Was just talking with Jigsaw about my beard, and I knew I had some old photos kicking around so I grabbed a random album and started flipping. Turns out it was essentially the photos taken around when i graduated from High school. I found this one DEEPLY amusing.
I’m the dork in the upper right. My arm is around MY WIFE…tho I had no idea at the time. We’ve been close friends since the 7th grade, but only started dating when we were in college…different colleges, I might add. I was actually had just broken up with a long-time girlfriend who actually lived in New Jersey (she used to summer in Maine). Yeah, and you thought I was dumb NOW! 🙂 If Only I knew!
The dude beside my some-day wife is now a Captain in the Army National Guard, and an Iraq War Vet. Just found this video, thought I’d share.
The story is no bullshit, he was totally a flabby band-geek who just needed help in college and was actually reluctant to join the Guard…now he loves it and he’s career mil!
The dude on his back was the best man and my Wedding to Mrs. Weer’d. We were best friends then, and he likely had been told at the time he was my best man no matter who I married. (I want to shout “DUMBASS Your fucking ARM is around her!!!! To the pic) He’s now persuing a career in folk/bluegrass music.
Some of the others I’ve lost track of, others I haven’t but I don’t know if they care to be discussed.
Oh and just to show I have no shame
BAND GEEK!!!
LOL, the past is always more amusing when you see how far you’ve come! Some people want to relive the past, I’m excited where the future may lead!
I thought I’d make a point to pay my respects to those lost in Israel .
Israeli security forces may be closing in on the terrorists who bombed a crowded bus stop area Wednesday afternoon in Jerusalem.
I’ve read that when Israel was still young many of the Anti-Semitic attacks were done with guns, until the Israeli government relaxed carry laws and terrorists started getting killed. That’s when they had to resort to bombs.
For gun-control advocates this is an improvement…but its not because of carry laws because that causes “Gun Death”, right?
Just wanted to let Y’all know that Dragon Leatherworks now has a new website, REALLY nice site design, go have a peek. I did a check-up of my pages reviewing Dragon’s products and found all the links to still be in good order.
You can read my reviews of his holsters below: Talon Flat Jack
I would not recommend these products if they weren’t great! Go Check them out!
Go over and have a look at the gruesome pix! She turned her Crown Vic into an abattoir, and only has minor injuries to show for it. Lucky!
My Father had a similar smash-up with a Moose in Northern Maine back before I was born. Skidded a VW Beetle between the Moose’s legs. Gutted the moose, covering himself with moose blood, guts, and shit…his nose went into the windshield which is inches from your face anyway in those old Nazi Hockey-Pucks, but thankfully he cleared the moose before it toppled, otherwise it would have pancaked the car and I would have never been born.
An interesting fact is the White Tailed deer is the most dangerous animal in North America, and that’s 100% because of Auto-Strikes. This is similarly scary as the Tsetse fly is the most dangerous beast in Africa because of its affinity to spread deadly disease. Lions and Tigers and Bears, oh my, but Bambi’s Mom, or a fucking fly will more likely kill you!
Farmgirl, glad you’re OK, keep going with that good luck! All of you out there, Be safe! And Hunters? Kill some of these evil vermin, not only are they a danger to people, they are filled with yummy meats!
These are really target-rich videos so expect more of these.
So here Helmke is calling the pro-rights mantra that we need to work harder to enforce the laws currently on the books.
He uses the Tucson shooting as his one-and-only example of why this is a fallacy. Well Laughner DID break the law when buying the gun, as he lied about his marijuana use which is mentioned on the form. Of course Paul rightly points out that Criminals can’t be trusted to tell the truth on their forms. I agree, I would also take it a step further and say that criminals can’t be trusted to follow the law.
Paul mentions that the Police couldn’t have stopped Laughner if they had seen him with the gun before the shooting. You know what? They DIDN’T see him. Moreover the laws that didn’t stop him from buying a gun wouldn’t have stopped him from getting an Arizona Carry Permit (something he could have done but didn’t). Paul also talks about a lot of 20/20 hindsight of people’s amateur assessment of his mental health. Still the big issue is, as tragic as Tucson was, Laughner was never charged with a crime, so no matter how much people didn’t like him, there is no reason to discriminate against him. Now I haven’t followed the case very much after the initial facts, I have no idea if the police cut Laughner breaks or looked the other way on the various felonies he committed, but was never charged with, but without due process you can’t move, Paul, but this is why I call them “Anti-Freedom” not just “Anti-Gun”, because guns are a target of theirs, but not their end-game. Also I’ll add that Paul says all these lies, as well as false dichotomies, and then PUBLISHES them on his own webpage (the videos are from the Brady Camp Youtube Channel) Do you think Paul might be dangerously insane? Sure he’s never been charged with a crime…but do we want the first crime he’s charged with to be “Pulling the trigger”? I’m being silly…Paul’s being serious. Remember that!
So he goes on to talk about nobody “Needing” 30 round magazines. Now let’s set aside the fact that “Need” is never factored into rights. I don’t need a blog, you don’t NEED to go to church, nobody NEEDS a TV etc etc, bullshit argument. Also let’s set aside the shell-game that Paul talks about people who don’t use 30-round magazines, so we can limit magazines to 10!! Sure we can argue that not many people use 30+ round pistol magazines in their day-to-day, but 15+ round magazines are FILTHY common in damn near every handgun application these days. People DO use those mags…and you’re for banning them. So again your argument rings hollow, you’re lying.
Hunters don’t use high-cap magazines? Well my rights have nothing to do with Ducks and Deer, but the reason most hunters use limited guns is because of arbitrary hunting laws. These are rules to the game. If I’m not playing the game, why should I play by the rules? When I kiss my wife when she comes home from work does the Ref call that an Offensive Foul? Of course not, because I’m in my house, not on the NCAA Basketball Court! Still the rules are different in every state, and you’ll find that people have no issue with hunting with large capacity magazines: (Bad Photo but its a Deer harvested in Montana by a PTR-91 *in a configuration that would consider it an “Assault Weapon” by the Bullshit ’94 law* with a 20 round magazine)
Law Enforcement don’t use 30+ round magazines? Hmmm I don’t know many Police forces where they don’t stick an AR-15 or similar into the cruiser. That’s a 20-30 round magazine. I know Boston Police have a good stock of full-auto MP-5 Sub-Machineguns, and when I see officers walking around with these weapons they have 30-round magazines affixed. And of course Paul doesn’t care about 30+, he cares about 10+, which EVERY police officer is carrying a gun that holds more than 10 rounds.
People don’t use 30+ round magazine for self-defense? Maybe not for pistols, tho I heard one person say he keeps an extended magazine in his nightstand simply because if something goes bump-in-the-night he’s not going to have a gun belt for carrying reloads. Its a good point. My standard carry load I’m carrying 25 rounds of .45 ACP on me. Granted they’re in 3 8-round magazines (plus one in the gun) but I’m not carrying reloads on me if I get woken up in the middle of the night. I wouldn’t carry a 25-30 round magazine on me in my carry kit because it would be hard to conceal and probably have weight issues….but in my home I’m not dealing with holsters or concealment…doesn’t sound like a bad idea really.
That being said I know handguns suck, so if my handgun isn’t enough I’ll be using it to fight to my rifle which has 20-round magazines. Actually for in-house I’d say if I had an AR or an AK it would be even better than my FAL, so 30 round mags are standard for that, and most people who are concerned with home defense have a house gun with such magazines.
Also these magazines weren’t BANNED. You’ll note that the AWB wasn’t repealed here in Mass, yet I have lots of 10+ round magazines. Perfectly legal so long as they were made BEFORE 1994. Given that people were making monster-sized magazines for most of the 20th century, they aren’t hard to come by if you’re looking for mags that fit an established arm.
Seems that there were lots of spree killers that used smaller magazines and killed more….why is that Paul?
Of course this is all off of JUST ONE CASE, you even admit that Virginia Tech Cho broke shitloads of laws before he “Pulled the Trigger”, of course the Brady Camp doesn’t want to talk about places like Boston, DC, Chicago, or LA where shootings are CONSTANT, and none of the people pulling triggers can legally have guns for a laundry list of reasons.
So are you claiming that laws need to be 100% effective, Paul? If so you kinda need to look at murder laws.
The “Gun Death” mantra is of course “If guns were as illegal as murder, nobody would murder anybody with guns!” because the murder laws don’t do shit, but gun control laws are different.
I believe I covered this story back in my livejournal days. Good to see Japan isn’t 100% at a standstill with the recent natural disaster that has befallen that nation.
Tomohiro Kato, who killed seven people in a bloody stabbing spree in Tokyo’s neon-lit Akihabara electronics district almost three years ago, was sentenced to death on Thursday…”The defendant used a knife to attack those who just happened to be there and took the lives of many people who were completely innocent,” said presiding judge Hiroaki Murayama, according to broadcaster NHK and news agencies.
In Japan guns are essentially banned (which is shit luck if you happen to live in a Tsunami wasteland where the only semblance of law and order is enforced not by the police, but the Yakuza), those who speak about “Gun Death” might be honest enough to admit that banning of guns won’t stop murder, but still some are audacious enough to say it’ll end MASS MURDER. Nope.
And even banning knives won’t stop that. Let’s ban criminals, and allow people to protect themselves!
Sorry that last week the podcast didn’t happen, but this evening Vicious Circle is going live, talking about predictions for 2100. Should be an interesting show, and I did my homework this time.
Join us, should be fun…and likely horribly depraved!
We have a vegetable garden at the homestead that has never been used as such. Overall its just a massive bed of mint. Mint is neat, but besides the occasional pot of Mint tea, we don’t do much with the stuff. I decided its time for it to go. First I tried with a regular leaf rake, and the stuff didn’t budge. I had a garden claw and started rooting some of it up, but that was VERY tiring work. Bought a garden rake today and made some progress…but DAMN this shit is putting up a fight. I’m calling it quits for the evening, and I’m going to come at it full force in the morning.
I’ll probably turn my yard waste pit into a mint field…which I’m fine with.
