Home Defense Tips from an Angel

Posted by Greybeard on Mar 7th, 2006 in Shootist | Comments Off

The “Anarchangel”
get’s serious about home defense!! Another take on home defense, in response to the Angel, can be found at Doc Russia’s Blog along with the Doc’s take on last night’s Oscar ceremonies. Very insightful Doc!

Another Goody For The Old timers

Posted by Greybeard on Mar 7th, 2006 in News and weather, Technology and Music | Comments Off

The (unknown) author suggests that you’d have to be over 40 to understand this article. I’m guessing that there are still a lot of young’uns out there that can relate also.

GB

Another Goody For The Old timers

My Mom used to cut chicken, chop eggs and spread mayo on the same
cutting board with the same knife and no bleach, but we didn’t seem to
get food poisoning.

My Mom used to defrost hamburger on the counter AND I used to eat it raw
sometimes, too. Our school sandwiches were wrapped in wax paper in a
brown paper bag, not in ice pack coolers, but I can’t remember getting
ecoli.

Almost all of us would have rather gone swimming in the lake instead of
a pristine pool (talk about boring), no beach closures then.

The term cell phone would have conjured up a phone in a jail cell, and a
pager was the school PA system.

We all took gym, not PE… and risked permanent injury with a pair of
high top Ked’s (only worn in gym) instead of having cross-training
athletic shoes with air cushion soles and built in light reflectors. I
can’t recall any injuries but they must have happened because they tell
us how much safer we are now..

Flunking gym was not an option…even for stupid kids! I guess PE must
be much harder than gym.

Speaking of school, we all said prayers and sang the national anthem,
and staying in detention after school caught all sorts of negative
attention.

We must have had horribly damaged psyches. What an archaic health system
we had then. Remember school nurses? Ours wore a hat and everything.

I thought that I was supposed to accomplish something before I was
allowed to be proud of myself.

I just can’t recall how bored we were without computers, Play Station,
Nintendo, X-box or 270 digital TV cable stations.

Oh yeah… and where was the Benadryl and sterilization kit when I got
that bee sting? I could have been killed!

We played ‘king of the hill’ on piles of gravel left on vacant
construction sites, and when we got hurt, Mom pulled out the 48-cent
bottle of Mercurochrome (kids liked it better because it didn’t sting
like iodine did) and then we got our butt spanked.

Now it’s a trip to the emergency room, followed by a 10-day dose of a
$49 bottle of antibiotics, and then Mom calls the attorney to sue the
contractor for leaving a horribly vicious pile of gravel where it was
such a threat.

We didn’t act up at the neighbor’s house either because if we did, we
got our butt spanked there and then we got butt spanked again when we
got home.

I recall Donny Reynolds from next door coming over and doing his tricks
on the front stoop, just before he fell off. Little did his Mom know
that she could have owned our house. Instead, she picked him up and
swatted him for being such a goof. It was a neighborhood run a muck.

To top it off, not a single person I knew had ever been told that they
were from a dysfunctional family. How could we possibly have known that?

We needed to get into group therapy and anger management classes? We
were obviously so duped by so many societal ills, that we didn’t even
notice that the entire country wasn’t taking Prozac! How did we ever
survive?

LOVE TO ALL OF US WHO SHARED THIS ERA, AND TO ALL WHO DIDN’T- SORRY FOR
WHAT YOU MISSED. I WOULDN’T TRADE IT FOR ANYTHING

Learning to Think like an Arab Muslim:

Posted by Greybeard on Mar 6th, 2006 in Political | Comments Off

“”Learning to Think like an Arab Muslim: a Short Guide to Understanding the Arab Mentality

By Edward V. Badolato, Executive Vice President for Homeland Security

1717 Pennsylvania Ave., 9th Fl.
Washington DC 20006
edward.badolato@shawgrp.com

Dealing with terrorism, especially Islamic Fundamentalists, requires an intimate knowledge of terrorism, terrorist operations, and especially the key cultural features that makes up the Arab psyche. An understanding and detailed background knowledge of the Arab mentality is critical to performing accurate threat analysis. Understanding Arab culture can provide valuable insights into the changing nature of Post 9-11 terrorism, and how to rank and prioritize potential threats. To outsmart our clever and elusive Islamic terrorist foes, one must first understand what makes him tick. This paper is bases on years of experience in the Middle East, and is dedicated to helping the reader understand the Arab mentality.”"

The short take is at CNSNEWS

And the entire 14 page document, can be found at www.blackwaterusa.com

General Link to BlackWater-here.
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GreyBeard’s opinion is that all American’s should read the entire 14 pages of Mr Badolato’s article.

Respectfully Submitted:
GreyBeard

Griffon Update

Posted by Greybeard on Mar 3rd, 2006 in Shootist | Comments Off

I’ve shipped the Grif’s slide off to “Innovative Weaponry”, for the Tritium tube replacement. Orange dot’s on the rear, Green dot on the front. Can’t wait to see how it works out, I’ve always had Green dot’s front and rear.
Should be getting that range report out in a couple of weeks.

Glock VS Griffon: AMMO

Posted by Greybeard on Mar 1st, 2006 in Shootist | Comments Off

I just did a bulk order for .45 Remington Golden Saber 185g +P hollowpoints. 10 bucks a box, 25 rounds per box.
It’s the carry load I’ve been using for the last 3 or 4 years.
I still haven’t gotten out to try them in the Grif, but they feed great in my Glock.
It was a toss up between Corbon Powerball, Hornaday TAP, and the Golden Sabres. I decided to go with the known entity. If the Grif doesn’t like them, I’ll try a box of Powerball.
That range report is due, as soon as the repaired night sites are back.
Be patient.