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Some things will just make a man cry….

I was going to go shooting at Knob Creek on Saturday morning, but the weather was rainy and drippy all night, so my shooting buddies and I decided to wait a couple of weekends and try again. Since I was thinking about it, I thought I’d do a quick wipe down and lubrication on the guns. The black powder, shotguns, and handguns looked great when I pulled them out of the safe, but when I reached back to get out the Mosin Nagant 91/30, the barrel had patches of orange and the bore looked pretty dark.

After cussing and swearing as I cleaned the gun inside and out, she looks OK. I love shooting the Mosin, and she’s my pride and joy.

I’m going to have to get a dehumidifier for the safe or something. I put a really good layer of oil on the Mosin, but I can’t pack her in cosmoline every time I put her away.

by daddybear71 on September 8, 2008  •  Permalink
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Posted by daddybear71 on September 8, 2008

https://daddybearsden.com/2008/09/08/some-things-will-just-make-a-man-cry/

Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy

Well, as if this weekend wasn’t good enough.

Never liked the guy, never will. Sad to hear that another human being is in pain, but if it had to happen, I’m glad it happened to Brady.

by daddybear71 on September 8, 2008  •  Permalink
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Posted by daddybear71 on September 8, 2008

https://daddybearsden.com/2008/09/08/couldnt-happen-to-a-nicer-guy/

Someone can’t take no for an answer

According to Fox News a guy tried to pick up three women in a doughnut shop, got shot down, then tried to run down the ladies in the parking lot.

Hey, Captain Success, learn to take rejection. Dunkin Donuts is not the best place to pick up women. If you’re looking for a hookup, try a night club or something. People at the donut shop are looking for something to eat and a cup of coffee, not a romp in the back of your van.

by daddybear71 on September 4, 2008  •  Permalink
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Posted by daddybear71 on September 4, 2008

https://daddybearsden.com/2008/09/04/someone-cant-take-no-for-an-answer/

Awesome link

http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/imao/NTM/~3/382703721/010387.html

Courtesy of IMAO, a wonderful picture of our future vice-president.

I saw a portion of her speech last night. I’m impressed. She makes a very good attack dog for McCain, as Biden does for Obama. She made some good points, and is showing just how valuable an asset she will be to McCain, both in the election and his administration.

by daddybear71 on September 4, 2008  •  Permalink
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Posted by daddybear71 on September 4, 2008

https://daddybearsden.com/2008/09/04/awesome-link/

Fellow Horndogs, we have a VP candidate

I was pleasantly surprised on Friday to learn that Senator McCain chose someone unexpected for his running mate. I was expecting either Romney or Pawlenty.

Instead, Johnny Mac picked a pretty, vivacious, anti-abortion, pro-gun 44 year old mother of 5. Sarah Heath Palin may not be the most experienced VP candidate we’ve ever had, but she is surely the prettiest. http://vpilf.com/

I’m impressed with her because she’s a real person. She’s held down actual jobs. She’s worked in really bad conditions, even to the point of being injured on a fishing boat. She’s worried about how she’s going to pay for her kids’ education. She’s a relatively clean politician, and isn’t afraid to stand up to an entrenched party hierarchy.

She’s got executive experience, even if only for a few years. She’s had to do a budget and work with legislators to get laws through.

Of course, there will be the occasional bone in her closet, but for the most part I’m not afraid of anything I’ve heard so far. I’ve heard about the state trooper she wanted fired and the politician she fired for not firing the state trooper. I’ve heard about the state commission she sacked en masse and replaced. I’ve heard about the DUI her husband had in the 80’s. And of course I’ve heard about how her oldest daughter is pregnant.

None of this diminishes her as a great candidate in my eyes.

If McCain didn’t have my vote before, he has it now.

All of this hoopla about Mrs. Palin brought something to my mind. Is it just me, or do the Republicans almost have the market on beautiful women in politics cornered? John McCain is married to a beautiful blonde heiress. Sarah Palin is a former runner up for Miss Alaska. And Fred Thomson is married to a serious hottie that’s half his age.

Of course, Dennis Kucinich has his own hottie at home, but that’s the only one that comes to my mind.

In closing, remember, only you and your vote will put this beautiful woman a heartbeat away from the White House.

by daddybear71 on September 2, 2008  •  Permalink
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Posted by daddybear71 on September 2, 2008

https://daddybearsden.com/2008/09/02/fellow-horndogs-we-have-a-vp-candidate/

My weekend

Well, it was a pretty good weekend. Girlie Bear went to her mom’s house for a visit until this morning, so Irish Woman and I started the process of updating her room. We’re putting in a chair rail and doing a two-tone paint job. A light shade of purple will go above the chair rail, and a darker shade will go below it. Girlie Bear picked these out with help from Irish Woman. Irish Woman is doing the actual painting, and I’m doing the grunt work and chair rail.

I also got Girlie Bear a new desk. She’s outgrown the desk she’s been using for the past couple of years. Once it’s done, her room will no longer be a little girl’s room, but will be where a pre-teen goes to study and sleep. That’ll be a surprise when we finish her room.

Irish Woman got an early birthday present. I got her a new iMac for her sole personal use, and a new computer desk to put it on. We put it up in the bedroom so that it’s not a temptation for the kids to try to use it, and Irish Woman can use it in peace when she’s working on her photography.

It took several tries to get all of her data from the old Mac Mini to her new iMac. I tried to do it over the network, but she just had way too much data and it kept timing out. I eventually had to dig up a firewire cable and connect the two computers.

Irish Woman is very happy with her new computer and is currently trying to find the maximum load she can put it under.

Baby Bear went swimming today for the first time. At first, he wasn’t too sure about the whole thing, but after a couple of moments he was laughing and splashing away. Girlie Bear and Junior Bear had fun playing peekaboo by ducking under the water and then coming up with a splash.

Hope everyone enjoyed their weekend as much as I enjoyed mine.

by daddybear71 on September 2, 2008  •  Permalink
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Posted by daddybear71 on September 2, 2008

https://daddybearsden.com/2008/09/02/my-weekend-2/

Minneapolis Mayhem

I love Minneapolis and Minnesota in general. I grew up for the most part in North Dakota, and would go camping and fishing in Minnesota often. My grandparents lived in southwestern Minnesota, and Junior Bear’s mom is from Minneapolis. I have never met anyone from Minnesota that I didn’t like, and Minneapolis/Saint Paul is one of the cleanest, nicest cities I’ve ever been lucky enough to see.

That’s why I’m sad to see that some morons have chosen to act like asshats in Minneapolis to protest the war in the Middle East. http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/09/01/anti-war-protest-at-gop-convention-turns-violent/

Here’s the deal people: trying to set fires, breaking windows, and throwing caustic chemicals at people isn’t going to get anyone to take a serious look at your side of an argument. Especially in Minnesota, where as one of my favorite comedians puts it, the introverts stare at their shoes and the extroverts stare at your shoes. What it will get is middle America not even blinking when you’re arrested and put into a small cell for disturbing the peace or whatever.

That being said, the groups who held a peaceful march to the state capitol were doing things exactly in the way that gets my attention and gains my respect, even if I don’t agree with them. It worked for Martin Luther King, and it can work for them.

Come on guys, you’ve all gotten some form of education, try to act smarter than this. Put away the black clothes and the matches and start learning to express yourself without destroying something or hurting someone.

by daddybear71 on September 2, 2008  •  Permalink
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Posted by daddybear71 on September 2, 2008

https://daddybearsden.com/2008/09/02/minneapolis-mayhem/

Drunk Driving

OK, I’m chiming in on drunk driving, even though every other TV and radio commercial is warning you about it.

I’ve always thought drunk driving was about as stupid a thing as you could do. Driving under the influence of anything is not a mistake, it’s an overt effort to take a large piece of metal, glass, and plastic and run it at high speeds under less than optimal control on the same roads that my family and friends are on.

I lost two friends to drunk driving when I was in language school in Monterey. They had been down at the beach in Carmel partying on a Saturday, and when the party broke up they decided to try to get back to the Presidio rather than just crashing on the beach. One drunk was driving, two drunks were passed out in the back seat. The moron who was driving missed a turn on highway 68, and ended up rolling over down a hill until a tree stopped the car. The two in the back were ejected and died on the scene.

The driver ended up with a court martial. My two friends, Jenny and Greg, ended up with a flag folded for their mothers and a headstone. Greg and I had gone through basic training together, and he and Jenny started dating when they were taking Arabic in the same class.

Please, if you’re out this weekend, have someone sober to drive you. I need every friend I have, and I can’t stand the thought of losing anyone.

Check out this link for another good read on drunk driving:

http://officersandjuvies.blogspot.com/2008/08/easy-lesson-learned-hard-way.html

Have a good and safe Labor Day weekend.
BTW,

by daddybear71 on August 29, 2008  •  Permalink
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Posted by daddybear71 on August 29, 2008

https://daddybearsden.com/2008/08/29/drunk-driving/

Commute musing

To the older lady who was scared to merge onto the highway this morning when I wasn’t able to get over from the right lane at the end of her on-lane:

  • Ma’am, I’m not out to kill you. I don’t mind slowing down a bit to let you on, which I tried to communicate by waving you over and flashing my lights. However, having to slam on my brakes because you pulled halfway into my lane and stopped with your blinker on when there was a semi in the lane next to me made it hard to have good Christian thoughts.

To the asshat in the semi who saw the little old lady trying to merge and me trying to let her on:

  • Was it too much to ask for you to slow down or speed up a bit so that I could get over to the left and let said grandmother on without killing her, myself, or the people behind me in traffic?

To the school bus full of middle schoolers who were flipping off all of the cars that passed them this morning:

  • I have a great memory for faces, and eventually one of you little swine will be coming to me for a job interview.

To the bus driver of said school bus:

  • You have my deepest sympathy.
by daddybear71 on August 26, 2008  •  Permalink
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Posted by daddybear71 on August 26, 2008

https://daddybearsden.com/2008/08/26/commute-musing/

Olympics Rant

Well, the Olympics are over, new records have been set, and I’m primed for a rant:

The modern Olympics were meant as a place for amateur athletes to come together in the spirit of international brotherhood and cooperation.

The current Olympics have devolved into nationalistic strutting and bad faith competition. Cheating of all stripes is routinely uncovered. Every athlete has to be cleared not only for steroids, but can be forced to prove they’re claiming the correct sex! Governments use their Olympic teams as political pawns. And where Jim Thorpe had his medals stripped because he had been employed at some point as a baseball player, now professional athletes are feted as gods at the Olympics.

And the choice of where the Olympics are held is a joke. The People’s Republic of China is a closed, regimented, oppressive, communist tyranny. Why would an event that’s supposed to celebrate humanity at its best be held in a place where humanity is cheap and easily discarded? I’ll tell you why: Money. The IOC has been exposed time and time again in bribery and corruption when it comes to site selection. If you can show that you have a great place to hold the Olympics, can demonstrate that your infrastructure can handle the load of hundreds of thousands of athletes and spectators, but don’t take the IOC members around in limos and make sure their children go to local universities for free, you don’t have a chance.

The US government doesn’t directly support the USOC, but most governments support their local Olympic committees. China has reportedly set up athlete factories where children are put in training at a ridiculously early age to be molded into Olympians. Even in the US, military personnel are allowed to leave their posts to train for and participate in the Olympics. Your tax dollars at work.

My final take: The US should pull out of the Olympics unless some new rules are put in and enforced. IOC members should be completely unpaid, and should have to pay their own way to go on tours of prospective venues. Olympic meets should only be held in democracies that can be certified by Amnesty International as meeting minimum standards of freedom and openness. And professional athletes should be banned from the games. The 10 months of the NBA is too much Kobe as it is, I don’t want to see more of him during the off season.

What’s your take?

by daddybear71 on August 26, 2008  •  Permalink
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Posted by daddybear71 on August 26, 2008

https://daddybearsden.com/2008/08/26/olympics-rant/

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