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A Good Man

Like a lot of you, I was shocked to read OldNFO‘s post this morning reporting the death of Newbius.

I met Newbius a couple of years ago in the GunBlogger Conspiracy chatroom, and he was always kind and polite.  He was a font of information and advice when asked, but would not push his opinions on you.

I met him last year at the NRA Annual Meeting, and it was a pleasure to talk with him in meatspace.  He was as kind and nice sitting across a table as he was on a chat line, and the time I spent talking to him was a highlight of the weekend.

We lost a good man this week, and the world is diminished by his absence.  My family will be keeping him and his family in our prayers.

by daddybear71 on March 29, 2012  •  Permalink
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Thought for the Day

This morning, I let Boo watch Sesame Street while we got ready for work and school.  One of the puppet characters was asking people on the streets of New York asking people of they knew any words that started with the letter M.

My question:

Am I going to hell because in my mind I heard some big fat guy from Brooklyn say “Yeah, I got your M word right here: Your mother!”.

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30 Days of Churchill – Day 27

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile — hoping it will eat him last. — In Reader’s Digest (December 1954)

by daddybear71 on March 29, 2012  •  Permalink
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News Roundup

  • From the “Don’t #!$@ With Old Men” Department – An 81 year old man in Michigan defended his wife and himself when they were threatened by a man with a butcher knife who wanted their car.  Rather than meekly give in and hope they weren’t hurt, he grabbed the hand that held the knife and proceeded to make things difficult for the carjacker.  The miscreant eventually gave up and ran away.  Just goes to show, you may not always be armed, but you are never defenseless so long as you are conscious and refuse to stop fighting.  Also, be mindful of fighting with old people.  They’re close to seeing Jesus anyway, so they’ve got nothing to lose.
  • From the “Adults Behaving Badly” Department – Two people are under arrest in two separate incidents of disrupting flights in two days.  In one case, a member of the flight crew had to be locked out of the flight deck and subdued by passengers after running through the aircraft yelling about bombs.  In the other, a woman was restrained after physically attacking members of the crew. Say it with me people – Don’t scare Americans at 35,000 feet. They don’t care what it takes to get back to the ground safely anymore.
  • From the “Backing Down” Department – The mayor of Medora, North Dakota, has withdrawn plans to build a gallows in his town.  His plan was to hold mock hangings of himself in the scenic old-West town.  I think not building it might be a mistake. Nothing tells people from out of town to mind their manners like a set of well maintained gallows in the town square.
  • From the “Bad Idea” Department – Scientists have shown that it is possible to use a metal detector to find hidden money.  Modern bills have magnetic ink on them, which sets off the detector.  They postulate that it might be possible to use more powerful detectors to find people who are carrying large amounts of cash.  For those who prefer to carry cash rather than use cards all the time, this means that about 15 minutes after a law enforcement agency gets the technology, Sumdood and his friends will have one to find people on the street who might be interested in making a donation to the local youth group’s doughnuts and fruit juice fund.
by daddybear71 on March 28, 2012  •  Permalink
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Shout Out

To all of those people who told us a decade ago that efforts to increase domestic petroleum production and refining capacity wouldn’t have any impact because it would take years for new oil fields and refineries to come on line, you all can bite my fuzzy butt.

!@#$!@ $4.10 a gallon this morning. Perkele.

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Thought for the Day

Someday, I hope to be the man my son thinks I am.

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30 Days of Churchill – Day 26

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. — speech at Lord Mayor’s Luncheon, Mansion House, London, November 10, 1942

My Take – This.

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Thoughts

I am:

  • Responsible for my own actions and those of my children
  • Responsible for the safety and security of myself and my family
  • A responsible gun owner, shooter, hunter, and CCW carrier
  • An American of Northern European descent
  • A veteran of a peacetime army who had the opportunity to see parts of the world and things in those places that most people don’t even know exist
  • A citizen that reads, learns, discusses, and votes.

I am not:

  • Responsible for the actions of any other adult or child that is not my own, no matter how similar they are to me and mine.
  • A victim, nor am I afraid to convince someone who wants to see if I am willing to be one that there are sharp teeth in my friendly smile.
  • A policeman.  I am not expected to try to stop someone from breaking the law if they are not causing bodily harm to me, my family, or my friends.
  • Responsible for however many centuries of repression, aggression, discrimination, and ignorance that came before me.  I may share a complexion with the people who make life hard for other people just because of their skin tone, but that wasn’t me.
  • A ticking time bomb of anger and fear just waiting for a trigger event to set me off, all of which is caused by that amorphous term “the military”.  People like that are rarer than Hollywood would make you believe, and my psychological issues are much older and deep rooted than anything that the Army did to me.
  • Part of a reliable voting block, nor am I a party man.  You want my vote or support?  Convince me that your idea is better than that of the opposition.
by daddybear71 on March 27, 2012  •  Permalink
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30 Days of Churchill – Day 25

 Dictators ride to and fro on tigers from which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry. — “Armistice – or Peace?”, published in The Evening Standard (11 November 1937)

My Take – November is coming, and I can feel my stomach growling.

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News Roundup

  • From the “Headdesk” Department – Belvedere Vodka is in Damage Control Condition Whiskey Tango Foxtrot after it briefly put an ad on its social media accounts that showed a man trying to restrain a woman who appeared to be trying to flee him.  The tag line of “Unlike some people… Belvedere always goes down smoothly” isn’t exactly helping either.  Yeah, nothing like advertising that highlights the use of alcohol to get women to do things they don’t really want to do.  What’s next?  An advertisement for sleep aids that shows a woman in her jammies while a leering man stands over her bed?  “Rohypnol, for when ‘no’ means ‘wait a few minutes’!”.
  • From the “Snakezilla” Department – Grand Central Station in New York City is displaying a life-size mock up of a 45 foot long snake. The animal lived in the area some 60 million years ago.  Due to my personal aversion to snakes, I’d have to say that if I were to see a 50 foot constrictor in the wild, I’d be breaking some or all of the laws of physics to get back to a radio to call in a nuclear air strike on my position just so I knew the snake got it too.  Of course, a snake that big would keep some of my favorite holster makers in business for quite some time.
  • From the “Stupid Question” Department – A Pakistani man is facing arrest after he threw acid on his wife during an argument about household expenses.  I’ve seen a lot of instances in the news over the years of men in the Muslim world throwing acid on women who have displeased them in some way, and I have to ask: where are they getting all this acid?  It’s not like you can just go down to the souk and get a bottle of acid, is it?
  • From the “Journey to the Deep” Department – Movie director and amateur submarine designer James Cameron just returned from a three hour long dive to the bottom of the Marianas Trench.  His journey was meant to explore…… Well he gathered information about…… His data will be used to help …… Well, he did it, and that’s what counts, isn’t it?
  • From the “Why we can’t have nice things” Department – The city of Colorado Springs has called off its annual Easter egg hunt because of the way that some parents acted at the event last year.  Apparently the parents were pushing their children to maximize their haul of hen fruit, which left some kids out in the cold after the spring ritual.  Rather than enforce rules that keep adults out of the egg gathering area, the entire event was called off.  Just goes to show that it only takes a couple jerks to ruin it for everyone.  In related news, several parents who were out of line last year were found zip tied to street signs with “Dickhead” tattooed on their foreheads and old Easter eggs crammed up their nostrils.  Police promise to be expeditious about finding the culprits.
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