We Need More People Who Think Like Him In The Republican Party

Take the few minutes needed to watch this video by Senator Elbert Guillory (R-LA). It will be worth your while.



Wow, I thought that Republicans had long forgotten about those ideals. If Senator Guillory's record in politics matches his words in this video, I would vote for him for president in a NY minute. A hat tip and my thanks to Peter Q for sharing that with me.

All the best,
Glenn B

What Glaring Error Was Made By Fox News Relative To Obamacare

Here is a link to an online article by Fox News about a woman who got screwed out of a tax credit that would have helped her afford Obummercare. Read it and weep for her. Read it and complain about her getting screwed. Read it an be upset because health care is none of the government's business. Read it and wish that Obummercare would have been a figment of a bad dream you had last night. Then tell me, what did Fox news do that was totally screwed up!

Have you figured it out yet? Read the article before you read more here. You will have to scroll over the blank area below, while holding down your left mouse key (or right one if you have your mouse set up for lefties). And no, it is not that the Fox News article says that what she was going to have to pay was lower than what she had been paying - when in fact she had not been paying for a health insurance plan before this for 15 years (but yes that shows how stupid was the reporter and editor who let that slip into the piece).

Here it is, start scrolling over the black box below while holding down the mouse key:

The Fox news article said that calls to the health insurance company Premera were not immediately returned. Why the fuck did they call Premera? Why didn't they telephone  Obama, and Biden, and Pelosi, and Reid with their questions about why she was getting screwed? Better yet, why didn't they just call them all inept assholes and be done with it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

All the best,
Glenn B

Deer - 3, Me - 0

Once again, I have returned from a deer hunting trip with no meat for the pot! Spent three days hunting - the deer won all three days and I scored nothing. I saw a total of 5 does while afield on my hunting trip and am almost certain that I heard a buck sneaking away from me. First off, I spotted three does the day before the season opened. I could have had a clean shot at two I saw together in the woods. They were probably 75 yards away and broadside to me. I also saw another doe, under an apple tree, on somebody's lawn (right next to the state forest). That one I waved to and talked to, it was only about 15 yards away from me at most and it just stood there, broadside, taunting me mercilessly. Somehow, I got the notion that it knew I could not legally shoot it. I thought I heard it snicker with glee as I walked away - but nah that could not be - could it! I also saw three does, under apple trees on the farm that used to belong to my uncle, but that was from my car so they don't count in what I saw while afield. The first three I mentioned were all when I was afoot in the field.

Then yesterday, day three of the season, I saw another two does but had spooked them. They were about 30-35 yards out and headed toward me. I had been still hunting, and was about to stop and take a rest when I took that one more step, cracked a branch under the leaf litter and saw them bolt. I tried to call them back and as I did, I heard another deer creeping away from the same spot in which they had been. No raised tail, no bolting away through the brush, just a branch cracking and a swooshing noise in the undergrowth, several times, going in the opposite direction than the one the does had taken. That had 'smart old buck' written all over it. Certainly smarter than me; I gave them all awhile and then tried to call them in, all to no avail. Also tried circling wide around to spot them again but that did not work either. Oh well, still a few weeks left in the season.

All the best,
Glenn B

I WALK THE STRAIGHT SIDE WITH HETERO PRIDE

I am so sick of hearing about gay pride, lesbian pride, transgender pride and bi-pride and the implication that if we do not accept gayness we should be shamed.  They want to make noise about it - okay, I too am making noise about my sexual preference (and yes it is a preference as I see it). I am full of pride for walking the straight side. Now tell me, is pride only okay if you are anything other than heterosexual, I don't think so! Proud and loud here - hetero and always will be so.

All the best,
Glenn B

Gone Hunting - Light or No Blogging...

...and definitely no deer, at least not today. First day out, had a nice spot, a couple of apple trees, lots of heavily used deer trails into and out of it, lots of deer sign, a few rubs, a scrape nearby nothing early on but I sort of figured this as a late afternoon deer stop. We stayed there until about 1:30 and my son asked if we could leave since his tendinitis was acting up and he was in a lot of pain. That sucks big time. Not that he asked me to leave but that a 23, soon to be 24, year old youngster is stuck with a condition like that because his doctor prescribed him Levaquin about 2 years ago. It also sucks because he did not even see a deer. He will either leave tonight or tomorrow morning since he has work tomorrow afternoon and will leave without any venison. I am hoping he will come up with me again for just a day in the next few weeks and maybe we will have luck on our side for a change and he will bag one.

Me, I should be here another day or two. Will try another area tomorrow, with which I am none too familiar but where I have an antlerless deer permit.

All the best,
GB

The Car Is All But Packed...

...with all the guns, gear and clothes I am taking on my hunting trip. With a little luck, I will hit the hay within half an hour to an hour and then be able to get my arse out of bed at about 0400. I plan to be in the car and on the move by about 0445. It's about a 3 hour drive to my hotel but only 2.5 to the hunting area which I will stop at for a final scouting trip before I hit the hotel. I am in no hurry, so my drive may wind up taking longer but so what - it's a mini vacation. Deer hunting season opens on Saturday and that is the day I have to make sure I am at my hunting site early, maybe by 0400. Before then, it is all just having fun doing this and that.

My son will be driving up, to meet me, either tomorrow night or Friday morning. He only got off Friday and Saturday, so on Friday I can show him the spot and maybe we can bag a turkey. We will have a good time together. Then on Saturday we will be a team and hopefully not one at which the deer wind up laughing out of the woods.

All the best,
Glenn B

Knockout - A Reminder To Always Be Alert

Young New Jersey urban criminals reportedly have been "playing a game" called knockout in which they randomly attack a victim to see if one of them can knockout the person with a single blow or flurry of blows. Amazingly, the reporter says they are playing a game, to me it certainly appears more as if they are committing a violent felony. They may think that a game but I certainly do not and I am sure that their victims do not.



The prospect of being attacked like this is scary and should evoke enough fear in you to not walk the streets alone. If you need to be out alone, I think you need to consider only going out while armed, in some legal manner, for self protection. That is easier said than done in NJ, so maybe some folks should just refuse to walk the streets alone, especially since these cowards are targeting lone victims. It should also make people scared enough to realize they should always remain aware of their surroundings and of the potential for threats. Even if you are armed and see a group of teenagers come your way, maybe you should consider avoiding them.

I can say that if anyone attacked me like those attacks seen in the video, and if I was not knocked out, I quite possibly would respond with deadly force if I believed I was still under threat. Anyone attempting to knock me out in one shot or a combination of blows and kicks would obviously be using enough force to seriously harm or kill me. (I refer to the videos showing the people hitting the concrete hard). Closed fist punches to the head and neck were considered to be deadly force, in our use of force policy, when I was a federal agent. In my opinion, I justifiably would be in fear for my life and limb if under attack like that. Think about that, study up on justifiable use of force in your state and locality, and be prepared. Do not let your guard down, and remember it is best to avoid such a situation but if you wind up in it, I think,  you should be ready to fight for your life.

All the best,
Glenn B

Battling Bucks - Antlers Locked - One Drowns...

...and the other struggles to free itself but to no avail until a father and son team arrive to give some help. Here is a link to a feel good video but I would have felt better if I had been out in the woods and blasted the one that made it (legally of course). What can I say, hunting season is opening in a few days, here in NY, and I am raring to go! Since I can use all the help I can get, a tuckered out buck would be okay with me.

All the best,
Glenn B

A Military Drone Flying Over NY Crashed...

...into Lake Ontario. While it has been reported that another of the same model drone, a MQ-9 Reaper, had crashed due to technical and pilot error before, military brass is promising an investigation to discover the cause of this crash. (source)

With various hunting seasons open in that neck of the woods, including big game season for deer, one has to wonder if a bored hunter decided to take aim at it and give it a blast as it buzzed overhead. Probably would make me burst out laughing my arse off if it winds up that was the case. Then again, maybe it was an intrepid III Percenter practicing for a revolution or it could have even been a terrorist hoping for Jihad here in the US of A. Of course, there are lots of guns out in the woods for the hunting season so, if it winds up that it was shot down, my bet would be on the bored hunter.

Any way, it wasn't me, I am not going upstate on my hunting trip until Thursday.

All the best,
Glenn B

Deer Hunting Season Is Almost Upon Us...

...here in NY State but all I can seem to think about is girls with huge racks. I don't know if it is hormones, or the man-beast within me, or just that I am some kind of under sexed guy in need of good lovin' or whatever but every darned time that I think of going out in the woods to bag a buck all I can think about is this girl with the really huge rack. Man is she ever so endowed...

CLICK HERE TO SEE HER RACK

...and she seems to know it too, endowed with good hunting skills that is, what else could I have meant.

All the best,
Glenn B

Happy Veterans' Day

 

To all of you who have served and who are serving - I salute you because, in great measure, I owe you my freedom as does the rest of our great nation.

All the best,
Glenn B

5.56x45mm XM855 Ammo Alert

SG Ammo is offering 1000 rd case - 5.56 PMC X-TAC M855 62 grain Green Tip FMJ 5.56K LAP Ammo at $389.50 plus shipping. That is the best price I have seen on XM855 ammo in awhile, too long awhile. No, it is not pre-frenzy pricing but it really is one of the best prices, if not the best price, on XM855 that I have seen probably in over a year. Get it while they still have it; earlier today they had about 240 cases of it in stock, as I write this they are down to 137 cases (they sold 4 cases since I started writing this post). Then again, they also offer it in 20 round boxes for $7.89 per box (which would work out the same price as a case if you bought 50 boxes) and they have 1,174 of them in stock.

All the best,
Glenn B

The Last of My Online Ammo Purchases?

I shot my wad today, I think I spent my last dollar on an online ammo purchase with the purchase of a case of PMC 5.56x45mm XM855. Not the last dollar I have in the world, just the last one I ever will spend on an online ammo purchase. My online ammo purchase costs worked out to just over 4.5K over the past year, much more than all my other ammo purchases combined. Note that I purchased from those below based mostly on price and availability but all three had excellent customer service.

Online Purchases:

Palmetto State Armory (PSA)                                         $1,360.59

SG Ammo                               $1,034.28       

Sportsmansguide                    $852.93

MidwayUSA                           $431.00

Aim Surplus                           $391.50
 

Ammo To Go                         $193.45

Dan’s Ammo                          $190.00 (approximate)
Lucky Gunner                        $140.00

Cabelas                                   $114.83

Widener’s                               $73.00

Purchases Other Than Online:

Gun Shows                             $400.00 (approximate)

 

Chain Stores (like Dick’s       $125.00 (approximate)

Sporting Goods or Walmart) 

Local Gun Stores (LGS)         $50.00 (approximate)

 

Why spend all that money on ammo in one year especially when I could have gone on a really nice vacation with that money (and even taken the wife with me). Well, first there was the reelection of Obama then there was the passage of the NY SAFE Act just a couple of months later. As for he vacation that I could have enjoyed, I yet may go on that vacation in the upcoming year because the days of my online ammo buying will be coming to an end soon and I'll have that money to burn. Due to the NY SAFE Act, which was the main reason for my ammo buying frenzy, come January 1, 2014 virtually all online purchases by individuals living in NY will cease. The law requires ammunition dealers to do a face to face check of ID and then run a background check on a purchaser of ammunition for very purchase; buy a box of 50 rounds of .22LR and the dealer is required to see your ID and run a background check. Welcome to the precursor of the Nazi state of NY and I mean that most sincerely. I think we are taking the first steps in that direction both in NY State and nationally with tyrants like Cuomo and Obama in office. Whether or not we will wind up there, in the long run, is anyone’s guess but I digress so let me get back on target. 

As you can see, my order of preference for ammunition purchases has been to buy online, to buy at guns shows, to buy at large chain stores and lastly at local gun stores (LGS). The reasons I preferred to buy online were availability, price, customer service and because of ease of shopping. I know that a lot of folks in the world of firearms frown on purchasing at other than at LGS, the so called mom and pop style shops. I don’t try to outright discourage people from buying at them as others have tried to discourage some of us from buying online but I certainly would not go out of my way to recommend purchases at any of the local guns shops in my area; at least not the ones with which I have had bad experiences in the past.  

The number one reason for me avoiding purchases at LGS has been poor service. The local gun shops in my area also are usually very overpriced on everything to do with gun and ammo sales. Then, even if you can find a shop with excellent customer service and a decent price on ammo, you almost have to struggle to find a decent amount of ammo at said shop. Add to that one that is not too far away to make it not too much of a pain in the ass to drive there to buy ammo. I have not found a place like that, close to me, yet. I have found some fair to good prices at chain stores like Walmart and Dick’s Sporting Goods and they are fairly close to me but forget about reliably good customer service at them – especially at Walmart, in my opinion. 

My priorities will probably have to change after January 1st and the implementation of the ammo purchase provisions under the NY SAFE Act. Either I will have to put up with absolutely crappy, smugly, arrogant customer service at some LGS and pay their overly high prices by the box (as opposed to by the case) or I will have to give up the ease of buying idea and travel out of state to large ammo dealers to get good deals on ammunition for by the case purchases from dealers with courteous service. The former would mean that I have to lose most of my self-respect and buy from scumbags at a high cost and the latter would mean I could drive to ammo dealers with nicer customer service and better prices but would have to travel considerable distances and would have to make really big purchases to make it worth the effort. (I guess I could combine an ammo run with a small vacation and that would make it more effective all around.)

 

Note I did not say I would continue buying at stores like Walmart, Dick’s Sporting Goods or Sports Authority. I left them out because it has been rumored locally that all three may discontinue ammunition sales, after January 1, 2014, here in NY. If they keep selling ammo, I will probably start buying most of mine from them. Of course, if I happen to discover a local firearms and ammunition dealer, who is courteous and respectful to customers, sells at excellent prices, has what I want available, and is not too far from my home – I will go that route. Hopefully though, with what I have on hand, I will not need any more ammo for at least a year, or two, to come.

For now, I think I have spent my last dime on online ammo purchases. Even if I do decide to buy a few more of this or that (I am in dire need of 12 gauge slugs and 00 buckshot), in the near future, I do not have long to complete the purchases. With the NY SAFE Act ammo sale provisions kicking in on January 1^st, it is expected that most online ammo dealers will cease sales to anyone in NY by mid-December at the latest. That way they will have assured all shipments of ammo, bought online by New Yorkers, should make it here before the deadline. So, at most, I have maybe a month and a few days more in which to make an online ammo purchase. That is, I do and so too do the rest of we New Yorkers under the rule of Cuomo the Socialist & Liberty Usurping Tyrant. One can only hope the law soon will be declared unconstitutional or that it will be repealed and Cuomo recalled from office - but whom am I kidding, this is NY - land of the leftists.

All the best,

Glenn B

New Shooter Among Our Ranks

Headed out this morning to meet up with my sister and nephew at the Long Island Shooting Center in Islip, NY. Met them there about 1020, went inside and we signed up for a point. I asked how much and handed the gentleman behind the counter my VISA card to pay and was told cash only. That was a surprise and not a good one since I thought I didn't have that much cash on me. (I had meant to go to the bank yesterday but my left knee has been in a lot of pain so stayed home.) I don't know if the folks who own the range realize it but this is the 21st century and credit cards have been around for a long time now. It was a surprise they did not take anything but cash for the range because, when I thought about it, I recalled they don't mention that on their website. Yet, they do advertise that they accept credit cards for gun sales in the store section of the same building. I dug out what I had and luckily I had about $42 so it covered the $33 for the range and a few targets.

 I gave him a crash course in range safety. I had also sent him an email, last night, via his mom, with firearms safety rules and tested him on them. He did well. So, I gave him his birthday presents (his birthday was in October and the shooting lessons and range gear were the gifts I gave him) consisting of shooting glasses, asset of shooting muffs, some targets and a zombie range box that fits the glasses and muffs with room for more. Then we headed into the range. My sister waited in the outer at the luncheonette style center.

I gave him a few more pointers and demonstrated to him how to take a shot with the Armscor 14Y, a bolt action, magazine fed, youth model rifle in .22LR, that I had brought along. He must think I am on heck of a good shot because luckily it hit dead center of the bull’s-eye, granted though the target was only at about 10 yards out. I them loaded up a mag for him, to show him how to do, and he got to shooting. His first shot was center target horizontally and a bit high vertically but right in the 6 inch bull’s-eye. It was all pretty good after that, first shooting at the large bull’s-eye target, then pasting a similarly sized Shoot N' See target over the center of that, then sticking a woodchuck color reactive target over that one. I am guessing he shot up about 10 magazines full of ammo, so about 60 rounds over the course of an hour and fifteen or thirty minutes when I asked if he wanted to shoot a full sized 22 rifle (meaning my Marlin 25MN in .22WMR).

That was the second time today that I was surprised, this time because he told me that he had had enough. I tried to persuade him to shoot the Marlin, telling him it was a bigger bullet and the rifle was scoped and whatever but I did not push it. We wound up cleaning up our point and getting out of there because he said it was enough for the day. While he told me he had enjoyed it, he did not seem all that enthused, even though he had shot well. I praised him for his good shooting and for having done it all safely. I was happiest that he had done it safely and let him know it. I was wondering what was up, with his kind of blah attitude, until my sister told me he said he wanted to do it again. I guess he was just getting tired but really had enjoyed himself. That sure made me feel good because it meant that another shooter had joined our ranks.

All the best,

Glenn B

Can Anyone Tell Me What Make & Model Rifle She Is Holding?

Gentlemen, take my word for it, she is holding a rifle and there is another over her left shoulder. After about 10 minutes of ogling, you might finally see them.

All the best,
Glenn B

Panic Over A Gun Or Gun Case - Let's Do The Sensible Thing And Call In The Bomb Squad

I truly understand the whole thing about armed individuals at airports being a safety concern. Yet, armed people at an airport should not necessarily cause alarm and, in most instances, should certainly not cause a panic. Yet panic all to often accompanies the legal gun owner usually because of gun fearing libturds.

Take for example the arrival of a passenger at LAX (Los Angeles Airport) who reportedly either brandished a firearm or had a gun case in open view. You would think there would be a major difference between the two, that is between brandishing a weapon and merely having a gun case in public view but it seems that quite a few people have not quite figured out that difference yet. It has been reported, here,  that a man arriving at LAX was arrested after he did one of the two but the report was unable to clarify which one it was that he actually did.

It seems someone saw the man either take a firearm out of its case and brandish it (wave it around) or merely have a firearms case in his possession. That person called the police. Instead of the police doing what would have been the sensible thing, which would have been to approach the individual and question him and then examine the contents of the firearms case which contained a firearm that the man had legally and properly checked in with the airline in his checked luggage, the police called in the bomb squad to examine the contents of the gun case. Since the contents of the gun case had already been checked, when the man had gone through security screening at his point of departure, and since that would have been documented by the airline and TSA, can someone, anyone, tell me the logic behind calling out the bomb squad due to a report of someone seeing either a gun or gun case! It makes no sense to me but then it does seem that law enforcement has been overreacting to a lot of things lately, this just but one example. Based on what little is disclosed in the article, it makes me wonder if the police reaction, to call in the bomb squad, was a total waste of the taxpayers' dollars and a very disproportionate response to the situation at hand.

Anyway, the man was arrested on suspicion of brandishing a firearm. My guess would be that the man did what I have done, at an airport, after retrieving my checked luggage in which I had a legally checked firearm. That would be that he opened his luggage, took out the firearm case (in the event it was a pistol) and then maybe opened the case to take a peek inside to assure his firearm had not been stolen in transit. If it was a rifle case, then maybe he opened it to do likewise. Would anyone really expect you o just retrieve your luggage, containing a firearm, and leave the airport without checking to see it was still secure, what with the amount of items stolen from luggage by baggage handlers and by TSA personnel! That would not be brandishing a weapon by any stretch of the imagination.

Now, when I do it, I try to wait until everyone else has left the baggage carousel area around me, or I move away to a spot with no one able to look into my case. I do not handle the weapon at all. My guess is that the man in question may have checked on his gun with someone standing nearby who saw it or that someone just saw the gun case and flipped out. Of course, that is merely a guess on my part. As unlikely as it would be, it is possible that the man took the gun out of its case and waved it around (which would be brandishing) while standing in the baggage area but as I said I think that very unlikely. Merely opening a case to check on its status would not be brandishing under any interpretation of any brandishing laws nor would mere possession of a gun inside of a gun case be brandishing the firearm.

I certainly would like to know more of the details of this case and maybe even see the video (you can rest assured that the baggage claim area is under constant video surveillance) of whatever it was that the man did that caused the other person to report him to police. My bet would be that if anyone should have been arrested it should have been the person who called this into the authorities and then maybe even the police official who decided to call in the bomb squad.

All the best,
Glenn B

Breaking Out Of The Fugue And Reentering Paradise

While I was working, part time, over the past year and few months (up until mid-October) I had to put a lot of things I enjoyed doing on hold. I basically started a new working life and forgot about and abandoned too many of the joys of retired living. For instance, Long Island Firearms, a gun club to which I belong, holds a meet-up at a range pretty close to my home. The range nights are always Wednesdays and I worked most Wednesday nights over the past year. I did not work this Wednesday and was free to attend the meet-up. I have to say, I had a great time there. I got to reacquaint myself with several folks I met at the first range meet I attended  and some whom I met while protesting the NY SAFE Act up in Albany. I also got to meet several new faces, at least new to me. I am guessing that about 20 of us showed up. We used two of the ranges, each range has five shooting points, so we had to take turns over the two ours of shooting time that we had available. I brought along my High Standard Duramatic M-101, Smith & Wesson Model 17K and my Remington R1-1911. As usual, when at the range, I had a blast.

Then, today, I went to an outdoor range that is quite a bit further from my home than the one above. I drove about 50 miles to Long Island Shooting Range of Brookhaven. Sadly, I was son my own. I had expected Brendan to tag along, to get in some practice shots before opening day of deer season next weekend, but alas he refused to drag his behind out of the sack even though I waited until about 1230 in the afternoon to finally take off. I am hoping he will at least make it to the indoor range to shoot the  Remington 870 and the Marlin 336 before the hunting season kicks off. I shot both of those today and did fair to good. With the 870, I had a 15 shot group the size of my hand from finger tips to heel of palm. Most of the shots were within a about a three inch group. That was at 50 yards from the bench and resting on sandbags. It was not great but certainly not too shabby. With the Marlin 336, I guess my grouping at 50 yards were all within 2.5 to 3". I need some practice with both but shooting like that will get me a deer if I can get the sights of either gun on one of them.

I also tried to bore sight my Marlin XS-7 in .308 but gave up after I realized that about 6 shots I had taken did not even hit the target backer. I am going to pick myself up a laser bore sight and sight it in with that. I would guess it will only three shots at most to have it zeroed in using a bore sight. I am thinking of picking up this one. Hopefully, I can find one locally. Nothing like procrastinating - I must have owned it for a year now without taking it to the range to sight it in until today. There is also nothing like waiting until the last minute to try to get it sighted in because there is no way I could get a laser bore sight shipped to me on time for sighting in before we leave on our hunting trip. Oh well, next year for this rifle and hunting but I again will try to sight it in soon.

Tomorrow, I am may be going to a beer expo at Belmont Park. My son won two tickets but he will be working. Lucky for me, I am retired and don't have a job, otherwise there could have been a good chance I would have had to work tomorrow too. On Sunday, I plan to go to yet another indoor range, this one about half way between my sister's place and my house, to meet up with her and my nephew. His birthday was in October and he wanted to learn how to shoot so shooting lessons and some shooting accessories will be my birthday present for him.

It's amazing what one can go out and have fun doing when not tied down by a job. Retirement is good - every day is another Saturday in Paradise!

All the best,
Glenn B

When I Voted Today - I Thought It Was A Secret Ballot...

...and had I turned around and seen a camera taking my picture like this, I would have raised holy hell in the polling place and contacted the FBI to investigate who had violated the sanctity and secrecy of the polling place. It is ironic, a camera looking over folks shoulders as they vote and those little blue voting kiosks being called "privacy booths" by the poll workers! If cameras, looking over your shoulder while you vote, are not intimidating then just what are they supposed to be. I don't know if I could ever vote again in such an exposed booth.

What would you call it: spying, voter intimidation, ballot-gate. I wonder,
just how many cameras were around this one small circle of voters - let
alone around the voters in every other polling place in New York State!
Photo source: http://www.newsday.com/long-island/liers-head-to-the-polls-on-election-day-1.6379659

Fuck the government and or the press invading our privacy - especially in our homes and our polling places. Nothing is sacred anymore, ALTHOUGH OUR BALLOTS SHOULD BE SACRED AND SECRET. We need a major overhaul in everything political and to do with the government and we need it soon.

All the best,
Glenn B

It's Election Day In NY...

...and several hours from now, when the polls are actually open, I am going to go to vote for some conservatives. Let me clarify that - I will be voting for the candidates who are closest to being real conservatives (which is none to close here in Cuomoistan). Heaven help us.

All the best,
Glenn B

Mother Banned From School Her Disabled Daughter Attends...

... allegedly for posting a picture of her new concealed weapons permit on Facebook and for having been in the military. The principal of her daughter's school reportedly obtained a criminal trespass warning banning the mom, who was also a volunteer at the school, from the school and school grounds. Then the school district reportedly tells the mom she can move her daughter to another school because the district gives her permission to do so. How about firing the principal and how about the mom suing the principal, the school and the school district and how about that public apology that the mom is seeking! The extent of the insanity of the leftist loons and how it grows in leaps and bounds from one day to the next is truly unimaginable.

http://www.wrdw.com/home/headlines/12-On-Your-Side-Banned-from-childs-elementary-school-for-Facebook-picture-229770981.html

All the best,

Glenn B

Next Time I Order A Custom Holster...

...I am going to make sure the holster maker charges me for it at the time I place the order and not at the time he starts working on it. A few days ago, I got an email from Brigade GunLeather telling me that, a holster I ordered back in March of this year, is finally being manufactured. Now, don't get me wrong when I say it is finally being made, I am not at all upset about how long it took; I expected it to be at least 4 to 6 months or so before they got around to putting it together, I just mean they are doing it at last!  Yes, I am saying it was a long wait but what the heck.

Brigade GunLeather M1-Hoplon

The only thing bad about it having been such a long time before production began is that I was  not charged when I first ordered it and had the money. Instead, they only charged my credit card now that they have started working on it. The thing is I do not have the money set aside right now. Well, I have the money but not to spend on a holster since I just quit the job that was earning me my good time money and since heating oil season just began and because my biannual home owners' insurance will soon be due. Oh well, it will get paid because I will cut back somewhere else. Next time though, when I order something and have the money at the time I order it, that is when I will insist they charge my card for it.

I am eagerly awaiting receiving the finished product, I can say that without a doubt. I got the email on October 28th and they say it will be about 4 weeks until it is shipped. The holster is the Brigade GunLeather M1-Hoplon. It should look just like the one in the photo but will also be suede lined. It should carry my Remington R1-1911 nicely.

All the best,
Glenn B

Today In History - Black Bart's Last Known Stagecoach Robbery

Black Bart, (aka: Charles E. Bowles, Charles E. Bol[l]es and Charles E. Bolton) was born in England, but moved to the USA at the age of 2, started his career of crime at the age of 46. His career of crime spanned from July 26, 1875 through November 3, 1883. He was known as Black Bart The Poet.

When he committed the robberies he was dressed in a black bowler hat, a long black duster and had a flour sack (with eyeholes cut into it) over his head. He was afraid of horses, so much so that when he committed his crimes, he did so while afoot. He was a definitely a different sort of a stagecoach robber, using good manners, clear speech, and never uttering any foul language while robbing Wells Fargo of their loot. Although he armed himself with a shotgun, he never shot anyone while robbing them. His gentlemanly appearance and mannerisms, the fact he stopped and robbed stagecoaches while on foot, and two poems (in which he did use foul language) that he left behind after a couple of robberies gained him the infamy that lasts through today and will probably last for hundreds of years to come.



Black Bart.

James B. Hume, Wells Fargo Detective; his
resemblance to Black Bart is uncanny.





He was shot during his last robbery and was captured not long after that. He admitted to his identity and to his crimes. Oddly enough, it is said that James B. Hume, the Wells Fargo detective who tracked him down, looked enough like Black Bart to have been his twin. Wells Fargo had him prosecuted only for the last of his crimes and he was sentenced to 6 years in San Quentin Prison. He was released from prison early, after 4 years of incarceration, due to good behavior. While in prison his health had turned bad. On his release, in January 1888, he was asked by reporters if he planned to continue his life of crime to which he replied he would not. He was then asked if he would write more poetry to which he replied: "Now, didn't you hear me say that I am through with crime?"

Shortly after his having been freed, he wrote to his wife (whom he had left behind in the Midwest) to tell her he was weary of being shadowed by Wells Fargo men and he wanted to get away from everyone. He was last seen on February 28, 1888 in or around the Palace Hotel in Visalia, CA.

In November 1888, another Wells Fargo stagecoach was robbed by a bandit claiming to be Black Bart. The robber left what would have been Black Bart's third poem at the scene of the crime; however, it was determined that the handwriting did not match that on the previous two poems left behind by Black Bart. Thus the robber of that stagecoach, in 1888, was believed to have been a copycat criminal. Said determination was made by none other than the detective who looked enough like Black Bart to have been his twin. One has to wonder, could that last crime in fact have been committed by Black Bart who, as you will remember from above, had been shot in his hand during his last known robbery in 1883. Was it possible that the wound affected him as to make his handwriting change or that he had to use his other hand to write and that was what made the 1888 poem seem to have been written by another person? I would love to know if he was shot in the hand with which he wrote and if so to have handwriting experts of today examine that last poem and compare it to the previous two.

When I was a kid, and we played good guys and bad guys, Black Bart was my favorite of all the outlaws of the Old West. He remains so today, not that I advise anyone to emulate his life of crime. I guess his first poem has a lot to do with my attraction toward him in as much as it fits the condition of the working man today as opposed to the government full of fine haired sons of bitches:

I've labored long and hard for bread,
For honor, and for riches,
But on my corns too long you've tread,
You fine-haired sons of bitches.

—Black Bart, 1877^[3]

 

All the best,
Glenn B

Sources:

http://www.blackbart.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bolles

Border Security - What Security? Right To Keep and Bear Arms - What Right?

The video, is in essence, an advertisement for the NRA but it is one heck of an advertisement well worth the watch.



All the best,
Glenn B

Anonymous Halloween Post

Someone, who shall remain anonymous, sent me an email, about plans for scoring some chocolate today, which is Halloween. Now, I do not know if the anonymous emailer had this plan or if another person of anonymity had it but you can read it here and see the pic that accompanied it. Probably good that the Anon, whose plan it was, heeded his wife's advice!

"To all,

What was I to do? 
To me, its not Halloween, it is one of the 365 Days of Chocolate.  But...I'm taller than I used to be and can't walk up to someone's door and yell "trick or treat!"   It just doesn't work for me anymore.

What to do...how to get chocolate...?

And then it came to me.  Follow the lead of our illustrious leader.  BHO came up with an idea of having everyone send money to him in the way of calling it "free health care".  But how did he do that? 
By force.            ...what a great idea!!!

So...I dressed up (photo enclosed), prepared to go to the end of the street and start by visiting my good friend Bill, and then showed my wife.  For some strange reason, she thought it was a bad idea.

She is wiser than I so I stayed home and ate all the M&M's since the children never came.

Happy Day of Chocolate!!!

Anonymous"

I love it.

All the best,
GB

Exploding Whale - A Blast FromThe Past

This is great even if it didn't work out quite how it was expected to have done but then again neither was Moby Dick all that predictable!



All the best,
GB