Build the fucking fence that has been promised so many times!
Instead, Barry wants $2BILLION dollars to "stem border crossings and speed deportation".
How about this instead:
We use about 200Million dollars and build a fence.
Let the Border Patrol do it's job without fear of prosecution
And deport every illegal we can find simply by sending them back over the border they crossed: Take 'em to the nearest border station and, if need be, push 'em over the border....But make 'em cross and let Mexico deal with 'em.
I bet that it immediately decreases the incentive to cross over the border in a northerly direction, and makes the Mexican Government have a screaming hissy fit because they have then got to deal with all those people.
Your illegal immigrant issues would be solved in 6 weeks, tops.
And you wouldn't have to spend $2 Billion dollars. Just a fraction. And you'd have a fence to discourage future crossers too.
Monday, June 30, 2014
I find it interesting
That in the Hobby Lobby/Obamacare contraception issue, the fact that the company does not wish to provide contraception coverage due to religious objections is now:
"Discrimination against women ".
I find it interesting that women getting contraception coverage is such a terrible burden....Sandra Fluke apparently felt the same way. Yet we are supposed to believe that women are, at the same time, strong and able to take care of themselves without a man's protection....but yet: Not being covered by the insurance for $9/month birth control pills is such a terrible burden for women? And this is Discrimination? Which is it? Are you Fragile Flowers requiring the care and protection of the patriarchy, or independent women who don't need men to survive?
IS the world such a good place that this issue is now the only one that liberals and women have left to fight about?
"Discrimination against women ".
I find it interesting that women getting contraception coverage is such a terrible burden....Sandra Fluke apparently felt the same way. Yet we are supposed to believe that women are, at the same time, strong and able to take care of themselves without a man's protection....but yet: Not being covered by the insurance for $9/month birth control pills is such a terrible burden for women? And this is Discrimination? Which is it? Are you Fragile Flowers requiring the care and protection of the patriarchy, or independent women who don't need men to survive?
IS the world such a good place that this issue is now the only one that liberals and women have left to fight about?
Sunday, June 29, 2014
If they are private organizations
Then I guess we can dispense with the whole Qualified Immunity thing too, right?
Can't be a public servant and yet, be exempt from public rules, now can we?
If SWAT teams are not subject to public review and open records request, then their employees (the SWAT officers) and their management aren't pubklic employees anymore, are they?
This would make them subject to the laws that you and I must follow then.
Can't be a public servant and yet, be exempt from public rules, now can we?
If SWAT teams are not subject to public review and open records request, then their employees (the SWAT officers) and their management aren't pubklic employees anymore, are they?
This would make them subject to the laws that you and I must follow then.
So....I'm still waiting:
A whole lot of air has passed the lips of a large number of senators....and there has been a whole bunch of outrage tossed out by a bunch of "conservative" senators and congressmen at the crap that went down at the IRS.
There has been shouting, and glaring, and veiled threats, and insults, and a bunch of people have been yelled at....
But nothing has been done. No one has been charged, no real investigation has taken placed. Sure the heads of the departments have been grilled and taken to task, but ultimately, here is the result of that.
NOTHING.
Nada.
Zero.
No one has lost a job.
No one has lost their pension (and this is worse than jail for a government drone).
No one has been charged with a crime.
No one is in jail.
So all that those senators and other government officials have done is waste a bunch of time...and a bunch of YOUR money holding hearings that are, essentially, worthless.
WHEN WILL WE SEE CHARGES?
When will people go to jail?
Lose their jobs?
Lose their government pensions?
Until then, you've wasted our time.
There has been shouting, and glaring, and veiled threats, and insults, and a bunch of people have been yelled at....
But nothing has been done. No one has been charged, no real investigation has taken placed. Sure the heads of the departments have been grilled and taken to task, but ultimately, here is the result of that.
NOTHING.
Nada.
Zero.
No one has lost a job.
No one has lost their pension (and this is worse than jail for a government drone).
No one has been charged with a crime.
No one is in jail.
So all that those senators and other government officials have done is waste a bunch of time...and a bunch of YOUR money holding hearings that are, essentially, worthless.
WHEN WILL WE SEE CHARGES?
When will people go to jail?
Lose their jobs?
Lose their government pensions?
Until then, you've wasted our time.
Saturday, June 28, 2014
If a cop had done this
To my dog, I really think that we'd both end up dead. Him first, then me, by his fellows....because cop. Might happen face to face, might happen from about 600 yards away. But it'd happen.....
Seriously.
Think Henry Bowman....
Watch.
I gotta feel sorry for the cops who had to deal with this mess their fellow officer left them. Must have been embarrassing.
And the question comes up, as pointed out in the video, "why not back off?".
Because cop, that's why.
He had a mission, and that is all. Look for a missing boy, so invade anywhere he wants, destroy any threat.
It is a shame that the other (good) officers allow cops like this to be on their force. There are good cops. But they don't chase the bad ones away.
The public, it would seem, is outraged. As they should be.
This officer is still on the force, still on duty, and is "awaiting the results of the investigation".
Now, if you or I were to go into a private residence, open a gate and shoot a dog, FOR ANY REASON, would we not face punishment? Why should this officer not? He, not the taxpayers should be paying restitution and big fines. Not the city he works for, but HE personally. Instead he is protected. Because cop. See also: Blue Line
No more of the "Qualified Immunity" that is blanket for a cop.
Even police dogs are more equal than others.... "We couldn't let them fight"
Seriously.
Think Henry Bowman....
Watch.
I gotta feel sorry for the cops who had to deal with this mess their fellow officer left them. Must have been embarrassing.
And the question comes up, as pointed out in the video, "why not back off?".
Because cop, that's why.
He had a mission, and that is all. Look for a missing boy, so invade anywhere he wants, destroy any threat.
It is a shame that the other (good) officers allow cops like this to be on their force. There are good cops. But they don't chase the bad ones away.
The public, it would seem, is outraged. As they should be.
This officer is still on the force, still on duty, and is "awaiting the results of the investigation".
Now, if you or I were to go into a private residence, open a gate and shoot a dog, FOR ANY REASON, would we not face punishment? Why should this officer not? He, not the taxpayers should be paying restitution and big fines. Not the city he works for, but HE personally. Instead he is protected. Because cop. See also: Blue Line
No more of the "Qualified Immunity" that is blanket for a cop.
Even police dogs are more equal than others.... "We couldn't let them fight"
Impressive response from the NRA:
NOT!
I got an automated response in my email, telling me someone would get back to me shortly regarding my plea for relief from the increasingly strident requests for more money. So far they have called me 4 times at home this week and 6 times on my cell phone (or at least they were people representing that they were with either the NRA or the NRA-ILA. (The NRA must keep detailed records: my original application to the NRA only had my home number. The only time that have given them my cell phone was when I was trying to get them to resolve an issue with my instructors credentials).
Anyway as of right now, the NRA hasn't responded. However, I have, at least as of Friday morning, not gotten any phone calls on either phone number. Might be a coincidence, or maybe they got the message.
However, it would be nice to hear from, you know, an actual human, either via telephone or at least an email.
An apology would be even better.
But silence, at least when they are leaving me alone, is acceptable.
I got an automated response in my email, telling me someone would get back to me shortly regarding my plea for relief from the increasingly strident requests for more money. So far they have called me 4 times at home this week and 6 times on my cell phone (or at least they were people representing that they were with either the NRA or the NRA-ILA. (The NRA must keep detailed records: my original application to the NRA only had my home number. The only time that have given them my cell phone was when I was trying to get them to resolve an issue with my instructors credentials).
Anyway as of right now, the NRA hasn't responded. However, I have, at least as of Friday morning, not gotten any phone calls on either phone number. Might be a coincidence, or maybe they got the message.
However, it would be nice to hear from, you know, an actual human, either via telephone or at least an email.
An apology would be even better.
But silence, at least when they are leaving me alone, is acceptable.
Friday, June 27, 2014
Mandarins
The Chinese had them from about 605 until 1905.
The term comes from the latin: Mandare: To rule. They did so in China, controlling access to the throne and enforcing and interepereting the laws and edicts of the Emperor. They were rife with corruption and essentially answered to no one.
We have them today. They control the bureaucracy of our government just as they controlled the government of Imperial China then. They are, essentially powerful men and women woth no worries about liability for their actions.
Don't believe me?
Read THIS.
HT Peter
The term comes from the latin: Mandare: To rule. They did so in China, controlling access to the throne and enforcing and interepereting the laws and edicts of the Emperor. They were rife with corruption and essentially answered to no one.
We have them today. They control the bureaucracy of our government just as they controlled the government of Imperial China then. They are, essentially powerful men and women woth no worries about liability for their actions.
Don't believe me?
Read THIS.
HT Peter
Thursday, June 26, 2014
Small potatoes
But, really, we need more of this.
Entire park district board placed under Citizen's arrest.....and the Sheriff upholds the arrest!
Seems that the park board forgot that they were public servants and that they had to follow the laws....And that they were not rulers of the citizens, but rather servants of the community.
I think we need more of this. Up to and including our congressmen and women, and especially our Senators.
The IRS too. Especially them.
Entire park district board placed under Citizen's arrest.....and the Sheriff upholds the arrest!
Seems that the park board forgot that they were public servants and that they had to follow the laws....And that they were not rulers of the citizens, but rather servants of the community.
I think we need more of this. Up to and including our congressmen and women, and especially our Senators.
The IRS too. Especially them.
Wednesday, June 25, 2014
Just wrote to the NRA
Let us see if it does any good:
Your continued pestering me for money via telephone and email, especially telephone WHEN I HAVE REQUESTED THAT YOU NOT CALL ME, is becoming offensive.
I support the NRA mission. Further I support your education programs, working as an unpaid certified instructor to educate people on firearm safety and use.
BUT IF YOU CANNOT CONTROL YOUR FUNDRAISINGS (especially ILA), I will CEASE to be an NRA member or supporter.
Enough is enough. You get my support, but STOP ASKING ME FOR MONEY TIME AFTER TIME. You are PISSING ME OFF.
Godammit, leave me alone
2nds call this week: one to my cell phone (how in the hell did they get that? They asked for me by NAME!) in the middle of the day, and now one in the evening at my home....I have requested that they STOP pestering me for money (and I talked to a real live person that time).
The mass mailing probably cost tens of dollars every year, the telephone calls through some third party fundraisers can't be cheap (and hey, folks, at least try to get they dude making the call to be able to read the script well enough to sound as if he wasn't reading in front of the class in say...third grade) and the cheap gifts made in China aren't gonna get a you plugged nickle, and are going to make me choose not to be a member very very soon.
And my range requires that I be an NRA member....
Anyone know anyone at the NRA who can make this stop?
Your continued pestering me for money via telephone and email, especially telephone WHEN I HAVE REQUESTED THAT YOU NOT CALL ME, is becoming offensive.
I support the NRA mission. Further I support your education programs, working as an unpaid certified instructor to educate people on firearm safety and use.
BUT IF YOU CANNOT CONTROL YOUR FUNDRAISINGS (especially ILA), I will CEASE to be an NRA member or supporter.
Enough is enough. You get my support, but STOP ASKING ME FOR MONEY TIME AFTER TIME. You are PISSING ME OFF.
Godammit, leave me alone
2nds call this week: one to my cell phone (how in the hell did they get that? They asked for me by NAME!) in the middle of the day, and now one in the evening at my home....I have requested that they STOP pestering me for money (and I talked to a real live person that time).
The mass mailing probably cost tens of dollars every year, the telephone calls through some third party fundraisers can't be cheap (and hey, folks, at least try to get they dude making the call to be able to read the script well enough to sound as if he wasn't reading in front of the class in say...third grade) and the cheap gifts made in China aren't gonna get a you plugged nickle, and are going to make me choose not to be a member very very soon.
And my range requires that I be an NRA member....
Anyone know anyone at the NRA who can make this stop?
An important decision regarding your privacy
Seems that the Supreme Court actually made a decent, well thought out decision regarding the privacy of the contents of your cell phone.
It now is required that police get a warrant when wanting to search the contents of your cell phone. No matter WHY they arrest you, they have to get a warrant for the information in your cell phone's memory... Contacts, calls, texts, etc re confidential information until and unless the po=po find a judge and convince him/her that the in your phone is somehow relevant to a case they are making against you....
This is BIG.
It now is required that police get a warrant when wanting to search the contents of your cell phone. No matter WHY they arrest you, they have to get a warrant for the information in your cell phone's memory... Contacts, calls, texts, etc re confidential information until and unless the po=po find a judge and convince him/her that the in your phone is somehow relevant to a case they are making against you....
This is BIG.
Tuesday, June 24, 2014
Range trip: AAR
So brother and Nephew arrived around 9....Temps were already in the 80's, and with the 4" of rain in the past 3 days (including 1/2" the night before, the day was....moist.
Thick, it was. Really. Humid.
Not much wind either.
We loaded up the car and drove to the range, wondering what we might find, what with all the rain and such. My dad came along as well.
Now, the range was recently reworked by the county, they finally got around to removing the block to drainage that had been there for 20+ years, And I had worked with the tractor and bladed the outdoor range to make it drain into the drainage ditch..
All that work paid off, as the range was merely "skwishy" rather than "flooded".
There was still water draining, but it wasn't too bad. The grass made it walkable, and there wasn't too much mud...except at the bowling pin range.
Nephew wanted to shoot there first, so we turned a bunch of my reloads and most of a box of Winchester White Box into smoke noise and empty .45 cases. Plus a bunch of 9mm from grandpa's pistol, and little over 200 .22 LR. I spent most of my time just being a Range Officer, and bit of time coaching. I can shoot anytime.
Surprisingly, Nephew liked my compact alloy framed 3" Para for bowling pins over the full size 1911. Lighter seemed to work for him, and he had no issues with recoil, either one handed or two handed. He didn't like the 9mm as much either. He went 5 for 5 several times.
After knocking over bowling pins for a while, it became difficult to police the brass, as the grass is sorta thin there, and the clay was becoming churned up. Just plain muddy.
But we had a great time, and except for a bit of inattention to trigger finger discipline (hey, 11 years old and still fairly new to guns in general) all was good after a few pointed reminders.
So we packed up and moved to the 50 yard range and unlimbered the rifles. Brother immediately took charge of the Marlin 39 and Nephew went for the Savage bolt action that he liked so well last year (I won that in a raffle, best $10 I ever spent)
For a while they were content to knock down bowling pins at 50 yards, but then Nephew wanted to shoot at paper targets for score. I had brought along a bunch of NRA 50 yard targets and after a few practice shots he and his dad and I shot for score.
I had a 96, his dad had a 85 and he had an 73. (Grandpa had to leave early due to heat and humidity).
He practiced for a while, with coaching from his uncle, and eventually shot an 84. By that time he was getting overheated, so we packed up and went to have a late lunch at Grandma's house)
All told it was a good Sunday. Shooting with a motivated young man and his father....and HIS father.
3 generations at one time enjoying a somewhat American pastime; Plinking and punching holes in paper.
Thick, it was. Really. Humid.
Not much wind either.
We loaded up the car and drove to the range, wondering what we might find, what with all the rain and such. My dad came along as well.
Now, the range was recently reworked by the county, they finally got around to removing the block to drainage that had been there for 20+ years, And I had worked with the tractor and bladed the outdoor range to make it drain into the drainage ditch..
All that work paid off, as the range was merely "skwishy" rather than "flooded".
There was still water draining, but it wasn't too bad. The grass made it walkable, and there wasn't too much mud...except at the bowling pin range.
Nephew wanted to shoot there first, so we turned a bunch of my reloads and most of a box of Winchester White Box into smoke noise and empty .45 cases. Plus a bunch of 9mm from grandpa's pistol, and little over 200 .22 LR. I spent most of my time just being a Range Officer, and bit of time coaching. I can shoot anytime.
Surprisingly, Nephew liked my compact alloy framed 3" Para for bowling pins over the full size 1911. Lighter seemed to work for him, and he had no issues with recoil, either one handed or two handed. He didn't like the 9mm as much either. He went 5 for 5 several times.
After knocking over bowling pins for a while, it became difficult to police the brass, as the grass is sorta thin there, and the clay was becoming churned up. Just plain muddy.
But we had a great time, and except for a bit of inattention to trigger finger discipline (hey, 11 years old and still fairly new to guns in general) all was good after a few pointed reminders.
So we packed up and moved to the 50 yard range and unlimbered the rifles. Brother immediately took charge of the Marlin 39 and Nephew went for the Savage bolt action that he liked so well last year (I won that in a raffle, best $10 I ever spent)
For a while they were content to knock down bowling pins at 50 yards, but then Nephew wanted to shoot at paper targets for score. I had brought along a bunch of NRA 50 yard targets and after a few practice shots he and his dad and I shot for score.
I had a 96, his dad had a 85 and he had an 73. (Grandpa had to leave early due to heat and humidity).
He practiced for a while, with coaching from his uncle, and eventually shot an 84. By that time he was getting overheated, so we packed up and went to have a late lunch at Grandma's house)
All told it was a good Sunday. Shooting with a motivated young man and his father....and HIS father.
3 generations at one time enjoying a somewhat American pastime; Plinking and punching holes in paper.
Monday, June 23, 2014
Someone needs to be run out of town on a rail. **Updated...Judge modifies her ruling.
Reposting from Old NFO:
SO we have an unfit mother....Who lost her child because her child was removed from the home by CPS.
We have the father, a deployed naval sailor.
We have an activistasshole judge, who provides no recourse for the father to appear in court or lose custody of his daughter...EVEN THOUGH HE IS ON A SUBMARINE CURRENTLY UNDER THE PACIFIC OCEAN.
Now me, I see a good reason for a protest outside of the judges haunts....a loud one, making him very nervous....tramplehis her flowerbeds, ruin his her neighbor's peace and tranquility, follow him her wherever he goes, etc.
Peacefully, of course.
And as I posted on NFO's site, I'd break into the gun fund to contribute to a legal defense fund.
*Updated: Seems the Judge has seen fit to modify her ruling. Perhaps the bad press (and the fact that she looks like a fool) has made a difference?
I still think she has disqualified herself from any judicial duties outside of traffic court, if that.
SO we have an unfit mother....Who lost her child because her child was removed from the home by CPS.
We have the father, a deployed naval sailor.
We have an activist
Now me, I see a good reason for a protest outside of the judges haunts....a loud one, making him very nervous....trample
Peacefully, of course.
And as I posted on NFO's site, I'd break into the gun fund to contribute to a legal defense fund.
*Updated: Seems the Judge has seen fit to modify her ruling. Perhaps the bad press (and the fact that she looks like a fool) has made a difference?
I still think she has disqualified herself from any judicial duties outside of traffic court, if that.
Sunday, June 22, 2014
Peeve
Why do printer and fax manufacturers give you error codes (ex: error 347) instead of a description of what the fucking error is? 347 means nothing unless you have the manual in front of you, and how many of us can even find the frigging manual after a week or so?
WHY NOT just put a basic description of the error (eg: "no dial tone" or "receiving fax unable to handshake properly") or whatever instead of an error that is meaningless to anyone who was not part of the development team?
WHY NOT just put a basic description of the error (eg: "no dial tone" or "receiving fax unable to handshake properly") or whatever instead of an error that is meaningless to anyone who was not part of the development team?
Nothing else today
Out shooting.
Teaching my nephew how to turn money into smoke and noise.
Priorities, you know.....
Teaching my nephew how to turn money into smoke and noise.
Priorities, you know.....
So it would seem
That the IRS was paying an outside vendor to back up emails from IRS employees.
If congress really wants to get to the bottom of this (which I am beginning to doubt, suspecting that the whole Faux Outrage is just for show) all they have to do is subpoena the company's data. Simple to do, and if THEY (SonaSoft) have lost the data, then we all will know for sure that there is a coverup. There can be only so many coincidences....
Were I the president of SonaSoft, I'd have already pulled the appropriate emails and would have them sitting in a thumb drive waiting for the appropriate parties to request them. (or I'd be waiting for my truckload of used bills to be delivered to my bank account in Geneva....)
If Congress chooses not to subpoena the emails from the backup company, SonaSoft, then we all will know that we are being played...and that Ryan and his ilk are as much a part of things as Obama and Lerner.
Which opens up a whole shitload of other options.
Lampposts, ropes, cartridge boxes, Rails, tar and feathers, these are a few of the things I dream about....
Perhaps it is time we watered a tree.....
The alternatives, for both us and those who follow us, are worse that what could happen if that tree is watered.
If congress really wants to get to the bottom of this (which I am beginning to doubt, suspecting that the whole Faux Outrage is just for show) all they have to do is subpoena the company's data. Simple to do, and if THEY (SonaSoft) have lost the data, then we all will know for sure that there is a coverup. There can be only so many coincidences....
Were I the president of SonaSoft, I'd have already pulled the appropriate emails and would have them sitting in a thumb drive waiting for the appropriate parties to request them. (or I'd be waiting for my truckload of used bills to be delivered to my bank account in Geneva....)
If Congress chooses not to subpoena the emails from the backup company, SonaSoft, then we all will know that we are being played...and that Ryan and his ilk are as much a part of things as Obama and Lerner.
Which opens up a whole shitload of other options.
Lampposts, ropes, cartridge boxes, Rails, tar and feathers, these are a few of the things I dream about....
Perhaps it is time we watered a tree.....
The alternatives, for both us and those who follow us, are worse that what could happen if that tree is watered.
Saturday, June 21, 2014
Travel by air? Dislike the TSA?
Think they are a waste of money? Most people do.
Now they are a greater waste of money.
Fees to double for most air travelers
Hey, someone has to pay for those big buildings for all those administrative workers at TSA headquarters and all those VIPR teams at bus stations and such.
So now you get to pay more for ineffective security that you don't want anyway.
Because "Safety".
Now they are a greater waste of money.
Fees to double for most air travelers
Hey, someone has to pay for those big buildings for all those administrative workers at TSA headquarters and all those VIPR teams at bus stations and such.
So now you get to pay more for ineffective security that you don't want anyway.
Because "Safety".
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