For Drones?

I see a whole new industry here.

Maybe self destructing projectiles…say that burst at altitude if you miss?
Special shotgun shells?

How much do you lead ’em?

I am thankful for so many things.

I am thankful that I live in a country that is so rich, that even though I am not “rich” in this country, I am richer than most (98+%) of the people in this world. I am thankful that I live in a country that is so prosperous that this is true. A country that is protected by a Constitution that, despite being stepped on by many people and politicians still makes this country the greatest, freest, most stable and secure country on the planet 

I am thankful that I have friends and family that support me, believe in me, and respect my beliefs, no matter how foolish they think those might be. Friends that would drop everything for me, give me (literally) the shirt off their backs. Who would post bail without question. Who are good enough friends that if I asked for help moving a body at night, would do so without question.  (then help me get a lawyer)

I am especially thankful that my friend of many years has become someone very special…a lover and companion as well as a friend. Who has done more to calm my soul and make me look forward to a future. Who has caused me to believe that life is worth living, not merely enduring.

I have many, many other things to be thankful for, but if I listed them all, you’d get tired of reading and/or fall asleep.

What are you thankful for?

So a few months ago, I got a letter from the IRS. Seems that they could not find a form that my partner and I had filed when doing our partnership return.

No big deal, we sent a second copy…Which they promptly misfiled (or something) as well as the first one.

We next next knew that they had misfiled the second one when we got a letter stating that we had now been assessed fines of $995 (each) for failing to file the forms in a manner that they could not misfile…

So, for the past few months, we have been waiting while they “investigated”…

They finally sent us a letter stating that they had decided to “remove the penalty” … After only 3 months of investigation.. Seems that they found the forms…Of course, they haven’t apologized or anything for making us worry while they took their time investigating their own incompetence. I mean… 3 months?

Were it not for them, I’d have been able to spend the money I was holding in reserve (in case they  decided to screw me)  on that 1933 Argentine contract Colt 1911 with 200 rounds of original metric headstamp ammo (in the original box) at the Nappannee gunshow. Instead, I kept the money just in case…..

I can’t wait for Obamacare……

of breaking the law does it take for it to be ok?

Newt G. thinks that decades of being an illegal immigrant then entitles that person to some consideration…look it up yourself….

I didn’t realize there was a statute of limitations wherein after a certain number of years of living as an illegal in the United States, one is automatically deemed a partial citizen….Or is it that after so many years and so many children?… Or so many years and taking enough entitlements handouts? ….Or so many years and so much unreported (and therefore untaxed) income?

I mean, what are the rules?

And didn’t we try this in like, 1986? Seems that that didn’t work either.

Anne Mcaffrey has passed.

May she inhabit the many worlds she created and shared with all of us.

I think I read each and every one of her books when I was much younger.

“I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.”

Professor Bernardo Del La Paz

“The Moon is a Harsh Mistress”

Robert A. Heinlein

Are you free?

I am.

While this may be technically illegal, the catch was, nonetheless, not done in an illegal manner….It’s not like the guy was trying to hide anything.

And the guy had been purchasing tuna permits for years, just in case this happened. If nothing else, then the Feds committed fraud by accepting his money for the permits, knowing that he couldn’t use them.

More likely they wanted the half million dollars or so he would havegotten from the sale of the tuna.

It is things like this which make me think about revolution….and other things.

One day soon, I envision a day when people will be fearful to be known to work for the federal government. And if found out, they’ll move because of fear for their families and their safety… And it’ll be because of a string of actions like this one. The anger is there, like a keg of powder….What (or who) will be the spark?

Betcha that Hillary takes the hook, and decides to run. She’ll do it not because she wants the power (or the responsibility), but “because she cannot in good conscience accept that Barack Obama will do more of what he has for the country”, or words to that effect….”We have to give the people a valid choice for president, and Barack Obama is not it” and she’ll do it because “If I don’t run, then the country will elect a Republican president”.

Betcha. Not that she could be much worse than Mittens Romney. She might, in fact, be less of a socialist than he is.

The left has come to the conclusion that The Won will lose against the south end of a northbound mule….They will need someone else to run, or they lose power. And their agenda will be damaged, or even regressed.

Betcha.

You should read THIS.

Then read THIS.

Then think.

Take time before you let your anger grow. Don’t smash anything. Notice a pattern?

Look at the parallels drawn by someone who is not living in, nor a citizen of the United States. Someone who has been through a societal and economic crash (you SHOULD read his BOOK) and who can see, with the benefit of hindsight, where we are going.

Yeah, both articles are long. But both are worth the read, as is the rest of his site.

BTW, the Spaniards just threw the Socialists out. Big time. Maybe there is hope for them yet. Now if we in the US can just get enough people to see what is on the horizon, then perhaps we can, as a country, be as smart as the Spaniards.

If one more person accosts me and asks for money or some other form of donation, this is gonna be me until I break out in handcuffs:

I thought that the moochers panhandlers fundraisers didn’t come out until after Black Friday?