No Free Ice Cream today.

Just not feeling it.

Go read the folks to the left, they are smarter and better writers anyway.

That is all.

Seems that the DHS is arming up their transport.  Big time upgrade to their toybox.

This will go along with their 1.6 billion cartridge purchase.

This is serious. folks. These aren’t easy to disable or deal with. Resistant to most small arms fire.

DHS *MUST* be planning on using their new toys on something….or someone.

You and me? Violent retirees demanding their Social Security checks?  Ethnic urban minorities who will become angry when their EBT cards fail to work? Angry government workers who riot when their retirement is redone?

WHO? Who are they planning on using these against?

ETA: Pissed found this first.

ETA2:
I figure that they will be able to be blinded by paint,  mired in mud , snared with cables. After which they are vulnerable to fire.

Just food for thought.

If and when.

Three times since the first of the year I have met a new person, and in conversation, when the question of what they do comes up the answer has been:

I work as an auto worker, or as a union steelworker, or a union electrician. Each time I have asked what job they do for the union, but that isn’t what they do. They are skilled trades, working for the corporations that pay their salary.

All three are paid by large corporations. Ford, in two instances, and Mittal in the other.

Yet they don’t identify as employees of the corporations that pay their salary. They identify as working for the UNION.

Strange.

Interesting mindset.

One I cannot fathom. 

“Thousands” of protesters at Albany. (closer to 10K

Kinda underreported by the National TV media….

Not like the “Occupy” protests.

Nearly the same amount of people though.

And Zero incidents with the gun law protesters. Unlike the Occupy folks.

But the media can’t report without bias.

Or at least some convention…

That left handed drill bits should be marked in an OBVIOUS way to prevent people from trying to use them in a “normal” rotation.

It was only when I attempted to sharpen it that I realized that the twist was reversed.

Which explained why the damned thing didn’t cut the first time.

Ground swallows man whole while family watches.…

Ground eats you. Earth swallows you whole while in bed.  Kinda freaky.

Wonder what sins he committed that caused the gods to take him?

Despite Barry’s prediction of a few days ago, I woke up and found that the world hadn’t ended, that essential government was (so far) still operating, that no one was starving, and that the United States was still here, still operating and still functioning.

Strange.

According to the news media, none of this was supposed to happen. Everything was going to come to a screeching shuddering smoking halt, and people were going to be tossed instantly into starvation and our country into chaos.

As it is, nearly no one (except the military) has noticed so far.

I am sure that the cuts will have consequences and that there will be repercussions down the road. However, the end didn’t happen.

What is going to happen though when all the  folks get their free Obamafones cut off?

Story HERE

That Barry’s talk today…that “press conference” was pathetic.

I almost felt sorry for him.

Almost.

But than again, this mess is of his own making. All the way around. The Sequester was his, the failure to negotiate was his, the refusal to cut spending was his, the insistence on additional taxes was his….

I guess I can’t help but smirk at his discomfiture.