Oops!

There is a reason semis are prohibited from driving on New York State parkways...


Yikes


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The Argument For Concealed Carry

 Gummint releases hundreds thousands of criminal aliens.

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) released 36,007 convicted criminal aliens last year who were awaiting the outcome of deportation proceedings, according to a report issued Monday by the Center for Immigration Studies.
The group of released criminals includes those convicted of homicide, sexual assault, kidnapping and aggravated assault, according to the report, which cites a document prepared by the ICE. . . .
According to the report, the 36,007 individuals released represented nearly 88,000 convictions, including:

•193 homicide convictions
•426 sexual assault convictions
•303 kidnapping convictions
•1,075 aggravated assault convictions
•1,160 stolen vehicle convictions
•9,187 dangerous drug convictions
•16,070 drunk or drugged driving convictions

In effect, the administration has, as Bill Otis puts it, “unleashed its own crime wave.”


If this isn't a cause for people to embrace Second Amendment rights and get serious about concealed carry & personal safety, then you deserve to wait to 10-30 minutes for cops to show up after you make that 911 call.



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Master Chief? Darth Vader?

Sargent Smith?

Quite interesting new US Army headgear concept...
Comes with chem & bio filters...
Probably useful for piloting TIE fighters too.

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The Mission, Should You Decide To Accept It...

I got this one while I was still in Sochi...
I decided it would be prudent to avoid poking the KGB (or it's bastard stepchilluns) in the eye whilst still in-country.

(click pic for bigness)

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Gojira!

Opening today- at a theater near you!




I might have to go to see this one at an IMAX theatre..



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To Subdue Bad Soybeans?

.40 caliber SMGs.
Really. For the Department of Agriculture.
Here.

Dept of Agriculture wants the guns to have an "ambidextrous safety, semiautomatic or 2 round burts [sic] trigger group, Tritium night sights front and rear, rails for attachment of flashlight (front under fore group) and scope (top rear), stock collapsible or folding," and a "30 rd. capacity" magazine.

Wow. 30 round mags. And 2-round burst capability? True double taps, I guess.

I guess they're expecting some trouble with the Children of the Corn.

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Lunch With the Brotherhood

Lunching with a couple members of the ODMQD* we got to discussing politics (duh).
One of the Brothers had read my latest screed and brought (on his iPad) an email regarding the dangers of being opposite the Clintons and how it can be hazardous to one's health.

 Federal agents killed in the Branch Davidian raid in Waco, Tom McKeehan, Conway Le Bleu, and Robert Williams, were former Clinton bodyguards. (February 26, 1993)

    Attorney Paul Wilcher, who investigated drug and gun running out of Mena, Arkansas and their links to the Branch Davidians, died of undetermined causes three weeks after submitting a 99 page affidavit to Attorney General Janet Reno. (June 23, 1993)

    Four Marine presidential crewmen who escorted Clinton on the flight to the Carrier Roosevelt, Maj. William S. Barkley, Capt. Scott J. Reynolds, Staff Sgt. Brian D. Haney and Sgt. Timothy D. Sabel, died in a helicopter crash. (May 19, 1993)

    Others associated with Clinton's March 12, 1993 visit to the Carrier Roosevelt (the meeting aboard the Roosevelt figures prominently in the U.N. Bosnia-Serbia peace keeping plans) who died in aviation accidents within four months of each other, include: Maj. Gen. Jarrett J. Robertson, Col. William J. Densberger, Col. Robert J. Kelley, and five Naval Aviators.

    Vincent Foster, Hillary's former Rose Law Firm Associate and legal council to the President, allegedly committed suicide, using a non-traceable hand gun, built from parts of several guns. Shadows of doubt cast by reports of not finding a suicide note were addressed when a note was miraculously produced much later, torn into pieces, void of fingerprints. Missing was the piece where the signature would appear. (July 7, 1993)

    Paula Gober, who traveled extensively with Clinton as his interpreter for the hearing-impaired, was killed in a solo auto accident near Monticello, Arkansas. Her body was found 33 feet away from her overturned car. (December 9, 1992)

    Clinton's State Attorney General Susan Coleman, who allegedly had an affair with Clinton, was shot in the back of her head.

    Arkansas pornography and prostitution ring 'model' Judy Gibbs, a frequent sexual partner of then-Governor Clinton, burned to death in a fire inside her home following her decision to cooperate with police.

    Clinton strategist and Democratic National Committee Political Director, Paul Tully, was found dead of unknown causes in a Little Rock hotel room. (September 9, 1992).

    Clintons national finance co-chairman and operator of a telecommunication service used by international police, C. Victor Raiser II, and his son Montgomery Raiser were killed in a private plane crash. (June 30, 1992)

    Clinton fund raiser Herschel Friday, an attorney from Little Rock, was killed in a single-engine plane accident.

    Clinton administration advisors on health care reform Stanley Heard and Steven Dickson were killed in the crash of their rented plane shortly after takeoff from Dulles Airport.

    Jim Wilhite, a friend of Bill Clinton and a business associate of White House Chief of Staff Mack McLarty, suffered fatal head injuries in a skiing accident. (December 12, 1992)

    The death of prominent attorney, developer, and Clinton fund-raiser, Ed Wiley, was ruled a suicide though no suicide note was found, nor was there an apparent motive for suicide. (November 30, 1993)

    Clinton¹s Chief of Security in Arkansas, Jerry Parks, was found along a roadside, riddled with bullets. Files kept in his office were missing.

    Dr. Ronald Rogers, believed to be on his way to an interview to reveal information about Clinton to a London Sunday Telegraph reporter, died in a plane crash. (March 3 1994)

    A witness for Paula Jones, Kathy Ferguson, the ex-wife of Arkansas State Trooper and Clinton bodyguard Danny Ferguson, was shot behind the left ear. The death was ruled a suicide. (May 11, 1994)

    Kathy Ferguson's fiance, Arkansas policeman Bill Shelton, who was critical of the Ferguson suicide ruling, died of a gunshot wound behind the left ear. His death was ruled a suicide. (June 1994).

    Jon Parnell Walker, a Resolution Trust Corporation investigator probing illegalities between the Clintons and Madison Guaranty S&L, allegedly committed suicide by leaping from the top of a 22-story apartment building.

    Stanley Huggin, an investigator into Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan, was found dead in Delaware.

    Admiral Jeremy M. (Mike) Boords, Chief of Naval Operations, shot himself in the chest with a .38 caliber handgun a few minutes before her was to be interviewed by a Newsweek reporter. He was tipped off that he would be asked two questions: Did he know Jonathon Jay Pollard? And, was he Pollard's 'handler' at the Navy Department?

    Commerce Secretary Ron Brown, 34 American industrialists and flight crew aboard the Presidential plane Air Force-2 were killed when the Boeing T-43-A crashes into Sveti Ivan, Croatia, April 3, 1996. Air Force Stewardess Shelly Kelly, who is riding in the tail, sustains only minor cuts and bruises, and was able to board a rescue helicopter without assistance. She later dies at the hospital from loss of blood. According to journalist Joe L. Jordan, an autopsy later reveals a neat three-inch incision over her main femoral artery that was inflicted at least three hours after all her other cuts and bruises. Clinton hastily orders all bodies of the victims to be cremated.

    Maintenance Chief Niko Jerkuic, in charge of the radio beacon that guided Air Force-2 to the runway at Cilipi Airport, commits suicide by shooting himself in the chest. Cilipi¹s air traffic controller also commits suicide and the tapes of the control tower disappear

And the hits (heh) keep coming. (Benghazi, etc.)

I've seen this bit o' foolscap before, and it seems like it's going to be getting more life (heh) as the political seasons start to ramp up...

My man xbradtc over at Bring the heat Bring the Stupid opines that the most dangerous job in the world is to be an associate of the Clinton's...
Based on the proffered list, one might think so.
(The only more dangerous occupation/pastime for anyone, especially young urban males is "turning his life around")

Regarding the *cough cough* unfortunate circumstances *cough cough* of the demise of damn near everyone that pisses off or has dirt on the Clintons - I immediately head over to the bastion of debunking Snopes.com to look up the Clinton Body Count.
Sadly- the operators of Snopes are tried-and-true kool-aid drinkers of the Left, so you have to be a little careful with the "pay no attention to the man behind the curtain" you get regarding anything damaging to Obama, the Clintons, or the Left in general.
In this particular case they give a quick handwave to all the items-
"it could happen to anyone, nothing to see here... move along"

Well... whether there is a Clinton Kiss of Death or not, things are going to get quite interesting in the next few months.

*Don't ask.
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Perception: See It For What It Is

Have you seen all the push for Feminism and Gender Equality lately?

Of course you have. How could you not?
MSNBC is rapidly shifting from "durr - stoopid Rethuglicans and Tea Baggers" and "Chris Christie is a big stupid poopy head" to "Fems Now!" and "Men Suck!" and the real MSM is not too far behind.

Figured it out yet?

I'm a dumbass and barely have two brain cells left from my sordid yoot in the Keys, but it sure looks to me like the Great Leftist Long-Con for 2016: Put Hillary back in the White House...
You know - the same method they used in 2007-2008 to hype up all your White Guilt and get Obama elected.

(There is a discussion if the same "guilt tactics" were invoked for 2012: "Well- I voted for HopenChange in 2008, and if I changed my vote now, I think that would make me racist."
Yours Truly, however, thinks this is incorrect- 2012 was the result of the longest (and definitely most expensive) re-election campaign in US History- Obama started running for re-election on November 5th, 2008.)

They (ah, the ubiquitous "they", those bastards) are humpin' and bumpin' to position Hillary as "The One" to heal all gender inequality and put men (especially white males*) in their appropriate place- kinda like Obama was supposed to do as we were regaled with tales of how he was going to bring about bipartisanship, transparency, racial healing, and that he'd roll back global warming, heal the break of dawn and bring temporary relief to nymphomaniacs.

And we can all see how that worked out.

Don't. Fall. For. It.

HRC and the Clinton Machine will be a mixture of Clinton 3.0 and Obama 3.0




Pay attention this election season- and in 2016.






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*Hmmm.
Food for thought:
Who developed the A Bomb? Who developed the Hydrogen Bomb? Who invented the gun and other automatic weapons? Who dropped the bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima killing old people and children who were not soldiers but citizens who were not fighting? Who in WorldWarII annihilated 20 million Turks, retarded & deformed people, and Jews? Who was behind the mass murders of the Armenian people? Who is inventing and manufacturing most of the guns in the world? Who is developing GM foods and forcing us to eat them? Who is running the world from Germany and the UN? Who has most of the world's money besides the Catholic Church?What color is the Catholic Church's Hierarchy? What color are the Heads of Monsanto? What color are the people who own the car and gas companies that are actively destroying the natural resources of the world as we sit here now?What color are those who are trying to tap oil from the great Barrier Reef? What color are the scientists who are working night and day on chemical weapons and germwarfare? What color are most of the NWO and the NewGlobalEconomy? What color are the capitalists who move us by the millions, jacking up the prices of utilities and all merchandise? What color are the heads of companies who move their companies overseas leaving Americans broke and destitute after years of good loyal service?
What color are the heads of companies that get the ludicrously expensive contracts from our government? What color was the congress in 1860 who instituted a campaign that lead the American People to believe that the Native Americans were Godless, heathen people just because they wanted some free land? What color were the Robber Barons of the Train Industry? What color are the heads of companies in this country who have faked forms and information that allowed one water or land grab after another?

I'll give you a hint- It's the same guys that are HRCs business partners, advisers, consultants and major contributors.
The same ones that help Bush(s), Romney, Biden and the rest of the Washington crowd.
Wake up.

Let's See A Show Of Hands...

Who's up for a quick trip to Amsterdam to see if we can get arrested?
"...with a side-order of police brutality, please."
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Libations

My kinda place...

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Coincidence?

I think not....

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I'm Not OCD But...

...shit like this drives me outta my friggin' gourd.



(And what sadistic bastard decided that the acronym for something like obsessive/compulsive disorder would be okay to be out of alpha order?
Was it the same bastard who put an "s" in "lisp"?)


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Mother's Day

"Mom...Mom! Look Mom! Mom! I'm hungry Mom. Mom? Let's play, Mom! Mom! Mom, Can we go outside? Mom!"
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Biting the Bullet...

...As opposed to firing them.
(They are too damn expensive and scarce to shoot these days.)

So, I need to get back on the saddle and kick out some content...

(This being said after the third email I've received asking what was wrong, what's happened, why haven't you put anything up lately, etc.)

Truth is, I just haven't been motivated enough to cough up the words.
I have plenty of opinions, but writing up why the current political situation is so repellent to me, or why some or other social convention is so stupid is just not worth my time...

But- there are other observations to make, other stuff to share- so....


Let's ease back in to this... A little current events-

First- recent history-
I was up in Augusta at the nice golf course and things went passably well.
And... that's about all I can say about that.

While I was gone I sent the Japanese Space Vehicle into the shop for some much needed maintenance. The machine has been getting harder and harder to start, especially when the engine was warm- usually an indicator that a valve job is needed.
Flush and fill on the cooling system, oil change (which I'd usually do myself), and a valve job (which I can't do myself). $1,500 later I am back on two wheels.
It was a little steep, but lacking the time and talent involved in getting it done- screw it- I'll pay for it.
Let's see- what else...

Stuff I'm starting to get worried about: Smart Home Appliances...
I keep hearing about smart appliance that will be able to communicate different bits of information- the 'fridge texting you to say you're out of milk, etc.

This cannot be a good trend...















I'm really not ready for technology that is smarter than I am... Between the Woman, the Perfect Child, and the Dark Menace, I have enough of an inferiority complex as it is...

All right... I'll try to keep this thing churning as much as I can...

Some content from Daily Dot

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Good One...

Quote of the Week
(So far...)

We were pulling out of a parking lot this evening when a delivery vehicle came blazing by, cutting us off.

As he passed by we saw the cartop sign for Jimmy Johns sandwich shop.
Our resident propeller-head piped up.

"Wow... He *was* going freaky fast."

Very impressive, young Skywalker...

TBG

Never Fear...

Not to worry, Constant Readers...



No worries- just busy as hell.

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Sunday Interlude

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Home Sweet Home

If you know Jacksonville, you'll love this...

Wow. The truth hurts, don't it?

TBG - between The Ditch and the Good Looking People.

Scary Thoughts

Some What-Ifs regarding MH370...

What if a certain (extremely violent) religious faction with a bunch of money wanted a jumbo jet... Something with long range and significant cargo capacity.

A faction that could afford to buy off a pilot and copilot for several million bucks? Disappear forever money. A group that could co-opt an airstrip in a third or fourth-world shithole on the dirty end of Southeast Asia to hide said jumbo until they are ready to move...

Said faction could probably easily put their hands on the requisite gallons of fuel to fly that jumbo pretty much anywhere they want... And load the plane with 55 gallon drums of accelerant.

And the people that were on it? That particular faction doesn't, as a rule, have any problem with up-close mass murder to further their cause. Just adds to their terror quotient...

Could said jumbo jet be flown from the aforementioned shithole 'under the radar' to a meaningful target without detection?

I hate to be paranoid, but I don't think I'd want to be in/near a high-value target until they get everything sorted out.

But that's just me.

Your mileage might vary...

TBG

Channeling Fred Flintstone

Brontosaurus Rib with BBQ Corn, jalapeno poppers and cheesegrits cake.
Mmmmmm.

TBG at 4Rivers

Trying Something New

So...
I just got back from some meetings in NY and NJ.

Usually I get a rental car but this time I decided to try public transportation- taking the train and buses to get around...
Caught the train into Penn Station from EWR- that was pretty painless.

Getting back out to NJ for my next meeting was up next.

I took a PATH bus from Port Authority out to Secaucus...

It might not be a big deal to you, but I usually ride a motorcycle...
I've never driven a bus through the Lincoln Tunnel before.
F'n scary.


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Happy

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TBG, contemplating pie for dessert tonight.

Travelers Blues

I should be on final into Jax right now.

Instead I'm sitting on the runway at EWR. For the last hour.

On my last nerve.

Winter is Coming

4:30am

On the way to EWR.
It's 24 degrees with a 20 knot wind, that's 9 degrees with the wind chill factor.
This sucks out loud.

You Yankees have been going through this kinda crap all winter?

Man. Y'all are tougher than I thought.

TBG, standing on the platform waiting on the train.
Fukkin' freezing.

On Being A Glasshole

-or-

I got them early adopter blues

-----

Preface: pls pardon the lack of formatting and illustrations.

I'm sitting at a NJ Dunkin' Donuts writing this on the Blogger app on my iPad, which lacks some of the subtlety of the PC Blogger app.

I'd normally eschew dining at a place with such an egregiously grammatically incorrect and misspelled name, but the only other place nearby is Fourbucks, sorry, Starbucks and after 6 weeks of that in Sochi, well, I'd rather drink rainwater out of the gutter on Bourbon Street than give the Seattle mermaid  my money. But I digress...

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I was, briefly, a Glasshole.

I got an email last week from The Google (the G-Spot? The Big G? Need to come up with a properly mildly derisive term for Google) inviting me, for a relatively obscene amount of money, to join the Google Glass Explorer's Club, with all the rights and privileges (like getting thrown out of bars and clubs, or attacked on the street for invading someone's soi disant privacy) thereof.

Stupid expensive, because I could build at least two well-appointed AR-15s, buy a dozen Mosins, or go hafsies on an FN-SCAR if I could find some poor fool that wanted to waste the big wad of cash that Google wants for a pair (?) of Google Glasses.

(Hm. That's uncomfortable to write too... That singular-plural paradox- a 'pair of pants' vs 'a bra'. GGlass is one item. One unit. How 'bout we call 'em 'Glosses'?)

So... Google gets you coming and going... Kinda like them forcing you to get a G+ account in order to comment on YouTube a few months ago. To throw that big wad of your hard-earned rubles (53,650rub) at them, you have to have a Google Wallet. Fortunately for me, I already have a GWallet. It goes well with my G+ account, my GLicense, GMail, GCondoms, and will help immensely with my GLobotomy this summer.

When you do throw your money at them, they have the good sense to really deliver... Like the very next day. I ordered it on Thursday afternoon and got my Glosses on Friday morning.

Yay.

I had had a conversation with The Big Hat (now the 2nd Biggest Hat after our buy-out) regarding Glosses last fall. He had mentioned that it'd be good to get them into the hands of our propeller-heads back in development to see if there is anything they could be useful for in the scoring/timing/stats/sports technology area... We have several folks that applied to Google for Glosses but so far I'm the only one to get one. 

I had to give them a test flight... I got them configured, figured out how to control them- how to get data into and out of them, how to do searches, emails, and took some pictures and videos...

All without leaving my office...

To tell the truth, I was a little hesitant to walk around even in the relatively safe environs of the office mainly because a significant portion of our staff are suspicious to the point of cutting a piece of opaque tape on the built-in cameras on their laptops. They'd most likely freak to see The Office Ogre walking around with a video camera stuck to my forehead.

And this is the problem I have with that kind of mentality in people...

These people freak out when they see new technology that could possibly be used to eavesdrop on them, but have no problem with the thousands of CCTV cameras they walk around and under every day. 

It thinking about this, I did an informal survey as I walked around Jax Airport, EWR & Manhattan yesterday... I stopped counting at 1500 cameras around 3:00pm.

When you stop to look for it, there are an obscene number of cameras watching us at any given moment.

As I write this, I'm in the view of 4 cameras inside the store, there is one that can see me through the front window, one that can probably see me on the ATM across the courtyard, at least 4 more watching the courtyard outside, and no doubt several more at the other stores and restaurants that I will pass by.

What prompted this was a piece on CNN last night that showed video inside the club in SanFran (Molotov) that was made by a girl wearing Glosses as she was attacked, verbally and physically, for wearing them.

People complained that their privacy was being compromised and that they were having their oh-so-precious rights violated. You can see on the video several of those unobtrusive clear hemispheres mounted in the ceiling, each containing a CCTV camera...

I guess those don't count when one is concerned with privacy violations. Hypocrisy much?

I monkeyed around with the Glosses on the weekend... They are cool.

I shot a little video riding my bike (dangerous- need video display blanking app when doing this)... I shot a little video playing the Dark Menace.

They would probably, in the right environment, be more useful (or useful more often) than a couple home-grown ARs... Perhaps not as soul-soothing, but from a opportunity-to-use standpoint I'd get more mileage from Glosses...

They have been factory-reset now and the Chief Propeller Head has them...

I'll be interested to see what he is able to come up with.

I have a new toy to play with...

I got a Google Chromecast unit for Christmas... It's been sitting on the shelf waiting for my return from the Far Side of the World. When I get back from this trip I'm going to see what kind of trouble I can get into with it. 

(Can you say "copyright violation' children? I knew you could.)

Onward, through the fog...

TBG

5:30am Flight to EWR

I hope this  one doesn't just disappear off the radar...

TBG

Borepatch Finally Got a New Bike!

Sweet!



Road trip?



Yes please!

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Opulent Diner Refuses To Help Feed Poor Muslim Man

No.. Wait... Let me turn off the Progressive filter in Blogger.

New Headline:

"Man Attacked for Refusing Stranger's Demand for a Bite of His Burrito"
Ah. That's better.

24-year-old man walked up to a stranger sitting outside of a Seattle restaurant, demanded a bite of his burrito and attacked the victim when he refused, police said Wednesday.
When the victim refused, the 24-year-old suspect shoved the victim and again demanded a bite. When the victim stood up, police said, the suspect punched the victim in the head and ran off.

 I wonder if Seattle has a "Stand Your Ground Beef" law?

 
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6 Words

Don't you think she looks tired?



And hospitalized for a blood clot near her (so called) brain?
My my.
Spread the word.

(h/t to Midwest Chick!)
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Sunday Morning Musical Interlude

Wechselstrom / Gleichstrom - Vom Blitz Getroffen

Seriously- give it a listen.

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