The PC police strike again…

It appears Phil Robertson has been kicked to the curb by A&E…

“Duck Dynasty” dad Phil Robertson has been placed on indefinite suspension by the A&E Network following his recent comments on homosexuality, the network announced Wednesday night.

“We are extremely disappointed to have read Phil Robertson’s comments in GQ, which are based on his own personal beliefs and are not reflected in the series Duck Dynasty,” the network said in a statement.

Read the article HERE on Fox.com

You can go HERE and read what Phil said in the article…

Sooo… He didn’t toe the PC line, and A&E was already upset about their open Christianity, didn’t like the fact that they openly prayed, etc…

He said what he believes, and since he happens to back it up with the Bible, they’re kicking him to the curb. I will note too, that Phil has a live and let live philosophy…

I wouldn’t be surprised to see the rest of the family walk in support of Phil…

Another point, they don’t really NEED A&E, they already had a thriving business, just landed a huge contract with WalMart, and I’m pretty sure the family as a whole would much rather have their privacy back…

Hell, they’re just good ol’ boys (and girls), and I have to applaud Phil for telling the truth as he believes it, rather than mealymouthing to ‘protect’ the show…

Your thoughts???

WTFO???

On the way home last night, heard a radio interview with what I can ONLY classify as a Healthnazi TM…

She was prattling on about the need to NOT eat holiday foods and how to minimize weight gain. Among other things, eat a salad before you go to the Christmas party, drink only water or juice, no desserts PERIOD (five minute digression on how bad dessert is for you).

She went on to say if you are ‘lucky’ enough to be providing the Christmas ‘feast’, you should make it meatless and dessertless. Serve ONLY, ONLY heart and body healthy greens, nuts and fruits, and no eggnog (and she actually said “Oh gag.” when talking about eggnog).

And only serve water or fresh juices in moderation…

The announcer/interviewer finally got a word in edgewise and asked, “What about the family that expects a traditional meal?”

Her answer was basically you should tell them you ‘care’ about their health and this is ‘good’ for them…

She then went into what I can only describe as a diatribe against traditional meals, and how if you ‘must’ visit relatives, drink lots of water, get the minimum of greens and ignore everything else…

O.M.G… They are out there, and they really believe this stuff…

OH yeah, and she was also on a roll about exercise, three times a week minimum, one-two hours per day to ‘rid’ the body of all those ‘poisons’ you ate over the holiday…

Me? Hell, I’m going to eat, drink and be merry! If I put a pound or three on, who frikkin cares…

Sigh…

Edit- Sorry, apparently comments got turned off somehow… Now fixed.

I’m late…

To the game, and honestly thought twice about putting this one up…

Others have put up posts on their shottys. like Brigid, Keads and Murph.

I’ve only got two shottys up here, and they are a Mossberg 590A1 and a Citori.

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The Mossy (yeah, yeah, it ain’t an 870…) was set up about five years ago for three gun and home defense.  It has an original Surefire forend and yes, the bayonet lug has been filed off.  It also has an early Speedfeed buttstock.  They Citori is probably one of my ‘less’ prudent purchases, as those that know me know I absolutely SUCK at wing shooting…

But it was too good a price to pass up… sigh…

This sight picture works well for me at three gun, as I have an extremely BAD habit with rifle sights of actually trying to aim, and press the trigger… (And I really DON’T want to break those habits)…DSC00521

Although it’s not readily apparent in this picture, there is a considerable difference in the ‘pitch’ of the buttstocks and throw of the guns.  The Citori tends to more naturally point ‘up’ as a bird gun should.  The Speedfeed tends to point ‘level’ to slightly down, more of a tactical presentation in addition to allowing a similar ‘feel’ to an AR platform.  DSC00523

Why a Mossy?  Well, that is the shotgun that I have the most familiarity with, thanks to the military.  Also for me it’s ALL about muscle memory, and the safety on the Mossy falls more naturally to hand than the 870 safety does.  At oh-dark-30 the last thing I want to have to think about is whereinthehellisthesafety???

My standard loadout is Estate 00 Buck and Estate slugs for both home defense and 3 gun.  Why?  Because the Estate patterned at 4 inches, the best of the available buck out there. I learned early on in 3 gun NOT to try to game the system and shoot reduced recoil birdshot at the steels (unlike Terrible Tommy, who probably is STILL trying to play that game).  I also know the ‘safe’ backstops for home defense and where those rounds will not over penetrate.

That Mossy WILL punish you after a long day of 3 gun, especially when you’re going between buck and slugs, but it’s proven to be extremely reliable, and while it’s not the fastest gun on the line, I’m comfortable with it…

And if you want a good laugh at me, get me on a trap or skeet range… And watch me miss most of the #$%& birds because I’m trying to aim and press the trigger…

Sigh…

Book Review- Gunny’s Rules…

I was asked to provide a review of Gunny’s Rules- How to get squared away like a Marine.

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So…  I sat down and read it in one sitting… 🙂

I have met R. Lee Ermey, AKA Gunny, a couple of times; and I’m amazed by his ability to ALWAYS be ‘on’ when he is meeting the public.  Now having said that, he IS a Marine…

In other words he does use words that your momma would have boxed your ears for…

He defines the image of what we think a Marine Drill Instructor is, and I can tell you from experience at AOCS, he’s dead on…

He’s also rather obviously PRO-military and more specifically pro-Marine (after all he credits with the USMC with turning his life around).  The book combines part autobiography and part motivation into an interesting set of ‘rules’.  The bottom line is to help people in getting control of their lives and getting things “squared away”. The stories Gunny tells about his life, if you read between the lines there isn’t any sugarcoating, illustrate the principles he is trying to drive home.  He wasn’t a choir boy, has NEVER been one, he might have owned a choir or two…

He’s always taken care of self, family and most of all his troops.

Early in the book there is this quote- “For me, getting and holding a job has always been goal one in civilian life.  No matter what job I was holding, I was always looking for a better one… I’m a proud man, not a dependent.  I will still be providing fro my family long after I’m dead and gone.  Unemployment checks, welfare and food stamps won’t cut it, in my view.”  

He’s been up and down in his life, but the key point is he NEVER gave up, and that is what his rules do-  Get you squared away in life and motivated to keep moving forward, never giving up by preparing, going that extra mile, and reacting to ‘malfunctions’ in life…

To me the keys the Gunny brings to this are his honesty, bluntness, confidence and ability to get the point across.  None of what he says is really new, but the WAY it’s said and pointed directly at the reader through excellent examples is well worth it!

I don’t think those on the left will like the book, because it’s NOT politically correct; it talks openly about winning and losing, and how to be a winner.

Highly recommended, and just deepens my respect for the Gunny!

Yes, I was provided a copy of the book for review, but I will be paying for it, and giving it to my grandson for Christmas.  So there…

Contrary numbers…

While out and about today I heard the statistic on the radio that only 35% of homes now own guns and that 68% of Americans ‘favor’ gun control…  Needless to say, I felt this was a ‘tad’ slanted…  And since I have no idea who the commentor was, I don’t know the background but I can guess…

I did find this list from Business Insider, and it’s pretty interesting HERE.

It takes a bit to load and get through the blather, but it’s a fairly interesting set of polls.

Now I’ll be the first one to admit I don’t tend to believe polls, because they are notorious for giving the ‘desired’ answers based on the way questions are asked, and to whom…

But it’s better than putting up a blank white space, cause I’ve got zip, nada right now…

Apparently I got 22K hits yesterday from stumbleon.com over the bad puns…  That’s pretty sad when PUNS get the most hits I’ve ever seen… 😀

 

Thank you…

To Morill Worcester and Wreaths Across American…

Our mission, Remember, Honor, Teach, is carried out in part by coordinating wreath laying ceremonies a specified Saturday in December at Arlington, as well as veterans’ cemeteries and other locations in all 50 states and beyond. We also organize a week of events including international veteran’s tributes, ceremonies at State Houses and a week-long “Veteran’s Parade” between Maine and Virginia where we stop along the way to spread our message about the importance of remembering our fallen heroes, honoring those who serve, and teaching our children about the sacrifices made by veterans and their families to preserve our freedoms.

This week of events is made possible by thousands of volunteers who organize local ceremonies, raise funds to sponsor wreaths, and participate in the events.  The cost of our programs is paid by individual wreaths sponsors, corporate donors and volunteer truckers.

It was a grey day at Arlington this morning, but thankfully the weather held off…

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This was from where I was parked- A shot of the back side of the Air Force Memorial.

Somewhere over 120,000 wreaths were placed today at Arlington in memory of those who lie there.

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Apparently donations were down significantly this year, but in this economy/uncertainty it’s understandable… Please if you can, donate something next year.

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God Bless everyone who came out today, not only at Arlington, but all over the country…

Worth reading…

Emily Miller has a good editoral up at the Washington Times today…

Saturday marks the first anniversary of one of the saddest days in American history. A homicidal maniac, xxxxxxxxxx, shot his way into Sandy Hook Elementary School and killed 20 young children and six teachers.

While the families of the victims and the Newtown, Conn., community have asked the media to stay away during the memorial, gun-control activists are shamelessly using Dec. 14 to push their own agenda.

Read the whole thing HERE.

As I’m sure others have and will allude to, the lefties/gun banners CONTINUE to dance in the blood of the children killed at Sandy Hook, Va. Tech, Aurora, Columbine, etc.  NONE of them want to address the real issues, which are mental health and reporting that properly to allow these people to be blocked via NICS.

Thank you to Ms. Miller for putting this in perspective…

My heart goes out to those families, I know they will never completely heal.  But at the same time I’m angry at those who would use their grief for their own ends… The families deserve the private time to grieve and try to gather up their lives…

Hehehe…

Gunny strikes again!

Bottom line, regardless of WHAT you carry, carry it everyday…

It just might save your life!

At it appears my post yesterday set off you know who… 335 by this morning…  Total last WEEK was only 92…

Coinkidink???

Any one of  these ‘coincidences’ when taken singularly appear to not mean much, but when  taken as a whole, a computer would blow a main circuit if you asked it to  calculate the odds that they have occurred by chance alone. Sit back, get a  favorite beverage, and then read and ponder  the Obama-related  ‘coincidences’ …  then super-impose the bigger picture of most recent  events i.e. Fast and furious, Benghazi, the IRS scandal and the  NSA revelations … then pray for our  country.

Obama
just  happened to know 60s far-left radical revolutionary William Ayers, whose father
just  happened to be Thomas Ayers, who
just  happened to be a close friend of Obama’s communist mentor Frank Marshall Davis, who
just  happened to work at the communist-sympathizing Chicago Defender with Vernon Jarrett, who
just  happened to later become the father-in-law of Iranian-born leftist Valerie Jarrett, who Obama
just  happened to choose as his closest White House advisor, and who
just  happened to have been CEO of Habitat Company, which
just  happened to manage public housing in Chicago, which
just  happened to get millions of dollars from the Illinois state legislature, and which
just  happened not to properly maintain the housing—which eventually
just  happened to require demolition.

Valerie Jarrett also
just happened to work for the city of Chicago, and
just  happened to hire Michelle LaVaughan Robinson (later Mrs.Obama), who
just  happened to have worked at the Sidley Austin law firm, where former fugitive from the FBI Bernardine Dohrn also just happened to work, and where Barack Obama
just happened to get a summer job.

Bernardine Dohrn
just  happened to be married to William Ayers, with whom she
just  happened to have hidden from the FBI at a San Francisco marina, along with Donald Warden, who
just  happened to change his name to Khalid al-Mansour, and Warden/al-Mansour
just  happened to be a mentor of Black Panther Party founders Huey Newton and Bobby Seale and a close associate of Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, and al-Mansour
just  happened to be financial adviser to a Saudi Prince, who
just  happened to donate cash to Harvard, for which Obama
just  happened to get a critical letter of recommendation from Percy Sutton, who just happened to have been the attorney for Malcolm X, who
just  happened to know Kenyan politician Tom Mboya, who
just  happened to be a close friend of Barack Hussein Obama, Sr., who
just  happened to meet Malcolm X when he traveled to Kenya.

Obama, Sr.
just  happened to have his education at the University of Hawaii paid for by the Laubach Literacy Institute, which
just  happened to have been supported by Elizabeth Mooney Kirk, who
just  happened to be a friend of Malcolm X, who
just  happened to have been associated with the Nation of Islam, which was later headed by Louis Farrakhan, who
just  happens to live very close to Obama’s Chicago mansion, which also
just happens to be located very close to the residence of William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, who
just  happens to have been occasional baby-sitters for Malia and Natasha Obama, whose parents
just  happened to have no concern exposing their daughters to bomb-making communists.

After  attending Occidental College and Columbia University, where he
just  happened to have foreign Muslim roommates, Obama moved to Chicago to work for the Industrial Areas Foundation, an organization that
just  happened to have been founded by Marxist and radical agitator Saul “the Red” Alinsky, author of Rules for Radicals, who
just  happened to be the topic of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s thesis at Wellesley College, and  Obama’s $25,000 salary at IAF
just  happened to be funded by a grant from the Woods Fund, which was founded by the Woods family, whose Sahara Coal company
just  happened to provide coal to Commonwealth Edison, whose CEO just happened to be Thomas Ayers,  whose son William Ayers
just  happened to serve on  the board of the Woods Fund, along with Obama.

Obama also worked on voter registration drives in Chicago in the 1980s and
just  happened to work with leftist political groups like the Democratic Socialists of America  (DSA) and Socialist International (SI), through which Obama met Carl Davidson, who
just  happened to travel to Cuba during the Vietnam War to sabotage the U.S. war effort, and who
just  happened to be a former member of the SDS and a member of the Committees of  Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism, which
just  happened to sponsor a 2002 anti-war rally at which Obama spoke, and which
just  happened to have been organized by Marilyn Katz, a former SDS activist and later public relations consultant who
just  happened to be a long-time friend of Obama’s political hatchet man, David Axelrod.

Obama joined Trinity United Church of Christ (TUCC), whose pastor was Reverend Jeremiah Wright, a fiery orator who  just happened to preach Marxism and Black Liberation Theology and who delivered anti-white,  anti-Jew, and anti-American sermons, which Obama
just  happened never to hear  because he
just  happened to miss church only on the days when Wright was at his “most enthusiastic,” and Obama
just  happened never to notice that Oprah Winfrey left the church because it was too radical, and
just  happened never to notice that the church gave the vile anti-Semitic Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan a lifetime achievement award.

Although no one had ever heard of him at the time, Obama
just happened to receive an impossible-to-believe $125,000 advance to write a book about race relations,  which he
just  happened to fail to write while using the cash to vacation in Bali with his wife Michelle, and despite his record of non-writing he just happened to receive a  second advance, for $40,000, from another publisher, and he eventually completed a manuscript called Dreams From My Father, which
just  happened to strongly reflect the writing style of William Ayers, who
just  happened to trample on an American flag for the cover photograph of the popular Chicago magazine,  which Obama
just  happened never to see even though it appeared on newsstands throughout the city.

Obama was  hired by the law firm Miner, Banhill and Galland, which
just  happened to specialize in negotiating state government contracts to develop low-income housing, and which
just  happened to deal with now-imprisoned Tony Rezko and his firm Rezar, and with slumlord Valerie Jarrett, and the law firm’s Judson Miner
just  happened to have been a classmate of Bernardine Dohrn, wife of William Ayers.
In 1994 Obama represented ACORN and another plaintiff in a lawsuit against Citibank for denying mortgages to  blacks (Buycks-Roberson v. Citibank Federal Savings Bank), and the lawsuit
just  happened to result in banks being blackmailed into approving sub prime loans for poor credit risks,  a trend which
just  happened to spread nationwide, and which
just  happened to lead to the collapse of the housing bubble, which
just  happened to help Obama defeat John McCain in the 2008 presidential election.

In 1996 Obama ran for the Illinois State Senate and joined the “New Party,” which
just  happened to promote Marxism, and Obama was supported by Dr. Quentin Yong, a socialist who
just  happened to support a government takeover of the health care system.

In late 1999 Obama  purportedly engaged in homosexual activities and cocaine-snorting in the back of a limousine with a man named Larry Sinclair, who claims he was contacted in late 2007 by Donald Young, who
just  happened to be the gay choir director of Obama’s Chicago church and who shared information with Sinclair about Obama, and Young
just  happened to be murdered on December 23, 2007, just weeks after Larry Bland, another gay member of  the church just  happened to be  murdered, and both murders
just  happened to have never been solved.  In 2008 Sinclair held a press conference to discuss his claims, and
just  happened to be arrested immediately after the event, based on a warrant issued by Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden, who
just  happens to be the son of Joe Biden.

In 2003 Obama and his wife attended a dinner in honor of Rashid Khalidi, who
just  happened to be a former PLO operative, harsh critic of Israel, and advocate of Palestinian rights,  and who Obama claims he does not know, even though the Obamas just  happened to have dined more than once at the home of Khalidi and his wife, Mona, and  just  happened to have used them as occasional baby-sitters.  Obama reportedly praised Khalidi at the decidedly anti-Semitic event, which William Ayers
just  happened to also attend, and the event Obama pretends he never attended was sponsored by the Arab American Action Network, to which Obama
just  happened to have funneled cash while serving on the board of the Woods Fund with William Ayers, and one speaker at the dinner remarked that if Palestinians cannot  secure a return of their land, Israel “will never see a day of peace,” and entertainment at the dinner included a Muslim children’s dance whose performances
just  happened to include simulated beheadings with fake swords, and stomping on American, Israeli, and British flags, and Obama allegedly told the audience that “Israel has no  God-given right to occupy Palestine” and there has been “genocide against  the Palestinian people by (the) Israelis,” and the Los Angeles Times has a videotape of the event but just  happens to refuse to make it public.

In the 2004 Illinois Democrat primary race for the  U.S. Senate, front-runner Blair Hull just  happened to be forced out of the race after David Axelrod just happened to manage to get Hull’s sealed divorce records unsealed, which just happened to enable Obama to win the primary, so he could face popular Republican Jack Ryan, whose sealed child custody records from his divorce just  happened to become unsealed, forcing Ryan to withdraw from the race, which just  happened to enable the unqualified Obama to waltz into the U.S. Senate, where, after a mere 143  days of work, he just  happened to decide he was qualified to run for President of the United  States.

h/t JP

‘Another’ unenforceable law…

Philthydelphia strikes again…

They have apparently passed a law saying it is illegal to use a 3-D printer for a ‘gun’…

While it is now illegal to use 3-D printers to manufacture firearms without proper licensing, some Penn professors question the significance of that legislation.

In September, Philadelphia became the first city to ban the use of 3-D printers to create part or all of a firearm by anyone other than a licensed gun manufacturer.

The legislation follows debate over 3-D printed guns, which stems from a public computer file released by the Texas company Defense Distributed in May, which could be used to create a firearm called “The Liberator” on a 3-D printer. This November, the manufacturing company Solid Concepts released a video revealing the creation of a metal pistol by a 3-D printer. In the video, the gun could hit a bulls-eye from nearly 100 feet away.

Full article HERE.

So… How are they planning to enforce this??? Cameras attached to each printer?  Monitor 24/7?  Do a file check of every print command sent to a 3-D printer???

I really don’t understand HOW they think this is really going to do anything…

Honest people will remain honest, and criminals won’t…

Sigh…