So what do they want Donnie to do?

Reports are in the Media that there is (or was) a "bounty" on US servicemen fighting in Afghanistan.

Perhaps it is true, and perhaps it isn't.....Intelligence sources seem to have mixed opinions on the veracity of the claims.

But, seriously, what would they have Trump do about it if it is true?

How can it be proven one way or another?

What is he supposed to do? Protest to Russia? To the (useless) United Nations?

Start an equivalent bounty on Russian soldiers? (Bad idea, this would escalate things fairly quickly in a VERY bad direction, I think.)

Seriously, other than another club to strike at him with, what would the Left and the Media (but I repeat myself) have the President do about it?

(as an aside, a Green Beret I know who worked with Indigenous Forces in Vietnam has told me stories about bounties for the capture of or bodies of Russian "advisors" working with the Viet Cong back in the day.....)

An open letter to NASCAR Sponsors

I intend to send this to every major sponsor of NASCAR I can find a contact for:

Like most people, I was at first horrified and disturbed when I heard the news reports regarding the noose found at Bubba Wallace’s garage in Talledega Alabama Speedway. I was cheered and heartened to see that the entire field of drivers was willing to support him in the time following the “incident”. Later, I was disgusted and angered when I found out that the “noose” was in fact, a simply a garage pull rope tied in a loop, and that nearly every garage door had a similar loop tied in it…That the “noose” was, in fact, a hoax. NASCAR is still defending the story that this was a hate crime, even though the FBI has indicated otherwise.

Mr. Wallace at first claimed that the sight of the “noose” had disturbed and frightened him. Later, when the FBI had time to investigate and it was determined that the entire “noose” incident was not, in fact, racism, that the pull rope had been there for at least a year, he claimed that he “Never saw the noose himself" (in his own garage?), but had simply been told about it by Steve Phelps, President of NASCAR” in an attempt to walk back his initial statements.

I, frankly, find this race-baiting disgusting. There is enough racist incidents in our country without creating false incidents in order to generate publicity and as a vehicle to demonstrate how “woke” NASCAR is. This whole incident was, in effect, a poorly done publicity stunt.

Your firm, as a sponsor of the racers, is the heart of NASCAR. You, as the source of funding, are what keeps the racers racing and what keeps NASCAR solvent. You have a responsibility to use your influence to prevent such things from happening again, and to see to it that the people involved in the current incident are punished…..Be it the NASCAR management or Bubba Wallace himself.  THIS SORT OF BEHAVIOR CANNOT BE ALLOWED TO STAND.

I have been a NASCAR fan for many years, Often, my choice of product purchase is influenced by the sponsorship of the cars in the NASCAR season. “Win on Sunday, Sell on Monday” is often true in the case of my purchasing decisions. NASCAR sponsorship has influenced my choice of many purchases. Losing viewership such as mine will negatively affect the value of your sponsorship dollars.

It is incumbent, therefore, that your firm, as a sponsor of NASCAR teams, force NASCAR to fix this issue and punish those guilty of perpetrating this hoax, be it Steve Phelps, his managers, other NASCAR management, or whomever else in NASCAR who had knowledge of this incident. Further, Mr. Wallace was a willing participant, and needs to be sanctioned for his role in this hoax as well.  If you continue funding NASCAR teams without pressuring NASCAR to stop this behavior, then you as a corporation are complicit in funding race-baiting and perpetuating racial strife in the United States.

Failure to do so will make your firm complicit in this hoax. Failure to act, to clean up NASCAR, to prevent acts like this in the future (you obviously find sponsorship to be profitable) will result in losing me and others as customers. NASCAR fans have long memories. We can boycott as well as support team sponsors.

If you are a NASCAR fan, I strongly urge you to write a similar letter. 

I find this sad

Due to the "Noose!" hoax perpetrated by NASCAR and Bubba Wallace (if NASCAR wasn't aware of the fact that it was a hoax, then it was simply because they didn't want to be aware and chose not to bother to look at said "Noose" in an attempt to stage the Woke Theater that last week was...) I chose, for the first time in over 25 years to not watch a NASCAR race.  This is not to say that I have not  missed televised races in the past, but this is the first time I have CHOSEN to not watch, rather than having been unable, for work or family or other obligations, to have to miss watching.

I find that sad. A once mostly apolitical organization has gotten "Woke" and it will be the downfall of the sport. NASCAR has hired too many press and public opinion people and has lost their way. Soon the NASCAR organization, already floundering before this, will go the way of the Dodo, and become extinct.

The France family had better wake up.

Black Lives DON'T Matter

Apparently to the folks in the Chicago's South and West sides, that is.
21 shot, 7 dead. And that is just as of Saturday night at 10 PM.

One of the was a 20 month old boy strapped in a child seat in the back of his mother's car.

It ain't the Amish that are killing these folks.

And, oddly, this is compared to ZERO shootings by cops. Zero black people killed by cops.

But Black Lives Matter. What bullshit.

Have you noticed?

Ever since the "Covid Crisis", then, of course the BLM/George Floyd unrest, the Media has apparently simply forgotten about the Climate? No more lies about the "Warmest year on record: (when it wasn't) nor cries about Human caused "Climate Change".

Od, innit, how that subject went from the "beginning of the end of the world", to something that is just a footnote in history now that the Meeedia has something really juicy to sink their teeth into,

Yup, as long as we are purging

As I said below, lets purge all the federal projects, building, bridges, rural clinics, libraries, airports and all the other stuff that has the Grand Exalted Kleagle Cyclops of the Klu Klux Klan, Sen Robert Byrd.

I'm not the only one who thinks so.

I mean, lets be consistent.

I also think that the DNC folks need to apologize for their nearly century long association with the KKK and their obstruction of the Equal Rights Act. I think their party should, in fact, make some sort of reparations.

Plus, of course, they can wash the feet (or is it shine the shoes?) of Bubba Wallace too.

Innit interesting

So Covid-19 cases are spiking 10-15 days after the mass riots protests in many cities.

Funny how that works, ain't it?

upon further reflection

I'm thinking that the whole "Noose" thing with Bubba Wallace is just theater .

There was absolutely NOTHING to this "incident". Made up of whole cloth.

NASCAR officials HAD to have seen the supposed "Noose" and therefore had to have known what the deal was. Nothing. Absolutely NOTHING. Yet they made a big deal about it.

This was theater. Simply theater.

While I appreciate the support the other drivers gave Bubba Wallace, (if they were unaware of the real story) I find the fact that now that Bubba Wallace now claims that he NEVER ACTUALLY SAW THE NOOSE, but rather that it was just reported to him (and NASCAR) and therefore he was unaware of the actual facts (then why did he make such a big theater about it before the race? How could to have affected him so much if he was never actually aware until someone told him about it?) to be very telling. He claimed to have been "terribly affected" and that he was "tested" by this....except that now that the facts are coming out, he claims that he never actually saw the noose and therefore he was unaware of the facts....

He does say that he "has seen the pictures" and that it is a "noose" (It isn't, it is a well tied loop in the garage door pull rope) and "the FBI corroborates that fact". He's trying to cover his ass.

Did the think that someone would not investigate this? That someone would not look closely? Or (like Jussie Smollet) did they think that the rest of the world would just take their word for it?

While I do think that FIFTEEN FBI investigators was a bit excessive, I am glad that they investigated and took the time to make a statement bout their findings.... that basically said "Hoax".

I think that Bubba Wallace's popularity will be greatly reduced after this. I would bet that his career will never recover.

If this was a stunt by NASCAR, then they have broken Bubba for nothing. It does appear that there was collusion to make something from nothing.

I just cannot fathom as to what they thought the benefit would be.

Toldya so.

Is Bubba gonna apologize? Say " I'm sorry" to all those NASCAR fans he maligned with this little stunt? To the drivers and their team members who he placed under suspicion?

I'm thinking that Bubba Wallace (who is no more a representative of the African American folks in the United states tha Colin Kapernick is) should be embarrassed. He must be getting his advice on Racism from the same folks that gave Jussie Smollett (and Colin Kapernick) advice....


Seems that the "noose" that was found by someone on the Bubba Wallace NASCAR team wasn't exactly a Noose.

(and the fact that the FBI dispatched 15 people to investigate this is disgusting) (FBI statement)

It was a garage door pull rope that was exactly like every other garage door pull rope on every garage door in Talledega and most other NASCAR garages.  Simply a rope tied into a loop to make the door easier to pull down.

Of course, if you are looking hard enough, you can find SOMETHING that can be "racist".

So I wonder if he'd know an actual "noose" if he saw one?

I find it hard to believe that Bubba is that stupid, nor that anyone else in the garage is that stupid....or that they couldn't recognize the piece of rope for what it was. (or was everyone too afraid to point out that it was just a garage door rope, fearful that they would be shunned for pointing out the obvious: that it wasn't a noose?)

I believe this was all a stunt.

And it'll backfire.
Badly.

No matter how much outrage you demonstrate when people point out the above

Question:

So my local media is pushing the fact that the number of positive Covid-19 tests is again on the rise.

The number of TESTS has increased daily. I mean the total number of people tested has grown. There are a greater number of people that get tested every day.

One statistic that is NOT being disseminated is the percentage of positive tests....In other words what percentage of the total number of people tested show a positive?

It would seem to me that this is a more reliable indicator of the spread of the disease. If last week the authorities tested, say, 20,000 people and (just a number) 2000 came back positive, then that would be a positive rate of 10%. If the week before they had tested 10,000 and 5000 came back positive, then that would have been a rate of 50%.

But we don't get that statistic. We get "Number of Positive Cases" which without the underlying data does not tell us anything. Unless we adjust for the total number of tests, we don't get any useful data.

Why is it that the media doesn't give us the whole story? Are they incompetent to understand the concept? Or is it just another attempt at fearmongering? Or is the data not disseminated to them by the medical authorities so they can continue to have a reason for the restrictions that they have placed upon the people and the damage to the economy?

I have found that, generally, when someone gives me incomplete statistics they are trying to hide something from me......

My money is on "False Flag"

So reports say that a "Noose" was found in the garage of Bubba Wallace's NASCAR team on Sunday. 

I've had press passes to the NASCAR team areas. Spent many hours in the garages and pit areas.

At no time is the garage nor the cars unattended. We are talking Millions of dollars worth of equipment, parts and, of course, the car itself. They are never left unattended. No one gets into the garage without being cleared.

If there was a noose placed in the garage then it was placed with the knowledge and  acquiescence of the team.

I call Bullshit on this one. This is about as real as the Jussie Smollet incident.

Exalted Grand Kleagle of the Klan:

So are the Black Lives Matter folks gonna demand the eradication of the statues and the removal of the names of the (many many) buildings that were named for him?

You know, the (Democrat) Senator that gave so much of the taxpayers money to the folks in West Virginia while also leading the Klan as the Grand Kleagle or whatever his title was as the National Leader of the Klu Klux Klan?

Yes, I am referring to the grand exalted Kleagle (and Senator) Robert C Byrd. The one whose name adorns nearly every third library, post office, DMV in West Virginia?

The Senator who has 5 out of 8 bridges (large AND small) named after him in the State?
Whose name adorns an AIRPORT?

You know, the Democrat Senator who opposed the Civil Rights Act, who opposed LBGT rights,
Who was Eulogized after his death by both Barry Obama and Nancy Pelosi (spit), and whom Hillary Clinton (and Bill as well) considered to be a mentor? .....Even though he was a racist, by any reasonable definition.

Is Nancy gonna have his portrait removed from the Halls of the Capitol, and his name stricken from the records of the House and Senate?

Are we gonna remove him from history like the Mob wishes to remove those statues? And as Nancy did with those Representatives who were Confederates?

And after that, are they gonna go after Yale University?

I am lucky

Father's Day.

I have something to celebrate.

I had a Dad. He was there from my earliest memories.

He taught me right from wrong, taught me to THINK, to analyze, to have a moral code. Taught me to look beyond today, beyond the immediate.

Dad took a little monster of a boy child, and helped guide me and shape me into the man I am today.

My Dad grows smarter every day that I am alive. Thankfully, he was able to impart some of that wisdom to me before I really needed it.

I think today's "Woke" youth shows what happens when boys and young men don't have a Dad.

As I said, I was lucky.

Happy Father's Day, Dad. Thanks. 

Except when they don't.

Black Lives Matter.....Right?


So I fully expect to see the people marching in the streets, demanding that the perpetrator of this heinous crime be hung or something.

And I fully expect marchers to be demanding that something be done to change this systemic killing of children and young adults.

I expect Al Sharpton and the other black "preachers" to tell us all how this sort of killing is forever scarring the soul of the Black Community...

Or not. 

A 3-year-old was shot and killed while riding in a vehicle Saturday night in the Austin neighborhood on Chicago's West Side

A three year old child....Does That Life Matter? 

(and there were over 50 other people shot in the greater South and West sides in Chicago this weekend...)

Anyone wanna bet that the "Black Community" will ignore this? That they will simply chalk it up to another day in the South Side of Chicago?  Since this isn't unusual in the black community (Drive by shootings are common in the Austin neighborhood) and since the media (and whoever drove the George Floyd protest circus) isn't fanning the outrage, I will bet good hard cash that there will be .....nothing. No protest, no marches (and therefore, thankfully, no looting) but also no calls for "justice" no calls for "reform" , no cries of "racism" ('cause chances are it wasn't a white man who did the shooting).....And chances are that the stepdad who was driving wasn't a choirboy....And he knows who did this. 

In other words, "Black Lives Matter" only when the Media pushes the meme and when it is a black criminal at the hands of a white police officer....And there is cell phone video that can be edited to make it look like injustice. 

So why do the police allow it?

Many statues taken down by the crowds in cities across the country today, Saturday, June 20th.

Yet the police stand by and watch.

Blatant Destruction of Public Property. Easy to see. Easy, really, to stop.

Yet they stand there.

Are they afraid of the crowd?

Or are they under orders to stand their by the Mayors of those (generally, but not always) Blue cities?

Either way, are the police not supposed to prevent such actions? Or are they simply political police, who only enforce laws and prevent actions when it is easy and approved? 

Again, if the elected government chooses to pass legislation to remove the statues, that is one thing: But to allow a Mob to make that decision?

At what point will the Police step up and stop this behavior?

Note: these folks destroying the statues claim they are "Racist".

Do I get to destroy things that I see as "racist"?  Just because I FEELZ that it is racist? Who gets to decide the validity of the "Felling" of something being "Racist"?

CMP goodness

So Fed-Ex delivered my 1911 to the FFl .

On Monday, they called and said that my number had come up and I was gonna get the 1911 I had applied for. They shipped it Tuesday, and it arrived Wed

I got to see it, and handle it, but can't take delivery until Thursday evening.

It is a Remington Rand, likely delivered in late 1944.

It has a new barrel and bushing, is nicely (re)-parkerized, and has an obviously new bit of lockwork. The trigger and hammer appear to be correct, but I'm not enough of an expert to know for sure at first glance. ...The trigger is crisp, but is gonna take some shooting to smooth out and lighten up. I bet it is 6 lbs. Kinda looks like they jacked up the slide and the frame and replaced everything under the hood....

I'll take a box of 50 ball ammo and see how well it shoots tonight. I'ts not gonna be a safe queen. Maybe not a carry gun, but few of my firearms are safe queens.

Might do pictures later. 

Things you never expect to hear

"Uh, Gary tower, Conqust 4588...there's a really HUGE snapping turtle on the taxiway"

"Ok, We will send someone out".

And a few minutes later, as I taxiied past the turtle "Gonna take take 2 or more people to move him, he's better than 18 inches across".

I hope they didn't hurt him moving him off the runway. As I departed, they had a big rope they were pulling him with, one guy on each side, sliding him off the pavement. 

I bet he was more than 50 years old. 

Oddly, they are never choirboys

Nearly every person who is shot by police, be they black miscreants or white miscreants, Hispanic or Asian, innocent or not, has had experience with the police and the court system before.

Example: our Black Man killed by police du jour: Mr. Rayshard Brooks.

He had been arrested and imprisoned in 2014 for FOUR charges.... False Imprisonment, Simple Battery/Family, Battery Simple and Felony Cruelty/Cruelty to Children. He was on probation. 

Not a choirboy, as they say.

And, apparently, that explains why he fought arrest. He didn't want to go back to prison (even though it was a futile thing, they knew who he was and they had his car....they would simply have issued a warrant and added to his woes with two additional charges...resisting arrest and felony DWI...but I doubt, in the heat of the moment, he was thinking rationally.

No one, especially the media (or the BLM folks) ever seem to notice that they are backing a criminal. It doesn't matter to them, all they see is a Black Man. Which raises the question:

Who is the racist here? 

Just say "no"

I'm not advocating Mob Rule here, but since the Governments seem to be allowing the Mob to run rampant, perhaps others in our society should start taking matters into our own hands a bit, if only to stop the wholesale destruction of our history....

Perhaps it is time for some upstanding citizens to start defending those monuments the Mob hates so much, and that the police are choosing not to defend.

Since the police are standing by while Mobs of Black Lives Matter (or those claiming to be) are tearing down monuments. Perhaps we should stand between them and the Mob. A line of people, perhaps carrying signs (conveniently) stapled to a Louisville Slugger shaped handle. Of course, things could get somewhat ...Kinetic...in the ensuing argument, but that might not be a bad thing, as long as no one died or was too seriously injured.  Not advocating violence here, but a line of people standing around these monuments, simply saying"no" and refusing to let them pass with their ropes and sledgehammers and crowbars might be a good thing.

If some folks then got bruises, it might make the others think.

We have what we have in this country because we protect it. We pay our police offers (via taxes) to do that protecting...normally. If, however, the police choose to stand by and allow a Mob to wantonly destroy our public treasures, then perhaps we, as a population need to step up.

I'd much rather the police do so, mind you. They are trained and have the tools to (more or less) properly restrain the miscreants. We don't. But needs be when the police are absent or fail to act.

Yes, this also makes Us a Mob. But a mob bent on protecting rather than destroying.

The real reason these people do what they do is because they are no stopped nor disciplined for doing. Like a child or a puppy that is never disciplined, they never learn right from wrong.

A bit of Hickory Shampoo might teach them, if the police choose not to stop them.

Again, not advocating that we hunt them down or anything, simply that we stand in their way as they try to do illegal acts.

What happens then is up to the Mob themselves.

wasn't it just about 19 years ago

That the Left told us not to judge an entire group based on the actions and behavior of just a few?

Of course, that was Muslims. Followers of the Koran, the word of Mohammed the Prophet....a downtrodden minority group.

But they won't give the same consideration to cops...police, the enforcers of the laws of the country. They are a reviled group, hated by those folks who don't think that the rules apply to them. Instead, they judge all cops on the behavior of a few.

If you remove the Left's double standards, they'd have no standards at all.