And then do it.

"It can't be done." "It would never work." "They won't let you."
As long as this is the answer to someone's idea, then it can't be done.
If your answer is, "This is a good idea. Let's think about how we can do it." then chances are much better.
If I had an employee who led off with "It can't be done." I'd fire his ass.
How many people said that heavier than air flight couldn't be done?
How m any are saying we'll never exceed the speed of light? I never will, even though I have no idea how it could be done. One day, someone will do it.

Ice is for Skating

I don't think much of ICE either. Particularly the 100-mile secondary border that renders most Americans without the rights we're all guaranteed by the constitution. And the unconstitutional secondary ICE checkpoints on every highway a few dozen miles inside the country. What is it with these would-be dictators in Mordor DC? What is it within them that won't allow Americans to be free individuals, as is our nature?

On Cops

Mike Goodman Your problem in New York, and in most of the country, is that the vast majority of people have, for generations, been taught to hate and fear guns. The local laws forbid the average person owning and carrying the means of self defense. If most, if not all, people could and would take responsibility for their own self defense, MS-13 would be scurrying back to the banana republics that spawned them.

When the shooting starts, good men md women should be running toward it, guns drawn, instead of hiding under desks. But cops have no business busting down doors without a signed warrant, or harassing people in the streets.

Open Letter

Open letter to all elected politicians:

Y'all get the best armed security money can buy. You're surrounded by well-armed, well trained men with full radio communication and all the protective devices, vehicles and support money can buy.

Hiding behind this phalanx, you pontificate that the rest of us don't need the means of self defense. You continuously bleat that individuals in America don't need weapons. You ignore everything else that's wrong with America (most of which was caused by you) while dozens, nay hundreds of disarmed individuals are murdered and maimed by well-armed criminals every year.

The police and other government agents are very enthusiastically causing their share of the mayhem, almost always with impunity. In many ways, they are a criminal gang in their own right, continually ignoring the Bill of Rights, which is the supreme law of the land. You should read it sometime. It will show you in how many ways you yourselves are in violation!

So, in light of all this, I have to ask:

WHAT THE HELL GOOD ARE YOU?
 

Well, Mr B Hussein Obama, Why Don't You Do the Sacrificing For a While

Open letter to all elected politicians
:
Y'all get the best armed security money can buy. You're surrounded by well-armed, well trained men with full radio communication and all the protective devices, vehicles and support money can buy.

Hiding behind this phalanx, you pontificate that the rest of us don't need the means of self defense. You continuously bleat that individuals in America don't need weapons. You ignore everything else that's wrong with America (most of which was caused by you) while dozens, nay hundreds of disarmed individuals are murdered and maimed by well-armed criminals every year.

The police and other government agents are very enthusiastically causing their share of the mayhem, almost always with impunity. In many ways, they are a criminal gang in their own right, continually ignoring the Bill of Rights, which is the supreme law of the land. You should read it sometime. It will show you in how many ways you yourselves are in violation!

So, in light of all this, I have to ask:

WHAT THE HELL GOOD ARE YOU?

W.C. Grantham

The End of the Noble Experiment?

Those who follow my posts will know of my general dislike and mistrust of police departments as institutions, because 1) they steal private property without following the rules of due process, 2) They invade private property without a properly executed warrant, 3) They detain individuals and groups without proper warrants, 4) They often injure and kill individuals and animals without need.

However, looking through my rose-colored glasses, we (most of us) need some sort of peace keeping organization in our complex industrial society. Callous and incompetent as they are, city police departments are the peace keeping organizations that we have. They're mostly as awful as they are because of their vile, rotted leadership. Politically appointed chiefs of police. 

We are now experiencing an unprecedented number of attacks on nominally good, competent rank and file police officers, which will soon begin to undermine effect the general peace and order of our society.
Needless to say, our elected officials will drag their feet setting up commissions and blue ribbon panels to study the problem. They will not act to solve it. And people will die: not only police officers and would be assassins, but peaceful individuals as well.

To help combat this, I recommend that all individuals buy weapons of self defense, learn to use them effectively and safely, and kep them handy, law or no law, for your own self defense and that of nearby others. Fuck the politicians and their foot dragging, their anti-self defense laws and damn their existence. Live for yourself.

"From 1917, Americans wondered why they aided Russia with food she could not grow herself. The truth was, those who had saddled them with a federal reserve and income tax did more than just keep Soviet Marxism going, they created it. During the first half of the century, government grew 500 times faster than the population. Could that have happened without an enemy to frighten voters and reluctant taxpayers?" -- L Neil Smith, from _Pallas_.

Years before I read anything by L Neil, I thought that the USSR was a created enemy to raise the state of fear among the US population. Any independent mind can come to this conclusion--I don't claim and special degree of intelligence. The federal government developed nuclear weapons and tried them out on Japan, for good or ill.

Right after that, USSR suddenly had "the bomb, too. How did they get it? Did they develop it in parallel with US efforts? No. A pair of American spies got hold of the plans and handed them over to the Soviets. Then, they were tried and quickly executed. Very soon, USSR was able to develop their own nuclear weapons using those plans.

Ladies and gentlemen, we have an enemy that will keep the average American's state of fear high for decades.

The Cold War worked splendidly. Washington was able to enlarge itself by orders of magnitude, citing the need to stay ahead of the Red Menace. For many ears, there was tension and gnashing of teeth by both sides. Skirmishes in Korea and Southeast Asia. People protested, but they protested the soldiers, not the government and its philosophy.

Then, Ronald Reagan was accidentally elected president. Reagan was a mixed bag, both good and bad, but better than his predecessors and not a member of the Establishment. Not fully aware of the Establishment playbook, he fought USSR to win and ultimately beat them and bankrupted them financially.

No more Cold War, no more Enemy.

They tried to put up China, but it really didn't take. I think Washington was afraid China might win.

We can argue for hours and days about what happened next, but so far no one really knows. Moslems started attacking US military installations, then civilian stuff, culminating in the destruction of the World Trade Center in New York. The blame went to a Soddy Arab called Osama bi Laden. President Bush appeared to be doing the right thing when he sent the military over there to get bin Laden. They had him cornered, then inexplicably let him go in Afghanistan.

US needs an enemy. A speech by GW Bush promised to fight a "War.on Terror." He said it would be a very long war. GW Bush was part of the Establishment, and the US needs an enemy to keep the state of fear high among the taxpayers. Bush and his successor, Barack Hussein Obama, have warred in several Middle Eastern countries to Keep the pot stirred up. They arm one side while it's "friendly," then our soldiers fight moslems with American arms when they turn.

Washington continues to increase the size and scope of government, dismantling American Freedom in ever enlarging chunks. Remember when you could buy a ticket and walk out to board an airliner without telling anyone your name? With your handgun in your pocket? And there was never any problems? Not any more.

Remember when a rich man could roll up a wad of thousand dollar bills and hop a plane over to Monte Carlo for some gambling and deal making? Not any more. You can't even buy a new car for cash without being reported to the government.

You can't even let your kids walk to school anymore, or set up a lemonade stand.  

Obama is even facilitating one of the moslem radical governments in developing nuclear capability. It looks like US will be fighting the "War on Terror" for a long time, indeed. Will we win? Does Washington want us to win?

Headline: World Leaders Gather To Try To Save Earth

How bloody arrogant. In the first place, the earth doesn't need saving. The earth is fine. If there was something wrong with the earth, what the hell is a bunch of assholes wearing $5000 suits and flying around in planes designed to carry hundreds of people, going to do about it? Swill $50 drinks and eat $500 meals? Screw $5000 hookers.
All paid paid for with money extorted from people most of whom spend most of their lives hungry?
What a bunch of TURDS!!

Of Guns and Knives

 

 

I've always liked knives. I like them a lot. Too much, maybe, considering the number of times I've inadvertently nicked, poked, slashed or hacked myself. I'd probably have more knives, but I also happened to like guns. So far, I haven't shot myself. Just about any gun costs much more than most knives, so if I buya gun, it counts for anywhere from two to twenty knives I might have bought.

Back in the late 1960's & early 1970's, admission to Knott's Berry Farm was free. That was while the venerable Walter Know and his wife were still alive and at the helm of the park. Day after day, sometimes two or three times a week I could be found strolling through the Knott's ghost town, ogling the guns and knives and other Old West tools and toys in the three or four musea in the park. This digression, unlike many, has a relevant point.

There were also a number of stores that were licensed to operate within the park, and that weren't out of place there. One was Bob's Knife shop. N ow, I did buy a few knives from Bob's, expensive as they were in a theme park shop. The one I didn't buy, but left fingerprints and drool stains all over, was a huge, beautiful Bowie, with a blade almost as long as my forearm.

The knife was shiny stainless, with a finger notch in front of the guard and a copper strip over the top of the blade from the clip back to the upper guard. I'm told that was a soft metal strip designed to catch your opponent's blade edge, maybe to pull his knife out of his hand, with any luck.

This fantastic Bowie was in prominent display above and behind the clerk's station behind the cash register. Its price tag proclaimed its value to be a tough 0over $75. That's $75 in 1970 dollars! I was earning about $7/hr at the time (not terrible wages), and was a single dad with a young son in a private school.

I never did get the knife.

In more recent years, I've acquired several knives, including a very nice Bowie and a stunning Buck General. Why Buck discontinued that one is a mystery.

Although I'm not a fanatic about it, I'll still buy more knives--those that catch my eye.