3.1415…..just wait until 9:26:53. Only happen once in yer lifetime. Iffen I had time I’d raise a glass.

enjoy if you can.

‘m off to get some work done. 

Re: Green tip M855/SS109 ammo ban:

“Accordingly, ATF will not at this time seek to issue a final framework. After the close of the comment period, ATF will process the comments received, further evaluate the issues raised therein, and provide additional open and transparent process (for example, through additional proposals and opportunities for comment) before proceeding with any framework.”

At.This.Time.

Watch ’em. Carefully.

I called Para today, seeking parts for my LDA carry 3″ (sorta not quite a 1911). I needed a recoil spring…..

On hold for 15 minutes.

When the service agent answered, he listened to my issue, and then apologized.

No parts available. Seems that since the company was bought by Remington, they have zero parts inventory. (this is a guaranteed for life product. I expected it to be the life of the firearm, not the life of the company that produced it….) He did say that once things settle down, they expect to have parts available sometime this summer…maybe.

His alternate suggestion: Buy a recoil spring assembly for the equivalent Kimber 3″ pstol. Said it should work. Of course, that also means that I have to pay for it.

Y’know, quality control issues aside, I like the Para LDA products. But whoever is in  upper level management just can’t seem to make the company do things right.

Oh, well, I can only hope that once things settle with Remington that they will have parts and they will (as promised) honor the warranties.

So one of my staff showed up for work today looking like …well, like shit. Tired, bags under her eyes, dragging around, generally not herself.

“Are you sick?” I asked?

“Nope, Daylight savings time really gets me.”

“Really? It’s only an hour” I replied

“It’s not the hour loss, it’s the staying up ’til 2 AM to set the clocks forward that gets to me” she answered.

Yep, she’s blonde.

A revolution?

Fighting in the streets and drumhead courts-martial and such? Ropes and lampposts? Killing our country to save it? Or is it already dead?

‘Cause we no longer have a Republic. We are no longer a Democratic Republic. Your vote no longer counts. The rule of law is no longer what governs us, and is no longer what limits and controls those in power.

Benjamin Franklin was correct. “A Republic, if you can keep it”. We haven’t kept it…….our fathers and their fathers (and, perhaps, their fathers) allowed the rot to begin….. and the following generations allowed it to continue. I am not so sure that my generation and those that follow me can even stop it, much less reverse it.

Perhaps we need to chop it down and let a new tree grow from the stump.

Seems that Germany can’t meet it’s NATO commitments, should it become necessary:

The bulk of Germany’s air force is currently grounded. Only 42 of 109 Eurofighters are currently ready for service, while 38 of 89 Tornado fighters could take to the skies. Earlier in the week, problems with Sea Lynx helicopters currently serving in the EU’s anti-piracy mission off the Horn of Africa became public knowledge, months after the issue was first identified. As for Germany’s fleet of C-160 transport planes, just over half – 24 of 43 – are in service;

This is what happens when the State chooses to spend all of it’s money on social programs and none on defense. (Sorta like what is happening here is the US (warning: DNC PROPAGANDA ), only the Germans started a few years earlier).  Some call it the “Peace Dividend” except that that works only as long as there is peace…

The lessons of the (pre) Korean War fiasco, wherein military budget cuts had grown so huge that the Navy and Army were unable to do the job when Truman called on them to blockade North Korea and turn the tide of the invading NK army……UNABLE to do the job because of massive budget cuts years before.

Germany is seeing this today. as will other countries who have chosen to let their Military wither on the vine while spending that money on Social programs.  In about 3 more years, we in the US may find that our Military is reduced to a “Paper Tiger” force, unable to do the job we will call upon them to do because there is no money for training and equipment.

Paging Mr. George Orwell:

Is that she is allowed to vote.The fact than anyone would write such an article (and not as satire) should mean that she is automatically proscribed from voting.

Not saying that everything is wrong, but really, when your entire article can be boiled down to “men bad, Patriarchy, and women better”…. it is sad. Even sadder that this is published in the WSJ.

I’ll not get into the whole “women work from emotion rather than logic” argument, nor the fact that women’s motivations change as they grow older, from childbearing years to post menopause…..to the illogic they exhibit though their cycles, etc.

Instead I’ll just find it sad that a once prestigious publication like the Wall Street Journal would even publish such an article, for any reason.

Even “because Patriarchy”.

before the Las Vegas NACAR race, I gotta say that I am embarrassed for Michael Waltrip. Not only is he a failed has-been racer (but one still worthy of respect for his accomplishments) but he is now played as a complete fool by whoever is paying his salary. He is no longer respected by the racers and their support staff, but obviously no longer by NASCAR officials nor the producers. He voluntarily plays the Court Jester and the Fool.