Free Stuff!

I Admit to Plagiarism!

Ok Folks -- Admission ahead of dialogue...

I mercilessly purloined this from an email sent to me by my Dad's younger brother. Normally I surf up an original essay and writer for something like this, then quote the source. Well I tried to find an original source and failed. The earliest quotes (I've found) that contain some or all of this beautiful diatribe were from 2011. I failed to pin this down to a specific author, website or date as an originator.



That said, I'd really like to thank whoever wrote this for putting together some really good work. Here it is...

Class warfare?

The folks who are getting the free stuff don't like the folks who are paying for the free stuff, because the folks who are paying for the free stuff can no longer afford to pay for both the free stuff and their own stuff.

The  folks who are paying for the free stuff want the free stuff to stop and the folks who are getting the free stuff want even more free stuff on top of the free stuff they are already getting!

Now... the people who are forcing the people who pay for the free stuff have told the people who are RECEIVING the free stuff that the people who are PAYING for the free stuff are being mean, prejudiced, and racist.

So... the people who are GETTING the free stuff have been convinced they need to hate the people who are paying for the free stuff by the people who are forcing some people to pay for their free stuff and giving them the free stuff in the first place.

We have let the free stuff giving go on for so long that there are now more people getting free stuff than paying for the free stuff.

Now understand this. All great democracies have committed financial suicide somewhere between 200 and  250 years after being founded.

The reason?

The voters figured out they could vote themselves money from the treasury by electing people who promised to give them money from the treasury in exchange for electing them. (Editor's note: This is, of course an almost direct Ben Franklin quote)

The United States of America officially became a Republic in 1776, 237 years ago. The number of people now getting free stuff outnumbers the people paying for the free stuff.  Failure to change that spells the end of the United States as we know it.

Text of my Email to  AR, 4th District Rep Tom Cotton
(03222013, 1847Central)

Message Subject: Balance the Budget -- Stop Runaway Washington Spending.
Message Text:

Dear Congressman Cotton:

    America can send 20 F16s and 200 M1A1 Abrams tanks to the Muslim Brotherhood and Islamist Mohamed Morsi -- but we can't find the bucks to keep the White House Open for little kids who've been saving for years to go to the Nations' Capital.

    Balance the Budget, Slash Welfare, Eliminate Obamacare! Cut 50% of all foreign aid, dump PBS, kill all Federal money for the arts!

    IdiotBoy Obama, the narcissistic Marxist socialist occupying the USA's White House is American Public Enemy Number One! Oppose Every damned thing out of the Traitor's lying lips -- impeach him if you can, and make sure the maximum penalty is prescribed.

    Tom? Obama and the Democrats have the USA on the cusp of destruction and dissolution. Please do what you can to reverse these trends. Support your constituents -- we'll go to the wall to support you back. 

For the USA Tom, 
Gary Arpin DeQueen Ar

(Note: Cotton's email interface is curiously primitive, and will accept little in the way of paragraph formatting, so the text here appears with paragraphs, etc., while the original interface managed to destroy it. Whoever is doing Tom Cotton's internet IT interface management is doing the Congressman a Grave disservice.)

Zombie Protection

Somewhere in Arkansas, hiding from the Undead…

Several months back I was at a popular Sporting Goods Outlet  just over the Arkansas line in Texarkana, Texas.  I Spotted a really businesslike Mossberg 500 pump with an extended magazine – black, with black composite stock and forend.

Mossberg Model 500 ZMB

I asked the sales guy if I could look at it, he handed it over. I cleared it, then racked the slide a couple of times and wondered out loud why I’ve been avoiding Mossberg all my life.  This little gun is sweet.

 

I asked about the funky neon green ZMB logo on the receiver and he told me that was a Zombie symbol. 

Love my Zombie Slayer

So apparently (the story goes)  those fun-loving folks at Mossberg introduced (mid January 2012) their ZMB line – two scatterguns and a a model 464 lever gun in .30-.30 (along with an outfit  called Zombie Industries http://zombieindustries.com/  ). Way cool.  They really know how to liven up a party.

Making a longish story shorter, the Model 500 with the long mag  jumped right into my car whereupon I legally transported it across state lines. Right back home.

At about that period in time I stumbled on that crazy “Walking Dead” show on AMC.  Wow, bizarre! How could I have missed seeing that show for two years?

So, not being the type of person who has the sense to let well enough alone, I decided to hang some gear on my new Mossberg ZMB 500...

Ultimate Tactical Conversion Kit

The new furniture is Ultimate Arms Gear (composite which I guess means plastic), with a very comfortable pistol grip and a tri-rail picatinny forend. I put a 7 or 8 inch picatinny on top of the receiver, and added a very nice little holographic sight.  Don’t remember where I got either of those, or who the manufacturer is.

On the forend picatinny I mounted another pistol grip, also Ultimate Arms Gear, then added one of those neat high powered tactical flashlights with a pressure switch for the grip.

UTAC 45 Degree Offset Picatinny/Weaver - Angle Mount Rail 

 

Just ahead of the Holo sight on the receiver I put a 45 degree angle (left side) extension where I mounted a laser. The laser pressure switch can mount anywhere on the stock's pistol grip. 

We The People's Z-Gun

 Note that I also mounted a pair of 3-round shotgun shell holders on the  front of the stock, in case the one in chamber and seven in the extended mag don’t deter some pesky persnickety persistent undead. Here's one more picture.

45 degree mount with laser

As I mentioned, the totally great thing about this rig is that Mossberg marketed it as a "Zombie Gun" so it has the neatest little day glow neon green Zombie Killer (ZMB)symbol on the receiver.

I recognize that tricking up a weapon to frag the undead is totally strange, but it's been so damned much fun that I had to spread the joy.

Remember, the Zombies are coming. (hehehe)