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What is Wrong with this Picture?

Do not try to adjust your set.
There is no picture.

I'm watching Fox.
A nice lady is interviewing a gun range owner via KATY, TX.
He says the difference between an assault weapon and an assault rifle is semi-auto vs automatic action (single shot per pull vs "machine gun").
Does he think he's helping? What an idiot.
Then he has his assistant demonstrate the two rifles WHILE HE AND THE REPORTER ARE AHEAD OF THE FIRING LINE!
Argghhhhh.
But the demonstration in the difference of rate of fire makes it clear.
Regardless of how alike they look, one is a single shot per pull of trigger rifle which happens to look like the military version, which is a "machine gun" (fully automatic).
Just leave the word assault out of it. It's a fabrication.
You can be "assaulted" by a baseball bat.
Wouldn't it be nice to have a gun at that time?

Paradigm Shift

I'm confused. Is that seven in the mag, (one in the pipe is eight) or seven in the gun?
It could change the movies.
"I know what you're thinking. ... Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement I kind of lost track myself. ... you've got to ask yourself one question: "Do I feel lucky?" Well, do ya, punk?"

1972

Joe asked

I obliged.

A Question

I was asked (on Facebook) by an atheist I know from high school:

"You never did answer my question about how you reconcile your deep, raw unbridled hatred of Barak Obama with your professed belief in Christianity. How does that work?"

My reply:

I did answer your question.
My niece did an even better job.
And I will admit, unlike then, that I do hate Obama.
A deep visceral hatred of which I am not proud.
But it is the response of a man to a despot who would subvert the Constitution of the United States after swearing to uphold it.
It is the response to a man who condones the daily death of thousands of innocent babies, even those who have survived the abortion.
Of a man who intentionally weakens the position of the only decent superpower on this earth, a force for good.
Of a man who enslaves our (yes yours also) children with debt having the intent to destroy the America they might have inherited.
I'm not proud of it.
I must ask God to help me overcome it.
And it is a hallmark of Christianity that I do.
That's how that works.

Impeachable Offense?

Obama once again vowed that he would defend the Constitution.
Under oath.
I rest my case.

Zero Dark Thirty

Nobody I know is blogging about this, so Ed rushes in where angels fear to tread.

Not an Obama-fest in the least. If nothing else it shows that Obama's policies have dried up our intel.
I liked it.
Made our people look good.

So many were afraid if would lionize His Highness Obama the First before the election.
Hardly.
His only appearance was on a TV screen saying we don't torture people.
This was after seeing a lot of aggressive interrogation.

Let me say, if we interrogated these clowns like this, I have no problem with it.
If torture is to twist and bend someone or something to your will, then this was torture.
If torture is permanent disfigurement, dismemberment, disablement, etc., this was not it.

I liked it.
I really would like to discuss it.

An Important Distinction

Have you ever met someone so smart that it was hard to follow them because they were talking about things they could understand but you couldn't?

Have you ever met someone so deluded that it was hard to follow them because they were talking about things they could understand but you couldn't?

Has it ever been hard to tell the difference?
Just ask them if they support Obama.

"We are Americans"

From Fox News:

State officials in Oregon and Texas are vowing to fight back against any attempt by the federal government to impose new gun control laws.
The warnings come as President Obama prepares to unveil a "comprehensive" plan to address gun violence, based on the recommendations from the Vice President Biden-led task force. The plan is expected to include a call for legislation to ban assault weapons as well as a variety of executive actions.
But in Oregon, Linn County Sheriff Tim Mueller wrote a letter to Biden Monday saying his department will not enforce any new gun laws it considers unconstitutional.
Mueller said politicians are "attempting to exploit the deaths of innocent victims" by supporting laws that would harm law-abiding Americans. The sheriff said he took an oath to support the Constitution, and laws preventing citizens from owning certain semi-automatic firearms and ammunition magazines would violate their rights.
"We are Americans," Mueller wrote. "We must not allow, nor shall we tolerate, the actions of criminals, no matter how heinous the crimes, to prompt politicians to enact laws that will infringe upon the liberties of responsible citizens who have broken no laws."
Meanwhile, 1200 WOAI reports that in Texas, Republican state Rep. Steve Toth plans to introduce a bill that would make it illegal to enforce in the state any federal laws restricting semi-automatic firearms or the size of gun magazines.


Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/01/15/ore-sheriff-says-wont-enforce-new-gun-laws/#ixzz2IAAbx183

This Guy:

This guy said that if we don't raise the credit limit of the U.S.:

Soldiers, nuclear inspectors, important people wouldn't get paid.

He didn't mention himself, or the other politicians.

This guy said that if we don't raise the credit limit of the U.S.:

Soldiers, nuclear inspectors, important people wouldn't get paid.

Then he said that the full faith credit of the U.S. was not a bargaining chip.

Of course, that's what he just used it as.

This guy said that if we don't raise the credit limit of the U.S.:

Soldiers, nuclear inspectors, important people wouldn't get paid.

He didn't say that 40% of every tax dollar pays that debt.

And he says we don't have a spending problem.

He needs an intervention.

Sunday Thinking

When I was a young sprout in the United States Air Force, when I was in Tech School (right after Basic Training), I had a position called Bay Chief.
This meant that although I didn't have a specific task in cleaning the barracks,
I was responsible to see that it all got done.
I also had the responsibility of marching the troops to and from class.
I took this task so that I wouldn't have to labor under some egotistical narcissist, of which I'd seen a few.
I learned most of what I know about supervising and leading people from that experience.

An example:
One day, while we were in class learning about grid lock bias, or some such, I was told that the C.O. was going to inspect the barracks while we were in class.
I did a bad thing.
I snuck out of class and ran across base to check on the condition of the barracks.

Let me say something about the barracks.
We were stationed in Biloxi Mississppi.
If you ever saw the movie, Biloxi Blues, you saw our barracks.
They were WW2 vintage, yet very well maintained.
They were also divided into two man rooms (where the rows of cots in an open bay barracks would be) with a hallway down the center that led to the latrine (bathroom).

When I had left the barracks in the morning I had been satisfied with the condition, but I wanted to make sure there wasn't a stray item I had missed.
When I got to the barracks, the Colonel and his First Sergeant were at the stairs.
Upon seeing me, the colonel invited me to join him, even though he must have known I was AWOL from class.
We went from room to room, each one squared away perfectly, the floors polished, beds made, surfaces dusted.
He commented positively as we went along.
We got to the bathroom, which looked impressively clean.
Then he looked in the urinal and asked me why that stuff was around the holes in the drain.
I replied that I had seen the airman scrub it as best he could and that I couldn't get it out either.

The Colonel then reached into his pocket, took out his penknife, reached in to the urinal and scraped the crust from around the hole. He turned to the no-stripe airman next to him and told me that that was how it was done.
He then went to the sink and washed his knife and hands, then placed the knife back in his pocket.

Later that day, I showed the guy in charge of urinals what I had been shown, just as I was shown.

I think it's obvious that that lesson has remained with me to this day.

I thought of it today in church, in a context that I had never thought of before.

My Commanding Officer,
the Lord of all the universe,
who sat in majesty amid worshiping creatures and impeccable purity,
when He saw that I didn't know how to deal with the crud in my life,
didn't know how to do the job He expected of me,
He came down to this dirty, corrupt and defiled world to show me how to do it,
knowing we would torture Him to death.
I guess that along with showing us how to live,
He thought He'd take the opportunity to show us how to die.
And rise again.

Bizarro World

PRAVDA! Say this:

These days, there are few things to admire about the socialist, bankrupt and culturally degenerating USA, but at least so far, one thing remains: the right to bear arms and use deadly force to defend one's self and possessions.

This will probably come as a total shock to most of my Western readers, but at one point, Russia was one of the most heavily armed societies on earth. This was, of course, when we were free under the Tsar. Weapons, from swords and spears to pistols, rifles and shotguns were everywhere, common items. People carried them concealed, they carried them holstered. Fighting knives were a prominent part of many traditional attires and those little tubes criss crossing on the costumes of Cossacks and various Caucasian peoples? Well those are bullet holders for rifles.

Various armies, such as the Poles, during the Смута (Times of Troubles), or Napoleon, or the Germans even as the Tsarist state collapsed under the weight of WW1 and Wall Street monies, found that holding Russian lands was much much harder than taking them and taking was no easy walk in the park but a blood bath all its own. In holding, one faced an extremely well armed and aggressive population Hell bent on exterminating or driving out the aggressor.

This well armed population was what allowed the various White factions to rise up, no matter how disorganized politically and militarily they were in 1918 and wage a savage civil war against the Reds. It should be noted that many of these armies were armed peasants, villagers, farmers and merchants, protecting their own. If it had not been for Washington's clandestine support of and for the Reds, history would have gone quite differently.

And there's more at the link.

This is not the first time I've seena Pravda article warning us about Obama policies.
Is that weird or what?

Home Theater

I finally got my Christmas wish.
Of three years ago.

Three years ago I began to hope for an LCD TV.
It didn't happen that year.
It was hard to cost justify.
It had to be a 32" to fit in the entertainment center/bookcase my dad and I had built into the wall.
I don't have a basement and I don't regret it, so there's no place to put a huge screen.
And there's no need since the Cathode Ray Tube TV refused to die or misbehave.
Last Christmas my wife allowed we might get an LCD.
This would be the first step in attaining my goal of having the TV attached to a computer that would be networked to my server in another room.
This TV would serve as a monitor for that computer which would play my MP3s and DVD images stored on the server.
Turns out the computer I had in mind was not substantial enough to drive the larger screen.
We watched Netflix on a Wii, but that interface drives me nuts.
Yet the Wii had better video out than the computer.
I'd been spending the last few months looking at barebone HTPCs that would serve the purpose.
I couldn't get one new for less than $250.
Just before Christmas, Craigslist had a computer with monitor for $200.
I offered $150 via e-mail but got no reply.
Phoned a few days later and sealed the deal for the $200.
Turns out they lived nearby and went to a church near mine.
I was disappointed that it ran Vista.
When I powered it up it had 64 bit Vista and 4 gig Ram installed!
This was far better that the HP website indicated that model was (32 bit).
Hooked it up to the TV and still disappointed when running Netflix.
It still had Jittery video through the VGA adapter.
So Scherie let me spring another $40 for an HDMI card for the computer.
VOILA!
I can now watch Netflix, Youtube (some stunning HD videos shot from aircraft there), DVDs and stored video on the hard drive.
It's like having a DVD changer with capacity for 100s of discs.
To listen to music, I go to the MP3 folder and launch the album I want.
Internet Radio (TuneIn.com, et al) gives me talk radio without the AM buzz and squeals.

Next is the catheter and I'm set for the night.

A Fine Line

I have to balance:
the anger I feel inside towards every moron that voted Democrat/Communist this last election,
The desire to:
punch them in the face;
to yell, scream at and berate them in private and in public for being so stupid as to foster the destruction of our culture, our economy, our nation,
with the necessity of having to:
work with them,
not disrupt family or church events,
to keep lines of communication open to them,
to help them realize the enormity of their mistake,
to show them the way back,
to love them as my Savior loved me as I hung Him on a cross.

The words "Lord Help Me" have rarely held more meaning.

Happy New Year

In reviewing the past year, the happiest point in our lives here is that Scherie is seizure free now.
It's getting so that I react less to noises in the other room.

The low point is and has been the election.

But you knew that.

My prognostication for the New Year:
The year ahead holds many surprises.
Some good, some bad.

May the good outnumber and outweigh the bad for all of us.