2/26/2012
Dude, WTF?
So I've been reading about the shit-storm that the purveyor of "smoke and thunder" is causing in the gunnie blogiverse. I only have one thing to say to them...DUDE!!! Really? You've made it your mission in life to insult and berate a group of people. (Using myself as the lowest common denominator.) That has an average IQ that falls squarely in "Above Average" territory, with what I am absolutely certain has a few people that qualify for Mensa memberships among us. You've gotta be crazy to pick a fight with people that are not only armed in the literal sense but also armed and dangerous in the mental sense. Supremely capable of doing a Vulcan mindf**k on you and making you like it. Not to mention the lambasting you get everytime you open your virtual piehole. (As Lawdog would prolly say.) "You daft git." My advise for "smoke and thunder" is simply this, take it or leave it, cut your losses before you do something even more stupid. Seriously, we hate getting into battles of wit with the unarmed.
2/23/2012
Oh Really?
Well I for one welcome our new robot overlords.
Also: Since I have noticed others talking about the word verification system blogger is using and the related difficulty in getting readable images. I have changed to the no verification needed option as well and moderation on posts 14 days old and older. Hope that helps everyone out, not that I really get any interesting conversations going on here anyway.
2/20/2012
Found one for Weerd Beard.
Good thing they have so much gun control south of the border or someone could have gotten hurt.
As Weerd Beard says. "This is why 'Gun Death' is a stupid metric."
As Weerd Beard says. "This is why 'Gun Death' is a stupid metric."
2/17/2012
Doing a bit of thinking.
So I figured I would share some random thoughts and rants that have been rattling around my head. Since they finally coalesced into something that from which, some form of reason can be distinguished.
I was thinking about how we as a nation have slipped so far from our founding principles. Then I realized that the problem lies deeper than that, in that we as humans have come so far as to take natural selection out of the equation. To elaborate, we no longer need fear the night because we have developed tools to push back the darkness, from fire to torches to flashlights to night vision. We don't have to fear hunger because we have developed ways to take small amounts of resources and turn them into vast quantities of the same resources provided and spread them around. Now some will say that people still go hungry and to a certain extent that is true. This brings me to my next point.
Skills and will: I never have to fear hunger because I have the skills needed to not only feed myself but several others as well but in certain conditions you must also have the will to put those skills to a use they were not designed for. Many nowadays not only lack the skills they lack the will or more importantly the need to use them beyond moving fork to mouth. These people we refer to as dependents of the system, as I can think of no group softer yet more determined to make everyone else just like them. They not only lack the skills needed to better themselves, they lack the will to do anything for themselves. Not even them having to raise a finger and do even the modest amount of work needed to put food on the table. Beyond telling others what to do, even that's too much like work to these people. This makes them weak and we all know they hate thinking of themselves as weak. Which brings me back around to the start.
The lack of natural selection in humans. Since we no longer need to fight and claw for every mouthful of food, we now have people solely dependant on what is provided by others. For this advancement of our abilities to shape the world around us we are now shackled by the sad state of affairs that allow these people not only to live but thrive, not only thrive but breed. Creating another generation of people that the rest of us have to support because in most cases the parents feed their children a steady diet of, "You don't have to, someone else will do it for you." You don't see this in groups some consider to be lower lifeforms. Because those lower lifeforms know by instinct that if they don't get up off their asses they will either starve or be a meal for something else that doesn't look down on giving natural selection a helping hand like we humans do. The only difference between us and them is many of us went soft a millennium or more ago and they just kept working at it. Only our tools let us survive the nights as it is. Contrary to belief we humans still have natural predators. Ourselves. Which any cop worth their salt can tell you, they have to see the results on a daily basis. And no, they are still not required to protect you personally, only clean up the mess afterward.
As for a point to all this, it's pretty simple. Quit trying to make me work my ass off for you and I both. Then turn around and tell me that I'm not allowed to protect myself from the predators among us, as well as you too. You worthless bastards, get your own life and stay out of mine, that means all of it.
< /rant>
I was thinking about how we as a nation have slipped so far from our founding principles. Then I realized that the problem lies deeper than that, in that we as humans have come so far as to take natural selection out of the equation. To elaborate, we no longer need fear the night because we have developed tools to push back the darkness, from fire to torches to flashlights to night vision. We don't have to fear hunger because we have developed ways to take small amounts of resources and turn them into vast quantities of the same resources provided and spread them around. Now some will say that people still go hungry and to a certain extent that is true. This brings me to my next point.
Skills and will: I never have to fear hunger because I have the skills needed to not only feed myself but several others as well but in certain conditions you must also have the will to put those skills to a use they were not designed for. Many nowadays not only lack the skills they lack the will or more importantly the need to use them beyond moving fork to mouth. These people we refer to as dependents of the system, as I can think of no group softer yet more determined to make everyone else just like them. They not only lack the skills needed to better themselves, they lack the will to do anything for themselves. Not even them having to raise a finger and do even the modest amount of work needed to put food on the table. Beyond telling others what to do, even that's too much like work to these people. This makes them weak and we all know they hate thinking of themselves as weak. Which brings me back around to the start.
The lack of natural selection in humans. Since we no longer need to fight and claw for every mouthful of food, we now have people solely dependant on what is provided by others. For this advancement of our abilities to shape the world around us we are now shackled by the sad state of affairs that allow these people not only to live but thrive, not only thrive but breed. Creating another generation of people that the rest of us have to support because in most cases the parents feed their children a steady diet of, "You don't have to, someone else will do it for you." You don't see this in groups some consider to be lower lifeforms. Because those lower lifeforms know by instinct that if they don't get up off their asses they will either starve or be a meal for something else that doesn't look down on giving natural selection a helping hand like we humans do. The only difference between us and them is many of us went soft a millennium or more ago and they just kept working at it. Only our tools let us survive the nights as it is. Contrary to belief we humans still have natural predators. Ourselves. Which any cop worth their salt can tell you, they have to see the results on a daily basis. And no, they are still not required to protect you personally, only clean up the mess afterward.
As for a point to all this, it's pretty simple. Quit trying to make me work my ass off for you and I both. Then turn around and tell me that I'm not allowed to protect myself from the predators among us, as well as you too. You worthless bastards, get your own life and stay out of mine, that means all of it.
< /rant>
2/12/2012
It's gonna kick so much ass it should have feet.
Two words: Chuck Norris. Your arguement has been rendered invalid.
1/20/2012
It puts a smile on your face.
Logging into facebook and seeing among the top stories on the news feed is this story.
Just reading about SHOT Show is more fun than any anti-gun show. Then again it isn't hard to be more fun than an empty void of an idea. As it is only a poorly thought out and badly flawed theory the best its supporters can hope for is that we only point at them and laugh. As my fellow bloggers are fond of saying, "This is why we win."
Just reading about SHOT Show is more fun than any anti-gun show. Then again it isn't hard to be more fun than an empty void of an idea. As it is only a poorly thought out and badly flawed theory the best its supporters can hope for is that we only point at them and laugh. As my fellow bloggers are fond of saying, "This is why we win."
1/15/2012
Strange Sitemeter.
Was wandering thru sitemeter this morning trying to kill time until I get off work. I notice I've been getting some hits from all over the world, and strangely placed at that, to this post in particular. Many are due to the fact they are all searching some variation of .30-30, or Winchester 30-30. Either way none of them stay long once they arrive but at least they clicked the link. So thanks for the hits to those people in San Fran, LA, France, Italy and Mexico as well as any others I might have overlooked.
If you would stick around and leave a comment or two asking questions I might be able to answer them. I've spent the last 30 years around one or another form of the "Bambi Zapper" (as Tam would say). If I cannot answer it I can point you in the direction of another one of my fellow gun-bloggers that probably could.
If you would stick around and leave a comment or two asking questions I might be able to answer them. I've spent the last 30 years around one or another form of the "Bambi Zapper" (as Tam would say). If I cannot answer it I can point you in the direction of another one of my fellow gun-bloggers that probably could.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)