Nom de guerre: Rivrdog

What a Country!

Day two of the road trip to Red Oregon. Day one ended with a nice steak at a little roadhouse in John Day, the "Snaffle Bit". Steak and great BBQ ribs for $18.95. MICROBREW FOR $3.50!!!!

Clock set for 0630, got up at 0555, listned to the world news, ho hum. Set my trusty Sangean to tune the strongest local radio station, wanted a fishing report. Nice strong station comes in, more world blather, strange accent.

It's Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. Gotta love an open AM band!

Finally get the local station, just in time for.....REVEILLE!

Yep, the rapid pace of the National Anthem, the very same arrangement you hear every day of your military existence while on post. OK, that got the blood going. No fishing report, though, just Jonny Horton and the "Battle of New Orleans" after reveille.

Finally find a fishing report on the 'net, and now have to go accumulate my feces so as to get out of here and head for Service Creek on the John Day river. The Steelhead Trout are biting above Service Creek, and I'll work my way back to here from there.

Castle Doctrine - Now in Oregon

...and without either the NRA or VPC lifting a finger either way.

Amazing!

The Oregon Supreme Court, hearing a post-conviction relief case of Murder One, decided that not only is there no duty for a person under lethal attack, or perceiving an imminent such attack, to retreat before using lethal force to defeat said attack.

There isn't any law on Castle Doctrine in Oregon, never has been, but there has been a judicial precedent on duty to retreat since 1982. This case, which occured out of doors, firmly rejected the duty to retreat.

The Justices not only reversed the case, they opined that all previous cases decided on the old duty doctrine need review (and probably relief).

So, with one stroke, Blue-state Oregon, with a liberal Supreme Court, has set it's mark, that the human Right of Survival and Defense is the most important right in this state. I'm truly amazed, but truly grateful to the Justices for their insight.

It seemed so appropriate to read the story in the leftist fishwrap, then get in my car and drive to the heart of the Red part of this state, where I sit blogging on a dial-up.

New Boots

There's something satisfying about going to a store (G.I. Joe's) with a HUGE selection of boots, taking the time to look at them ALL, then narrowing it down to five pair, then finally lacing on the first choice and stomping around the store.

Next, the wallet is lightened by a C-note, and then the real fun begins.

These are good leather boots (still have some parts made of Nu-buck, though, I didn't find a pair of pure leather boots), so protection of the leather is in order.

Stand on the sunny side of the house, with a jar of shoe grease, and using the very best applicator, THE HUMAN HAND, putting three coats of grease on the boots, each one resting in the sun and soaking up that vital lubricant between applications.

Hand work, and the sure knowledge that the rocky trails I will be on this weekend won't get the better of my feet.

Yep, new boots. full of promise of miles yet to be stomped.

That's a good feeling.

Cowboy up! Lite posting

Going out East to spend a few days in Cowboy Country. Maybe fish a trout out of the John Day River, do some shooting, kick up a rattlesnake or two and try out some snake shot in my .357 (I've never fired any shot cartridges out of a centerfire before).

Snuffy (Marlin 1894C) will be the truck gun, but the second spot in the rack will be a 10-22 Ruger.

So, I might post or I might not. See you on the flip-flop.

5 hour thrash

Reorganizing the weapons room, adding shelving, going through each SHTF bag (1 per weapon), inventorying ammo, etc.

Found 350 rounds of milsurp .303 Brit that I didn't know I had. It was that Russ stuff, 7.7X56R that they made for former English colonies that were left with Enfields when the Brits departed and the Sovs moved in to be their new masters. I've shot 50 rounds of it and it's OK, not primo, but will lay down a 4" group at 100 yds. 174 grain ball.

But, clutter is down, logical storage is up, and I feel MUCH better about where everything is.

Now to move the clutter out of my workshop so I can set up a reloading bench in a couple of weeks...

How to run a company into the ground

Circuit City is a very large retailer, and usually has a very comptetitive price on all the various electronic equipment a wannabe geek like myself needs.

But they don't care either about me or my dollars, apparently.

This company, which had the successful formula of price and service locked up, has now trashed both.

First, Circuit City decided that it didn't like rebates, so it started to "mishandle" them and eventually admitted that they were trying to get out of that marketing program which works so well for the rest of their industry.

But, if you watched the prices carefully, there were still bargains to be had, so I continued to shop there.

Until this news. It appears that Circuit City has decided that a knowledgeable sales staff who have ALWAYS been able to answer ALL my most technical questions, is now surplus to their operations. They plan to get rid of a lot of staff and replace them with "lower-paid employees", a double-speak way of saying that they are going to hire the handicapped, illegals, or people who not only don't speak the language well but have no clue how the gear they're selling even works.

They've seen MY last dollar.

They deserve to fail, and they are on their way down. Goldman Sachs is managing their affairs now, and Goldman Sachs KNOWS how to take a company down the drain. Hell, they took most of the US economy down the drain in 1929.

Caption Contest

I need a caption for the photograph below the fold. Winner will get to choose which babe he wants for the evening...

Spring Allergy Relief

Got the spring allergy blues? Eyes feel like you live in a rock quarry?

Here's the solution: an eyewash.

Watch this video.

You won't need to watch it twice, but you will need to rehydrate.

It loads slowly, have patience.

If this doesn't start the tears, you are either Nancy Pelosi or a stone statue.

H/T to Denny at Grouchy Old Cripple in Atlanta.

Global Warming as a Cult

Now that it's at least correct enough to mention that Global Warming theory has some solid science that DISAGREES  with it's theories, the "Emperor Has No Clothes" is being played out across the media.

Tonight, on Fox News, on the Kondrake program, both the talking heads admitted that the "cause" has become at least a bit cultish.

In Hegemonic Pundit, we see "Death to Heretics!", a fine blog post, then DirtCrashr expands that cat-o-nine-tails whipping into a full bullwhip thrashing with Hegemonic EcoLeftists. DirtCrashr put on his heavy-prose hair shirt with this one! I can be a pedantic writer, but in my most pedantic day I NEVER dreamed of writing like this.

Al Gore as a Cargo Cultist! Oh, my.

YOU.MUST.READ.THESE.POSTS.

NOW!

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UPDATE: 032507 1018 PDT: Let's add another fine blog post to the must-read list: ChrisB at Guns and Guts has had an "Epiphany".

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Could this be the beginning of the end for the Global Warming hysteria? It could, because the one thing cultists can NEVER stand is being exposed to the cold light of reason, THEN LAUGHED AT! Maybe we should expect Sarin gas on the DC Metro, too, Kool-Aid on the Mall, triangular blankets in the Democratic Caucus.

Mankind will have to learn to deal with the effects of a warming climate, but the "emergency" as outlined by Gore and others is just not here. 23 inches of sea-level rise by 2100 is not anything to panic about. Gore's "prediction" of 23 METERS (75 feet) of sea level rise came right out of his ass, and deserves to be flushed. It looks like perhaps that will be the fate of Enviro-Czar Gore, himself.

Saturday Humor

Into each life, a little haha must fall....

A woman married three times walked into a bridal shop one day and told the sales clerk that she was looking for a wedding gown for her fourth wedding.

"Of course, madam," replied the sales clerk, "exactly what type and color dress are you looking for?"

The bride to be said: "A long frilly white dress with a veil."

The sales clerk hesitated a bit, then said, "Please don't take this the wrong way, but gowns of that nature are considered more appropriate for brides who are being married the first time - for those who are a bit more innocent, if you know what I mean? Perhaps ivory or sky blue would be nice?"

"Well," replied the customer, a little peeved at the clerk's directness, "I can assure you that a white gown would be quite appropriate. Believe it or not, despite all my marriages, I remain as innocent as any first-time bride.

"You see, my first husband was so excited about our wedding, he died as we were checking into our hotel."

"My second husband and I got into such a terrible fight in the limo on our way to our honeymoon that we had that wedding annulled immediately and never spoke to each other again."

"What about your third husband?" asked the sales clerk.

"That one was a Democrat," said the woman, "and every night for four years, he just sat on the edge of the bed and told me how good it was going to be."

FAIRNESS DOCTRINE: Alternate punchline below the fold....