Guard Dog

He's always serious... and don't call him Shirley.

There are worse guilty pleasures than Allen Ginsburg. Heck a few years ago I was fascinated by the story in a teen romance novel. Not Twilight. I'd never admit to that!

Uh oh Brits... now look what you've done! http://www.vocativ.com/333176/calls-for-texas-independence-surge-in-wake-of-brexit-vote/

I guess I suck at analyzing draft picks. All the local media seems pretty pleased with the Grizz taking Wade Baldwin with their first pick. At first I thought it was a "hometown" pick since next to the Tigers, Vandy is popular here. But there seems to be some thought he can step in and replace Conley. I'm not seeing it but I hope so.

That was pretty cool. I could use that hammer too.

Nah. started with the Dark Side of the Moon, finished with Meddle & Division Bell.

I bought gold last week. That's looking like a good move so far. The question is how long to hold it because as Bruce said, a week from now the financial markets will wonder what the big deal was. Commodities tend to over-correct.

Wow the Scots were really in favor of stay. I figured it would be the other way around.

He has a fetish... don't criticize

Just got home. I'm off work until 7/5 (or 5/7 depending on where you are). Tonight I'm going to grill a turkey burger, sit in the rocking chair on the back porch with Pink Floyd blasting at a concert level volume and drink a LOT. The nice thing about living in the middle of nowhere is doing whatever the heck you want and no one is around to complain.

OK, this was the hardest one of all to swallow. Your Trump scenario is a bit too rosy, but the Clinton one is dead on. Edit: A rare victory for the rule of law, no thanks to the liberals of course: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/06/23/supreme-court-blocks-obama-immigration-plan.html?intcmp=hpbt1 Good thing Garland wasn't confirmed to the court, once again showing if we lose this election, we lose everything. I can't help being rosy about Trump as the guy is to politics as Rodney Dangerfiend was to the golf club in Caddyshack, even if he bases his positions on standard paleo-conservatism. Great. You have just ruined this whole election for me! Next time Hillary walks on stage I'm going to think "Hey whitey, where's your hat?"

Well, that's our problem, we love the country but we hate the government. I don't think anyone loves the EU though. I wouldn't go so far as to say we hate the government. It has a job to do that we need it to do well. When it starts to things outside that job or do things it's not supposed to do at all is when we run into trouble.

This sounds like something I might have said! Many, many, many times in fact!

You know the irony of all that is there were deaths back in Arkansas that were a lot more suspicious than that one with much better evidence of foul play and cover up. But for some reason this is the one that gets remembered. That is not to suggest anyone named Clinton had anything to do with any of them but it does beg the question when the Arkansas State Police determine the AG (one William Jefferson Clinton) former mistress Suzanne Coleman committed suicide by shooting herself in the back of the head with a rifle.

No but when it becomes a tool for denying a right it becomes that very thing. I'm not saying using terror watchlists to block firearm purchases is a bad thing all together, but before it becomes real there has to be some major changes to what terror watchlists are, who is on them, why, and how to get off.

I also watched the 2 guys and I thought they made some cogent points, they seem to come across as very sincere ? Oh yeah, they were sincere but it's pretty plain they were making a pitch for the Hillary/Bernie voters. When Bill Weld starting expounding on the "Good Government" of regulation and social programs those were very un-libertarian answers. And contrary to things they have said in the past and Chris Cuomo called them on it. I think the cause would have been better served but giving straight forward and simple answers based on the notion of limited government does not mean some things will disappear or that the Federal government is the only one that does anything. That is the absolutist argument of both Clinton and Trump and they did not do enough to refute it IMO. That was the lost opportunity,

Suppose for a moment we had such a thing. Would you want a bureaucrat in Ottawa whom you have never met or is answerable to you in anyway having the authority of override or nullify the actions of you own legislature in Sacramento? I find the whole notion ironic really. Millions of Europeans have given their lives fighting wars over the centuries to keep their sovereign soil from being ruled by a foreign government that knows nothing about them and cares nothing for them. And in the end they just handed it all over pretty meekly. Now if the EU was, as conceived, a purely economic alliance it wouldn't be an issue but it's getting to be a lot more controlling and interfering as the years go from my point of view.

Hey any bears that want MY fruit loops better be packing more than genetically enhanced claws! Although I have had some trouble with the wildlife in the past I'm more concerned about two legged threats. I'm a good 20-30 minutes from any kind of police assistance and my property shares it's longest border with the Anderson-Tully Wildlife Management Area which, of course, is public land. Now I'm a long was from any vehicle access point in Tully but there have been two occasions in the past few years I've had to ask armed hunters from Tully to kindly get off my property. That's why I fenced the whole thing off a year ago. And since I'm separated from my wife and living alone I'd say the odds of me being hurt by one of my own firearms is a gnat hair fraction above zero. I realize you and I disagree on the motives and intent of the pro gun control crowd in Washington but I'm glad to see where you stand on using the arbitrary and secretive no fly list as a back door to circumventing due process. It's hard to say which SCOTUS decision upsets the left more Citizens United or Heller. But whenever government "wants" are thwarted to defend individual liberty those so called champions of liberty on the left get angry and look for a different method of extending control. A notable exception being Justice Sotomayor's outstanding defense of the 4th Amendment in a losing case a few days ago.

I've avoided taking a stance on this because I'm not British and I think it is arrogant and presumptuous for someone who does not an has never lived in GB to tell them how their country ought to be run. But if I were I'd be voting to send the EU and the Brussels bureaucrats back across the channel where they belong.

Sign me up!

No one expect voting for Johnson will result in him becoming President. The hope is more votes this time than last. In 2008 the Bob Barr got 600k votes. In 2012 Gary Johnson got 1.3M votes. Maybe we can double that again. The idea here is to grow the movement, grow the brand.

I watched Team Libertarian on CNN tonight. They did OK. They didn't make the most of the opportunity by any means but they didn't embarrass themselves either. I think they went into this with a strategy in mind but would have been better served just "being themselves".

I love the concealed porch weapon. I'd probably keep a melee weapon in a discreet place, too. A good framing hammer will do a lot of damage.* *I mean against zombies or humans, not foxes I have a firearm concealed in every room and space. For real. You never know!

Excellent analysis: http://thefederalist.com/2016/06/21/on-guns-democrats-have-lost-their-minds/?utm_source=The+Federalist+List&utm_campaign=e9e0341dd0-RSS_The_Federalist_Daily_Updates_w_Transom&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cfcb868ceb-e9e0341dd0-83777001