That you can prep for:

Sometimes it is your fellow citizens that might make life difficult for a few days…

Ferinstance, say you live near Ferguson, MO… Like the nearby town of Berkeley…..

I guess that the authorities expect the some black folks in the area to riot if the decision of the Grand Jury goes the way it looks like it will.

If I were living in, or nearby to, a largely urban area, I think I might take heed. The cops I know expect sympathy riots to happen in larger urban areas. While they don’t think that too much will happen, there may be some who march (which is harmless), and others who use this as an excuse to loot riot (which is not harmless).

If you travel through, or work in such an area, I’d pay close attention, and leave work early if possible when things break. If you have a business in such an area, I’d think about having plans to secure it quickly, and either have stocked supplies so I could stay and protect, or a plan and several routes to leave soon after securing my building. Each

Have a plan to retrieve yer kids if they have to travel through an area to get home from school too.

Preparation is the key here. If and when, you’ll be glad you had a plan.

Pic found HERE

Because SWAT, that’s why. 

Not sure of all the details here, but the VIDEO (bottom of article if you haven’t seen it already) is pretty dramatic. (Warning: might be disturbing to some)

I mean, really, a 5 lb dog?  A danger? Or just because?

Now most of this could have been avoided by the dogs owner not being stupid, I will admit…But still.

And I want to know where I can buy one of those “Armor Piercing Crossbows”?

Methinks the dog was irritating the SWAT boys as they stacked up for the door rush….and since they had their guns handy,,,,,

So rumor has it that Barry is gonna just write an executive order that legalizes a whole bunch of illegal aliens immigrants. 

Now this, in my opinion, is illegal. HE DOESN’T GET TO WRITE LAWS. Laws are made, and voted on, our two Houses of Congress. He gets a veto on the laws presented to him, period.

At least that is what the Constitution says.

Barry ain’t a king, and our Congressmen and women and our Representatives need to remind him of that. They’ve let him get away with acting like one, but this has to stop. There needs to be a message sent, and, if need be, a court challenge to his executive orders should he choose to attempt to legalize a bunch of lawbreakers criminals border crossing illegal aliens who have broken our laws and care little for the country. Our representatives need to stop him this time.

If Barry can break the law and is not bound by  laws, and if he is not bound by the Constitution, the why should the rest of us be? Why should I acknowledge the legitimacy of his authority under the same document he flaunts? 

Tam has a really good point to ponder.

Why should I follow the law, when there appear to be no consequences for those who don’t?

When being an upright, honorable, model citizen means I get jacked for piddly little shit, when Mr. Violent Sumdood gets away with blatant misdeeds because the po-po just can’t be bothered…….

Why should I follow the law?

Fixed. Was something to do with the log tongs image.

Once I deleted that, things seem to work like they should.

For some reason, the below two posts are not clickable, nor are the comments

are other blogger blogs having this issue?

Enquiring minds and all that….

What is YOUR reaction time?

Find out here
(since blogger seems to be having issues, go to  http://www.humanbenchmark.com/tests/reactiontime  )

I averaged a bit under 240 ms….high of 304, low of 146.

Try it.

So SiteMeter FINALLY fixed whatever issue I (or they) had with my ability to sign in and view my hits and statistics.

Only took 2 1/2 weeks and 3 emails.

Not so sure I wanna pay for their service….

No explanation or notice, it just started working again.

Thanks very much to all of you.

Today, 39 years ago, the Edmund Fitzgerald was lost. Broken in two, she lays in 530 feet of water near the Canada US boundary near Whitefish bay in Lake Superior.

29 men died that day, Nov 10 1975.

Gordon Lightfoot made a large sum of money with his ballad, not much of which was facts. But were it not for his ballad, there’d be little remembrance of that loss.

29 men died, and that is the sad part.Their families remember though.