Third world???

Posted on by May 15, 2013

Reading the WAPO online and ran across THIS…

One of the scariest parts…

The targeting of conservative groups started around March of 2010, according to the audit documents. But Lerner, a Democrat, “instructed that the criteria be immediately revised” after a briefing on the matter in late June of 2011The IRS adopted a more generic set of standards the next month, but it changed the criteria again in January 2012, deciding to look at “political action type organizations involved in limiting/expanding Government, educating on the Constitution and Bill of Rights, social economic reform movement,” according to the audit documents.

BOLD is mine…

In the article, there is a timeline. this wasnt done over a few months, it was a year or more. How many more times and reasons do we need to see that the true intent of the current administration and certain supporters is gradually beginning to rise to the top. Destruction of our American way of life, abolishment of the Constitution of the US, and rebuilding the Government to accommodate a Socialist style Government. Only the current concerned American citizens and conscientious politicians can put a screeching halt to the erosion that is taking place.

To tell you the truth, this is only a surprise to people who weren’t paying attention.

It’s only a matter of time until it gets buried by the progressive/sympathetic media. There was another article on Washington Post saying, “yes, it’s bad that the IRS was doing this, but they had what they thought was a good reason…”

This is no “mistake”, any more than it was a “mistake” for DHS and state/local law enforcement to be told to suspect people who talk about the “Constitution” of being domestic terrorists. These people know what they are doing… They just think that they can absorb the consequences of all of these actions through attrition. Just like we saw Hillary take the fall for Benghazi, someone else in the layers of government will admit responsibility for this one and step down, but this is just one of the times they got “caught”. All of the others went under our radar…

They drove tanks down the streets of Boston and barged into people’s houses looking for a couple of kids…why isn’t there more outrage about that??

The domestic news sounds more like something out of a third world dictatorship every day…

Here we go again…

Posted on by May 15, 2013

That whole the Russians are our ‘friends’ thingie…

Well, not so much…

Russia’s Mediterranean task force will comprise 5-6 warships and may be enlarged to include nuclear submarines, Navy Commander Adm. Viktor Chirkov said on Sunday.

“Overall, already from this year, we plan to have 5-6 warships and support vessels [in the Mediterranean Sea], which will be replaced on a rotating basis from each of the fleets – the Black Sea, Baltic, Northern and, in some cases, even the Pacific Fleet. Depending on the scope of assignments and their complexity, the number of warships in the task force may be increased,” Chirkov told RIA Novosti. 

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu earlier said a decision to deploy a permanent task force in the Mediterranean to defend Russia’s interests in the area had been made.

The Russian navy commander also said nuclear submarines could be deployed in the Mediterranean, if necessary.

Full article HERE.

Right now we have 1-2 ships and a couple of P-3’s as the TOTAL 6th Fleet force…

And the Brits will be no help, they’ve dumped all their aircraft ASW capability, ditto for the Dutch, and the Navy is ‘moving’ assets to the Pacific Fleet due to the issues out there… And we continue to reduce the numbers of ships, subs and acft in the inventory, along with significant loss of personnel…

I’m guessing the administration is probably going to cede control of the Med to the Russians, since a lot of the force is being moved to the Pacific to counter Chinese expansionist rhetoric… sigh…

A little ‘humor’…

Posted on by May 13, 2013

I know many of you (like me) are looking forward to football season.  Well, here’s a recap from last year to whet your appetite…

And I can’t help but wonder if this is coincidence!

Alabama beat Arkansas, and Arkansas fired the coach…

Alabama beat Tennessee, and Tennessee fired the coach…

Alabama beat Auburn, and Auburn fired the coach…

Then Alabama beat Notre Dame and the Pope retired…

Damn, I wish the White House had a team. If they did, I think their first game should be Alabama.  Just sayin…

Research, not emotions…

Posted on by May 13, 2013

The worst thing that can happen to an agenda on a roll is for real research to come out that contradicts the emotion of the agenda and shines the light of reality on the agenda…

That is what the latest Pew Report does for homicide rates-

SDT-2013-05-gun-crime-1-1 SDT-2013-05-gun-crime-1-2

Oopsie..

Now go ask the random person on the street if they know this…

Bet they don’t, because the MSM is NOT willing to cover this and upset the gun control agenda being spawned by the administration, Joe Biteme, and Bloomie…

Does this make you wonder about who’s side the media is on? “I” for one am confident they are NOT on our side.  And we all hear rumors about the ‘censorship’ coming to the Intarwebz… What if information gets treated like the Liberator files???

Will there still be a signal???

Good Ol’ boys…

Posted on by May 11, 2013

It appears some folks were/are less than happy with Duck Dynasty about both the use of guns on the show, and references to God during the show (like prayers at meals)…

Phil Robertson laid it on the line…

http://video.foxnews.com/v/2374382072001/duck-dynasty-star-defends-views/

Good for them, and it’s about damn time ‘somebody’ stood up to the whiners/complainers and was not willing to compromise their integrity…

Security, we hardly knew ye…

Posted on by May 11, 2013
Loose lips: Candid camera club alerts N. Korea of USS Nimitz’s arrival
It wasn’t a tapped phone, a hacked computer or a double agent that tipped off North Korea that the U.S. Navy’s biggest and baddest aircraft carrier was steaming toward the peninsula — it was a perfectly innocent bunch of shutterbugs.

When Pyongyang’s state-run media agency mentioned the ship’s itinerary in a news release, a day before it was first reported in the South Korean media, alarm bells went off, according to the South Korean newspaper The Hankyoreh. U.S. and South Korean military officials initially feared a phone tap, intelligence leak or hacked email account might be to blame, according to South Korean media reports.

“A U.S. naval aircraft carrier is coming on the 11th and leaving on the 13th, and you would just need to transport the US sailors.”

– Ad posted on photography website

But it turned out that on Saturday night, a Seoul-based camera association known as the “O” Club had told its members that an aircraft carrier would berth in Busan on May 11, and that people were needed to drive American sailors around, a South Korea Ministry of National Defense said.

“… looking for two Busanites who can drive and speak basic English,” read the message, posted on a photography website. “A U.S. naval aircraft carrier is coming on the 11th and leaving on the 13th, and you would just need to transport the U.S. sailors. Pay is 110,000 won ($101) a day. Two people wanted. Send a message if you’re interested.”

Another post offered suggestions on where to get good pictures of the massive ship. Someone in North Korea saw the ad and did some low-risk intelligence gathering.

Although neither post named the ship, officials believe North Korea were able to put together the details using other information already made public, including a post on the U.S. Navy’s website last week that said the nuclear-powered Nimitz had entered the jurisdiction of the 7th Fleet, a South Korean Ministry of Defense official said Wednesday.

The U.S. and South Korea are staging anti-submarine exercises this week, and the Nimitz will participate in another joint naval exercise next week. Although the exercises come as tensions are rising between North and South Korea, officials publicly sought to downplay the Nimitz’s appearance.

“We are not trying to deliver any message to North Korea with this exercise,” a spokesman for the South Korea Joint Chiefs of Staff said, referring to this week’s anti-submarine drills. “This exercise is for improving the U.S.-South Korean war-fighting power.”

North Korea has vowed immediate countermeasures if even one shell fired during the joint U.S.-South Korea exercises lands in North waters.

The U.S. and South Korea are trying to push “the present state of war to an actual war,” according to a statement posted on the North’s government-run Korean Central News Agency website.

So while this may have been pushed off the front pages at home, it’s STILL high tension in the Western Pacific, and there are also ‘sniffs’ of comments from China about whether or not Okinawa really belongs to the Japanese or to China…

Pushing, pushing, pushing…

h/t JP

Happy Mother’s Day…

Posted on by May 12, 2013

Oops, I was a day early on Mother’s Day (hey, it was May 12th out here, so give me a break). Lemme try this again…

Happy Mother’s Day to you mothers out there, thank you for being there and having us, raising us, kicking us out of the nest (some more than once), and supporting us through our lives.

But there ‘are’ a couple of minor things…

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Hey, I’m far enough outta range I’m safe… 🙂

Seriously, Happy Mother’s Day Ladies, and many more!!!

Thoughts on Blogs…

Posted on by May 11, 2013

Being an old fart, I think I come to blogs from a slightly different direction than some…

I didn’t grow up with electronic media, as a kid we had one B&W TV (that we didn’t get until I was six), it had three channels, only two of which actually came in well.

I grew up playing outside, with guns at a young age, and we were pretty much fearless.  We tromped through the woods on just about a daily basis, hunted squirrels, fished, played sports (football, baseball, basketball), and read…

We wrote real letters, and didn’t have a phone on our hip all day every day…

When we went on deployment, we suffered through 4-6 week turnaround on letters, and trusted our significant others and friends back home to take care of problems.

We didn’t jump on an airplane to go somewhere for the weekend, we planned for months to get a two week vacation and wrote letters and made the occasional phone call to coordinate our visits.  And we drove…  Sometimes 16-18 hours to get home or more…

I started in the computer world with BBS and Compuserve, 300 baud modems, text only…

And moved up to forums; guns, cars, technology…

And started seeing folks who’s opinions I valued on those forums…  Tam, Lawdog, Matt, Peter and others…

That is what led me finally to blogs.  I didn’t start a blog until May of 2007, six years ago this week.

I didn’t start it to get famous, or make money, or for any other reason than simply to kill time sitting in hotels on the road…

But it has lead to a whole new group of friends (and I don’t use that term loosely), a chance to meet folks across this country and around the world who share a passion for guns, a myriad of other interests, and an amazingly smart group of folks…

I still spend way too much time in hotels and on the road, and these blogs have literally kept me off the streets and out of the bars (well, MOST of the time).  And I find that the blogs offer a variety of ideas, thoughts, views, perspectives, introspection, humor and sadness that often make me think and force me review ‘my’ perspectives (usually for the better), and I’ve learned a TON from folks…

Sometimes, it’s the ‘little’ things…  Daddy Bear’s Thoughts on the day, Opus perspective from a female POV,   Julie and Pax view from an Aussie perspective, Brigid simply for her evocative writing (and our being able to reconnect after mumble years),  Jay G for his rants, Chris Muir and his fantastic Day by Day cartoon. Oleg for his photography and his perspective on America as seen from his Russian upbringing; LL, Duke, MSgtB, Murph, and the other LEO/mil/ex-mil bloggers for their varied perspectives and humor…

I could go on and on about those on my sidebar, but you get the idea.  And then there are the writers, Larry Correia, Marko, Michael Williamson, and now Peter…

I can remember reading Larry’s stuff on TFL, THR and other places, and being amazed he hadn’t been published… And now, well he done good!

And the other thing is the giving nature of ‘our’ little corner of the net… Not just the money, but the caring; the support (real and via comments and emails) to those in need, the willingness to reach out to others and give them that proverbial shoulder to cry on, bitch at, etc…

And a special thanks to Barron for the willingness to host this blog and help me through the transition to WordPress, without his generosity, I wouldn’t be doing this post today…

And the blog meets!  A chance to meet folks in real space, shoot nice toys, eat way too much good food, and the conversations!!! You’d need to be a two year old on a sugar high to keep up with the multiplicity of conversations and the depth/breadth of them!!!

And this is already way too long, but I really want to thank all three of my loyal readers for reading my random brain droppings over the past six years… I truly appreciate all of those who take the time to stop by, comment and occasionally poke me (and correct me when I screw it up)…