Happy Memorial Day Weekend

Enjoy your outings, beach trips, boating adventures, fishing trips, hikes, gardening, barbecues, and drink fests BUT while you are doing all of that:

PLEASE TAKE TIME EACH DAY THIS WEEKEND TO REMEMBER THOSE WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN DEFENSE OF OUR CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC, OF OUR CONSTITUTION, OF OUR FOREFATHERS, OF US AND OF OUR PROGENY.

WE LIVE IN THE GREATEST NATION ON EARTH. THEY, IN GREAT PART, HAVE BEEN RESPONSIBLE FOR KEEPING IT THAT WAY BY MAKING THE ULTIMATE SACRIFICE, WHILE SERVING IN OUR MILITARY. NEVER FORGET THEM, BLESS THEM, RESPECT THEM AND HONOR THEM FOR THEY ARE THE DEPARTED HEROES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WHO DIED DEFENDING US IN TIME OF WAR.

All the best,
Glenn

Gun Maintenance Reminder & Incentive

Once again, spring has sprung and is upon us with its fine but fickle weather and summer will soon be here. There has been a decent amount of rain in many areas of the country (sorry CA, nothing personal) and there have been several cool to almost cold days as well as quite a few very warm to hot humid days around where I live in the less than Constitutional state of NYistan. So far, the spring weather has been unpredictable as it oft can be but as usual it is all leading up to hotter and more humid days in many parts of the USA as summer draws nigh.

Thus it is a good time to get some firearms maintenance completed. Humidity and gun metal, especially for blued firearms, do not mix and that means it is an excellent time to give your guns a good cleaning and lubrication. If you do a field strip or a complete breakdown of your guns, when you reassemble them, it is a good idea to also do a function check of each. I am not going to get into this as much as I have in past years except to stress how important it is to do this for all the guns in your collection anywhere from 2 to 4 times per year whether or not they have been fired or stored (or both) and whether or not you regularly clean them after firing them and that this time of year is an excellent time to do it especially since many folks don't shoot as much over the summer and their guns get forgotten in the safe or wherever for those months. Taking care of them now, with a  little preventive maintenance, can save you a lot should  you neglect them and they rust.

As a little incentive for you (at least for my straight men and lesbian readers), allow me to repost a pic here I found on the web  and just imagine she will be your gun cleaning helper.



I don't know about what you think but she
could help me clean my guns anytime!

All the best,
Glenn B

Could Be An Interesting Book

As far as I can tell this one was published in 1962 and thus was just perking up the curiosity of me and my friends. Back then, in those more innocent years, thrills for pre-teenaged boys were often found on the covers of pulps like this one and what little is shown on this cover was quite the tease back then.

All the best,
GB


 

Just Cracked Open My Second Bottle Of...

...Long Trail Ale of the night. I decided to try this stuff because I enjoyed another brew made by the same company, not all that long ago, while in NH. It was a Long Trail IPA Limbo and that was a darned tasty beverage.

As for my current selection, I won't BS you with saying it tastes something like apple smoked squirrel nuts, or effervescent holy horse shit hops with a hint of oak and vanilla, because to me it merely tastes like a darned good ale. It's only 5% alcohol by volume but that beats a Budwiper or a Spoors any day and is a good choice for a work-week-night.

It's brewed by Long Trail Brewing Co. and is labeled as an "Original Vermont Amber Ale". If you like an ale with a distinct but not too strong flavor of hops, try one, I think you will enjoy it. I know one thing about it for sure, I surely am enjoying it.

All the best,
Glenn B

 

I've Never Been A Big Fan Of Chromed Pistols...

...but if she wanted to show off hers to me, and show me all of carry & concealment techniques, I wouldn't let her know it.

Would I be wrong for that?

All the best,
GB
 

This Pretty Much Sums Up My Ideas On Smoking

After surviving stage 4 throat cancer, 25 years or more after I quit smoking, need I say more? Although a babe is pictured this message is meant especially for my son. I hope it sinks in because he smokes now and then when drinking and it's getting to be more and more frequent.

All the best,
GB

These Are Some Really Big Guns...

...don't ya think!

 

All the best,

GB

 

Obama The Big Fail

 

Obama is, I think, a failure at most things he has meddled in including his stint as president. Apparently Thomas Sowell agrees with that but he puts it much better than I ever could put it here.

 

All the best,

GB

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

...at an apparently inappropriate time. Once again, I post this image here only for firearms safety educational purposes because you should never put your finger on the trigger until ready to shoot (or so they say even though there are obvious exceptions but is this one of them).

Anyway, why else would I put a photo like this in a blog-post except for educational purposes. I surely cannot imagine any other reason!

All the best,
Glenn B

Affirmative Action And Race Baiting Hiring At Their Best...

...or should I say at the ultimate predicted outcome! Imagine, a firefighter to afraid to fight fires who refuse to do so and who has even disappeared during a three alarm blaze. No, he apparently did not vanish because he was engulfed in flames or under the debris of a collapsed building but allegedly because he essentially was to much of a sluggard to do the job and had gone AWOL. Such are the reported alleged claims against a NYFD rookie who has been nicknamed Tragic Johnson.

Members of the FDNY are reportedly afraid to get rid of him, according to the NY Post, because:

"But department members are afraid to openly complain or criticize Johnson, who is black, because he was hired under a court order to increase minority hiring in the FDNY."

In addition, it has been reported that it took him three tries to get through the firefighter's academy! And he still is supposedly not doing his job. If he was white, Asian, Hispanic or any other possible combination, I believe that the chances are he would have been fired at the end of the first academy try if it is true he flunked it.

More here.

All the best,
GB

He May Not Call Himself A Hero...

...but I would bet the guy he pulled out of the car thinks he is one. See the story here with video.

All the best,
Glenn B

 

The Mystery of The Man Under The Mattress...

...is currently being investigated by NYPD detectives and is being handled as a homicide. If indeed the man was murdered, I doubt the killer smart enough to get away with murder if only because he hid the body in a place where it was sure to be found. Hilton hotels just do not have mattresses as lumpy as that one must have been. More here but not much more because apparently police either have few clues or are keeping mum.

All the best,
GB
 

Scum...

...usually floats atop the surface of a pond, this type though has sunk lower than the low and is mired deep down in the much at the bottom of the cesspool. To solicit money as donations toward the fight against cancer, especially in the name of cancer that afflicts children, and then to give only a tiny fraction of the amount you collected, is about as low as you can go when it comes to con games in my opinion. See this.

All the best,
Glenn B

Wishful Thinking?

Keep On Wishing!

All the best,
GB

Tofu Recipe

I prefer red meat, heck any kind of meat, to that non-sebaceous pseudo-smegma.

All the best,
Glenn B

My Blogging Over The Next Few Work Weeks...

...will be limited to that which I can do in the evenings. I'll be working full time hours for at least a few weeks until my employer can replace someone who opted out of the job so to speak. So, that means  will not have any time for blogging during the days, except on weekends.

All the best,
Glenn B

Enough To Drive An Arse Man Nuts

The form is exceptional but the moving pattern could just about blind you to the near perfection of the form.



Photo source: http://thermonuclear-ramses.tumblr.com/post/27888594419

All the best,
GB

U.S. Law Enforcement Probably Has Enough Military Equipment To Last About 25-50 Years...

...so I have no clue as to what good President Obama's curbing military equipment being issued to  law enforcement (source) is going to do except maybe gain him some political points. Don't get me wrong, it is a small step in the right direction, I just truly believe that law enforcers, in general, need to be stripped of most every bit of military gear and equipment they have been issued with the exception of most of their personal protective body armor. They do not need machine guns (note I did not say submachine guns) , they do not need armored personnel carriers or armored assault vehicles, they do not need tracked vehicles that can destroy a house by knocking it down with an attached ram, they do not need 50 caliber rifles, they do not need drones, they do not need 90-95% of the militarized gear and equipment they now have. Military gear and equipment should be reserved solely for the military and steps should be taken to strip LE of what they have of it already and to turn them back into law enforcers, who serve and protect us and our Constitution, instead of becoming the right hand of tyrannical government.

All the best,
Glenn B 

Was Bob A Burglar Or Maybe A Confused Drunk...

...who walked into the wrong apartment through an unlocked door. It's been reported that a woman in New Haven, CT, called the police about someone who had broken into her apartment. She reportedly asked that someone who was in her hallway and received the reply "Bob" from the alleged burglar whom the police are now seeking. Bob then reportedly fled through a backdoor. The thing is, nothing was reported stolen. (Source.) 

It almost sounds to me as if a confused drunk, or maybe just an overly tired and confused person, walked into the wrong apartment through the open front door and then left hurriedly though the back door when he realized something to the effect of "hey, that wasn't my wife's voice"! Who knows, maybe he was a wannabe rapist, a cat burglar or a pyscho or maybe he was just dazed and confused and in the wrong place after a long night partying.

All the best,
Glenn B

ISIS Threatens Obama And Worshippers Of The Cross...

ISIS has specifically targeted Christians and the president of the United States for death at their hands(source.) While I think Obama the absolute worst president in my lifetime (close to or maybe the worst of them of all time) I would defend, with my life, the president of the United States of America if the need arose for me to do so. 

A miserable death to all ISIS goat fuckers could come none too soon as far as I am concerned.

All the best,
GB

I Was Never A Law Enforcement Buff...

...and throughout my 32 year plus LE career I did not collect all that much memorabilia. Yet, when I was going through a box in my garage today, I did find some patches and a few pins. They almost all bring back some good memories.  found a total of 8 LE patches and 9 pins. Four of the pins were given to me to commemorate my years of service in either the Customs Service or the federal government. I have 10, 20, 25 and 30 year pins. They are probably worth all of about $1.79 apiece (at most) monetarily but do have a small bit of meaning for me. The other four pins were all given to me by LEOs, from other agencies, with whom I worked on cases. I have one from DEA, another from the Secret Service (for a SS protective detail), another from the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police and the last one is from Her Majesty's Customs and Excise Investigation Division (I'll be damned if I can remember what case that was regarding). My favorite pin is the one I got along with a Commissioner's Unit Citation for my part in a major investigation in Texas.

The few patches I have are imaged below.

The Border Patrol patch is now over 32 years old and
may be as old as 36 depending on what year I got
 it between 1979 and 1983 when I was in the BP.

 

 

Once upon a time, I also had a Haitian Immigration patch but I have no idea what has become of it. After spending 30 days in Haiti and giving away numerous U.S. Customs patches and other memorabilia I was given a single patch that an Immigration officer had pinned to his uniform shirt. Had I been a collector, I imagine I would have traded instead of giving things away.

 

I also found a photo album of some photos from my days in the Border Patrol. Only a couple of shots of me and some of the borderline, some Mexican yutes I dealt with back then and some illegals. Oh yeah, there were a couple or few shots of the cattle feed lots near town. I sent that album to my great-grandfather who loved it.

 

I do have some other mementos from my service, a raid jacket or two from the Customs Service (I think I still have the one I wore the night and next day that I helped on the dig at the WTC), an expired official passport, an identity card from Haiti that ID's me as basically untouchable by Haitian LE while I was working there, and a plastic jar full of burned off and soot covered melted ammo from the Customs Range at 6 WTC (that was recovered right after 9/11). Then there are my certificates of achievement, firearms instructor certifications, award plaques and letters of commendation and such. All worthless, I guess except to me. I suppose someday, I'll pass them all to my son - he can use them as targets, burn them or cherish them as he chooses; I would hope for the latter.

 

There are some I never got that I would like to have gotten. I tried to get my cancelled credentials from my time flying as a Federal Air Marshal right after 9/11. They did not even give us volunteers a letter of appreciation (what a scumbag administration they had - at least at the time); I did get a letter of commendation, in fact two, for my service with the FAMs but those letters came from the Assistant Commissioner of Customs (I was a Customs Special Agent at the time). Out of the hundreds of agents in my office, I was the only one either stupid enough or crazy enough (or both) to volunteer for that duty. Never saw even a single terrorist on any of the flights I flew, and I flew on literally hundreds of flights, but I was ready for them even if scared shitless at the prospects of facing them down and taking them out.

 

About the only other tings I have, that come to mind, (and I may yet have a few more than this) are a U.S. Customs wall plaque, a toy bucket and shovel from a tiki bar in Clearwater Beach, FL (some great zombies came with that bucket and sure got me drunk while on a SS detail - on my free time), my retired credentials from DHS and my cancelled creds from Customs when we converted to DHS. I imagine most others I worked with have larger collections of collectible mementos than me, as I said I was never much of a collector of LE memorabilia and never was a buff.

 

Oh yeah, there are a few other items that have come through my career with me, like my Beretta 92SB and two Beretta 92FS pistols and my Glock 26 as well as my Remington 870 Express shotgun. I carried them all on official duty at one time or another. If my son likes or does not like my other memorabilia, I know for sure he likes those firearms! Of anything I saved throughout my career, those are certainly my favorite mementos.

 

All the best,

Glenn B

 

Camel Toes...

...or are they back tits or maybe I should call them backsicles cause they sure don't look like breasts to me and do look more like something else!

 Allegedly a photo of a Walmart shopper (source).

All the best,
GB

Booze, Whores & Free Housing...

...what could be a better life than that for an older man in his 70s? I guess it was only as good as long as it lasted now that one old geezer reportedly has lost his housing subsidy after it was discovered that he had a whore hiding under his bed and had been paying for hookers with money he made by running booze to other elderly folks in his assisted living compound (source). Way to go gramps!

All the best,
Glenn B

Today In History - A Nickel For Your Thoughts

Ever wonder how long we have had used the nickel as part of our coinage. I never did but I found out today anyway, or at least I found out the day that the nickel coin was authorized by the Congress. That day was May 16 way back in 1866 (source, you may have to specifically search for May 16th once there).

More information on the U.S. nickel can be found here.

All the best,
Glenn B

Yet Another Woman With Her Finger On The Trigger?

Strictly for firearms safety education, I am displaying another photo of a woman with her finger apparently on the trigger at an apparent inappropriate moment. I note that I just said apparently as one can not be certain in this instance but the angle sure looks right to me, don't you think the angle is right too.

Anyway, make sure if you carry like this, in the front of your pants above your groin, that you absolutely never draw your handgun with your finger on the trigger, it could be messy.

By the way, except for firearms safety education, why else would I post these images here!

All the best,
Glenn  B