A 19-year-old clerk was killed Monday night after two men robbed the gas station where he worked, shot him and left him for dead in the middle of the street outside, Metro police said.Armed
A would-be robber at an Inglewood liquor store was shot and killed Saturday night after a customer opened fire, Metro police said.
Had an interesting class last night at Karate. It was just me and one other student (who is ratehr new) with the teacher. I managed to get mad at myself when I kept catching myself thinking critical things about this kid who is trying to learn Karate and has obvious balance issues.
Now I am sure he will get past them with the Karate if he sticks to it. You will may no end up with perfect balance from it but I have to think it will improve like any other ability with practice. . . Now if I can just keep reminding myself that I need to relax and just deal with my own issues ( I know I have plenty to work on) in class and stop thinking about what others are doing. . .
The other learning moment was that I am still doing everything like a Shotokan person not a Shohei person should. . . by that I mean that the new style is hard/soft and Shotokan is a very hard style. When going through drills with my teachers she pointed out how I don’t have the soft side of the style down and need to work on it (a lot. . .). Instead of the nice circular blocks I was doing a hard block/strike which is very Shotokan. Unlike the hard Shotokan style the Shohei style has soft almost Kung Fu like blocks then a hard strike follows up. . . Another day another lesson hopefully learned. . . now for a few years of practices so I can actually do it without thinking about it. . . .
Monday morning update. . . well we made it through the weekend. The youngest one ended up not having her sleepover since she did not get any one to answer her short notice email about the party. We will put it off for a few weeks and see what happens.
As for the oldest one, she did manage to get all the ink off herself on Saturday. She came out looking like she was sun burnt from all the scrubbing but she did get it off. I guess you can do it if you want to bad enough – that and the fact you have the boy you like’s name written on your forehead. . . amazing what you can do to save face as they say. . .
So it is a new week, and all is well again.
I got some photos for the Monday Model and a few pics of my adjustable workbench as promised. I should have them up after lunch or so.
Emergency Powers Bill Heads to Senate Floor! S.1401, "An Act Prohibiting the Confiscation of Lawfully Owned Firearms During a State of Emergency," has been passed by the Joint Committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security and will now head to the Senate floor for consideration. S.1401 would protect our Second Amendment rights by prohibiting any government agency from confiscating or regulating the lawful sale, possession, transfer, transport and carry of firearms during a state of emergency. Please continue to contact your State Senator today at (617) 722-1455 and respectfully urge him or her to support S.1401. You can find your State Senator and his or her contact information by clicking here.
Wish me luck folks. . .
Tonight my oldest is having three of her friends over for an overnight party, and tomorrow night my other daughter gets her turn with friends over for the night. This will be the first overnights since Nana moved in so I hope they don’t keep her up all night. For us it is easy as our bedroom is on the other side of the house so as long as it is kept to a dull roar we are set. . . It should be interesting and if things follow the normal course they will get little to no sleep wake me up early tomorrow and want me to make pancakes. . . Going to be a long weekend. . . .
But on another note it looks like they have not seeded the new grass yet so I can dig in the cable I need to before they do it. . . . Yaa hoo. . .
The finishing touches are being done to the house today. The house addition itself is done but they had not fixed the yard.
Well that is over. The diggers are back and they spent the last day or so doing the last bit of landscaping of the yard that got dug up for the addition and new septic system. Now I will have to start to water it but we are DONE!! YA!!
The work shop is about finished, Nana has only a few little things to get cleaned up and it is all over.
Now it is time for me to start working on the yard. We fell way behind in that department last year since the house was being worked on. With all the construction I didn’t do a thing in the yard last year. . . . Payback sucks. . . .
So soon it will be off to clean out the woods and see what fallen trees I can cut up for next winter. And I have to get all the junk moved out of the old shed into the new one. . . may be throwing out a bunch too if I do it right. . . Lots of work but it feels good to be moving on to the yard finally and not be worrying about the house any more. . . I hope we have a decent weekend weather wise to get started.
My oldest has once again proven she is my child. . . .
Last night while watching Weaponology on TV they were covering the development of the Sniper Rifle and Snipers. . . . During the show the following exchange was heard –
TV – “ the longest sniper kill was 2600+ yards, over 1.5 miles”
Daugher – “ over a mile and a half, COOL”
Later that night on Future Weapons, the show had on it a new gun from
Yep, she is definitely my kid. . . .
All I can ask is GOD HELP ME!
My mother (Nana) wanted to take the girls out to a movie this afternoons since they are on break. . . they said no. I fear the older one (Now 12, 13 in August) is hitting the teen years attitude and I fear what that will bring.
Now I have been warned by many parents that have girls that this was coming but I still lived in blissful ignorance thinking that she would be different. We get along OK for the most part but I still figured that I would magically avoid the teen years problems and all would be well ( I can dream right?) . . . . .
OK,
I guess I will just have to hide in my one last happy place, there are no boyfriends yet for me to worry about. . . but I am sure time is running out on that one too. . . stay tuned. . .
Back to my happy place, I am in my happy place, all is well. . . .
Sounds like someone forgot to tell the GM at channel 7 in
Randi Goldklank flailed her arms and screamed at State Police when they took her into custody after her Delta flight landed Sunday night, according to the report. She had to be helped off the plane by two crew members, according to the report, and struck a trooper in the chest, breaking the prescription glasses in his pocket.
"I'm a big shot in
But it gets better. . . after a bit she calmed down, claimed that she was inappropriately touched by a male passenger and that is what upset her. She then proceeded to do this per the police report: "The defendants demeanor changed and she became quiet," the report says. "After a few minutes she leaned toward Sergeant Luce and stated, 'You think I’m cute and I think you're cute, just drive me home.' "
I am so glad that the media does not think they are better than the rest of us. . . .well, I guess some of them do. . . and they wonder why we don’t believe them any more. . . . One or two bad apples like this one will spoil the image of the whole bunch.
The report in the Globe can be found here.
Again I say it. . . some day they will go back to just reporting the facts instead of making the news themselves. And they sure as hell need to learn they are no better than the rest of us and have to follow all the same rules we do. . . .
Other than the quick trip to the range with the wife and older daughter most of my weekend was spent working on my “new” workshop. The addition to the house is done, Mom/Nana is moved in and unpacking so I have a cellar filled with my Dad’s tools and mine all mixed up and piled in boxes. . . well, not any more.
I got my adjustable bench built first. This thing is a take off of something I saw in a Home Handyman write up years ago. I put together my work bench so that there was a space in the middle of it. I then built in a way to put an adjustable height platform there. . . you move the dowels to the right spot and put the counter top back on then put your tool on it and the work surface of the tool (say router table or miter saw) lines up with the rest of the work bench so you don’t have to balance your project as you run it through the tool. Kinda cool no? I will try to remember to get a few pics tonight to add here. . .
The second part was the back breaking part. . . I had a crawl space that the builder put cement in but it was not level.. . . I spend the time bent over in the (tiny height wise) space to build up a platform so it would be level and I could use it for storage. Dad had one heck of a shop and lots of stuff that is cool to have but you don’t use that often like plumbing and drywall stuff. You don’t use it often but when you need it boy is it great to have around. . .
Now I just have a shelf I want to build in then I should have most of the shop done and put away. . . when it is all done I want the middle to be empty so I can do my Karate forms and maybe hang my heavy bag in the middle for a good work out. I have not been to the gym in years and need to get back to more of a workout than just a few karate classes a week. The kids will also get some training in hand to hand once I am done with it. I got the younger daughter into Karate but the older one is not interested. That is cool, but she will lean how to take care of herself or I don’t deserve the name DAD ya know? Next week will be the big test, my brother in law wants to build something for his prospecting trip to CA so I will be helping to build a dry washer in my shop. . . we will see how it goes. . .
Interesting discussion on the radio today. . . Triggered by the young folks backing Obama. . . Should all these young folks be able to vote?
It is an interesting question – yes they can vote, but do they have the background to actually make a good informed decision? Think about it. What were you doing in your early 20’s. . . I know many of these college kids and young folks seem to have a distorted view of the world. I don’t even speak about politics with my niece and nephew who are both college age or the younger kids in my Karate class. They are completely liberal yet they have worked very little, and don’t have any idea what it means to pay taxes, support a family, and pay a mortgage but they are ok with the Bush bad, guns bad, need more taxes to pay for X,Y or Z. And these folks are the ones backing Obama. . . I hope they do what they do every election and fail to turn out in any reasonable numbers.
I don’t know how one can do it and not run afoul of the Constitution but it seems to me that we let folks vote who just don’t have the life experience to really choose our President or understand the long term effect the liberal agenda will have on our country and our families if it is allowed to become law.
Folks may hate me for saying it but I think the Founding Fathers had it right in the old days when you had to be a land owner to vote. At least it insured that you were old enough to have land you were responsible for and hopefully understood what that meant. I think if you polled folks you would find folks that owned land, and had families are probably more on the conservative side than the rest of us are since they know how hard they work to support these responsibilities and how much BIG government (ie – Taxes) spending hurts them.
Who knows, but something to thing about next time you see some college kid living off Mom and Dad tells you that we need more government programs and taxes. . . .
Busy weekend around the house – more on that later. . . Start with Spring has sprung and my wife and oldest daughter went down the range on Monday (had the day off for Patriots day). What other way to celebrate Patriots day than getting a trip to the range for some practice punching holes in paper with little pieces of lead?
Overall we had a great time but it did get a bit cool down there toward the end of the afternoon. All in all a great day. . . was the first time I actually had it off so that was nice too. . . .
Jimmy Carter is visiting Hamas and has reportedly warmly hugged a Hamas Politician. What has this country come to? This guy was our President – not a good one, probably on of the worst in my lifetime but still our President and he is meeting on good terms with Hamas. . . . . I never thought I would see the day. . . . someone tell me the reports are wrong. . ..
Let me put it another way . . . our former President Carter is meeting with Hamas on good terms, a terrorist organization – thereby giving aid and comfort to a known enemy of the
I guess this is how Liberal Democrats work for world peace? They back the terrorist organizations and get them news time and propaganda and this somehow makes us safer? I wonder if they will give him another Nobel Peace Prize for this?
I am so disgusted by this I don’t know what else to say. To have a past President do this is to show weakness to our enemies and give them aid not to mention let them think they can work to divide us against ourselves even more than we are. . . I think this boarders on treason. Maybe we should start calling him Jane Fonda Carter. . . .
“You do not define the First Amendment. It defines you. And it is bigger than you. That’s how freedom works. It also demands you do your homework. Again and again, I hear gun owners say, how can we believe anything the anti-gun media says when they can’t even get the facts right? For too long, you have swallowed manufactured statistics and fabricated technical support from anti-gun organizations that wouldn’t know a semi-auto from a sharp stick. And it shows. You fall for it every time.”
— Charlton Heston in a speech to the National Press Club,
The Aftermath of Gun-Free School Zones
created by the 1990 Crime Control Act
| Years | Incidents | |
| 1776-1990 | 214 | 7 |
| 1990-2007 | 17 | 78 |
Ya, I guess that works well. . . .
(From the View from North Central Idaho)
A small child locked in a car. Frantic mom calls the cavalry.
A police officer used a Taser to help a toddler unlock his mother's car after she left her keys inside, according to the Port Angeles Police Department.The responding officer couldn't find a way to get in (without breaking a window, I assume) so he got creative.
"I have four kids and I know that a 2-year-old loose in the car is as good as a trunk monkey if you can just figure out how to motivate him to do what you want," said Wood.He used the laser on the taser and told the toddler to "get the dot", then guided the kid over to the door lock button. Eventually the little one pushed the button. That's pretty damn clever.
Latest quote from Michelle Obama - “If we don’t wake up as a nation with a new kind of leadership…for how we want this country to work, then we won’t get universal health care,” she said.
“The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.”
Well Michell let me tell you something, I get just enough pie to take care of my own family. . . And I bust my ass to get it, you can go get your own. Maybe these folks should start to actually work for a living and earn what they have instead of expecting the state to care for them. The state gives too much away to too many people now. You want to make it then suck it up, get an education, and get a job that pays enough to support the lifestyle you want. What, can’t do that? Then learn to live within your means. Anyone can get anywhere in this country if they get off their ass and work for it!
Too bad this is a totally new idea to Democrats. . . She is probably one of the best things going for John McCain
I guess good old Mass is not the only messed up state. As you can read in the story, this art teacher was attacked by a student because she told them to sit down and behave. As if this is not bad enough, the animals kids friends cheered her on. . .
Now to top this all off the fool liberal Principals remarks should shock you "On one hand, she told me that she is sorry that his happened to me," Berry (the teacher) said. "But then she turned right around and told me that telling a student that I was going to defend myself was a trigger word. I triggered them."
This woman was attacked, needed the help of other teachers to end the attack, and it is her fault for telling this “kid” that she would defend herself? You have got to be kidding me. What have we come to when our teachers don’t think you or they have the right to defend ourselves from a physical attack. I hope they throw the book at this snot nosed kid for this but I am sure they won’t. They will come up with some BS on how hard her life is and how it is not her fault she started the attack, it is the teachers fault for asking for respect in the classroom.
All I can say is good luck
Update on the car problems. . .
The Subaru has had problems starting in wet weather for a while now and I finally got around to getting new spark plug wires for it. I went to change them and what a pain in the ass that was. . . .
The front one on each side could be done with difficulty as is. To get to the back one on the drivers side I had to take out the washer fluid reservoir. To do the back one on the passengers side I had to take out part of the air intake system. Again I say this is a sign of a bad design. God help me when it comes time for new plugs I have no idea how you would get to them where they are – I will have to pay a shop to fix that one.
Subaru you still suck. I can’t wait till I can afford another car payment – that piece of crap is so gone when I can. . . .
Dear Ms. Philips and Ms. Vidal
I am writing to let you know the effect your closing of Disney’s VMK is having on my daughter. She is in tears.
My family and I have been Disney fans since childhood. My wife and I had our honeymoon at Disney and even became DVC members so we could take our kids there every year or two as we can afford it. I had an image of Disney that was caring of it’s guests, and especially the children. The effect your closing of DVMK is having on my child without even thinking about ways to save it has damaged my view to say the least.
My kids pay you monthly for Club Penguin, why can’t you do this with DVMK?
I will be watching closely what is done with DVMK and it’s effect on my kids. What do you need to hear to keep it going? Would I pay for it like Club Penguin? YES!
Perhaps you want to hear the down side instead? If this becomes too much of an issue I will have to discuss options with my kids such as dropping Club Penguin since supporting it would support the folks that closed DVMK. I may also have to look at how I feel about supporting a company that can hurt my child this way. I am sure I can find other places to go on vacation and cut back on our trips to the parks, assuming that the kids want to go after this. I don’t thing you understand the impact this is having on my 10 year old child. You have done a great job crushing her today, she is in tears and writing you to save her game.
If you think you are loosing money on DVMK, think about how much more you will loose with the damage this will do to the Disney image held by the kids that play on DVMK and their families. Think of the lost revenue if we start looking for other places to spend our vacation money.
Please think this through all the way before you close DVMK.
I look forward to seeing what you choose.
Disney has lost it’s way it seems. For the first time I have seen Disney do something that hurts itself and the kids it celebrates so much
They are closing the Virtual Magic Kingdom (VMK). I know this has hit home in my house. My younger daughter is in tears over this closing. She loves this game like no other. We are a family of Disney nuts so we were happy with her playing on it knowing it was Disney so child friendly. In May all that will be gone and I have to say I am not sure how to deal with it. Part of me say she will get over it and move on, but part of me also says Disney should not be closing this and it has started to change my opinion of Disney and not in a good way. I love that Disney that lets us all be kids in the parks, and we go there every few years to enjoy a vacation that can only be Disney. Heck we are even DVC members (own their time share) and love it. . . . Now I don’t know what to do. I am going to attach contact info at the bottom of the post on efforts to save Disney VMK. If you have kids, or still in contact with your inner kid drop them a note . . . ..
What if we don’t save it?? I don’t know. I do know that my image of Disney has taken a big hit for the pain it is causing my daughter. I was hooked, and I got them hooked on Disney. They seemed to be different, but now they are starting to look like any other company that is out for my money. . . This will take a few days to sink in then I will see where I stand with them. I guess I will start with writing them and go from there. . .
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What is it with the media on this? On one side they will praise Mr. Heston on his great acting abilities and some of the all time classic movies that he has been a part of. Then they get to his later years as a conservative and NRA leader and they treat it like he suddenly changed into a bad guy (yes, this was to be expected)
May I suggest that the media needs to look at it’s history better? Charlton Heston did not change from the great man and actor that worked for civil rights and did great movies as he aged, the county changed on him. He stood for equal rights, and all the rights RECOGNIZED by the bill of rights all along, it just became un-hip when the hippy liberals took over the media to support them. So, all I can say to you media folks is that Mr. Hesaton did not change, he was a great man and patriot from the start. He fought for civil rights and the rights of us all. It is you folks in the media that changed and not for the better. . . . Try something new for a change – go back to reporting the facts as they are, not as you would like them to be. . . . .
And the Obama house of cards continues to fall down. . . First his wife made her nice comments on how she had never before been proud of her country – and the blogs and some media had a field day with that.
Then Obama’s preacher came out and showed us how much of a racist he is and again the blogs and some media had another field day. To finish off this error Obama did not even come out against the guy. . . claims he never heard the speeches even though he has been going to the church for 20 years and still respects the guy. . . what a bunch of bull
Now he let slip that he really is for that gun control that he said he was not for. . . He wants a national ban on concealed carry. . . All I can say is it is legal in 48 states for a reason and after the Supreme Court rules on the Second Amendment (expected to go with the individual right reading of it) and those two states will probably have CCW permits soon.
This guy is a mess, three strikes and your out dude. . . I don’t think he can get elected period at this point. Add in the damage he and Hillary are doing to the Dems and I think they have once again snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. . .
OK, here is the day so far. . .
1 - Guys came early to build the new shed
2 - My Subaru would not start AGAIN. . . Subaru sucks. . .
3 - On the way to work my truck got a flat on the drivers side, shredded the tire getting off the road. . . .
4 - Called AAA then my cell phone battery died. . .
5 - Got to work late, and could not find my badge. . . was in the car – fell off when I had to pull it apart to get to tire jack stuff. . . .
I guess it can only go up from here. . .
