I'm blaming it all on Busch

Yes, you heard me right, I'm giving credit where credit is due. Everyone wants to blame Bush for all the world's woes; well I say let's blame it on Busch.

1. I have a terrible hangover. The NSA mind-probes that Bush controls must be the cause right? Wrong. Blame it on Busch.

2. I was in a fight at a bar and got arrested. Was it the gang-stalkers picking on me that were sent by the Bush administration? Nope it was a bunch of drunks. Blame it on Busch.

3. Some inebriated driver lost control of his vehicle and ran over a group of small children. Surely that was the mind-control technologies that Bush is in charge of that made him do it, right? Sorry, gotta blame it on Busch.

4. Is it Bush's fault that the divorce rate is as high as it is here in America? I've heard people trying to blame Bush for it, but I have a hunch it's more likely Busch's fault.

5. Alcoholism is a problem in the United States. Which is more likely the case: is it Bush's fault or Busch's fault? You be the judge.

6. All the litter on the side of the road after a long weekend must surely be Bush's doing you say. I say it's Busch's fault though, and the labels on the cans and bottles prove it.

So there you have it: it's all Busch's fault.

With all the problems that Busch has caused, I say we sit back and enjoy a nice ice cold Samuel Adams instead. Then we can all sit back and say it isn't Busch's fault after all. It's Sam Adams' fault. My, what a vicious circle this could become.

Reviving Old Ideas

It's been a long weekend for yours truly. I've been kicking around an idea so much that it made my brain hurt. Either that or my toothache is migrating to my thinker. Perhaps both.

Anyways, I was talking to Patrick the other day and he got me to thinking. Yes, Patrick, it's your fault, sort of, but it's not a bad thing you're taking the blame for. Patrick mentioned a certain idea and it revived an old desire of mine. So I thought about it, then I thunk on it a bit more, then my brain started to implode so I decided to quite thunking and just lightly ponder on the idea for bit. (No, I'm not saying what the idea is just yet, not unless something more solid surfaces first, plus it's fun to leave people hanging for a while.)

What I will tell you is that it's a sort of business venture. I don't have the capital necessary for such an undertaking, but I'm talking to someone about making the investment, while I do the dirty-work (read: manual labor). It's a doozie of idea (that's idear to you yankees) that's certain to pay off with decent profits in a timely manner, unless the mind-control signals from the secret Illuminati satellites turn us all into mindless zombies first.

What this basically means is that if I can obtain the the initial startup moola, which isn't really all that much in the grand scheme of things, I'll be on the road to a profitable and exciting career that's bound to take me places; both figuratively and literally.

Doctors vs Guns

This has been floating around for six or seven years at least, but I thought I'd share it anyways since not everyone on the internet has had seen it yet.

Doctors vs. Guns in the U.S.

Number of physicians in the US = 700,000

Accidental deaths caused by physicians per year = 120,000

Accidental deaths per physician = 0.171 (Source: U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services)

Number of gun owners in the US = 80,000,000

Number of accidental gun deaths per year (all age groups) = 1,500

Accidental deaths per gun owner = 0.0000188 (Source: U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms)

Therefore, doctors are approximately 9,000 times more dangerous than gun owners.

We need to hurry up and get some legislation banning doctors from this country before it's too late!

It Never Fails to Rain...

I just got finished detailing the truck. I washed it, waxed it, vacuumed it out, put protectant on the dash and vinyl, tire shine on the tires, and just when I get done it starts to rain. It's a never fail thing for me, whenever I need it to rain, I just have to wash the truck.

Nothing To Say

I have absolutely nothing to say right now.

That is all.

Navy SEAL Dies a True Hero

News story HERE.

Petty Officer 2nd Class Michael A. Monsoor died saving other SEAL team members by throwing himself on a live enemy grenade.

Rest in peace sailor, you are a true hero and will not be forgotten.

Pyrodex Dilemma

I just got back home from taking a trip into town earlier to try and find some muzzleloading supplies. I came home rather disappointed though. I walk into the gun shop and ask the proprietor of that there establishment if he's got blackpowder and/or substitutes in 1 lb. cans, and where the other muzzleloading supplies are hidden at. He says he's got a large selection of stuff at the back of the store, and that he's got everything as far as blackpowder goes except for Goex. I thought to myself that this was fine, a one stop shop for all I needed. Wrong.

I looked around for all the stuff I'd need and all he had was CVA and Traditions brand stuff priced sky high. No Knight, Hornady, T/C, Barnes, Nosler, etc. He wanted $8.99 for 5 oz. of CVA bore lube, $12.99 for 4 or 5 oz. of CVA blackpowder solvent, and $19.99 for 20 powerbelt bullets. That seemed excessively expensive to me for some strange reason, and I was wanting Hornady 410 gr. Great Plains conicals or 300 gr. XTP Mag sabots, which I know I can get in packages of 20 or 30 for less than this guy's 20 Powerbelts. Heck, he even wanted $4.99 for a bronze .50 cal bore brush.

I decided to pass on the stuff he had and just get some Pyrodex RS while I was there. He said he didn't have that, nor did he have any Pioneer, Black Magic, Elephant, nor other brands; all he had was Jim Shockey Gold for $25.99 lb., and Hodgdon Triple Se7en for $24.99 lb., despite his telling me had everything except Goex, so I said no thanks and went to Wally-World which I loathe going to.

Wally-World ended up being a joke for front-stuffer stuff too. They had a section about 2 ft wide and 3 ft high on the shelves dedicated to muzzleloading stuff, mostly patches and ramrod accessories. The powders they had to choose from was 1 lb. of Triple Se7en for $25.49 or 1 lb. of Pyrodex FFg RS for $16.69. They had next to nothing for conicals or sabots, so I came home empty handed except for a pound of Pyrodex RS which came to $17.86 after tax. I feel ripped-off. Seems to me that Pyrodex RS was selling for about $10 or $12 per pound a few years ago. I know I can still get it that cheap online, but there's a $20 Haz-Mat shipping fee they tack on, which I figure isn't worth it unless I'm buying in bulk, which I can't afford to do right now.

The rest of the supplies I'll order online at Midway USA or Midsouth Shooters Supply, where the selection of stuff is far more broad, and much cheaper. I believe in supporting the local community businesses first, but not when they try and take you for as much as they can while trying to make it sound like you're getting a good deal.

Am I being unrealistic with my expectations?

Magellan MAP 330 GPS

I've got a Magellan GPS unit, called the MAP 330. Well, according to Magellan's website it's an old product or as they call it, a "Legacy" item. Huh? The thing is only 5 years old! To me that's practically still brand-spanking-new. All my other electronic products are between 5 and 25 years old and still supported by the manufacturers for parts and repairs, firmware upgrades, etc.

Anyways, I contacted their technical service dept. because when I registered my Magellan MAP 330 GPS unit but they never notified me of any firmware updates being made available. Well, there were several updates made available by them, including a nice firmware upgrade that allows searching by address from the GPS unit itself instead of just the mapping program, which could be very handy at times.

Lo and behold, I never found out about these updates until just about a week ago. I checked their website and they don't offer the firmware upgrade download on their site anymore. So I sent their technical service dept. a request on how to get the update via their online contact form. So far it's been a week and still no response from them. I'm not impressed with their lack of prompt response times. I'll give them another week and see what happens, and nothing happens I'll see if I can find a toll-free number and call them to see why they haven't responded to my online submission via their website. Still, I have a hunch if I were inquiring about a brand-new $500 GPS unit they'd have already contacted me.

Yes, my product is out of warranty, but it's a downloadable software update we're talking about here. Heck, I've had other companies send me free replacement parts for products I own that were 10 years or more out of warranty. I guess we'll wait and see what happens, but if I can't get a decent response from them, and ever decide to buy another GPS unit, you can bet it won't be a Magellan. I wonder how efficient Garmin's technical service dept. is?

And no the MAP 330 isn't WAAS enabled, but I don't need that level of precision anyhow; and I still know my way around a map and compass too, for all you traditionalists out there.

U.N.’s Latest Proposal to Punish North Korea is a Joke

FOX News has the story.

This is just further proof of the U.N.’s worthlessness. They’ve managed to refine the proposal to punish North Korea down to nothing more than a light slap on the back of the hand. Basically they’re saying something like "You were very naughty and we’re really disappointed in you, so now you have to go to bed after supper for a week without getting any dessert".

Think about it: a very bad man with nuclear weapons is threatening you and all you do is wag your finger at him and say "That’s not very nice"? Is the U.N. made up of a bunch of dope-head hippies?

Good golly-gee! Last time my neighbor’s mean-spirited German Shepherd growled and snapped at me, I didn’t run off crying foul-play, I unholstered my revolver and peppered his butt with CCI Snake-Shot, ready to seal the deal with a follow-up Federal Hydra-Shok if necessary. The Hydra-Shok wasn’t necessary, the snake-shot got the message across just fine and the dog runs off when he sees me now, but I’d have been more than willing to put him down permanently. (Edit: To clarify this point, I think that's metaphorically the type of action we need to take against Kim Jong Il, instead of doing the U.N. pansy-dance for him.)

Furthermore, when you see a rabid animal frothing at the mouth you don’t try and wack it across the nose with a rolled-up newspaper, you put it down quickly and efficiently from a safe distance. North Korea’s Kim Jong Il is that rabid animal ready to attack, and the U.N. is showing it’s bare ass and just waiting to get bit. Hello? Earth to United Nations...

Plane Crashes Into NY Building

Read news article HERE.

I wondered how long it would take before someone started spouting off asinine conspiracy theories about it or even try to blame it on Bush, but lo and behold I didn't have to wait very long.

The nutjob blogger James F. Marino delivered the goods with this post on his blog.

You can read my original post on this wacko by clicking HERE.

The guy is certainly more than a few straw short of a bale, but as long as you don't take him too seriously he's good for a few laughs, if nothing else.

Kim Jong Il Perhaps Not So Looney

Is Kim Jong Il ill? Most people talk as though they think the guy has completely lost his mind. At first I thought so too, but now that I've had a chance to really sit and think about it, I'm not so sure. In fact, I think he knows exactly what he's doing and think he's got a 90% chance of getting away with it. Just look at how Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been thumbing his nose at the U.S. and the U.N. and getting away with it, then consider that ol' Kim Jong Il is just following his lead and taking it further. If the U.N. lets one nation get away with breaking "international law", why shouldn't he get away with it too? He wants attention and he's getting it, plain and simple. The squeaky wheel is the one that gets the grease. Maybe he's in cahoots with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: Kim Jong Il causes a major stir, diverting attention away from Iran so they can enrich their uranium for nuclear weapons, and slip some to North Korea for their weapons in exchange.

Now, even though I don't agree with the politics and belief systems of these nutjobs like Kim Jong Il and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, I do tip my hat to them for one reason: They refuse to acknowledge this so called "international law" and they don't pay much mind to the U.N. which is nothing more than a bunch of overpaid, better-than-thou, self-appointed world dictators. These two corrupt, twisted, perverted, etc., leaders of North Korea and Iran may be on everyone's most hated list, but give credit where credit is due and at least thank them for helping show the world what a worthless and idiotic bunch of morons the U.N. really is. They say piss on the U.N. and their international law and so do I. But that's as far as it goes; after that I'd like to get within shooting range of either one of the sick bastards, Hugo Chavez too for that matter, and put a bullet in their craniums.

Yep, they hate America, seems like everyone does these days, but having allowed politicians in office like Bill and Hillary Clinton, having let our country be overrun with illegal immigrants (foreign invaders) and do practically nothing about it, not driving the left-wing nuts into the ocean, etc., don't we at least deserve a bit of scorn and reproach for that alone? After all, in a way, it is our fault for letting the liberals get our country this far out of whack instead of putting the boot their asses before they got a good start.

Still yet, I say God Bless America, and quickly, someone needs to clone Ronald Reagan before it's too late.

Computer Problems

I've been experiencing computer problems for the past several days and was at wits end as to a solution. I ended up giving in and doing a full reformat of my hard-drive. After having reinstalled everything I wanted and left off a bunch of crap I didn't want, my computer seems to be running like a champ. I hope it stays that way this time.

Fun With Photoshop

Today I saw what will probably be the last rose of the year in bloom. I decided to take it's picture and then play around with it in Photoshop.

Orchard Spider

This is an Orchard Spider, also called an Orchard Orbweaver, or Leucauge Venusta. It took up residence between two Yaupon Holly bushes in front of the house. It's been feasting well for the last few weeks on those pesky Love Bugs which have just about petered-out for the season. I believe they are supposed to be found throughout the United States, but I don't ever remember seeing any in North Carolina or Oklahoma, just here in Florida.

My Supper

Mmm... grilled cheese sandwiches...