Things Are, Uh, ...  

...Looking Up.

Well they are if your name is Michael Robertson  That's because the law he was charged under was found Un-Constitutional by none other than the Massachusetts Supreme Court. 

Yes indeed....using your cell phone camera to shoot "upskirt" photos of unknowing victims on the Metro Line is NOT a crime in the land of high taxes.  It may be a lot of things....but it is not a crime under the ruling.  The High Court found there was "no expectation of privacy" as set forth under (no pun intended) the current wording of the State law.

“Because the MBTA is a public transit system operating in a public place and uses cameras, the two alleged victims here were not in a place and circumstance where they reasonably would or could have had an expectation of privacy,” a draft of the ruling stated.

The prosecutor pleaded with the law makers to pass another bill.

“Every person, male or female, has a right to privacy beneath his or her own clothing,” Suffolk County District Attorney Dan Conley said. “If the the statute as written doesn’t protect that privacy, then I’m urging the Legislature to act rapidly and adjust it so it does.”

Right to privacy. Got it......Just as soon as they pass a law against it.  Until then, Mr. Robertson is free and if you find yourself on the Metro Line, keep your legs crossed.

Every Picture Tells a Story*...

(*...not every story is a good one..)

Hat Tip to Instapundit
 

US vs Them...

The Commie bastards from Russia are invading the Ukraine. Meanwhile, in Okinawa, our troops continue to prepare for, uh, battle(?)

Am I the only one concerned about the make up of those pesky Russian troops invading the Ukraine?  I mean, here in the good old US of A we have been bombarded of late aboot gays in the military, wimmens in the military, Muslims in the military... ad nauseum.  Gosh darnit, it's just not fair that these groups are not heard in our services.  So where is the MSM citing the figures??  How many gays are in the invading Russian army?  How many wimmens?? What will their occupying quarters look like? How long until our leaders demand that the invading force be fair and representative of the world at large?

Inquiring minds want to know.....

Walkabout....

Pilot Humor... 












I can think of so many ways this could have gone bad.....**

(** the least of which would be a dead cat. ;-)

Trigger Job... 

A friends Ruger 10-22 needed a trigger job. Nuff said....




















Shiney & smooth...

Monday's Pun(s) !!!

The stripper was getting tired of the same old thong and dance.

“I got lost in the streets of Paris,” he said ruefully.

He had a photographic memory that was never developed.

Rainy Day in So Cal... 

Fired up the RCBS Rock Chucker and loaded up some varmint rounds in .223. May have to head out to the desert and do some golf ball hunting...

When Libtards Lose....

Raised as a child of "Do Your Best" and with a room full of participation trophies for "just showing up", sometimes reality can be a cold slap in the face.  Such was the case last week when the collective elected genius' on the UCLA Student Council held a voted to demand that the University divest itself of investments in Israel. Apparently, the vote did not go the right way, according to at least one esteemed member.

The highly emotional issue attracted more than 500 people to the UCLA meeting and the public comment lasted nearly nine hours, according to the Daily Bruin, the campus newspaper. The council moved to a secret ballot and then voted 7-5 against the divestment measure.

Indeed, 9 hours of debate. Over 500 people showed up.  Now bare in mind that UCLA is a campus with around 40,000 students so 500 is like, ....well, I'm pretty sure that is less than one percent. 

"But, but, but, we protested, made posters and, and had petitions, with testimony and everything...why didn't this pass?!" said No One in Particular.

The Council also caught flack afterwards for making the ballot "secret". Apparently this prevented the Libtards from properly thanking the members.

My Rumbear words of wisdom to the weeping Libtard echo from my dear old hockey coach...."Suck it up Sally and get back out there."

Who's Stoopid Now?

"After the Russian army invaded the nation of Georgia, Senator Obama's reaction was one of indecision and moral equivalence – the kind of response that would only encourage Russia's Putin to invade Ukraine next." Sarah Palin, Reno, Nevada on October 21, 2008.

Yes indeed.  Sarah Palin wasted little time following the invasion of the Ukraine by the Commie bastards to candidly point out her prior statement.  Recall that she was mocked by the Libtards and the MSM.

and she saw it all the way from Alaska....

 

Post by TopMotors.com.

Skillset..... 

My Ship Came In....

Received an email this morning:

WESTERN.UNION test@ufl.edu
2:52 AM (6 hours ago)

Your transaction of 1,500,000.00 USD has been approved by UNITED NATIONS. REPLY TO MRS. FRANCA LEE WITH DETAILS NAME, ADDRESS, TEL NO. FOR VERIFICATIONS AND CLAIMS. REPLY TO EMAIL: leexywu t@aol.com and Call 24 Hours Helpline 00601 126 3 169.

Miss. Corey Bell

Muhahahaaaa!   You all will be able to say that you knew when I was just an average bear.

UPDATE: Waiting on my first check... 

 

A Map..  

Great interactive map of aMurica right here.  Shows the weather with the simple click of the mouse.

Hat Tip to the Midwest Frozen Tundra Roving Editor at Large.

OMG It's Gonna Rain! 


The nattering naybobs of negativity are in full bloom as the FIRST, (i.e., One) (1st) (only) storm of the season is aboot to hit Southern California. 2 inches of rain is forecast and the wind will blow a little.**

Nevertheless, we are being bombarded by an endless parade of predictions, prognostications and DOOM!.  Katie, bar the door, to the lifeboats, man the sand bag line, flash floods are a possibility, homes will be lost, mothers will have to tread water, the chillern will be harmed. Oh, the humanity.

Welcome to So Cal.  Meh...

Me? Well, I check the level in the rum stash and took Hockeydawg for a swim before the "OMG It's Gonna Rain!" storm arrives.  

We good.

** (This storm is a good thing...I have a 20 mile ocean race on Saturday. Let it blow!!)

Is That Racist?! 


Ima calling Rebrun Al & Rebrun Jessie. I need the Justice Brothers!

Officer Snowball. 


Respect My Authority! cried the yet to be identified Chicago Cop as he arrested the young ruffian for, wait for it, throwing a snowball, accurately.  Yes, with visions of Elliot Ness rounding up the thugs from the mean streets of Shitcago, Officer Snowball had the 13 year old boy charged with a FELONY.

According to police, a 13-year-old boy was charged as a juvenile with felony aggravated battery against a police officer Wednesday after he hit the officer in the arm with a snowball while the officer was parked in his vehicle in the 4900 block of West Congress Parkway about 3:20 p.m.

Apparently no other crimes were committed that day in one of the countries leading Murder Capitals. The Thin Blue Line has held. Thus, justice has been served....

FILE UNDER: WTF, Over?



 

 

Indeed.....

History...

There is a saying that goes something like "Those who do not know it are bound to repeat it."

I was over at Rogers page perusing the selections and came across this chronology of the Rise & End of the Third Reich.  We all know of many of the events, however, the timeline illustrates the concurrent nature of many of the actions.  I found it interesting in light of the current day march towards Socialism.  Hmmmmm......

A Chronology of the Third Reich (1919-1945)

1919: September  Hitler joins an obscure fringe group, the DAP (German Workers' Party).
1923: November 8-9  Hitler leads the abortive Beer Hall Putsch (coup d'état) in Munich.
1923-1924:  In prison for high treason, Hitler authors Mein Kampf (My Struggle).
1933: January 30  President Hindenburg, under the sway of the ultra-conservatives, appoints Hitler as Chancellor.
1933: March to January, 1934  Period of Gleichschaltung (co-ordination under Nazi control) of most aspects of German society
1933: April  Official boycott of Jewish shops
1933: October  Germany quits the Disarmament Conference and the League of Nations.
1934: January 26  Germany signs a ten-year treaty of non-aggression with Poland.
1934: June 30  Night of the Long Knives (the alleged threat of a "second Revolution" is ended, the power of the SA destroyed, the regular army placated.)
1935: June 18  Anglo-German Naval Convention signals Britain's unwillingness to defend the Versailles settlement.
1935: September 15  Promulgation of the Nuremberg Laws relegates Jews to a separate second-class status in Germany, prohibits intermarriage and sexual relations with Germans
1936: March 7  German military re-occupation of the Rhineland successfully challenges France's willingness to act in defense of the Versailles settlement.
1936  Germany and Italy intervene in the Spanish Civil War.
1937: November 5  Hitler reveals his long-range "plans" to the Reich leadership (Hossbach Memorandum).
1938: March 13  Anschluss: Austria is annexed to the "Greater German Reich."
1938: August  Decree requiring all Jews to adopt the first name "Israel" or "Sarah"
1938: September 30  Munich Conference: Britain and France grant Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland to Hitler to avoid war; Hitler gives Chamberlain his personal word on future cooperation (the height of the policy of Appeasement).
1938: November 9-10  Reichskristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass): German authorities orchestrate a nationwide pogrom against Germany's Jewish population.
1939: January 30  In a speech to the Reichstag, Hitler predicts that a war in Europe would lead to "the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe."
1939: March 15  Hitler's forces invade "rump" Czecho-Slovakia in violation of Hitler's pledges to Chamberlain.
1939: March 31  Formal Anglo-French guarantees are presented to Poland.
1939: August 23  Nazi-Soviet Non-aggression Pact (& secret protocol dividing eastern Europe into spheres of influence) is signed in Moscow.
1939: August 31  Hitler gives final orders for the invasion of Poland.
1939: September 1  German invasion of Poland (In response, Britain & France declare war on Germany and begin the Sitzkrieg in the west; in six weeks, Poland falls--no effective outside aid is rendered.)
1939: October  Hitler signs an order authorizing Operation T-4, the killing of Germans with physical and mental handicaps. The gassing techniques developed during the course of T-4 are later used in the death camps in Poland.
1940: May 10  Blitzkrieg on France, Belgium, and Holland launched.
1940: June 22  Fall of France; German forces occupy northern and western France; collaborationist Vichy government set up in south-eastern France.
1940: September  Goering's Luftwaffe fails to bring Britain to her knees (Battle of Britain).
1941: May 20  Walter Schellenberg of the RSHA tells the German military commander in France that further Jewish emigration should be prevented in view of transportation problems and the fact that a "Final Solution [Endlösung] of the Jewish question" is foreseeable.
1941: June 22  German invasion of the Soviet Union (Operation Barbarossa); Hitler declares a Vernichtungskrieg (War of Annihilation); behind the front, special killing squads (Einsatzgruppen) begin the mass murder of Jews and Soviet officials.
1941: mid-July  At a meeting in Berlin, Himmler reveals the plan for the Final Solution to his subordinate, Höss, and puts him in charge of developing a large-scale killing center at Auschwitz.
1941: July 31  The formal order for the planning of a coordinated Final Solution of the Jewish problem throughout Nazi-occupied Europe, already drafted by Eichmann, is signed by Goering.
1941: September  The efficacy of Zyklon B (prussic acid) for gassing humans is tested on Russian POWs at Auschwitz. General deportation of German Jews begins.
1941: October 23  Gestapo Chief Mueller disseminates Himmler's order blocking further Jewish emigration from Nazi-controlled areas of Europe in preparation for the Final Solution.
1941: November 18  After a personal meeting with Himmler on November 15, Reichminister Rosenberg of the Ostministerium tells German journalists in confidence that the Final Solution, consisting of the "biological extermination of all Jews in Europe," has begun.
1941: December 7  Japanese forces attack Pearl Harbor--the US finds itself at war with both Japan and Germany.
1941: December 8  Gassing of Jews begins at Chelmno (Kulmhof). Other death camps come "on line" later: Belzec (March 1942); Sobibor (April-May 1942); Treblinka (July 1942)
1942: January 20  The Wannsee Conference is held in Berlin to coordinate the Final Solution; Reinhard Heydrich, subordinate of Himmler and head of the RSHA (Reichssicherheitshauptamt) presides. Eichmann takes official notes at the meeting which survive as evidence.
1942: July 17-18  Himmler, on his second visit to Auschwitz, personally witnesses killing procedures using Zyklon B.
1942: August to Jan. 31, 1943  Battle of Stalingrad
1944: June 6  D-Day (Allied landings on the French coast at Normandy)
1944: July 20  Failed attempt by German conservatives to overthrow the Nazi government and assassinate Hitler (who survives the bomb blast relatively unhurt)
1944: August 25  Liberation of Paris by Free French, US, and British forces
1944: December to Jan., 1945  Battle of the Bulge: last major attempt to turn back the Allied advance in the west
1945: January 27  Red Army liberates Auschwitz, finds convincing evidence of SS atrocities and of the Holocaust.
1945: February  Yalta Conference (Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin plan the post-war future of Germany and the rest of Europe.)
1945: April 14  British army liberates Belsen; mounds of corpses have to be buried by bulldozer.
1945: April 25  American and Soviet forces meet at Torgau on the Elbe: Hitler's collapsing Reich is cut in two.
1945: April 30  Hitler and Eva Braun commit suicide in the Berlin bunker.
1945: May 2  German forces in Berlin surrender to the Red Army.
1945: May 7  Unconditional surrender of all German forces. 


 

 

Wherein.......

 Rum becomes the fall back position......

Yup. 

Damn. Just Damn....   

Have ya ever found a blog where you could just pull it up and know you were gonna read something good?  Something wholesome. Something you wish you had thought of. A place where ya just felt comfortable? This blog, Home On The Range,  has been that for me. I don't know the purveyor other than what I have read and a few comments back & forth. But, it is a place I have grown fond of.

Tonight, I was saddened to learn that her trusty sidekick, Barkley, has passed on.  

So sorry Brigid.  Blessings to you....

Wall Ball... 

Home Defense.  The intruders are inside the gate. The home protection device is in hand. Lock & load. Ready to fully engage....ever wonder where those rounds that miss go?

Now, I know you will never have this problem because you never miss. Yet, aren't you just a little curious. Think that wall is a good backstop?


Read, watch & learn.

Wha what?! 

Sporterizing the Mosin-Nagant M44 

Article caught my eye.  This weapon has been garnering a larger degree of curiosity of late.  I see them in Big 5 when I go to pick up another 12 Lacrosse balls for the chillern.  $170.00 for a weapon that Ivan, Vasily, and their friends used to defend the Motherland back in the day.  I am talking about theMosin Nagant M44, of course. 

The article addressess the prospects of "sporterizing" the venerable rifle.  In layman's terms that means bringing it in to this century with some upgrades. 

As some of you may recall, I shot one of these flame throwers during the annual romp in Yuma last fall.  Very impressive weapon to shoulder. Heavy recoil and some unmistakebale flameage when you pull the trigger.  Accurate though. 

I must say with some opf these upgrades it may have a corner in my gun safe. Check out the article and be sure to look at the comments.  The knuckle draggers are out in force....  

Call Me Senator....

Here is an ad from 2010 regarding the comment from California other Moonbat Senator, Babs Boxer. One thing I never noticed is that Peabody award winning actor Nick Searcy, of "The Acting School" fame portrays the Major General or General Major....

UPDATE: Oh yeah, Nick also stars on the TV show "Justified". Sorry I forgot to mention that, Nick.  Sheesh.............

UPDATE II: It's on Tuesdays at 10:00 PM...are we thru here Nick?

UPDATE III: It's on FX.....

Well La T Daaaa.... 

Big tip of the olde chapeau to my Blog Pal, Captain Capitalism. Seems my favorite Economics guru, Aaron Clarey, has a new book out, and is making the rounds of all the hip places. Why even teh esteemed Ed Driscoll has opted to interview old Cappy.  If Bachelor Pad Economics is anything like Worthless or the epic Enjoy The Decline you all have some reading to do. 

I gave copies of Worthless to the chillern of friends heading off to college.  I know they will thank me ....later.

Good on ya Cappy!

 

Monday's Pun(s) !!! 

To add to the punishment, Satan made all the tormented souls listen to elevator music. The Hells Are Alive With the Sounds of Muzak.

An instructor at an ice cream parlor is a sundae school teacher.

I can't find my rutabaga. I hope it will turnip.

It's Aloha Friday....          
.....no work till Monday !!!

Doo de doo, de doo, de doo ....
 
It's a Happy Birthday weekend around Rumbear Manor. SNO is turning 21!   Some final hockey games that hold some interest. A little CR-914 racing on Sunday with birthday cake to follow.  (Note to self...time to start marking the rum bottle!) Y'all have a great weekend!!!

Doo de doo, de doo, de doo ....


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