I apparently have overdosed on Fucktiall and I got nothing to say about anything…..

Hope you have a good Fourth weekend……But please, remember the reason for the celebration.

It ain’t all about burgers and beer, and pretty lights on the sky after dusk accompanied by loud booms. It’s not about a three day weekend….

It’s about Freedom…and that which makes this country great…A statement on parchment and sent to the king of England…. that began the greatest nation on earth:



“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.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”
If you haven’t, (or haven’t recently) then I urge you…Read the whole thing.

Now think what those 56 men risked when they affixed their signatures to that letter to the King.

And think about what they would do were they here today. What would they think of us, sitting passively and letting that great future slip away?

Now you can go enjoy your burgers and beer and such.

’cause I’d like to call the SOB and give him a piece of my mind.  In fact, I’d like to interrupt his peaceful enjoyment of life on a Saturday…Actually, I’d like to punch him in the nose.

I already am a member (have to be because It Is Required for membership in my local range)….I already donate (for me) significant money to the PAC part of the NRA.

But these stupid fuckers are calling me at home wanting more money. They had my telephone number and my name…. Being a member, they had all the information to give to someone who called me. On a Saturday.

Thereby damaging my serenity and my peaceful enjoyment of life…. I don’t EVER donate money to people who call me on weekends. Ever. I will continue to be a member because I have to…..But the NRA will never see another dime beyond my membership fee. Not one single thin devalued by Obama dime.

Jesus H. Gunwalking Christ….at what point don’t they think that we have donated enough? They are like liberals. Always with their hand out. Always wanting Someone Else’s money….If they need money that badly then they can forgo their nearly daily mailings to my address. That should save about $100 per year in postage and paper….But it’ll make it harder to keep the woodstove lit….

Cory Maye is finally getting released.

Another victim of the war on drugs and no knock raids.

Stolen from Rural Revolution is THIS….(I think I posted it before myself, but I am too lazy to look for it, and she had this handy link and brought it back to the forefront of my attention)….Take time to read all the text in the cartoon…and note the date on it!

“Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it”
George Santayana

This whole federal budget issue would be funny except for one thing:

The man who was elected to be the leader of the United States can’t seem to figure how to lead.  He’s great at giving speeches, running for office, spending other peoples (future) money, handing rewards out to his cronies and supporters, and blaming others for the shortfalls of his governance and the mess he has made of our economy..

But he can’t lead the other lawmakers in resolving the latest “budget/debt crisis”. The first real leadership issue he has been faced with (except, of course, “the beer summit”) and he fails. Miserably.

It’d be funny, except for the implications.

As Tam says “If you only read one blog post today…”


SHe’s right. 


Go


Read.


Think.

you knew this was gonna happen..

Face it, the guy had balls….and he’s getting the shaft.

Chances are, he’ll have an actionable claim against the government. But we taxpayers will end up footing the bill for his damages. Should be the management at ATF who pays the bill.

So are these “mobs” of “teenagers” in the larger (and, coincidentally, run by liberals) cities a new thing? Sure seems so. Perhaps we are just hearing about it more than we used to. It is now a daily occurrence in Chicago and Philly and such….But they are happening in ever smaller towns….I mean, they’re even playing Peoria!

The press seems to be working mightily to never describe them as black, or African American…but every once in a while the truth seems to slip out..

The incidents of “wilding” were, as far as we knew, isolated incidents and in parks after dark and such…. and few and far between….These “mobs”, however, appear to be something else.  Broad daylight, public…and in affluent neighborhoods…..

If there are, as it seems, an ever increasing number of these “mob” attacks by “teens”, and they are happening in more and more cities….One would wonder:

Is there a coordinator? Someone who is encouraging these attacks? Perhaps describing how to use the available social media or technology in order to coordinate things? Perhaps to teach how to avoid the Po-Po and to know when (and how) to disperse… ?

’cause most of these folks involved don’t seem smart enough (or forward thinking enough) to figure things like this out on their own.

Yeah, yeah, I am a racist. But the truth is what it is.

that you had been with me and Midwest Chick as we hosted Brigid for the weekend.

And had you been there, you’d have spent an afternoon with Og and fambly too.

And likely your blood pressure would be down 25 points and your spirit would be much more settled.

It were a great weekend. Food shooting, wine, beach walks…. beer, breakfasts…

Life like that could make me live longer…..

Sadly, we all had to go back to work today. 

Who can take charge of their destiny, and who cannot.

Summer storms have been exceptionally violent and windy this year. My area had HUGE straight line winds. Chicago has had some severe thunderstorm (maybe tornadoes, the Weather Service hasn’t decided for sure yet).

But the point I am trying to make here is that when these storms happen some folks lose power. The power company employees work long and hard to restore as man folks as possible, as quickly as possible. They actually do a great job, most of the time.

But many of their customers cannot handle a day or two without power. Cannot deal with even one night without electric lights, nor have any idea how to keep their food in their assorted cold boxes from spoiling if their electrical supply should fail for even 10 hours. Rural, cities, it really doesn’t seem to matter any more. (perhaps it is all the city folk moving out here, I dunno) But folks can’t seem to muster any willingness to take their fate into their own hands.

If your life is somewhat dependent on electricity (and lets face it, ours way of life does depend on a steady supply of electrons to our homes) then you should be able to acknowledge the fact that it will be interrupted occasionally, and have plans in place to deal with that interruption. Inverter/batteries, genset, whatever…But have a plan of some kind. Planning on taking your stuff to your neighbor is NOT a good plan.

A decent 5kw generator can be had for less than $800.00 for Ahura-Mazda’s sake! And that same genset will run not only your fridge and deep freeze (which in our home generally contains MORE than $800 bux worth of assorted dead cow flesh and/or ice cream). One use of the genset for a few hours can more than pay for the loss….And provide you with lights/cell phones/tv (and, for our lady readers, even run your blow dryer/curling iron)…..And might run your AC too. (if not, buy a gennie big enough to do so). And will run yer heater in the winter when that big ice storm hits every 7 years or so.

Many of the rural folks need a generator in order to have water…… Not so much for showers, although they get ripe after day 3 or four, but in order for them to be able to flush toilets….’cause no one can conserve, or use the big outdoors for a potty for a day or so….

But do most people, city or rural think about things like this? Nope….They just bitch about the fact that they have no electricity.

It really isn’t that hard to have a genset and 10 gallons of gas for emergencies like storms or ice in the winter. Of course, this assumes that they would not be too lazy to rotate out their fuel every 6 moths or so….or make sure that they had oil and such…or even bother to have the thing serviced after each use…

In the cities, you can accept that most apartment dwellers are screwed. No place to put a genset or store fuel. But homeowners have no excuse except laziness or stupidity.

And god help most folks if there is a CME anytime soon that does serious damage to the grid…In the latest round of outages in my area, people were getting hotel rooms JUST TO SHOWER, ’cause they had no well pump. And others couldn’t live in their house ’cause the bathroom “just got too smelly”.

Me? We have a diesel genset. Should run for thousands of hours with little maintenance. I stock in excess of 250 gallons of fuel at all times. It burns less than 1 gallon an hour even at full (10kw) load…General load (without AC) is more like 3000 watts, so it burns less than 1 quart an hour much of the time that it is running. With AC on in the house I burn a little over 1/2 gallon an hour. I do have to choose between AC and electric dryer, but other than that, we can run for somewhere around 600 hours at normal load without getting fuel delivered. We have more options than most people do…By choice.

But seriously, if you don’t have a genset, then think about getting one. If you think you don’t need one, then find out! Pull your main breaker in your home for 24 short hours. See what works for you and what doesn’t. See if you can deal with just those 24 hours.

If not, then think carefully about your needs. And make sure that you have a backup to the power company.
Become the master of your own fate, don’t depend on someone else. ‘Cause if something serious hapens to the juice supply, yer gonna have more time to react.