No Quarters

Monday I took my brother to the Army recruiting station in Murfreesboro. The plan was for him to spend the night in Nashville courtesy of the army, and then travel with others to Fort Bragg North Carolina for basic training and then advanced training.

Saturday all of my siblings got together at legends to eat, laugh, and say goodbye to him for the next 5-6 months.


From left to right
Danielle, Army boy Jim, Gunner, David and Annie.

Our Sunday combination going away/birthday/mothers day party of course always has someone being dropped on their head...this time it was Annie.


Monday we dropped my brother off and I said my final goodbyes to him.


left to right.
Elizabeth, Jim, Mitchel, Jeanne(A.K.A. Mom)

This came on our family suddenly as my brother decided to go for it just a few weeks ago. I already miss him... |

Face it, but will not do anything about it.

Massive investment in CCTV cameras to prevent crime in the UK has failed to have a significant impact, despite billions of pounds spent on the new technology, a senior police officer piloting a new database has warned. Only 3% of street robberies in London were solved using CCTV images, despite the fact that Britain has more security cameras than any other country in Europe.

well if they only doubled the budget they could solve more crimes......is the normal reply to facts like this.

Labels: government incompetence, government waste, government., Privacy Rights

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Of course politicians and reality are never in the same room at the same time.

But these changes have done nothing to reduce gun-related deaths, according to Samara McPhedran, a University of Sydney academic and coauthor of a soon-to-be-published paper that reviews a selection of previous studies on the effects of the 1996 legislation. The conclusions of these studies were "all over the place," says McPhedran. But by pulling back and looking purely at the statistics, the answer "is there in black and white," she says. "The hypothesis that the removal of a large number of firearms owned by civilians [would lead to fewer gun-related deaths] is not borne out by the evidence."

Labels: ban, government incompetence, government theft, government., self defense

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Hillary Clinton is now trying to get the gun vote and in the normal state of affairs fails in her wording.

Following Barack Obama’s Pennsylvania seeming assertion that bitterness was linked to gun ownership, Hillary Clinton seized the opportunity and attacked saying “You know, Americans who believe in the 2nd Amendment believe it’s a matter of Constitutional rights.”

I will repeat it again. It is a constitutionally protected right. Dumb ass.

Labels: government., gun rights

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Let's celebrate the holiday with a laugh (or three). This could even turn into an annual event!

I would like to share with you the wisdom of I've learned from my many (20+) years of producing news.

It comes down to a few simple rules.

1. Never give an anchor a gun. For obvious reasons.

Photographer Ken Earnshaw is still working at Channel 9, worrying about the year Linda took off his life this day.

Gladly no one was shot.

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I like his "protect and serve" comment.

Their today, our tomorrow.

Labels: free speech, government abuse, government., nannies, police abuse, regulations

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I feel horrible for the governor's wife and family. The shock of finding out their knight in shining armor was porking a $4000 Hooker probably did not go over well for their family dynamics.

The problem is that I find myself enjoying this in a voyeuristic manner. The car crash nature of it makes me go back time and time again top see the wreckage of the New York Governor's carreer and office.

Labels: government., grumbles

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I received the Tapco furniture I plan on adding to my Chinese queen and I read on the back of the packaging two words that are not seen that often in today's world.

Lifetime Guarantee

while some people don't like Tapco, and I do understand why, the fact that those words are on their packages impress the hell out of me and makes me recommend them for people starting to customize their firearms on a budget.

Labels: AK47, firearms, TAPCO

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Decided to invest in my MAK-90 and purchase some new furniture for it.

I started with a AK-47 Saw Pistol Grip and then a AK-47 Galil Style Handguard and rounded off the whole kit with a AK-47 Black Folding Stock. While I know this stuff is Tapco and looked down upon by purists out there, it is what I can afford, and the same Tapco style gear adorns my brothers MAADI and it works fine for him.

The only real problems I may have is that the old stock was a thumbhole stock and the main screw through the 'pistol grip' section was long and I now need a small one. My brother will cut and tap it to the correct length if need be. Better then purchasing screws when you can make one.

I'll post pictures in the near future of the dressed up queen.

My dear wife wants to invest a little money in her own rifle that shoots the 7.62 X 39, and she would like it scoped. I'm looking at some pawn shops for one. Likely will purchase her a bolt action if I can find one.

Labels: firearms

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It's half way through the semester and I feel daily kicked in the nads. My mental skills are weak and my ability to handle stress is nothing close to the time I went back in the mumble mumble but I keep marching forward.

Life is good. I still write for the local newspaper and the one year mark has been hit. Good God what were they thinking hiring me. I now know the mayor and a good number of people on the town council do not like me, but the reader feedback is highly positive and I have no worries about my columns future. Our paper also is one year old and our numbers are simply great. 80% plus readership once a month and over 70% readership on a weekly basis for the whole town. Other papers would kill for numbers like that.

I have almost totally quit reading blogs outside of Say Uncle and our sister city's local blog. I just don't have time with everything as it is and I miss the luxery of the time I enjoyed on blogs. I'm not taking classes this summer so blogging will increase then, and I hope my old regular readers, both of you, will start dropping by then. |

A woman calls her boss one morning and tells him that
She is staying home because she is not feeling well.
"What's the matter?" he asks
"I have a case of anal glaucoma," she says in a weak voice.
"What the hell is anal glaucoma?"
"I can't see my ass coming into work today

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Best quote from this video.

It's not America as we've known it before. It's changing.

Labels: government abuse, second amendment

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Report: American Schools Trail Behind World In Aptitude Of Child Soldiers

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Not mine, but someone should be proud.

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I passed this point long ago.

When law and morality contradict each other the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his sense of morality or losing his respect for the law. — Frederick Bastiat

Why haven't you?

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I have been busy with several other projects of late, and with life in general this blog has been 'dryer' then normal. It will stay this way for the near future. I start school today as a full time MTSU student, and all I have to say is "God help my teachers".

Blogging will stay at the level it is at, but I plan on putting most of my efforts into schooling and the local blog I write fore.

Politics this year will be dang interesting.

Labels: life

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A Canadian rule has placed homosexuals (or whatever the latest politically correct term is) in a rather bad group.

The restrictions, which also cover drug addicts, prisoners, prostitutes and people who have had tattoos or body piercings in the last 12 months using shared needles, came into effect last month.

Now this group is the ones who CANNOT donate organs for transplant.

Yep. Your daughter needs a liver or something. Well screw her, because no one would want a gay liver according to the Canadian government.

This is what happens when the government controls things. You're labelled, and tagged. I understand the fear of 'bugs', but modern testing lowers the risk to the point that crossing the street might be more dangerous.

God I hate government control so f'ing much.

Labels: government abuse, government incompetence, government waste, grumbles

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A Bill of Rights that means what the majority wants it to mean is worthless. — Justice Antonin Scalia

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when someone creates a webpage they like to test it against the main web browsers. Opera, Firefox, and Explorer. They tweak it till they make it so all can see it.

I have found in the last month or so a major item that many do not seem to check. Font size. I reset the default setting for my computers to display font sizes from the standard 'medium' to 'large'. My eyes are needing the extra size for comfort.

The problem is that a lot of websites now have text over running text, and text shoving boxes over other items. To the point that some pages are totally unreadable. It is hard to figure out what a blog post, or newspaper article says when the left two inches of a five inch wide article is covered by an amazon/google/adsense ad.

Just a hurdle for an older guy on the web I guess. |