In general I spent a long time being convinced that technology had produced a better handgun than those that were available to say my grandfather. 

Well in some ways I suppose they might have.  I'd propose rather that they've made them different.  They've made them lighter.  They've made them hold more rounds.  But they haven't made a finer or more reliable handgun than the 1911.

I've yet to determine where the reputation of always having feed issues and what not comes from.  My 1911's all run flawlessly.  The design is so simple that you can break the entire pistol down and rebuild it with new springs and put it back in service within 15 minutes with only a couple of tools.

The 1911 is a natural pointer driven largely by the grip angle.  While I certainly can't say anything "bad" about Glocks.  I don't personally like them.  I don't like the grip angle one bit.  By the way it's not a hatred of plastic pistols either.  There are some plastic or "composite" pistols I like just fine.  The FNP-40 is one.  The Walther P99 is another.  There are certainly worse things to be lost in the woods with than a Glock.  One will just never be my first choice.

Here's a couple of my favorites.  First a Kimber Custom II that I decided to rework.  That was an adventure and something I think everyone should do at least once.



Second is a 32 year old Colt Combat Commander that I rescued in horrid shape.  Someone had abused this poor pistol to near destruction.  I brought it back from the dead and would trust my life to it in an instant.



Next project which I've just started is reworking a Rock Island Armory pistol.  These aren't the fanciest 1911 out there, but they are a reliable and good shooter which can be picked up new for $350.  We'll see how it turns out.

I suppose the point of all this is, if like me you've made a circuit of the handgun world looking for the "ultimate" handgun but you haven't spent some time with a 1911 in awhile.  You might want to circle back and spend some time in a camp that nears 100 years old.  You just might be surprised.

Being an avid shooter I like to recognize both good and not so good service in
the shooting community.  But what really gets me is when a company comes so
close to being the best they can be and then falls short in silly
ways.

Today's topic is my experiences with Para-Ordnance and their 1911
pistols.

I've now officially owned two of these.  While that isn't a
large sampling of firearms from a manufacturer it is a good start to determining
whether that number will ever grow.  Now while I say I've had two of these ...<< MORE >>

Once again the mainstream media is off and running. Covering the tragic loss of life at Virginia Tech and pointing out that guns caused this. Once again they are all over telling the people that the gun banning crowd is hard at work trying to get more legislation passed to stop this kind of tragedy from happening. Once again the heritage of firearms in this country is being spattered with mud as if it were the problem.<< MORE >>

The recent shooting spree at Virginia Tech once again shines the spotlight of truth on the lies or at least misguided rhetoric of the gun ban crowd. Places of guaranteed disarmament are a playground for those who want to kill lots of people.<< MORE >>

So I haven’t posted anything in awhile.  I think it’s time for me to get back to doing so.  I continually fall into the trap of getting busy and then moving to tomorrow all the things that didn’t seem so important to do today.  This blog has all too often been the thing that could move to tomorrow.  In reality it can’t.  Things are crazy in America today.  We’ve got some of the most immoral and perhaps insane people running this country possible.  Yes, that’s a broad statement, but it is what it is.  I mean we have an Attorney General that enjoys the full support of the President, yet he won’t acknowledge that Habeas Corpus is an inherent right of the People.

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on January 18^th, in his conversation about habeas corpus with Senator Arlen Specter (R-Penn.):

Gonzales: The fact that the Constitution – again, there is no express grant of habeas [corpus] in the Constitution. There is a prohibition against taking it away. But it’s never been the case, and I’m not a Supreme –

Specter: Now, wait a minute. Wait a minute. The Constitution says you can’t take it away, except in the case of rebellion or invasion. Doesn’t that mean you have the right of habeas corpus, unless there is an invasion or rebellion?

Gonzales: I meant by that comment, the Constitution doesn’t say, "Every individual in the United States or every citizen is hereby granted or assured the right to habeas." It doesn’t say that. It simply says the right of habeas corpus shall not be suspended except by –

Specter: You may be treading on your interdiction and violating common sense, Mr. Attorney General.

Gonzales: Um.

Of course, Gonzales is partly right. There is no specific "grant" of habeas corpus in the Constitution, because inalienable rights are not doled out by government. America’s founding fathers didn't believe governments grant rights. Instead, they believed (to quote Thomas Jefferson) that "all men … are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." God, not government, grants rights according to the thinking and language of the founders. That’s why George Mason wrote – when framing the Bill of Rights – that "Congress shall make no law" abridging our rights rather than "Every individual is granted" such-and-such a right. The difference is key, because anything government has the legitimate power to give you, it also has the power to take away. The founders said that our rights were unalienable, unable to be removed by the power of government.

And nothing – other than life itself – is more essential than the right to liberty. Habeas corpus simply says that government must produce some proof of a crime before locking up a man and taking away his liberty.
(If you haven’t done so, click the link at the start of that section and actually watch the wicked fool make the statements.)

I called him a wicked fool because I don’t actually believe he’s stupid.  He’s simply wicked.  He seeks to destroy the Constitution and our liberty right along with it.

This is the same man that had a top aide state that the President could order the torture of children if he wanted to and a list of other heinous un-American acts.

The best part is, most Americans are so pathetically and blissfully ignorant of the great gift granted them by the Founding Fathers, that with latte encrusted lips they just smile, occasionally drool, and say, “Thank you for keeping us safe.”

Lemmings have more sense than most of my countrymen today.

How will that latte taste as a slave?  How will it taste when they collapse your economy and you can’t buy one.  Better yet, you can’t feed your family either.

http://www.jonesreport.com/articles/160407_dollar_new_low_euro.html

or the original AP article if your prefer

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070416/dollar.html?.v=3

Go ahead, drink up, be merry, and trust the Government.  (Even though there is no historical precedent for being able to trust ANY government.  In fact we were specifically warned by the Founding Fathers NEVER to trust our government, for to do so would be the beginning of the end of our liberty.)

Better yet how can you trust a Government run by people like Mr. Gonzales?  How can the top attorney in the country think that Habeas Corpus isn't a right of ALL of us.  How can you think that the Government grants us anything?

Oh well then again this is the same man that not only would advocate the torture of children, he'd cover it up.

Gonzales and the teen sex scandals...

It’s time to start holding politicians accountable for their actions.

It’s time to hold them accountable for the people they appoint to positions of power (ie: Alberto Gonzales)

It’s time to ask questions.  One such question you should ask is, “If there is a War on Terrorism and we have all these enemies that want to strike at us and hurt us, why can anyone bring anything, any time, across the Southern Border of the US?” How about another great question?  “If 1 million Chinese soldiers put on civilian clothing and stream across our southern border is search of “jobs” are they an invading army or migrant workers?”

It’s time for YOU to get educated.  Understand your rights; understand that they are not granted by the Government.  Understand that if you don’t defend them, your children will pay the price. 

Learn to determine truth from that which falls from here:

The Federal Income Tax is simply illegal and Unconstitutional. Worse it isn’t even driven by actual laws that empower it. Like the comment that starts this article off. Congress was not granted this power. The Federal Government was not delegated this power at all. Congress may pass either direct taxation (such as the gas tax.) or an apportioned tax (one that is split equally among the people in America.) Typically an apportioned tax would actually be split to the States based on the populations of those states. Either way it would be portioned equally to the populace. << MORE >>

So on Sunday I'm going about my merry way on my way to the local Wal-Mart to get a replacement bulb, I'm sure complete with RFID tagging and all... But hey it's convenient.

Just before turning off the main road I was on to turn into the Wal-Mart parking lot, I spot this guy.



Notice the GITMO sticker.  In case you can't read the bottom of the sticker it says, "Lock The Terrorsits Up!"
The black thing in the middle is Osama's head behind bars.  I found this sticker very distrubing and was struck by a desire to see what the person that would advocate the finer points of GITMO as well as support Rick Perry's sell-out of Texas via the Trans-Texas Corridor and Spanish owned companies controlling the plethora of toll roads they are building all over the place, looked like.  I suppose I was hoping to find a drooling idiot behind the wheel that I could have pity on and understand completely why they didn't understand what they were supporting.

Alas! I was disappointed to find a very normal looking older man and his wife driving along in blissful ignorance.  Now keep in mind it was Sunday and as we got closer to a very large church in the area I had a new bright thought, the irony of which was just too much.  What if these Neo-Con, torture supporting people were on their way to church?  Wouldn't that just be a hoot?

Well sure enough, I wasn't disappointed this time.  They turned into the church parking lot, parked, the gentleman grabbed his Bible, and off they went to commune with Yahweh.

While I can't really find any place in the Bible where torture is specifically condemned, I also can't find where it is specifically allowed in general.  There would appear to be some acceptance in the Old Testament of its use for crimes commited that a criminal was convicted of.

However this to me is an issue that requires the searching of your heart on two levels.  The first is as an American.  I cannot condone the use of torture by America against others with the intent of coercion.  One it doesn't work and second I believe it to be morally wrong and against the principles this country is founded on.  The second search must be into your relationship with Yahweh.  I believe you will find that Yahweh does not condone the torture of men by men and certainly not in the absence of any wrong doing.

Perhaps more important and in fact most important is simply the caption of the sticker, "Lock The Terrorsits Up!"

How long before that gentlemen is labeled a terrorist? How long before you are?  If you've been following any of the events since 9/11 you should be very concerned.

The Patriot Act on has seen massive amounts of legislation and worse simple Executive Orders, that strip your liberties and protections.  They will manage to subvert Habeus Corpus with regards to US Citizens.  Have no fear of that. 

Just like this section from the latest NIE report:

While Iran, and to a lesser extent Syria, remain the most active state sponsors of

terrorism, many other states will be unable to prevent territory or resources from being

exploited by terrorists.

Anti-US and anti-globalization sentiment is on the rise and fueling other radical

ideologies. This could prompt some leftist, nationalist, or separatist groups to adopt

terrorist methods to attack US interests. The radicalization process is occurring more

quickly, more widely, and more anonymously in the Internet age, raising the likelihood of

surprise attacks by unknown groups whose members and supporters may be difficult to

pinpoint.

• We judge that groups of all stripes will increasingly use the Internet to

communicate, propagandize, recruit, train, and obtain logistical and financial

support.

Don't think for a minute they aren't taking as much about groups inside the US that are deemed to be leftist, separatist, etc.  They are.  Note the reference to anti-globalization sentiments.  They are coming after your liberty, my liberty, anyone that doesn't agree...  You may support GITMO today, but what will you do when YOU are labeled a terrorist?  How will you feel then about being locked up without charges or hope of justice?


You should think about it.

There is a terrible stink that is descending on America.  Perhaps that is not the right way to refer to this situation.  Perhaps it is more that there is a terrible stink rising from the rotting carcass of what was once America.  Strong words you say?  I’ll not deny that.  Indeed they are.  But then again these are very troubling times.

 

What has happened to my brothers and sisters?  Those who once could call themselves Americans with pride?  It is hard to be proud when one is not righteous.  America is no longer righteous.

 

If you haven’t already, do some searches on the torture legislation and debate.  I’m torn whether to go to the trouble to post links in this or not.  I’m not sure I should.  Maybe people should get off their asses and go look for themselves.  The very fact that there can be a debate about America using torture, secret prisons, detaining even American citizens without Habeas Corpus, and of course the famous “crushing of children’s genitals in front of their parents” is reason enough to call the time of death on America.

 

The entire debate is so anti everything this country stands for and the principles it was built on that just be its existence for more than 10 minutes, tells me we’ve crossed over.  We’ve become no better than the British government we separated from.  You remember, the one you were so repulsed by when you watched The Patriot and saw the Dragoons burn all those people alive in the church?

 

The Americans:  “That’s horrific, you are monsters!”

 

The British: "We are finding terrorists and bringing them to justice. We are gathering information about where the terrorists may be hiding. We are trying to disrupt their plots and plans."

 

Well OK that was actually Fuhrer Bush in November 2005.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-11-07-bush-terror-suspects_x.htm?POE=NEWISVA

 

Fuhrer Bush?  Yes that is what I said.  Even at the risk of being labeled an “enemy combatant.”  After all there is a great deal of evidence to prove the ties of Prescott Bush to the Nazi regime.

 

http://c2ore.com/archives/?itemid=1712

 

That’s just one article feel free to search for more, it gets most of the idea across but there is actually more to the story.  But really it does a decent job of tying the Bush family to the Nazi rise to power.  Let’s not forget that Bush is an adapted German name as well.

Then again this is a President (term used loosely) that has no respect for the Constitution and certainly none for the flag so many have died for.



Yeah you're supposed to write on it George.

 

Well writing on it was probably better.

If you look at events today and really pay attention, as well as spend some time researching the psychological side of Hitler’s rise to power you will see very alarming parallels to today.  But that should be no surprise.  After all, the art of politics and social control is a very old one.  Thousands of years of refinement have already taken place and through history the same methods have been used over and over. 

 

If you want to be truly alarmed take a look at the Patriot Act and this most recent torture legislation issue and then go do some research on German newspaper articles in the late 30’s talking about “The Enemies of Freedom” and how they would be resisted and crushed…  Yes that was Hitler talking about the communists as the enemies of freedom and how he would crush the enemies of freedom.  Yeah, I know it’s confusing given that it sounds like a headline from 2001-2006 not 1939.  Like I said the game isn’t new.

 

 

If you look, you will find that nearly every day there is some new attack on basic honest Americans.  Well I suppose you could say that basic and honest are open to discussion and interpretation.  At the very least you can find instances of people who are trying to do the right thing being trampled by the Homeland and its new found powers.

Take for instance Major Mike McCormack who is a hospital technician and civil air patrol pilot who worked the ground zero site for eight days after the collapse of the twin towers. He is one of the real heroes of 9/11 and was the man who found the American flag that was later displayed as a token of unity atop the rubble.

Unfortunately for Mike he is also one of the multitude of people now seriously ill from the toxic air he breathed at ground zero.  He is one of the many that believed the EPA when they said the air was safe.  Mike's misfortune gets bigger however.  He is also the man that helped release documentation prooving the EPA covered up the toxic nature of the air.  An act that is wholly American (at least in my opinion) one designed to unmask the criminal nature of our government.  Those actions likely resulted in this:



Please feel free to read the whole story.

 
With the Fuhrer's currently succesful attack on Habeas Corpus being what it is, I'm sure there will be many more such stories.  Oh wait, no there won't.  Because now it's even easier to shut down even the alternative media.  We're that much closer to anyone, anywhere, anytime, being able to be rounded up on a whim.  So in the end, silly me.  We'll see more of these stories for awhile before any hope of the truth showing its head is crushed.

http://kurtnimmo.com/?p=581

Kurt's done a great article on the death of your protections.  Yes, I called them your protections, because they used to be.  Don't kid yourself.  Eventually you will disagree with something and at that point you're screwed because you didn't protect your liberty when you could have.  Perhaps you like the twit in Terror Storm believe people should give up "liberty for freedom" not realizing that these are the same thing.