Update on yesterday's post

It is now 75 counties, 10 cities and 9 towns in Virginia that have declared themselves to be Second Amendment sanctuaries.

That's about 79%. 

There are 95 counties in Virginia. 

It should be noted that the last seven signed on AFTER the governor had threatened to deny sanctuary counties state money AND had threatened them with using the National Guard to enforce things.

Look for more to join in the next week or so.

It is getting pretty interesting.

Incidentally if you look at the demographics of the National Guard you will see that a mutiny is very possible. I'd estimate that over 90% of National Guardsmen own at least one firearm.

While not too likely, it is very possible the National Guardsmen could be given the order, "About face! Fix bayonets!" It would be worth a week's pay to see the look on the Governor's face if that happened! 

A similar subject came up while I was on active duty. During a riot duty class I was overheard when I commented that "They better have a damned good reason to order me to fire on American citizens. If they don't have one I will fire on the officer or NCO that gave the order."

It was my battery commander that overheard me. He replied, "As you damned well should. We all took an oath to defend the American people, not to kill them."

Update. Here's a post from a Guardsman:

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So far it is 61 out of 95 counties in Virginia are now

Second Amendment sanctuaries.

Interesting.

They have told Richmond to shove it. At least one sheriff has stated he will deputize the entire county or organize the militia if need be.

Interesting.

I have already listened to and read the outraged comments by angry liberals and it makes me laugh out loud.

The very people that say the sheriffs and county governments can't declare themselves to be Second Amendment sanctuaries are living in cities that are sanctuaries for illegal immigrants.

Pick one. You can't have your cake and eat it, too. 



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Hmmm...I just read where

it is a felony in Virginia for anyone over the age of sixteen to wear a mask.

It probably goes back to the Ku Klux Klan days.

Still, it explains why the Lone Ranger never opened any supermarkets in Virginia.

Now we know.



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Most of us are unconvicted felons.

or at least any of us with any spunk.




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Funny what grease and a couple of lag will do to a garage door opener.

The garage door opener started acting up. It would close part way and reopen. There was a sang of some sort and when it hit the snag the brain in it would act like someone was caught in it so it would stop for a second and then go back up.

I ran it a couple of times and located the snag. It was because the braces were loose and the thing shook a bit when it hit the snag and sort of jammed it momentarily, long enough to get the brain in the thing to react.

I noticed the braces were shaking and looked at them carefully. They appeared to have been installed as an afterthought and were simply held in place by nails that seemed to have worked themselves out.

I also felt the insides of the runners and they were dry. I promptly filled them with grease and that improved things. Still, the rails shook as did the braces.

Out came the old nails and I simply put in a couple of lag bolts. This eliminated about 96.87% of the shaking and the old door runs like a Swiss watch again.

For a minute I was beginning to think I would have to replace the whole shooting match but simple maintenance did the trick. 






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I have a friend who married a Chinese woman

and he has been in and out of China over the years.

He made what I consider to be a very interesting comment about life in China.

He said that on a day to day basis the Chinese have far less government intervention than we do in their daily lives.

Interesting comment.




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I just read where some town in Wisconsin has outlawed

throwing snowballs.

Snowballs!

Every kid in that town ought to head to the next city council meeting and snowball the daylights out of the entire city council.

I'm 68 f***ing years old and STILL like a good old fashioned snowball fight!

What is to become of us?





It's Pearl Harbor day.


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You couldn't hit a guy with a Model 94 at 30 yards?

There is an old rerun of JAG on the TV for background noise. 

While I was going to pee I glanced at it and some guy took a couple of shots at Harm and Mac with one. He missed.

He ought to be ashamed of himself. He missed two people at thirty yards with a Model 94.

John Wayne never missed and Indian with one!

Yeah, it's Hollywood. But, still!


Incidentally it is the one Old School rifle I consider the best one out there to make a quick aimed fairly close range shot with but that is just me.



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Anyone that is ineligible to get a carry permit

in a Shall Issue state does not belong in a classroom full of school kids.

They don't have to own a gun or even have a permit to carry one. They just should be eligible to get a permit.

Think about this. If you are ineligible in a shall issue state there is something wrong with you.


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I held back which is rare.

I am on one of those neighborhood dot com type of sites and occasionally check it out if something interesting comes up in my email box.

The other day some mom type asked, "They are clearing a lot next to such and such a place. What are they going to build there?"

What a target of opportunity! I could see that turning into a three ring circus! All it would have taken me is a couple of seconds and a single click!

"Hopefully a much needed strip club and adult book store." Click.

But I didn't because the account is in my real name which I should have thought of when I opened it.

It would have been a troll's dream. I can just picture the soccer moms going off like skyrockets. 

"What? We don't need a place like that in our town!" a soccer mom would write.

Piccolo replies, "Why? It would save me a couple trips downtown each week and  severely reduce my chances of getting a DUI on the way home."

"I don't want my husband hanging out there!" Says another do good soccer mom.

Piccolo: "Why? It's your golden opportunity if you don't trust him. Slip Bubbles a fast hundred bucks for him to get caught with her off duty. Nail him cold. A good divorce attorney could take him to the cleaners and you'd be sitting pretty and have him out of your hair working three jobs to have you watching TV all day."

"Those women are prostitutes!" screams another indignant woman.

Piccolo: "You know, that's not a bad deal. Your son's gotta get it somewhere and that's a lot better of a deal than having him knock up his girlfriend."

Another indignant one. The local preacher takes the bait. "Those women are being exploited!"

Piccolo. "Nonsense. They are being paid and actually make excellent money. If they got a halfway decent rack and a reasonably good ass they can put their way through college and graduate debt free. You'd be surprised at how many college educations have been funded by exotic dancers. It also encourages them to stay in shape so the tips keep rolling in."

Enter a woman that took one look at the post and knows a troll when she sees one. In reality nature has not been good to her but she doesn't worry about it.  She grew up with seven brothers and shares their sense of humor. She just HAS to enter the fray.

"I've been looking for a boob job, a tummy tuck and a butt life but it's so expensive. Maybe this would be a way to pay for it. What kind of money do dancers make?" she asks, adding to the outrage.

"They sell drugs in places like that! I don't want my son involved with drugs." Another angry mother chimes in.

Piccolo: "So get him a fake ID so after he gets coked up he can go inside and have a few beers to wash the dope out of his system."

Finally the threat comes. "I am reporting this to the CITY POLICE!" 

Piccolo: "Why? What good will that do? I have broken no laws. The police are already on to this. They open this thread several times a day because they are laughing their asses off at all the people that are too stupid to know they are being trolled. If the original poster wanted to know what was going up in the lot that's being cleared she should have called the township. They'll tell you it's going to be a building to store snow removal equipment."

I think I'm going to have to open a troll account there. It sounds to me like a lot of fun. There is nothing more gullible that a soccer mom.




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Paroled to the army with the stipulation he was sent overseas.

Or so they said on an old rerun of 'Dragnet'.

Some guy on the rerun I saw was paroled to the Army with the stipulation he got sent overseas. He was pulling time for robbery.

The ORIGINAL 'Dragnet' with Harry Smith as Joe's partner. NOT the remake that came out in '67 with Harry Morgan playing Officer Bill Gannon.

I guess the army was at that time a dumping ground and for decades took in juvenile delinquents and others that needed a second chance.

The urban legend of this type of thing happening lasts to this day. Recruiters still have parents thinking the services will take a youngster in and straighten him out. They have not done this since the early 60s.

While even back in my day that sort of thing had come pretty much to a halt, I do believe it has a certain amount of merit. 

On the other hand, the NCOs have had a lot of their authority taken away from them to make it work in this day and age.

I have very mixed feelings about this.




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F*** the Fire Department.

Actually I like the Fire department and for that matter have a lot of respect for the Police department.

I just figured the cops get too much crap dumped on them so I figured I'd just dump on the Firemen today and give the cops a much needed break.

After all I'm just trying to be a good communist and spread the misery equally.


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One of the things I think the internet has done

in a positive way is to keep the mainstream media at least a little more honest although I don't think that it does a whole lot of good with CNN, but that is just me. 

I just heard that President Trump sneaked off to Afghanistan to pull KP duty and serve the Troops Thanksgiving dinner which is a lot more than former president Obama did.

The media saw a motorcade of sorts headed to the golf course and carried on about how it looked like Trump was going golfing and duly reported it. However when they figured out it was a ruse most likely for security purposes and that Trump was headed to Afghanistan to serve turkey to the troops it was crickets.

At least until the word broke on the web and finally MSNBC had to admit it and aired a brief segment about it.

Without the web to pressure the media I doubt we would have heard a word about the President that from what I have gathered really cares about the troops and is pretty damned frugal with their lives, unlike a lot of others.

I've harped on this for quite some time.

When the kid down the street gets blown away it's a shame and you drop off the family a casserole on your way to the mall. You still go to the mall, though.

When it's YOUR kid that gets wasted it becomes a family tragedy that no parent ever recovers from.









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Here. Here's a pistol for you. It's loaded. Take it somewhere quiet and do the right thing.

I actually did that to someone once. I handed them a pistol, told them it was loaded and to take it somewhere quiet and do the right thing.

Actually the pistol was unloaded because if they did decide to do the right thing it would have made quite a mess and I didn't want some poor bastard to have to clean it up. 

Besides there is always some idiot that will say something like "It's not a real gun." as they point it at you and pull the trigger.

The world is what it is and there are a number of people out there that have made their careers being a pain in the asses of every else and we would simply be better off without them.




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Ah, yes. A sham shielder strikes again.

Leave it to a Sp/4 to be the guy to designate the smoking areas.

One fine member of the Sp/4 Mafia decided to appoint himself as the smoking area designatior It was a rather simple thing for him to do, really. He just got a small 'designated smoking area' sign and carried it with him.

Any time he wanted to light up he would simply post the sign and have a cigarette. When he was finished he would put the sign away and take it with him.

Needless to say, people would see him smoking, notice the sign and light up. There would be a group of smokers standing around long after the Sp/4 had quietly taken the sign and left.

One day the battalion commander saw the Sp/4 smoking, noticed the sign and sat down to enjoy a cigar. When the Sp/4 had finished his smoke he left. Of course he was carrying the sign which he had discreetly stuffed under his shirt.

A few minutes later the Regimental CO happened on by and saw one of his BnCOs puffing away and promptly gave him holy hell leaving the hapless officer stammering and stuttering that there had been a sign there a minute ago.




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It's Turkey Day and I am in a fleabag somewhere

waiting to go to the airport.

I could have flown out yesterday but the day before Thanksgiving is the always a total zoo. I hate traveling then and it is a lot wiser to simply put the travel off for a day and miss the holiday. 

Sometimes it is so slow you can play cribbage with a bored attendant. 

I admit that Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday but I have to have in on my terms. I don't want to come rolling in three minutes before dinner, eat and leave. 

I like at least getting there the day before and waking up to a cup of coffee with a splash of cognac in in and helping out with the dinner all the while clad in a Thanksgiving outfit consisting of sweats and a T-shirt. There's more to it than a turkey dinner. 

It's a time of home, hearth and family and all that good stuff.

Yet this morning I am in a fleabag somewhere using that dopey little coffee maker to make a cup of Joe at 0300 because I can't sleep.


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Hey, smart ass. The next time you say "OK, Boomer" to me

I am going to withhold your participation trophies AND leave you a car with a manual transmission with the directions on how to drive it written in cursive.


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I miss the smell of an Old School waterfront gin mill.

Cigarette smoke, stale beer with just a tinge of urine in a dark, dingy atmosphere.

Now waterfront bars are bright, cheery smoke and odor free places and they suck.

They don't make 'em like they used to.



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I just read where plumbers call the day after Thanksgiving

Brown Friday because of all of the calls they get on that day.

I never thought about it but I can certainly see why.


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I have little time on my hands until after Thanksgiving.

Sorry about that, Chief.


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