It Hadda Happen

Of course the Administration that thinks the answer to all things is meetings and taxes had to come up with this right at the Christmas Season - a board to study live Christmas tree use and a tax on the trees to fund the board.  The full story can be read at The Hill.

 

It's one of those things where I don't know whether to laugh or cry...

Memorial

I have to say, as annoyed as I am with this administration's treatment of Christianity, I can't get worked up about the refusal of the BLM to add FDR's D-Day prayer to the National WW II Memorial.  The memorial has been open for several years, and the design went through a process of approval for some time before that.  This should have been taken care of at jump - "Why didn't you take care of that before we left the house?"

No Bang

After non-stop yard work at church and at home this weekend - FINALLY a gorgeous weekend and me home at the same time - I loaded up a movie and decided to mess around with the old Browning last night.   As usual, pain in patoot to disassemble.  And to reassemble.  And once reassembled, disinclined to dry fire.  This is something that has been happening intermittently.  I'm not a gunsmith and I'm not about to take an old gun like that apart beyond a point without knowing what I'm doing.  But I did notice something after repeated fiddlings - slide and barrel assembly off, dry fires.  Slide and barrel assembly back on, nada.  So I'm thinking that once assembled there is pressure being put on something that shouldn't have pressure on it or the other way around - pressure is NOT being put where is SHOULD be put.  I went to bed with it still not being functional, but it flashed through my mind after I had turned the lights out that the firing pin assembly tends to pop out without being asked.  Tonight's job is to see if maybe it's the way the firing pin and spring are seating that's causing the problem.

Glad It's Friday...

Up late, missed train.  Drove 75 miles to office.  Just as I'm turning into garage my mind flashes on a memory.  Or, rather, a lack thereof.  As a teleworker I have a laptop on which my work life resides and which goes to-from the office.  The memory that's lacking is one of said laptop and bag being put into the suv as I dashed out the door.  Quick flopping of hand behind seat finds no bag and no computer.  #$%*!!!!

Fortunately there was an open shared computer and I had work I could do without my own files, but of course my own computer has a history of the websites I regularly use and the shared computer doesn't.  And having become reliant on my computer to pop up URLs I don't remember them.  I had to go to Rev. Paul's site and click on a reply I made in order to get over here to my own blog. 

Brewpub here I come...

I'm Offended

Your offense offends me.  I’ve gone along all my life remaining unoffended by the religious practices of others, even when I called myself an atheist.  The tassels of a prayer shawl peeking out from a business suit, prayers facing Mecca, the iconography of Buddhists, the careful vegetarianism of Jains, the consumption of peyote have never offended me.  But you see a cross, and your world has ended.  You hear the words “Jesus Christ”, and it is catastrophic for you.  Like a water-splashed Wicked Witch of the West you melt, screaming.  Rather than do what millions of us have done as we’ve shared this land with people who have different beliefs, you feel compelled to be offended.  And not just that, you feel compelled to behave in ways that you have protested as evil when Christians behaved that way – you seek to have Christian religious expression suppressed and removed from view.   You have given Saudi Arabia a run for its money as far as religious intolerance. 

Since the reasoning behind this offensive behavior is avoidance of offending, stop offending me by being offended.  And go do some reading on the human rights record of officially atheistic governments in the 20th century - the death toll is pretty offensive.  Or would that take time away from your being personally offended?

Scandal Drums

Soooo... why is everybody assuming that the scandal attacks on Herman Cain are actually originating from the Democrats?

Cain is off the Business as Usual plantation, and that's enough to make any of the Massas mad enough to send the patterrollers after him.

Beee-a-utiful!

I'm not a pilot, and don't play one on TV.  But this looks to me to be an absolutely beautiful landing.  Particularly considering the alternative.  Hats off to the pilot's steady hands.