Fun time is over in Missouri

Four fiscal hawks are refusing to extend benefits by way of a filibuster that is about to bring funemployment crashing to reality. Too bad, so sad. I feel for the folks who are about to get a reality check, not so much the unemployed as their landlords, and others who have been receiving trickle down from them. Unemployment should be a program of diminishing benefits. It should also be tied to the employee's record. By that I mean each person should have their own account, and what they contribute should be what they get. If a guy stays employed for thirty years, and one day winds up without a job, he should have 100% of the benefits from those years. If on the other hand, he has held a job for less then a year, he should receive substantially less. As it is now, states take excess benefits and funnel them into the state coffers and spend spend spend. Unemployment is a hidden tax that right now is biting the states big time. Privatize it!

Another orphan

Like the Rapid Rifle, this gun's maker no longer turns out AR lowers. Tromix delved into the market for a short time, but then returned to their primary skill, the AK and related weapons. I picked this lower up at the same sale as the Rapid fire lower, but for substantially more money. Tony Rumore has been smithing since 1999. His initial line up included the sledgehammer series of bigbore AR-15's offering customers a choice of calibers from 357 automag to the 50 Action Express. His specialty now are Saiga shotguns, and his target customers eat em up as fast as he can deliver them. Workmanship on the Tromix TR-15 is top notch. Tony's attention to detail is as good as any offered by Bushmaster, Colt, or Smith and Wesson. This beaut is topped with a Bushmaster 16" barreled flat top A3 upper and sports a 3x9 Pine Ridge scope.
As total production was under 500 copies, this gun also will stay in my collection a long time.
Its a tough call as to which is the most iconic weapon of all time, The AR or the AK. Both designs have weathered well and served thier respective countries for four plus decades. For toughness and an ability to handle abuse, the AK is tops, but for accuracy My choice is the AR.

I agree with Beck

Last night on OReilly, Glen Beck stated that he expects the action against Libya to end poorly for the US and our allies.
Lets consider, Libya was a sponsor of terrorism in the middle east for many years. They were responsible for attacks in Berlin and the Lockerbie bombing. Certainly they are not angels, and as deserving as Iraq for a good ass whooping. We should have assassinated Qdaffy in the 80's.
Libya in 2011 though was at least temporarily not a threat to the US. With a civil war boiling Qdaffy would be unable to carry out much internationally right now.
We don't know a lot about the revolutionaries there. I won't call them freedom fighters, what little I have seen says that if they gain control they will most likely be as bad as Saddam, or Khomeini.
The world is full of despots. Of the 190+ nations in the world, the largest portion of them are ruled by dictators of one form or another. Some of them are benevolent, many are like Kim Mentally Il or Amalamadingdong. The problem is we cannot spend all our days kicking their asses, especially when whom ever replaces them will be just as bad.
In the end, our involvement will result in another attack on the US. Our administration of a no fly zone in Iraq didn't work out well, Clinton bombed Saddam on several occasions, and all it did was strengthen their resolve.
If Barry the bone head really wanted to accomplish something on his home continent, he should have gone after the Somali pirates, a force that is a threat to US interests and property.
We should not have become militarily involved in Libya. We have no real justification. Supplying weapons to the revolutionaries maybe, because muslims killing muslims is a good thing.

Obie

Our man caused disaster has determined that Kinetic Military Action is what is needed in Libya. WTF? Is this his sublte way of telling us KMA or Kiss My Ass?

Maybe Barry is still stuck in junior high where he wandered the halls of his school wearing a sign that said "Kick My Ass.

And whats this with him getting locked out of the White House? The first time it happened it was funny. Now its just plain stupid. I'd like to see him locked out permanently, but it takes an act of congress to make that happen.

Spies?

Seems the Border patrol nabbed a van load of illegals dressed in USMC uniforms and driving a vehicle with an altered government tag. If that isn't espionage, what is?
These people jumping our borders are an invasion as much as If they were troops in uniforms. They are systematically destroying our economy, and politicians like janet Incompetanto and her boss the Phoney King from Kenya are all about letting them. I know he is just pandering to his base, but at the rate he is going there won't be an America left for the 2012 elections.

Blame Prius owners

For what you ask? Harp seals showing up in US waters as far south as North Carolina.
We have endured years of Al Bore blaming every last thing on global warming, saying its the fault of all the SUV drivers (himself included?) Now that solar activity has shifted and we have cooler times, lets blame the idiots who believed his BS for this activity which is a danger to those seals who venture away from the ice.

QDAFFY prepares for Holy War

His few remaining Air defense units are ready.