Quoate of the day

Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.
-Roger Caras

Fall is here and it feels great!

Fall is in the air. The cooler temperatures are welcome here in Florida. It is nice to be able to go outside without instantly breaking out into a sweat. It has been a long time since I posted anything, so, I think a Ruger update is long over due. Voila!

I think he was six months when these were taken and I can say the food bill has increased. He's a great dog (so far) and I am glad I bought him. The pet shop lady might be laughing at me right now because I don't think he looks like a Boxer. His body might be like a Boxer, but the head... definitely NOT! He was a little miffed at me in the bottom picture because I took that bone away from him. He found in the backyard somewhere and we can't have him gnawing on that... we don't know where it has been!

Quote of the day

Acquiring a dog may be the only opportunity a human ever has to choose a relative. -Mordecai Wyatt- Johnson

Canine alert!

        Its been a week since I posted anything.... so here goes.

                                      Introducing... Ruger!

Ruger is a boxer and is a little stubborn and I will have to convince him that I am the boss. I will have to stop by Walmart tonight while at work and get some Puparoni  doggie treats for when he actually starts to listen.

Quote of the day

Tens of thousands of brave Americans died to break the chains of British tyranny so that the principles of our Declaration of Independence could take fold and flourish in the birth of a new nation. -Jim Gerlach-

Yes, I am a Glock snob.

I admit it, I am a Glock snob. It was the first gun I ever owned and I fell in love with them. Glock model seventeen. I know, I know...9mm? What did I know? It didn't take me long to buy my second and it is my favorite Glock. Model twenty three... forty cal. To this day it is my favorite, although the model 27 isn't too far behind. Today my trigger finger was itching so I went to my range and let it rip from twenty yards. After about 8 rounds my phone rang and here I am, standing there pistol in hand. As soon as the hello's were exchanged I quietly sat the phone down and squeezed the trigger six more times.

 My nephew was silent for a few seconds after he picked it back up and he yells...COULDN'T YOU HAVE WARNED ME BEFORE YOU DID THAT! Then came the laughter. Do you want a steak he asks? Heck yea man was the response and I started packing. Good thing the range isn't too far from my house.

Quote of the day

Gun control means being able to hit your target. If I have a 'hot button' issue, this is definitely it. Don't even think about taking my guns. My rights are not negotiable, and I am totally unwilling to compromise when it comes to the Second Amendment. -Michael Badnarik-

What part of Shall NOT be Infringed dont you understand?

Today freedom has again been defended. Not only on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, but in the court system. The United States Supreme Court has ruled against the city of Chicago's gun ban. Thank you Mr. McDonald and the NRA for pursuing the case. In spite of today's decision, the US Senate is holding confirmation hearings on Elana Kagans appointment to the court. I do hope that she is not confirmed because she is about as qualified to be on the bench as I am.

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There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.  -Alexander Hamilton-

The Star Spangled Banner

Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light

What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?

Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight,

O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?

And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,

Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.

Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave

O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,

Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,

What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,

As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?

Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,

In full glory reflected now shines in the stream:

'Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh long may it wave

O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore

That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion,

A home and a country should leave us no more!

Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution.

No refuge could save the hireling and slave

From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:

And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave

O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand

Between their loved home and the war's desolation!

Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land

Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.

Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,

And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."

And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave

O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave

 

Frances Scott Key

Quote of the day

The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they will win and the decent people will loose. -James Earl Jones-

Uh... can everyone please pay attention?

The deadliest road

Welcome to Florida... Home of the deadliest stretch of Interstate highway in the country. It is definitely not a news flash for me, since I drive it every night, and every night IS an adventure! For instance, last night I was riding along and was being passed by another big rig when I noticed he had his dome light on. RED FLAG, RED FLAG!!! I now have a death grip on the wheel... hands at ten and two... there he goes off into the third lane and I knew it wasn't good so I moved over as far as I could. When he realized he was not in his lane, he jerks the steering wheel to get back in his lane. Eighty thousand pounds of big rig doesn't react like a sports car and the momentum of his actions causes his shiny white freight shaker to cross the line into my lane. He missed me only because I was paying attention. Of course I gave him a one finger salute like I was telling him that he was number one.

Then there are the telephone drivers. Please do not text and drive. No matter how good you think you are at texting it only takes a few seconds for things to go horribly wrong. Line to line they go, faster and faster, and then way too slow.  If you must talk on the phone while driving... use a blue tooth device. Please pay attention while you are behind the wheel.

Driving while sleepy is as dangerous as driving after you have had a few too many. Its late at night and the on coming headlights are hypnotizing . You begin to stare down the road. The roar of the tires starts to relax  you. Your eyes begin to itch and are getting heavy. You know you are getting sleepy so you turn up your radio, maybe to a rock-n-roll station, and immediately you perk up. It doesn't last and soon your eyes begin to close. You shake your head like killer bees are swarming around your hair. Pull over and take a power nap. Even if it is only for thirty minutes. When you wake up you will be refreshed and will be able to continue on with your journey. DO not fall into the trap of thinking that you need to stop and get a cup of coffee because it will not help. Sure, it will let you get a few miles down the road, but after  fifteen minutes or so, you will find that you are staring down the road again.

Quote of the day

To vote is like the payment of a debt, a duty never to be neglected, if its performance is possible.
-Rutherford B. Hayes-

Super Tuesday

The polling places were open today across the country so that we can practice one of the greatest rights we have. That right is taken for granted my a majority of citizens of our country. How many times have you heard people rant about politics and complain about policies that the leviathon force upon us. Then you ask the simple question... Do you vote? It makes me sick to my stomach when they reply "No, I dont have time for that and besides it wouldn't do any good". It is high time that people get off of their high horse, and go make their voices heard. One vote might not do any good. But, if the masses get tired of the bullspit that goes on in DC and decide to get off of their lazy rumps, we could see real change. A change that this country needs.

Some signs from the tax day TEA party in Jacksonville, Florida 4-15-10.

                    

Quote of the day

We have four boxes with which to defend our freedom: the soap box, the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.-Congressman Larry McDonald-

HERE HERE!

If Mexico wasn't such a shiite hole maybe your citizens wouldn't be coming over OUR border Mr. Calderon!

Quote of the day

What I object to the current government intervention in so-called 'solving the crisis', they haven't solved anything. They've just postponed it. -Marc Faber-

Get out there!

Today I took a trip to Fernandina Beach to visit Fort Clinch. Yes, I had been there before, but it had been

20+ years since my last visit. The place had changed and for the better.  You can tell some of the bricks aren't the same color  because they have been restoring it.

Don't SHOOT!

Fort Clinch was built in 1847 and Union troops were stationed there during the Civil War. Although there weren't any battles there it looks like the were prepared for Johnny reb to make an entrance.

The fort was built on this location to protect the entrance of the Amelia River, and during the War of Northern Aggression  it guarded against resupply efforts of the south.

Cannon balls that were recovered from the site.

I was wondering what they did for drinking water... so I asked a park ranger. He told me that some of the roofs were "V" shaped to collect rain water. When the fort was under construction they put in six cisterns that could hold 53,000 gallons of the collected rain water. They also had a hand pump near the cook house

and bakery.Can you imagine just having water to drink, maybe some tea and coffee? I took this photo from the store house and it looks to me like someone was prepared for saturday night!

After checking out the fort I decided to walk one the trails called Willow pond. Some visitors near the trail were slow moving while yet another didnt want to move at all. I told the second one that he could have the trail to himself and that it was time for me to go.

He was on the trail as I approached and I am glad that he moved about a foot or so or I wouldn't have seen him. He sat there and was a lil too close to the trail for me to pass by. IMO the only good poisonous snake is a dead one. Since I was only packing a camera I shot him with what I had!

Quote of the day

The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.  -Sam Houston-

I knew it!

I knew there had to be a rational explanation for why people wore their pants down below the crack of

arse! I shouldn't have posted this picture. Now our incompetent congress will pass a law saying that midgets can not walk around with another midget on their shoulders.

Quote of the day.

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it. -Mark Twain-

Ah, vacation cometh!

Next week I will be on vacation and am trying to decide what I am going to do. I could kick back and relax with a cool drink while finishing the book I have been reading. For now, the only thing I have planned is a Memorial Day cookout and it should be fun to get to hang with the family.

I could go exercise my second ammendment by hitting the gun range. There is a chance that a coworker and I might ride down to Tampa. He has access to a 500 yard rifle range... that would be some serious fun! Come on Mr. Clean... "REGULATORS! LETS RIDE!" It would be interesting and a good learning experience since I haven't shot my AR15 at a target over 200 yards. I doubt that these old eyes would be able to see the target with the naked eye.

Anyone want to go fishing? I have a brand new fishing liscence and dust on my gear. It has been awhile since I wet a hook. My nephew went last week, with good results in the scattered lakes near his home.

This is one of the bass he caught, the others were slightly bigger (no, there is no "fish" story here). The sun was starting to set and the pictures were dark.

Whatever I decide to do with the time off... It will be relaxing and enjoyable.

Quote of the day

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same. -Ronald Reagan-

Let the games begin

When Arizona passed the immigration law I thought to myself, its about time a state did something to defend themselves from the river of illegals who cross the border daily. God knows the federal government doesn't do enough. Arizona... stand fast and dont give up your right to protect yourself and your citizens. Jan Brewer... you have more of a back bone than 99% of the politicians in this country, keep your head up, and lead the way. The country will support you even while the left wing libtards bash you on the television.

I saw a Fox News posting that I had to share.

 http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/05/19/arizona-official-threatens-cut-los-angeles-power-payback-boycott/ 

I used to think that Texas would be the first to stand up against the illegal problem. Boy was I wrong! What happened to the phrase Don't mess with Texas? I reckon Rick Perry is getting a little pc these days. Can we now substitute Arizona in that phrase? DON'T MESS WITH ARIZONA has a nice ring to it, don't you think?

If you are thinking that illegal immigration isnt that big of a problem I want you to go to http://www.borderinvasionpics.com/ and have a look around. Arizona, I applaud your efforts and tip my hat to you.

Quote of the Day

You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence.  -Abraham Lincoln-

The Ant and the Grasshopper.

The ant works hard in the withering heat and the rain all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.

The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.

Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant
should be allowed to be warm and well fed while he is cold and starving. CBS, NBC , PBS, CNN, and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food. Liberal America is stunned by the sharp contrast. How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?

Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper and everybody cries when they sing, 'It's Not Easy
Being Green.'

ACORN stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house where the news stations film the group singing, "We shall overcome." Then Rev. Jesse Jackson has the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper's sake.

President Obama condemns the ant and blames President Bush, President Reagan, Christopher Columbus, and the Pope for the grasshopper's plight.

Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid exclaim in an interview with Larry King that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share.

Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equality & Pro-Grasshopper Act retroactive to the beginning of the
summer. The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the Government Green Czar and given to the grasshopper.

The story ends as we see the grasshopper and his free-loading friends finishing up the last bits of the ant's food while the government house he is in, which, as you recall, just happens to be the ant's old house, crumbles around them because the grasshopper doesn't maintain it. The ant has disappeared in the snow, never to be seen again. The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident, and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the ramshackle, once prosperous and once
peaceful, neighborhood..The entire Nation collapses bringing the rest of the free world with it.


MORAL OF THE STORY:    Be careful how you vote in 2010.

Quote of the Day

The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much. -Ronald Reagan-

Quote of the Day

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.  -John F. Kennedy-

THe GM sham.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2010/04/24/detroit-freep-cartoonist-praises-gm-loan-repayment-forbes-columnist-sees

So, General or Government Motors has repaid the bailout money it got last year?

Not so fast MR. Whitacre! I thought the advertisement on TV sounded a little too far fetched since GM sales were near the bottom when compared to the other manufacturers. I wonder how many of the sheeple will believe Mr. Whitacres lie about the repayment.

Quote of the day

No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!
-Ronald Reagan-

Has inflation begun?

We all know it will start. The question is when and how bad it will get. With federal governments borrowing and spending, and printing presses running at full speed, it is just a matter of time. I came across this article today and am asking myself, is this just the beginning?




http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/us-food-inflation-spiraling-out-of-control-91848684.html

Quote of the day

In all our associations; in all our agreements let us never lose sight of this fundamental maxim - that all power was originally lodged in, and consequently is derived from, the people. -George Mason-

Quote of the day

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation. -Robert Kennedy-

Quote of the day

A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country. - James Madison-

Time flies.

This week is over and I dont know where it went. Tomorrow it is back to work on the box farm and I am beginning to dread it already. I did accomplish a few of my goals for the week like getting to the gun range to sight in my scope on my Smith and Wesson M&P 15-22. That was so much fun that I shot a couple hundred rounds through my Glock 23! Ahh h h, the trigger finger isn't itchy anymore.

Tomorrow I will be planting some tomato and pepper plants. I am almost convinced to try my hand at small garden. I was given some seeds last weekend and if time permits tomorrow they might find themselves in the ground. My thumb has never been green, but I would like to see what will grow in the back yard.

Quote of the day

To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical. -Thomas Jefferson-

A busy day ahead

Since a coworker decided to call me bright and early this morning, even tho I am off this week, I am going to run down to Home Depot and pick up a few pieces of lumber and some of those BOGOF seeds. I hope my little projects don't take all day because I would love to get to the gun range today. They say practice makes perfect and when it comes to steady aim and smooth trigger pulls, I have to agree. It has been a few weeks since I have fully exercised my second amendment rights and I have an itchy trigger finger!

Quote of the day

A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government. -Thomas Jefferson_

Hello and welcome to Dollar Weed

I bet you are wondering why I chose Dollar Weed as the name of my blog! Well, last Saturday I took a class on edible plants and much to my suprise I found out that dollar weed, YES, dollar weed is edible! It has a flavor that resembles a carrot! I have been trying to rid this pesty weed from my lawn for a few years because, well, it is dollar weed. When Green Deane, who can be found on youtube and at his web site www.eattheweeds.com, told the class about dollar weed, everyone looked at each other like are you kidding me? After a few people reached down and picked the Penny they started laughing and they all agreed... ITS NOT BAD!