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Friday, April 18, 2025
The Story Of George Jones
VIDEO HERE (54:50 minutes)
Known for his hauntingly powerful voice and poignant storytelling, George Jones captivated audiences with his music and his tumultuous personal life. This documentary offers an in-depth exploration of Jones’s rise from a small-town background to becoming a towering figure in country music.
Delve into his early struggles, his peak years filled with chart-topping hits, and the personal battles that both shaped and shadowed his career. The film provides a nuanced look at Jones’s complex legacy, celebrating his unparalleled contributions to music while also acknowledging the hardships he faced.
Cast:
George Jones, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Loretta Lynn, Ricky Van Shelton, Roy Acuff, Buck Owens, Conway Twitty, Don Pierce, Gabe Tucker, Little Jimmy Dickens, George Riddle, Jack Clement, Melba Montgomery, Tom T. Hall, Ricky Skaggs, Randy Travis, Lane Brody, Billy Sherrill, Rick Blackburn, Bobby Braddock, Bobby Burkhead, Nancy Jones, W.T. Scroggins, Helen Scroggins
Why, you poor thing!
A 19-year-old man who was upset at his girlfriend for going on a cruise has been sent to prison for making a bomb threat to the ship.
Joshua Lowe, from Michigan, admitted that he was annoyed that he had to watch pets while his partner and her family went on a Caribbean cruise, leading him to take drastic measures.
Come and get 'em
You had to know it was coming at some point. Left-wingers have targeted everything else at this point to soothe their deranged ideology, and it was just a matter of time before man's best friend ended up in the crosshairs. Yes, after destroying your childhood memories through various reimaginings of everything you held dear, they're now coming after your dog.
-WiscoDave
I'm shocked! Shocked, I say!
A member of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz's administration has been repeatedly caught on camera allegedly vandalizing parked Tesla vehicles with his keys while out walking his dog.
Damn dude, sometimes you just gotta let shit go
Michael Dietz was not shy about his alleged actions when Ohio cops asked him about the vandalism at the home of a woman with whom he was involved in a car crash over a year ago.
Hell Has Frozen Over
And y'all are going to blame me for it.
I bought a Glock last Saturday. Seriously. Not only did I buy a Glock but I bought a Glock 17 which is chambered in a ladies round. It's 2025 and I just bought my first 9mm because you know how I like to stay on top of new trends.
I'm not entirely sure why I folded and bought a plastic gun, but I damned sure did. Write it off to peer pressure, senility, wanting to be one of the kool kids, whatever. All or none of the above, take your pick.
All joking aside, as much as I love cappin' on the Glock fanbois, it's really not a bad gun. Sure, the grip angle is different than my beloved 1911s, but so are they on my 357 magnum revolvers. It's really a non-issue.
Balance is much better than I figured it would be. I can draw the damned thing and it's pointing right at whatever the target in the backyard happens to be at the moment. Maybe not exact dead center but close enough.
The trigger leaves a little to be desired. The initial pull is creepy but not as bad as I thought it would be. I've been told the creepiness will smooth out after I put a few hundred rounds through it. We'll see how it rolls. I have no complaints on the trigger reset - it's very noticeable and as consistent as it should be.
I've heard a lot of people bitching about the factory sights, but I don't have a problem with them. They're prominent enough that I can pick them up with no problem, so I'll stick with them until I start having issues.
It holds 17 rounds, twice as many as my Colt, allowing me to magdump and kill everything behind what I'm shooting at because why take chances, right?
The Glock 17 isn't really concealable. but that's cool. It isn't meant to be. The holster I bought keeps it tight against my body but the butt of the gun sticks out just a tad too far even when I'm wearing an oversized button-down. No big deal, we have open carry here so I don't have to worry about printing but if I'm going somewhere and my gun needs to be concealed, I'll carry my Colt Defender. Granted, it only holds 8 rounds but that's 7 more than I'd need because, well, it's a 45 ACP.
The Glock is light and comfortable to wear. I have a gun on my belt from the moment I crawl out of bed until I retire for the evening, and I'm not having one bit of discomfort with the Wunderwaffe. That's huge.
So, a couple of thoughts: It's the only new gun I've ever bought that I had to talk myself into buying. Why did I buy it then? I don't know, man. I got it into my head a couple months ago that I oughta buy one and it just kept gnawing at me. You know how that shit goes.
It's also the only new gun I've ever owned that I wasn't completely fascinated with. I mean, usually as soon as I get one home I'm tearing it apart and checking it out, shooting the hell out of it, handling and admiring it. When I got my first 1911, I ran 500 rounds through before it even left that gun shop. This one though? I put a couple magazines through it out back blowing up jugs of water to check reliability, then I put it away. I'm treating it like a new teen-aged stepson. We may get along, we may not.
Am I willing to give the gun an honest chance? Absolutely. It's not the world's most popular gun for nothing.
Do I have enough confidence in it to trust my life to it? Uh-huh, you bet. Along with beaucoup other people. I'm carrying it right now even though all I've put though it at the time of this writing is about a hundred rounds. That's how much confidence I have in it.
Okay, the big question: How does it print on paper?
I'm glad you asked. I had some business in Gallatin on Thursday so I stopped by the range on my way home and put a box of 50 rounds through it to check the point of aim and see how it grouped. Ammo was 124 gr Aquila FMJ. Target was a silhouette, distance was 10 yards. Stance was my usual sloppy-ass modified Weaver. Shooting speed was about a round every 3 seconds - not fast but not real slow. You can see in the photo that it shoots just a tad left. There's 5 flyers in the 9 ring that I can't blame on the gun because I called most of them as soon as I sent them to the target. So yeah, it shoots pretty good and I know that with a little more familiarization I'll shoot it better.
And now the moment you've all been waiting for! *Drum roll please*
I may have been wrong about Glocks. I can see where some folks would develop a man-crush on them.
There, I said it.
The best part of buying the damned thing though, is the reactions from the few people I've told up until now.
When I walked in the door after buying it, I showed Lisa who immediately got a concerned look on her face and felt my forehead to see if I was running a fever, then she started to pick up the phone to call LadyDoc until she remembered her office is closed on Saturdays.
Woody's reaction was to send me a link to a video post HERE from my own blog where I was fucking with the fanbois. Fuck you back, Woody.
Alemaster began gleefully laughing and started sending me links to Glock dealers, custom shops and parts sharks. Did you know there's such a thing as Glock wrist watches?
WiscoDave replied to my email with something like, "That's okay, I know a few people that own Glocks and I still respect them."
JD's reaction was to demand, and I quote, "What is this, some kind of a fucking joke?"
Okay, now if you'll excuse me, I must make my transformation to Glock Fanboi complete. I need to buy a Glock hat, seven Glock t-shirts, a large Glock back window sticker, a French Bulldog and a fucking Subaru SUV.
The Pentagon Must Go on the Offensive to Defeat Politicized Officers
That Space Force colonel in command in Greenland – well, formerly in command in Greenland – who ran her fool mouth to undermine her commander-in-chief demonstrates an all-too-common problem with today’s senior military officers. We keep seeing these passive-aggressive, and not so passively aggressive, officers acting out and throwing childish tantrums of resistance to the President that the people of the United States elected. It’s inconceivable to those of us from the military who won the Cold War; we stayed the hell out of politics. Somehow, they must have missed that civilian control block of instruction; non-partisanship is a vital principle of our officer corps. To be political on duty is a violation of our oaths. It’s a violation of our ethos as officers. And it’s got to be brutally crushed – even Barack Obama understood that when he properly canned General Stanley McChrystal for having a staff that thought it was okay to diss the President to reporters (incredibly, after this massive leadership failure, McChrystal has gone on to sell his leadership insights to eager civilian suckers, but that’s another story).
-Alemaster
One FAFO coming right up
People in Carmichael are concerned after kids who appear to be carrying guns have been knocking on their front doors.
A home security camera captured what appears to be a teen boy pulling a shiny silver gun out of his waistband and a second teen, who looks like he is holding his phone up, hiding behind him.
PsychoChicks - we've all had 'em
A Florida woman on probation struck another woman with her vehicle and ran her over after seeing the victim walking with her estranged husband, according to sheriff’s officials.
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Hey, when you gotta go, you gotta go
A school nutrition administrator has been arrested for committing a terribly unappetizing act inside the beer cave at a Pennsylvania convenience store, cops report.
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Shotgun John Collins
Abraham G. Graham was born on his grandmother's plantation in Horry County, South Carolina on November 22, 1851.
His great-grandfather, Captain Edward Connor, served in the South Carolina militia during the American Revolution, under Brigadier General Francis Marion. His father, Hosea A. Graham, had married his first cousin Martha Ann Graham, and while Abraham was still a child the family moved to Texas in covered wagons in 1859.
Thursday, April 17, 2025
Pepe Le Pew
Britain's Harriet Dart has apologized for saying her opponent, France's Lois Boisson, "smells really bad" during her comprehensive defeat at the Rouen Open on Tuesday.
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Who's a good dog? Huh?
A missing toddler spent the night alone in the remote Arizona wilderness and walked seven miles through mountain lion territory before being led to safety by a dog, local police have said.
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New Yorkers.....
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Saturday at Saint Lucy's Church, neighbors surrendered 638 guns to the office of the New York attorney general.
In total, 130 assault rifles, 333 handguns, 2 ghost guns, and 150 long guns were collected.
Wednesday, April 16, 2025
Meanwhile, down in Florida.....
He’s not accused of being on drugs, but a man named Edward Cocaine did allegedly wave a knife at employees after a confrontation at a Florida Subway restaurant.
Tuesday, April 15, 2025
Tax Day memes
Spent all day doing taxes and money stuff. Regular post on Wednesday, but please enjoy these tax-related memes I found.
-WiscoDave
Monday, April 14, 2025
Appalachia’s Storyteller: Daddy and Moonshine
How far would an Appalachian man go to save his family when all of his options have failed?
VIDEO HERE (21:32 minutes)
Democrats Trade Morality for Madness
New York City has a mayoral election later this year, and the two leading candidates right now are former governor Andrew Cuomo and a state assemblyman named Zohran Mamdani. The latter has gained traction in the polls by promising to build city-run grocery stores that “will operate without profit motive” in order to combat “the outrageous price of groceries.” Leave it to the residents of Gotham to pin their hopes on either the guy who turned nursing homes into COVID death traps or a proud communist who is blithely unaware of the Soviet Union’s history with breadlines.
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