Which way did Teddy Kennedy vote, and how many of his newly found friends voted with him????

Srsly.

It’s easy….Push this agenda and wait for the bloodshed…

This speech from MLK was the one that have heard so many times….

One wonders what he might think of the members of the black race and culture in the US today…

I think he’d bury his head in his hands and cry in shame.

I think he’d be angry.

Make no mistake, many have fulfilled his dream, but so many have squandered it.

So many “Civil Rights” leaders who exist for themselves, not to help their brothers. So many “successful” athletes who fail to help even one other person from their neighborhood. So many black businesspersons who fail to teach others the methods of success.

And so many people who use the color of their skin to collect money from a government, and squander it, and fail to take advantage of the opportunity.

And so many people, black and white, who cannot see beyond the color of the skin, rather than the content of the character.

I think he’d be ashamed.

Indy1500…spent the weekend selling Strike-Hold and other stuff for my company, 3 part supply…

Had only a few breaks, as budgetary considerations meant that we were one person short….

A few quick observations…:

Primers are back down to nearly what they should be.

.380 was available, if not as cheap as it should be….Same for nearly all other common calibers of pistol ammo.

Rifle ammo is also available, and again, not at the price it should be, although it is trending slightly downward. Really cheap surplus military calibers, however, seem to be MIA.

Cheap pistols did not seem to be selling, nor were expensive ones. Middle of the road stuff was selling briskly.

Rifle sales seemed to be slowing down, (except for collector stuff) and a LOT of .22 lookalikes/and conversion kits and/or dedicated uppers for AR and/or 1911’s were selling briskly as well.

The polikticians were out in full splendor, along with hordes of volunteers to tell us how pro second amendment and how conservative they all are.

Go here for a place to donate for Haiti relief.

C’mon, we all got ten bucks we can spare, right?

Just a few less rounds to shoot this month, or a drink or two less on Saturday night..

But those small donations add up.

I’ll be at the Indy1500 for the weekend….If yer there, find me at the 3 Part Supply table. and say hi…

I’m the taller one with the longer hair.

Seems the folks in Haiti are upset because no one is coming to their aid fast enough.

Now look. I’m feeling real sorry for these folks, and I pray that they get help as soon as possible. But to come up with that much response instantaneously is nearly impossible.

As it is, the amount of supplies is staggering, and they are arriving faster than they can be transported to those who need them. The infrastructure (roads) were bad enough BEFORE the quake. Now getting supplies to the needy is even harder.

So how do the citizens of Haiti (and especially on Port-Au-Prince help themselves? They loot shops and pile up roadblocks of corpses in protest.

Not dig others out, not clear roads. not build shelters. Loot and protest.

This behavior is much like some other poor people in another tragedy, in one of our southern states populated by folks with an African and French heritage and culture…Is it the culture? The genetics? Or is it the poverty which forces them into this sort of entitlement behavior? I have my own theory…..You draw your own conclusions.

Realize that other nearby countries are not nearly such shitholes as Haiti is (was)

But the pattern is there if you care to see it.

This piece via American Thinker hits the nail right on the head….It’s not a lack of intelligence, it is, rather, a lack of intelligence in dealing with it.

Like any bureaucracy, the intelligence game is full of mindless drones. And in normal times, that is ok. But now that is not ok. Just not getting fired is not enough. We need intelligent people, who can “connect the dots”, and do things right, each and every time.

Having people who are just putting in their time towards retirement is NOT going to keep the citizens of (and visitors to) this country safe.

“They” (the enemy, the jihadists) will keep trying. We must have people who are at least as cunning as “they” are to thwart “them”. Drones will not get the job done.

Civil service laws be damned. Get the right folks in there, and the pencil pushing REMFS who just need to get their time in, and their proper tickets punched the hell out of the “intelligence” game.

Or soon, we will have airlines falling from the skies, or a city turn into a green glass parking lot.

Here is why….If it’s good enough for the Amish, then it’s good enough for me.

We could call it the “First church of Phred”…..

Whatever we should call it, it’s main tenet would be that we object on “religious grounds” to paying into a government run and mandated health care system, rather than making our own choices.

Think it would fly? I’m almost willing to give it a shot…

Might include mandatory firearm ownership in there as well…..might could come up with some other stuff too.

But as leader of the church, I’d most likely have to collect tithes and such…probably be a bookkeeping nightmare

Perhaps we should find a hall and work out what the gods will require of us.

Interested?

The plural of “anecdote” may indeed demonstrate a pattern.

Here is another anecdote, and observation about the “security” procedures we have at our airports. As is this. And this.

The Kabuki Theater we have instead of security (performed by the mindless TA workers) does little to enhance our security. It isn’t designed to do that. It is designed to discourage people who are security threats, and to force people into compliance. It does little (if not less) to create a secure environment, and it is possible that you are, when you fly today, less secure than you were before 9/11/01.

Look: I have no doubt that this is a tough job. And I have no doubt that many of the TSA folks are doing the best they can. But the system is designed for failure, and the workforce is, I have noticed, not what you might call the highest motivated nor drawn from the least murky gene pool…Not to mention a management pyramid that does not cause the best and brightest to rise to the top.

We have here, a largely poorly trained force that costs a significant amount of money, which inconveniences a large number of people every day for little, if any, gain.

But hey, it employs a lot of people who otherwise might have worked at McDonalds, or Taco Bell, thus making it harder for those establishments to hire, and to make a profit. And it does, no doubt, give them something to do, and probably influences them to vote for the current stars of the DNC. And, of course, provide them with some sort of health care benefits and such….

What it does NOT do is to make you safer.

If you think othersise, then you are a fool.