Woo Hoo…

My SIRT training pistol finally showed up!!! Yes, it’s a Glock format, but the nice thing is you can practice dry fire, and mag changes without having to rack the slide every time.  It also has adjustments for the trigger … Continue reading

In lieu of real content…

Quickie road trip today, so you get this… This is a great Rube Goldburg… Kudos to Beneful for figuring this one out and actually getting it to work! h/t JP … Continue reading

Isn’t THIS special???

Seems that no one knows how many have actually signed up for obummercare…  Delaware apparently has ONE that has actually signed up, and now this from BCBS in ND… The Obama administration asked North Dakota’s largest health insurer not to … Continue reading

Lest we forget…

0622 am Oct 23, 1983 marked a historic event for the Marines… And NOT in a good way.  The Marine Barracks in Beirut, Lebanon was bombed on this day 30 years ago, causing the highest loss of life (218) in … Continue reading

I needs some of this…

  I don’t know who did this, but it’s OUTSTANDING, and I could use some!!! Is it the weekend yet??? h/t Gerry … Continue reading

They’re bacckkk!!!

Kick the tires, light the fires, first one in the air is lead, brief on guard…   Uh Boss, isn’t the ground supposed to be DOWN instead of UP??? The Pentagon on Friday said it will reinstate the Navy’s Blue … Continue reading

I’d call this persistence…

This gent never gave up on his goal… Over the years, Wuerker learned to fly, joined the Civil Air Patrol and even built his own helicopter. That just fed his childhood urge to fly a World War II torpedo bomber. … Continue reading

WTF???

Another school shooting, this time the perp appears to be a THIRTEEN year old… Family members later identified the staff member who was killed as math teacher Michael Landsberry, 45. The suspected gunman was also dead, and authorities say no … Continue reading

The things one sees on the road…

These are the ‘doors’ to the Japanese Navy command cave at Yokosuka, JA.  There are over twenty MILES of caves that honeycombed the base starting in about 1938… Rather simple… Handle and a pull bar.  Note the rollers and tracks … Continue reading

The ‘rest’ of the story…

The initial story was an ‘older’ man landing an airplane after the pilot had a heart attack… The additional details are enough to send shivers up the back of the neck… Night, unlit panel, no landing lights… http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/09/passenger-takes-controls-plane-pilot-ill-humberside Here is … Continue reading