over towards LabRat.

She lost a friend today.

Many of us will remember that pain.

So send some love in that direction.

Seems that some NASCAR drivers have the courage of conviction. I am impressed with them greatly.

“schedule conflicts” indeed.  It is not like the oval office can command attendance.

A very good way to snub, yet still respect the office. I stopped watching NASCAR a year or so ago, but I still liked the sport. My hat is off to those who had the courage of conviction to stay away and sent, instead, their regrets.

After all, this is the excuse Mr. Obama has used when he feels that he does not want to attend a ceremony honoring our military men and women, or our dead.

It’s better than “fuck you, Mr. President”. 

(not that it would be hard to do better than Mr. O’s ideas on how to screw the taxpayers fix the economy by adding jobs).

The fact is that despite all of his stimuli, his green jobs initiative (which has led to losses with nothing to show for it and few if any jobs, none of them permanent) and his other economy boosing dreams, there is nothing that he has that really works.
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We have legacies all across this county of something that DOES work. The CCC. National parks, state parks, zoos, beaches, etc. all built (and built to last) by civilians who needed work. And those folks built well, and sent their money home to their families and those family members spent that money…which gave someone else a job. From whose wages taxes were generated. And yet, rather than nothing, we have something which has lasted to this day.

Of course, those who complain the loudest are the entitlement class, who would never work such a menial job anyway.

But I bet that a significant number of skilled tradesmen would, if only to feed and house their families, or to keep their homes from repossession.  Those on welfare, or unemployment, not so much. (but that is what you get for rewarding people who don’t work….and 2 years to not work? really?)

But rather than let contracts to the “rich”…the “fat cats”  to provide jobs we could cut out the middleman and let the government rip us off directly…..

Seems that the “fundamental and virtually self-evident nature of the First Amendment’s protections in this area” is obvious to the court. (it has been obvious to most of the rest of us for a long time….) Case stems from a Boston man who was arrested for videotaping police during an arrest in Boston in 2007 with a cell phone. In plain view. On the sidewalk. Yet they arrested him under the wiretapping statutes.

Read the article on the case.

This is a big deal. A really BFD.  And the best part is that the cops cannot claim “qualified immunity”. An even bigger BFD. While I generally support the police, I do NOT think that they have any right to privacy while on the street (neither, by the way, do you). And their actions should stand up to being videotaped. They should act as if everyone is watching, and their actions should stand up to being videotaped. They have no right to special treatment just because they are police. They should, in fact, expect to be held to a higher standard that the rest of us. They are, after all, the guardians of our society. No citizen should ever fear watching the police, and the police should never act as if their actions are not being watched. If their conduct cannot stand being examined by others, and if they fear being videotaped, then there is something wrong.

“Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?”  Every citizen with a cell phone!

More HERE

To have your female partner be a gun chick.

She doesn’t mind that I clean my carry piece (para 1911) at the kitchen table while waiting for the meatloaf to be done so I can finish the vegetables and such.

Yeah, I know, yer jealous…

Blogmeet. Wow. First the drive to Indy ….where we discussed the various feelings and reactions (and sounds made during and after) to being tazed (both Og and I have had the experience ) and other variously strange topics…(some of which had Midwest Chick laughing so hard I worried about her breathing)…then the Indy1500 gun show (I spent way too much money) and then:

Drumroll please..

The blogmeet was well attended. We just kept adding tables and staring at the other people in the room until they gulped down their food and left and occupied tables as soon as their occupants were finished until we had an entire room at the brewpub to ourselves….

In attendance were, in no particular order (and if I have forgotten anyone it was because it was indeed a madhouse) Rich, Roberta, Tam… Old NFO and Dave L. (Cancer Ward), Og, and Partner (who drove us),  Midwest Chick (she won’t let me attend a blogmeet without her!), Bayou Renaissance Man and his lovely wife Miss D. , Shermlock Shomes and his talented wife,   Push the Pull Door ,  The Jack, Old Grouch, Mad Saint Jack.. I think that there were more but I might have missed ’em….

Converssation ranged far and wide and up and down and everywhere in between. (apparently Og has hunted raccoons with full auto tracer loaded AK’s…or something?  You just had to be there to appreciate the whole spectacle….

You should attend the next one. Good food, good people, wild, witty and strange interesting conversation, and, of course, all the bloggers from out of town.

Why weren’t you there?

 Oh, and happy blogoversary, Tam!

Do those folks in New York and Baston think that we folks who prep (you know, for blizzards and ice storms and tornado aftermath and all that) are crazy still think that today, as a hurricane bears down on them? Do they think that as they hurry to stock for food and water and hope that there is enough for them? As they plan on power being out for days or weeks….and no way out of the city for a while?

And do they (still) think we are crazy to want to live in “flyover country” where the risk of a hurricane is infitesimal?

I mean, other than boarding up my windows (and I actually have enough plywood and deck screws on hand to do so) I am prepped for a hurricane. Generator, food, water, battery powered lights, fuel, cooking, I got all that….everyday.

If you’re prepared for the zombie apocalypse, a hurricane is just a storm…

This

Especially the comments.

Scarcity, or limited supply, along with increased demand
should result in higher profit for the seller.

Those who fail to plan ahead should pay for their lack of forethought. Those who take risks should get a reward when they guess correctly.

No one ever accuses a convenience store owner of “gouging”, yet his prices for milk and eggs and such are much higher than the grocery store.

Via insty

You’ll laugh. Guaranteed.