New Years eve, it is funny how people tend to reflect at the end of the old year and the beginning of the new. I know I am guilty of pondering on my own life. I have a very good life, a wonderful bride of 34 years, good job, good kids, and two goofy dogs. The kids are all grown into upstanding adults and a couple of them have given me wonderful grandkids. I truly feel blessed from God. This is starting to sound syrupy. Sorry!!!

In late February I will reach the one year until I can retire date. This will be a mile stone, I can say 11 months, 10 months, and so on. If management asked if I am going to go I can smile and say “I don’t know “ and I really don’t. I told myself if I had one more medical incident I would go. Well I had the incident about two months ago, and I still don’t know.

My friend Nate would love to position himself to take my job when I do go. I think he is over qualified but I would never tell him that. It would just go to his head and he barely fits into his hats as it is.

This New Years celebration is consisting of getting into our pajamas sitting in front of the fire and watching TV. If we make to midnight I am sure there will be the New Years kiss and crawl of to bed for a good nights sleep. If we don’t make it to midnight I am sure the New Year will get here just the same. Life is good, thank you Jesus.

We listen constantly to pro illegal immigration that they are good people and they help the country. We have no idea who is in the country and what evil they plan to do. These two articles show what is happening and you have to know that the majority of crimes committed by illegal immigrates do not get reported.

Last week there was a large protest about the round up of immigrates at the Swift meat packing plants across the country, Not only where these folks here illegally they stole Americans Social security numbers. Identity theft is a very big deal unless you are illegal. Neither article is very long, please read

INVASION USADeported illegal who shot officers killedCalifornia patrolmen fired on as they sat in their cruiser

Posted: December 29, 20061:30 p.m. Eastern
© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com

An illegal immigrant who had been deported from the United States several times but returned each time and now was being sought for wounding two police officers in Long Beach, Calif., has died in a shooting with officers who tracked him to a taco stand in Santa Ana, authorities have confirmed. Santa Ana Police Chief Paul Walters said Oscar Gabriel Gallegos, wanted for the shooting of Long Beach officers Abram Yap and Roy Wade Jr. as they sat in their squad car Dec. 22, died while trying to shoot three of his officers with a .40-caliber Glock equipped with a laser sight. Walters told the Orange County Register that Gallegos carried two fully loaded magazines in his pocket during the confrontation. "He was either going to kill the officers or be killed," Walters said. "Fortunately, the right person got killed." The Long Beach officers, who had stopped Gallegos for running a red light, are recovering from their injuries in the hospital, officials said. At a news conference, Steve Cooley, the Los Angeles County district attorney, said Gallegos was an illegal immigrant who had been deported to Mexico several times, most recently in 1996, according to federal immigration records. Authorities in Long Beach said Gallegos also had faced weapons and drug charges over the years, and Police Chief Anthony Batts said Gallegos was "an evil man." Reports said Yap was shot once in the face and Wade, a rookie with less than a month on the force, was hit in the neck and chest. Neither officer had had an opportunity to get out of their car and they never shot back. After the shooting and Gallegos was identified as the sole suspect, federal authorities tracked him to Santa Ana, and undercover detectives from Long Beach reportedly found him at a strip mall. Authorities said Gallegos apparently saw a police car arrive and he began shooting before the officers could get out of the car. The arriving officers, members of a SWAT unit, returned fire and killed Gallegos, authorities said. After the first shooting, police said the officers had just stopped Gallegos when he got out of his vehicle and shot the two, firing through the windshield of their cruiser.
WND also has been reporting on a growing list of illegal immigrants who have not only ignored U.S. immigration laws, but state laws against drinking and driving as well, killing innocents on the highways in the process.





Closer to home


Charges Filed Against Drunk Driver of Fatal Crash
December 28th, 2006 @ 5:00pm
Sandra Yi Reporting

The three surviving member of the Ceran family are back home and now facing the slow rebuilding and recovery process. But they won't be doing it alone. Benefit efforts for the family have already exceeded expectations. Gary Ceran, his daughter Clarissa and son Caleb were all in "A Christmas Story" at the Hale Center Theater. The theatre community is very tight. When two benefit shows to raise money for the family sold out they didn't want it to stop there.
The man who hit the Ceran family has been charged. There were only smiles when Clarissa Ceran came home from the hospital yesterday. Her father and brother, who also survived the crash, welcomed her. Gary Ceran, Car Crash Victim: "They say that only those who know the deepest sorrow can know the deepest rapture, and the joy of having them here is just made that much greater by the losses that we had." Prosecutors today charged the man accused of hitting and killing Gary's wife, son Ian and daughter Julianna, on Christmas Eve. Charging documents say Prieto voluntarily told officers, he drank five beers. Preliminary blood tests showed his blood alcohol level was above the legal limit. Immigration officials believe Prieto is also in the country illegally. Gary Ceran has compassion, not anger, for the man. Friends say that's inspiring. Dave Petersen, Family Friend: "It only took watching those interviews with Gary to teach me that my attitude needed to change." Petersen, his daughter Ashley and friend JaNae Cottam acted with some of the Cerans at the Hale Center Theatre. Ashley Petersen, Family Friend: "I went in my room and cried when I found out that Julianna had died, because she was such a special child." Two benefit performances to raise money for the family sold out so quickly, the theatre added a third show for Saturday. JaNae Cottam, Family Friend: "It's been a boon to all of us to recognize that charity is there." Funeral services have been scheduled for Saturday. Prieto's first court appearance is on January 2nd.

Last time I went out to the desert with friend Nate from Wasted electrons http://wasted_electrons.blogspot.com I took my single shot.223. It has a 6.5 X 20 X 50MM scope. As I took it out of the gun safe and leaned it against the wall it slid and hit the floor. It got knock off zero. I could not hit paper hanging on the target stand, and I could not get it sighted in.

Yesterday friend Nate and I went to Sportsmen’s warehouse and Nate talked (badgered) me into buying a laser bore sight. Nate told me that he had been thinking of buying one, but if I bought it he would know where he could borrow one. This outfit fits into the bore of the firearm and all you have to do is align the crosshairs with the laser dot and you are there.

I stuck it in the bore of my rifle and went to work. The screw adjustments bottomed out before the crosshairs could align with the dot. I had to remount the scope to get the scope bore sighted. I was whining about the price of the laser bore sight, but it proved it worth yesterday. I would have gone through a lot of ammo to figure out that I had to take the scope off the gun and reinstall it to get it sighted in.

I have plans to go shooting tomorrow with my son in law and his dad. I will try the .223 and get it fined tuned. This is a very fine firearm and it one point in time I figured I could not live with out it. But now I believe I will take this gun to the next gun show and use it for trade. It may morph into a mini 14, or a bolt action .223. Nate has expressed interest in the gun and I would be willing to sell it to him. All it take is money my friend, show me the money.

The bride and I are going the movies this afternoon. We plan to see “ night at the museum” it looks funny and we have heard good thing about it Then dinner someplace, I think I want Mexican. It is going to be cold tonight and Chili Verde sounds good.

We had no idea that two little dogs could get so muddy. The little guys have worn the grass out running up and down the fence. It is one of their joys in life to bark at Tipper the neighbors little dog as he runs up and down the fence. As they run they manage to throw mud on every inch of their bodies (happens mostly during the spring and winter). A quick trip up stairs to the bathtub within ½ hour they where clean and getting dried off. They left close to a ¼ of mud on the bottom of the tub. The water actually looked like coffee. They just stood in the water looking at as if to say “why are you doing this to us”. After some doggie treats all has been forgiven, until tomorrow.

Christmas eve, This is going to be a busy day The bride and I both have a lot of wrapping of gifts to accomplish. Ava our 6 month old granddaughter is coming over to help grandma bake cookies. Every Christmas eve we have our tradition taco dinner. It is something to look forward to. Most of the family will be here. We will feel the absents of my youngest son (the cop). His wife and him are in Denver and will celebrate their own Christmas there. But that s the way life is, kids grow up and move on. But it does seem to increase the measure of joy when you do get to see them again. I want to wish each and everyone a very merry Christmas. I pray God will bless each of you through out the coming year.

Movie review

Rock Balboa s a good movie. The fight at the end is a little predicable but the content of the movie is great. This movie can inspire many old men.

Wind gust up to 70 mph, freezing tempters, wind chill down to 4 degrees, but no snow. They say just 20 to 30 miles to the south there is a bunch of snow but not here. The bride let the dogs out early this morning and Dusty the little one got hit with a wind gust that blew him against the railing of the deck. They did not stay out long. I have a nice fire going in the fireplace watching some hunting shows on TV just waiting for football to start. My second pot of coffee is done so off I go. 8 more shopping day until Christmas. Just remember Jesus is the reason for the season.

I can not post to any blogs, it keeps telling me that my password is bad. But I can post to my own blog, Things that make you say hummm

What a game, Chargers 48, Broncos 20. Chargers have won the AFC west.
GO CHARGERS!!!

Does it start now? 22-year-old Chicago man, Talib Abu Salam Ibn `Derrick' Shareef a home grown jihadis has been arrested for plotting to attack a mall in the Chicago area this Christmas season. This fellow is a convert to Islam. It makes you wonder what is being preached in the mosques around the country. I would have to believe that there is a lot of hate coming from their pulpits. Makes you wonder if the authorities would consider this a hate crime.

Our next door neighbors are moving tomorrow. They have taken a job in Mississippi. They are spending tonight at our house and hitting the road about 5:30AM. The bride and I are both very sad to see them go. They have been great neighbors and become good friends. I am sure that we will keep in touch and probably see each other sometime in the future, but not the same. On a brighter note my youngest son and his wife are flying in tomorrow afternoon. They are staying until next Wednesday. So we can watch some football together and just hang out. I am hoping to get out to the desert with him and do some shooting. It will be good to see them both.

This makes you wonder where we are headed.

HOMELAND INSECURITYDoubts grow over Muslim lawmaker's loyaltyKeith Ellison tied to group that holds Quran as highest legal authority
Posted: December 6, 20061:00 a.m. Eastern
© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com

Keith EllisonThe first Muslim member of Congress is linked to a radical Islamic school of thought that requires loyalty to the Quran over the U.S. Constitution, WND has learned.

Rep.-elect Keith (Hakim-Mohammed) Ellison, D-Minn., has drawn fire for asking to take the constitutional oath on the Quran rather than the Bible at a swearing-in ceremony next month.
The Constitution specifies that members of Congress shall be bound by an oath to support the constitutional law of the land. In the oath, Ellison will be required to swear to "support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic ... without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion."

Critics argue he has conflicting loyalties, while Ellison insists he's a patriot.
But within days of being elected, Ellison held a workshop on politics for a group closely affiliated with a radical Islamic school that preaches no Muslim can pledge loyalty to the Constitution or make laws outside the laws of the Quran, which the school's leaders assert is the "supreme law" of the land, trumping all man-made laws including the U.S. Constitution.

During a 1998 police protest in Minneapolis, then-civil-rights lawyer Keith Ellison, a former acolyte of Louis Farrakhan, distributes copies of the Nation of Islam leader's paper, "The Final Call."
A black convert to orthodox Sunni Islam, Ellison spoke to the North American Imams Federation, or NAIF, at the group's Nov. 19 conference in Minneapolis.
His talk flowed into a breakout session listed on the agenda simply as "American Open University," according to the conference program. It turns out the university is a "distance-learning" center based in Alexandria, Va., and known to local law enforcement as "Wahhabi Online." Later that day, Ellison met with NAIF's president, Omar Ahmad Shahin, who lectures at the same American Open University. (He also met at the time with New York imam Siraj Wahhaj, an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.) The radical Islamic school trains many of NAIF's more than 150 members, who control mosques across America.
American Open University supports Sharia, or Islamic law. And its founder and chairman, Jaafar Sheikh Idris, has denounced the U.S system of democracy as "the antithesis of Islam" and argued no man has the right to make laws outside Allah's laws expressed in the Quran.
"There is a basic difference between Islam and this form of democracy," he says. "The basic difference is that in Islam it is [Allah's] law as expressed in the Quran and the Sunna that is the supreme law within the limits of which people have the right to legislate.
"No one can be a Muslim who makes or freely accepts or believes that anyone has the right to make or accept legislation that is contrary to that divine law," Idris adds. "Examples of such violations include the legalization of alcoholic drinks, gambling, homosexuality, usury or interest, and even adoption." Conversely, laws prohibiting polygamy and domestic violence also violate the Quran.
Further, he maintains that no Muslim elected to Congress or the White House can swear to uphold the U.S. Constitution and still be a Muslim.
"No Muslim could become president in a secular regime, for in order to pledge loyalty to the constitution, a Muslim would have to abandon part of his belief and embrace the belief of secularism – which is practically another religion. For Muslims, the word 'religion' does not only refer to a collection of beliefs and rituals, it refers to a way of life which includes all values, behaviors and details of living," Idris says. "Separation of religion and state is not an option for Muslims because it requires us to abandon [Allah's] decree for that of a man."
He further explains: "Islam cannot be separated from the state because it guides Muslims through every detail of running the state and their lives. Muslims have no choice but to reject secularism for it excludes the laws of [Allah]."
Also, he asserts that "there is absolutely no compromise: Any belief that contradicts Islam is false."

I came in to work this morning and found out I have a new boss, again. We have been going through a dumber then dirt reorganization for a few of months now. It seems as if I get new boss every three or four weeks. I still set at the same desk and I still do the same workload but I answer to somebody else. I biggest problem I see with this new and improved change is I am working for an engineer. I am not an engineer. I have worked in a hierarchy like this before, if you are not an engineer you are nothing, dirt, lower then dirt.

I am sure that I will have a new office symbol (the world revolves around office symbols) this will be the tenth or eleventh new office symbol in the past three months. I have sent out correspondence and in my signature block put “to be determined” for an office symbol. This may sound like a lot of whining and it probably is, but the sense of turmoil you can feel in your job can taint your outlook a little.

I am always amazed on how things change in value. I am talking about some dumb things like Bennie babies. You remember the craze a number of years ago. Some of these stupid stuffed toys would demand a premium price, over a $1000.I am willing to bet that you could not get $5.00 for the same item today. On the other hand there are things like gold coins. I am in a bidding war on E Bay a $2.50 gold coin minted in 1913. I have a coin similar to it locked up in the safe. The value of my coin is around $250. I assume that the coin on E bay is around the same value. The value has increased 100 fold, and the Bennie baby has decreased (I am not real good at math) a bunch.

There is am article in the latest copy of the American Rifleman (join the NRA) comparing collecting coins and guns. The examples that are shown in the article show that guns have increased in value more then the coins. Now there is going to exceptions to everything. If you go out and buy a Jennings 25 caliber I am sure that it will hold it value almost as good as Bennie baby. But you buy Winchester, Remington, Ruger, Kimber or any other well made respectable weapons manufacture it is like money in the bank. Buy quality

So I guess I will continue to collect guns, gold, and silver. That way I will have something for the kids to fight over when I am gone.

The 1st of December, and I still have a lot of Christmas shopping o do. The bride takes care of everybody else I just need to take care of her. I am pretty much clueless on what to get her as I am every year. I am open to suggestions