Calling all old pharts!

My young friend Matt has provoked a thought with me!

Where were you during the 4th of July 1976?

I was a dewy, fresh-faced 14 year old young lad.
and despite a flag-worshipping ritual seemingly designed to do the exact opposite.
I still belived in....
One Nation!
Under God!
with Liberty!
and Justice!
for All

My last Girlfriend was born in 1971.
By the time she left elementary school,
that pesky ritual of gratitude for freedom was gone.

My fear is that in the next 4 years, that pesky freedom will be gone.

Why don't we just give up on this silly mass experiment in mob rule?
I mean the SciFi channel is rebranding itself SyFy.
What a concept!
just by shifting spelling you can take something away from the people at large,
and burn your own personal brand into it's most tender parts.
Abbie Hoffman tried to rebrand the United States into Amerika.
He failed. America was too big at the time.

It has gotten much smaller!

This time a free press, wanting to impose the three Orwellian principles upon the remainants of former greatness, combined with a slick advertizing campaign to promote a candidate slightly left of Joseph Stalin.

Since they won we really aren't The United States of America anymore.
we are.......
an Obama-Nation. -sound it out-

That should please the Muslims.
They've been calling us that for ages now.
Our Dear Leader is ALL about pleasing them.
Not much about pleasing us.

I'm sorry! I'm not drinking anymore, and I drank away better 4ths than this.

I've drank better FIFTHS!!!!

Special Announcement

The SciFi Channel,
Will become SyFy.

Wy?

blegging for skills

I'm so there! What I'm gonna do for summer vacation.....

Bait and Switch!!!

THIS seems straightforward if a trifle generous...

Only when my order arrived, it is only the circular knife for said opener.

Customer Service was not only un-sympathetic, they as much as said I was stupid.

I know that a restaurant can-opener for $6.25 was a bit too good to be true, But after a several months long search for an electric can opener that has a wheeled blade instead of that "power pierce" fang, I guess I thought I was entitled to the miracle.

I wish I had lots of readers to give them hell for this....

Ad to be posted on eBay and Craigslist....

For Sale, Cheap Tattoo Machine. I and my biker brothers took it off a scratcher. He refused to perform the necessary requirements to get it back. Namely, Learn safe use, universal precautions, and proper operation of a tattoo machine.

He was also supposed to submit a dozen pictures of artwork a day, until we determined he was capable of rendering a decent representation worthy of skin. The machine comes with a jar of india ink, two eyedroppers, a 5-line tube and needle assembly. The needle and tube are for display reasons only, and will not ship with machine.

Guys! you're advertising stolen goods........

that last brass

Brigid, over at Mausers and Muffins, is a woman I adore intensely. I find at my age unrequited emotions to be more satisfactory, than actually interacting with people. She hasn't left any missives in my comments section lately. Probably because I'm not the gentlemanly type she would want her Aunt Minnie from Duluth to be within earshot of...

Anyway the aforementioned Celtic Goddess made a post some days back called;
.22 THINGS I'VE LEARNED FROM SHOOTING
All of the observations are spot on, but number 16 is most topical.
(16) If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up someone else's brass.
I've met several delightful people that way. Even learned what I thought I already knew about reloading from some of them. I have secured myself a Dillon Square Deal B press. I thought I'd reload 1000 cases of .45. Have you tried to round up 1000 rounds of brass as a first timer? I ended up about 5 rounds short. I'm considered either rock-headed, or anal. I was determined I'd have 1000 rounds reloaded.

The last round was a test case that came with my S&W 457 pistol.

The Five Most Embarassing Songs On My iPod

well I don't have an iPod, but I got a Nokia 5300 xPressMusic.

1. ELO - Last Train to London! Disco era, but what can I say! memories of past friends, first drinks. Teen foolishness.

2. Royksopp - Remind me (I have to track down song from commercials, or they stick in my head forever. - This was the one of the Geico Caveman on the airport sliding sidewalk).

3. Janis Ian - At Seventeen

4. Micheal McDonald - What a Fool Believes

5.April Wine - If You See Kay (I think the crowd's smarter than in 1974)