m gardner

I get tired of hearing about the "right" to collective bargaining. I believe it's a privilege granted by law not a right guaranteed by our Constitution. Looks like the law just changed.

Isn't going to happen.

I would love to see a good thorough investigation but I think this is another case of "My enemy's enemy is my friend" sort of thing. Mark

As I get older it's better to have them further away to get them in focus better.

Slept in until 5:30. Resized 938 9mm Luger cases. Went for a 2 mile run. Ate breakfast. Talked to my son and granddaughter in New Hampshire. Belled the cases I resized. Went to the archery range. Ran two more miles in the afternoon. Did some dry fire pistol drills. Took the wife out to dinner on the motorcycle and came home and watched the latest Sportsmans Warehouse DVD. Went to bed at 9:30. Mark

From what I've seen moose are even more resistant to lead than elk so if you are going to kill one with a 30-06 or 270 be sure to keep shooting the same animal. Don't think you missed if the animal just walks off and shoot another or you'll have lots of untagged meat on the ground eventually. Good luck on your hunt. Mark

Looks like this started during the Bush presidency and got out of control during Obama's. Bughouse, we're all familiar with that storey. Thank God it's getting some attention. All I know is that these mexicans and OTM's (other than mexicans) are a protected species. We can't kill them unless they shoot at us and they know that. Problem is that the police and border patrol have to use even more discretion when engaging them. The people I know say that the mexican army shoots at the BP and keeps them busy while the drugs are taken across the border. This is why most of them were pulled back and the checkpoints are inland now. At one of the shoots (the BP practices gunfighting) I went to I overheard a few officers dicussing this and one said to the rest that the next time one of the blankety blank blanks shoots at him he's going to blanking kill him and make a blanking pair of boots out of him. They are getting frustrated. Mark

Here's the latest on the ATF sending guns to mexico. I guess that the Zetas have been helping Hezbollah use their existing smuggling routes to enter the US and the US govt has been feeding rival cartels like LaFamilia and Siniloa supplies to help fight the Zetas and protect our southern border. Off the record though. This info has not hit mainstream news yet. It's starting to look like the Regan/Contra years again. ATF Mexican gun-smuggling sting scrutinized Agency accused of losing track of guns that wound up with drug cartels by Dennis Wagner - Mar. 5, 2011 12:00 AM The Arizona Republic Newly released U.S. records and assertions by a government whistle-blower support allegations that government agents allowed hundreds of firearms to be smuggled across the Arizona border and into the hands of Mexican drug cartels. The records, released by a member of Congress, have prompted the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to call for an independent review of a campaign designed to dismantle Mexican crime syndicates that purportedly wound up arming them instead. The Arizona Republic reported last month that investigators have confirmed that two weapons connected to the ATF operations were found at the scene of a December gunbattle near Rio Rico, Ariz., where Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was killed by suspected border bandits. Records detail deadly Border Patrol shooting in Arizona The controversy has engulfed Project Gun Runner, an ATF enforcement campaign. This week, the Center for Public Integrity and CBS News interviewed an ATF agent whose revelations about being instructed to let guns pass into Mexico are likely to accelerate a congressional investigation of the scandal. Justice Department authorities and their counterparts in Mexico have complained for years that cartel violence is fueled in part by a flood of weapons, mostly AK-47s, purchased in the United States and smuggled unlawfully across the border. Project Gun Runner was created in 2006 to combat that threat in Arizona by identifying and prosecuting firearms traffickers. Dozens of so-called straw buyers have been arrested, and more than 10,000 guns confiscated. However, the ATF came in for criticism from the Justice Department's Office of Inspector General last year because Project Gun Runner was catching only the straw buyers - small fish in the smuggling business. The newly released ATF documents make it clear the bureau sought to overcome such criticism by allowing firearm smugglers to make purchases in Arizona so they could be traced to bigger fish south of the border. In a case known as Operation Fast and Furious, gun dealers were encouraged to make sales to known traffickers, sometimes under surveillance. There were scores of transactions, involving more than 1,500 guns, with undercover agents and informers taking part in some deals As a result of that strategy, however, assault rifles, potent .50-caliber guns and other weapons vanished. They were later recovered by police in Mexico, often after violent crimes. Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Idaho, ranking minority member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, has pressed the ATF for two months to disclose details of Project Gun Runner and to justify a policy that allowed weapons into a nation where there were more than 36,000 drug-related murders in four years. His inquiries, as well as those by journalists, were repeatedly ignored or met with denials from the ATF and the Justice Department. At a news conference in February, the ATF in Phoenix announced that 34 suspects had been indicted and that U.S. agents had seized 375 weapons as part of Operation Fast and Furious. None of those arrested was a significant cartel figure. The bureau's own records showed that nearly 200 additional guns purchased during the operation were recovered by police in Mexico. Two of those weapons were used by suspected bandits during the shootout with Terry. According to the U.S. Attorney's Office in Arizona, ATF agents did not learn about the purchase of those guns until three days after the sale and did not have the buyer under surveillance. At the news conference, William Newell, special agent in charge of the ATF's office in Arizona, was asked if agents knowingly allowed guns to be smuggled into Mexico. "**** no," he said. Yet, bureau records released by Grassley indicate that "walking" guns into Mexico was an approved strategy and that some agents were silenced when they protested that criminals were being armed and lives jeopardized. In a March 12 e-mail, David Voth, supervisor of the Phoenix Gun Trafficking Group, acknowledged a "schism" among ATF agents and warned those questioning the program that they might wind up as jail guards. "It may sound cheesy, but we are 'the tip of the ATF spear' when it comes to Southwest border firearms trafficking," Voth wrote. "If you don't think this is fun, you're in the wrong line of work - period. One of the agents, John Dodson, has sought formal protection as a whistle-blower under federal law and is providing information to the Judiciary Committee. In an interview with the non-profit, nonpartisan Center for Public Integrity, Dodson said, "With the number of guns we let walk, we'll never know how many people were killed, raped, robbed. . . . There is nothing we can do to round up those guns. They are gone." CBS News broadcast the interview with Dodson, along with ATF surveillance video of suspects leaving an Arizona gun store with cases of assault rifles. Kenneth Melson, acting ATF director, reacted by calling for an independent probe of Project Gun Runner. "This review will enable ATF to maximize its effectiveness when undertaking complex firearms-trafficking investigations and prosecutions," he said. In his letter to the bureau, Grassley wrote: "Getting to the truth of the ATF whistle-blower allegations in this case is extremely important to the family of Brian Terry and should be important to all Americans." Dodson told CBS News that he was terrified that a U.S. law officer might be killed with a smuggled gun and was crushed when the fear apparently came true. Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2011/03/05/20110305atf-mexican-gun-smuggling-sting-scrutinized.html#ixzz1FjNVBZ1t

The problem I see with any "green" source of fuels is that biofuels use resources that we need to grow food. Even the little algae or designer bacteriums need some sort of food to produce fuel through photosynthesis. Problem is that 90% of the people I talk to think that these little creatures use water, sunlight and CO2 and that's it. We are looking at a food shortage worldwide right now and probably here too. We may not starve but prices are rising. I think God put coal and oil here to burn and food to eat.

Went up eleven cents this week. Now it's at $3.34. Glad to be biker trash for sure now.

If unions are so good for our school system why have we gone from being the people with the best educations in the world to 35th since being unionized?

Like doing a skin graft with an air brush. I wish they had had that when I got burned 46 years ago. I'm sitting here getting sick just remembering. I still have bleeding whenever I rub too hard against capillaries that healed above the new skin and this would have prevented that. Mark

Not only more latte but they're selling more men's underwear too. :wacko:

I always have prepared for the worse and hoped for the best. Educated myself and prepared. That's why I'm still employable and actually got a Christmas bonus and a big raise recently. As for hoarding, just develop a lifestyle where you have enough to get through the learning curve for long term survival (6 months to a year)and constantly use and restock food that is not suitable for long term storage. I put pressure on the supply and stocked up before there was a crisis so all I do is buy what anyone normally would now. The mideast has only one democracy and that is Israel. If you are Biblically inclined read Galatians 4:21-31. The sons of Abraham born to the slave woman (Muslims/Arabs) are slaves and historically have always been ruled over by a dictator. I don't see things being any worse or better than they ever have been. God doesn't lie.

The feds finally picked pick and arrested 500 major players in the mexican cartel here in the U.S. and got $11,000,000 in cash and lots of dope 2 days ago. So things are improving. Problem is that they did it in retribution for killing and wounding the ICE Agents in Mexico a weel ago. Should have been doing this all along to protect us and our border.

The cheapest I can find regular is $3.23 here. Three of the guys I hunt with say they can't go to Colorado this year because they can't afford it if gas goes up any more. One of them goes from here with me so I told him I'm going no matter what so it's no hardship if he just rides along. The two that come occasionally from New York I can do nothing about. This stinks! :bang: Mark

Here's my Gadsen SIG P226 and 22 conversion. Both worked right out of the box. I spelled Gadsen wrong in the title. Probably because of Gasten Glock's Pistol. Another of a long seemingly endless string of senior moments. Mark

I had always been told that if I didn't clean the solvent out of the bolt and especially the firing pin hole that it would migrate into the primer and kill it. So I was bored and put a Federal Hydrashock and a Winchester Personal Defense round into a small tray with Kroil solvent up to the extractor groove. Anyone familiar with Kroil knows it'll go anywhere there's a seam so I figured that after a week that the rounds would go click when I shot them. I have always been paranoid about my self defense ammo because the pistol is always loaded and a round is against the bolt most of the time. This short video shows the results. Mark

All I know about the unions is that when GM laid off their machinists that were making $30.00 per hour plus benefits we were pretty happy because it's hard to find good machinists of that caliber (anyone making that money usually knows everything), or so we thought. They were so undertrained and overpaid it was ridiculous. The had to be retrained to be useful even as entry level employees. Being under union protection for years seems to mean that you don't need to grow with the job. Most of them had never programmed or operated a CNC machining center. It was good for me because we still can't find good people so I got a Christmas bonus, then a big raise recently and an apprentice/helper. Here's a video of the demonstration in Colorado in support of the unions. The flag is Mexican.

We fully expected civilization as we know it to end last year so we've been eating our supplies of short term survival rations and replacing them. It's good nutricious food and we've been losing weight because it's healthier than the normal stuff. Go figure. The quinoa is really good stuff to cook with. Mark

I usually carry my Beretta 92 in 9mm and an extra 17 shot magazine. I load a 147 grain Hydrashock (they will get caught in a vest) up first then rotate 124 grain RWS FMJ's (they will penetrate a light vest) in case the Hydrashocks don't seem to be doing the job. I wear 511 tactical gear to hide it. They are casual clothes and look normal. I carry my "Bible" sometimes too. It has my SIG P220 (45ACP) in it and an extra magazine and my wallet and cell phone. I sometimes carry the SIG P220 or my P226 in a holster too. I gave up carrying hideout guns a long time ago because with a little effort you can hide a full size pistol and that extends your effective range to at least 50 meters. With some practice you can hit with some success out to 200 meters on a calm day. Mark

I have no collective bargaining rights myself. I just reach down, see if I have a set, then go talk to the owner of the company. I don't need a union to beat my employer to death. Looks like organized crime to me. Mark

I'm probably the only guy in Arizona that doesn't own an AR. Can barely spell it actually.

The brown rice was $20.00 for a 20 pound bucket. No. 10 tins of fruit or veggies about $15.00 to $25.00. No. 10 tin of eggs about $18.00. There's more but I don't remember the prices. It seems as cheap as most on-line stores but no shipping. We eat lots of quinoa (good survival food too) and it's about $4.90 a 12 oz. box which is comparable to what it costs after shipping from most places. I'm not sure how close we are to end times but a superpower to the west is not mentioned in Revelation so I imagine things here will get worse. Throwing Israel under the bus at the U.N. won't help. Changing the word illegal to illegitimate is not supporting them as we should. We're probably closer to toast now than ever.

I don't know who made the decision but our local Walmart now has half of one side of an aisle of long term storage (30 years) emergency rations. All kinds of rice, flour, cornmeal in 20 pound buckets and no. 10 cans of dried fruit and vegetables, dried butter,eggs etc.,etc.. It's a survivalists dream come true and selling fast actually. Pretty scary when what used to be considered the lunatic fringe is mainstream now. Must be so called normal people have noticed what's going on so it must be pretty obvious. Mark