I mean,…. (name for a mexican landscaper)  H tapdancin’ Cheeerist.

The Indy 1500 had a line to get in about 400 people long. AT 11:15 AM/ (the Show opens at 8).

Crowded? Like a can of pickled Norwegian Herring. I actually skipped a row and came back later several times because they were SO crowded. Had I not driven 2 hours to get there, I’da left and gone back home…..(Plus I wanted to say “Hi” to Tam)

The show promoters must LOVE IT when Barry opens his pie hole…….figure at least 15,000 people (at $12.00 a pop) That is some real cash profit there. Might have been 20K or more. I am not that good at figuring those kind of crowds

No real deals to be had though. guns or ammo. (At least not by the time I got there) fewer private sales folks too, I noticed….so Barry has had some effect….maybe? ….I dunno.

All in all, a friend turned an old Colt government model into a new Mustang and a bit of cash, and I left with a decent pair of scissors……But that was it. I came to spend some money,,,,,,,but not spend it foolishly….so I left with nearly all that I brung.

Armslist it is then.

I will be at the Indy 1500 from about 1:30 am Local time…..until probably 4.

Hope the line isn’t too long.

If yer gonna be there, and want to meet up, drop me your cell number in an email (TheMiddleOfTheRight at theGMayl dot Kom

At least in Finland.

Apparently, the north African “refugees” (from Syria, of course) are (and have been) misbehaving in Finland as well as Sweden and Germany….

Enter the Sons of Odin. 

Vigilantes? Perhaps. Just a gang? Maybe.

Or it could be that people are pissed off enough that their government has allowed a bunch of unemployed young men from Northern Africa who are, at best, unsuited to be in a “civilized” western society…especially with no one to teach them how to behave in their new digs. (if they ever, in fact, even knew how to behave at all, anywhere)

I think that these patrols get more support than what the Finnish government might like you to believe. But they are a symptom of the failure of the Government and the Police to fix the problem unchecked immigration has caused.

How long til the pogroms begin in Germany…..they do, you know, have a history and all….

This is Now.

Read:

America used to know how to assimilate immigrants

What he leaves out is how easy it is today (and how hard it was then) to enter the country.

And the fact that the trip was, essentially, one way. Then, it was 2 weeks or more travel to get to the US (and roughly the same home) and cost about half a years wages. One left friends and family behind forever, for the most part. One had to commit to living in the “new World” for the rest of your life….

Today you can fly “home” anywhere in the world in less than 12 hours (maybe a bit more if you live in Australia) and easily return, at less than a months wages for most people.

And while thre may have been Irish Ghettos and “Little Italy” and places where only the Polacks or the Hunkies lived, they worked alongside other American…..and had to learn at least some english to communicate and survive….A common language that helped make them all one people. No one accommodated them, they accommodated their new world and new home.

The kids were mixed in together in school and learned English and by the second or third generation were truly amalgamated Americans, even if they held to the cultures of the old home country.

Accommodating our recent immigrants has prevented them from assimilating.

So I’m drivin’ the Dodge Diesel today (actually delivering some used Veggie oil to a guy who uses it to heat with)

Anyway, I stop to buy my usual lottery tickets at the local gas station, and, seeing as how the truck hadn’t warmed up yet (it was 3 above F this morning when I started it) I left it run while I went in.

Some woman came in and was grumbling about the asshole letting his diesel truck “spew fumes across the landscape”…. and “burning carbon and wasting energy”. (not that she was riding a bicycle or anything, mind you….

“But it isn’t diesel” I said.

“What?” she asked

“It’s whale oil. Humpback whales, actually… I buy it by the 55 gallon barrel. Burns cleaner and it is a renewable resource”.

Kinda fun watching her face kinda screw itself up.

I smiled and left.

***I hate EnviroNazis….Especially those who like to lecture on Carbon Footprint. I’ll go against nearly anyone when it comes to carbon emissions. Unless you live in a yurt I probably have a smaller carbon footprint than you. Most EnviroNazis really don’t live the lifestyle their stated belief would suggest.

Not actually whale oil. Can’t use it in the winter….gets too thick below 30 F.

Seems that things aren’t as we thought in Burns, Oreagon.

SO again NO ONE WON the big PowerBall prize.

leaving us with a projected prize of $1.3 Billion. (yes, with a B) (I bet it goes much higher than that, actually)…

Now I gotta buy tikets again.

Sure hope I win this time. The waiting is killing me…..

ETA: this will (should he be the lucky one and all that), at least make for a bigger Island for Murph….and more warriorettes…and bigger awarships and better warplanes.

Didja buy yer PowerBall Tikket?

current estimates put the prize at $800 MILLION.

so, lessee, lump sum payment, so $450 Million…

Taxes on that at what? 40%,,,, SO you go home with something like 270 MILLION dollarz, all taxes paid.

That really wouldn’t suck. I’m not sure I could spend it all …Even helping Family and Friends.

I mean, one can do only so much partying….

But it will be fun trying to spend it.

Here’s hopin’

But, in this case, it is true.

Show this to EVERY person you know. If you Facebook or whatever, post it there.

Make sure the truth get out there.

With your help, we can make the truth known.

“Can’t stop the signal”.

HT: Komrade Karl