Saturday, January 09, 2010

Show Us Your Guns!



Has 10% unemployment, three dollar gas, and arctic temperatures got you down, Spunky? Do what I do; go to a gun show. For seven dollars you can have your faith in America renewed.

I showed up at 9 am and the line to get in was 200 yards long. It was eight degrees and the wind was a nasty 10 mph. So we all lined up and huddled together like an Obama bread line. We looked like a rag-tag militia of armed Americans carrying everything from black rifles to Boer War Martini-Henry's.

When I got close to the door a handicapped vehicle pulled up with Vietnam Veteran plates. Two old guys got out (one was blind and the other walked with a cane). They looked at the line stretching half way to Terre Haught. I said to them "you get in line right here, no veteran is walking to the back of the line today". We finally made it to the doorway and felt the wonderful heat. The line moved slowly because everyone had to unload their firearms and have the actions banded. I really appreciated that because in a crowded place it's hard not to point a gun at someone.

I lucked out and found some powder I was looking for and some brass. I saw some old Enfields and Mausers I might have paid a hundred bucks for ten years ago going for four hundred dollars. I even saw my father's old 32 Smith and Wesson. Last time I saw that gun was when it went flying out the window because the cops were called to our door over a domestic argument.

It was better than a gram of Prozac. It was like the antidote for watching C-Span. I'm reminded of what CP says "no matter what happens in Washington our military is not going to turn their guns on us." I saw that today, as through a glass darkly.

Friday, January 01, 2010

2009 in Review

A great year:
10% unemployment
3 trillion in new debt.
5% inflation
10% drop in real estate value
crude oil $80 a barrel
3 terrorists attacks
2 U.S. automakers moribund
U.S. dollar approaching the peso
stimulus package creates 10 jobs
federal jobs increase
private sector jobs decrease
Olympics in Rio
ammunition scarce
medicare gutted
abortion federally funded
racial divide widens
policemen assassinated
jails emptied
congress for sale
president a Marxist
director of homeland security a moron
treasury secretary a tax cheat
unlimited bailout for fannie and freddy
borders wide open
supreme court justice a racist
mullahs with nukes
swine flu hoax
taxes on tanning beds
government owning banks
global warming blizzards
speech replaced by texting
language replaced by Twitter
life replaced by Wii


That's all I can think of offhand.