While at work today I received a call from my friend Giles (I wonÂ’t post his real name with out permission). He was the leader of my old re-enacting group. He asked me if I went to a local gun show here in Rockford yesterday. Grau, Shadoglare and my buddy from work J-man all went. Giles asked if I had heard anything about IGOLD while I was there, I didnÂ’t recall hearing or seeing a thing. IGOLD is the Illinois Gun Owners Lobby Day. He then asked if anyone said anything about the new Illinois gun ban that Mayor Dailey of Chicago is trying to get pushed through legislation with support of Governor Blagojevich. Which I hadnÂ’t heard anything about either, I did hear about the renewal of the assault weapon ban. But he assured me that was NOT what he was talking about.

Giles has a Federal Firearm License as part of his business doing movie special effects. To be honest IÂ’m not EXACTLY sure what all he does, he seems to do about everything. IÂ’m sure if he reads this he would be more then happy to comment a list of his many talents. Anyway, he told me he received a letter regarding IGOLD because Daley is trying to get ALL firearms banned in Illinois. IÂ’m not talking about the just the seven ban targets that it seems all anti-gun people want. From what Giles tells me, Daley and Blagojevich want to use Illinois as a test ground to get all 7 passed this year, as well as throwing in some other items, that would pretty much make owning a firearm in the state of Illinois Illegal. They are even talking about not putting in a Grandfather clause. Thus honest upstanding citizens like myself would be turned into criminals.

At first I thought maybe Giles was upset because this would severely hurt his business and maybe even cause it to shut down. But after doing some digging IÂ’ve found other things that hint to this nefarious deed. The Illinois State Rifle Association on their main page has an article about IGOLD that states:

”Many of you are aware of the present legislative danger we are all in. For those of you who are not aware, if Mayor Daley and the anti-gun crowd have their way Illinois gun owners will become extinct, non-existent, gone, history, no more. Mayor Daley has vowed to rid the state of guns and he makes no distinction between the illegal firearms wielded by the violent criminals and gang members of his city and those firearms owned by law-abiding, peaceful Illinois citizens.”

Emphasis Mine

I really wish I had a copy of the letter Giles received so I could put it up for everyone to read, but he loaned it to a friend and it hasnÂ’t been returned to him. He told me it stated that if firearms werenÂ’t turned in with in so many days of the law passing that the owner would have criminal charges pressed against once honest citizen. There would be no compensation for any firearms turned in.

Many people are going to start throwing around the Second Amendment, “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” People, the Constitution and its amendments are all fine and dandy… as long as our government upholds it. Anymore I don’t see any politicians actually upholding the Constitution. Our leaders want to take our rights away. I’m not talking Democrats; I’m talking all politicians. What they want to strip from us depends on which party line they are toeing up to. So I have no faith that “the lesser of two evils” elected officials we have will actually uphold the Second Amendment.

IGOLD is Wednesday March 14th. I am tempted to take a couple of days off of work, get a hotel room and travel down for it. I really canÂ’t afford to miss the time from work, but I feel strongly about this. IÂ’m going to see if I can get some time and maybe at least drive down for the afternoon information and just drive back that night missing the evening activities. Maybe IÂ’ll show enough support doing that to help.

Yesterday at the gun show, I really wish I had made a purchase that I had wanted to.

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For years IÂ’ve hated cats. To be honest, hate is too friendly of a word. I donÂ’t think there is a word in any actual, fictional or pretend language in the entire universe that describes how much I truly feel toward these creatures. There is only one thing that could outweigh my hatred of cats, and that is the love I have for my wife. She adores the damn things. SheÂ’s grown up with cats, has always had them and isnÂ’t happy unless one of those insipid creatures is lurking around the house.

Two years ago, after years of cat free bliss due to her other cat dying, I caved in and bought her a cat for Christmas a couple of years ago. The cat and I had a mutual understanding, it stays away from me and I wonÂ’t eat it. Hey, I may not like them living, but char broiled they taste good. Everything seemed fine, other then it would jump on the bed in the middle of the night earning it a flight into the wall, it never really pissed me off.

That is until 6 weeks ago.

Now the damn thing is pissing on the carpet. ItÂ’s been using the liter box for years. I donÂ’t know why itÂ’s decided to stop all of a sudden. WeÂ’ve, and I mean Ktreva, have tried various carpet cleaners to remove the smell. She has tried disciplining the cat, using pet carpet cleaners, cleaning the liter box more often and nothing seems to work. THE DAMN THING KEEPS PISSING ON THE FARKING CARPET!

Now my house smells like cat urine, which pisses me off. IÂ’ve been burning incense, scented candles, air fresheners and Febreeze. Nothing seems to work. The damn cat knows itÂ’s pissing me off, because it stays away from me. ItÂ’s been a week since IÂ’ve caught more then a glimpse of the damned creature. IÂ’ve had enough.

ItÂ’s to the point now that my hatred of the damn creature is starting to outweigh my love for my wife. I am ready to kill the damn thing. Be it by sword, knife or gunÂ… I donÂ’t care. Hell if it gets close enough IÂ’ll squeeze its farking neck, until the head pops off. Then IÂ’ll take hide, put it on a stretcher and hang it in front of my tent at re-enactments.
Maybe IÂ’ll just grab it and throw it in the toilet and keep flushing until its spark of life is covered in shite.

This would break my loving wifeÂ’s heart. Thus I will not do any of thatÂ… yet. If any of my good readers has a clue on how to stop the damnable creature from using my carpet (and itÂ’s just one spot) as a piss pot, I would appreciate it.

Until then IÂ’m going to go play Kill a Kitten for a while to help quell the felinicidal urges.

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People, as you all know I like firearms. As part of owning a firearm, I have a lot of respect for them. You can’t mistreat or misuse a firearm. If you do, it could end up with disastrous consequences. That applies to all Firearms. Even ones that people “know” are unloaded or safe. I’ve seen first hand and heard about second hand too many cases of people messing around with one and hurting themselves. Like the idiot in this video:

Sure it was only a flare gun, but itÂ’s still dangerous and heÂ’s lucky that heÂ’s okay. The sad thing is that IÂ’ve seen people pull the same stunt with real handguns. When I was in college there was a guy that put a revolver to his had and was going to pretend to blow his brains out. After a quick yelling and the guns owner disarming the idiot he advised him that the revolver was indeed loaded. That idiot pulled it out of a nightstand in the guyÂ’s room.

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Off to do the taxes. I really don't want to find out how much I owe those bastiches.

Farking government.

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Anybody that has spent more then fifteen minutes with me or has been to this blog for more then five minutes knows IÂ’m a drinker. And yes occasionally I drink to the excess. It does happen, IÂ’m admitting it. Yet I have never done anything that might jeopardize my job. I wish I could say the same thing for Jim Ryan, the City Administrator for the City of Rockford. He was arrested early this morning for a DUI.

Police arrested city Administrator Jim Ryan shortly after 3 a.m. in the 1000 block of Luther Ave. after he was spotted asleep behind the wheel of a city-owned car with its engine running.

ThatÂ’s right not only was the guy stupid enough to get behind the while when he was drunk, but it was a vehicle owned by the cityÂ… His employer! I donÂ’t know if he thought he was Teflon and laws donÂ’t apply to him, or that if he was caught, the cops would just slap his wrist and escort him home. ItÂ’s stupid enough to drink and drive, we all know that, but in a government vehicle? I canÂ’t fathom that kind of idiocy. Wait, maybe he wasnÂ’t actually drunk, he did refuse a Breathalyzer. Which means heÂ’s talked to a lawyer about this before. ItÂ’s an instant DUI, but itÂ’s easier to fight in court. (Maybe this isnÂ’t his first?) Then again with these facts:

”Officers approached the vehicle and “Ryan fumbled with the vehicle keys and putting the vehicle into park,” the statement said.

Officers noted that Ryan had a strong odor of alcohol on his breath, slurred speech and “bloodshot, glassy eyes,” according to the statement. He also apparently told police that he had consumed several beers earlier, but declined to take field sobriety and breath tests, the statement said.”

I really hope they throw the book at this guy and the city fires him. There is no excuse for this kind of behavior. Just imagine the scandal if he had hit something, or killed someone? He is a top-ranking city official, and I hope he gets fired over this. However, with the Chicago style politics that Mayor Morrissey has brought to Rockford, I can see this getting swept under the rug.

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There are many things in the world that just donÂ’t really combine. For instance Sardines and strawberry ice cream just donÂ’t go well together. But sometimes you find things that you just wouldnÂ’t think go well together do, such as Twizzlers and salsa. Yet, IÂ’m still up in the air if Hip-Hop and Goth can be intermixed successfully. Some people obviously think they can, for they have Vampire Teeth Grillz.

THESE ARE THE DRAC-COOL-IST AVAILABLE!
SINK YOUR TEETH IN THESE MONSTERS!

' Filled with Bling-Bling & A Goth Etched Design'

Emphasis THEIRS!

I need to go find me some scary Goth kids to see if they would even try these things.

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