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I am a gun enthusiast trapped in the People's Republic of Maryland. My political affiliation is Independent, as the Ruling parties are both full of crap, and long ago stopped representing the common man. If the Libertarians weren't such freaks I would probably be one. I am a member of the Nation of Riflemen and damn proud of it. I once took an oath that I would support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic. As far as I know I never broke that oath, and will continue to follow it. I am not Politically Correct and will NEVER be Politically Correct. If you need to know more, feel free, Ask.

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This has long been one of my favorite sites. The author and photographer is a Russian immigrant who may know just a bit about being oppressed. check out Oleg Volk's site take his quick quiz... Especially you Rob. I got home today and usually I have a puppy that can't wait to greet me... Not so today. I call him and nada, no jingling collar, no whipping tail, silence. So I go looking for him and here is what I find... He looks thrilled does he not? He would not even look at me. you can just tell that he is plotting revenge for the indignity of it all. Once I took the collar off I had my usual happy puppy back. Yea I did have to stop and take that picture... Well my latest movable type black list entry has been a really big hit with the spammers. I banned all domains or domain links with a dash (-) in them and I have gotten 65 out of the last 100 in the past 2 days with that one. Of the other 60 attempts on my site in the last two days 40 have been for common drug names and the last 20 have been miscellaneous porn crap. Before I denied all the spam with a dash in them I was putting roughly 10 new entries in Blacklist per day. Now for the last 2 days I have not had any spam get through... Now that is progress... I am sure that the spammers will come up with something new but that was a really big blow against them. Wooo Hooo.... Well we had to take Max for a late night car ride to the Emergency Vets last night. After his bath last night he somehow managed to cut his paw pad very deeply getting out of the tub. Needless to say he bled like a stuck pig and emotions were running high at the Boston compound last night. We got him there and he has a nice V shaped cut running from the front of the paw pad to the middle of the paw pad. so about an hour later we had our pooch back with a nice cute Ravens Paw bootie on it. We have had to spray the Ravens bandage with some bitter apple and he has left it alone since doing that. I am guessing that we will have to get him an E-collar sometime today. He will just love that. So the puppy has come through the ordeal just fine (he did not even notice he cut his paw) with just 2 or 3 sutures to show for it thank goodness. Well I got in two days of shooting this weekend. I called up a friend that I got started into shooting and invited him but he was out teaching spooks how to drive (really he teaches the spook driving course for the government at a race course in WV). Saturday was pretty ugly as I have not been shooting regularly in quite some time. Low and behold my buddy calls up late Saturday and talks me into shooting on Sunday (said he would bring the ammo, never pass up free ammo). Sunday things were looking up but I was having a hard time with dropping the last two rounds in every pistol that I picked up. Here are pics of the two that I brought out this weekend. This is my Browning Buckmark. This shoots quite well and I have had no problems with it unlike some others that I have had reports from. It needs a new shock buffer but other than that is will shoot a group that fits under a quarter all day long. This is my custom 1911. the only stock parts left are the slide and the frame. all the moving parts are a nice light weight Ti for faster lockup. Yes I am about to send it off to be re-blued as it needs it after the workout it got in the past. This is one of the most accurate 1911s that I have shot to date. My gunsmith did an excellent job on her. My friend has gotten pretty deep into the hobby since I first took him shooting. He now has a few weapons that I would like to have. I will try for a few pics of his next time (I will also get the lighting and background right). I am currently saving my nickels for an M1A as I have always wanted one and am in a position to finally get one. I also rejoined the Ft Meade Rod and Gun club so that I will be able to get out on the 600 yard range that is on post (longest range in MD). I should be able to give it a good workout at 600 yards. I have an AR15 of early pre-ban vintage but at 500 yards it has a hard time with the accuracy (could be me, but I do ok with a friends .308 bolt action), if there is any wind I just hang it up as that 55 grain bullet gets blown all over the place. So even though SWMBO was sick all weekend I was able to go out and have fun... I am going to start putting up some range action videos soon. Sounds like a great idea right? We all get health care and the government picks up the tab. Cool. Lets take a look at our neighbors to the north for a quick snapshot of the future with a government run health care solution. When you look at Canada as a whole for the following specialties this is what you get (the wait times in weeks). Plastic Surgery: 35.8 weeks Gynecology: 14.8 weeks Ophthalmology: 28.7 weeks Otolaryngology: 15.8 weeks General Surgery: 9.9 weeks Neurosurgery: 22.7 weeks Orthopedic Surgery: 37.9 weeks Cardiovascular Surgery (elective): 11.1 weeks Urology: 14.0 weeks Internal Medicine: 11.5 weeks Radiation Oncology: 5.6 weeks Medial Oncology: 5.6 My source the Fraser Institute So when Kerry says he is going to give us health care I just look at the above stats and get all warm and fuzzy. I would hate to have a minor problem that is painful and have to wait 20 weeks to get it fixed (thats roughly 5 months for the math impaired like myself). You think that this is an isolated case? Try the UK's NHS on for size... So to pay for this wonderful system, the Canadians that I know and talk to every day have to fork over roughly 50% of their income (granted that is not the only program that their tax dollars fund). This does not even count the 15~17% percent sales tax. So all told the Canadians have over 60% of their income taken from them to support a broken government. (For those of you that think that having to take well over half of the income of your citizens is not a broken, you may need to reevaluate the role of government, for it is well and truly broken) I am not sure what the Canadians spend on health care per person per year but the UK spends £1,354 per person on their NHS (total population 59.6 million: total outlay £80,730,000,000). This translates to $2475 per person in US dollars. Source for the NHS funding Source for the UK population We already spend on medicare and SCHIP (total enrollment that I could find is 84.1 million: total outlay for medicare, medicade, and SCHIP is 449 billion US dollars) the equivalent of $5683 per person. Now this is really scaring me, I hope more people are using this system than I could find... Source for the medicade and medicare numbers So if we could get away with the UK figure of $2475 per person we would be looking at about $696,519,217,350 per year. If we use the number that I came up with from the medicare, medicade, and SCHIP the figure goes to $1,599,320,691,800 per year. Now the amount of money in 2004 that the Federal government brings in is $1,798,000,000,000 (of which 1.5 trillion of that comes from us taxpayers in the form of income tax) and it does not take a genius to take the worst case (1.8 and subtract 1.6 and come up with .2) that there is only 200 billion left to run the entire rest of the government (Social Security alone is 492 billion for fiscal year 04). So even if my number was off by half a billion dollars we are still talking major (with a capitol M) deficit spending or major (capitalize the whole word) increase in our taxes. Source for the Government budget numbers Is this what Kerry is going to bring? If you read his plan, welcome to the new world... Thanks but No thanks... in order to insure domestic Tranquility this will be my last political post till the lawyers get started on the results of the election (because I will not be able to help myself once lawyers get involved in our electoral process for the second time in my memory). Sidebar: In researching this entry I really found myself profoundly disturbed by the end of the night. I did this research because I no longer believe the Main Stream Media, they have lied to, cheated, and stolen the faith of the American public. We have been poorly served by our journalists, they have lost all impartiality in their reporting of events and ferreting out of truths. The only checks and balances that we have on the MSM, is the web and people out there willing to take their own personal time and seek out the truth. Just two recent examples: When CBS News and Dan Rather used blatantly false documentation to push their anti Bush agenda, had it not been for the people spending their own time and effort the American people would have been duped by the MSM yet again. When Fox News and Carl Cameron used fake quotes to put words into Kerry's mouth had the people not caught them the American people would have been duped by the MSM yet another time. At least in the UK the people that run the news organizations understand that they loose all credibility if they keep people who lie in their organizations and they FIRE them when the do these things. My own ferreting out of the truth: You hear the candidates speak on their positions and throw out numbers about what this or that is going to cost but how often do you really look past your Liberal or Conservative beliefs and take a hard look at the realities behind the statements. I am betting it is not often. I have many times on Second Amendment issues. Well the repeated statements of "I have a plan" and "its on my website" backed up by zero factual information made me decide to take a look at Nationalized Health Care. I was not encouraged with the results that I was seeing in regards to wait times for treatment in Canada, Strangely enough I was not able to easily find any data on the UK's NHS wait times, but the financial aspects were readily available, hence my analysis of the costs of health care on top of the performance of government health care. In the process of my research and documentation I had to spend significant time looking US budget. It is truly a scary thing to spend more than 10 minutes looking at the federal budget because you slowly come to realize that the government is truly huge. Not just big but huge. The next big realization it that we are 7.4 trillion dollars in debt as a country and without severely curtailing government spending or drastically increasing taxes (maybe even both) we are never going to be free of that debt. You hear of leaving the debt for our children, but we are going to leaving it for generations of our children's children at the rate that we are going. Things have to be cut and sacrifices must be made. Our government spends entirely too much money, no matter how you look at things. With the shift in the world outlook since September 11th things are not going to get better in the short term. We have been coasting on good luck for a long time, not being drawn into the global war on terrorism has allowed us to prosper. Those days are over for good, we are going to have to spend a lot of money to fight this war. And for all of you dreamers out there, this war will be fought to the bitter end, there is no backing down and nowhere to retreat. All the peace rallies and war protests in the world are not going to change the fact that we are dealing with religious fanatics who hate everything that we stand for and will not be satisfied until we are destroyed and our memory is a whisper in the wind heard by no one. We need to evaluate our situation, as a country and as a global leader, for if we tuck our tails and run out on the people of Iraq, it will turn into that which the terrorists want. They will have a measure of our resolve and we will have come up lacking. We will have forever emboldened them and there will never be peace again in our (at least my) lifetimes. Our fore fathers had the fortitude to choose the hard path despite the consequences, I just hope that we have the same courage in the face of our generations mortal fight. All is not lost but we are at a cusp with only two outcomes, neither good and one unspeakably bad. We can speak of outreach and global unity but none of that will change the fact that there are a group of religious fanatics that want us and every thing that we symbolize dead. There is only one solution to a group of fanatics that want you dead. You react without hesitation, remorse, or regret, until that group of individuals is no longer able or willing to do you our yours harm. The time for committees and world consensus is quickly fading (if not already faded) with each new terror attack and each new foiled terror plot. It is 11:58 for the terrorists and their supporters, unfortunately you are either with us or you are against us... I hope you all are able to sleep better than I... My favorite quote of the day so far "Because let's face it, a bad day in America is still far better than a good day anywhere else". Seems that more than a few brits (and Americans) are fed up with one of their Main Stream Media outlets. Posting has been very very light over here… It is all Mr. Corruptor’s fault, I now have a Xbox time suck problem. He has been sucking his circle of friends into the mix also, so if you are a friend of the corruptor just tell him you hate Xbox. It is just safer that way… On the home front we finished the basement bathroom and it looks great. We still need to seal the grout on the tile floor but other than that it is all finished and works nicely. We still need to find a mirror vanity for over the sink but Home Despot has been out of stock on the one Liz wants so we are in hold mode for the last piece of the basement bathroom remodel. More later. I promise…