A large asteroid narrowly missed the earth at 8:44 am ET. Missed, you say? Good, nothing to worry about? Sounds like a movie script, right? It’s not…It’s REAL. It flew by the earth only about twice as far out as some of our communications satellites.

Well, we only had 3 days notice for the tracking stations to determine it would miss……What would you have done had they determined it would hit WITH THREE DAYS NOTICE to prepare? Food would have sold out in MINUTES! How many people would have been killed in supermarket lines in the panic? I don’t mean to sound like a disaster survivalist, but…..

It’s not like you can hide or anything…..and the hit…err…impact would have the force of a large nuclear weapon. IF you are under it, there’s nothing you can do…your problems are over fairly quickly….But if it impacts a major metro area, what could we have done? What would the result be for the economy and supply chain?

Would FEMA have been able to help do anything after the impact? This would have made the devastation after Katrina look like a thunderstorm’s aftermath… Few people are prepared enough to deal with something like that……I know I ‘m not.

Just something to brighten your day.

A Lake County IL. deputy gets a hard lesson in negligent handling of firearms.

“WAUKEGAN — A Lake County sheriff’s deputy was airlifted to a hospital Friday morning after accidentally shooting herself in the County Building parking garage”

“At 8 a.m. Friday, Harris was removing her service weapon from the trunk of her car on the third floor of the parking garage when the weapon fired, sending a single .40-caliber bullet through her right hand and into her abdomen.

Waukegan police investigated the scene and determined that the handgun’s trigger was pulled by a hanger that was stuck in the trigger guard, said Waukegan police Cmdr. Wayne Walles.
“It’s an accident. It could absolutely happen to anyone,” Sheriff Mark Curran said. “We pray for her and we feel terrible for her.””

While I feel bad for her, and hope she recovers fully, the plain fact is that the fault is hers. This is a hard lesson, but the fact remains that this sort of “accident” is the fault of the deputy. She failed to follow several steps, any one of which would have prevented this from happening. Either the firearm should have been unloaded with the slide locked back, OR the firearm should have been secured, either in a case or in the holster (or both). Shot by a coat hanger? Negligence plain and simple. Complacency with safety rules will always catch up to you, be it a firearm or any other tool.

As this was a police oficer, it was most likely a GLOCK pistol, once again showing that the “trigger safety” is not enough. A grip safety and or other safety would also have prevented this.

But the fault lies with the deputy. Leaving a loaded firearm floating around in the trunk of a car, with no case or holster is a “recipie for diaster”.

And now she had one. Thus providing more fodder for the anti-gun folks. Making it harder for the rest of us who handle firearms safely.

Best wishes for her recovery. Hopefully she (and the rest of us!) can learn from this to prevent further negligent (not accidental!) discharges.

So farmers cannot make dust when planting or harvesting. The EPA HAS SPOKEN!

Are they all idiots? Or does it just appear that way? Perhaps they’d prefer not to eat…..

So say the japanese….Read all about it HERE.

Lets hope the news doesn’t make AlGore cry. His “consensus” is falling apart.

Now if only people and publications would stop repeating the lie.

Or at least it has stopped…..maybe…

Go here for info. Seems that the Greenland Glaciers that were rushing headlong to their death have suddenly stopped…or at least slowed down drastically.

Of course that won’t stop the Cap-and Trade scheme from becoming reality, at least as an excuse for taxes.

“The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money”

AND

In 1835 Alexis de Tocqueville cautioned, “The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.”

So true
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Interesting link. EPA website that shows what’s in your area….

Luckily, I am in a pollution free zone…….

Mass protests against the “stimulus package”. Especially in the midwest, and considering the weather……And when you consider that so far, all of the protests have been on weekdays, when most non recipients have to ….you know, work. It’s easy to get a lot of people at a rally when the rally is for more government handouts, as those recipients are generally not occupied with earning a living.

But HERE are those folks whose hard earned money is being taken and used as a handout….err….”stimulus”.

Here and Here and Here are others. Despite fairly nasty weather in all locales, lots of people collected to voice their opposition and dissent (after all, didn’t we learn from the liberals during the last presidential term that “dissent is the highest form of patriotism”?) . These folks braved really cold weather to show their….AHEM….patriotism.

Chicago, Seattle, St.Louis, Denver, Sacramento, Lansing, Tempe, Houston, all organized on about 3 days notice. Imagine if none of these people had to work, and had lots of time to protest like at the Obama rallies……and if there had been real organizing and better weather.

Folks are PISSED at this. I know I am.

The legislature just told Mr. Obama to stuff his Assault Weapons Ban…

“NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the members of the First Regular Session of
the Sixtieth Idaho Legislature, the House of Representatives and the Senate concurring therein,
that members of the United States Congress cease and desist attempting to enact federal
legislation impinging on the individual right of every American to keep and bear arms in any manner.
Specifically, that members of Congress oppose the passage of the Firearm Licensing and Record of
Sale Act of 2009, and any similar legislation.”

ETA: Even Nancy Pelosi isn’t dumb enough to try this YET…

It’s happening folks!

Go HERE and see if your state is a part of this.

If not, agitate for it, or move to one that is.