Cannibals! Really?

Things that make you say, "Wellll duhhhhh!" "The Stock Market is Rigged"

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/mar/31/us-stock-market-rigged-michael-lewis The author says that the super rich, using super computers, see what you want to trade and buy it just before you do, talking micro seconds here, then sell it to you at a higher price. Capitalism, I cannot argue against it. BUT, I do recommend alternate investments (I'm poor & broke so don't ask me) but it seemslike the writing is on the wall. The rich and powerful rig the game, don't play it. If possible, own your own business. I know a couple barbers, 1 bought something from me once. He has STACKS of cash at his business. Invest in commodities you can touch/use. You can eat beans, shoot bullets and band aids....duh. Fight back, don't let Warren Buffet George Soros or anyone else use YOUR own money to get themselves richer.

Albuquerque protests James Boyd murder (and others) by police

Most recent killing by ABQ police.

Coverage of protests, Fox news, and ABQ Journal.

It feels odd. I suppose that there are more "99%-ers" in the protests than there are people like me, and hoping Eric Holder's justice dept finds something actionable gives me the shivers.

One thing I do NOT understand is why the protesters are not doing their thing in front of the homes of the police brass and mayor and council members also. Not to mention the actual trigger men.

Glad to see him go.

One of the many mostly RINO's in the SC Congress is moving on. Glen McConnell, who was forced from his Senatorship not long ago by SC Constitutional rules (probably the first time in a long while he'd followed the state's constitution) is soon to resign his Lt Governorship to be the next College of Charleston president. Supposedly he has craved the CofC job but I submit that if he were still Senator McConnell he would still be Sen McConnell. As it stands he is moving to a position he has been training for for decades, a position where he can openly grovel for and accept money. I'm glad he's gone, now we just need to get rid of a couple dozen more.

The State newspaper.

Where the heck have Y'all been?

Ok, where have *I* been? It has been a busy week. For one thing it was my long week at work, 4 days on 12 hr shifts. Another is that I've been losing some weight, sort of a pre American Hunger Games diet and workout program. Preparing to run, jump and kill commies as it were.

 My weight has stalled the last 2 weeks after some nice progress and being hard headed like I've been accused of I increased my aerobic exercise from an average of 13k steps a day to 30+k steps a day. All I accomplished was some very sore knees and feet that I wish felt as good as my knees.
I've been on the Atkins diet since 2-1, never more than 20 carbs, no diet drinks, no artificial sweeteners of any kind and I'm stuck at 257 pounds. I am wondering if it may be my sleep schedule, complicated by swinging shifts, but that didn't prevent my losing the first 25 pounds. But if it is sleep, or lack of, I am now a night sleeper for the next two and a half weeks, thanks to vacation time.
 If after our spring break vacation I'm still stuck, I'll modify the diet for a few weeks to try a re-kick start. Maybe try vegetarian for a couple of weeks.

And I was all like "Pew, Pew, Pew...AIN'T IT COOL BEING A COP!" with formatting fixed, sorry.

Just got done reading posts at Free North Carolina and Western Rifle Shooters about the murder of James Boyd by the puh-lice. There is a video with their posts that show it was pretty much an execution.

h/t to Western Rifle Shooters blog for the picture.

Another teflon cop.

An Oklahoma police officer shot and killed a family’s dog and later laughed about it to a responding animal control unit, reports claim.

“When the owner, Sarah, got there, the officer said, ‘We shot your dog, she’s dead,”

“I’m not waiting for animal control,” Sgt. Woolley allegedly stated as he grabbed his shotgun to confront the doomed pooch.

“Did you see her collar fly off when I shot her? That was awesome,” Brown claims Woolly bragged to the responding animal control officer, who supposedly replied, “We’ll just write in the report that it tried to attack you and others in the neighborhood.”

Way back in November 2000, Woolly, who at the time worked for the Tishomingo Police Department, also shot and killed 36-year-old Jeff Wayne Baxter, who he claimed had attacked him. “Facts came out in the lawsuit and Brice Woolly’s account of the murder didn’t correspond with the dash cam footage. The City of Tishomingo settled that lawsuit in the murder of Jeff Baxter,” an article at TheFreeThoughtProject.com claims.

“During the lawsuit proceedings, it was discovered officer Brice Woolly failed multiple psychological exams required to be a police officer. At some point, Woolly was allowed to join the ranks.”

Badges. Extra rights awarded with the wearing of.

Sometimes you're not paranoid, they really are out to get you.

Leaked Homeland Security documents obtained by Infowars reveal details of a joint DHS/FEMA national exercise set to take place this week, one of the components of which revolves around an effort to counter online dissent by a group called “Free Americans Against Socialist Tyranny,” which is disgruntled at the imposition of martial law after an earthquake in Alaska.

The rest is at InfoWars.

The document again underscores the federal government’s obsession with characterizing libertarians and conservatives as some kind of extremist radical threat.

Before and After

I have tried for as many years as I have had a gun safe to find an inexpensive way to store handguns and other things on the "free" space on the door.

I tried  holsters held by velcro which made the carpet like covering sag, I thought about rubber coated hooks but didn't want the holes and a few other things.

 The one thing I tried for several years was a canvas type shoe holder that hangs on the back of a door.

This wound up  being a catch all for all sorts of junk, loose ammo, magazines, flashlights, you name it. And as you can see the larger pistols were not well supported at all.

So finally, last week, I ordered a safe door organizer. In one way it does not hold near as much (the JUNK!)

but it is a much better solution I think.

I did have to make sure that the top row of pistols were all autos or small revolvers, my 357's or model 57 Smiths are too fat and hit the shelf in the safe.

It was expensive, for me. Theres probably less than $20 worth of materials in it, DUH, and a markup of x3 would seem reasonable, but it was about x7 that much. But all in all I suppose I'm happier with it now.

Where Have All The Men Gone?

Dateline Portland Oregon (tells you something right there!)

A "crazed" cat with a "history of violence" attacked a family and held them hostage in a bedroom to the point that the male of the house called 911.

http://www.foxcarolina.com/story/24936455/crazed-kitty-attacks-baby-forces-family-to-call-911

Seriously? That would have been one dead cat! Who puts up with a mean cat, especially with an infant in the house? My daughter heard this on the radio as we got home from school today. She grinned at me and said that she KNEW I would have shot the animal. Maybe. There would probably be a certain amount of desire to beat the living crap out of the cat before snapping its neck.

I'm sorry, this country, as a whole, is toast! We may be able to rally the "sensible, decent people" into a few states where common sense will prevail. But the rest of these mewling, whining, candy asses cannot be saved. You cannot teach grown men to be MEN!

Sleepy Today, Up late last night

Last night I spent some time with one of my non firearm toys. Last summer I purchased a used 12" Dobsonian Telescope. This is a Newtonian style telescope which looks like a bucket with a "primary" concave shaped mirror at the bottom of the bucket and an elliptical  "secondary" mirror near the top of the bucket to direct the light out the side where you use an eyepiece to further magnify the image.

This is a picture of the brand and size I have.

I haven't had much chance to use it yet. Since buying it we had record rainfall around here, apparently Mr Murphy followed me from Tn back home when I got it! Then there was hunting season and then I spent some time sorting out a medical issue that had me in the hospital for awhile.

Because of a bright moon, last night was not a really good night for "deep sky objects," the catch all term for things beyond our solar system. But I was able to spend some good time looking at Jupiter which is currently the bright "star" nearest the moon directly overhead at around 9 or 10pm eastern. Mars was just rising around 10 so I had to wait until 2am to get a decent look at him. It is best to view objects as close to straight up as this the shortest path through the atmosphere with the least distortion.

The deep sky objects I looked at were mostly Open Clusters which often give the appearance of Jewels on a dark cloth.

M48:

M67:

The M in the names is for Charles Messier, a french astronomer of the 18th century who was a comet hunter. These objects appeared to Messier in his telescope as little fuzzy spots, which is what comets look like when first spotted. So M. Messier made a list of "fuzzies" to avoid. Now his list is the quintessential starting point for amateur astronomers with their binoculars and or telescopes.

I also spent a little while viewing some binary star systems like Zeta Cancri where, in this case  4 stars, or more!, are orbiting each other. 

Its nice to get out like this, the air was cool and the surroundings quiet and the sky makes for good company.