From The Donovan
The story is inspiring, the picture tasty.
BTW, I don’t have a cannon. Not on my list of “leave me alone” items. I would like a M-79… if and only if… It is the season of giving!
Category: Geezer Alert!
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The Secret Squirrels Actually Exist
Contrary to Jonn’s opinion.
Click the Pic.
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Our Bizzaro World Writ Large.
There is simply not much to add.
Yet another disconnect for me. I’m so far beyond WTF that I MUST be wrong. Or maybe I’m having a stroke?
A local group’s plan to buy ads on Metro buses urging people to “Buy American” and “Shop Locally” has been rejected by King County as too political.
Yet another h/t to Don Surber
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Somewhere an Anti-gun Liberal is Crying
While I am chuckling.
Guns are a big seller on Black FridayGun dealers flooded the FBI with background check requests for prospective buyers last Friday, smashing the single-day, all-time high by 32%, according to bureau records.
Deputy Assistant FBI Director Jerry Pender said the checks, required by federal law, surged to 129,166 during the day, far surpassing the previous high of 97,848 on Black Friday of 2008.
The actual number of firearms sold last Friday is likely higher because multiple firearms can be included in a transaction by a single buyer. And the FBI does not track actual gun sales.
OTOH, I need a coupla more SKS carbines and missed out.
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Damn That Fine Print!
It ain’t a done deal so I’m just enjoying a laugh.
Senate Approves Bill that Legalizes Sodomy and Bestiality in U.S. MilitaryThe Senate on Thursday evening voted 93-7 to approve a defense authorization bill that includes a provision which not only repeals the military law on sodomy, it also repeals the military ban on sex with animals–or bestiality.
On Nov. 15, the Senate Armed Services Committee had unanimously approved S. 1867, the National Defense Authorization Act, which includes a provision to repeal Article 125 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ).
Article 125 of the UCMJ makes it illegal to engage in both sodomy with humans and sex with animals.
Can’t you just see some Senator or aide saying “What, how’d that get in there?”
And I just gotta ask… Is this a move to protect gays, or an attempt increase recruitment from among certain ethic/religious groups?
h/t Don Surber
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Leave No Man Behind Unless…
I’ll let our shipmate AW1Tim do the talking from his place.
A disturbing and infuriating situation has arisen. Apparently, under the “leadership” of CDR Renee Richardson, USN – head of the Department of Defense Prisoner of War/Missing Personnel, the US Navy has decided NOT to repatriate the bodies of US Navy sailors interred in Tripoli. These men were sailors from USS Intrepid who lost their lives in an attack against the Barbary pirates.
This nation has ample resources to repatriate the remains of these brave sailors to their United States, and see them buried with full military honors. Yet, our own Navy, under the leadership of CDR Richardson, has chosen to abandon their bones to the soil of a foreign land, a land that has, more often than not, been hostile to our nation.
That this slight to these sailors should take place should not surprise anyone who has seen the demise of tradition and honor under recent CNO’s. Those Navy leaders placed diversity above warfighting, and have chosen to expand their own “diversity enterprise” at Millington while discharging competent Petty Officers from the fleet to “trim the budget”.
This Navy has chosen to also abandon the former USS Olympia, the last surviving warship of the Great White Fleet to it’s likely demise of either being sent to the breakers, or sunk at sea.
We are throwing good money down the black hole of shipbuilding on such un-needed and inefficient platforms as LCS & DDG-1000, yet we can’t find the funds to bring a few good men home. Big Navy has more admirals per sailor than at any point in our history, more staffs and Make-Work commands than ever before, yet we can’t save USS Olympia, the last of her kind.
CDR Salamander has an excellent piece about this, and I encourage all of you to take a few minutes and read his article. When you’ve finished, call your Congress Critter(s) and give them a piece of your mind regarding this situation.
The men of USS Intrepid have lain in foreign soil long enough. It’s time to bring them home.
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Better Late than…
By now most of the TAH readers have seen this story elsewhere, but just in case:
Ralphie was born about 70 years too soon. In “A Christmas Story,” he asks the Santa at Higbee’s for a Daisy gun and is told “you’ll poke your eye out, kid.” That was Cleveland, circa 1940.
In Scottsdale, Arizona, 2011, not only is the weather better but Santa is Second Amendment friendly. Santa will pose with the whole family and their weaponry at the Scottsdale Gun Club from 10 AM to 3 PM on Saturday, December 10. The charge is $5 for members, $10 for non-members.
I’m so sure I WANT to be pictured with any weapons I might have, but the concept is just sweet.
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Just In Case You Are Wondering…
Christmas is just around the corner ya know.
Since Jonn isn’t paying a bonus this year you kindly folks might be wondering what to get The Navy Geezer?
Zombie-pocalypse? Psh, f*cking bring it. This Mossberg Just-In-Case kit includes a 12-gauge Mossberg 500 Pump-Action, resealable storage bag, waterproof carrying tube, as well as a “Survival Kit in a Can,” multi-tool and serrated knife. Don’t forget to bring your own shells—and lots of them—there are seven billion potential brain-suckers out there.
I’m fixed for 12 gauge shells; I just need this kit.
Thanks.
