It's been awhile !

It's been since early 2012 since I'd last made a posting...I've been busy! The farm is up and running, I've raised beef, pork, lamb and, have sold about a thousand eggs. My vacation from this page and political crap has been wonderful...although as I look back and re-read everything I'd said and predicted about Obama...it's sad to see that I was absolutely correct on every point. Meanwhile, the farm is chugging right along like a freight train and my customer base has already outpaced my ability to produce things fast enough! Grass fed beef, grass fed lamb, free ranged eggs, pastured pork...I had no idea that the demand was so high and that so many people are trying to escape from factory feedlot produced meats that clutter the shelves of their supermarkets. While the Obama regime is busy making common sense illegal and mandating lunacy, I'll be out here in the stix not caring too much about it.

Here we go again...

Tried to buy any ammo or, mags lately?

Everything is either sold out or, back ordered for at least a month or, in some cases for popular calibers...back ordered until June!

The last time this happened was four years ago when the democrats were wringing their hands and, running off at the mouth being in control of everything and, looking at banning things again.

The result was the same...ammo, guns and, gear flew off the shelves while new firearms sales broke records while everyone was in a mad fury to arm themselves before it was too late and, caused the prices of ammo to triple in some cases due to demand.

Bearing arms is a constitutional right...and, it's the ONLY right that is followed by the words "SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED".

The founders must have seen it as important to add that wording to that right specifically...perhaps because they understood that governments are run by men...sometimes even bad men.

And they also understood that a government that will infringe upon any right, will infringe upon ALL of them as it sees fit.

Today, the regime sees guns as a problem, tomorrow, it might be something you say.

Michigan union members shout "nigger Uncle Tom" after destroying his hot dog cart...

Really people? Is this what union membership actually means now? Destroying a lone man's self-built business because he's neither for nor, against your damned politics?

He sells hotdogs for a living from his own cart...a small business he's built from scratch all by himself.
What in God's name could he have possibly done to deserve having his cart destroyed, his wares stomped into the sidewalk and publicly degraded and slurred?

It really must bother some union people to see an independent and free man who has built a niche for himself in life who doesn't need to strong-arm anyone into supporting him.

Whoever did this, along with the union they represent should be blacklisted from doing business with anyone or, any business until a public apology is made and, the union compensates Clint for damages, lost income and, the member(s) are identified and booted from the union's ranks.

Anything less should be viewed by all as the union condoning this behavior from it's membership.

For more info on Mr Tarver,
http://www.clintontarver.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzfwj7Eb8cA&feature=player_embedded

Luckily, the man has gained support from concerned people from all over...
http://www.gofundme.com/1o8toc#description

Best of luck to him toward rebuilding and making his comeback!

Farmers "Irrelevant?"

"Farmers "Irrelevant?" The USDA chief says rural America is becoming less relevant.

Really? It's easy for some bloated dumbass in D.C with a full fridge to make that kind of claim.

Let's see how "relevant" farmers are when that fridge is empty and, you've regulated the price of food to the point where a person with an honest job can't afford to buy it anymore.

I'll be interested to see how tasty and filling those food stamps are to the parasites browsing empty shelves at the supermarket!

I say to Mr Villsack...keep running your mouth!
Keep making it harder for family farms to run the gauntlet of your regulations and adding unnecessary costs to the price of food for everyone!

The result will be MORE people buying direct from their local farmer and skirting the bullshit and regulations while getting a good deal and a full freezer despite the government's efforts.

Co-op food...what's that?

Instead of a customer buying a hog ( for example ) from a farmer at butchering time, the buy it upfront as a piglet and "store" it on the farm under the care of the farmer.
They pay the cost of buying, feeding and maintaining their "pet" and, the butchering fee while giving the farmer a "donation" for his time and space.

The farmer avoids having to play government games since he's never actually owned the animal...he just boards it...and the customer ends up with a freezer full of pork that is raised to his specifications without all the expense and runaround.

From farm, to butcher, to freezer...which is the way it should be.

Yeah...we're "irrelevant" as a voting block to the shitbags in D.C.

But, we're pretty damned "relevant" when people are hungry and, I'll bet my last dollar that ANY other voting block will side with their stomachs over the empty promises from an asshole in a suit.

The government can promise to feed you...
but,
without a farmer to grow it, that promise isn't worth a damned at all.

Eat all the promises the you want...I'm having chops!

From the fiscal cliff to unlimited debt...

       "Obama Wants Infinite Debt Ceiling"

...is what the headline read in the news...and all one can do is shake their head and wonder what the hell will happen next?

The very idea that this clown should even consider wanting unchecked power to raise the country's debt at will and, without the consent of the governed is the things that tin-horn, banana republic dictators are made of.

He already outspent Bush by a 2-1 margin in half the amount of time...has that not been enough for him?

Obviously not.

Obama isn't stupid and regardless of how "stupid" he appears with his spending habits, it's obvious that miring America in debt it can never recover from is being done on purpose and not fast enough for his liking.
Here is a guy who's lifetime has been spent in the company of people who hate America and everything about America and, have never made a secret of it.
He's filled the halls of government with people who have long stated their hatred of America...to act in America's best interest in the positions they've been given.
Make sense to anyone?
Bueller?
...Bueller?

Add this one to his wanting the internet's "off switch" made available to him should he deem it necessary to shut down the communications of the American public...and, the power to indefinitely detain or, execute American citizens on American soil for a vague number of reasons.

And I have to ask liberals out there...is this really what you voted for?
If so, why?

If you on the left "love America" as you often try to claim...then why are you content to watch it burn and sink before your very eyes without making a peep?

You're all sounding like Sadie Mae Glutz claiming in court that she "loved" her murder victims.

It may be my optimist side comming out because, I have to believe that even the lowest form of liberal has a tipping point where too much government power is even too much for them to take.

Sadly though, I'm guessing that liberal's oppinions won't change until it's illegal for people to actually have oppinions.

Turn the ship around Mr Lightoller...we're going to ram that iceberg again and finish the job!

Pearl harbor day

The fiscal cliff boondoggle...

What I'm about to say here might piss some folks off a tad bit but, stay with me...

After reading some lefty blogs and "news" sites geared toward them, I read a comment that struck a chord.

Every one of those blogs and the commenter's were singing the same tune...that the fiscal cliff...as well as the solutions for it not being imposed are all the fault of the GOP, conservatives in general and, of course the "racist" tea party people.

My solution?

The right should just stop trying to inject any sanity at all into the argument since it all falls on the deaf ears of the leftist looters and, if Obama's plans all come crashing down, the moonbats will try and claim it was the GOP's ...or, Bush's...fault that it failed.

Don't vote yea or, ney on ANYTHING...follow Obama's example and vote "present" and wash your hands of any responsibility for the failure and, the mess afterwards.

When it all comes crashing down, it will land squarely on the shoulders of Obama and, the democrats for all to see because the usual tactic of blame shifting will be impossible.

It might seem unpatriotic to some folks that I'd take this position but, I assure everyone I'm just as patriotic as I've ever been.

As a kid, my neighbor used to set up ramps and, jump them with his bike.
His mother used to flip out and come running outside screaming and making him take it down because he'd get hurt.

Well, she gave up and, he went over the handlebars and smashed out one of his front teeth and gashed his chin open and, had to get stitches in his face.

All the warnings never stopped him...a trip to the emergency room and dental surgery and pain like he'd never felt before...DID work since he quit jumping ramps and learned the lesson the hard way.

Fiscal cliff?
More like a fiscal ramp...they won't believe what will happen to them because WE warn them...they need to find out for themselves, suffer through the pain for themselves and, accept the blame by themselves.

Although I DO see them later on bawling that the Republicans just "didn't do enough" to save them from their own stupidity like my neighbor's Mom did so many times for him.

Sorry folks, they DID warn you...over and over again.

They need to stop coming out to the sidewalk and taking the ramp away and just let you feel that pain of having to learn the hard way.

The downside is that responsible people will probably suffer along the way while the left are learning...like my neighbor's mother did spending hours in the emergency room, dentist's office and paying the bills.

So be it.

High on the hog...

I picked up my 2 hogs from the butcher yesterday which completely filled my deep freezer up to the gunwales...and still have to pick up the rest of the meats from the smoker next Thursday.

All in all, for 2 nine month old hogs, I have a grand total of 485 lbs of pork for my freezer and, one more hog scheduled to be dropped off to the butcher when I pick up my smokehouse goodies.

It's my first livestock harvest that I've raised from weanling to butcher, to freezer and, onto my own plate and, the results have been nothing less than satisfying.

For 485 lbs of pork, my investment came out to about $140 in feed, $350 in butchering / smoking and, my own labor in keeping them sheltered with clean surroundings and, the $60 I paid for each of them from my neighbor down the road...so about $550 total for the both of them.

The good part? I already have a buyer for one whole butchered hog for $500 which pays damned near for raising the both of them which means that my remaining hog that will feed my family through next fall, cost me about $50.

After # 3 is butchered and sold, my freezer pork's price drops to zero cost and, it will pay for most, if not all of the feed cost for the next batch of piggies.

Will I ever get rich?
No but, I'll be eating and feeding my family damned near for free.
We have all the rabbit we can eat, all the pork we can eat, all the chicken and eggs we can eat and, in the spring...all the lamb we can eat.
Add that into all the tomatoes, potatoes, asparagus, strawberries, peppers, onions and garlic from the garden and, the plums, apples and pears from the trees...we're doing alright food wise!

Not too bad for my first season of owning my own farm!