The Smallest Minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities. – Ayn Rand
(Hint, hint.)
Were I willing to become single again, I’d be signing on the dotted line for this.
Update:
UPDATE: She said “Yes.”
Paperwork should arrive tomorrow for my signature(s). Then I just have to wait for the car to arrive from Illinois.
I think I’ll be attending car shows as an exhibitor. This is one-of-255, and most of the 255 are convertibles.
Wow. Just…wow.
Remember my 3/4-life crisis when I sold my Mustang and bought an MG?
Almost a year later, I’m rid of the MG. Took a pretty big loss on the deal, but my garage now has a hole in it, thank you jeebus. The new owner seems pleased. I’m pleased. My wife is pleased.
Now I need to clean up the garage so she can park her car inside.
Going through the archives trying to clean up broken links and other things in old posts.
Damn I posted a lot back when.
From American Thinker, What Might Civil War be Like?:
Cities cannot feed themselves under any conditions, and what food could be grown on America’s resource-starved farms would be gobbled up by people nearer and dearer to the farmers. Leftists would have to both secure vast territories around their urban strongholds and relearn from scratch the generations-lost art of food production. Liberal enclaves stranded in the hinterland would simply be untenable. We, on the other hand, would be critically short of new Hollywood movies. Without a steady supply of the works of Meryl Streep and Matt Damon, millions of conservatives would instantly drop dead from boredom – that is, according to Meryl Streep.
4K, 100,000 frames per second. Lightning like you’ve never seen it before. Go fullscreen.
Transient from Dustin Farrell (www.dfvc.com) on Vimeo.
Been awhile. The Milky Way over Yellowstone:
The news is reporting that former IRS executive Lois G. Lerner and her deputy Holly Paz want their testimony in the Tea Party targeting investigation sealed because they’re afraid of public reaction should the information be released.
They should be afraid. Everyone sitting in a seat of power in a government office should be afraid of pissing off the public. “Tar, Feathers,” as Instapundit puts it, should probably be employed somewhat less than metaphorically from time to time, so as to reduce the possibility of “Rope, tree, some assembly required.”
At least some of the corrupt Illinois politicians end up serving time.
I see it’s been awhile since I posted here. Sorry about that. Not intentional. Lots to write about, not much interest in actually writing. Maybe after Thanksgiving. Thanks for visiting. Read the stuff on the sidebar.
This year I was a first-time attendee of Blogorado, and fell in love with the Farm Fam. One of their own – well, I’ll let Old NFO tell the story:
Gun Raffle!!!
I know this is a lousy time to ask for money, but one of our extended Blogarado family is in need. FarmFam’s daughter-in-law, Andi, 33 and the mother of two small boys, suffered a stroke in mid August. Unfortunately, it wasn’t diagnosed correctly for two weeks, delaying treatment.
She’s facing a year to 18 months of physical therapy to get back to full function.
Therapy costs are running $200-500 per session, and she needs therapy once a week. Andi has not been able to afford health insurance, because she her husband own a small business that makes too much money for them to get assistance with health insurance, but not enough for them to be able to afford health insurance, and raising two boys.
Any help will be much appreciated, as Andi has begun physical therapy, and without health insurance she has to pay the full cost of every session.
In order to help her out, we are doing another gun raffle to try to help her with her therapy. One change from what we did for Tam is to run this through a Go Fund Me, https://www.gofundme.com/andrea-keenan-medical-fund, so that the money is immediately available to her for her therapy. One IRS change is that Go Fund Me $$ are now counted as income for the family, so we are shooting for a goal of $25,000 to offset the tax burden they will be hit with.
Here are the ‘rules’ $10 per chance, $50/6 chances, $100/12 chances, etc. Make your donation to the Go Fund Me above, and copy your donation receipt to [email protected]. This will count as your entry into the raffle. If you have already donated, we will accept prior donations to the Go Fund Me.
The raffle will run from now through the end of November, with the drawing to be held 1 December via a random drawing program. First number gets their choice, second gets their choice, etc.
The raffle packages are-
1. Taurus .44 Magnum pistol
2. Ruger MK-II bull barrel .22
3. Custom sub-MOA AR-15 – BCM 18” SPR Mk 12 upper with PRI carbon fiber handguard, BCM BCG, all Wolff springs except buffer. KNS anti-roll trigger pins, JP Enterprises Silent capture buffer and spring, Magpul PRS stock, Magpul MIAD grip, Norgon ambi mag release, Teal Blue Bravo Ambi Bolt catch, AeroPrecision lower with 45° safety, Harris bipod adapter for front rail, full length top rail, BUIS front sight, Gissele SSA-E trigger, BCM gunfighter charging handle.
4. Remington 870 Express pump in 20ga
5. Chinese copy of a 12ga coach gun
6. Springfield Range Officer .45 with 7 magazines and custom holster
7. Springfield Range Officer 9mm with 7 magazines and custom holster
8. Lawdog’s personal Rock Island 1911 9mm, reworked by Joe Speer with 6 magazines
9. A ladies package consisting of a ring (late-Victorian-style design with either high-quality glass or mid-grade garnet stones. The mount is jeweler’s metal, size 6 3/4 or 7). A unicorn necklace, late 1980s-early 1990s James Avery sterling silver charm on a silver chain. A coin necklace, an 1904 Indian Head penny, silver dipped in a gold-plated mount with a gold-plated silver chain. And a handmade necklace and earrings from Phlegmmy.
10. Signed copies of Lawdog’s, Peter Grant’s, Dorothy Grant’s, and JL Curtis’ books
11. TBD (other possible packages are being discussed)
All guns will be shipped FFL to FFL for winners. Pictures of the various packages will follow in the next couple of days.
Thank you in advance, I know she will appreciate the help, and this will take a little pressure off the family!If you can help out, please do. These are good people.
EDIT: Updates to the prize list and raffle status are being maintained by Old NFO.
The second Saturday of every month, one of the high-end strip-malls in Tucson holds “Cars & Coffee” where, for a couple of hours, anybody can bring their car and show it off. There’s a wide, wide variety of vehicles at these things, but this month there was the largest turnout I’ve yet to see – at least a couple hundred cars. Here are some of the highlights:
First, the exotic:
Then the classic:
Next, the unusual:
And, finally, something I’ve never seen in the wild before – An aluminum-bodied, right-hand drive AC Cobra:
There were also of course Camaros and Mopars, Golf GTIs and Subaru WRXs, BMWs, Porsches and Ferraris and more Mustangs than you could shake a proverbial stick at. It’s a good show every month, and gratifying to know that there are still a LOT of young gearheads out there interested in going FAST, along with us old farts who can finally afford the cars they dreamed about in their youths.
