USPSA Nats

USPSA nationals are going on now in Las Vegas, NV. Funny little vid of something I've never seen happen in my life!

Obama gives the finger

to some of our closest allies in the world.

The message is clear. If you are a dictator, thug, or all around punk like Putin, Oretega, Castro, Chavez, or Ahmandinejad, the United States is on your side and willing to abandon friends and put American interests secondary to those of the rest of the world.

If you've been an ally of the United States in the past, like the UK, or Eastern Europe, then you get the set of CDs that won't work in your system, copies of the Chosen One's speeches and oh yeah, forget getting any protection or support from the United States - you're on your own.

For those of you in Europe who were thrilled to have an American President who was well spoken and non confrontational, how's that hope and change workin' out for ya?

Classic

And it didn't take a grant or call for community service to do it!

two students (from MIT, of course) put together a low-budget rig to fly a camera high enough to photograph the curvature of the Earth. Instead of rockets, boosters and expensive control systems, they filled a weather balloon with helium and hung a styrofoam beer cooler underneath to carry a cheap Canon A470 compact camera. Instant hand warmers kept things from freezing up and made sure the batteries stayed warm enough to work.

The balloon and camera made it up high enough to see the black sky curling around our blue planet. ... The intervalometer (interval timer) was set to shoot a picture every five seconds, and the 8-GB memory card was enough to hold pictures for the five-hour duration of the flight.

The picture you see ... was shot from around 93,000 feet, just shy of 18 miles high. To give you an idea of how high that is, when the balloon burst, the beer-cooler took 40 minutes to come back to Earth.

American ingenuity at it's finest!

Up to two million march to US Capitol to protest against Obama's spending in 'tea-party' demonstration | Mail Online

Interesting perspective from another country that ignored taxpayers.

2 million people? Is that right? According to most US news sources, it's "many tens of thousands." If you're in government right now, you've got a right to be concerned. We the People are NOT happy with our leadership.

I hear we can fix this. Let's get busy.

So.....

It's Saturday. We're supposed to be shooting. But it's raining like hell. So what's a fella to do??






Not too bad of a day after all, no siree.

Lest we forget

Despite what Chairman Obama will have us believe, 9/11 is NOT a day to think about community service.

Obama issued a proclamation earlier this week urging Americans to mark the anniversary of the attacks with community service. After leaving the Pentagon, the president and first lady toured a Habitat for Humanity housing development in Washington and pitched in by painting a living room.

It is, and should remain, a day to remember the victims of terrorist scumbags and the brave firefighters, police, and passengers on Flight 93 who gave their lives to protect this country.

If, as President, you want to say we should all have a sense of community and be willing to help out, by all means, OK.

But not on this day.

New site for info

Found a new source for online news.... Big Government dot com.... Several VERY interesting articles in there, and the site's just getting kicked off.

For starters, here's a nice little bit of news amongst all the bad stuff we've been hearing lately with the new boss, same as the old boss running the show:

Census Bureau severs ties with ACORN in 2010 count

September 11, 2009

Ms. Maude Hurd

President

ACORN

739 8th St SE

Washington, DC 20003

Dear Ms. Hurd:

The goal of the U.S. Census Bureau’s partnership program is to combine the strengths of state, local, and tribal governments, community-based organizations, faith-based organizations, schools, media, businesses and others to ensure an accurate 2010 Census. While not (sic) Census bureau employees, partners are advocates for census cooperation and participation. They serve a trusted voices within their communities and are critical to our strategy to count everyone once, only once, and in the right place.

The Census Bureau has established criteria for partnerships, which are listed on our Web site at , and reserves the right to decline partnership or to terminate an existing partnership agreement with any group that 1) may create a negative connotation for the Census Bureau; 2) could distract from the Census Bureau’s mission; or, 3) may make people fearful of participating in the census.

To that end, and in keeping with the standards we shared with your organization and others who volunteered to partner with the Census Bureau to help promote the 2010 Census, we are today terminating our Partnership Agreement with ACORN.

Over the last several months, through ongoing communication with our regional offices, it is clear that ACORN’s affiliation with the 2010 Census promotion has caused sufficient concern in the general public, has indeed become a distraction from our mission, and may even become a discouragement to public cooperation, negatively impacting 2010 Census efforts.

While not decisive factors in this decision, recent events concerning several local offices of ACORN have added to the worsening negative perceptions of ACORN and its affiliation with our partnership efforts.

Read the rest of the letter here.

Wow.

Where do they find these people?

I fully realize and understand that there is about a third of the American electorate who continue to believe that he's the nation, if not the world's savior. That leaves an ever dwindling number of people in the middle third who think that perhaps maybe the chose one isn't so wonderful after all and an ever growing number in the final third who think he's the worst president of all time.

However, wanna guess who the AP only saw fit to include in this lovely cheer-leading article?

Typical of the quotes from "average Americans" you'll find are:

"No one is feeling satisfied with the state of the country," Derek Duffee says from behind his coffee bar's counter in Pennsylvania's Washington. "I don't know if what he's doing will work, but he's trying," says Miyoshi Braxton, an Obama fan smoking on a park bench outside her downtown apartment building in Steubenville, Ohio.

or:

"This is really a whole new chapter in the state of America, and there's nothing we can do but keep doing what we're doing and hope it gets better," says Phil Axworthy, 58, a software developer taking a coffee break in Pittsburgh's Market Square.

About the only voice of "dissent", if you can call it that comes here:

They seethe about the expansion of government. But they also shrug that the country got what it elected — a Democrat whose Senate voting record tilted to the left.

"The socialist approach of government solving all the problems and controlling industry and controlling finance, that's not the way to continued greatness," Peter Marx, 57, at his used bookstore in Steubenville. That said, Marx added: "He won."

But don't worry, remember we are all just little lost lambs looking for some guidance from above:

Facing the possibility of American decline, people may simply be at a loss for what to do — and looking, as so often before, to their president to guide them.

Whatever.

Mikey Moore is an idiot

I fully realize that for our readers here on the Tattler, that is stating the obvious. But still, it must be said.

Mikey states:

"Capitalism is an evil, and you cannot regulate evil," the two-hour movie concludes.

"You have to eliminate it and replace it with something that is good for all people and that something is democracy."

So. Are we to assume that there will not be a charge to watch this movie and that Mikey wasn't paid one cent for the movie?

See, Mikey wants to be part of the apparatchik; where he and his chums have the money and power and the rest of us are left begging for leftovers.

Sorry, lard ass. I'm not buying what you're trying to sell.

Fastest draw in the west

Heckuva fast draw there, JR!!

Our friends, the AP

Couple stories on tonight's news digest have really set me off.

First up, the AP states: Palin resignation costs Alaska at least $40,000 I don't know how much it cost for her to resign. Who cares? Where's the story on how much it cost Illinois and the US Senate for Barrack Obama to resign? How 'bout the story on how much it cost Delaware and the US Senate for Joe Biden to resign? Or even a story on how much it cost New York and the US Senate for Hillary Clinton to resign? And if you really want to get into it, how much did the death of Ted "the swimmer" Kennedy cost Massachusetts and the US Senate?

Based on the continuous snipe hunts, I'd say that the media is rather afraid of Mrs. Palin. I've no idea if I'd vote for her again; it would depend on who else is running. But the fact that she obviously scares the hell out of the leftists is nothing but good if you were to ask me.

The next AP story is even more revolting. The same asshats who refused to publish cartoons of mohamed because they didn't want to insult or offend muslims around the world have seen fit to publish a photo of a dying Marine against the wishes of his family.

The reporterette who snapped the picture tried to justify the image by stating that:

she showed members of his squad all the images taken that day and the Marines flipped through them on her computer one by one.

"They did stop when they came to that moment," she said. "But none of them complained or grew angry about it. They understood that it was what it was. They understand, despite that he was their friend, it was the reality of things.

No, you dumbass. They showed tremendous restraint and they probably had no idea whatsoever that you would be brazen enough to publish the photo.

In publishing the photo, on top of insulting the family of the fallen Marine, AP has provided our enemies with a propaganda coup. Isn't that sweet?

The AP continues to prove that it is not worth the paper it's printed on. Disgusting.

TV

Usually, other than sports and the History Channel, I've pretty much given up on watching TV. It's largely worthless and serves only as background noise...

However, after watching Spike TV's Surviving Disaster first episode, I just might have a new show to watch.

The first episode was on "how to survive a hijacking" and it was, at the very least, entertaining TV. The host is yet another Navy SEAL making the jump to prime time, and he's nowhere near as over-dramatic (or annoying) as the Future Weapons host Mac.

Perhaps it's because there's a complete and total lack of, dare I say, masculine TV (other than sports) but the first episode was good enough that I'll check out the next one.

Regardless, it beats the hell out of Lifetime TV, Oprah and Dr. Phil.....

Did I win?

Obviously, this guy was not a product of our feminized school system!

Some people are more equal than others

Now, if any of us normal, working people neglected to pay taxes on millions of dollars in income how long would it take the IRS to throw us in jail and confiscate everything we own?

Granted, we are operating on the assumption that none of us work for the Obama administration, in which case we would get a free ride.

Apparently, that blanket of invincibility extends to powerful Democrat Congressmen as well.

WASHINGTON -- Rep. Charles Rangel failed to report as much as $1.3 million in outside income -- including up to $1 million for a Harlem building sale -- on financial-disclosure forms he filed between 2002 and 2006, according to newly amended records.

The documents also show the embattled chairman of the Ways and Means Committee -- who is being probed by the House Ethics Committee -- failed to reveal a staggering $3 million in various business transactions over the same period.

Two stories out today here and here detail some of the financial disclosures.

I've said it before and I'll say it again. The Democrats who are running our country into the ground are setting up a Soviet style of government, where there are two distinct classes. There will be the bulk of us in the proletariat and then there will be the nomenklatura - people like Charlie Rangle, Team Obama, etc to whom the rules do not apply. It's already happening now - and all you have to do to see it is look at how many of Obama's Team have various legal issues that somehow or other managed to get overlooked.

Bias? What bias?

Title says it all:

ABC, NBC Won't Air Ad Critical of Obama's Health Care Plan
The refusal by ABC and NBC to run a national ad critical of President Obama's health care reform plan is raising questions from the group behind the spot -- particularly in light of ABC's health care special aired in prime time last June hosted at the White House

This changes everything!

Ohmygosh! It turns out that American interrogators CLEARLY stepped over the line with nasty, hideous and unauthorized interrogation techniques.

Abd al Rahim al-Nashiri, according to the 9-11 commission report, was the mastermind of the Oct. 12, 2000, attack on the U.S.S. Cole that killed 17 U.S. sailors.

Nashiri was also the target of an "unauthorized" CIA interrogation technique (that had not been legally vetted by the Justice Department) that is described in a May 7, 2004, CIA inspector general's report that was partially declassified by the Obama administration this week.

CIA officers blew smoke in Nashiri's face, according to the report, and they used cigars.

Now, if they wasted a perfectly good Cuban cigar on this piece of shit, then yep, that's pretty bad. If it was a cheap cruddy King Edward or the like, then that's ok. But I'll be damned if I think it would be worth it to waste a good Cohiba or Romeo and Julietta on some terrorist asshole.

Take a peek

at my new blog.... As long as JR will have me here at the Tattler, I plan to keep on posting!!

However, not wanting to be a blog hog and wanting to branch out a bit with my photography, I've started a new blog titled My Sight Picture.

If you've liked the occasional photo I've published here, feel free to drop by and visit!!

Carry on!

A little help, please

Can any of ya'll identify the big bird on the left? It's a raptor of some kind, but I don't recognize it. Some kind of falcon perhaps?? You'll note the dove on the right of the pic for size comparison....




ETA, it looks like it's a Mississippi Kite, boys and girls.

The feminization of America continues

Just to show you how far we've fallen, take a look at what counts for torture in Obamaworld:

Abd al-Nashiri, the man accused of being behind the 2000 USS Cole bombing, was hooded, handcuffed and threatened with an unloaded gun and a power drill. The unidentified interrogator also threatened al-Nashiri's mother and family, implying they would be sexually abused in front of him, according to the report.

You read that right, dear reader - threatened with an unloaded gun and drill. And then threatened his family.

Another interrogator told alleged Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, "if anything else happens in the United States, 'We're going to kill your children,'" one veteran officer said in the report.

Oooooh. More threats.

In another instance, an interrogator choked off the carotid artery of a detainee until he started to pass out, then shook him awake. He did this three times.

Oh boy! Now we're getting serious!! Anyone who hasn't done this to their siblings growing up had a pretty dull life.

The report describes at least one mock execution, which would also violate U.S. anti-torture laws. To terrify one detainee, interrogators pretended to execute the prisoner in a nearby room.

Oh boy, next thing you know, Halloween haunted houses are going to be illegal too.

Need I remind you, my friends, that these so called atrocities (spit) are not even in the same universe as the actual atrocities committed by the scumbags our guys were interviewing. You know, actual rape rooms. Actual executions (with dull knives, caught on film). Actually using power drills on helpless captives.

The pantywaists running our government would have us believe that there is a moral equivalency between the acts committed by our side with the acts of terrorism committed by those we fight. All in a disgusting attempt to divert attention from plummeting poll numbers, raucous town halls, and a health care plan that is dying a slow, lingering death.

Hope and change my ass.

Double Tap

Fun little match at the Double Tap Ranch today. 6 stages, done by about 12:30 and for August in Wichita Falls, it was dang cool and comfortable. Haven't been able to shoot as much as I'd like this year thanks to primer issues, press issues, and just flat out TIME issues... but it sure is fun to pull the trigger.