Can Rahm get guns under control?

NUMBER OF HOMICIDES IN CHICAGO IN 2011
441

NUMBER OF HOMICIDES IN CHICAGO IN 2012
535

NUMBER OF HOMICIDES IN CHICAGO AS OF
June 10, 2013

164

NUMBER OF PEOPLE SHOT IN CHICAGO IN 2011
2,217

NUMBER OF PEOPLE SHOT IN CHICAGO AS IN 2012
2,670

NUMBER OF PEOPLE SHOT IN CHICAGO AS OF May 15, 2013

666

Pamelot at Trappers Run

Fathers Day

I learned long, long ago I chose great parents.   Dad loved to eat fresh fish!. 

Our first elk hunt together in the Montana Big Horns on the Crow Reservation.

Dad always tried to get us into the rough stuff.   He did good.

Dad seldom, very seldom ever missed what he was shooting at.   This wasn't his day.

His last deer at over 250 yards.  Great shot Dad!  Montana,  1992. 

Dad loved gunning for waterfowl.  His way.  Dad and Ken Cruse, Morris, MN

It was our biggest harvest.  Getting it done,  South Dakota,  1972

 

Thank you Dad! 

 

Zero Hedge, PRICELESS!

One of the greatest communities I have had the good fortune to be a part of is the gang at Zero Hedge.   I am proud to call some of the crew my friend.    It's a rough and tumble world and the wonderful team that runs the site, whoever they are and whereever they are, should be in line for a Pulitzer.

They dug this up on the Kenyan.  Priceless.  Check it out. 

Who said it?

Drunk on BEER in Pine Ridge

White Clay, Nebraska is just over the state line, a couple miles south of Pine Ridge Village on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. I lived in Pine Ridge for almost 3 years when in high school. White Clay is a small town of 14 people, but sells almost five million cans of 12 oz. beer annually to residents of the Pine Ridge reservation.

In the 40 years since I was attending Oglala Community High School nothing has changed. The cycle of poverty, government dependancy and lack of moral courage is obvious to all.

The question is very simple, so simple in fact that it’s almost universally rejected as simplistic. How bad does Pine Ridge want change? How tired are Ridgers of their own personal insanity, not to mention everyone else around them? How desperate are they to push through the pain to the other side? Only they can answer these questions. Not you, not I.

The active ingredient in this recipe is the will and desire to change. And the change must start within, in first recognizing their own capacity for personal change, which leads to larger and more permanent cultural change. This will be extremely painful no matter what. I wish Pine Ridgers the best in their vote to allow alcohol to be sold on the reservation. I wish them more success in the populace entering treatment programs who need it. May some day the cycle be broken. I hope it is in my lifetime.

 

Syria, Obama and Snowden

What comes after George Bush and George Bush Jr.? Must be George Bush the Third, only this time armed with a Nobel peace prize. Seriously, are they that stupid to think they can rerun the entire Iraq invasion scenario without changing anything? And is the US public really that dumb to let it slide? And how many Syrian citizens and US soldiers have to die in what is the most glaring instance in the past decade of a wag the dog-type distraction from on onslaught of domestic administration scandals?

Can you hear the French and the Brits?  Think the IDF has a plan?

It's all about the money folks.  The natural gas for Qatar, the US military industrial complex,  defense spending (lobbyists) and as we all know, anything, absolutely anything to straighten out the domestic issues facing the White House these days.

I reckon the community organizer has gotten in over his head.   This ought to get good.  I wish all the best to Mr. Snowden.   Chairman Mike Rogers of Michigan sounds like an idiot on speaking about Mr. Snowden tonight.  For God's sake,  who would risk the death penalty or life in prison in order to inflate their resume? Who are you going to believe, a whistle blower  dropout or a Congressman?  So, the NSA hires flunkies and dropouts?   There are over 1 million with top security clearance. That's one million who understand the corruption going on. 

Here is a few noteworthy high school drop outs.

Princess Diana dropped out of school at 16.

Thomas Edison had only three months of formal school. He was then home schooled by his mother.

Benjamin Franklin. He spent two years at the Boston Latin School before dropping out at age ten and going to work for his father, and then his brother, as a printer.

Albert Einstein dropped out of high school at age 15. Deciding to continue his education a year later, Einstein took the entrance exam to the prestigious Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, but failed.

John D. Rockefeller, Sr. dropped out of high school two months before graduation.

Walt Disney dropped out of high school at age 16. He received an honorary high school diploma at age 58.

Sir Richard Branson quit school at age 16.

George Burns left school in the fourth grade to go to work shining shoes.

Colonel Harland Sanders dropped out of elementary school.

Charles Dickens left school at age 12 and began working ten-hour days in a boot-blacking factory after his father was imprisoned for Debt.

Elton John dropped out of school at 16.

Ray Kroc dropped out of high school at age 15.

Ehrich Weiss (aka Harry Houdini) dropped out of school at age 12.

Ringo Starr dropped out of school at 15.

Peter Jennings dropped out of high school at 16.

Dave Thomas dropped out of high school at 15.

Orville Wright dropped out of high school at 15.

and there's plenty more where these came from.....

Bill Clinton

Jennifer and Paula surely thought he was quite an athlete.

If there was a 100  yard dash for an intern my money would have been on Bill.

 

Huffington Post

Could there be a supposed "news" source that is worse?

I often wonder if Ted Turner has had a good nights sleep since the AOL/Time Warner deal was inked.

Steve Case had the last laugh.   A big one.