My Apologies to all...

I have been super busy at work and if it wasn't for the preloaded history stuff that I had prepped way in advance, my blog would have been real quiet.  It will remain busy for the next couple of months, until next shift bid.

  Yes I have been working a lot of it.  I have a couple of trips in the works, One is to NOAC the "National Order of the Arrow Conference" and that is a week long and will run me a "C" note at least and that is at the end of summer, and in May is NRAAM in Dallas, That one will be a "Day" trip, the hotel cost are prohibitive.  My son and I will fly the first plane in and catch the last plane out on Saturday.  He did ask me if "Murphy" will troll the protestors like he did last year here in Atlanta., I replied "Probably". 
     And speaking of protestors, the left has lost their ever loving mind.  All I have seen is the vitriol and hate directed against us honest gun owners and the NRA, apparently that is the standard playbook of the left.  I have gotten into several pissing contest with idiots on Facebook, they parrot the latest talking points from bloomburg, the DNC and other leftist groups.  I do enjoy shredding their emotional twaddle when I post and I keep hearing the word "Compromise" and I will not hear of it.  I am tired of compromising.  I have used "Lawdogs" cake analogy to state my point of view.  It basically goes like this...

I will not compromise anymore.  I saw on someone twitter feed about using the force of government, especially the NSA to go through everyones social media profile, letters, emails, store purchases, who goes to the gun range, who belongs to the NRA or other 2nd amendment groups and launch police raids to seize the guns....My reply was "Well that will start a civil war, many gun owners will fight and how many police, military and citizens do you want to see die to enforce this liberal utopia that you see at the top of the hill?.  I get the response, "What can you do against the U.S. Army with a deer rifle?" I snort  and use this analogy...

I commented"Most of the Police and military will not go along with this, they are from our communities and they live among us and we live among them, They know that if they start caving in doors to enforce the liberal edict that you want done, a lot of people will would up shot, and I recall a liberal think tank did an analysis to push through the agenda that the left wants, it will take 10% of the American population to pay the price to get the others to toe the line, and keep in mind, we tend to live in the rural areas and will survive better than you will.
     
Speaking of the NRA, several companies have cut ties with the organization, I am disturbed, these companies have caved to the craven Social Justice fanatics, this shows a distinct lack of spine, companies forget that SJW's are never happy and they will push and push until their agenda is met, then they will find another agenda leaving shattered lives and pissed off people wherever they go.

Here is a list of some of the companies that have cut ties with or distanced themselves from the NRA since the Florida school shooting that left 17 people dead.

• United Airlines -- United tweeted Saturday, "United is notifying the NRA that we will no longer offer a discounted rate to their annual meeting and we are asking that the NRA remove our information from their website." 
• Delta Air Lines -- Delta issued the following statement Saturday: "Delta is reaching out to the National Rifle Association to let it know we will be ending its contract for discounted rates through our group travel program. We will be requesting that the NRA remove our information from its website." 
• First National Bank of Omaha -- The bank announced that it would not renew a co-branded Visa credit-card with the NRA.
• The Hertz Corp. -- The rental car company ended its discount program for NRA members.
• MetLife Inc. -- The insurer terminated discounts that had been offered to NRA members on the NRA website
• Enterprise Holdings Inc. -- The car rental company that also owns Alamo and National cut off discounts for NRA members.
• Symantec Corp. -- The software company that makes Norton Antivirus technology ended its discount program with the NRA.
• Chubb Ltd. -- The insurer announced it was ending participation in the NRA's gun-owner insurance program, though it provided notice three months ago.
• Best Western -- The hotel chain told multiple social media users that it was no longer affiliated with the NRA, though it did not say when that decision was made.
• Wyndham Hotels -- The hotel chain told social media users it is no longer affiliated with the NRA without specifying when that decision was made.

The NRA released the following statement Saturday:
"The more than five million law-abiding members of the National Rifle Association have enjoyed discounts and cost-saving programs from many American corporations that have partnered with the NRA to expand member benefits.
"Since the tragedy in Parkland, Florida, a number of companies have decided to sever their relationship with the NRA, in an effort to punish our members who are doctors, farmers, law enforcement officers, fire fighters, nurses, shop owners and school teachers that live in every American community.  We are men and women who represent every American ethnic group, every one of the world’s religions and every form of political commitment.
"The law-abiding members of the NRA had nothing at all to do with the failure of that school’s security preparedness, the failure of America’s mental health system, the failure of the National Instant Check System or the cruel failures of both federal and local law enforcement.
"Despite that, some corporations have decided to punish NRA membership in a shameful display of political and civic cowardice.  In time, these brands will be replaced by others who recognize that patriotism and determined commitment to Constitutional freedoms are characteristics of a marketplace they very much want to serve.
"Let it be absolutely clear. The loss of a discount will neither scare nor distract one single NRA member from our mission to stand and defend the individual freedoms that have always made America the greatest nation in the world.

   CNN the paragon of American news has been pushing the gun control agenda and they have had several town-halls where they packed it full of kids with scripted questions..Marco Rubio and Dana Lorsch were ambushed by this, they had commented like it was an arena and that the CNN moderator had lost control of the events or didn't have it to begin with. 
     I shake my head with amazement when I hear about arming teachers...the ones that want to be armed.  We keep hearing that "the Police will protect them"....Really? like that assclown that disgraced his uniform and hid while the young man was shooting up his former classmates.   It is funny that the cloud people have private schools, armed security to protect their kids, but us "dirt people" all we have are "Gun free zones".

 The FBI, the local law enforcement and the social services all dropped the ball, people said something, and they got blown off by the FBI, the Broward County Sheriff office and the local social services, but we have to rely on these people to protect our kids?
  It is like our lives and our kids lives are not as valuable as theirs are.   We have to be disarmed but our "betters" have protection.   There is a real disconnect with our society, we are more polarized than I have ever see us, the 2016 election really drove that point home.  I am not sure if we as a nation will survive.