A good article on overuse of SWAT teams by local pd's

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/381446/barney-fife-meets-delta-force-charles-c-w-cooke

Anybody that believes any of these muscled up thugs when they say, "I'm a second amendment supporter! I'll neeeeeeever confiscate anyone's gun," is naive at best.

AR parts organization

I saw a friend of mine looking at this site, Imminent Threat Solutions, a few days ago. There is a lot of surfing to be done here with articles about finding adventure all around you wherever you are, how to be tougher, and of course lots of gear porn too.

I found this article today, Organizing You AR Small Parts. This is something I've wrestled with before with AR parts as well as other assorted small gun parts. This is something I'll be doing asap.

SC requires colleges to teach Founding Documents

Liberals panties in a twist over SC requiring Constitution to be taught at college

There are several things about this article both good and bad.

First, I find no fault with requiring a school that receives tax money to teach the founding documents. Considering how mushy headed our college aged young people are today, partly because of mush headed teachers and professors, a college refresher of The Declaration of Independence, Constitution, Federalist Papers and the like could only help,.......maybe. Because I'm sure professor smarty pants will be pointing out how Ben, George, Thomas and all them cats were just old white oppressors getting rich off the suffering of others.
Second, I'm not sure I care for our Governor signing a bill because, "lawmakers spent so much time on it."  Huh?
But then she points out that the congress is micromanaging the college's boards. I mostly agree with this. Appoint the boards then get out of the way. But then they could remove the board members or the funding. Hmm, a lesson in how being in bed with the gubmint never works to your advantage.
Personally, I don't care what the gays do, unless what they are doing is rubbing the gay thing in my face. I don't care for xyz "studies" in college; women's studies, gay studies, black studies and on and on.
Culledge should be physics, chemistry, calculus, English lit, etc, etc. But then I'm crashing my way downhill through the woods headed for camp curmudgeon too.
My wife once accused me of brainwashing one of my kids after listening to me talk to him. "Of course *I* am brainwashing him. Better me than some lib-tard commie, America hating, queer recruiter, in college."

Finally got the clutch out

This is the clutch from my F350 diesel. The needle bearing in the flywheel is also toast. I'm replacing the flywheel because the last fella that worked on my clutch said I had a dual mass flywheel and that with my next clutch I'd need a new one. Well, I'm pretty sure the flywheel I just pulled out is a single mass and 100% good.
I got an exceptionally good deal on my new FW so I don't feel bad about it at all. Ill just save the used one, just in case something happens down the road.
This is the first clutch I've ever put in so discounting the moments of frustration due to inexperience, it hasn't been too bad, so far. Today I start reassembling it.

update, camping and clutches

Last week the clutch in my truck quit working. So now it's sitting in a state of semi disassembly waiting for my next day off when I will attempt to install my first ever clutch AND flywheel.
Over the weekend we went to Athens Ga and spent some time camping at Stone Mtn park instead of fixing my truck.
My daughter and I climbed the back of the mountain. That's 825 vertical feet in about 1 mile.