May 1st to the 15th 2003

May 15th, Thursday:  Fox News’ Neal Cavuto totally blasts liberal dickwad Paul Krugman.  Check this out.  It’s seems the Liberal twisted the truth of the situation and got caught.  LOL, Cavuto calls Krugman a “Sanctimonious Twit”.   Made my day.

This made my day as well… “Disney CEO Michael Eisner's secretary, who was very familiar with the Moore controversy and she told him that Mr. Eisner has decided that while they and Miramax WERE considering a movie project, they have decided that it is NOT something they would want to be associated with.”  Who would want to be associated with such a huge ass like Michael Moore anyways? 

Some time ago someone sent me an email asking about the Steyr Scout Rifle.  I never answered it because my email crashed and many emails were lost.  Now, I don’t remember posting it because I think I remember him asking me not to.  I get a lot of emails like that… specifically asking that I don’t publish the email.   Chances are, if you email me – you’re not going to get your email put up anyways.  I only post the ones that I find interesting at that time.  Anyways, the question was basically what I thought of it, is it worth it yada yada yada.  Is it worth it?  Okay, are you kidding me?  The thing is over 2 grand for a new example and used examples are so beat to hell, they aren’t even worth 300 bucks.  As you can immediately tell, I am not a fan of the Steyr Scout Rifle.  But I am a Scout Rifle Concept fan, and a Jeff Cooper fan.  I love Jeff’s idea here, but I don’t like Steyr’s interpretation of the concept.    Why?  Oh man, I am going to get a lot of hate-mail from shooters on this… but I am of the opinion that the Steyr Scout is a complete joke of a rifle and a Joke played upon Jeff Cooper that the poor old man is trying to play off.  Here is why.  It’s a 2500 rifle that requires an additional $500 worth of Gunsmithing to make it worth a shit.  What’s wrong with it?  It’s billed as a simple general purpose go anywhere and do anything kind of rifle.  First off, for a 2500 dollar rifle, it sure is rough.  You have to get that smoothed out.  The bolt, the inside of the receiver, the trigger, all need smoothing and refinishing.  I have seen huge burrs inside the Scouts that should NOT have been there.  Not for this kind of money.  Not even close.  Okay, so after you get the rifle smoothed out and polished and it feels right… let’s do some shooting.  You drop a hundred and 30 bucks for a case of .308 and take it shooting.  Sometimes it fires, sometimes it doesn’t.  You look at the primers and they are just barely getting pecked by the firing pin.  “Oh, well, your not going to shoot cheap military surplus ammo out of a 2500 Steyr!”  Bullshit.  Yes, you are… because you wanted a nice general purpose go anywhere and do anything kind of rifle… that means also being able to shoot all kinds of ammo.  That means you gotta fix the Scout again.  That means you have to put in a heavier spring in the striker.  Great.  So you get that done and take it out shooting again.  All the sudden you realize that it now takes Herculean effort to jack the bolt handle.  So you either go back to the lighter spring, or you have a longer lever attached to give you greater leverage force against the bolt and it’s stronger spring.   By the time you get that all done and the rifle is now shooting like it should… you just spent about 500 bucks.  So your now getting into your 3,000 dollar fine shooting go everywhere and do anything rifle… You decide to do some long range shooting… so you go prone and unlimber the bipod.  You take aim… fire… and break the integral bi-pod.  Fuck!  Now you have a 3,000 broken rifle.  Great.  Yeah, that is go anywhere and do anything… as long as it doesn’t involve any actual shooting.   At least it looks good.  This rifle is for the guys that buy the best of the best never use it.  And I know there are a lot of guys like that… so there is a market for this rifle.  A market that I mock.  This isn’t what Jeff Cooper envisioned regardless of his continuous pimping.  It isn’t it.    I had lunch with Cooper and a number of notable people.  This was during the 2000 SHOT Show.  (thanks Rich L.) I asked Jeff about the Steyr and his opinion of it.  I wanted an honest answer and I think he gave it to me… He said “If you want to shoot a rifle, that’s the one to get.”  He is a true believer.  I can’t fault him for that… perhaps Steyr gave him a few examples that have been tuned up for him.  That is the only acceptable explanation.  What he is absolutely correct about is the concept.  The idea of the Scout is perfect.  I like it a great deal.  But I am not going to drop 3,000 into something that should cost 300.  The first alternative is the Savage Arms Scout Rifle.  This rifle is out of the box ready to roll and you don’t need to do anything to it.  Well, you need to buy a scope… but you have to do that for any rifle.  The Savage is a decent rifle and I have played with many different Savage rifles… they are all good solid workhorses.  Not the most refined of pieces, but they are all acceptably serviceable.  The best way to go in my opinion is to build your own.  ANY rifle – ANY RIFLE – can become a “Scout”.     Go to the gun store or your safe and look around.  Select any old rifle of a caliber that is readily available and good and plenty.  The only caveat is that this caliber should also be suitable for the type of game and the type of shooting you mainly do or your likely to do.  You can Scout a lever action rifle.   You might need to trim down the stock and the fore grip.  You might need to trim down the barrel and have it recrowned.  The idea is to make it shorter and lighter and handier.  Your lever-action might already be that way.  The scope for it?  You can go with glass or you can go with a red dot.  It’s your call.  Give it the optics that best suit YOU and the type of shooter that YOU are.  Now, you need a sling.  A 3 point tactical sling is good and handy, but a nice wide comfortable leather sling is JUST FINE as well.  It doesn’t have to say “Ching” anywhere on it.  The rifle is intended to be YOUR go anywhere and do anything rifle – so you’re the one that has to be able to take it with you all the time.  This isn’t about some old codger with great grammar’s ideal of what your rifle should be – it’s about you.  You are the Scout, and the rifle is your rifle.  Get it?  You don’t need to be spending 3 grand to have that comfort.  If the Steyr fits you… fine.  If not, make one that does.  .308 is a fine caliber and generally probably the best choice.  But what if you live out where I do?  You might want to make your rifle on a flatter shooting .243 platform… or even a good .25-06.  If you live in Alaska, and your wanting something capable of Brown Bear, Moose, Elk, Caribou, and the stray Soviet APC… you might opt for .338 Win Mag or a .505 Gibbs.   It’s about you and how and where you scout with your Scout.  Me and my Scout?  If I was to build my personal scout rifle, it would probably be chambered for .300 Whisper with a Bushnell Holosight  on top and a suppressor out front. 

The war on spam continues… some spammers have already been arrested.  We have a long way to go.  My filters don’t catch all of it.  Just today so far, I’ve had about a dozen spam messages… from what I gather I could increase the size of my mortgage without a prescription all night long.  Fricken spammers.  If I could get my hands on them I would choke the life out of them.  I don’t pay 40 bucks a month for my broadband to deal with that shit.   Spammers should be placed in the old fashioned public stocks.  Cruel and unusual?  I hope so.  They are richly deserving of it.  Don't even get me started on the virus writers... let's just say those guys would quietly disappear never to be heard of again.

The SF Gate for those who don’t know, is a bastion of Liberal thinking and expression.  It is for a lack of a better term, a Liberal Think Tank.  I am loath to call it such as it mocks all other more productive, deeper or better armed think tanks.  This little story is from the SF Gate.  “BushCo Reams Nation Good. No WMDs after all, no excuse for war, too late for anyone to care anymore. Ha-ha, suckers” Brothers and Sisters of the Horde, this magnitude of utter stupidity is breathtaking.  This is a revelation of stupid to equal the revelation from “2001 Space Odyssey”…  The Monolith of Stupid has appeared in San Francisco.  I am so glad all the clear thinking liberals at the SF Gate have all the answers for us and can skip past certain facts:
1. Saddam bragged that he had WMD.
2. Saddam used WMD on his own people.
3. Saddam had, which we found, means of delivering WMD.
4. Saddam had, and fired off proscribed weapons violating the UN 1440.
5. Saddam had, which we found, means of creating new WMD. (As reported by the New York Times and other sources)
6. We have found evidence that WMD had been shipped to Syria.
Please, Liberals, you drooling slack jawed soft skulled pin-headed morons… explain to me how such things are over looked by the Left?  If this was a simple drug bust or a murder investigation - this evidence would be clearly be more than enough to convict.  Please enlighten me.  Please also explain to be how such an article could be published under the guise of journalism.  The slow witted people of San Francisco must be a special kind of dull to allow this trite to carry the SF name.

Report says we are running out of Tuna Fish.  This is because we are not eating enough whale.  "Oh you can't eat whales!  Whales are Mammals!"  Oh yeah?  Well cows are mammals too.  Big fat tasty mammals... just like whales.  They eat them in Japan and in Alaska... Gimmie a Whale Salad Sandwich with some Dolphin on the side.  Don't give me that "Dolphins are intelligent" crap.  Look, we are only catching the stupid ones.  If we keep weeding out the ones dumb enough to get caught in a net, then we are allowing the smart ones to have better breading privates right?  Yeah, pretty soon the Dolphins will be smart enough to help us catch the bigger and tastier whales.

Tracy takes on Cuba:  “If you have been watching Fox News, today, you have seen the Cuban refugees, treading water off the coast of Key Largo.  It makes me so sick to see them struggle so hard to make it to dry land, and will probably not make it, and then be sent back to Cuba, to face imprisonment.  We have so many Cuban friends in Miami, and they are just wonderful people.  They are so Patriotic, and I have never met a group of people who had such a great work ethic.  They are very well educated, and self supporting.  They will work two or three jobs, to support themselves, and are glad to do it.  They do not go on welfare, like the Mexicans who cross our borders.  Clinton passed a law called "Wet Foot, Dry Foot,"  that says if they can get to dry land we will listen to them before we send them back.  If they can't make it to dry land they are sent back immediately, which means prison.  They risk, their lives, and all they have, which under Castro’s, regime, is very little, to get here.  I have sent messages to our congressman, and our senator, and Farm Boy called the Whitehouse this morning about this.  We need everyone out there, to call or write their congressman to change this law.  It was instituted to appease Castro, and it is wrong.  The Cubans, in Miami are getting very angry about this, and being mostly Republican, we could loose their votes for Bush, in the election.  We need to get behind our Cuban/American friends, and do a mass call to arms about this.  It just breaks my heart seeing them struggling to get here, and then being sent back.  We have to stop it now.  Tracy.”  No, I’ve not seen this but I know of it.  Back in the 50’s Cuba was the height of social diversions.  It was THE PLACE.  Great food, great music, dancing and sexy people… It was the place to go for a good time.  Then Cuba had it’s little revolution and the communists took over.  Pretty much everyone is just waiting for that bearded fucker Castro to just die.  I don’t think there is any official government memo about it or anything, but it’s a given that as soon as Castro goes to hell we will talk to the Cubans again.  As much as this situation sucks, let’s not forget that this is all Castro’s fault… not Reagan, not Bush, and not even Clintons.  I know I am preaching to the faithful, but I have a lot of readers who might not understand this.  And after Oliver Stone’s new movie comes you can just bet he is going to do everything he can to make that bastard look like a hero.  We almost had a nuke-fight because of that asshole and Stone is going to make him a movie star.  Nice.  Way to go Hollywood!  Make the bad guys the heroes.  What is it with Hollywood and that?  (Oh, they are being controversial to get you to think! – I call bullshit on that)  If Oliver Stone and his crew were in Cuba – they would probably be in a prison cell.  I wonder what kind of movie he would make if he was baking in Castro’s dungeon during a hot Cuban summer.   You know, I bet they don’t have cable TV there or even *shock* air conditioning!  Your right, Tracy… there are a lot of good people in Cuba and good Cubans in the US… all of us are just waiting for Castro to kick the bucket so we can open up talks to open up Cuba again.  Can you see what would happen if all the sudden Cuba opened up?  All the business flowing back and forth?  It will be amazing.  Cuba will be reborn.  There is something I want from Cuba personally… one of those big 1950’s cars that they have there.  Cuba is a living automotive museum in that regard.  When the doors shut on Cuba, the cars that they had are the cars that they still have.  I want one.  I want to bring home and restore it.   I think the best car designs in American History were in the 50’s and it’s all gone downhill since.   I bet I could buy one of those cars in running condition and little rust for only 100 US dollars.     Your right, we need action taken about these refugees… they should not be sent back.  They are risking everything to try to get out of Cuba and if we send them back, they go to jail.  I’ll send some letters myself.

Stoked.  Matrix 2 is out now and I’m seeing it Friday Night.  Can’t wait.  This flick looks fantastic.  There are going to be the usual suspects who make themselves sound superior by bagging on a popular movie.  No movie is perfect… who cares?  Movies are entertainment and not socially significant – people who take movies too seriously are fools.  Probably Liberals as well.  It’s odd… but you would think that Liberals as stupid sheeople as they are, would be huge fans of pro wrestling, NASCAR, high cliffs and other lemming magnets.  This is why I am going into psychology – to better understand the divisions and habits of these interesting creatures called Liberals.  

JFK had an affair with an intern.  So?  We knew he played around.  Why is this news now?  Oh, Mrs. Monroe was a celebrity and this other girl was a 19 year old intern.  Er… so?  I don’t really understand this whole affair thing.  Take a look at Jacky.  She was a hottie!  Why did he need to step out on that?  No wonder she got married after JFK died.  She wanted someone who loved her.  This makes Bill Clinton’s affair understandable.  Picking between Hillary and Monica, I’d have picked Monica too.  The real question about the Clinton’s isn’t why were they together (it’s obviously a political arrangement because you have to be a couple in US Politics) but why are they still “together”?  They are about as together as California is connected to Florida, but they are not divorced.  You would think with this Monica thing, papers would have been filed right then and there.  Oh well… never be surprised by the immorality of immoral people.  

May 14th, Wednesday: Since I have been having such a good day… I have something to give back to the world.  This was linked of FARK.COM, a website that I think everyone should give a look to at least once a day.  http://www.skygge.dk/Star_Wars_Kid_Remix.wmv  We here at Ogre Manor find his lack of skill disturbing.

This isn’t an “Up” but it made me laugh out loud for a good long time…  France… I can’t even type this without cracking up… France is giving us “Conditions” for how to deal with Iraq.   Here is the article.  Give me a fuqqing break!  If we don’t follow these conditions?  What are they going to do?  Furiously surrender at us?  I’ve said it before and I will say again.  Fuck France.  These guys have made themselves look like total fools.  They had all these billion dollar contracts with Saddam that they wanted to protect by putting off the war.  I have a contract for France.  Let's let France be in charge of digging up, identifying, and honorably burying all the dead people found in these mile long mass graves.  15,000 in just one of them.  France, Germany, and Russia can deal with these... and THEN they can try to tell us we were wrong.

We received several “Ups” for the day.  First off, I went in to my local Bone Cruncher and got big time crunched.  Then I had the acupuncture treatment that included jumper cables clamped to the needles.  The only thing I don’t like about that is the 20 minutes I have to lay on the table.  I don’t have 20 minutes to just lay there.   Next time, I’ll just have them hit me with a Tazer.  20 minutes worth of treatment in about ½ a second.  Wouldn’t that work?  Hmmm… You bake a frozen pizza for 20 minutes at 350* not for 10 minutes at 700… so I guess it wouldn’t work.  The icing on the cake of course is the message by the redheaded babe with the glorious breasts.  Yummy.   Oh, and my Migraine is now gone.  So that was an “Up”.

The next “Up” I had was an email giving me an article from the Washington Post.  “House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) said most House members are willing to let the ban expire next year. The votes in the House are not there to continue the ban, DeLay told reporters.” SWEEETNESS!  I think Bush is just playing House Politics in saying he supports the ban, but I haven’t seen him make any move to continue that ban.  Bush and the House both know where to go with this… and what happened when that Ban was passed.  American Voters do not like this ban.  Very shortly this ban will be a footnote about a great mistake in our history.  To celebrate this Ban sunsetting… I am going to get me a Mini Uzi.  For a short time I had a Micro Uzi, but it was totally useless so I sold it.  Mistake, yes.  But I want another one.  A Mini Uzi with a folding stock.  That’s what I want.  Oh, and a suppressor on it.  Hey, this would be for home defense.  There are a lot of assholes that live around here, what can I say?   Okay, that was “Up” number 2.  My day was going great. 

Then it got even better… I caught a little FOX NEWS when I was at my in-law’s house… The NAACP’s law suit against the gun industry was shot down today.  The suit is that the Gun Makers and Distributors should be held liable for gun violence.  This will make it very difficult for future legal actions of this nature.  “Up” number 3.

Can it get any better?  Yup. 

“Up” number 4 comes from back home in Virginia. “Just wanted to thank you for the Mothers Day greeting.  I heard you called on Mothers Day.  Thank you for that.  I am sorry I was not home to get the call.  I so enjoy reading your Mad Ogre.  I was so excited to get home, and get on the page to catch up.  I missed it the whole time we were in Miami.  I need to get me a lap top, so I can take Mad Ogre with me.  I think you are doing a great service by having this site.  You could end up being the next Rush.  I think you have a gift for it.  This is your way of teaching people.  Believe me, they need it.  I love you son, and hope you are having a great day.”   Yes, Momma, I am indeed having a great day! 

Generally when I put a link up to another site on my links page, I send an email simply asking for permission.  I had mentioned the excellent site “American Angst” and gave a hyperlink so my readers can check it out.  This is my reply:  “Thank you, sir.  I would be honored to be linked to from your most excellent site.  You in turn have a thought provoking site as well, which you apparently have put much effort into creating and maintaining.  I managed to briefly cruise through the intro page before business called me away, but you have been bookmarked.  Your humor reminds me of my own DARK THOUGHTS area.  Do you have a 'banner' graphic for your site available?  If so, please send it to me for inclusion on my site.  I would like to add you to my links page on my main site, under the "People with whom I am well pleased" area.  I will be visiting your site again and in depth, as time permits, but you have definitely intrigued me.  God bless you and yours, always.  Christopher T. Shields – ‘BLACK ECHO’".  I’m calling that email “Up” number 5. I might be a CLP Coated, Deep Blued, High Polished, High Carbon Steel Ogre on the outside… but I am red and juicy on the inside.  Complements are most welcome, and too few.  More often then not I only get crap from angry liberals and the email can be summed up as “You Big Stupid Head” and it’s always from an anonymous address.  I don’t post my hate-mail, but if you want to see some check out Black Echo’s hate-mail page… hilarious.   His site is now linked in my list of worthy Links.  Thanks for the email Officer Shields, Stay Safe and Watch Your Six.

Speaking of Six, I have "Up" number 6 from our correspondent Tracy.  “This is a rant on colleges using our tax money on sex fests.  I have been listening to the Fox News channel about the JMU -James Madison U. sex fest.  Ok, they were supposedly educating these college students about safe sex.  So, they had bands, and all kinds of extra goodies going on at the same time, and then they had this Penis that the girls could put condoms on.  Wow, now I am all for educating kids on sex, but please don't sit there and tell me, that these college kids, don't know what a condom is, or how to put one on.  Come on, it isn’t brain surgery.  I would challenge a five year old to put one on, and I would place a bet, he could do it.  So, please tell me, why I have to pay my hard earned dollars for these kids to learn how to put one on.  These are the same kids, who graduate from college not knowing who participated in the Civil War, or who could not tell you where the heck Paraguay is.  But hey, let’s teach college kids how to use condoms.  Please! You know, I use to respect people who had college degrees, but know, I am just thinking these guys are morons.  They have spent endless amounts of money, and spent years getting a certificate that means nothing cause, they are not educated!  Just ask some simple questions about history, geography or politics.  Ask them about beer, or wine, or drugs, or sex, and they have all the answers.  Mostly it is yes, we want all of the above. If you want to teach safe sex, then it needs to be in a class room, in elementary school, cause that is where it is starting now days. These college students who seem so self righteous about their educating about safe sex, are right on, cause that is all their learning these days, from what I can tell.  I am sick to death of Universities, giving us all their crap about what they know.  They know nothing about life, or the real world.  These kids go there to drink, and have sex, and what ever else they want to do.  If they wanted to learn, they would be reading a book once in awhile.  Oh my gosh, should they read a book on their own, that wasn't required reading.  Would it be to much to ask, that if you don't know about safe sex, you go the library and read a book????  Guess not.  It has to be disguised as a party, or no one would show up.  They even admitted that.  College graduates?  More like "I've partied for four years, and have less brain cells now, than before graduates."  I am just too angry to make since, but you get the picture.  Tracy”  Tracy, your picking on the bastion of Liberal thinking… the Academic Empire.  Because these guys are all in the Liberal’s pocket and support and promote the Liberal agenda, the Liberals all feel/claim an intellectual superiority.   Well, I might be a University Student myself, I am also a student of the Institute of Advanced Conservative Studies, taught by Professor Limbaugh… and I have learned to see through the smoke screens and have looked at the little man behind the curtain.  What did I see?  A short fat pimply woman that hates men.  She wants to turn all little boys into little girls… and wants all the men – especially white men – to feel guilty.  Guilty about Slavery.  Guilty about Woman’s Suffrage.  Guilty about over achieving.  Guilty about the Founding Fathers being all “Old White Guys”.  Guilt, Tracy, that we white men even have dicks.   This guilt trip doesn’t work on me, Tracy.  And it doesn’t work on those whom I call friends.  We are PROUD of our Founding Fathers.  We are PROUD of the fact that we OVERCAME slavery.  We are PROUD of the fact that we have moved past Woman’s Suffrage.  We are PROUD of our achievements.  And we are PROUD that we have dicks.   Big, huge, throbbing dicks that we have used to sire the most beautiful children in the world.  And when we didn’t have to listen to some professor for 600 dollars a credit hour to learn how either.   These academic people would have you believe that they know more about what is good for you, than you do.  This is the basis of all Liberal Thinking.  And to enforce this, they are literally rewriting history.  Seriously.  Look at the new text books in California.  Everything they don’t like, they are just cutting out or changing.  Everything that they disagree with gets tossed or glossed.  Look at the University in Massachusetts…  Wasn’t Boston one of the Key Players of our American Revolution?  Yes, it was!  Yet they are tearing down the symbol of the Minuteman!   I find this appalling.  I find the Academic World to be mostly disgusting.   

May 13th, Tuesday:  Looks like the NRA's move was shot down... Keep pushing guys!  It is a good fight, and I'll help you.  You'll have my donation shortly. 

Bob Graham is an idiot.  That is all.

DemocRATS leaving the state to shut down the legislative work there.  Didn't I call DemocRATS Weapons of Mass Obstruction?  WTF is this going on in Texas?  Running off to create a publicity stunt... Nicely done Dems... And here I was thinking Bob Graham was being a pioneer in mining for new lows.  Judas Priest!  You cannot watch the news or read a paper without some Liberals making a huge asses of themselves.  The Governor has sent the Rangers out, but was blocked by the DemocRAT governor of Ok.  Slimy move.  I think to Governor of Texas needs to order such fools to be held liable for the cost of this stunt.  What are the daily costs of the Texas State legislature?  This is the most chicken-shit move I've heard of.  The ones who remained in Texas need to go ahead and vote and then arrest the assholes pulling this disruptive stunt.  Perhaps a law should be levied that if you bail out, the amount of votes needed to pass anything goes down.  Meaning if only 6 or 7 legislators bother to show up - then that's all that is required to pass the law.    This quorum thing is being used for ill purposes.  I hope this has some national level repercussions...  I hope this routine plays poorly for the DemocRATS... I don't want this obstructionist ploy becoming the new policy...  They are acting like spoiled brats.  The don't have the votes, so they are taking their ball and going home... You don't play by their rules, no one can play.  I was watching some little kids at the park doing the same thing.  The kids were 5 or 6.  I'm sure the DemocRAT National Committee are a buncha proud papas of these little Texans.

It really shouldn't surprise anyone just how LOW the DemocRATS will sink.  The DemocRATS are now blaming Bush for the terrorist bombing in Saudi Arabia.  First off, does the fact that there was a bombing surprise anyone?  A bombing?  What?  Where?  In Saudi.  Oh.  No, I guess that isn't surprising at all.  But it's Bush's fault.  *sigh* I can't even comprehend the utter vacuum that is the Liberal Intellect that could even come up with this shit.  I was hesitant in mentioning anything about the bombing, as I am hesitant to mention all the Tornado casualties here in the us... Bad things happen and there is nothing we can really do about it.   However I have just heard that some DemocRAT jackhole is saying that it's Bush's fault because he would have handled the Afghanistan differently.  He would have waged WAR instead of waging what he called "A Man Hunt".  WHAT THE HELL?  WHO IS THIS JACKHOLE AND WHY HASN'T HE BEEN RECALLED?  I have a real problem with a guy not just armchair quarterbacking, but doing so based on a full blown LIE.  No, he would NOT have WAGED WAR... HE WOULDN'T HAVE DONE JACK SHIT because this fucknozzle OPPOSED going into Bedsheetistan in the first place.  So not only would this bombing have happened, there would have been MORE of them, and they would have been happening here on US SOIL!  If Al Gore had been the President, Bin Laden's boys would have been coddled.  Treated like spoiled brats that threw a tantrum.  Bedsheetistan would have been given financial aid because they are obviously just troubled.  10 American Dead here, and this politician is playing games with it.  Disgusting.

Do you know who is troubled?  Liberals.  Liberals are deeply troubled.  I am about ready to write my congress-critters to put forth a bill that required Mental Health Examinations of all Liberals... but cause I am convinced that not only are they just so rock hard stupid, but are also snake-shit crazy.  These guys are so nuts... crazy to the point of being possibly dangerous to themselves and others.  Any cop out there, if you run into a true believing Liberal, call in a 10-96 and treat them like you would an E.D.P.! 

One of the Cheech and Chong duo has been busted.  Can you guess what for?  You have 3 guesses... No, traffic tickets isn't it.  Nope, removing the label from his mattress isn't it.  Child Porn?  Nope... For selling drugs.  Who didn't see that one coming?

One of the more interesting things on the net to read... American Angst.  It's about motorcycles.  I don't know how many of my Horde enjoy the two wheeled freedom... but it's worth looking at.  I like Harleys because I like motorcycles.  Period.  I like all of them.  No, I am not stupid, I am just not that passionate about being exclusionary of any type of bike.  Now, I am wanting a Chopper, true.  And I will probably use an HD engine when I start building it.  There are other great bikes... Hondas and Yamahas are great bike.  I am loving the new big cruisers they are putting out.  I wouldn't turn down any bike that was over 750CCs.  They are all a lot of fun.

Living in Vernalstan is something I wouldn't wish on anyone I liked.  However, the upside is that if you want to go shooting... you can.  And generally you can go 5 minutes in any direction and do so at leisure.  However I have noticed in several places other than my usual spot, that this trash this is absolutely out of control out here.  I want to challenge all shooters to do just a small little thing.  A random act of kindness.  Along with your usual range kit, put in a large plastic trash bag.  And while your setting up or taking down targets, or policing your brass... pick up some trash.  You don't have to pick up all of it, but pick up some.  If you have a group of shooting buddies, and you guys pick up some every time you go - you can with little effort get the whole area picked up.  This is something I am going to do next time I head out for some shooting.  Maybe later today in fact.

Reader sent in a disturbing email.  He simply said "SHIN WAS RIGHT" and a hyperlink.  North Korea shoots at US Helicopters with a laser.  I don't care if it's a laser that doesn't any damage... but it could blind the pilots and the NK Goons know that.  That means this was an overt hostile act, and I don't care if it was a widdle bitty waser, phaser, or even a flashlight... it was an overt hostile act firing a weapon at US forces... an act of WAR.  If North Korea wants to start something, I am more that willing to throw down.  Hey NK - SAY WHEN!  I am very sick and tired of North Korea's bullshit.  We need to give them a lesson in humility.  That little Don King hairstyle wearing gnome needs to get his ass kicked.  If I could, I'd personally go over there and slap his teeth out of his skull.  That's right... slap.  Not punch.  Not with a fist.  He doesn't deserve the honor of a real hit.  He needs a slap to the face.  You see, that would be a huge insult to the little despot.   Repeated slaps across the face, until he is spitting out teeth.  Then perhaps after the slapping, or when I get tired, sink an M9 Bayonet in to his chest, then light him on fire.   This guy pisses me off more than Saddam.  This guy is more evil than Saddam.  This guy is in dire need of the Tomahawk/JDAM treatment.  I think this bullshit is a result of our rather flacid response to China when they crashed into our P-3 Orion and it had to do an emergency landing on Chinese soil.  (READ:  My Apology to China on April 16th)  If we had slapped down China's blustering then, North Korea wouldn't be so boisterous now.  This (and Bin Laden) is a DIRECT RESULT of Bill Clinton's lack of Leadership.  If Bill Clinton hadnt caved in and given N.K. everything it wanted last time they were farking around with Nukes... these guys wouldn't be in the news today.

I talk about it yesterday, and it's news today... Danny Glover is headlining Fox News today.

May 12th, Monday:  Guys, I have added a lot of rants to earlier posts from today, so you might want to go back and look at those again.  

Looking forward to reading the most expensive book every printed… However it’s not out yet.  Hillary Clinton hasn’t decided how to promote it yet.  Evidently 60 Minutes is out of the question due to Bill’s 100,000 a week job with them.  So there is Barbara Walters… but that is a no go because Barbara interviewed Monica.   Do you think Hillary was really pissed at Bill for the Monica thing, or just pissed he got caught?  Yes, I am planning on reading that book.  The biatch is potential POTUS Candidate… if there is any chance she could win it – I think everyone should read her book and see where she is coming from.  Her first book was evidence enough that everyone in New York that voted for her is a drooling moron.  Hey Hillary, I know where you can interview to pimp your book.  How about Sean Hannity's and Bill O’Reilly’s shows?

I feel bad about Mr. Lethal Weapon Danny Glover.  You know, freedom of speech is wonderful thing… but because of his criticism of President Bush he may lose his lucrative gig as MCI spokesman.  This is just, just, just not fair!  I mean, he can call the President of the United States a Racist if he wants to!  He can support Castro if he wants to!  Sure he can!  And MCI, can get all the calls and letters and emails from customers saying that they are dumping MCI because Danny Glover is a jackass.  Hmmm… “We chose Danny Glover because he is popular.”  Granted.  “We might dump Danny Glover because he is pissing our customers off.”  Expected.  Poor Danny.  No one wants to be in his neighborhood.  What is it with these celebrities that support a Dictator like Castro?  These idiots like Redford, Glover, and Nicholson… comparing Bush to Hitler and then supporting Castro and Saddam… these guys are is so stupid.  They have no idea what a real Dictator is like.  They have no clue what living under oppression is like.  Maybe, just maybe… these rich assholes in Hollywood have too much freedom.  Paid for by guys who support the President and go abroad to enforce our interests and policy… and fight for Bush.  *sigh*  And fight for Danny Glover’s right to slander the President… shit.   I hope MCI dumps him.  I bet they could make a good deal on that Dell Dude.  That kid is needing a new job.  “MAN!  Your Making A CALL!”  Hmmm… doesn’t work. 

THE PROPHET OGRE READS HIS CRYSTAL BALL:  I predict that the next Liberal ploy will be "There is no such thing as Free Speech" in America anymore.  I know that sounds stupid, because of obviously they are say it and getting away with saying... but the Liberal Sheeple are so very stupid.  They will cry about Danny Glover.  They will cry about the Dixie Chicks... you watch... Free Speech is the next issue since (and I will get to this in a second) the economy is starting to improve much to the horror of the Liberal Left.  "People who speak out against the President and Conservative Values are facing repercussions!"  or "People who didn't support the war are being discriminated against!"  We will of course also hear from the left many interesting variations of this.  The Liberal Left, being the Weapons of Mass Disruption that they are, will say all these things and more against the Republicans and President Bush... including supporting Castro... and NOT ONE of them will be imprisoned for it.   You just watch... I predict Clover and the Dixie Chicks will not see one day in a jail cell for anything they have said.  Yet Free Speech is abolished.  Right.  Do you know who is REALLY against Free Speech?  The Liberals.  They HATE free speech when that speech is contrary to the Liberal point of view.  The Conservatives tolerate it, but the Left does everything it can to crush it.   This isn't just on a National level but the core of the ideology.   I remember very clearly my college philosophy class that got me in hot water with my Dad when I dropped it.  You see, I dropped it because I was censured in that class.  Understand, the first thing said to the class by the Prof was that ALL OPINIONS are VALID, and that ALL OPINIONS would be considered.  After only 2 weeks, I was no longer allowed to express any dissenting arguments.  You see, it started out bad, because I would attend the class in my Battle Dress Uniform and sometimes even smelled of burn gunpowder.  This was a bad thing because I was in a class full of and taught by liberal hippies.  I was the only Conservative there, and not just that, but an actual member of the *aghast* military and I ate meat!   When I expressed dissenting opinion to the teacher's point that father's only love sons out of some latent homosexual feelings, I was not just shunned, but ordered silent.  In protest I would silently snack on beef jerky, just to ruffle the feathers of all the vegetarians there. I could not stay in the class much longer after that... so I dropped it.  My point of this goes back to the Professor's first remarks... all opinions will be considered.  All opinions except any right wing, conservative opinion.   I wonder ...how does the 70 artists and writers locked up in Cuban dungeons feel about Danny Glover's free speech?   

Stock Market is doing well.  Cisco System is doing strong, bringing with it all the other Tech Stocks.  Why would all the sudden weak tech stocks and other stocks in the market all the sudden have a rebound?  Wouldn’t have ANYTHING to do with the fact that the Bush Tax Cut is reported to being able to be passed… would it?  No!   This Tax Cut issue is funny.  If it wasn’t so damn important to the National Economy, we would all be laughing at it.  What is funny about it is that Bush is so painfully and obviously RIGHT and the Liberals are all up in arms doing everything they can to fight it.  First they are saying it wouldn’t work.  Then it’s reported that JFK said the same thing Bush is saying and proves that it will work.  Then the Libs are saying “See it’s not working!” when it hasn’t even taken effect yet.  What is up with that?  What Think Tank came up with that ploy? And now, the Libs are saying “Well, it will raise the Federal Deficit!”  Uh, Libs… who cares about the Deficit when what we need are more jobs and more income to get the economy rolling again?  When the economy is rolling, the deficit goes down.  When the Liberals are in check, the deficit goes down.   *sigh*  Giving Liberals the Key to the Federal Budget is like giving a first year college student a no limit credit card.   And of course, just like the college kid, he can’t see why giving it to him is not a wise move.

We are hearing some absolute silliness coming from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.  It seems there have “been some concerns” about the University’s mascot.  The mascot, Brothers and Sisters, is a “Minuteman”.  Like the image of the guy on the Mass State’s quarter.  The minuteman is been since 1776 the icon of “Patriotism”.  It’s an unknown man wearing the colonial tri-corner hat, holding a musket.  Who would have thought such a symbol of American Patriotism and Liberty would have been politically incorrect?  But thanks to these “Focus Group Studies that "expressed some concern with the single-gender ethnicity of the Minuteman, and the fact he's carrying a firearm." Thank Gawd we have identified yet another symbol of a violent white male, so we can change it to something more politically correct… (in this case to a new mascot that is going to be some kind of wolf… but they don’t know for sure yet.)  Thank Gawd we now have the more acceptable image of Mel Gibson toting a pony tail and a flag instead of an unknown man in a hat with a rifle.  (Sarcasm)  Brothers and Sisters, I am revolted.  I am disgusted.  In short, I am offended and I too have some concerns about the University and not it’s mascot.  

The NRA is up on the radar again.  It’s filed legal arguments opposing the new Soft Money law which bans contributions to national party committees, and is also suing to overturn the political ad restrictions from advocacy groups… these ads I have mentioned before… that law is the ultimate of retarded and unconstitutional laws.  It’s a literal ban on free speech because you can’t say JACK about anyone coming up on an election.   We wish the NRA, the only group with the balls to stand up against this, the best of luck.  Where the hell is the NAACP, The ACLU, or the AARP?  Don't they have advocacy issues they want to fight for?  You would think the ACLU would be the front runner in that fight.  Oh wait a second, that's right... these liberal groups don't want to overturn something that is in their favor allowing Liberal Candidates to be able to say any bullcrap they want and not have to worry about anyone proving them wrong.  

It has been reported that JFK had an affair with a 19 year old intern.  This didn’t surprise me.  Didn’t he also have an affair with Marilyn Monroe? What is the big deal with that?  The most powerful man in the world wanting to get a little on the side… that’s never happened before… Oh, wait a sec… is this supposed to somehow excuse Bill Clinton for his fling with an intern?  No, it doesn’t.  Because no one cared about Bill getting a hummer from an intern.   It doesn’t matter.  At least I don’t think it matters…  HOWEVER, note the all caps and bold, underlined letters… HOWEVER the problem is that Bill Clinton, the President of the United States, lied about it under oath and to the American People.  That is a huge problem.  Lying under oath… Huge Problem with that.  Now, if Bill had said, “Yes, I had sexual relations with that woman.”  Everyone would have said, “Oh” and moved on.  Because Monica, despite all the bad press and people calling her fat… is an attractive girl… and his wife Hillary is an ugly lesbian that Bill hadn’t had any of since Chelsea was conceived.  

Speaking of Monica Lewinsky… how come she is in the news every time she does something?  She wrote an Op-Ed piece for the LA Times and this is evidently news enough to be reported by the Associated Press and Fox News.  *sigh*  I think Monica was either totally stupid or absolutely brilliant… I think her notoriety comes from not the fact that she had relations with the POTUS, but that we all know exactly they did together.  I think if she is truly a smart woman, she has a lot of potential other than staring in porno-movies.  Just because she is notorious for sucking Presidential dick, doesn’t mean she is without political potential for good.  Take a look at Donna Rice.  Donna had been a force for a lot of good work for children causes.  Bully for her!  She has done something other than appear in a “Got Milk?” advertisement…  She has retained her dignity despite the publicized affair.  The only problem with Monica is that so far we haven’t seen her do anything other than trying to turn a quick buck.   Maybe she is destined for a porn film role... because she doesn’t seem concerned with dignity.  If she was, she would have kept her mouth shut and washed the dressed.  She said she was in love with Bill, or something like that… if she really was… she would have not blabbed to Linda Tripp about everything.  Hmmm… come to think of it, maybe she is just a stupid girl.  Do a Google image search for Donna Rice, then one for Monica Lewinsky… the results are telling.  Anyways, I have nothing against her.  Wish her well.    

Michael Moore is now working for Disney doing an Anti-Bush documentary.  Great.  Just another reason to shun all things from Walt Disney.  But It’s tough to do when you have kids.   I have a severe and acute dislike of Moore.  He is an upper level rung on the Fecal Roster ladder.   Why Disney is supporting him is beyond me.  I know the asshat is controversial and will make some money… but it’s well known he fabricated much of the Bowling for Columbine shit, and lied about the rest… Almost EVERYTHING in his film was proven false.  Yet he won an Oscar!  *!#@$&!#&)!@!!  Michael Moore need to fall down and not be able to get up… Hurry, someone give him a Bacon and Butter sandwich!

Email from reader: “That porn really pisses me off. So does the garbage. THAT’S what puts a bad name to shooting. You go to take your kid shooting and find THAT?!? WTF? Kick him in the balls for me if you find him. Personally I would have raked it into a burn-hole and burned it...and the rake.  About the Fish and Game Pine Copper, my Dad used to be one, he said there's some really screwy ones… I don't doubt it anymore. If he does it again you should walk up there and see what's up his ass. That's definitely *not* cool.  Yours, Robert”   Thanks for the email, Robert… Let’ me clarify something.  Not just for you, but I was thinking about this even before your email came in… I have nothing against Pine Pigs.  Not only do I know some very excellent National Park Service Law Enforcement Rangers, and Fish & Game cops (in Virginia) but I even held, and I have the documents to prove it, NPS LE Ranger certification that qualified me to work for the NPS as a Ranger.  So I have nothing against these guys.  But the Law Enforcement agents in my local area… out of all 12 agencies here (that’s right… 12 of them in my area.  12!) there are only about 5 of them that are worth a shit.  You can get pulled over for only 2 MPH over the speed limit anywhere around here.  Why?  Because they are all very bored with literally nothing better to do.  We have more cops per capita than anyplace I have ever seen.  Most of the time all these guys only serve to harass people.  They certainly don’t do anything to Protect and Serve… but they will show up to take your report after the fact if you have any problem.  *sigh*  Don’t even get me started on these guys. 

I have been interested in the HEZI SM-1 Personal Defense Weapon ever since I first heard of it.  They have a website under construction with little real information on it.  So I sent them an email asking a couple questions.  “When will a semi-auto version be available for sale in the US for civilians?  What is the expected “Suggested Retail” price?  The magazines… standard M1 Carbine mags or something different?”  To their credit, I was given a response the very next day.  “1) We hope to make one available sometime shortly after the summer. It should be legal in most states.  2) Pricing has not yet been set (but it will be more than those cheap "drop-in" Bullpup upgrades, as it is a serious piece of equipment) 3) It will take the standard M1 magazines.  Many thanks for your kind interest. Simcha Edell, Advanced Combat Systems Ltd.”  For those that don’t know what this is, it’s basically a modern bullpup version of the M1 Carbine.  This is one of those brilliantly obvious forehead slaps “Why wasn’t this done before?” kinda things.  Here is why.  It is chambered of course, for the .30 Carbine.  If your not familiar with .30 Carbine, it hits basically a really hot .357 Magnum… so it has a lot of juice wrapped up in a rimless cartridge capable of being cycled through a select-fire weapon system.  (Now, don’t get technical with me, I’m painting it in broad brush strokes so the uninitiated will be able to get an idea of what it is)  The .30 Carbine was used in the M1 Carbine of WWII fame.  It was a good and solid weapon system used often by paratroopers and infantry officers even thought the purpose of it was supposed to be as a simple to use “Personal Defensive Weapon” to replace the handgun.  This shows the M1 Carbine was more effective than it was originally intended to be.  Better than planned.  The cartridge has lived on since WWII in all different kinds of guns, including automatic handguns.  Since it is meant for use in a carbine barreled weapon, when used in a handgun, you get a huge snarlly muzzle flash.  It’s great.  The M1 Carbine is on my Must Get list.  It’s light, simple, and very easy to handle and make hits with.  It’s accuracy varies depending upon the example tested, but generally they are fairly accurate.  Enough to hunt deer with and expect regular success.  Great gun, great cartridge.  It’s on my top 10 favorite rifle list.  Now take all those good qualities, and fit it into a tight little compact bullpup chassis.  Put on some picatinny rails, shorten it’s length to 26 overall length with a full length barrel (making it 30% shorter than an M1 Carbine) and you have a winning concept.  From the factory: “We believe that the result transforms the M1 carbine into a modern PDW-type weapon. It is not merely a minor upgrade. In terms of performance - Israeli police tests concluded that you can get the first accurate shot off quicker; you can get the second and subsequent accurate shots off quicker; and you can switch targets quicker. Also, the shorter length means you can maneuver more easily around vehicles and buildings. Finally, it's very cool-looking.”  I HAVE TO GET ONE.

I have some political rants brewing but I have to hold off on them right now… I have a headache again, and I’m just not feeling up to it.  Politics… mainly the asinine actions and beliefs of the Liberal Left and the flaccid self proclaimed “Moderates and Centrists” just frustrate me to the point of great anger.  But hold on, like a pressure cooker, you have to vent some steam… These rants will blow out soon enough.

May 11th, Sunday: Happy Mother's Day to Mrs. Ogre, Momma Ogre, and my beloved Momma-In-Law who is not an ogre in any way...  Oh, and happy mom day to my sisters-in-law.  Including Dacia who reads MadOgre.com and talks about it to my M.I.L....  And of course happy momma day to all the other mommas who may or may not read MadOgre.com...  Today is a beautiful day here in the middle of nowhere and we are enjoying it a great deal. 

You know how DVD movies always have these little extra cut scenes?  Quite often the little extra scenes contain pieces of the story that give more depth to the plot, the characters, and the film overall.  Yet these scenes get cut from the theatrical release.  Fellowship of the Ring had 45 minutes worth.  Dune had a couple hours worth... And most flicks seem to have at least 10 minutes if not more.  If your going to take the time to bring a story to film... Spending millions of dollars doing it... Why wouldn't you want to tell the story as completely as possible?  Trimming a film down to tell only the essential parts of the story when you have everything else is needlessly cheapening your efforts.  I think modern American audiences are willing to sit longer than 1.5 hours if you make it worth our time.  That, and if I'm dropping 8 bucks on to see a flick... You damn well better make it worth my while because I've invested time and money into you.  I want the full story... All of it.  I don't want to have to wait 6 months for the DVD Special Features to tell me what the hell was really going on and why the character wanted to do what they did. DVD Special Features should give me interviews, out takes, commentary, and other shit - but not missing chunks of the story. " Like X-Men 1.5"  With all the extra stuff that fleshed out and explained the story better... Why the hell didn't you just do it that way in the first place?  1.5 was much better than the theatrical release because of all the little bits of information were included to fill in the gaps that your editing room monkeys cut out.  "cutting room"  Feh.  Film editors should just organize all the scenes and not remove content.

I went shooting yesterday (Saturday) with my Beretta 92FS.  I had ten bucks and some time to kill... So I killed it.  Wal-Mart sells these nice little boxes of bulk packed Winchester ammo... 115 grain FMJ 9mm rounds.  It's pretty good stuff.  Seems to be pretty consistent and potent stuff.  I say "seems" because I don't know for sure... I don't have a chronograph.  The 100 rounds went through the gun without a hitch... And I'm pleased to say that I even hit everything I wanted to hit.  So in that area of shooting today, I was most pleased.  What pissed me off however are 2 separate things not involving guns or ammunition.  First up - the freaking porn magazines all over the place.  It's bad enough when Range Slobs dump 800 cans, hubcaps, bottles and various other trash items all over the place... Making the shooting spot look like the dump.  But when you clean out a whole porn shop worth of sticky porn magazines and scatter them around the range - you need your ass kicked.  Dads take Boys shooting all the time.  I'm happy I didn't take my boys shooting this time!  If I catch the filthy bastard that did that... #@!$&*!#!*#$  I'm going to take drastic actions.  Not to mention the fact that the guy or guys had extremely poor taste.  Nekkid chicks is one thing.  Ugly nekkid chicks is something else, and completely unnecessary!  Now, the other thing that pissed me off... And this is the third time in a row that this has happened to me... A Sheriff's Deputy parks about 100 yards out in a safe direction and watches me through binoculars.  I don't know what the hell he is doing... Thinking I'm going to go nuts and shoot the wrong rock out in the middle of nowhere... Or maybe he just thinks I'm hot looking and the sick bastard has one hand down his pants.  Maybe he is the cat leaving all the ugly porn all over the place.  The one thing I do know... Is that this is harassment.  Next time I see that badge wearing fucknozzle - I'm getting his badge number and going straight to the Sheriff, and then the County Commissioner.  If the cop wants to make sure I'm kosher, he is welcome to address me, ask for my name and since I drove, my DL.  He is welcome to call it in and do a cursory NCIS search.  Hell, he is even welcome to shoot with me and share my ammo. (I'm such a fucking amiable and gregarious Ogre) However, he is NOT welcome to glower at me from a distance through a pair of spy glasses.  Just to show him his 100 yard distance wasn’t out of my range I did some 200 yard shots on some rocks that reacted very visibly to hits.  No misses.  I made sure Deputy Dog saw that and then packed up my shit, flipped him the bird, and left the area in a cloud of dust.  (off highway - no speed limit - he couldn't do shit)  Oh, next time I go shooting, I'm bringing a camera a  well.   A camera and a CZ-52.  Note: I just found out that this wasn’t a Sheriff Deputy… but a Fish & Game guy… a freaking Pine Pig.  This makes it even worse… This jackhole doesn’t report to anyone.  He does whatever the hell he wants.  Bastard.

May 10th, Saturday: We watched a pretty good movie last night called The Four Feathers.   Imperialist England goes out to Africa to get it's ass kicked.  During which time a group of friends in the service go over there to save the Queen's honor.  Well, all but one who chickens out.  Then he feels guilty and goes there anyways.  I thought it was well done.  Well done except the ending.  This made me wonder if there was a book.  Google showed me that there was.  Google then showed me that I could order the book from Amazon for only 5 bucks.  Good price, but I didn't want to wait for a week.  So I Googled for an E-book I could download.  Found several. All for 5 to 6 bucks... then I found one for free.   I love Google.   Technology is great.   One minute I am watching the DVD and wishing I had the book... next thing you know, I am reading the book on my iPaq with my wife.  Back to the movie, Heath Ledger did a great job in this film.  He is the lad from The Patriot and A Knight's Tale.   Talented kid.  His best movie yet.

Some feed back about the Big Al Exchange:  First, we have Farm Boy taking a shot:  “Where did "big "al  come from? Under Clinton’s desk, next to Monica? The rocks on Normandy beach that slick arranged in a cross were put there by one of his minions. As ogre said, the flag was push or kicked over by an aide. Everything about that man (and woman) was as phony as his middle-class tax cut. No pres. in history spent(wasted) more on stupid travel and PR stunts. Get a life ,al. You are too stupid to vote.  FB”   I have here my full response to your prior email Farm Boy.   You mentioned that you had to listen to the Liberal Leadership… This set me off on a little rant…  The only thing worse than listening to the liberal leadership, is having to listen to their mono-synaptic acolytes. The arguments are all from the same lines; Personal Attacks, Denial, Fact Fabrication, or Blaming us for some sort of hypocrisy that has little or nothing to do with the issue at hand.  Monty Python did a sketch about this... A man goes and pays for an argument and is only given contradiction in return.  It doesn’t matter the topic or reason - they will just contradict you regardless. When you ask a Liberal who is lashing out at "Top-Gun" for looking cool, about where the outcry was over Clinton's similar attempt ... You get no answers. Because the would have to face their own hypocrisy and admit they have nothing other than a dislike for Bush for simply not being Algore. They ignore Senator Byrd's history... And then call us names for bringing him up.  The liberals have something going for them... I liken it to a hive mind, but it's not as benign as a colony of insects...  No... They are far more ominous and distasteful than Ants.  They remind my more directly of the twisted and ruined townsfolk of a remote HP Lovecraft village.  Like an evil cult with malicious intent to sacrifice all that’s good to some slimy ancient bog monster. The Liberals have lost event the more remote attraction as entertainment... It's gone past funny, to the point it's like watching someone laughing at a handicapped person.  It just needs to stop.  These Liberals need to give it up, and be quiet.  The total void of morality and intellectual articulation is contemptible.  Trying to reason with a Liberal is like trying to make profit from multiplying a number against Zero.  Save the time and effort and just go straight to the part where you take your headache remedy as soon as you enter the same room with a Liberal.  Just consider it the shortest path between to points.  Or you could sum it this simple mathematical equation: L=H. Liberals equal headaches.

Next “Tracy Takes On”:  “Oh please!  Big Al with the little brain!  Yeah we can say we hate Clinton.  He is scum.  Everything he did was a photo op.  I have never in my life seen a more insensitive, insincere person in my life, except for his wife.  What the hell is the doing a line of coke stuff.  Something you had to make up, cause there sure as hell no reason to think he does coke.  However, Clinton has done everything from his aides to booze to hell and gone.  But hey, that's ok, I guess, cause after all you mindless idiots, do the same thing.  That's probably why you don't have a brain cell.  Big Al, you need to grow up "Dude"!  Anyone who says "Dude" just says it all!  Hey Al, guess what? I do hate Clinton.  Just like I hate people who promote Political correctness, and giving Peace a Chance.  If there was Peace, we wouldn't need to say, Give it a Chance would we?  Stupid slogan.  There would be no problem if there were peace you idiot.  So why don't you get over it, and accept the fact we have an adult in the Whitehouse now, and you, let me guess college student, can't stand it.  Grow up, get a brain, and stand for something!  Tracy”  Tracy, easily chanted slogans and rhetoric are easily memorized and regurgitated by the less intelligent.  The Liberal handlers use these to teach the sheep just like Sesame Street and Kinder Garden use them to teach the alphabet.     

Death and Taxes.   One of my readers went through my old “Presidential” page (More like Political Positioning Page) and gave it a read and feedback:  “Got one better for ya: **zero income tax for the average joe**. Since all of the proper required functions of the fed.gov--as put forth in the US Constitution--can be financed in entirety using only the import tariffs(taxes) that we currently are letting slide in the form of trade deficits. Not one penny of personal tax is even needed if you tax the trade crossing the border like you should be doing anyways, and thereby pay for the entire fed budget. Shit can the IRS, and make those leeches that work there get real jobs that produce something. The tithe is for the church, not the state. Leave it that way. - Brad”  Funny you sent this... I wrote that a long time ago and was just thinking about it.  Actually a 3% across the board would be perfect.  And the average Joe doesn't pay taxes anyways... he gets all withheld funds back every year plus any extra tax credits.  “Okay, compromise--I will go for your "3% tax"--IF everybody can deduct from this 3% all annual shooting expenses; ammo, break-free, holsters, memberships etc. For sure this expense has to be at least exempt from taxation anyway....call it a "tax credit" for being an "active gun owner". - Brad” Expenses made while maintaining a well regulated militia are full refundable and should be exempt from both sales taxes and registration.   The question then is “How do you prove the purchase to submit your tax claim?  Wouldn’t that me paramount to Registration?   No, not at all.  Not when you have the NRA handling and keeping track of it.  They will keep it honest.

May 9th, Friday:  I’m hearing on the news that George W Bush has just dropped the bomb on the Senate… Making some serious demands on getting the ball rolling.  Let me get more details and I'll give my take on this.  It's time we get the Majority back in power and using the Majority strength instead of being afraid of the Left's reaction to anything the Right does.   BULLY FOR BUSH!  

Here is an article about Bush’s speech this morning… Awesome. 

HP Lovecraft is one of the more interesting authors out there.  His writing style is old English, with emphasis on impression and description rather than dialog or action.  This means he can be painfully droll.  It also means I'm making use of "Encarta Pocket Dictionary" to look up words I've never heard of before... And often times the dictionary hadn't either.  However boring Lovecraft can be, if you stick it out, you are treated to some of the most chilling environments and situations ever conceived.  The coolest thing about it is the fact that he wrote it back in the late 1920's.  Pretty much before anyone else explored Horror as a genre other than Poe's macabre poetry.  Lovecraft's monsters are the most replicated of anyone’s. 

A couple things arrived in the mail for me today.  The gold edition of Rainbow Six. And a Cold Steel Recon Tanto.  Thanks go out to the senders.  Rainbow Six is a great game... The first "real shooter game" that attempted to make the game realistic... The Recon Tanto is a typical Cold Steel... Lots of strength and character, and often you'll get more than you paid for.  Especially in the fixed-blade category.  C.S. Made folders are second-rate in my book...  The only Cold Steel folders that I like are the big Vaqueros and the Gunsite folders.

So this Judge says he doesn’t see any harm when a Teacher screws one of her students.  Hmmm… well maybe he would be right if the 43 year old teacher was teaching college or something and the student was a consenting adult instead of a 13 year old kid.  And we wonder why the Democrats are fighting judicial nominees so hard… the Liberals probably LOVE this judges statement.  They are so busy sexualizing our children… they WANT this kind of ruling!  Thank goodness this jackass judge was called to the carpet about it.

This is something you don’t hear about every day… This felon is trying to evade the cops so he runs into this guy’s house.  Talk about the wrong house!  The felon was held at sword point until the cops arrived by a Samurai.  

Email back from Tracy:  “Hey, you published my article!  It is so cool to see what I say on a web site!  I got some results back from my physical I had the other day, and my blood sugar was up!  Gee's now I have to go back for a blood glucose test.  Gee's that's not cool.  Oh well.  I'll live, I'm sure.  You know, the liberals are such freaking cry babies!  They are sooooo jealous of Bush they can't stand it.  For them to criticize him for flying out to the Lincoln, is just plain petty.  He was honoring the heroes of this whole freaking world.  Those guys had been out longer than any other sailors since WWII.  They were so pleased that he came to see them and honor them that it will be an occasion they will never forge.  He showed them, that he cares.  Now let's go back one Pres.  Let's see, what did Clinton do for these same guys?  Hmm.  He cut back the military budget!  Making it harder for them to do their job.  Which, if I am not mistaken, is protecting people like Clinton, and Hillary!  Did he do anything to honor the Military.  No!!!!  Oh and by the way, isn't he the same guy who was a war Protestor, when he was in college?  Freaking weenie, left the country, to get out of going to war.  Our military knows that they have been supported, and honored this time.  Poor Viet Nam Vets. were ignored, at best.  Pres. Bush would have been remiss, if he hadn't done something extraordinary to honor the troops.  He loves those guys, cause he can relate to them.  Something I might add that a freaking weenie, peace nik, like Clinton, and most Liberals could never understand.  You know what!  Let's give peace a chance, by giving it to some people, like the Iraqi people.  Let's stop being corrupt, and selfish, let's put other first.  Let's not think about, how can I put more money in my pocket!  Giving peace a chance means taking action, so that it can.  Just like the word love, is an action word.  Just like charity, is an action word.  You have to do something, to make it work.  The liberals wanted to wait.  That meant, a longer jail term for how many children was it???  That meant, how many other Iraqi families would suffer from brutality, lack of food, lack of medical care.  Yeah, let's wait.  That is their only moto!  People who care don't wait!  They march in and do what has to be done!  Freaking liberals!  Do they not have a brain cell?  Do they not have the capacity to think logically?  I suggest they just shut the hell up, until they learn to think!  - Tracy”  I published this one too, Tracy.

Part of a discussion I have had today:

OGRE: “I was pointing out the hypocritical attitude when the previous president used military assets as a prop and nobody called him on it then. I remember the video... seeing the US Warship (looked like a battleship) in the background with Clinton walking along the beach with the gravestones. Looking reflective and in deep thought about the cost in lives of the whole invasion. He looked good. Especially when he stooped down to stand up a little flag that had fallen over.  Too bad that there are no gravestones on the beach as that photo I posted shows. And the little flag was laid there by an assistant before the shot.  So While there is a lot of backlash on Bush for landing on a carrier and using tax payers dollars... How come there was no backlash for Clinton's fictitious scripted stroll on the Normandy beach? The same people wanting to know the "Cost" were not asking Clinton how much his photo-op cost. Why was there was no backlash for Clinton's 3 trips to Navy ships?  And Please don't thing I don't hold Republicans at fault for Pork - Don't even get me started on the V-22 Osprey! You can search MadOgre.com for my comments about that POS. I just think it's laughable that the Byrd is talking about "Cost" when he himself is the King Of Pork. I've been in West Virginia several times - and you can't help but run into something named "Robert C Byrd" something or other.” 

Big Al: “Right, because remembering the fallen heros at Normandy is worse than going for a photo-op in an airplane and landing on a carrier for nothing other than to get in a jump suit, do a line of coke, and talk about how you flew the plane.  Oh, I get it. Bush was celebrating the end of the war. That bastard Clinton and his good PR skills, I mean he even stood back up a flag that fell, THE NERVE OF SOME PEOPLE! Dude, give up. You really, truely hate the man, and he never did anything to you.”

*sigh* This is the argument we are facing.  Clinton’s media event was just good PR and Bush being the Commander and Chief wanting to thank his troops is just a publicity stunt.   Brothers and Sisters… the Liberals don’t even know how stupid they sound.   That and I am now being mean to Clinton when I question the Liberal hypocrisy.  Yup.  That’s me.  A cold hearted bastard picking on poor Billy Clinton.

Email from Reader: “Hey Ogre.  If you don't mind, I'd like to give a plug to a little-known gear company called FMCO.  I don't have any affiliation with them, other than being a satisfied customer. http://www.angelfire.com/sk/fmco/ They make a very wide assortment of military style load bearing gear, vests, and pouches.  Their company is small and you don't see advertising for them, but I have quite a few examples of their equipment and I'm more than satisfied.  They are one of VERY FEW companies that make a Camelback holder that attached directly to the military GI load bearing vest, so you don't need two pairs of shoulder straps.  Blackhawk! (ugh) and Eagle don't make these, but FMCO does.  (They need to put this item on their website, but if you email them and ask they'll tell you about it.) In addition to making vests and pouches for almost any weapon (from the M1 Garand, to the FAL, shotguns, etc), they can also custom-make items to fit specific needs.  (Like an ALICE-compatible holster that'll fit a 6" N-Frame revolver.)  All of it is 100% American made.  Their customer service has been top-notch, too.  So go check their stuff out.  They're great for people like me (who like having gear regardless of whether or not they'll actually ever need it).”  I think you just did, Mike.  I really can’t say anything as I have not been a customer… but you are.  That tomahawk looks good.  Maybe one day I’ll have to get one and give it a test.

Email from our Automotive Man, Farm Boy “I have been struck the last few days at the bald-faced, naked viciousness of our liberal, patriotic, loyal opposition.  There is no rationality, ethics, morality or desire for the common good in their activities. While I am forced to listen to Pelosi, Rangel, Conyers, Puffster, little dick, etc., I want to run screaming from the room. Do they believe their silliness? Or is their only desire to screw the country by screwing Bush(TOP GUN)? By the way, Bush was in more danger leaving the ground in a F-102 than Algore was in his "war service".  I am familiar w/air guard pilots and they are not given an easy job. If the air force had not been so starved by the guns and butter pentagon priorities, TOP GUN could have been in more real danger. In know for a lot of years guard sticks often won the William Tell at Tyndall. But I'm way off subject. The dems have nothing to offer but fear itself. They desperately want the economy to tank. They rejoice in every piece of bad news from anywhere. It is visually ugly, obvious and repulsive, like a topless old Russian women I had the misfortune to see at 29th and collins on the beach one day. Yuk. Same w/The dems. Yuk. Watch Hillary. If the 9 drawfs don't come up w/a winner and any hope shows on the horizon; her draft push will spring forth fully bloomed. She is the embodiment of evil. She would have made the perfect wife for Saddam. She can destroy people with the same easy lack of shame as of baghdad buddy. We really need a bisexual vortex of evil. If it weren't for Rush, Fox news, G. Gordon, Sean, etc. Who can imagine how bad things would be? The Carrier episode is a too perfect example of how small and petty the libs are . - Farm Boy”   You are exactly right, FB.  Exactly right, and thanks for the email.  So when do I get another actual automotive article?

Email from long time Ogre Horde Member:  “Hey, I am sorry about the headache! I have one more rant on corruption.  I said a day or two ago that the sure sign of a nations decline was the corruption of it's leaders.  Well, I was never more sick or discouraged, or frustrated, then when we had Clinton in the Whitehouse.  He screwed his young aid in the Oval Office!  Now, what made it even sicker, was that so many people thought it was cool.  They thought to themselves gee, what a stud!  Hillary and Clinton, stole things from the White House, for crying out loud.  Some people thought that was ok.  They have broken the law on so many different levels, I can't even remember them all.  And guess what?  Some people want Hillary to run for Pres.  Gee's they must like getting beat up.  Clinton, and Hillary are the lowest form of human debris, that exists, and people want them to lead our country.  I'm sorry but these people should be in jail, not the White House.  Not ever again.  I remember the French telling us, that the US. was just too prudish to accept what is normal.  If that is normal for the rest of the world we are in trouble.  The US was founded by decent people who thought of others first.  They were not thinking to themselves, "What can I get out of this? " "How can I take advantage of this situation, and screw everyone!"  We need to find those who have the big picture.  They need to ask the question. How do we raise the standards of this nation, so we can lead the world in ethics, morality, economics, and health, and all of the good things that make us strong.  You have to respect your leaders, or you do not have a leader, you have a dictator! - Tracy“   Oh thanks for hitting on a key point Tracy… Let’s take note how the Liberals who were in such an outcry over every little insignificant item stolen from that Iraqi museum… History was looted!  Oh the humanity!   Feh!  Where were these concerned Liberals when the Clinton’s looted everything from the Whitehouse that wasn’t bolted down?  That stuff didn’t belong to the Clintons, it belonged to the American People and it belonged in the Whitehouse.   I think it should have been mandated that until every stolen Whitehouse item is recovered, the Clinton’s do not get to step one foot inside any Federal building.  No – screw that.  They should just be prosecuted.  Period.  Thieves should be busted, it’s as simple as that.    Thank Gawd we have GW Bush in the Whitehouse now and the nation is finally getting a taste of what it’s like to have a Leader in control. These Liberals are just seething and loathing that!

Just read this headline sent to be by Pvt Pyle:  “WASHINGTON — President Bush favors a bill introduced Thursday that would permanently ban assault weapons, but he is awaiting an administration study on how effective the current ban has been, White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said…”  There was more to the article, basically just talking about the AWB.  Now, if your more of a reactionary, you will read that first part of the sentence and not read past the comma.  Let’s look carefully at everything after that very important little comma… “On How Effective The Current Ban Has Been”.   If you are a student of Thunderstick University, you should take some comfort in the knowledge that the AWB hasn’t done diddly squat in regards to the effect for which it was intended.  I think we are seeing political doublespeak.  The only real question is which way Bush’s heart is really leading him on the issue.  However Bush does has Veto Power – but he doesn’t have to use it.  All he has to do is sit back and ignore this issue and look at other issues.  If Bush does nothing – the AWB will sunset and fade away.  If his heart really is for the AWB, and it doesn’t sound convincingly like he is – then he will exert some leverage on it.   The most important key person in this issue isn’t Bush.  It’s the collection of JACKASSES we have in both the Congress and the Senate.  While the Democrats are all united against, the Republicans have the Majority.  The only problem is that the Republicans are NOT united.  So the people that we need to concentrate on are the people that should be representing us… The Republicans, and any Libertarian that made his way into office.  I said it before – I’ll say it again…   Libertarians, we can pick our fights later, but right now we need to stick together for the greater good.   EVERYONE needs to write letters, send emails, and make phone calls to your representatives and senators.  Even your State Legislators… Make Your Feelings Known!  The Silent Majority needs to WAKE UP!   “All it takes for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing.”  We saw that happen when Clinton not just won office, but when he won his second term!  We almost had it happen again.  The Florida Vote was too close.  And why was that?  Because too many Conservatives sat on there asses and watched the Vote on the News instead of freaking getting out there and actually VOTING!  Of course I can’t say it’s Floridian Voter issues… it should never have even gotten that far… The Conservatives all over the nation should have got off their asses!   “Gore won the Popular Vote” because the Liberals went to the polls.  They might be much less intelligent, but even ants can accomplish some great feats… such as acting in unison.  Something the more intelligent conservatives didn’t do.  Maybe we are too smart for our own good.  Maybe we are as a whole more comfortable sitting back and pontificating and philosophizing the repercussions instead of actually going to the damn polls and casting the vote.      Here is what I want to see.  On Vote Day – I want to see Business closing for an hour or two and having all employees getting out and vote.  If you have employees – MAKE TIME.  Carpool to the Polls.  Have everyone meet there on the morning of the polls…  Get them out there.    Get everyone you can… friends, coworkers, all of them that you can… get them to Vote. 

There is one person I would like to hear from.  She is the only Liberal that I had any respect for.  I hired her when I worked for Nortel, and she was an awesome person.  She probably hate me for more aggressive conservative views and tongue-lashing of the left… but I want to hear from her on her take about the things I’ve talked about this last week.  About the war.  About the Carrier Controversy.  About Robert C Byrd’s statements.  About how the Left is acting… and about her take on the AWB.  (Assault Weapons Ban)  And about her take on the filibustering of these judges.  LOL, I remember we (my team) would all go to lunch together and ride in her VW Van… We called it the Tango Wagon because it was just like the Van in the movie Back to the Future with all the Libyan Terrorists sticking out the top of it… anyways… she may have been Liberal, but she was a good person.  And get this… She was pro-gun.  Quite a character.   I think I talked to her for about 3 minutes before I knew I had to hire her.  Smart, strong willed, opinionated… She made an incredible team member.  She was awesome.   Anyways, I’d like to hear from her and get her take on these things.   

Let's take a minute to talk about something a little lighter hearted... X-Men.  I took my oldest son to see X-Men 2 over the last weekend and we both enjoyed it.  I had taken him to see the first one as well.  While I've never been a fan of Comic Books, I have to say these latest comic to film efforts have been very good.  I liked Spiderman, and I liked X-Men.  X-Men 2, I liked a lot.  The underlying message of the X-Men is acceptance, and it's a good message.  The new film also added in a most interesting message... Faith.  Never mind the message comes from the one that looks like the Devil... point tail and all.  Faith and Acceptance are things we all need a bit more of and I think this film is over due on those marks.  Now, there are some that are not happy with "X-2"  The Islamists are saying that it's Anti-Islam.  WTF?  Where do they get that from?  "Striker's Ring".  OH PLEASE.  Gimme a break.  This just goes to show that someone, some place will bitch about anything.  You could hang a painting of a simple solid shade of blue - for the only reason that you had no other color of paint... and SOMEONE would be offended.   The X-Men movies are great movies....  Speaking of "Blue"  She was hot... You know what I mean...   Cool flick all around.  I liked the special effects... I liked the directing... I liked the story... didn't really like the ending, but I can see that it's a set up for an X-3 and if that is the case, it's a good thing.   I'm going to buy the X-Men 1.5 DVD as soon as I can.  It's a worthy addition to the collection.

Email just in from reader: “About Your Ogrish Stands on Issues, they ARE RIGHT ON. Hey Ogre, You got my vote!! But I would like to see a law that every American citizen should own a handgun and a long gun (rifle-shotgun is optional) for the protection of their property and the defense of our country. There should also be some Federal training for there use. – Kevin”  Thanks for the email Kevin.  Not only would I like to see guns universal amongst all non-felon mentally competent people of legal age… but I would like to see them as a fashion statement!  Make it “in vogue” to have your CCW weapon’s grip sticking out the front of your suite coat in a business meeting… with points given to the older and finer arms.  I want to see the gilded hilts of cap and ball pistols in the belts of bankers… I want to see Sheppard Smith on Fox News with the grip of an old model .44-40 peaking out of his suit.   Celebrate the one difference between America, and the rest of the world.  We have the 2^nd amendment, and we are PROUD of it!  PACK HEAT!  If you want to roll with an HK SOCOM in a tactical thigh rig… do it!   Fine Leather holsters becomes Fine Fashion.  Ted Blocker, Milt Sparks, Galco, De Santis become the new Tommy.   Hey, you can carry your gun loaded or not – but you will look out of style and weak without it!  “Check out Peter over there… he has been carrying that same gun for 3 days now! *snicker*”  A different gun for every day of the week.  And celebrities… They can never be seen with the same gun in public twice.    Rolex is the name of the high and mighty?  Not any more… Wrist Watches are fine, but a custom pistol is much much finer!   

May 8th, Thursday:  I updated some older content around the site... like the Ogre For President page... 

I've got nothing more for today other than a personal message to Robert C Byrd. -->

How the hell did this guy get into office, and how is he still there?  Couple months ago I drove on Robert C Byrd's freeway.  I hit a big pothole and threw a wheel weight.  My car was shaking for the next 20 miles until I could get my wheels balanced... so fuck Byrd.  This guy seriously needs to be put into check.  This is the cat I was talking about the other day... bitching about the President going to the USS Abe Lincoln.  What a hypocrite.  What a typical Liberal asshole.

Sorry about my harsh language and use of swear words... seriously.  I am trying to cut back, but when I talk politics, I get a little worked up.  Hence my migraine headache from hell that I have today.    

Email from a Reader:  “Ogre, I was listening to Rush Limbaugh today and I heard him talking about things you mentioned ysterday. Does Rush read MadOgre.com? I was just wondering. I have been reading MadOgre.com for a long time now. You have what must be one of the oldest “blogs” on the net. It is often said that instapundit.com is the oldest but looking at your archives you go back almost a year earlier. You advocate the Springfield XD. Just wanted to let you know that I have picked one up and I am plesed with it. I am no longer carying my SIG P228 in favor of the XD. It is an excelent little gun. Thanks for the suggestion. Why don’t you have one? – Rick”  Thanks for the email… and to answer your first question, of course he does.  All brilliant people do, Rick.  Actually this has been mentioned before... I say something and the next day Rush is quoting me... It happens.  Sometimes.   On to the guns - You have dropped the 228 in favor of the XD.  Interesting… I would have considered the 228 to be the better pistol of the two.   The XD is impressive, especially the little Mini-XD.  The grip is small and the trigger reach not very far… meaning it is easy to handle for those with small hands.  Yet for even those with larger paws, it is still a good fit.  It’s accurate and reliable.   Not much more to ask of it.  I am happy you are happy with it.  Everyone that has listened to me, has been.  When I went to go get one for myself, I found my Beretta instead.   The XD is still on my, MUST GET list.

We have been watching the progress of the USS Ronald Reagan.  Reagan was a great President… and this is a HUGE honor to the great man.  I am wondering what kind of ship will be commissioned as the USS George W Bush… a carrier?  A Destroyer?  One of the Marine mini carriers?  Hmmm… I hear Princess Cruise Lines is already planning on commissioning an SS William Jefferson Clinton pleasure cruiser…

Sorry about the lack of content today… I have a migraine from all my vein popping ranting so far this week.  

May 7th, Wednesday:   I've been reading a lot of HP Lovecraft's works regarding the creatures called the "Cthulhu".  HPL as I'll call him, was a pretty twisted fellow.  His writing style is deep and I'm finding that I am getting into it more so than I expected.  I've read a lot of HPL, but that was over a decade ago, back when I was less into horror and thus didn't really get into it.  The Cthulhu are pretty horrific freaking things...  I would not want to meet one unarmed.  I'm not sure if I'd want to meet one armed either.  However, if I was given the unavoidable task of dispatching such a creature, I would look for an autoloading 10 gauge shotgun loaded with 000-Buck alternating with solid copper hollow point sabot slugs.  For backup, I'd bring the 3rd battalion of the 75th...  And the 11th Armored Cavalry. 

My email is acting funny... Every so 0ften I'll go to reply to a message and I'll get a message saying my system isn't configured to send... I'll shut down Outlook and restart it... And it'll then work just fine.  For awhile.  It's starting to really bug me.  I'm not sure what the deal is... If it's Outlook, Norton, or my internet connection.  I tend to think it's the connection... My connection seems to be rather fucked up more often then not.  The great speed I had initially has tapered down to "might as well be dial-up" speeds.  Uploading any change to M.O.com takes forever.  I'm not sure if it is worth it... Because it's nor just about speed... I'm getting too many page can not be found or unable to locate server errors.  Combine all these factors and I might as well be using a damn dialup.

The Liberals are running two major plays right now… the economical one that I have touched on earlier… and the other one is about W.O.M.D.   The argument that since “We have not found any W.O.M.D., the war was unjustified since the intent was to capture W.O.M.D.”   Please, this is one of the lamest moans from the left I have heard in a while.  This isn’t just the normal Liberal fabrication of their own “facts”… this goes further.  This smacks of Baghdad Bob’s denial of the blatantly obvious.   Here is the deal.  We know he had them because he actually used them.  During the shooting war on the way to Baghdad, they fired SCUD missiles at them – something that they were not supposed to have.   We found chemical weapon factories.  We found chemical weapon mobile labs.  We found chemical weapon delivery devices.  We found evidence that not only did they have them, but just days before we rolled in on them, they destroyed good amounts of the chemical weapons and what they didn’t destroy, they shipped to Syria.  It doesn’t matter one bit if we find actual live chemical weapons now.   This is what you call a preponderance of evidence.  You don’t have to have body to be convicted of murder.   Let’s use an analogy.  Saddam lives in the US… Saddam is a juvenile on probation.  Thusly Saddam is not allowed to have a gun.  Okay, now lets say that Saddam has bragged to friends that he had a gun.  So authorities say “We want to search your room”.  Saddam says “Sure, just a second.”  So the authorities go in and look around… they move to look in the dresser drawer and Saddam says, “no you can’t look in my private underwear drawer – you have to get out now”.   So he pushes them out.  The inspectors say “If you have a gun, you have to get rid of it.”  Saddam says, “Yeah yeah yeah, I’ll get rid of my gun that I don’t have.”  12 hours later the inspectors are hearing that Saddam is making threats to use his gun… so they go back.  Saddam after some arguing allows them to come back in and look around again.  The authorities look around and find some interesting things that maybe someone not allowed to have a gun shouldn’t have.  They see some piles of gun magazines, they find empty brass casings, they find a gun cleaning kit, they find Gunsmithing tools, they find gun oil, they find ammunition reloading supplies…  then they find notes that he talks about his gun, they find evidence that he purchased a gun… Everything is pointing to the fact this Saddam kid has a fixation about guns and has a gun… but they don’t actually find the gun.   Do you revoke this kid’s probation or not?   HELL YES, YOU DO!  You bounce his happy ass right back to the detention center!   What is hard to believe about this?  What is the problem with Saddam Hussein in Iraq?  SO WHAT if we didn’t actually find a live W.O.M.D.  It doesn’t matter!

The Liberals are now accusing Bush’s trip the Aircraft Carrier for that speech as a “Photo Op” and grandstanding as some sort of campaign event.   That is a disgusting accusation!  The Liberals are saying that they want an investigation as to how much that cost.   Sure thing.  Let’s give that to them.  RIGHT AFTER THEY INVESTIGATE ALL OF BILL AND HILLARY’S TRAVEL SPENDING!  Liberals are disgusting beings and a poor example of the human condition.  The way it works is that the Liberals can do anything they want… and if you question them, then it’s your fault or your insensitive or both.  Yet if the Conservatives do anything even slightly questionable Liberals are all over them demanding investigations.   This kind of posturing is becoming more and more apparent.  Now, wait a second… I am not implying that President Bush did anything wrong.  Heavens no.  President Bush just did something Presidential.  Never Mind the fact that the President is also the COMMANDER AND CHIEF of the US Military!  After 8 years of Clinton’s vacuum of Presidential Actions – such a thing is alien to the Liberal Left.  Such a thing is only about campaigning, because that is exactly what the Left would be doing if they had the chance and they thought that they could get away with it!   Bush did exactly what Bush SHOULD HAVE DONE.  He something that Clinton NEVER had the nuts to do.  Back when Clinton was in Office – I have to admit that stopped saluting the flag.  I couldn’t do it.  The Clinton Gang were fleecing the country for everything they could get away with, and giving the finger everyone out there that wasn’t in on it.  Now we have Bush… A man who strives to be honest in everything he does.  A man who knows the difference between right and wrong… and above all… a man who prays to his Father in Heaven for guidance.  This is exactly what the Nation needed to overcome the previous 8 years.  And the Liberals HATE that because they know that Americans are not going to tolerate such cavalier behavior in it’s leadership.  The Liberals hate the fact Bush went to the Carrier, because it proved them WRONG.  Now the Left is scrambling for a "Cause" but can’t get past the only cause that they have is just being Anti-Bush and that is not good enough anymore.

The so called Moderates on Capital Hill...   You jackholes are not off the hook either.  I have a special rant out you characters.  You guys are claiming intellectual and moral superiority over both the Right and the Left because you are "Moderate" and you don't see everything in black and white... but in shades of grey.   What a steaming pile of bullshit that is.  I have another description for you people.  Two Words for you: FUCKING COWARDS!   You guys don't take a side in an issue, but instead sit on a fence until you get in all your Polls... you don't take action because if an issue goes under - you can stay afloat.   If you want to be a LEADER, you have to take a STAND on WHAT YOU BELIEVE.  Now, if you are a TRUE CENTRIST.  Then you should have some definite beliefs... But right now if you are a "Moderate Republican" you need to stand with your party.  You need to show some backbone.  Fine, be Pro-Abortion if you want to be, but you need be backing up your Party and your President on all other issues.  Quit trying to please everyone, because your not pleasing anyone.  Pick a side.  Take a stand.  I dare you.

May 6th, Tuesday: 

I consider the DemocRATS to be utter piles of shit.  I don't hide that opinion, nor do I apologize for it.  If it walks like a duck, sounds like a duck, and drops duck shit all over the place - there is a good chance that it is a duck.  If a DemocRAT walks like a colostomy bag, talks like a colostomy bag, and reeks like a ruptured colostomy bag... Then he is probably very likely to be an total shit-bag.   "Ogre, you being rather harsh... You need to lower your rhetoric."  Well, that's quite possible... Maybe I am just not understanding things clearly.  The big DemocRATic issue right now is the economy.  And the biggest target is Bush's Tax Cut plan.  The DemocRATS are saying that Bush's Tax Plan will not and could not work.  They are saying – and Hillary is shrieking - that the plan is Wrong Headed. Okay, now that I've set it up... Here is the kicker - Didn't JFK himself advocate and push a TAX CUT?  He must have... I heard a recording of it on the radio today. So, this being the case... We can conclude that Hillary is calling JFK wrong-headed.  Man, who does she think she is? JFK might have been a Democrat - but he knew what he was doing and since then the Democratic Party has gone straight to hell.  There are only selfish, power hungry, jackasses there now.  All they want is to further their own careers at the expense of the rest of world.  They didn't care about the Iraqi People, our Troops, or our Jobs.  The don't care about today's economy... Just the opposite.  They WANT the economy to tank.  They have come out and said that for the Democratic Party to have any leverage in 2004, they need the economy to sink.  They can't afford any economic growth... Not a bit.  What are they doing right now?  Fighting the tax cut, deriding the tax cut, and most of all filibustering supreme court justice nominations...  This move isn't just about justice seats... It's about stalling and buying time hoping that the economic situation will slide even further into the crapper.   That is the whole of the plan right now, because they don’t have any other plan.  Nothing positive.  Nothing up beat.  Nothing that would actually do anyone other than themselves any good. I have to give them credit for one thing though… they are working together as a team and we on the Right are not.  But I can’t credit them too much… Hive Mind mentality can be found in damn termites too.  But that is a lesson for the Republicans and the Libertarians… We Conservatives need to sing from the same sheet of music right now.  Let’s get rid of the DemocRATS first – and once they are out of the way politically – then we can hash out our differences.  If you are a Conservative of any sort… It’s time to come together, right now… just like the Beetles song says.  Come together, right now, over Bush.  Either get with the program or get the fuck out.  The best thing we could do right now - for the good of the country and the world - would be to knock gas prices down by 30 cents a gallon, and ride the DemocRATS out of Washington on a rail.  Fuck the DemocRATS. 

Fuck the French too while I'm at it.  We are seeing the French leadership play so pretty slick protocol to try to gain coalition favor.  Calling Bush, meeting with people… giving 6 bottles of wine to the Brits… It’s about ACTIONS France – not Words.  When action was needed, you caved.  You guys let us down.   I have nothing against France as a Nation… but your leadership needs to shape up and grow a spine, and a moral conscience.

Oh, let’s not leave Germany out of this… Fuckin Germany is crying because we are not going to be bringing all the troops back to Germany.  Oh No!  This means an economic down turn for the communities!   All the US Troops need to be in Germany spending money in German Stores!   This is going to cost Germany MILLIONS of dollars!  Oh No!   WELL GUESS WHAT FRITZ?  YOU SHOULD HAVE FUCKING THOUGHT OF THAT BACK WHEN WE NEEDED YOU!!!!  Reap what you sow, assholes... REAP IT!

Here is what the United States needs to do – Right Now:  #1.  Revoke China’s Favored Nation Trade Status and tell the that if they want it back, they need to keep those assholes in North Korea in check.  #2.  Give that Favored Nation Trade Status to Italy and Spain – Because they had our backs when we needed them.  Now that we know who our friends are, it’s time to reward them.   (If China smacks N.K. in the back of the head and shuts them up – then we can talk about giving them back all the goodies that the F.N.T.S. grants them) #3.  Move all US Forces out of Germany… all of them.  Put them in Spain and Portugal and Italy.   #4.  Provide economic incentives for US enterprises that conduct business and for opening new business with all Coalition of the Willing nations. #5.  Give ultimatums to France, Syria, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Iran… If you harbor Terrorists – you will be punished.   And back that up with actions and sanctions – not just words.   Roll on them if we have to.   And while we are at that… #6.  Drill Alaska.  Tap it for all the oil it is worth.  I don’t care about the cost – just get it done.  The oil must flow – and it doesn’t have to flow from the middle east.  While we are at that, #7.  Venezuela is on my RADAR right now… We need to give them a stern lecture and if needed – send in some “Peace Keeping Forces”.  We get an awful lot of oil from there for them to be acting like fools.      These 7 action items need be placed in effect.

May 5th, Monday:  I posted some of the emails I have just received after the rant and not in the usual order.

Looks like #11 on my Fecal Roster has got caught with his pants down.  This is an ironic repercussion to Charles E. Schumer's  hypocrisy.  Mr. Champion for Campaign Finance Reform has been busted for and fined for Campaign Violations. Way to Go CHUCK!  You piece of shit.  Brothers and Sisters... Chuck got caught in the typical Liberal way of thinking... "We make these laws for you guys... not us!"   I am sure there are Liberal political leaders out there saying "Hey, wait a second!  That wasn't supposed to happen!" The Law is the Law.  I suggest a new law... if your convicted of such a legal violation... and I am talking anything other than TRAFFIC... (But including DUI) YOU SHOULD BE REMOVED FROM OFFICE IMMEDIATELY.  Keeping criminals in office is only perpetuating our problem of corruption in government.  We don't let criminals be LAW ENFORCEMENT... But we do let them be LAW MAKERS. Look at these fines Chucky got.  On over $900,000 of illegal contributions, he has to pay just over 100,000 in fines, and return 130,000 of the contributions... that is leaving almost 700,000 ahead.  There is no reason to STOP taking bad money... it's still good business.  This fine was just a slap on the wrist... He should have to give the money back, pay the fine, and clean out his fucking desk.   Another thing I want to know... how come this isn't all over CBS, ABC, and NBC?   How come this isn't front page all over the place?  Oh, that's right... because Chucky isn't a Conservative.

You want to know the true nature of the UN Diplomats?   They pulled a "Bill Clinton's Last Day in the Whitehouse" at the U.N. This is just great... Given the chance... the UN Diplomats are thieves.  This is priceless.  Hmmm... I can't understand why this story isn't all over the news either.  Oh, that's right... The UN isn't the NRA.  The diplomats even ripped of the cheap stainless silverware.   And these are the people that should be ruling the world?  These are the people that to whom we should bow our heads?  These are the people that should decide who has Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical weapons?  The U.N. should be removed from our shores.

My little rant has sparked feedback:  “It says somewhere, should be every where, that the sure sign of a nations decline, is the corruption of it's rulers, or something like that.  It is a surety that when we pardon or ignore the sins, or the unlawful deeds of our leaders, our nation will suffer.  It does now.  We need leaders to be just that, leaders !  They should lead in ethics, in morality, in knowledge, etc.  They should be people we can turn to our children and say, "Hey! look! there's the Pres. of the US."  "Isn't he awesome?"  However, we have let the corruption go on for so long, we no longer have any heroes, in Politics.  Except, our current Pres.  I do find him a hero.  He is a humble man, who prays.  I know that scares people, but our Founding Fathers, did just that.  They prayed for guidance.  It worked!  But I am afraid that we ourselves are so corrupt, we think, to ourselves, "Heck, it was worth a try."  We pardon in others what we find ourselves doing.  I had a conversation with a young lady in her early 20's.  She was saying that she and her boyfriend were going to the beach for a week.  We all know that they are sharing a room.  Everyone accepts the fact that they will sleep together, and that it is ok.  They would be more shocked if she said, "Hey, we are getting married."  They would be saying, "Hey, you are too young for that."  We have people who believe that it is morally ok, to buy an item of clothing, and wear it, to what ever occasion, and then take it back!  Another accepted practice.  They don't care that the item is unsellable.  They don't care that the company is eating the expense, of their night out.  If we want to have moral, ethical, leaders, then we have to be moral, and ethical, and then expect it in others.  Heck, we should demand it.  Good rant.  I agree whole heartedly.  Tracy”  Wait a sec, Tracy… let’s look at this…

Another email from a Reader:  “Don't forget our pal in supreme court, Justice Bobby Bridges. With a blood-alcohol level of .21 (3x legal limit in WA), she not only totaled a car, but tried to flee the scene of a crime. Luckily a good man boxed her in and she was ranting and raving and screaming, but he wouldn't move.   The good judges at the supreme court called this a waste of funds and dropped the case, with zero charges filed against her, and then she has the balls to give her opinion on the law not more than a week later on a lawyer that exposed a corrupt judge. He will never work as a lawyer again for telling the truth.  Land of the free indeed, Robert”

See, the corruption is at every level.  How these people have reached these positions in an indictment of not just the political system – but of the Americans that voted these people into position.  Now, I know we don’t vote on who get to be a Judge… but we do vote on who gets to nominate these judges… and who votes for them.  It can all be traced down to the American People.  We have really dropped the ball in letting these slime balls into these positions.  I think the root cause is apathy.  The American People have become to lazy or to board to even exercise our most important political freedom.   But then again… can we blame them?  Most people have never even been to a Town Meeting for local affairs let alone a National one for more important issues.  CSPAN means nothing to most people.  (I must admit to using CSPAN in place of Warm Milk for helping me to get to sleep – but that is another story)   Corruption has become so common place that today a new law was passed that is DIRECT VIOLATION of the #1 Constitutional Amendment.  The First Amendment!  Now we can’t even speak out against a Candidate or a Politician if that person is up for election!   “Hey 1^st, have a seat.   Look, First Amendment… Here is your pink slip… I’m sorry but we are going to have to let you go.  I’m sorry, it’s out of our control.   Nice working you.”   Have you heard of anything so WRONG?  This is like hearing about your Doctor molesting patients when they are out cold… It’s so wrong… it just makes me sick.  Here is the kicker… Let’s say that Candidate A is up on TV making statements about how Rose Bushes cause testicular cancer in the endangered jackalopes and he is just about to ban rose bushes.  Now, we know for a fact that rose bushed do not cause cancer and that there is no such thing as jackalope.  Your group of fellow rose bush gardeners want to put on an advertisement telling the truth… but you can’t because Candidate A’s position is up for vote.   You can’t say JACKSHIT about the Candidate or what he said… you have to just sit on your hands.  The only way you could do anything about it would be to meet the candidate in a public/live forum and confront him or her on that issue.  *Ouch*  My head is hurting… I just got a migraine headache thinking about this… So in one simple move – these CORRUPT VILLANS have just made it illegal to TELL THE TRUTH!   My head… the pain… where is my duct tape?  I have to wrap my skull before it explodes… Hold on a sec… there it is…    Okay… skull explosion danger is reduced to Code Orange now.   Where was I?  Okay – so not only has campaign advertising been thrashed… the law is written in such a matter as to have no definition as to exactly what you can or can not say.  Do you know what this means?  This means anyone who has the nuts to put up an advertisement on an issue of any fashion is going to have to defend it in court because anyone could throw a flag on the field for any reason… and they will.  You know they will.  If you don’t like the advertisement… you can file on it.  If anything it will get the ad pulled instantly.  The end results in all this, is that these corrupt assholes not only control the country, but they control the engine that either keeps them in power or removes them.   *clapping*  I have to applaud that move… Well Done.  Check Mate indeed.   Al Capone never made a move like that.   It’s time to get out the Quill and Ink my friends… time to write to all the usual suspects and get this shitty new law revoked.  All I can say is thank God for Jury Nullification…  It’s our only defense against this new breed of Criminal.   I call them DemocRATS.

Is it too much to ask for National Leaders NOT TO BE criminals and thieves?  These people should be in JAIL... not in charge of the world.

Check this out... State Rep. Rodney R. Hubbard, D-St. Louis, was arrested Sunday.  Understand something first... before you read the article.  Hubbard is as anti-gun as you can get.  He is one of the 42 in the House who voted "No" on Missouri's concealed carry bill. Uh, question... If he voted no on the gun issue... then why would this guy be carrying a concealed handgun?  Here is the article.  Of course a DemocRAT getting arrested isn't surprising.  A DemocRAT getting caught in his hypocrisy... not surprising either.  A DemocRAT telling the press he was not involved and thus lying... no, that is not surprising either.  What is surprising?  Nothing... it's Business as usual for the Left.  I think we are going to be seeing the Liberal Left become the next NBA.

I have cleaned and re-cleaned my Beretta 92FS, each time using a different lube.  The idea was simple... find which one was the slickest in my gun.  The lubes used:  Militec-1, Breakfree CLP, Tetra Gun Grease, 20W 50 motor oil, FP-10, and Brownells' Action Lube Plus.  The results?  While FP-10 was very very good... I feel that Breakfree CLP is just slightly slicker in my Beretta.

Cops in England are surprised that Criminals and Gang Members did not hand over weapons during yet another Gun Amnesty period.   I don’t think the Brits get it.  Obviously they just need to pass some more laws.  And if that doesn’t work, damn it, make another law!  I am glad we have England doing this.  It is always a good illustration that Gun Control does not and will not work - ever.  If you REALLY want a peaceful utopia you have to do 2 things.  #1, fix the educational system so kids actually get smart.  And #2, Give EVERYONE over the age of 18 a pistol and a rifle.  Everyone must carry a gun.  If that ever happed... criminals would be out of business.  Wait a second... no... they would just go into politics.

So this guy goes out fishing… a mile off shore from Maui… having a peaceful time… drinking a beer… catching some sunshine… then all the sudden he pulls out a toppless 21 year old hottie from Salt Lake City.  Never understood Fishing… until now... where is my fishing pole?

May 4th, Sunday: Ever since I have had my Beretta I keep hearing a name from other Beretta owners.  Ernest Langdon, of Langdon Tactical Technologies (LTT).  I am going to have to add him to my now famous "Gunsmith Directory", because he has very quietly, yet very quickly developed the reputation for being THE MAN when it comes to Beretta pistols.  Being so specialized is usually not a good thing, but LTT fills a very deep niche... I've talked to several gunsmiths who actually refuse to work on Berettas.  It's a good thing, because they were being honest in that they were not familiar enough with them to feel qualified to work on a customer's pistol.   Langdon is about as qualified as anyone could possibly get.  If you go to the LTT website and click the ABOUT link, you can do some reading... You quickly learn that Ernest is not a man with whom to fuck.  This cat has been there, done that, and has the group coin to prove it.  From what I am gathering, his work on Beretta pistols is extraordinary.  Not to slight his work in any way, but Berettas are pretty freaking good right out of the box... I'd love to see just how much better it can get!  I know most of my readers do not have Beretta pistols... You guys have SIGs, Glocks, Kimbers, Springfields, and CZs...  Excellent choices all of them. (Except for one guy who has a High Point) Langdon is now offering his services for SIGs.  Now, I can't personally recommend him... He has not done anything for me.  Yet.  But I am thinking about having some work done.  I'm thinking a beveling job on all the edges, trigger/action job, and a nice refinish with a flat colored, nonreflective Teflon type finish.  One thing he has that is interesting is his own trigger that has what is called a "Speed Bump" on it.  This is basically a little pimple of metal that acts like an over-travel stop.  This cures something that I have found to be irritating... Lots of accuracy robbing over-travel.  I exaggerate... There is not a lot of it... Just a bit.  There really isn't a whole lot to do to a Beretta beyond trigger work that isn't purely cosmetic.  Berettas are just that good.  But I guess this is like sending your Mercedes to AMG for a performance enhancement...  Because you can never be too smooth or too powerful, or too reliable. 

I have written up my official review for the Beretta and have placed it in my Weapons Section.   Feel free to check it out.

Spectre has graduated from Air Assault School and has sent us his report.  We will be posting that later today.  Congratulations to Spectre for this accomplishment.  AA is a tough school.

Email from Reader: "Greetings, Ogre. As always excellent site.  So far always right on the money about the things you write about.  Ok, now that the obligatory ass kissing is out of the way I have a question that perhaps you may be able to answer.  Do you know if the bans on the TEC-9 pistol, and those various 'assault' shotguns will be cancelled if the whole '94 AW ban is repealed?  I thought about just asking the guys over at the page dedicated to repealing the ban, but I haven't been able to access that page for a few days.  Thanks in advance for any help you can give me. - fatNINJA"  That’s a good question… These guns… they might me lifted.  However the TEC-9 is no longer made… it’s now called the AB-10… but if the AB-10 is still being produced, I am not sure.  Universally regarded as a very poor firearm, it was bad at everything.  Stability, Accuracy, Reliability… it couldn’t do anything right.    The following link is a silly thread from TFL about this silly gun: http://www.madogre.com/Interviews/TheAB10thread.htm  fatNINJA, I was reading on your site and found your topic of the game "POSTAL".  That game was just sick.  Sick and wrong.  Needless to say it was a lot of fun and I really enjoyed playing it.   I felt guilty about liking it... but I still liked it.  I ended up throwing it away in a brief moment of morality.  POSTAL 2 looks like it is even worse that the first one.  I'm looking to get a pirated copy to try out.

May 3rd, Saturday: Some of you have asked just what Hillary Clinton said that has irked me.  Here are the most asinine statements… Let’s take a look at them.

“They have the most wrong-headed economic policies that we've seen since Herbert Hoover and we're beginning to pay a price as a nation for these policies.”  Wrong-Headed?  Okay, and raising taxes every year to pay for new spending programs every year… that is Right-Headed?  The scary thing about the Liberals is that they really don’t understand economics at all, and they want to control it.  Let’s remember something here.  A national economy is like a freight train… it takes time to speed up and slow down.  What we are feeling here is nothing that has to do with George W Bush, but the Liberals don’t want you to know that.  Bill Clinton rode a wave of good economy that he had NOTHING to do with.  In fact, he coasted for 8 years doing nothing.  In the last part of his Reign, there were many signs that the economy was slowing.   Lets not even mention the Dot Com Bust that happened under Clinton.  Bush took over when it was already coming to a stop… Since then we have had a few things that effect the economy that has nothing to do with economic policy regardless of the party in control… let’s look at those for a second.  September Eleventh.  Enron and other big business scandals.  War with the Taliban.  War with Iraq.  All of these have an effect…  We are still feeling 9-11 effects today!  Where has Hillary Clinton been for the last few years?  To blame Bush for these is the ultimate in tacky ignorance.  Or as they say in Virginia, “Showing your Ass.”    This is evidence that she has no idea what she is talking about.

“I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration somehow you're not patriotic.  We should stand up and say, ‘We are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration.’"  Nice words and a nice idea Hillary… the problem is that you are talking about patriotism when you have no concept of what that means.  No… You are not a Patriot Mrs Clinton.  You are Anti-Gun, Anti-Free Speech, Anti-Family, and Anti-Constitution… this means you ARE ANTI-AMERICAN.  Your Husband is whoring himself out to all other nations that refused to support America when we are trying to secure our own safety from Terrorists… and to free an oppressed country.   Your husband is out there sucking the United Nations dick.  Not to mention that he sold OUR ENEMY TOP SECRETS!  He GAVE CHINA stuff that we would have executed anyone else for.  But since he was Bill Clinton, Liberal Leader – no one questioned it.  He could do no wrong, when he should have had a fucking noose around his neck.  He did more than the last 4 or 6 big spy scandals together.  He bent over and took it from North Korea and gave them concessions.  And YOU?  You have fleeced the United States at every chance you could get… You stole files from the FB fucking I and had them in your private office.  And now your talking about PATRIOTISM?  Mrs Clinton, to you a Patriot is someone to overcome.  You are the ENEMY of all Patriots.  You make me sick.

“Now I agree you've got to start somewhere.  I just didn't have any idea universal health care for Americans was going to start in Baghdad.  It was just not on my agenda.  Now, Republicans, you see, don't necessarily believe they have a monopoly on all the answers, but they act as though they have a monopoly on the right to have answers.  And that they have a monopoly on the exercise of power.”   Like I have said before Hillary, your right on one count… Republicans don’t have a monopoly on all the answers.  I’ll give you that.  BUT REPUBLICANS HAVE A MONOPOLY ON ALL THE RIGHT ANSWERS!  Universal Health Care?  Your plan for socializing health care would have totally and completely destroyed the world’s finest health care system, and would have destroyed 10% of the nations economy along with it.  Your plan is to tell a Medical Student what his specialty will be and where he will practice it.  That is not the American Way, Hillary.  That is Communism, and communism has never worked on this planet ever… but you still want to push it.  Your plan was defeated handedly the first time it was run, and it was defeated for a good reason… It’s because your plan is a BAD PLAN.  Your plan is a ruinous plan.   I believe, Hillary, that you admired Saddam Hussein and the way he ran Iraq, with death squads and torture chambers.  Given the chance, you would do the same at the first chance.  You have no love for America or the American way of life… but that is another subject.   Back to health care… There are programs, Hillary that take care of anyone in the US that needs medical attention… Medicare and Medicaid are programs that pay for the treatment of those that can’t afford it or don’t have health care coverage… so in fact Hillary – THERE IS UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE IN AMERICA!  But don’t let that stop your ideas and goals for destroying America and making us slaves to the United Nations. 

“So in their world, debate is not one of their higher values, because it exposes the weakness of their answers and it threatens the strength of their authority.”   Now we are seeing something here… Now we are seeing the PANIC that the Left is feeling.  Hillary, you speak of debate – Why don’t you go on the O’Reilly Factor?  Why don’t you enter Bill’s No Spin Zone and debate him candidly and live on TV?  Why have you always refused to do that?  Why have you refused all offers for public debate?  Liberal ideology is based on emotional reaction that can not stand the test of logical debate when faced with actual documented and proven facts.  Liberal debate policy requires the fabrication of supporting statistics that have never actually been recorded… Liberal debate policy requires Double Standards, and taking statements out of context.  Liberal debate requires ½ truths, whole outright lies.  Hillary, you couldn’t debate a high school student on policy.   You can’t even stand to have your own idiotic statements questioned, let alone be forced to task to prove them!  WE ARE SEEING IT!  We are seeing the panic in the Liberal Left, because for the first time, they are out numbered and on the run because they have lost hold of the Media and the Media is turning on them.  More people are watching FOX NEWS and are reading the Washington Post and thanks to the internet, a myriad of sources of real reporting instead of the filtered spin of your traditional news outlets.  This is why you guys are now looking for ways to shut down conservative news sources... You guys own the major TV networks, you have them in your pockets.  But you don't have AM Talk Radio.  For the last 15 years, AM Talk Radio has been the bastion of Conservative news and information with the sole thanks being Rush Limbaugh in the beginning and now Clear Channel as well with it's family of conservative thinkers.  Since you are so for "Debate" why don't you try to field a Liberal talk radio host?  Oh, that is right... you have... You have tried and failed time and time again.  Why is that?  Because on Radio you have to use FACTS and LOGIC... Weapons with which you are poorly armed.  So your now looking for means to legislate or litigate Clear Channel, and the whole AM Talk Radio.   You speak of Equal Time - but you don't have any concept of that... Your NPR, NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO is all liberal... but they don't do very well in the ratings at all... You get your trash kickec because Conservatives that listen to radio, listen to Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, Tom Gresham's Gun Talk, or ANYTHING ELSE other than NPR.   You Liberals are afraid and on the run because you are losing YOUR authority.  It’s funny, Hillary that you used the word Authority… Republicans have never used that word… because we on the Right understand that Authority is not given by coronation, but by the will of the people.  You Liberal jackholes are just so irritated by that aren't you?  

To sum this up... We are now seeing Hillary Clinton for what she really is.  I panic-stricken, screeching harpy of a presidential hopeful.  And we also see through her, what the Democrats are... Rats.  Rats running around on the deck of a sinking ship, looking for a way out.

May 2nd, Friday:  President George W Bush’s speech last night… it brought tears to my eyes.  This President is undoubtedly the best President we have had in a very very very long time… Since Teddy Roosevelt?   Just look what he did yesterday… he flew to an Aircraft Carrier aboard a fixed wing… meaning he did an arrested landing.  Hell he even piloted the jet 1/3 of the way there himself!  Just like the Navy guys do.  He didn’t just float down from aboard Marine One. (his helicopter)  This shows solidarity with the Navy.  This shows some real grit that we haven’t seen since Teddy.  Then his speech… You could FEEL President Bush’s love for his troops.  You could feel it.   This guy is genuine.  This guy is real.   I am proud to have him as my leader.  Hell, I am ready to reenlist!   I have to say this… but even if he makes the AWB stick – I am still voting for him for a second term.   He is just getting started and I want to see what more he can do.   

I was right to be worried about what I would find under the grips of my Beretta.  I found no corrosion, as the frame is aluminum, but I did find the finish had flaked off in little tiny spots all around under the grips.  It almost looks like pitting.  It’s not too bad, but it just doesn’t look that great.  At least it’s hidden under the grips.

Norman Mailer is a complete idiot.  He says we went to war to show everyone that white guys are still good at something.  I don't even know where to begin on this guy... What I can say, is that we believe him to be a total dipshit.

The other day a local guy was dared by friends to shoot himself.  He did.  He's dead.  Investigations are underway to find out just what the fuck.  Turns out that they were playing Russian Roulette... or more like, they were daring him to play it.  First time he pulled the trigger, there was just a click.  They other boys then dared him to go round two, so this guy pulls the trigger again.  This time he sends a slug crashing through his sternum to destroy his heart. The "friends" don't do anything... So the mortality wounded has to crawl to his truck to dial 911 on his cell phone by himself.  Nice to have good friends.

Email from our man on the other side of the planet:  “Hey there Og'.  Hows it going mate?  A few days back I was looking up your site and discovered the PHP mission there.  Am quite interested in that biz.  Will have to suss it out.  Allows posts and forums and all that jazz right?  All going well, by weeks end I should finally have my new iBook in hand.  Get away from Windoz but there again my PC has my burner on board and, if I want the odd game... But the Apple will be within spec for Ghost Recce (opps I mean Recon :) so that is good to know.  They ditched the low end machines and now all come with ATI Radeon 32Mb video cards.  Still not up to PC standards but enuff for a decent blast up none the less.  And you can network with PCs.  Now had a thought the other day and was keen to see if you could provide me some enlightenment.  The Colt SCAMP.  First heard of it a fair few years ago, through RPGing if I remember rightly, and someone reckoning it was Robo Cop's handgun, but soon found out it was actually the Beretta M93R.  Can you tell me anything about the SCAMP, most specifically the ammo and a bit of history.  Speaking of automatic pistols I see that the Glock 18 features on T3 : Rise of the Machines.  'She'll be back' - there's a crack up :)  Now, also, I have a character who I'm working on developing, taking him back to his part - a Russian fella, ex- Spetsnaz (I love that word - must be my Russian blood), and nothing like these mongrel politicians.  Now I had him with the new CZ100.  I have heard on some quarters its not the best handgun reliability wise.  Can you give me a run down on it?  I like the one handed cocking feature on it, quite handy I thought.  Was reckoning if it wasn't a go, like wasn't so brilliant, perhaps he would go with a Walther P99.  Any thoughts on recent Russian handguns?  Not sure on the pistols except maybe the PSS (is that it?) with the silenced rounds.  Can't remember how it goes.  But I do like the OT-14 bullpup series in 9x39mm, and their VSS etc. Thanks mate for any insights you can provide.  Have a good one eh.  Best regards,  Leon”  Hey Leon,  good to hear from you again! The Colt SCAMP… Small Caliber Machine Pistol.  All I know of it was that it was a .22 caliber bullet seated in a much shortened .223 case… to make it fit in a pistol sized frame… and the gun was a select fire affair with a semi or 3 round burst.  And it was ahead of its time.  Should it have been released these days, it could have done better as now “PDW” guns are gaining popularity.   There is no real information online and I have only seen a photo of it in a book.  I think it was a Jane’s book, but I don’t remember.  Looked kinda like a Steyr TMP, if I am remembering it right.  I thought T3 was going to suck… but it looks very cool.  I’m looking forward to it!  Things are going well.  I have tried PHP, but to be honest, I really don’t like it.  There are a couple other better options that are like PHP in some ways, but are more user friendly… such as PLONE, or MOVEABLETYPE.  Look those up… lots of cats I know are moving from PHP to PLONE or even more so –MoveableType… It looks like the most popular “bloggerware” out there right now.  It gives a much more elegant finished product than PHP.  I used to service iBooks.  They are good machines… and the new versions are much better.  Good choice.  Max out the RAM right off the bat and you will have much better performance.  I think it uses standard NOTEBOOK PC100 SDRAM… but the new versions might use PC133 now.  I’m not sure.  I wouldn’t mind one at all… if I needed a laptop.  I sold my Compaq 1800 laptop for my wee little Compaq iPaq… Other than playing Rogue Spear and watching DVD movies, it can do everything I was packing around that fetching boat-anchor about for.  If I need to do a lot of typing, I can break out a little folding keyboard and I can take notes as fast as the next guy.  And it only cost me a couple hundred.  I’m hooked on PocketPC now.   I wish APPLE would release a new NEWTON.   A gun a Spetsnaz would use… First thought was a CZ… and a 100 wouldn’t be a bad choice.  No, they have no reliability issues.  However they do have an issue with an absolutely horrible trigger.  A serious gunner would either forget the 100 because of that, or have it worked on by a really good gunsmith.  And a Spets would probably know several good ‘smiths and machinists.   But would he pick the 100?  Any gun with a sold rear sight not of the “NOVAK” pattern can be cocked one handed.  I practice single handed drills all the time.  Anyways… I don’t think he would pick a pistol that was overly large or using some funky ammo not in ready supply.   He would use a 9MM of some sort.  Perhaps a Beretta.  Perhaps a CZ75.   He might go for a Glock or a SIG or an HK as well.  But if he wants to stay in character… he would pick a Rusky pistol… MR-444 Bagira, MR-445 Variag, or the MR-446 Viking… of course he might be more bold and pack a P-9 Gyurza… it fires a special magnum type 9mm round.  I doubt he would go with a Walther as they are not made in the same numbers of the other more common pistols and are not made in the Czech Republic like the CZ-100.  If this character of yours is still an operator of sorts, he would probably opt for a CZ-100 and take it to his most trusted gunsmith for an action and trigger job and for fitting of a detachable suppressor.  The PSS wouldn’t be an option.  It was so underpowered that even for assassination work it required several shots, even point blank at the back of the head.  A suppressed .22 would have been/is better for that kinda wet work.   If this character is well traveled and well connected… he might go for something more aggressive in an SMG… like the new HEZI SM-1.  Check it out at www.advancedcombat.com.   The HEZI is a bullpup SMG that uses the action of an M1 Carbine and fires the classic .30 Carbine cartridge.  This is a very good thing as .30 Carbine hits harder than a .357 Magnum.  That potency, in a compact fast handling package is a very good thing.  We are going to be keeping our eyes on the HEZI SM-1.

May 1st, Thursday:  I have no gun content today... But I will be cleaning my beloved Beretta 92FS today.  I'll be drinking some Vanilla Coke, and doing a detail strip of the pistol, and an in depth cleaning, followed by a light coat of BreakFree CLP to all parts and some Brownells Action Lube Plus on all bearing surfaces of moving parts, trigger parts, and slide rails.  Even if you have not fired your gun, it's good to do this every once in awhile.  I've not fired my gun in over a week, and I did clean it after, but it was just a quick job.   I've really not done a detailed thorough cleaning of it since I first acquired it.  I am afraid of what I am going to find under the grips!

This just in: The Hodgdon Powder company has announced a recall on its 1-pound containers of LIL' GUN smokeless powder. The company says the powder has the potential to create excessive pressure in firearms when loaded in cartridges and/or shotshells using standard loading data. Such a condition, if present, could cause personal injury and/or damage to the firearm. Users should immediately stop using this product and return it to Hodgdon as soon as possible.  All shooters in possession of Hodgdon LIL' GUN powder with a lot number of 103080221 should call Hodgdon at (913) 362-9455 or (800) 622-4366 for instructions on returning the powder. Hodgdon will send those people affected by this recall, a return shipping carton free of charge as well as a free replacement product.

Email from reader:  "Greetings!  As a rule of thumb the lower alcohols (methanol and ethanol) have about 1/2 the fuel value of gasoline in terms of BTUs/ gallon. Also, they burn "cooler" than petrochemicals. That is, they have a lower flame temp. (Ask anyone who races with them how long it takes their toy to come to temperature...)  Lastly, they burn cleaner than gasoline etc. so that they don't have the lovely luminous flame or smoke.  And yes I am a chemist. Take care! Jim p.s. I LOVE the thought of The Nuge as NRA head. I'll write him in next election. I 'spect my wife will too"  Thanks for the email, Jim.  I thought that was the case, but was unsure.  Nuge as the NRA Pres... I hate to say it, but he would Rock... *rimshot*

Butch Cassidy to be pardoned.  This topic is just a curiosity to me. I've seen the Redford movie, read a few paragraphs in history books, and that is about all I know of when it comes to this famous outlaw.  Seems some people would have the Governor of Utah pardon him. Let's make no mistake here... while Butch may have avoided trouble in the state of Utah, he was a criminal. A wanted Felon, who earned that status the hard way... not just by rolling through a stop sign or going 26MPH in a 25MPH zone.  Since evidently his corpse has yet to turn up, he is and should remain a fugitive from justice.  WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE.  It just adds to the Butch Cassidy mojo, doesn't it? You take that away from him and what does he have left? "Well, he was a right nice fellow in these parts..." Uh huh... him and several thousands others... What fun is that? I can't see Robert Redford signing on to film that. Can you?

Hillary Clinton has made some asinine statements. "Republicans do not have a monopoly on all the answers."   Well, that is true.   But they do have a monopoly on all the RIGHT answers.   This might be shocking news, my loyal readers... but I do not like Hillary Clinton.  I think she is a vile person.  I hope she does run.  Then EVERYONE of legal age will register and go out to vote.  Her campaign will be slaughtered and the Democrats will suffer a blow like no other.

Remember that movie "The Lost Boys"?  Campy vampire flick?  Cool sound track though... Remember the theme song?  "Cry"?  I recommend you download this MP3 right now.

I don't know if you've heard about VMI or not, but now you can't pray there or something retarded like that.  VMI, Virginia Military Institute, is one of the oldest schools of it's kinds.  My brothers attend there and Southern Virginia University close by.  I think there is a miss understanding of the Constitution.   Freedom Of Religion does not mean freedom From Religion.  Of course it's all about Diversity, right?   Diversity means "Anything against everything White, Conservative, or Christian."  *sigh*   Excuse me, I have to go bang my head against a wall now.

You don't hear about something like this every day. 

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