Well, the rally is over…

Posted on by January 20, 2020

Depending on which report you listened to, up to 23,000 showed up in Richmond, VA today to lobby against the anti-2A bills currently being shoved through the VA house and senate by the dems…

Coverage from Breitbart, HERE. The gent does raise an interesting point, in that this rally has been ‘pushed’ by the MSM as white supremacist, right-wing, etc…

More from WSLS Ch 10, HERE. Fairly straightforward coverage.

WAVY coverage, HERE. Again straightforward coverage.

WUSA coverage, HERE. A little slanted as they concentrated on the weapons and selected pics of ‘heavily armed’ individuals.

This one, from PJ Media, HERE, is interesting. Scroll all the way down to see the agitator get slapped down by the crowd

And at least 2 sheriffs showed up in uniform to support the rally…

From various folks that were there, it was colder than hell, and the lines to get in were being searched to a fare the well. Apparently at least a few Pub representatives came out and participated in the rally, and the majority of the Pubs in VA government came out and waved to the crowd.

One of the interesting things ‘I’ noted in the coverage I saw was the ‘lack’ of coverage of anyone who was not white, male, and carrying a weapon openly. Videos and stills seemed to be concentrating on the ‘heavily armed’ groups of whites only.

Breitbart was the only coverage that I saw that actually featured a black 2A supporter.

I am truly thankful the only arrest appears to be a female, possibly antifa, who was arrested after the third run in with the police.

Now we’ll see what today’s news reports have to say. And the ball is now in Northam and the Dems court in VA… I wonder if they will pay attention to what happened yesterday???

Oh, and of course there was the Babylon Bee… HERE.

And they even picked up after themselves… HERE.

Another one bites the dust…

Posted on by January 19, 2020

9th Circus actually got up on their hind legs for a change…

In a key victory for the rule of law, a panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals rejected a lawsuit filed by children against the U.S. government, claiming that the federal government had violated the children’s rights by failing to act against climate change. 

Full article, HERE from PJ Media.

Buh-bye Greta… Your handlers failed again.

It’s interesting that all of a sudden, Greta T’s not in the news after the revelation that she isn’t really writing all those climate posts, they are being written by her dad and a climate activist from India.

Borepatch, among others has long been posting about the fallacy of the climate change arguments. In my previous life, I worked with actual PhDs in metrology, oceanography, geophysical fluid dynamics, and atmospheric science. These are real scientists from four different countries that are research scientists, who have worked with satellite altimetry, physical ocean and ice measurements, and conducted multiple at sea and on land experiments.

To a person, they didn’t believe the hockey stick, and disagreed with ‘fitting’ the data to the model. And almost to a person, they were ‘excluded’ from major scientific publications and conferences when they didn’t ‘toe the line’.

And yes, I ‘cling’ to my Bible and my guns… Sigh…

Sigh… Back to reality…

Posted on by January 17, 2020

Welp, another deer hunt is in the books…

And my score is STILL 0 deer, 1 armadillo…

We knew there were possible issues, due to acorns, pecans, persimmons, and fresh grass that the deer were eating, so they weren’t moving much. This is just one of the hundreds of acorns laying everywhere. When I cracked the nut, the inner nut was the size of a normal pecan.

The ‘view’ from my stand… Wednesday night it was absolutely eerie. Not a leaf was moving, no wind, no birds, grey sky. I have never ‘heard’ it that quiet… The ONLY sound was my breathing, and the hair on the back of my neck standing up.

And my mind was hearing this-

Thursday wasn’t much better, cold, rainy, windy, and messy, but we were out there anyway. Just after sunrise I hear a shot, from my right, which means something snuck by me. My stand is about 30 feet into the treeline just to the left of the big tree. The guy that shot watched a 7 point buck walk right up the treeline BEHIND me! And yes, he scored! And it was one FAT buck, it had been eating well!!!

And yesterday morning wasn’t any better. High 30s, damp, cold, spitting rain.

So… Lawdog, TOTW, and I got skunked. Ambulance Driver was the sole ‘winner’ with two of these.

Yes ducks… An no, he didn’t shoot them with a rifle… LOL

Maybe the fall hunt will be better. Maybe… But we did have a good time. Three days of no internet, no phones, no TV. The BP is probably down by 20 points!

Thank you!!!

Posted on by January 13, 2020

TGM- Sunset is selling well (at least for me in my Z-list author status). And many of the reviews are positive. But there is always going to be those who don’t like it…

So… I got my first 1-star review…

1.0 out of 5 stars Ultra conservative

Reviewed in the United States on January 11, 2020

Format: Kindle EditionVerified Purchase

TBT…

Posted on by January 12, 2020

Who remembers…

And they had camping gear and other stuff too, but I never got any of that… sigh…

There was a competitor too…

I ‘think’ this was probably one of the first attempts at a ‘loyalty’ program by grocery stores and other places.

Oddly, I do remember getting things like hand towels in detergent, and other odd things in some products when we were kids…

Today, it’s all electronic, so kids will never have the ‘joy’ of pasting those things into the books…LOL

 

 

Posted in TBT

Gone hunting…

Posted on by January 13, 2020

Going after ‘Rupert’ once again. This time, he’ll be of age, and I get a shot I will pop him…

Hoping for this… (Not Rupert)

With ‘my’ luck, will end up with this… Again…

No connectivity, so no commenting or posting till I’m back Sunday. Go read the folks on the sidebar, they’re worth the read!

YGTBSM!!!

Posted on by January 13, 2020

CNN has truly ‘drank the kool aid’…

That a talking head could say this with a straight face is just… beyond me…

On Thursday, CNN host Erin Burnett dismissed Iran’s incessant “death to America” chanting as merely “a thing and a trope.” 

Full article, HERE.

Does ANYBODY at CNN have a grip on reality??? Do they not understand what has been happening since 1979? Have they not read the reports of Iranian IEDs being used in Iraq and Afghanistan???

Bueller?

Anyone?

Wow…

Posted on by January 12, 2020

This is just a ‘bit’ over the top…

An Indiana school district is under fire for writing a policy that parents and the ACLU say is a violation of their First Amendment rights and an attempt to shield the board from legitimate criticism.

Full article, HERE.

The whole silencing thing is getting ridiculous. The Perpetually Offended Snowflakes (POS) cannot stand to have their decisions, positions, pronouncements, etc. criticised by the mere peons like us. And Gnu forbid people actually USE fecesbook or anything else, like the twitverse or ??? to organize. By and large, the MSM refuses to cover things like this, where an organization or board is called out, or they ‘slant’ the coverage to make people look like idiots.

Two cases in point- The ‘classic’ is when there is a severe weather event. Who do they put on TV? The erudite clean shaven person? Or the uneducated folks that look like bums off the street, so that the commentator can ‘instruct’ said person on what they ‘should’ have been doing if they had been listening to Station XXXX…

The other currently playing out in Virginia is a true grassroots movement against the dem run state government over gun confiscation among other ‘interesting’ new gun laws. VERY little MSM coverage, and routinely negative. The honest folks there, VCDL have promoted a rally in the state capital on the 20th and I think all but maybe one or two counties have declared themselves sanctuary counties for gun owners (how many of you have seen ANY of that covered).

Granted there are a number of folks that think this is really a bad idea (myself included), because there are sure to be fifth columnists, provocateurs, and probably Antifa and their ilk there just to get on camera and cause trouble. I will predict that the coverage will by OMGELEVENTY>>> GUNS>>>BLOOD IN THE STREEEEEETS… and they will show maybe 1%, if that, of the actual rally that includes the good people trying to do the right thing.

Sigh…

Kicking the soapbox back in the corner.

Busy busy…

Posted on by January 11, 2020

The muse is riding me like a rented mule… now 68K words into the Mil SF novel.

Which means my brain is mush. So you get this…

Go read the folks on the sidebar while I try to be coherent…

 

Fear mongering…

Posted on by January 10, 2020

Or a typical day in the Dems/progs/leftist camp, duly supported by the MSM…

The progressives’ reactions to President Trump’s elimination of Qassem Soleimani, Iran’s blood-soaked chief of their foreign adventurism, covered the whole range of clichés we can predict whenever this country acts vigorously to defend its interests and security. Iran, however, is a special case. For forty years, with a few exceptions our leaders have preemptively cringed in the face of Iranian aggression, conjuring up the specter of a widescale war in order to justify inaction. This bad habit has led to appeasing policies that have emboldened the mullahs into ever-increasing aggression in the region from Iraq to Syria to Yemen.

Full article, HERE.

This has gone on for WAY too long… We ‘knew’ the chances of a nuclear war with the USSR, and they knew we were locked and loaded 24/7. They also knew we were tracking their subs and other assets world-wide and that none of them would survive more than three hours if push came to shove.

You may not like what I have to say, but I’m going to say it anyway. Having retired from 20+ years in the US Navy, and another 23 years as a Navy contractor, having walked the walk my adult life, I would say that as you read the above article, please try to understand the centuries old military wisdom, and my background, and the belief that if you must fight, either in self-defense or preemptively in self-defense, whether personally or as a nation, you must win decisively without remorse or you absolutely will lose in the end. The last real ‘win’ we’ve had was WWII, and that took nukes to make happen. Since then? Think Korea. Think Vietnam. Think Afghanistan. Think Iraq. Think of the human sacrifice of our precious youth that was unnecessary because of the lack of a will to win decisively! I believe a large part of this has been due to the ‘perception’ that we were beating up on the little guy and the diplomats ‘controlling’ the interactions. How many of our young people must die, or innocent here at home must die before decisive action is taken? This was the first step, and I for one am sad that they didn’t take out every one of those launchers.

The blood of 176 innocents that died are on Iranian hands because of the Iranians paranoia and SA-15 Gauntlet system in autonomous mode (Iran has 29 such systems). Early photos showed a number of dimpled penetrations indicative of shrapnel in various parts of the skin of the airplane. Those pictures have since disappeared. You can go HERE, and look down through the photos there are a number shrapnel dimples evident. My bet is that the real black box recordings will never see the light of day…

 

There is no such thing as a proportionate response, only a massively deterrent response irrespective of human life. The only peace that is enduring is the result of deterrence having proven that you will give no quarter to a belligerent and bellicose adversary.