Gun Show Weekend; Tuscola, IL

Dec 28-29

tuscola Gun and Knife Show

tuscola community building 122 w north , central st tuscola IL 61953

217-460-2387

$5 entry hildren under 12 free, show from 9AM - 4PM Sat, 9AM - 2PM Sun

That's where I'll be this weekend.  A few other shows this weekend as well in Quincy and Effingham.

Back to regular posting on Monday.

Closed For The Holidays

Go away and do something w/ your family/friends/the needy.  What are you doing here anyway?

Oh No-es! There Tokyo Goes!!!

The last major push for Nihon sheets was today. My buddy who paints my minis came down to help out, get his xmas gift (the BGG special sheets), and do some other geek stuff.  After the packing, the 'other' geek stuff came into play.  He punched out, colored the edges of, and assembled the 3-D pieces.  I punched out the first of my sheets (yeah, I've had the game a month and haven't gotten to play), a set of my Nihons which I also colored the edges of (the 'berry' colored sharpie works great). 

We then set up our doomsday board.  BGG-zilla, giant crater, UFO, Nihon forces, etc.

Yeah, this is going to be fun. Soon my packing table will be turned into a gaming table and many infantry and hovercraft will be crushed under the treads of OGRE's.

Hope For Chicago?

Sharpton showed up to preach more hate against whites and guns.  Apparently it didn't turn out quite the way he hoped:

“The manner in which we have been voting needs to change,” Wendy Pearson, an activist against Chicago school closings, told the room. “I’m here to say to you that we have been trained to vote in a specific manner… we need to start looking at the manner in which our elected officials have been voting… if they have not voted in a manner that is beneficial to you, yours, and your community, then you need to start voting them out.”

McKinley told the room, “Stop blaming just anybody for the violence in the city of Chicago. Blame the right people, not just white people, but the right people. Because it’s not just white folks a part of this, but it is on the fifth floor. The fifth floor took your schools, the fifth floor just took your jobs that he said that he gave to the ex-offender… and every single alderman was a part of this criminal process.”

Methinks some neighborhoods aren't going to see any road service for awhile. 

Here's the deal folks. Your 'representatives' are chosen for you.  Even if you do manage to vote in someone you like, the 'leaders' of the party you primarily support will force them to drop out, just like Dick Durbin did in 2010.  If you want to form your own 'Tea Party' like you claim, then plan to see lots of your relatives having 'accidents' and audits in your future. 

That's the Chicago Way.

Sheriff Tom Dart Can't Read a Calendar

In his absolute panic over CCW coming to Illinois, he says this about the law " 

“When you throw in the mental health component here, it's like what in God's name were these people thinking?” Dart said of state lawmakers. “They were in such a hurry to get something done.”

Hurry?  Huh?  CCW had been debated for YEARS in this state.  The legislature had 6 months to put together a law that 49 other states have variations on.  What did they do?  They literally waited until the day before the session ended and the various Chicagocrats went into a tizzy trying to throw as much crap against the wall as they could to get it 'No Carry'.

So Dart?  As dense as you are, the only 'lawmakers' you can blame are your fellow morons in C(r)ook Cnty/Chicago.  The ones who created that 'hurry'.  

ISP Making Up New CCW Rules

In an effort to keep as many people from applying as they can, the Illinois State Police have decided to only accept CCW applications online. 

Yeah, not going to happen.  Especially w/ the wonder that is the Obamacare website, I'm sure their intentions are honorable. 

Is it any wonder that pro-gun activists distrust any and all new laws/rules when in every instance, they get abused?  All the ISP is going to do is generate countless more lawsuits and cost the state even more money. 

That New Anti-Gun Blog

When they make a comment like this "They are also simply the “tools” of violence, terror, and death.", there is no 'reason' involved. 

Word salads, moving goalposts and lengthy 'nu uh's'  is all it amounts to. I'm glad I didn't bother.

Why The US Post Office is Broke

I've been shipping a large amount of packages through USPS lately using their flat rate services (hence why the lack of posting). Up until recently, it was more convenient to take them to the larger office in a nearby town than my local.  I dropped off some there the other day though and postmaster started giving me grief.  The sheets I'm sending are about 1/4" to big for the envelope so I've been using tape to completely seal it. Otherwise it is perfectly flat and thin.

Apparently that's against the ruuuuuuulllllzzzzzz.  So said PO(s) employee goes out of his way to find the regulation saying this was a no-no AND emails all the other local PO's to (and I quote) 'Watch out' for me.  All because a few (and I'm talking about 5%) of the packages 'might' garner an extra .50 or a $1 in postage going non-flat rate and that 1/4" offends his sense of order.  

Let's think about this.  I'm using a service that the PO is making a ton of money from and I'm doing much of the work in making/attaching labels, etc. All they had to do is scan them in and send them.  Now I'm being forced to switch to a cheaper, slower service and they're going to have to enter in each zip code individually and put postage on them, costing them man-hours and materials. Net loss for them. 

All the while I can stuff a load vest into one of those envelopes, effectively turning it into a big  ball, and they'll take it w/o question because the flap will close.

Is it any wonder that the USPS is billions in the hole every year?

NYDailyNews Tells The Truth...

...about the real goals and mentality of 'gun control'.

The headline describing people who owned things later declared 'illegal' by the Gov't"

Outlaws with guns

Their view on the confiscation of private property:

New York City is confiscating illegal firearms? Good

What they think of firearm owners:

The gun nuts are going nuts, and it’s delicious.

When people disagree w/ the confiscation of previously legal private property?

actually, the cops went easy. They could have arrested some of these “law-abiding” New Yorkers.

Registration leads to confiscation, fully supported and endorsed by anti-gun activists. 

Guess What 'Judge' Munger.... You're Ignorant

You throw out your 'creds' of being a 'Gun Owner Butt...", an Army Reservist, and a legal expert, then throw out this bit of ignorance...

But I do know this. I’ve owned rifles and shotguns all my life. I’ve hunted from the moment I completed gun safety at the age of 12. I have four sons, three of whom are hunters. My dad is a hunter. My grandfathers were both hunters. One was a game warden. I’ve served in the United States Army Reserve. With all that background and experience around firearms I can tell you this with a certainty: Rifles like the Bushmaster were designed for one purpose and one purpose only: combat. They are not weapons of personal defense. A loaded semi-automatic handgun wielded by someone who has spent time on the firing range will do that job just fine. You don’t need a Bushmaster for target practice. A .22-caliber pump or semi-automatic is more than adequate to keep your shooting eye keen. Assault weapons are impractical for hunting. A Winchester or Marlin lever action 30-30 is a far better choice. If you can’t hit a deer with the first five rounds, you shouldn’t be hunting.

That's nice.  Guess what?

Anti-gun fanatics don't care about 'curbing sales and marketing'

They want to ban your 'hunting'.  They want to ban those 'semi-automatic handguns'.  Deceased Senator Ted 'Chappaquiddick' Kennedy even called your precious 30-30's 'armor piercing' and wanted them banned.  You want to throw out your military creds?  Take a look at this @sshat.  I was in the military longer than you but I'm not a 'hunter'.  The most common target shooting rifle at Camp Perry National Matches is the AR.  But you probably don't know that nor care.

  Let's take a look at the shooting you describe, a criminal defendant managed to get a gun into a courthouse, past  multiple levels of security.  Did he have a criminal past?  You don't say.  But during the situation, the security present failed.  911 failed.  Everything failed. It was a typical 'gun free zone'.  So you use that for a call to ban guns you don't like.

You're a typical anti-gun idiot.  You take your personal tragedy then call for restrictions on something that had nothing to do w/ it.

You can take your 'certainty' and stuff it up those robes of yours.

OGRE Nihon Shipping Update: Weekend the Second

As promised I've been working extra hard to get the Nihon: NAD orders out.  This weekend was a series of serious envelope stuffing session that got it up to 50% or so complete.

That is 80 orders sitting on my assembly line table. 40 more were taken by my mail lady yesterday morning.  I may not make the 100% by Xmas but it's going to be awful close.  At this point it's going to be the complicated orders (Intl, addy changes or dead addresses, etc.) that slow things down plus how long my forearms can hold out. I'm definitely feeling the effect of repetitive motions (ie some tennis elbow).