Glasses surprise

Went out glasses shopping last night as I am now officially old and need new glasses with bi-focals. . .

Got quite a shock up at BJ's.  I was pricing a new pair of glasses at the eye docs and WITH insurance the glasses were about $270 and the sunglasses were about $420. . .  Total about $690. . .  So I said OK, let me look around and get back to you. 

I should have known there was a problem the way the sales person kept telling me to make sure I compare apples to apples, and that they had the lowest cost. . . . that is not a good sign folks.  Anyway I go to BJ's which is where I got my current glasses and give him the script and tell him what I want.  In a few moments and the wife's help I have picked out frames and all and we are done. . .  Total cost for both pairs of glasses - $270.

Kinda makes you wonder how some people stay in business when their costs are that much off. . . .

Connecticut Gunman

I am having a hard time with the shooting in Connecticut.  I am really getting sick of watching the news folks at CNN and the Boston Globe try to make the shooter out as a sympathetic character.

 

Lets play the race card shall we?  Had he been a white shooter all you would hear about is the gun and the tragedy and the families who lost folks, the things you should hear.  This is a tragedy, and the people you should feel for are the shooters victims and their family's.  But no, the news is pushing some form of racial harassment that pushed him over the edge, like he was a saint and all.

 

One problem here folks, the union has no record of any complaints from him on harassment.  The government has no record of him filing any harassment issues. . .  What we do have is a film of him stealing from the employer. . . .

 

Now around here that is grounds to fire you - end of story.  But no, they were nice to him and tried to help him.  They were going to let him resign so it would not look bad on his record.  How did he thank them?  He killed 8 people.

 

This is the problem we have in society right now.  Minorities are taught to look for racism and use that as an excuse for their actions.  Sorry, there is no excuse for this persons actions.  HE made the choice to steal, HE made the choice to shoot people that HE FELT had insulted/disrespected him.  HE did not report it or take proper action if there was harassment against him.  HE decided to deal with it with violence instead of legal action.  We are supposed to be civilized - HE did not act civilized.

 

No, he is not a sympathetic character and even if they do prove the raciest comments I will still say he is the bad guy.  He is the one that took multiple lives instead of addressing this as a civilized person through legal means.  He does not deserve the respect he is getting in the news, they should portray him for what he is, a killer.  This killer and people like him continue to prove that lawful citizens must have the right to carry arms to protect themselves from the thugs of the world who care nothing for our laws or lives if they don't FEEL like obeying them or FEEL you disrespected them.  I will also bet that this was supposed to be a gun free zone, so he went in there breaking the rules to start with and probably had this planned out.

 

I will give my sympathy to the families of those this animal killed.  They are the victims here and they need our support now.

Illegal Alien kills Nun

Yep,  you got it right. . .  CNN is even covering it HERE.

Now you bleeding harts tell me again why we are so nice to the Illegals who break into our country and break our laws?

Obama Clinton?

Lets hope CNN is right on this one and they won't do it because he could actually win with Hillary on the ticket. . . It would be the same mistake all over - folks backing Obama just to make history and to hell with if he can do the job. . . .

Stick with Biden please - either way we need to get folks moving to insure he is a one and done fool.

Obamacare goes DOWN

Finally some common sense. . .

As reported on CNN HERE the good folks in old Missouri have woken up from the kool aid and told Obama to take his health care law and stuff it.  You don't need to have health insurance in good old MO! 

I hope this is the start of a major wave to remove him and his socialist medical laws out of DC and our lives.  Heck even the UK is starting to go back to private medical insurance like we had now that they are rationing care over there. . . .

Folks need to wake up!  Socialism don't work, never did, never will.

I am now OLD

Well, I was going to post something last night but I had my yearly eye doc appointment and they did the test with the eye drops so I could not see anything close up the rest of the night. . . .

I am now officially old.  I was told that yes, you can read at 20 20 but we really suggest bi-focals for you.  And I had to admit that they did seem to make things up close a lot clearer.  And since I am getting back into building my models which as you can imagine is a lot of small up close work I am going to go for it. . . .

Whomever came up with the getting old idea sucked. . . . but on the other side the guy that came up with progressive lenses so your bi-focals don't show was a genius!

Obama vs Bush

Something to add to the list of things I never thought I would here on CNN. . . .

 

" Pres Obama was back on the campaign trail the way he talked today, and it seemed like he was campaigning against George Bush. . "

 

wow, when even CNN starts to admit you keep pushing Bush even though he has been out of office for over a year now you have got to wonder.  I am starting to have some hope that the media is losing it fascination with the big O and that would be great for the November elections. . . .

 

I just hope Obama and team don't wake up to the fact that Bush is not running this time. . . the rest of the country seems to be waking up to that fact and it makes them look a bit behind the times. . .

Blogger Shoot 2010

Well the blogger shoot is over and all that is left is to buy new ammo and clean the boom sticks. . .

Had a great time and met a number of new folks, some even bloggers = )

I will be updating the bloggers I met list and all that good stuff this week.  Lissa and JayG have some good photos and info on the shoot on their blogs, you really need to go and read them over.

As for me, I have to say that my oldest and I had a great time.  I did most of my shooting with the black powder I have.  I did get a chance to try a fully suppressed fully auto .22. . . and so did my daughter.  I have to say it was fun.  It sounded like an old electric typewriter with a key stuck and boy did it go through 25 rounds fast.   Lots of fun!

The shoot stated out with the normal cannon shot, here is a good shot of Jay lining it up. . . minutes of berm my ass. . . .

We had the normal paper targets, some water filled coke bottles and such but the star of the day was ol' hello kitty. . . it went down with a good fight but it did lose.  At the end there were so many through and through that it was stuck to the backstop and didn't need the hanger any more. . . .

I also got to spend a good amount of time talking to the folks, met another Mason there, and made a bunch of new friends.  You know it is funny but the folks are so good to talk to at times the shooting gets in the way. . . (just kidding)

We also got to see a couple of pieces of history, an old Japanese machine gun, and a nice recoil-less rifle. . . photos below. . ..

This was really cool to see in person.  It helps that I am a WWII history nut. . . .

When all was said and done another great blogger shoot.  Great to see all the folks again and can't wait to get to the next one. . . . all those folks, all those guns, and we all had a good time and no one got hurt. . . . so much for blood in the street like the anti's talk about. . .

The Beautiful People

It must be nice to be one of the beautiful people in California. . . Lindsay Lohan was given 90 days in jail in relation to her drunk driving. . .She is out in less than two weeks. . . That would be less than 14 days. . .

 

14 is MUCH less than 90. . .

 

I am sure you or I would get the same deal right?  Right?  Why are you looking at me funny?

 

And they wonder why we have such crime problems. . . .

Bloogershoot 2010

Blogger shoot update is coming!  I promise.   My daughter got a bunch of good photos of the shoot and I need to do a report on it but by the time I got home last night it was just too late.  Look for update tonight and an update on Bloggers I Met while there as we did have a few new faces.

 It was funny, I mainly shot my black powder and spent more time hanging around talking than shooting, but had a great time.  Once again it was proven that gunnys are good folks!