Did it again. Hit some wrong key and lost what I'd written. Was just starting though. No new photographs taken this week.
Haven't been doing a whole lot besides work and school. Thinking about a few odd things, like I do.
Ken, the crusty old trucker who's my instructor at NETTTS, got me to dwelling some on the matter of personal security when you're on the road. He has a couple of stories about incidents that did and almost happened to him. In one instance a big black guy tried to hijack his truck, but made the mistake of bringing a knife to a gun fight, and got himself blown out the door. Another time, he arrived in Brooklyn with a load of swinging meat an hour behind two other guys who had run with him since Denver, and had gone on ahead when he had stopped in Pennsylvania for a shower and a bite to eat. He parked and went to sleep and was awakend by a banging on his door; the police wanted to know if he had seen anything. The two guys who'd arrived an hour ahead of them were hanging on meat hooks in their trailers, their loads having been stolen.
Most companies will fire you if you get caught with a handgun on their trucks. It's also highly illegal for the most part to transport one from state to state. You get advised "assume an attacker is armed and dangerous. . . always follow the their(the hijacker's) instructions. . . " Supposedly we have a second amendment in this country; why is it that we have to assume that assailants are armed and dangerous? Shouldn't they be assuming that we are armed and dangerous?
People who have defunct immune systems are confined to plastic bubbles. The same is true of a disarmed society, the rabbit people, for want of a better term, are helpless, and they cannot set foot outside of their protected environment. That is the specific illogic of gun control. It leaves people completely unable to leave the protective umbrella of the state. Supposedly it prevents and anarchic state where people are bangin' away at each other at the drop of a hat, but what it does in the reall world is to create an anarchic state where assailants know where and when the protective bubble of the state does not extend, and if anyone dares to defend themselves, they will themselves be prosecuted by the state that cannot and will not protect them in all of the dark places in this world where they need it the most. I totally despise the statist mindset that has brought this about, and the words I'm typing give you no clue as to how seriously I mean that.
Over the years americans have gradually been talked into handing increasing amounts of power to the state. Centuries ago Machiavelli wrote that if you want to take away people's liberties, the means of accomplishing that is fear. He's still right and probably always will be.
Little else of note to type, I guess. Eight out of ten weeks of classroom time complete, in two weeks I start driving.
Love and kisses
Lizardo
Haven't been doing a whole lot besides work and school. Thinking about a few odd things, like I do.
Ken, the crusty old trucker who's my instructor at NETTTS, got me to dwelling some on the matter of personal security when you're on the road. He has a couple of stories about incidents that did and almost happened to him. In one instance a big black guy tried to hijack his truck, but made the mistake of bringing a knife to a gun fight, and got himself blown out the door. Another time, he arrived in Brooklyn with a load of swinging meat an hour behind two other guys who had run with him since Denver, and had gone on ahead when he had stopped in Pennsylvania for a shower and a bite to eat. He parked and went to sleep and was awakend by a banging on his door; the police wanted to know if he had seen anything. The two guys who'd arrived an hour ahead of them were hanging on meat hooks in their trailers, their loads having been stolen.
Most companies will fire you if you get caught with a handgun on their trucks. It's also highly illegal for the most part to transport one from state to state. You get advised "assume an attacker is armed and dangerous. . . always follow the their(the hijacker's) instructions. . . " Supposedly we have a second amendment in this country; why is it that we have to assume that assailants are armed and dangerous? Shouldn't they be assuming that we are armed and dangerous?
People who have defunct immune systems are confined to plastic bubbles. The same is true of a disarmed society, the rabbit people, for want of a better term, are helpless, and they cannot set foot outside of their protected environment. That is the specific illogic of gun control. It leaves people completely unable to leave the protective umbrella of the state. Supposedly it prevents and anarchic state where people are bangin' away at each other at the drop of a hat, but what it does in the reall world is to create an anarchic state where assailants know where and when the protective bubble of the state does not extend, and if anyone dares to defend themselves, they will themselves be prosecuted by the state that cannot and will not protect them in all of the dark places in this world where they need it the most. I totally despise the statist mindset that has brought this about, and the words I'm typing give you no clue as to how seriously I mean that.
Over the years americans have gradually been talked into handing increasing amounts of power to the state. Centuries ago Machiavelli wrote that if you want to take away people's liberties, the means of accomplishing that is fear. He's still right and probably always will be.
Little else of note to type, I guess. Eight out of ten weeks of classroom time complete, in two weeks I start driving.
Love and kisses
Lizardo
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temper:
Your comments are always such an ego trip for me. If that's what you wanted to get across, you succeeded. 
sjanett:
thanks for the support, I'm in the proces of posting the set, hope you'll like it 