Christmas Shopping & Christmas Decorations

When it comes to when is the correct time to start putting up Christmas decorations, I am a traditionalist more or less. I think no one should sell or put up anything specifically to do with Christmas until the day after Thanksgiving. Then after Christmas, sale items like Christmas wrapping paper should only be sold up until the end of January. That was the tradition when I was young. 

 

The neighborhood I lived in always put up Christmas lights over the main avenue; while they were put up a few days ahead of time, they were never lit up until the day after Thanksgiving (which was known then as "the day after Thanksgiving - not as Black Friday). On that Friday, all the retailers started to put out items for Christmas, run Christmas sales, the big stores like Macy's and Gimble's had Santa Claus in their stores for pictures with children (in fact those two stores essentially had Santa competitions on their window displays and Santa would appear in each of their windows on a schedule), Xmas tree vendors could be found hawking their trees curbside just about anywhere, the huge tree would be turned on at Rockefeller Center, and Salvation Army bell ringers would be out in any weather ringing the bell to collect donations outside of busy stores. Of course, the memories from my young years through my twenties and then again later in my thirties up until 5 years ago, were formed in NY City and on Long Island. New York City may be a slime hole and be a crime ridden den of thieves, muggers, rapist and murderers but at Christmas time it can also be magnificent and a trip to St. Patrick's Cathedral and to the observation deck of the Empire State Building were almost always things I would do. Dinner in Chinatown often followed. Yes Christmas traditions are a good thing and of course, spending Christmas with family and was the best thing.

 

I think one of the reasons the country is so screwed is because of the loss of tradition. That in my estimation is caused by spoiled brats who have ruined everything by insisting on everything being their way, and they cannot stand traditions or at least good traditions. Once they start whining, it seems retailers follow their lead on just about anything that they can sell (just look at the store with a name akin to Bullseye, they were selling all that LGBTQ type children's stuff when the LGBTQ crowd and the democrats were whining last year about transgender rights and holding transvestite shows in grammar schools (I am also for the tradition of tarring & feathering miscreants😂). Of course, retailers also sell early to make the big bucks before their competitors, again regardless of tradition.

 

As for me this year, I am thinking of getting a small live tree and decorating it. I'll probably do that soon after Thanksgiving (once the Christmas buying frenzy dies down a bit after Black Friday). I hope it to be something my son will replant in his backyard to remember me after I am gone; hopefully I won't be gone for many years yet to come. I also hope the tree, like our memories, will have grown nicely and be a joy to behold for my son's future Christmas celebrations. By the way, he already planted the one I gave him last year (or maybe it was two years ago).

 

As far as Christmas shopping goes, I have not always been that traditional. I have been known to start shopping for Christmas, in August, but not for anything specifically geared toward Christmas. I started that many years ago after watching Crazy Eddy commercials. Crazy Eddie was a NYC electronics retailer with some great a bit of off the wall commercials that just got me going out early ad doing some of my Christmas shopping in August. Mostly though, I wait until after Thanksgiving and it is a rare Christmas Eve that I do not go shopping for at least one present at the last minute. I may have misssed one or two shopping sprees on Christmas Eve over all my years since I have been around 12 years old (probably younger) but shopping on Chistmas Eve is a tradition I hope never to stop for as long as I live.

 

 

 

  

   

 

All the best,

Glenn  B

Incredibly Problematic

Incredibly Problemtic is how a retired U.S. Lt. Colonel describes the result of Biden allowing Ukraine to fire missiles deep into Russia. What do you think he means by that! 

 

 

 

I only watched that video shortly after I entered my last blog post immediately prior to this one. I guess the colonel and I kind of, sort of, almost think alike about this issue.

 

My great grandfather seems to have been right when he in sum and substance told me if you want to go to war, elect a democrat.

 

Praying for peace but preparing for war may be the way to go

 

All the best,

Glenn B 

Did Biden Just Start WWIII...

 ...or was his decision to allow Ukraine to fire U.S. made missiles deep into the heart of Russia (more at the source) exactly the type of brinkmanship needed to end that war. Honestly, if Ukraine launches a succesful, and thus a destructive, missile attack deep within Russia, I will be amazed if it does not trigger direct military retaliation against the Unites States or a tactical nuke strike on Ukraine or both. 

Another trip to buy canned food, bottled water and such may be in order. I hope Biden finally got something right but with his track record, I doubt it.

 

Then there is that nagging conspiracy theory in my head trying to convince me, this is part of a plan to nuke Trump's presidency by leaving him a war to fight. Yet, I find it hard to believe that Democrats would be as unAmerican and as stupid to start WWIII for political advantage, that mainly because with the devastation of our military readiness under Biden the odds are stacked high against us winning.

All the best,

Glenn B

Something Must Be Right At Least With My Credit

American Express sent me an email to let me know my credit score went down. So, I checked it. I do not know what it was before today but I can say it must have been excellent. Today it is 832 out of 850. It is nice to know that at least something in my life is going right financally.  

 

 They also said this:

 "Kudos! Your score is too high for an improvement plan.'

 

All I do is pay my bills on time. I guess I am good at that even when I go overboard a bit on spending like this current credit card cycle. I bought a decent amount of ammo in case Trump lost; the price of that plus the sofa and a couple of other things brought my score down. Anyhow, I am happy he won and that my son's and daughter's ammo inheritance has grown.

 

Now if only I could get good news from  FedEx on a sofa that I put on my Amex card. Two deliveries to date had to be returned because FedEx damaged them. They were supposed to deliver a third yesterday but sent me an email saying it would be delivered today instead. Well a FedEx truck pulled up outside my place a little while ago and the driver asked me what I had for her to pick up. She said there was no sofa in her truck and she double checked and said again she was sent here for a pick up. Oh well, business as usual with FedEx they stink in my opinion.

All the best,

Glenn B

 

 

 

 

Happy Veterans' Day

 To all who have served honorably in our military services, I hope your special day is a good one. You deserve more than just one day especially if you were disabled during your service.

All the best,

Glenn B

My Dentist Of Years Ago

 

  

Those are two memorable scenes, at least and especially for me, from the movie Marathon Man, starring Dustin Hoffman. The second one always gets to me when you think there really were monsters like that guy torturing children in similar (as in the first video) and much worse ways during WWII in the concentration camps. In fact there were monsters, anyway at least one, post WWII who did likewise years after the war's end.

Over the years I have met several people who were in those camps including one of my dentists. When I was a kid to young adult - he loved using the pick to enlarge cavities (or maybe even create them in a healthy tooth), then the drill likewise - according to him to get the filling in there really well. He told me that with glee and a smile on his face as he dug the pick into my tooth or went at it with the drill, the high pitched whine of it making me clench the arms of the chair and hold on for life while anticipating the pain.

 

 After I turned 24, when on a visit back home in NYC, I visited him for a check-up. I had one cavity (real or maybe created by his pick). Before going in with the drill, he told me he remembered I did not like pain (yes all of my previous cavities were drilled & filled by him without any pain medication at all) and he gave my my first injections of novocaine. The shots hurt like hell, going into the roof of my mouth and my gum too but I admit the subsequent drilling, which would have been terribly worse without the novocaine, was relatively painless.

 

It was during that visit that I, for the very first time, saw the numerical tattoo on his arm. Until then, his sleeves were always down but not that day. That day he had rolled them up. Before then I had never imagined that he had been imprisoned in a concentration camp and even if I had seen the tattoo before then, I may not have relized the significance - but I knew what it meant by then. Damn, my mother used to tell him how wonderful was Germany and how beautiful life was there (she was of German and Gottschee blood); he would go along with her babble, making as if he was a good little German who loved the old country. 

 

I am guessing that talk by my mom only went to fuel his hatred, that was born as a result of being in the camps. I feel for him considering his time in the camps; nonetheless, I see his time in the camps as no excuse for what he did to me and probably many other kids, as the neighborhood was made up of primarily ethnic Germans. It was nothing more or less than torture. I despise his treatments of me still today and will until the day I die; the bastard had tortured me in that manner several times always making me think it was normal to be in pain like that while at the dentist. Damn I hate the noise of the drill all these years later; it still sends shivers down my spine and to every extremity even though today I know it will not hurt because there is no way my dentist today will drill my teeth without a painkiller.

 

All the best,

Glenn B

Trump Cleaning Up - Such A Nice Photo That I Could Not Resist Posting It

 

 

All the best,

GB

Oh Happy Days Yet To Come

Yes happy days ares soon to come now that President Trump has been reelected for a second but nonconsecutive term in office. He is only the second president in U.S history to have been reelected to a nonconsecutive term. The first was Grover Cleveland. He was a democrat but essentially nothing to very little like those of today as he was a fiscal conservative and had several other conservative ideals. He was more of a Trump than a Biden but still unlike either very much I suppose.

 

My congratulations to President Elect Donald Trump and to VP Elect J.D. Vance. Now all they need to do is avoid being assassinated by leftist loonies or Iranian assassins and my bet is attempts on at least Trump's life are yet to come. If they make it through their term unscathed over its four year duration, plus from now until the inauguration in January, the USA should start getting back on track as the greatest nation on this earth. I wish them only well, the same I wish for our country.

 

I guess it is also proper for me to congratulate all of you in our country who, like me, voted for President Trump and for me to say thank you to all of you. Together we have given our nation a chance at becoming not only great again but the greatest nation on the planet. I give my thanks to you because I cannot imagine having to spend four years under the thumb of that cackling hyena like she-devil of a wannabe tyrant Kamala Harris, that wussy-like twit of a VP Tim Walz and their constitutional republic destroying minion.

 

 

All the best,

Glenn B

I Hope...

 ...that Fox News is not wrong again. In fact I have prayed they did not call the race too soon. Going back to bed soon, got up to walk Skye then sat down to watch election results and just saw Trump's speech. Let's face it, last time the slimeball left pulled votes out of nowhere at the last minute to beat him by hook or by crook. Let's hope it does not happen again.

All the best,

Glenn B

Slow At The Show

I have been manning two tables at a local, to my place, gun show since 0845 or so this morning. Show opened at 0900. So, I have been trying to sell guns, ammo and some other stuff for about 3 hours 45 minutes. So far my gross intake has been $90.00. 

 

I Would have thought, in fact I did think - with hunting season upon us and what with the possibility of an anti rights, especially an anti RKBA,  she-devil possibly winning the election in 3 days - that folks would be hedging their futures by buying ammo today. Truth is, the other dealers to whom I have spoken are not selling much either.  Oh well, I wasted $130.00 on two tables and anothe $20.00 on a raffle ticket and can only hope tomorrow is going to bring many more sales to my tables.

All the best,

Glenn B

You Asked For It - Bill Jordan

If you are as old as me, you probably remember the show ''You Asked For It'. Folks would send in a letter telling the show staff about something they found hard to believe and wanted to see if real or simply about something interesting or amazing they wanted to see on the show. The show obliged by showing one or more of the requests in each episode. Tonight, while reading in a gun forum, I read a post that had the below video linked to it. 

The request to You Asked For It was that the letter writer had read that U.S. Border Patrol Agent Bill Jordan could drop a bottle from his hand, draw his revolver and shoot the bottle before it hit the ground. The guy sending in the request said he found it hard to believe but wanted to see it. Wow, Jordan was pretty fast considering he was no spring chicken when the show had him on. Enjoy.

 

All the best,

Glenn B

PLEASE VOTE - There Few If Any Excuses Not To Vote

The possibility of that beeatch Cackling Kamala Harris becoming president, with Tampon Timmy Walz as her second in command, is looming less than a week away. With that possibility in the back of my mind,  I just finished my ammo inventory to see if there was anything of which I am sorely lacking. In all it amounted to 37,390 rds. in various calibers. That is down quite an amount away from my high of 50K rounds when I was in NY. While it likely will be much more than enough for my future, it will also hopefully become my son's after I have left this earth. 

 

While it as not lacking much, I nevertheless decided to do a little ammo shopping today, not much really just a little. I ordered a case of 1K rounds of PMS X-TAC 5,56x45mm M855 ($551.10 shipped with insurance and adult signature from Target Sports USA with my Ammo+ membership there). I also ordered a case of 1K rounds of Federal 9mm Hi-Shok JHP ( same place, separate order, total for this one was $386.22). On the 25th, I ordered 500 rds. of Magtech Sport .357 158 gr. semi-jacketed hollow point ammo. I am now thinking I should have ordered a full case of the .357 MAG. Oh well, money is tight right now being I also just had the high bids on two guns and other items at an online auction last Saturday and since I paid ny car and renter's insurance last month for the whole year. Even though these purchases put me in a bit of a financial hole right now, and even though I am literally set for fighting as part of the resistance if the US is ever attacked, I still keep getting the urge to stock up on even more ammo. 

 

I guess that urge is lingering mostly because I dread the prices that will come should that she-devil gain the presidency or even possible firearms and ammo bans that she will initiate. I would not vote for her for all the gold in Fort Knox. I have no qualms about voting for a woman for president - I'd vote for Sarah Palin or Kristy Noem in a heartbeat. I'd also have no problem voting for a so called person of color. Now, even though I dropped out of the RINO party and registered as an Independent voter, what I have a problem voting for is any leftist, liberal, democracy professing, communist wannabe, anti-Constitution, rights hating democrat/progressive (and that includes any RINO) all of whom, as far as I am concerned, are United States hating scum.

I already voted on the second day of early voting here in Arkansas; I took no chances that something might happen that would prevent me from getting to the polling place on November 5th. So, if you are a U.S. citizen who loves this country, who loves freedom, your rights & liberties I implore you to PLEASE VOTE and vote straight republican in every race for office. There are many ways you can do it, it takes only a very little of our time, but if Trump wins it will go a long, long way to secure our future and the futures of our children and grandchildren. A potential voter who does not vote, and yes I mean for The Donald, is giving that much more help and support to the archenemy of these United States and to all of our rights, especially the RKBA as enumerated within the 2nd Amendment.

 

Just in case, you may want to consider buying some ammo too. I truly fear that is she wins this nation will devolve further into an abyss of lawlessness and retaliation against Trump supporters much worse than it has been under Biden. They have made their evil intentions known time and time again in sum & substance calling for Trump's assassination even after two failed attempts. They have called us deplorables, garbage, and Fascists and some like Hillary Clinton (source) and John Kerry (source) have in essence called for the abolishment of the first amendment and other law(s) so they can have unimpeded total control! Imagine how much more emboldened the lefties will become should Harris be elected. It may devolve to utter chaos in our land and become a fight for our lives and I do not say that lighty. I mean, if they are bold enough to say the anti-Constitutional things they say now, just think about what they will do should Harris become president and if, somehow, the left winds up controlling both houses of Congress.

Vote, VOTE, VOTE!!!

 

All the best,

Glenn B

Alternate Use For A Firearms Cleaning Rod & Bore Brush

There I was, finally doing some needed cleanup in my apartment today and I was almost happily pushing furniture out of the way to vacuum the floors. That was almost happy untiI I realized that the vacuum was blowing around the dog hair, human hair, lint, dust bunnies and whatever else was on the floor instead of sucking it up. So, I took off the roller brushes, cleaned them and started again. Still the problem persisted; so, I took off the main hose and the tube that it is attached too and took a look - all clear. Then a look down the extension of the tube, that is permanently attached to the body of the vacuum cleaner revealed what looked like a blockage. It was a pain in the neck getting it out. I tried pushing it out with some long skinny things to no avail; then I tried a cleaning rod with a shotgun bore brush attached to pull it out - also no go. Then another try with the cleaning rod this time attached to a 38 caliber bore brush which gave it enough room to slide past the side of the blockage. It all came out fairly easily over the course of fives or six twirling swipes. First I got a small piece of paper towel, then a few more larger pieces with dog hair & and dust, then what amounted to what could have been a full toupee's worth of hair for a bald guy but made up of dog hair, human hair, lint, dust bunnies and other filth. Damn, it was packed in there, in all it was about a time and a half larger than my fist. Now though, the vacuum, a 5 year old Shark brand, works just fine again.

 

All the best,

Glenn B

If Only We Had Known Sooner...

 ...think of all the heartaches that would have been prevented and all the money that would not have been spent on marriages & alimony.

This needs to be taught in grammar school or at least in freshman year of high school! In fact this is my kind of woke.

Hat tip to Mike M for sending me the link to the video.

All the best,

Glenn B

Beretta Serial Number Lookup

I just mentioned the Beretta Serial Number Lookup in my blog-post immediately prior to this one but figured it important enough to allow for a separate post about it. Beretta now has, since at least June 2023, a serial number lookup feature on their website. it is located at this link: 

 

https://bcrm.my.site.com/busa/s/get-firearm-info?language=en_US

 

That is a very good thing for Beretta owners; at least for certain of their Berettas. I said that last because the Beretta serial number lookup feature is good for pistols imported to or made in the USA and only after 1988. Here is what Beretta noted about it when I ran the number on an older gun made in Italy:  

"Firearm Info

Your Serial Was Not Found, What Does That Mean?"

Our Serial Number Database is comprised of serial numbers imported or manufactured in the United States by Beretta from 1988 forward.

Prior to Beretta USA, some Italian manufactured guns were imported by other lines of distribution.

If your firearm is an older classic, please refer to our FAQ database "When was my firearm produced?".

Please call 1-800-BERETTA for additional assistance."

I wish it was for all their guns no matter where made or when but it is still a help for those with guns that fit the criteria. I hope that is as helpful for fellow Beretta owners as it already has been for me.

 My thanks go out to user BrokeDaddy of the Handgun Forum.net who posted about it at this link: https://www.handgunforum.net/threads/beretta-serial-lookup-is-back.173067/ this past June.

All the best,

Glenn B

Guns, Guns, Guns - It's A Way Of Life - My Life

 Well, another month, another Saturday in that month and another Hessney.com firearms auction or as they now call them another Sportsman Auction this one was actually a Military & Sportsman Auction. Yes, of course, as is not always but usually is the case, I bought some guns.

 

Today's latest acquisitions (not in hand yet but I had the high bids and eagerly await delivery) are the following:

 

A Colt Model 1903 Hammerless in .32 Auto; this was made in 1907 as per the Colt website's serial number lookup feature. It will become the oldest firearm that I currently own. As per the folks at the auction house, of whom I inquire about almost all the firearms I bid on through them, this one is in 90% condition and is functioning properly.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I have a bit of a liking for 32 Autos, this will be the third in my current collection; although, I have had others before these. The other two currently are a Beretta Tomcat and an Ortgies pistol. I should point out that the Colt 1903 Hammerless was used by one of my favorite actors in at least a few to several films and I was willing to bid quite a bit more on this one because of that but got it at lower bid than I expected and that was a nice plus or should I say a nice minus. Back to the  actor, that would be Humphrey Bogart who was in some of the best films noir ever. he surprisingly only was awarded an Oscar for two of his films and was nominated for another. He received one for Casablanca an excellent film noir but not his best which I think was The Maltese Falcon (he was robbed not getting and Oscar for that) and one for what was a comedic adventure film - The African Queen - one of his best movies and showed his wonderful adaptiveness to be able to play in a comedy). He was also nominated for his role in The Caine Mutiny another excellent film and wonderful bit pf character acting. He used this model Colt in Casablanca, The Big Sleep, Key Largo, and The Desperate Hours (more at the source). Many other actors and some actresses (what they were called back then and what I prefer) such a Lizabeth Scott, who used one in Dead Reckoning, used this same pistol in similar films noir back then in the 30s & 40s. In fact Colt 1903 Hammerless pistols have been used in films from 1918 all the way up to the current (as I write this) year 2024 (more at the source). They have also been used in television from at least 1961 through 2024, in video games and Anime (go figure).

 

I had the high bid on one other pistol from today's auction, I stopped bidding on the guns after that as I need to ease off a bit on how much I spend at auctions being they are usually monthly from this auction house and they have been putting a wider and wider hole in my pocket book out of which my gelt keeps flowing. That second high bid was for a Beretta U22 NEOS with a 7.5" barrel. It seems that the 7.5" barrel models are somewhat less frequently seen than are those with 6" & 4.5" barrels. I base that on me doing some checking to see if I could nail down the prices that they sold for on GunBroker.com but the 7.5" model did not show up as being sold even once through GunBroker over the course of the last year; although, those with shorter barrels were sold frequently. The one I had the high bid on today has a nice looking set of blue grips. 

 

 

Me buying another Beretta should not come as a surprise to anyone who knows anything about my pistols; I have several of them going on many. I think this one will make it an even dozen. Before doing some research, I had not realized that the NEOS were discontinued by Beretta several years or so back and are now considered legacy Berettas (more at the source). Of course, at least a few of my other Berettas would also be considered legacy models such as the 950BS, 92Sb, 87 Target, 70S in 22 LR and 70S in .380 Auto. As for this one, I checked the Beretta serial number lookup feature (had not known they had this feature until writing this post when I read about it in a forum post from this past June). Well, I found out it is a deluxe model NEOS and that it was manufactured on June 02, 2004. So it is 20 years and most of 4 months old. It does not look to have been used much and the auction info indicated it is "as new". I think this one could become a very fun gun for plinking and maybe for getting the main ingredients for a Brunswick stew and by the main ingredients I mean the traditional ones in the USA - bushy tailed rats (aka: Gray Squirrels) and or rabbits although I'd prefer squirrel for the Brunswick Stew and rabbit for Hasenpfeffer. 

I have only had squirrel, I think, twice and never in a stew as best I recall; it was yummy. Rabbit in stew and otherwise as in fried, I have eaten several, if not many, times. Squirrels are easy to clean but not always so easy to find & hunt; I will have to try my luck with them this season (with this pistol) if I can find a stand of productive mast trees (in which case I may not only find lots of squirrels but turkeys, hogs and deer among other critters of the forest. Honestly, when it comes to the squirrels, I figure four would make enough stew for me and my pooch for two or maybe three meals and yes she will get some - at least the meat anyway.

 

 All the best, 

Glenn B

 

 

 

Last Night's Dinner

 

That was dinner last night - a nice boneless choice rib eye steak with two cans of mushrooms (steak & shrooms cooked in salted butter, same pan, with some onion flakes, sea salt, black pepper & a bit of garlic powder - somehow I had no fresh onions, I guess due to my essentially bachelor type lifestyle or my aging little gray cells). Added the shrooms & onions when steak was cooked about half way, which was medium rare edging on medium (it came out a bit overcooked for my preference but still excellent). Both I and Skye (my mongrel) loved it. She got a few chunks of the steak (about 1/4 of it, I ate about 1/2 of it) after her regular dinner of dry dog food; I wiped off the onion and shrooms from her portion. I also had a Sam's Club Caesar salad kit (romaine lettuce, shredded cheese, croutons and dressing) and I added a bounteous amount of Ken's Greek dressing (not their Greek vinaigrette and a good amount of feta cheese to it.

There is about 1/4 of the steak and the same fraction of mushrooms remaining. So, my breakfast will have an extreme likelihood of being: steak & shrooms, three eggs, two toasted & buttered slices of Dave's Killer Bread - 21 Whole Grains & Seeds, a large mug of very strong unsweetened black coffee, 5 ounces of OJ mixed in with black cherry flavored carbonated water. Skye will get about 1/3 of the remaining steak minus the shrooms and one or two scrambled egg(s) microwaved in a bowl. I think she likes the eggs just as much, or at least almost as much, as the steak.

Most of the add-ons:

This one:

Ken's Greek salad dressing is the only bottled salad dressing that I have bought over the course of the last 7 years or so.

Not this one (this one sucks in my opinion):

Will be added to and toasted for Breakfast:

 

 

It was delicious. Only one drawback, and it is a painful one; I cracked and chipped a tooth on what I am guessing was a bone artifact in my boneless rib eye. Hope to see a dentist today. 

All the best,

Glenn B

 

What Did This Cowboy Eat When On The Trail?

 I ask that question in the title because I am listening to Johnny Cash singing Ghost Riders In The Sky and it just dawned on me, several decades after first hearing it, that the old cowboy must have been on one hell of psychedelic a trip. 

 

 

 

So what do you think it was induced by, him chomping down on a  cactus as in ingesting mescaline or was it fueled by him frying up some shrooms, as in psilocybin, to add to his chili? Whichever he  definitely was flying high.

Heck, now I've got a hankering for a nice thick rib eye steak (which I just pulled out of the freezer) along with some mushrooms (of course, I mean the canned variety) sauteed in butter.

 

Yeeha! 

 

All the best, 

Glenn B

Gunbroker. com Is Getting Tedious

I am getting pretty fed up with the absolute bullshit one has to go through to sign onto their site. The latest pain in the neck, as of my third time logging into their site today (was not required the first two times so must be brand spanking new) is that they now require an access code that they send to the site user in an email so you can sign on. They also require you to attest that you are 18 or older - wake up Gunbroker, I have an account with you - you already know how old am I (and know likewise for the rest of your users I think) and I do not live in Commiefornia - so tell the state of California and Governor Newscum to shove that requirement where the sun does not shine when it comes to U.S. citizens outside of that shithole of a state. Then there is checking off the box as to whether or not one accepts cookies or not - damn it, just put a notice on your site that signing on means you agree to that like the notification that comes up on my blog if viewed in Europe. 

 

Yeah, I know,it is like this on most websites. The thing is - it is long past time for those affected by these ridiculous rules to stand up against them. Companies owning websites can certainly come up with better security than requiring user verification codes. State laws should NEVER affect everyone in the nation - only state residents of the state enacting the law or people visiting those states but even ridiculous laws like CA's age verification for firearms related site should be obliterated as a violation of the first amendment. The cookie thing is totally ludicrous; who that owns or users a computer does not know that cookies are used nor how to get them off of you computer with applications like CCleaner??? What do sites like GunBroker do instead of fighting these ridiculous requirements, they bow down and kiss the governments arse. No wonder we are losing our liberties & rights left and right.

 

Now, I admit, I will keep using GunBroker because I know of no better website on which to sell guns but mind you, I will contact GunBroker and express my disappointment with the policies of theirs that I just mentioned. Hopefully so will others - enough of us to get rid some of this absolute BS.

 

All the best,

Glenn B

I Am Not Religiois For The Most Part...

 ...but I do believe in freedom of religion and think mocking it as Harris did is possibly a violation of our Constitution or at the very least something done in extremely bad taste as she is a government employee and she should be upholding that right to the fullest extent. So when I saw this meme on X, I knew I had to share it:

 

 

 

Source: https://x.com/GringoSuave84/status/1848436790635757713/photo/1

 

All the best,

Glenn B

 

Be A Responsible American - Wake Up To Reality And Vote For The Best Candidate For The USA

I encourage all U.S. Citizens, and only citizens of the USA, to carry out your responsibility as a citizen by voting in this years election. Along the same lines of being a RESPONSIBLE citizen, I strongly urge you to vote for the presidential candidate who actually shows a love for this country and who has an established and strong record of doing what is best for this country when that candidate was in political office. When you look at the facts objectively, there is a clear choice of which candidate for president would benefit this country the most and that absolutely is not the one who: cannot give a direct answer to a tough or even an easy question, not the one whose interview had to be edited to give a different answer, not the one who said she was in agreement with every policy of the current evidently demented president and that she played a pivotal part in those decisions, not the one who has been 100% for allowing illegal aliens into our country - aliens whose first act on American soil was a crime, not the one who says a violation of statutory law is not a crime with specific reference to the illegal entry of aliens after proudly having having boasted that while she was a state prosecutor in CA she prosecuted many illegal aliens for exactly that crime, not the one who wants to fast track the illegal aliens on the road to citizenship so they can vote for her party members, not the one who apparently never considered allowing in all the aliens who had legally applied to immigrate into our country and who would have been properly vetted but instead chose to allow in the illiterate scum of the earth including mental patients, criminals of the worst sort such as convicted murderers, rapists and terrorists, not the one who allowed in tons of illegal narcotics along with the illegal aliens - including record amounts of fentanyl (in amounts that could wipe out the populations of entire states), not the one who along with Biden virtually lost a reported 320,000 alien children many of whom are now likely enslaved a sex workers, not the one willing to have babies ripped part and out of a woman's womb at the moment of birth,  not the one who supported legislation that wound up destroying our economy and whose economic plan for our future would only further mutilate it and turn this nation into one of the weakest on the planet. 

 

Wake up democrats, anti-Trump Republicans, and any independents who think she has done anything making her worthy of becoming our next president other than being a so called black person (she proclaimed to the world she was Asian now all of a sudden she is black but only when it suits her - she is as black as the white half of Obama as I see her), wake up to the fact that voting for her because you think she will actually support women's rights when in fact she supports so called transgender women going into women's sports (they were male when born and still are male - no doubt about it) and they are destroying women's rights and women's sports. Wake up and take a look at her vice presidential running mate, he destroyed his state during COVID, he prances like a yahoo and lies like a drunken sailor about his so called accomplishments while he let cities in his state be burned by ANTIFA and BLM. 

 

Wake up and realize that when she says Trump is a threat to democracy (which by the way is definitely not our form of government - we live in a Constitutional Republic and while we vote it our form of government absolutely is not a democracy) that Trump did an excellent job for our country and our people the first time around (their were no Nazi death camps, no antisemitism spewed by Trump, no crime wave, no super high gas prices, no million and millions of illegal aliens invading our economy and burdening our economy, no failing economy, no wars in the world or at least no major ones as there are now in the world as there are in Middle East and in Ukraine/Russia, no drain on our economy caused by giving hundreds of billions of dollars to other countries to fight there wars, no shortage of FEMA funds to assist our own citizens and legal resident aliens whose homes were devastate by hurricanes (all as there are now and have been under the Biden/Harris administration), no super high prices at the gas pump making everything else go up in price, and the list goes on. The truth is that the great majority of things, if not all, that Harris has said negatively about Trump's presidency, her allegations about his lack of accomplishments are evidently blatantly false. Don't vote with your emotions - vote with your intelligence. 

 

I urge you to vote. I urge you to vote for candidate Donald Trump for president - he most certainly will do his best to make the United States of America great again for every citizen and legal resident alien just as he did before. I also urge you to vote for Republican or conservative candidates for Congress.

 

By the way I am not affiliated with any politically party - I am registered as an independent voter and I know which party does the much better job for this nation and had done so for decades. Vote and please vote with your brain and logic for what is best for this country.

 

All the best,

Glenn B

I Went Casting Today

 That was, I went to cast my vote for whom I hope will be our next president. If you have to ask for whom I voted or even have to wonder just a little, then I suppose you have not read many, if any, of my blog posts. 

 

All the best,

Glenn B

Speaking Of Guns _ My Mom Thought Much The Same And...

 ...I only got my first gun, a pistol, when on summer vacation at my Uncle's place in Las Vegas when I was 21; bought it for a cross country drive back to home. Anyhow, as I said, my mom felt much the same about what is said in this song. Of course, that was only until I was in the Border Patrol - then she thought it was grand that I carried one & knew how to shoot one. 

 

Damn, it took me all of my 69 years before I ever heard this Johnny Cash song (as best I recall) and I've been a fan of his since at least the age of 16 or 17! First time was tonight just minutes ago on Pandora. I loved it.

All the best, 

Glenn B

An Open Challenge To The Blabbermouth Tim Walz

So he thinks he can shoot better than all of those who criticized how poorly he handled a shotgun, dropping shells while trying to do so, and he says he has the trophies to prove it. Trophies don't mean squat especially in this world of participation trophies; so, I challenge that windbag politician to a duel of sorts to see who shoots better - him or one of his critics, that critic being me. If I win - he apologizes to "all 2nd amendment loving Americans" and admits he sucks at shooting or he can opt to drop out of the race for vice president. If he wins, I will buy him a new shotgun valued at up to $2,000.00 or I can opt to vote for Harris and him (too late for that optio now, I voted early on October 22). 

Let's do this; let's each use all stock guns (no modifications at all, just as right out of the box): to shoot slow fire 25 rounds of 9mm pistol at 15 yards, slow fire 25 rounds of 38 caliber revolver at 15 yards, slow fire 20 rounds of 5.56X45mm rifle at 50 yards iron sights (or similar); then let's shoot 10 rounds of defensive 12 gauge shotgun, smooth bore barrel, with open iron rifle sights using rifled slugs at 25 yards (I'll be using a Remington 870 ypu can use the same or a similar pump gun) and 10 rounds of 12 gauge trap using your choice of shotgun for him (like the one you could not load properly) and I'll use a Remington 870. We can also shoot a 9mm pistol bowling pin match - all pins off the table first wins that part. I have only shot a bowling pin once before but somehow I won (sorry no trophy but maybe a video). You must load all of your weapons or weapon's magazines by yourself. We both use the same exact types of ammo (all commercial name bran stock no hand-loads). Eyes & ears required. All trap thrown by the same throwers (you shoot five shots from one thrower, I from another, then we switch positions and we each change throwers to the one just used by the other shooter). All sections of the match, except trap, using standard Law Enforcement type stationary targets, like one of these B27E targets:

  

I may suck big-time at trap and you might win in that round of fire but as it stands Mr. Walz - I am willing to bet (and in fact just did offer up my bet to you) that you probably are not about to beat me overall in this competition. Of course, you claimed you have trophies to prove you are a better shooter than your critics and you also previously claimed you had combat experience with weapons or at least carried them in combat; so, you Mr. Walz with all those trophies and claimed combat experience must be confident enough to take my bet and you should be able to beat me at all the rest besides just trap - don't ya think! For just once, I'd like to see a career politician actually support what he or she says about himself or herself by actually proving it.

 

In the infamous words of Ralph Kramden, all I can say to you proving that is: 

 

 

 

Just substitute Mr. Walz for the name Alice and Glenn for the name Ralph in the rest of the dialogue in the video. 

Lets go Mr. Walz, right to the range, make it a campaign issue. Have your crew of liberal lackeys contact me via my contact link on this blog to set it up. Bring the media but make sure to include OANN & Fox News. Lets do it a week or two before election day.

 

One other thing, loser pays any and all range fees and for the ammo.

 

Oh, by the way, I have 8.5 years on you in terms of age so you should be able to beat an old timer like me hands down or are you too chicken shit to try! Just think of me as your opportunity to prove your prowess to America by beating another Bobby Riggs. Think of the votes you will get if you beat me a d you cod prove your femininity as well.

All the best

Glenn B

PS: If anyone knows anyone inside the Trump campaign, let them know I threw down the gauntlet.

Dear Nike

 This is too good not to share: 

 

 

 

All the best,

 Glenn B