DISCO SUCKED, still does.
As for the Bee Gees, they were, in my opinion, among the most obnoxiously arrogant bums I have ever had the displeasure of meeting. I dealt with them during their stay at a hotel in NY. That was, as best I can recall in the late summer or early fall of 1979, when I was working as a house dick in a high end hotel in Manhattan. (I actually remember the year and time of year because that is where I was working when I was called for my career starting job in the Border Patrol.) As I remember, I thought that they were extremely rude, crude, completely arrogant scumbags who showed so much disrespect for their fans who had assembled there as for it to be a mystery to me as to why they were so popular. Frank Zappa, whom I recall also stayed at the same hotel, is in my memory as an absolute gentleman. Go figure, the stage persona of each seemingly did not match the reality with either the Bee Gees or Zappa.
Of course, mine was a brief set of encounters with each but that was more than enough for me with regard to the Bee Gees.
All the best,
Glenn B
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Monday, May 21, 2012
Five History Making / Changing Guns
Some fairly interesting firearms history can be found in this slide show about 5 guns that truly made, if not changed, history.
See it here: http://www.mandatory.com/2012/05/13/5-guns-that-changed-history/?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000058&#photo=1
Make sure to click on "more" on each page to be able to read everything they have on each of the guns.
All the best,
Glenn B
See it here: http://www.mandatory.com/2012/05/13/5-guns-that-changed-history/?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000058&#photo=1
Make sure to click on "more" on each page to be able to read everything they have on each of the guns.
All the best,
Glenn B
Job Qualifications - The Reality of My Suitability For Employment...
...or lack of it, is finally sinking through my thick skull. Apparently, after 32 years plus, of an impeccable federal law enforcement career, I am not even qualified for jobs such as: a maintenance laborer, cleaner, front door security guard at a department store. I applied for those somewhat menial jobs, jobs I would have been willing to accept nonetheless, with high hopes. Lest you think that maybe they considered me overqualified, I also applied for other jobs from the bottom of the heap up to the apex of upper management. Some of the better jobs for which I have applied are District Manager of Investigations for a large department store chain and a few Director of Security positions for a few private firms. Some of the mid-level jobs for which I have applied were: security manager for a college dormitory authority, several investigator positions, of all types, with state and local agencies and with private companies, executive chauffeur, anti-money laundering business analyst and on and on. All were without even one indication that anyone was seriously interested in my qualifications. Thus, I must conclude that, my qualifications mean squat and thus I am not qualified for any of the jobs for which I have applied (about 63 jobs since early March). That is rather frustrating after, as I said, an impeccable career in federal law enforcement. A career mind you, in which I truly always remembered I was a servant of the people and it was not the other way around and one in which I did my best to protect our nation and our citizenry often at considerable risk to myself. Yes, frustrating indeed.
Still though, I am continuing my job search. Today, I searched through about two thousand job listings on three job sites. I was able to pull out 3 jobs for which I would have thought that I was qualified and I applied for them. I also searched a few websites of companies I thought might be hiring and applied directly to one of them for a job they were offering. That was for the job of House Dick (security agent is what they call it nowadays) at an upscale hotel. Who knows - maybe I'll get it; I used to work there in that same job, right before I went into my federal career. If not, then I will keep on looking and will keep on banging out applications and sending out my résumé (which is now down to 3 pages). It may be disheartening to keep getting turned down but I will not give up that easily. I need a job so I can pay my taxes to help pay back all the money the government has wasted on those who just will not work. Besides that, I can use something to supplement my retirement annuity but even more so, I just want to work. Maybe that makes me some kind of a weirdo but that is it in a nutshell, I want to work - it is an ethical thing.
Anyone out there have a job for me in the greater NYC area?
All the best,
Glenn B
Still though, I am continuing my job search. Today, I searched through about two thousand job listings on three job sites. I was able to pull out 3 jobs for which I would have thought that I was qualified and I applied for them. I also searched a few websites of companies I thought might be hiring and applied directly to one of them for a job they were offering. That was for the job of House Dick (security agent is what they call it nowadays) at an upscale hotel. Who knows - maybe I'll get it; I used to work there in that same job, right before I went into my federal career. If not, then I will keep on looking and will keep on banging out applications and sending out my résumé (which is now down to 3 pages). It may be disheartening to keep getting turned down but I will not give up that easily. I need a job so I can pay my taxes to help pay back all the money the government has wasted on those who just will not work. Besides that, I can use something to supplement my retirement annuity but even more so, I just want to work. Maybe that makes me some kind of a weirdo but that is it in a nutshell, I want to work - it is an ethical thing.
Anyone out there have a job for me in the greater NYC area?
All the best,
Glenn B
Sunday, May 20, 2012
Yard and Lawn Work Sucks...
...sometimes, like today. I am still working on getting in a new front lawn. I was on my hands and knees for about 2 1/2 hours today, with a little garden hand shovel, digging up and pulling out roots. I only got about 1/2 of it done in that time. In a few minutes, I am going back out and will continue pulling out roots.
I don't think this is hurting any of the trees whose roots are being mauled by me. Last time I did this, it did not harm any of them despite the roots getting torn out; although, I think I heard a few subtle screams as I did it (can screams be subtle -sure they can if they are coming from trees). I may have heard one or two of those subtle screams today and some other moans and groans too. I am pretty sure the Evergreen let out a moan and a groan. The Linden Tree had maybe a scream or two escape it and the Japanese Maple was pretty quiet, they endure pain well.
My knees and back are aching a bit, so no more crawling around on my hands and knees with that tiny shovel, to loosen the soil and roots. I am going to use the pitchfork instead. Of course, I will have to get down on my knees to pull out the roots once I get em loosened up a bit with the pitchfork but it will be easier and go faster with the pitchfork - just maybe not as good a job. Whatever, it will be good enough for me and hopefully for the new grass. I hope to get it seeded this evening, otherwise during the week. We will see.
Just in case anyone was wondering, I went to Home Depot yesterday to rent a roto-tiller. Even the smallest one they had would not fit in the trunk of my Corolla. Thus, I have been doing it by hand. If I had rented one of them, the job would have been completed and the lawn seeded, all within an hour. Oh well, I need the exercise.
All the best,
GB
I don't think this is hurting any of the trees whose roots are being mauled by me. Last time I did this, it did not harm any of them despite the roots getting torn out; although, I think I heard a few subtle screams as I did it (can screams be subtle -sure they can if they are coming from trees). I may have heard one or two of those subtle screams today and some other moans and groans too. I am pretty sure the Evergreen let out a moan and a groan. The Linden Tree had maybe a scream or two escape it and the Japanese Maple was pretty quiet, they endure pain well.
My knees and back are aching a bit, so no more crawling around on my hands and knees with that tiny shovel, to loosen the soil and roots. I am going to use the pitchfork instead. Of course, I will have to get down on my knees to pull out the roots once I get em loosened up a bit with the pitchfork but it will be easier and go faster with the pitchfork - just maybe not as good a job. Whatever, it will be good enough for me and hopefully for the new grass. I hope to get it seeded this evening, otherwise during the week. We will see.
Just in case anyone was wondering, I went to Home Depot yesterday to rent a roto-tiller. Even the smallest one they had would not fit in the trunk of my Corolla. Thus, I have been doing it by hand. If I had rented one of them, the job would have been completed and the lawn seeded, all within an hour. Oh well, I need the exercise.
All the best,
GB
Saturday, May 19, 2012
I Owe Someone From A Holster Company An Apology...
...I just wish I could remember whom by name. It was the owner of one of the holster companies whose names were recommended to me, when I asked for suggestion for a new holster in one of my posts recently. He got in touch with me via an email saying he would give me a holster to tryout and just asked that I blog about the product pro or con. I am pretty sure it was the owner of Dragon Leatherworks.
While I certainly appreciated the offer, I would not have taken the holster for a review. I don't do reviews on request and do not accept samples from anyone with an eye toward a review. When I review something, it is something that either I paid for, was issued (that is now in the past sine I m retired) or that was given to me as a gift. That is just a principle of mine but that is not why I did not get back to him. I forgot to get back to him and when I finally thought of it today, I realized I inadvertently must have deleted his email. No offense was meant, not snubbing anyone - just did it absent minded not purposefully. Sorry about that.
All the best,
Glenn B
While I certainly appreciated the offer, I would not have taken the holster for a review. I don't do reviews on request and do not accept samples from anyone with an eye toward a review. When I review something, it is something that either I paid for, was issued (that is now in the past sine I m retired) or that was given to me as a gift. That is just a principle of mine but that is not why I did not get back to him. I forgot to get back to him and when I finally thought of it today, I realized I inadvertently must have deleted his email. No offense was meant, not snubbing anyone - just did it absent minded not purposefully. Sorry about that.
All the best,
Glenn B
Friday, May 18, 2012
Africa, Antarctica and South America...
...are the three continents from which my blog receives the least traffic. Every now and then I get someone in South America to take a look, used to have a regular down that way but whomever it was seems to have given up on me. As far as Africa goes, every now and again but even less so than South America, I get someone in Africa to take a look. Those folks are usually located in some Islamic nations in northern Africa, like Egypt. I do not think I have ever gotten anyone in Antarctica to view my blog. I do not even know if SiteMeter, whose free service I use to check my blog's stats, registers hits from Antarctica.
Oh well, just a useless set of facts on in which continents my blog is viewed the least. Maybe I should write up some posts on big game hunting in Africa, or about the pyramids in Egypt, or the Inca temples in Peru, or about Argentine beef, or about how friggin cold it can get in Antarctica, or on Penguins to get their attention (the people, not the penguins) in those places. I will admit, my blog is meant for anyone to read, but without a doubt I write for an American audience. That is meant as in the America the country, not either of the Americas the continents.
It is nice though, to see that I do garner quite a bit of interest, on a regular basis, in other places such as in Asia (for instance folks Japan, S. Korea, India are all among the regulars), Australia (a few different locations in the country and continent of the same name), Europe (England, France, Germany, among my regulars there) and the other countries in North America (a few people in Canada are regulars, one I think of in Nunavut Province on Hudson's Bay, I forget the name of the town) outside of the USA. It also would be nice if folks in South America, Africa and Antarctica also had that much of an interest but such is life, I suppose my stuff just does not appeal to them.
All the best,
Glenn B
Oh well, just a useless set of facts on in which continents my blog is viewed the least. Maybe I should write up some posts on big game hunting in Africa, or about the pyramids in Egypt, or the Inca temples in Peru, or about Argentine beef, or about how friggin cold it can get in Antarctica, or on Penguins to get their attention (the people, not the penguins) in those places. I will admit, my blog is meant for anyone to read, but without a doubt I write for an American audience. That is meant as in the America the country, not either of the Americas the continents.
It is nice though, to see that I do garner quite a bit of interest, on a regular basis, in other places such as in Asia (for instance folks Japan, S. Korea, India are all among the regulars), Australia (a few different locations in the country and continent of the same name), Europe (England, France, Germany, among my regulars there) and the other countries in North America (a few people in Canada are regulars, one I think of in Nunavut Province on Hudson's Bay, I forget the name of the town) outside of the USA. It also would be nice if folks in South America, Africa and Antarctica also had that much of an interest but such is life, I suppose my stuff just does not appeal to them.
All the best,
Glenn B
Tec-9 Disassembly and Reassembly
Nice video, of a pretty gal, taking apart and putting back together a TEC-9. Too bad there are no audio instructions to explain each step as she goes along. Of course, some of the guys who see this will not give a hoot about whether or not there were audio instructions!
Being the critical type that am I, allow me to point something out. In general, if you are going to field strip and reassemble a weapon for cleaning, or other purposes such as making a video, it probably is best done with the bullets removed from the magazine, and left nowhere near the firearm, to avoid an unintentional discharge. Note, somewhere in there, someone placed an empty magazine on the table because the one she puts into the gun at the end of the video appears to be unloaded; although, when she started to assemble it, the live mag was still on the table. I also recommend removing the magazine from the weapon with your finger off of the trigger, and outside the trigger guard, if possible.
All the best,
Glenn B
Being the critical type that am I, allow me to point something out. In general, if you are going to field strip and reassemble a weapon for cleaning, or other purposes such as making a video, it probably is best done with the bullets removed from the magazine, and left nowhere near the firearm, to avoid an unintentional discharge. Note, somewhere in there, someone placed an empty magazine on the table because the one she puts into the gun at the end of the video appears to be unloaded; although, when she started to assemble it, the live mag was still on the table. I also recommend removing the magazine from the weapon with your finger off of the trigger, and outside the trigger guard, if possible.
All the best,
Glenn B
MIL-DOT Scopes - Think You Know What MIL Stands For?
I am into guns and shooting, more so pistols and shotguns than rifles. I shoot rifles a lot too but am certainly not into all of the nomenclature and other technical stuff about them. I have a lot to learn and my guess is that many others out there also have a lot to learn. I learned something new today, I learned exactly for what the abbreviation MIL stands for in MIL-DOT when referring to an optical rifle scope. Do you know what it means?
I don't think it was ever any big secret but I can tell you that an awful lot of people have gotten it wrong when telling me the meaning of Mil in Mil-Dot. Those folks have included other average shooters like me, long range marksman, high-power shooters, military types, SWAT type members, firearms instructors, gun dealers, and people I have met at ranges who had a Mil-Dot scope on their rifle. If you, like me, and the folks I just mentioned, thought it was an abbreviation for 'military', then you ought to visit the page at this link and enjoy a short but meaningful read about two terms: Minute of Angle and Mil. You might learn something new, I did. In fact, I learned two things, the meaning of Mil - and that while I knew what Minute of Angle meant, I probably could never explain it properly without notes in front of me.
All the best,
Glenn B
I don't think it was ever any big secret but I can tell you that an awful lot of people have gotten it wrong when telling me the meaning of Mil in Mil-Dot. Those folks have included other average shooters like me, long range marksman, high-power shooters, military types, SWAT type members, firearms instructors, gun dealers, and people I have met at ranges who had a Mil-Dot scope on their rifle. If you, like me, and the folks I just mentioned, thought it was an abbreviation for 'military', then you ought to visit the page at this link and enjoy a short but meaningful read about two terms: Minute of Angle and Mil. You might learn something new, I did. In fact, I learned two things, the meaning of Mil - and that while I knew what Minute of Angle meant, I probably could never explain it properly without notes in front of me.
All the best,
Glenn B
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Scary Monsters Indeed - Maybe The Scariest Of All Live Within Us
I read some news over at a fellow blogger's site today, it was news about Monsters. Art, from Home Place - Art's Stuff, got some bad news, he is facing a monster, one that is inside of him. He has prostate cancer. On the good side, his docs say they found it early.
Why am I telling you this?
Well, last year when I was diagnosed with cancer, it took me awhile to let my secret out to the world, heck - even to my family. I did not want to bring up bad news right before and for a couple of weeks after my daughter's getting engaged (her fiance had us all in on his plan), nor while my aunt was dying from cancer, nor shortly after my brother-in-law's wife had passed on from it. I waited and kept the monster called cancer in the dark from others and also kept another monster inside, the monster called hopeless fear. It was a scary time for me. After I told my wife and family about it, I let some friends know, then let work know, then let the world know on my blog. The response I got, from family, friends and coworkers was to be expected - very supportive, in fact more than I had thought would be coming from them came my way with lots more love than I would have imagined especially from family. The response I got from people out there in the blogosphere was very unexpected. People all over the world were pulling and praying for me, lighting candles for me, sending me emails wishing me well, and so on. It was very humbling but also was very uplifting and very welcome support from people who for the most part are total strangers to me. Without it though, I do not know if I would have been able to keep up the fight, I do not know if family and friends and coworkers and docs and nurses and techs and treatments would have been enough, it was that tough and you guys helped pull me through.
So again, why am I telling you about Art's condition here on my blog? I am hopeful that some of you, my few but dear readers, will go to his blog and do for him what you did for me: Help him kick cancer's ass!
All the best,
Glenn B
Why am I telling you this?
Well, last year when I was diagnosed with cancer, it took me awhile to let my secret out to the world, heck - even to my family. I did not want to bring up bad news right before and for a couple of weeks after my daughter's getting engaged (her fiance had us all in on his plan), nor while my aunt was dying from cancer, nor shortly after my brother-in-law's wife had passed on from it. I waited and kept the monster called cancer in the dark from others and also kept another monster inside, the monster called hopeless fear. It was a scary time for me. After I told my wife and family about it, I let some friends know, then let work know, then let the world know on my blog. The response I got, from family, friends and coworkers was to be expected - very supportive, in fact more than I had thought would be coming from them came my way with lots more love than I would have imagined especially from family. The response I got from people out there in the blogosphere was very unexpected. People all over the world were pulling and praying for me, lighting candles for me, sending me emails wishing me well, and so on. It was very humbling but also was very uplifting and very welcome support from people who for the most part are total strangers to me. Without it though, I do not know if I would have been able to keep up the fight, I do not know if family and friends and coworkers and docs and nurses and techs and treatments would have been enough, it was that tough and you guys helped pull me through.
So again, why am I telling you about Art's condition here on my blog? I am hopeful that some of you, my few but dear readers, will go to his blog and do for him what you did for me: Help him kick cancer's ass!
All the best,
Glenn B
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Whoopi Goldberg In The NRA! Should I Cancel My NRA Life Membership???
Yep, you read it correctly. Seemingly ultra leftist, Whoopi Goldberg is, apparently in her own words, a member of the NRA. Since she and the others, on the May 9, 2012 edition of The View, were talking about guns and gun control with John Stossel, I have to imagine she meant the National Rifle Association and not some other organization that uses the initials NRA.
Gosh, it makes me want to reconsider having a life membership with them because I doubt very much that she has had a sudden change of heart from what have appeared to have been, and have appeared that way over many years, her ultra leftist attitude. Have I somehow read her wrong for all those years or did she join the NRA for something like shock value or just as a lark or maybe to be able to fall back on them for support should she ever be charged in a crime involving a gun that she keeps, in the closet (figuratively not literally) for self defense? I am simply flabbergasted. I hope to find out more about her NRA membership and about her views of the 2nd Amendment and the overall right to keep and bear arms.
Watch the video and pay attention to the audio, you can hear her say it herself:
Oh, I have to ask that you please do not start to think that I am a fan of The View. I may have watched 5 minutes of it, 10 at most, over the whole time it has been on television. I saw the news in a firearms forum and decided I had to share it with my readers. The thought of having a video showing Joy Behar, here on my blog, makes me want to puke! I would be willing to bet she is not an NRA member but a contributor to the Brady Campaign or similar organizations but her making me want to vomit has only a little to do with that; in general, I find her, her politics, her attitude and her mannerisms totally repulsive.
As for Whoopi being in the NRA - who woulda thunk it!!!!!!!!
All the best,
Glenn B
Gosh, it makes me want to reconsider having a life membership with them because I doubt very much that she has had a sudden change of heart from what have appeared to have been, and have appeared that way over many years, her ultra leftist attitude. Have I somehow read her wrong for all those years or did she join the NRA for something like shock value or just as a lark or maybe to be able to fall back on them for support should she ever be charged in a crime involving a gun that she keeps, in the closet (figuratively not literally) for self defense? I am simply flabbergasted. I hope to find out more about her NRA membership and about her views of the 2nd Amendment and the overall right to keep and bear arms.
Watch the video and pay attention to the audio, you can hear her say it herself:
Oh, I have to ask that you please do not start to think that I am a fan of The View. I may have watched 5 minutes of it, 10 at most, over the whole time it has been on television. I saw the news in a firearms forum and decided I had to share it with my readers. The thought of having a video showing Joy Behar, here on my blog, makes me want to puke! I would be willing to bet she is not an NRA member but a contributor to the Brady Campaign or similar organizations but her making me want to vomit has only a little to do with that; in general, I find her, her politics, her attitude and her mannerisms totally repulsive.
As for Whoopi being in the NRA - who woulda thunk it!!!!!!!!
All the best,
Glenn B
Paul Harvey - If I Were The Devil...
This is a great prediction, well a warning at least, originally from 1965 but this may well be a revised version. It makes one heck of a lot of sense today if only becase it fits America so well right now:
I did not always agree with Paul Harvey but he certainly hit it right on the head sometimes! If nothing else, he certainly was an eloquent speaker with unusual intonation and a great voice.
All the best,
Glenn B
I did not always agree with Paul Harvey but he certainly hit it right on the head sometimes! If nothing else, he certainly was an eloquent speaker with unusual intonation and a great voice.
All the best,
Glenn B
Another Gun Blog Added To My Blog Roll
I added Emily Gets Her Gun to my list of linked blogs under the header: TAKE A SHOT WITH THESE SHOOTIST BLOGGERS, Not At Them (over on the right in the blue zone. In the event the link does not work, go to this address to view it:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/guns/.
It is a regular part of the Washington Times online edition. Looks to be a good gun blog.
All the best,
Glenn B
http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/guns/.
It is a regular part of the Washington Times online edition. Looks to be a good gun blog.
All the best,
Glenn B
Arthritis - As Old As The Hills - It May Actually Be Older Than Most Mountain Ranges
When you think of arthritis, and that is probably not much unless you, someone close to you or one of your pets is burdened with it in one form or another, you likely do not wonder how long it has been around. The truth be told, or what seems likely to be the truth, is that arthritis has been afflicting creatures on earth since long before most, if not all, of our current mountain ranges were even hills.
It has been reported that scientists have discovered the fossilized remains of a pliosaur, a sea roaming, predatory beast, of huge proportions, that evidently had an arthritis like disease in its jaws. They say it suffered from it for years, long enough to put its jaws out of alignment so that the teeth (and some of its teeth were up to 8 inches long in a jaw about 10 feet long) of the upper jaw left marks in the lower jawbone. Ouch is all I can think. I have osteoarthritis and bursitis, have had disc surgery due to a completely extruded disc, and have suffered with Lyme disease twice. I know the terrible pain such maladies can cause even when the diseases are not severe. I cannot imagine living for years with excruciating arthritis pain, as they surmise this great beast must have done, that is until its jaw broke. They think it broke due to erosion of the jaw joint, misalignment and other arthritis caused damage - and never healed again thus maybe leading to its death by way of starvation.
Interesting article, worth a read. See it here: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/05/16/ancient-loch-ness-monster-suffered-arthritis/
All the best,
Glenn B
It has been reported that scientists have discovered the fossilized remains of a pliosaur, a sea roaming, predatory beast, of huge proportions, that evidently had an arthritis like disease in its jaws. They say it suffered from it for years, long enough to put its jaws out of alignment so that the teeth (and some of its teeth were up to 8 inches long in a jaw about 10 feet long) of the upper jaw left marks in the lower jawbone. Ouch is all I can think. I have osteoarthritis and bursitis, have had disc surgery due to a completely extruded disc, and have suffered with Lyme disease twice. I know the terrible pain such maladies can cause even when the diseases are not severe. I cannot imagine living for years with excruciating arthritis pain, as they surmise this great beast must have done, that is until its jaw broke. They think it broke due to erosion of the jaw joint, misalignment and other arthritis caused damage - and never healed again thus maybe leading to its death by way of starvation.
Interesting article, worth a read. See it here: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/05/16/ancient-loch-ness-monster-suffered-arthritis/
All the best,
Glenn B
If You Are Or Ever Were A Gun Blogger...
...now is not the time to stop gun-blogging. Now is the time to continue doing it with a passion while at the same time doing it civilly and with respect toward others who may have differing views on issues like gun control. I am not trying to say that you should show compassion and understanding to people such as those in The Brady Campaign. Rather, what I mean is that you write plenty of positive gun blog posts now, that are supportive of gun rights in a fair and respectable manner I (as in not like raving and ranting in a tirade of invectives), so as to draw more folks to our cause than you scare away from it. You can still call it as you see it and we need you to do just that. We need to get the fence sitters over on our side of the fence and the way to do it is with posts that show respect for them while remembering that maybe they voted for the current guy in office but are on the fence about whether or not they should do it again. This is an election year and we need all the help we can get to overthrow our current tyrannical dictatorship vote in a new administration, a more gun-rights friendly one, and get rid of the sitting one.
I have noticed that some pro-gun bloggers seem to be getting out of blogging or have simply not been all that productive lately as relative to posts that support our right to keep and bear arms and our right to be able to defend ourselves with them. I do not know the reason(s), there could be many of them. I am hopeful that those bloggers have not given up their guns and I am pretty sure they have not. I think though that they have given up, or slowed down, on gun-blogging.
Come on folks, get back into it - we need to have you stick to your blog-guns, to see you consistent on the draw, to see your gun-blogs blazing away, to see your words accurately and reliably shooting down the opposition with no harm to bystanders and maybe even protecting them and their rights, to know you have our backs at this crucial time in what surely will become an historic election year either way that it turns out. Your blogs don't specifically have to be about gun-rights or gun-politics, heck you can just write about how much fun it is to shoot, about people defending themselves or their families with firearms, about your gun collection and why you collect, about how you hunt with firearms, about your target shooting experiences, about being a woman shooter I (as in a woman who shoots and not as in someone who shoots women), about gun shows, about gunsmithing, about training and tactics, about ammo, about teaching youngsters to shoot, or about how grandpa taught you to shoot and to respect our right to keep and bear arms. Yes, of course, you can and maybe even should also write about our right to keep and bear arms and our right to defend ouselves, our families and innocents with them.
Gun-blogging can do us a lot of good but we need you to get it out of the holster for the world to see it. Otherwise, you will just be shooting blanks and the next thing you might wake up to find arejack-booted thugs government agents or police breaking into your home to take away even your water-pistols.
All the best,
Glenn B
I have noticed that some pro-gun bloggers seem to be getting out of blogging or have simply not been all that productive lately as relative to posts that support our right to keep and bear arms and our right to be able to defend ourselves with them. I do not know the reason(s), there could be many of them. I am hopeful that those bloggers have not given up their guns and I am pretty sure they have not. I think though that they have given up, or slowed down, on gun-blogging.
Come on folks, get back into it - we need to have you stick to your blog-guns, to see you consistent on the draw, to see your gun-blogs blazing away, to see your words accurately and reliably shooting down the opposition with no harm to bystanders and maybe even protecting them and their rights, to know you have our backs at this crucial time in what surely will become an historic election year either way that it turns out. Your blogs don't specifically have to be about gun-rights or gun-politics, heck you can just write about how much fun it is to shoot, about people defending themselves or their families with firearms, about your gun collection and why you collect, about how you hunt with firearms, about your target shooting experiences, about being a woman shooter I (as in a woman who shoots and not as in someone who shoots women), about gun shows, about gunsmithing, about training and tactics, about ammo, about teaching youngsters to shoot, or about how grandpa taught you to shoot and to respect our right to keep and bear arms. Yes, of course, you can and maybe even should also write about our right to keep and bear arms and our right to defend ouselves, our families and innocents with them.
Gun-blogging can do us a lot of good but we need you to get it out of the holster for the world to see it. Otherwise, you will just be shooting blanks and the next thing you might wake up to find are
All the best,
Glenn B
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Alcohol Or Mind Altering Drugs And Gunpowder Do Not Mix - It Is A Cardinal Rule Of Firearms Safety...
...and has been around for a long time, long before the so called '4 rules of firearms safety'. The importance of this rule is that the all the others often go completely disregarded once booze and/or drugs are mixed with gunpowder. I would be willing to bet dollars to donuts that booze, drugs or both were involved in this shooting:
http://main.aol.com/2012/05/15/shawn-mossow-shoots-friend-at-request_n_1518270.html
Simply amazing how friggin stupid booze and drugs can make people, then again, some people need no help at all in that regard.
All the best,
Glenn B
http://main.aol.com/2012/05/15/shawn-mossow-shoots-friend-at-request_n_1518270.html
Simply amazing how friggin stupid booze and drugs can make people, then again, some people need no help at all in that regard.
All the best,
Glenn B
The Anti-Gun Mind Gone Berserk - Public Worker Reportedly Fired After Finding Gun And Turning It Over To Police
Let me tell you folks, if this story is true, as it is written right now, then someone in the Wayne County (near or part of Detroit, MI - I think) government needs to have his or her head examined and maybe deserves a good demotion or firing too. You see, a Wayne County groundskeeper was fired for possessing a gun on county property. He found the gun while doing his job and turned it over to the police. The reason the county says he was fired was reported on like this:
"According to a Wayne County spokeswoman and the rules, employees aren't allowed to possess a weapon on work property."
See: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/05/15/detroit-groundskeeper-fired-after-finding-loaded-gun-handing-it-to-cops/.
There are many reasons it is called the Loony Left, this but one of them but this one shows the left at its looniest.
All the best,
Glenn B
"According to a Wayne County spokeswoman and the rules, employees aren't allowed to possess a weapon on work property."
See: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/05/15/detroit-groundskeeper-fired-after-finding-loaded-gun-handing-it-to-cops/.
There are many reasons it is called the Loony Left, this but one of them but this one shows the left at its looniest.
All the best,
Glenn B
A Powerful Yet Brief Video About The Power Of Words And My Commentary On How It Could Change The Political World
Skip the opening advertisement and go directly to the video (which is an ad itself but a great one, maybe the best I have ever seen).
Enjoy this one, it is likely to bring a tear or two to your eyes and/or give you a certain feeling of wonderment in both your mind and your gut. Too bad most people are not really as thoughtfully intelligent as was the lady portrayed in this video, we could change the world if such was the case.
For example, think of the wonderful worldwide effect that changing one word could have if we changed just one word in the campaign slogan: "Vote Obama" to the word "Fuck...". Can you guess which word I would change?
I may have posted on this one before, if I did, well I know I did not give it the same political slant as this time. Anyway, the video is worth watching again, no matter your politics.
A hat tip to Patrick J. S. for the video link.
All the best,
Glenn B
Enjoy this one, it is likely to bring a tear or two to your eyes and/or give you a certain feeling of wonderment in both your mind and your gut. Too bad most people are not really as thoughtfully intelligent as was the lady portrayed in this video, we could change the world if such was the case.
For example, think of the wonderful worldwide effect that changing one word could have if we changed just one word in the campaign slogan: "Vote Obama" to the word "Fuck...". Can you guess which word I would change?
I may have posted on this one before, if I did, well I know I did not give it the same political slant as this time. Anyway, the video is worth watching again, no matter your politics.
A hat tip to Patrick J. S. for the video link.
All the best,
Glenn B
Another Obama First? Obama Unbelievably Dropping Own Name Into Other Presidents' Official White House Biographies
This is beyond arrogance, this is totally incredible, that is until you think of President Obama's nature. Our current president, Barack Hussein Obama, has taken the liberty of, or allowed the, inputting his name into the official White House biographies of all our other presidents, with the exception of Gerald Ford, reportedly all the way back to Calvin Coolidge. See:
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2012/05/15/obama-drops-his-name-into-presidential-biographies/
He then reportedly claims credit for what he seemingly would have us believe are ongoing policies, that other presidents started, by trying to equate his current policies with those of presidents past. For example, with regard to President Ronald Reagan, Obama is claiming credit for keeping alive President Reagan's turning of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day into a national holiday because Obama says he participates in services on that day. In addition, Obama says that Ronald Reagan called for a fairer tax and Obama is doing the same with the Buffet Rule. Nothing could be further from Ronald Reagan's idea of a fairer tax than the Buffet Rule as far as I am concerned; then again, no president could be further from Ronald Reagan than is Obama. See President Reagan's White House biography here, and look down to near the end under the header: Did You Know. Then try to remember that it was supposed to be an official white House biography of Ronald Reagan (which is always what it was up until recently) and not a campaign advertisement for Obama!
This simply goes to show that the man takes credit for everything he can that others created or stood for because he has little to offer himself. He is little more than a political hack and he ought to be ashamed of himself. My bet is that, he is beyond being able to feel shame because he thinks so highly of himself as to so unabashedly take credit for the ideas of others. He evidently has a problematic and rather a big and very disturbed and perverse ego or so I would think.
A hat tip to Peter Q for this one.
All the best,
Glenn B
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2012/05/15/obama-drops-his-name-into-presidential-biographies/
He then reportedly claims credit for what he seemingly would have us believe are ongoing policies, that other presidents started, by trying to equate his current policies with those of presidents past. For example, with regard to President Ronald Reagan, Obama is claiming credit for keeping alive President Reagan's turning of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day into a national holiday because Obama says he participates in services on that day. In addition, Obama says that Ronald Reagan called for a fairer tax and Obama is doing the same with the Buffet Rule. Nothing could be further from Ronald Reagan's idea of a fairer tax than the Buffet Rule as far as I am concerned; then again, no president could be further from Ronald Reagan than is Obama. See President Reagan's White House biography here, and look down to near the end under the header: Did You Know. Then try to remember that it was supposed to be an official white House biography of Ronald Reagan (which is always what it was up until recently) and not a campaign advertisement for Obama!
This simply goes to show that the man takes credit for everything he can that others created or stood for because he has little to offer himself. He is little more than a political hack and he ought to be ashamed of himself. My bet is that, he is beyond being able to feel shame because he thinks so highly of himself as to so unabashedly take credit for the ideas of others. He evidently has a problematic and rather a big and very disturbed and perverse ego or so I would think.
A hat tip to Peter Q for this one.
All the best,
Glenn B
Fishing Aboard The Captain Al - Point Lookout, NY
I took a little fishing trip yesterday. Sadly, my uncle who was here from Florida, decided not to come along for the fun.
I went over to Point Lookout, NY with every intention of going out on the Super hawk, for the first time ever but they did not sail. Instead, I had to switch over to the Captain Al at the adjacent mooring. The Super hawk had a total of 2 fares aboard, me and another guy and the Captain Al had about 30 or 40 paying fares. Goes to show you that building a good reputation for yourself goes a long way to assure loyal customers. I usually go out on the Captain Al but wanted to try what I believed was a faster boat, the Captain Al had a terrible reputation as a slow boat, a really slow boat, but a great reputation otherwise. Much to my surprise, i found out they had gotten a new engine installed, last year, and I must admit the Captain Al is now fast, if not a speed demon among local party boats.
As usual, the Captain Al's captain got us to productive fishing grounds. Within 5 minutes of leaving the dock, we were hauling in Sea bass one after the other, most very good sized too. The sad thing was that this year, NYS DEC changed the regulations and the open season on them is not until mid June. Throughout the day, I caught at least 14 of them. I also caught one blackfish, also not in season, two dogfish (both thrown back), a skate or two and a conger eel. In addition, I caught 17 Ling, I threw two of them back because they were too small for me although there is no size limit on them. Ling are very tasty - some of the finest tasting fish the oceans have to offer, in my opinion. At first I was not getting nearly as many as others, when they had ten ling, I had two. Seems my rod was too stiff, a complaint I have not heard much lately at my age! A big hat tip to fisherman John who was next to me at the rail. After he told me that his thought on why I was not catching as many was my rod's stiffness, I decided to ask the crew to set me up with a boat pole that was lighter action than my own. I started to catch immediately and surpassed some others who had had more than me before the switch. I had one other keeper fish, a 5-6 pound bluefish. I had a ling on the hook and the bluefish took the second hook on the way up. The sudden change in action from the almost nothing slight tug of the ling, to the zig-zagging run of the blue was pretty exciting.
I cooked all the ling shortly after I got home last night. They were delicious and we have leftovers. As for the bluefish, if the rain lets up some later today, it is going on the BBQ for tonight's meal.
I have to say that the mates aboard the Captain Al, yesterday, were exceptional. They were 100% attentive to the fares and did not fish themselves. They were there to help, such as to refill you bait cup or with a gaff hook or net if you needed it, even when you did not call them over. That is truly attentive. They work mostly, if not completely, for tips and they acted accordingly. The captain was also very good, he did not spare the diesel fuel but moved from spot to spot to assure a good long day of reeling em in. I am going to estimate that the average catch of keeper fish was about 20 fish per fare. Some probably had up to 30 keepers. If you include the sea bass that had to be thrown back, double those figures. Besides the ling, sea bass, bluefish (mine was the only one), blackfish, dogfish, conger eel and skates that I caught, others also caught the same as well as a lone codfish (the pool winner and I think my blue was bigger but blues are not allowed int he pool), some winter flounder, and some porgies (scup). I think, in all, I had about 37 fish. It was a great day and the only disappointments were that my son (he had school) and my uncle were not along to enjoy it with me. My son's absence being the bigger disappointment by far.
All the best,
Glenn B
I went over to Point Lookout, NY with every intention of going out on the Super hawk, for the first time ever but they did not sail. Instead, I had to switch over to the Captain Al at the adjacent mooring. The Super hawk had a total of 2 fares aboard, me and another guy and the Captain Al had about 30 or 40 paying fares. Goes to show you that building a good reputation for yourself goes a long way to assure loyal customers. I usually go out on the Captain Al but wanted to try what I believed was a faster boat, the Captain Al had a terrible reputation as a slow boat, a really slow boat, but a great reputation otherwise. Much to my surprise, i found out they had gotten a new engine installed, last year, and I must admit the Captain Al is now fast, if not a speed demon among local party boats.
As usual, the Captain Al's captain got us to productive fishing grounds. Within 5 minutes of leaving the dock, we were hauling in Sea bass one after the other, most very good sized too. The sad thing was that this year, NYS DEC changed the regulations and the open season on them is not until mid June. Throughout the day, I caught at least 14 of them. I also caught one blackfish, also not in season, two dogfish (both thrown back), a skate or two and a conger eel. In addition, I caught 17 Ling, I threw two of them back because they were too small for me although there is no size limit on them. Ling are very tasty - some of the finest tasting fish the oceans have to offer, in my opinion. At first I was not getting nearly as many as others, when they had ten ling, I had two. Seems my rod was too stiff, a complaint I have not heard much lately at my age! A big hat tip to fisherman John who was next to me at the rail. After he told me that his thought on why I was not catching as many was my rod's stiffness, I decided to ask the crew to set me up with a boat pole that was lighter action than my own. I started to catch immediately and surpassed some others who had had more than me before the switch. I had one other keeper fish, a 5-6 pound bluefish. I had a ling on the hook and the bluefish took the second hook on the way up. The sudden change in action from the almost nothing slight tug of the ling, to the zig-zagging run of the blue was pretty exciting.
I cooked all the ling shortly after I got home last night. They were delicious and we have leftovers. As for the bluefish, if the rain lets up some later today, it is going on the BBQ for tonight's meal.
I have to say that the mates aboard the Captain Al, yesterday, were exceptional. They were 100% attentive to the fares and did not fish themselves. They were there to help, such as to refill you bait cup or with a gaff hook or net if you needed it, even when you did not call them over. That is truly attentive. They work mostly, if not completely, for tips and they acted accordingly. The captain was also very good, he did not spare the diesel fuel but moved from spot to spot to assure a good long day of reeling em in. I am going to estimate that the average catch of keeper fish was about 20 fish per fare. Some probably had up to 30 keepers. If you include the sea bass that had to be thrown back, double those figures. Besides the ling, sea bass, bluefish (mine was the only one), blackfish, dogfish, conger eel and skates that I caught, others also caught the same as well as a lone codfish (the pool winner and I think my blue was bigger but blues are not allowed int he pool), some winter flounder, and some porgies (scup). I think, in all, I had about 37 fish. It was a great day and the only disappointments were that my son (he had school) and my uncle were not along to enjoy it with me. My son's absence being the bigger disappointment by far.
All the best,
Glenn B
Sunday, May 13, 2012
A Review of: TheSurvivalistBlog.net
As you will soon be able to see, I got a little creative in a review of TheSurvivalistBlog.net, one of the blogs to which I link and that I read on a pretty regular basis. Since they are holding a contest and offering some nice prizes for the best review they receive, I figured I would try my best at doing a realistic review of the site, while being creative, and making it fun to read. So I wrote it up from a post-apocalyptic perspective:
Journal Entry - June 24, 2013, Day 408
I've just been thinking of how we made it this long, remembering that first day, a month after the first one went off. Staying put down in our basement bunker for a month wasn't easy. Then coming up out of the rubble, of what I had once thought of as my beautiful home, and seeing the almost total devastation was really tough. Those terrorist bastards must have set off nukes. The world had come to an end as far as I could see - it was TEOTWAWKI (the end of the world as we knew it).
What was to follow was tougher than that first day back above ground. The skies remained gray and somber for months, the air heavy and acrid with the scents of decay and lingering smoke. The survivors, what few we encountered, were ill prepared and in need. We helped whom we could with what we thought we could spare, even took in a few neighbors. Then the real bastards showed up, worse than the ones who set of the bombs. These were our fellow Americans, the ones trying to take, by force, what little we had for ourselves and our neighbors who needed our help. Dealing with the marauders to protect my family, our few surviving neighbors and our supplies was the toughest thing I have ever faced in my life. So how did we make it through this far?
We owed a lot to something I had taken for granted before this all came down. A blog called TheSurvivalistBlog.net. All the information needed to survive right there on every page. How to stock up on food and water, what emergency supplies to keep on hand, how to grow a garden and what seeds would be best, how to reinforce a basement or build a bunker, info on guns and ammo, tactics to protect us from marauders, whether to bug out or hunker down, and on and on. It was all brought to us by one blogger and his loyal readers whom he allowed to enter guest posts on the site. The amount of knowledge they shared was tremendous. Heck, the site even had links to retailers who sold most of the survival supplies we have in stock. So, not only did they let us know how to do it but also where to stock up on equipment and supplies.
Without the know-how that I gained, from TheSurvivalistBlog.net, we would have gone the way of most of our community and most of them went the way of the dinosaurs - extinct. My wife, daughter, son and I (and a few of our neighbors whom we helped)owe our lives to the fact that we knew how to survive and were well prepared to do so. We owe that all to TheSurvivalistBlog.net, the most complete how-to survival guide I have ever seen.
Well, that's my review, based on what I think would be our experience after TEOTWAWKI. I hope you liked it and hope it has you heading over to check out TheSurvivalistBlog.net.
All the best,
Glenn B
Journal Entry - June 24, 2013, Day 408
I've just been thinking of how we made it this long, remembering that first day, a month after the first one went off. Staying put down in our basement bunker for a month wasn't easy. Then coming up out of the rubble, of what I had once thought of as my beautiful home, and seeing the almost total devastation was really tough. Those terrorist bastards must have set off nukes. The world had come to an end as far as I could see - it was TEOTWAWKI (the end of the world as we knew it).
What was to follow was tougher than that first day back above ground. The skies remained gray and somber for months, the air heavy and acrid with the scents of decay and lingering smoke. The survivors, what few we encountered, were ill prepared and in need. We helped whom we could with what we thought we could spare, even took in a few neighbors. Then the real bastards showed up, worse than the ones who set of the bombs. These were our fellow Americans, the ones trying to take, by force, what little we had for ourselves and our neighbors who needed our help. Dealing with the marauders to protect my family, our few surviving neighbors and our supplies was the toughest thing I have ever faced in my life. So how did we make it through this far?
We owed a lot to something I had taken for granted before this all came down. A blog called TheSurvivalistBlog.net. All the information needed to survive right there on every page. How to stock up on food and water, what emergency supplies to keep on hand, how to grow a garden and what seeds would be best, how to reinforce a basement or build a bunker, info on guns and ammo, tactics to protect us from marauders, whether to bug out or hunker down, and on and on. It was all brought to us by one blogger and his loyal readers whom he allowed to enter guest posts on the site. The amount of knowledge they shared was tremendous. Heck, the site even had links to retailers who sold most of the survival supplies we have in stock. So, not only did they let us know how to do it but also where to stock up on equipment and supplies.
Without the know-how that I gained, from TheSurvivalistBlog.net, we would have gone the way of most of our community and most of them went the way of the dinosaurs - extinct. My wife, daughter, son and I (and a few of our neighbors whom we helped)owe our lives to the fact that we knew how to survive and were well prepared to do so. We owe that all to TheSurvivalistBlog.net, the most complete how-to survival guide I have ever seen.
Well, that's my review, based on what I think would be our experience after TEOTWAWKI. I hope you liked it and hope it has you heading over to check out TheSurvivalistBlog.net.
All the best,
Glenn B
Happy Mothers' Day To All You Moms and...
... yes that goes for all you mother f lovers too. Hope your day is as nice as I am hoping mine turns out to be. Going to take my uncle (my mom's brother) to go see my mom around 1PM or thereabouts.
All the best,
Glenn B
All the best,
Glenn B
Blindness And A County Prosecutor In NJ Have Not Stopped Gun Collector
Just because you lose your sight, then years later get convicted of being an unruly drunk (once) and just because you once unintentionally shot yourself (not the same incident as the unruly drunkenness) does not necessarily mean that the Morris County Prosecutor's office, in the State of New Jersey, has grounds to revoke your firearms permit.
See: http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2012/05/blind_rockaway_township_gun_co.html
I am pretty amazed that a NJ court, anti-gun as NJ is known to be, has decided in this man's favor. Of course, there is a standing restriction on when he can fire his guns and I think it fairly reasonable that the state is requiring that he follow that earlier court imposed condition. He has to have a trained adult with him if he wants to actually shoot his guns. Even being the gun enthusiast that I am, I can see that perhaps being blind could be a major impediment to safe shooting without a coach by your side.
A hat tip to Steven Hopler for wanting to keep his collection and fighting for it and a hat tip to his lawyer Gregg Trautmann for putting up a winning courtroom battle.
All the best,
Glenn B
See: http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2012/05/blind_rockaway_township_gun_co.html
I am pretty amazed that a NJ court, anti-gun as NJ is known to be, has decided in this man's favor. Of course, there is a standing restriction on when he can fire his guns and I think it fairly reasonable that the state is requiring that he follow that earlier court imposed condition. He has to have a trained adult with him if he wants to actually shoot his guns. Even being the gun enthusiast that I am, I can see that perhaps being blind could be a major impediment to safe shooting without a coach by your side.
A hat tip to Steven Hopler for wanting to keep his collection and fighting for it and a hat tip to his lawyer Gregg Trautmann for putting up a winning courtroom battle.
All the best,
Glenn B
Saturday, May 12, 2012
A Couple of the Biggest 'Ifs' In History
Speaking about the recent discovery of gold and other precious metals, a potential source of phenomenal wealth for poverty stricken Haiti, a Haitian official, Bureau of Mines Director Dieuseul Anglade, said:
"If the mining companies are honest and if Haiti has a good government, then here is a way for this country to move forward,"
I think honest mining companies and honest government in Haiti have got to be a couple of the biggest 'ifs' in the history of the world!
All the best,
Glenn B
Source: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/05/11/prospectors-ready-to-tap-haiti-buried-gold/#ixzz1ufsHGloh
"If the mining companies are honest and if Haiti has a good government, then here is a way for this country to move forward,"
I think honest mining companies and honest government in Haiti have got to be a couple of the biggest 'ifs' in the history of the world!
All the best,
Glenn B
Source: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/05/11/prospectors-ready-to-tap-haiti-buried-gold/#ixzz1ufsHGloh
There Are Some Things In Which The State Should Never Involve Itself
High school pranks, in which no one is injured, are a good example of when the state should not be involved. Nope, am not talking about Mitt Romney's alleged HS prank, I am talking about a case of video voyeurism. It has been reported that two high school students apparently conspired to do an up-skirt video of one of their teachers, then posted it online and told others where to view it. This amazingly enough is a class D felony and both have been arrested and charged with the crime.
One of the reasons the current condition of our society is so messed up is that we, or many of us, seem to have a need and an overwhelming desire, for the state to control everything. Thus a high school prank carried out by evidently immature teenagers has led to their arrests on felony charges for something as petty as them taking a video of their teachers panties, then giving others an outlet to view the video. (Note: As I have not seen the video, I am assuming she was wearing a pair of panties. However, the article reports: "According to police reports, the video was pretty graphic and showed the teacher's buttocks and genital area." Te article also said: "Police say the video showed a "clear view" of the teacher's "private areas." To actually see her private areas would mean, at least to me, that they were uncovered. Egad, wasn't she wearing panties and if not why not and was that already known by the students because maybe she had been exposing herself! It is something to think about if her privates were exposed in the video. Panties are not usually considered private areas, that term is usually reserved for body parts. I also am forced to wonder how short was the skirt she was wearing and if this was in any manner encouraged by the actions of this teacher. Note, I said I am wondering, I am not accusing, I am not blaming the teacher and would not do so unless there is blame that is due her. It is just that the possibility for such should be investigated, considering the fact that police said her genitals were clearly visible and that certainly would seem to be rather scantily clad for a teacher with teen boys in her classroom. I simply have to wonder why she was so scantily clad, if that was indeed the case, since the classroom is not the place to be attired in such a manner.)
A shameful act, yes indeed. A very bad thing to have done, yes again. A disrespectful act, most certainly. One that should rise to the level of a felony and thus that quite possibly ruin the lives of these twomorons youths, I think not. Don't get me wrong, I think they should be punished if they actually did it. However, I believe the state should have no part in it, unless it was a state run school in which instance the state would have a part only by way of school officials having a part. First of all, if they did it and the evidence was clear and convincing, such as a confession, then I believe that school officials should have given them both a good amount of detention, and have had them removed from the class the teacher in question was teaching, and have them repeat the class next year. If they were seniors, tough noogies, they will be seniors again next year. I think the school should have also called in the parents immediately and the parents should have showed up post haste. Then I think the parents of the two boys should have beat the ever loving dog piss out of them, well - maybe not quite that severe but a good arse whooping certainly seems in order. A belt to the backside, pants down, even on an older teenager would do wonders to assure they learned a lesson that what the did was wrong and should not be repeated. Chances are, they would cease and desist from any such further behavior after some corporal punishment.
Instead, we have the state butting in, making arrests, now having to do an investigation, possibly incarcerating the youths prior to court proceeding, oh yes there will likely be court proceedings, if they plead not guilty they will most assuredly be entitled to a trial and that trial can be by jury if they so desire. There may even be two trials, if they can arrange to be tried apart from one another. Then, if found guilty will come the punishment if any. That could mean jail time. This could cost in the tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars and all over what. All because of two horny, disrespectful, young bucks who do what boys have been doing for ages, looking up women's skirts (yes they did in in a modern age way with a video camera/phone) and maybe, and I only say maybe because it was reported that her privates were clearly visible, in part because a teacher was not wearing undergarments. If such was the case, is she going to be charged?
All of the actions, expensive actions that we pay for as tax payers, mentioned in that last paragraph, could be avoided if parents were allowed to parent and teachers were allowed (as they were when I was young) to knock some sense and fear into kids and thus creating some honest to goodness sense of respect for others in those same kids. Does it work for every child, every time? No it does not but it worked a whole lot better than what we have now. If you doubt me then look to the percentage of the population of our kids now compared to kids 40 years ago as to how many of them are doing poorly in school, are truants, are in gangs, are on drugs, and or are in jails. I bet the stats will support me.
I think that if this is the first time that these two boys have done something like this, then they should not have been arrested and charged by the state, they should have had the board of education put to their asses. But oh no, the majority of us now seem to preferto be whiners to defer to the Nanny State instead of being ass kickers tough but fair parents and have allowed the state to step in and take over in a job that should have been accomplished by parents (95%) and by teachers (5%). The Nanny State really needs to take a break and once again allow parents the power and control they need to be parents and parents need to 'man up' and take over the responsibility for rearing their youngsters!
All the best,
Glenn B
One of the reasons the current condition of our society is so messed up is that we, or many of us, seem to have a need and an overwhelming desire, for the state to control everything. Thus a high school prank carried out by evidently immature teenagers has led to their arrests on felony charges for something as petty as them taking a video of their teachers panties, then giving others an outlet to view the video. (Note: As I have not seen the video, I am assuming she was wearing a pair of panties. However, the article reports: "According to police reports, the video was pretty graphic and showed the teacher's buttocks and genital area." Te article also said: "Police say the video showed a "clear view" of the teacher's "private areas." To actually see her private areas would mean, at least to me, that they were uncovered. Egad, wasn't she wearing panties and if not why not and was that already known by the students because maybe she had been exposing herself! It is something to think about if her privates were exposed in the video. Panties are not usually considered private areas, that term is usually reserved for body parts. I also am forced to wonder how short was the skirt she was wearing and if this was in any manner encouraged by the actions of this teacher. Note, I said I am wondering, I am not accusing, I am not blaming the teacher and would not do so unless there is blame that is due her. It is just that the possibility for such should be investigated, considering the fact that police said her genitals were clearly visible and that certainly would seem to be rather scantily clad for a teacher with teen boys in her classroom. I simply have to wonder why she was so scantily clad, if that was indeed the case, since the classroom is not the place to be attired in such a manner.)
A shameful act, yes indeed. A very bad thing to have done, yes again. A disrespectful act, most certainly. One that should rise to the level of a felony and thus that quite possibly ruin the lives of these two
Instead, we have the state butting in, making arrests, now having to do an investigation, possibly incarcerating the youths prior to court proceeding, oh yes there will likely be court proceedings, if they plead not guilty they will most assuredly be entitled to a trial and that trial can be by jury if they so desire. There may even be two trials, if they can arrange to be tried apart from one another. Then, if found guilty will come the punishment if any. That could mean jail time. This could cost in the tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars and all over what. All because of two horny, disrespectful, young bucks who do what boys have been doing for ages, looking up women's skirts (yes they did in in a modern age way with a video camera/phone) and maybe, and I only say maybe because it was reported that her privates were clearly visible, in part because a teacher was not wearing undergarments. If such was the case, is she going to be charged?
All of the actions, expensive actions that we pay for as tax payers, mentioned in that last paragraph, could be avoided if parents were allowed to parent and teachers were allowed (as they were when I was young) to knock some sense and fear into kids and thus creating some honest to goodness sense of respect for others in those same kids. Does it work for every child, every time? No it does not but it worked a whole lot better than what we have now. If you doubt me then look to the percentage of the population of our kids now compared to kids 40 years ago as to how many of them are doing poorly in school, are truants, are in gangs, are on drugs, and or are in jails. I bet the stats will support me.
I think that if this is the first time that these two boys have done something like this, then they should not have been arrested and charged by the state, they should have had the board of education put to their asses. But oh no, the majority of us now seem to prefer
All the best,
Glenn B
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