Happy Birthday to ‘the beast’.

Our English Mastiff is pretty epic.

We rented for 5 years before we bought our house and decided to get the dog we finally wanted. At first we wanted a Dogue De Bordeaux.. or French Mastiff as we unpretentious American’s call them. Like Hooch. (Which took me until last year to realize why he was named Hooch… Sigh.)

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But their life spans are around 7 years, and we didn’t want to do that to ourselves or our kiddos. Instead, we went with an English Mastiff that live a few more years.

Even from birth, he was pretty big. When we brought him home, at 12 weeks old, he was 17 pounds already. And obviously, super cute.

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Then he grew up. Real fast.

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He’s also a giant baby.

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He tolerates our rambunctious two year old with gentleness… and she’s pretty much a future UFC fighter already. (Fight Club has nothing on changing her diaper.)

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If dog’s could take Selfies – This would be what they look like. With hash tags like #FavoritePet #Tailpuller #Stinkybottom #HumansofInstagram #NeuteredandLovingIt

Happy Fourth Birthday Bear. Thanks for being you.

 

That’s not an earthquake you’re feeling…

It’s the rumbling of tens of thousands of standard capacity magazines rushing across the border into California by the dump truck load.

After NINETEEN YEARS, the ten round magazine limit has been overturned. Californians who own guns (Seriously – WHY do you live there?), can now own standard capacity magazines again. Praise Jesus and Buy Cheap/Stack Deep!

(I think Magpul just hit their sales goals for the year this week alone.)

If you haven’t read the court order – it’s one of the most savage things I’ve read. The  order ends with this:

“This decision is a freedom calculus decided long ago by Colonists who cherished individual freedom more than subservient security of a British ruler. The freedom they fought for was not free of cost then, and it is not free now.”

– Honorable Judge Benitiz. 3/29/19.

** The Democrats of California are fighting back though. There is a ‘STAY’ injuction on the overturning of the ban. As of today, April 5th at 5PM – The ban goes back into effect. Anything purchased prior is grandfathered in, even if it hasn’t been delivered yet.**

FB memories is the gift that keeps giving.

Having been on FB since 2004 there are a lot of rather awkward things that pop up in my Memories. I typically delete about a third of them because they are inappropriate or embarrassing, then share the other third because they are also embarrassing but hilarious. (The remaining third is just boring.)

Anywho.

This popped up from a year ago today and has aged extremely well.

If I recall correctly, this was right after the Parkland shooting and CNN ambushed Dana Loesch with a bunch of liberal kids who screamed about her murdering children and having blood soaked hands. (I bet their teachers were so proud.)

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If the millions of NRA members were half as bad as the left paints them, this country would have been burnt to ash decades ago. And those of you, in your ignorance or malice, who are pushing to restrict gun rights – Would be huddled under your blankets, clinging to your teddy bears, and fervently praying the NRA doesn’t notice you wetting the proverbial bed.

But this ain’t happening. Because you are wrong. In every way. Statistics prove your wrong. Rationality and Common Sense prove you wrong. American History proves you wrong. World History really proves your ultimate goal of complete disarmament wrong.

You herds of bleating sheep demanding ‘SOMEONE DO SOMETHING’ and then accuse those of us who actually know what the hell we are talking about of being terrorists, child killers, and murderers with our hands coated in the dripping blood of innocents are ignored, denigrated, cursed, and threatened.

For what? The audacity of us to not be ignorant? To prefer personal independence and responsibility over the facade of government protection? To fight against your illogical and unconstitutional pushes to give over YOUR rights and future generations because you either won’t educate yourself or you hate those of us who defend them?

You people… I’m tired of you. I’m sick of my opinion having less weight than people who only know about guns from watching movies. Then it being ignored on the basis that I must be a terrible person for being in the NRA.

Heck, I’ll join you.

Let’s take down the NRA. Because GOA(Gun Owners of America) and JPFO (Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Organization) will gladly step up to take their place, and they won’t negotiate one iota of my rights away to appease the vocal minority who won’t shut up.

No? You don’t want that?

Well go back to defending the chopping up of babies in the womb and selling their body parts – you disgusting beacons of progressive moral righteousness.

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Since that post, the NRA supported the Bump Stock Ban and the left has given a standing ovation to the passing of a law that allows mothers to kill their babies moments before they are born.

Nothing’s changed.

Jesus is the Prince of Peace, not the Prince of Pacifism.

There is nothing morally wrong with defending yourself.

In America, it’s not so bad. We have a strong gun culture that runs hand in hand with Christianity. But these third world countries… where persecution, mutilation, rape, murder and barbarism by Muslims is a way of life – we need to start a GunFundMe to ship them crates of AK’s with a bunch of unemployed Veterans looking to get back into combat.

Because headlines like this are an almost daily occurrence:

Twenty Nigerian Christians Slaughtered

And speaking of Muslims massacring Christians…

That’s nothing new. That’s why we had Crusades back when Pope’s had some actual cojones to defend Christians. (Now they sit behind the giant walls of the Vatican and lecture Americans on how we shouldn’t build our own. Oh how the mighty have fallen…)

But as Christians, it’s important to speak truth.

Biblical truth.

We need to admit who our enemies are, be they another religion, a political affiliation, or our President. If you ignore the enemy, you can’t resist the enemy. And if you don’t actively resist the enemy don’t be surprised when you lose.

In my book I created a minor character who goes by Reverend. He’s probably my favorite character and I had a lot of fun writing his dialogue.

Here’s a Reverend excerpt that ties into this post:

“I’m not surprised to see you here, but I wish you’d left when you had the chance. It’s going to get mighty ugly come tomorrow,” I told him.

“My place is here, watching over the flock that has been entrusted to me” he knocked dust off his worn book with a thump of his hand then looked at the ridges surrounding our little town. “In the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for the Lord is with me. Our Winchesters and Colts, they comfort me,” he grinned mischievously.

I laughed at the changing of the scripture. It was fitting. “What about turning the other cheek?”

He grimaced, “If you’d come to Sunday School you’d know that’s only in regard to small slights, like someone stealing a chicken. It’s not about allowing others to murder your loved ones and then offering yourself to be slaughtered as well. When you take the literal interpretation of the Bible, you cheapen God’s Word,” he took a breath. “Besides, Jesus was the Prince of Peace, not the Prince of Pacifism. Ecclesiastes three, one to eight. There is a time to kill, a time to speak, and a time for war. And not once in the Bible is a soldier, or anyone else who carries weapons told to lay them down and repent,” he caught himself and stopped preaching. “Sorry. This is one of my more popular sermons, as you can probably imagine.”

I certainly could.

He patted me on the shoulder, in an almost sympathetic manner. “I’ve spent many decades worshiping our good Lord. If he calls me home tomorrow, I can’t wait to enter the Kingdom of Heaven and do it in person,” he gave me a sideways glance. “But you… I think he still has plans for you,” whistling Amazing Grace, he walked back towards the church.

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Speaking of my book.

It’s finished.

I’m already working on the sequel. Which is super cool, I’m really excited to be working on something new instead of rewriting over and over and over and over.

As soon as my wife finishes reading the final draft and I make some adjustments/fix errors that she finds, I’m going to start asking for anyone interested to read it and give me honest and preferably brutal feedback.

I don’t care about my feelings, I just want to create a good product.

 

 

It’s not Toxic Masculinity we should fear..

Nobody was complaining about the sexually harassing and bullying nature of masculinity when 13,000 parachutists jumped out of aircraft painted with Pin Up Dolls, to land behind enemy lines while another 145,000 Neanderthals left their caves and dragged knuckles through chest deep bloodied waters to crawl across open breaches covered with thousands of corpses under a steady barrage of machine guns and artillery fire to free Europe from enslavement.

-deep breath-

Anyways – Masculinity isn’t toxic.

Weak men are… like those who work in the Gillette Ad department.