High And Tight

With just the right amount of jiggle.

Remington to settle lawsuits over rifle’s trigger mechanism

The articles says that millions of the Remington 700's have been sold since 1962 and that they have been aware of the problem with them firing when the safety is clicked off or when the bolt is opened or closed since at least 1979.

There are currently 3 class action suits against Remington for this issue and this one has been settled now but the details have not been released.

It seems at the very least there will be a recall.

I bet the dinks at GM hope the news cycle picks this up and runs with it for a while.

The Remington Arms Co. has reached a nationwide settlement of claims that most of its Model 700 bolt-action hunting rifles have a defective trigger mechanism — a settlement likely to include the recall of millions of the popular firearm.

Attorneys for Remington and the plaintiffs in the class-action lawsuit against the company did not respond Monday to requests for comment on a “notice of settlement” filed last week in federal court in Missouri.

Yet Richard Barber, a Montana man who’s been saying for a dozen years that many of the Model 700 are defective and should be recalled, indicated Monday that a recall is part of the settlement.

“It does accomplish what I want to accomplish,” he told the Lee Newspapers State Bureau. “I guess it’s safe to say, it’s better late than never. …

“As a whole, (the settlement) represents the best interests of the public. It will save lives, it will save limbs.”

The lawsuit says more than 5 million Model 700 bolt-action rifles have been sold since 1962.

This is just a snippet from the article.

There are more details of what exactly they believe is causing the problem and more information about the lawsuits at the link.



H/T to FARK news for the link.

You Knew It Was Coming

Never let a good crisis go to waste, even if you have to create that crisis out of thin air.

President Obama will seek $3.7 billion in emergency funds from Congress  to meet the country's  “moral obligation” to care for unaccompanied minors who have flooded in recent months to the southwestern border, White House officials said Tuesday.
Nearly half the money would go to the Department of Health and Human Services for food, housing and medical care for the tens of thousands of children and teenagers who have arrived at the border, senior administration officials told reporters.

Video: President Obama invites Texas Gov. Rick Perry to meet and discuss the immigration crisis.

The rest of the money would be aimed at deterring further migrants by strengthening law enforcement, going after smuggling networks that ferry people from Central America and expanding the number of deportation hearings.
The spending plan, nearly double the $2 billion the White House initially said was the minimum amount it would seek, is certain to raise concern among budget hawks in Congress.
The request reflects the president’s dilemma in responding to the estimated 52,000 children who have crossed the border since October, many of them reporting that they’re fleeing violence in their home countries of Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador.

 

Obama has called the border situation a humanitarian crisis and is under pressure from advocates for immigrants to treat the arriving children humanely. At the same time, White House officials say they need to quickly find a way to stop the flood of new arrivals and send a message to families in Central America that the migrants are not welcome and will be returned to their home countries.
Advisors to the president are mindful of both tasks -- and of the varying constituencies paying close attention.

Read more at the LA Times site.

Delusions of Grandeur

And I Am Supporting At Least Two

Patience My Ass

The Cat is Going Outside.

I asked the wife how much longer I had to put up with the motherfucker out in my garage and she said Monday.

Uh, no.
I told her I was letting the damn thing out a day early for good behavior, it hasn't hissed at me for three days now and it is healed up good enough to hit the fucking bricks.

I have the engine for my Sprite tore down out there and the things I need to do to it so I can prep it for new piston rings are going to involve stuff that stinks.

You know, chemicals and lubricants.

I didn't dare go out there and try to do it and just crack the window, that cat would have been scattering shit all over the place trying to get out.

No more.

Bye bye kitty.

It ain't like it's going anywhere now, she is too used to getting fed regularly.

She will be out on the back porch staking out territory and battling the rest of the furballs out there.

The last thing I am going to see from her is her asshole and the bottoms of her feet as she high tails it out the fucking back door.
I think she has been cooped up in there for a month and a half at least.

That's a month and a half I am behind schedule on that fucking car which tightens my jaw no fucking end.
Damn am I mad about that.


That garage is about to become a very hostile environment for fur bearing animals of any description, two or four legged.
Actually, hostile may be a tad bit of an understatement.

Get the fuck out and stay the fuck out while you can do so under your own power.

This Is Why Men Do Not Vacuum The House

We can't get the fucker started.

Sent to me in an Email, I couldn't resist.

The Land Of The Free And The Home Of The Brave

The wife wanted to go to my old stomping grounds yesterday for their Fourth of July celebration at a water front park.
The plan was to get there a bit earlier than the rest of the Sheeple so we could grab a spot with a Barbeque pit that was advertised on their website.

Long story short, it turned into a logistical fucking nightmare.
First off, this shindig was at a large public marina with enough parking for hundreds of cars.
But no.

The boat ramp was right smack dab next to the music stage and it was open. They wouldn't let you park there. You had to park about five hundred yards away and then take a hay ride on a trailer to get in. The trailer cut right in front of and dropped you off right next to trucks loading and unloading boats on the ramp.

Not knowing this, we had packed all kinds of shit for a picnic and fishing outing.

All of that had to be hauled out of the car, carried about eighty feet and deposited on this trailer full of people.

When they dropped us off, we had no idea what was where and had to do a scouting foray to find a place to carry all our gear to.

This is when we find out that the advertised Barbeque pits (plural) is actually one fucking barbeque pit for what I would estimate later to be close to a thousand people and was of course, taken.
We had the charcoal, the lighter fluid and my case full of BBQ items but no fucking barbeque.

Remember now, this is the Fourth of July in a small town. By the way, just for fun I find out my debit card shit the bed earlier, the magnetic strip somehow has a huge gouge in it from something I stuck in my back pocket, most likely a crescent wrench.

I tell the wife that I will go try and find a small disposable grill at Safeway.
It is to laugh.
Not a chance. There was a small SEARS outlet open though and by golly they had a full size grill, on sale,for 40 bucks.

Of course the stupid kid who got stuck working had no clue how to just punch in the numbers on my card. I found a ten spot I didn't remember having and between that, the twenty I knew about and the cash my wife had, I had enough to get the damn thing.

This is after we just spent 80 bucks at Walmart getting the rest of the shit.

Now the fun part.
I am in her car. A small, Ford Focus that brought four people, a large cooler, two fishing poles, two tackle boxes blankets and a fucking watermelon to this park.

The only place this grill fit was across the back seat so in it goes and off we go back to the no parking hell zone.

I got lucky and found a spot on the main drag and packed that dirty fucker all the way in.

The wife ain't happy.
What a surprise.

We go round and round because we would have had to set all that up in a different spot from where we had already packed all our shit to and then would miss a good viewing spot for the fireworks later, plus, now I have to figure out how I am going to get the damn thing home.

She now decides to scrap the barbeque idea all together and just buy some burgers from a vendor there.

If you knew me, you would rightly guess that about this point, I am right at the point of no return and the results are not going to be pretty.

Instead, I just say fuck it, whatever, I don't give a fuck.

So we finally eat.

Now the boy wants to go fishing. I got him his very first fishing license just about an hour ago.

This should be a no brainer. Got the poles, the worms, the licenses and the gear.

We head out to go fishing. It's a fucking marina.
There are docks everywhere.

Nope.

Can't fucking fish off the docks in the marina.

Fine, I'll just go on the other side to the bank where I have fished at least a dozen times in the past.

Nope, can't do that either, they have closed that access to the public for this fucking shindig.

I am now rapidly approaching nuclear meltdown.

Some guy that works for the Port there must have seen the murder in my eyes when he told me that because he volunteered that he wouldn't see us just this one day if we went farther upriver and went past a no trespassing sign about a hundred yards away and ducked over the bank.

Fine. I thanked him and over the bank we went.


Didn't even get a bite.

I don't care, I went fishing and got away from the madness for a while.

We head back and the kid disappears, 16 years old and lots of girls around, I know what he is up to but the wife can't cut the apron strings and keeps fretting because he isn't right there where she can keep tabs on his narrow ass.

Then a guy I work with calls me on the phone.
Him and some other co workers are going to come down and want to know where we are at.

Double plus mother fucking bonus points, I can tell on the phone, the dude is half drunk.

Here, we go.

Sure as shit, a bunch of them show up and some of them can barely stand up.

Thank God it was starting to get dark finally.

Of course they want to sit right next to us but luckily it had gotten fairly packed by the time they got there so they had to fall down a few yards away.

I visited with them for a bit but since I don't drink anymore the charm left that scene rather quickly.

Six and a half hours after we left the house, the music had been going for over an hour and they are finally going to get with the program. The fireworks barge is sitting out front in the river, they sing the pledge of allegiance, never heard that before and then they start singing the Star Spangled banner.

The whole time this is going on I am quietly reflecting to myself on the shape this country is in while I am looking around and just how pitiful it is to see all these people who couldn't give a flying fuck if the NSA is reading their Emails or recording their phone calls, or all the other abuses our government is heaping on us and here they are just singing away.

I couldn't do it.
I couldn't even mouth the words. I was busy choking on the irony of the whole scene. Let's all pretend all is right in our world for a couple of hours on one day out of the year.

When they got to the part about the land of the free and the home of the brave? The bile started rising.There I was, surrounded by blissfully ignorant idiots, my fellow citizens. No fucking clue, I could see it in their vacant eyes.

Mercifully they all finally shut up, the lights went out and the fireworks started.

Twenty two minutes later the show was over and people were heading out in droves like Lemmings headed to the cliffs.
I let a bunch of them get ahead of me and started packing shit up.

I had taken the fucking grill back to the car earlier to save myself that hassle, there was still plenty to lug across a parking lot longer than a foot ball field as it was. The cooler doesn't have wheels and I had to hoist the fucker up on my shoulder and muscle it the whole way.

Finally got to the little car, pulled the grill out of the back seat, crammed everything I could into the trunk, had the wife and the boy get in the back seat while her oldest son who is autistic piled in the front and then crammed that fucking brand new grill right back in over the top of them and drove home to find several freaked out cats and the neighborhood fireworks show going full blast.

The land of the free and the home of the brave my aching ass. More clueless idiots literally watching their money go up in smoke for mere seconds of entertainment.

I'm taking the day off.
I think I might go fishing Sunday too.

A guy has to know his limits and I just red lined mine.

July 4,2014 "Independence Day"

It is beyond question that the United States government has abandoned any pretext of following the Supreme Law of the Land.

It is plain for anyone bothering to look that the Federal, State, County and City governing bodies in this country consider themselves to be above the law and will cause you to cease to be at their whim.

The sentence of death is being passed for seemingly ridiculous reasons and there are absolutely no negative consequences for the State sponsored murder of your fellow citizens or the theft of their property.


You have no rights .




My fellow Americans, on this day that we have traditionally celebrated our freedoms and our hard won independence from a tyrannical government over two hundred years ago, I want you to understand that we are in the exact same situation our forefathers were in.

While you are here at this blog today, I want to be absolutely certain that you understand two things.

That there is a club and you are not in it.

That there is a list and you are on it.

Once these hard realities sink in then I suggest you do the following.



There is no cavalry coming to save you at the last minute, no knights in shining armor.

The ideals that founded this country can still be found just about everywhere you care to look though.

All is not lost.

The struggle has been joined and the will to persevere is strong, it is going to be a game of numbers.

There are a determined few who believe they can change this country by force.

I believe those few are outnumbered by orders of magnitude.

I also believe we are about to find out just how badly these people want this change and what price they are willing to pay.

Cutie Pie

Just Say They Taste Like Chicken And Stand Back

Watch Out Irish, It's A Trap!

Gotcha Covered Uncle Bubba

If ya turn up missing for more than a drunken weekend,

Of Course They Do

I can guarantee you one thing, you would not have seen the look of surprise cross my face when I read this horse shit.

Do yourselves a favor and read the whole thing because the cocksuckers are talking out both sides of their face in the same damn article.

Rotten motherfuckers anyway.

Government Privacy Board Says Controversial NSA Surveillance Program Is Constitutional

 

Posted: 07/02/2014 12:00 am EDT Updated: 07/02/2014 12:00 am EDT

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A government privacy oversight board's draft report, released Tuesday night, finds the National Security Agency's use of a controversial surveillance authority is constitutional, but says some aspects of it edge up to violating the Fourth Amendment's prohibition against unreasonable searches or seizures.
The report from the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, an independent agency within the federal government's executive branch, centers on programs revealed by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden that the NSA uses to pick up communications of foreigners that may also involve a U.S. citizen. The programs rely for legal authority on a law passed in 2008 to bring former President George W. Bush's warrantless wiretapping program under judicial oversight.
Critics charge that the NSA, in collecting the foreign targets' communications under its PRISM and upstream collection programs, incidentally picks up far too many Americans' emails and phone calls. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) has raised alarm about what happens with Americans' communications once they're collected, because the NSA believes it can search through them without a warrant.
The privacy board's harsh January report on the NSA's separate domestic telephone metadata collection program provided ammunition for critics looking to end it. But in its new report, the privacy board largely accepts the government's assurances that NSA surveillance under the 2008 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is well-grounded. The board is set to vote on whether to finalize the draft report on Wednesday.
"Overall, the Board has found that the information the program collects has been valuable and effective in protecting the nation’s security and producing useful foreign intelligence," the report reads. The program, it says, "has been subject to judicial oversight and extensive internal supervision, and the Board has found no evidence of intentional abuse."

 

Now go read the rest of it where they voice their concerns about possible 4th Amendment violations.

Assholes, you can't have one without the other no matter how much bullshit you try to spread.


Article VIA Huffington Post, because sometimes you need a different flavor of propaganda.

Boobs

It's been a while, I searched high and low for you guys this time.