Back to being a leaning post and playtoy…

Posted on by March 6, 2013
Situation normal at the daughter’s house…

Damn dog is doing the usual things, pulled out all his ‘toys’ is dropping them in my lap, expects to have them thrown…

And I get up to wash off the slobber, and he decides to come over and ‘lean’ on me…


He’s leaning so hard he actually fell over… And I’m bracing to keep from being knocked over.

It’s gonna be a long week!

And he just slobbered all over the mouse… sigh…

Go Read

Posted on by March 6, 2013
Larry Corriea has a GREAT post up on the whole gun control argument HERE.  Larry has done a better job or articulating the points than just about anything I’ve seen!

Thanks Larry!

NRA response to Newtown…

Posted on by March 6, 2013
Just listened to the NRA presser, there was the obligatory little old lady making the usual screamed comments, blood on your hands, ban guns, etc…

The money quote as far as I’m concerned from Lapierre- “The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a GOOD guy with a gun.”

Among other points covered, the need for a national database for mental illness, lack of prosecution of criminals involved in gun crimes, Feds cutting school security programs, and an online game I didn’t even know existed (Kindergarten killers)…

NRA putting together a team of security experts led by Asa Hutchinson to provide a model security plan for schools.  To be modular, and fit all sizes of schools.  Multiple elements- armed security, local volunteers, low cost to state and federals since the Feds cut funding.  And the NRA will sponsor it… 

Um… Er…

Posted on by March 6, 2013
There is ‘something’ wrong with this forecast…


But then they ARE weatherguessers… 

And you gotta love the Marines…  An ‘honest’ license plate…


On the road to see the kids for Christmas, y’all stay safe if you’re travelling, and if you’re not, stay safe anyway!!!  

A Vet in Need…

Posted on by March 6, 2013
This always seems to happen around the holidays… dammit…

Mark over at Texas Fellowship has a bleg up about one of his friends who’s house burned down today.  His friend is a disabled Vietnam Vet.  The post is HERE.

If you can spare anything, it would be appreciated.  You can reach him at Greylocke at gmail dot com for information. 

Yes I do…

Posted on by March 6, 2013
Sigh… I some times ‘wonder’ about some of my ‘friends’…

I got asked if I had a Christmas tree!  Yeesh…

Actually I have TWO Christmas trees…


I moved it from the back of the safe to the table and I even dusted it this year… 🙂


And here’s my other ‘tree’… Since I can’t find gumdrops for my gumdrop tree…

Sigh…

So YES I DO HAVE A CHRISTMAS TREE!  So there…

You Can’t Fix Broken People With A Law…

Posted on by March 6, 2013
Kenn Blanchard says it well… 9 minutes well worth your time. 



Having had the pleasure of meeting and talking to Kenn, I can only agree with what he says…

h/t John

And HERE is a website, Just Facts and their gun control link.  VERY detailed and well documented across a spectrum of gun ownership, death rates, etc.

No guns in Australia???

Posted on by March 6, 2013
All the LWLs seem to be pushing the “Australian” model of gun control.  All sweetness and light, right???

Umm… Not so much… Uncle Jay is down there right now for work, and had THIS post yesterday…

When I was down there a few months ago, I was talking to an LEO at SYD airport, he told me they’d confiscated something like 17,000+ illegal guns in the last year.  And those are JUST the ones they caught…

Figure that is 10% of the total, so 170,000 illegal guns a year, Australia is roughly 1/10th the population of the US, so if they try a ban here, that would be roughly 1,700,000 illegal guns a year…  

Sigh… Here they go again…

Posted on by March 6, 2013
Again regulating, rather than legislating…

From WIRED, full article HERE.  


In a secret government agreement granted without approval or debate from lawmakers, the U.S. attorney general recently gave the National Counterterrorism Center sweeping new powers to store dossiers on U.S. citizens, even if they are not suspected of a crime, according to a news report.

Earlier this year, Attorney General Eric Holder granted the center the ability to copy entire government databases holding information on flight records, casino-employee lists, the names of Americans hosting foreign-exchange students and other data, and to store it for up to five years, even without suspicion that someone in the database has committed a crime, according to the Wall Street Journal, which broke the story.

Whereas previously the law prohibited the center from storing data compilations on U.S. citizens unless they were suspected of terrorist activity or were relevant to an ongoing terrorism investigation, the new powers give the center the ability to not only collect and store vast databases of information but also to trawl through and analyze it for suspicious patterns of behavior in order to uncover activity that could launch an investigation.

The changes granted by Holder would also allow databases containing information about U.S. citizens to be shared with foreign governments for their own analysis.
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The Obama administration’s new rules come after previous surveillance proposals were struck down during the Bush administration, following widespread condemnation.

In 2002, the Pentagon’s Total Information Awareness program proposed to scrutinize both government and private databases, but public outrage killed the program in essence, though not in spirit. Although Congress de-funded the program in 2003, the NSA continued to collect and sift through immense amounts of data about who Americans spoke with, where they traveled and how they spent their money.

The Federal Privacy Act prohibits government agencies from sharing data for any purpose other than the reason for which the data was initially collected, in order to prevent the creation of dossiers, but agencies can do an end-run around this restriction by posting a notice in the Federal Register, providing justification for the data request. Such notices are rarely seen or contested, however.

The ONLY thing transparent in this is OUR lives… sigh…

Bans…

Posted on by March 6, 2013
You really want to ban something???  Where are the calls to ban these things???  

Everyone of these ‘contributed’ to his actions…

Ban the computer maker, since they allowed him access to the internet

Ban the ISP, since that allowed him to play computer games, etc.

Ban every computer game he played, since they contributed to his state of mind

Ban every clothing maker that he wore,  including the underwear, since they allowed him to leave the house

Ban the shoe manufacturer since the shoes allowed him to leave the house

Ban the car maker, since they facilitated the shooter

Ban the mortgage company and the bank that gave the family the loans that allowed him a place to live and foment his actions

Ban every school that he attended since they didn’t teach him right from wrong

Ban every doctor that saw him, since they failed to treat him properly

I know I’m tilting at windmills here, but the crap in the media is just pissing me off… Dancing in the blood of the children who are the victims here is just plain WRONG…