Monthly Archives: May 2012

I waiting for a concealed carrier to respond to the old “Why did you kill him?” question with a paraphrase of Mal Reynolds. “I didn’t kill him, he killed himself. I just carried the bullet for a while.”

Sean Sorrentino – Comment to Quote of the Day – Miguel (05/11/2012)

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[Yup, Mal was a very smart and wise man of serious integrity.  If you’re unfamiliar with Mal, go now (hulu) (netflix), educate yourself.

I find these two quotes from Malcolm Reynolds though fit me quite well:

“You don’t know me, son. So let me explain this to you once: If I ever kill you, you’ll be awake, you’ll be facing me, and you’ll be armed.”

Followed by:

Someone ever tries to kill you, you try to kill ‘em right back.

On a side note I would totally answer with that after the trial(s)* are done.–B]

*depending on location and legal protection provided to the victim civilly and criminally.

A couple random things things…

1. I hate yard work.  I mean I hate it with a passion.  I don’t have an overly large yard, and mowing it I don’t care all that much.  But then I have to spray for weeds.  Then I have to put down vegetation killer to kill the grass where it shouldn’t be.  Then I have to trim all the edges.

   There’s ton’s of dead stuff I really need to pull out but I just hate doing yard work.  Doubly so since out here it’s either cold and nasty or boiling and oppressive.  I got most of the edging done before it became boiling and oppressive.  I am planning on spraying weed and feed tonight as well as putting down vegetation killer, but we’ll see if I’m up to it.

2. While weed whacking and lost in my own thoughts I realized something.  The following requires way too much suspension of disbelief.

   While many would say time wouldn’t slow down with hammy hopped up on caffeine, obviously you have never met a mini-bear. Poor Mr. Eeds was almost over run by them. They were just so damn fast. We lost two waist packs to them as well in under 2 seconds to get at our snack food.  Seriously, we put the packs on the ground and bam it was over.

   No, the item that is just completely unbelievable can be seen at 0:22. There is no way that a woman that uptight in one of those cookie cutter style neighborhoods would be doing her own yard work. No, she’s hiring the local Mexicans to come do her yard work.

3. I wish I had been able to call in to the Squirrel Report last night.  The next thing I am hacking is my lawn mower and that damn button I have to push to go in reverse with the PTO on.  If I don’t push the button, the engine dies.  That is a problem right now as I need to replace the battery in the lawn mower.

4. My new phone and ears for shooting is an awesome combo for yard work.  I was able to listen to Pandora the whole time while working.  As Weer’d says, Dub Step Get’s Shit Done.  I came back in after 3 hours and thought maybe it had been one.  It’s the power of the Wub!  This played while I was rounding up debris on the mower.  It was bookmarked for the wife.

   I figure with the flute she’ll appreciate it.

5. An additional side note.  I’m not going to do the State Sponsored Criminal Count on weekends unless one rolls in and I really feel like doing it.  It’s pretty easy to find content for it however it’s my weekend.  I don’t like spending my weekend thinking about how badly I’d like to shove my foot right up someone’s ass.  Instead I’m going to try and find something else to blog about on the weekends.  Besides the wife is going to start having Sundays off on a regular basis now.  So she’ll be coming to the USPSA matches more regularly.

   Doing that count can be a serious downer.

The problem with Anti Gun idiots is that they are willing to bet
everybody else’s life and assorted body parts on their failed Gun
Control Theories.

Miguel – Shoot First, Ask Questions Later? Damn Skippy!

May 11th, 2012

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[The criminal occupational hazard reduction organizations seem to think that by allowing those who desire to exercise their right to carry it some how forces everyone to carry.  I’ve never quite understood this.  What I do understand quite well is that their wants and desires affect everyone’s choices for self defense.

Their desire to limit the ability to fight back affects everyone, not just themselves.  Currently there is a running theme that we must be able to fully know the intent of an attacker before we defend ourselves.

Umm, I don’t think so sparky.  If someone is threatening myself or my family I am no longer required to exercise restraint.  I don’t care if it ends up he just wants my wallet, there is no magic filter to separate a process criminal and a resource criminal.  I cannot magically separate by immediate behavior who just wants my wallet and who after taking my wallet wants me dead.  The criminal could quite easily retain his life by doing one of two things. 

• Pick a different victim.  See if he picks one of those anti-gunners who doesn’t believe in defending themselves it’s much safer for the criminal.
• No longer participate in a life of crime.  If he wasn’t robbing and threatening peaceable citizens he wouldn’t have to worry about being shot when they defended themselves now would they?

I know there are many people who would blame the person for defending themselves for the death of the criminal.  Except that isn’t true now is it?  There were numerous decisions the criminal made which forced the victim into defending themselves.  The criminal made the choices which ultimately resulted in their own death.

If someone  threatens me and mine do you think I’m going to take the time to run him through a psychological profile to determine if I should be less afraid? 

Hell no, I have already made the decision.  I will fight and I will win at any cost to those who threaten or use force against myself or my family.  The criminal made the decision to jump in the pit with the tiger.  I have no duty to try and determine if he’s just bluffing.  Shoot first, you bet.  If my telling them to stop didn’t work, the universal hand signal for go away will.  Even if it most assuredly reduces his recidivism rate to 0.

Besides even if the attacker actually shoots first our opponents will claim I did if my body isn’t cooling to room temperature by the actions of their main supporters. 

A criminal who attacks someone else has no rights during the attack.  He surrendered them in perpetrating the attack.  He made that choice, not me. -B]

If you have used the Contact Me page to try and get a hold of me since January 1st.  I apologize.  I didn’t realize that was sending email to another domain.  That domain was not a part of the migration in January and will be done later this summer.

Because of that email sent to that address has not been forwarded properly, why I am not exactly sure.  I just discovered the forwarding was still broken recently and went and checked the form.  Yup, it’s the bad address.

So if you attempted to contact me using the form since the first of this year, please feel free to hit me again.  I didn’t get that memo.  I tested the form this afternoon and it is in fact functioning correctly.

Again, I’m sorry if you sent me something and I didn’t respond.  It’s not because I hate you*, it’s because it never appeared in my inbox.

*Well I might depending on why you contacted me, but I just can’t be sure since I don’t know that anyone sent me hate mail.

Yeah, here’s your laugh for the day.

Police, however, say the 18-year-old walked into the Wilmer Police
Department Saturday evening with a white towel covering his hands.

Police Chief Victor Kemp described the incident saying, “Yeah well, a
young man walked into the lobby and approached the dispatch window
there and told our Communications Officer ‘give me all your money.’”

Son, you just tried to rob a police station.  Where in your mind did you think that was a “good idea”.  You then turned around and said it was a joke.  In what world did that seem like a “good idea” as a joke, which I don’t believe you by the way.

Thankfully no one was hurt, though I do feel like Darwin was prevented from properly cleaning the gene pool.

On a more serious note folks your average criminal isn’t that bright.  Now this one I certainly would think ranks below average, but if they were smarter the would have a job and not be stealing stuff.  The risk reward matrix on a job is considerably better than being a criminal.  Frankly I prefer to continue to tilt the scales on making crime more risky.  Sadly though our government has decided to take these high school drop outs and make them TSA agents to legitimize their criminal behavior.

There’s just no winning for us is there?