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I am often looking on the web for neat ideas to try and sometimes I even look through pinterest for ideas. There have been many times where I have seen a “green” way of making a wasp trap. I like the idea of this as it would be like a set it and forget it type thing and I would not have to seek out nests and spray with a bunch of chemicals.

In my readings I discovered that there are two kinds of bait to use when trapping wasps. There is the protein bait which is to be used in the Fall and heading into Winter, then there is the sweet bait to be used in the Spring and Summer months.

The protein type baits can be meat and the sweet bait can be fruit juices and fruit chunks, some have used vinegar and sugar or even sugar water.

To build one you can use a 2 litre plastic drink bottle and you cut the top off and flip it making like a funnel into the rest of the container. Drop your bait in there and let it catch all the nasty pesky wasps.

I have tried this twice, once in the Fall and now in the Summer and I can tell you that for me both times I was trying to catch yellow jackets and red wasps and it did not work either time I tried it.

Here is a short video to show you.

So if you have had better luck, or can show me what I am doing wrong, please leave a comment below on this page or in the comments on the youtube video.

Thanks for watching.

You’re sound asleep when you hear a thump outside your bedroom door. Half-awake, and nearly paralyzed with fear, you hear muffled whispers. At least two people have broken into your house and are moving your way. With your heart pumping, you reach down beside your bed and pick up

your shotgun. You rack a shell into the chamber, then inch toward the door and open it.

In the darkness, you make out two shadows. One holds something that looks like a crowbar. When the intruder brandishes it as if to strike, you raise the shotgun and fire. The blast knocks both thugs to the floor. One writhes and screams while the second man crawls to the front door and lurches outside.

As you pick up the telephone to call police, you know you’re in trouble.

In your country, most guns were outlawed years before, and the few that are privately owned are so stringently regulated as to make them

useless..

Yours was never registered.

Police arrive and inform you that the second burglar has died. They arrest you for First Degree Murder and Illegal Possession of a

Firearm.

When you talk to your attorney, he tells you not to worry: authorities
will probably plea the case down to manslaughter.

“What kind of sentence will I get?” you ask.

“Only ten-to-twelve years,”
he replies, as if that’s nothing.

“Behave yourself, and you’ll be out in seven.”

The next day, the shooting is the lead story in the local newspaper.

Somehow, you’re portrayed as an eccentric vigilante while the two men
you shot are represented as choirboys.

Their friends and relatives can’t find an unkind word to say about them..

Buried deep down in the article, authorities acknowledge that both “victims”
have been arrested numerous times.

But the next day’s headline says it all:

“Lovable Rogue Son Didn’t Deserve to Die.”

The thieves have been transformed from career criminals into Robin
Hood-type pranksters..

As the days wear on, the story takes wings.

The national media picks it up,
then the international media.

The surviving burglar has become a folk hero.

Your attorney says the thief is preparing to sue you, and he’ll
probably win.

The media publishes reports that your home has been burglarized several times in the past and that you’ve been critical of local police for their lack of effort in apprehending the suspects. After the last break-in, you told your neighbor that you would be

prepared next time.

The District Attorney uses this to allege that you were lying in wait for the burglars.

A few months later, you go to trial.

The charges haven’t been reduced, as your lawyer had so confidently
predicted.

When you take the stand, your anger at the injustice of it all works
against you..

Prosecutors paint a picture of you as a mean, vengeful man.

It doesn’t take long for the jury to convict you of all charges.

The judge sentences you to life in prison.

This case really happened. On August 22, 1999, Tony Martin of Emneth, Norfolk, England, killed

one burglar and wounded a second.

In April, 2000, he was convicted and is now serving a life term..

How did it become a crime to defend one’s own life in the once great
British Empire?

It started with the Pistols Act of 1903.

This seemingly reasonable law forbade selling pistols to minors or felons and established that handgun sales were to be made only to those who had a license. The Firearms Act of 1920 expanded licensing to include not only

handguns but all firearms except shotguns..

Later laws passed in 1953 and 1967 outlawed the carrying of any weapon by private citizens and mandated the registration of all shotguns. Momentum for total handgun confiscation began in earnest after the Hungerford mass shooting in 1987.Michael Ryan, a mentally disturbed man with a Kalashnikov rifle, walked down the streets shooting everyone he saw.

When the smoke cleared, 17 people were dead.

The British public, already de-sensitized by eighty years of “gun control”, demanded even tougher restrictions. (The seizure of all privately owned handguns was the objective even

though Ryan used a rifle.)

Nine years later, at Dunblane, Scotland , Thomas Hamilton used a semi-automatic weapon to murder 16 children and a teacher at a public

school.

For many years, the media had portrayed all gun owners as mentally unstable, or worse, criminals. Now the press had a real kook with which to beat up law-abiding gun owners. Day after day, week after week, the media gave up all pretense of objectivity and demanded a total ban on all handguns. The Dunblane Inquiry, a few months later, sealed the fate of the few

sidearms still owned by private citizens.

During the years in which the British government incrementally took away most gun rights, the notion that a citizen had the right to armed self-defense came to be seen as vigilantism. Authorities refused to grant gun licenses to people who were threatened, claiming that self-defense was no longer considered a reason to

own a gun.

Citizens who shot burglars or robbers or rapists were charged while
the real criminals were released.

Indeed, after the Martin shooting, a police spokesman was quoted as
saying, “We cannot have people take the law into their own hands.”

All of Martin’s neighbors had been robbed numerous times, and several elderly people were severely injured in beatings by young thugs who had no fear of the consequences. Martin himself, a collector of antiques, had seen most of his

collection trashed or stolen by burglars.

When the Dunblane Inquiry ended, citizens who owned handguns were given three months to turn them over

to local authorities.

Being good British subjects, most people obeyed the law. The few who didn’t were visited by police and threatened with

ten-year prison sentences if they didn’t comply.

Police later bragged that they’d taken nearly 200,000 handguns from
private citizens.

How did the authorities know who had handguns? Kind of like cars. Sound familiar?

WAKE UP AMERICA; THIS IS WHY OUR FOUNDING FATHERS PUT THE SECOND AMENDMENT IN OUR CONSTITUTION.

“…It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate,
tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people’s minds..”
–Samuel Adams

If you think this is important, please forward to everyone you know.

Gun Laws that are being proposed in America will eventually cause the same effect here!

Of all the countries that exist today only 3 allow firearms for personal protection. Finland, Switzerland and Israel and all have EXTREMELY LOW CRIME RATES compared to their neighboring countries with gun bans.

Please pass this on if you want your 2nd Amendment rights to be preserved!

Decided to do a review on a dash-cam. If you follow my blog, you will know that many many years (2005) ago I wanted a dash-cam for my car to record all the weird things I saw on the road. Here is the article about that, HERE

I never truly got the dash-cam installed, but I did manage to install a carputer well before they were mainstream in the cars you see today. Soon after the iPhone came out on the market, the carputer started to not make much since, as it did almost all the things the carputer did. Now in 2015, cellphones of today like the iPhone 6 and Samsung Galaxy s5 do all and more that the carputer ever did.

My desire for a dash-cam diminished over time, but as of late there seems to be an explosion of videos on YouTube of interesting dash-cam videos. There are a lot from Russia so I guess they are pretty popular over there. Then there are videos of accidents where they seem very useful, and also there are some of police officers at traffic stops hassling motorists.

One of the biggest reasons of all is there is a scam now where people back into you at a stop light, or let themselves coast back into you at a stop light and then claim that you rear ended them. With the dash-cam you never have to defend yourself.
It is starting to look to me like the dash-cam thing is a desire once again.

Check out some of these videos from YouTube.

Deadly Crash

Sky Meteor in Russia

Compilation of shocking events

Insurance Scam prevented by Dash-Cam

Better to have and not need, than need and not have. ~ Franz Kafka

So I started shopping for one and found one that I really liked. It had GPS, recorded in the cab of the vehicle as well as the outside, had speed recordings and audio recordings, built in WiFi, a lot of stuff, but it was nearly $300. 🙁 I didn’t want to spend that much on this.

I put the idea on a shelf for a a year or so,  then while I was looking for a device to allow Bluetooth to a stereo that didn’t come with Bluetooth, I will talk about that in another article, I discovered a website that did a review on several dash-cams, and the article explained why you don’t always need all the bells and whistles that you may never use.

They tested several models with price tags as high as $600 and they came up with what they called the BEST DASH-CAM based on what was most important.

Resolution
Auto Stop and Start
Displays
Looping
The best dash cam for the money is the G1W Full HD 1080P from Spy Tech and the best part is it can be had for $70.

Be aware there are many fakes on the market out there. There is a big unregulated market for fakes. They usually sell for cheaper and do not last as long.

Also worth noting I got the model that doesn’t require a battery in it. It has a capacitor inside and these models are supposed to be better had handling summer time heat. I am all for not having to mess around with a battery or have a battery explode in my car due to high temps.

Here are some image stills from the G1W-C Dash-Cam

So far I cant say enough good things about this dash-cam.
I highly recommend you pick one up.

This is not exactly a HOW-TO,  just an informative post on my dealings with installing Air Conditioning in my truck. This may help others…

Yes it’s been a while since I have written anything on this blog. I have pretty much stopped writing things all together for this “blog” as Facebook and other sources have almost killed most blogs like this. I have also been pretty busy in other interests one of which has brought me to writing this post.

You see I have what some would consider an “old school” mini truck, and have had it for all of its life.
It its a 1988 Mazda B2200 and I think I have posted about it on here before when I did a revitalization post about it and how I made some updates to it.

It wasn’t until I got a new car that I realized how awesome “new” could be. When I would alternate vehicles I would feel as if my truck was speaking to me saying “why have you forgotten me, why have you let me go” and I began to bring it up to speed and try and modernize it. I joined a few “Mazda” groups on Facebook to get inspired and later created one of my own.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/mazdaminitrucking/ 

I wanted the truck to have most of the amenities of new vehicles of today.
I had already made lots of improvements to the truck over the years, like a new crate engine back in 1998, and a Weber 32/36 carburetor with pacesetter header install, which by far is one of the best mods ever as it will allow you to get rid of all the emission tubing and vacuum lines making the engine bay a lot cleaner and hassle free to work on.

I later shaved the intake, added power windows and locks, new custom door panels that holds new speakers and the power window switches. New bucket seats, lots of new interior pieces and tint, all new front suspension, driveshaft, you name it, its been done. Too many to new things to list here today. This truck is practically new, but needs a repaint.  All it was really missing was AIR CONDITIONING.

Installing AC was the biggest accomplishment that I completed on this truck next to replacing engine the engine.This was an absolute huge deal as the truck came completely with out it! This truck was born a base model.

Not many will ever understand what it was like growing up, driving this truck through high school, on dates with your significant other, driving all over the state for work, and have no AC in the dead heat of Mississippi, to actually installing it, and feeling cold air coming from 29 year old vents that have never felt it. When I did this, I was elated! The happiest I had been in a long time! A super feeling of accomplishment.

I had tried for a while to source a “kit” or have a local mechanic shop do it but they wouldn’t touch it.

I was afraid to tackle this as I am merely a driveway mechanic, a pretty decent one, but still no professional. 

That is what brings me here today writing this lengthy post. Many others from the Mazda pages and forums want to know what all is needed, and how it was done, so here I am writing this post on my own personal blog to help the others that want to do the same to their trucks.

This will not be a complete step by step, because when I was doing the job I wasn’t planning on it being a step by step, so I didn’t take enough pictures.

If you get ANYTHING from this document it needs to be this.
NEVER add anything like a sealer or refrigerant with a sealer to ANY AC system !!!! 
All this will do is stop or clog things up. If there is a leak, address the leak, and fix it. Sealers are not fixes.
If you completely tear apart your system and make it fresh and new with new seals and a few parts, you will get wonderfully cold air conditioning. Do not cheat yourself of this.

OK so here goes. I will break this down into sections to help better understand the process.

Tools Needed/Used
Parts Needed
Refrigerants and Oils Compressor O-Rings

Cleaning

One of the first things I did was research research research.
I looked at a friends Mazda, junk yard Mazda’s and books/manuals and watched YouTube videos, to determine all the parts that I needed. Remember my truck is a base model so I needed know and understand everything since this truck came with NOTHING. Use YouTube to get a better overall understanding of how AC works before you start. I recommend these to start with:

Understanding evacuating and recharging. This gives you an idea on how to use a pump and gauges.

Tools Needed/Used:

Pressure Gauges Depending on the refrigerant used, you will need a set of gauges to monitor pressures.

These can be purchased on amazon, harbor freight, or even borrowed for free from a local parts store. 

Autozone Loan A Tool Program

Flush Kit
The flush kit from AutoZone was especially useful. I used to to clean out the used condenser and evaporator. 

Vacuum Pump
Also I used a vacuum pump from AutoZone that I do not see online, but they did have in the store.

Parts Needed:

1. Compressor #3 on image below
   If you have a good original one, this is great. They no longer make the Sanden 705/708 new anymore. They sell re-manufactured ones that I hear do not hold up for very long. This could be due to user error, not fully preparing the ac system for the new compressor. I had a used one that was in good working order. I had to replaced the clutch bearing and that was all.
2. Condenser #1 on image below
   This is a rather hard piece to now find for our trucks. I tried RockAuto and they claim to have one but after 3 times I am convinced they do not know what they think they have. The one they sell if they still try and sell it, does not attach to the OEM lines at all. Your best bet here is to find a good used one and clean it really well, flush it out, and if it leaks, get it patched if possible.
3. Receiver Drier/Accumulator #6 on image below
   I ordered one from RockAuto Part # 33485 and it came to me without a low pressure switch. I emailed them and they sent me another one with the pressure switch attached and told me to just keep the one they sent me. Good people.
4. Evaporator (behind glove compartment) This is not numbered on the image below, but its the part that is enclosed in plastic case under the dash. You do not have to take the dash out to get this part in or out. I have heard on some forums that the ones that are sold today are cheaply made. I have no idea, but they can be ordered from RockAuto part # 54800.

   The one that I used came from a parts truck and upon visual inspection looked to be fine so I flushed it really well and it is indeed just fine.

5. Expansion Valve 
   I ordered this from RockAuto Part # 38610
6. Valve Core and Cap kit 
   I ordered this from RockAuto Part # 26777
   
7. Refrigerant 
   You will need to decide R12 or R134A. You can still get R12 but its hard and usually only on Ebay. It is very expensive too. These trucks were designed to use R12. The compressor is built to compress the molecules of the R12 way better than R134A. The condenser is small as well, and designed for R12. R12 will cool faster, less overall strain on the system than R134A, but again its hard to obtain and only getting harder as it is no longer made and reserves are drying up. If you get it to work on R12, thats great but what about a leak in the future or compressor replacement?

   With this in mind I went ahead and chose to convert the system to R134A. I purchased my cans from Wal-mart, or you can get some online on Amazon 

8. Aluminium hoses/lines #8,9,10,11,12 on image below
   Some of these can be purchased online. At the time of this writing, I can only find #8 and #11 for sale online. The rest are no longer available (obsolete), and you will have to resort to the junkyard. The one with the rubber hoses labeled 12/13 on the image is really hard to get. You can possibly get it made at a hydraulic shop. I was lucky to have these in good shape and used it after a good cleaning and flushing.
   The line, #9 (UE7661467) from the evaporator to the receiver used to be available at RockAuto and still is as of right now, but as I said a lot of these lines are being discontinued. 
   The line, #8 (UB3961462) from the condenser to drier used to be available at RockAuto. I see that it still is for now, and also on several other sites.
9. O-rings/Seals/Gasket kits
   I ordered this from RockAuto Part # 26754
   
10. Adapter kit
    This is the high and low side port adapters to convert over to R134A and I got these from Advanced Auto.

Refrigerant and Oils

These trucks and their AC systems were designed to use R12 and its most efficient if you do. This means it will cool quicker, and run lower pressures on the compressor and lines. R12 is very hard to get these days, but its still out there. It can be really expensive sometimes $30 a for 12 oz can on eBay. If you have a system in place and it just needs a hose or something replaced, it might be a good idea to try and locate some and go back with it. I say this because the oils in the system for R12 is mineral oil and its already in the condenser and evaporator already. It is a terribly idea to try and convert your current system with just some new r134a adapters and refrigerant. Mineral oil will not carry r134a refrigerant through the system. It will not mix well with the mineral oil and will eventually melt the black o rings, and clog up the system and ruin the compressor.

Since I was installing mine entirely from scratch, and I flushed and cleaned all my components along with some new parts, I chose to go with R134A. Again R12 is hard to obtain, costly, and in the event of a leak, it would be troublesome to redo.

If you use R12 you will need 26.50 oz, so its best to get 3 or 4 of the 12 oz cans. Also you will need a little dye to detect leaks, and some mineral oil for the compressor. R12 26.50 ounces

Mineral oil 8 ounces for the entire system.

If you use R134A you will need two 12 oz cans, as it calls for 80% of an R12 fill. You will need some dye and some PAG oil. They make a PAG 50,100, and 150 and I just went right in the middle with the 100.  I used 8.6 oz.

R134A 21.2 ounces
PAG 100 oil 

Amount of lubricant to add to each individual component. Condenser 1 oz. Evaporator 2 oz. Drier 1 oz. Compressor 4.6 oz. Any extra or overfill of oil will settle in the drier.

I added 4.6 oz. to the compressor and a 3 oz oil charge along with about 1 oz of dye through the lines.

This is a closed system so this is how the system lubricates itself and the compress lubricates itself. 

A word or two on the use of R134A:
The system was meant to use R12 so with R134A the difference in how these two differ in function is that the R134A requires more pressure and the compressor is not made to efficiently compress the gas and the condenser in front of the radiator is not very large so it can not dissipate the heat of the R134A as well. It will work and work well, it will just take a little longer to cool, run higher pressures which could cause leaks, and puts more of a demand on the compressor so this could shorten the life of it.

But with that said…works pretty good.

 

Compressor

These trucks came with the Sanden 508 (1986-1988) and the Sanden 708 (1989-1993). The 508 has metal piston rings and has 5 pistons. The 708 has 7 pistons and synthetic piston rings, which are supposed to last a lot longer and in the case of failure, there should be no metal to disperse into the system.

There is no point at all going too far without a proper working compressor, so I looked for a new one and noticed that most of the ones you can get from an auto parts store or from online stores like Rock Auto are re-manufactured ones.  If this your only option then by all means get one. They are incredibly hard to find new these days. You can try eBay or google your heart out. I thought I found a solid place called Ackits.com in Arizona and while they do list one on their website, it was simply not true. I called and they do not have nor stock them. Why will they not correct their website? Hopefully for you at the time of this reading, you will call and they will have one to purchase. If you can, I do suggest getting a brand new compressor. These come rebuilt and optimized for R134a. This is kind of important, but I am going to hold off on talking about Refrigerants till later in this post. Lets cover hardware first.

The used compressor I was able to use came from a junkyard truck. When I inspected it the first thing I did was turn it clockwise with a socket wrench (19 mm ) to see if it was seized up or not. It wasn’t, but it needed a main bearing as it was not moving so freely. The bearing is $25 at most local parts stores. I purchased mine at Autozone and the part number is MT 2021 and its size is 35mm x 55mm x 20mm.

You will need a puller to take it apart, and some pliers for the spring clips. Look it up in the manual on how to service and take apart the compressor as you will need to thoroughly clean a used one. You will also want to flush the oil that is in it and refill it to the proper amount with the proper oil and that depends on the refrigerant used. If you are really lucky and can get your hands on R-12, that refrigerant uses mineral oil. I think 5 oz of it in the compressor itself. This is to be measured. If you are using R134A you will want to flush as much of the old left over mineral oil from the compressor as possible and refill with PAG oil. To flush I put a old grill over a bucket and opened the only one drain plug it has and let it drain over night. I also turned it by hand occasionally to try and pump some out. Some also cam out of the line ports on the back of the compressor so I turned it up on its end and let it drain from there too. I would fill and flush with PAG oil a few times to make sure the old was out.

From what I understand, you really do not want to mix these oils as it could gel and possibly stop up your expansion valve destroying all of your hard work.

O-Rings

Replace all the o-rings with new HNBR green ones. Black o-rings for the R12 and the green ones in the kit for R134A. 
Just be sure to lubricate them with the refrigerant oil that you will be using. Its best to use nylog as its not as hygroscopic as the pag oil. Pag oil is very Hygroscopic meaning that it will absorb moisture from the air.

Cleaning

When cleaning, always wear safety glasses. You will want to flush and blow out each line that you intend to use, the condenser even if its new, and the evaporator with an AC cleaner solvent or denatured alcohol. This is very important and you can rent the tool from your local auto supply house.

I used mineral spirits to start with and later chased it with denatured alcohol.

Look at what this old evaporator can look like after many years of use.

Here it is cleaned and new expansion valve added.

I took apart the evaporator box and cleaned it thoroughly and re-gasketed a lot of it with the AC foam tape from Walmart. I also used the same foam tape on the blend doors under the dash to make a better seal. The old material had disintegrated over the years.

The all important dash AC switch/AC relay

The dash switch (not pictured) goes for about $70 on eBay but you may can find one in a junkyard.
Also while you are at it, in a junkyard, pull all the components you think you will need including the AC relay.

Install Everything

OK now armed with all this knowledge I just dropped for you, install all the lines and components and make sure everything is tight. Cross check everything. Now with your gauges and pump, pull a vacuum for 4-6 hrs, some will say that is excessive but you really want this to be right. This will boil out all the solvents and moisture. While doing this keep an eye on the oil level of the pump. Next close the valves on your gauges and turn off your pump and it should hold around 26-29 inHG. Let it sit for a while, maybe even an entire day and make sure the needle does not move at all. If it doesn’t move, you have a air tight system with no leaks and now you can proceed with charging it.

This is very important if you are using the really expensive R12 because you do not want to waste any of that. You want to be absolutely certain your system is sealed and ready for the refrigerant.

To quickly recap you will want to: – Remove all of the lines, compressor and condenser. Evaporator removal is optional but it really helps to clean all of the funk from the evaporator case and check the foam seals. -Solvent flush everything but NOT the compressor and old accumulator (drier). You will be replacing the drier. Dry with LOTS of compressed air. -Oil flush the compressor with the oil you plan to use in the system. – It would be best to replace the compressor shaft seal. I didn’t do this. -Reassemble the system with all new hnbr o-rings and new drier. -Add 8 oz of oil to the system. I used PAG-100. You can use ester oil if you do not take the system completely apart and flush it, but I think this is a weak attempt at doing the job right and would advise against it. Ester oil blends with old mineral oil. Pag will not. -Evacuate the system (vacuum pump) and charge with R134a. It usually takes 80% of the R12 amount but you can tweak it as needed. For me this was two 12 oz cans. This actually put 22.6 oz in my system.

-Aim for pressures: 2.8 times ambient temp on the High side, and ~30 on the low side (1500 rpm, max AC, high blower, and doors open)

Charge the System

Watch this video AGAIN to understand this process.

Hopefully after all this, you are a up and coming AC professional enjoying some cold Air Conditioning in your truck.

I sure hope this was helpful to someone.
I probably forgot a few things or left out something important. If I do I will come back and edit accordingly.

 
8/2/2016 Pressures Recorded after my complete install of AC components

Refrigerant R134A

Ambient Temp 93 F Heat Index 107 F Humidity 55%

Time 12:00 PM

1500 rpm Compressor ON Low side = 30 psi

High side = 274 psi

Dash Center Vent temp 38-40 F

ORIGINAL PRESSURES WITH R12 Ambient temp 77F Low Pressure 14-24 psi

High Pressure 149-185 psi

UPDATE 7/10/18

I recently put A/C in my project truck that I have and while doing so I decided to take a lot of video and put it up on YouTube.

 

May 15th, 2013 | My Thoughts

Took a trip to the Georgia Aquarium and shot many short videos with my iphone then put it all together using iMovie. Also added some tunes from M83. Song is Outro by M83. I chopped it and blended it to fit the video.

The Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta, Georgia houses 120,000 animals, representing 500 species, in 8.5 million US gallons of marine and fresh water; it was the world’s largest aquarium when it opened in 2005.

Matt Damon
“I actually hate guns.”

Jon Hamm
“It’s time for our politicians to act [on gun control].”

Jim Carrey
“Anyone who would run out to buy an assault rifle after the Newtown massacre has very little left in their body or soul worth protecting.”

Will Ferrell
Will is a big donor to gun control efforts.

Gwyneth Paltrow
“Yes, people pull the trigger. But guns are the instrument of death.”

Chris Rock
“Gun control? We need bullet control! I think every bullet should cost $5,000. Because if a bullet cost $5,000, we wouldn’t have any innocent bystanders.”

Kevin Costner
I think there should be a lot of gun laws.”

Richard Donner
This outspoke gun control director has made his living directing gun action movies, including all four Lethal Weapon films, Conspiracy Theory (1997), and most recently, 16 Blocks (2006).

George Clooney

Spike Lee

Uma Thurman

Mark Wahlberg

Cameron Diaz

Amy Poehler

Jennifer Aniston

Beyonce

Kirsten Bell

Jennifer Garner

Jeremy Renner

Steve Carell

NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg
Nanny Bloomberg created Mayors Against Illegal Guns, an organization of city mayors promoting tougher federal, state, and local gun regulation. In 2007, he sued New York City firearms dealers to “control guns.”

Filmmaker Michael Moore
“The way to honor these dead children [of Newtown, CT] is to demand strict gun control, free mental health care, and an end to violence as public policy.”

Texas Representative Sheila Jackson Lee
She recently told the media that she is in favor of a national gun registry — so that she can track and identify all gun owners.

MSNBC Host Chris Matthews
“Let’s keep reminding ourselves that a lot of people who are for gun safety also are for world peace, also for jobs, also for the environment. People who are for guns are for guns.”

Rep. Nancy Pelosi
“[Gun control] a matter of time. It might be inconceivable to the NRA that this might happen; it’s inevitable to us.”

Rosie O’Donnell “I don’t care if you want to hunt. I don’t care if you think it’s your right. I say, ‘Sorry.’ We have had enough as a nation. You are not allowed to own a gun, and if you do own a gun I think you should go to prison.”

Several months later, her own bodyguard applied for a concealed gun permit. Oh, the hypocrisy.

Senator Dianne Feinstein
She is queen of gun control in the Senate. This California Democrat introduced the  Assault Weapons Ban of 2013, which intends to ban the sale, transfer, manufacturing and importation of most semiautomatic firearms.

Singer Tony Bennett
“I’d like the assault weapons to go to war, not on our own country, and I’d like assault weapons eliminated.”

President Barack Obama
“You go into some of these small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them. Each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are going to regenerate and they have not. So it’s not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or antitrade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”

Many liberals will not acknowledge that gun control will do nothing to address the root causes of violence. They constantly push for stricter gun laws, which take guns away from law-abiding citizens. This leaves them no way to protect themselves against armed criminals (who do not follow laws in the first place).

This is only a small list of those Hollywood Liberals and the like that want to keep you from owning a gun.

June 28th, 2009 | Health, iphone, My Thoughts

Ok so today it reached 99F with a heat index of probably 105F and what do I do? Go for a bike ride of course!

I biked the same path as I did last time but unfortunately as I logged the trip with RUNKEEPER on the iPHONEI noticed that it failed to log 6 miles. See I use the free RUNKEEPER app and it has sponsored ads on it. Well one of these ads popped up not a tenth of a mile down the road and it stopped tracking until the X was pressed. I noticed this when I reached the nature trail by the tennis courts at Grenada Lake.

I have now purchased the RUNKEEPER PRO app and this should never happen again. It has more feature too!

This time around was easier than the last.
I purchased one of those Hydration Packs to help me out this time.

In the map below, 6 miles are missing. I left where the red pin is, went to the nature trail/tennis court area and rode through the nature trail, then onto the emergency spillway area and run down and back up the 100 steps, then proceeded back and rode through the nature trail once more and back on home. The sun took a break at one point and let a few drops of rain fall onto me giving me a nice cool down.

I think next time I will try for 25 miles.

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March 30th, 2009 | Disney, My Thoughts

Ok just woke up, packing, about to get a shower and then to get breakfast and everyone will be loading luggage on the bus by 10, then we’re all off to Hollywood park for the day till 10pm tonight. That’s when we depart Disney for the long ride home.

It’s going to be a long fun day!

I’ll try to check back in with some updates later.

March 26th, 2009 | Disney, My Thoughts

Well on the road, it’s gonna be a long journey. Looks like with all 
the stopping, we might get to Disney world around 4 or 6 am.

I’m listening to music on my iPhone right now as I type this out. I  love the iPhones earbuds, but hate how they do not want to stay in my 

ears.

Anyways I think I’m about to watch one of the several movies I have on 
my phone.

Check back with ya later.

Yes you read correctly.

Dressed in skimpy boy shorts and see-through mesh tops, crowds of women are competing for spots in a new controversial Lingerie Football League that will feature 7-on-7 tackle football games in several states. 50 women tried out Friday for the area’s newest football team — the Seattle Mist.

The Mist is one of 10 proposed teams in the Lingerie Football League, an expansion of the popular 35-minute Lingerie Bowl games played on pay-per-view during Super Bowl halftime the past three years.

The Lingerie Football League started as a pay-per-view, counter-programming stunt during the halftime of the Super Bowl. Now, it has grown into a complete 10-team indoor league.

A lot of people are wondering just what do these women get when they make the team, well the women who make the team will make more than $40,000 per year, and there is a possibility for ad spots featuring some of them.

League play won’t start until next September, partly because football skill isn’t a requirement. The tryout at Green Lake Field was more about testing athletic ability and gauging beauty.

So I just got to ask you one thing…. ARE YOU REEEEAAADDYYYYYYY!!!!!!

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