patriot. But there is the "chance" (haha!) of encroaching bureaucratic nonsense culling the unprepared from the ranks of shooters and in that case I'll be saving my factory 22's for fubar and hunting, etc with the rest.
I will not go quietly, fubar or encroached.
So have you or a friend used one? I'm' mainly interested in your dislikes.
A Buffalo, N.Y. community activist who is well known locally for pushing for a highly restrictive 2013 gun control law has been arrested for — wait for it — carrying a gun illegally at a public elementary school.
The arrested gun-control advocate, Dwayne Ferguson, caused quite a scene at Harvey Austin Elementary School
Its always funny when karma bites someone where the sun don't shine. I hope they throw the book at him.
BTW, a petard was a device used as early as the 16th century. A forerunner of the Shaped Charge, a petard was cone shaped, filled with gunpowder and attached to the wall or door of a fortification. A long fuse was lit and upon a successful explosion, would create a hole to breach the defenses.
No posts in a while. I've been at work, 12 hour shifts. I worked the last 4 days in a row and tonight I go in for 4 more on nights. Gots to do it, folks on welfare or TANF and food stamps depending on me.
I've spent this morning preparing for The Global Warming Southern Blizzard of 2014.
Our kerosene heaters are already in use to cut down on the electric bill but I added 2 more containers full of fuel just in case we lose power or cannot get out.
I also started my 2 gensets and got some extra fuel for them.
My first generator was not "bought" per se but I traded some work for it. A man I knew needed some pumps built. I proposed that he buy the genset as a business expense and apply it to his taxes and pay me with said genny.
My father in law scoffed and called me foolish. Two years later we moved out into "the country" across the road from my in-laws. The next year we had a snow storm, 12" fell in our county. Our power was out from about noon on Monday until sometime Fri morning. I kept the house warm with kerosene and with my genset had enough power for the whole house, excluding the heat pump.
My mother in law would come over and stay with us all day, we had TV, internet, could cook etc. My father in law, stayed home, cooked on a coleman stove that I gave him fuel for and watched TV on a little battery powered B&W portable tv.
We've never NEEDED the genny since then but I'm pretty sure it paid for itself that 1 week.
Here's hoping everybody's power stays on and we see each other on the other side of this mess.
These little 9 led flashlights can be bought at many stores like Big Lots, Tractor Supply, and auto parts stores. They come with batteries already installed and cost about $10.
I used to pick up some of these once a month. I've got "a few" now so I don't buy them as often anymore.
These are not by any stretch of the imagination super duper tacti-cool lights. But what they ARE is a great light to have 1 each in all of your ammo cans. I don't know about you but I have all sorts of things in ammo cans here at the Secret Extremist Batcave, I even have some ammo in some of my ammo cans.
One day you might have to grab a few of these ammo cans and rush out your door. If you have to do this at night in your pajamas or other sleeping "dress" it might be very nice to have enough light to see which caliber ammo you grabbed or if you have any matches or a compass or whatever.
I also have some of these lights scattered around the house. I've heard that a pistol is what you use to fight your way to your rifle. Well these little lights allow me to get to my big 500 lumen flashlights or to my kerosene lamps in whatever situation comes up if I'm not already near a big light.
