Sunday, January 15, 2017

Winter Decluttering

It's winter, and around here that means that it's too cold to go gallivanting in wood too much or spending days at the range comfortably. So what is there to do besides count calories? Declutter. Go take a look at your supplies. Sell off redundant or outdated gear. Auction off some of those holsters that are piles in a bin out in the garage. Sell that leather MC jacket you don't use or rebuild the carb on the mower that isn't running right. Here's my list.

1. DeGunk and get running the Dirtbike and sell it.
2. Sell my racing equipment since I'm not going to get on the track anymore.
3. Remove one of the racks in my garage and build a new bench for tools.
4. Sell off extra diving equipment
5. Rebuild the Carbs on my vintage motorcycle and sell it off for something newer.
6. Clean out and organize the trailer.
7. Purchase more metal fuel containers and sell the plastic ones.
8. Build high level shelves in the garage for storage.

With nothing else to do, sitting on your computer or video game isn't going to make your life easier. Get to it!

Sunday, January 8, 2017

Legislative Look

With the new congress, it seems that we have some new 2A bills that will be heard within the next few weeks. The reciprocity bill for CCW seems like a good thing, but as always, you have to check the fine print. I've heard some rumors of some states being able to fully disallow CCW in order to skirt the bill, but it remains to be seen and amended. I'll stay up to date on it.

In my state, they are looking at doing away with the CCW permit all together. I sure hope so. Nothing like permitting a right and turning it into a privilege.

The Affordable Care Act seems to be on it's final legs, but there is nothing to replace it with as of yet. Maybe we can look at cutting the 10 levels of oversight and governmental meddling to get those costs down. The same with Pharma.

I see that Trump has Hired one of my state's biggest political hacks, Dan Coats to head the DNI. What a joke. C'mon, don't let the establishment entrench itself. 

Building a wall is totally unnecessary and costly. If you make the crime of entering the country bad enough to overcome the benefits of coming here illegally, problem solved. We have the national guard of several states that can take on the protection of our borders. The ROE needs to change, though. See a gun, pop em. Done deal, no more drug lords attempting to cross the border. Pretty easy to overcome situations with a little harshness and frugality. Illegals that have been here for more than 5 years and have kids here can stay. They will never get voting rights and cannot attain citizenship unless they leave and enter properly. They must also pay taxes for the 5 years they have been here and cannot get social security. The idea is to make following the law easier and more beneficial than breaking it. Those migrant workers wishing to work here need a low cost visa with positive identity checks. Farmers hiring illegal workers should be fined heavily.

Tuesday, January 3, 2017

New Year, Same you.

I don't subscribe to all that new year's resolution crap. I do believe in goals and constant change. It's really easy to rest on your laurels this year and slack on your goals when we have an apparent change of leadership in Washington. Just remember, the tide didn't turn, it was just a couple offices that swapped sides. We still have the same number of idiots running the country. We still have 20 Trillion dollars of debt. We are still dealing with a broken society and an entire generation of useless snowflakes.

None of this is going to go away rapidly. Globalism and Crony Capitalism is still the law of the land. We have less of a free market than any time in history. The police state is still in every aspect of our lives and the republican congress just gave full scale spying rights to the government. This aint over by a long shot. Dig deep, keep up on your skills and make an effort to cleave waste and sloth from your household.

I added a little kydex porn for the masses.