leroy

Dear folks:____________ Been thinkin about doing a lightweight flattop AR upper. What barrel and free float handguard would you all use? Thanks in advance. Leroy

Thought about this myself a couple of days ago. It is a very sobering and sad look back into our history. Thanks for reminding us. Regards, Leroy

Jay:___________ I dont believe for a moment that any regulation, no matter how winsome and alleged to be upright is appropriate for communication and opinion. The FCC is, in fact, a government regulatory agency. The emphasis is on "regulatory"--- without anything to regulate, there is no need for more "regulators". More than that, the net doesnt need "regulation". Regulation in the communications industry is a cash cow for the government and a chance to meddle in the affairs of "government regulated monopolies" by ultimately controlling content and service. We can quibble about whether we need "government regulated monopolies"; but that's a side issue . By the way, i worked for a "regulated monopoly"; the electric utility industry for thirty eight years. That gives a bit of insight into the "benefits" of regulation and the "calling in of favors" to regulators. I will grant that we can quibble about the "benefits" of the "technical" portion of this regulation; but i believe that's a side issue too. An issue designed to drag folks off into the bushes with a "red herring" issue that some folks will applaud. I believe the real issue is the issue of "regulating content", "regulating speech", and demanding "equal time for opposing views" just like the FCC (...and many polititians...) would like to see with the radio and video broadcast industry. The "technical improvements" are simply a bone to be thrown to the foolish. The "regulated monopoly" thing is a red herring in itself, but we are saddled with it. I see on no problem with both the telephone and cable industry being "regulated" thru the mechanism of the free market; but they wont be because the government already has their hooks into these industries thru the "regulated monopoly" doctrine for the "public good" (...which, by the way, i find laughable; it sounds like the old soviet "collective good" to me, and it benefits the government thru fees for regulation and largess to pass out to politicos who sit on government regulatory boards...). The only "public good" that i can see from this is that the politicos get a job and the government gets to collect fees. The real looser in this deal is you and me, the average citizen. The fact is, this whole move is 'red meat' move calculated to stir up Nobama's base with a move toward regulating speech. I predict that if left alone, the courts will do it in anyway; because the effect of some of the regulation will be to stifle political speech and thus nullify the First Amendment; my guess is that wont happen. The real test for the "political class" is to oppose this idiotic move. I frmly believe that the folks in this country are watching those who survived the election of 2010 very closely. I do not believe that any politico's survival of the election of 2010 or the one coming up in 2012 is a validation of the continuation of "business as usual" in Washington. I believe that they will be voted out if they dont oppose increased regulation (...and that's what this is, along with the long term goal of regulating political speech, which some politicos on both sides of the aisle (...read that incumbents...) like...), they will be seen as part of the problem rather than a part of the solution and thrown out; and that's ok with me. You may like the old ways of "regulating for the public good", i dont; and i think that lots of other folks dont like 'em either. Leroy

I understand; but i believe this one will get lots of traction in the next congress. It will probably be an issue of "doing the right thing for the wrong reason". The politicos well know that everyone is watching them and waiting for them to start dismantling everything that Nobama has (...and wants to...) do. This will be a good place to start; because the internet doesn't need regulating, and they well know it. Ray Charles (...if he was still down here upon the earth among us...) can see that this is a move to bring internet news media under government control under the guise of "making things fair". You, me, and others know that is 'baloney" and so do lots of other folks. I see this as a test for the polititians that survived the 2010 campaign. If they do the wrong thing, they will be out; and i like that. The political class should be mindful and even afraid of the voter. Let's keep watching and not loose heart, this one ought to be interesting. Keep up the good work! Leroy

I know. Sometimes i just aint quick enough! It's one of the problems with old age. Leroy

Thanks Raoul. They must do a great job with the machining. Now all i need to do is find a "...lightly used and lovingly cared for..." PM9 and i'll be in business!! Many thnks, Leroy

All:______________ Take a look at this from PC Magazine: Link here: FCC Broadband Plan Prompts GOP, Industry Backlash | News & Opinion | PCMag.com I suspect the fireworks are just about to start. I seem to remember both the FCC and other "Bureaus" being slapped by congress when they tried these shennagians in times passed. Leroy

All:_____________ When you use grease on the bolt and carrier; do you grease the sliding surfaces AND the bolt lugs? Do you use a couple of drops of oil on the gas rings? Leroy

Thanks Mike. Leroy

Mike and David:_______ RE: This for home use. What barrel length? What flash suppressor? What round? Thanks, Leroy

I like 'em!! They look good. Good thinkin!! Keep up the good work! Leroy PS-- I like the shotgun too. Keep it under your overcoat? ! ---HEHEHE Looks like a real handy tool!

David and all our Kahr toting brothers and sisters:______________ I (...like all of you...) like the "little" kahrs. I think they are the ultimate pocket pistol to date. In regards to the "break in". What is your collective opinion about the break in? Do the kahrs need the "rough edges" worn off; or are they built so tight that they need to be loosened up? What da ya think? Leroy PS-- David; I really like tha kahr. I'm waiting to find a "lightly used, lovingly cared for" oney myself!

My guess is that the FCC is about to take a whooping after the first of the year. Lots of times in the past, the way the congress handled rogue bureaus in the executive branch was by having endless hearings, berating the top brass, and de-funding them in a loud, public way. They can do all that in the House now ---HEHEHE. My guess is that the Tea Party and Libertarians are watching this one pretty closely. I think the fun is just about to begin. I'm sure some Republican polititians are for this malarkey too; but it's dangerous to be "for" this type regulation now. Sadly, for these bureaucrats and sorry polititians, there will be another election in 2012. This should be fun to watch. Leroy (...watching...)

My glock 33 in a left hand allen miller pocket holster. Ugly but indespensable. Extremely accurate and reliable. All this from an old time smith revolver and colt government model snob!! Leroy

This is a great thing!! Just exactly the club i was thinkin about! On a less delightful note; i, like you, are interested in the interpretation. The damn hospital and doctors wont let me go "really armed" when i go see 'em (...im having to do that more and more; sadly...). I'm interested in keeping the yahoos from taking my baby aspirin (...and money --- what little there is...) from me in the parking garage. I see the ASP or sap as a great way to do that. I'm interested in the report from the "baton training" myself. FWIW; and old buddy of mine who is a reserve policeman said "dont worry about it". Just carry it and go about your business (...and ive done that from time to time; but i live in Knox county; they are pretty ignorant down there...). Keep up the good work! Leroy

Barry:________________ Thanks for the kind words. They are much appreciated. I believe as you do (....and as many others here do....) that real people have to take back the political discourse. RE: LBJ --- LBJ was one of the most delightful, windsome, and rascally political personalities in modern times. You couldn't help but love his style and antics no matter the political persuasion. I was about 21 years old when LBJ made the speech that i referenced. Any student of modern history (...or oratory...) should take the time to go to Youtube and watch some of LBJ's speeches (...if they are there...). RE: Beck. I see Beck just like you do. He is an "over the top" guy; and that tends to stir things up. I think Fox needs to team Beck up with Geert Wilders from the Netherlands; they would really have some incenderary stuff then!! I love Wilders; he is a great Dutchman. Keep up the good work. Leroy

Mosinon is exactly right. The truth is always the truth. The howling about Assange's character is just that; "...howling...". It's a desperate attempt to take the public's focus off the content of the messages and focus on discrediting the messenger. Dont allow yourself to be dragged of into the bushes about Assange's character; that aint the problem here, and those doing the howling well know that. If folks want to be mad about all this, the anger should be directed toward the overbearing insiders who are doing the wrong thing and being embarrased by all this, and the system that allowed a gay PFC to download it. How's that for '...dont ask -- dont tell?... . For additional reading on this subject; i would recommend this article by my genius heartthrob Ann Coulter's article at Townhall. Link here: Bradley Manning: Poster Boy for 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' - Ann Coulter - Townhall Conservative Highly recommended. Great read. leroy

Folks:____________ I (...like many of you ...) dont believe that being a stinkin lawyer (...TGO company excepted, of course!...) and a political operative all you life is the ultimate qualification for political office. The "Best and Brightest" would have you think that a JD degree from an Ivy League School plus "prior public service" are a necessity for leadership position in politics. I say to all that: "...Baloney!!..." That is about 2/3 of what's wrong with our political system. The "Fortunate Sons (...and daughters..[ and haints in pelosi and hillary's case]...), for the most part, are a detriment to this country. They actually believe the malarkey that says that they are, in fact, "...the best and brightest...". That means that any "lesser being" (...Ronald Reagan --- a no talent actor, and non "Ivy League" commoner; -- for example...) automatically cant be as smart or dedicated as these "anointed ones" are. On a more sobering note, it also means that you (...the citizen...) aint smart enough to know what's good for you and the country either. This, in my view, is the ultimate elitism and narcissism. They see the real citizens of this country as serfs to be told what to do and think; and i despise that. It is time for real leaders who are not necessarily connected to the "Fortunate Sons and Daughters" system be brought into politics. Character in politics (...and everywhere else...) matters. The root of many of our political problems in all areas of public, corporate, and military life in this country are directly traceable to a serious lack of both talent and character. Without character, it is impossible to do the right thing, and that is a great problem in our political, corporate, and legal systems today. I've got no real problems with "real folks" like Sarah Palin, Bobby Jindal, or other "outsiders". Their real test will be the "integrity test". The reason that these people are beinging savaged and slandered by the "inside the beltway crowd" is exactly that they are outsiders and are not part of the "Best and Brightest" fraternity. I say, bring on the new blood; the old system stinks!! Libertarian Leroy

I think JAB hit a homerun right here: A better analysis has never been given of these two than here!! Hillary is a white Nobama with a skirt and a real brain. Great work!! I think the great thing for us is that Hillary may well be drug down with the Nobama crowd. I think the fun is just beginning. Wait until the House and Senate starts fighting with everybody in Nobama's administration. The sad thing (....for Hillary...) and the good thing for us (...i think...) is that after what happened in 2010 and what i think will happen between 2010 and 2012; no Demorat will be able to be elected. Nobama and his gang will finish any hope of a Demorat win, because they dont care -- they are idealogues and narsissists at heart. I cant wait for the fireworks to start. That means that Hillary will have to wait until the 2016 election to try again. 2016 will make her about 69 years old (...i think, not sure...). That's a long time to be here, and lots of the commie, sociaist trash in my (...and her...) generation may (...thankfully for the country...) be in the rest home or the grave by then. I think it is a cruel irony that a no count conniving "haint" like her is being "cheated by fate" like this; dont you? HEHEHE! Keep up the good work! Leroy

7dog:_______________ Had to think about this one a bit; and still don’t know just how to give a real good answer; so I’ll hook it with a bit of political history to help explain my wishy-washy answer. After thinkin a bit; I think ya can boil this down to two issues: 1. Will this help government and will it push things back to ‘original intent” of politics as service? 2. Did someone want this to happen? Is it a “red herring” to take our minds off the real problems? Will this help “clean up government”? If real bad things come out (…yet to be determined; the stuff so far aint incriminating --- just embarrassing…) the answer is “Yes”. If anyone is able to be handed good evidence of willful lying to congress or the American people; or “cooking or tailoring data” there will be trouble. This is the “bone” that politicians, pundits, and those who are suspicious of entrenched government (…think Libertarian here…) are looking for. It will lead to a purge of some folks that ought to go. It will re-remind people to be suspicious of government and career bureaucrats (…military as well as civilian…). I count that a good thing. This sort of thing forced LBJ not to run for a second term in the 1968 presidential race. Nixon ® beat Hubert Humphrey (D) on the Vietnam issue (…Humphrey got 42.7% of the vote, Wallace got 13.5%, and Nixon got 43.4%...). That meant that the democrat popularity fell from a high of about 61% to 43% --- that’s pretty serious for one four year period. I well remember LBJ’s televised announcement that he would not seek the Democrat Nomination for this second full term (…remember, he served out Kennedy’s term, and was elected to a first term in one of the greatest races of modern times in a real “landslide” (…468 electoral votes to 52 for Goldwater. Johnson won with a 61% popular vote!!...). LBJ looked like a man who had been told he had terminal cancer or had just been told that a loved one had died – it was a sad sight for television. LBJ was a great politician (…although a crook and “dealmaker”…); but you couldn’t help but like him on a personal basis. He was kind of like your “no count uncle” that you dearly loved because he was so outlandish and winsome --- not at all like this current crop of overbearing, unlikeable trash we have today. LBJ later said that he had been systematically lied to by the old “holdovers” from the Kennedy Camp (…chief among them was Robert McNamara…) over the “progress” in Vietnam. Remember, the main problem in Vietnam was a combination of supporting a bunch of thugs and incompetents in South Vietnam and civilian political “meddling” in military affairs that destroyed any hope of finishing Vietnam in a timely way. The United States Military did not lose Vietnam; political wrangling and mis-reading of foreign leaders lead to us simply pulling out and letting the country fall into communist hands. The conclusion that I draw from the LBJ, Nixon, Vietnam thing is that people got mad when they found out what was going on in Vietnam and they took it out on the sitting politicians; and that could well happen again this time around. I will grant that things were much different then (…everybody was touched by Vietnam and the draft was on…). Today, we have a volunteer army and a much smaller fraction of the population affected by these “wars”; but there are folks still dying. I think that could easily happen again, if incriminating evidence comes out of any of this Wikileaks thing. As to the question of “…will things turn back to “original intent”…?” The answer is a quick “NO”. It never will, because (…I think…) the Founding Fathers never envisioned the idea of political interests being able to use military means effect political change somewhere else in the world. The Founding Fathers were “Isolationists” (…and I think that is a good thing…). This stupid meddling in foreign affairs started around WW1. The second question is pretty quick for me to; the answer is “No”. Politicians aint smart enough to orchestrate this sort of thing (…in my opinion…). They have been “bushwhacked” by it. That’s why I think it’s great. The sobering fact is that the future of this country lies in the hands of the voter. Let’s hope and pray that folks hold this entire sorry bunch accountable for the things they do. I believe that you may see the greatest shakeup in American politics since the Civil War over the Tea Party thing. You may see the Democrat and Republican party morph into a new party kind of like the European socialist party and the Tea Party become the new conservative party that stands for strict constitutional government, fiscal responsibility, capitalism, and smaller government. I certainly hope so. Clear as mud and ambiguous enough? Leroy

Zeus:____________ Check this link out: Collectors Firearms Leroy

Folks:____________ OS hit a homerun right here. The administration, the bureauracy, the Pentagon, the State Department, and our allies are concerned that the "real truth" will come out about our involvement and mischief in bunches of places around the world. The truth is that we regularly do some pretty henious things, that the polititians and some of their accomplices in the military are, in fact, running a series of "political wars" in various places around the world; and doing exactly what the politicos did in vietnam. As the great Smedley Butler said of World War I; "...War is a racket, and the cost is reckoned in innocent lives (...for the most part, American soldiers...) and the profits reckoned in (...mega...) dollars (...and influence...)"..... To pharaphrase OS's eloquent observation: "..the gubment is (...and has been...) lying about lots of things to lots of people...". Their political actions have made the middle east "Vietnam" and i believe that they are deathly afraid that some of these leaked cables will bear out that suspicion and give concrete proof to their involvement in this 'kabal". I firmly believe the indignation and rage you see is the product of a real fear that the truth will come out and both sides of the aisle will be saddled with it (...and, by the way, i think both sides are guilty...). If these things come out; it will give the american people a shocking look at exactly how sorry our foreign policy is and how completely morally bankrupt the majority of politicos and bureaucrats who are calling the shots in this "theatre of operations" are at this juncture in our nation's history. I predict that if this does come out, everybody will have the pitchforks out and will be calling for a clean sweep of many old time polititians and career bureaucrats that are currently residing inside the beltway. I say: "...let it happen..." Food for thought Leroy

I understand; and i understand why you think that. This nation has some very serious problems that need fixing. I hope and pray that they can be for our children and grand children; otherwise this country will not be fit to live in. Thanks. Leroy

I'm proud of ya son!!!! Seriously, I AM proud of you. Take care of that dad. There are many here that cant do that anymore. Keep up the good work. Leroy

I think the lesson here is a variation of what the great John Wayne said in one of the old time westerns. "...I hate a secret!! They cant be kept! ....". I dont want to see this country (...or any allies, for that matter...) have military personnel endangered thru this type stuff. We are doing enough of that through our own foolish actions. That being said; I don't have a big problem with american opinions being publically stated on individual leaders, foreign policy, and "...calling a spade a spade..." on some of the self-serving actions of other countries who purport to be our allies. I believe that the oil sheiks believe they have bought us (...i'm beginning to believe that one myself...) and view us as "paid mercenaries" to do the dirty work they cant do themselves and remain "leaders and brother muslims". I think the chinese distain us and believe they will finally own us as a "vassal state" (...even i'm beginning to believe that one too...). The list goes on and on... Remember this one thing; the USA lost the "high moral ground" in the diplomatic arena a long time ago when we started cozing up to our enemies, backing thugs in government coups in other countries, pardoning and using our old enemies in the espionage business, and doing all the the things that the foolish do. We sell out our allies and embrace our enemies depending on the whim of the administration that is in power and do whatever looks to be expedient at the time. When you do those things, you can't expect anybody to respect you; --- be he friend or foe. The despots of the world have to be "laughing their collective a**es off at the antics of the current administration (...and some of it's predecessors, too; both demorat and republican...) over American foreign policy since the end of WW2. I believe our "word needs to be our bond" regardless of administration. I believe that we need to call our enemies our enemies, and i believe we need to call out those (...including the chinese...) who do things that cause mischief and harm. We need to stop this "damnable double speak" when we talk to our friends and our enemies. Mabee the Wikileaks thing will embarass us enough for us to quit this damn appologizing to everyone for everything and cause us to call a "spade a spade" and to stand with our allies and against our enemies; but i aint gonna hold my breath waiting for it. Food for thought. Leroy