Denver again

About the time you decide its a festering wound in Colorado that only supperates hippies and liberals you see this.

You arn't in the country anymore son....

So on a pilgramage to Denver Farm Mom needed to get some fabric. We stop in to a Jo-Anns shop and I had to use the facility's. When business is finished and folding the paperwork there is a tampon applicator in the men's room trash... *blink* *blink*  I guess times have changed more than I realised.

American Rifle

American Rifle .. No further comment needed

http://youtu.be/CeONPI2YaPc

Sometimes a couple of pics are worth a thousand words .

 

 

 

 

 

I think they speak for themselves .

A House Divided

What the hell has happened to us ?

Lets look at the issue in both macro and micro . then we will take a stab at overall .  Macro is the gun community .  We have the “ prags “  on one side shown by Sebation ( http://www.snowflakesinhell.com/ ) and lionage  (http://www.wallsofthecity.net/) and the other best done by Mike at http://sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com/ and david at http://waronguns.blogspot.com/.

Now you can go read , but suffice it to say there are two fundamental ideas on just what our rights , and specifically gun rights mean .   such goes the micro .

Lets look at the macro … the tea parties , and the honest folk who worry about some folk not having some services ..  Now i am going to try to keep this post neutral .  I may well not succeed , but ill try .  I remember when Regan was the dumbest sob on the block .  I remember when Carter was going to save us from ourselves .  Hell i remember Nixon … nuff said there ? .  Nowadays we have Obama . Like him and his policies or no we do have him .  When the sun comes up tomorrow  he will be my president .  which leads me to some of the discourse .  I remember when our gun disagreements run to the gamers ( calib ) vs the “ shooters “ ( farnam , aayub, cooper .. ect ). but ill note that the “ shooters “ fed off the gamers  for both techniques and technology . 

Today the politics is not far off this .  I just talked to a guy who is close to a friend  who says the time for revolution is NOW .  Now this is not a gun trader friend , this is a hs basketball friend .  and he and i have some deap seated disagreements as to just where a “ revolution “ starts .  He says it starts from shooting our elected folk … i say it starts by shooting the guy i know who is a cop .  I d0nt think we are “ ready “ because “ ready “ will involve shoot your neighbor .  I wont do that . You simply cant kill down enough to make a “ bullet vote “ work  We threepers and prags  have a window to work togeater and cast the ballet.

 

ill post more later on the disagreement and just what imho an armed insurrection might need .

Two Americans in Mormon sect slain in Mexico | World | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle

 

Two Americans in Mormon sect slain in Mexico | World | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle

Now i am neither much , nor little on the Mormon faith  and in fact i am not just sure as to why it is relevant here .

 

To me the relevant quote  is :

 

“We don’t know what to do,” he said. “We can’t bear arms. We have no way of legally protecting ourselves.”

 

Think hard about that .

 

Mexico is not exactly a 3rd world shithole ,  and it is our neighbor to the south . However it is our neighbor , not our satellite and it has its own gun rules and rule of law .  It seems that like some of our major metro areas here in the USA  the only folks who obey the law and are disarmed are folks who have values that respect the government in the first place .  

The same Americans who bother to be armed  see to it that we all have all our rights  . I feel that the amount of new Americans who have bought firearms encourages this viewpoint. 

Interesting  times indeed …  we are killed where we can defend ourselves ,  and we are killed without cause or pause where we cannot .

Independence Day, 2009, and the totems of freedom

 

Here as I type this , its all over but the ring of fireworks , and for some putting the children to bed .  The wife and the daughter drove half way across the county  to watch the fireworks that the area volunteer fire depts put on ( they pool the money donated to put on a show and this year it was in the next town over ) , the son is at his house babysetting his dog , as am I mine  as the “ rockets red glare “ and the happy reports rebound from the tallest structures in town . 

Mother Nature is slowly moving thro our area with her own lightning show that washes out the fireworks , though not enough rain to bother anyone .  This gives a few minutes of peaceful contemplation on just what the 4th means to me , and how that has changed over the years .

As a rural child  I would do anything up to and including an Indian rain dance  to insure rain on or near the 4th .  No rain was simply NO fireworks in our  wheat/grassland .

As I grew ( maturity is still not there ) I came to understand  that the 4th celebrated  the wonderful nation we live in , and paid respect to all who served to make and keep it .

 

Tonight while I removed my carry gun I paused to reflect on today's politics  and again realized that once again the meaning of the 4th has changed for me .

Nowadays  I recognize that   the day celebrates a successful revolution  against unfair oppression . and in that spirit i am going to “ geocache  “  an sks with a sealed tin of ammo .  In the same spirit i will continue to talk to my state reps  who i know , and  contact my national reps in the hopes that one of my grandons can “ dig it up “ .  to have what today is a common rifle , but then might be worth owning .

 

The best to you and yours  on this day .