The Skull of Doom

While driving home from the security guard class that I had to take today, I made a detour and stopped off at my daughter and son-in-law's place. Before getting there, I stopped in a CVS to pick them up a little something. As I walked through the aisles, a guy was stocking some shelves with Halloween items. I took a look and this caught my eye.




http://www.cvs.com/shop/product-detail/Spooky-Village-Light-Up-Skull?skuId=887106

It feels like it is made of plaster or something like it, is pretty big (bigger than my head by a bit) and has an internal light that runs on batteries that were included. The real glow is just about how it looks in the pic. I brought it to their house, saw my daughter's car there and rang the bell. No answer, except I got their dogs barking at me. I waited a few minutes and was just about to turn to leave when someone blew a car horn. Just then they drove into their driveway - perfect timing! Phil said that they had just been considering buying something for a Halloween decoration while they were out at the supermarket. Go figure, I did something right. Both he and Celina liked it. That was also a plus. Now I wish I had gotten one for my house too, or maybe the Dracula they had, he lit up with red eyes and a fang filled mouth. Oh well, still plenty of time.

Oh yeah before leaving, I named it The Skull of Doom. Nice addition for the first Halloween decoration for their first house.

All the best,
GB

It's Been A Long Day For A Day Off

Well, I was supposed to have today and tomorrow off. I have been working a bit more than usual this week, covering for a guy on vacation, so I worked Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday. Yes, I also worked today but not at the library. I had to attend and 8 hour annual security guard training class to keep my license valid and had to get up early for it. I usually don't work until 1PM each day but today had to be at the class at 0900.  It was like torture - or at least like water boarding. The subject matter was stuff I have heard a lot before plus the instructor, although a very nice guy, seemed to have little grasp of the law relative to security guards and kept making a point of that. Yet, in great part, that is what the class was supposed to cover. Well it is over now and I don't have to attend again for another year. One plus about this class is that it actually made me look forward to the additional 8 hour armed guard course I will have to take sometime within the next 8 or 9 months or so. At least I get in some shooty goodness in that one.

All the best,
Glenn B

It May Have Taken Balls...

...but regardless of what he claims, it surely did not take any brains (not those of a rocket scientist or even a regular fully functional one) for Eric Harroun to get into an al-Qaeda affiliate group fighting against the Syrian government forces. After all, had he had any brains at all, he would not have joined up with a Syrian rebel group in the first place thus leading to him joining with the al-Qaeda linked scum.

Now he will be going to prison, and if not for a long time, at least long enough to have his derriere probed by fellow inmates to see if that is where what little bit of brains he has reside. Yes, the probes of which I write will likely be by way of daily hot beef injections and if it took brains, on his part, to wind up in that type of a predicament, well then I guess I am a rocket scientist for not having wound up there.

Read the article here. Fuck Harroun - and may I suggest that his fellow inmates fuck him too.

All the best to loyal Americans
and all the worst to Harroun,
Glenn B

Considering Putting A Tip Box Icon On The Blog...

...but I won't do it. I could use the money though. Today, I shelled out $3900 for repairs to my chimneys due to Super Storm Sandy damage. That included a lot of damage and expense for something that my insurance company refuses to cover; even though it was damage from the storm they say it was not. Yet, the repairmen say it most definitely was and the estimate I sent to the insurance company stated as much. Oh well, I see a long drawn out fight coming up.

Then there is the 11 or 12K we will soon be paying for a remodeled bathroom. Part of our kitchen ceiling recently collapsed due to a leak in the bathroom someplace. Tiles falling off the wall or something like that. Other issues too, so we need to get it repaired and figured since it is over 20 years old we will do a complete remodel. Then there is the kitchen too. Got an estimate for cabinet resurfacing because we were told it would be much less expensive (and mind you, our kitchen is tiny - not many cabinets). The resurfacing estimate was $11,963. That was from Homer's Depot. I told my wife that the estimator was out of his mind and that I could buy all new cabinets for under$3-4K and that there is no way labor to take out the old and put in the new would be all that much. Then we got an estimate from a kitchen and bath contractor (same place we got the estimate for the bathroom). It was thousands under the Home Depot estimate, much closer to what I had thought would be reasonable, even a little less. Looks like we will be getting the kitchen done too. I see a big chunk of our life savings going down the kitchen sink's drain and another big chunk going down the toilet. Add to that what went up the chimneys in smoke today and I feel almost destitute.

Who knows, I suppose it is possible that I will get lucky and find a better paying job; I could use one. I certainly have been looking for one but none have been forthcoming. If not, then maybe we will hit the lottery; any one of them would be fine by me. The prize does not have to be hundreds of millions - a mere hundreds of thousands (to put into our bank account) sure would be nice though! Never had much luck with lotteries though so I will keeping looking for a better paying job (and of course buy a few lottery tickets each week).

Perhaps, there is another way. I could start begging like it seems most of America does lately but somehow I don't think I really could bring myself to do it. So, it seems, there will be more ammo purchases for quite the while - at least until I get all that contractor work paid off.

All the best,
Glenn B

In Light of Starbuck's - People Are Saying That No One Should Open Carry...

...because it puts firearms owners in a bad light in that uninformed people are afraid of armed individuals and that the media will show us as armed kooks in public. I say carry away openly if legal. The more we expose ourselves and our firearms to the public, in a rational and courteously calm manner, the sooner the unarmed folks (at least the thinking ones, I am not talking ultra-leftists here) in this country are going to get used to it and accept it. When it becomes commonplace for armed individuals to be walking our streets, it will be, if not acceptable to all, at least tolerable to most of them.

As far as the Starbucks decision goes, I used to visit them with some frequency but as the words just before these indicated - that was in the past. I will probably not buy even another sip of coffee from them nor a morsel of apple fritter. While I always figured they did not actually support the RKBA now, regardless of the words of their CEO, Howard Schultz, I am convinced they not only do not support it, they are absolutely opposed to it.

The really sad thing is though, most of you who carry firearms and who have been patrons of Starbuck's will continue to do so instead of sticking to your guns and bringing your business elsewhere.

One other thing to add, specifically in reference to CEO Schultz saying that people carrying firearms made his other customers nervous. It makes me uncomfortable to think the guy sitting next to me is unarmed and that an armed lunatic may come in and start to hurt people and I am the only one who would be able to defend others. Not having someone in there able to take my back is too scary for me - so no more Starbuck's for me is the only cure for my jittery nerves.

All the best,
Glenn B

The Leftist Loons Are Calling For More Assault Weapons Gun Control Laws...

...based upon the shootings at the DC Navy Yard. Have you wondered why? You really should be wondering especially since the shooter, that murdering bastard, did not kill or wound anyone with an assault weapon as per reports quoting law enforcement.

I was just at the local news stand and saw at least two local NY papers had pics of AR-15s on the front page with damnation from the left claiming that the shooter killed with one. I have heard the ultra leftists (I guess that was redundant) on the radio and seen and heard them on TV damning assault weapons, specifically the AR-15. Then, when I got home, I turned on the news to hear that the shooter only killed with his shotgun and possibly also with a pistol or pistols (that he obtained from one or more of his victims). According to the report, law enforcement is saying he did not have, or at least did not wound or kill anyone with, an AR15 or similar rifle. He did not use an assault weapon, not even the make believe assault weapon known as an AR-15 which technically is not an assault weapon (it is so only legally because foolish and ignorant politicians labeled them as such under the law).

Let me repeat that. He did not use an assault weapon. As a matter of fact, I guess he sort of took Vice President Blabbermouth Biden's advice - he purchased a shotgun. Yet, the politicians, the press, the media, the anti-gun nuts are calling for further assault weapons bans - heck Nancy Pelosi called for it yesterday. 

I would call for keeping violent felons and frigging crazy people from getting guns. To become a convicted felon would mean you would have to be successfully prosecuted for a felony. He was arrested more than once and charges dropped each time, or so it has been reported today. Maybe, had he been prosecuted for his past offenses, he never would have passed the NICS check that he had to pass to buy his shotgun (and yes he did pass it). Maybe he also would not have passed the 3 or 4 background checks he passed that allowed him to be employed as a contractor for the US Military. Everything was there, all that was needed to prevent him from buying a firearm except that no one ever prosecuted him.

Wait, there was more. Six weeks ago, police reported to U.S. naval officials, that the shooter had been encountered by them, he had identified himself as a contractor for the Navy and told police he was hearing voices, people were following him and they were sending vibrations into his body. Possible he was correct - sure if you are a conspiracy theorist. What is more likely - he was out of his frigging mind and suffering from an acute psychotic episode. Years ago, he would have been detained by police, in a mental hospital, for at least three days of observation and an appraisal of his mental status by health care professionals. Bless those liberal politicians and kooks who pushed to put an end to that evil abuse of a person's civil rights that could have identified him as a  crazy person and even possibly that could have resulted in his being committed to a mental health facility for treatment. It seems to me, that certainly would have prevented what happened yesterday. Anyway, the police notified the Navy of his less than normal behavior - why did the Navy not take definitive action to at least check him out.
See: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/09/17/navy-yard-shooter-heard-voices-through-walls-thought-people-sending-vibrations/ and see: http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/17/us/navy-yard-shooting-main/index.html?hpt=hp_t1.

Again though, let me get back to the claims being made about the weapon(s) he used. I reiterate - he did not shoot anyone with an AR-15 or any type of assault weapon. Yet the loons of the left want to create new, and strengthen existing, laws against what they call assault weapons. They are again trying to punish the law abiding gun owner and not the criminal. Not wanting to punish criminals is what allowed this guy to walk free when arrested in the past and is what allowed him purchase that shotgun. Restricting my rights, your rights, anyone's right to own a firearm would not have helped here since the type of weapon he used was on the approved list of the anti-guns loons - just ask Joe Biden about his recommendation for shotguns.

From my cold dead hands!

All the best,
Glenn B

Nothing Cooking The Last Few Days...

...at least with regard to me having anything in the oven regarding blog topics. Yeah, I know, lots in the news about Syria, non-stop about the DC Navy Yard shooters too, but why bother with it, it is all getting beaten to death. I will make one brief post on the aftermath of the shooting in the post immediately after this but that will be it for now. on the shooting.

All the best,
Glenn B

A Zombie Killer In The Making, Well At Least A New Shooter

I have a sister. She is not into guns - at all. She has a son, thus I have a nephew. He is about to turn 13. Somewhere, way back when, I promised him to teach him how to shoot. Could have started training him, legally, when he turned 12 but somehow it never came up around his last birthday.

Today, I received an email from my sister. Here are a couple of excerpts from it. First the opening reminder that his birthday is upcoming:

"It's that time of year again... Someone is gonna be a teenager in a couple of weeks! OMG I'm freakin old! Not sure if we're doing the party thing yet, he hasn't made up his mind..."

That was followed by a wish list for presents. I am not one to pay a lot of attention to wish lists in that while I may go shopping for one or two things on the list, if something else catches my eye that looks like a good present for whomever I am shopping, I will get that instead. I perused the list and all I could think was that the kid is not getting outside enough, the list was full of video games.

Then came the surprise closing paragraph:

"A note for brother dear... your nephew says that he'd like to learn to shoot. If i remember correctly, he can go to the range with you after he turns 13. If he's going to learn to do this, he may as well learn from you... you've had far more experience than anyone i know with firearms and i know you'll teach him the right way."

Wow - not only does he want to learn to shoot but my sister actually complimented me. That made those words double barreled nice to read. Of course, being it was from my sister, who knows me all too well, then came the restrictions, all in the same closing paragraph:

"NO, this is not an invitation to buy him a rifle or any other type of gun. I still don't want them in the house but he really should know what it's all about. Oh and no doomsday prepping, no zombie apocalypse training, blah blah and yadda yadda!"

Now read those last three sentences again because I just did and now I am none too sure it contains any restrictions at all. You see, first she says "...but he really should know what it's all about" and then after she says that she adds on all that stuff about "no doomsday prepping, no zombie apocalypse training, blah blah and yadda yadda". So, I ask myself: "Will I teach him what it is all about or not?". As she says: "...he really should know what it's all about". So, why should I, or would I,  cut out all the good stuff like doomsday prepping in anticipation of the Great Zombie Apocalypse?  I think she was just teasing me or trying to use reverse psychology to assure I actually do get him ready for TEOTWAWKI. I mean, is there any way one can do the first  - teach him what it is all about - without doing the second - like getting him ready to be a survivalist ready to deal with things like the Rapture, flesh eating zombies, and soul eating demons? Is there? Nah, it's impossible! She had to have been teasing me.

I think my young, soon to be teenaged, nephew may be finding things he never dreamed of inside the gift wrapping this year. (I don't think he even knows I have a blog so am pretty sure he will not find out here about these gifts.) I cannot give him a gun or ammo (I will loan those to him when he is with me at the range) but that still leaves a lot of shooty goodness I can give to him, for example, these things I just ordered:

 

Howard Leight Leightning L1 Shooting Muffs

and:


 Radians Revelation Shooting Glasses


and something to store them in to assure he cares for them well:

MTM Caser-Gard .50 cal Zombie Ammo Can

Of course, he needs something to shoot at that will prepare him for what it is all about. What better way to do that than with the following assortment of targets:

Both sets of targets from http://zombietargets.net/

I will supply the rifle and ammo and firearms training (including safety lessons and a safety test that he will have to pass before one round is fired by him). This way, he truly will learn about it all: firearms safety, gun nomenclature, shooting, gun gear care, doomsday prepping for the Great Zombie Apocalypse and how to have lots of shooty goodness fun.

Since he is nowhere near legal voting age, I am not too sure if I should also show him his first, and what should be every new potential voters' first, zombie training video. I'll have to think about it. though; I want to make sure he knows the comparison is only in jest. 



All the best,
Glenn B

Now That's Talent

All the best,
GB

Donations Sought To Help Obama Fund WW III

A hat tip to Peter Q for this one.

All the best,
Glenn B

Palmetto State Armory - Good Price on Lake City M855 Ammo

Palmetto State Armory (PSA) is offering 600 rounds of bulk (no packaging) Lake City 5.56x45mm, XM855 (should be 62 grain but they do not mention grain weight) ammo - in a new production .50 caliber ammo can - for $239.99 plus $19 shipping to my area. The total cost was $258.99 shipped to where I live. That works out to .43 per round shipped if you only consider the ammo. I figure that an ammo can goes for about $15. Take that off of the above price and it works out to about .41 cents per round. I will not take off shipping because that has to be figured into the overall price. I did take off the cost of the ammo can because that really is something separate from the ammo. A price of .41 cents per round is the best price I have seen in several months for this ammo. I jumped on it. I guess I have started my Christmas or birthday shopping for my son's gifts a bit early.

Note, it has been on gunbot.net for over 10 hours now, they probably do not have a lot left - so if you need it you had best hurry. I do not think there is a limit. Link:

http://palmettostatearmory.com/index.php/ammunition/rifle-ammunition/223-5-56/bulk-xm855-600rds-in-50-caliber-ammo-can.html

They also have 1,000 rounds of lake City M855 for $419.99, link:

http://palmettostatearmory.com/index.php/ammunition/rifle-ammunition/223-5-56/lake-city-m855-5-56x45-1000rd-bulk-package.html

That is about the last bit of ammo I can buy this year. We are repairing both of our chimneys and having our kitchen and bathroom remodeled and those will not be cheap. I hope the wife never finds out how much I have spent on ammo since this past January, with the passage of the NY SAFE Act, and the current costs of ammo, but it is a last ditch effort. After January 2014, it will become illegal for we New Yorkers to buy ammo online. Fuck Cuomo - he is not just another libturd - he is an exemplary one - a real piece of liberty and rights smashing shit.

All the best,
Glenn B

The Cold War Is Heating Up And It Has Nothing To Do With Global Warming...

 

...but it does have to do with this man and his lackeys. The Cold War has effectively been over since the presidency of Ronald Reagan only to be resurrected by Barack Hussein Obama by way of his seemingly bumbling and totally inept handling of foreign affairs (let alone his shameful handling of domestic ones).

This man has far surpassed Jimmy Carter in a downward plunge as the worst president of my lifetime. In my opinion, his liberalism, arrogance, ineptness, bravado, lack of common sense, tactlessness, and sheer stupidity make George W. Bush look like an Einstein among presidents. Make no mistake about it - I think Bush was a liberal twit in many regards but at least he had balls and used them mostly in a wise manner when it came to foreign policy. Not BHO though - he is a man cut of a different cloth for sure.

With Russia and Syria tag teaming us and now ordering us to back off on Syria it is obvious we are losing the newly reincarnated Cold War. Let's hope it does not heat up too much and turn into a hot one with Russia all because of this apparent babbling moron man and the evident idiots like Biden and Kerry within his administration. See these articles:

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/09/12/tag-team-assad-joins-putin-in-pressing-obama-to-drop-syria-strike-threat/

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/09/12/russia-carrier-killer-ship-enters-mediterranean/

All the best,
Glenn B

Next Time You Fill Your Gas Tank...

...try to remember that the high prices of gasoline, in years not too long ago, were attributed to George W. Bush being in bed with oil companies and oil producing nations and that liberals ranted and raved about it incessantly. I have not heard much out of the mouths of libturds in more recent years, seems even they realize it would be pointless to keep blaming current pricing on GWB since Obama has been in office for over 5 years now.

Lest you forget, the price of gasoline when GWB went out was under $2 a gallon. Now it is more than double that. So, the next time you go to the polls to elect a president, remember this:

 

A hat tip to Lenny D for this one.

 

All the best,

Glenn B

Somewhere...

The Hawaiian guy, Israel "IZ" Kamakawiwo'ole,  had a really nice voice and all but he didn't have a thing on Judy Garland - not even for a moment. It's nice to imagine though that maybe they are singing it in harmony now - somewhere over the rainbow, way up high!

All the best,
GB

Why Don't The Hypocritical Muslim Bastards Just Stone Him...

...or better yet just fuck him to death for this sex crime.!

An Islamist child-fucker killed an 8 year old girl by having sex with her. If I had my druthers, he would die a miserable death, an extremely miserable one. If you doubt that it was a follower of Islam who did it, think again about which religion in Yemen allows for arranged marriages. See:

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/09/09/yemeni-girl-8-dies-after-suffering-internal-injuries-on-first-night-arranged/?intcmp=HPBucket

Fuck arranged marriages, fuck Muslims who believe in arranged marriages, fuck anyone who has sex with 8 year old girls (or boys), fuck that rabidly obscene religion Islam and fuck the guy who did this crime (up his ass with a hard cold steel barrel that spews hot lead in the form of .45 caliber bullets).

And in the event you think I forgot or was negligent - Fuck The Family of the Girl Who Turned Her Over To The Animal That Killed Her. Since they were her family, I suggest that justice might be best served by fucking them with a hard cold steel barrel that shoots 12 gauge slugs and that spews them, without impunity, up their asses in a fiery display of swift retribution. But alas, I suppose none of that would be legal and thus one can only hope for the followers of Islam to resort to Sharia law and stone him to death.

Forever an Infidel,
Glenn B

What Is Your Every Day Carry Knife?

I almost always carry at least two knives on my person. One of them is a Victorinox Huntsman. It is a multi-purpose utility tool that includes two knife blades, saw, scissors, can opener, bottle opener, cork screw knife and other tools. It comes in handy for a variety of jobs. I have never had a better utility knife.



No this is not my actual knife, it is a stock
 photo but is the same as the one I carry.

The other knife that I carry, on a daily basis, is a Buck 110 Folding Hunter. It is also a good utility knife although it has only a single knife blade and none of the extras of the Victorinox Huntsman. Yet, it would quite possibly be the better survival knife as it has a much stronger main blade and beside being used for utility functions, it can be used as a self defense weapon quite effectively. Yeah, any knife could be use din self defense but a locking folding knife is better than some like the Victorinox Huntsman at that type of a task.



Yes, this is the actual Buck 110
Folding Hunter that I carry.

I also carry a fixed blade knife now and again. A fixed blade knife is much more suitable as a survival knife across all of the survival situations one could imagine but maybe not as practical to carry in a fairly urban situation. It is stronger than a folder and just easier to quickly grasp and bring into play but not quite as concealable. Overall though, a fixed blade is the preferable knife for me. Yet, my daily carry knives are pictured above. 

By the way, I hope you carry a knife every day and that goes whether or not you carry a gun. If you are foolish not to carry the most basic of all tools/weapons, you probably deserve whatever befalls you because you were stupid enough not have one and to know how to use it.

All the best,
Glenn B

CHA - WHO - A

Went to the NY Metro Reptile Expo at White Plains, NY today and spent the entire day there from about 8:15 AM until about 4:15 PM. As opposed to usual for me at a reptile show, I barely looked around at any of the reptiles or amphibians. Instead, I spent almost all day at a vendor's table with John H, Rich H and Vin R. I brought along a Hermann's Tortoise and three Crested Gecko babies that I got rid of while there.

While I did not look at many herps at the expo, I managed to get two large bags of Keepers' Choice red cypress substrate and a jar of Rep-Cal Tortoise Food from Slither & Swim, and a piece of cork bark (used as a hiding place for my lizards) and 1,000 3/4" crickets and 500 1/4" crickets from other dealers.

I also managed to make a major score in that I found (really my good friend John H found) a dealer selling a female Rhacodactylus chahoua (New Caledonian Mossy Gecko) at a very good price.


New Caledonian Mossy Gecko, Rhacodactylus chahoua.
This is a female and is of the mainland variety.

The females usually go for anywhere between $500 and $700 apiece but the price being asked was substantially less and the price I paid was even less than the asking price. It was the friend of a friend price kind of a thing. All I can say is that it is good to have good friends who are good friends of herp dealers. Besides getting the excellent deal, the chahoua is guaranteed to be female.

Being it is only a year old, I will have to wait at least a year and a half or more before trying to mate it with my male. Mating these lizards is not all that easy like it is with Crested Geckos. My understanding is that they sometimes do not readily accept a mate just because it is the right species and the right gender. Time will tell if my pair hit it off and if chahoua eggs and babies are in my future.

All the best,
Glenn B




Sporting Ammunition and the Fire Fighter - An Excellent Video

This video, Sporting Ammunition and the Fire Fighter, was made by The Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers' Institute (SAAMI).  It was posted to YouTube by the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF). It is similar to ones I have seen in the past but I watched them ages ago in my federal law enforcement and firearms instructor training days before I had as much ammo on hand as I do now. So, it was reassuring to see that things have not changed regarding ammunition involved fires in that modern ammunition (note, I am talking about fully assembled ammunition and not separate ammo components like gunpowder or primers) does not pose a mass explosive threat during a fire. There is not even much of a threat, to a properly dressed fireman, of injury from flying shell casings or bullets, that comes from ammunition ignited by a fire. In addition, there seemingly is little threat of ignition of ammunition in falls or crashes.

If you store ammunition in your home or business, and have about 26 minutes to spare, I recommend watching this video. Then you may want to assure that your local fire department has also shown this video to all of its firefighters. You would not want them responding to a fire at your house, finding out there was ammunition stored therein, and then backing off from the fire because of unsupported fears about the explosion that they thought was sure to ensue. Yet, I could imagine many firefighters thinking just that way in the event they had not been properly trained about how ammunition burns off in a fire.



All the best,
Glenn B

A Message For All Potential Spinsters

Hat tip to TOB.

All the best,

GB

Obama on Benghazi versus Obama on Syria

 

 

Actually it is much the same as him wanting to avenge the deaths of a few hundred in Libya prior to Benghazi. You safely can bet that if we help these rebels it will come back to bite us in the ass just like it always has in the past whenever we have assisted Muslims by killing other Muslims.

 

All the best,

GB

Ammo Alert - CCI GamePoint Ammunition 22 WMR

As I type, MidwayUSA has CCI .22 Magnum Rimfire (.22 WMR), GamePoint Ammunition, 40 Grain, Jacketed Spire Point (they probably mean Jacketed Soft Point) ammo, 500 rounds (10 boxes of 50), in stock @ $127.99. With shipping and NRA round-up it came out to a total of $144.00 to my neck of the concrete jungle. What, you thought I would pass that up when, other than 5.56x45mm, that is about the only ammo of which I felt I did not have enough! Mine is on the way.

That price is the best I have seen on .22WMR in several months. It has usually been going for about $14.95 to $19.95 for brands like Armscor, Fiocchi and BVAC. To have seen CCI ammo at that low of a price, with the current market conditions, was a welcome sight even though that is not a good price historically speaking. A decent price would be about $8.99 per box. As it stands, $12.79 per box is what this is going for and as I said it is the best price for CCI or any other brand of .22WMR that I have seen in a long time. I think the limit is one per customer per day but chances are if you buy your limit today you can forget about buying more tomorrow because it will, in all likelihood, be sold out by then.

All the best,
Glenn B

Is This What Obama Thinks Of America...

If not then it at least seems to be what he thinks of anyone who disagrees with him and lately that seems to be an awful lot of people on both sides of the aisle. Sure he may get approval for a strike against Syria but first he had to let us know, repeatedly already, how he did not draw the red line, how he was not to blame for there being international laws against chemical weapons (imagine that he said he was not too BLAME for that) and how yada yada yada it was someone else's fault for this whole mess. The next thing you know, he will blame John Kerry. He is the most whiny, gotta blame it on someone else (even if it is a good thing on which he lays blame) president in my lifetime; that is for certain.

All the best,
GB

Our Military Gets It - So Why Doesn't Obama

All the best,
GB

Has It Gotten That Bad - A Russian President More Believable Than An American President

I grew up during the cold war. Air raid sirens blasted out their whining wails at least weekly, they were followed by air raid drills in which kids in schools had to duck and cover in case a nuke was dropped. There were fallout shelters everywhere. Buildings were marked with black and yellow fallout shelter signs identifying them as safe haven should the nukes head our way. Well to do types and preppers (we didn't call them that back then though) had their own fallout shelters. If a jet flew over and broke the sound barrier people trembled with fear thinking the big one - WWIII - had started. There was, in the early 60s, news every day about the high strung tensions between the USA and the USSR. We were literally on the brink of WWII and the end of the world as we know it. 

Americans were just as diverse back then as we are now but instead of celebrating our diversity and weakening our country by staying separate from one another, we strove for unity to strengthen America. We, for the great part, were unified against our enemies in the USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics), Eastern Europe, North Korea and Red China. When their leaders said one thing an the American President or other U.S. officials said the opposite - there was no doubt who the great majority of Americans believed. They were united as Americans. This is one of the reasons that the civil rights movement made such headway then and soon thereafter; we finally woke up and realized we were all Americans and were all united against a common enemy and the enemy was not ourselves. We were not perfect but we stood by our leaders because we knew we stood on he moral high ground in world events and politics.

After living through all that, I have seen the USA and the rest of the world change markedly. Some things for the better others for the worse. Today we are usually our own worst enemy. Some things that led up to that were to have been expected but some have come as a surprise. I guess the biggest surprise of all is the one I have seen again and again in very recent years. It is a phenomenon of change much like when the magnetic poles on a magnet, of even of a planet, switch ends. North becomes south and south becomes north - all very confusing, I would imagine. The change I am talking about though is not magnetic but is polarizing and even more confusing. You see, it used to be that the American president was always more believable than the one from the USSR (essentially modern day Russia) or any other commie nation but it seems just as a planet can do, the polarity of the situation has been reversed, at least for me.

I just read this article: State Department fires back over Putin claims Kerry 'lied' about Syria and I have to admit, I find President Vladimir Putin much more credible in this situation. His claim about Al Qaeda being in Syria is much more believable than Kerry's denial of it, especially since I seem t remember others in the Obama administration making reference to Al Qaeda being in Syria as recently as within the last couple to few weeks. I also find it rather credible that, as Putin says, we lack hard evidence that Assad of Syria actually used chemical weapons against his people. Heck, most of the rest of the world believes likewise right now. I am not saying Assad did not do it, I am saying there is a lot of doubt regardless of the absolute certainty of Obama, Kerry and their minion. I would like to see more evidence, accepted by more nations, as proof that Assad actually did so and that it was not Al Qaeda or the rebels who did it. Let's face it, both sides in the Syrian civil war are outright scum and I am none to sure we should be supporting or attacking either side. I figure we ought to let them kill one another off and make the world a better place though .

Back to my point though, I think things have gotten all twisted around since I have been a kid, the world is very confusing and disheartening. That is especially so in light of the fact that a Russian president is more credible than our own - even if just for a moment. Of course, that all could change with the presentation of hard cold evidence. Even as much as I dislike President Obama, I hope that (possibly against all odds) it changes back to the norm and that he (as America's head representative) comes out on top in credibility and morality as compared to Putin. Right now though, it does not seem likely for the remainder of his presidency.

All the best,
Glenn B
 

 

54 Year Old Veteran Thwarts Armed Robbery - A Must Watch Video

I saw the link tot his video at Wirecutter's site, went to it, watched the video, and grabbed the embed code to post it here. Then I went to the news source and read the article. The story, in brief is that an armed robber attempted to rob a gun store but chose the wrong store to rob and the wrong store clerk to draw down on. The clerk, a veteran of 30 years service, with four tours in Iraq, took immediate action, grabbed for the bad guy's pistol and hen drew his own Walther 9mm and shoved it in the crooks mouth. The bad guy made a hasty retreat.



Read more about it here:

http://www.news-leader.com/article/20130903/NEWS01/309030024/Marionville-liquor-store-attempted-robbery-clerk-gun-Beer-30?nclick_check=1

All the best,
GB