Sure glad we have a classy First Lady!

You can't make this stuff up.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nice bra . . .good fit

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In the field with the “common man. . ..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We all need another dietary lecture from this role model. . .

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The fashionista First Lady. . .

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Peacock Dress, a warm-up for. . .

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Pinata Dress

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here’s what CHANGE will get you. . . Deplaning Air Force One

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A European laughing stock. . .

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The black widow . . We ALL remember this one!
Harbinger of things to come. . .

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

At least her bare arms are not showing, nor do we have to look from behind.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And that ugly BELT! Under her boobs no less! Are we proud yet????

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

She LOVES that belt! Especially with Argyle prints. . .

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Versatility! The belt is so appropriate for sober, formal occasions as well. . 

Left to right - Princess Letizia of Spain , French First Lady Carla Bruni and,
yep, you guessed it – The Double Wide – sleeveless, no less.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You gotta love a thong and a great pair of well fitted pants to show it off.
Are there no mirrors in The White House????
Panty lines, blue shoes with green and yellow outfit------------Oh, come on!!!!

 

After next January, perhaps we will be getting used to this:

 

 

Message from Israel

This is going around on email lists I subscribe to:

 Subject:  Israel

All, a dear friend posted this earlier on Facebook, and I'd like everyone to see it, so I am sending it out to my email list.  I really hope this doesn't spell all out war in the Middle East.  Please pray for Israel and all those in the Middle East that are caught in the violence!  Gail   Subject: Exerpt from an email I just received My brother and his family live in Jerusalem - he is a minister - and a former Navy SEAL - his office is close to one of Israel 's largest underground military bases. He called me last night which is very unusual - usually it is email. ... He called to tell me that he is sending his family back to the US immediately due to what he is seeing happen within the last week and what he is being told by his military contacts in both the Israel and US military. He said he is seeing with his own eyes military movements the likes of which he has never seen in his 20+ years in Israel . What he called a massive redeployment and protective tactics of forces is underway. Over the last two days he has seen anti-aircraft missile deployments throughout the Jerusalem area including 3 mobile units that he can see from his office windows. In addition, he has seen very large Israeli armored columns moving fast toward the Sinia where Egypt has now moved in Armor. There are reports of the top military leaders meeting with Israel 's Sr. Rabi which is something that has happened preceding every prior military campaign. His admonition is to watch carefully and pra y for Israel and its people. He is convinced that barring something extraordinary Israel will attack Iran - with or without the US - and very soon. It is the belief in Israel that Obama does not stand with Israel but with the Arab countries. He has told me before that Israel will saber rattle from time to time but that this time is very different from what he is seeing and hearing.  He was at the Wailing Wall 2 days ago and there were hundreds of IDF soldiers there. As he was leaving he passed at least 20 military buses full of soldiers in route to the wall. He has never seen this before either. Just thought I would pass this along.  My brother is not an alarmist by any means. When he talks like this it gets my attention for sure and usually I find he knows more than he shares. There are reports that Israel is asking Obama to come to Israel immediately but they are being answered with silence.   My opinion is that I see the making of the perfect storm.

His true goal revealed

I always thought he was pushing Marxism - looks like I was wrong.
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Op-Ed: The Obama Domino Doctrine: Pro-Iran/Anti-Saudi

Published: Tuesday, February 28, 2012 5:35 AM

Obama has his own Domino Doctrine for the Muslim world. As a consequence of this doctrine, Obama’s Iranian Nuclear policy can be summed up as “full of sound and fury, signifying nothing” and Saudi Arabia is in even more danger than Israel.

Mark Langfan

The writer, has created an original educational 3d Topographic Map System of Israel to facilitate clear understanding of the dangers facing Israel and its water supply. It has been studied by US lawmakers and can be seen at www.marklangfan.com.

► More from this writer

Remember, for one second, in January 2011, before even a dozen demonstrators were killed, a small herd of camel-riding Mubarakists rode into Tahrir Square trampling some protesters underfoot, and Obama immediately flew into an apoplectic rage, gliding close to personally claiming that Mubarak was a war criminal for attacking peaceful "democratic" demonstrators.

But in February 2012, after  Assad has murdered over 10,000 Sunni mostly totally unarmed civilians by lobbing barrages of multiple rounds of artillery into Homs, why is Obama all but numbingly silent in-between his own barrages of multiple rounds of 18-hole golf?

The reason: the US President Obama has artfully and silently pivoted US Middle East Policy from a Pro-Saudi, Anti-Iran paradigm to a Pro-Iran, Anti-Saudi imperative.

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Either study your Korans and learn to kneel, or get ready to fight. No other choices.

Thanks to Barking Moonbat Early Warning System

Worth repeating

Ann Barnhardt speaks truth:





Too bad she had to waste that bacon - it's contaminated after the use she put it to.

Tripling down on stupid

The Ill-Annoys Department of Transportation (IDOT) has been working on extending the four-lane part of Ill. Rte. 2 north from Rockford to south of Latham Road since back in February. Rte 2 has been a two-lane road with clearly marked passing zones for decades. When the construction is finished, this original section of Rte. 2 will be a frontage road.

About a month ago, they put up two of those electronic bulletin boards with the messages "TWO-WAY TRAFFIC" and "PASS WHEN ALLOWED", one at either end of the existing two-lane portion paralleling the new road.

About two weeks ago, they doubled down with big orange warning signs showing up and down arrows, indicating two-way traffic - something usually reserved for four-lane roads narrowed down during construction.

Last week, big rectangular orange signs with the legend "TWO WAY TRAFFIC NEXT X miles" went up - one telling us the next three miles of the two-mile zone is two-way, and the other about two miles south on the northbound lanes telling us that the zone is two miles long. At least they got that distance right.

Rte. 2 in this area is not all that heavily traveled, but I can see that the solons in charge are "thinking ahead" - they put in a beautiful chunk of four-lane interstate quality road from the south side of South Beloit for about four miles - a typical federally-funded pork project "road to nowhere". So, ultimately, they will end up taking a few dozen homes and farms by eminent domain to make the four-lane continuous from Rockford to South Beloit, enabling heavy development of a nice open agricultural area that developers would never look at without the road improvements. For Sale signs are up on several farms in the area already.

What I don't understand is how Ill-Annoys is affording all this road improvement when the state is supposedly bankrupt. Federal "stimulus" money stolen from our great-grand kids, I suppose. There are numerous bridges on Rte. 251 between Machesney Park and South Beloit getting rebuilt - these are bridges that were in reasonable shape, not the ones we hear about in dire need of fixing, and the intersection with Rte. 173 has been under construction for over a year now. Rte. 251 is the major route between Beloit and Rockford.

I have long suspected that when they named IDOT, they forgot the second 'I'.

Bumper sticker

 

More information and an address to order them HERE.

Video from Texas

Reminder

The proximate cause of the recent Muslim uprisings

A low-budget movie produced a few years back - "Innocence of Muslims":



As long as Muslims are so thin-skinned that stuff like this can cause such violence, I cannot believe that Islam is a true "religion".

If America still had leadership with any guts whatsoever, the Marines would be landed in Libya and Egypt already, cleaning up the rabble who attacked our embassies.

Where are you, President Jefferson? We need some whoop-ass applied around the Barbary Coast again.

UPDATE: The original video was "removed by the author". This one is shorter, but still shoes  a couple of good snarky scenes.

Ten rules for gun owners

Obamanation!

Ray Stevens does it:

National Anthem

Let's help Madison Rising reach a million views before November.



Go to the link and download!

Radio Ad

Down in Texas.

Own a Mac?

Want to run Windows?

Well, it's your right to choose - and if 100,000 people sign up at codeweavers, thy are giving away their crossover software.

All you have to do is give them your name and email and pledge to VOTE in November.

Go here: http://www.codeweavers.com/flockthevote/

DNC handout

Interview with the mystery man's associates

More evidence that this guy is a dyed-in-the-wool Commie...

 

September 3, 2012 by Leon Puissegur

Interview: Obama Had Marxist Vision For US At Occidental College

Has anyone ever been interested in President Obama’s ideological past? What were Obama’s beliefs while he was at Occidental? Several interviews by Dr. John Drew during the 2008 campaign cycle gave some insight, but few were interested at that time in what Obama really believed when he attended Occidental College. (See “Meeting Young Obama” and “Even Republicans Rejected Info About Obama’s Past” at www.americanthinker.com/john_drew/). Dr. Drew wrote, “Meeting Obama”, about Obama and his ideology about taking the United States over and making it fail so the, “revolution” could in his article “Meeting Young Obama” on February 24, 2011. He clearly remembers what Obama stated, in his own words, “Like it was yesterday”. Obama espoused without hesitation, “There’s going to be a revolution,” saying, “we need to be organized and grow the movement.” This is disturbing due to the fact what our nation is going through right now drives it to the edge of failure; just what the young Obama stated he wanted to accomplish in 1980: the end of capitalism in the United States.

Read more: http://freedomoutpost.com/2012/09/interview-obama-had-marxist-vision-for-us-at-occidental-college/#ixzz25S7mv2rR

Miracle!

Bill Whittle does it again!



The "hidden hand" aiding him - who does it belong to?

Vehicle maintenance

In the past two months, I've done quite a bit of needed repairs on various vehicles.

I rebuilt the C5 transmission in my 1984 F150. First American automatic I've ever touched - and it runs like new. If it lasts as long as the inline 6 I rebuilt in the same truck - 28,000 miles - I'll be happy.

Put a new steering gear in my 1991 VW Vanagon. Ended up replacing all the hard lines to it, as the originals finally disintegrated from rust - the torsion of disconnecting them snapped 'em right off. All the Bus needs now is a good brake bleeding, and some body work.

The local golf cart shop near Rockford had a used motor just like the one I have with the chewed-up crankshaft - $100. Had to transfer the piston and cylinder from the original motor to the new one as the new one had a destroyed piston. It ran great until the centrifugal clutch / spring loaded pulley transmission started throwing the big belt. The aluminum spring-loaded driven pulley's thrust collar disintegrated - so I made a new one out of steel. My wife now can get to the back of the property with her gardening stuff again. What with the drought, at least there wasn't a whole lot of work to do back there while the cart was broken.

Had my 1978 Yamaha XS650 die on the way to work a few weeks back - lost power and blew a whole lot of oil smoke. Turns out the cheap gas I was running, coupled with too much advance on the right cylinder caused destructive detonation.

Now I know what that rattling noise on hard acceleration was...

Two new pistons and rings, and new head and cylinder base gaskets. The bike runs better than ever - I don't think the rings ever seated properly after the last rebuild - probably because I neglected to re-hone the cylinder when I had to pull the engine apart last Spring. Lesson learned. I'm running ethanol-free 93 octane from now on.

Still to do - body work on my 1963 Beetle, and a new rear lid and left side center section clip on the Vanagon. I really need a bigger garage...

Deja vu?

He's a one trick pony...



Found at Ace of Spades

A month or two late...

Back in the last week of July, we had a near-tornado hit here. I was up in my shop working when it happened - the whole second floor was moving.

Then the tower that carries my Internet connection and the repeater for the neighborhood went down - BANG.

As soon as the storm abated enough to go out and look, sure enough, my 70' Rohn 25 tower was twisted over the roof, almost touching the ground in front. The repeater pilot lights were still lit.

The next day I took these:

The guy wires are still all attached.

The notch in the roof is my doing - I set the base of the tower 6" too far south.

The wide band company sent a crew out the next day to take the old tower down. Expensive scrap metal. Two sections are recoverable for my ham tower, I think.

The tower was guyed about halfway up. The north guy was loose before the storm - I had told the wide band company about it, but they never got someone out to fix it. I'm long past the point where I climb towers.

No damage to the roof, amazingly.

The new tower, with proper guy wires installed:

One section taller than before, and one dish less loading.

It took almost three weeks for the tower to get replaced. Internet withdrawal is tough - one reason I haven't posted a lot even once I got back on the air.

Proof the Demonrats will use the graveyard vote!

Excerpt from an email from MoveOn.org:

Dear MoveOn member,

A couple of months ago, I sat down with leaders of the AFL-CIO for a really hard conversation.

With all the money Karl Rove, the Koch Brothers, and others are spending to defeat President Obama—we needed to do something truly game changing, or President Obama could really lose this election.

And we decided the only way to beat the GOP money machine was to team up and dig deep in the grassroots to create the biggest independent get-out-the-vote campaign in the country.

Obviously they are referring to exhumation as a way of getting out the vote...expect union gravediggers to lead the way!

Why am I not surprised?

Communist Party Endorses Obama For 2012

AP Graphics

By Aaron Klein, World Net Daily

It may be early in the campaign season, but the Communist Party USA already has seen fit to endorse Barack Obama for the 2012 election.

Oops

Police shoot nine innocent bystanders in NYC Empire State "mass shooting".

If Bloomberg really wants to stop "gun violence" in his city, maybe he should start with disarming the police...

http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/25/justice/new-york-empire-state-shooting/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

What's next?

Unbelievable.
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There is a 3,000-lb. granite monument that has been placed in a shopping center in Barack Obama’s hometown of Chicago to commemorate a certain act of his.

You will be forgiven if you cannot immediately recall any noteworthy accomplishments in this man’s life. Sometimes we choose to forget the things that most pain us.

You might have forgotten, for instance, that there is an effective unemployment rate in this country of around 14 percent. (Of course, our officially recorded unemployment rate is 8.3 percent, and it has been that way for a record 43 months.) It is a bitter pill, but it is real and it must not be forgotten. Is this the accomplishment of Obama’s that the Chicago shopping center chose to memorialize? No. But that is understandable, given Illinois’s painful unemployment rate of 8.9 percent.

Read more: http://politicaloutcast.com/2012/08/barack-and-michelle-and-the-cult-of-personality/#ixzz247tFNuka

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Inquiring minds want to know - who paid for this?

Campaign poster

Got a smart meter?

How about a little open-source code?
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Smart meter hack framework goes open-source

SecureState posts ‘Metasploit-like’ code

By Richard Chirgwin • Get more from this author

Posted in Security, 22nd July 2012 22:57 GMT

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Security outfit SecureState’s smart meter hacking framework, Termineter, has gone live over at Google Code.

The software is described as having a structure like Metasploit, with a similar interface and ability to be extended with external modules.

Termineter isn’t up to the full doomsday-scenario “remote attack” that troubles owners of critical infrastructure who stupidly opened up their control interfaces to the Internet (so as to save themselves the cost of private networks): it gathers smart meter data over the devices’ local serial optical interfaces.

SecureState announced its intention to release the software at the end of June. At the time, SecureState said the software allowed users to test for vulnerabilities such as energy consumption fraud and network hijacking.

In addition, Termineter can read from and write to tables in the smart meter, as well as parsing security, modem and log tables. To allow it to be open-sourced, the software focuses on the ANSI C12.18 and C12.19 standards used in smart meters. Users would need to write or acquire separate modules to access vendor-specific information.

As SecurityWeek notes, the tool is to be demonstrated in public at Las Vegas at the Security B-Sides conference on Wednesday July 25. ®

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Use this information responsibly!

Aurora shooting

Good article.
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Saturday, 21 July 2012 14:00

Two Aurora Shootings: One Widely Known; the Other Ignored

Written by  Bob Adelmann
On April 22 of this year a convicted felon, just out of jail, went to an Aurora, Colorado, church and shot and killed a member of the congregation before being killed himself by a congregant carrying a gun.

On July 20, following the horrific shooting at a movie theater in Aurora, President Obama offered his condolences to the victims of the more recent tragedy. "Our time here [on Earth] is limited and it is precious," the president said. "And what matters at the end of the day is not the small things, it’s not the trivial things which so often consume us and our daily lives. It’s about how we choose to treat one another and how we love one another."

Obama then led his supporters at a rally in Fort Myers, Florida, in a moment of silent prayer “for all the victims of less publicized acts of violence that plague our communities every single day.”
No doubt the president was unaware of the other, less-publicized lethal shooting that took place earlier in the year in Aurora, when there was only one victim, thanks to the quick thinking and action of a responsibly armed individual. Aurora police spokesman Frank Fania asked rhetorically: “Who knows what would’ve happened if the [church member, an off-duty police officer] had not been there? It certainly could have been a lot worse.”

How much worse? Could the killing spree have been as bad as the shooting at the movie theater, where a dozen victims lost their lives? Thankfully, we'll never know.
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Read the whole thing.

 The MSM has a tradition of ignoring anything that proves the failure of gun control and the truth of how following our Constitution to the letter promotes freedom and public safety.

Besides, in the first shooting there wasn't enough blood and drama.

Let 'em hear from you

The Demonrats want to know about Mitt Romney's "hidden" income and such. You can go here to leave a comment:

http://www.trickymitt.org/

Since I am a "member" of MoveOn, I get these little gems from time to time. I told them "Since the President hasn't released ANY of his records, why should Romney release any more?".

If you use your real email, you likely will get on a Demonrat mailing list.

Aurora, Colorado

My thoughts.

I've heard that the theater had a "no weapons" policy, but have been unable to find any support for this. If so, another "gun free zone" and the persons responsible for it are as culpable as the shooter.

Every major print story I have read mentions "the gunman". Why are guns singled out when a nutcase commits an evil act? You never hear of the "baseball bat man" or "the switchblade man" - but almost without fail, the "gunman" gets print.

There's no way to prove that the presence of one or more armed moviegoers could have stopped the rampage, but they surely couldn't have made things any worse.

The media instantly jumped on a Tea Party member with a similar name. Not coincidence. It's happened too many times that a conservative is instantly conjured up as the evildoer, and often it it shown later that the perpetrator was actually a leftie-liberal of some sort, if not a card-carrying Demonrat.

Rumors are starting that there was some sort of a "government plot" involved here. I wouldn't put it past the liberal left's command cabal to try and set up something like this - is the technical term "black swan"?

Eyewitnesses say a second party was involved, opening the exit door from inside after using a cell phone.

Of course, the "usual suspects" are out there screaming for more gun control, and isn't it really curious that a vote on that UN small arms treaty is being considered?

More useless ideas

As if criminals are going to volunteer for a check - or the black-market seller will ask...

Wisconsin police chiefs call for tougher gun checks

Updated: Monday, 16 Jul 2012, 7:44 AM CDT
Published : Monday, 16 Jul 2012, 7:44 AM CDT

MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Wisconsin's police chiefs are pushing to expand background checks on gun buyers.

The Wisconsin Chiefs of Police Association and the National Law Enforcement Partnership to Prevent Gun Violence plan to meet with Wisconsin U.S. Senate candidates on Monday and Tuesday to discuss potential federal legislation that would require buyers in private gun sales to undergo a background check.

Oregon, Wis., Police Chief Doug Pettit is chairman of the WCPA's legislative committee. He says currently only people who buy guns from a federally licensed dealer must pass a background check. He says expanding the requirement to all sales would prevent people who can't legally possess guns from obtaining them.

The chiefs association and the national gun violence prevention group plan to hold a news conference in Madison on Tuesday as well.

H/t Alphecca

These are the same elected officials that at times ignore the State's Attorney when they are told that simply carrying a sidearm is not a cause for a stop - let alone an arrest.

Wonder who the "National Law Enforcement Partnership to Prevent Gun Violence" are? This might help explain. Note the URL.

Real fireworks!

I've always thought a modern fireworks display could be performed on the Moon, using 100-MT hydrogen bursts with suitable doping substances to make pretty colors. It wouldn't have to be just gratuitous waste of good nukes, either - they could be used to excavate for those Lunar cities we have been denied so far.

H/t Ace of Spades

The lowdown on the economy

and what Osama has done to help destroy it at Nobody Asked Me

Go read.

Teaser

Atlas Shrugged Part 2:

Some video

A couple of videos you might not have seen:

To Serve and Protect? Not in Nawlins!



Greenies teaching reporters to bend the facts:

Free CCW classes

Greetings in freedom,

Wisconsin Carry has a FREE concealed carry license training course scheduled for this Saturday.  If you or anyone  you know needs to obtain the state mandated "proof of training" certificate, this free class is open to the public (with advanced registration)

Details:

Place: Wood County Rifle and Pistol Club, 920 Griffith Avenue  Wisconsin Rapids, WI 54494  ( About 250 ft East of the Intersection of Hwy 13 (8th St So.) and County Road Z on the south side of Griffith Ave.)
 
Date: Saturday, July 21st, 2012
 
Time: Two Sessions: Morning 8:00 AM to 12 Noon or Afternoon 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM  
 
Pre-registration is required .
 
For more information and pre-registration, please email fred@wisconsincarry.org

Carry On,

Nik Clark
Chairman/President - Wisconsin Carry, inc. 
nik@wisconsincarry.org
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Free phones!

Just ask Uncle Sam - someone else will pay the bill...



A feel-good law that did what every feel-good law does - nothing good.

The ultimate in green vehicles!

The NEW Prius!

Musical Interlude

Always in good taste:

Saluting our Dear Leader

As he passed through Ohio in his Canadian-built luxury bus.

I'm reminded of one of the old Soviet premiers - Brezhnev? - who collected American limos at his dacha...

End the TSA

It's illegal under our Constitution, and a stupid idea at best.

Global gun control?

Osama and Hitlary are going to "sign a UN treaty" banning all our guns:



I still expect that the law will be obeyed - the Senate must ratify it, and then, it must NOT conflict with the Constitution...

Happy Fourth of July!

From someone who values America as it should be:



Found at A Trainwreck in Maxwell

SOS answered

Back in June, my email and web server, running Ubuntu 11.10, needed to reboot after a routine update - so I clicked "OK".

Bad move - on reboot, the grub bootloader couldn't find the boot code. No amount of effort on my part could fix this - evidently the update stepped on something critical.


So, I reloaded Ubuntu from the CD - thinking I could simply follow the online setup instructions I used last time to recover my web site and email server, The web server came right back - but email?

Bad assumption - the how-to now installs imap in place of pop3, and evidently was not strictly compatible with Ubuntu 11.10. Spent the better part of three weeks fighting with postfix and courier - finally broke down and cried for help on the Rockford Linux users group list.

Got an email from Dan yesterday, who was not otherwise involved with 4th of July festivites. He drove out here and spent half the day and well into the night beating the system into submission.

So, I've now got email back. Next task is to get the backup Ubuntu box running so this never happens again. And, I've made a new friend!

Too neat to ignore

Via Atomic Nerds:

Save a tree - abolish the BATFE!

Just got a love note from these guys - as a FFL, I am required (by an illegal rule promulgated by an illegal bureaucracy) to use the latest and greatest issue of the good-old 4473 form whenever I transfer a freedom tool to a citizen exercising his or her inalienable right - as guaranteed to not be infringed by the Second Amendment of that almost forgotten document.

Well, the pencil-pushers decided that there's no reason anymore to verify that a resident alien is truly a resident of the state he or she attempts to purchase a firearm in - so all those yellow 4473s are not obsolete and "illegal" to use after July 9th.

So, a stack of about 200 of them just went into the garbage - I won't glorify them with recycling.

How many millions were just wasted on printing a new 4473, and mailing half a ream of paper to every FFL in America?

OsamaCare is NOT un-Constitutional

Lots of laws are Constitutional and still smell to high heaven. This outreeks all of them.

The justices did manage to rule that the "individual mandate" is a TAX, which is exactly opposite to what Osama has been telling us for the last three years.

As Borepatch puts it, "what a disaster for the Democratic Party".

Nancy Pee-Lousy may be celebrating right now - we'll see how she feels come mid-November.

Romney is already planning his repeal of this unspeakable monstrosity. We will see if he has the guts - and the Congressional backing - otherwise, we are stuck with the one of the worst aspects of  (once) Great Britain...

Americans with Disabilities Act

Just saw where the Justice Department has made a bunch of new declarations about the application of the ADA. http://www.access-board.gov/recreation/final.htm

Among them - shooting ranges must be wheelchair accessible at every firing station. This should do wonders for such sports as cowboy action shooting and anything that requires agility and speed.

Golf courses must have access to all putting greens, etc. How does someone in a wheelchair swing a golf club?

All new amusement park rides must be wheelchair accessible. I guess we've seen the last of amusement parks in America, not to mention little carnivals.

They already have forced many community swimming pools to close because the alternative was to install thousands of dollars worth of "access" equipment that likely will never be used in most cases.

The definition of "handicapped" is "anyone who feels handicapped for a physical or mental reason". I have a gimpy foot as a reminder of my motorcycle mishap - so conceivably I could get a "handicapped" license plate on my two-wheel motorcycle. Ludicrous.

Let's get a few things straight.

First, the world isn't fair, and the government cannot regulate fairness. No law ever changed reality, let alone human nature. No mountain will ever be wheelchair accessible and still be a challenge to climbers.

"Public" facilities - those run by government agencies - should be the ONLY targets of legislation like the ADA. Anything else is fascism.

Perhaps it's time for a little civil activism - if everyone applies for a handicapped sticker or license plate, and is denied because of a bureaucrat's decision, and sues, the federal government will be so tied up in lawsuits they might not be able to function.

Beautiful dreams...

Or, we could just repeal this feel-good piece of crap. If a business doesn't provide handicap access, for instance, they lose business, and if people feel strongly enough about it, there will be boycotts and such - and if the pressure is great enough, the business will adapt - "good will" is critical to a business.

Let social pressure change things - not lawmakers.

Ads are gone

I finally got sick of giving a free ride to anyone Google wanted to post to my blog - so Google ads are gone.

It's not like I was ever going to see a payment from them, anyway. For the entire time they were enabled, I "earned" about $6 - and they only pay in multiples of some ridiculous amount.

Equal rights

Found at A Trainwreck in Maxwell

What's good for the goose...

Someone doesn't remember his own history...

Free CCW classes

Greetings in Freedom,

Wisconsin Carry has a limited schedule of free concealed carry license training courses over the summer months.  If you attend one of these classes, you will leave with the "proof of training" document you need to submit with your concealed carry license application to the State of Wisconsin.

These classes are FREE and open to the public (but you must pre-register)  If you already have your concealed weapons license please pass this information along to any friends/family who might need their proof of training to get their license as well.

We have a few classes available currently:

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Beloit (Rock County)
June 24th (this sunday)  
Sunday June 24 2012
9.am to 1pm at the Beloit Masonic Temple, Beloit, WI 
for details email: timelliottenv@yahoo.com

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Milwaukee:
July 2nd 5pm to 9pm
To attend this class email instructor Scott Schiefe for details -  Ever_Vigilant@wi.rr.com

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July 7th Juneau Wisconsin (Dodge County)  1pm to 5pm
Pumpkin Center Sportsmans Club:
Register at the following link:  http://www.pumpkincentersportsmens.com/register.htm
Email instructor Rich Koprek with any questions:  concealed@pumpkincentersportsmens.com

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Ixonia (Jefferson County):
July 14h, 2012
9am to 1pm
to attend this class email instructor Jim Burgess - jrjburgess@tds.net

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For each of these classes, contact the instructor to reserve a space.  You will also need to print and bring documents 1 - 6 from the following link to class:  (these are class notes)

http://www.dwave.net/~phred/WCI_Downloads.html

Carry On,

Nik Clark
Chairman/President - Wisconsin Carry, Inc. 
www.wiscosnincarry.org
nik@wisconsincarry.org
www.youtube.com/wisconsincarry
www.twitter.com/wisconsincarry
www.facebook.com/groups/wisconsincarry

$1.5e12 in savings over 10 years?

It's easy -



Too bad the typical Congresscritter is dumber than those squirrels...

Musings

Damn.

Had so many good ideas for posts at work, and can't remember them now...

Got to get me a little notebook or audio recorder...

Zen and the art of motocycle repair

Not much Zen, lots of wrenching action.

Wednesday, I got the gaskets I ordered for my XS650 - I found the pesky oil leak at last, coming from the front of the head gasket. Spent the evening putting the engine back together and reinstalling it.

It started with much effort and ran like crap. Timing was way off. Damn - I managed to get the cam timing off by one link in the chain. Too tired to do any more, so went in and took a hot soak.

Thursday, pulled the motor again - one hour - and found the cam indeed was one link advanced. Reset the cam, made DAMN sure it was right. After dinner, put it back in and tried it.

Started right up, ran nice. Set the timing, took a test ride. Runs good. Back to the garage.

Found the right exhaust pipe had spewed a slug of dirty black crap out - figure it was all the rich from when the cam was miss-set and carbon. No more smoke after that purged.

I count myself very lucky that I didn't bend a valve - this is an interference design.

Rode in to work this morning - ran real nice. No leaks apparent after letting it set all morning.

On the way home, stopped at the coin car wash and power-washed it to clean up the last of the dirty fingerprints and crud. No leaks apparent when I got home and parked it.

Now - we'll see if I can go a full tank without having to add oil...

Oh NO!

I'm a dead man! Just got this:

hello my name is killer demon am from china i've no other job than to kill to survive...you have been betrayed by some one 

very very close to you .I have been paid to  kill you. I don't know what your offenses might be  and i don't care to know..
but the person wants you dead and right now your life is in my hands.. If You want to live then make an offer, and right now

you have just 78hours to live after that me and my men shall come 

for your life and mark my word we shall not spare you.. And as am writing this mail to you my men are surrounding your house 
right now watching you and if you do anything stupid by going to the police or any force then you shall receive  a 

gun short from us.. but i can help you if you will pay me double of what i have been paid... then i can tell you who 

wants you dead..but that will be after you have paid to save your life..your life is in your hands now.

This is to Warn you that you must keep this as very confidential as possible the moment we find out that this information 
is been revealed then we shall take your life without any pity, right now let me inform you that your enemy is very close to you
as i'm sending this mail to you now.....remember do not tell anybody if i tell you who wants you dead... as soon as you tell anyone
then the information will spread and you will be dead.

you can contact me on this email( xyzabcedf098@aol.com

KILLER DEMON.

Anyone know the best way to respond to this? Is .44 Magnum too heavy for email assassin? I don't want to ruin the pelt...

Broken golf carts and raccoons

My wife took the Harley golf cart out back to pursue her ongoing war on parsnips in the back CRP field. About an hour later she walked back. Dead cart.

My son and I drove back - the cart had thrown the main belt, and the flywheel was loose. I repaired that about a year ago with a new key way in the flywheel, but the crankshaft key cut was mushroomed, and I tried to do a jury-rig with JB Weld - which held up for almost a full season. Towed it back up to the big garage.

Looks like I'm going to have to tear the motor down all the way and weld up the damaged key cut, and then re-machine the taper and Woodruff key cut.

Son told me about seeing "eyes" up on the roof where we've heard scrabbling sounds lately. Went up with the big flashlight and a mirror on a stick, and verified that there's a hollow space behind the eave over the back part of the house - with a raccoon living in it. At least there's no direct connection to the attic.

Next project - chase out the critter and block off the hollow area.

Take Your Daughter to the Range Day!

Both of my daughters are good shots, so today I took my 7-year old granddaughter and her Mom out back to the range. I have a pink Crickett .22 single shot I bought just for her.

She was drilled in the four rules before she got  here, and followed them with minor reminders at first. By the end she was setting the rifle down gently and announcing "Going downrange!" before running down to see how she did.

Shooting at about 30 yards, she was getting into a Shoot N See target pretty regularly. Several bull's eyes.

I let her empty one magazine out of the 10-22 at the end, though I had to help support the rifle a bit - she's a skinny kid, and the Ruger is a bit heavy for her.

She wants to go shooting "every time they come" now.

Ray Bradbury

A great American died this week.

Ray Bradbury was the very first writer I ever read as a child. My oldest sister gave me a membership in the Science Fiction Book Club for my birthday back in 1962, and one of the very first books that came was "Twice 22". I have been devouring his words ever since.

The world will not see his like again.

And now, the reaction from the dark side

Classy people acting reasonably.

“Kill Scott Walker”: Angry libs flood Twitter with death threats after Wisconsin recall defeat

H/t Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler

What's the definition of "landslide"?

Walker got more votes in the Demonrat - driven recall than he got in 2010.

53% - 46% for Barrett. Similar for Kleefisch.

I guess Wisconsin is sane after all.

What a waste of time and money. I hope this is a harbinger of November!

One sour note - Lehman vs. Wanggaard in the 21st District Senate race - Demonrat Lehman is winning by 2%, or 779 votes. The Demonrats wanted a recount, they were saying yesterday even before the polls closed - this looks like a perfect place to start. All we need is to find 800 or so graveyard Demonrat votes, and we retain control of the Wisconsin legislature.

If not, gridlock is better than having Demonrats in control.

National Take Your Daughter to the Range Day!

This coming Saturday - http://nationaltakeyourdaughtertotherangeday.com/

I'm hoping for a couple grandkids out on my range...

Jesse Jackass in Wisconsin!

Chicago's favorite race-baiting "reverend" is coming north out of the People's Republik of Ill-Annoys to raise some hell up here.

If he wants to march on MY gun shop, he's going to find out how Cheeseheads react to trespassers.

Video from the story at Cowboy Byte:



I doubt he will get to Beloit - Milwaukee is so much more friendly to his ilk, with Barrett in charge.

GM == China Motors

Sickening:

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=Lvl5Gan69Wo

LOST

We will be - if this passes...
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Senate Considers Ceding Power to U.N., Sinking U.S. Economy in One Blow

posted on June 4, 2012 by Tad Cronn 

Just like a horror movie series, evil-minded Soviet-era treaties just keep coming back to life, aided by their acolytes in the United States Senate.

John Kerry, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and mate of the Heinz ketchup fortune, last week decided to revisit the aptly named Law of the Sea Treaty — or LOST.
This treaty was originally rejected by President Reagan, but the LOST agenda has been lurking around the corridors of the United Nations ever since.

The treaty, which was endorsed by the former Soviet Union, would reduce our military power, rob us of rights over our own coastal resources, subject U.S. actions in international waters to the authority of foreign countries and submit our country to an international taxing agency that would “redistribute” our wealth to other nations, including some of our enemies.

Naturally, the liberals like it. And by liberals I mean not just Democrats but some of the RINOs hiding in the GOP camp, such as the five living Republican secretaries of state, from Kissinger to Rice.

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More at the link.

The US really REALLY needs to get out of the United Nations!

Open Carry

I did it today - first open carry off my property. Went to the local credit union to open an account for my son. No one said anything, or even appeared to be looking at me. Of course, I was not waving my hips around to attract attention.

Then, stopped at the local Marathon for some gas - pre-pay, so I went in and gave the clerk $20.

He noticed the gun - complimented me on it. Wanted me to draw it for a picture - I declined, telling him it wasn't a good idea to be playing with a gun like that.

He told me he's been in the USA for four years and mine was the first open-carry gun he's seen not on a police officer.

Glad to help raise awareness.

Desperation

This morning, I heard a truck start up out front - got the the west windows in time to see a UPS truck accelerating west.

No package was left.

Later on, while mowing, I noticed my two "I Stand With Governor Walker" signs were gone. Later on while riding home from the hardware store, I saw a similar sign was missing from a neighbor's house.

Just supposition and circumstantial evidence, but aren't UPS drivers all in the Teamster's Union?
And aren't all good union people supposed to stick together?

The recall election for Scott Walker is Tuesday, and he's leading in several polls, leading with yard signs I have seen, and leading big with donations. Osama and friends in the Demonratic Party are avoiding Barrett like he's a Tea Party candidate.

I think the Demonrats here in Wisconsin are seeing the writing on the wall - and it says "we are NOT going to allow you to dictate to us any longer".

We'll see how well such desperation plays out in four days.