Yet Another Woman With Her Finger On The Trigger...

...of a firearm. As usual, I just don't get why all these pics are taken with the women apparently violating the rules firearms safety (and it only is for the sake of firearms safety education that I post these photos here). So, once again, for your education as to firearms safety, I post yet another pic of what you should not do unless absolutely ready to shoot:

 

All the best,

Glenn B



I Wonder - Was He Cuffed Hands Behind His Back...

...or did they have him cuffed in front on his way to the jail, that being after they first suspected he might be concealing something in his crack of doom. I would hope in front with a chain around his waste to which to secure the cuffs. Anyway, it has been reported, that when Darquan R. Lee was arrested last week, in NJ, police suspected something was foul when he requested to use the restroom but then refused to use it once the officers told him it would be searched before and after use. He was subsequently taken to jail and the officers advised jail personnel that they believed he was stashing something in his crack. A search by jail personnel revealed a loaded 25 caliber pistol shoved between his cheeks and apparently partially within his anus. Talk about living dangerously.

I wonder, had the pistol managed to somehow discharge while it was so concealed (which may have gone unnoticed by police until too late because the sound may have been silenced, or at least muffled, if the bore was up his wazoo), would claims of police brutality, chants of killer cops & hands up don't shoot, and race riots have ensued. I mean, could you imagine the police officers, who would have been involved, trying to explain that one and get folks to believe them. Had it gone off, I am pretty sure that there would have been: claims being made of how saintly had been Darquan, at least one town burning in NJ and several cops charged with murder or manslaughter by now.

Sources are NJ.com and The Bridgeton Police Department Facebook posting (for May 9, 2015).

All the best,
GB

Some Folks Walk Around In A Cloud...

...and sometimes it is of their own making. Folks like that are probably not cut out for a life of crime. Take for instance Michael K. Meadows, whom it is reported walked into a business and sprayed pepper spray at the employees - then walked into the cloud of the mist he had just created with the pepper spray. It incapacitated him so much so that he fled the scene without any loot. He was captured by the police, not too long afterwards, apparently after the driver of the getaway car dropped a dime. (Source.)

All the best,
Glenn B

HAPPY MOTHERS' DAY

Now that I have wished you all a Happy Mothers' Day, I am going to go eat breakfast. Then I am going to go out and search for a store where I can buy my wife and also my mother-in-law a mothers' day gift. I remembered, at about 0130 this morning, that I had not done so already. Oh the shame of it all....but only if I get caught.

More blogging tonight - maybe.

All the best,
Glenn B

Quick Inventory of 22 Rimfire Ammo

I took a quick inventory of the .22 rimfire ammo, I have around, that was easy to find. (Meaning there could be more somewhere out of sight in an ammo can in the back of the closet or wherever).

After getting it done, I figured I had best stop reading gun forum threads on availability of .22LR ammo and need to stop visiting gunbot.net. It's not that I have a gazillion rounds of .22LR, or anywhere close to that, but I think I may have enough, at least for now. I think what I have on hand of .22LR will last me a few range trips and maybe also a few hunting trips. All I'll admit to I having more that a single box of 50 rounds and less than 30 bricks worth of .22LR ammo and I am tight lipped so to speak mostly because no one needs to know how much I have on hand - especially Obama, Cuomo and or their henchmen.

I will readily admit though that I have one single 100 round box of CCI .22 Short (CB Cap). Who cares who knows that? (It was a rhetorical question, don't answer it. Believe me, I know ho might be interested to know how much ammo I have on hand.)

I also have a decent number of .22WMR (.22 Magnum) rounds. Again, enough .22WMR to last a few range trips and maybe even a few more hunting trips - more than a 50 round box and I'll admit to less than 5k rounds of it. Mind you, that could mean 51 rounds, 5 boxes of it, 10 boxes of it or all the way up to 4,999 rounds. I am not telling, again for the same reason. I will note that I found a box from a brick of .22WMR (not even hinting if there is any ammo left in it) and the price on it was $70.00. It was from a 2012 purchase. Imagine getting it for that price now - yeah right.  Nowadays it is selling for about $150.00 per brick, plus shipping, and that is the lowest price at which I could find it in an online search I did while writing this post.

Getting back to .22LR ammo, I have heard that Dick's Sporting Goods may have CCI Mini-Mags in stock. That may require a trip to their store on the way to my daughter's house tomorrow for Mother's Day festivities. Not that I plan to buy any of it but because I need to get each my wife and mother-in-law a Mother's Day Gift. I may find something for my wife there and then may just have to stop by the gun counter to see if they actually have any of the Mini-Mags. Just out of curiosity though and as I said already - not to buy any. As I said, I think I have enough at least for now.

Then again, isn't tomorrow not now, at least until then, when by then it becomes now, but right now tomorrow is not now, and by then when tomorrow becomes now, I may not have enough now by then? Yeah, now I feel better.

All the best,
Glenn B

Big Brother Has Been Indoctrinating Us With The Media...

... for a long time. They have hammered away at folks my age with entertainment television, specifically cartoons, since I was a toddler. I remember that every Saturday morning, I would get up really early to watch the first cartoon that played each Saturday, which was Colonel Bleep. I did not realize it back then but do now see that it was nothing more than a leftist attempt at brainwashing kids into thinking that government control of the citizenry was a good thing. In fact, it probably was the first encouragement I received that swayed me to my eventual career as a federal agent. Just watch these couple of episodes and tell me, how could I resist! Note the theme running throughout these cartoons, that the Futuran Interplanetary High Command sent Colonel Blip to investigate us and it would all be an exciting adventure.

Notice in the second one shown here (not necessarily the second episode) Colonel Bleep faces off against Dr. Destructo who is armed with a Lunar Luger; this only about 13 years after the end of WWII and the fight against the Nazis. It immediately puts guns in a bad light unless it is a weapon in the hands of a member of the government, as Colonel Bleep is under the Futuran Interplanetary High Command! Yes, the brainwashing the left tried to ram into our heads started long ago.

Pretty ballsy of those leftists if you ask me. Funny though, while I became a fed, I never fell for all that leftist bullshit. Anyway, Colonel Bleep was the greatest - even better than Mighty Mouse and Superman.

All the best,
GB

Friggin Weathermen

I checked the weekend weather forecast yesterday. There was zero (0) percent chance of rain today I my area. I anticipated getting a lot of work done in the backyard to turn the soil, level it, add more soil and seed it for a lawn. So far, I finished turning the soil and moved about 800-900 pounds of topsoil to the backyard from where it sat next to the house. (I will now take this moment to again thank my son for buying a wheelbarrow which comes in handy even on our tiny lot; it surely saved my already aching back today.) That's it though - no more because of the rain. I'd really like to at least rake it out and maybe throw what new soil I have atop the old and maybe then rake that out too but it depends on Mother Nature cooperating. We'll see.

All the best,
Glenn B

I Was Busy In The Garden And Missed It...

...so I guess I'll just have to wait for next year and to find out if it is going to sprout again. What? World Naked Gardening Day - what else!

Photo found here and apparent original source here. Reposted here for
educational purposes only to make you aware of the existence of this day.

According to the WNGD website, it most certainly is an annual event, the one I just missed was the 10th one they held. I guess no one in my neighborhood ever heard of it, at least no one within the view I get from my backyard since I certainly would have noticed.

And now, I need to get busy in the garden for at least a few hours but most assuredly not in the buff.

All the best,
Glenn B

I Am Happy I Left That Shitberg...

...known as Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE), Department of Homeland Security (DHS) when I did leave it in November 2011. I spent about 8 years and 6 months under DHS - first in the Bureau of Immigration & Customs Enforcement (until the FBI got peeved that the name contained the word bureau), then in ICE, then in HSI (when the ICE Office of Investigations was sick and tired of being associated with ICE, it changed its name to HSI, but ironically remained under ICE). ICE had one of the worst ratings, if not the absolute worst one, as to the morale of its employees as compared to other government agencies and it reportedly has stayed that way for years (source).

I spent 32 years plus in federal law enforcement, the first 4 in the Border Patrol, the next almost 20 in the U.S. Customs Service and the last 8 plus a bit in ICE/HSI. My last 8 years were miserable. Yes, I will admit, I think GWB fucked up big time by creating DHS but I must also point out that it got much worse under BHO. It was, in my opinion, the political arse kissing numbskulls put in charge of the department from the cabinet level positions, down through the ICE's management, mid-level management, down to some of the lowly group supervisors of the agency, that made it a miserable place to work. (I will note I had some excellent supervisors too but many on the job were not cut out to be managers other than at Mickey D's. ) Even some of the street agents were absolute arsehats (but not most by far). So, the lion's share of the blame goes to mismanagement and the lack of strong supervision. Supervision lacking, what was abundant was piss poor managing and that made working there really miserable. In all of my career, I never before had experienced an outfit with less understanding of its purpose, more floundering, less direction,  more politics, and sheer inept boobs in charge who tried to make things like basic round-ups of known wanted petty criminals look like major investigative achievements than I did during my time in ICE. In addition, as far as I could tell, disregard for the Constitution and the rights therein ran fairly high at ICE in some instances.

Now, while you may note I speak from personal experience, in the first person, it is not just me who feels that way about morale while having worked there. That there are many others who feel/felt likewise is evident in the fact that once again ICE reportedly rates at the bottom for morale among federal agencies as apparent in this quote:

"If the latest federal workforce employee survey is any measure, the Department of Homeland Security is the worst office Uncle Sam runs, and and its Customs and Immigration Enforcement agency is its least desirable post."  (Source.)

Do I miss ICE/HSI? Yes, a little bit but not very much at all, certainly nowhere near as much as I miss the Customs Service Office of Investigations, or the Customs Patrol Tactical Enforcement Division, or the Border Patrol; those were good agencies and excellent jobs. In fact, I miss almost nothing at all about the job at ICE if only because it truly sucked the goodness out of federal law enforcement work and destroyed the employee's desire to get the job done (that is if the employee could figure out exactly what was the job).

I do, however, miss many of the people with whom I worked; most were good at heart, moral, ethical and hard working law enforcement agents and personnel. God or Nature bless them and give them a better place to work, under a new and better administration, as soon as possible.

If you are wondering why I called it a "shitberg" in the title of this post: ICE had a poster made up showing a huge iceberg mostly submerged with the saying, as best as I can recall: "ICE—What you see is just the tip of the iceberg". My reply to that was that only ICE floated lower than shit. How true that thought seems to have been for so many of its employees, based upon their repeated low reviews of morale while working there, is a shame. Sadly, despite the grand purpose that was underlying the creation of DHS and ICE, ICE seemingly has turned out to be little more than a travesty of  professionalism among all other federal law enforcement agencies.

All the best,
Glenn B

Yet Another Woman With Her Finger On The Trigger

Once again, for purely educational purposes as related to firearms safety, I post another image of a woman with her finger on the trigger:

What is wrong with all these woman posing with their fingers the trigger; don't they know anything about firearms safety!

All the best,
Glenn B

A Few Of My Favorite Blogs

A few of my favorite blogs and bloggers:

1. Knuckledraggin My Life Away There may be a better overall blog on the Internet that combines patriotic content, gun stuff, snarky remarks on current events, images of camel toe & titties, and humor but I have not found it. Wirecutter (Ken) is a proclaimed IIIper and I am sure will be a Iper should the SHTF in the form of a national crisis spurred on by tyranny or a societal breakdown. At great risk to me of being spied upon by the NSA, DHS, FBI and whomever else - this is probably number one in how often I visit any blog.

2. Double Nickel Farm I don't visit Jen's site nearly as often as Wirecutter's but I enjoy it, more than any other blog I visit. Jen is a true and dear friend even though we have only met via the net; so, anything she writes is of interest to me. She helped me out spiritually, morally and inspirationally when I was down in utter misery with stage 4 C. I don't know if I can ever express my thanks to her and her family as much as I owe them. She is truly an excellent friend, wonderful mom, great patriot, decent to excellent cook and one heck of a farmer (and now a budding artist too). She, her husband Bill, and their children (now all grown) are in my heart forever.

3. MArooned: One of the most well written blogs on the Internet with lots and los of firearms content and commentary of current events. I would imagine that Jay G was able to land his job at the NRA, at least in good part, due to this blog. Jay is also a friend, a good one at that. We have only met a few times (think Northeast Blogger Shoots and another in West Virginia) but I think we have developed a good bond in person, via our blogs and by way of Kilted To Kick Cancer (in which Jay kilts up annually). He also co-hosts The Squirrel Report on Thursday nights; the show is worth a listen.

4. Cap' Bob & the Damsel and The Wandering Minstrel  I combine both of these blogs as one essentially because they are a husband and wife thing. I met Bob and Damsel (I am embarrassed I cannot remember Damsel's real name) out in Arizona, I guess it was in 2009. Two very nice people who blog about firearms, politics, astronomy (especially about happenings on old sol), flora and fauna of AZ and on their lives in AZ in general. I have visited AZ numerous times for extended periods and short trips alike, and love the memories that are stirred within my psyche each time I see a photo of a cactus bloom, or of a reptile, mammal or bird native to the state of Arizona on either of their blogs. I think they were the first bloggers I ever met in person and have to say they are very nice folks indeed.

5. The Feral Irishman Yet another darned good blog with the right leaning libertarian political stance and patriotism as a couple of the main themes mixed in with some great humor and some excellent images among other things. Friday Femme Fatale is also one of my favorite  the blogs extremely enjoyable features. Damned blog takes a virtual cyber-forever to load but is well worth the wait.

All the best,
Glenn B

To SG and Others...

...and you all know who you are. Please stop sending me your repeated emails and comments asking to me to link to your blogs, or to write posts for your blogs, or to place advertisements for you or your affiliates here on my blog. I do not do requests.

I appreciate that some like TG would like me to write an article about firearms or firearms related gear. I have considered doing it now and then but have not yet, except for the Firearm Blog, and probably never will again do so unless I initiate it. So TG, give it a break and please stop sending me emails.

As for SG (not a typo, I mean SG not TG in this instance), yes especially to you SG, you sir are a pain in the neck (to put it mildly) with your repeated comments and emails in which you all but beg to be included in my blog roll. You are so much of a pain in the neck that if I could somehow blacklist your blog, I would consider doing so. I have told you "...no..." before in response to your requests. Yet you do not take 'no' for an answer. Persistence will not get you what you want with me since I do not intend to give a link to your blog.

Has my previous answer of "no" been so difficult for you to comprehend that your must keep sending me your requests or is it you are just that full of yourself and that much of a spoiled brat that you think pestering me with your arse kissing will make me break down? No matter how much arse kissing you do, with your repeated and annoying form letter type emails and blog post comments (yes I have discovered you send virtually the same arse kissing requests to other bloggers), I am not about to link to your blog. So take this as more than just a hint and please stop making a nuisance of yourself.

Thanks,
Glenn B

With A Name Like Theirs...

...how could Jay and Kateri Schwandt expect anything other than boy children. Yet the Schwandts are at least somewhat hopeful that their 13th child, due this Saturday, will be a girl. With all due respect and meaning absolutely no disrespect, the Schwandt's name is, when in the plural form, at least in my opinion, pretty similar to the German word 'schwanz' meaning tail. It is also slang for penis. It's almost as if they have been predestined to have an all boy family by virtue of their name. They say they would be shocked if the latest addition to their family is not a boy but it seems they would gladly welcome a girl. More here.

All the best,
Glenn B

I Like The Sentiment

I must say, I truly admire that sentiment
among other things. Source.

All the best,
Glenn B

The Most Hated Man On My Block Could Become Me

My neighbors may be about to hate me and so too my family if we don't get a good day or three of soaking rain soon. I tend to think it will be that I wind up the most hated man on my block this spring since rain is not forecast until Tuesday. Even then, they promise only a 50% chance of it. I guess that means I will be watering the backyard frequently over the next few to several days and quite possibly will throw more lime on it as I did just a few minutes ago because man oh man does it smell like shit back there. We had a bag of chicken shit fertilizer out back and it was left out for a year or more. Well, today, when cleaning up some back there, I grabbed the bag and out tore and fell all of the chicken poop that had looked like small pellets or granules once upon a time. Today it was no more than a rotten, rancid, putrid, smelly, foul, odiferous pile of sludge - about 10 to 15 pounds of it.

Calling it "no more" than anything though is a gross under statement. It truly will wind up stinking all the way up to high heaven and that means there is a strong chance of it wafting through and odorizing all the yards, houses and noses anywhere in the near vicinity depending on which way the wind blows it. Right after it happened, I wondered: 'what can I do with that pile of malicious muck'. I figured I could dump it in a trash bag and leave it for the sanitation men. Then I thought better of that because I also figured out that they probably do not appreciate collecting sacks full of fetid feces along their route. Anyway,  I thought it might be a potential health hazard in that high of a concentration.

So, I did the best thing I could think of, I tossed shovels loads of it around my yard under several bushes. Then I hosed it down really well with lots and lots of water to spread it and to let it seep into the soil and dissipate. Then I threw some lime over the places where I had just piled and spread out the disgusting dung and then watered it well once again.

I am thinking that my method of 'stink-be-gone' will have worked within a couple to few days at most. So, I am hopeful that, none too soon, most of the aroma will have wafted itself away to nothingness and my yard will again be scented more like heaven than like hell. As for spreading it around in the yard, to dispose of it, what else should, or could, I have done with it? I mean, it is fertilizer, after all, isn't it! With any luck, I will not have fertilized my bushes to death.

All the best,
Glenn B

A Small Legal Step In The Right Direction

As I have always believed, the government cannot investigate anything unless there is a specific reason to investigate. Thus they cannot choose to follow you around just to see if you will commit a crime and then arrest you, that is without first having legally justifiable cause to do so. In other words, they must at least first suspect, with reasonable cause, you are involved in a crime in order to investigate you. Under that concept, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled to mass collection of telephone records data by the NSA to be  unconstitutional. One can only hope that small step will go even further and be applied to things like police drones performing general surveillances, or to the police using license plate readers on every vehicle's plates they can capture. The court did leave open the possibility that Congress could enact legislation allowing such  investigations to combat terrorism and that is a scary way out that the court has possibly handed to LE for mass collection of evidence on everyone. Still though: "The court said federal law permits gathering information only when there's something specific to investigate. By contrast, today's ruling says, the government is storing huge amounts of data so that it can be searched later when the need arises." and as I said that is a small legal step in the right direction. Source.

All the best,
GB

 

The Old Prospector (a fable with a moral or five)

I found an excellent fable of sorts today and figured it was so good, and conveyed some truly important lessons, that I decided to reprint it here for purely educational purposes.

"An old prospector shuffled into the town of El Indio, Texas leading a tired old mule. The old man headed straight for the only saloon in town, to clear his parched throat.

He walked up to the saloon and tied his old mule to the hitch rail.

As he stood there, brushing some of the dust from his face and clothes, a young gunslinger stepped out of the saloon with a gun in one hand and a bottle of whiskey in the other.

The young gunslinger looked at the old man and laughed, saying, "Hey old man, can you dance?"

The old man looked up at the gunslinger and said, "No son, I don't dance... never really wanted to"

A crowd had gathered as the gunslinger grinned and said, "Well, you old fool, you're gonna dance now!" and started shooting at the old man's feet.

The old prospector, not wanting to get a toe blown off, started hopping around like a flea on a hot skillet.

Everybody standing around was laughing.

When his last bullet had been fired, the young gunslinger, still laughing, holstered his gun and turned around to go back into the saloon.

The old man turned to his pack mule, pulled out a double-barreled 12 gauge shotgun and cocked both hammers.

The loud clicks carried clearly through the desert air. The crowd stopped laughing immediately.

The young gunslinger heard the sounds too, and he turned around very slowly.

The silence was deafening. The crowd watched as the young gunman stared at the old timer and the large gaping holes of those twin 12 gauge barrels.

The barrels of the shotgun never wavered in the old man's hands, as he quietly said;

"Son, have you ever kissed a mule's ass?"

The gunslinger swallowed hard and said, "No sir ... but ... I've always wanted to"

There are a few lessons for all of us here:

* Don't be arrogant.

* Don't waste ammunition.

* Whiskey makes you think you're smarter than you are.

* Always make sure you know who is in control.

* And finally, Don't screw around with old folks; they didn't get old by being stupid." Source.

As I said, some good morals to be learned!

All the best,
Glenn B

I Own One Of These...

...a Beretta 70S in 22LR. Note, I am not saying that mine has a threaded barrel that can accept a suppressor or anything like that. Even if it did, I sure wouldn't be posting about it online in a blog or via social media. One can dream though.

This particular Beretta 70S was used in an armed robbery of an American Express
office, in Australia. It took law enforcement 10 years to capture the robbers. Source.

 

If the silencer looks vaguely familiar to you, it may be due to the
 fact that it was fabricated by using parts from a Maglite flashlight.

While I might be dreaming about have mine outfitted just like this one, I can assure you, I would not be out robbing anyone with it.

 

All the best,

GB

Not Even One Skeleton In The Closet - Why Didn't I Think Of That

A snorkeler, in the Colorado River in AZ, came across what looked like two skeletons in lawn chairs while on a dive recently. He reported it to authorities who then sent a dive to investigate. What they found were two fake skeletons secured to the chairs and the chairs tied to rocks. There was supposedly a sign on at least on of them indicating they had been placed there in August 2014. (Source.)

I would have guessed the giveaway that they were not real was that the skulls were still attached and that at least one was reportedly wearing sun glasses. Besides that they sure looked comfortable.

Yes, it wound up wasting the time of the police and wasting tax payers' dollars but it was one hell of a practical joke. The police have said that they may place them on display, in front of the sheriff's office, as a joke. It shows that yes indeed - people can still have fun without getting arrested. I almost wish I had thought of that one.

All the best,
Glenn B

Race Baiting, Real Racism, Police Brutality, Justified Police Use Of Force, Media Bias

They are all explained in this video. If you watch it at all, watch it all the way through. Don't decide whether you agree, disagree, like it, or dislike it based on only a partial viewing.
 

That has got to be one of the most reasonable essays on these subjects that I have heard in a long time.

All the best,
Glenn B

Maybe I (or We) Should Move To Tennessee

The governor in TN just signed a new law that is truly a winner.

All the best,
GB

He Screws Two Screws And Then He Sues

I find it hard to believe but yes I do believe it. A male inmate, a convicted violent felon, reportedly had consensual sex with two female prison guards numerous times. One of the guards is already serving a prison sentence of about 4 years and the other was recently convicted and is awaiting sentencing. No matter how big it was when he stroked it while waving it at them, if they wanted a big one, all thy had to do was walk up to any man and ask him to show his off while promising to screw him if he was well enough endowed. Now they have screwed themselves into prison terms for themselves.

As for the convicted violent felon, you would think the inmate would have been satisfied with his having screwed two blonde screws but it doesn't end their. Now he is also attempting to screw the state and has filed a law suit alleging cruel and unusual punishment. It does not get much weirder than this. Additional information here.

All the best,
Glenn B

Bubba's Latest Thought?

Or maybe his last one if he reveals it to Hillary. She put up with a lot to do over Bill but I doubt she would put up with this kind of a thing during her campaign. I can only hope he tells her.

Hat tip and my thanks to Jim McK for that one.

All the best,
GB

Educational Video Of Farm Girl Shooting

That was both instructive and enjoyable, wasn't it!

All the best,
GB

Should We Elect A Do Nothing President...

...or at least one who pledges to do less. Such a president, along the lines of Calvin Coolidge, might be just hat we need. Coolidge was pretty much anything other than a progressive. We certainly don't need more of progressives' government programs, restrictions, regulations, policies, laws and taxes piled upon us; so, maybe we need a president in office who will actually do less.



Ronald Reagan had it right: “In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.”  It would be a great relief to get a president again who thought along the lines of Coolidge or even one like Reagan.

My thanks and a hat tip to Peter Q for that one.

All the best,
Glenn B