"Our job is not to make up anybody’s mind, but to open minds, and to make the agony of decision-making so intense you can escape only by thinking."
- Fred W. Friendly (1915-1998)

"Ye shall know the truth, and the truth will make you mad."
- Aldous Huxley

"If you have ever injected truth into politics, then you have no politics."
- Will Rogers

Wednesday, August 27, 2014

NRA Is Digging Its Own Grave

The NRA is in a tough spot these days.  Between incompetent leadership and a mission that seems none too clear even to its members, things like this keep popping up from states that practically say "dump guns here".  Don't forget that there are some in the NRA who think mandatory training of children in guns is a "good thing" -- and you thought Common Core was bad?

Yet as recently as 1999, the NRA actually supported background checks for gun purchases.  For one of the most squirmy, wimp out of it performances of all time - see this.

LaPierre basically weasels his way around the fact that the improved gun check laws and purchase requirements that they once "supported" at least verbally but opposed in Congress are not effective.  (If they are never enacted, how can they be ineffective?).

The NRA is looking more and more like a bunch of idiots that don't know what their message is or where they are going.

For me -- I will do what I usually do as elections approach.  Look for those candidates that have received NRA donations and make sure to vote against them.

Thursday, August 21, 2014

What Is the Gas Mileage on That Thing?

It's been awhile since we visited the F-35, that overblown, can't shoot, and pilots don't want to fly money pit at the Pentagon. 

It turns out now the ongoing costs are stubbornly refusing to go down...they basically need an overhaul every few hours of use, and they were recently nixed from crossing the Atlantic....the "little" ocean!