If the team name “Redskins” is so terribly offensive to “Native Americans” that we have to renege on trademark protection (which is bullshit)…..

Then is the Army going to rename all of the aircraft that they have that bear some sort of Indian like name?

Apache

Kiowa

Chinook

Blackhawk

I might have missed some, but I think that these are the ones in current use.

And are they going to go after Piper (Cheyenne, Seneca, Seminole,and Comanche, etc) Aircraft too ?

How about the Navy? They have many ships with Indian names, as do the Coast Guard.  

Where does this political correctness stop? 

“The man who smiles when things go to shit has figured out who he can blame.”

Of course, no one can seem to find any law that Cliven Bundy broke regarding the protests and the subsequent intimidation of the BLM (if they were actually BLM officers and not outside contractors in BLM uniforms) by the protestors.

“U.S. Bureau of Land Management officials say they agree with a Nevada sheriff’s position that rancher Cliven Bundy must be held accountable for his role in an April standoff between his supporters and the federal agency“

Really? What law did Mr. Bundy break?  Where is his responsibility? The land was either Interstate highways, State roads, or BLM land that Mr. Bundy leased for grazing and that the BLM had states was no longer his to do anything with. It wasn’t (according the BLM) his property to control.

How was Mr. Bundy ever, in any way, responsible for the thousands of people who supported him in his face off of the BLM? Yes, it was his fight that they rallied to, but I never saw any video, nor heard any stories, about him exhorting people to “point rifles at” nor shoot the Feds.

And I still have to ask why, if there was a true case against Mr. Bundy, he is not under arrest and his possessions confiscated by the Feds under a federal judges order (hint: there is no order because no judge will give the BLM one)

And if the Sheriff felt that the BLM was out of line, then WHY didn’t he exercise his powers as a county Sheriff and exclude them(the feds) from the area? The Sheriff has that right, but instead he chose not to be there at all.

And if the Feds had any case against Cliven Bundy or any of the protesters, they’d have made arrests already. Cliven Bundy may or may not owe the Feds any money. A judge has heard the case, and while he did allow the removal of cattle, he did not make any judgement against Mr. Bundy regarding his other assets. IF there was a case, Mr. Bundy would be under arrest and his personal property seized.

Hasn’t happened.

So this statement by the Feds and the Sheriff is just hot air.

A nebulous idea that I had and run with it.

We are, slowly, refining it.

YOU SHOULD READ his post, and contribute ideas and publicity. If you have a blog, link to his post. We really could make this happen. If enough people participated it’d make the Bundy thing look like a kids bithday party.

We could make this a movement. In fact, I suggested in a comment either here or there that we should find a way to make it a tax deductible donation (501c(3)?) so as to screw the government twice…once by putting up a fence and second by deducting the materials as a tax deduction….Likely we could also deduct fuel and food and lodging as well.

I can see it now…THOUSANDS of men and women arriving at the border with posthole diggers and trailerloads of fence materials, gloves and hats and boots, ready to work…working for a week or so, and then returning home. Daring the government to do something about it.

Leaving in their wake, a more secure border.

I am up for it…are you? I am sure that later this year I could find a week or so to improve our countries border security.

Because in California, the populace is, essentially disarmed.

Deploying highly armed riot police to break up a protest will work in Califronia, but in many other states, doing this to break up a legal protest, might result in a bad outcome for the authorities.

But when the arms are only with the State, then there is only tyranny, as there is no check upon the actions of the organs of the State.

So I go to the range Saturday, expecting that what with the holiday weekend it won’t be too busy….I had been suggesting to the range management that they assign someone during a work day to seal the posts holding up the roof in the sunshade on the outdoor range (no maintenance for something like 25 years, so it is needful). Since the last two work parties had been cancelled or were sparsely attended, I went on Saturday, purchased 5 gallons of Thompson’s water seal (hate the new formula, BTW) and took a few hours to do it myself…at least the uprights, which were very much in need of some love.

I’m about halfway done, spraying the posts with a sprayer and then working the sealer into the surface with a brush, when another member shows up. He isn’t planning to shoot on the range that I am working on, but feels that he has both the right and the time to give me advice.

Now, I am trying to be polite, but I am getting pissed off. For one, I don’t like people who don’t work at maintaining the range, period. I feel that if you are a member, you can find a few hours a year to do basic maintenance, much less help with improvements. Secondly, I don’t like people who stand there and watch a person work while criticizing their methods. If you want to help, feel free to show me how, but don’t tell me about it while I am working and you aren’t.

So, I sorta am tuning this asshole out while spraying and brushing, and finally I tell him that I have a spare brush if he wants to help. (the other option, which I would have preferred, is shooting him in the kneecap or foot with my carry gun, but even in a somewhat progressive, free thinking state like Indiana,  judges frown upon such behavior)

He doesn’t take the hint:

So I stop working, raise my hand (to interrupt the flow of unwelcome advice) and when he winds down, I say:

“You must be a liberal….I bet you voted for Barry”.

His eyes widen, and he begins to splutter denials.

“Then stop acting like a liberal. You show up here, uninvited, you give unwelcome advice, showing that you have never done the job, but merely read about it, you criticize those people who are actually doing something productive when you aren’t willing to get your own hands dirty., And you won’t stop interfering with the job.
Either start helping or shut the hell up and go away”

He actually decides to shut up and leave. Which is fine by me.

Still got work to do on the sealing, but hey, it is a start. 

Today, I am off to another, longer range, to sight in a new precision upper/scope combination for my AR.  Should be a 1 MOA or better combo…we will see.

Not just the 4th of July folks, but a day to celebrate the beginning of our nation. Independence day!

This is the birthday of our country…It has many problems, indeed, I have whined about most of them at one time or another.

Having said that, today is the day we celebrate (rightly or wrongly) the birthday of our nation. One that, while terribly imperfect, is still the best on this planet.

So while you are having your hot dogs and hamburgers and watching those pretty lights on the sky this evening, be thankful that you live in this country….be proud of what our forefathers  did to create the set of rules that made this country great. Thank whatever Deity you choose to that you live here rather than another country, under another set of rules.If you are an immigrant, be thankful that you got here, if a natural born citizen, be thankful for that.

Remember WHY we celebrate today…. It isn’t just another day off.

Read. 

Can you argue with him?

I still celebrate the birth of the greatest country ever known, even if she is a bit down right now.

God willing we can get rid of these liberals and RINO’s and restore this country to greatness.

If only ’cause there is nowhere else to go.

It occurs to me that this is what we get for having “tolerance”.

And letting the cancer of liberalism grow in this country…for that we can thank the Baby Boomers….those born post WWII.

For without them and their votes, we’d not have had any of this….it all started in the 60’s and grew in the 70’s. Barry may want to “fundamentally transform America” but the transformation began about 50 years ago….And has damaged our  country badly. Maybe even terminally.

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

If only we and our preceding generations had  lived up to the standards these men who wrote this document had.

If they had, we’d not be in the dilemma our country faces today.

How about you?