Seems that governments all over the world are using private savings to prop up their economies.

ANd the press isn’t saying much about it. So far.
Despite the flowery phrases used to describe the actions, this is theft. Pure and simple theft. How long until this happens here in the US? Then what?

WHile my retirement saving s aren’t going to let me retire with  enough money to let me have my own private island and a plane to get to and from there, the money I have in IRA’s and such is MONE. I will determine how the funds are invested….not some bureaucrat.

I’m not so sure that I want to invest anymore in IRA’s or other banking based  retirement savings.

I’d say more, but that might get me in trouble, so I won’t…besides, I gotta go finish packing up for my Appleseed class.

THat might come in handy for the not-to-distant future too.

I’m still busy…..may not be able to take the time for the Appleseed shoot that I had planned on attending this Saturday…

But here is something that gives me hope for our country…Small, and probably insignificant, but still, a spark of hope that there are still values. Still some things that are good in our society.

Not the fact that the kids were suspended from playing, but that the parents and community chose to support the coaches in this disciplinary action.

Yeah, been a bit busy. 

Only 24 hours in the day lately.

Not much time for perusing the web for links, nor for original thought.

Did spend Saturday at the range…but not shooting. Instead worked with other men to repair the 40 year old infrastructure. Not a bad turnout: nearly 20% of the members actually showed to help. And they came prepared to work….gloves, basic hand tools and such.

Other than that, my yard looks like it belongs to a bank repossessed home, and I am behind in everything.

Blogging will likely continue to suffer for a while.

Go read the folks on the left.

“Park shooting shows why assault guns should be banned“

Cops abuse helpless victims

So because some whackjob from the south side of Chicago decides to light up the homeboys and their friends, all guns, especially AK and AR rifles, should be banned.

But even though it is easy to document abusive police officers, we “shouldn’t paint with a broad brush”.

The logic of liberals escapes me…

Note: South side of Chicago. This is the area where 2-6 people a NIGHT are shot, and more are stabbed or beaten…every night. Not all residents of the area are bad, but it is an area which is a….”“high gang conflict area”. 



And one would wonder why a three year old, a 15 year old and a 17 year old are in a park at 10:15 pm…on a school night. And those are just the one who didn’t duck fast enough. How many other lids were out late on a school night?
And really, if the rest of the victims had a job, or were even trying to get one, they’d not be shootin’ hoops that late at night either. 
The issue isn’t guns. The issue that no one wants to talk about or admit is that it is the people…the culture….This generally doesn’t happen in the more norther areas of Chicago. Less welfare, less drugs, less gangs. You figure it out. 

and myabe some other liberal east coast areas.

“California college bars student from handing out copies of Constitution”

Can’t we just let Kalifornia leave the union?

While I don’t think that the flooding in Colorado was unprecedented, it was unusual.

Foreseeable? Yes.

But the reality is that we plan for what we can see, and (sometimes) fail to plan for what we cannot.

Is all yer stuff in a basement?

Got a sump pump? Have a spare? A means to power it? How about a manual backup?

Have you a secondary stash of supplies?

Have you gamed out all the “what ifs” you can and made plans for them?

The folks in Colorado obviously were caught unprepared….at least some of them. I doubt that they were all sheep either. Flash Floods happen quicker than you know. Now no doubt many folks never even considered that they were in a flash flood zone, or that rivers can and will leave their banks.

Living in or near a waterway OR DRAINAGE AREA is asking for disaster, especially if you are unprepared. Some towns are still cut off from the rest of us, as all their roads have washed away.

Think on it.

It be Talk like a Pirate Day!

AARRRR!

Wizard has the right of it.

For those of you who stand there and scream “SHallNotBeInfringed!!!!” Really, no one at Starbucks was or currently IS infringing.They chose to stay out of the fight. Let it be decided elsewhere while they sold coffee.

Really, all they are currently doing is trying to get the furor to wind down so that they can sell coffee and such. Nothing more.

They chose NOT to take a stand…which was, really a stand for our side. No banning of guns. No giving in to the anti gunners. Just no stand at all except “we follow state laws”. Nothing more.

This was a victory for our side. A win  Remember: Starbucks is private property.
But some dumbasses had to make a point and open carry a big hawgleg, or an AR into a place where they normally wouldn’t just to show that they could…and if it frightened some people, well, that’s ok too.After all, they point out, it worked for the gay folks 2o years ago…and the black people 50 years ago. But, boys and girls, this ain’t the same thing at all.

Now look: Really, the fact that Starbucks corporate chose not to take a stand was not only implicit support for all of us folks who carry, but was also opening them up to LOSING customers…the holophobes and the anti gunners. They are likely a significant portion of the Starbucks target demographic. And nothing we do is going to change their minds. But getting in their faces just makes them more vocal…. So Starbucks chose us over them…until some folks had to turn it up to 11 and get in peoples faces. And it backfired.

In addition, the fact that they welcomed us actually opened them up to significant liability if some bezerker asshole like the latest suicide-by-cop attention-seeking multi-murderer at the Naval Yard chooses a Starbucks for their last hurrah.

I’m not a big fan of Starbucks coffee, but I am glad that they chose to do what they did years before. They neither gained a customer in me, nor lost one.

Stop feeding the beast. Go if you like their product. Don’t (like me) if you prefer other purveyors of caffeine. If you do, be polite and cover up.

But don’t be a dick. 

In Holland, not here is the US.

Seems that Holland has decided that they must make a choice.

New society will be a “Participation Society“……Fewer freebies. Less gifts from the Government. Not just cuts to the military, but cuts to Big Government programs like Job Retraining…Cuts in Health Care (who coulda seen that coming?) and other social programs.

Good to see that at least one European government has the guts to make hard decisions. Now if only OUR federal government could grow the stones to do the same.

Any bets on how long it takes before the serfs sheep people toss them out of office?

Constitution Day is today.

Not that the government nor the bureaucrats running the country care for it.

Let the celebrations begin