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About TMM

TMM is the owner, editor, and principal author at The Minuteman, a competitive shooter, and staff member for Boomershoot. Even in his free time he’s merging his love and knowledge of computers and technology with his love of firearms. Many know his private name and information however due to the current political climate, many are distancing themselves due to the abandonment of Due Process.

That About Sums It Up

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Some people are so blind as to not view the actions of the group ignoring blissfully their behavior.  Going so far as to completely ignore the fact that their “hypocrisy knows no bounds”.

If you’re unaware why I would make that last comment, occupy Oakland trashed a Wells Fargo and among others protesting the banks.  A few days later they opened a bank account to store their funds. So when I saw the following tonight I felt it a perfect description of #occupy $space.

Remember who they consider a bunch of crazy loons and a threat to society versus those who disparage law and order, those who abuse and believe women shouldn’t live free, those who would steal and destroy private property.

If #occupy was really about getting the government out of corporations and corporations out of government, they wouldn’t be demanding bailouts for students.  They wouldn’t be demanding larger government to aid in crony capitalism.  They wouldn’t be supporting Obamacare which destroys free enterprise and ties government and the healthcare industry together.  Notice a pattern here?  They want big government and the destruction of freedom and liberty.  One dumb friend said I was just afraid of that which I do not understand.  No I have a legitimate fear of mob rule where a bunch of miscreant come and destroy my property because I’m not willing to work as their slave.  I exchange my knowledge and skills for money with my employer, they want me taxed harder so I can bail out their bad decisions with regards to school and their personal finances.  A clue they actually have no want to actually solve the problem is the majority want to repeat by re-electing Obama who signed the very bailouts they’re protesting against.

F-off you spoiled rotten little shits.  You are not the 99%, you do not represent me and stop claiming as such.  The only thing I wish more is that I could obtain permission to deal with these dough-assed crack monkeys who are doing nothing but destroying private and public property, obstructing access and thus destroying private business, and preventing people from the right to freely exercise commerce on their property and the use of public lands for their personal edifice.  As I have said before and I will say again, your rights end when you are hampering the rights of others.  F-off you lazy hippie bums.  It’s not our damn fault you went and racked up a bunch of student debt on a degree that had absolutely zero job prospects.  That’s a poor investment on your part and government has no business in charity, the same as no duty to help businesses, and no duty to help someone with personal financial troubles.

I find it ironic that people paint the Tea Party as this evil group yet we’re all honest law abiding peaceable citizens.  Yet we’re the terrorists.

h/t Wirecutter

SSCC #183 – Panama City Beach

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A DUI case against a former Panama City Beach police officer has been dismissed because no one could legally prosecute the charges before the defendant’s right to a speedy trial expired.

One must really wonder though why they were not able to prosecute his case within the necessary time. Even with the conflict of interest, why was the case allowed to be overlooked? Why did the state prosecutor not even bother to attempt to pursue the case?

This is yet another example of the state looking the other way when it’s their own breaking the law.

State Sponsored Criminal Count 183: David Lee Walker

Because when it’s one of your own that’s broken the law, kick it into someone else’s court that absolutely won’t care. Then he can get off on a technicality.

Winter is rolling onto the Palouse

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I spent most of yesterday out in the garage cleaning out and putting stuff away that had accumulated there over summer.  Now that it’s cleaned up it can continue use as my make shift shop.  Getting space back was aided by switching the tractor back to winter mode with the snow blower.  It is now sitting primed at the entrance to the garage awaiting the first real snow fall.

I have a small chicken and the egg problem with my shop.  It’s currently storing a lot of stuff such as camping equipment, Christmas decorations, dive equipment, other tools and miscellaneous stuff.  It’s taking up a good chunk of the floor space and there’s no room for my tools.  The ceilings are high enough I can put up loft storage to store all of it but there’s no room for the tools to build it currently. 

So I at least got the standby shop into a condition I can begin working again.  The goal is to finish up storage location A and move out all the stuff destined for the first location.  I have one problem left to be solved in the first storage system design.  I think I have it solved but I need to do some math to verify it will hold the weight.  Then next will be ammo storage racks and doing some rearranging in the shop.  Followed by some high shelves in the house to finish unpacking knickknacks and family memorabilia.  I will post pictures and details as I progress through the projects.

Lastly will be two custom workbenches.  One will be for the express purpose of reloading and firearm maintenance. This will be unique because it will be fully seal-able to keep wood dust and other shop dirt out of the work area and drawers.  The second will be my main workbench and will have built in storage for some of my more awkward tools. 

At this point I should be able to move my tools and then I can start building the rest of the material to finish up the shop, such as a planer stand, and a permanent router table.

I do want to get the shop finished up because I there is some stuff I would like to start making to sell.  Not to mention I have some other ideas of stuff I can make and sell.

Speaking of which I made a simple shirt yesterday as well for AepilotJim that I just noticed I put in the wrong store.  It should be up here in the near future with a much wider selection than just t-shirts.  If you want to know what the shirt is, you can either listen to last Friday’s VC or wait for it appear in the store.

See instead of bitching about life and how it’s unfair I continue to work my ass off in one form or another.  Hell I spent time doing a bunch of work that I’m sure those who wasted time on useless degrees would never bother doing.  Doubly so since I didn’t even get paid for it, I did it to help some friends.  Thing is they probably could have offered to help for compensation and it would have been accepted.  Shoving insulation into walls suck but someone’s got to do it.  Running conduit and wiring has to be done by someone.  Taking care of all the plumbing has to be done by someone.  Notice a pattern here?  Next time actually get an education in something useful and in demand.

SSCC #182 – Lowell PD

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 A veteran Lowell police officer is on paid
administrative leave pending an internal investigation into reports that
he showed up for work the morning of Oct. 27 suspected of being drunk.     

The BFD here through for the department is he was drunk for work, just like any other company.  However no one questions how the officer got to work, probably drove, the fact that he was drunk and in possession of a firearm, or any of the many other things wrong with this situation.

State Sponsored Criminal Count 182: Michael Sylvester

Because DUI and carrying a weapon while intoxicated only really applies to those who aren’t in law enforcement.

SSCC #174-181 Philadelphia PD

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The male officer allegedly stuck his hand down the girl’s shirt and
touched her chest during the two-hour search in an auditorium full of
students at Harding Middle School on Oct. 24, according to the suit.

What was the search for I hear you cry?  Well here’s yet another example of the abysmal failure of zero tolerance.

Lawyer Michael Pileggi said his client told him that the search was being conducted because school officials believed a student might have brought a BB gun to school.

(Emphasis mine).  But wait, why didn’t they just use metal detectors to try and find the “weapon of mass destruction”?

The girl said the officer searched her body with the detector wand, which
revealed no evidence of a weapon. He then “physically patted down the
plaintiff touching her inappropriately,” the suit said. The officer
“placed his hand down plaintiff’s shirt and felt around her chest area.”

So let me get this straight, these officers, 8 of them, 6 male 2 female, felt it was necessary to pat down all the students even after they wanded them with a metal detector.  A girl so young that she’s probably as flat as a wall and wouldn’t have anyplace to hide anything much less a firearm.  None of the school administrators said a damn thing because they “trust” the police without question.

Remember though, beyond the taxpayer having to pay for the abuses by these officers nothing will happen to them thanks to the wonders of qualified immunity.

Every last one of those officers and school administrators should be fired.  Training is being used as an excuse to hide a lack of common sense and negligence.

State Sponsored Criminal Count: 181 These 8 are all Does since they weren’t listed.  Again if you find them send them to me.

Because as an officer every trusts you so you can do whatever the hell you want despite common sense and logic dictating otherwise.  If someone complains, the state will cover your ass.

Mecca Is Growing with the Quote of the Day

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Joe, Ry, Caleb, and I all headed out to the Boomershoot site today to do some work on Mecca.

Normally I take pictures, but this time posting them falls upon Ry as I didn’t take a single one.

It was productive, we assembled the new tables.  Drilled the holes for the input feed for the solar panel and WiFi.  Mounted the solar charge controller and the transfer switch.  Mounted the pole for the WiFi and started getting the brackets put together for the solar panel.  Joe has decided to mount the panel in a couple weeks.  I’ll need to head out with him with some of my tools so I can take care of re-crimping his Ethernet cable.

Overall it wasn’t a bad day other than by the end it was freezing cold since the first solid winter storm of the season is rolling in.  We actually left at a perfect time given we arrive in Moscow with snow accumulating and visibility becoming limited.

Our day started however with one of Ry’s famous statements:

Joe: Want me to get out and check the field?

Ry: Yeah you probably should, (drives out on to the field without stopping all the way up to Mecca)

It’s on video:

We didn’t get stuck, though it did get a bit hairy at the end though it still wasn’t much of a problem.  Expect pictures and video hopefully in the near future.  

SSCC #173 – Chicago PD

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In May of 2010, Tapia was stopped by Chicago police officers for a minor traffic offense at 43rd and Paulina and later released. Minutes later, the police computer showed that a J. Tapia, 12 years older, 30 pounds lighter, 6 inches smaller and living 40 miles away, had an outstanding warrant. Officers stopped Tapia again and, according to official records and hospital photographs and hospital photographs, used a stun gun 11 times to subdue him.

This was an incident of mistaken identity.  When the officers got caught in that they attempted to trump resisting arrest charges to justify their force.  Ends up their lies were caught by the hospital too.

“When he went to the emergency room, they ran a complete tox screen on him for all drugs and alcohol and it was completely negative,” said Dennis Giovannini, Tapia’s laywer. “This whole situation was the blatant cover-up that the officers came up with after they realized that they had Tasered and beat up the wrong person.”

What an outstanding group of individuals that use force when it is unnecessary to such a degree as to permanently disable a peaceable citizen.  Remember though, officers are covered by qualified immunity and will not be held accountable for actions such as this.  Then people wonder why incidents like this happen.

If there’s no punishment, what negative effect is there to keep this behavior in check?

State Sponsored Criminal Count #173: John Doe

Because there’s a suspected warrant means you can tase and beat the crap out of the guy.  If it ends up a mistake, just trump up charges, the state will cover your ass.