Sunday, July 31, 2022

A Little Sunday Night Music

This Is My Father's World - Michael O'Brien

On L.A. Freeways



 
   She didn’t like driving through L.A. It was said (apocryphally, she was certain, as she’d never experienced it herself) that there were times when traffic was light. Oh, sure. She always found herself crawling as she passed familiar Los Angeles landmarks, no matter what time of day or night it was. But going completely around greater L.A.—via Bakersfield, Barstow, and San Bernardino—was only possible if you didn’t mind feeling that you were never going to get anywhere again for the rest of your life. Which was the same feeling she got when traveling through L.A. 

   So that alternate route wouldn’t help at all. 

   She was familiar with distance traveling, days-long traveling. As a child and a teenager, her father’s job transferred him every couple of years, which meant move after move. Before she went off to college, they’d lived in California (several locations), New Mexico, Arizona, and back to California again, burning through two grade schools, two middle schools, and three high schools, in her case. What she mainly remembered from all those moves, though, were the road trips. 

   Going back to Southern California to visit old friends and relatives meant days and days of driving, over long stretches of lonely Arizona and California desert highways, punctuated by stops at roadside motels. Fortunately, she was able to read in moving cars without getting sick, so that helped pass the time. But even that palled after a while, so there were hours of imagination, growing remembrances of and comparisons with road trips past, and absently watching the landscape go by while daydreaming. The license plate game helped, too, when her younger siblings got restless, or endless repeats of the alphabet game (one of her favorites—because, being the oldest, she always won). 

   Now grown up, she lived and worked as a teacher in Northern California, but some family members still lived in the south of the state. Every so often a trip to see them was necessary or required or desired. The current trip was one of those. Time was tight, as it needed to be shoehorned into a short break between summer school and the new school year. Some teachers were able to take the whole summer off, which would be ideal for her long-distance visiting, but she couldn’t afford to do that. QED, a lightning trip down south was in order—and that meant the L.A. freeways. Once again. 

   No longer a child in the back seat, but now the solo driver in the car, she was a little less able to completely daydream her way through traversing the gigantic urban sprawl, but practice had enabled some adeptness at this. Today’s trip brought some odd things to mind. While drifting along a packed freeway, averaging 0-5 mph, she looked speculatively at the repetitive exits, overpasses, and industrial buildings she was driving by. It occurred to her that if there were no street exit signs or mileage signs, she would have no idea where she was; it all looked the same, across nearly the whole of the city. Maybe it WAS all the same…maybe it wasn’t REAL…maybe she had left her usual reality for a California dreamin’ Twilight Zone. Her imagination clicked on, in high gear. 
  
   I drive and drive and drive and drive. I see nothing but acres of roadway, flyovers, entrances, exits, and interchanges, as far as the eye can see. And traffic. Traffic. TRAFFIC. More cars than I could ever imagine existing in my entire multiple decades of life. Is this really a road, or am I stuck in a slightly-mobile used car parking lot? If this gets any worse, we’ll be going backwards. 

   She peered into the cars on either side of her. Who were these people? Where were they going? Why were they jammed onto the freeway alongside her? What were they thinking as they stopped and started, stopped and started, etc.? When did they get on the road, and how far were they going? Did they wonder, as she always did, if they would ever get to their destinations? Her imagination sped on, unchecked. 

   These people must spend great chunks of their lives on these roads. In fact—she fantasized--what if they really spent their ENTIRE lives on these roads? The buildings I see off in the distance--what if they're not real constructions, but just false fronts (a la Disney) attached to overhead signs on the next freeway over? False fronts, suggesting a vast, (pseudo-) metropolis, masking the constant flow of traffic from one end to the other and back again. Circling endlessly, as people are born, grow, mature, and die while traveling in their cars... Slabs of apartment building false fronts, scrims of ticky-tacky houses, promising the constant commuters that there is settled, residential life available. Someday. For some people. 

    Just not them. 

   Maybe she would never stop driving. Maybe NONE of them were ever going to stop driving. Maybe they were just going to go creeping down those freeways forever… What she wouldn’t give right now for an open, barren stretch of Arizona highway. So what if it was hundreds of empty miles long? She’d at least be MOVING. 

   Passing countless faux-botanical cell phone towers ("Telecommute WHILE you commute!") augmented by matching faux-botanical foliage to line the freeways and decorate the median strips. Which is needed to replace actual, genuine foliage which withered and perished long ago, from the 10-lane-wide gulf stream of inexhaustible exhaust fumes. 

   Freeway exits to other freeways or to nowhere (essentially the same thing). Fast food places and gas stations along the sides of the freeways are pit stops (literally, recalling some gas station bathrooms). Electronics stores, for periodically upgrading cell phones. Targets, for replacing shoes worn out by constant accelerating and braking; replacing hats and sunglasses lost out the open windows; replacing clothes which have been ruined by disintegrating tacos, nacho cheese dip, chicken nugget grease, and hamburger sauce—or which have simply been outgrown; for stocking the cases of energy drinks needed to keep on driving. 

   She suddenly remembered a favorite Ashleigh Brilliant post card from the past (now, alas, lost). It had a line drawing of a cloverleaf interchange, with the following quote: It's really quite a simple choice: life, death, or Los Angeles. With Los Angeles ranking below death? 

   She glanced out both side windows and checked the rear-view mirror, as traffic ground to a complete halt. 

   Yep, seems legit.

_____________________________________________

Story by Mary M, Isaacs, copyright 2021. In her book, Hair of the Dog (see sidebar for link). 

   

Quote du jour

"Our hearts are enfeebled by prosperity."

- John Calvin

Saturday, July 30, 2022

Best of the Web*


*…that Dave and I have seen all week!

(BTW, if you wonder where any of the links will take you, hover your cursor over the link.)

Political/SocioEconomic

The Left Should Be Happy With Biden
Joe Biden met with at least 14 of Hunter’s business associates while vice president
Biden Has No Right to Declare a National Climate Emergency
Magical Thinking as Economic Policy


Culture

New image shows hero’s 40-yard pistol shot that stopped active shooter
Feel Good Friday
Our Idiotic Absurd World - Plastic Bag Bans in the USA
What is it really like for a young woman to regret her gender transition?
Dred Scott was popular, Justice Kagan
Creepy Kamala Harris in ‘Wakanda Forever’ Video
Monumental Courage




Photoshops/Cartoons/Graphics
Sunday Funnies
Sunday Funnies For 07-24-22






Science/Technology
Scientists create strange new phase of matter that occupies TWO time dimensions: Could be a breakthrough for powerful computers that perform complex tasks





Linkfests:
Larwyn’s Linx: New York “justice”: Rep. Zeldin’s would-be assassin is released without bail
In The Mailbox: 07.25.22
Larwyn’s Linx: How Did Democrats Become So Out of Touch With the American People?
In The Mailbox: 07.27.22 (Afternoon Edition)
Larwyn’s Linx: Tucker Carlson Outlines Dueling Insurrections and Two Tiers of Justice
In The Mailbox: 07.27.22 (Evening Edition)
Larwyn’s Linx: Biden got the recession he wanted
In The Mailbox: 07.28.22




Dave's Rule Five Roundup:

Proof Positive - Best of the Web

Animal Magnetism - RULE FIVE OIL BONANZA FRIDAY

By Other Means - Tuesday Tap Rack and Bang, BeCos(play) It's Friday and Seeing Red

Evi L. Bloggerlady - An Old Song on the Spanish Armada, or Sir Francis Drake

Ninety Miles From Tyranny - Hot Pick, Girls With Guns, Morning Mistress and Blogs With Rule 5 Links

Grouchy Old Cripple - Saturday Boobage

Irons in the Fire - Friday Data and ... Saturday Data Overflow

The Feral Irishman - Friday Femme Fatale

The Daley Gator - OK more Babes in Boots

Diogenes Middle Finger News - A Good Monday Morning

A View from the Beach - Rule 5 Saturday - Nicole Pedra and Fish Pic Friday

24 Femmes Per Second - Anne Heywood

Knuckledraggin My Life Away - I'm sure she's taken, men And ... I’ll leave you with this

American Power - Kayla Sweetie

Woodsterman - Rule 5 Woodsterman Style

The Other McCain - Rule 5 Sunday: Marine LeCourt

The Pirates Cove - If All You See ... and Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

Wired Right - A Beautiful End to the Day

Sonoran Conservative - Rule 5: Friday

The Right Way - Friday Babe and ... Rule 5 Saturday LinkOrama

Friday, July 29, 2022

Double Bonus Free Gun Friday

Today, we have a double bonus Free Gun Friday! Not actually a gun, this time, but a holster rig to carry one!
Included in the Arc Angel Bundle:  (1) Guardian (OWB) Holster - Arc Angel Edition - $74.99 
MRSP (1) Rancher Carry Belt - $59.99 MRSP 
(1) Plain Magazine Pouch - $19.99 MRSP  
Total Value of $154.97!
You can enter here.

Bonus Free Gun Friday

Today's Bonus Free Gun Friday is to Win The Daniel Defense M4A1 Block II Rifle!
$2,800 VALUE INCLUDES 
Aimpoint PRO Red Dot Reflex Sight 
Magpul AFG FDE Angled Foregrip 
Tech10 Tactical T10 Bravo Two-Point Sling
You can enter here.

Free Gun Friday

This week's Free Gun Friday is an Aero Precision .308 in OD Green Topographical Cerakote, plus lots of other goodies! A $3,400 value!
Aero Precision 308 OD Green Topographical Cerakote M5 - $1,500.00 Value 
Aero Precision Classic T-Shirt - $16.00 Value 
Aero Precision Topo Freedom T-Shirt - $16.00 Value 
Primary Arms Optics GLx 2.5-10x44FFP Rifle Scope - Illuminated ACSS-RAPTOR-M2-5.56/5.45/.308 $749.99 Value 
Primary Arms Optics 30mm PLx Cantilever Mount - 1.5" - $249.99 Value 
SureFire M640U Scout Light Pro Weapon Light - 1000 Lumens - Black - $296.00 Value 
SureFire Replacement Waterproof Rear Cap Assembly for Scout Lights - SR07 Included - Black - $176.00 Value 
Blue Force Gear Vickers 221 Sling - Push Button Swivels - OD Green - $92.95 Value 
Magpul PMAG 20 LR/SR GEN M3 7.62 NATO Magazine - 20 Round - Black - qty x5 - $94.75 Value 
Magpul Bipod for M-LOK - $104.45 Value 
US PeaceKeeper Drag Bag Case - OD Green - 52" - $172.99 Value 
Expo Arms M-LOK QD Sling Mount - $12.95 Value
You can enter here.

Quote du jour

''Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion''

- Aristotle

Thursday, July 28, 2022

Quote du jour

"For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them."

- Seneca

Wednesday, July 27, 2022

Quote du jour

There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while.

- Pearl Bailey

Tuesday, July 26, 2022

Editor's Note

The Title banner above was selected because it was one of a few I had collected and not used as yet. The Civil War motif is not to suggest anything of the current state of affairs in our beloved country.
-Ed.

Quote du jour

Though you have to marvel at the utter shamelessness of Democrats, incessantly warning that “democracy” is on the precipice of extinction, now urging the president to act like a petty dictator.

- David Harsanyi

Monday, July 25, 2022

Quote du jour

Biden has done more than any other Democrat to ensure fossil fuels were unaffordable, forcing America’s supposedly unthinking consumers to drive less or consider ditching their gas-engine cars altogether.

- Victor Davis Hanson

Sunday, July 24, 2022

A Little Sunday Night Music

The Wondrous Cross (Live) · Christy Nockels

Quote du jour

“The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.”

- C S Lewis

Saturday, July 23, 2022

Best of the Web*


*…that Dave and I have seen all week!

(BTW, if you wonder where any of the links will take you, hover your cursor over the link.)

Political/SocioEconomic

Biden Energy Security Official Says Administration Cannot and Will Not Accept or Approve Long-Term Oil and Gas Development
7 Senate Races 2nd Amendment Supporters Must Sweep
California murderer released 6 years into 50-year sentence arrested again on gun, DUI charges after car chase -#FireGeorgeGascon and every other Soros elected DA in the country!


Culture
Feel Good Friday



Photoshops/Cartoons/Graphics
Sunday Funnies
Sunday Funnies For 07-17-22




Linkfests:
Larwyn’s Linx: After 18 Months of Biden, Have We Hit Bottom Yet?
In The Mailbox: 07.18.22
Larwyn’s Linx: How the Left Hopes to Seize Control of Local Election Offices
In The Mailbox: 07.20.22 (Early Morning Edition)
Larwyn’s Linx: Tucker Carlson Outlines Background of Joe Biden’s "Climate Emergency"
In The Mailbox: 07.20.22 (Evening Edition)
Larwyn’s Linx: Americans Want Oil
In The Mailbox: 07.21.22

In The Mailbox: 07.22.22





Dave's Rule Five Roundup:

Proof Positive - Best of the Web

Animal Magnetism - RULE FIVE ATTRACTING THE BEST FRIDAY

By Other Means - Tuesday Tap Rack and Bang, BeCos(play) It's Friday and Seeing Red

Evi L. Bloggerlady - The Last Movie Stars

Ninety Miles From Tyranny - Hot Pick, Girls With Guns, Morning Mistress and Blogs With Rule 5 Links

Grouchy Old Cripple - Saturday Boobage

Irons in the Fire - Friday Data and ... Saturday Data Overflow

The Feral Irishman - Friday Femme Fatale

The Daley Gator - Saturday Babes with endowments

Diogenes Middle Finger News - A Good Monday Morning

A View from the Beach - Rule 5 Saturday - Corrie Yee and Fish Pic Friday

24 Femmes Per Second - Danielle Volle

Knuckledraggin My Life Away - I'm sure she's taken, men And ... I’ll leave you with this

American Power - Immie

Woodsterman - Rule 5 Woodsterman Style

The Other McCain - Rule 5 Sunday: Archer/Summer Illya

The Pirates Cove - If All You See ... and Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

Wired Right - A Beautiful End to the Day

Sonoran Conservative - Rule 5: Friday

The Right Way - Friday Babe and ... Rule 5 Saturday LinkOrama

Quote du jour

We cannot be at war with "terror". Terror is a tactic. We are at war with people who use terror as a tactic, who do share a common ideology.

- Mike B.

Friday, July 22, 2022

Free Gun Friday

Today's Free Gun Friday is an H&K SP5 pistol and two 30 round magazines!!
You can enter here.

Quote du jour

“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”

Thursday, July 21, 2022

Quote du jour

“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”

- Aristotle

Wednesday, July 20, 2022

Quote du jour

“In great literature, I become a thousand different men but still remain myself.”

- CS Lewis

Tuesday, July 19, 2022

Quote du jour

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

- Henry Ford

Monday, July 18, 2022

Quote du jour

“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. To be your own man is hard business. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”

- Rudyard Kipling

Sunday, July 17, 2022

A Little Sunday Night Music

No More Night - Christian Edition

Quote du jour

The church is always to be under the Word; she must be; we must keep her there. 
You must not assume that because the church started correctly, she will continue so. 
She did not do so in the New Testament times; she has not done so since. 
Without being constantly reformed by the Word the church becomes something very different.
- Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Saturday, July 16, 2022

A Little Saturday Night Music

JOHNNY RIVERS - Secret Agent Man 1966

Best of the Web*


*…that Dave and I have seen all week!

(BTW, if you wonder where any of the links will take you, hover your cursor over the link.)

Political/SocioEconomic

Biden Manages to Insult Our Allies in Multiple Gaffes in East Jerusalem




Culture
Feel Good Friday
What Explains the Missing American? - Victor Davis Hanson
‘Not a Whisper Anywhere’: Abortion Story About 10-Year-Old Ohio Girl Looking More and More Like a Complete Hoax
Her EBT Card Got Declined
Don’t Count on Abortion Clinics to Help 10-Year-Old Sexual Abuse Victims




Photoshops/Cartoons/Graphics
Sunday Funnies
Sunday Funnies For 07-10-22






Science/Technology
The Real Cost of Wind and Solar


Linkfests:
Larwyn’s Linx: Leaked data show US bracing for 161,000 unaccompanied children at border this year
In The Mailbox: 07.11.22
Larwyn’s Linx: 🚨 The Administrative State Moves to Show the Supreme Court Who’s Boss on Energy Policy
In The Mailbox: 7.13.22 (Afternoon Edition)
Larwyn’s Linx: Tucker Carlson Outlines How Democrats are Killing Our Economy and Standard of Living
Late Night With In The Mailbox: 07.13.22
Larwyn’s Linx: The Build Back Better alliance is fully vested in inflation
In The Mailbox: 07.14.22
Larwyn’s Linx: Biden Gives Left-Wing Kooks $1B Contract To Help Illegal Aliens Enter U.S.
In The Mailbox: 07.15.22





Dave's Rule Five Roundup:

Proof Positive - Best of the Web

Animal Magnetism - RULE FIVE REGULATORY FRIDAY

By Other Means - Tuesday Tap Rack and Bang, BeCos(play) It's Friday and Seeing Red

Evi L. Bloggerlady - Linda Ronstadt and Johnny Cash: I Will Never Marry

Ninety Miles From Tyranny - Hot Pick, Girls With Guns, Morning Mistress and Blogs With Rule 5 Links

Grouchy Old Cripple - Saturday Boobage

Irons in the Fire - Friday Data and ... Saturday Data Overflow

The Feral Irishman - Friday Femme Fatale

The Daley Gator - DaleyBabe Breast Appreciation Friday early evening babe

Diogenes Middle Finger News - A Good Monday Morning

A View from the Beach - Rule 5 Saturday - Valerie Loureda is Spoiling for a Fight and Fish Pic Friday

24 Femmes Per Second - May Wynn

Knuckledraggin My Life Away - I'm sure she's taken, men And ... I’ll leave you with this

American Power - Lisa Boothe on July 4th

Woodsterman - Rule 5 Woodsterman Style

The Other McCain - Late Night With Rule 5 Sunday: Hailey Outland

The Pirates Cove - If All You See ... and Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

Wired Right - A Beautiful End to the Day

Sonoran Conservative - Rule 5: Friday

The Right Way - Friday Babe and ... Rule 5 Saturday LinkOrama

Quote du jour

Black lives will matter when black men cherish and support the women they choose to have sex with, and stay with and support any children they father. Until those lives matter, it's just an empty slogan.
The same is true of every race.

- Mike B

Friday, July 15, 2022

Free Gun Friday

This week's Free Gun Friday gives you TWO chances to win!
Grand Prize #1 ATN X-Sight 4K Pro 5-20x 
+ ATN Auxiliary Ballistic Laser (ABL1000) 
+ ATN X-Sound Hearing Protector 
==================== 
Grand Prize #2 SIG SAUER P320-XTEN 10mm 
+ 200rds SIG SAUER Elite 10mm Ammunition
Enter to win here.

Thursday, July 14, 2022

Sic Transit Twitter

I've asked some friends to post this over on Twitter in absentia...

Hollywood Went to War

Sixty-sixth * in our series, Hollywood Went to War, is Larry Storch.
Storch served on the submarine tender Proteus during the war along with a radio operator named Bernie Schwartz, according to his Facebook page. They were on the Proteus in Tokyo Bay Sept. 2, 1945, and witnessed Japan’s formal surrender onboard the nearby battleship Missouri.

Schwartz later changed his name to "Tony Curtis". Larry recently passed away at the age of 99.
Larry, thank you for your service to our country! Rest in peace!

*Sixty six posts, eighty-four individuals.

Quote du jour

“Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The Sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus”

- Alexander Graham Bell

Wednesday, July 13, 2022

Congratulations On Your Win!

Waymaker Offroad Wheelchairs

You may have heard about these offroad wheelchairs before, but there's some people who will rent them out, no charge to folk who can't afford them. Here's from the website:
With the high price of a new trackchair, many people who could benefit from using one, would never have the opportunity to do so. If someone happens to have the finances available, it still ends up being incredibly difficult to justify spending $15-20,000 on something that may sit in the garage 95% of the time. This business was started to give those people all of the benefits of owning a trackchair, but at no cost to them!
And in case you thought they were just for hunting and fishing, here's a shot of another purpose...
If you want to find out more, or donate to the cause, their website is here.

Full List of American War Weapons Lost In Afghanistan



Can be found here. Among the party favors Biden left behind:
2,000 Armored Vehicles Including Humvees and MRAPs 
75,989 Total Vehicles: 
FMTV, M35, Ford Rangers, Ford F350, Ford Vans, Toyota Pickups, Armored Security Vehicles etc. 
45 UH-60 Blackhawk Helicopters 
50 MD530G Scout Attack Helicopters 
ScanEagle Military Drones 
30 Military Version Cessnas 4 C-130s 
29 Brazilian made A-29 Super Tucano Ground Attack Aircraft 
Heavy Equipment, Including Bull Dozers, Backhoes, Dump Trucks, Excavators
Plus a bonus for being such good radical Islamists!
At least 600,000+ Small arms M16, M249 SAWs, M24 Sniper Systems, 50 Calibers, 1,394 M203 Grenade Launchers, M134 Mini Gun, 20mm Gatling Guns and 30 Million rounds of Ammunition, including 9 Million rounds of .50 cal
Hit the link above for a more extensive view of the dumbassery results of our botched A-stan withdrawal. The fish rots from the head down. This debacle lies squarely on the shoulders of the Bumbler-in-Chief, Joe Biden.

Quote du jour

"The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests."

- Epictetus

Tuesday, July 12, 2022

Quote du jour

"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history."

- Aldous Huxley

Monday, July 11, 2022

Quote du jour

“How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!”

- Thomas Jefferson

Sunday, July 10, 2022

A Little Sunday Night Music

Nearer, My God, To Thee - Acapeldridge

Quote du jour

“Happiness cannot perish as long as God lives. He is the first and the last; the first of all delights, nothing before him; the last of all pleasures, nothing beyond him.”

—Stephen Charnock

Saturday, July 9, 2022

Best of the Web*


*…that Dave and I have seen all week!

(BTW, if you wonder where any of the links will take you, hover your cursor over the link.)

Political/SocioEconomic

SELECTION CODE Movie on the 2020 Election Steal is DEVASTATING – Release Date August 20 (Trailer Attached)
The Crybaby Leftist Mind - Victor Davis Hanson



Culture
Feel Good Friday
Air Force Teams Up with Lee Greenwood for Patriotic God Bless the USA Performance




Photoshops/Cartoons/Graphics
Sunday Funnies
Sunday Funnies For 07-03-22




Linkfests:
Larwyn’s Linx: American Grand Strategy: Disguising Decline
In The Mailbox: 07.05.22
Larwyn’s Linx: Who Are the Real Insurrectionists?
In The Mailbox: 07.06.22
Larwyn’s Linx: China Acquiring New Weapons Five Times Faster Than U.S. Warns Top Official
In The Mailbox: 07.07.22
Larwyn’s Linx: Authorities Arrest 2 Illegal Immigrants For Allegedly Plotting Mass Shooting
In The Mailbox: 07.08.22






Dave's Rule Five Roundup:

Proof Positive - Best of the Web

Animal Magnetism - RULE FIVE INSURRECTION FRIDAY

By Other Means - Tuesday Tap Rack and Bang, BeCos(play) It's Friday and Seeing Red

Evi L. Bloggerlady - Larry Storch, RIP

Ninety Miles From Tyranny - Hot Pick, Girls With Guns, Morning Mistress and Blogs With Rule 5 Links

Grouchy Old Cripple - Saturday Boobage

Irons in the Fire - Friday Data and ... Saturday Data Overflow

The Feral Irishman - Friday Femme Fatale

The Daley Gator - Friday 9 PM Babes!

Diogenes Middle Finger News - A Good Monday Morning

A View from the Beach - Rule 5 Saturday - A Self Confessed Racist - Rachel Zegler and Fish Pic Friday

24 Femmes Per Second - Françoise Arnoul

Knuckledraggin My Life Away - I'm sure she's taken, men And ... I’ll leave you with this

American Power - Annie Agar: All-American

Woodsterman - Rule 5 Woodsterman Style

The Other McCain - Rule 5 Sunday: Ava Gardner

The Pirates Cove - If All You See ... and Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

Wired Right - A Beautiful End to the Day

Sonoran Conservative - Rule 5: Friday

The Right Way - Friday Babe and ... Rule 5 Saturday LinkOrama

Quote du jour

The core belief of liberalism is to spend other people's money. This becomes harder when they are out of power. Fortunately banks will loan them other people's money to tide them over until they can wrest power back again, when they can repay the banks with... other people's money.

- Mike B

Friday, July 8, 2022

Bonus Free Gun Friday

Today's bonus Free Gun Friday is a rifle and thousands of dollars worth of gear!
Vertx Ardennes Holiday and Rover packs and Tactigami of choice 
Matching custom-fit ballistic inserts from Premier Body Armor 
AGM PVS-14 
Zev Core Elite Rifle
You can enter here.

Free Gun Friday

Today's Free Gun Friday is an AR-10 in .308, scoped, with lots of goodies to go with it!
You can enter here.

Quote du jour

"I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worry."

- Jules Renard

Thursday, July 7, 2022

Quote du jour

"Oh, Democrats, let's take the first f---ing word a human animal understands: 'mama' and replace it with something best understood by four Trotskyites at Berkeley."

- Bill Maher

Wednesday, July 6, 2022

Pudding Wars

Quote du jour

Thanks to the Supreme Court it’s now less dangerous to be in the womb than Paul Pelosi’s car

- Matt Schlapp

Tuesday, July 5, 2022

Quote du jour

"I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend."

- Thomas Jefferson

Monday, July 4, 2022

Air Force Teams Up with Lee Greenwood for Patriotic God Bless the USA Performance

I've posted this before, but it's SO good!

Quote du jour

"The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits."

- Thomas Jefferson

Sunday, July 3, 2022

A Little Sunday Night Music

He Who Began A Good Work In You - Steve Green

Quote du jour

“If God is the Creator of the entire universe, then it must follow that He is the Lord of the whole universe. No part of the world is outside of His lordship. That means that no part of my life must be outside of His lordship.”

- R C Sproul

Best Spam du jour

In 25 words or less, tell me what's wrong with this marketing approach...

Saturday, July 2, 2022

Best of the Web*


*…that Dave and I have seen all week!

(BTW, if you wonder where any of the links will take you, hover your cursor over the link.)

Political/SocioEconomic

White House Is Quietly Modeling For $200 Oil "Shock"



Culture
Feel Good Friday
Nolte: Only the MAGA Movement Could Have Ended the Atrocity of Roe v. Wade
BATTLE OF THE BULGE: SGT LOPEZ SHOT, REFUSED EVAC, FLANKED ENEMY, EARNED MEDAL OF HONOR



Photoshops/Cartoons/Graphics
Sunday Funnies
Sunday Funnies For 06-26-22






Science/Technology
A SINGLE SHOT THAT SAVED D-DAY: THE BRITISH PIAT
ANATOMY OF A SUPPRESSOR

Linkfests:
In The Mailbox: 06.27.22
Larwyn’s Linx: 46 bodies found in truck carrying migrants in San Antonio
In The Mailbox: 06.28.22
Larwyn’s Linx: San Antonio Human Smuggling Death Toll Rises to 51 as White House Says Border is Closed
In The Mailbox: 06.30.22 (Afternoon Edition)
Larwyn’s Linx: The degradation of our military
In The Mailbox: 06.30.22 (Evening Edition)
Larwyn’s Linx: During NATO Press Conference Joe Biden Blames Russia for Upcoming Global Food Shortage
In The Mailbox: 07.01.22




Dave's Rule Five Roundup:

Proof Positive - Best of the Web

Animal Magnetism - RULE FIVE PATH TO MANHOOD FRIDAY

By Other Means - Tuesday Tap Rack and Bang, BeCos(play) It's Friday and Seeing Red

Evi L. Bloggerlady - Kristyn Crawford Sexually Harrassed at ABC, George Stephanopoulos, Disney, and Network Retaliate

Ninety Miles From Tyranny - Hot Pick, Girls With Guns, Morning Mistress and Blogs With Rule 5 Links

Grouchy Old Cripple - Saturday Boobage

Irons in the Fire - Friday Data and ... Saturday Data Overflow

The Feral Irishman - Friday Femme Fatale

The Daley Gator - Friday Evening Babe

Diogenes Middle Finger News - A Good Monday Morning

A View from the Beach - Rule 5 Saturday - Eva Longoria - Race Data Base Operator and Fish Pic Friday

24 Femmes Per Second - Catherine Spaak

Knuckledraggin My Life Away - I'm sure she's taken, men And ... I’ll leave you with this

American Power - Full of Beauty

Woodsterman - Rule 5 Woodsterman Style

The Other McCain - Rule 5 Sunday: Eugenie Bouchard

The Pirates Cove - If All You See ... and Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

Wired Right - A Beautiful End to the Day

Sonoran Conservative - Rule 5: Friday

The Right Way - Friday Babe and ... Rule 5 Saturday LinkOrama

Quote du jour

If a government considers any of its citizens who are striving to keep the voting system honest "domestic enemies", then that government must be full of domestic tyrants.

- Mike B

Friday, July 1, 2022

Double Bonus Free Gun Friday

Our patriotic Double Bonus Free Gun Friday is a Faxon Sporting rifle and some other goodies!
Faxon Firearms ($1,149.00 Value): Faxon Sentry 16" Modern Sporting Rifle 
Trueshot Gun Club ($299.99 Value): 
Full Forge Gear - Torrent Double Rifle Case - Black with - 
Norma - 223 Rem - 55 Grain - FMJ - 390 Rounds ​​​​​​​ Breakthrough Clean Technologies ($69.95 Value) 
LOC-223 – ROD CLEANING KIT ​​​​​​​ Seven Hills Outfitters ($200 Value): 
$200 Digital Coupon to 7HOutfitters.com ETS ($90 Value):​​​​​​​ 
3 AR Mags, 
1 Rifle Speedloader 
U.S. Optics ($844 Value): 
USO TS-6X w/ CRODelta FRZ Mount Olight World ($284.90 Value):​​​​​​​ 
Odin GL M/Oknife Ratel Blue
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Bonus Free Gun Friday

Today's Bonus Free Gun Friday is three grand worth of firepower and swag, topped off with an H&K VP9!
​An HK VP9. 
1,000 Rounds of 9mm ammunition. 
A complete AR500 body armor bundle. 
A $1000 Galco Holsters gift card and swag bundle.
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Free Gun Friday

Today's Free Gun Friday

 

- Aero Precision M4E1 receiver set with 15" ATLAS S 
-ONE Handguard in FDE
- 16" 5.56 carbine barrel 
- VG6 Gamma 556 
- Large Lever BREACH ambidextrous charging handle in FDE 
- Aero Precision PRO BCG 
- Geissele SSA-E 2 stage trigger 
- Crimson Trace CT Rad Max 
- Magpul MBUS Pro backup sights 
- Magpul furniture 
A total prize package worth over $1,850.00!


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Quote du jour

''The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.''

- Aristotle