Idiots To The Left Of Me, Idiots to The Right...

 

All the best,

GB

Lost

 

Yep, that's me.

 

All the best,

Glenn B

Sanctuary Counties - I Love Them

No, I don't mean sanctuary counties that protect wetbacks and allow them to illegally remain within our borders. I am talking about certain counties within NY State that have defied Governor Andrew Cuomo (FUAC) and have refused to enforce at least certain parts of the very anti-RKBA New York S.A.F.E. Act. The sheriff's office in Saratoga County, NY has given notification that it does not intend to enforce a provision of the NY SAFE act that recently went into effect requiring pistol license owners to renew their permits every five years. More here.

In effect it has given sanctuary to those who will not comply with that patently unconstitutional infringement of the RKBA. Three cheers for the SCSO!

All the best,
Glenn B

Another 4.25" For A Total Of 7.25"

It snowed, last night, almost as much as the top number they predicted - which was 8 inches. All told we got a total of 7.25"; I measured this morning in a few places and it was virtually exactly the same at each spot.

Last night, I went out around 8PM to shovel again and I estimate that another 4" had fallen by then, since I had first shoveled earlier in the day. I did the side patio so the Chihuahuas could get out to answer nature's call and the walk along the garage. When I got to the walkway to our front door, it had already been done, obviously by a snow-blower. Once at the sidewalk, I could see it was my next door neighbor who had done it as the cleared trail led back to his place. A nice man is he! Earlier in the evening, my daughter (who is staying with us for a few days with our grandson) went over to his place to ask if she could put her car in his driveway as we already had three cars stacked in there like cord wood. As usual, he said okay. She gave him a bottle of wine as a return courtesy (really, it was not in hopes that he would then clear our sidewalk). I hope he did not feel obligated to clear our sidewalk and walkway. Anyway, there was still enough left for me to shovel to keep me busy for awhile. I widened the single lane he had made and cleared the whole sidewalk and walkway as well as the front steps. When I went out this morning, there was only about 1/4" of additional snow on the ground and it cleaned up quickly. I also cleaned off the three cars in our driveway.

It looks nice out there now - everything covered with the clean whiteness of freshly fallen snow. Too bad it never lasts long here in this way too urban area but at least for now it looks like a winter wonderland. I imagine if birds could think like us though, they would not see it quite that way, probably makes it harder for them to forage. With that in mind, I think I need to get outside again and fill the lone bird feeder I have in the backyard.

All the best,
Glenn B

I Just Took A Few Painful Inches

Lest those of you with dirty minds think I mean something else, allow me to clarify that I meant I took a few inches off of my sidewalk as in I was out shoveling the white stuff. I am guesstimating it was already about 3 inches deep. My wife tells me she heard there are up to another 5 inches expected to fall before it ends sometime tonight. She also said, she heard that the almost windless storm may yet turn into a nor'easter. The extra few inches of snow would not be all that bad, especially since it is pretty cold, around 22 degrees right now, and the snow thus far is pretty lightweight. If it turns into a nor'easter though, I expect drifts to pile up on our side of the street and that could make it a backbreaker since my back was already sore before I started shoveling. Right now, the back is somewhat painful but merely a bit more achy than before.

The warmed German Nurnberger Gluhewein that I am enjoying right now, with a decent dollop of Luksusowa potato vodka added for effect, should help in that department. In addition to the potential pain relief and buzz for which I am hoping, the really nice thing about adding vodka to it is that the vodka hardly changed the flavor of this truly delicious Bavarian spiced wine. By the way, this is the first time I have imbibed even a drop since last Thursday and I guess the abstinence made it taste better than I had expected. Dieting can have tasty results!

Oh well, such are the effects of Global Warming - snow in January - an aching back from snow shoveling - and some spiced wine with a dollop of added sprits to dull the pain and warm the bones. Can you imagine that? If not, then go away and never read my blog again!

All the best,
Glenn B

I Am Going Back To Bed

I Bet Several People Show Up Just For The Free Weed

In fact, I am willing to bet that someone will show up, collect as many free joints as possible, and then brag about it on social media. I suppose the distribution of free marijuana will be better than protesting Donald Trump's inauguration and smoking it maybe will put a damper on some of those who plan to  protest violently.

All the best,
Glenn B

I Will Tell Sally Field What No One Else Wants To Tell Her

According to this published report, there is something no one wants to tell Sally Field and other celebrities, who oppose Donald Trump's presidency. I guess in essence the article makes it out to be that no one wants to tell them the fact that Donald Trump will indeed be inaugurated on January 20, 2017 as our next president by way of a legal election that worked the way it was planned by the Framer's of the Constitution. I though have something else to tell them:

You are all a bunch of immature

leftist arsehat whiners, grow up already.

I mean, wo but immature leftist arsehats whiners could have made a video like this:



By the way, someone also needs to remind the person who wrote that linked article that our form of government in the United States of America is not a democracy. Had it been a democracy at the time of the election, then Clinton would have won. On the other hand, our form of government is a Constitutional Republic (sort of a quasi-democracy wherein citizens can vote but wherein things including elections are regulated by a base set of laws known as the Constitution). Amen to that.

Enough said, except maybe to add: Go Team Trump.

All the best,
Glenn B

How Cocerned Should Be The Secret Service...

...regarding the several guns and ammunition found stashed along the banks of a canal that runs along the Potomac River in Washington, DC. They were found by a woman out walking in the area. She initially found two of them in a violin case and police later found more of them and ammunition hidden in cans ad plastic bags. More here. Were they the fruits of a burglary, or an illegal gun dealer's wares, or maybe they were something more nefarious like weapons stashed there for use during the upcoming presidential inauguration? Hopefully the Secret Service is at least looking into that possibility without merely dismissing it as having been something else.

All the best,
Glenn B

Even CNN Admits - Trump Is Draining The Swamp

President Elect Trump has been more presidential, since the 2016 election (less than 2 months time as I type), than President Obama has been in almost 8 years in office! Keeping companies and jobs here in the USA, bringing jobs back to the USA, coming up with a plan to lower taxes, standing strong with our ally Israel and now this - standing tall for ethics in Congress by helping to force congress into dropping its plan to gut an independent ethics committee.

According to CNN: "President-elect Donald Trump dramatically strong-armed House Republicans into line Tuesday in his first Washington power play, after they voted to gut an ethics watchdog in a manner that undercut his vow to drain the establishment "swamp.""  CNN also had this to say: "The swift developments were a first sign of how Trump plans to govern and wield the power of his presidency -- and his Twitter account -- to bend Washington to his will and an early indication of the new power dynamic between Congress and the White House." More here.

We truly could be in for a long overdue breath of fresh air in Washington, DC. Way to go Mr. Soon To Be President of these United States of America. Somehow, even though this shows Trump standing for ethics in politics, I bet the #not-my-president types (leftist whiners and miscreants) will find fault with this latest development and hate The Donald even more than before because of it. Regardless of what they moan and groan about next, on January 20th, Donald Trump will become #my president and most definitely the president of every U.S. citizen and legal resident alien of the USA. I look forward to it.

All the best,
Glenn B

Apparently Doing His Part To Help End Global Warming...

...a man, reportedly armed with a "long rifle", was alleged by a 911 caller to have been hanging out of a moving vehicle's rear right window on the Florida Turnpike as he was shooting at cows (those evil producers of methane gas that we all know is one of the major cause of global warming). Police were able to find the vehicle and the man who was a passenger in it. They also found his AR15 in the car. The driver of the vehicle said had stopped so his passenger Elvis Antonio Artola could answer the call of nature and while stopped, Artola started shooting into the woods.The driver said he did not know if Artola was just shooting into the woods or at the cows. He also said he did not want to snitch on his friend. More here.

Make sure to listen to the recording of the 911 call at the bottom of the article and to the long pause after the guy tells the 911 operator what he was reporting and where it took place. It seems the 911 operator was at a loss for words there for a bit and who can blame him. Just when you had thought you had heard and seen everything you get a call about a psycho shooting cows from a moooooooooooving vehicle.

The report did not mention if he actually shot any cows. So, I don't know about you, but regardless of how hard he may have been trying to do his part to terminate a few causes of global warming (or get a free steak dinner), I think this guy actually could have sped up climate change. I mean, those cows almost certainly left behind large piles of manure and steamy clouds of methane gas as they were scared shitless and running for their lives.

All the best,

Glenn B

Having To Work In Retirement...

...really sucks.

Having a job in retirement that pays less than 1/3 of what I made before I retired:

REALLY SUCKS  BIGTIME.

 

Not being able to get job doing something I would truly enjoy, even if it paid less than for what I had hoped, because I live in a leftist run socialist welfare state run by a maniacal anti-RKBA tyrant:

 

SUCKS SO VERY MUCH THAT

I HAD BETTER NOT GO THERE

OR MY HEAD MIGHT IMPLODE!

Later 4 U,
Glenn B

Millenial Job Skills...

...may be lacking just a bit.

 

All the best,
GB

The Holidays Sure Tempt One To Go Off Diet

There I was, in the first couple of days of December, about 11-12 pounds lighter over the course of a three and a half month or so period in which I had changed the content of what I was eating. I had not been dieting to lose weight but rather to bring my blood sugar down because I was a mere point away from being labelled a diabetic. So I cut out a lot of carbs. Mind you, I did not cut out all of my carbs nor even did I get as drastic as the Atkins Diet but I went along those lines somewhat. I was not all that concerned about losing weight, just reducing blood sugar. So, I ate much less bread and almost zero junk food along the lines of candy, cakes, donuts, chips, pretzels and such during the week. I also abstained from drinking beer and went to hard spirits because most of them have zero carbs. As for some of what I ate, I ate a lot of eggs, fresh meat & cold cuts, some fish, a salad now and then, veggies when my wife cooked them, horseradish garlic pickles, lots of nuts (peanuts, walnuts, pistachios, almonds, Brazil, hazel, and macadamia nuts) maybe two or three pieces at most of bread in a day (usually whole grain) potatoes (in some moderation). For condiments and spreads I used coconut oil, olive oil, mustard (usually with horseradish) and way too much butter - gobs and gobs of it. 

I allowed myself to cheat on weekends, some weeks for two days others for three. Regardless of the cheating, the result was that my blood sugar levels in my last two blood tests (in October) were greatly reduced. The first one had me well into the normal range and the next a bit high but much lower than only one point from diabetes. In addition, my triglycerides were 10 or 15 points into the normal level; usually there were at least 50 to a few hundred points high (I kid you not, and that comes from too little exercise and way too many carbohydrates). My triglycerides had not been in the normal range more than one or two other times in about 20 years. My cholesterol was acceptable if not good. I also had lost about 11 or 12 pounds while still eating as much as much or maybe even more food than before I started dieting.

Then the hunting/birthday/holiday seasons came in and I was lost. I went hunting and ate some high energy trail mixes with chocolate in them and had a few beers each night. Amazingly though, I maintained the same weight, I guess because of all the walking I did while out hunting. Back on the home front, in early December, I stopped to get some cold cuts at a German butcher. They had some seasonal cookies that I usually eat at Christmas time. I bought a large bag of one type and a smaller package of another. I had the whole bag gone in two or three nights. When no one else went for the cookie in the package, I ate them too. It all went downhill from there. In less than one month, with both of my kids birthdays and Christmas and all, I gained back every pound I had lost. I found that out on Friday when I was weighed at a doctor's office whose scale always matches the one at my regular doc's office where I documented my weight loss. My guess is my blood sugar is back up there again on the borderline if not over it. All that weight gain came on while I was actually getting in some decent walks of a couple to few miles, a few times a week, for exercise during December.

While it is nothing like a New Year's resolution, I am back on the diet of fewer carbs. I started again on Friday. I allowed myself one mouthful of an apple pie for desert on Saturday and that has been it for junk food since then. Otherwise it has been much of the same of what I ate over the last few months to lower my blood sugar. Maybe in another three months I will lose the weight I regained. I hope I stick with it a little better being that there will be no holiday extravaganzas at my house in that time frame, no birthday parties and very few BBQs (but I will have one or three of them this winter depending on the weather). This time I have added one additional restraint - I have been booze free since Thursday night. I am going to see if that helps because one or two too many and I lost all resolve to stick with my diet at least while drinking. As I did before, I am going to allow myself leeway on the weekends but this time will try better to restrict that to one or two days - not three. Who knows, maybe if I stick with that and my increase my walks by carrying my daypack, I may lose 20 pounds in three months. Time and the end of March should tell.

All the best,
Glenn B

Yet Another Easily Avoided Tragic Accidental Shooting...

...that seemingly was caused by negligence has taken a staunch defender of the RKBA. Michael D. Harmon (described as a champion of conservatism and of the RKBA) was accidentally shot by a teenager to whom he was showing a pistol which evidently was loaded at the time. More here: Handgun discharges, killing Press Herald columnist M.D. Harmon at his home - The Portland Press Herald

It really is a shame that this happened because it would have been easily preventable had he just checked the action and assured the pistol was empty before he handed the gun to the teen, had he made sure to be off to the side or behind the teen but still in easy arms reach of the gun, and had he made sure the teen knew not to point it in an unsafe direction or place his finger on the trigger and of course had the teen handled the firearm safely. We can all make mistakes and there is probably not one firearms enthusiast among us who can truly say he never violated at least one aspect of firearms safety at one time or another; yet regardless of none of us being perfect, we must strive for perfection when it comes to safety with firearms.

While his family, friends and loved ones are mourning his loss, some disrespectful bastards on the left reportedly have been applauding his demise (source).

My condolences to his family, loved ones and friends.

Here is hoping the teen will not be traumatized for life by it.

All the best,
Glenn B

Why Do Celebrities Blame Someone Else...

...for their own lack of education, poor work ethic, lack of talent or other inabilities and shortcomings on such a regular basis. Yet another example of such seemingly greeted us with the celebrations on New Year's Eve wherein Mariah Carey was reported to be having trouble during her performance and evidently was unable to keep pace while lip synching with prerecorded music and lyrics (source). The same report goes on to say that she is now blaming Dick Clark Productions (DCP) for what seems to me to be her own inability but she allegedly has said that DCP essentially deliberately sabotaged her performance. DCP is saying that claim is absurd and they may well be correct since no other performer at the same event had a similar problem.

I don't know about you but, since this crap happens on a regular basis with entertainer types and other celebrities, I suppose it the reason I am not a big fan of just about anyone in the entertainment world - at least just about not anyone living. I think that celebrities today are mostly a bunch of clueless, untalented, undereducated and leftist arsehats.

All the best,
Glenn B

I Want To See The Video Of This Guy...

...driving that down the road.

All the best,
GB

American Pickers Never Had A Garage Pick Like This

Mike and Frank of the show American Pickers often talk about the great finds they have made of old cars and motorcycles that have been sitting unattended in peoples garages for decades. Well, truth be told, they never picked a garage and found a car quite like this one (or at least what was in the car) and hopefully, for them, they never will.

All the best,
Glenn B

Even Leftist Lawyer Alan Dershowitz Thinks Obama Is Terrible...

...at least when it comes to foreign policy. Obama, I think, is almost certainly going to go down as one of the most heinous and inept presidents in all of United States history especially now that those on the left are beginning to call it like it is with him in his last moments in the White House.



All the best,
Glenn B

Fashion 2016

Slated to be the hottest thing in progressive fashion for 2016:

 

While you can expect conservatives to be wearing the same old thing they did in 2015:

 



All the best,
Glenn B

 

Police Checkpoint Work Isn't Easy...

...on New Year's Eve and Day, especially if for the cops who administer the breathalyzer test.

All the best,
Glenn B

Hope For A World Full Of Love In 2016...

...but be ready with a shitload of guns and ammo just in case that doesn't work out. Must have been what the artist was trying to say, don't ya think!

All the best,
Glenn B

Celebrity Deaths 2016

Happy New Year

Happy New Year to all.

As for new year resolutions, I resolve (with lots o luck) to look much the same next New Year's day as I do today but somewhat worse for wear over the course of a year.

All the best,
Glenn B

What I Wrote Couple of Days Ago About Obama Pardoning...

...all illegal aliens might not have been that far fetched. Many on the left are urging President Obama to take steps to protect illegal immigrunts before Donald Trump takes office. More here. There would be no more definite way to protect them than to pardon them all. Hopefully, Obama will not think of it and if he does then not have the balls to try it nor the law on his side to effect it. 

Happy New Year,
Glenn B