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All posts for the month January, 2013
Today’s Earworm
Happy Australia Day!
Posted by daddybear71 on January 26, 2013
https://daddybearsden.com/2013/01/26/todays-earworm-308/
News Roundup
- From the “Hand in the Cookie Jar” Department – The FBI is refusing to comment on whether or not it is investigating a United States Senator for going overseas to frequent underage prostitutes. The senator is reported to be shocked that someone would have the temerity to investigate him, and is appalled that someone would dare to question his judgement and good character. Personally, I was impressed with the good senator’s response to the charges. It’s not every man who quotes the Roman emperor Tiberius in a news conference.
- From the “Sad Panda” Department – A federal court has decreed that President Obama’s “recess appointment” of members of the National Labor Relations Board while the Senate was still in session is unconstitutional. I’m shocked that a federal judge would say that the Constitution means what it says. Usually their interpretation is so skewed one way or the other that you’d have thought the Founding Fathers wrote the darn thing in LISP. President Obama is said to be so upset with the decision that he missed three putts and missed par on four holes today.
- From the “Rotary Oscillator” Department – A group in Florida is trying to raise money and awareness of the utility of excrement, in all of its various forms, using a calendar featuring bikini models and piles of feces. Wow. Scantily clad women being covered in waste. Yeah, I got nothing. Anyone else want to take a whack at this one?
- From the “Fondue For Two” Department – Officials in Norway are cleaning up after a truckload of cheese burned for several days after an accident in a tunnel. Luckily, no-one was hurt in the fire, although there are reports of some indigestion after a few firefighters overindulged on pieces of bread on skewers that were dipped into the fiery glop. Cleanup is predicted to take several weeks, and will require the deployment of federal aid in acquiring enough tortilla chips, brocoli florets, and chardonnay. Oh yeah, and lefse. Lots and lots of lefse.
Posted by daddybear71 on January 26, 2013
https://daddybearsden.com/2013/01/26/news-roundup-172/
Today’s Earworm
Posted by daddybear71 on January 24, 2013
https://daddybearsden.com/2013/01/24/todays-earworm-307/
Thoughts on the Day
- People who don’t shoot have no idea how insulting it is when they jokingly say “I don’t want to piss you off. You own/shoot/collect guns, and I don’t want you to shoot me.” Yeah, I’m a big guy with a loud voice. Yes, I have been known to have a temper. But you’d be surprised how calm and dispassionate, even forgiving, I can be when I’m armed.
- If you were waiting for an engraved invitation to get involved and contact your congresspeople, this is pretty much it.
- Had a talk with a co-worker about the new anti-gun legislation. He had no idea that the shotgun he inherited from his father might fall under the classification of “assault weapon”, and that if it does, and the anti-gun bills pass, he wouldn’t be able to pass it on to his daughter when the time comes. I won’t say I made a convert, but I did get him to realize just how asinine gun control laws are.
- He really didn’t care for the New Jersey law that turns a .22 with a tube magazine into an assault weapon, and when I tried to explain “constructive intent” to him and how that had been applied under current gun law, he really got flabbergasted.
- Two questions I’ve asked tonight: “What are you barking about?” And “Why is the kitchen floor sticky?”. I don’t have satisfactory answers to either question.
- Irish Woman and I are such hopeless romantics. Our date tonight was to go to the hardware store to buy a 90 degree attachment for my drill and acquiring drive-through burritos. I splurged on her and bought her a large soda to go with her dinner.
- I can’t wait until Valentine’s Day. We plan on going grocery shopping and getting fried chicken.
- The term “Stockholm Syndrome” should never be used when discussing a relationship.
- I think that if a woman comes into a room, wraps her ice-like tentacles around her warm husband, and holds on just long enough to sap all the warmth from his soul, then she ought to be treated just like any other predator.
Posted by daddybear71 on January 24, 2013
https://daddybearsden.com/2013/01/24/thoughts-on-the-day-88/
Now We Know
Today, Senator Dianne Feinstein, Democrat of California, showed her hand in the latest round of the anti-rights fight that has been brewing in this country since 1934. In a shameless attempt to capitalize on the murder of children in order to further her radical and absolutist anti-gun agenda, she is proposing the most sweeping, permanent gun control legislation I have ever seen.
Her new gun control bill would
- Require “safe storage” – Because who would want to be able to get to their gun in a hurry, even if there are no children in the home?
- Provide federal money for gun buy backs – Because they’ve been so successful so far.
- Prohibit the manufacture and transfer of magazines that can carry more than 10 cartridges. – Because no-one could manufacture a piece of folded sheet metal or molded plastic in their garage.
- Classify 150 gun types by name as “assault weapons”, such as the popular AR-15 rifle platform. – Because no-one will think to call it an AyeAre-20 or a Russky Model 1947.
- Further classify other semi-automatic guns that have a detachable magazine and have any of the following features:
- Pistol grip – Because being able to hold the gun securely against your shoulder is evil.
- Forward handguards and heat shrouds –Because holding your gun steady and not burning your hand is evil
- Threaded barrels – Because compensators, flash hiders, and gun mufflers are evil.
- Adjustable stocks – Because having a gun that I can adjust so that both I and Girlie Bear can shoot is evil.
- Grenade launcher or rocket launcher – Ummm, yeah, whatever. You know, I have to get a bigger safe because all of my rifles have that big honking grenade launcher on it, and that RPG-7 that goes on a Picattinny rail is so sweet.
- Ban the manufacture, sale, or transfer of new ‘assault weapons’ – Because they’re evil.
- Require that the transfer of existing ‘assault weapons’ go through the same process and cost as are currently done for short-barreled rifles and shotguns, machine guns, and suppressors. – Because people who want to let others own their guns are evil.
- Have no sunset – Because a law that requires you to think about its impact after a few years is evil.
Ladies and gentlemen, here are the best examples of an ‘assault weapon’, as classified under Senator Feinstein’s bill, that I could find:
Friends and neighbors, both of those semi-automatic rifles use detachable magazines. Both have forward grips, and the 10/22 has a threaded barrel. By the definition of Senator Feinstein and her ilk, they are ‘assault weapons’, and would be treated in the same manner that this is when it comes to civilian ownership:
Of course, we all know that passing this bill into law will make all the bad things in the world go away, and eventually the ‘grandfathered’ guns will wear out or get seized. Human nature will change, and criminals and crazy people will respect the new gun laws in the same manner they already respect the laws against murder, theft, and rape.
Now, they can’t hide behind the excuse that they don’t want to keep us from exercising our rights. Now they can’t say that all they want to do is take away AR-15’s and AK-47’s. They’ll classify the deer rifle with walnut furniture that you inherited from your grandfather in with my modern sporting rifle just to make life as miserable for gun owners as they can. Their intent is fully in the open. At best, they want to be able to dictate to us what our rights are, how we may exercise them, and allow them to dwindle with age and wear until all we have left is those rights they choose to allow us to exercise.
If you haven’t gotten angry yet, what in the name of all that is holy are you waiting for? Get off your butt, get in touch with your senator and representative, and tell them exactly how you feel. Just for kicks and grins, here is a list of United States Senators who are up for re-election in 2014, and of course the entire House of Representatives is up for a job review then too. If your legislator is on the fence about this, don’t be shy to remind them about that. Support organizations like NRA and SAF, which are at the forefront of fighting these laws in the legislatures, Congress, and the courts.
Hammer this message home: No compromise. No retreat. Not one step back.
Senators Feinstein and Schumer, Mayor Bloomberg, and President Obama, thank you for finally stepping out of the shadows and being honest and open about what you want and what you’re willing to do in order to get it. You can propose so many laws and make so many emotional appeals that they block out the sun, but we will fight you in the shade. Molon Labe.
Posted by daddybear71 on January 24, 2013
https://daddybearsden.com/2013/01/24/now-we-know/
Quote of the Day
First they came for the blacks, and I spoke up, even though I wasn’t.
Then they came for the gays, and I said that was wrong.
Then they came for the dissenters and protesters, and I decried it, because everyone’s voice should be heard.
Then they came for the gun owners, and the mock “liberals” hung us out to dry.
So when they come for your group, you can eat shit and die.
— Michael Z. Williamson on FaceBook this morning
Posted by daddybear71 on January 24, 2013
https://daddybearsden.com/2013/01/24/quote-of-the-day-101/
Musings
- Apparently the list of major players who plan on attending the Eastern Sports and Outdoor Show is dwindling by the day. I wonder what they’ll do when the hall is almost empty and no-one is buying tickets?
- Outgoing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton apparently lost a little of her normally placid public demeanor today when she finally dragged her bloated carcass across the threshold to the Senate Foreign Relations committee’s chamber.
- Here’s a hint, Mrs. Clinton – it matters what happened, even at this late date, because you and your boss are either evil or incompetent. If you’re evil, you knew that an attack was imminent and withheld security forces, thereby feeding our ambassador to a mob, then blamed an American citizen for the actions of a bunch of 12th century goat pimps. If you’re incompetent, then you should have known that something was up, mostly due to Ambassador Stevens telling you that something was about to happen, and did nothing out of willful ignorance, then thought that some idjit’s bad YouTube was to blame and that we’d all buy that story. So which is it?
- You know how I predicted that the 2016 presidential campaign would start soon after the end of the 2012 election? I think today was the opening kickoff. Mrs. Clinton has got to have her eye on that prize, and tried to look professional and compassionate while berating Republican Senators for doing their job. The way that Rand Paul went after her and talked about how he would have canned her loathsome behind had he been in charge leads me to believe that he is giving serious thought to 2016.
- Tonight, I found that one cannot use a 10 inch long cordless drill with a 3 inch long screwdriver attachment on it to screw in 3 inch screws in an 8 inch area. Oh well, I now have an excuse to buy a pocket electric screwdriver.
- It is amazing how quickly the list of possible root causes for a problem starts to shorten when you convince your co-workers that repeatedly attempting to do the thing that is failing without changing anything is not going to help you find out what the problem is.
- I swear, I must spend half of my recreational time walking around the house turning off lights.
- After looking at the local stores and the on-line retailers this evening, I’m really glad I bought all that .22 last summer.
- I have been advised that I should not teach Boo to recite Monte Python routines. I never get to have any fun.
- I am this close to offering to store ammunition, magazines, and weapons for people in occupied states so that they don’t have to sell them off or turn them in while the NRA and SAF work their cases through the courts.
Posted by daddybear71 on January 23, 2013
https://daddybearsden.com/2013/01/23/musings-2/
Today’s Earworm
Posted by daddybear71 on January 23, 2013
https://daddybearsden.com/2013/01/23/todays-earworm-306/
News Roundup
- From the “Speed Hump” Department – A man in Utah was cited by the authorities after he used a camel as a prop in a stunt to promote his film. Apparently it’s illegal to obstruct traffic while riding a camel in Park City, which is a pretty obscure law to keep on the books if you ask me. Look for his remake of “Ishtar” to hit theaters next summer.
- From the “Sometimes They Write Themselves” Department – The British government has discovered the cause of a noxious odor that has swept the country. It is France. A chemical plant on the French coast had a leak of chemicals the other night, and the plume of vapor it created has made its way across the Channel. The odor is reported to resemble garlic, sweat, and rotten eggs, or as anyone who’s been to France can tell you, it smells like Paris in July.
- From the “Kick the Can” Department – Leadership in the House of Representatives is planning on holding a vote on Wednesday that would suspend enforcement of the current cap on government debt for several months, ostensibly to give lawmakers more time to negotiate a deal on spending and revenue. You know, like the last time we bumped up against the debt ceiling, and the time before that, and the time before that, and the time before that. Honestly, it must be nice to pass a law that is supposed to force you to get your act together, then pass another law that says you can just ignore the other law. Hey, last one out of the economy, please shut off the lights.
- From the “Red Herring” Department – A teenager in New Mexico is being held without bond after killing his parents and younger siblings. Apparently, he had been angry and suicidal for quite some time, and was heavily into violent video games. You know, I grew up playing video games, Dungeons and Dragons, and war games in the woods with my friends. Not once did I ever consider executing my family or killing a bunch of strangers. Now, I’ve played a few of these more modern, more graphically violent video games, and I can see how they might desensitize someone to bloodshed, but I’m not sure they’re the root cause of all this. I hate to use parenting as a crutch, because I tend to keep coming back to it, but if your teenage boy is having emotional problems, wouldn’t you take away the video games? It’s really not that difficult. You tell Precious J. Snowflake “No”, you make it stick, and if they try to go around you, you drop the hammer on them. At the same time, you get them help, be a supportive but firm parent, and find them something constructive to do. Is that so hard?
- From the “Simple Solution” Department – McDonald’s restaurants in Michigan are paying $700,000 to settle a lawsuit over halal meat. Apparently, the restaurants had advertised that their chicken products were halal, but sold non-halal meat when the good stuff ran out. Now, I’m no Islamic scholar, but I’m pretty sure that it doesn’t matter how the animal was killed and processed if it was prepared in a kitchen that is also used to cook bacon. Trust me, there isn’t a molecule of food that comes out of your average McDonald’s that hasn’t come in contact with bacon or bacon grease. Here’s my solution to the problem: If you have dietary restrictions that should preclude you from eating off the standard menu at a restaurant, any restaurant, then STOP EATING THERE! If there are a significant number of people with your need or preference, then someone will catch the hint and provide fare that meets your standards. SuperHugeMegaFoodCorporation probably won’t care about it, but I’m sure that a small business would be more than happy to find a way to accomodate you. Of course, McDonald’s shouldn’t be falsely advertising, but that’s more of a ‘ridicule in public’ thing than a ‘litigate in court’ thing to me. If Soylent McNuggets aren’t halal, tell the imam, publish it in the newsletter, and get on with your life.
Posted by daddybear71 on January 23, 2013
https://daddybearsden.com/2013/01/23/news-roundup-171/
Thoughts on the Weekend
- Apparently a fun time was had by all at the dance. Girlie Bear and the young man who accompanied her both seemed quite whooped when I picked them up.
- Getting up at 6 AM was rather difficult for Girlie Bear this morning. Hopefully she learns at an early age she can’t rise and shine if she’s out to all hours of the night.
- I began construction of the new bathroom closet this afternoon.
- I’m about halfway done in constructing components.
- I hope to be at the “trim and paint” stage by next weekend.
- Ran out of time, light, and lumber. Oh well, I had to go to the lumber yard anyway.
- Going to a pet store in a bad neighborhood is not worth the time saved by lining up errands with the trip across town to take Girlie Bear to visit her mother.
- Holding a 40 pound bag of dog food in my left hand while walking to my truck so that my right hand is free for emergencies means I shouldn’t have gone there to buy dog food in the first place.
- For breakfast this morning, Irish Woman made biscuits and gravy with hash browns. Dinner was chicken and dumplings. Dessert was yellow cake with homemade caramel fudge icing.
- I think she’s trying to fatten me up for the kill.
- I will, however, die happy.
- Temperatures this weekend were about 60 degrees. The weatherlady is saying it’s supposed to be in the teens in the next couple of days. My bones say she’s right.
- Every time I move, it sounds like someone stepping on a bag of corn flakes.
- Irish Woman explained her plans for the garden to me today. Looks like I’m building more beds and digging out more clay.
- Oh well, at least she told me in January. Last year I got the briefing in April.
Posted by daddybear71 on January 21, 2013
https://daddybearsden.com/2013/01/21/thoughts-on-the-weekend-24/
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