Friday, May 30, 2014

Reloading Manual

Nate asked me on his blog what my favorite reloading manual was.

Speer

At Amazon

I took a picture.

Thursday, May 29, 2014

Amazing Grace

It has been over two years since I picked up a guitar and sang. So expect suck. I did it because I still can. I even wrote a new verse for the song. I think there are five, because I sang it at a friends funeral ten years ago.  Anyway, It will do, I don't expect practicing too much it takes too much energy. And that shirt that looks two sizes too big, it is and yes I just woke up from a short 10 minute  nap (fell asleep) and went and got out my guitar and tuned it. I already had the camera set on a tripod because I was recording something off the internet and don't have screen capture that I know of.

Update: "Here" should be "There" Second verse. Oh well maybe I was looking into the future.. Use head phones to capture bass, other wise sounds like I have a cheap guitar singing though my nose.


Race Card

Someone sent this to me in an email. I don't get the Expiration date shouldn't it be 01/17
 or 11/16?

Septembers Storm

I'm not a chicken.
I've seen many a chill September.
And though I was a youngster then,
The gale I well remember.

The day before my kite string snapped,
and now my kite perusing.
The wind swept off my straw weaved hat.
For me two storms a brewing.

It came as quarrels sometimes do
When married folks get clashing.
There was a heavy sigh or two
Before the fire was flashing.

A little stir among the clouds
Before they rent asunder.
A little rocking of the trees
And then came on the thunder.

All above was in a howl
All below a clatter
The earth was like a frying pan
Or some such hissing matter.

Lord! How streams and rivers boiled
They seemed like bursting craters.
The oaks lay scattered on the ground
As if they were potaters.

It chanced to be our washing day
And all our clothes were drying.
The wind came whistling through the lines
And set them all a-flying.

I saw the shirts and underwear
Go flying off like witches.
And then alas!-
I saw my Sunday breeches.

I saw them straddling through the air
Alas! To late to win them.
I saw them chase the clouds on high
As if a demon in them.

They were my darlings and my pride,
My boyhoods only riches.
Farewell, farewell, I vainly cried
My breeches, oh, my breeches!

That night I saw them in my dreams.
Now changed from what I knew them-
The dew had steeped their faded threads
The wind had whistled through them.

I saw the wide and ghastly rent
Where demons claws had torn them.
A hole was in the amplest part
As if an imp had worn them.

Now I've had many happy years
And tailors kind and clever;
But those young pantaloons
Are gone forever and forever.

And not 'til time shall cut the last
Of all my earthly stitches,
The aching heart shall cease to mourn,
My breeches, Oh, my breeches

Yesterdays



 
Time is like a lonely breeze,
That softly blows among the trees.
By the time you realize it's there-
it's gone away.
 


Wednesday, May 28, 2014

B-36 Cockpit

6 radial engines  -  and 4 jet engines.
You can use your mouse to view all over the cockpit. 
 
When the viewing starts you are looking toward the back of the plane.
 
 

Link here.

Sunday, May 25, 2014

Here, piggy piggy

CHICAGO (Reuters) - The U.S. Agriculture Department is known for its army of statisticians packing yardsticks and calculators to measure wheat and count soybeans.
But the agency needs more firepower for another kind of rural reckoning and is gearing up with thermal imaging weapons.
 
 
In its crosshairs are aggressive feral hogs that can weigh more than 400 lbs (180 kg) and have been known to carry off newborn calves. They cause about $1.5 billion of damage every year to farm communities and fields, say department officials, and now there are worries they may help spread a deadly pig virus.
 
 
So the USDA wants to buy thermal scopes that snap onto high-powered rifles to kill the wild beasts.


"We're going to get them, oh yes we are," said Jason Wilking with USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), which has put out bids for 11 scopes since April 7.

more..

Maybe that's what them night fighting 40 Smith Machine guns are for?

Friday, May 23, 2014

Ted Cruz: Democratic Senators want to ‘repeal the First Amendment'

Ted Cruz, US senator, TX says Democrats have 41 co-sponsors on a Constitutional amendment to change the First Amendment.

While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.
-- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin




The vote will be held this summer. They are losing the debate and trying to shut down bloggers and radio talk shows. It gives congress the right to regulate political speech.

CNS NEWS – “When you think it can’t get any worse, it does,” Cruz said at the FRC’s Watchmen on the Wall 2014 event in Washington, D.C. on Thursday. “This year, I’m sorry to tell you, the United States Senate is going to be voting on a constitutional amendment to repeal the First Amendment.”

Calling these “perilous, perilous times,” Cruz said Senate Democrats have said they are ready to vote on the amendment, Senate Joint Resolution 19 – “an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relating to contributions and expenditures intended to affect elections.”

“Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) has announced the Senate Democrats are scheduling a vote on a constitutional amendment to give Congress the authority to regulate political speech, because elected officials have decided they don’t like it when the citizenry has the temerity to criticize what they’ve done,” he said.

“They don’t like it when pastors in their community stand up and speak the truth,” Cruz said to an audience of hundreds of pastors from across the country.

“And I’ll note this amendment, which has 41 Democratic senators as co-sponsors – 41 Democrats have signed on to repealing the First Amendment,” Cruz said. “It explicitly says nothing in this new amendment shall abridge the freedom of the press.
“So the New York Times is protected, but it doesn’t say the same thing about the freedom of speech,” Cruz said. “It doesn’t say the same thing about religious liberty.”

Blue Screen of Death Survival Guide: Every Error Explained

This is some good information. I used the print button on the web page and made a PDF of it. I am sure many of you tech savvy guys already knew much of this but I didn't. It might come in handy. I saved the PDF to a USB thumb drive just in case. I also am sending the file to Staples Office Supplies and have it printed.

Blue Screen of Death Survival Guide: Every Error Explained

Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Fun With Math and Guns

You have just been shot at by a sniper. Luckily he missed and when you heard the bullet go by you started counting and the estimated time between hearing the bullet and hearing the gun report was approximately 2.5 seconds. How far away do you look for the shooter? Given some approximate knowns:

V1 - Speed of sound is ~ 1100 ft/sec
V2 -Avg speed of bullet over distance is ~ 2400 ft/sec

T1 – Time from hearing bullet to hearing gun report ~ 2.5 sec
T2 – Time it takes the bullet to travel from the gun to your position ~ ?

Total Time = T1+T2
Calculate T2 = T1*(V1/V2)

T2= 2.5sec*(1100 ft/sec / 2400ft/sec) = 1.14 sec
Total Time = 2.5sec + 1.14 sec =3.64 sec

Distance to shooter = 3.64 sec * 1100 ft/sec = 4004 ft
Convert to yds – 4004 ft / 3 ft/yd = 1334 yds

So to simplify the equation

Distance to shooter = (T1+(T1*0.458))*366
(2.5+(2.5*0.458))*366 = 1334 yds

So you look for your shooter about 1300 yds down range.

Memorization chart using this equation.
 
 
Remember these are approximations based on sniper rifle velocities but good enough for the field. In fact one could say about 260 yds per 1/2 second or 520 yds per second.
 

Monday, May 19, 2014

You must not challenge our consensus, say the warmists

Extract from Christopher Booker's column.


The climate sceptics have certainly got pretty excited over Dr Lennart Bengtsson – scarcely a household name but someone they can describe as “a leading climate scientist”. He is the former head of two prestigious European meteorological institutes, and a keen “climate modeller”, who recently defected from the international global-warming establishment to join the advisers of Lord Lawson’s Global Warming Policy Foundation. Then last week he had to resign because of “McCarthy”-style pressure from his old warmist colleagues, so intense that he feared for his health. And now he has made front-page news by revealing that a paper he co–authored, claiming that official global warming claims have been exaggerated, was rejected by a leading climate science journal because it would have given ammunition to the “climate deniers”.

All this has produced a storm of counter-protest from the sceptics, claiming that it shows how absurdly intolerant the warmists have become in their desperation to protect their beloved “consensus”. It is true that Lennart was once a cheerleader for their orthodoxy. And it is true that he has recently shown scientific honesty in his growing disenchantment with climate models programmed to assume that rising CO2 levels must inevitably lead to disastrous warming.

But the fact is that it has long been obvious to any dispassionate observer that, as global temperatures have so dismally failed to rise as they predicted, those computer models on which the whole theory rested were hopelessly flawed. Equally, it has long been clear, as we saw with “Climategate”, that the orthodox establishment will stop at nothing to protect its deluded belief system from criticism.

There must always be joy over any sinner who repenteth. But the real honour should go to those proper scientists such as Dr Richard Lindzen, who for years courted derision by pointing out that the emperor had no clothes, because they never lost their grasp on what genuine science is all about. As I once tried to reassure another of them, Dr Fred Singer, when he was in an unusually gloomy mood, “we have two invincible allies in this fight – one is nature, the other is truth”. In fact, the ridiculous hounding of Dr Lennart is only another tiny symptom of how those two allies are slowly winning the day.

Friday, May 16, 2014

UFOs Explained - Part 3 - Conclusion

Part 1
Part 2

Conclusion

Matthew 24

37But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. 38For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, 39And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

What else was going on in the days of Noah?

Genesis 6

1And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, 2That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. 3And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years. 4There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.

I believe That the sons of God were what we call UFO's. They are back toward the end times. Many abduction stories talk about mostly women being taken and doing sexual experiments on them. They claim they were impregnated and later abducted again and the fetus removed. Some are then abducted for a third time a few years later and shown the child.

The flood of Noah’s day was to wipe out the wickedness and corruption. Satan was populating the earth with evil corrupt beings, the so called giants, because Satan was trying to corrupt the lineage of Christ in order that he could not come. So God put Noah on a boat and destroyed the rest of humanity.

Genesis 6

8But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD. 9These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God. 10And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. 11The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. 12And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth. 13And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth. 14Make thee an ark …


You may think that this is too far out, but these genetically modified children are populating the earth which are of the serpent's seed.


Genesis 3

14And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: 15And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

Revelation 12

15And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood. 16And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth. 17And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.


Also I have noticed not one abduction story come from a Christian, or I haven't seen one. I have concluded that the 5% of unexplained UFO's are not Extraterrestrials but are extra-dimensional malevolent beings. I expect they will reveal themselves soon and turn many away from God. It makes sense to me they are cross breeding humans as in the book of Genesis and from one of these (out of the sky in a UFO) will the anti-Christ come after much tribulation to save the world and many will accept him even many Christians.

Matthew 24

21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. 22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened. 23 Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not. 24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.

Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Newest End Times Predictions

Heard this guy on a radio show. I took a look at his website (John Shorey) and found this. For your edification and/or amusement. I like End Times stories.

"In Conclusion:

Now that I have laid out several studies that relate to the five End Times Wars, I will share my connecting of the dots. It reminds me of a TV game show called Wheel of Fortune. The way this game is played is, your contestants take turns trying to uncover the clues to a sentence or phrase. Once a certain number of letters are turned over, the meaning of the sentence starts to come into focus. When it is a player’s turn, this player can guess what is being said. The one who gets it right first is the winner. We are now seeing many clues to the End Times being revealed. Some of these clues could be one year or the next. The point is we will never know the day or the hour of the Lord’s return, but we are beginning to see the mystery revealed and soon we will have some important answers. Also realize that what I am laying out below is hard to lay out precisely because many events will be happening simultaneously. So even though this may not be totally accurate, we are beginning to see things coming into focus.

2014

Great natural disasters, such as the Northwest quake, coupled with the Psalms 83 War, (The First End Time War) will trigger panic buying of food and panic selling on Wall Street, leading to a collapse of the stock market in the fall of 2014.

2015

A Shemittah year, possible the year of an economic collapse in America, this would lead to an economic collapse rippling around the globe. The breakdown of all that we have known will trigger worldwide panic, paving the way for a global solution and the beginning of the Great Tribulation. The Jews move forward with the rebuilding of the temple.

2016

The Blood Moon event: following the completion of the four Blood Moons ending In 2015 could be the exodus of the Jews from America after America suffers an economic collapse in 2015. Following the exodus of Jews from America will be the destruction of Mystery Babylon. (The Second End Time War) Other wars of the second seal will follow now that America is taken out of the way

2017

The rule of the antichrist continues and the seals continue to open. This is the Year of the Jewish Jubilee. Fifty years before was the six day war, (1967) it looked like the end of Israel, but instead it was a great victory for Israel. This time the battle of Gog and Magog is lining up, (The third End Time War) and again it looks like the end for Israel, but God intervenes and gives Israel a great victory.

2018

The antichrist continues his war on the saints. He moves to Jerusalem and takes over the temple and declares that he is God and the savior of mankind. A global event happens and the sun goes dark and the moon does not give its light. And at that time we will see the Son of Man coming in the clouds to gather his saints."

Tuesday, May 13, 2014

A World Run By Psychopaths

After a plane he was a traveling in was blocked from entering Romanian air space, Russian Deputy Prime Minister  Dmitry Rogozin sent out a tweet that stated, “Upon U.S. request, Romania has closed its air space for my plane. Ukraine doesn’t allow me to pass through again. Next time I’ll fly on board Tu-160.” Rogozin, who supervises his country’s large weapons industry, is under U.S. and European Union sanctions.

The Romanian foreign ministry requested that Russia specify whether the deputy prime minister’s tweet represented “the Russian Federation’s official position.”

Romania “believes the threat of using a Russian strategic bomber plane by a Russian deputy prime minister is a very grave statement under the current regional context,” the ministry said.

Link

I think the world is closer to a nuclear war now than it was in the 60's.

ASPD

Antisocial personality politician disorder is characterized by an individual’s disregard for social rules and cultural norms, impulsive behavior, and indifference to the rights and feelings of others. Mental health researchers estimate that approximately 3% of males 99% of Republicans and 1% of females 99.9% of Democrats, aged 18 or over, have ASPD (Lenzenweger, M.F., Lane, M.C., Loranger, A.W., Kessler, R.C., 2007). DSM-IV personality disorders in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication. Biological Psychiatry, 62(6), 553-564).
The National Institute of Mental Health diagnoses Anti-Social Personality Politician Disorder by having four of the following seven characteristics:
·Failure to conform to social norms with respect to lawful behaviors as indicated by repeatedly performing acts that are grounds for arrest.
·Deceitfulness, as indicated by repeated lying, use of aliases, or conning others for personal profit or pleasure.
·Impulsivity or failure to plan ahead.
·Irritability and aggressiveness, as indicated by repeated physical fights or assaults.
·Reckless disregard for safety of self or others.
·Consistent irresponsibility, as indicated by repeated failure to sustain consistent work behavior or honor financial obligations.
·Lack of remorse, as indicated by being indifferent to or rationalizing having hurt, mistreated, or stolen from another.
There, Fixed it.

 

Monday, May 12, 2014

Only in Texas

Schooling kids in Texas Miss Sally Edwards is a highly esteemed third grade teacher at Jacksboro Elementary in Jacksboro, TX. In an effort to prepare her students for the all-important TAKS test, she compiled an exam consisting of 20 questions, which she administered to her class last Tuesday.

The exam purposely covered a broad array of topics.

I call your attention to question # 11, which simply read:

LIST, IN ANY ORDER, THE FOUR SEASONS:
1. ________ 2. ________ 3.________ 4. ________

Now, could you possibly imagine that 2/3rds of the students gave the following answer?

1.DOVE SEASON  2.DEER SEASON  3.DUCK SEASON  4.TURKEY SEASON

GOD BLESS TEXAS 
       

Saturday, May 10, 2014

Maxima, a Computer Algebra System

 
If you have children in school starting Algebra to Calculus, Here is Maxima CAS program that they will love. Or if you are a Student yourself this open source (free) no restriction computer program is for you. I was looking to buy my nephew something then ran across this. I have been playing around with it and it is amazing.

There is a college student who did a 0-6 part tutorial on it and put it on his youtube channel. Just find the Maxima tutorials on his channel and run through them.

Here is the program download page. Make sure you download the documentation.

 
 

Have Fun!
 

Friday, May 9, 2014

Garden Update - V2 Achieved

I have noticed my garden is really starting to take off. You know how things just seem to kind of sit there and grow slowly then suddenly most everything starts to really take off like when the nose of an aircraft starts to roll up off the runway. I call this "V2". This last week my garden reached "V2" (Vegetable take-off).


Thursday, May 8, 2014

CGI or Secret weapon of the United States



If you look at the striping of the ground it looks like a tank firing a weapon perpendicular (left to right) to the camera out of view and somoneone added a CGI craft. Whatever it is it looks damn cool.

’600 page litany of doom’


Weather Channel Co-Founder John Coleman slams Federal climate report: A ‘total distortion of the data and agenda driven, destructive episode of bad science gone berserk’


The hits just keep on coming.

Wednesday, May 7, 2014

MH370 may not be in the ocean, but rather on land

The international team searching the Indian Ocean for the Boeing 777 are now considering the seemingly impossible scenario of the aircraft having 'landed' somewhere, instead of crashing in the southern Indian Ocean.

MailOnline
I am conspiracied out at this point. Don't blog when you are under the Weather (Last three days)

Tuesday, May 6, 2014

Sunday, May 4, 2014

3:00 AM Walk

Saturday night I woke up and decided to take a walk. About half way down the street with my walking stick I heard a voice. I turned to the left and there was a guy wearing a cowboy hat standing by a van hooked to a trailer.  He was in his late 20's to early 30's and asked me where I was going. I told him down the road. He said you look like you already been down the road. I thought it an insult and walked over to him. I looked him straight in the eye and said "What did you say?" He said you look like you already been down the road.

I paused for a second and said yes I have. He smiled at me and I said "you in a band? (because of the van and trailer)"  He said yep, Mike and the moon pies. I said where is the big red. He laughed and asked me what I was doing out at 3:00 AM and told him I was taking a walk, Doc says I need exercise then asked him what he was doing out. He said we been on the road playing and we got a set tonight here in Fort Worth. I asked him about his band and he talked the language. So I told him that I used to have a band it was called Southern Wind.

He asked me what I played and I said guitar, harmonica and was the lead vocalist. He told me he played the same things, then reached out to shake my hand. We probably talked for ten minutes about band stuff, talking about the wives of the players and how hard it was to keep a band together. It's weird, just weird how it all happened. He asked me what broke up the band. I said my bass player died in a 4wheeler accident checking his cattle. I carried him to his grave with the other band members. I told him how he a Vietnam vet taught me to play guitar.

I put my finger on and tipped his hat and told him, enjoy it while you can, it may seem hard but you will look back one day and realize how special it was. Then I said every thing goes away, everything. And he put his hand out again we shook hands and I left.

Hogkill Blues

EMPW

Electromagnetic Pulse Weapon. I have seen it twice, the second time I stopped. There is a bridge across Lake Worth about 3/4 of a mile long. Within a half mile is the runway of JRB (Joint reserve military base). The first time I saw six cars stalled on the bridge, the second time I saw over a dozen cars stalled on the bridge coming home from work.

I decided to stop at the last car which was a Ford truck with a redneck climbed up on it under the hood.  I asked him what was wrong and he said it just died going down the road. I asked him if he had saw all the cars behind him with the same problem? He said I saw a couple and I told him to look. When he saw all them cars behind him on the side of the road he said and I quote: "What the hell is going on." I said I think EMP this is the second time I have seen it and stopped this time.

He had a tool box and pulled a plug and it wouldn't fire and I said looks like EMP to me and he asked what that was. I explained and pointed to the air force base across the lake. I told him that the bridge acts as a ground plane with all the rebar. Not to go into every thing I told him but he was pissed. The Tow truck drivers got some good business that day.

So you ask why am I telling this now? I am telling it because I read this story from a journalist that couldn't figure out why the radar and backup went out at LAX Wednesday.

Story: EMP

War and Peace

Vox Day Writes

Now, if the West backed the Ukrainian coup because it wants a war with Russia for one reason or another, their actions make sense. But if they simply wanted to pull Ukraine out of the Russian orbit while avoiding military action, they appear to have badly miscalculated.

Yes They did. Russia don't bluff, we do.  We don't want war with Russia. You don't win wars with missiles and stealth aircraft, you win wars with boots on the ground. Invading Russia is like the dead horse of Japan invading us in WWII. Not only could we not win it we would never get there. One tactical nuke would take out all our invading marines.

He says he may not be privy to some information but you don't have to. Just as the Japanese knew invading the west coast was not only stupid but impossible. Michelle Malkin must be running our foreign policy. We have stepped on the bear paw and really pissed him off. It was stupid. Leave Russia be, we got no dog in Ukraine and we can't use the Jackals with a military might like Russia.

We can't use our banks or the IMF to put them down, it is not possible and a fools errand. We can't even give Germany back their gold because we don't have any. Time to get out the tungsten bars from the fort and hope no one notices. We are fricked and have a bunch of psychopaths running the show.

The calculation is this. When they sink one of our carriers with 5000 sailors aboard the American people will get behind the war, they probably will. The draft will come back if this thing does not go nuclear. The protests will start and we will lose badly. America will desist from being an empire to a whooped pup. People across the world will cheer at our defeat.

We lost all credibility in Iraq and the world hates us. We have allowed this to happen, yet we can stop it now with immediate impeachments of politicians. You don't want to lose your children to a bunch of frauds. It is time to stop them. I'm talking about both parties need to be removed, NOW!

Russians don't hate Americans and Americans don't hate Russians. We all hate politicians and should not fight each other. Time for a little bit of house cleaning. You can vote with your wallet and your feet. Don't give them a dime, and put 5 million down Pennsylvania avenue before it is too late. Don't believe a damn word they say.

Friday, May 2, 2014

Spinach

Spinach looks really good this year. We are giving it away to the neighbors and the church ladies. We can hardly keep up with it and I planted just a small patch with a little lettuce mix at the far side.

Yummy salads until the heat sets in. It is very crisp. A little onion and boiled egg can make a meal.

 
If you are wondering what that lonely corn stalk is doing there, It has pole beans planted around it that will climb the stalk and outside the beans is squash that will cover most of that bare ground and shade the soil.
 
Update: Send me your garden pictures and I will post them if you like. - ru4cowboys@gmail.com Your privacy is safe with me, just tell me what name, initials or moniker you want them posted under, and any description or location. They will be posted at the bottom of this post.

God's Paint Brush

These are just way too cool. Arizona desert.

 
 


Here are the rest