The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence issued its ranking of gun laws this month and four states “won” the award for having the “craziest” gun laws. I am thinking I know Texas has got to have “won.” No the winners are Kansas, Virginia, Utah and Florida!
I have friends that will want to check out that listing so they can see if they can move to some state that has no gun control laws or the weakest. I have known a couple of guys that when they travel only want to go to states that will let them carry their handgun. One guy I know came to visit a friend in Missouri but he could not carry his gun then in Missouri so he stayed in Kansas and had his friend visit him in KS!
Darlene, my ex-wife, never sends me links to web sites or videos. She is not into news or into much of anything other than TV and playing some online games. I was surprised that she sent me a link for a video that she said was so cute and that I just needed to watch.
So I checked out the link and it was on YouTube of cat mom hugging a baby kitten. It was cute but I am thinking OK no big deal. It had 300 views. Today a couple of people sent me the link and said how cute it was. I went back to video and they had over 9 million views!
I got my new new Wouxun KG-UVD1P radio the other day. I love it. It is a dual band handheld two-way radio for the ham bands.
I live in Fort Worth (TX) and I ordered it from a Texas company: Main Trading Company. The shipping was free. I had to pay Texas sales tax since I live in Texas. They tossed in the USB programming cable for free and my total cost was $140.00 for it all. That is a great price for the radio. My last ham HT dual band radio cost me $350.00 without cable and software. I got it fast from Main Trading Company. They sent it priority mail.
I love the radio. To use the radio you need to be a licensed ham radio operator. I am NØUWY. There are a lot of hams in the United States and around the world. If you are a ham there are a lot of things you can do. Pretty neat things. You can talk to the ISS crew on ham radio. Most of the ISS crew are hams. Read about Ham Radio.
The radio I got was made in China and the company name is Wouxun. I am not sure if they make it or sell it or both. They sell these radios for around $100.00 and they do not cost much money but they are not cheap radios. They are well built. They look good and look professional.
Now that I got a ham radio again maybe I will get out and do a few things. I could attend some ham events; hamfest, field day, do SkyWarn, take part in doing communications for public events etc. Will I get out and do anything? I suspect not. It is the start of summer and here in TX it is HOT HOT HOT all summer. When you go outside it feels like you are walking into an oven. This is worst heat that Missouri or Florida. I do not think God expected humans to live in Texas during the summer. Plus I am not sure it is a good idea for a fat, old, bald, man with a pacemaker in him to be out in 100 degree weather. I have an excuse for staying inside with the air conditioning going and play on the Internet.
What is it with me going to states that have gay Republican governors? I sometimes check out AMERICAblog. I used to check it out almost daily but it is now down to a couple times a month and the reason is that the guy or guys that do that blog are gay and everything gets filtered by their gayness. They can not discuss any subject without bring in the gay point of view. So I just were I got tired of it. The month is almost over and I do not think I have been to their site for about a month and I went and I found a post about Texas Gove Rick Perry considering a presidential run and they added this note:
“NOTE FROM JOHN: It's hard to imagine Rick Perry being a serious candidate for the GOP nomination. There have been serious rumors for years about Perry's sexual orientation, and in today's hardline GOP even the rumor of being gay would pretty much nix getting the nomination.”
“JANUARY was the 100th anniversary of Ronald Reagan’s birth, and the planet nearly stopped turning on its axis to recognize the occasion. Today is the 100th anniversary of Hubert H. Humphrey’s birth, and no one besides me seems to have noticed.
That such a central figure in American history is largely ignored today is sad. But his diminution is also, more importantly, an impediment to understanding our current malaise as a nation, and how much better things might have been had today’s America turned out less Reaganite and more Humphreyish…”
A friend sent me the link. An old liberal progressive like me that remembers Hubert Humphrey. It is sad that someone like him is forgotten.
It does go to show that being Vice President just does not mean very much. ( John Nance Garner described the Vice-Presidency as being “not worth a bucket of warm piss.”) Garner should know he was Vice President from 1933 to 1941. I don’t know anything about Garner but Hubert Humphrey was a great man and it is sad that he has been so forgotten.
As a Democrat I hope and pray that Republicans pick Sarah Palin to run for President in 2012. She is an empty shell. She has no content. She just says general statements but she has no idea of what they mean. The other day she said she wanted to run for President because she was for “family traditions” and I wish I had been a reporter right there. I would have said “What are family traditions?” She could not have answered. She might have said “…being a mother of a family…a turkey at Thanksgiving…” – she is a fake and a fool.
I am sorry to say she is not going to run … She is going to take in as much money for her PAK as she can and she can put it in her pocket. Because it is a PAK I think it is legal for her to do that… So for as long as she can act like she is going to run she can take in money. That is all she is interested in… So all you Republicans send her money. Give to her PAK. PAK into her pocketbook.
“Des Moines, Iowa (CNN) - Texas Gov. Rick Perry said Friday he will consider a run for the Republican presidential nomination.
"I'm going to think about it" after the Texas legislative session ends on Monday, Perry told reporters in Austin after a bill signing. Perry added, "But I think about a lot of things." Perry's remarks come on the heels of a Fox News interview this week in which he admitted that he is "tempted" to run for president.
"Oh, I can't say I'm not tempted, but the fact is this is something I don't want to do," Perry said…”
Yes, Rick Perry does think about a lot of things. In the past he was thinking about taking Texas out of the United States. So it looks like he does think about “things.” I am not sure we want someone as President of the United States that wants to take his state out of the United States.
I do not think he will run for a number of reasons. He has been going around the nation telling everyone that Texas does not have a budget problem and that everything is great in Texas because of him and the Republican Party and because they put no controls on business in Texas. The truth is that Texas has major budget problems. I am not sure how he gets away with running around and telling these lies but I am sure he knows if he runs for President that the truth will come out. So I do not think he will run.
Tracking says that my new radio is in Fort Worth. I am in Fort Worth. So I hope to see it today. I will be had to have a ham radio again. If I get it today I will make a video and post on YouTube and post the video here.
The news and stories coming out of Joplin are so sad. A tornado is so powerful that it is just hard to believe. Like I said before I never had any fear of them… But I was not brave I was stupid. The other day the tornado siren went off here. I only heard it because I was making a video and I opened up the patio door to made the video. It was hard to hear then. So I need to get one of those weather warning radios. They do not cost very much. I think they cost about $40.00 for a pretty decent radio.
I do not agree with the extension of the Patriot Act. I have to agree with Sen. Rand Paul on this issue. One way you know it is a bad idea is by the name. Anytime you see something with a name like that (“Patriot”) you know it is a bad idea. We might need part of the law but we need a full investigation and hearings.
I did not hear the screams that I expected over the Loughner ruling. I guess everyone pretty much knew he had to be as crazy as a bed bug.
Remember I was a John Edwards supporter. I came to support Obama at the last. So I watch with interest what is going on with John Edwards. I do not feel sorry for him at all. I feel sorry for his family. I do not want anything to do with him. Sure he should make the best deal he can get for himself but he needs to take his punishment. If I were him I would make sure that my punishment was such that even people that did not like me would say .. wow.. He got hit hard. It is like Martha Stewart…I was never a Martha Stewart fan. But after she went to jail and served her time I became a fan. I did not think she should have even gone to jail but the way she took it make me respect her.
I am tired of hearing about Oprah. I never been a fan of Oprah (I do have a penis you know). I do not hate her. A lot of Republicans hate her. I see her just as a very successful show person. I think she has done some good over the years but I think all of it was done to promote her and as PR. She is not a saint.
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