Brigid has some bad news.

I received the call this morning informing me of the news. I could feel her pain even before she spoke.

It is a terrible responsibility which we accept when we allow a dog into our lives…and into our hearts.

To have to make choices…choices that, no matter how correct, how right, hurt nonetheless.

Stop by and tell her yer thinking of her.

I’ll miss him too.

What failed? The Citizens who are protected by the Constitution?
Or the Constitution that is supposed to protect the Citizens?

Ben Frankin was asked, as he stepped away from the Constitutional Convention in Independence Hall in 1787…

He was asked: “Well, Doctor, What have we? A Republic or a Monarchy?

He replied: “A Republic, if you can keep it”.

I believe that we have failed the Constitution and the work of the Founding Fathers.

We, as a nation, and We, as individual Citizens, have failed.

Read this…Watch the video…2 minutes (2:05)….. take the time to call your Senators/Congresscritters.

Calling the White House is likely a waste of time.

But take the time.

Someday, it might be us fighting for freedom. I hope that we have the balls that these Ukranians have.

While I doubt it’ll ever pass, Some folks in California want to break the state into 6 separate states. 

which means that Barry was almost right with his count of 57….

Now while this would benefit the northern states and Silicon Valley, (and may be Orange County) the rest of the State(s) would fail fairly quickly…economically.

Sure you can.

They are always honest.

They NEVER conspire together.

They never mistreat potential wrongdoers.

They NEVER falsify reports.

And police NEVER, EVER back each other up even when they know another officer is doing wrong or illegal or immoral things.

That would NEVER HAPPEN.

Me, I’d like to see officers be equipped with a shoulder or helmet mounted video camera that they cannot disable.

If they disable/”break” the camera, no charges can be filed. If they happen to have the camera “break” often, they should be dismissed.

No video, no prosecution.

I bet that a LOT of police officers find other occupations.

I be that the rest would be better behaved.

AND we’d have a lot better and more honest police force….Like we once had.

And “Policeman” would again be an honorable profession…instead of what it is today.

“Quotations found on the internet may not be wholly accurate”


Abraham Lincoln

First smart pistol on the store shelves in California.

I doubt many will sell.

“St. Louis Today reports a middle school football coach was charged Wednesday with first-degree murder in the death of a 10-year-old girl who was snatched off a street just blocks from her home in southwestern Missouri as several residents watched in horror.”




Did any of them get into a car and follow the abductor while calling police and telling them exactly where he was?? I’ve done that with Drunk drivers who did property damage…followed them and helped the police nail them. ANd sometimes I had to run into the house and get my keys and start my car and actually go LOOK for the dude. But these folks “watched in horror”. Did they think to intervene in any way besides calling 911? 


“As several residents watched in horror”. Perhaps had they done more a little girl might be alive right now. 


We are, truly, a nation of sheep.

Exactly what strategy the protesters are following in Ukraine….Facing men with modern fully automatic rifles and high powered “sniper” rifles with a few hunting shotguns and bricks and Molotov cocktails.

I fail to see what their ultimate goal is in occupying their Independence Square….I don’t see how this fixes their problems with their government.

Having said that, I gotta say that these folks, whoever they are, and whatever their motivations, have really big balls….guts as it were (there are a lot of women supporting the men on the protest lines).

It is really gutsy to not flee the area when the police decide to unlimber their rifles and choose to shoot into the crowd and target the protesters… When they shoulder those riot shotguns at 50 paces and YOU are looking into the bore of a 12 guage.

Will this happen here? Possibly.

But I think the battle lines might be a bit different. Here, while there might be protests, the police would shoot into a crowd exactly once.

Then they’d face similar rifles….likely identical except that they wouldn’t be select fire. And they’d find that there are a LOT of re-purposed deer and other hunting rifles (depends on what you are hunting, doesn’t it?) now employed from rooftops against the police/government forces.

I sincerely hope that such protests are never needed here, and I pray that if they do happen that they remain peaceful. ‘Cause if they go violent, then things will go very bad very quickly. Likely there won’t be enough police to hold, but the bloodshed will be massive.

On both sides.

No one will win a fight like that. let us hope that the liberals our government will never bring things to that point.

But our Second Amendment helps keep thing equal.

Remember that.

Just plain damned foggy here.

Visibility sometimes measured in 10’s of feet. Or less.

D’ya think that people would turn their friggin’ lights on? Leave a little bit of space?

Lots didn’t.

I especially like the folks on the interstate who are driving 20 MPH in a dirty gray car with no lights….endangering themselves as well as others.

I actually didn’t see anyone driving too fast this time.

Of course, I expect at least one chain reaction pileup on the highways in rural areas this evening. I’d bet good money on it.