The Amero? You Gotta be Jokin'

The North American union. The United States of America will become the cream between the socialist, liberal, anti-gun Canada, and the economical dead, crime ridden, abuser of our laws Mexico, Oreo cookie. IN WHAT WORLD DOES THIS MAKE ANY SENSE!?! And to spread the icing on real smooth, the new currency will be the Amero. I kinda feel like Grover in the book, "There's a monster at the end of this book" where fuzzy little Grover goes into insane fits because we, the readers keep turning the pages and bringing him closer to the monster at the end. I know that's a kids book and not for real, but the similarities are scary when you consider the child-like minds of those in charge of this country, and the monsters they bring out with their ridiculous ideas. (for those of you who think I've lost it, and have no idea what book I'm talking about, have kids and it'll all come together for you)
I guess this is how the boneheads in the big domed building fix the illegal alien problem, make all the Mexicans American citizens, even if they still live in Mexico. Tear down all the fences, fire all the border control agents, Change the national language to Mexican... Wait a minute, that's a full surrender. We should see if that logic would work in sand land, "hey Osama, Al queda, Taliban, and Hezbollah, come on over, you are now Americans, you are welcome here, we'll change our dollar to the walla-walla or whatever you use, and we'll all speak camel." I hope no one in congress reads this, they might run with it.
Well, I guess its not the dumbest thing our government has done, well... wasn't there that time when... no, how about... O.K. maybe it is .

70 Million More Guns…38% Less Violent Crime

Data released by the FBI on Monday showed that in 2005, the nations total violent crime rate was 38% lower than in 1991, when violent crime hit an all-time high. Rates of the individual categories of violent crime were also much lower in 2005 than in 1991. Murder was 43% lower, rape 25% lower, robbery 48% lower, and aggravated assault 33% lower. The FBI’s report came on the heels of a Bureau of Justice Statistics crime survey that found that violent crime was lower in 2005 than anytime in the surveys 32-year history.
If you think I found this on the front page of the Washington Post, then let me be the first person to welcome you back from Mars. This should be overwelming evidence that guns are not the cause of crime, and that allowing citizens to own and carry firearms IS THE ONLY WAY to reduce crime. But just to prove the agena of the anti-gun clowns, they have focused on the 2% increase in violent crime from 2004-2005. Why is it that no level of proof will change the minds of the so called "open minded" liberals?
As usual, Washington, D.C., which leads the nation in anti-gun laws, led the nation in murder, with a rate six times higher than the rest of the country. Neighboring Maryland, where gun control advocates have been particularly active recently, once again had the highest robbery rate among the states, but also tied for the unenviable distinction of “first place” in murder among the states. However, despite Maryland’s high crime counts, CeaseFire Maryland, the local Brady Campaign cronnies that recently released a paper demanding an “assault weapon” ban, was unable to point to any crimes in the state involving such a gun. And that to would be a good reason to find another cause. But no, my home state of maryland will continue to cause more crime with "strong" gun control laws.
I always thought that thinking people found what works, and does it. I guess if what you are is a liberal, you continue to do what's wrong, and just try to keep us sheeple to stupid to see it.

Moultrie Game Watcher 2.1

I've wanted a trail camera for a while, but the cost allowed them to stay on the store shelves. But last year, a cheap, 35mm trail cam was available for about 50 bucks. I am too impatient to go through the film developing process for that though, so I didn't get one. there was a VGA digital cam for about $150, but I couldn't justify the funds just to take pictures of deer. And it was less than 1 mega pixel, so I can only imagine how lousy the pictures would be. So I was stuck looking at deer tracks alone.

Just as with every other bit of technology though, the trail cam got cheap! Moultrie feeders released the Game Watcher 2.1 digital game camera. Its a 2.1 mp camera, with a 30' flash, an internal memory and an SD card slot. The internal memory holds 120 low quality and 25 high quality pictures, but a 500Mb SD card hold 1000 high quality and 3000 low quality pictures. It also does video, but its real choppy, and it converts to still at night.

Me and my son got the camera, with a bag of deer corn, set up our deer ambush. Not knowing what to expect, we checked it the next day, and found it had 7 pictures on it. Man we were excited, I hooked my computer to it and we had genuine photos of 2 squirrels, 3 crows, an 8 year old boy, and a 4 year old girl in some kind of ballet spin. I guess if that's why you bought the stinkin' camera, you'd be pretty excited. But we were sure we would see the 12 point monster we know is back there, we've just never seen it cause we didn't have a camera. The next few days were about the same a whole lot of excitement just to find a few rodents and a Ballerina. But after a few days, Gavin told me that the memory was full, I was of course convinced that my kids decided to play in the woods all day, which by the way does not attract deer, but when I hooked it up, the first picture was an 8 pointer in full velvet, and the following 119 were various bucks and does. I even had some with 4 and 5 deer in one picture. And since then the memory has stayed full, and I have a couple of thousand pictures of deer, raccoons, foxes, and yes, squirrels and ballerinas.

The camera has been a success, and has paid for itself over and over again if you consider the cost of developing 35mm film. I paid about $70 for it as Wal-mart, at that price, there's no reason anyone who hunts couldn't have one. Moultrie has put together a good camera at a good price, and I have the Ballerina to prove it.

Due to the extreme pain in the butt caused by uploading photos, you'll have to look at my last post to see pictures of my future meals.

Bowhunting Starts Friday!

Friday, September 15, 2006 will mark the first day of bow hunting in Maryland this year. Not very momentous for many, but this day also marks the very first day of bow hunting for The Boy. We have our blinds dug out, our deer comin' in, and Gavin Shooting fleas off of dogs backs with his bow. So I hope to have his first deer kill pictured here Friday night. Gavin has dibs on the eight pointer. Wish us luck.

Mama's Hero

What do you do when an unknown dog comes into your yard, barks at you, and doesn't heed your warning to leave (ie. yelling, jumping and clapping)? Unfortunately the answer for most would be to retreat into your house and call animal control. Animal control would then arrive 45 minutes later to find, surprise, no dog, and tell you to call back if you see it again. Well what works for some, just ain't the way it's done here.
You see, I have a son, who is 8, 3 daughters, 4, 2 & 9 months, and a pregnant wife. I will not allow them to be harmed in any way. So I figured that when I saw the dog again, I would go through the ridiculous tribal dance of shooing it away, and when that didn't work, for the safety of my family, I would shoot it. What I didn't expect was for it to come back while I was at the store.
My son and 2 year old daughter were in the trampoline and the dog came back, my wife saw the dog and called for the kids. Gavin said to get his shotgun and shoot it, but she didn't know how to shoot his Stoeger 20 gauge. So my wife brought the gun to Gavin and walked Savannah back to the porch while Gavin trained the gun on the dog and walked backwards to the porch himself. He then proceeded to yell and make a bunch of noise to scare the dog away, but that did nothing and the dog started advancing on my son. Without a second thought, and the safety of his Mama and sisters in mind, he took aim and pulled the trigger, spraying bird shot square into the dogs face. The dog yelped, spun a few times, and ran off. The threat had been neutralized, and Gavin was a knight in shining armor to the girls in this house.
When I got home, He met me at my truck breathing heavy saying," Dad, I did what I had to do." To an adult, this may not seem too monumental, but my boy is 8, he was left with the responsibility to keep his family safe, and he was able to answer the call. Way to go Gavin, your the hero of the day!