Same as it ever was

Posted by Greybeard on May 9th, 2007 in Days of Old, News and weather, Political | Comments Off

Back when I was a kid,  I remember stories of WWII.  I remember “talking heads” talking about how Japan or Germany would never try to invade America physically.

The reason being:  The invading soldiers would recieve fire from every bush,  behind every tree,  every rooftop,  etc, etc..   The American people just own to many guns!

The supposed plan by the evil powers,  would have been to take over our coasts and our shipping ports,  then gradually change the country by forced thought control,  until they could actually take us over completely.  Part of that take over,  would most assuredly have been to have collected all the privately owned guns,  since that’s how they started their evil dominations in the first place.  I never really heard stories of WWI,  but I’m sure the same attitude prevailed.

Today, thanks to our Second Amendment,

A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

it’s still the same.  Yeah,  we own a lot of guns,  and we know how to shoot them, and we are FREE, so a direct assault is unthinkable.  Even if an invader could get by our military and our police,  the private citizen,  (the free citizen militia) would be there to fight a holding action, allowing our military to regroup.

The enemies of our country still have basically the same plan,  destroy/control our shipping and communication,  remove our arms and freedom,  then dominate or destroy us as a people.  The greatest hope that they have,  are the extreme liberals in our government.  With these misguided polititions as their tool,  the enemies can do all their work from within.

If our government can be changed:

• To remove our freedoms
• Remove our armament
• Restrict our movement
• to lower our standard of living
• and us flood us with undocumented aliens

The enemy takeover,  and/or our destruction,  would be a piece of cake.  Once their changes were complete,  the enemies puppets could use our own miltary forces against us. 

We can not let this type of attack succeed,  or even get a further foot hold.  VOTE!  But know the issues,  and think long and hard before you vote.  If all else fails, 

Molon labe!

~~>GreyBeard

Jeep trivia

Posted by Greybeard on Mar 19th, 2007 in Days of Old | 3 comments

The first Jeep was built 10 years before I was born.

I was 23 years old when I bought my first (new) Jeep. 

To me, a Jeep will aways be a Willy’s or CJ-3 thru CJ-5.

I owned my first Jeep,  and a few others,  for 29 years.

The ultimate Jeep for me,  was the 1974 CJ-5, sporting a small block V-8 breathing through Custom Equipt. Headers,  with Detroit Locker’s front and rear, pulling 33X15 Armstrong offroad tires on 10 inch rims.  (dating my self a bit, eh?)

A lot of good memories in those old Jeeps! 

~~GB 

Funerals

Posted by Greybeard on Dec 28th, 2006 in Days of Old, News and weather | Comments Off

Sitting in the funeral home this afternoon,  an odd feeling came over me.  It’s strange how when attending an event such as a funeral,  when you see friends you haven’t see in a while,  you notice how they’ve grown older.  You also notice how their children have grown,  and aged.  You know they’re noticing the same type of things about you.  You realize that those who used to be children,  now have children.

When you see someone often,  the changes of time are very gradual,  but this afternoon,  was like putting things in fast forward. 

The man the funeral was for was another WWII vet,  like my father.  There were a few similarities;  the folded flag,  a few memorials with huntings dog, and woodland scenes.  The shell of a once strong man, surrounded by family and friends,  awaiting his final resting place.

I particularly noticed one of the framed memorial pictures.  It was a picture of a misty woodland,  with a large buck just appearing through the fog in distance,  and a partrige sitting under the rolling mists in the forground.   The thought that kept rolling through my head was, “if that’s heaven,  I think I might have been there”.   And for a while I drifted in thoughts of the last time I hunted or hiked a foggy ridge on a crisp fall morning.  There’s just something about a misty fog covered ridge,  with and occasional shaft of sunlight.  The heavyness of the air,  the strength of the scent,  the quiet.  Good Stuff,  Maybe it’s what the entrance to heaven is like?

~~GB

 

Fact of the Day

Posted by Greybeard on Dec 15th, 2006 in Days of Old | 0 comments

FACT OF THE DAY

Today in 1871 James Naismith, a Canadian of Scottish parents, invented basketball, though in a slightly different form to that we know today, with no dribbling.

Ebay bids

Posted by Greybeard on Nov 14th, 2006 in Days of Old, News and weather | Comments Off

Ok,  I’ve bid on my 4th ever Ebay item.

Something called a “Hi Ho Santa” lighted figure.

  My wife had one when she was a kid,  and we thought we’d take a shot at getting her a replacement.

My current opinion of EBay:

Personally  I think the bidding on Ebay is rigged toward the seller.  (Not that this is any different than any other retail establishment).   The patterns of the bids coming in against us,   are all identical.   And I’m absolutely certain, that Ebay allows at least some of their seller’s to change the reserve price in mid stream.   I’m not likely to get hooked on bidding on Ebay! 

~~GreyBeard