Supreme court rules for gun owners, strikes down Washington D.C. Handgun Ban!
As most of us know who have more than a pea for a brain… an armed populace is a great deterrent to crime.
VIVA NRA!
Roger Freberg
“You left just when you were becoming interesting!”
There’s a wonderful line in an Indiana Jones movie were “Dad” (Sean Connery) tells “son” (Harrison Ford), “you left just when you were becoming interesting!”
I think that is the way things can happen when your adult children start making their niche in the world. They develop into people that you really enjoy being around.
My daughter Kristin is a private person — and I respect that — but forgive me for updating her site ( and she has contributed some to it)… it has been a task I have enjoyed. Check it out… our tribute to Kristin.
Roger Freberg
Pirates of the Seas …. yep, they’re out there!
I don’t know how much anyone ever follows Piracy on the high seas… but it really isn’t a thing of the past and although the number of confrontations doesn’t come anywhere close to what happens on land… it is obviously horrific for the civilized gentry caught in a robbery.
A modern day Piracy may be a simple robery… but as they say in the movies …’dead men tell no tales’ and unfortunately… the sea is a great place to bury your dead.
Here’s one example of a Piracy at sea:
Interesting? SAIL magazine did an excellent job of pointing out some of the risks and providing it’s middle aged audience with practical advice…. but I think I would be more impressed if it gave a list of where one could buy ‘stuff’ to repell such attacks.
Here’s what SAIL lists are the ways to spot pirates ( I will paraphrase):
1) Pirates use small boats traveling fast (gas is expensive and local fisherman seldomm travel fast)
2) Most fishing boats have a crew of 3… if there are more in a boat or more boats… trouble is brewing
3) If you don’t spot fishing gear… then the boat may be after ‘bigger game’
4) If the boat that is following you is far from their government’s fishing grounds….
5) Birds normally flock around fishing boats… no birds = no fish = pirates.
6) Regardless of crew size… if you see weapons… avoid these folks… duh
By the way, I would like to thank North Sails for the complementary copy of Sail Magazine… it is fascinating.Plus, I couldn’t resist buying some sale items from their shop.
So, what are other folks saying about sailing?
Roger Freberg
Banning BB guns in Boston? woo-hoo
Just when you think that it couldn’t get any wackier… politicos in Massachusetts want to take away your BB gun and they are asking surrounding states to do the same!
Don’t you feel safer?
I guess they must think that your BB gun is a ‘gateway’ weapon leading to massive purchases of Uzi’s, red meat any manly thinking. Gosh, we need to stop all that.
Funny how so many states are moving in the direction of licensing citizens to carry a personal firearm… and in the state of Massachusetts they are moving in the opposite direction.
Obviously, there are other things happening: in Michigan– The state ‘drops the minimum age for hunting deer, elk and bear on private land by two years to 10 for archery and 12 for firearms.’
Sooooo…. it has been a busy week… but the coveted BIG WEENIE award goes to the great — once heroic state of Massachusetts…. a full 4 incher!
If you have a chance to see the NRA’s news and Information site… complete with Sirius Patriot 144 Radio , news and discussion.
Hmmmm…. I wonder when California will move towards allowing citizens to carry? Hey, from what I have heard more states have passed laws allowing citizens to carry than not. So, Come on Arnold…. get off the tofu and back on red meat.
Roger Freberg
Student Apathy? … who says?
When you hear about teachers — college or high school — complain about ‘student apathy’… what they really are saying is,” hey, I can’t get these brats to agree with me or change their minds.’ boo hoo
Ralph Nader — lifetime weenie man — spoke to a virtually empty house at my alma mater recently… and folks trotted out the ‘student apathy’ line. If people wanted to hear him… they would come and no amount of ‘extra credit’ from professors seemed to help the attendance.
Take a trip on GOOGLE and you will find a large number of folks wringing their hands about the problem of student apathy… but what they don’t know is that life today is very different from the times of successful leftist rhetoric.. the late 60’s and early 70’s. The ideology of the left has failed.. and everyone knows it. I also lived in those times and watched fellow college students travel from campus to campus stirring things up, looking for a party and leaving a mess… all the while sucking on momma and daddy. We paid our own way though college… it wasn’t easy.
Today’s youth is committed to the future… it belongs to them. Many young men have put off college and sought a masculine life denied them throughout school… the world belongs to them too. Let’s remember, the military is composed of ‘volunteers”… yep, ‘volunteerism’ is something the leftists preach, so one would think that joining the military would be cool with them… uh huh… riiight
Nader warned students — the few who attended — that “Politics will be onto you in a very vengeful manner.” Well, it doesn’t look too good for you, Ralph. I know, it isn’t easy benig green anymore. Students are not quite so gullible… they ask their speakers, ” what are you going to do for me? How is anything you say going to make my life better? and… what’s it gonna cost me?”
Well, the world is changing , dude… get used to it.
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Roger Freberg