With a bunch of friends.
Before going to the Valpo Gunshow.
If you have the time, and are in the area, or not too far from it, I highly recommend this show. And it raises money for a gun club to buy a bigger and better facility.
I’ll be renewing my NRA membership there too.
Seems the ICE had a bad apple….
Look, I am not denigrating the ICE because this happened. They are likely, hard working people doing a shitty job, unsupported by our current regime administration.
But the fact is that this was a workplace shooting, and was stopped by another man with a firearm.
You or I could never have done anything to stop this, as we “not special” citizens would have had to disarm before entering the building..
One wonders how many more might have been killed had there not been a trained man with a firearm close by and willing and able to stop the shooter.
Despite all the Psych Testing and personality tests and all that, an agent lost his marbles, unhitched his cams, and went apeshit with a gun.
Can we allow the ICE agents to continue to carry?
Of course.
But not if we use the same logic the anti-gunners use against concealed carry and private ownership of handguns, then no, we shouldn’t. We should, in fact, disarm them.
Should read THIS.
Think on it.
I have recieved 5 or 6 calls people purporting to be performing surveys about issues important to citizens of Indiana.
In reality, it is an excuse to extoll the virtues of our friend and Senator, Dick Lugar.
These Faux surveys irritate me greatly. First of all, after the first one, I am aware that it is not, in fact a survey, but rather an attempt to influence my vote and tell me how “conservative” Mr. Dick is. I am already aware of how unconservative his voting record is.
I may well be stupid, but I am not that stupid to believe that the same call and survey format is something new and exciting rather than another faux survey. The fact that they think it will work again and again proves that they think that I am stupid.
2nd, if Dick really cared about what was important to me, he’d have asked AFTER the last election, not just immediately before it so that he could tailor his lies speeches to tell me what I want to hear, rather than finding out what we wanted and vote accordingly, which he hasn’t done in the past.
III. Dick’s biggest issue is his history, and the fact that he ignores the wishes of his constituents until it is time to get re-elected. Actually, his biggest issue is that he is a Dick.
The “Friends of Dick Lugar” are pissing me off, because despite repeated requests, they refuse to stop calling me. I have already decided not to vote for him. Didn’t last time either.
His opponent has major issues, but the one thing he has going for him is that he isn’t Dick.
I still think we need to find a disgruntled international airline pilot for the next joint session.
Think about it.
A friend (lets call him Frank) and I were talking. He’s a gunny. Knows a lot about a lot of things…. He’s friends with a LOT of folks, and generally knows who is selling what, and for how much. A few months ago, ferinstance, I knew a guy who wanted to sell a 629, and called Frank to find out if he knew anyone who was looking for one. He and I put put a buyer and the seller together together and a deal was struck. Made two people happy, and banked a few favors for the future….Frank knows nearly every third person in the area, and has a handle on what is for sale too….
The problem is, of course, getting the information out there in a timely manner…..
I had been thinking about my “five” and decided to look into how much a Sharps would really cost me..(like a starting price for a new one in the $1800 range (plus sights and such), according to the internet, so it isn’t gonna happen soon, I’ll have to save my nickels for a while)..and what it would take to own one and the issues with it’s care and feeding. I’d likely have to load my own in order to be able to afford ammo, and went to my friend to see if he had ever cast or loaded the large bullets that a 45-70 or a 45-90 eat and what the pitfalls might be….and what he knew about paper patching VS grease groove VS jacketed bullets, as he is fount of obscure knowledge…
He says to me….”I wish I’d have known you were interested….John just sold a C Sharps 1874 for $575…it was like new, maybe 20 rounds, but he needed the money and couldn’t find anyone who was interested….so he sold it to Cabelas…..Shame, he had all the accessories. Bullet molds and cleaning kits, a nice fitted leather case….”
*Facepalm*.
*Headdesk*
$575.00….
*sob*
Shit.
Sigh.
I’d almost rather have not known about the “one that got away”….
Yer reading this, and you are either at home, or planning on going home.
Where you will either see your sweetie, or plan on seeing him/her soon.
or at least be able to call then…maybe SKYPE with them if they are traveling or for some reason not where you are.
Or you could be in a far off land, where the natives are hostile, and many people are trying to kill you.
Think about our soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines who are standing guard so we can live safely, and celebrate Valentines Day in relative safety.
And hold a thought for those who love those military folks, for they share in the sacrifice.
Thanks, folks.
Borepatch points out that Gas (and all other petroleum energy) is gonna skyrocket.
He’s right.
But what he fails to mention is that the cost of energy is part of the cost of nearly everything you own, eat, or otherwise consume.
Food? Trucks, trains, boats and sometimes planes bring your food to your local store. Farmers burn diesel to plant that corn or wheat or soybeans, and to harvest it…and to put on that petroleum based fertilizer that increases their yields. (more yields means a somewhat lower price, just in case you are missing that point). Meat is gonna go up because, as corn goes up, therefore does the price to feed cattle….and it takes fuel to harvest and haul the hay that is the other staple for cattle…and, of course, to transport those foods to the farm so the cow can eat it, and fuel to transport that cow to the butcher to be cut up into steaks and chops and roasts and burger and shipped to your local supermarket. Those nifty fresh veggies and fruits that you buy in the depths of winter? Yeah, they come from South America on a plane or a fast boat. The ones you get in the summer? They still have to be trucked from the vegetable farm or orchard to the place where you buy them. Still takes oil. Expensive oil.
Consumer goods? Clothes, furniture, rakes, shovels, hammers, blankets, beer, smokes, pet food, milk, etc. All get to you using petroleum. and some are made from plastics, also made from petroleum feedstock…..
The raw materials that make your homes? Yeah, hauled to your local Home Depot using trains and then a truck. That drywall takes a LOT of energy to make, so does that plywood. And that carpet is likely made from Rayon or Nylon. Guess where that comes from?
Paper? Guess. Tires? Yeah, same thing.
Automobiles? Yeah, they take a lot of petroleum to bring the parts to the factory…..and a lot of the plastic parts that make the car lighter and safer…..yeah, you guessed it.
Think about it. If energy (oil) goes up in price, then so will the cost of EVERYTHING.
Expect your food prices to go up by 25% MINIMUM. Consumer goods? Same thing.
Autos? Fuggeddaboutit. (and yer not gonna be able to afford to drive anyway, as all yer cash is gonna go for food….)
Think I am crazy? Maybe I am. But it happened in Britain in the ’70’s when their currency went to shit when the socialists destroyed the Pound…and Britain as we knew it…and Argentina when the socialists did a similar thing in the late 80’s…Same tune….. just a different language. The price of everything went insane. They were both productive prosperous countries…now they are second raters in decline.
Wanna live in Greece? No big deal, just wait a year or two. Especially if we re-elect the Socialist in Chief for another 4 years. Inflation will be rampant, and the cost of a gallon of gas will likely be $7.50 or more. It’ll be just like Greece, without the lamb dishes and the wild taxi drivers and the lovely seashore and the hirsute women.
It isn’t the oil that is going up, it is that the dollar is worth less. And it will be with those worth-less dollars that you will pay your fuel bill, and try to purchase your food and other goods…especially those that you buy from other countries. It’s gonna take a LOT of those worth-less dollars to buy things from foreigners…or from your neighbor.
The dollars we use today are just paper…just an easy medium of exchange. The fact that there are many more of them means that each dollar is worth less than it was a year or two before. They have no intrinsic value, just paper “backed by the full faith and credit of the United States’. Which is rapidly becoming worthless. We have maxed out our credit, as a country as we print worthless paper dollars to pay our bills……and when our ability to buy energy fails, because our ability to generate credit to back our paper currency ceases or becomes less, then we, as a nation, will starve. Our wealth is not the stacks of dollar bills we print, but the productivity of our citizens balanced against our expenditures…and that ratio is not a good one lately.
What to do? Plan. What to plan for, and how to implement those plans is up to you. But expect less commerce, and expect food to be costly, as well as consumer goods. Expect less…you won’t be disappointed.
But when the decline accelerates (it has already begun) you’d better have a plan to feed yourself and your family. It’s gonna be ugly. Argentina is the most recent example. Read “Surviving in Argentina” to get an idea of what is coming. Look to Greece for an example.
It’ll be us in a year or three, no matter who is in the White House. It can be worse or just bad, but it ain’t gonna be good either way.
This…if you haven’t seen it, you should:
Then think.
Remember, we get the government we deserve.
You may be able to do Prequels, add scenes, etc. to Star Wars.
But I saw the original. I really don’t care what you say now.
What do you expect? He was being held at gunpoint and Greedo was threatening to kill him.
Any sane person would have done the same.
I don’t understand how Mr. Lucas :
A: thinks that this is a bad thing, and that he should be ashamed of it…
B: Why he thinks that after all these years and all the people that saw the original movie he is somehow able to rewrite history.
I like the fact that Han shot first. I’da done the same.