‘I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it,’

Attributed to Voltaire.

Similar thoughts  here:

“Here’s an unpopular opinion: Donald Sterling has the right as an American to be an old bigot in the security of his own home. He’s a victim.”

I agree. Why and how can ones opinion result in being forced to sell your property? I don’t necessarily think that one’s opinions should when expressed PUBLICLY, be without consequences, but this wasn’t something he proclaimed from on high, but rather something he said in private.

I think that there is a scheme afoot to force him to sell so that someone(s) high in the African American rights movement can purchase the Clippers. 

Now I don’t know if all of the allegations in the article are true…. (likely are, but I don’t have time to verify) but if they are then it is again one of those astroturf grassroots things that we see time after time from the left.

Moms Demand Action? Or instant movement?

Read it. All of it. Draw your own conclusions.

Via Feral Irishman

“Man behind the curtain” indeed.

“Cattle Free by ’93” was the motto of the environmentalists

And now, instead of  using the Desert Tortoise as the reason, it is the New Mexico Meadow Jumping Mouse as the excuse in New Mexico.  Luckily, the County Commissioners aren’t having any of that. Hopefully they will be willing to assert their lawful power and STOP this.

Will the Feds never stop?

As soon as you cut the Federal tax on gasoline.

White house opens the door for tolls on *ALL* interstate highways.

Instead of deciding to run more efficiently, to stop wasting money, to use new technology and materials rather than building roads in the same way that we have for a hundred years, We gotta (of course) raise new taxes!

And you know that once they get the tolls in place, they’ll begin moving tax money to to other programs….and then raise tolls gain.

Correct me if I am wrong, but weren’t the tolls on the toll roads supposed to pay for the bonds that were issued to pay for the construction cost of the roads…and isn’t the current gas tax (and diesel) supposed to pay for the upkeep? Weren’t the tolls supposed to STOP once the bonds were paid off?

Yeah, I know, I am idealistic and foolish to think that any government entity would actually choose to shut down a revenue stream, especially one that the citizens were used to paying.

I’m up past my elbows in crockigators right now….(At this point, I may never take a few days off ever again…it ain’t worth the trouble when I come back) and can barely find time to do anything, much less blog.

But it occurs to me that this last weekend, there were a great  number of visitors to the Circle City (and the NRA Convention)…tens of thousands of visitors, carrying firearms (the actual number of CCW folks? Who knows? ) all packed into a fairly small place…

Yet there were no reported shootings, no mass murders, no faceoffs in the aisles of the convention…No one slapped leather in the parking garages….The restaurant and bars and taverns didn’t have anyone jerk a smokewagon and let fly with hot lead….

Odd, that.

The Anti-Gun folks claimed that the prevalence of firearms would lead to all sorts of mayhem. And there were  fairly large number of carriers of firearms that weekend. More than on most nights, what with all the visitors. According to them, red blood should have run ankle deep in the streets of downtown Indianapolis…. Maybe deeper.

Yet it didn’t.

Wonder why not?

Cultural? Demographics?

One wonders.

That if Cliven Bundy were all that smart…

He’d just shut the hell up and let people think he is a dumb cattle farmer.

Instead, he keeps opening his mouth and helping the left to remove all doubt as to his intelligence.

I don’t think he is stupid, but why give your opponents ammunition?

One of the bloggers I met this weekend was relaxing a bit in the media room with his daughter, whom he had brought to enjoy the show with him.

He said “I’ll remember, when I am old, the time like this that we spent together”.

And I replied “but more importantly, SHE will remember” ….

Not like she’s gonna say “I remember all the times I didn’t spend with my dad ’cause he was too busy”. SHe’ll remember the times you spent together, not the times you spent apart.

BTW, You are doing a GREAT job with yer kid there.

WWII soldiers remains repatriated after explorers find dog tags.

So I got to not only meet the Great and Mighty Ambulance Driver , but was able to go to his class and (hopefully) learn something from him.

Now, being as he is, after all, and ambulance driver, he is somewhat blase’ about the whole blood guts and dismemberment thing. But he did keep the class entertained with stories and anecdotes along with his very competent and pointed instruction on what TO do what NOT TO do and what to look for.

I hadn’t taken a class for about 5 years, and was surprised about how much had changed….I remember about 25 years ago bringing a guy into the emergency room with an improvised  tourniquet on his leg because of persistent spurting from the wound that Direct Pressure just wasn’t gonna stop (I tried) and being lectured by a doctor that he was likely going to lose his leg because of the tourniquet.(Hey, Doc, I got him here ALIVE and not all bled out, what would you rather I had done? Let him bleed for 25 minutes??)…and here I got a tourniquet in class!?! and discovered that in today’s world of EMS, it is, if not the first choice, certainly not the last choice of first aid options.

We did the standard resuscitation with compression only CPR (had that class 4 years ago) and then we were presented with a trauma first aid kit…and taught HOW to use the items in the kit.

BTW, I’d like to thank the folks who donated materials and such to make this class possible…..Bound Tree Medical, who provided the kits at cost, and who will certainly get my business when I build another kit or 4….and a special thanks to Larry Weeks from Brownells, who basically gave Kelly anything he asked for for the class….Now, I am already a customer of Brownells, but their sponsorship and support has made me decide to make them my first choice for my shooting supplies rather than just one of many when I am buying…..

The class was fun, informative and entertaining. Yeah, some of the slides and videos were not pretty, but WE ARE TALKING ABOUT TRAUMA HERE. It ain’t cupcakes.

If you get a chance, next time you have one, to take an updated course, it ain’t a bad idea to refresh your training.

Remember, under stress we don’t rise to the occasion, we fall to the level of our training. Make sure that training isn’t 20 years old.

For each of my people to see, and hopefully learn from.

It says:

“Business goes where it is invited, and stays where it is cared for”.

Is it any wonder why Toyota is moving?

In Today’s world, information infrastructure and connectivity means that there is no real barrier to placing your headquarters anywhere you wish to.

You can run a business from nearly anywhere…

So why not choose a place that welcomes businesses and that keeps your cost low? Why NOT move away from a place where you are taxed and overregulated? Where you are made to feel unwelcomed and undervalued…

Why not take your approximately 5000 employees (and their spending) to a place where you feel welcomed and where you aren’t hindered at every turn?

Expect more of this soon. Especially from NY, NJ, Conn, Illinois, the rest of CA and, if they don’t wake up, Wisconsin….and other bluer states