Back in 2010, this was posted about cell phone/digital cameras and the metadata…
Based on what I heard out of BO today…
I think this is worth reposting and reminding folks that you CAN put way too much info out there inadvertently…
Stay safe folks!!!
I got an email from a very nice lady at Saddleback Leather down in Texas, wondering if I’d put up a link to a video they’d done…
Backstory from the nice lady-
No photographers were harmed in the making of this video… 🙂
That a video with guns and real people even made it to Sundance consideration just warms the cockles of my grouchy old heart…
Go take a look and comment please, let’s PROVE that the stereotypes about us are all wrong!!!
And Saddleback DOES make very nice stuff!!! I just wish I could afford it! 🙁
Looks like more problems for the USAF Missile folks-
Sixteen of the 34 officers cheated with answers they received by text message from another missile officer. The other 17 officers knew about the cheating and failed to report it to superiors, Welsh said.
“This is absolutely unacceptable behavior. I am profoundly disappointed,” James said.
James stressed that investigators did not believe that the cheating affected the security or reliability of the nation’s Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) fleet.
Now it’s a cheating scandal and OBTW, drugs too…
And these are the people LITERALLY with their hands on the button!
Read the article HERE.
In other news, Gen Dempsey CJCS (who drank the koolaid) is coming under fire on Benghazi…
Gee what a surprise… He’s been toeing the adminstration’s line since he took over…
The Senate Intelligence Committee singled out Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, of exhibiting poor leadership and insufficient planning in their report on the Sept. 2012 attacks on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi.
Read the article HERE.
Bereft of leadership when it’s most needed is a pretty damning statement when you’re talking about the leader of the military in the US…
AND it’s now official USS RONALD REAGAN CVN-76 will replace the GW as the forward deployed carrier in Japan.
Full article HERE.
The crew swap is going to be interesting, especially given the differences between the carriers… It’s one thing to crew swap a small boy, but when you crew swap a carrier; let’s just say ‘I’ am glad that one is NOT one I’m involved with or want anything to do with…
And CVW-5 will stay at Atsugi… Completing their 40th year of forward deployment in 2013…
Of course the Japanese published this last June… 🙂
And lastly, it appears House and Senate negotiators agreed to a 1 percent pay raise for military personnel, matching the administration’s request (1.8% was the recommended raise). And they included a “fix” to a controversial provision in the budget deal that decreases by 1 percent the cost-of-living adjustment for pensions for working-age military retirees. The omnibus exempts medically retired personnel and survivors from the cut, but appears to LEAVE the cut for ‘healthy’ retirees.
This one isn’t over yet… Not by a long shot…
In two weeks, nearly 22,000 Illinois residents have applied online for a permit to carry a gun, according to the State Police.
About 61,000 have selected an insurance plan through the state’s Obamacare website, according to numbers from the state.
In three months.
Read the whole thing HERE.
If that doesn’t tell ya something, I don’t know what does…
h/t Les
I guess the press are SLOW readers, they just got around to the parts in Robert Gates book were Gates hammers the congresscritters…
And it’s WELL deserved…
In particular Harry (spit) Reid…
“With all the major issues we had to deal with, my personal contacts with Senate Majority Leader Reid were often in response to his calls about Air Force objections to construction of a windmill farm in Nevada because of the impact on their radars,” Gates wrote. “He also once contacted me to urge that Defense invest in research on irritable bowel syndrome. With two ongoing wars and all our budget and other issues, I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.”
Read the whole article HERE on Foxnews.com
Personally, I think calling the congress incompetent is sugar coating it a bit, but that’s just me…
And in other news, this is a ‘goody’…
The first baby born in Nogales in the New Year was Demian Gallegos Rebiel, whose parents travelled all the way from Queretaro, Mexico.
Demian was born in Carondelet Holy Cross Hospital to Maritza Rebiel Barragan and Jesus Alberto Gallegos Canchola at 8:18 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 2. He weighed 7 pounds, 11 ounces and measured 19.5 inches.
Seems legit right? But the ‘rest of the story’ is that Queretaro, Mexico is 1000 miles from the border!!! They now have their anchor baby! Which means three more on the welfare roles in Nogales, AZ and two illegals that get to stay (the parents)…
From somebody who knows the drill-
That is so wrong, yet has been going on for years: They hire a cruz rojo ambulance to drive up to the inspection lanes at the Nogales (named after Dennis DeConcini) Port of Entry; apply for emergency admission to the USA, claiming exigent circumstances; the POE inspectors (CBP OFO) then admit them, as a “health & welfare” emergency, allowing them to travel to the local hospital (so much for nationalized medicine in Mexico — they have to drive right past Mexican medical facilities to get to the port of entry).
The ambulance drives up, and literally drops them off at the emergency room front doors of the Nogales Carondolet Holy Cross Hospital, whereupon they give birth to their new U.S. Citizen baby! What a country!
In Mexico, they [the hospital] would hold your baby ransom –literally– until you paid for medical expenses, even though Mexico has boasted a nationalized medical program for several decades. If you happen to be on vacation in Mexico and have to go to the hospital (or have a baby), then you are not released until you pay. They will happily provide a cruz rojo ambulance to take you to the bank to have the money wired from your U.S. bank; no kidding.
Such reciprocity! Besides, who really wants to be a Mexican citizen?
And one more, I’m at least ENDING on a positive…
The shooting happened just before 9 p.m. Saturday, when the gunman walked into the Mystic Gentleman’s Club at Southeast Stark Street and Southeast 99th Avenue and opened fire, said Sgt. Pete Simpson with Portland police.
The shooter hit three people, prompting a person in the bar to return fire, hitting and critically injuring the suspect.
/snip
The person who returned fire and hit the suspect was not arrested and was cooperating with police.
“Portland is a safe city; however, gun violence is pervasive. As we’ve seen elsewhere, it’s really easy for someone with a gun to hurt a lot of people,” said Sgt. Greg Stewart with the Portland Police Bureau.
Read the article HERE.
Sooo… Where’s the national coverage on this in the MSM???
/Crickets/
h/t to Les and JP
Got this one from PP, and it’s worth passing along…
Years ago I got in the habit of getting paper cups from the front desk, because they are usually sealed in plastic, so less chance of their being ‘pre-used’…
Also I never make coffee in the room, because I know that flight attendants have been known to ‘rinse’ their G-strings in the coffee pot…
Honestly I’m surprised this has come around again, there was a big hooraw over this probably 15 years ago.
Another option is to carry your OWN water bottle and use it exclusively…
Just sayin…
h/t PP
We had a reasonably good day, 50ish temps, so off to the range we went!
My buddy wanted to sight in rifles, so I took an EBR just for the helluvit…
HBAR one each…
We were working 100 yards and 200 yards…
Not ‘too’ bad at 100 yards…
But 200 yards SUCKED… No more coffee ahead of shooting if I’m trying to shoot those damn little 6″ shoot ‘n sees… Especially offhand (damn little targets)
Guess I won’t be challenging at Camp Perry with this lousy shooting… sigh…
BUT, on to bigger and better things!!!
First range outing with the Franken.22!
Joe done good with this one! The windage was a bit off, but I got it walked in okay. 30 rounds at 10 yards… One round outside the black on a six inch target and that one was a called flyer…
And the ‘new’ 1947 Colt Officer’s Target HB. 
Six rounds 1 1/2 inch at 10 yards with 158gr wadcutters… Woo Hoo! That sucker SHOOTS!!!
Oh yeah, we got all three of his sighted in, and as we were packing up, a guy shows up with an Olympic Anshutz 1913 and all the associated gear, he’d just gotten the rifle back from Anshutz and was having to go through all the resighting procedures… He’s a 3 position competitor and working toward the 2016 Olympics. And based on his FIRST target, we packed up… LOL
An older gent showed up at the same time, with an original 1903 MK-1 with the Peterson cut, and now in an original stock. It had a 1927 barrel, and looked damn good! We didn’t stick around to see him shoot it, but I’m sure it shot as well as it looked!
And no, I didn’t ask him the serial number range, nor talk to him about the heat treatment issues… I figured he knew what he had…
Been at the range today, now cleaning guns…
Sorry for the lack of commenting today. Range report tomorrow…
As soon as I thaw out!
WSF had a post up HERE about guns in vehicles that tripped the old hind brain…
So I borrowed the picture…
Back in the mid-60’s when I was in high school, this was the NORM in the ARKLATEX area… Usually the gun(s) in the rack reflected the hunting season…
And we drove those same vehicles to school, parked in the school parking lot, and most of the folks didn’t even bother locking their trucks! Folks with cars normally had the appropriate gun in the trunk…
And damn near everybody I knew had a pistol under the seat or in the glove box! And all of the boys and most of the girls had a knife in their pocket…
Most of us carried a variation of the old Sowbelly knife…
I also remember being pulled out of school, along with two friends, on the second day of hunting season in either 68 or 69 after the assistant principal found out we’d gotten deer. We took him to where we’d gotten a deer, since ‘he’ hadn’t gotten one yet (and we got the day off)!
Sadly, today we’d be arrested…
Well, the Senate bent us over, and we’re not even getting kissed…
Senate Democrats on Thursday blocked a Republican attempt to restore military pensions cut in last month’s budget deal, denying a vote that would save up to $20 billion by closing a loophole that allows tax refunds to go to illegal aliens.
Sen. Barbara Boxer (D., Calif.) called an effort by Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R., N.H.) to repeal the military retiree cuts “fiddling while Rome burns.”
Full article HERE from the Free Beacon…
h/t JP