Thomas Jefferson

After doing a lot of reading on the aerodynamics involved I grabbed a set of Freedom Wings and a new windshield from Clear View. I really like the look of the dark smoke 10″ windshield I have so I got the same height, dark smoke, but with the feature I went specifically to Clear View for, the recurved lip at the top. By all accounts this pushes air like a 2-3″ taller windshield and figured it a good place to start before going to the a full 15″ touring screen.

Sadly the shield is just sitting here in the box, I can’t even get it put on this weekend. But unwrapping the thing the workmanship is awesome. I can’t wait to try it out. Too bad that probably won’t be until sometime in March…

I’ve been shooting and carrying my Kimber with factory sights for 8 years now and it was time for a change. A change I’ve been telling myself I was going to get to for those same 8 years. Recently this was further spurred on by my desire to spend money with Trijicon. So I started shopping for a set of Trijicon KB01’s and surprisingly found many places out of stock including Trijicon.

Turning to eBay I found Todd offering the ones I wanted for a really great price and had the sights in hand in only 2 days.

Today I carefully drove those old irons are off and the Trijicon’s reside in their place. No small feat let me tell you, Kimber really fits those things tight! A few mags down range verified the new sights are properly aligned and certainly improve sight acquisition.

Dan Coats will not get my vote in the primaries, that will go to John Hostettler. I’m dubious Coats has enough name recognition to carry the primary this many years later. After all, he never really came back to Indiana after retiring from the Senate, choosing to live in Virginia.

Mr. Coats, respectfully, stay in Virginia.

I started looking specifically at biker boots, from the high tech AlpineStar touring boots to the low tech River Road Trooper boots and realized something pretty quickly. The space age looking tour boots would look funny with dress pants and provide little traction on the trail. And the other end of the spectrum lacked the technology features I insist on, like gore-tex.

After almost of week of browsing and researching I bought another pair of Danner’s….

After two hours on the road (the plow drivers must be listening to the same forecast) getting home in the snow I’m pulling into my driveway. There’s easily 2 inches of snow on the ground, and its drifting, and at that moment the weatherman on the radio says “less than 1 inch accumulation overnight”.

Due to technical difficulties it was 5pm before the procedure was completed. Without the Honda special socket I torqed it down with a monkey wrench and worked it around and tightened it down again until I felt confident it was smooth. Then backed it down little at a time until the tension was in the 5-7 pound range. After putting it all back together I headed out for 25-30 miles and could produce no deceleration wobble nor any wobble in the leans.

I’d still like to put in the progressive fork springs and may yet do that but for the moment should spring arrive early at least that particular task isn’t going to keep us off the road.

Next step, valve clearance check….

By that time, we did. And here’s my assessment of not just the vote in Massachusetts, but the mood around the country.

The same thing that swept Scott Brown into office swept me into office.

People are angry, and they’re frustrated. Not just because of what’s happened in the last year or two years, but what’s happened over the last eight years.

(President Obama to George Stephanopoulos)

That’s right folks, Scott Brown won due to lingering anger at George W Bush.

Now this guy comes on and thanks me for my time and asks if I was aware that my credit record review made me eligible for a better interest rate. I told him, a native English speaking person I might add, that no, I was not aware of the review but there’s nothing wrong with getting a better rate.

And… by the way - I ask sheepishly - just which credit card account is this regarding as I have a few from different banks….

**CLICK**

Yup, pretty much what I expected. I don’t know what their angle was but I’m betting it was something like “just need to pay $29.95 fee so we can run your credit report from the reporting agencies” or some such scam. And I was sure it was a scam since my credit card company has lowered my interest rate dramatically without so much as a sticky note in my bill going LOOK HERE and pointing out the 7 point drop.

I hope they call back though, I have some more questions and I’ll try to play along a little longer next time.

I’d love to have a Trijicon site so marked and as is being issued for the M4 but my goodness they’re expensive - almost as much as the M4 itself in the civilian market. I have been looking to upgrade the sights on my Kimber and trying to decide which sights to go with… I guess this answers that question…

As for me and my arsenal, I’ll use Trijicon.

Dang, there I go again… clinging to my guns and religion.

Fast forward a year and a half and I have to wonder if the Republican running against Brad Ellsworth ran on the same anti-Pelosi theme if that wouldn’t in itself carry the Republican to victory.

The Administration’s first year has been a horrible one by any political measure you choose to use. And if you’re paying attention to the White House’s “stands” on issues over the past few months you’ve seen mealy mouth policy comments that make John Kerry’s campaign platform look like bedrock.

Pelosi is a ripe target, she’s been a party loose canon, a total embarrassment since 2006. Add to that Reid is on the skids, too, and is likely not running for re-election. He’s spent his political capital with his constituents and he knows it.

What does all this boil down to? Two ripe scapegoats and I suspect Obama fanboy Jack Cafferty is just getting the ball rolling in a larger political plan that he may well be oblivious to. Over the coming months running up to the fall election I expect to see a number of high ranking democrats, specifically these two clowns, to be thrown under the bus by the Obama administration as they try desperately to save their own political hides.

First, not all sarcasm is created equal - for example there is the generic sarcasm and then there is my preferred . Would there be a variety of punctuations to identify the type of sarcasm?

Second, a sarcasm punctuation mark takes away so much from its purpose if you have to put big signs around it that says this is sarcasm!.

Third, what would then happen to sarchasm? After all, what fun is sarcasm if everybody gets it?

As the saying goes, if you have to explain it - they wouldn’t understand anyway. And sometimes its just better left that way…