*Agreed. Good comments at the story link also.
Comment by ojibwa on L&P:
First his article gives me the feeling of *TROLL Bait or the Feds wrote the article for him.
Another point for the Active Duty that feel they'll kill us & take out stashes. There are Veterans as determined as you are, but instead of threatening their fellow citizens they are training them to defend. They seem to forget that part.=============================
“When they come for my gun, they will have to pry it out of my cold, dead hands,” is a common refrain I often hear from the Neo-Cons when there is a threat, credible or otherwise, that the US government is going to take their firearms.
And, when I hear this crazy talk, I agree with them openly. “You are right. They will pry your gun from your cold dead hands,” which I often follow with the question, “And where will that leave you except face down in a pool of your own blood the middle of the street, just another dead fool resisting the State?”
This is not a question they are comfortable with, if only because the intent of their saber-rattling was to imply they would fight to keep their weapons, and win.
Nice fantasy. It’s not happening.
If the federal government decides to disarm the public, and one of these (see photo below) rolls down your street after a not-so-subtle request that you kindly turn over your firearms and ammunition “for the common good,” it will be nothing less than suicide by cop to do anything other than what you are told.
More @ Whiskey and Gunpowder
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ReplyDeleteWho you calling a "Neo-con?" I worked for Republican candidates for 50 years before I saw the Libertarian Light, shown to me by a young Microsoft programmer couple who can shoot the eyes out of anything that moves. Now, at nigh on to eighty, I read this page religiously, as well as Rebellion Blog, TL in Exile, SurvivalBlog, and several others of that ilk.
ReplyDeleteOh, well, has anything better been said since Shakespeare's Dick the butcher, in Henry the sixth, part 2, scene 4, said, "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers? Might save us from confronting the SWAT guys.
I was introduced to guns by visiting an uncle's house every Sunday. He had a tall cabinet with the floor covered with handguns and the wall stacked with all manner of rifles. It was always unlocked and I never touched one, although I came to own several of them. In front of me is a .32 S&W revolver that nears 100 years of age. It is loaded as it was in my father's dresser drawer, unlocked, for 50 years. I never touched it until he gave it to me shortly before his death. We didn't play with real guns. I can't remember an adult sitting me down and saying, "These are the rules of using guns." The teach-by-example technique of my extended family taught me more than ninteen years of public schools did. It also taught me how to teach effectively and a recent letter from my Oncologist daughter-in-law attests to that fact.
We don't rattle sabers, any more than our rebel ancestors did. But, I own one and still have the strength to swing it and thrust it. Molon Labe.
Those hundred or more guns were purchased with profits from the sale of illegal, bootleg, if you will, liquor in the thirties and early forties. by my mother's brothers, who controlled the business in that area. To this day, they were the best men I ever knew, fathers all to me, and a soft touch for needy people on the street. They didn't use profanity, run around on their wives, or go back on their word. Most of the five brothers served their country, and only one was an alcoholic. I hope to fire a 100 round salute to their memory soon.
Horace Smith (no Wesson)
Lee Edwards High School, '51
NCSU '55
This drivel from a lawyer who tucked tail and run south of the border.....
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DeleteGetting old here. I meant to mention that I was taught that whiskey and guns were both good but mixed poorly. In my engineering career I used countless jumbo tank cars of 2-b alcohol making billions of pounds of gunpowder, rockets, and explosives. There's a big difference between mixing ethanol, I call it C2H6O now, to make good gunpowder, and mixing the two. I have to wonder about the owner of a blog titled "Whiskey and Gunpowder." I'll read a few of his issues to decide.
ReplyDeleteI have lived in Colorado through successive madmen shooting civilians in public places. Were any of them drunk? I think not. I'll check it out.
At the University of Utah School of Alcoholism Studies I enraged a class of female, public school teachers who asserted that almost all rapes were alcohol driven and that any man would become a rapist with enough alcohol in him. I recounted my extensive drinking history, which included no sexual assaults, and told them politely that they were full of s--t and offered a body area to kiss. What maroons.
As I often say in meetings, whether in prisons, jails, hospitals, or churches, I hope this offends those who are in need of offending and no others. HWS
I hope this offends those who are in need of offending and no others. HWS
Delete:) I have a picture of a great grandfather in an impeccable white suit standing in front of his large white house with beautifully dressed family all around. I get a kick out of showing the picture to others and asking them to guess what he did as a pillar of the community.........A bootlegger!:)
I'll drink to him--a Dr. Pepper 10, please, or maybe a big orange in memory also of Andy Griffith, who hit the big time when I was in NC State College.
ReplyDeleteMy uncles were honest bootleggers and sold no moonshine. Years later I fell in with the homemade whiskey crowd in Floyd County VA.
Years later I fell in with the homemade whiskey crowd in Floyd County VA.
ReplyDeleteI've been planning every since Popcorn's death to go to his area, but haven't made it yet.
I brew "homebrew" beer..... now Whiskey is another animal altogether!
ReplyDeleteBut I'd love to have to skill to distill fine whiskey.....
Check out the videos of Popcorn making it.
DeleteRoswell,
DeleteI have known some with the skill. Most likely acquired like getting to Carnegie Hall and Camp Perry championships. Practice.
Whiskey is merely distilled beer of some kind or another. Acquaint yourself with the applicable laws. You already have friends who have the requisite distillation technology in their memory banks and you make beer. Bullseye.
Please email me. I need to discuss the Spokane event. I have somehow turned on my friends in Wenatchee and Redmond Washington to attend the event and set up a table. They are all of the generation of my children and strangely they insist that I show up there on Sept. 30. My wife and I love Missoula, Couer d'Alene, and Spokane. For years I have studied glacial lake Missoula, the ice-age dams, and the incredible scabland geology of Montana, Idaho, Washington, and Oregon. I have worked hard to get to Tarboro, NC on 10-4 but if it is my Higher Power's will for me to be in Spokane, I'll be there and see Brock later in the fall. As I have said for sixty years, the time to be at Nag's Head is Easter and Thanksgiving. Oh, the bluefish, oh, the stripers, oh, the grey trout.
I show up in my life with right motives on a daily basis and I am given everything I need.
Last week an incredibly beautiful physician's assistant took my head in her hands, bent me back on the bench, twisted my head to the right, and miraculously cured my right-side vertigo. I can hardly bear to wait until Tuesday for her to do it to my left side. Her treatment, coming as it did after my first ever shot of synthetic testosterone on Monday, resulted in magic all around. Lot of life left to live. Aiming to be the first in my family to make a full century. Two grandmothers missed it by mere days.
I always tell people more than they want to hear. Hell, I did it to Army Generals in the Pentagon. But then wonderful things happen and you don't even know who made it happen. Not going to change now or apologize, either.
@ Horace Smith....
ReplyDeleteI'll be emailing you shortly, re: Spokane event.
"I always tell people more than they want to hear. Hell I did it to the Army Generals"....
(You got a chuckle outta me with that comment).
Horace, please let me know if you received it via the youtube page.
DeleteThank you....
ROSWELL
DeleteThere was no email address there. Mine is horacesmith33@gmail.com. Please send me yours to this address. I just talked to son, Big Vern, in Wenatchee WA. The canyon behind his house is on fire and he is getting ready to evacuate. It will be extinguished and he will definitely be at Spokane as I expect to be. They haven't lost a house in that high-rent neighborhood since a turkey fryer burnt one down. Wood roofs should be outlawed.
Wood roofs should be outlawed.
DeleteHeresy! String him up!:)
I have split a many an oak shingle with a froe and mallet and they make wonderful roofs until the sparks fall on them and then everybody in the country gets to pay more homeowners insurance to bail the shingle roof folks out. Similar to the New Orleans and Outer Banks of NC homes that get rebuilt to be destroyed again. Insurance is like most everything else in this country--one grand Ponzi scheme. I just got a $10,000 roof compliments of Allstate Insurance and the most recent hail storm. Heh. I'm a job creator.
DeleteMy son with his physician wife and two lovely kids live in a half-million dollar house with a wood shingle roof in Wenatchee WA. Wenatchee doesn't have a fire, it has a complex of fires and the fam is now evacuated(level 3) to the bank of the Columbia River.
DeleteLocations of Northwest fires.
http://www.arcgis.com/explorer/?open=ed0a7dad32fe4848b20c6f91c74c79ea
Hope they got their valued family items out.
DeleteI hear ya' gotta git a permit for one'na them turkey friers now days! ;-)
ReplyDeleteProbably do in New Yawk City!:)
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