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Shooting The Messenger
I was taken aback when Mr. Fancy-Schmancy shouted "a pox on both your houses"...as I was unaware that he knew of my summer home...
Founding member of the Hogtown Irregulars, and former escaped indentured Chinese short order cook.
(usedwithoraspartofatitle):theDukeofWellington;theReverendJohnSmith, the National Rifle Association.
Try saying it aloud..trust me, this helps...without using the initials but the full name.
"National Rifle Association had no choice but to review the facts of the case with regards to how much glory they could steal from other organizations..."
See how clumsy, how wrong, how BAD the English be? But more and more we see "NRA had no choice...yadda yadda"
Not to say that the NRA cannot be identified without the definite article, such as:
"NRA officials warned other 2nd Amendment specific institutions that they'd be stealing their thunder whenever possible."
So in summary; NRA is permissible, and THE NRA is also.
Whatever the in-crowd says, plain ol' NRA doesn't always cut the mustard.
So for heavens sake stop being such a poser...ya'll know who you are...and reintroduce the English language as it is spoken by English speaking peoples.
OR...stop bitching about having to dial "1" for English, "2" for Spanish, etc. Because soon there'll be a "3" for white-hip-hop-slanglish-that-makes-us-look-cool.
You don't dog. Look cool. Quite the contrary. It isn't any old Rifle Association. It's The National Rifle Association. Dog.
In this book, the military leaders time and again state that if Afghanistan is perceived as being lost, then the Islamic extremists have won. In fact, the Secretary of Defense was quoted by Woodward from a top-secret memo saying that Gates changed his goal from "defeating the extremist insurgency" to "disrupting and degrading the Taliban." The question is: could this information possibly empower the Taliban?
Surprisingly, Woodward seems to admire that President Obama kept pressing the military for his desired option, not one that was realistic. He reports that the president stated that "none of the options looked good ... it's unacceptable. He [Obama] wanted another option ... They are not going to give me a choice." Why didn't Woodward criticize Obama for constantly pressing the military to give an answer the president wanted? Fran Townsend's opinion, as a former homeland security advisor to President Bush, is that after presenting all realistic options, "you owe the President your honest assessment even and especially when it is not what he wants to hear." Although the president kept pressing the military to give a number he wanted, at the end of the day, the military refused, since advisors must stick to their realistic opinions.
Maybe Americans should be grateful to Woodward since he points out that President Obama does not want advice unless it fits into his assumptions. Woodward also highlights all the infighting among the advisors and displays how cutthroat they can be. John Podesta, a member of Obama's transition team, referred to Obama as "Spock" since "[h]e was unsentimental and capable of being ruthless." Jim Jones, the former national security advisor, was constantly described as being weak and not proactive, and he was constantly circumvented. Dennis Blair, the former Director of National Intelligence, described the CIA and Panetta as "an organization that's like a really fine trained, not very smart, dangerous animal that needs to be controlled very closely by adults." Ambassador Eikenberry refused to allow the new CIA Kabul station chief, an operative who saved Afghan President Hamid Karzai's life in 2001, to meet with Karzai alone. Even though powerful people in the Obama administration told Eikenberry to stand down, he initially refused because of his petty power plays.
Gee but isn't Bobby Woodward such a patriot?!
Doesn't matter a gnats ass if his TOP SECRET revelations have a negative impact upon national security, as long as the book sells and sells and sells.
Used to be a word to describe such a man...
Coward? Not the one I'm thinking of. Traitor? No. SOB? No.
Dead? Yes.
I've absolutely had it to here with the criminal element that would harm our country so its time for the devil to start calling in alla them souls he's been trading for.
Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, with a blanket draped over his shoulders and a watch cap pulled low over his dark eyes, listened impassively in recent days as several survivors of his murderous rampage a year ago rose and pointed to him as the gunman who had shot them.
A parade of prosecution witnesses — many of them still struggling with their wounds — provided a gripping, almost cinematic account of the attack in which 13 people died and dozens were wounded.
Yet the gunman and his motive remain an enigma.
I. Am. Speechless. Well almost. The man was carrying out a religious jihad. He is a moslem. This is what moslem's do.
What part of the above does the NY Times not understand? And as a commenter at IHTM so graciously pointed out, were a similar incident to have occurred with the crazed attacker shouting "This is for Jesus you scumbags!" there'd be no end to editorial upon editorial excoriating Christians for producing such madmen.
And, are they still having problems figuring out that 9-11 deal? "...Yet the hijackers and their motive remain an enigma..."
Before there was a Cutlery Corner it was just the "Knaff Show". Then they went on to HSN for 7 long years of tomfoolery before Mr. James A. Frost conned enough saps into slapping down their hard earned money for Chinese pot steel and set up his brandy new format that we have today.
But all is not well in Grifterville, Tennessee. Tom O'Dell, the one on the right and the sterner looking of the two idjits, began experiencing memory loss and that prompted Terrible Todd into believing he was indispensable and could cough, laugh, sneeze, shout, and otherwise make an ass of himself on the air.
Todd is away to parts unknown and Tom wanders the set aimlessly while the gals (chosen for their ability to deal with those suffering from Alzheimer's) try leading him back to the knaff table to sell more pot metal.
Hopefully we'll have Todd on an upcoming Podcast so keep your fingers crossed that all goes well.
And...for your viewing enjoyment..taken di-rek-lee from one oftheir shows...
"Just that is, I think I want to keep that. I want to keep that trumpet sword."
"It is really amazing, but we have a trumpet sword, 26 Roman gladiator swords and a Caesar gladiator sword."
"This is probably approaching the best set I ever sold on television. Period."
"I tell you what though, we are going to double all of those gladiator swords. That's 52 of the gladiators, two of the Caesars and two of the trumpet swords."
"Okay, this is completely crazy. We have to - we are selling this at way below cost - we are going to have to finish this."
"Right. Right, the final item, this is the last one, this is 275 Delta Force Warhawk 5 folding knives and 275 Delta Force Warhawk Junior folding knives. These are authentic reproduction Delta Force knives. These are-"
"Watch yourself!"
"These are probably the sharpest - he he - sharpest knives we've had here. These can cut through an ogre's bone."
"Just one of those Delta Force knives would be worth a thousand dollars to the right collector. Those are, aren't they classified?"
"These are top secret knives. These are the knives you have all been praying for. They are the ultimate killing weapon. You get a total of 550 of them, mother of pearl on the handle, inlaid authentic gold colored inlay and these just snap open."
Call Bekins. We’re moving to Colorado just so we can vote for Ken Buck ten or twelve times.
My Uncle Tony owned a paint store. Actually, he pretty much owned most of the block the paint store rested upon, and since his methods of vermin removal was a tad odd it was a good thing he owned most of the block.
Once a month he'd load up his .22 rifle and go rat hunting. Traps and poisons were for folks too squeamish to take matters into their own hands, and he liked, um, he liked killing things. With firearms. Especially with firearms. I was never so proud as when, at the age of 7, he asked my Dad if it was okay for him to teach me how to eradicate rats. Being both a WWII AND Korean Vet, of course my Father said yes, as he was worried I'd been raised too mamby-pamby anyway and my taking up a rifle to shoot the heads off of things that needed to have their heads shot off was just find and dandy with him.
Back in the mid to late 50's one could purchase ammunition at any hardware store in Manhattan, and once a month Uncle Tony and I would stock up on .22lr then head for his storerooms and alleyways. After a while, the nice old man who owned the nearby hardware store would even sell me the ammo, and that pleased Uncle Tony to no end. Boy fetching his own bullets and loading his own magazines into his own rifle meant the boy was learning to be a man and, if for nothing else, that's what old men were supposed to teach boys how to do.
Part of this soliloquy is to inform the casual reader that NYC wasn't always the bastion of liberalism that it is today. Far, far from it. NYC sent the most men to our wars, and the men came back hardened to the realities of life, not like the majority of today's big city males who think that jaywalking when no one is looking is the quintessential essence of bravery itself. But the older men retired from taking care of the world, moved to Florida, or outright died, and the liberals saw their big chance then took it in a NY second.
The Gun Control Act of 1968 put an end to hardware stores stocking ammunition or rifles or small caliber guns in places like NY. What was once a city that featured neighborhoods quite capable of protecting their own became ripe for the pickings and the pickings were good and lots better than having a real job. The streets became far less safe; grandmothers stopped walking to the parks to feed the pigeons, especially at dawn or dusk, then mothers stopped doing so as well, then full grown men did too.
I had a birds eye view of what happens to a town that surrenders itself to the criminal element, and by the time I returned from my first war it wasn't the town I grew up in so I had no home town anymore. That wasn't so bad, since I had been enthralled with the wanderlust and wouldn't be home all that much anyway but the handwriting for me was on the wall, bigger and bolder than any subway station graffiti.
Manhattan was, and is, a great place to visit but for me living there was out of the question. When the time came for me to end my life's work, at a relatively early age I might add, since running up and down hills to chase down rats who needed eradication is really a young man's job and old men get moved from rat-killers to pencil-pushers and no way, Jose, so when the time came I needed me a new home town.
There are those among us who say that moving away isn't the manner in which to fight back against the simpering hordes of metrosexuals who neither want nor need to act like men, but take it from me that's prime bullshit. Los Angeles and/or NYC, or Detroit, or Chicago, isn't changing anytime soon and it doesn't matter how much a man wants his freedom back, it simply isn't going to happen. Not there, not now, maybe not ever. The Pilgrims left for the New World because they were brave enough to do so, not because they were cowards. It certainly isn't easy to lock, stock, and barrel your way to another clime and place but, as was once said, a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do.
To my mind, staying in Manhattan meant being a part of a problem that had no solution. Being an enabler, being someone who talked the talk but slithered away come time to walk that walk. I tried the Midwest but found it to be even worse than NYC in its own way because most of the folks were so very happy to be so protected by their Sheriffs and politicians and as long as no one messed with their shotguns or hunting rifles, all was well.
Sweet Moses on a pogo, but even Australia had passed anti-gun legislation so severe as to effectively disarm the entire country, so staying there after I'd moved there wasn't going to be fun. Hells bells but if I wanted to be ANYBODY's subject I might as well head back on "home" where folks at least had the common sense to drive on the correct side of the road.
Texas, or Florida. Texas back then didn't have a Castle Doctrine and Florida not only DID have one but had paved the way for concealed carry so Florida it was. Plus, shoveling snow had lost a helluva lot of its luster, so Gunshine State here we come.
Far from perfect here; open-carry is a no-no and even though lots of us fight for it, it's not in the foreseeable future. The Miami environs might as well be Cuba-North and that sucks too (and a BIG part in the denial of open-carry). But a man can still almost feel like a free man where we live and that's the most important thing.
So here's my advice. There are some places that are close to returning to the United States of America so by all means stay and fight like your life depended upon it. Because you CAN make a difference there.
You CAN'T make a difference in LA or NYC or any of the other dirty places mentioned so it might be time to stop being an enabler for the enemy.
If the above video of this seemingly nice man just saying what any man should be saying gives you chills, then it's WAY PAST your time to go, because when the commonplace seems like nirvana you've outlasted your welcome.
I like the guys at I Hate The Media. Really do. But I'm feeling sorry for them more than liking them lately and that's why I stop by less and less.
In the middle of Todd Boone's hosting at Cutlery Corner...snuff.
After blocking out several references to yesterdays idiotic "Original Inhabitance", which made less than little sense in their attempt to spell "Inhabitants"....disaster struck!
Yes, they simply cut all references to Original Inhabitance, or tried to, but their editing capabilities are all but non-existent but they at least tried.
For a time literacy won out over alien misspeak, then wham bam thank you Jim, Todd Boone went bye-bye to be replaced by Sheila Travis, and then another non-English speaking Tennessee gal whose name escapes me, probably because I couldn't understand a word they were saying.
One moment Todd, hemming and hawing and stuttering and lying his ass off as usual, and then Sheila intrudes to say that she's taking over.
Just when I can decipher this alien tongue they ship in even worse ones.
Here's hoping Terrible Todd returns. He knew something was up. Made mention that today's run-sheets were awfully thin. Oh well. I'm good with languages so maybe this won't be too bad.
Cutlery Corner is back on the air, and without Toddy boy. Terrible Tom O'Dell is hosting the show, and it wouldn't surprise me one bit if poor Toddy was suspended, if not fired outright!
Now, Tom O'Dell isn't a slouch by any means. He can falsify with the best of them, but no one even approaches the slithering griftiness of Mr. Boone. O'Dell is half senile these days and is more the pitiful figure, but our boy Boone could look his own granny straight in the eye and not just lie but fabricate with a profundity worthy of Solomon himself. For some, the art of prevarication is an end to a means, but Boone is a liar among liars, a stealth figure who not only lies to live, but lives to lie.
A family spokeswoman said Billingsley died of polymyalgia, a rheumatoid disease, at her home in Santa Monica, Calif.
In a statement, her TV son, Jerry Mathers, said, "I am deeply saddened by the loss of my dear friend and lifetime mentor Barbara Billingsley. She will live in the hearts of her fans as a wonderful actress and be remembered by her friends as a gracious lady."
"She will be deeply missed by all of her family, friends, fans and most especially by me."
Even though Billingsley is probably best known as June, she actually had a long movie career before donning the apron. A ton of roles, actually, often in mysteries, comedies, and dramas, including 'Shadow on the Wall,' 'Trial Without Jury,' 'Dial 1119,' and a ton of uncredited roles in the late '40s and early '50s. And she was a regular on a couple of TV series before 'Beaver,' 'Professional Father' and 'The Brothers.'
One after another, our old friends are gone. The perfect Mom among them. Thank you, Barbara. You were great.
A South Florida man may have a few more dollars to toss around at strippers after he won $650,000 in a settlement for injuries he suffered during a lap dance.
In 2008, Michael Ireland was poked in the eye by a stripper's spiked high heel when he got a little too close during a performance at the Cheetah Club near West Palm Beach.
The shoe of a stripper named "Suki" punctured his eye socket and broke bones around his eye and nose and the man has permanent double vision, his attorneys claimed.
Well here's one thing I betcha isn't true with this story.
I've a strong feeling that the stripper who poked the porker being lapped is not really named Suki.
That aside, this detweiller now has one helluva stash of singles for even more lap tomfoolery.
President Obama once opined that pre-born babies, and specifically their humanity, were "above his pay grade." Something has changed, possibly his pay grade, because the President recently offered an opinion about the pre-born, specifically about their sexuality. Just yesterday, our increasingly capable President opined that people are born gay:
I don't think it's a choice. I think that people are born with a certain makeup, and that we're all children of God. We don't make determinations about who we love.
President Obama repeatedly extols the use of science over ideology but seems to selectively apply that standard. There is no doubt about the humanity of a pre-born baby. A baby's heart begins beating about 20 days, hiccups begin 52 days, and organs function eight weeks after conception. There is some developing but inconclusive research about the biological basis for sexual orientation, focused on brain structure, hormones and twins/siblings.
There you have it. For all to see, the results of an affirmative action education.
Babies being human is too complicated for the moron to comprehend, but babies being homo's is definitely understandable.
And this guy has his finger on the button. Comforting.
Great Scot, but wait! If we convince him that all babies are born homosexual, then he'd be forced to ban abortion. Or illegal aliens, yeah. All babies are illegal aliens because they've entered the country without papers. The entire democrat-controlled Congress would put an immediate HALT to abortion.
Now, before you wrack your brain in an attempt to decipher the ravings of these Tennessean morons, what the illiterates were trying to say was "Inhabitants". Click the above link to laugh at it for yourself if you don't believe me.
I shot off an email to the idiots informing them of the boo-boo and await their sending out for A) A dictionary, and B) Someone capable of reading it. In other words, this error should be corrected sometime Monday afternoon once they've finally contacted someone in the state associated with Frost who has at least a 4th grade education.
On second thought, better make that Tuesday. Late Tuesday. That'll give 'em enough time to fly in a specialist who speaks both Tennessean as well as English.
UPDATE: 9:40 AM and the translator has yet to arrive. UPDATE: 8:31 PM still awaiting the translator. UPDATE: 11:35 PM nary a translator in sight.
Yet another update.
As we await Frost learning how to speak English, I thought it'd be good for you to know that you can order the Inhabitance knives directly from this page. Simply click in the number you wish to buy..remember now, you get four per order...in the Quantity box, so let's say "10" since these piece of shit Chinamen specials will only last an hour or so before degrading to slags of unrecognizable ore, then click "Add to cart", and you'll be taken to the area that asks for your particulars, and from there the most funnest of all places, the "Shipping" zone where you'll be able to offer your first born son for the honor of finding a beat-up old box on your lawn in only a couple weeks or thereabouts.
This is of course after forgetting how Frost ripped-off Spyderco and hypnotizing yourself into not giving a good damn about scruples or honor or any other sillyass thing like that. Then, just for the fun of it, you can also include a comment with your order that asks how much Frost is donating to the closest Original Inhabitance reservation in thanking them for the use of the likeness of a wise old chief on the blade handles.
Good luck with all that and may you then rot in hell.
As done by my friend Jim, who could turn a rusted hunk of steel into a mirror worthy of Cleopatra. Or even that other drama queen Todd Boone. Who, I am absolutely, totally, 100% CERTAIN, has never seen, let alone owned, a blade this sharp. Particularly since it is CPM S-110V steel. Something Jim Frost himself has never heard of. But enough talking about little women.
Not as perfect as when he first honed it, of course, since this does happen to be a working blade. Am switching over to the system Jim uses, as throughout all of my sharpening endeavors, it yields the best results ever I have seen. Keeping it a secret until I learn how to work the thing. This way, if I suck at it I can try something else and you'll never know.
I despise bringing any attention to the Clinton News Network, but know thine enemy, etc.
The Bill of Rights guarantees the right, not a bank's creating a "rule" as the caption describes, and except for the kudos that should go to the bank this is a worthless piece of crap story that symbolizes CNN's unprofessionalism, despisement of freedom,and pretty much misses the overall point by a country mile. Yeah I hate them. No real reason to watch the actual video because its self-explanatory for anyone who can A) read English, as opposed to, say the average CNN viewership, and 2) understand the definition of freedom. Click here if you really wanna as I could find no way to embed the thing, but be aware that the link is from Gun Digest which can be problematic loading since it is chockablock with ads, etc.
