Monday, February 28, 2011
The last Doughboy... gone
The last living American veteran of World War I has died at 110 years of age. He was a true hero and survivor of two world wars. Rest in peace Frank Buckles.
Sunday, February 27, 2011
People with guns collection # 34


I wonder if Neva got to keep her job. Probably like many women that served on the homefront during the war she was replaced later on when G.I.s began returning from overseas. Either way she served her nation when she was needed and that's something to be proud of, and not to change the subject but that's a nice collection of 4-Inch Colt .38s.
Thursday, February 24, 2011
It's coming
I can't help but feel something bad is coming to this nation. Maybe you think because I've been writing a TEOTWAWKI novel for a few months now that is causing me to believe this, that it is affecting my judgment, but it's not. I have had this feeling long before that and if anything it might be the reason I started writing Joshua in the first place. I am not the only one that feels this way either, I know a lot of you do too whether you will admit it or not. Roberta X has written a very good post on it recently, short and to the point, and it sums up my feelings on it too. I know that some of this is simply the 2012ENDOFTHEWORLD! BS that is going around but it goes deeper than that. Our nation's economic and financial problems, a government out of control at all levels, innumerable natural and manmade threats, any thinking person should be concerned for our future right now. Maybe that's my problem, maybe I should just stop thinking about it so much. Maybe all you can do is prepare the best you can and leave the rest up to God, and try not to give yourself a stroke before doomsday gets here.
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
I wake up screaming...

This is why I refuse to go fishing, not without my M1 Garand, a spare oxygen tank and fire, plenty of fire. I don't think I'll be sleeping tonight, thanks guys!
Monday, February 21, 2011
Friday, February 18, 2011
Product review - Raptor charging handle

Thursday, February 10, 2011
Movie Reviews - Let Me In - revisited

Wednesday, February 09, 2011
Worthy causes
The other day Oleg Volk posted on his site about needed contributions to a worthy gun cause, the Heller Foundation. I have had a link to the Second Amendment Foundation up for a while now but find myself a little embarrassed that I had already forgotten about Mr. Heller and his fight. How soon we forget. I have contributed and hope you will too. I am having technical difficulties right now with Blogger but when they are fixed I will have both of these worthy causes linked at the top of my page. For now you can follow the link here and I hope you do, every little bit helps.
Monday, February 07, 2011
CHAPTER SEVEN
Chapter seven of my novel is now posted. Please note that I have changed the book page settings so that you can leave your thoughts there at the bottom or you can leave them here in this section just as before, whichever you prefer. Let me also say again that I appreciate your commentary and emails, good or bad. Of course my ego loves to read encouraging comments but if you critique my writing that's cool too. Just don't put me down without offering any substance. If you're going to tell me I stink at least explain why, give me that much. At my rate of progress I hope to have Joshua finished sometime late this coming summer.
Friday, February 04, 2011
Window shopping

Tuesday, February 01, 2011
Movie Reviews - Defcon-4

Ahh, Defcon-4 (1985) the apocalypse of my youth. This is doomsday 1980s style. No deadly asteroid strike, melting polar caps or rage virus to wipe out mankind. Not even wandering legions of the undead bothered us much at that point. What we worried about most was the mutually assured destruction of nuclear confrontation with the USSR (remember them?). That lunatic cowboy Ronald Reagan was going to get us all killed, Dan Rather was hysterically screaming it from our TVs practically every night on the evening news. And this is where Defcon-4 comes in, it's the perfect over the top illustration of that entire overindulgent, paranoid era, it's also a couple of hours of good, mindless entertainment.
In the film a group of three astronauts stationed on an orbital nuclear "Star Wars" missile platform watch the whole world get blown to smithereens (did you catch the 1980s reference I made there?) safe in the comfort of their space station high above. Then after many months going stir crazy in orbit the station unexpectedly goes kablooey and our heroes fall back to earth. They have to crash land their capsule in a now highly irradiated Canada and are suddenly confronted with the new facts of life (another '80s reference). They have to contend with cannibals, a crazy survivalist Maury Chaykin and his teen slave girl and ultimately end up captured and taken to a military encampment. It is ran by a ruthless and narcissistic teenage boy who rules over the enslaved peasants with an iron fist and wants to use our intrepid astronauts to create his own perverted dynasty (another '80s reference). It's a small wonder (yep, one more '80s reference) that any of them survive! Did I forget to mention that the now captured capsule has a live nuclear warhead on it counting down to go off! That's probably important to know...
I won't go into any more details about the "story." If you enjoy watching the apocalypse, if you're into cannibalism, if you're desperate to see filthy ragtag nuclear war survivors fighting each other to the death for the last remaining scraps of food, or if you love corny movie productions in general then Defcon-4 is the movie for you.

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