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.
I love you son. Happy Birthday.
Thursday, February 13, 2014
From Free North Carolina
The Regime Celebrates its Birthday
Via Michael
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).
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).
More @ LRC
The column is at Lew Rockwell
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."
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
DIY gas checks?
Do any of my many, many (lol!) readers have any experience, or know anyone, using a Freechex or a Checkmaker homemade 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 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.
Monday, February 10, 2014
From the "Hoisted on his own petard" files; NY Gun Control activist violates his own law! giggle giggle snort!
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
Full story here.
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.
Petard according to wikipedia.
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.
Petard according to wikipedia.
The Global Warming Southern Blizzard of 2014
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've spent this morning preparing for The Global Warming Southern Blizzard of 2014.
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.
Thursday, February 6, 2014
Tip Of The Day, cheap flashlights
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.
Wednesday, February 5, 2014
Modifying a Berdan case to take Boxer primers.
With all due warnings, this looks like a way to shoot your PSL or Mosin Nagant a little more for a little less.
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