A little humor…

Posted on by August 29, 2017

Now Seniors have their own texting codes:

* ATD – At the Doctor

* BFF – Best Friends Funeral

* BTW – Bring the Wheelchair

* BYOT – Bring Your Own Teeth

* CBM – Covered by Medicare

* CUATSC – See You at the Senior Center

* DWI – Driving While Incontinent

* FWIW – Forgot Where I Was

* GGPBL – Gotta Go, Pacemaker Battery Low

* GHA – Got Heartburn Again

* HGBM – Had Good Bowel Movement

* LMDO – Laughing My Dentures Out

* LOL – Living on Lipitor

* OMSG – Oh My! Sorry, Gas

* TOT – Texting on Toilet

* WAITT – Who Am I Talking To?

Hope these help. GGLKI- Gotta Go, Laxative Kicking in!

Hope these brighten up your day a little…

h/t JP

Sometimes…

Posted on by August 28, 2017

A picture (or cartoon) is truly worth a thousand words…

Antifa struck again at Bezerkley yesterday… Sigh…

I can only offer the ‘hope’ generated by the people who are coming in and helping those in South Texas that need it, without consideration of race, color, creed or anything else but the need to be rescued, fed, and sheltered.

THAT is what America is, not the crap in California.

One wonders…

Posted on by August 27, 2017

Who will be the first to blame Trump for the flooding and ‘lack of response’ to the emergency in Texas…

So far, the loss of life is, thankfully, very low. Property damage will probably be in the billions when it’s all over, most of that due to flooding, which is ongoing and more rain predicted for the next few days, as the remnants of Harvey stall over south Texas and eastern Louisiana.

My bet is Sheila Jackson-Lee… After the Major, judge, and chief of police said don’t evacuate, stay home, we’ll save you, well, we see how well THAT is working out. As of yesterday morning, over 2000 calls for rescue, and it’s only going to get worse.

When even the WAPO starts questioning a Dem, you know it’s bad, HERE.

The other thing is the loss of oil/gas production, which few are mentioning. Production has been cut by roughly 1,000,000 barrels a day, and all of the refineries in Baytown, Pasadena, and Houston are shut down for the near future. Expect prices to go up, because there WILL be a shortage.

Thoughts and prayers continue, not only for those who didn’t leave; but the rescuers, National Guard, and Coasties that are having to go get them. Honestly, I would not be surprised to see the damage exceed that of Katrina, due to the duration of the rains/flooding.

Recovery is going to be a long term effort…

Grumpy…

Posted on by August 26, 2017

F**king looters…

It’s started down in South Texas, and apparently the first one got shot by the homeowner. Too bad the bastard survived… 🙂

That crap doesn’t play well in Texas, just sayin…

But there are ‘other’ types of looting, overcharging for staples, like water for up to $90/case, and who knows how much for plywood!

And while I’m at it, another pet peeve, these stupid idjit TV commentators and crews that get on TV, “I’m standing in 90 MPH winds to show you, blah, blah, blah… They have to be ‘on scene’ to record all this crap, until it’s too late, then they scream for the police, or somebody to come save their asses. If it was up to me, they could rot in place. Sooner or later, one of them is going to get decapitated on live TV by a piece of metal, and I for one, won’t shed a tear. Maybe THEN the other idjits will think twice about how they manage weather broadcasting.

Texas Guard folks are on standby, sitting in their armories waiting to go south, as soon as the requests get processed, there are 50 up here that have volunteered and they’ll have a long ride in those Hummers, but they will be a great help once they get there.

Oh yeah, and one more thing… This… A racist HORSE???

Some students are claiming USC’s longtime mascot, a white horse, is a racist symbol. 

The horse is named Traveler, which was also the name of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee’s horse. The name was called out recently by a leader of the USC Black Student Assembly at a rally following the Charlottesville riots.

Article, HERE.

OBTW, Lee’s horse was a gray American Saddlebred named Traveller, not a white horse that’s supposed to be horse ridden by a Trojan 3000 years before the Civil War. The rest of the story is Richard Saukko, a salesman who started USC’s horse tradition 56 years ago in 1961. He bought a horse named Traveler for $5,000 and rode him in the Rose Bowl Parade.

USC officials noticed the pair and invited Saukko to perform at their football games.

Sigh…

Range time…

Posted on by August 25, 2017

Breaking in new tools…

First up, the .45  Threw one… sigh… As usual. Two mags at 7 yards. I can live with this. Put a hundred rounds total through it, last two mags rapid fire to heat it up and seat everything. Trigger right at 5lbs.

First two mags through the 9mm, dropped the first one low. The two sight are slightly different as far as settings… I’ll fix that next range trip when I can shoot off a rest. Put a hundred rounds total through it, last two mags rapid fire to heat it up and seat everything. Trigger a hair over 5 lbs.

And thanks to AEpilot Jim, he brough out the M-82, to allow a young female LEO to shoot one for the first time. She was grinning ear to ear, and just might have said, “I really want one of these.”

A good day, and tomorrow will be cleaning to pay for the fun we had today.

As far as weather, we’re 500 miles north of the hurricane, but we did get some rain from it today. Please keep those folks on the south Texas coast in your prayers.

The real Antifa…

Posted on by August 24, 2017

It’s nothing new…

And it’s Communist inspired…

These groups, oftentimes launched from the aforementioned housing estates, were generally called “Antifaschistische Ausschüsse,” “Antifaschistische Kommittees,” or the now famous “Antifaschistische Aktion” – “Antifa” for short. They drew on the slogans and orientation of the prewar united front strategy, adopting the word “Antifa” from a last-ditch attempt to establish a cross-party alliance between Communist and Social Democratic workers in 1932. The alliance’s iconic logo, devised by Association of Revolutionary Visual Artists members Max Keilson and Max Gebhard, has been since become one of the Left’s most well-known symbols.

From the Jacobin Magazine article, HERE.

Bottom line, they will dream big (remember the ‘threat’ of 10,000 protesters at the Trump rally? And they got, what… A hundred?), but will fail because they have NO plan other than tearing down America.

A second good article is via Grunt Works Media, HERE.

If you go read the Wiki, HERE, it very carefully fails to mention the Communist background, and only touts the successes… If you will…

If you follow the money, it’s interesting how it all points back to Soros and his minions…

From the Gateway Pundit, HERE.

Breitbart, HERE.

New American Govt., HERE.

And remember McAuliffe’s plea after Charlottesville? “Protesters need to leave, you are not wanted.” It has been reported, although I can’t find the link now, that at least some of the inauguration protesters also showed up at Charlottesville. They’re being paid… There is not any way they could move around the country and do all these protests without some backing…

From this last weekend, in Leesburg, VA there was supposedto be yet another protest-

For those unfamiliar with Leesburg the Confederate statue that has people upset sits on the grounds of the Loudoun County Court House which, in turn, sits in the NE quadrant of the intersection of King St. (Route 15) and Market St. (Route 7). 

Across King St. from the statue is The Downtown Bar, known for it’s clientele who favor 2-wheel transportation.  Bar window sports a sign “Better here than across the street.”  My information came from 2 friends who had “ring side seats.”

Sometime in the morning a van  passed north on King and a cellphone was held out the front passenger window.  Photo recon?  Who knows?

At any rate the customers in the bar and the deputies on OT rolled out.  Bikers on the sidewalk; deputies on courthouse grounds.

About 10 minutes later same van followed by another were waiting at the King/Market intersection.  They made the turn on northbound King … slowed down … one van slid open its side door … and quickly shut it.  Both vans picked up speed.  As they passed Cornwall Street a troop of cavalry … er … motorcycles fell in behind them.  Lead bikes were LCSO officers.  Vans were followed to Point of Rocks bridge and the MD state line.

Thus ended the Day Of Action in Leesburg.

Van plates were run; rentals.

Note the last line, above…

Where does it end? Personally, I think it is liable to end much like some of the European countries, where either law enforcement, or locals take care of the problem themselves. And antifa disappears from that area for a generation…

So far, all of the ‘violent’ protests have been in gun free zones, or areas where the local .gov supports them for the most part. However, if they try that in flyover country, I think they will be met with a ‘different’ reception…

And I’ll leave you with this one… Ask your lefties what they want to do with this statue…

h/t Stretch for the pic

TBT…

Posted on by August 23, 2017

After the last two weeks, I just flat don’t want to adult anymore… Sigh…

Please say a prayer for those sailor’s families from the McCain and the Fitzgerald, they died protecting America for you.

The depth of the BS is getting to the point that I’m drowning, and doubting I can even save the watch.

But there ‘are’ some memories that do bring a smile to this tired old face. How many of us busted our asses with these? Nothing like trying to get them to fit, then trying to skate down the street… Helmet? Elbow pads? Knee pads?

Nope, bust your butt, and either get up and keep going, or walk home and give up on them… I seem to remember they cost something like $5, brand new!

The more fun one, was the Coke boxes! My uncle had one of these in his store, and it used COLD water to keep the bottles cold. He had 6 oz bottles, and I think they were a whole dime! But I had to give the bottle back… sigh…

I’ll just throw one more in, cause I’m in THAT kind of mood… My family, both mother and dad, were adults during the depression. Neither had a high school education, but they had a work ethic that didn’t quit. We didn’t have a lot of money, especially after my dad died when I was nine. If I wanted something, I had to EARN the money to buy it. We didn’t go hungry, but it wasn’t steak every night (more like once a month). We grew our own vegetables, butchered our own chickens, and the extended family did a couple of hogs in the fall, and usually a cow a year, at the family reunions.

I would really prefer NOT to live though interesting times again, I did that in the Navy.

Kicking the soapbox back in the corner now.

Posted in TBT

Peter’s new book is out!!!

Posted on by August 22, 2017

Peter Grant, over at Bayou Renaissance Man, has his new book out! This one is titled King’s Champion, and was written based on the requests of his fans. It’s a medieval fantasy, and I’m happy to have been one of the alpha readers for it.

You can click on the cover to go directly to the Amazon page! Go, buy, enjoy!

The blurb-

After decades of peace, war is threatening the Kingdom of Avranche. Its old foes are stirring, in a new alliance with darker powers. Black wings bring death and torture in the night.

Owain, former King’s Champion, hears rumors of sorcery. Visiting the grave of his sword brother, he stumbles into a deadly raid, and uncovers coded orders for a larger plot.

The kingdom’s enemies know Owain is now their greatest danger. He must race against time to find and deal with them… before they deal with him!

Plenty of twists, turns, and action with well fleshed characters will make for an enjoyable couple of hours of reading!

And remember, we love honest reviews! 🙂

Well…

Posted on by August 22, 2017

That was interesting…

Not only are we going to put troops back into Afghanistan, but Pakistan has also been put on notice. President Trump is listening to the folks that do warfighting, rather than the media pundits, or being driven by polling on what he should do. What a novel concept! Yes, there is a strong possibility that more will be lost, but it is not fair to those who gave their lives, and good portions of their careers in that theater over the past sixteen years, that were NOT of his making. The bottom line is this will be pursuit of the goal of freedom from attack, by taking out the terrorists, not nation building… He is also going for a coalition among the partner countries, and thankfully he didn’t release ANY timelines or plans! OPSEC at least for now, but how long before some s**thead leaks it??? Dammit…

In other, sad news, it appears USS McCain had a steering failure, and got T-boned before they could get aft steering manned. Ten are still missing, and if you look at the pictures of the damage, the bulbous bow of the tanker impacted berthing spaces yet again…

I can’t help but wonder if the years of maintenance cuts are coming home to roost… Maintenance avails can’t possibly ‘fix’ all the problems, especially in a forward deployed environment like Yokosuka. And shipyard avails are few and far between out there.

The straits themselves are literally the most congested waterway in the world. StrasseLink has a good overview, HERE. Down in the Phillips Channel area, it’s only 1.9nm wide, so you have very large ships in very close proximity…

And the entire straits passage.

This piracy brief has some good visuals on the sheer amount of ship traffic, and how congested it is, along with the piracy that, thankfully, is declining. Brief is HERE, granted it’s now 7 years old, but you get the general sense of the issue.

Update- As of this morning, a ‘number’ of bodies have been located by Navy divers, and one body is being transferred from the Malaysian search and rescue team. Thoughts and prayers for those families still awaiting word.

Latest Data…

Posted on by August 20, 2017

John Lott has put out the latest data on concealed carry gathered by the CPRC

John R. Lott Jr.

Crime Prevention Research Center

Date Written: July 18, 2017

Abstract

There are now over 16.3 million permit holders, a record 1.83 million increase in permits since last July. Nationwide, 6.5% adults have a concealed handgun permit. Outside of California and New York, 8 percent of adults have a permit. Permits for women and blacks are increasing much faster than they are for men and whites. There are also significant differences in not only the number of permits issued but also who gets them when politicians have discretion in granting them. Los Angeles County provides a vivid example of how women and Hispanics are given few permits when politicians decided who can defend themselves. We also provide evidence that death threats don’t let people get permits for protection and how incredibly law-abiding permit holders are and how crime rates have changed in the states that have had the largest increases in concealed handgun permits.

Full pdf, HERE.

Interesting data set, and some interesting reading, especially about LA and the lack of representation across the ethnic spectrum, and lack of permitting in cases where there were good causes for permits. That starts on page 18.

And I find this rather ‘interesting’… If there were ANY doubts about CNN’s leanings, this pretty much puts paid to that…

CNN news changed a headline Sunday of a story on the Antifa movement after members of the group complained, according to the agency’s own editorial note on the story.

Full article from the Daily Caller, HERE.