Toldja

OMG!!!! Terrorism!!!!  See! We need the spy programs! We need to be able to read your emails and your texts and know who you called! It is for your own safety!Trust us!

Seems that the “credible threat” that closed all of our embassies WAS, in fact, somehow found via an intercepted conversation. 

Seems that the story is that the AlQeda folks somehow (and for some inexplicable reason?!?) broke operational security and communicated in the clear. PEOPLE WHOSE VERY EXISTENCE requires coded messages and good communications security. Yet, in this instance, they chose not to follow their security rules. They spoke about attacks….but not about targets.

Odd that.

Strange timing too. A very specific threat against unspecified targets. Be afraid. Jut not sure of what or where.

One could wonder. Wonder about this. Wonder if it is all just a justification for the spy programs of the NSA.

I mean, we really have no evidence that the threat was real, do we? And after all, AlQeda is “decimated”.

Draw your own conclusions.

Think “Wag The Dog” only with real people.

Once, long ago, I trusted my government. No longer. Not with “Astroturf” and fake activist groups and all that bullshit. All the media spin on the Treyvon Martin/G. Zimmerman case. Until I get more proof, I have to think this is a fake crisis, like so many before this. I guess I am a sceptic.

The sad part is that many of the citizens will believe. Will not question the timing.
Will give up even more freedom in order to have more perceived security.
Sheep.

Watching the watchers

Interesting….

Rialto, Ca.:

An interesting experiment conducted…..

When the video cameras were watching, cops used 60% less force. 

Strange, that. I guess it is harder to justify being aggressive and pushing (or worse) people around when there is a witness.

Also complaints against officers dropped by 88% .

Very interesting.

VIA

So whaddya wanna bet

That the “information” leading to the closing of our embassies and warnings for any travellers will be credited to the NSA’s spying on American citizens surveillance of the internet and telephone?

Gotta justify it somehow y a know.

Perishable.

So what with summer and the fact that I am fairly busy with my business trying to make things work with a reduced staff and shorter workweek thanks to Obamacare, I haven’t been shooting as much.

Like at all. 200 rounds TOTAL in the last 60 days.

Until this last Sunday.

Man, my groups sucked.

I ran a 600 point practice Bullseye match at my range with a friend who had also been busy.

He shot a 472. I shot a 448.

We both used to shoot in the mid 500’s.

Practice makes perfect, they say….the inverse is true as well.

I did do OK at 7 yards with my carry gun and a 5″ 1911, but even there, the lack of practice showed in the groups….Like from 3″ rapid fire to 5″ groups. I was center mass on a B-29, but still. When I went to do Mozambique drills, I tended to miss the head shots.

My mag reloads suffered too.

Gotta spend more time with snap caps and the LaserLyte at home. My form sucked. 

Practice. I needs it.

Race relations:

So I interact with a lot of people.

Daily.

Yesterday, I witnessed a terrible thing. The destruction of a worldview.

A man, a Palestinian immigrant to the United States, (who, BTW, is the living embodiment of the American Dream) who used to believe that the blacks were discriminated against (based on the discrimination he experienced as a dark skinned man with a Palestinian accent, and from witnessing discrimination daily, he says)….

Yet he now believes that the treatment of the Trayvon Martin incident and the overall excuses that the liberals have made for the black culture and failure thereof is enough. He’s had enough of making excuses. He stated that he has been awakened. He’s tired of the double standard for their behavior…Tired of the media and the government refusing to show the true facts. Tired of them excusing the high crime rates and the lawlessness.

I find it sad. Here is a man who believed that everyone is equal. who is becoming ever increasingly prejudiced.  Who is tired of not admitting the truth. Who feels that something must be done.

Tease for the NSA

So yesterday was a real pressure cooker of a day. I felt like my brain was going to explode like bomb. Filled with gunpowder. A big boom. Pieces and art of my body everywhere.

But I took all of my troubles and put them in a backpack and just tossed them to the side of the road. Left it there. No worries.

Hope that this helps keep some NSA guy employed.