Saturday, December 28, 2013

Now for something different.

While we were out shopping for Christmas, we left the outlet mall in Edinburgh and went to the fantastic  antique mall down the street.  There, I saw this little stool and wanted it, but sadly it was almost Christmas, and there was nothing in my budget for me to spend on myself.



That's ok, because the one there was larger than I wanted, I really liked the leg layout and the lines spoke to me, but I wanted something for under my desk to rest my feet on.  (Please note the chapstick is there to provide scaling).

So I cut my 1X10X6  from Lowe's into three parts, the two legs, and the top.


then I cut out the design on the legs that I wanted and cut (not very squarely) my setbacks for the rails. Then I cleaned up the mess with a chisel a bit.


Being of firm redneck extraction, if one nail will do, two would be better.

Top glued and nailed onto the rails, not the legs.  My belief being that this will help prevent splitting due to seasonal movement.  I was thinking of putting a center rail in to help keep the legs square and support the top, but the original didn't have one.


Monday, December 9, 2013

Man of the Year?


The New Yorker is reporting that Time Magazine is planning to announce their man of the year award this Wednesday.  Curiously I agree with the New Yorker's assessment of who the winner deserves to be, our friend Mr Edward Snowden.   In fact the Guardian actually already voted Mr Snowden their Man of the Year.  The only reason the President hasn't been impeached for his many crimes are the actions of the willing press, and his adoring party controlling the senate.

Now someday, someone, will actually read this and say "Crane, you are cracked, Snowden released no evidence of the President actually violating the law!  This is all his underlings and the bureaucracy taking control and reaching out gain more power!"  To a point you may be right, but the president has certainly played the ignorance card.  If he was a CEO of a corporation he would have been called to Congress to explain what was going on.  If it continued, he would be held responsible.  However, in the highest office of the land it's clear that isn't going to happen. This president is responsible for nothing, knows nothing, and tries to look good while he is doing it.  This president is the essence of the modern media president, given to you by those that have lots of time and attention to pay to the media.  All style and no substance, all expectation and no delivery, all talk and no game.

A friend of mine on Facebook made a comment that I thought was rather telling.  ADK said

Seriously, 12 months ago, if you told people that the government was intrusive, overbearing, had hijacked the internet, and was using drones and satellites to spy on Americans, they would have said "you're nuts."If you'd told them that the government had used the revenue service to suppress political dissent furthering the theft of a presidential election, and had illegally stolen that information to use against political adversaries, they would have said "you're nuts."

If you'd told them that the government would circumvent the first and fourth amendments, and accuse journalists of terrorism and weapons charges to invade their houses with military teams to seize material information about government sources that blew the whistle on corruption, they would have said "you're nuts."
Now, if you aren't pissed off about it, you really are nuts.

If you'd told them that the government would circumvent the first and fourth amendments, and accuse journalists of terrorism and weapons charges to invade their houses with military teams to seize material information about government sources that blew the whistle on corruption, they would have said "you're nuts."Now, if you aren't pissed off about it, you really are nuts.
At this point, if you aren't pissed off with this government and the way things are going you are nuts!

This president is terrible, the country continues to suffer and the modern press does nothing to illustrate what is going on.  If there was no other proof of the myth of the objective press, this is it!

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/johncassidy/2013/12/no-contest-edward-snowden-is-person-of-the-year.html

Sunday, September 8, 2013

Lesson's Learned

When one's wife complains about "slaving away in the kitchen". Bringing her heels and a roll of duct tape is apparently unappreciated.

Thursday, June 27, 2013

Bigot



It seems that the left has a new word of the month now, and that word my friends is "bigot". From their usage, I think they have decided to redefine the word to mean "someone that believes something negative about a group of people we like, and refuses to change their minds even though I (we) really really really want them to like, support, and give money to them."


However, that isn't what the word means. The word is defined as "One who is strongly partial to one's own group, religion, race, or politics and is intolerant of those who differ." by Free Dictionary dot com. There is a difference.


In fact, this post was written because of the continual LGBT drumbeat against Chik Fil A, a fine company who's food I enjoy, but am not affiliated with. Dan Cathy (like his father before him) makes no bones about his belief system, but abides by the law of the land. I can find no articles saying someone was fired for his sexual orientation, I can't find any cause celebre of anyone that wasn't welcomed into their restaurants, yet the drumbeat continues.


One thing that is certain, the left continues to be bigoted and intolerant of those that don't believe the way they want them to, and work to cause their demise, and once again prove their basic ineffectiveness.

Saturday, April 20, 2013

To my friends that want to restrict the arms that can Americans can own,


I am hardly the man with an awe inspiring collection of guns. I have some new ones and I have some old ones. I have some “western” type guns, I have some military type guns, some real military guns, I even have some historic guns. What I infer from those on the left is that I just have guns, evil bad guns that exist only for killing. I do have killing guns, a 22 that I have used on snakes and squirrels, and a couple of deer rifles that have taken deer. I have never shot at a human, never fantasized about shooting people, or making bombs. I have shot human silhouettes targets, but that's pretty common, and in fact required in my state's CCW permitting process.

Let me explain to you what fruits your works have borne.

With the last assault weapons ban, the one you just tried to slide through the senate, and have passed in many states you have caused many people like me to “stock up”. I know several people that have gone from a couple of guns to “quite a few”. I know men that went from 3 or 4 standard capacity magazines to hundreds over the last few years. One fellow I know now has 30,000 rounds of ammo for his rifles, and magazines to keep them in. Don't think that outlawing them will stop them from existing, weapons packed in cosmoline before WW2 are still looking good today.

The public liberals, not just those in office but those in the public, have further poisoned the well. Their continual cry's that we are crazy and that “Obama doesn't want your guns” has been proven false. Their continual assault and ridicule around our fears and concerns have done nothing but further polarize the populace, turning gun owner against the gun fearer. Ensuring that we “know” that liberals aren't to be trusted, that they lie and conceal their intentions and will stop at nothing to have this nation changed to a system that mirrors their fantasies and damn the consequences.

The gun owner today “knows” that you are out to get him, and frankly the conditions are set for more and more incidents to happen. More guns are in hands today than ever before, and not just in the hands of the enthusiast as before, but in hands that probably not accustomed to handling weapons. More are going to be available on the used market, and lots of magazines are out there. Instead of setting conditions that will reduce gun violence by the mentally ill, you have set up conditions where the very thing you say you wanted to prevent will flourish.

Congratulations.

1996 I did something I had never done before I “community organized” for concealed carry. I print out flyers, I talked it up, and I preached it like I have never preached before. I remember I was taking classes at a local college, one of my favorite teachers was an unabashed liberal (like many professors), and she was disgusted with me for my attitude and that “blood would run in the streets”. Contrary to her belief, and typical liberal thought process, blood hasn't run in the streets, there were no Wild West Shootouts that apparently exist in liberal minds.

Crime instead has dropped to the point that nationally it's lower than in 1963. 1963, 6 years before my birth. Kennedy was President, TAB soda was launched, and the M-16 was first introduced into combat in Vietnam. It always appears to be that liberals still live in 1963. They still remember the problems in Birmingham, race riots and that George Wallace is still the Governor of Alabama. They exist in a world that needs public policy for racial equality, they exist in a world where woman's lib is new and exciting, and that labor unions and their mafia components are the power base of the left.

Get with the world today. People should be responsible for their own actions, will actions like the Boston marathon bombings and ricin letters exist today and in the future? Probably, but something that I find very scary is that these actions are mostly fomented from those on the left. The press is always willing to blame radical right wingers, the SPLC likes to blame the “right wing hate groups” but that isn't whats happening. Lets go through the list of who does what next time.


Friday, April 12, 2013

Roll Call of Shame

The following nominally Republican  senators violated their oath of office to "support and defend the Constitution".  There is never a time where it is acceptable to debate the freedom's that are given to all Americans.  


Please take a moment to let them know how little you respect their stands.

New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte


Georgia Sen. Saxby Chambliss


Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn


Maine Sen. Susan Collins


Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake


Georgia Sen. Johnny Isakson


Arizona Sen. John McCain


Mississippi Sen. Roger Wicker


North Carolina Sen. Richard Burr


North Dakota Sen. John Hoeven


Illinois Sen. Mark Kirk


South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham


Tennessee Sen. Lamar Alexander


Tennessee Sen. Bob Corker


Pennsylvania Sen. Pat Toomey


Nevada Sen. Dean Heller

Sunday, March 31, 2013

He said it better than me

Today I have been trying to write a post "Why I support gun rights, and why gun banners are wrong".

I have flailed and flailed at it.

See what this guy wrote.

Thanks.