I can tell he is quaking in his tennies!!!

We received a official letter today from the school informing us that Stephen is now on probation for this quarter after a review of his fourth quarter last year. This means he cannot go to extra curricular no foot ball games or dances. Which he attended religiously last year. Yeah Right. Trying to get him interested in going to a dance was like getting him to brush his teeth. Why bother. So as Stacie says he is being punished for last years transgressions this year. I wonder what they are going to do when they see his lack of use of their summer School system. Will it then be "double secret probation"?

this is our tax dollars at work? I am going to assume that he has at least a masters degree but the Roseville High website has no information on his qualifications. And a google search for him brings up nothing. But he is educated enough to forbid my stepson to go to dances and football games this quarter. That kind of makes me think of the punishment for ditching school. If he wont come we won't let him. So since he doesn't go to the games or dances they won't let him. Such effective discipline. Of course my opinion of the effectiveness of the Roseville high school system is really low.

He did so poorly last year to put him on probation this quarter. And when he started this year he was scheduled for PE (Phys Ed for you Yankees who may read this), Peer helping (a touchy feely type class), Tutorial (study Hall) and cooking. A schedule so light on academics that I wondered if they were trying to make his GPA positive number. I mean show up and dress out and you will get a passing grad in PE. Of course that was too much to do for him last year.

So his mother (bless her heart) took him out of PE and put him in World Studies so he has at least one academic course. Boy howdy did that piss him off. "We ruined his life" according to him. Well so far he is actually doing OK in that class.We shall see as grades come out but the online book shows him as not missing any assignments. We are keeping our fingers crossed.

Unka Arnie loses this roll

He gambled on taking air tankers off of contract and made them a call per fire deal. they cast more for 3 days (the minimum they can be called out for) then they would cost for a week of standby and use. Thee is a fire right now in Auburn ( 1/2 an hour up the hill from where I live.
The link for it on the news station is:
http://www.kcra.com/news/20636210/detail.html
They currently have eight air tankers currently on the fire. I also hear 3 helicopters are in use. Watching the fire on the news is a definite Aw Shit situation. It is right now at about 800 acres in the junction between rural and urban areas. A lot of peoples houses re currently burning. High temperature, high winds, and low humidity.

I don't think it actually saved the state any money this time. Well I guess it is a good thing that no one is out running a suction dredge in that area.

Is what is going on Constitutional?

Gotta love John Silveira. He writes for Backwoods Home magazine which i have been reading for years and subscribing to for 2 years now. His series on "The Coming American Dictatorship" is one that makes my libertarian leanings go "PING". His latest installment is at:

http://www.backwoodshome.com/articles2/silveira119.html

It just really pisses me off when the federal government hijacks the constitution for its own good. And then we as Americans by inaction allow it. I was pissed off at the bailouts going on around me, I was pissed that now we the people own a large chunk of Chevy. It started when we bailed out Chrysler back 20 years or so ago. Yes Lee Iaccoca brought Chrysler through and paid back the loan, but it was a terrifying precedent. What happened to capitalism? If you make a bad decision you go out of business. If you make good decisions you get a profit. Wow, Darwinism in action. Of course the gas companies were criticised for making gas prices so high last year to their profit. But the decision to charge what they did was criticised but NOT illegal. The feds didn't get their panties is a knot over that!

So if bailouts are not specifically powers granted by the constitution then they are not allowed by the federal government. The constitution states that powers not given to the federal government are not allowed to be used by the federal government. So where does it say they can bail out failing car manufacturers? OK I didn't vote for Obama because i dislike both him and McCain who I did not trust either. I voted third party knowing as I cast it that it was a wasted vote. But by the Gods we need to take a stand against our current government.
Remember it was Tom Jefferson that did much more then "play the violin" (again extra points if you get the quote..I bet Mary does)wrote "the tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of patriots". Now I do not advocate armed insurrection. But as Admiral Bob has stated in Starship Troopers the vote is the most power that a human can exercise. You may not think your vote counts but it is not like some of the elections we have seen on the news lately. or in Florida in recent memory. YOUR VOTE COUNTS!!!!
The only failure is lack of trying! My opinion if you do not vote you have no right to bitch about the outcome. If you are eligible to vote do so. There may not be anything you want to vote for then for Gods sake vote against the issue. If you are too lazy to go down to the polling place register as an absentee voter and spend the stamp to vote. That's the way me and Stacie do it. If more of us had gotten off our collective duffs prop 8 wouldn't have passed and many of our friends would have been still able to marry. voter turnout could have changed that election.

I am so disgusted with my government
Ottar

You know your old when.....

This morning i went to the gym for my workout. No really I did, stop laughing. I was unaware of Senator Kennedy's passing. I found out during my workout. Right about the same time the next screen flashed an ad for swimming lessons their at the gym. that hurt. Good thing I wasn't drinking that was spit take material there. And of course I had no one to speak to until I was walking out. I had to ask it they were having Ted Kennedy memorial swim lessons. The blank look made me feel OLD. Then when I explained it she got it, and told me that was wrong. And then just continue out the door. So with tears in my eyes I went off into the sunset.
Then more wickedness crossed my mind:
What we need to do is get Mythbusters to do a honorarium episode.
Here you go Senator:
http://mythbustersresults.com/episode72

Maybe if a bunch of us flood their website with requests they might do it. After all they seem to have a Graethorne style sense of humor.

Bad Ottar
Again no biscuit

I guess I aint got it so bad

At least I wasn't sold!

http://www.wdsu.com/news/20548703/detail.html

And there is no real possibility that I will be eaten. OK I understand the reasoning behind what has happened. And as a sound manager it does need to be done no matter how distasteful. I guess I am glad that they were not forced into the sex slave industry. But unfortunately i found out too late to go to Louisiana in time to buy my own.

Why does the tune to Scotland the Brave go through my head right now?

Ottar
feeling sheepish

What is the world coming to?

I am aghast. The city of Green Bay Wisconsin just did something they have not done in the 142 years of incorporation. They have hired a African American police officer. Oh My Gawds who would have thought something like this could happen. I mean a little redneck town will keep a drug addicted quarterback like Brett Favre on their football team would actually take another step down the liberal highway by hiring black cop? The NORML website

http://www.norml.org/index.cfm?wtm_view=&Group_ID=4573

says that any possession of any amount of any amount of marijuana is good for six month in jail for the first offense. Yet they kept Brett (who has become a traitor by retiring and going to the Vikings) as an admitted addict. Wow they are going liberal. Next thing you know it will be legal to import cheese from Switzerland.

OK you should know by now that I am not a racist and this was a tongue and cheek look at what was considered newsworthy in Green Bay. Maybe I look at things a bit differently but cannot figure out 2 things here:
1 Why did it take 142 years to do this.
and
2-Why was that considered newsworthy?
Maybe the city did not get sued for equal rights. Or maybe it was like when I was in second grade and asked my mother why we had no black students in our school. She replied that was because there were no black people living in our part of Maine. But the population of Green Bay is 7% according to the news.
Congratulations to Soloman Ayers the new officer.

Ottar

If'n they only had a liquor department

http://www.hummerstlouis.com/

This place allegedly is the largest Hummer dealer in the world. On his website it states his only business is Hummers. This turns out to be a lie! They just opened Adventure Shooting Sports. WOW and they have a "Tactical Room" with assault rifles. And on the news last night they even have 9mm ammo. Which is as scarce as IQ points in the legislature. If I hadn't already been driven out of Missouri I would go there just to look.

Short comment today.
Ottar

BAIL 'EM OUT! ????

Hell, back in 1990, the Government seized the Mustang Ranch brothel in Nevada for tax evasion and, as required by law, tried to run it. They failed and it closed. Now we are trusting the economy of our country, our banking system, our auto industry and possibly our health plans to the same nit-wits who couldn't make money running a whore house and selling whiskey!"

Now that was a sign.Thank You Toni for sharing that with me. Does not change my opinion of the ineptitude in Washington one iota. Kind of elaborates on the old saw about "Those who can't do teach" (sorry Dave) with the added caveat Those who cant do shit run for office.

Kind of puts a down swing on the Graethorne/Seareaver ticket but we will do. And apply size 13's strategically to motivate officials.

Ottar

Obama's Montana Town Hall

I Received this from a friend. And I am pretty sure it's legit. I did the research and there is nothing on Snopes.com one way or the other. Post a comment if you have any information pro or con.

This comes from a friend's relative who lives in MT. He changed names & removed email addy.

Hello All,

By now you have probably heard that President Obama came to Montana last Friday. However, there are many things that the major news has not covered. I feel that since Joe and I live here and we were at the airport on Friday I should share some facts with you. Whatever you decide to do with the information is up to you. If you choose to share this email with others I do ask that you DELETE my email address before you forward this on.

On Wednesday, August 5th it was announced locally that the President would be coming here. There are many groups here that are against his healthcare and huge spending so those groups began talking and deciding on what they were going to do. The White House would not release ANY details other than the date.

On about Tuesday Joe found out that they would be holding the "Town Hall" at the airport. (This is only because Joe knows EVERYONE at the airport) Our airport is actually located outside of Belgrade (tiny town) in a very remote location. Nothing is around there. They chose to use a hangar that is the most remotely located hangar. You could not pick a more remote location, and you can not get to it easily. It is totally secluded from the public.
FYI: We have many areas in Belgrade and Bozeman which could have held a large amount of folks with sufficient parking. (gymnasiums/auditoriums). All of which have chairs and tables, and would not have to be SHIPPED IN!! $$$$$
During the week, cargo by the TONS was being shipped in constantly. Airport employees could not believe how it just kept coming. Though it was our President coming several expressed how excessive it was, especially during a recession. $$$$$

Late Tuesday/early Wednesday the 12th, they said that tickets would be handed out on Thursday 9am at two locations and the president would be arriving around 12:30 Friday.

Thursday morning about 600 tickets were passed out. However, 1500 were printed at a Local printing shop per White House request. Hmmmm......900 tickets just DISAPPEARED.
This same morning someone called into the radio from the local UPS branch and said that THOUSANDS of Dollars of Lobster were shipped in for Obama. Montana has some of the best beef in the nation!!! And it would have been really wonderful to help out the local economy. Anyone heard of the Recession?? Just think...with all of the traveling the White House is doing. $$$$$ One can only imagine what else we are paying for.

On Friday Joe and I got out to the airport about 10:45am. The groups that wanted to protest Obama's spending and healthcare had gotten a permit to protest and that area was roped off. But that was not to be. A large bus carrying SEIU (Service Employees International Union) members drove up onto the area (illegal)and unloaded right there. It was quite a commotion and there were specifically 2 SEIU men trying to make trouble and start a fight. Police did get involved and arrested the one man but they said they did not have the manpower to remove the SEIU crowd.
The SEIU crowd was very organized and young. About 99% were under the age of 30 and they were not locals! They had bullhorns and PROFESSIONALLY made signs. Some even wore preprinted T-shirts. Oh, and Planned Parenthood folks were with them.....professing abortion rights with their T-shirts and preprinted signs. (BTW, all these folks did have a permit to protest in ANOTHER area)

Those against healthcare/spending moved away from the SEIU crowd to avoid confrontation. They were orderly and respectful. Even though SEIU kept coming over and walking through, continuing to be very intimidating and aggressive at the direction of the one SEIU man.

So we had Montana folks from ALL OVER the state with their homemade signs and their DOGS with homemade signs. We had cowboys, nurses, doctors you name it. There was even a guy from Texas who had been driving through. He found out about the occasion, went to the store, made a sign, and came to protest.

If you are wondering about the press.....Well, all of the major networks were over by that remote hangar I mentioned. They were conveniently parked on the other side of the buildings FAR away. None of these crowds were even visible to them. I have my doubts that they knew anything about the crowds.
We did have some local news media around us from this state and Idaho. Speaking of the local media...they were invited. However, all questions were to be turned into the White House in advance of the event. Wouldn't want anyone to have to think off the top of their head.

It was very obvious that it was meant to be totally controlled by the White House. Everything was orchestrated down to the last detail to make it appear that Montana is just crazy for Obama and government healthcare. Even those people that talked about their insurance woes........the White House called our local HRDC (Human Resource and Development Committee) and asked for names. Then the White House asked those folks to come. Smoke and mirrors...EVERYTHING was staged!!!!!!!!!!!

I am very dismayed about what I learned about our current White House. The amount of control and manipulation was unbelievable. I felt I was not living in the United States of America, more like the USSR!! I was physically nauseous. Joe and I have been around when Presidents or Heads of State visit. It has NEVER been like this. I am truly very frightened for our country. America needs your prayers and your voices. If you care about our country please get involved. Know the issues. And let Congress hear your voices again and again!! If they are willing to put forth so much effort to BULLY a small town one can only imagine what is going on in Washington DC. Scary!!

Our Legislature INaction and Lockerbie

My impressions of today's news is really got me twisted.

Apparently our legislature is going to make it a legal requirement that businesses accept state IOU's the same as cash. What a bunch of BULLSHIT!!! Our elected officials cannot pull there heads out of their collective asses long enough to do a major part of their job, you know a budget done on time and completely. So since they cannot do their job they issue an IOU to cover money you are supposed to receive from the state. This is what is referred to as fiat money. From Wikipedia for Fiat Money:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_money

Fiat money is money declared by a government to be legal tender.[1] The term derives from the Latin fiat, meaning "let it be done". Fiat money achieves value because a government accepts it in payment of taxes and says it can be used within the country as a "tender" (offering) to pay all debts. In effect, this allows it to be used to buy goods and services and to pay tax. Where fiat money is used as currency, the term fiat currency is used. The most widely-held reserve currency, the US dollar, is a fiat currency, as are other widely held currencies like the Euro, Pound Sterling and the Yen.

I believe that that is against the law here in America. Many towns like Dixon (here in Ca about a 1/2 hour west of Sacramento for you not local) have tried to use local fiat money and have been smacked down by the state and federal authorities. But the state wants to do the same thing. wow sauce for the gander but sex for the goose right up the old pop chute. I love my state.

OK that is my bitch about the state today now I gotta bitch about Scotland.

They released Abdelbeset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi (I cut and pasted I couldn't spell that name on a bet) from Prison today. He was the one person convicted of blowing up the Pan Am flight over Lockerbie Scotland. It was a compassionate release. He was serving a life sentence with no chance at parole. Yet when he had terminal cancer of the prostate they decided to let him go home. My personal choice would have been to have the Dr. give him a medication error during his chemo. But I am not the kindest person out there. I can understand that this way the prison system does not need pay for his medical treatments. But he wins now, he gets out of prison before he died. He served only 8 years. And on the news his escort is one of Qhaddafi's sons (should have used a bigger bomb on that bastards tent years back). Of course watching him come down the stairs from the plane I was hoping a sniper would have put a 50 caliber round through and through, but the US does not do assassinations (really I believe that..yeah right)

I wonder how Ashley Judd feels about this. Since she partied too hard the night before and missed her flight so she was not on board flight 103. Wow now thats a visual, Ashley Judd drunk in a Paris hotel room. I would make an exception to my dislike of France in this case.

I am sure that he will pay for the crime in his afterlife. Depends on how his belief system is. Allah will give him 270 (the number of victims on flight 103) virgin males with unlimited Levitra that will make him their bitch would be fun. Or a warm welcome in Hell. Or back on the wheel again to pay for it next roll.

Is it a SIGN?

And yes the capitol letters are deliberate. Last week I received a unsolicited email from a company requesting me to apply with them. The expectations were set that decisions of interviews were going to be made next week or even later. I sent my resume to another call center in Rocklin and had an interview yesterday (8/12/2009). A while back I replied to a call center wanting a supervisor/QA person and have the first interview with them at two today. Now does anyone know something I can drink to get the butterflies to settle down? Its been a long seven and a half months and I know that some of you not so gentle readers are longer on the unemployment wagon.

I see this as a glass half full view. I have bunches of friends in the ranks of the unemployed. Makes weekends like eh? like any other day. But in the last couple weeks at least two of them found employment. Gainful employment with actual paychecks and everything. Why does the phrase "all the Goddesses children got to have paychecks" come to mind? Maybe the mirth and merriment got the Gods attention last Friday. Maybe its just our turn. Whichever way it falls I am not going to deride the bounty offered.

Ottar
more nervous then a long tail cat in a room full of rocking chairs (thanks for the visual admiral Bob)

Its not a dredge

But the department of fish and game is dumb. Today I am taking my sluice box and putting it in a stream in the Mother Lode and hope to find some of that thar yellar metal. It isn't a suction dredge it is a shovel and lift operation. With a little luck I will bring back enough gold to be worth the effort.

Ottar

It makes sense to me

No really it does.
Make it illegal to suck gravel from the bottom of streams and rinse and aerate the gravel and let it fall back to the bottom of the stream. When you clean up you remove the mercury from the micro-particles that you remove from the gravel. And you do this after fish have spawned so you are not endangering young fish. Makes as much sense to me as it did to make the mountain lion an endangered species by popular (and unscientific) vote. When that was passed I predicted mountain lions killing humans within two years. Wow guess what I was right. remember the jogger who was killed here in the Sacramento area? within two years. Damn my logic on that was spot on. My predictions on unemployment extensions was also right. Gold mining revenue going through the floor next. I have heard predictions that Pioneer mining in Auburn will be reducing hours if not closing. I don't know about the gold mining store over on Fulton but it won't surprise me. Mail order may be the only way to buy prospecting supplies real soon.
OK so my opening lines were pure unmitigated BULLSHIT!!
But since when has anything done by our legislature make sense? I was part of the letter writing campaign for Unka Arnie to not sign this into law but he didn't listen to me, or the rest of my prospecting buddies. Instead he listened to the suits who kiss his ass. We need to get this unsigned asap.
I will be going to the legislature records and find out who voted for this bill and post a list of who voted which way so we can start firing the people who won't do what we hired them to do.
Read and read my comments and make your own!
Ottar
A prospector for that thar yellar metal

Catching Wild Pigs

My sister sent this to me and I had to share

Catching
Wild Pigs

A
chemistry professor in a large college had some exchange students in the class.
One day while the class was in the lab the Professor noticed one young man
(exchange student) who kept rubbing his back, and stretching as if his back
hurt.

The professor asked
the young man what was the matter. The student told him he had a bullet lodged
in his back. He had been shot while fighting communists in his native country
who were trying to overthrow his country's government and install a new
communist government.

In
the midst of his story he looked at the professor and asked a strange question.
He asked, 'Do you know how to catch wild pigs?'

The professor thought it was a
joke, and asked for the punch line. The young man said this was no joke. 'You
catch wild pigs by finding a suitable place in the woods and putting corn on the
ground. The pigs find it and begin to come everyday to eat the free corn. When
they are used to coming every day, you put a fence down one side of the place
where they are used to coming. When they get used to the fence, they begin to
eat the corn again, and you put up another side of the fence. They get used to
that and start to eat again. You continue until you have all four sides of the
fence up with a gate in the last side. The pigs, who are used to the free corn,
start to come through the gate to eat, you slam the gate on them, and catch the
whole herd.

Suddenly the
wild pigs have lost their freedom. They run around and around inside the fence,
but they are caught. Soon they go back to eating the free corn. They are so used
to it that they have forgotten how to forage in the woods for themselves, so
they accept their captivity.

The young man then told the
professor that is exactly what he sees happening to America . The
government keeps pushing us toward socialism, and keeps spreading the free corn
out in the form of programs such as supplemental income, tax credit for unearned
income, tobacco subsidies, dairy subsidies, payments not to plant crops (CRP),
welfare, medicine, drugs, etc. While we continually lose our freedoms -- just a
little at a time.

One
should always remember: There is no such thing as a free lunch! Also, a
politician will never provide a service for you cheaper than you can do it
yourself.

Also, if you see
that all of this wonderful government 'help' is a problem confronting the future
of democracy in America , you might want to send this on to your friends.

If you think the free ride is
essential to your way of life, then you will probably delete this email, but God
help you when the gate slams shut!

Keep your eyes on the elected
politicians who are about to slam the gate on America .

"A
government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take
away everything you have."

Thomas
Jefferson

TANSTAAFL

I received this today and comments will be afterwards.

http://www.nashvilleistalking.com/2009/08/murfreesboro-tea-party-organizer-owes-thousands-in-unpaid-taxes/
Murfreesboro tea party organizer owes thousands in unpaid taxesby Christian Grantham - 3:38 pm - August 3rd, 2009 (via @RCDP) According to tax lien records posted online, Murfreesboro tea party organizer Christian Hidalgo owes thousands of dollars in unpaid taxes.
Christian Hidaglo hates paying taxes. He hates them so much he organizes local Republicans to protest paying them in what they call Tea Parties. Now documents show the Tea Party organizer owes over $80,000 in state and federal tax liens stretching over a 10-year period.
For several years, Hidalgo has not paid portions of both state and federal taxes, forcing both the state and federal government to spend time and resources to issue several liens against his property and assets. Government authorities can seize property and assets of individuals with liens for unpaid taxes.From the Tennessee Democratic Party:
“I guess we know now why Mr. Hidalgo is leading the effort to protest taxes,” Tennessee Democratic Party Chairman Chip Forrester said of Christian Hidalgo, who owns a Murfreesboro-based marketing and public relations firm. “It’s hard for me to understand how people who don’t pay taxes think they are paying too much.”
Tax records from the Rutherford County Register of Deeds show Hidalgo has been stiffing the IRS for more than a decade. He is not the only local Tea Party organizer who has been dodging tax payments, though.
Recently it was revealed that National Tea Party organizer and Williamson County Republican Michael Patrick Leahy has more than $100,000 in tax liens and court judgments filed against him.

********my comments after here************

OK so this idiot protests against paying taxes. And does not pay taxes. but then he gets a horrendous lein on his business and property. OK if you are going to argue with the government about taxes your gonna get burned. Better to pay them and sue to get them back then not pay them and lose all your stuff. An individual fighting the government is like a Toyota pulling in front of a semi. Ties go to higher gross tonnage. The truck wins. Of course your heirs can sue the owner of the truck to regain something.

So why does this person expect to get people to follow him? That's kind of like if your friends jumped off a cliff would you follow them? So if you are part of this tea party don't look to me for sympathy when Uncle Sam takes your house before it gets foreclosed on. Oh and you still owe somebody money. And if I understand it right Uncle Sam gets first dibs.

Ottar
who may not like it but pays his taxes

Ebonics on TV

What has happened to our public media? As I am sure you know I use to hire people for a call center in Kansas. When I talked with a prospective employer if they could not speak standard American English I would not hire them. If when it came to questions if they wanted to "Axe me a question" I would not hire them. The site director took me into his office and asked me why I was making a racist policy. No way I told him, we are a call center and our product is the way out technicians speak. If they cannot speak good American English do we want them representing us? My justification then became official company policy because it was a "Bona Fide Business need".

So what pissed me off this morning was that they had a kid (probably Stephen's age) doing a mock interview. When she finished she said "(her name) Axeing Questions, Getting answers." When Chris Burroughs on channel 58 told her good job I could not stop cringing. That was not a good job. it was at best a nice try. If we let them get away with it when they are young they won't speak well as adults. Ask is the work not Axe. I am frustrated by how slack we have become at accepting these terms in our language. I know others agree with me because I hear them correct their kid with decent English. Now if I wasn't so old that showing 4 inches of plaid boxers above a pair of saggy pants didn't disgust me. I guess I am just too old.

"I wonder if I packed my scotch"..Avatar

Ottar
should I start calling Stacie Eleanor?
extra points for recognizing the quote

Would we get votes?

I am willing to be a spoiler in the next campaigns. If the office does not allow running mates then we split up the offices. I run for assembly, Mr Graethorne runs for congress. I run for Attorney General (Hey Governor Moonbeam made it I have a shot!!!!). Wouldn't that be fun Would the Honorable Mr Seareaver please take the lectern. Maybe I could get an honorary doctorate. Would beat looking for a job on Monster and Craig's List. If I was running for a full time elected office would I still be eligible to draw unemployment? How about I get sworn in as Assemblyman? We know they don't work. But wait they do draw a state paycheck (you can bet they don't get IOU's) and a stipend, and access to a pretty good cafeteria, and a pretty spiffy gym at the taxpayers expense. And yes I will use it. Oh wow conference calls while on the treadmill like a important person.
OK Good night all

Ottar

Criminals Rejoice Sort Of

Two news items hit me today. About another 100 Sacramento County Sheriff officers (Sworn and Non sworn)were laid off effective September 1. And one of the gun stores cannot keep ammo and handguns in stock. Sounds like a lot of folks have the same attitude that I do. I would rather be judged by 12 then carried by 6. I wonder how long the courts are going to attempt to convict citizens from protecting there lives and property? I would not vote to convict in the case of reasonable force and or self defence. I see the criminals getting all brave because the lew enforcement display has been lessened and go to some little old ladies house and trying to rob it and she has her deceased husbands .45 that she has been keeping handy since he passed on in the '60's and she puts two in the head and one in the chest of the perp. Come on Mr DA lets see you prosecute that. I would contribute to her legal defense fund and go piss on the perp's grave to show his people how I feel.

I imagine it is not going to be too long before the courts get overwhelmed by cases such as this and a groundswell for a general amnesty on self defense crimes that are justified starts rising. Remember that we have a government of, for, and by the people. Just because there is a law does not mean that it cannot be changed. Remember that 40 years ago in the state of Michigan an act that I take great pride in my skill at was punishable by 20 years in prison. I hope that was not per instance. I would spend the rest of my life behind bars for oral sex. With them thar father rapers from the group W bench.

If a law is offensive it is our duty as citizens to work on striking that law down. Don't be disheartened if at first you don't succeed. Its not like skydiving you can try again. It is kind of like my campaigns to get the current politicians recalled. It only has to work once. Maybe I should get a friend with the gift of the Blarney to rewrite the gun laws for open carry in the state of California and do a proposition. I bet he calls me within minutes after reading this.

Ottar is feeling ornery
Lets go gunning (not advocating violence) for congress critters (just want there jobs)