HAPPY NEW YEAR from DOWNUNDER

[Leo Tanner]

Wakey wakey, aigs an bakey.  Some Cawfee there too.  Cream if ya like, the cow was in a good mood this mornin an ma hands were warm.

[litl rooster]

Got like a Inch or so of snow since 06:00....I'll beat Stoney Pete to it...I hate snow!


Thanks for the coffe and grub Leo

[Silver Creek Slim]

Morning y'all.
Thanks fer the coffee and grub, Leo.

Congrats, Arcey.

Got the suburban back. The distributor moved. Runs like a top now.

'Tis 9 and sunny. "Mostly cloudy with scattered flurries. Highs 17 to 21. Northwest wind 10 to 20 mph diminishing to around 10 mph in the afternoon. Wind chills to 15 below zero in the morning."

Slim

[Delmonico]

Flurries here right now, could have 3-5 by Monday night, same deal ours will go to Kansas and we'll get South Dakota's.

[Arcey]

Mornin’, dudes.

35° ‘n partly cloudy. Today: A slight chance of rain and snow showers before 1pm, then a chance of rain showers between 1pm and 4pm, then a chance of rain and snow showers after 4pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 42. Breezy, with a west wind between 16 and 22 mph, with gusts as high as 33 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Total daytime snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible. Tonight: A chance of rain and snow showers before 7pm, then a slight chance of snow showers between 7pm and 10pm. Mostly clear, with a low around 21. Breezy, with a west wind between 17 and 20 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible.

Peachy, if I was goin’ sailin’. Ain’t sailin’, goin’ out ta dinner. Don’t know nobody these days with a boat I can crew for. Oh well, we’ll go out anyway. Gonna eat sumthin’ before I go ‘n mebbe that’ll help me when I go ta order. Always order more’n I can eat there. Won’t be snaps or black eyes. The last of both were pilfered in the middle of the night, again.

Meetin’ up with Andi. Her b’day was the 6th. My little girl is all growed up.

[Delmonico]

For some reason 30' 'luminmum ladder rang a bell, could 'member why.  Now I do, guy I worked for on a temp job had a couple, could be a 15' step ladder or a 30' regular.  Yeah, up 25' in the air with a cutting brush doin' cuttin'.  Yep, prefer my painting on a solid concrete floor in a booth with some sort of paint gun.

[Leo Tanner]

ice on the deck this mornin.  Clear sky seems ta so that this time a year. 

Gotta deal with some financial stuff taday.  Ya all have a good un.

[litl rooster]

Just back from the State owned range, took my squirrel rifle down there to try a Heathen load.  Wind picked up and Killer and I headed back. Still got some trigger time in so it has eased the twitching and convulsion like behaviors.

[litl rooster]

http://www.kgun9.com/global/story.asp?s=13807722

[Arcey]

Another.......

http://hamptonroads.com/2011/01/report-arizona-congresswoman-staffers-shot-public-event

My prayers for the victims.

Update:

Radio's reporting she and five others are dead.

[Leo Tanner]

That's horrible.  Don't know what gets inta some folks.  All I know is they give the anti gunners more ammo.  God bless the folks who were hurt.

[Leo Tanner]

And the families of the killed. 

[Arcey]

Scroll past this boys. Slim, I’ll try to keep it within bounds but I AM PISSED!

The pieces of radio manure that call themselves ‘news/talk’ broke for a damned VT basketball game just as their national affiliate was breaking in for news. There are two stations here. Both owned by the same clown. He used to do an ‘Ask the Owner’ show but he quit because he couldn’t take the heat. Fired the only local host with the balls to go after city hall. He admitted the VT broadcasts had low ratings and they couldn’t sell much ad time for it but the booster club made up the difference. Screw what the regular listeners want, huh, Bob?

The village idiot in the mornin’. Touts himself as a history buff. Talked of the Japanese sinkin’ our battleships and aircraft carriers at Pearl. Stood not ten feet from me with his mouth hangin’ open at Talk-Fest a few years ago when Boortz was live on stage callin’ ‘im a bed wettin’, booger eatin’ liberal durin' a national broadcast. No attempt to approach the stage until Boortz was gone. I could say much more about the coward.

His ditzy blonde sidekick, she recently decided to hyphenate her last name, reads the news, verbatim, from the Pilot. And just giggles herself silly over his lame attempts at humor. 

An audience of over a million and this is the best we can do? Sick. WNIS 'n WTAR what a sad, sad pair.

Rant over – for now.

[Silver Creek Slim]

I'll be praying for the victims and families.

Slim

[litl rooster]

Apparently Ms. Gifford is still alive however a Federal judge Roll has died.

Fox's Shepard Smith and the JA at CNN are running out of facts now so they are making crap up as they go.

[Arcey]

The paper was gettin’ theirs from NPR ‘n CNN. They’ve picked up the AP piece now. I’m not gonna knock ‘em, they weren’t there. All they could do was pass along what they had.

The friggin’ ‘news/talk’ radio didn’t even try.

[litl rooster]

Yep they are back peddaling on Judge Roll now saying he is in critical condition

they also mention the 2 news wires alot.  If I hear Shepard Smith mention a automatic assult weapon one more time my tv will see the business end of one.  I need to watch a movie, or find out about the mail bomb investigations

[Arcey]

With the Pilot any semi-auto is an AK-47. Whole time I was werkin’ I never saw an AK-47 ‘cept at gun shows. Saw SKS knock offs many times. They reported an AK-47 was used in the interstate shootout in Chesapeake year ‘fore last. It weren’t. Still shot up a Chesapeake cop. He lived.

When I was goin’ thru various sources, witnesses were sayin’ they heard 15 to 20 shots. Witnesses of events are often wrong. Things happen too fast ‘n usually over before they realize what has happened. If full autos were used they wouldn’t have recognized the sound. One doesn’t hear individual FA shots. Y’all military vets, thank you for your service, know that.

Ain’t sayin’ it weren’t, I weren’t there. Will say I doubt it.

[Leo Tanner]

So did anyone call in an tell the talk show moron that the carriers were out ta sea?  It was sort of an important little fact in the outcome of the war.

[Delmonico]

News media should only be allowed to use the word gun and nothing more unless they can pass a fire arms test.  I'm tired of 12 caliber shotguns a .9 mm pistols in the news.

We had one a few years ago was interesting, I respect most law enforcement officers, but we have or had some detective on the force here I wonder about.  Was investigating a "drive by shooting" lots of small holes in the side of someone's garage,  gauge wad in the yard.  He figured out it was a shotgun, but the rest confused him.  I was at the gun shop when Quenton answered the phone.  Seems the boy dug out some of the shot from the siding, confused him because it was real hard, he couldn't mash it with a pair of pliers.  Guess someone thought the garage was a duck.

[Leo Tanner]

Heck, even History Channel is lettin me down these days.  This space alien cr*p has got ta go.  They just said the moon was made by little green men to monitor the earth.  It's just a rock folks, as in debris.  Far as know it is a fairly common phenomenon in the galaxy.  Hang on a minute, I's bein abducted.   

[Delmonico]

Heck, even History Channel is lettin me down these days.  This space alien cr*p has got ta go.  They just said the moon was made by little green men to monitor the earth.  It's just a rock folks, as in debris.  Far as know it is a fairly common phenomenon in the galaxy.  Hang on a minute, I's bein abducted.   

Cool you'll like the probing.

[Leo Tanner]

Cool you'll like the probing.

I gave them your address.

[Delmonico]

Loe did they have Larry Storch AKA Corporal Agarn on it.  Saw one once with him in it tellin' us how they had the Roswell guys at Area 51.

[Arcey]

Why, in the name of hell, would someone destroy a hunk of evidence with a pair of pliers? I didn’t work in Forensics long ‘n I hated it. But even I know if establishin’ constructive material is necessary ya do it by weight and/or specific gravity.