Yes, below video is definitely for men who love breasts (yep there sure is nekid women in it) and who love country music too.
Show them to me from Marc (MyNutZak) on Vimeo.
All the best,
Glenn B
Friday, December 5, 2014
For The Breast Loving Man Who Is A Country Music Aficionado
Show them to me from Marc (MyNutZak) on Vimeo.
All the best,
Glenn B
Thursday, December 4, 2014
Did You Get A Flu Shot This Year? More Bad News From The CDC!
So, did you get a flu shot this year? I did but it may not help me much in preventing me from coming down with the flu. The screwed up thing about it is that now the CDC is saying the vaccine that was given to folks this time may not be all that effective against this year's strain of the flu. In addition, they are indicating that this years variety is expected to cause more hospitalizations and deaths of those who come down with it. Next thing you know they will be telling us this is the zombie strain! More here.
Stay well,
GB
Stay well,
GB
Yet Another Blog Roll Update
Just added 'In the Middle of the Right' over on the right side bar under TAKE A SHOT WITH THESE SHOOTIST BLOGGERS, NOT AT THEM. Web address:
http://middleoftheright.blogspot.com/
All the best,
Glenn B
http://middleoftheright.blogspot.com/
All the best,
Glenn B
Blog Roll Update
New blog - My Gun Diary - added to the blog roll over on the right sidebar under: TAKE A SHOT WITH THESE SHOOTIST BLOGGERS, NOT AT THEM. Web address for this blog is: http://mygundiary.blogspot.com/
All the best,
Glenn B
All the best,
Glenn B
The Eric Garner Killing - The Grand Jury Decision - My Two Cents
The Grand Jury failed to bring a true bill (indict) New York City Police Department Officer Daniel Pantaleo in the killing of Eric Garner (source). Mr. Garner had been informed he was under arrest (for selling loose cigarettes on the streets of Staten Island in July 2014) and was then placed into a chokehold by the officer when he resisted arrest. I see a possible flaw with the Grand Jury decision despite not having all of the evidence available to me. As in a grand jury investigation though, I think that I have enough evidence to determine probable cause at least on which to base my opinion.
First of all, the medical examiner returned a finding of homicide (not as defined in a dictionary but as defined by NY State law - http://ypdcrime.com/penal.law/article125.htm#p125.00). Secondly, while many - including the officer - claim he did not have criminal intent to harm Mr. Garner, the officer's intent says nothing toward certain of the charges he could have, and almost certainly should have, been facing. Criminally negligent homicide (involuntary manslaughter) does not require him having intent to kill someone, it has to do with having done so by way of being criminally negligent. I could walk down the street shooting my guns in this direction and that and kill someone. I would almost certainly be charged with at least criminally negligent homicide because the killing, on the face of it, would have been the result of me negligently firing my gun and that negligence would be seen as rising to the criminal level. I think that there was more than enough probable cause to believe that officer Pantaleo was criminally negligent.
The thing that truly irks me though is the fact that a choke hold is considered deadly force in any training I received (within at least 15 years of my retirement from LE) and allow me to assure you - my training in that area has been extensive. The restraint technique used by the officer apparently was questionable as a chokehold but would not have been questioned in the training I received as far as I can recall. It was, in my opinion, a choke hold. It was designed to cut off blood flow in the carotid arteries. Cutting off that blow flow does not always result in death, just as a gunshot does not, but in all likelihood it can and often does result in death - thus it is considered deadly force. The NYPD banned officers from using chokeholds and that ban was in effect when Mr. Garner was killed. Regardless of the ban (and note even with the ban, it may have been allowed in cases where deadly force was permitted) I have watched the video several times and do not see the need for the application of deadly force and it certainly seems like it was deadly force to me. I also am familiar with the law in NY State covering the application of deadly force - the degree of threat against the officers never rose, in my opinion based on 32 years of LE work, to that level as required by NY State law. Of course, the officer could have seen and articulated that differently being he was the one in the situation. Yet, I am more than just a bit flummoxed as to why the officer was not charged. Note, I am not saying he is guilty of anything but that it seems to me there was more than enough evidence to find probable cause that a crime was committed relative to the killing of Mr. Garner and there seems to have been more than enough evidence to indicate probable cause that the officer had committed that crime. Maybe if the authorities are transparent, we will see that there was evidence to indicate otherwise but I am blinded to it now as I have not seen or heard that evidence. In Fergusson, MO, there was ample evidence to completely exonerate the Officer Wilson in the death of Michael Brown but it just does not seem to be even close to the same in this case.
Short of other evidence, therein lies enough for me to have a reasonable and strong doubt of the wisdom behind the grand jury decision. Having had a wealth of first extensive experience with grand juries - I know that, in a GJ proceeding, very little evidence is needed to bring an indictment as would be to bring a conviction in criminal court, that since it is probable cause being determined and not guilt. That sufficient evidence seems to be there - with no apparent mitigating factors such as Mr. Garner's resistance to arrest rising to the level where deadly force would have been needed to end the threat to the officers posed by him - to have indicted is crystal clear to me. (Again, without all the evidence but I have never been in a grand jury proceeding where all the evidence was presented as was in Fergusson and I don't know if all of it was presented in this case.) Still, the decision has me wondering if this was not a case of prejudicial treatment (not racial) in favor of a police officer by the prosecutor. Knowing NYS politics, that is unlikely but it is possible, especially with those considerations in mind. So, I question the decision of the grand jury not to find a true bill. Of course, all that means is I would like to know and examine more of the evidence. Hopefully it will be divulged (if not already done) so that we mere citizens can review it and rest assured that our police departments and governments are not running amok and totally disregarding even our most basic right - that to life. Sadly though, I fear the worst in that regard.
Mind you, I am not saying - even for one instant - that I believe that this was a departmental thing or even a multiple officer offense. During the arrest, Mr. Garner obviously resisted and the officers, who were ordered to enforce the ridiculous law were, under the circumstances, more than justified to use enough proper force against him to negate the threat he posed by way of his resistance. I think that all of the officers used proper restraint during the process with the possible exception of Officer Pantaleo. Bringing Mr. Garne to the ground to control and handcuff him was the prudent and proper thing to do - again under the circumstances. Doing so could have been easily accomplished without deadly force but again it seems to me that the officer in question almost immediately resorted to the use of deadly force in as much as I believe that the application of a choke hold was the use of deadly force. As to the other officers, none used a weapon, they did not shoot him with a TASER nor did they stun Mr. Garner with a stun gun, they did not spray him with OC Spray (pepper spray) nor did the beat him with flashlights or night sticks nor with expandable batons nor even their fists. They brought him to and held him on the ground and handcuffed him. They apparently used the minimum amount of force necessary to restrain him. I salute them in that regard, too bad though that they were not able to handle it without violence but then it was Mr. Garner who resisted. I am not blaming him for his own death, merely explaining why physical force was used at all and that in no way, in my opinion, should negate the restrictions on the use of deadly force.
All that aside, for now, I have to abide by the findings of the GJ just as should everyone else. For the federal government to want to prosecute this officer in a civil rights case seems ridiculous at best. To date, there has been no mention of any hard evidence to indicate there was a racial motive in this case except that one man was white and the other black. If that is enough to say that this was a racially motivated homicide and to bring such charges, then every criminal act committed by a person of one any given race against a person of any other given race, should have to be charged as a race biased crime. If, however, there is actual evidence of racial bias having been exercised against Mr. Garner by Officer Pantaleo, then let the civil rights case be brought against the officer because racial bias has no place in law enforcement. Otherwise, the federal government should get off of the politically fueled race baiting merry-go-round.
As for the incident coming about in the first place: That is the fault of over intrusive government in general in that such governments insist on enacting and enforcing over restrictive laws upon the liberties of the citizenry. Think about why this incident happened. It came about because NY City and NY State governments insisted on passing laws taxing tobacco - what is in essence a weed that one could grow in one's backyard. Then after that, they decided to enforce those laws relative to that taxation to the point where they actively sought out violators for arrest and prosecution - suspects whom they believed were illegally selling not huge amounts of untaxed tobacco but individual cigarettes called loosies.
Mind you, I am in agreement that if the law taxes tobacco within the intended constitutional restrictions on government, then tobacco should not be sold without collection and remittance, by the seller, of the tax due to the taxing authority. However, let's consider that in NY marijuana possession does not incur an arrest if the amount is under 25 grams. Marijuana, last time I checked, is still considered an illegal and dangerous drug in NY state. Yet the authorities in New York city (as everywhere else) pursue a man for ridiculously minor offense relative to a legal substance, with a fervor beyond reason, for something that probably should not even be illegal in the first place (the taxation on a weed). They seem hell-bent on destroying any liberties of the People merely in order to fill their coffers. To seek out, arrest and prosecute a man for selling loose cigarettes is not only overly restrictive of liberties, it is a huge waste of vital police manpower and other resources that could have been used to solve or even prevent crimes of much higher degree of criminality. Such police action unnecessarily places both the public and police officers in harm's way as can be seen by the outcome of this event and it is ultimately all based upon the greed for money and power by government officials.
Add to that the attitude of all to many police officers today, that they MUST enforce the law AT ALL COSTS because they are sworn to do so. The fact is that they are sworn first to support and defend the Constitution; never are they sworn to violate rights or liberties. Based on that alone, I must say, we need change from the way things are done and that change is primarily wrapped around the now unbridled rampant abuse of our governments trampling over our rights and liberties. We need to reign in government, and make those in it abide by the Constitution as it was intended and not as progressives or tyrants (both on the right or left) would interpret it.
Until such changes are made, tragedies like this are bound to repeat themselves and continue almost unabated because there is no penalty paid by government authorities for committing them. Yes, Officer Pantaleo will in all likelihood face departmental charges and may lose his job. There almost certainly will be a civil claim filed (one by the family of Mr. Garner in the amount of 75 million dollars has already been reported - source 880 WCBS radio in NYC last night). The government will likely pay a huge amount of dollars by way of a settlement but that does not effect the law makers and enforcers in any way except maybe for bad press. They are indemnified by law and covered by our tax dollars. So, while the government must pay, the bureaucrats have no to little true remorse, and no incentive to change the way they do business, because they pay with money out of our pockets not theirs. They will continue to enact and enforce liberty restricting and petty laws in order to help fill their coffers and boost their power with money brought in from taxes and fines and will continue to do so unrestrained unless we put a stop to it. As to the fines and unnecessary taxation, the truth is that instead of the government actually making money by way of fines and taxation in such cases, the government (the City of NY in this case) will almost assuredly loose tens of millions of tax dollars to settle the lawsuit with Mr. Garner's family and you can be assured that they will, in all likelihood, make a settlement with them. You can also be certain, that unless we change things by way of the ballot box, they will continue along their tyrannical merry way to enact and enforce more and more liberty restricting laws on a regular basis.
All the best,
Glenn B
First of all, the medical examiner returned a finding of homicide (not as defined in a dictionary but as defined by NY State law - http://ypdcrime.com/penal.law/article125.htm#p125.00). Secondly, while many - including the officer - claim he did not have criminal intent to harm Mr. Garner, the officer's intent says nothing toward certain of the charges he could have, and almost certainly should have, been facing. Criminally negligent homicide (involuntary manslaughter) does not require him having intent to kill someone, it has to do with having done so by way of being criminally negligent. I could walk down the street shooting my guns in this direction and that and kill someone. I would almost certainly be charged with at least criminally negligent homicide because the killing, on the face of it, would have been the result of me negligently firing my gun and that negligence would be seen as rising to the criminal level. I think that there was more than enough probable cause to believe that officer Pantaleo was criminally negligent.
The thing that truly irks me though is the fact that a choke hold is considered deadly force in any training I received (within at least 15 years of my retirement from LE) and allow me to assure you - my training in that area has been extensive. The restraint technique used by the officer apparently was questionable as a chokehold but would not have been questioned in the training I received as far as I can recall. It was, in my opinion, a choke hold. It was designed to cut off blood flow in the carotid arteries. Cutting off that blow flow does not always result in death, just as a gunshot does not, but in all likelihood it can and often does result in death - thus it is considered deadly force. The NYPD banned officers from using chokeholds and that ban was in effect when Mr. Garner was killed. Regardless of the ban (and note even with the ban, it may have been allowed in cases where deadly force was permitted) I have watched the video several times and do not see the need for the application of deadly force and it certainly seems like it was deadly force to me. I also am familiar with the law in NY State covering the application of deadly force - the degree of threat against the officers never rose, in my opinion based on 32 years of LE work, to that level as required by NY State law. Of course, the officer could have seen and articulated that differently being he was the one in the situation. Yet, I am more than just a bit flummoxed as to why the officer was not charged. Note, I am not saying he is guilty of anything but that it seems to me there was more than enough evidence to find probable cause that a crime was committed relative to the killing of Mr. Garner and there seems to have been more than enough evidence to indicate probable cause that the officer had committed that crime. Maybe if the authorities are transparent, we will see that there was evidence to indicate otherwise but I am blinded to it now as I have not seen or heard that evidence. In Fergusson, MO, there was ample evidence to completely exonerate the Officer Wilson in the death of Michael Brown but it just does not seem to be even close to the same in this case.
Short of other evidence, therein lies enough for me to have a reasonable and strong doubt of the wisdom behind the grand jury decision. Having had a wealth of first extensive experience with grand juries - I know that, in a GJ proceeding, very little evidence is needed to bring an indictment as would be to bring a conviction in criminal court, that since it is probable cause being determined and not guilt. That sufficient evidence seems to be there - with no apparent mitigating factors such as Mr. Garner's resistance to arrest rising to the level where deadly force would have been needed to end the threat to the officers posed by him - to have indicted is crystal clear to me. (Again, without all the evidence but I have never been in a grand jury proceeding where all the evidence was presented as was in Fergusson and I don't know if all of it was presented in this case.) Still, the decision has me wondering if this was not a case of prejudicial treatment (not racial) in favor of a police officer by the prosecutor. Knowing NYS politics, that is unlikely but it is possible, especially with those considerations in mind. So, I question the decision of the grand jury not to find a true bill. Of course, all that means is I would like to know and examine more of the evidence. Hopefully it will be divulged (if not already done) so that we mere citizens can review it and rest assured that our police departments and governments are not running amok and totally disregarding even our most basic right - that to life. Sadly though, I fear the worst in that regard.
Mind you, I am not saying - even for one instant - that I believe that this was a departmental thing or even a multiple officer offense. During the arrest, Mr. Garner obviously resisted and the officers, who were ordered to enforce the ridiculous law were, under the circumstances, more than justified to use enough proper force against him to negate the threat he posed by way of his resistance. I think that all of the officers used proper restraint during the process with the possible exception of Officer Pantaleo. Bringing Mr. Garne to the ground to control and handcuff him was the prudent and proper thing to do - again under the circumstances. Doing so could have been easily accomplished without deadly force but again it seems to me that the officer in question almost immediately resorted to the use of deadly force in as much as I believe that the application of a choke hold was the use of deadly force. As to the other officers, none used a weapon, they did not shoot him with a TASER nor did they stun Mr. Garner with a stun gun, they did not spray him with OC Spray (pepper spray) nor did the beat him with flashlights or night sticks nor with expandable batons nor even their fists. They brought him to and held him on the ground and handcuffed him. They apparently used the minimum amount of force necessary to restrain him. I salute them in that regard, too bad though that they were not able to handle it without violence but then it was Mr. Garner who resisted. I am not blaming him for his own death, merely explaining why physical force was used at all and that in no way, in my opinion, should negate the restrictions on the use of deadly force.
All that aside, for now, I have to abide by the findings of the GJ just as should everyone else. For the federal government to want to prosecute this officer in a civil rights case seems ridiculous at best. To date, there has been no mention of any hard evidence to indicate there was a racial motive in this case except that one man was white and the other black. If that is enough to say that this was a racially motivated homicide and to bring such charges, then every criminal act committed by a person of one any given race against a person of any other given race, should have to be charged as a race biased crime. If, however, there is actual evidence of racial bias having been exercised against Mr. Garner by Officer Pantaleo, then let the civil rights case be brought against the officer because racial bias has no place in law enforcement. Otherwise, the federal government should get off of the politically fueled race baiting merry-go-round.
As for the incident coming about in the first place: That is the fault of over intrusive government in general in that such governments insist on enacting and enforcing over restrictive laws upon the liberties of the citizenry. Think about why this incident happened. It came about because NY City and NY State governments insisted on passing laws taxing tobacco - what is in essence a weed that one could grow in one's backyard. Then after that, they decided to enforce those laws relative to that taxation to the point where they actively sought out violators for arrest and prosecution - suspects whom they believed were illegally selling not huge amounts of untaxed tobacco but individual cigarettes called loosies.
Mind you, I am in agreement that if the law taxes tobacco within the intended constitutional restrictions on government, then tobacco should not be sold without collection and remittance, by the seller, of the tax due to the taxing authority. However, let's consider that in NY marijuana possession does not incur an arrest if the amount is under 25 grams. Marijuana, last time I checked, is still considered an illegal and dangerous drug in NY state. Yet the authorities in New York city (as everywhere else) pursue a man for ridiculously minor offense relative to a legal substance, with a fervor beyond reason, for something that probably should not even be illegal in the first place (the taxation on a weed). They seem hell-bent on destroying any liberties of the People merely in order to fill their coffers. To seek out, arrest and prosecute a man for selling loose cigarettes is not only overly restrictive of liberties, it is a huge waste of vital police manpower and other resources that could have been used to solve or even prevent crimes of much higher degree of criminality. Such police action unnecessarily places both the public and police officers in harm's way as can be seen by the outcome of this event and it is ultimately all based upon the greed for money and power by government officials.
Add to that the attitude of all to many police officers today, that they MUST enforce the law AT ALL COSTS because they are sworn to do so. The fact is that they are sworn first to support and defend the Constitution; never are they sworn to violate rights or liberties. Based on that alone, I must say, we need change from the way things are done and that change is primarily wrapped around the now unbridled rampant abuse of our governments trampling over our rights and liberties. We need to reign in government, and make those in it abide by the Constitution as it was intended and not as progressives or tyrants (both on the right or left) would interpret it.
Until such changes are made, tragedies like this are bound to repeat themselves and continue almost unabated because there is no penalty paid by government authorities for committing them. Yes, Officer Pantaleo will in all likelihood face departmental charges and may lose his job. There almost certainly will be a civil claim filed (one by the family of Mr. Garner in the amount of 75 million dollars has already been reported - source 880 WCBS radio in NYC last night). The government will likely pay a huge amount of dollars by way of a settlement but that does not effect the law makers and enforcers in any way except maybe for bad press. They are indemnified by law and covered by our tax dollars. So, while the government must pay, the bureaucrats have no to little true remorse, and no incentive to change the way they do business, because they pay with money out of our pockets not theirs. They will continue to enact and enforce liberty restricting and petty laws in order to help fill their coffers and boost their power with money brought in from taxes and fines and will continue to do so unrestrained unless we put a stop to it. As to the fines and unnecessary taxation, the truth is that instead of the government actually making money by way of fines and taxation in such cases, the government (the City of NY in this case) will almost assuredly loose tens of millions of tax dollars to settle the lawsuit with Mr. Garner's family and you can be assured that they will, in all likelihood, make a settlement with them. You can also be certain, that unless we change things by way of the ballot box, they will continue along their tyrannical merry way to enact and enforce more and more liberty restricting laws on a regular basis.
All the best,
Glenn B
Parental Fears
I just sent my son a text message. He probably will tell me, when I see him tonight, that I am an asshole because of what I sent him. Yet, I am pretty sure he will heed my advice - anyway I hope he does. You see, he works in Brooklyn in or very near to a predominantly low to mid-income African American neighborhood. Based on past events of a similar nature, I would guess that there will be protests there over the Eric Garner grand jury decision not to indict the NYPD cop for the killing of Mr. Garner. There may also be violent riots or incidents. There is a good chance that if there is violence, it will be racially motivated and will be against whites; again that is based on past events of a similar nature. I hope that trouble does not come his way but if it does - I just gave him some advice on how to avoid trouble - I hope he takes it.
All the best,
Glenn B
All the best,
Glenn B
Monday, December 1, 2014
FUCK THE PROTESTORS IN FERGUSSON, FUCK THE MEDIA, FUCK THE RACE BAITERS
Then again - fuck everything. I am in a foul mood tonight.
I suppose this article had something to do with getting me fired up but I was already pissed when I walked in the door after work tonight and it had to do with reports about the racists in Fergusson (the protesting ones). It just got whole shitload worse when I read that article.
By the way, if those reported black and Hispanicsuspects pieces of shit in St. Louis, MO who allegedly killed the white guy with hammers yesterday, pounding on him repeatedly with them, were not doing so for racial motives, if that was not a bias and hate crime, if that was not related to Fergusson - well then - if I were to call every black protestor in Fergusson a nigger, it would not be racist either - right (sarcastically rolling eyes now)! Well, of course, that's not right but let's face it folks - in the media and in the eyes of politicians and bureaucrats and in the eyes of most African Americans (or so it seems) it is only a racist crime if it was committed by a white man (or maybe an Asian) against a black man. If it is a black man who committed the crime against a white man, then even when it was obviously racist, it is almost guaranteed to be called just about anything but racism and I say FUCK THAT TOO.
This bullshit is sickening and needs to end now or we will have to live with the consequences which I imagine will not be without mass violence on a scale not seen in at least decades if not longer.
I suppose this article had something to do with getting me fired up but I was already pissed when I walked in the door after work tonight and it had to do with reports about the racists in Fergusson (the protesting ones). It just got whole shitload worse when I read that article.
By the way, if those reported black and Hispanic
This bullshit is sickening and needs to end now or we will have to live with the consequences which I imagine will not be without mass violence on a scale not seen in at least decades if not longer.
Sunday, November 30, 2014
Remington Recalling Some 887 Shotguns
Read about it here: http://887recall.remington.com/pdfs/Press-Release.pdf
Check if yours is part of the recall here: http://887recall.remington.com/
Hopefully yours is not one of them but if it is, get it fixed.
All the best,
GB
Check if yours is part of the recall here: http://887recall.remington.com/
Hopefully yours is not one of them but if it is, get it fixed.
All the best,
GB
Saturday, November 29, 2014
Coast PX25 Flashlight
The Coast PX25 LED flashlight is far superior to any other small flashlight I have ever used and it has an excellent price for a high quality light. I purchased one at Home Depot when I needed a flashlight fast; had never heard of the company but took a chance. Well, I had it for about 3.5 - 4 years until I lost it recently and am using a backup light I had around - one that I used to think was excelent - that was until I bought the Coast PX25. The old and reliable backup is good but is actually far inferior to the PX25.
The Coast PX25 has an aluminum body, gives off 208 lumens, has a claimed 6 hour 15 minute runtime, a bull's eye spot beam with a 128 meter (419 feet) beam distance (also a nice amount of light out to the side of the beam, so it is good for navigating around in the dark), is impact and water resistant, weighs 4.2 ounces, is 4.7 inches in length, uses three (3) AAA batteries (batteries are included), has a rubber covered end-cap on/off switch. They come with a lifetime warranty too. If I recall correctly, it also comes with a nylon belt case but don't hold me to that.
My impressions were (I say were because I lost mine recently): It is a very bright light and the batteries lasted a long, long time (and I can attest to over 4.5 hours run time before I changed batteries (did not have to do so but changed them to be on the safe side). A strong point of this light is that it has a momentary on/off option which is essential in tactical situations, it also has the typical click on/off for continual operation. It is obviously shock resistant as I dropped mine several times with no ill effects and is also definitely water resistant as I dropped mine at least once into a puddle that completely enveloped it with water and it kept working perfectly. It is an excellent size for on the belt or in the pocket carry (also note that in the few years I owned mine I think it inadvertently only got clicked on once while carried in my pocket). The fact that it uses three AAA batteries means batteries are easy to find and inexpensive to purchase. The PX25 sells for about $40 apiece and I think that is a bargain.
All else I can say is that since I lost mine not too long ago, a Coast PX25 LED flashlight is on my wish list for Christmas this year (hint, hint).
For more info on it or other Coast flashlights, see: http://www.coastportland.com/
All the best,
Glenn B
The Coast PX25 has an aluminum body, gives off 208 lumens, has a claimed 6 hour 15 minute runtime, a bull's eye spot beam with a 128 meter (419 feet) beam distance (also a nice amount of light out to the side of the beam, so it is good for navigating around in the dark), is impact and water resistant, weighs 4.2 ounces, is 4.7 inches in length, uses three (3) AAA batteries (batteries are included), has a rubber covered end-cap on/off switch. They come with a lifetime warranty too. If I recall correctly, it also comes with a nylon belt case but don't hold me to that.
My impressions were (I say were because I lost mine recently): It is a very bright light and the batteries lasted a long, long time (and I can attest to over 4.5 hours run time before I changed batteries (did not have to do so but changed them to be on the safe side). A strong point of this light is that it has a momentary on/off option which is essential in tactical situations, it also has the typical click on/off for continual operation. It is obviously shock resistant as I dropped mine several times with no ill effects and is also definitely water resistant as I dropped mine at least once into a puddle that completely enveloped it with water and it kept working perfectly. It is an excellent size for on the belt or in the pocket carry (also note that in the few years I owned mine I think it inadvertently only got clicked on once while carried in my pocket). The fact that it uses three AAA batteries means batteries are easy to find and inexpensive to purchase. The PX25 sells for about $40 apiece and I think that is a bargain.
All else I can say is that since I lost mine not too long ago, a Coast PX25 LED flashlight is on my wish list for Christmas this year (hint, hint).
For more info on it or other Coast flashlights, see: http://www.coastportland.com/
All the best,
Glenn B
Thursday, November 27, 2014
What Else To Do On Thanksgiving Except Buy Ammo
I just ordered 500 rounds of CCI, 40 grain, JHP 22WMR rounds from Palmetto State Armory. It is a Christmas present sort of - from me to me and my son. With that order, added to what we have on hand, we should have enough to last us a year or two. Brendan can go through it like termites through rotted wood or a hungry kid with a sweet tooth through a basket of jelly beans.
Not a bad deal considering today's prices for this ammo. It was about .28 cents per round or $13.99 per box of 50. With shipping included it worked out to about .30 cents per round. I have not seen a better price online in a long time. Of course this comes with PSA's slow arsed shipping; it probably will not ship for at least two weeks but we are in no hurry.
See: http://palmettostatearmory.com/index.php/ammunition/rimfire-ammunition/22-magnum/22-wmr-jhp-40gr-small-game.html
All the best,
Glenn B
Not a bad deal considering today's prices for this ammo. It was about .28 cents per round or $13.99 per box of 50. With shipping included it worked out to about .30 cents per round. I have not seen a better price online in a long time. Of course this comes with PSA's slow arsed shipping; it probably will not ship for at least two weeks but we are in no hurry.
See: http://palmettostatearmory.com/index.php/ammunition/rimfire-ammunition/22-magnum/22-wmr-jhp-40gr-small-game.html
All the best,
Glenn B
Happy Thanksgiving
Happy Thanksgiving to all. Be thankful for the good things in your life even if the good things. That includes being thankful that any misfortune you may have suffered was not any worse. There are very few of us who do not have something for which we can give thanks.
Hopefully, at least today, you will have a full belly, be sated by good drink and have of good folk with whom to share your thanks and each other's company.
All the best,
Glenn B
Hopefully, at least today, you will have a full belly, be sated by good drink and have of good folk with whom to share your thanks and each other's company.
All the best,
Glenn B
Wednesday, November 26, 2014
Blog Roll Update
New blog added to the blog roll: dad's deadpool blog
It is over on the right sidebar, under the header:
TAKE A SHOT WITH THESE SHOOTIST BLOGGERS, NOT AT THEM
All the best,
GB
Fergusson - I Won't Say Much About It...
...but I will say quite a bit of something about what is important in as much as I think what I have to say could truly fix the whole problem for so called underprivileged America. This goes for anyone, of any race, but I primarily will address Black America here in relation to Fergusson.
Al Sharpton and every bleeding heart liberal are, pretty much, saying that Michael Brown did not get justice and that they will seek it through a federal investigation and through a civil lawsuit. The truth is, I think, he did get justice and got exactly what he deserved. With all due respect to his parents, my guess is that you allowed him to grow up to become a thug and that if you had not done so - this would never have happened. Instead of maybe cursing and damning the rest of America (as racists) and blaming cops during your son's lifetime while he was growing up, for all the ills of the black community - maybe you should have been putting a leather belt or size 12 up side his ass and a wooden spoon upside his head whenever he did wrong as a juvenile - they work wonders so long as you do not overdo it. Maybe you should have restricted him to staying home instead of roaming the streets. Maybe you should have sent him to summer camp for the summers instead of allowing him to hang out with bad friends. Then the proper lifestyle grooming, love, respect and encouragement probably would have been all that it would have taken to get and keep him on the right track.
Had you been there at every PTA meeting and gone to his school every time he screwed up therein, had you encouraged good attendance and hard study, had you gone to school plays or musical events to see him in them, had you at least tried to help him with his homework, had you encouraged him not only to learn but convinced him just how important was a good education, had you been severe in making sure he played and lived by moral and ethical life rules, had you pushed him to get a good job, had you stressed personal pride in his achievements as a good citizen, had you been shining examples of exemplary citizens by doing what good parents do - working hard and voting and doing things for the community all while lovingly caring for their children with the goal that their kids will have it better than did the parents, had you stressed to him that there is hope and that your lives (as people of color) had improved since your childhoods instead of whining and moaning about being an oppressed people - well maybe he would have turned out to have been a very different Michael Brown.
There is always a chance that no matter what you did - he would have turned out to have been someone not of which to be proud. Then again, maybe he would have been a successful and good citizen and run one of the business in Fergusson instead of committing a violent crime in one of them. Maybe it would have been a business that would have been the pride of the community instead of the way the ones there are being burned down by self-oppressing hooligans who say they support the likes of him and who say they want respect but who act like savages. To me, the acts of Michael Brown, in his last moments on earth were little more than those of a vicious thug. Perhaps you cannot see that because of your love for your son - but most of America sees it that way (including many black Americans). Sure, you loved him anyway but do you seriously mean to tell the rest of America that you loved the way the turned out, that you loved him being a thug.
That does not merely go for the parents of Michael Brown - that goes for the parents of every piece of shit out there rioting, everyone who would play the system to be supported by it without deserving one bit of support. The parents of the rioters - did I just call your kids shit - yes I did! You know, my mom used to call me 'shit on ice' and 'a lump on a log' and even much worse at times. That was when she thought I had done something bad as a kid. It hurt and it made me mad then and continued to hurt and make me mad right up until today whenever I thought about it. Today, I realized it also had another effect, a desirable effect. I am not so mad any more because I just realized that - even though it came with my mom's demented angry psychotic sort of parenting, which was in part a result of how she and we children were treated by her truly cruel and psychotic husband (our father) - even through her anger, the message was there to shape up or wind up being a piece of shit.
I shaped up without even realizing that was, at least in some small part, the message she was delivering. Thanks mom for doing your psychotic best to assure I turned out being on the right side of the tracks. I may not have turned out as good as I could have (especially as a parent or husband but I am a big improvement in both regards over each of my parents) but I never became a disrespectful, thieving, criminal thug who would violently attack and rob a store owner. Nor did I become a thug who would attack a police officer who was justly doing his duty - and that is a very good thing.
Grow up black America, at least the part of black America that thinks the likes of Al Sharpton are the epitome of your race - he is, as I see him, a blabbermouth and a pot stirring charlatan. If you truly want R E S P E C T (that is how it is spelled Mr. President) then go out and study hard, then get a job and work hard to deserve respect because it is deserved and not a free entitlement. I and the rest of America understand that there likely will always be racism, so what! You need to understand and tolerate it too - it is there and will not go away in total. Nothing is perfect and racial equality will never be so. Racism, it is an evil we tolerate because it is here and impossible to wipe out and it is a person's right to have that opinion of others (but not to exercise it in jobs, education, health care and such). However, we do not need to (and in fact most of us do not) agree with it nor do we condone it in any way shape or form - if most of us had done so, the klan would be in vogue and Hitler would have conquered the world. We also know racism works both ways and people of all races are prejudicial. Your self oppression is an example of it - you blame white people on the whole. Yet, we have come a long way baby, white people, in great numbers helped vote in the first black president.
We have a black president. We have had several African American cabinet members. That included two black Secretaries of State, black Secretary of Housing & Urban Development and black Secretary of Education and those were under George W. Bush alone. There have been other African American Secretaries, all the way back since LBJ was president. There have been many African American federal judges, including Justices of the Supreme Court. There are 2,792,736 federal employees (as of March 2012 - source). There are hundreds of thousands of people of color (an odd term as being acceptable considering colored is considered a despicable term - think about it) in federal employment. Likewise, there are many, many, many African Americans in state, county and local government positions throughout the nation. In the private sector it is likewise and there are many black senior executives in the private sector.
Are there still many blacks in poverty and or in jail, a seemingly disparate number? Sure there are but that is not necessarily a product of whites against black racism; in fact, a lot of that is due to the fact that black Americans still see themselves as oppressed and will not allow themselves to be anything other than oppressed. Many of the oppressors are the African American race baiters in your own community. In fact, you are - to a great extent - oppressing yourselves along with lots of help from those people who make money off of that feeling of inferiority - those charlatans who race bait at every opportunity. You know whom I mean.
You need to understand, as did the grand jury (after seeing and hearing ALL of the evidence) in Fergusson, MO, that when someone does something illegal like robs a convenience store, then illegally threatens a person with serious bodily harm or death - that other person has ever right to fight back including using deadly force to do so. To say that the current case in question was a racist cop shooting an innocent black youth, or is the racist system oppressing blacks, is absolutely preposterous. Doing so keeps you oppressed by your own hand. Yes, it does happen all to often that an innocent is killed and that race may have been, at least in part, the motivating factor. It may have recently happened in New York City but it did not happen in Fergusson - unless it was the fact that the African American youth hated and attacked the cop because the cop was white and that the black youth turned out as he did because his own community refuses to accept that they have been accepted. No, not perfectly so, but as I said, racial equality is there, to a great extent it is acceptable among most Americans and so is R E S P E C T. That is, at least, if you are willing to work for the latter and work at giving the same.
In fact, and it cannot be disputed, America has changed. Racial equality really is there if you are willing to accept the fact that you have to work hard - not so much for it - but for respect from those of us who do work hard at supporting this great nation. Stop making believe that every one who is white or Asian or maybe even most non-black Hispanics in America hate you and are out to get you. Those of you who refuse to grow up, and out of the stereotype that you have of yourselves as an oppressed people, are in the great part acting like spoiled brats who want everything for nothing and who whine and moan at every opportunity that no one respects you. That is not how it works - or should work - at least if you truly want respect as being equal.
Sadly, the results of your continuing to believe yourselves as oppressed by other races, as opposed to really being oppressed but being played for fools by the likes of Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and others, are all to often the Michael Browns of the world. They are, in my opinion, good for nothing low lives and often get what they deserve no matter how much their moms may love them. Don't blame the rest of America for that - don't play the race card and thus perpetuate racism - blame yourselves for letting your kids grow up to emulate trash - be it white trash or black trash - thugs are thugs. Then become good parents who bring up children who are good citizens and who become productive members of society. I am not saying that there are not a large number of blacks that are not good parents, I am saying there are too many who are not solely because they perpetuate racism instead of self improvement and responsibility.
Just to reiterate one point - the above it not aimed at all Black America. It is aimed at the leeches, the thieves, the thugs, the race baiting charlatans, the racists, the agitators, the radicals and the rioters who would keep you in chains to the benefit of themselves at the cost of your suffering. It is aimed at parents too, who would allow their children to become such. It is suited to people of all races but particularly, in light of Fergusson, to African Americans who would allow their kids to turn into criminals.
To those Black Americans who are out there working hard - not only at jobs but at bringing up their kids the right way - to become contributing citizens of the greatest nation on earth - I salute you. Who knows, if you get it just right, then someday one of your children may become the president of the United States of America and a Libertarian or Conservative one at that. Better still - your child may become a president who actually deserved to have been elected based upon his or her merits such as: hard work, truly suitable experience for the job, ethical and moral core beliefs and skill sets rather than on a ton of political balderdash.
All the best,
Glenn
Al Sharpton and every bleeding heart liberal are, pretty much, saying that Michael Brown did not get justice and that they will seek it through a federal investigation and through a civil lawsuit. The truth is, I think, he did get justice and got exactly what he deserved. With all due respect to his parents, my guess is that you allowed him to grow up to become a thug and that if you had not done so - this would never have happened. Instead of maybe cursing and damning the rest of America (as racists) and blaming cops during your son's lifetime while he was growing up, for all the ills of the black community - maybe you should have been putting a leather belt or size 12 up side his ass and a wooden spoon upside his head whenever he did wrong as a juvenile - they work wonders so long as you do not overdo it. Maybe you should have restricted him to staying home instead of roaming the streets. Maybe you should have sent him to summer camp for the summers instead of allowing him to hang out with bad friends. Then the proper lifestyle grooming, love, respect and encouragement probably would have been all that it would have taken to get and keep him on the right track.
Had you been there at every PTA meeting and gone to his school every time he screwed up therein, had you encouraged good attendance and hard study, had you gone to school plays or musical events to see him in them, had you at least tried to help him with his homework, had you encouraged him not only to learn but convinced him just how important was a good education, had you been severe in making sure he played and lived by moral and ethical life rules, had you pushed him to get a good job, had you stressed personal pride in his achievements as a good citizen, had you been shining examples of exemplary citizens by doing what good parents do - working hard and voting and doing things for the community all while lovingly caring for their children with the goal that their kids will have it better than did the parents, had you stressed to him that there is hope and that your lives (as people of color) had improved since your childhoods instead of whining and moaning about being an oppressed people - well maybe he would have turned out to have been a very different Michael Brown.
There is always a chance that no matter what you did - he would have turned out to have been someone not of which to be proud. Then again, maybe he would have been a successful and good citizen and run one of the business in Fergusson instead of committing a violent crime in one of them. Maybe it would have been a business that would have been the pride of the community instead of the way the ones there are being burned down by self-oppressing hooligans who say they support the likes of him and who say they want respect but who act like savages. To me, the acts of Michael Brown, in his last moments on earth were little more than those of a vicious thug. Perhaps you cannot see that because of your love for your son - but most of America sees it that way (including many black Americans). Sure, you loved him anyway but do you seriously mean to tell the rest of America that you loved the way the turned out, that you loved him being a thug.
That does not merely go for the parents of Michael Brown - that goes for the parents of every piece of shit out there rioting, everyone who would play the system to be supported by it without deserving one bit of support. The parents of the rioters - did I just call your kids shit - yes I did! You know, my mom used to call me 'shit on ice' and 'a lump on a log' and even much worse at times. That was when she thought I had done something bad as a kid. It hurt and it made me mad then and continued to hurt and make me mad right up until today whenever I thought about it. Today, I realized it also had another effect, a desirable effect. I am not so mad any more because I just realized that - even though it came with my mom's demented angry psychotic sort of parenting, which was in part a result of how she and we children were treated by her truly cruel and psychotic husband (our father) - even through her anger, the message was there to shape up or wind up being a piece of shit.
I shaped up without even realizing that was, at least in some small part, the message she was delivering. Thanks mom for doing your psychotic best to assure I turned out being on the right side of the tracks. I may not have turned out as good as I could have (especially as a parent or husband but I am a big improvement in both regards over each of my parents) but I never became a disrespectful, thieving, criminal thug who would violently attack and rob a store owner. Nor did I become a thug who would attack a police officer who was justly doing his duty - and that is a very good thing.
Grow up black America, at least the part of black America that thinks the likes of Al Sharpton are the epitome of your race - he is, as I see him, a blabbermouth and a pot stirring charlatan. If you truly want R E S P E C T (that is how it is spelled Mr. President) then go out and study hard, then get a job and work hard to deserve respect because it is deserved and not a free entitlement. I and the rest of America understand that there likely will always be racism, so what! You need to understand and tolerate it too - it is there and will not go away in total. Nothing is perfect and racial equality will never be so. Racism, it is an evil we tolerate because it is here and impossible to wipe out and it is a person's right to have that opinion of others (but not to exercise it in jobs, education, health care and such). However, we do not need to (and in fact most of us do not) agree with it nor do we condone it in any way shape or form - if most of us had done so, the klan would be in vogue and Hitler would have conquered the world. We also know racism works both ways and people of all races are prejudicial. Your self oppression is an example of it - you blame white people on the whole. Yet, we have come a long way baby, white people, in great numbers helped vote in the first black president.
We have a black president. We have had several African American cabinet members. That included two black Secretaries of State, black Secretary of Housing & Urban Development and black Secretary of Education and those were under George W. Bush alone. There have been other African American Secretaries, all the way back since LBJ was president. There have been many African American federal judges, including Justices of the Supreme Court. There are 2,792,736 federal employees (as of March 2012 - source). There are hundreds of thousands of people of color (an odd term as being acceptable considering colored is considered a despicable term - think about it) in federal employment. Likewise, there are many, many, many African Americans in state, county and local government positions throughout the nation. In the private sector it is likewise and there are many black senior executives in the private sector.
Are there still many blacks in poverty and or in jail, a seemingly disparate number? Sure there are but that is not necessarily a product of whites against black racism; in fact, a lot of that is due to the fact that black Americans still see themselves as oppressed and will not allow themselves to be anything other than oppressed. Many of the oppressors are the African American race baiters in your own community. In fact, you are - to a great extent - oppressing yourselves along with lots of help from those people who make money off of that feeling of inferiority - those charlatans who race bait at every opportunity. You know whom I mean.
You need to understand, as did the grand jury (after seeing and hearing ALL of the evidence) in Fergusson, MO, that when someone does something illegal like robs a convenience store, then illegally threatens a person with serious bodily harm or death - that other person has ever right to fight back including using deadly force to do so. To say that the current case in question was a racist cop shooting an innocent black youth, or is the racist system oppressing blacks, is absolutely preposterous. Doing so keeps you oppressed by your own hand. Yes, it does happen all to often that an innocent is killed and that race may have been, at least in part, the motivating factor. It may have recently happened in New York City but it did not happen in Fergusson - unless it was the fact that the African American youth hated and attacked the cop because the cop was white and that the black youth turned out as he did because his own community refuses to accept that they have been accepted. No, not perfectly so, but as I said, racial equality is there, to a great extent it is acceptable among most Americans and so is R E S P E C T. That is, at least, if you are willing to work for the latter and work at giving the same.
In fact, and it cannot be disputed, America has changed. Racial equality really is there if you are willing to accept the fact that you have to work hard - not so much for it - but for respect from those of us who do work hard at supporting this great nation. Stop making believe that every one who is white or Asian or maybe even most non-black Hispanics in America hate you and are out to get you. Those of you who refuse to grow up, and out of the stereotype that you have of yourselves as an oppressed people, are in the great part acting like spoiled brats who want everything for nothing and who whine and moan at every opportunity that no one respects you. That is not how it works - or should work - at least if you truly want respect as being equal.
Sadly, the results of your continuing to believe yourselves as oppressed by other races, as opposed to really being oppressed but being played for fools by the likes of Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and others, are all to often the Michael Browns of the world. They are, in my opinion, good for nothing low lives and often get what they deserve no matter how much their moms may love them. Don't blame the rest of America for that - don't play the race card and thus perpetuate racism - blame yourselves for letting your kids grow up to emulate trash - be it white trash or black trash - thugs are thugs. Then become good parents who bring up children who are good citizens and who become productive members of society. I am not saying that there are not a large number of blacks that are not good parents, I am saying there are too many who are not solely because they perpetuate racism instead of self improvement and responsibility.
Just to reiterate one point - the above it not aimed at all Black America. It is aimed at the leeches, the thieves, the thugs, the race baiting charlatans, the racists, the agitators, the radicals and the rioters who would keep you in chains to the benefit of themselves at the cost of your suffering. It is aimed at parents too, who would allow their children to become such. It is suited to people of all races but particularly, in light of Fergusson, to African Americans who would allow their kids to turn into criminals.
To those Black Americans who are out there working hard - not only at jobs but at bringing up their kids the right way - to become contributing citizens of the greatest nation on earth - I salute you. Who knows, if you get it just right, then someday one of your children may become the president of the United States of America and a Libertarian or Conservative one at that. Better still - your child may become a president who actually deserved to have been elected based upon his or her merits such as: hard work, truly suitable experience for the job, ethical and moral core beliefs and skill sets rather than on a ton of political balderdash.
All the best,
Glenn
Sunday, November 23, 2014
As China Prepares For WWIII...
...by actually dredging up and building an island that is believed will be able to support an airfield and a harbor capable of accommodating warships - what is it that we are doing. We are twiddling our thumbs telling them that we wish they would not do it or at least that is what the commander in chief is doing. Reportedly our government opposes China doing so and we have urged other countries not to do likewise (source). So, as we allow China to prepare to wage war (and there is no other logical reason for them to be island building) we tell our allies in the region not to prepare to defend themselves by doing likewise. I seem to remember that something like this (this being the wearing of blinders by world leaders especially the president of the United States of America) happened, oh say about 75 years ago give or take a couple of years, and look at what came of it back then. Yep, back then they all wanted to believe that all was well in the world, that all the drum beating in Europe by the Germans and all the same in Asia by the Japanese were regional problems and had little to nothing to do with us. How wrong they were then, let's hope they are not wrong now.
All the best,
Glenn B
All the best,
Glenn B
Saturday, November 22, 2014
Officer Down - Tallahassee Cop Fatally Shot Responding To A House Fire
Cops get bum raps all too often that are based upon the actions of the bad apples in the barrel. Yep, there are a lot of bad, corrupt cops and even some purely evil ones but there are probably many more good cops out there than bad. Those who actually remember that their job is to serve the public.
A fine example of cops like that, those who remember it is their chosen profession to serve us, are the officers (and firemen) who responded to a house fire in Tallahassee, FL today. They did not respond to shoot any dogs, they did not respond to beat someone up, they did not respond to steal anything or to accept a bribe, they did not respond to violate anyone's rights, they apparently did not respond in military garb with military weaponry. They were on duty and were performing that duty with pride, integrity and guts while trying to save lives if necessary. At least one who lived nearby to the burning home and who was apparently off duty also responded.
When the first on duty officer arrived he was fatally shot down in cold blood, allegedly by the owner of the burning home. The guy then allegedly picks up the officer's firearm, reportedly walks down the block and shoots another on duty officer with the first officers gun (that officer was wounded but his body armor protected him from death or a serious injury). By that point fire engines that had responded were backing away hurriedly.
Sometime after the officers were shot, the gunman was shot and killed by whom I am imagining was an off duty officer based on what was reported in a Fox News article. According to that article: "The gunman, who was not immediately identified, was shot to death by a Tallahassee police officer who lived nearby. The officer heard the initial shooting, grabbed his gun and ran toward the house..."
I am guessing that since it was a Saturday that maybe the off duty officer had to drop a paint brush, or the sponge with which he was washing his car, or the tongs with which he was turning some hotdogs on the grill, or the beer he had been about to enjoy, or the baseball bat he was using to hit a few balls to his son as he too responded. Even though he was responding for a the same reason as the on duty officers - to save lives - he had heard the shots and knew he was running into a shootout and was not responding to a 911 call about a house fire. Think about that before the next time you condemn all cops - yep, many of them truly are the good guys.
The whole thing seems as if it must have been a preplanned ambush designed to target the cops and maybe was also a suicide by cop. Whatever it was and however it unfolded, to me it seems the work of a madman or maybe even a terrorist.
My condolences go out to the family, loved ones and friends of the fallen officer.
My congratulations for a job well done go to the apparent off duty officer who responded to and ended the rampage.
All the best,
Glenn B
A fine example of cops like that, those who remember it is their chosen profession to serve us, are the officers (and firemen) who responded to a house fire in Tallahassee, FL today. They did not respond to shoot any dogs, they did not respond to beat someone up, they did not respond to steal anything or to accept a bribe, they did not respond to violate anyone's rights, they apparently did not respond in military garb with military weaponry. They were on duty and were performing that duty with pride, integrity and guts while trying to save lives if necessary. At least one who lived nearby to the burning home and who was apparently off duty also responded.
When the first on duty officer arrived he was fatally shot down in cold blood, allegedly by the owner of the burning home. The guy then allegedly picks up the officer's firearm, reportedly walks down the block and shoots another on duty officer with the first officers gun (that officer was wounded but his body armor protected him from death or a serious injury). By that point fire engines that had responded were backing away hurriedly.
Sometime after the officers were shot, the gunman was shot and killed by whom I am imagining was an off duty officer based on what was reported in a Fox News article. According to that article: "The gunman, who was not immediately identified, was shot to death by a Tallahassee police officer who lived nearby. The officer heard the initial shooting, grabbed his gun and ran toward the house..."
I am guessing that since it was a Saturday that maybe the off duty officer had to drop a paint brush, or the sponge with which he was washing his car, or the tongs with which he was turning some hotdogs on the grill, or the beer he had been about to enjoy, or the baseball bat he was using to hit a few balls to his son as he too responded. Even though he was responding for a the same reason as the on duty officers - to save lives - he had heard the shots and knew he was running into a shootout and was not responding to a 911 call about a house fire. Think about that before the next time you condemn all cops - yep, many of them truly are the good guys.
The whole thing seems as if it must have been a preplanned ambush designed to target the cops and maybe was also a suicide by cop. Whatever it was and however it unfolded, to me it seems the work of a madman or maybe even a terrorist.
My condolences go out to the family, loved ones and friends of the fallen officer.
My congratulations for a job well done go to the apparent off duty officer who responded to and ended the rampage.
All the best,
Glenn B
"Criminals Are Made, Not Born" - The Deadliest School Killing In U.S. History
It was not Columbine with 13 dead, it was not Sandy Hook at 27 dead nor was it even Virginia Tech with 32 dead although that may be the record high fatalities for school shootings (source of those numbers).
Nope, the deadliest school massacre in the USA took place way back in 1927 in Bath Township, Michigan. On May 8, 1927, Andrew Kehoe detonated dynamite and pyrotol in the Bath Consolidated School that killed 38 (36 children and two teachers). He then detonated another explosion in his truck, in which he was parked near the school, killing another 5 people including himself. Prior to that he had destroyed his house and farm buildings killing two horses while at it. Prior to all that carnage he also had killed his wife. The death toll was yet increased, about three months later, when another child died as a result of injuries from the blast.
The death toll of his rampage was: Mrs. Kehoe his wife - 1, children and teachers who died that day in the school - 38, other innocents who were killed when Kehoe detonated the explosives in his truck - 4, Kehoe himself when the truck went up - 1, and another child who died later as a result of injuries sustained in the school bombing - 1. So the total of those actually killed due to the actual school bombing alone was 39 and the total number of victims killed in all by Kehoe was 44, add to that Kehoe himself and the overall death toll was 45.
I imagine you could argue that Kehoe killed 44 people at the school since when he detonated the explosives in his truck he was outside the school at the scene of that crime. If you want to be a purest and consider only those who were killed that had been inside the school, then counting only those 39 killed as a result of the school bombing alone - it is still the worst school massacre in U.S. history.
To read more about it and to learn about the quote in the title of this post, go to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_School_bombings
All the best,
Glenn B
Nope, the deadliest school massacre in the USA took place way back in 1927 in Bath Township, Michigan. On May 8, 1927, Andrew Kehoe detonated dynamite and pyrotol in the Bath Consolidated School that killed 38 (36 children and two teachers). He then detonated another explosion in his truck, in which he was parked near the school, killing another 5 people including himself. Prior to that he had destroyed his house and farm buildings killing two horses while at it. Prior to all that carnage he also had killed his wife. The death toll was yet increased, about three months later, when another child died as a result of injuries from the blast.
The death toll of his rampage was: Mrs. Kehoe his wife - 1, children and teachers who died that day in the school - 38, other innocents who were killed when Kehoe detonated the explosives in his truck - 4, Kehoe himself when the truck went up - 1, and another child who died later as a result of injuries sustained in the school bombing - 1. So the total of those actually killed due to the actual school bombing alone was 39 and the total number of victims killed in all by Kehoe was 44, add to that Kehoe himself and the overall death toll was 45.
I imagine you could argue that Kehoe killed 44 people at the school since when he detonated the explosives in his truck he was outside the school at the scene of that crime. If you want to be a purest and consider only those who were killed that had been inside the school, then counting only those 39 killed as a result of the school bombing alone - it is still the worst school massacre in U.S. history.
To read more about it and to learn about the quote in the title of this post, go to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_School_bombings
All the best,
Glenn B
No Hunting Today
I was going to head upstate to get in some deer and maybe some bear hunting but that's not about to happen with the gout gouging away at my big toe. It's gotten a lot better since last night but is still very painful especially with each step I take. If I get lucky, maybe I can go tomorrow. I figure I'll know by late this afternoon if it seems like it is getting well enough for me to head up north maybe as early as tonight. That way I will be able to get in a full day afield tomorrow.
All the best,
Glenn B
All the best,
Glenn B
Friday, November 21, 2014
A Gout Flare Up Can Be Excrutiating...
...and the one I am going though right now qualifies. I can barely walk and despite taking medication to reduce the flare-up, it has steadily gotten worse as the day has progressed. I have not had a flare-up in just over a year; that was much worse and in one of my knees, this one is in one of my big toes. OUCH mother f'er is all I can say right now but if it keeps progressing as it has been since last night and all through today, I will be screaming in agony before too long. The flare-ups never used to be anywhere near this bad; that one in my knee last year and another not all that long before it were the worst by far and were truly terrible. Before that all of the bouts were mild. Have no clue why it suddenly got so much worse. Luckily it is not a frequent malady for me.
Right now I am already feeling the first twinges of it in my ankle and knee - both on the same side as the inflamed toe. The Colcrys I have taken has done nothing of which I am aware and neither has the aspirin. Oh well, it's going to be a rough night.
All the best,
GB
Right now I am already feeling the first twinges of it in my ankle and knee - both on the same side as the inflamed toe. The Colcrys I have taken has done nothing of which I am aware and neither has the aspirin. Oh well, it's going to be a rough night.
All the best,
GB
As A Response To Obama's...
... executive order regarding immigration, come Monday morning, the entire workforce of the United States Border Patrol should walk off the job and stay off until that executive order is cancelled and, I think until, Obama placed in handcuffs, booked for treason and prosecuted to the full extent of the law. He has allowed, in my opinion, an invading force to defeat us. If the Border Patrol Agents were fired by that pompous sack of shit in the White House, I would be willing to bet my pension that they would be rehired by no latter than January by way of a bill put to, through and passed by Congress.
All the best,
Glenn B
All the best,
Glenn B
Thursday, November 20, 2014
Sometimes
Slowly, steadily and stealthily our not so great hunter made his way through the woods. Then he heard a sort of a low pitched hollow and muffled sounding snap, more of a cross between a snap and a thud really. The aging hunter paused for a minute of two and then continued on a bit further until again pausing. He had been making his way through the woods for about an hour covering barely a half mile in that time. The woods were chilled with a fresh mottling of snow over the multitude of leaves that lay strewn about the forest floor on that late Saturday morning. The hunt was invigorating ad about o become exciting. As the hunter waited and listened he rested a bit too, his pack was heavy and he pushed it up against and leaned it against a tree. He was hunting alone and had in the pack what he would need in case of an emergency, like breaking a leg out there alone. He doubted it would happen but always liked the motto of the Boy Scouts - "be prepared".
Thinking that the noise he had heard was likely a buck that had stepped on an old rotted branch, he bided his time and kept scanning for sign of it. After about 5 minutes or so, he took out a doe bleat call let go with two bleats. Another 5 minutes or so gone by of scanning through the trees and brush and downfalls and the hunter blew one time into his buck call. His call was answered almost immediately but not by what he had expected.
As he stood there, just letting the buck call come away from his lips, suddenly there was another noise. It was a bit disconcerting to say the least. The sound was a low pitched, not very loud yet plainly audible, guttural woof. It was immediately followed by a second or two long exhalation of air. Excitement ran up his spine, he was now on full alert and brought his rifle to the ready. He scanned front, left, front again, right, then slowly turned in the opposite direction and looked behind him out around the tree on which he had been leaning. He knew there were likely only two things that might go woof in the forest and there was one of them, the one he hoped to see. It was a male black bear and all of about 225 to 250 pounds, not 30 yards from him. The young bruin, probably about two or three years old, was climbing over a downfall of a double trunked tree and its larger limbs. As he looked at it, the bear looked at him as if making eye contact and it turned from more or less broadside, moving from the hunter's right to left, to head directly at him.
The hunter slowly brought his rifle, an old Marlin 336 topped with a Tasco Varmint scope, an he took aim. Wisely, the scope was set at 2.5 power so it provided a wide field of view and the bear was found in the crosshairs as soon as it came up to his eye. He well knew he did not prefer to have to take this shot, one that would have to be aimed precisely at the bear's spine, in the neck or between the shoulder blades, and he much preferred a broadside shot. He also realized that since the bear had closed the distance between them to only 20 to 25 yards, it was just about now or never; he sure did not want the bear any closer than that. Just as he was debating what to do, finger pressure already building on the trigger, the bear stopped dead still. It put its head down and extended it out front a bit as its nose was busy sniffing in the thrilled hunter's direction - but the bear was not alarmed. The other thing it did at that moment was to stop. That was all the hunter needed and his trigger finger found itself smoothly moving rearward until the sounds of the bears sniffing were drowned out by the thunderous burst of the 200 grain .35 Remington round.
The bear was obviously hit, it arched its back, stood that way for a moment, then spazzed and jerked and twitched. It was doing the dance of death and that was almost immediately followed by its forlegs shooting out to each side and the bear collapsing in a motionless heap like a sack of potatoes falling off of a truck in Brooklyn. Once it hit the ground, it was almost out of sight behind limbs of the deadfall. The deer hunter just about yelled yippee but restrained himself and immediately but slowly lowered the rifle to get a good look, with both eyes, at the spot where the bear had gone down. Just as he lowered the scope, he caught a glimpse of something else out of the corner of his right eye. There, about 20 to 25 yards away, was another bear. It was very different looking than the first, this one most likely a sow of about 175 to 200 pounds. While the first bear was mostly jet black in the face and along its flanks and back, this one had a lot of brown mixed in with the black, streaks of it. It stood there mesmerized for just a second. Then the rifle came back up defensively, not to shoot unless necessary, and that second bear wheeled around about 140 degrees and bounded off into the forest as if the Hound of the Baskervilles was hot on its heels. As it made its escape, it let out a wailing sort of a scream and just kept running. In all, the hunter was distracted for maybe two or three seconds watching that bear.
The intrepid hunter turned back toward the bear he had undoubtedly just shot. It was nowhere to be seen but that was no cause for alarm, it probably had just flattened out a bit more after its collapse and after breathing its last breath. The hunter waited, keeping his eyes on the spot, only letting thm stray momentarily now and then to look to see if the other bear was returning. It did not and the hunter, after about 5 to 10 minutes approached the spot where the bruin had fallen into the leaf liter. He did not approach head on but in a semi circular path to his left o come in from the side and not from where the bear had last seen him. God damn it, the bear was not there. He must have looked at the wrong spot. he looked around, here there and everywhere but there was no bear. There was not even a drop of blood nor hair of bear! There was however a spot where the leaves had been kicke dup and around and where the damp soil under those leaves had its surface scraped away as if something had writhed around there for a moment.
The hunter was the responsible sort and searched for sign of that bear for the next 2 1/2 to 3 hours. Starting at ground zero and going around in ever widening circles out to between 75 to 100 yards from the center, and then repeating that several times, he did not discover any other sign of the bear an found no evidence it had been shot even though he had seen it do the dance of death. There was no air, no blood, no guts, no bone fragments, not even any noticeable footprints. He searched behind every tree, under every deadfall, and even scanned the tree tops to see if it had climbed a tree. In fact, he zigzagged at points to look up the trees from all sides and angles. That bear had either been beamed to the Enterprise by Scotty or it had gotten up, at some point, and slowly walked away and got lost in the woods never to be seen again by the now very disappointed and befuddled hunter. The trail of the other bear was so obvious that even a myopic could have easily followed it. I have seen where bears have walked in front of me in the woods before and an say, they barely dent the leaves when they are walking softly and you would need the ears of a wood elf to hear them. This one seemed to have the stealth bit down. Maybe it even had a phony dance of death routine all worked out in case some bumbling woodsman hunter type took aim and missed, just to fool him long enough to make its getaway.
Of course, there is a more logical explanation. The shot did not miss the bear but probably missed its mark. It is very likely that almost precisely as the shot was fired, the bear coincidently raised its head from the lowered sniffing position in which it had been when the hunter decided to shoot. The shot then would have, if not in all probability then with a good amount of it, struck the bear in its head. At that angle, there is a decent chance that the bullet was deflected off of the skull. That could have resulted in the bear being badly stunned causing it t do what sure looked like the dance of death with all the spazzing and twitching resulting in it collapsing. As the hunter was distracted, for just those couple to few seconds by the other bear, the bruin he thought he shot sneaked off and disappeared into the depths of the forest as only a black bear can do.
Now there was a chance the bear was fatally injured and that the hunter had missed the sign or the bear did not lose any blood until further from the spot where it had been shot. So, a few hours later, the hunter passed through that area of the woods again and looked in an even wider circle for signs such as blood, hair a trail in the snow mottled leaves (on which there was enough snow to give good sign of blood but still little enough snow to leave plenty of places for the bear to step without leaving a track in the snow). Anyway, nothing was to be found except maybe a possible track of two but nothing that could be followed and mind you the hunter had lots of experience trailing both men an beast by the foot tracks they left behind. Damn, it was frustrating.
Since I was that hunter, I can attest it was a thrilling and disheartening experience all in one. Even though the experience assured me that I certainly do 'still hunt' properly and that I have not lost my touch at doing so. Had I been plodding along, or just still hunting improperly, I never would have gotten that close to those bears let alone even seen them. I also figure I was using my deer calls properly. Had I not been doing so, those bears would either have attacked me or taken off. The fact is, they had no idea I was a human, they though I was a deer. That is evident by the fact that one of them woofed at me - the woof being a sign that a bear is afraid and it is making a threat to beware of it - but that right after my buck call those bears resumed whatever it was they had been doing abnd they walked toward and very near to me. Now I considered that they may have thought I was a deer and decided to hunt me and while that could have been so, I doubt it. Still it is possible that is what they had been doing. The reason though that I have doubt is because I discovered two rotted logs that had obviously just been ripped apart, literally half to shreds. There were what looked like tooth and claw marks in both of these logs. My guess is the bears had been chomping them apart searching for grubs. Woodpeckers, in the late fall, voraciously go at still standing tree trunks that are very similar in consistency to those rotted but downed logs so my guess is that is what the bears had been doing. There ground cover was also pretty disturbed around the logs only further supporting that hypothesis. So, I am thinking I my have spooked the bears a bit, but that since I had been doing it right, they wound up thinking I was a deer and came back to either feast on me (the deer) or the grubs. Remember that noise I heard that I thought was a deer stepping on a rotted log - my guess now is that it was the bears ripping apart those logs for grubs.
Next day, did a couple of things relative to that bear. I picked up the rusted remains of a bucket I knew was in the woods on my way back out to hunt. It amounted to half of the bucket and was perfect for my purpose. I set it up on a deadfall, with a good rise behind it for a back stop. I stepped of 25 giant steps from it. Note that, the day before, I had measured the distance to the bruin as 30 giant steps from me to to where I first saw it and 25 steps from where I took the shot; in addition the second bear was about 24 giant steps from me when I saw it. When I got 25 giant steps away from the rusted remains of the bucket, I set up just like I had when I shot the bear, with a tree as support on my left side to steady the Marlin. I fired one sot, it essentially hit dead center of the bucket. Thus I was assured I had not knocked my scope out of alignment. I wanted to make sure not to soothe a bruised ego in case I had missed but to make certain I could still trust the rifle scope was sighted in properly for that days hunt. After that, I again passed by the spot again where I had shot (or thought I had shot) the bear and spent some more time searching for it. Nothing.
I guess I should mention not even one hair of a deer was seen throughout (two other hunters who hunt there frequently with success told me they were quite surprised not to have seen any deer either). I did see a hen turkey while I searched for sign of the bear. She was about 35 yards out and seemed unconcerned about my presence. I also saw a few squirrels in passing, a woodpecker and some neat chickadee sized birds that I have yet to identify. They flittered s close to me as to be amazing, that despite he fact I was wearing a blaze orange hat and jacket. I guess that in all, regardless of me being an old somewhat fat city and burbs slicker, I melded pretty well with the woods. Still could get that darned bear or a deer though. Hopefully, this coming weekend when Brendan is with me on the hunt, our luck will be better than was mine at hunting or his at the tables in Atlantic City, where he and his buddies spent opening day of hunting season losing money.
In closing, let me say that I finally came to the conclusion: Sometimes the bear gets you and sometimes you get the bear but sometimes it's a toss up and you have no clue as to who got whom. This time though, I am pretty sure the bear got me or at least got the better of me.
All the best,
Glenn B
Thinking that the noise he had heard was likely a buck that had stepped on an old rotted branch, he bided his time and kept scanning for sign of it. After about 5 minutes or so, he took out a doe bleat call let go with two bleats. Another 5 minutes or so gone by of scanning through the trees and brush and downfalls and the hunter blew one time into his buck call. His call was answered almost immediately but not by what he had expected.
As he stood there, just letting the buck call come away from his lips, suddenly there was another noise. It was a bit disconcerting to say the least. The sound was a low pitched, not very loud yet plainly audible, guttural woof. It was immediately followed by a second or two long exhalation of air. Excitement ran up his spine, he was now on full alert and brought his rifle to the ready. He scanned front, left, front again, right, then slowly turned in the opposite direction and looked behind him out around the tree on which he had been leaning. He knew there were likely only two things that might go woof in the forest and there was one of them, the one he hoped to see. It was a male black bear and all of about 225 to 250 pounds, not 30 yards from him. The young bruin, probably about two or three years old, was climbing over a downfall of a double trunked tree and its larger limbs. As he looked at it, the bear looked at him as if making eye contact and it turned from more or less broadside, moving from the hunter's right to left, to head directly at him.
The hunter slowly brought his rifle, an old Marlin 336 topped with a Tasco Varmint scope, an he took aim. Wisely, the scope was set at 2.5 power so it provided a wide field of view and the bear was found in the crosshairs as soon as it came up to his eye. He well knew he did not prefer to have to take this shot, one that would have to be aimed precisely at the bear's spine, in the neck or between the shoulder blades, and he much preferred a broadside shot. He also realized that since the bear had closed the distance between them to only 20 to 25 yards, it was just about now or never; he sure did not want the bear any closer than that. Just as he was debating what to do, finger pressure already building on the trigger, the bear stopped dead still. It put its head down and extended it out front a bit as its nose was busy sniffing in the thrilled hunter's direction - but the bear was not alarmed. The other thing it did at that moment was to stop. That was all the hunter needed and his trigger finger found itself smoothly moving rearward until the sounds of the bears sniffing were drowned out by the thunderous burst of the 200 grain .35 Remington round.
The bear was obviously hit, it arched its back, stood that way for a moment, then spazzed and jerked and twitched. It was doing the dance of death and that was almost immediately followed by its forlegs shooting out to each side and the bear collapsing in a motionless heap like a sack of potatoes falling off of a truck in Brooklyn. Once it hit the ground, it was almost out of sight behind limbs of the deadfall. The deer hunter just about yelled yippee but restrained himself and immediately but slowly lowered the rifle to get a good look, with both eyes, at the spot where the bear had gone down. Just as he lowered the scope, he caught a glimpse of something else out of the corner of his right eye. There, about 20 to 25 yards away, was another bear. It was very different looking than the first, this one most likely a sow of about 175 to 200 pounds. While the first bear was mostly jet black in the face and along its flanks and back, this one had a lot of brown mixed in with the black, streaks of it. It stood there mesmerized for just a second. Then the rifle came back up defensively, not to shoot unless necessary, and that second bear wheeled around about 140 degrees and bounded off into the forest as if the Hound of the Baskervilles was hot on its heels. As it made its escape, it let out a wailing sort of a scream and just kept running. In all, the hunter was distracted for maybe two or three seconds watching that bear.
The intrepid hunter turned back toward the bear he had undoubtedly just shot. It was nowhere to be seen but that was no cause for alarm, it probably had just flattened out a bit more after its collapse and after breathing its last breath. The hunter waited, keeping his eyes on the spot, only letting thm stray momentarily now and then to look to see if the other bear was returning. It did not and the hunter, after about 5 to 10 minutes approached the spot where the bruin had fallen into the leaf liter. He did not approach head on but in a semi circular path to his left o come in from the side and not from where the bear had last seen him. God damn it, the bear was not there. He must have looked at the wrong spot. he looked around, here there and everywhere but there was no bear. There was not even a drop of blood nor hair of bear! There was however a spot where the leaves had been kicke dup and around and where the damp soil under those leaves had its surface scraped away as if something had writhed around there for a moment.
The hunter was the responsible sort and searched for sign of that bear for the next 2 1/2 to 3 hours. Starting at ground zero and going around in ever widening circles out to between 75 to 100 yards from the center, and then repeating that several times, he did not discover any other sign of the bear an found no evidence it had been shot even though he had seen it do the dance of death. There was no air, no blood, no guts, no bone fragments, not even any noticeable footprints. He searched behind every tree, under every deadfall, and even scanned the tree tops to see if it had climbed a tree. In fact, he zigzagged at points to look up the trees from all sides and angles. That bear had either been beamed to the Enterprise by Scotty or it had gotten up, at some point, and slowly walked away and got lost in the woods never to be seen again by the now very disappointed and befuddled hunter. The trail of the other bear was so obvious that even a myopic could have easily followed it. I have seen where bears have walked in front of me in the woods before and an say, they barely dent the leaves when they are walking softly and you would need the ears of a wood elf to hear them. This one seemed to have the stealth bit down. Maybe it even had a phony dance of death routine all worked out in case some bumbling woodsman hunter type took aim and missed, just to fool him long enough to make its getaway.
Of course, there is a more logical explanation. The shot did not miss the bear but probably missed its mark. It is very likely that almost precisely as the shot was fired, the bear coincidently raised its head from the lowered sniffing position in which it had been when the hunter decided to shoot. The shot then would have, if not in all probability then with a good amount of it, struck the bear in its head. At that angle, there is a decent chance that the bullet was deflected off of the skull. That could have resulted in the bear being badly stunned causing it t do what sure looked like the dance of death with all the spazzing and twitching resulting in it collapsing. As the hunter was distracted, for just those couple to few seconds by the other bear, the bruin he thought he shot sneaked off and disappeared into the depths of the forest as only a black bear can do.
Now there was a chance the bear was fatally injured and that the hunter had missed the sign or the bear did not lose any blood until further from the spot where it had been shot. So, a few hours later, the hunter passed through that area of the woods again and looked in an even wider circle for signs such as blood, hair a trail in the snow mottled leaves (on which there was enough snow to give good sign of blood but still little enough snow to leave plenty of places for the bear to step without leaving a track in the snow). Anyway, nothing was to be found except maybe a possible track of two but nothing that could be followed and mind you the hunter had lots of experience trailing both men an beast by the foot tracks they left behind. Damn, it was frustrating.
Since I was that hunter, I can attest it was a thrilling and disheartening experience all in one. Even though the experience assured me that I certainly do 'still hunt' properly and that I have not lost my touch at doing so. Had I been plodding along, or just still hunting improperly, I never would have gotten that close to those bears let alone even seen them. I also figure I was using my deer calls properly. Had I not been doing so, those bears would either have attacked me or taken off. The fact is, they had no idea I was a human, they though I was a deer. That is evident by the fact that one of them woofed at me - the woof being a sign that a bear is afraid and it is making a threat to beware of it - but that right after my buck call those bears resumed whatever it was they had been doing abnd they walked toward and very near to me. Now I considered that they may have thought I was a deer and decided to hunt me and while that could have been so, I doubt it. Still it is possible that is what they had been doing. The reason though that I have doubt is because I discovered two rotted logs that had obviously just been ripped apart, literally half to shreds. There were what looked like tooth and claw marks in both of these logs. My guess is the bears had been chomping them apart searching for grubs. Woodpeckers, in the late fall, voraciously go at still standing tree trunks that are very similar in consistency to those rotted but downed logs so my guess is that is what the bears had been doing. There ground cover was also pretty disturbed around the logs only further supporting that hypothesis. So, I am thinking I my have spooked the bears a bit, but that since I had been doing it right, they wound up thinking I was a deer and came back to either feast on me (the deer) or the grubs. Remember that noise I heard that I thought was a deer stepping on a rotted log - my guess now is that it was the bears ripping apart those logs for grubs.
Next day, did a couple of things relative to that bear. I picked up the rusted remains of a bucket I knew was in the woods on my way back out to hunt. It amounted to half of the bucket and was perfect for my purpose. I set it up on a deadfall, with a good rise behind it for a back stop. I stepped of 25 giant steps from it. Note that, the day before, I had measured the distance to the bruin as 30 giant steps from me to to where I first saw it and 25 steps from where I took the shot; in addition the second bear was about 24 giant steps from me when I saw it. When I got 25 giant steps away from the rusted remains of the bucket, I set up just like I had when I shot the bear, with a tree as support on my left side to steady the Marlin. I fired one sot, it essentially hit dead center of the bucket. Thus I was assured I had not knocked my scope out of alignment. I wanted to make sure not to soothe a bruised ego in case I had missed but to make certain I could still trust the rifle scope was sighted in properly for that days hunt. After that, I again passed by the spot again where I had shot (or thought I had shot) the bear and spent some more time searching for it. Nothing.
I guess I should mention not even one hair of a deer was seen throughout (two other hunters who hunt there frequently with success told me they were quite surprised not to have seen any deer either). I did see a hen turkey while I searched for sign of the bear. She was about 35 yards out and seemed unconcerned about my presence. I also saw a few squirrels in passing, a woodpecker and some neat chickadee sized birds that I have yet to identify. They flittered s close to me as to be amazing, that despite he fact I was wearing a blaze orange hat and jacket. I guess that in all, regardless of me being an old somewhat fat city and burbs slicker, I melded pretty well with the woods. Still could get that darned bear or a deer though. Hopefully, this coming weekend when Brendan is with me on the hunt, our luck will be better than was mine at hunting or his at the tables in Atlantic City, where he and his buddies spent opening day of hunting season losing money.
In closing, let me say that I finally came to the conclusion: Sometimes the bear gets you and sometimes you get the bear but sometimes it's a toss up and you have no clue as to who got whom. This time though, I am pretty sure the bear got me or at least got the better of me.
All the best,
Glenn B
Friday, November 14, 2014
Finally Loaded And Ready To Shoot...
...up toward the hopeful hunting grounds. As usual though, I expect myself to only be hopeful because I will likely fall asleep under a tree and have the deer come by and laugh at me as I snore and leave me a pile of fresh droppings. That has been about as close as I have gotten in recent years to bagging one of them. It beats working anyhow, anyway and on any day.
One thing about leaving this late, there should be less traffic than during the earlier rush hours while passing through NYC. If not less there, then almost definitely less on the roads north of the city and that is a good thing.
Wish me luck ;>)
All the best,
Glenn B
One thing about leaving this late, there should be less traffic than during the earlier rush hours while passing through NYC. If not less there, then almost definitely less on the roads north of the city and that is a good thing.
Wish me luck ;>)
All the best,
Glenn B
Thursday, November 13, 2014
Golly Gee Wilikers Did I Forget Something?
I wish I would have held off on that IPA and tekillya before packing my hunting gear. I can only hope that I got it all packed and will not be missing something like ammo when I go to load up on Saturday. Oh well, I suppose I can double check once I am at my motel tomorrow. Time to hit the hay soon, within half an hour or hour at most, planning on being up at 5 and leaving by 6 for my drive to Binghamton, NY.
Mind you, no booze while on hunting days or even the night before. So ,it was tonight or not at all before my hunting trip.
All the best,
GB
Mind you, no booze while on hunting days or even the night before. So ,it was tonight or not at all before my hunting trip.
All the best,
GB
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