Blackwater 53393

I did very little today. Got up and went straight to the gun/reloading room and did some straightening up. Put away a couple boxes of .45acp that had been on tour for who knows how long in various vehicles. I finally got around to boxing up some of the new 10ga smokeless shells that I made up. Can’t find the right size boxes to hold the usual 25 rounds of 2 7/8” 10ga, so I wound up getting 22 in a box. I had packaged several boxes of .40 S&W a few weeks ago, but the boxes were black and my silver sharpie had dried out. I labeled ‘em on the inside of the flap and put them away. Bothered me every time I looked at that shelf because I couldn’t see what they were, (even though I still remembered what they were) and since Schoolmarm had picked up a set of the metallic sharpies, I pulled ‘em off the shelf and got the job done! Gotta do the run to town in the morning for Schoolmarm to see the oncologist and then to pick up all of my prescriptions. I’m trying to get them all synced up so that I can make one trip for all of them every 90 days! I’ve got five of the seven on the same schedule and the other two should fall in line by the October cycle. If everything goes according to plan, I’ll get to drop two of them by this time next year. Last but definitely the worst, I gotta fix the A/C on the Buick before we head out to Black Gold. It appears that the evaporator is leaking and we’ve got to pull a major portion of the dash and console to get to it!! Fortunately, Hatfield has a gap in his schedule, so we should have it done in plenty of time to make the trip. Just hate having to work on the daily ride. GRUMP!! DAMMUT!!!

My first Dalmatian ate a poinsettia when he was a pup. Vet had to remove a small section of his small intestine. The dog lived on Gatorade for about a week and fell in love with the original fruit punch flavor. He lived almost fifteen years and we’d buy him a bottle of fruit punch Gatorade a couple times a month! I hate when the pups are sick! Hope yours recovers quickly!

My favorite use for cornbread is as a textural ingredient in dressing! It’s a good base to add stuff to when you’re making dressing for chicken or turkey. And I’m not a fan of these either! Grind that corn meal finer and make tortillas!!

Never had cornbread that I’d eat more than one small piece of and that’s just to be polite to the person who made it! My hushpuppies have garlic, onion, peppers, and usually some kind of cheese! Corndog batter wants a touch of sugar or it needs to be spiced like chili and queso!! I ain’t kinky! I just know what I like!! 😜😎

I laughed!! I can’t say for sure if I laughed because it was funny or as a reaction of ridicule!! A perfect example of why people shouldn’t try other people’s tricks!!

That’s a long read! What an abstract, built around an aberration and carefully crafted to convince people that if you own a gun, you’re white, you respect the Constitution, and you associate with anyone else like yourself, you’re a probable conspirator and you are a danger to society. They take an example that shows one gun owner out of more than one hundred million who has shown to be a POSSIBLE, (he only talked about doing any harm, but never carried out anything) threat to the population. The subject owned several guns. Some of them were owned illegally and he built some destructive devices, but he never actually used any of them against anyone. I repeat here that this guy is one in more than one hundred million who own guns! This one person MAY have become a real threat, but to the point where he was arrested, he had done no harm to anyone! I DON’T condone his behavior and I certainly wouldn’t consider doing anything of that nature. The article discounts reality!! The fact that there’s a sizable increase in the percentage of non white people who are buying firearms is incontrovertible!! The fact that there is a corresponding increase in the number of first time buyers is also beyond question! Non white gun ownership has increased exponentially! AND it is an ongoing trend! The writer here eschews this as a mere blip in the graphic line. He then points to the increase in first time buyers as an anomaly amounting to little more than panic buying and as only a tiny percentage compared to the repeat buying market. What he hides in this portrayal is that a person CAN ONLY BE A FIRST TIME BUYER ONCE!!! If and when they buy another firearm, they join the ranks of the repeat customer!! The writer fails miserably here to give ALL THE FACTS!! In short, the facts offered in the article are, at best nuanced and more accurately intentionally skewed and thus misleading. This is what is called telling half truths! Telling half truths is nothing more than LYING!! On the other hand!! If the Bloomin’idiots perceive the rest of us as a threat, perhaps they show themselves to be the paranoid fearmongers they really are!!

The Cajun seasoning version is pretty good, but I add several of my own spices and andouille, chopped and fried in a separate skillet! WallyWorld has several varieties. I add hot Italian sausage to the plain ham and bean one in place of the ham!! Astounding!! It’s always biscuits for me because I’m, (I know it’s blasphemy) not really fond of cornbread.

GOOD WHISKEY!!

Leftovers!!

Planetary Inversion!

Lunch too!!

Just like any other recipe, ya’ CAN mess it up!! Too much or too little of any ingredient will make it far less palatable and if you’re off on more than one it can be really bad!! I make mine with a heavy dose of chopped country ham fried in sweet tea because I like it that way, but my mom says that’s all wrong!! She doesn’t drain off the slurry from the canned blackeyed peas, (I start with dried peas) when she makes it and I don’t like that stuff at all! Nobody likes everything!! 😎

Reverse gravity???

Gumbo

Bee farts!! They’re beans right now, but they’ll be farts later!!! 🙄

Never had beans on toast or on biscuits, but I’ve had biscuits with Hoppin’ John, blackeyed peas with country ham, onion, and rice! A traditional New Year’s Day breakfast!! I could probably do some kinds of beans with biscuits. A batch of mixed beans with a little meat of one kind or another, some onion and a few peppers in a bowl with some buttered biscuits on the side and a bottomless glass of iced sweet tea and I could do some serious eatin’!!

Y’all should extend an invitation!!

Schoolmarm’ll take my share of those!! She loves ‘em!!! And if they have most any kind of citrus in ‘em, I’ll respectfully decline. Don’t get me wrong! I love orange juice, but I’ll have a rash everywhere that I sweat and the heartburn and reflux is miserable!! Thanks!! But no thank you… Now that white sausage gravy is another story altogether!! ❤️

9TH CIRCUIT PANEL UPHOLDS INJUNCTION IN JUNIOR SPORTS V. BONTA; SAF WIN BELLEVUE, WA — July 7, 2025 — A three-judge panel of the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has unanimously upheld an earlier preliminary injunction against a section of the California Business & Professional Code which had been used by the state to stifle gun-related advertising in Junior Sports magazine, in a case brought by the Second Amendment Foundation and others. The case is known as Junior Sports Magazines v. Bonta. “We are thrilled that the Ninth Circuit clarified today that its decision striking down California's Gun Advertising Ban applied to the law in its entirety,” said Bill Sack, SAF Director of Legal Operations. “The First Amendment provides the protection to advertise constitutionally protected arms just as the Second Amendment codifies the protection to keep and bear them.” At issue is California Business and Professions Code § 22949.80, which prohibits advertising of any “firearm-related product in a manner that is designed, intended, or reasonably appears to be attractive to minors.” The Appeals Court had earlier held that this section violates the First Amendment, but upon remand, the district court “declined to preliminarily enjoin subsection (b) of Section 22949.80, which prevents the firearm industry from compiling or using personal information of minors for marketing purposes.”   HELP SUPPORT OUR LEGAL WORK!   “We reverse the district court and clarify that our constitutional analysis applied to the entirety of Section 22949.80,” the new opinion explicitly states. SAF is joined by Junior Sports Magazines, the California Youth Shooting Sports Association, Gun Owners of California, Redlands California Youth Clay Shooting Sports, California Rifle & Pistol Association, the CRPA Foundation and a private citizen, Raymond Brown. “This is great news from the Ninth Circuit,” said SAF founder and Executive Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb. “While this is a First Amendment case, it has strong Second Amendment overtones. Simply because California officials don’t agree with our pro-gun viewpoint, they have no right to essentially gag free speech or freedom of the press, in this case the content of Junior Sports Magazines.” From SAF email today…

I’m thinking that somebody swapped out his ammo!! Ol’ TW shot FCD this weekend at the WARTRACE monthly match!! Finished fourth overall and won the category!! WILL THE WONDERS NEVER CEASE?? 🤣

I’m guessing that everyone survived the big weekend! It was loud and boisterous for a while, but it seems like it’s settled down now. Took a run into town this morning to see Schoolmarm’s kidney doctor. All good there!! Next, we drove to the other side of town to pick up her meds. When we finished there, we stopped at a breakfast only restaurant and had a big breakfast, bacon, eggs, pancakes, and biscuits and gravy!! While I was waiting for her to finish up with her doctor, I called and ordered refills for all of my prescriptions. They texted me back that they didn’t have one of the most important ones and wouldn’t likely have it for another day or so. Saved me a stop that was out of the way for us to get home, so I will pick ‘em all up in a couple of days when I have to take her to the oncologist. It’ll be on the way during that trip and we can catch a particular food truck that’ll be in the area that day too! I walked around the house all weekend! Left the scooter in the back of the Buick when we got home on Thursday afternoon and it’s still there now! This walking thing is more difficult than I remembered!! It’s the ninth time that I have had to relearn the skill and it’s not coming to me quickly!! I’ve picked up a little simple brace that lifts my foot just behind my toes. It came with a strap that I can use when I’m in my sock feet and I have been using it a little bit at a time. I’m much more steady on my feet wearing it. It’s going to be interesting to see how it works when I try it with my regular shoes/boots. For now, if I go out of the house, I’m still wearing the walking boot. I’m going to try out the brace a little next week with my regular lace up boots. In the meantime, Hatfield and the Bopper, my younger grandson, left this morning for Knoxville to do a campus visit at the University of Tennessee. I’m a little ambivalent about him attending that place. I don’t care for some of the folks I’ve encountered there, so I’ll have to check my feelings if he decides to attend there. I hear they have a decent performing arts school. He’s planning on an acting career, but I’m hoping that he’ll get into a better school. There’s a really good university here close by, but unless he can get a scholarship, it’s probably out of the range that his parents can afford. I’d help as much as I could, but I don’t know if we can make it work. We’ll see… Much to chew on this afternoon!! GRUMBLEGRUMBLEGRUMBLE!!

That was my understanding!! I claim that #2 proudly!! My ID# in the American Select Society Helping Others Less Enlightened is #OICU81. That is the ID number of every member of our society! 😜👍

Thanks, PaleWolf!! I’m guessing, (because I don’t know the rules for the Oregon legislature) that if these RINOs had walked out that there would not have been a quorum and thus no legislation would have been passed. The article says that there is no penalty for doing so and if that is true then these “Republicans” are pure turncoats and should be recalled and replaced!! I assure you that the Dumbasscrats in the same situation would have been NOWHERE TO BE FOUND!! You and the other law abiding citizens of that once fine state have my sincerest sympathy!!

I’m of the opinion that the proposed merger with DEA is counterintuitive, mainly for the reasons put forth here, but also because it would create a larger bureaucracy that would be far more difficult to oversee and to keep on task!! With a “streamlined” BATFE, perhaps moving alcohol and tobacco to DEA where they actually should be, and a narrowed scope of regulation and responsibility, it would become more manageable and less likely to drift from its intended purpose.