The old saw…

If you can’t say anything good, don’t say anything…

So you get humor!

Barb was lying in bed one night. Larry was falling asleep but Barb was in a romantic mood and wanted to talk.

She said: “You used to hold my hand when we were courting.”

Wearily he reached across, held her hand for a second and tried to get back to sleep.

A few moments later she said: “Then you used to kiss me… ”

Mildly irritated, Larry reached across, gave her a peck on the cheek and settled down to sleep.

Thirty seconds later she said: “Then you used to bite my Neck…”

Angrily, Larry threw back the bed clothes and got out of bed.

“Where are you going?” Barb asked.

“To get my teeth!”

DOWN AT THE RETIREMENT CENTER

80-year old Bessie bursts into the rec room at the retirement home. She holds her clenched fist in the air and announces, “Anyone who can guess what’s in my hand can have sex with me tonight!!”

An elderly gentleman in the rear shouts out, “An elephant?”

Bessie thinks a minute and says, “Close enough.”

OLD FRIENDS

Two elderly ladies had been friends for many decades. Over the years, they had shared all kinds of activities and adventures. Lately, their activities had been limited to meeting a few times a week to play cards.

One day, they were playing cards when one looked at the other and said, “Now don’t get mad at me… I know we’ve been friends for a long time but I just can’t think of your name. I’ve thought and thought, but I can’t remember it. Please tell me what your name is.”

Her friend glared at her. For at least three minutes she just stared and glared at her.  Finally she said, “How soon do you need to know?”

SENIOR DRIVING

As a senior citizen was driving down the motorway, his car phone rang.

Answering, he heard his wife’s voice urgently warning him, “Vernon, I just heard on the news that there’s a car going the wrong way on I-25. Please be careful!”

“Hell,” said Vernon, “It’s not just one car. It’s hundreds of them!”

DRIVING

Two elderly women were out driving in a large car – both could barely see over the dashboard. As they were cruising along, they came to major crossroad. The stop light was red, but they just went on through.

The woman in the passenger seat thought to herself, “I must be losing it. I could have sworn we just went through a red light.”

After a few more minutes, they came to another major junction and the light was red again. Again, they went right through.

The woman in the passenger seat was almost sure that the light had been red, but was really concerned that she was losing it. She was getting nervous.

At the next junction, sure enough, the light was red and they went on through. So, she turned to the other woman and said, “Mildred, did you know that we just ran through three red lights in a row? You could have killed us both!”

Mildred turned to her and said, “Oh! Am I driving?”

SUPERSEX

A little old lady who had lost her marbles was running up and down the halls in a nursing home. As she ran, she would flip up the hem of her nightgown and say “Supersex.” She ran up to an elderly man in a wheelchair, flipping her gown at him, she said, “Supersex.”

He sat silently for a moment or two and finally answered, “I’ll take the soup.”

Random things…

NRA AM planning

If anybody cares, the North Texas contingent will be staying at the Embassy Suites up by Love Field, since none of us can or want to afford $300/night to stay downtown…

Embassy Suites, 3880 West Northwest Highway, Dallas, Texas, 75220, USA +1-214-357-4500

In other news, there is a dinner and a party in the planning stages for Friday and Saturday nights. More on those as we get the plans firmed up.

In other news, The Grey Man- Twilight will hopefully be up for sale on Friday, March 9th, both in paperback and Kindle. Yea!!!

MSM lies…

Soooo… The WAPO decides to weigh in on the gun ban with the old saw about Australian gun control…

The headline reads:

As U.S. gun debate rages on, Australians hand in 57,000 firearms, and Norway is set for a broad ban

Snippet- In Australia, authorities revealed that citizens had handed over 57,000 illegal firearms between July and September last year during a gun amnesty. In total, more than 35,000 rifles and more than 12,000 shotguns were turned in, among other firearms.

Full article, HERE.

Seems pretty straight forward, right? Ehhh… Not so much…

Reason has the backstory. Or should I say ‘the rest of the story’.

Given the context the Post itself provides—that the U.S. gun debate is now largely about semi-automatic rifles—it’s worth noting that, according to the actual “National Firearms Amnesty 2017” report, only 2,417 were semi-automatic weapons, a far smaller number in this “amnesty” than air rifles, accounting for 4,816. (The report says 162 of the “guns” handed in were “imitation.”)

Full article, HERE.

The other ‘interesting’ thing is that neither Australia or Norway have anything like a Second Amendment. So a small group of activists and lawmakers rammed through a set of laws that changed an entire culture in Australia (but they still own guns, and still hunt and target shoot); and potentially want to do the same thing in Norway.

And Australia STILL has a significant issue with illegal weapons, with thousands of them seized every year. They are either home made (e.g. Sten machine guns), or smuggled in from Indonesia.

 

New book…

Holly Chism has a new set of short stories out!

Click on the cover to order!

Normalcy Bias: Look closer...things aren't always what they seem to be. by [Chism, Holly]

The blurb-

Look closer. The things that you’re assuming you’re seeing? May not be what you think. Is that really a mouse, or is it a Brownie? Is that really an owl? Is that polished gemstone a stone…or an egg?

We take so many things for granted. Some of them may be harmless, but many are a lot less so. I wonder how many people ignore red flags every day, because they only see what they expect to see? 

This collection takes what’s “normal” and asks “What if it’s something more?”

I was happy to be an alpha reader for this one, there are some nice twists and turns in the stories! I think you’ll enjoy it!!! Gremlins… 😀

TBT…

ASW and ‘other’ missions have a long history, going back prior to WWII…

These guys were the original lowriders…

Not a lot of fun there, probably somewhere in the South Pacific, WWII era. I ‘believe’ there is a raft just off the nose they are making for. I can’t find it now, but I remember something about one TAXIING almost 200 miles! Proud to have met some of these intrepid heroes!

Edit- I blew this one! Al provided the correct information:  The Catalina is in RAF colours with a type A1 roundel which was used between 1940 and 1942. RAF planes in the Pacific had the red centre of the roundel painted over with white so that it would not be mistaken for the Japanese “meatball” insignia.

I believe the black object in front of it is a mooring buoy. Coastal Command had a large seaplane base at Lough Erne in Northern Ireland with Catalina and Sunderland squadrons. Above the rudder there is a dark smudge that could be an island and there is a shoreline in the background so I’m guessing this photo was taken at Lough Erne.

The next generation was the high riders…. P5M Marlin, long days, noisy engines, better in rough water landings (didn’t tend to submerge itself). One of my sea daddies flew in these for a number of years, before transitioning.I didn’t get in the community until the early 1970s, but ‘we’ didn’t have to worry about landing on water (routinely)… Moved to land based exclusively after the P-2 came into the fleet.

P-3B off Honolulu in the 1970s. I actually have time in my log book on this airplane!

Hard to believe that was 45 years ago…

And then I get up and look in the mirror… Not slim and trim anymore, but I wouldn’t trade my career for anything. Never made a lot of money, but we were the tip of the spear, and the only airplane that ever ‘practiced’ against our actual real world targets…

Sometimes we even let them know we were there! 🙂

 

The Grey Man- Twilight…

Woo hoo! It’s real!!!

Now comes the ‘fun’ of roofpreading it…

Soon!!! Thank you all for your patience!

NRA Annual Meeting…

Is coming to Dallas! 4-6 May!!!  🙂

And of course after the Parkland shooting, the Mayor Pro Tem, jumps on the media and says the NRA needs to go, HERE

Now a little background… Caraway is NOT the real mayor, he’s a jumped up appointee and member of the city council, with no official voice outside the council. In other words, he’s pandering to his base. And I guess he considers $40 million to be an acceptable loss for Dallas to incur.

Of course the reality is the NRA won’t move, and were they to actually threaten to do so, a whole bunch of Dallas businesses would be camping on his desk for a retraction! Interestingly, the ‘real’ mayor of Dallas, Michael Rawlings has said nothing…

Had an interesting chat with a Delta employee this weekend, he’s an NRA member, and coming to Dallas for the NRA AM, however, he WILL NOT fly Delta! He’s looking at alternatives, and he’s apparently not the only one.

Watching the posturing by various governors over the last couple of days has NOT done anything good for my blood pressure, either. They are ‘against’ allowing teachers to be armed, want LEOs to ‘step up’, but I didn’t hear any of them coming up with money to either secure the schools, or PAY for the LEOs that it would take to actually put deputies at every school, much less any way to recruit those people in a timely fashion. LEOs are already under the gun in most locations, short staffed, underpaid, and being forced to put in a lot of overtime to cover their current duties. Now what will happen if they have to pull 10, 20, or 30 MORE officers off the streets?

One positive note, I saw this over at John’s blog, HERE. That’s a $1750 class. Kudos to Gunsite for stepping up!

I’ll be curious to see how many actually take them up on it, but I believe it’s money well ‘spent’ as it were.

 

 

 

Another Olympics is in the bag…

The USA didn’t ‘shine’ particularly well this time around, and the coverage pretty much sucked, but there were still some impressive performances by all the athletes!

We were talking about it at dinner last night, and it’s really about money and viewership…

America is no longer the premier economy in the world, having been overshadowed by the SE Asian combination of China, South Korea, and Japan. And they are the technology leaders, have the most tech savvy kids and the highest viewer numbers for TV, even if there are only ‘state’ channels in China.

And the Olympics are chasing the money and viewers… Plus Beijing gets to reuse all the stuff from 2008. Although apparently the swimming arena will be the new location for curling and who knows what else… Hope that ice doesn’t break, it’s a long way to the bottom of the pool…

It was interesting to watch the closing ceremonies, and see the 4-star CFK standing behind Ivanka Trump, considering the size of the NORK bounty on him.

If there is a bright side, no one was seriously injured (other than the Aussie that broke his neck), nobody got killed participating in their sport, and there were no attacks on the athletes. I’d call that a win for everybody.

I do wonder where the opening/closing ceremony shows are going, considering that each time, they seem to ramp up more and more, with this one having more computer graphics than any I can remember… I wonder if they built a powerplant just to power all the systems running those ceremonies, and all the lights, graphics, etc.

The medal count for the top ten were:

Country Gold Silver Bronze Total
Norway 14 14 11 39
Germany 14 10 7 31
Canada 11 8 10 29
United States of America 9 8 6 23
Netherlands 8 6 6 20
Sweden 7 6 1 14
South Korea 5 8 4 17
Switzerland 5 6 4 15
France 5 4 6 15
Austria 5 3 6 14

And from what I saw, there was pretty good sportsmanship, other than the female Canadian who took her silver medal off during the ceremony for women’s hockey.

So four years from now, we get to watch it all again, and hopefully with better commentators and better coverage…

Logical extension???

Cobbled together from various things I’ve hear/seen over the last couple of days…

So, apparently the Legal age to own/buy a gun needs to go 21 since liberals and progressive are projecting their distrust onto teens they don’t believe are responsible or mature enough to handle the ownership of a weapon.

Ok, if that’s the hill they want to die on…let’s go there.If they’re not mature and responsible enough to own a gun until they’re 21:

No driving a car until their 21. They’ll kill more people.

No voting until they’re 21…that’s a huge responsibility and they’re just not mature enough to make a reasoned and mature decision.

No video violent games until they’re 21. self explanatory.

No credit cards until they’re 21…self explanatory.

No military service until 21. Same reasons.

Want to keep going?  What else can we add?

Done!!!

TGM- Twilight is moving through the Createspace process as of tonight. So I’m a proof away from it going live!!!

This is the final cover. Tina did a great job, as always!!!

In other news, this is a pic of our panel from LTUE, last weekend!

Left to right- LawDog, me, Peter Grant, and Larry Correia.

h/t Eric for the pic!