Smoke on the Water, is BACK

Posted by Greybeard on May 2nd, 2006 in News and weather | Comments Off

Jim, at Smoke on the Water is back, and his May 1st post is worth a read.

Quote from the May 1st post:

“In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the man’s becoming in very fact an American, and nothing but an American…There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn’t an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag, and this excludes the red flag, which symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization, just as much as it excludes any foreign flag of a nation to which we are hostile…We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language…and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.”
–Theodore Roosevelt

–GB

Global Warming, Just the facts.

Posted by Greybeard on Apr 26th, 2006 in News and weather, Political | 0 comments

James Hudnall, For free speech to live, Political correctness must die.

Want the facts about Global Warming, check it out. Be prepared for a long read, and to be disappointed if you’re a Global warming fanatic.
As Kim DuToit would say; “Read it all, O my Readers, for verily, it doth contain bushels of truth.”

–GB

Crash, mini review

Posted by Greybeard on Apr 3rd, 2006 in News and weather, Political | Comments Off

On the road to recovery from the worst flu I ever experienced, I watched the Academy Award winning move “Crash” last night.
NOTE: it was on free night, and I did NOT pay for it.

My opinion: It was actually a pretty good movie. There didn’t seem to be to much of the (what’s becoming the norm) preaching and thought molding that hollywood so often tries to fawn off on us.
I’d give it maybe an 8.

One thing it’s not, is a travel log for visiting California! I’ve never wanted to go there, and the flavor of this flick, confirms my choice.

GB
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Griffon VS Glock 1st quick range report

Posted by Greybeard on Mar 27th, 2006 in Shootist | Comments Off

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This was the second time I’d fired the Griffon.
The magazines were fired from a kneeling postition, arms resting on a tall stool.
The range was 21 ft, slow deliberate fire.
Two points of aim, the head, for the Glock, the chest for the Griffon.
The ammo was staggered in each magazine, 0ne PMC hardball, One Wolf hardball, One PMC, etc, etc.

I have no compliants about the Griffon so far, it has a better trigger than my Glock and is a little longer,
and therefor a bit easier to shoot. As stated earlier, it’s heavier, and not as smooth (to draw) as the Glock, but definately a
very servicable carry gun. I’ll feel quite comfortable handing it over to my son.

The second part of the test, was a full mag. fired fairly quickly from a standing position at 30 ft.
The target was a standard steel silouhette PIG. (about 15×18 ?) The PIG rang 6 times for the Glock and 7 for the Grif. (no misses)
(and this time I was able to get the Grif apart for cleaning, and back together, without shooting the recoil
spring across the room. )

GB

You can click on the “shootist” catagory at the bottom of this page, to see all the previous parts of
“Glock VS Griffon” in one place.

My most unpatriotic day of the year!

Posted by Greybeard on Mar 22nd, 2006 in News and weather, Political | Comments Off

Yep, starting a 3:30 pm yesterday, I’m currently going through my most unpatriotic 24 hours of the year. I visited my taxman yesterday!
After dutifly sending off over a quarter of my paycheck, every payday to Uncle Sam, paying thousands a year in property taxes and sales taxes, I’m now told I have to dig up another 3700 bucks for good old Uncle Sam. This is LUDICROUS, HIGHWAY ROBBERY, AND TOTALLY MISALIGNED WITH OUR CONSTITUTION! If our forefathers, reacted with the Boston Tea Party, over a little tax on TEA, what would they have done when the government demanded at 40 to 50 percent TAX on EVERY PENNY THEY EARNED.
I am retired (but fortunatley working a new job) and my TAX bill this year, handily exceeded my retirement pension!

A VERY UNPATRIOTIC DAY!

Hopefully I won’t feel this UNPATRIOTIC again, until April 14th, when I actually have to send off that check.
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