Double Standard

GOP senators blocked from bringing guns to hearing

In advance of the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday morning, two of the committee’s Republican members sent a complaint that they were refused permission to bring guns to the hearing.
Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas sent a letter Tuesday night to Chairman Patrick Leahy, Vermont Democrat, that the purpose of bringing the firearms was to educate fellow Senators and “shatter the mistaken belief that guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens are a danger to society.”
However, the Republicans said that “the requirements to secure the weapons at the hearing are so impractical as to be unworkable.” They asked that Mr. Leahy work with with local and federal law enforcement to ensure that at future hearings, “Senators can request, and law enforcement will provide, various firearms for display and discussion purposes.” A spokesman for the committee said Tuesday night that Mr. Leahy has not received the senators' letter.

Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/guns/2013/jan/29/miller-gop-senators-blocked-bringing-guns-hearing/#ixzz2JbT0rNdp
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Feinstein and Gregory can break the law all they want.

h/t - Say Uncle

Hey Irish! Meet Me There.

WTF!

h/t - boned jello

Want, Don't Need

Caption Contest Winner

 

The winner is - ASM826.

"If you like the scratching post, you'll really be impressed by the cat box"

h/t - Ninety Miles.

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Monday

Coyotes Take A Deer

Party In Ailse 15

Want, Don't Need

Angrymike, The Early Years

Musical Break

I was poking around at Gotta Get Drunk First earlier and saw that he has posted a Fishbone video. It brought back memories. I used to play the trombone so I've always liked bands with brass and this was one of them. The best part of this video is the very end.

So Wrong

Caption Contest

Another over at Wyatt's place.

The View From Above

Truth

Where Zen ends... ass kinkin' begins.

Taxes

Do you think about how much you pay in taxes every time your pay is deposited or you get a check? Me either... not every time anyway. 

The government started withholding taxes in 1943 and we are so used to it now it doesn't phase us. We are numb to it. Some even look at it as a savings account that they collect on next year. 

What if you had to write a check every month? Would you be more pissed than you are now? I think it would change the way we all look at government, rich/poor, left/right. Candidates would be more successful running on lowering taxes and spending. Liberals socialists would be a thing of the past.

I know it's a dream, but a flat tax you had to pay every month/quarter/year would make all of the difference.

Who's with me?

Stupid Bitch

This is so stupid!

Also, does she remind you of this other bitch?

Random

 

What Time Is It?

Rule 5

 

Caption Contest Winner

I had to give it to Rodney, He tried so damn hard. 

"With the escalator broken, the spacemen were stuck and the mission had to be scrubbed."

Stolen from Mark.

Hmm...

 

I have to try and sell this tomorrow. 

Father/Daughter Time

I took my daughter to the range today. She did pretty well. I think my Buckmark was her favorite. 

Stolen from Mike.

Not Spam

I had a reply last night to my 'Open Borders' post from what has to be the targeted blog's author. He posted anonymously, but you can tell it's him. Apparently Blogger thought it was spam and deleted it.

I didn't want it to disappear forever, never to be read by anyone but me so here it is, copied from my email.

Breaking my ankle at the Summitt was shamelessly gratuitous. The only purpose was to slow me down as I got older, ensuring I didn't continue hiking or being active.
And they knew they were going to parlay hospitalization into cardiac cmplications, effectively doing the same.
People don't believe me when I say the gods are monsters, saying it is specific to my life. We're all being set up for ugly, and Republican debt spending will lead to bankrupcy and the use of all these semi-automatic guns people are hoarding at these gun shows.
The gods are ordering all proceedings still. If one day this changes it hasn't yet. Their vested interest is still very high.
The gods chose the Eutruscans to destroy Planet Earth and imparted their value system because these were the values the Antients would inflict on us when the chips were on the table. Ironically they are the big gangsters in the sky.

The gods may share some values of the conservatives (mostly good, a little evil), with the exception of capitalism, warmongering and environmental degredation, but they also share in the economic degredation of the conservatives which will bring the United States to bankrupcy and anarchy. It initiated with Ronald Reagan taking the National Debt from $1T to $6T.
And me, the hundred billion dollar man, will have to meekly ask for a nice apartment (conservative timeshare dream).
As long as the gods have this vested interest of the Situation they are calling the shots. They order all proceedings to ensure they get what they want. This is not to say they will transistion when it is over, but I suspect this final absolution of culpability is necessary for them to completely wash their hands of Earth in preparation for the Apocalypse.

Something godly about dork, innocent and pure, unlike the status quo. Kinda like the Simspsons episode when Rod and Todd go back to Germany and become normal, because everyone in the USA are the freaks. This was a valuable clue.

I am more important than Jesus. Jesus is just some guy the gods used to fuck the poeple up.
Jesus is like Heath Ledger or perhaps SNL early '90s:::Used to promote homosexuality. Jesus entered this envionment with an evil mindset, and why the gods used him and his legacy in that capacity. Now people globally worship this false god, creating this dual system the Antients will use to create the perception of reward in an alternate reality envionment.
To every yin there is a yang:::Ascend into heaven as a child is good while "clone hosting" or Apocalypse leading to "1000 years with Jesus on Earth" is evil. Remember what I said::Only the TRUE believers in Jesus will have eternal life, placed on the next Planet Earth to re-experience thousands of years of the birth, life and death life cycle, suffering from overwork, 18 hour days, hunger and misery.

Better be careful about what you think and say because the gods may go off half-cocked again like they did at Sandy Hook. The Antients suck too hard to be god.

Update - Turns out it didn't get flagged as spam, he just replied to a different post. My bad...

Vintage Airpower

h/t - Miguel

Caption Contest

Another at Wyatt's.

Canada

For Miss K. I won't say where I got some of these.

 

Open Borders?

For some reason I enjoy reading blogs and comments from "the other side". I was poking around this blog about human rights tonight. This guy is more pretentious than anyone I've ever read on HuffPo. Take this post about open borders (common ownership of the earth). This is just a small piece.

Hence, if Americans for example are just lucky to have been born in the U.S. and didn’t do anything to deserve being born there, what right do they have closing their borders and allowing access only to a chosen few selected according to criteria that they have unilaterally decided and that mainly serve their own interests? None whatsoever. In claiming that right they make it impossible for others to do something about the misfortune of having been born in a poor country. Hence, they double other people’s disadvantage.

As Joseph Carens has put it, immigration restrictions are the modern equivalent of feudal privilege, inherited status, birthrights and class rule. In our current, so-called modern and Enlightened societies, the good luck of being born in a wealthy country supposedly gives you the right to exclude others, just as in the olden days the fact of having been born in the class of nobles or aristocrats gave you the right to condemn others to the class of paupers. The lottery of birth yields unfair advantages in both cases.

One may claim that none of this necessarily argues in favor of open borders. The fortunate of this earth could compensate for their good luck by other means. For example, they could have a duty, not to open their borders, but to transfer money and resources to those who have had the bad luck of being born in the wrong country.

 His blog description is pretty pompous too. 

This is Filip Spagnoli's blog, which is mainly about human rights - including political and economic human rights such as the right to participate in government (democracy being a subset of human rights) and the right not to suffer poverty - seen from different perspectives, such as philosophy, art, politics (hence "P.a.p."), economics, statistics, law, psychology etc.

See how much shit you can read over there. 

Low Information Voters?

Forgot the h/t - hookersandbooze

Truck

I bought a truck at the auction today. Runs like a top.

Reload

When your gun runs dry and you drop the empty mag and throw in a full one the consensus seems to be to rack the slide to get back in the fight. Here is an article that says that it's okay not to use the 'slingshot method', if it works for you use the slide release lever.

I'll let Sig Fiend explain it.http://www.dillodynamics.com/handgun-manipulation-methods/

My Flight

I was at my gate looking out of the window and saw what looked like secret service agents outside. Right before we boarded I saw Senator John Corning get out of a Tahoe and head for the plane. Of course I was the only one who knew who he was. I spotted him as I made my way up the aisle so I put my bag down and got his attention, "Senator Cornyn", then I shook his hand and said "Don't give an inch on the 2nd amendment fight." I hope it helps more than the email I sent him.

Still on the flight btw. 

I tried to post this pic from my phone earlier and it didn't work. 

Joke

 

I was standing in a bar in town yesterday and this little Chinese guy comes in, stands next to me and starts drinking a beer.

 

I said to him, "Do you know any of those martial arts things, like Kung-Fu, Karate or Ju-Jitsu?"

 

He says "No, why the fluck you ask me dat, is it coz I Chinee"?

 

"No", I say, "It's because you're drinking my beer you slanty-eyed little prick".

 

 

 

Caption Contest Winner

And the winner is - hiswiserangel

"We're preparing to land. Please return your slut to the upright and locked position."

Balance

I'm sure this guy is a nut-bag but these are pretty cool. 

Musical Interlude

Rule 5

 

 There are more.

My 69

This thing is rough! I have a lot of work to do and lately I haven't touched it. Maybe posting it here and talking about it will spur me into getting my ass out side and getting dirty. It's a 1969 Chevy SWB (which stands for short wheel base not short wide bed) stepside. The engine is a Pontiac 400. 

Stop It

I posted this a loong time ago but I think it needs to come to the light of day again. 

Airpower

Want, Don't Need

Caption Contest

I didn't have many entries last time... come on people!

Wyatt has one here too.

The Need for Semi-Automatic "Assault" Weapons

A short, well written article that should make sense to everyone.

Let’s go back in history for a moment. While everyday life in America compared to the rest of the world is pretty darn easy and relatively safe, the reality is things can change overnight, regardless of whether you live in a decent neighborhood. Take for example the Los Angeles riots in 1992, when business owners were forced to defend their property from angry mobs causing severe chaos: $1 billion in property damage, 50 dead, 4,000 injured, 3,000 fires set and 1,100 buildings damaged. In this case, a handheld pistol was in no way sufficient, but semi-automatic rifles were.

Business owners in LA’s Koreatown knew what was coming their way, so they armed themselves with shotguns and semi-automatic rifles in order to defend their property. They stood on their rooftops as they watched black smoke pour down the street. The cops weren't there to help them.

“One of our security guards was killed,” Kee Whan Ha told NPR in April 2012, 20 years after the riots took place. "I didn't see any police patrol car whatsoever. It's a wide open area. It was like the Wild West in the old days, there was nothing there, we were the only ones left."
Business owner Richard Rhee felt the same way and told the Los Angeles Times, "Burn this down after 33 years?... They don't know how hard I've worked. This is my market and I'm going to protect it."

“Assault weapons” saved Koreatown and it’s fair to say the people holding them saved the lives of many that day.

Read the rest here.

For hiswiserangel

The Lonely Libertarian

Blame

h/t - Theo

Children's Book

In response to Mike.

Got this for a friend last year.

Pelosi Unveils Dems New Term For Gun Control: “Gun Violence Prevention”…

A kinder Gentler gun control to be sure. I watched this video yesterday, talk about nailing it. 

Weasel Zippers has the Pelosi story.

Random

Caption Contest Winner

And the winner is - Craig M.

"I don't why but to Danny's friends he was considered a chicken shit."

Gun Control in America – Reality Check

I completely understand how all of the media can get a person feeling really down, feeling under attack, and just generally feeling miserable with all these attacks on our freedom. Let articles like this serve as encouragement to you to keep your head up! THEY don’t have this game won by a long shot, that’s for damn sure. If you need some proof, go check those bare shelves of your local gun store and think of all your neighbors that helped empty them, all the MILLIONS of fellow Americans that are standing right next to you through all this. Look at how drastically the civilian populace has drained the distribution chain in record time of all weapons, ammo, and accessories that could prove effective in defending against a tyrannical government. You have prices for various items and ammo increasing by 300% or more in many cases there is such a massive demand.
At first, it sucks, because you feel less prepared and feel that you need “more”, that you don’t have enough, and that they’ll take it away before you can afford to buy anything else. Guess what? Things aren’t that bad, and I have some recommendations for you that should help simplify this a bit and relieve some of that mental anguish over this whole ordeal. If you really think about it though, it’s just proof positive that at the first signs of a remotely serious threat to our most important civil rights, America as a whole is more than prepared to arm up and let the anti-gun minority know we’re not handing them in.

 There are some good tips in this article. Read it here.

Want, Don't Need

Just the glasses.

If They Come for Your Guns

If my government comes to take my guns, they are violating one of my constitutional rights that is covered by the 2nd amendment.

It is not my right, at that point, but my responsibility to respond in the name of liberty. What I am telling you is something that many are trying to soft sell, and many others have tried to avoid putting into print, but I am going to say it. The time for speaking in code is over.

You have to read this. 

 http://dcclothesline.wordpress.com/2013/01/03/if-they-come-for-your-guns-do-you-have-a-responsibility-to-fight/

Quote

“I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

If you're into that....

Airpower Oops

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