I Truly Have Been Honored and...

...have had a smile put on my face all by a few sentences someone wrote about a YouTube video I posted:

"Thank God i saw this, I have seen several reassembly videos and they don't convey the right way to do it. I finally got it together after struggling for a couple of days on and off. Great video and a genuine service for humanity. 10 stars."

 

That was a comment left relative to my video about reassembling a Ruger Mark II pistol. While I have gotten some other nice comments, for some reason this one really hit home. It put a smile on my face because it helped another firearms enthusiast accomplish a sometimes difficult task (I use my videos when I am disassembling or reassembling my Ruger Mark II) and because he or she was nice enough to honor me by letting me know I had helped in some small way. Yeah, I know, it's a long video but it sure seems to have helped some folks.

 

All the best,

Glenn B

Ditching It

 

Gives a whole new meaning to driving into a ditch.

 

All the best,

GB

Mashed Potatoes For Brains

All the best,
Glenn B 

What Are The Chances UMich Won't Cave In...

...to the demands of Students4Justice, apparently made up of so called students of color that they be given “a permanent designated space on central campus for Black students and students of color to organize and do social justice work.” In other words, a white free zone. More here: http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/31322/.

Way to go Students4Justice, as I see it, you have stumbled upon an excellent way to foster racism while you destroy tolerance, diversity, inclusion, integration, equality and any respect of one group for another.

And to think, these are college students acting in this totally asinine manner - seems to me more like they belong in 5th grade than in college.

My guess, no matter how ludicrous is the plan, is that the chances are nil to maybe one in ten thousand at best that the school administration will nix their plan completely.

All the best,
Glenn B

Monsters Among Us - Staking Out The Trail

Some apparent lunatic has been hammering nails into objects along trails in a park in NC. One runner/hiker has already been injured by stepping on one of them and another had a close call in which his shoe but not his foot was punctured (my prime person of interest to date). Police and a runners' group are attempting to uncover and clear the area of these potentially deadly stakes. More here:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/02/21/runners-foot-impaled-nail-purposefully-placed-trail-40-total-found-along-trail/98190816/

If it was happening here close to home in NY, I think I would be staking out the area to help find the madman that has been leaving these booby traps for unsuspecting folks. Not so much for the meager $1,000 reward that has been offered for information about he case but to drive a proverbial stake through the heart of his (or her) madness to bring an end to it.

All the best,
Glenn B

Proper Stance

Breakage

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Glenn B

Income Tax Day

I started my day on my laptop and making calls to try to figure out what my son and I have to do to transfer one of my cars to him. Wound up with being told he could do it all once he moves to AR next month (hell, next week if all goes as planned).

Then I decided to do our income taxes, both the return for me and my wife and also Brendan's. What a pain in the arse it was this year. I spent hours, first on my own, then on the phone with TaxAct.com, to try and figure out why my federal pension was first being taxed fully by NY state, then partially. It should not be taxed at all. Never got an answer as to why it kept coming up that way but the rep I spoke to was able to figure out a way to make an adjustment that corrected the situation. Linda and I are getting back money from the state and the feds. Not much but a little back is better than paying even just a little. Brendan is getting a pittance back from the state and quite the haul from the feds. I know, he would be better off taking it in his pay check and putting it into the bank but I figure he would spend it all on beer that way a little each week. This way, he will spend some partying when he gets the refund and put the rest into the bank as is his habit.

Still have not sent in the return for Linda and me. There is one more thing I have to check since I bought a new car and paid a good amount of tax on it which may help get me even a bit more back. At least everything else is done though. Been a long day, sitting at my desk since about 10 this morning until maybe 820 or so tonight.

All the best,
GB
 

Last Night In Sweden - Hell The Last Several Years In Sweden

How many refugees did that POS Obama allow into the USA? And the leftists want to let more enter!

All the best,
GB

You Just Never Know...

...the time nor the fashion of your destiny. The guy you are about to watch in the linked article with video wound up with a fractured skull and chest. Luckily he survived but really - you never know when it could be your turn for something just as strange and maybe with fatal results. I guess it really is good advice,to never stay mad at anyone you love, you may not see them again.

Hat tip to Wirecutter - saw this on his blog.

All the best,
Glenn B

As Wirecutter Would Say...

"I'm sure she's taken, men.

All the best,
Glenn B

Attitude

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GB

Not Gettng Over On The Old Lady

Hat tip Andrew W.

All the best,
Glenn B

Fortuitous Timing...

...guided me home at the right moment to see the BBQ grill engulf itself in flames with black and grey billows of smoke pouring out of it. I quickly shut the burners and opened it while stepping back.  After that, I grabbed the nearby tongs and moved the two racks of lamb off to the far side of the grill that was not in flames. My dearest wifey had decided to grill lamb chops without checking or cleaning the catch pan first. Evidently it had a bit too much grease and probably water in it and up everything went.

As I was trying to assure that the meat was salvageable and take it off of the grill, Brendan and Linda came outside. Brendan was back further than me and had a better overall view and he noticed flames from the cabinet underneath the grill, the area in which the propane tank sits. I opened that and he handed me a mini fire extinguisher. I doused a small flame down in the far corner of the cabinet but still much to close to the tank for comfort. I had to douse it 5 or 6 times, since it went out then would start up again a second or two later. I used the whole can on a tiny flame even though the foam in the can was supposed to be good for grease fires. Like tits on a turtle, it was good for nothing. I asked Brendan to get me a bag of sand from the shed as I was about out of the foam in that worthless piece of junk and he came back with half a bag that I promptly threw all on the flame in the cabinet to assure it did not reignite and then all over the top of the grill to kill the flames up there. Took a little doing but out they went pretty easily.  

My timing was perfect. I do not want to even think about what may have happened if more of the burning grease had gotten down next to or on the propane tank and had burned for another 5 minutes or so. I am guessing that they can go bang from enough heat and if it did go off that it would not have been a good thing. I will be giving the grill a good cleaning tomorrow and will test it after that. I hope the burners were not damaged by the high heat or the sand. I usually give it a looksee and clean it as needed before grilling but that did not happen this time. Tomorrow will tell as to the condition of the grill. I am keeping my fingers crossed it was not damaged.

As for the chops, they were blackened on the outside and just about raw inside so Linda separated them all from one another and cooked them a bit more in the broiler. They were much to my liking once I had added a bit of salt to each of the four that I wolfed down. Seemed that everyone of us enjoyed them just the way they came out.

All the best,
GB

Life Is Cheap - This Time A 9 Year Old Girl's

I wrote about it this past Thursday that Life is Cheap.

Yes, my life, your life, the lives of others are considered to be cheap in the eyes of thugs who are willing to kill people for a mere pittance. I used as an example an armed robbery in which, luckily, no one was killed. I said then, I could not fathom why they are willing to take the chance of killing someone for what amounts to a mere bag of shells. I think the same now as then especially in light of this example of life being cheap, the murder of a 9 year old girl during a home invasion in January.

The police always tell us not to interfere with bad guys and to give then what they want but when a useless piece of shit dirtbag has a gun to your daughter's head, and you don't have what they want, what are you supposed to do but what her father did. He saw an opportunity to free his daughter from the home invader's grip and he took it; too bad his daughter did not run to cover, as her dad had hoped, but hid behind her tower of strength, her hero, her daddy. He was shot four (4) times defending his little girl and relatives reportedly said that one of the bullets that hit him may be the same one that took her life. (Source: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/02/09/wasnt-his-intention-mom-speaks-out:-after-9-year-old-girl-killed-in-home-invasion.html).

More here: http://www.fox19.com/story/34303693/aunt-father-said-he-saw-gun-to-his-daughters-head?clienttype=generic

Yes, my mom was right when she used to comment Life Is Cheap while watching the news about the latest scum of the earth taking an innocent person's life. I did not understand it back then but I understand it now and it makes me grieve. I do not know if the mother of the little girl quite understands that is the attitude of the criminals who commit these crimes, they come armed and ready to shoot and don't give a damn about your life or that of your loved ones, not even if your loved one is an innocent young child. I do know though she must be a saint because she has reportedly stated, as per the linked article:

"I know, and I think everyone else knows, this wasn't his intention,'' 

And that:

"He didn't come in there and intend to shoot and kill a 9-year-old kid."

While I grieve for the little girl, I grieve mostly for her father and mother. He tried to do the right thing and defend her from a ruthless criminal but he will now undoubtedly live in agony while probably blaming himself, at least in part, for what happened to her. The mother will struggle with it too and may wind up going back and forth for years as to whether or not the dad was at fault. The thing is, he was not wrong - not one little bit. When a gun is to the head of your beloved child, how can you depend on the mercy of a man who is depraved enough to be holding it there when chances are he has never shown mercy in his lifetime and does not even understand the concept of the word.

RIP little one. My heartfelt condolences to the family and loved ones of the child. I hope they give him life once they find him and hopefully convict him. Then they should let the other inmates decide his fate once they find out he is a child-killer.

All the best,
Glenn B

Can't We All Just...

 

All the best,

GB

Robo Customs & Border Protection Officer

Customs & Border protection plans to use a robotic officer to determine if travelers entering (and maybe leaving) the country are being truthful or not. Well, at least they have been testing such a device but my bet is if they are testing at least they hope to use it. More here:

http://nypost.com/2016/12/29/the-lie-detecting-robot-customs-officer-of-the-future/

When you read that article, of course you noticed that the article did not say the device would be used to interview arriving aliens to determine if they had ill intent for the USA or its citizens. Oh no - CBP would reportedly use it to find out if you have fruits or vegetables or maybe to ask if you are carrying weapons (after you get off of the plane is how it seems from the article).

Yes, one professor or someone like that suggested it could be used to find terrorists but that is not how the article suggests it would be used by CBP. Mind you, I am not faulting CBP, I figure they would use it for seeking out terrorists among arriving aliens; I am faulting the reporter who wrote that piece for not outright saying it should most definitely be used to seek out and prevent terrorists from entering our country.

I say - use it first and foremost on those arriving from foreign to determine if they are terrorists, plan to do harm to the USA or its citizens, will follow our laws or not - and watch those with ill intent dwindle from entering through land border crossings, airports and seaports by way of visa programs.

All the best,
GB

Maxine Waters Audio - Real Or Fake It Is Priceless

Imagine a prankster, claiming to be the president of the Ukraine, calling Maxine Waters to discuss Russia, the escalation of the conflict in the Ukraine, Donald Trump and hoped for new U.S. sanctions against Russia due to Russian aggression and election tampering (by way of hacking) in Limpopo! No, don't just imagine it, listen to the call here:



All the best,
Glenn B

Have The Laws Of Physics Changed Or...

...has there been some sort of a cosmic shift, like the one in the book Dirk Gentley's Hollistic Detective Agency that caused the couch to get stuck in the turn of the stairway where it easily had passed before?

I only ask because suddenly our microwave oven no longer fits on the shelf where it has sat securely enough even though precariously on the edge for the past couple or few years. Over the past few days, when you open the door, the darned thing starts to fall off of the shelf and no the door is not hitting anything. Now, I know the shelf size has not changed and am wondering if somehow the back section of this hybrid microwave/convection oven expanded due to overheating or something like that, or maybe the back wall of the shelf area somehow has bulged. I guess I may notice that later when I remove it and replace it with the new one I just ordered. The new one being quite a bit smaller should sit there much more securely and its feet not be near the shelf edge.

If the back of the unit and the back of the cubbyhole in which it sits both appear normal, I am going to go with the cosmic shift hypothesis. Heaven knows, things in general have certainly been bizarre as of late.

All the best,
Glenn B

Daddy Long Legs

I was looking for a review of Winchester M-22 ammo in 22LR when I found this video. Watch the video and listen to the distance from which he first says he shot.



Yep, those legs of his must be really long, don't ya think!

I will give him this, he corrected himself soon after that and left me thinking his legs are not that long after all.

All the best,
Glenn B

Life Is Cheap

Certainly my or your life is considered cheap by lowlife thugs who are willing t kill us for a mere bag of shells. Take for example a typical armed robbery such as robbing a convenience store or a pizza place. A perfect example is a pair of masked robbers bursting into a pizza place in NY State and robbing the place at gunpoint. They made off with an undetermined amount of cash (source). No, they did not kill anyone but they could have and very likely might have done so had anything not gone to their liking; let's face it that happens all to often with someone winding up dead.

It always amazes me that there are dirtbags willing to take the chance they may kill someone just to rob a place that will have relatively very little cash on hand. As my mom used to say, life is cheap. I did not get it then but I understand it now - it is the dirtbags who consider my life, your life, our lives to be of little value. While I now understand what she meant, I may never understand why they think it is okay to take a life for such a pittance and then why anyone would consider their lives worth preserving by putting them in prison instead of executing them.

All the best,
Glenn B

How Did They Get Their Driver's Licenses

I saw the driver of one of these two dark colored vehicles return to it and look high and low as to why her car and the SUV in front of her car had been ticketed. I saw her basically scratching her head and politely told her why she had gotten a ticket. Can you see why?

Two dumb arsehats with driver's licenses!

In the event you need a clue let me just say neither the white car nor my car (the mirror is most of what you see of mine) got ticketed.

All the best,
GB

A Liberal Awakening?

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GB

The Not So Dearly Departed

“With Leslie’s passing he will be missed only for what he never did; being a loving husband, father and good friend.  No services will be held, there will be no prayers for eternal peace and no apologies to the family he tortured.  Leslie’s remains will be cremated and kept in the barn until ‘Ray,’ the family donkey’s wood shavings run out.  Leslie’s passing proves that evil does in fact die and hopefully marks a time of healing and safety for all.”

The daughter of a Texas man, who evidently was thought to have been one shitty father, wrote an obituary, part of which appears above, that instead of glorifying him evidently made it clear that he had been a rotten scumbag. The full obit can be seen here:

http://kfan.iheart.com/onair/the-power-trip-12367/family-writes-the-worlds-most-scathing-15560896/

According to an article at CNN, her reasons for having done so were simple:

"I apologize to anyone that my father hurt and I felt it would have been offensive to portray him as anything other than who he was," she also said. "This obituary was intended to help bring closure because not talking about domestic violence doesn't make it go away!" Source: http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/13/health/obituary-charping-texas-man-trnd/

I know I have not been the best husband, dad, relative or friend but I certainly hope someone remembers me more fondly than that. once I am gone. As for my ashes, do with 'em what you will or just leave my dead ass there by the side of the road.

All the best,
Glenn B

Scary Coffee

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GB