El Sid

Budget 2011

2010-01-30T18:18:00.000-08:00

Obama has proposed a 3.8 TTTTTTrillion $ budget for next year, which includes a 6% increase in education and research, with a bit of cuts to ACOE and NASA.

No more PACs

2010-01-23T06:45:00.000-08:00

The supreme court opened up the door for corporations to donate directly to political candidates rather than being forced to use Political Action Committees.

Read about it here.

Be Prepared

2010-01-23T05:59:00.000-08:00

It's actually pretty easy to plan for a survival situation, start out by making a very short list of the most likely "disasters" that could happen in your area. I live in Metro-Atlanta, so my threats are very similar to anyone elses who lives in a large metro area, here are the most likely in order:
1. Civil Unrest: General disorder, it may be unsafe to go outside due to very small groups of armed, angry people looting. This is most likely to last less that one month, eventually the national guard will show up.
2. Major National Disaster: Flooding, earthquake, tornado, these happen in Georgia all the time, but it's never effected more that one town at a time, any of these will result in looting, but it should stay under control.
3. Terrorist Attack a.k.a. "Man-Made Disaster": Atlanta has multiple military bases and multinational corporations, as well as a hefty population.
4. Zombie Apocalypse: I gotta throw that in there because I am bat-shit crazy.
5. Blue Hat Invasion: To take the US, you have to take Atlanta, Sherman knew it and burned down the city because of it, but like I said, this is less likely than a Zombie Apocalypse.

So what do you need to prepare?
1. Food: Have enough food for you and your family for at least one month, it takes 700 calories a day to not die, but plan for 3000 calories a day. Buy canned food, rice, beans, cereals and canned meats. Buy the stuff you eat on a regular basis. Also buy a case of MRE's, they taste like shit, and make you constipated, keep these around in case you need to take some food with you if you leave your "base camp."
2. Water: Keep at least 2 gallons per person per day for one month, hopefully longer. You can buy 2.5 gallon water containers at Kroger's for around a buck, and they are stackable. You'll need to consume about 1.5 gallons per day for washing dishes, drinking and preparing food, and another 3 gallons per week for bathing.
3. Protection: Buy a handgun and a long-gun. Stick to military calibres with the handgun, 9mm and .45 perform great and have proven themselves over the last one hundred years, but remember, all handguns suck, at least compared to rifles and shotguns. For a long-gun get something common, in a military calibre, stick with 12-gauge, 5.56X45mm, and 7.62X51mm. The Mossberg 590, Remington 870, AR-15, M1A, CETME, or FN-FAL will suite you greatly. Buy your weapons, become proficient in their use and maintenance and then teach all of the other adults in your household how to use them.
4. Communications: Buy a set of two-way radios so that you and your family can communicate. Also get a short-wave radio, either battery or crank operated.
5. Clothing: You need a set of heavy-duty clothing for all members of your house-hold for all the seasons your area goes through.
6. Bug Out Bag: Have a bag prepared with a change of clothing, 3 days worth of food and drinking water, basic survival supplies and tools, extra ammunition, and all of the items necessary to maintain your weapons.
7. Entertainment: you need items to distract you and your family members, this is very important, try to do it without items that take power.
8. Power source: nuff said.

This is a very basic list, and hopefully it will help you be a little more prepared, if you can think of anything that I have missed please leave a comment or shoot me an e-mail and I will at it to the list.

Why I Carry a Gun

2010-01-23T05:48:00.000-08:00

Liberals are always asking why you would ever need to carry a gun, they go on about how if there were none that no one would die, and blah blah blah.

I own the majority of my guns for one reason and one reason alone... fear. Yep I said it, because I'm afraid.

I carry around a CC because I am afraid of someone trying to hurt me or one of my family members when I am not home. I own a shotgun because I am afraid of a drugged up, buck-tooth criminal breaking into my home. I own an AR because I am afraid of liberals!

And it seems that alot of Americans feel the same way, last year more than 10 million NICS checks happened, which is the background check before you buy a gun.

Light-Weight Guns

2010-01-20T13:12:00.000-08:00

Thanks to Conservative Scalawag for pointing this one out to me. Taurus has come out with a new polymer frame 5-shot revolver, apparently to compete with the Ruger LCR and slew of other light-weight 5-shots put out by S&W.
But here's what I don't get, why does it need to be so damn light? Who is fueling the desire for companies to design these guns? I just don't get it. I'm not a small guy, in fact at 5'11" and 190lbs. I'm larger then the average American, maybe that's what it is, yeah, so you need a lighter gun. But that brings it's own set of problems, increased recoil. Whenever you up the power delivery, or shrink the weight, felt recoil goes up.
In my beloved Corps I carried a M9, it weighed about 2 1/2 pounds loaded, and you know what, I constantly forgot that I was even carrying it around, and I still do that every day when I shove my pistol down in it's pocket.
So men, and a few women, get over the weight of your gun, in fact, take pride in the hearty weight of your CC gun, it'll help you get that second shot down range at whatever criminal you're putting down.

Political Correctness

2010-01-19T14:04:00.000-08:00

I have come to accept political correctness in a few industries, mainly government. But what really earks me is when gun companies do it. Today I shall make a list of the dumb stuff gun companies do that keeps me from buying their products.

> Smith & Wesson:
Magazine Dissconector: The new M&P pistols have a device that won't allow the firearm to operate if a magazine is not inserted, what the hell does this acomplish.
Disasembly Tool: You know who will never buy a firearm that takes a small, easy to lose, impossible to replace tool to clean and maintain? Me, anyone who ever thinks about the apocalypse, and anyone who ever served in the millitary.
Internal Key Lock System: This is supposed to prevent people who steal a gun from being able to use it, but seeing as all the keys are the same this seems kinda pointless.
Using union labor drives up the cost of any product, particularly S&W revolvers, just buy a Taurus or Ruger for half the price.
> Taurus: You're at fault for the key lock aswell.
> Colt: You refuse to sell mil-spec AR parts.
> Remington: The model 870 is unquestionable one of the greatest gun designs of all time, the only thing I think is better is a 590A1, but that's just me. Remington Express shotguns have dimples inside of the magazine tube to prevent you from putting aftermarket magazine extenders onto your weopon.
> HK: FUCK YOU for making the SL series of rifles and the USC sub-gun. But you redeemed yourself by telling Bush One to FUCK OFF! by changing the name of the HK91 about a dozen times.

There are so many good ones, post a comment on the companies you love to hate.

No more ammo for the Governator

2010-01-17T23:48:00.000-08:00

The Governor of California has signed AB962, a bill that limits the amount of ammunition private individuals can purchase at a time, and establishes a government database to keep track of who has how much ammunition. Hopefully the big ammo producers will stand up to California the same way that Barrett did a few years ago.

Taurus 850

2010-01-17T23:08:00.000-08:00

I finally decided to upgrade my carry, for the last couple of years I've been carrying around a Kel-Tec P-32 and I've changed over to a Taurus 850.
Kel-Tec: Over the years I've heard mixed reviews of them, after shooting a few of them I found that they were just fine and bought one for myself. I went to the gun show and bought one for about 250 bucks, did the regular cleaning and test firing and found that it worked great. The best thing about it was that it held 7 rounds, or 8 with an administrative load. It's magazine fed for quick reloads and I never had any reliablility problems.
But: It's a .32, anyone who has ever owned one of these knows it is a puny-ass round to say the least, even the best self-defense rounds don't have much in the way of stopping power, but hey, atleast it's not a .25.
So I started doing research on other auto's in its size class, 25, 22, 380. None of them really performed the way I wanted, I needed something powerful enough to put someone down with a few shots, but still small enough to carry around. Then it hit, revolver, so I rented a few snubbies in 38, 357, and 44.
The 38 Special really doesn't do that well on paper either so I discounted it, but .357 and .44 tried to rip my arm off in that snubby frame, which meant I could never get that second shot downrange. Then I found out that Speer made a specialty round for 2in guns and made my choice.
Taurus: Just like Kel-Tec I have always heard mixed reviews on them, some people say it's a crapshoot, others say it's the best thing since sliced bread. In my research I did find out that they had major quality problems from the time that S&W bought them until the mid-90's. Oh, and it shot great, but you gotta remember it's a snubby, which means it's accurate to about 10 yards, so don't try to use it as a match gun.
Extra Stuff:
> I found that speed clips didn't fit very well due to the grips that come on it stock, I've found that most people replace them, I instead went with speed strips and just cut off the extra slot, also fit's in the pocket a wee bit easier.
> For a holster I went with the pocket, Blackhawk and ?Uncle Mike's both make durable pocket holsters with a grippy exterior so that it stays in your pocket. I would suggest sticking with jeans and deep pocket slacks, the short pockets on some slacks will cause the gun to slip out when you sit down. I didn't bother getting an IWB holster because if I can do that then I will just carry a larger pistol.
Bad Stuff: This gun has a gun lock built into it, for me that's just another part to break, sights on snubbies suck.
Basically for costing half as much as the same model made by S&W, you might as well buy this one, the .38 Special +P performs pretty damn well and I can carry this pup around in Wal-Mart without paterning because I made a bad choice in clothing today.

Back To The Blog

2009-08-09T17:46:00.000-07:00

With everything that's been going on lately in the political world I've decided that I need to make time for this, it's a good way to relieve stress, and make it known that America as a whole does not agree with the things that Obama, Pelosi and Reid want to do with our country. I don't know about all of you, but I'm not ready to be called comrade yet.

P.S.: I don't have cancer!!!

Bad News

2009-02-14T01:11:00.000-08:00

Went to the Doc yesterday, found out I might have testicular cancer, have an ultrasound and CT scheduled for monday. Probably won't be posting too much until then.

Zombies Attack Comcast

2009-02-10T03:03:00.000-08:00

Yes Scalawag, I'm posting this just for you.

Zombies in Pittsburgh are holding a slow but determined protest in front of Comcast to bring back a television station WBGN, to the Cable line-up. They are shambling about the show "It's Alive," a local horror show.

Keep the car fully gassed, load all the magazines, and check your bugout bag, I'll pick you up at work.

Shoulda Had a Gun

2009-02-10T02:56:00.000-08:00

Two men robbed a Subway sandwich shop in Marietta.
Too bad Subway International has a policy that prevents employees and managment from having weapons inside the store, never would have happened if they had been able to defend themselves.

And a case of had a gun:

A man robbing a liquor store got a nasty .45 inch surprise from the owner.
Thank you for defending your rights.

Self Defense Can Result in Defending Yourself

2009-02-10T02:50:00.000-08:00

An Arizona man who held illegal aliens at gun point will have to defend himself in court during a 32M$ lawsuit.
The rancher has caught more than 12,000 illegals using his land to cross the border over the years and turned them into the Border Patrol. The illegals are arguing that he violated their civil rights.
So I can legally shoot another American CITIZEN if he is sneaking through my property in the middle of the night, but he can't detain, at gunpoint, an illegal while waiting for the police to arrive. This world is become a bit complicated for my liking.

Talking to Iran

2009-02-10T02:34:00.001-08:00

The president of Iran said today that he is prepared to open dialogue, reports the NYT. While cumming all over themselves the New York Times forgot a really big problem with this, the President of Iran doesn't have any power, good luck getting the Ayatollah to not beat you to death with a stick when you show up, but the president will be speaking to you very nicely. We shoulda put these assholes down when they overtook the embassy.

What Happened to Executions?

2009-02-10T02:24:00.000-08:00

An Army fella fled to Canada trying to avoid his deployment to Iraq. He is turning himself in to MP's in Georgia on Tuesday in hopes that he will charged as AWOL instead of desertion. His lawyer says that the AWOL charge has a maximum jail time of 18 months, with varying discharge types. The lawyer also says that the desertion charge has a max sentence of 5 years...except he is the shittiest lawyer in military history, desertion during a time of war is actually punished as treason, which means the death penalty. Read the UCMJ before you tell your client to turn himself in.

BTW, I support the kid getting the desertion charge, even if it was because he didn't want to kill people. Sorry to tell you this kid, don't sign up for the military, especially not artillery, if you don't want to have death on your hands.

Bipartisan

2009-02-10T02:04:00.000-08:00

Mariam-Webster: cooperation, agreement, and compromise between two major political parties .
Nancy Pelosi: "We won the election. We wrote the bill."
Democrats: You need to agree with us.
Republicans: You guys gonna listen to anything we say?

Should Have Had a Gun

2009-02-09T03:27:00.000-08:00

A man in Cobb was "kidnapped" at gunpoint in his driveway.
1. get a gun if you drive a BMW, keep it in the console or get a good Jamaica holster.
2. It's pretty easy to notice a BLACK FULL SIZE VAN tailing you.
3. Look in your mirror before you get out of your car.

Two people kill their attackers:
Another man in Cobb almost get kidnapped, this time he got shot in the leg, took the gun from the napper and shot him in the chest, coulda kept yourself from getting shot if you woulda had a gun and been slightly more observant of your environment.
A woman stabs a man that broke into her house, apparently her son was sleeping in the next room. You need a gun, and a dog.

Obama Stupidity of the Day

2009-02-09T03:18:00.000-08:00

Obama is applying stricter energy regulations on industry in a time when the economy sucks. Great idea, let's force businesses to research things that won't help the US instead of what sells.

You might hate rap music, but this video explains our current issues pretty well, listen to it, you won't be disappointed. As you can see even the liberal health nuts that hate capitalism are starting to wise up.

Shit Happens...

2009-02-09T03:16:00.000-08:00

A tourist was hit by a piece of falling billboard in Atlanta.

Didn't know that there was anything to see in this place.

Birthday Parties

2009-02-08T22:44:00.000-08:00

Birthday parties are some of the most extravagant things that we Americans do. We spend large amounts of money, and a good bit of time preparing them for the people around us and we give good wishes to people on their special day, even if we don't know them. Today was my daughters birthday party, and as is the tradition in most of America the women through the party and us men drank bear. Presents were in surplus, a huge cake was being prepared, and the laughter of children was abound. But the joy of the day was broken, on what we consider to be an amazing day, Christina lost a friend.
All the dads that decided to show came down to the basement to play a little pool, drink "responsibly" and shoot the shit in general. But more than just a pool table is in the basement, there is also a small collection of trophies from the larger bucks that I have taken down. Never did I think that something as simple as hunting would break my daughters heart. One of the fathers saw them, immediately went upstairs, and proceeded to leave with his son.
Why are so many people offended by things like this? No one seems to know. Guns, hunting, even fishing, some people are just so offended, are they misinformed about these particular types of recreation, have they been lied to? Who knows, I just want all these libtards to leave me alone, go to Cuba if you want the government to take care of everything for you, I'm self sufficient, I want to be proficient at basic survival skills in case this world you rely on disappears.

Obama The Dumb

2009-02-07T13:03:00.001-08:00

The legislative proccess takes a long time, it's never perfect, and usually someone get's screwed over in the end. But the fucking president needs to back off and stop INTIMIDATING people into accepting his plan. Here's a quick qoute from the annoited one, "the legislation deserved scrutiny but that speed trumped perfection."
Basically what he wants our legislators to do is approve a 600B$ spending bill with a 180B$ stimulus attached to it. What do those 180B$ include? Rebates, which have never worked in the past; broadband to rural areas, where people don't seem to want it; new roads, that we don't need; and upgrades to airports, that are seeing less traffic. So even the stimulus part of the plan sucks by any standard. He says that the republicans are trying to use old failed policies of the past, but everything that he wants to do has failed in every country that has tried it, including ours.
Mr, Obama, I implore you to step back, stop trying to give yourself and your party more power and acctually help us, just let the recession run it's course.

"When the people find they can vote themselves money,that will herald the end of the republic."
-Benjamin Franklin

Should Have Had a Gun

2009-02-07T04:07:00.000-08:00

At Least 1 Killed, 6 Wounded in Los Angeles Cafe Shooting

Two men walk into a coffee shop and open fire. Too bad it happened in California, just about any other state and the people inside would have been able to defend thenselves.

Wanna go to jail?

A guy pretends to commit armed robbery in Kentucky, hoping that he will be sent to a federal prison, too bad he didn't have a gun.

The Brady Campaign

2009-02-07T02:44:00.000-08:00

The Brady Campaign, probably the biggest threat to the ability of an American to protect themselves has published it's annual "grades" for State gun legislation and regulations. About 6 months ago the Department of Justice: Bureau of Justice Statistics released it's finalized numbers for Violent Crimes. Here are the numbers presented by both sides.

California:
Brady Ranking: 1 out of 50 (Best)
Brady Score: 79 (out of possible 100)
Brady, things that need to be fixed: State does not do ballistic fingerprinting; handguns not "childproof"; Gun dealers need better regulation; Non-Assault weapons need to be registered; firearms do not have to be reported if lost or stolen; consumer safetly standards are not harsh enough.
Population(estimate): 36,457,549
Violent Crimes: 191,025 (522.6 per 100,000 residents)
Murder/Manslaughter: 2,206 (6.2 per 100,000 residents)
Murders w/gun: 253 (11.5 percent of murders)

Okay, I guess that's not too bad, let's look at the lowest rated state now.

Kentucky:
Brady Ranking: 48 out of 50 (worst)*
Brady Score: 2 (out of possible 100)
Brady, things that need to be fixed: Everything, except for not forcing schools to allow firearms on campus (currently everyone gets 2 points for that)
Population(estimate): 4,206,074
Violent Crimes: 12,513 (295 per 100,000 residents)
Murder/Manslaughter: 204 (4.8 per 100,000 residents)
Murder w/gun: 17 (8.5 percent of murders)

Wait...it looks like I must have screwed up that data, but I didn't, check for yourself, the state that the Brady Campaign rates as being the safest (gun wise) has the more violent crimes than any other state, a higher murder rate that 46 of the 50 states, and a higher gun crime rate than any other state.
Kentucky on the other hand...has a murder rate higher than only 3 other states, less violent crimes (per capita) than all states, except 5, and here's a three again, a lower percantage of murders commited with a gun than all states, except 3.

So, are the basic statistics wrong? I guess you could argues that the goverment offices scewed the statistics to make states with lower gun control less violent, but that wouldn't do them any good, the more violence, the more power they have. Maybe there is just something fundamentally wrong with the Brady Campaign, whether it be ignorance, arrogance or outright lieing there is only one reason why they would do it, to convince people to give up their fundament right to not only protect themselves from people commiting violent crimes (that happens 2.5 million times a year in the US), but to protect themselves from a goverment that oversteps it's boundaries. I'll end this with a quote by one of the men that wanted to make sure that we would always be able to fend off invaders, right the wrongs of the political class, and protect our families.

"What country can preserve it's liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance. Let them take arms." Thomas Jefferson to James Madison

All data cited can be found here:
The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence
Department of Justice
U.S. Census Bureau

*Kentucky tied with Oklahoma, some data however, was not available for Oklahoma.

Broken Obama Promises

2009-02-06T02:35:00.000-08:00

Obama touted alot about saving energy and reducing "green house gases" to save the world. He could have done that today and been fine. Obama took a trip to a dinner in Virginia, a 80 mile one way trip that would take aproximately 1.5 hours. Taking out a convoy of 10 vehicles at 15 mpg would have consumed about 100 gallons of gas costing $200. Instead he jumped on Air Force One cutting the trip down to 31 minutes, consuming about 2,060 gallons of jet fuel at a cost of $13,431, just for fuel, no maintaince, or crew costs included.

I could care less that he used Air Force One, I just hate hipocrates, and the fact that AP are the only people who noticed this.

Associated Press

The Driving Test

2009-02-06T02:24:00.000-08:00

Have you ever suppressed thoughts that that woman in front of you swerving between 3 lanes, with the turn signal permanently on, driving 15 MPH under the speed limit is doing it because she is Asian because you don't want to sound rascist?

Well here's one example of a Korean woman who has failed the test 771 times.

In the US Georgia and Texas require a score of 75 and 80 (out of 100) respectively, I remember taking these tests in both states, I don't have the paperwork, but I scored in the 90's, probably got 1 question wrong about proper yeilding while taking a right hand turn with no cross traffic. In South Korea you have to score a 60...the highest score she has gotten in her 771 tries? 50...taking wild guesses on a multipe choice test would have resulted in 9 perfect scores, and the minimum score of sixty 17 times.