Figured it out.......got it.....

Just in case.....

Late night pics...WINNING!

Concealed Handgun Licenses and the police

I got pulled over again the other day for "exceeding the posted speed limit."  At any rate, in Oregon, I'm not required to show my Concealed Handgun License (CHL) to a police officer, nor declare that I'm carrying, but I do.  As a courtesy to an officer from a former officer, I hand it to them. 

I was pegged for 10 over (it is Oregon y'all - I don't know what its like anywhere else but 10 over can get you pulled over - that's okay - I've pulled people over for 7 over.) and then for being on my cell-phone, no proof of registration (other than my tags) and only a bill showing insurance on my van.....and a CHL.

"Are you armed?"

"Yes sir, I have a handgun under my seat."

"Please don't make any sudden movements."

I keep my hands on the wheel just like I tried to get people to do for a felony stop.  He asked for registration and I told him I needed to get in the glove box and I reached over while he put his hand on his Glock as I reached.  I told him I used to hate standing where he was. 

"You were a cop?"

"Yes, sir."

"Where at?"

I had one of my Navy hats on and I pointed to it, "Guantanamo was my first assignment."

Police don't like talking to you while you have a gun in the car.

I was informed it was my lucky day and that he was just establishing presence there and was told to go on my way - they don't even look at my stuff - just tell me to go.

If you have the CHL - they already know you're not a felon because you have to pass an FBI check to have one (unless you committed a felony since getting it and they haven't taken it back yet). 

Anyways - getting a ticket would have just been the frosting on the cake for me at this point.....but thank Heavens I didn't get one.  Now, I'll just trust in God to help me with some other things that are bugging me that are completely out of my control in my life.

Bassinet Stability Solved!

bassinet front view

I finished the final design on the baby bassinet I'm making tonight.  It needed a leg under it to stabilize it from under the matress but - how to do it so its adjustable?

brass knob

Well, most bed frames are between 4 to 8 inches off the floor with box springs usually running 7 to 8 inches - so I put a sliding leg on the backside with some nice drawer knobs that can be used as tightening screws to slide and tighten the leg so it doesn't move, while adjustable so that it can fit a variety of frames. 

If you've not followed this before, the flat part slides under the mattress on mom's side so the bassinet is exactly at mom's bed height and right next to her in bed, now the slider on the back adds support so even if she gets out of bed, it stays level.

I'm showing a picture of it here on the backside of the bassinet my daughter apparently decided to color on but it's not finished anyways - but now I know how to make these now and can make them in a larger number and have solved all the problems of them.  Anyways, I'm selling them as I make them now....

I'm not PUC *ALL* the time.....walking on egg-shells.

I'm thinking of what some people might think given the positions I've held or might hold in this world given how I talk.

For what it's worth, I'm not running for president, nor am I running for Prophet or anything else like that.  Just a private citizen making his way in the world, a dad doing his best - if you got time to judge me - I think you got too much time on your hands.

I do use words like "Retarded" or "homo" or "faggy" to describe things that annoy me.  Why? Because the first amendment says I can - if there weren't retarded, homo or faggy things in this world that came up in conversation, I probably wouldn't need to describe them thusly! 

DONT STEP ON ANY EGG SHELLS!!!!

I grow tired of living in a world that shouts "DIVERSITY!" and "TOLERANCE!" yet can't make way to be tolerant of the diversity of a person such as myself.  I'm quite diverse in today's world.  I haven't cowed to the PC-isms that infiltrate our universities and media, yet I can speak the language and work within the realm of ideas - but grow oh-so-weary of leaders who are so fragile on their high, but narrow pedastal on which they barely have good footing on it so that a softly spoken word strongly exhaled would be enough to knock them down from their post......

There's a time and a place for it all, certain audiences and the like - but my blog's not the place for PC. My blog's mine.   One of the last bastions of free speech in today's world.  So if you don't like it?  Don't subscribe or look any further because there's more coming!  There's over 2,200 posts on here now with more on the way!

Late Night Joke: tech support

Tech Support: "I need you to right-click on the Open Desktop."
Customer: "Ok."
Tech Support: "Did you get a pop-up menu?"Customer: "No."
Tech Support: "Ok. Right click again. Do you see a pop-up menu?"
Customer: "No."
Tech Support: "Ok, sir. Can you tell me what you have done up until this point?"
Customer: "Sure, you told me to write 'click' and I wrote click'."

Makes ya think......

Dad?

Tampons! A True Story......saved a Marine's life!

This got passed on to me.....thought I'd share it:  Tampons to the rescue in Iraq !! Don't worry, it's a good story, and worth reading. It's even humorous in parts. It's from the mother of a Marine in Iraq .


My son told me how wonderful the care packages we had sent them from the ladies auxiliary were and wanted me to tell everyone thank you.

extra large panties.....

He said that one guy we'll call Marine X, got a female care package and everyone was giving him a hard time. My son said, 'Marine X got some really nice smelling lotion and everyone really likes it, so every time he goes to sleep they steal it from him.' I told my son I was really sorry about the mistake, and if he wanted I would send Marine X another package. He told me not to worry about Marine X because every time I send something to him, he shares it with Marine X.


He said when my husband and I sent the last care package, Marine X came over to his cot picked up the box, started fishing through it, and said, 'What'd we get this time?'


But my son said they=2 0had the most fun with Marine X's package. He said he wasn't sure who it was supposed to go to, but the panties were size 20, and he said one of the guys got on top of the Humvee and jumped off with the panties over his head and yelled, 'Look at me, I'm a n Airborne Ranger!!!!'


One of the guys attached the panties to an antenna and it blew in the wind like a windsock. He said it entertained them for quite awhile. Then of course.......they had those tampons. When he brought this up, my imagination just went running, but he continued.


My son said they had to go on a mission and Marine X wanted the Chap-Stick and lotion for the trip. He grabbed a bunch of the items from his care package and got in the Humvee. As luck would have it he grabbed the tampons too, and my son said everyone was teasing him about 'not forgetting his feminine hygiene products.'

He said things went well for a while, then the convoy was ambushed and a Marine was shot. He said the wound was pretty clean, but it was deep.. He said they were administering first aid but couldn't get the bleeding to slow down, and someone said, 'Hey! Use Marine X's tampons!' My son said they put the tampon in the wound. At this point my son profoundly told Me, 'Mom, did you know that tampons expand?' ('Well....yeah!')

They successfully slowed the bleeding until the guy got better medical attention. When they went to check on him la ter, the surgeon told them, 'You guys saved his life. If you hadn't stopped that bleeding he would have bled to death.' My Son said, 'Mom, the tampons sent by the Marine Moms by mistake saved a Marine's life.'


At this point I asked him, 'Well, what did you do with the rest of the tampons?'

He said, 'Oh, we divided them up and we all have them in our flak jackets, and I kept two for our first aid kit.'


I am absolutely amazed by the ingenuity of our Marines. I can't believe that something that started out as a mistake then turned into a joke, ended up saving someone's life. My sister said she doesn't believe in mistakes. She believes God had a plan all along. She believes that 'female care package' was sent to Marine X to save our Marine.


Either way, our efforts have boosted the morale of many Marines, provided much needed items for our troops, AND saved the life of a Marine! God bless every one of you for your efforts and hard work, and God bless our Marines, Army, Navy, Air Force and all our military service personnel.

Life's Wisdom....in quotes

He is the Banana to my split. ~Victoria Ericka

Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said.

Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly. ~P. J. O’Rourke

I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty. ~Imelda Marcos

I was sleeping the other night, alone, thanks to the exterminator. ~Emo Philips

You know the speed of light, so what's the speed of dark?


If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like. ~Phyllis Diller

I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

If you cannot answer a man's argument, all it not lost; you can still call him vile names. ~Elbert Hubbard


A wise saying is something you keep picking up off the floor in front of your fridge. ~Robert Brault,

Without geography, you're nowhere.

Shots rang out, as shots are wont to do.

You know my motto: Forgive and uh... the other thing.

To err is human, but it feels divine. ~Mae West.

The Attorney for the Defense will quit referring to the Prosecutor as "Demon Spawn from Hell".

I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that! ~Tom Lehrer

Be wary of strong spirits. It can make you shoot at tax collectors ... and miss. ~Robert A. Heinlein

Saving is the best thing. Especially when your parents have done it for you.

TV is chewing gum for the eyes. ~Frank Lloyd Wright

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die. ~Mel Brooks

O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet. ~Saint Augustine

It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man. ~H. L. Mencken

I distrust camels, and anyone else who can go a week without a drink. ~Joe E. Lewis

I went down the street to the 24-hour grocery. When I got there, the guy was locking the front door. I said, "Hey, the sign says you're open 24 hours." He said, "Yes, but not in a row." ~Steven Wright

You ever look up the word dictionary in a dictionary? A little hand comes out and smacks you one.

Speak softly but drive a Sherman tank.

Men wanted for dangerous expedition: low wages for long hours of arduous labour under brutal conditions; months of continual darkness and extreme cold; great risk to life and limb from disease, accidents and other hazards; small chance of fame in case of success. ~Sir Ernest Shackleton, explorer

Honk if you hate bumper stickers that say "Honk if ..."

I'm as thirsty as a baby boy in a topless bar.

Without television I would probably be an incredibly literate scholar of 17th century mathematics who is a hit at social gatherings. ~Richard Keller

Reality is for people who can't handle science fiction.

Yes, I am an agent of Satan, but my duties are largely ceremonial.

More fun than a barrel of monkeys." Has anyone ever stopped to think how cranky, if not downright vicious, a barrelful of monkeys would be, especially once released from the barrel? ~Tom Shales

If I ever get rich, I hope I'm not real mean to poor people, like I am now. ~Jack Handey

If we could just get everyone to close their eyes and visualize world peace for an hour, imagine how serene and quiet it would be until the looting started. 


Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf. ~Lewis Mumford

To err is human, to forgive divine. Neither of which is the policy of the US Marine Corps.

May you come to the attention of the authorities. ~Ancient Chinese curse

To cure sore eyes, kiss a red-head.

Wanted: 30 Chinamen and a zeppelin for elaborate joke. Can you help?

We tend to scoff at the beliefs of the ancients. But we can't scoff at them personally, to their faces, and this is what annoys me. ~Jack Handey

Eloquence : The ability to describe Kim Basinger without using one's hands. ~Michael Harkness

I failed to make the chess team because of my height. `Woody Allen

New York Repeals Law of Gravity!

New Yorkers Celebrating the Repeal

New York bravely Legalizes the ignorance of the laws of gravity!   Thousands of Gravity-Denying New Yorkers in celebration jumped off the Empire State Building to celebrate the repeal and....well....the rest is history.

Okay, actually they legalized gay marriage.  It is now "The Same" and "equal" to "heterosexual marriage" - or is it just...."marriage"?

I wish I had something wittier to say, but the short of it is, it's not equal.

I'm wondering in our constitutional sense, where gay-marriage,

forms a more perfect union
establishes justice
ensures domestic tranquility
provides for the common defense
promote the general welfare
and secures the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.

Yes, everything's the same....nothing's different....yet its all diverse as well....diversely the same....

Quote of the day - the gifts of God

"The knowledge, skills, gifts and virtues of God aren't bestowed with fanfare and pride upon the haughty and privileged, but are often bestowed with the afflictions upon the flesh, heart, mind and spirit of those who are willing to endure." - Me

Whoah......easy......

Animals love to have fun too! I wonder about plants now....

Pour you some tea?

Just thought this looked cool...

Then Die Already.....

Found this running around the net, I liked it. Our minds will give out before our body will.....you can click to embiggen it if you wish, or....strain your eyes looking at it....

Words of courage.....

My father read this to me at my Eagle Scout Court of Honor......this poem applies to me today....

If

If you can keep your head when all about you

Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
 

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
 

If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
 

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on";

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
 

If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run -
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!

Come Come Ye Saints.......All Is Well......

I have been suspended from my job pending an investigation, however, it carries a strong appearance of retaliation for my being a whistleblower.  I deliberately don't mention my work on my blog for various professional reasons, neither do most people at work have access to it because I need a place where I can say what I feel without fear of retaliation at work - though it appears this may be unavoidable at this time, though not for blogging purposes. 

In the meantime, I suppose I should go look for another job until I find out what's up.  I have very dear friends at work who I've come to know and appreciate and am grateful for having gotten to know them. However, for now, though I monitor pretty closely who accesses my blog, for now I will remain silent as I haven't yet had the opportunity to block all ISP's from work.

My personal testimony is that I have a job to do, namely provide for my family, and I need to tend to that.  Any wrongdoing in this world will be judged by God, my job is to just do my part, recognize right and wrong, do right, and leave vengeance to Him - and He does a VERY good job of it.

I pray that right is done, though I believe these are the last days, and soon evil will abound and be unrestrained and men and women will lose all sense of morality.  I draw comfort from this song from my faith, which was written and sung in light of the fact that my religion had an extermination order against it in the US and had suffered all sorts of wrongs forcing them to leave the US ultimately.  But, the outrageous fortunes of this life are only for this life, "For it must needs be that offenses come, but Wo unto him by whom the offense cometh." 

For now......all is well.....

\

Big Brother on.....Big Brother! Filming the police

A woman was arrested in Rochester for filming the police making a traffic stop from her own property!

Before the tape began, the police officer stated on tape that he didn't feel very safe or that the woman seemed anti-police with her statement she made before she started filming.   However, it's not known from the film what she said.

Big brother doesn't like having a big brother watching over him.  

As a former cop, I can tell you this - the job is dangerous.  And most people are anti-police.  Now being on the outside, I don't blame them.  Being anti-police isn't a crime, especially when you look at how our Miranda rights are worded "...anything you say can and *will* be used *against* you in a court of law."  Whereas countries like Canada, their warning is along the lines of "...anything you say may be read aloud in court" - not just "will be used against you."

However, I don't blame an officer for being paranoid about being filmed.  I wouldn't want it.  Law enforcement is ugly, police are trained to anticipate outcomes and prevent them from happening and so the job is usually misunderstood by civilians and it does look ugly on tape usually.  But you can't arrest a woman for you not feeling safe from what she said unless she specifically communicated a threat and violated a law.  Not only that, getting distracted in the middle of a traffic stop to handle an additional threat puts the person you detained/arrested in danger - which is illegal during a prisoner transport or any type of detention if its avoidable. 


My advice?  Speed up your traffic stop and/or request a roll-by and some backup as an additional witness and wait until it arrives to conduct your business, or direct the individual to pull ahead, or ignore the camera, or call an officer to investigate the lady, or even ask "for the privacy of the individual would you please respect him and stop filming?" (see if that works).  In Rochester your backup shouldn't be too far behind, maybe 2 minutes if someone ran code 2 to get there.

To the lady?  Don't be an antagonist and film and be so obvious about it.   If you wish to film, do it in such a way where you're not distracting the officer from his job, he's got enough to worry about without people like you interfering with his job.  Harassing the police isn't conducive to the public safety.

Either way, I think she's going to win on this one though.

Gun ownership: Up. Crime: Down

Gun Ownership Skyrockets, While Violent Crime Drops…Again

From: Here

Friday, May 27, 2011

This week, the FBI estimated that the number of violent crimes decreased 5.5 percent from 2009 to 2010, including a 4.4 percent decrease in the number of murders.  Because the U.S. population increased during the period, the figures imply that the total violent crime per capita rate and the murder rate decreased more than six percent and five percent, respectively.  Based upon the preliminary data, it appears that violent crime fell to a 37-year low and murder fell to a 47-year low.  The FBI will report final figures for 2010 later this year. We’re repeating ourselves, but, as has been the case for quite a while, the decrease in crime coincided with an increase in the number of privately owned guns—particularly handguns and detachable magazine semi-automatic rifles.  For example, Americans bought over 400,000 AR-15s in 2009, and trends in AR-15 sales over the last few years suggest a similar number for 2010. Those who have followed the gun control issue for a few years probably have noticed that with crime declining and gun numbers rising year after year, gun control groups have all but abandoned their previously perennial claims that more guns equal more crime. Even their friends in the news media don’t believe it anymore.  The Violence Policy Center and, breaking with past habit, the Brady Campaign didn’t even try to claim that the decrease in crime in 2010 was attributable to gun control. Neither did Mayors Against Illegal Guns, headed by New York City’s gun control activist mayor, Michael Bloomberg.  Bloomberg’s rare and welcomed silence is to be expected in this instance, however.  New York City’s murder rate rose 15 percent despite its severe gun laws, while Bloomberg dedicated himself and lots of money to criticizing the less restrictive laws that are in place in other parts of the country. Speaking of cities with less restrictive gun laws, El Paso had the greatest decrease in murder—58 percent— among cities of over 500,000 population in 2010.  For those who are counting, El Paso’s estimated murder rate was 0.8 per 100,000 population, while New York City’s was eight times higher at 6.4.  Across the border from El Paso, in Juarez, where the gun laws are more to Bloomberg’s liking, the murder rate is over 100 per 100,000. Adding to the bad news for gun control supporters, the District of Columbia and Chicago—the handgun bans of which were repealed following the Supreme Court’s decisions in the Heller and McDonald cases in 2008 and 2010—experienced decreases in murder of eight percent and six percent, respectively.

Late night pics...

gate rape

chemeketa community college....here in Oregon....go figure

just another day at the office....

I'm a lucky man....

Along with a Bittersweet Symphony, being a Lucky Man has its benefits as well......than and this is a totally sweet loft apartment with a view!  I don't know how much they paid the seagulls to float around in front of the place though, but anyways, I like the guitar in this one - just a bit of ambient music.  I think it comes with an advertisement for tea...or beer....or something before it too.

I've killed better men than you.......

I'm in the middle of a colossal struggle in my professional life with a few people I have very little respect for right now and who've violated a lot of trust - at any rate - as frustrated as I am I realized I don't even have worthy enemies in my life.  The one who I considered an enemy I turned over to God and his house got smashed into by drug-fiends and they had him screaming like a little girl in his bathroom holed up with his wife and kid.  Better that the police look for those guys than me.

At any rate, I don't even have decent enemies.  Nobody that requires me to dress up in some tights in the middle of the night lurking on rooftops while I spend my days developing some intensely effective and very illegal military-scale hardware and a cover story to account for how I suffered brutal injuries at the office during my normal job while I nurse ammo and knife blades out of my flesh in the middle of boardroom meetings claiming "Its just a flesh wound...."

Me in a boardroom meeting

However in all this, just one time I want to say with a steely glare quietly across a boardroom in a voice very Clint Eastwood-esque, ".....you know.....I've killed better men than you."

The one I'd REALLY like to say in a boardroom meeting is THIS: I know what you're thinking, punk. You're thinking "did he fire six shots or only five?" Now to tell you the truth I forgot myself in all this excitement. But being this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world and will blow you head clean off, you've gotta ask yourself a question: "Do I feel lucky?" Well, do ya, punk?

late night pics

lets see it get out of THIS one....

Best Friends.......

TSA: Equal Opportunity Gate Rape.

So, TSA apparently has been cited for profiling people for gate rape in Newark.

Rep. Rush Holt (D-12th Dist.), a frequent critic of the TSA’s use of full-body scanners, said he had cautioned Pistole to guard against racial profiling in the past. "No one should have to fear unlawful detention or inspection based solely on the color of their skin," Holt said in a statement.

Yes, you should only have to fear unlawful detention or inspection based solely on the fact that you're flying.



WAIT, did a member of congress just say that TSA's detentions and inspections were unlawful?

GO TO SLEEP!!!! (PG13)

Faced with another cranky child in another 5 months who won't sleep, and for a couple years after that - every parent knows the exasperation of sleeplessness in a child.  Yes we love them, but we can get frustrated to without sleep.   Here's Samuel L. Jackson reading a bedtime story as a frustrated parent.

Lesson in civics....

Some kids running a lemonade stand were fined $500 for running an ILLEGAL lemonade stand outside a golf course......LITTLE KIDS!

That'll teach ya a lesson about your country and a lesson in capitalism that you won't forget from an early age.

The part that bothers me is, that the county simply rescinded the citation.  That's it.  We decided not to fine you.

We're going to fine you!  Oh wait, this makes us look unpopular, we're not going to.  Never mind. 

Its all too easy. I'd like it if I could just waive stuff I am legally obligated to with my magic-fairy wand like that....just, too many things that can go wrong with this that I can think of.

Given that a minor cannot enter into a contract and would have to receive any legal penalties as a juvenile, I don't know that the ticket would be legal in the first place. The astute observations of Isabella hit the mark:

The kids were, naturally, confused. Thirteen-year-old Isabella, who was tasked with watching over the younger kids selling the drinks, said, “I just think the whole thing was kind of insane that they made such a big deal about a small problem. In the first place, I don’t know how a 10-year-old could get a permit.”

Yah know, one of the things I learned as a police officer is there's the spirit of the law and then there's the letter of the law.

We have laws on the books that shouldn't even be enforced like, in Oregon you can't bathe without a swimsuit for example.  I don't see tickets being handed out for that one!  But, the administrators of the law need a bit of discretion and "common sense" when working in their job. 

On marriage.....

This made me laugh, I'm sorry, married life is WAYYYYYYYY better than single life, even with its pitfalls and troubles, I'd rather be married than single, but this - still made me chortle and guffaw while making guttural sounds of amusement. If you wanna see the whole thing yer gonna have to click on it.

Wood Working: DIME HOCKEY! (And Rules)

Dime Hockey Table

Today, thanks to a friend's post on facebook, I remembered the game of DIME HOCKEY from middle school, and decided to build my own table today.

I really just threw it together really fast, it was just thrown together from
scrap wood I got from a woodworking shop, it was Brazilian Cherry Wood. 

Anyways, in dime hockey, you flip the coin to see who goes first, winner gets to put the dime on the center peg and flicks it off.  Turns alternate with one flick each trying to get the coin in the opponent's goal (the hole at either end).  If the coin goes out of bounds, its set on the edge where it went out and the other player flicks it back into the table.  First person to sink the coin in the hole WINS!

I also have been commissioned to build a second baby bassinet.  I'm building a minor variation on this one with handles on it and a reversible diaper/bottle holder.  This is as far as I got today with the handles cut into the wood.  That's a LOT of work to do the routing to get those three pieces of wood to join together like one, pinned and dovetailed with the tolerances so that its structurally sound and won't fall apart on the first use. Anyways, that the first three pieces pinned and dovetailed together with the handles cut into it - complete with markings all over the wood where I measure everything. 

I did do a genius piece of work yesterday.  I set my circular saw down with the blade guard back somehow, and set it right on its own cord and cut it in half...........................yah, nice. 

While funny, its not funny. 

No really, it's not. 

Amusing? Maybe.
Funny? No...not really. 

Could I get some electrical tape and electrical connectors and repair it?  Yes. 

Am I going to? HELL NO! 

I fricking HATE working with electricity.  I hate it, ya'll.   I've blown up vacume cleaners, gotten fingers caught in light sockets, shocked myself on electric train sets, seen car batteries explode....I hate working with electricity.  No.  This required a trip to home depot for a new saw.  They were selling a Ryobi saw for $39, not bad, but for $10 more I could get one with a laser sight that allows me to cut a straight line by lighting up the laser and lining it up on my lines.  For an extra $20 I could have gotten an LED lamp on it as well, but I don't know why I'd be cutting in the dark and need a lamp on it.  So I just got the laser light. So far, its a bit heavy, and kinda loud compared to my other saw, but I really like the laser, it really helps and its doing a great job!  You can see the work its done for me so far.

I was thinking maybe dime-hockey tables might be a fun summer project to build and sell.  

GUNS AND ALCOHOL! IN OHIO!

Ohio is set to allow concealed handgun carriers to carry into sports stadiums and into bars even!  


"Ohio's concealed handgun licensees already can carry into nearly any burger joint. But if they try to have a hamburger and Coke at a Max & Emma's while armed, they commit a crime," said Jeff Garvas, the president of Ohioans for Concealed Carry, in a opinion article published last month in numerous local publications. "The only difference between the lawful and criminal act is the presence of a liquor license at a particular restaurant. That's the simple problem that 'restaurant carry' legislation is designed to fix."

Wonder if we'll see a news report later on crime stats in Ohio after this.  My studies have shown that everywhere people carry concealed handguns and the laws are looser, crime actually declines greater than the population growth!

The second amendment may survive another day!

I sense a showdown coming......

So, Obama is thumbing his nose at congress and everything else American, including the constitution, and has refused to pull out of Libya despite rulings in legal departments that he does not have the authority to remain there. 

Obama/Congressional Pissing Match

I hope John Boener has the guts to call for a congressional vote to cut funding for our actions in Libya. The deadline is tomorrow for Obama to keep waging war without congressional approval.  Oh wait, dropping bombs and missiles isn't hostile if you're Obama.  Man, I hope Obama isn't a rapist - he probably wouldn't consider beating women violent or abusive.  And Vietnam wasn't a war either.  It was a conflict.  We never actually declared war there either. That "conflict" for us went from 1955-1975 (TWENTY YEARS!) without a clear resolution with congress finally pulling the plug on funding. 

If the house pulls the plug on funding, I believe it will be another nail in the coffin on the democrat regime prior to 2012.  We *NEED* to pull out of there though, can't afford to stay in a war with no objectives, plans or purpose when our economy is ripped to shreds.

New Hobby

I've begun a new hobby.  This hobby doesn't have any real set hours or locations.  I am "THAT GUY" - also known as "SOME GUY" or "SOME UGLY MIDDLE AGE FAT BALDING GUY."   I am here.  I am there.  I am everywhere.  I am unknown. I show up in France.  I may be seen in Spain.  I may even be remembered in Egypt or on a cruise somewhere.  I am.....a PHOTOBOMBER.

Photobombing is where you appear in the background of someone else's photos and....ruin them or at least detract from them by "photobombing" them - usually with a ridiculous face, obscene pose or something that just doesn't go with it. 


My hobby as a photobomber officially began on June  12th at my daughter's dance recital.  There were a million parents around taking pictures of their daughters in their outfits and the family reuinions.  By carefully placing myself in the background and watching people set up for photos, checking sight lines and such - I could effectively photobomb several families at the same time.

I don't know that there really are any tips for photobombing other than you gotta be willing to do it and can carry it out in such a way that you don't completely distract people who are being photobombed so that you lose the opportunity to do photobombing. 

Anyways, for now - this is a new hobby - we'll see what turns up with it.