What I have noticed.......And it is scary.....

I have been wanting to write this post since Sunday night, but I had to do my staple "Monday Music", that is tradition on my little corner of the internet, but it also is my work schedule and by the time I get home I am very tired and after I help prepare dinner and clean up and read some of the blogs I read, I am tired and go to bed.  I unfortunately can't blog from work where I have all these great ideas, although I was successful in catching part of oldnfo and lawdog doing a holster talk and seeing some of the guns that Old NFO has "lucked" into over the years and all I can say is *wow* but they do know their stuff but I do digress.  But anyway what is bothering me is what I am seeing going on is besides the mob taking over and the protesting is the rush to deface anything that is traditional to the United States, all monuments from our past. hell even the Monument to the 54 Regiment, the all black regiment that fought in the civil war that Mathew Broderick and Denzel Washington made famous in the movie "Glory" was was defaced by the mob. Either they don't know what they are doing or worse they do know and they don't care because this is by design because they are following the playbook of Alinsky the hero of Obama and one of the tenets of Alinsky is to smash all the traditions of a country and replace it with "acceptable" new traditions and this is all out of Marx, this is the playbook that Marx and Lenin used to take over the Russian empire.  Smash all the traditions and "replace all the moldy trappings of the house of Rominov with the new shiny Soviet system to represent the modern man" as the term went.  This is the dream that the rabid left wants.

Because of the mob and the kneeling there is a rush for purity from the mob.  You have to prove your "bonafides" and it is a sliding scale,  You are having to prove your purity to the cause for your acceptance into modern culture. I am seeing Police officer kneeling before the mob for fealty and forgiveness  and I am disgusted by this,  I am seeing fortune 500 companies rushing in supporting dollars for the cause.  There is a rush to become part of the latest social justice movement.  I am seeing people forcing others to kneel in subservience to others for imagined sins of their ancestry.  This is  frighting to me.  There are people going through other peoples social media platforms looking through their posting to see if their postings meet the sliding scale of the latest social outrage so they can get denounced on the modern version of the communist party meeting while the denouncer waves the red book in the air and denounces the offender for heresy for being not pure enough and brings the proof of their heresy in the pages of the social media post and lays it before the membership and denounces them properly so the membership can cast them out and the local commissar can record it and the offender can be cast out of the room(ostracized by their friends for not being woke enough) and sent to the gulag(fired from their job most likely  if their company is woke).  This is a great threat.  I am seeing a lot. Fortune 500 companies is posting memo's' of support as is other major companies and this is frightening. this is threatening peoples livelihood,  We are Americans, and we are being made to live in fear for fear of being denounced in our own country, because you can get fired from your job and lose your career due to the sliding scales of P.C justice.  We Live in a country that was founded of the tenets of freedom of speech and thought and association and all of this is in danger by the action of this P.C mob.  I am afraid for my son who will grow to manhood in a country that will despise him for being a white man if trends continue.  Martin Luther King said that  he wanted his children to be judged by the contents of their character , not their skin color what would he make of what is going on right now?   I am wondering where I could move to what state or country if this madness continues?
      And speaking of the mob, I am a student of history, I remember the French Revolution, the ones that started the revolution, they promised "Liberty, Fraternity and Equality" and instead delivered the "Terrors" as the people that fomented the revolution wound up feeling the "kiss" of the blade on their own neck as the people rebelled against the excesses of the tyranny of the revolution.  This is the danger of the people pushing the "defund the police movement we are seeing.  All these assclowns are wanting to remove the police, what are they expecting to see in their place?

Peace..Love...Rainbow..Unicorn.....people singing kumbaya in a circle?......what a bunch of freaking idiots.....First you liberal idiots strip guns away from the law abiding in your fair liberal paradise strongholds....so only the Police have guns..now you are protesting the police because you are protesting democratic policies ...you tracking so far?   so now you want the police to go away.you still follow the bread crumbs?....so who going to enforce the rules in your Liberal utopia?   you think everyone will be operating on the goodness of their hearts?    it don't work that way.   who is going to settle disputes between people?   who is going to protect the restraining order when psycho ex boyfriend wants to cohabitate again with ex-girlfriend..social worker can't settle that one.  or the local drug gang wants to expand their turf with the other local gang....I can go on and on...but you get the picture. The Summer will be interesting......

camping and shooting....or shooting and camping......

   I finally got a bit of time to post what transpired this past weekend.  I ran a .22 LR Rifle range for a troop that came up from Florida for what they call "Winter Camp".  While waiting for the  boys to show up, I went ahead and fired my *ahem* .22 LR rifle.  I immediately noticed that my Vortex strike fire was dead(Dead battery).  So I removed the optical sight and utilized my backup flip sight( that is what it is for) and sighted it in.

     Then the boys started showing up, so I had to put up my rifle and start running the range.  The boys were a bunch of good kids, very well behaved and they were here just to shoot.  I immediately gave them the safety briefing and I specified the 3 "always":

"Always keep the barrel in a safe direction"

"Always keep your finger off the trigger until ready to use"

"Always keep your firearm unloaded until ready to use"

Personally I think the 2nd and 3rd should be switched around on purely technical reasons, but that is the way that the NRA wants the range run.

   Well the boys had a lot of fun just wanting to shoot, since there was no "qualifications", I ran a more casual range with more emphasis on letting them shoot rather than lessons.  

   The boys were using a bunch of  bolt action rifles from  BRNO CZ.  With the way that the B.S.A works, that they usually buy the cheapest rifles on the planet, These rifles were actually very good.    For a supposedly cheap rifle, they shot very well.   I will get some information on the next time I run a range the model number if somebody is looking for a "cheap" .22 bolt action rifle that handles the abuse well and shoots well.

     Well anyway, some of the adult leaders invited my for supper, man I though my troop rolled out in style....this troop came in a big Penske box truck and a trailer....they traveled fully equipped.  The adults ate well:

   I was soo full, and it was a looooong drive back home Sunday night, for I had to work Monday morning.....I didn't have MLK off.......with the airlines...if you actually touch an airplane...it is a regular work day.  I can take the holiday off later for it is a "floating" holiday for us.  

     The food was totally prepared by ""Dutch Ovens" and it was very good.  A good dutch oven cook can make just about anything.  

   All I can say was that they honored me with their hospitality on Sunday night.  The fellowship was why I am a scout leader(Besides helping my son and the other kids). 
     On a different note, I refused to watch the SOTU address by Obungler, I saw an exerpt of the speech,   Free community college....sure create another entitlement...and he couldn't even give any cost.  Anything the government touches immediately explodes in cost as the industries involved view the government as the "free money machine", cost and quality be dammed.

  He also talked about civility in Washington, then immediately reminded the GOP of the 2 elections that "He" won.  civility...right....he only will be civil if the GOP caves to his demand.....and unfortunately with the GOP leadership in place...that is a distinct possibility.   he also ran out a bunch of new tax increase proposals to soak the rich some more.  I am sure the rich Hollywood liberals and others won mind giving more of their money to the "cause"  but the rest of us already believe that we pay too much to support a government that doesn't listen to us and views us as "wage slaves"  or sheep to be sheared for our wool, and then eventually slaughtered(Death tax) for the last bits of benefits to the state.    The state of the United States is grave, we are in 2 polarizing camps, and the rhetoric and vitriol is getting worse....usually from our friends on the left side of the political landscape.

        President Obama was elected in 2008 to be the great uniter of the people, but instead he has polarized relations between all Americans to a point not seen since the 60's.  Some of the people that was around back then believe that things are worse now than they were back then.

      I fear for my country and I truly don't know how it will go, if we go in fire or just fade away into the dustbin of history.