Wednesday, August 21, 2024

She May Want To Put Price Caps Into Place But...

 ...if Kamala Harris is elected president, my guess is this will not be far behind:
 
 
Of course, that is not actually the price of gas now at Murphy's in Texarkana, AR where I took the shot. They just built a new gas station after tearing down the old one and this is what their sign shows now but they are not open yet. I suppose they did that to discourage folks from trying to pull in and fill up because no one in their right mind would be filling up at that price. Then again, it is what Dems are probably hoping for to advance electronic vehicle sales while destroying the US of A.
 
All the best,
Glenn B

Monday, August 19, 2024

Hitler Becomes President of Germany on August 19, 1934 - Is It A Coincidence The Democrat National Convention Is...

 ...being held on the same date that Adolf Hitler was officially elected as the president of Germany (more at the source). I believe there are coincidences now and then but that something of this magnitude is not coincidental because it could not have been or at least should not have been overlooked by the Democrats who picked this date for the DNC. That especially in light of the fact they placed Kamala Harris into the running for the presidency by pushing out Joe Biden and thus Harris did not receive even a single vote from anyone to be the candidate before today (in other words there was no primary, in effect robbing other candidates of their chance to run and denying voters there chance to select their candidate as is due process in elections. Does sound at least somewhat Hitler like to you because it does to me?
 
Lately I have seen videos of Harris saying she will essentially steal patents from patent holders; and that by the stroke of a pen she had people incarcerated and she ruined their lives making them lose jobs and spend their savings on defense lawyers (among other negative actions) and after she did so she then dropped all criminal charges (so she ruined the lives of folks who were guilty of no crimes) and thus she knows about having power (I am guessing it is what we can expect more of if she wins the election). I do not know if the videos were real or faked but they certainly seem to hold true to the Harris we have known over the years.
 
VOTE, VOTE EARLY, VOTE FOR TRUMP. 
 
All the best,
Glenn B

Monday, August 12, 2024

Lost Some Money, Recouped Some Money & Saved Some Money

 So as you may or not be aware, I am sort of a gun auction junkie. Ever since March of 2012, I have either attended, in person to bid, or bid online in about 48 Hessney Auction Company auctions since then. So that averages out to about four per year. I note, I just checked my files on my computer to count my auction receipts, I did not check my hard copies, there may be more than 48 altogether. I should note, in the beginning few years, I was lucky to attend one or two per year. After that, I attended at least a few per year and in recent years have bid in just about every firearms auctions (now called Sportsman auctions and Military & Sportsman auctions but I'll just refer to them as firearms auctions). For instance, last year in 2023, I bid in 11 of their firearms & ammo auctions; this year (all online only ever since COVID), so far, I have bid in four of them. In recent years I do not think I have missed miss an opportunity to bid in any of their firearms auctions. I may not always wind up with a high bid on a gun but always wind up getting something firearms related.
 
Well, those last two sentences above might have been a bit misleading making you think I have bid in every one of their firearms auctions and that I have bought something from every one of them in recent years. I should have said that up until this month I have always done so; this month, their auction was on Saturday August 3rd. and I missed it. As usual, I sent Joe Hessney and his crew an email asking them about several guns and some other things in which I had a keen interest. Then on Saturday morning the 3rd, I got out of bed a bit later than I had wanted and got my car loaded up to attend a local to me gun show. I got Skye in the car and headed to the dog park with her. After that it was direct ton the gun show where I finished setting up. The gun show opened at 0900 CDT, the auction began at 1000 EDT. Same time but in different regions. Well, this knucklehead forgot all about the auction which I had intended to view online by way of my phone. By the time I remembered the auction was running, every firearm had been bid on and sold. Well, because of my forgetting the time, at least there was some money saved; I figure at least a grand, probably more.
 
As for losing money, at the gun show, I sold three guns & a stripped AR-15 lower, a few to maybe several boxes of ammo, a couple or few rifle magazines & access ores and a couple of holsters. That is where I lost money. The show tables, of which I had two, were $65.00 each, so $130.00 total. Of the three guns I sold, two went at a loss as did the lower. One gun, an Iver Johnson Sealed Eight Target revolver went for $2.25 more than I paid for it (not taking into consideration gas to drive the 310 miles to the auction and then the same mileage for the return trip, the hotel and other expenses). So actually,I lost money on all of the guns. That was okay, I was still happy with how much cash I recouped. I needed to replenish my savings account & other liquid assets because they were below what I want to assure remains in them until I can either buy a house or drop dead - whichever comes first. I sold a considerable amount of things, almost everything at a lost, maybe a few at break even prices and a few at a small net profit. The over all sales wound up costing me a bit more than $200 owed in state sales tax. The little bit of net profit will also cost me in federal income tax when tax time comes around. All in all, I lost money; yet, I recouped some cash that I did not have and that went right into my savings account along with putting back in the $500 I had withdrawn prior to the gun show. I withdrew that in case I would have seen anyone walk in with a gun for sale for that amount of less that I could not resist and I had enough pocket cash prior to that to pay for the tables. All in all, I am a happy camper.The guy who bought an AK (milled receiver) from me (in excellent shape) was happy he got it at an excellent price specially for a gun show where other dealers were asking hundreds more for similar AKs. He came back and I am pretty sure was the same guy who bought the receiver (also at a great pre-China Virus price). 
 
Anyway it all added up to replenish my bank account at least somewhat. If the price of gold and silver stay up there, I'll be set with what I have in the bank account and what I have in precious metals (even if the price falls say by 20% my bullion will hold a good value for me overall). Another show should get me feeling comfortable but only if I do as well. Then again, I am none too sure I have that many more guns I am willing to sell. Most folks would probably want to make a nice net profit at a gun show. I understand that because such shows require a lot of labor, a large amount of time to get ready, more time spent at the tables selling, and time to tear down and head home and then put everything away and do accounting. 
 
Me, I am not very concerned about making a net profit; I am happy to get under but close to what I paid for most things I sell. When it comes to some other things I am okay with a larger amount of loss. Of course if I make a net profit, that is nice but certainly it is not my main objective nor even an important one; I get a decent pension even though 40% goes to my wife. My main concern has been getting money back into the bank to replenish money after I have spent it down too much. I hopefully also will wind up with enough to be able to buy more guns after a gun show and right now I figure I am at that point where I can afford one or two more auctions or a purchase of some more bullion or both. 
 
That all makes me happy and it makes my buyer's happy because they get good deals. They keep coming back, like the gentleman who bought the AK; he has bought from me at a couple of other shows in the past. Never listen to anyone who says you cannot possibly get a good deal at a gun show - they obviously have never been to any of my tables.

Saturday, August 10, 2024

Single Issue Votes

 On a gun forum which I sue frequently, the news that the NRA has endorsed a sole democrat politician for this years elections has drawn the ire of many forum members. The thing is that the forum members who oppose the NRA having done so probably are, in my estimation, using the same basic method of how they have gone about deciding to oppose the NRA on this issue; that method was, by my guess, to base their decision on a single issue. In this case that would be that the forum users disagree with the NRA based solely on the fact that the politician is a democrat and thus must be opposed. Of course, I think the NRA's single issue used to by them to decide to endorse her was something different, her support of the right to keep and bear arms, but the method of using only a single issue to make their decision is the same.

The thing is, it is not a single issue situation, one has to consider all of the other issues which she supported and voted for in addition to those she openly opposed and voted against in order to make a wise decision as to whether to support or oppose the NRA's endorsement of her. I am pretty certain though, the NRA bases the political endorsements they give to politicians on only one issue, the RKBA or at least in the great part upon that lone issue. In that regard, many in the gun forum's thread discussing this seem to be of the same ilk, as is the mindset of other conservative who oppose the NRA's endorsement of her, as far as how they are going about judging the NRA. By that I mean they evidently are basing their dislike of the NRA's endorsement of congresswoman Mary Peltola, D–Alaska (more at the source) on a single issue when there is no doubt one issue does not make up the platforms of most politicians nor the ideals of most voters.At least I think not of logical voters in most elections. If this lady is consistently one who votes more conservatively or at least logically and is not woke nor a DEI selection by voters, then maybe she deserves not only an A+ from the NRA but the support of those in the Rebooblican Party who currently oppose her, having received the nod from the NRA, just because she is a registered Demonkrat. 

I had been thinking, just in the last couple of weeks of registering as a Demonkrat; that just so I could vote in the Demonkrat primaries - the ones that should have been held with little delay after the likes of Schumer, Pelosi, Harris and others seemingly conspired to boot out Biden. Let's face it, my (any any other voters) due process as a voter may have been violated by them not allowing voters the opportunity to vote for their candidate of choice to replace Biden on the ticket. I would have voted for almost anyone other than Harris; my vote probably would have come to be a write in vote or Biden (it would be great if dems did that en masse, voted for Biden in the new primary (that should have been held) and then Biden would have wound up with more votes than Harris. You may think it great that she was appointed by the Dems and is running against Trump but I think a leftist of lesser degree would be easier for Trump to defeat; and the easiest would have been Biden - easily accomplished, as I said, by way of write in votes for Biden. 

Now, I am not very religious; although, sometimes I wonder if I am more religious than I think and at other times ponder whether or not I am religious at all. Yet, I do embrace several, or I suppose it is actually many, Christian morals, philosophies, ideals and etiquette and live most of my life with them as guidelines along with some of the same from a few other religions and or lay philosophies of some who are agnostic or not religious at all. In general, I think I live my life by trying to do the right things much more frequently than not. Despite that, I have as of late found myself sort of praying to God (if there is one), or the Gods if more than one (the early Christians number one way into the hearts of those of other faiths to win them over, I think, was mainly the fact that despite claiming there was only one God, they kind of sort of almost practiced a religion that was polytheism in a way never seen before because their one God was also three Gods all miraculously being one and the same), Nature, the Force or whatever powers that may be that Harris does not defeat The Donald and then wind up destroying outr great nation and I base my prayers on several issues. In the case of the upcoming election while the one issue of the RKBA is extremely important to me, I still believe candidates need be judged on several issues and have their voting records and their overall politics scrutinized by a multitude of examiners, the voters, just to assure their platform and possibly prior behavior agree with those types of essentially Judaeo-Christian and other religion's ideals before anyone decides to give them a shining endorsement or their vote. 

It is much the same when deciding whom not to support and voting against someone, for instance Harris. There are many points I can think of why one should not vote for Harris. Those being the disaster of the essentially open border, her abject disrespect for the law when it came to what I think was post G. Floyd terrorism practiced by BLM and ANTIFA among others, her extreme disrespect for law enforcers as I see it based upon her thinking defunding the police was a good idea and I believe she probably still thinks it, her seeming belief that riots involving those groups were peaceful protests, an alleged large number of race based convictions of black men for minor marijuana infractions when she was a prosecutor, my belief she is a racist, her playing all sides against the middle by claiming at different times to be of different races, her failure as Border Czar, the failing economy, her anti-RKBA stance, her poor judgement as in her selection of her running mate- even many dems agree on that, her all too often senseless babble that she repeatedly regurgitates, her inability to get her point across to make anyone understand what she actually means when speaking about the issues (this has been a long time ploy of leftists leaving it to their followers to decide the meaning of her babble for themselves thus getting self satisfaction even if their interpretations are very different than one anothers in the dem party - keeps everyone happy when they all can make believe they got it right), her seeming frequent inability to finish making a point about something serious without breaking out into a wild cackle, her very apparent lack of knowledge on subjects about which she is interviewed or about which she is making a statement, her evident lies about the competency of Joe Biden.

All that said, I cannot understand why anyone who is acting rationally would vote for her. Instead I see a multitude of mindless adherents who will vote for her because they believe she would be the first woman president and sex is their one issue, she would be the first black woman president and race and sex are what does it for them or simply race alone is enough, she would be the first person of Asian descent and her ancestry, race and ethnicity does it for other voters. I prefer to base my distaste for her on multiple issues: first of all that she is the selection of the deep state within the Demonkrat party and thus her candidacy was not put to a vote and deprived other candidates of a fair chance and also deprived the voters of the opportunity to make the selection, that she goes along with how she was selected as the candidate, she seems to support late term abortion, she is anti-RKBA, she did nothing to get the economy out of the mess it is in but supported Bidenomics that caused the economy to falter, that she evidently  lied about Bidens mental acuity, that she apparently lied about her support of Biden as the dem candidate, that she speaks in senseless riddles or babble,  that she seems very uninformed and unknowledgeable about major issues, opposes Donald Trump and has seemingly expressed the same hatred for him as other mindless Demonkrats by which they hate him so much they'd do anything to prevent him from being elected again - even supporting his assassination, that she plays both sides against the middle in the Israel versus Hamas war... The list goes on and on but those multiple issues I just presented are more than enough reason for me never to vote for Harris and probably for me to never vote for a Demonkrat ever again because it seems the great majority of the party's members are actually functioning irrationally when it comes to politics. 

While I tend to doubt it, maybe the NRA decided to endorse congresswoman Mary Peltola, D–Alaska based upon multiple issues, after their scrutiny of her overall politics, as opposed to doing so based upon a single issue. I certainly would hope voters do so, that is to consider many issues if not all of them even if the NRA maybe did not. I definitely wish they'd do so when it comes to whom they decide to cast their vote for president - Harris or Trump. If they do that, I think there is no way Trump can lose unless the election is rigged.

All the best,
Glenn B

Sunday, August 4, 2024

Sunday At The Gun Show

 It promises to be a long boring day based upon my past experience with gun show Sundays.To keep myself amused though, I glide across the web, maybe visit a gun forum, listen to music on Pandora (Samba Pa Ti by Santana as I write), BS with potential customers, talk to other vendors, talk to, feed snacks to and pet my mongrel Skye and I visit Instagram.

I saved Instagram until last because it just gave me a nice but silent laugh. Had I laughed outloud, I am afraid they would have called the men in white coats to come remove me from the venue and place me in the nuthouse, that is how loud I imagine my audible laugh would have been, loud enough to make me seem like a crazy man. Go here for a good laugh, especially if you hunt, camp out or hike.