Another day – known in some circles as “Superbowl Sunday”.
We went to the annual gun show for the local club. Renewed our membership, watched the mandatory 1-hour show to earn a key to the outdoor range, drooled all down the front of my sweater…
life is not a spectator sport
February 8th, 2010
Fix it already
January 31st, 2010The popular argument between the Republican faithful and the Democratic faithful rages on. The elephant fans gleefully point out Obama’s failure to fix everything like he promised. The donkey fans respond that it took eight years to create the financial mess.
The correct response is that the path to this point where destruction of our economy is all but assured began in the 1860s where the Rs and Ds agreed that four, five or more somewhat equal political parties was inferior in meeting their needs than two. With a monopoly power-sharing agreement worked out, they then went for the money.
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Don’t just sit there!
January 10th, 2010I still feel that people as a whole are leaving out direct action in hopes of someone else stepping up first. Problem being that nobody steps up and everyone then gets crushed under the boot. Know what I mean?
Just so’s you know, darn near every one of this forum’s mossbacks have grabbed their sword, leapt upon the white charger and vigorously attacked the monster. In nearly every case, the monster didn’t even notice us.
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ongoing TSA saga
January 8th, 2010Just so you don’t think I or TSA have taken a day off:
The Duluth International Airport was evacuated today after a piece of unattended baggage was found in the terminal area.
The evacuation impacted the entire airport, and lasted for approximately two hours.
Roads around the airport were blocked off as the Duluth Airguard was called in to investigate.
According to Brian Grefe, director of Operations at the Airport, all passengers are being allowed to re-enter the terminal as of 1:45 p.m. this afternoon.
Only one comment:
further flights of fright
January 7th, 2010CNN: Two F-15 fighter jets escorted a passenger jet that had been headed for Hawaii back to Portland International Airport in Oregon after a passenger in coach became “uncooperative,” an airline official said Wednesday.
As this drama at 30,000 feet unfolds, keep in mind that the F-15 Strike Eagles cost $30,000,000 each and $40,000 per hour to operate.
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TSA panic attack
January 6th, 2010Reuters (01/05/10): Authorities shut down a California airport on Tuesday after a suspicious amber liquid in a passenger’s bag tested positive for explosives. U.S. Transportation and Security administration screeners turned up five Gatorade bottles full of what they called a ’suspicious-looking liquid.’ Swabs of the bag and bottles tested positive for the explosives TNT and TATP. When the bottles were opened, two of the screeners smelled a strong chemical odor, complained of nausea and were rushed to a local hospital, where they treated and released, Kern County Sheriff’s spokesman Michael Whorf said.
Kern County Sheriffs deputies, fire crews, FBI agents and members of a ‘joint terrorism task force’ responded to the scene and spent the day questioning Ramirez before further tests showed that the liquid was honey.”
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the line in the sand
December 23rd, 2009Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made
-Otto von Bismarck
By advertising economics as “the dismal science”, they are hoping you won’t bother watching. But you should.
A picture representing our money prior to the 1914 federal reserve takeover:
provisioning three teens
December 22nd, 2009I work with three smart, active, ambitious and industrious young adults. I like them a lot. I see a lot of me at their age. I understand many of the influences that got them where they are. I sometimes ponder where I may have gone if someone had been able to reach me with some key bits of information. How many stupid moves could I have avoided? I wonder if anyone from the older generation could have reached me at all. That they didn’t could mean nobody tried or that I wasn’t reachable. I’ll never know.
Yesterday I took a chance and loaned these three some books out of my personal library. In their cases, I can at lest know that one person tried.
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tales from The Easter Egg Chicken Ranch
December 3rd, 2009
For a month or so, three Leghorn hens have been giving us almost two eggs a day while the rest of the 19-bird flock slowly grew to sexual maturity.
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health care
December 1st, 2009Before the AMA bought their monopoly from the government, doctors made affordable house calls and their competition included midwives, barbers, herbalists and many others. Affordable healthcare is within easy reach, however it is not more government but less that will get us there. What we are headed for instead is unaffordable, unavailable, restricted, government-controlled health care.
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