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Posted on 02.20.10 by K. Daniel Glover @ 7:32 pm
… Gun-control laws do. That’s the hidden and ironic message Don Surber of the Charleston Daily Mail found in a new Brady Campaign for Gun Control report. “I am laughing so hard now that it is difficult to type,” Surber wrote after noting that Utah earned a grade of zero from the Brady Campaign but also has a murder rate of 1.5 per 100,000 people, with 46 percent of those murders being firearms related. By contrast, California scored a 79 on the Brady gun-control scale, but its homicide rate is 5.83 per 100,000 and 69 percent are firearms related. Annie, get your gun and move to a state where you can own it legally. You’ll be safer there. Filed under: Government and Hunting & Guns and News & Politics Comments: None |
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Posted on 12.19.09 by K. Daniel Glover @ 12:03 pm
Think of all the small game that died to make this festive wreath possible — and smile knowing that it is driving the animal lovers at People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals crazy. Filed under: Holidays and Hunting & Guns and Just For Laughs and Redneck Humor Comments: None |
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Posted on 12.19.09 by K. Daniel Glover @ 11:51 am
“It’s really a neat way to do business,” Tom Klebe told the Herald & Review in Decatur, Ill. He and his wife, Darla, have been selling the snack baskets online since 2004 and have new mixes planned for after the holidays. “The challenge we are running into is all of the different shipping options.” The store has arrangements for hunters (lots of jerky and other meaty morsels), fisherman (Goldfish crackers and other aquatic-themed snacks), soldiers (everything your favorite military man, or woman, could want while away from home) and more. The biggest basket, “Bubba’s Little Brother,” sells for about $130. And right now all 10 versions of the redneck basket, which actually come in metal tubs, are “stimulus priced”! Filed under: Business and Fishing and Food and Hunting & Guns and Rednecks Comments: None |
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Posted on 12.18.09 by K. Daniel Glover @ 10:58 pm
Still Christmas shopping for that special redneck in your life? Well, nothing says “I love you” like a gun rack under the mattress and a shotgun within reach as you sleep: That reminds me of a redneck Christmas carol I learned as a kid and sing to our children now: “Jingle bells, shotgun shells, Santa Claus is dead. Tried to steal my teddy bear, so I shot him in the head.” Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night! Filed under: Holidays and Hunting & Guns and Just For Laughs and Redneck Humor and Video Comments: None |
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Posted on 12.18.09 by K. Daniel Glover @ 11:59 am
… in the stocking of this butchery. Sometimes people become so emotionally invested in a belief that their minds don’t work as quickly as their mouths run: (Via Don Surber) Filed under: Hunting & Guns and Just For Laughs Comments: None |
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Posted on 12.15.09 by K. Daniel Glover @ 3:54 pm
Riflery is a sport made for West Virginia, and the Mountaineers of West Virginia University excel at the redneck sport. The team and its stories history — 14 collegiate championships — get much-deserved props in The Washington Post today:
In short, we hillbillies love to shoot things, be it deer or targets, and we know how to do it. Well, some of us do. I wish I could say I’m an expert marksman, but alas, I am the kind of redneck who more often than not can’t hit the proverbial broad side of barn. There are plenty of us. But at least we can live vicariously through the WVU riflery team. Male or female, they make all of us Mountaineers proud. Filed under: Hunting & Guns and Rednecks and Sports and West Virginia Comments: None |
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Posted on 12.12.09 by K. Daniel Glover @ 3:48 pm
American singer and songwriter Pink (her given name is Alecia Beth Moore) thinks Prince William of England needs a better education. That’s the only explanation she has for why someone as royal as he is would stoop so low as to hunt:
Wear that redneck label with pride, Prince William. And keep on hunting. Pink, like everyone else who works with the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, is the one who needs educated. Filed under: Hunting & Guns and Music and People Comments: 2 Comments |
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Posted on 12.11.09 by K. Daniel Glover @ 11:28 pm
As a young man, I loved catching carp in the rivers and streams of West Virginia. I never kept the ugly, bony fish for food, but hooking them was great sport because they are fighters. Apparently the enlightened folks in the Great Lakes region don’t see the Asian carp that way. One family established the Redneck Fishing Tournament “to get those carp out so we can take back the [Illiniois River]” because the carp eat ravenously and jump from the water when spooked by boats. But fishing for the carp didn’t work. The population continued to rise, and officials fear that the invasive species will ruin sport and commercial fishing in the Great Lakes. That’s why frantic officials in Illinois spent $3 million to poison … one carp. Your government at work. Next time, maybe I’ll lobby the state to pay this redneck $3 million in exchange for catching and killing two carp. Illinois will double the return on taxpayers’ investment, and I’ll be able to retire early. Sounds like a win-win scenario to me. Filed under: Fishing and Government and Rednecks and Video and West Virginia Comments: None |
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Posted on 12.10.09 by K. Daniel Glover @ 6:01 pm
I’ve been missing a good series. Since 1995, Israel has been striking coins about biblical stories. This year’s coins, available in gold and silver and in different sizes, illustrate the story of Israeli judge Samson killing a lion with his bare hands. Past coins have featured the Big Three patriarchs — Abraham, Isaac and Jacob — and characters such as Joseph, Moses and his sister Miriam, Solomon and the prophet Isaiah. The Tower of Babel makes an appearance, too. Meanwhile, on $1 coins here in the United States that nobody uses, this year we’re celebrating presidential powerhouses William Henry Harrison (dead one month after his inauguration because he didn’t have, as the cliche says, the sense God gave a lemon), John Tyler, James K. Polk and Zachary Taylor. It’s enough to make an all-American guy want to start collecting coins from Israel. Filed under: Coin Collecting and History and People and Religion Comments: None |
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Posted on 12.05.09 by K. Daniel Glover @ 12:00 pm
Outrage and insights in a 140 characters or less (most of the time). This is a weekly recap of topics that capture my fancy. To get your fill of my rants on a daily basis, follow The Enlightened Redneck on Twitter. Much to the chagrin of many fellow conservatives, I supported Mike Huckabee for president in the 2008 Republican presidential primary. The news this week that he granted clemency to a man who years killed four police officers in Washington state, and Huckabee’s comments after the news broke, made me change my tune. I still like Huckabee, but I don’t believe he has the judgment to be president. Here is what I had to say about the matter over a series of tweets: “Mike Huckabee freed a man now suspected of killing four cops. He no longer looks as presidential to me. … Huckabee dodges responsibility, blames “Arkansas” (and Washington) for freeing a man suspected of kiing four cops. What a cowardly statement from Huckabee. I expected better of him. He made a huge mistake and should own up to it. … ” And here are some redneck rants on other topics:
Filed under: Entertainment and Government and Human Interest and Hunting & Guns and Media and News & Politics and People and Redneck Rants and Sports and Technology and Wildlife Comments: None |
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Posted on 12.01.09 by K. Daniel Glover @ 1:06 pm
You might be a redneck … if you bag a buck and haul the carcass to the checking station on a bike. (Hat tip to Don Surber, a must read for all enlightened rednecks. A reader sent the photo.) You’re also a candidate for Bud Light’s “Real Men Of Genius” commercials: Filed under: Human Interest and Hunting & Guns and Just For Laughs and Redneck Humor and Rednecks and Video and Wildlife Comments: None |
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Posted on 10.24.09 by K. Daniel Glover @ 9:24 pm
The Royal Canadian Mint made five humongous gold coins in 2007. One is now the star of a high-security tour in the country before it is auctioned in 2011. The “Million-Dollar Coin,” which is actually worth $3.4 million just for the gold content, weighs 220 pounds and is more than an inch thick and about 20 inches in diameter. Behold her beauty! Filed under: Coin Collecting Comments: None |
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Posted on 10.07.09 by K. Daniel Glover @ 12:38 pm
During my hunting heyday, I became enthralled with turkey hunting. There weren’t many wild turkeys in West Virginia at the time, but the population was recovering. My interest piqued when the birds started appearing on my grandfather’s farm, where I had been hunting deer, squirrels and rabbits for years. One summer I was lucky enough to stumble upon a hen and her poults while I had my camera and snapped of few pictures of the young turkeys. As my fascination with wild turkeys increased, I started hunting them. I loved the thrill of trying to lure a gobbler within shotgun range by talking like a turkey. I attended a seminar on turkey hunting and spent some time outside the pen of a neighbor’s domestic turkey trying to learn the language with my own voice rather than using manufactured calls. I learned to gobble fairly well but never could cluck like a hen. These brothers can do it all — and they know how to have fun doing it: Filed under: Hunting & Guns and Just For Laughs and Video and Wildlife Comments: None |
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Posted on 09.18.09 by K. Daniel Glover @ 12:08 am
About 75 years ago, the federal government minted a batch of $20 gold coins but decided not to release them publicly. Most were melted, but a few found their way out of the U.S. Mint. Those 1933 Saint Gaudens “double eagles” are among the most famous coins in history, and now they’re in the news again. Back in 2003, Roy Langbord found not one but 10 of the coins in a long-forgotten family safe-deposit box. The only 1933 double eagle ever sold netted $7.6 million in 2002, the most for any single coin in history. Langbord and his family were suddenly rich. Or so they thought. But when they gave the coins to the government to authenticate that they weren’t fakes, Uncle Sam kept them, claiming that Langbord’s grandfather, Israel Switt, had stolen them. The government offered no evidence to prove its claim — and apparently has none — so now the case is in court. It’s entirely possible that Switt was a criminal and stole the coins. But in America, he’s innocent until proven guilty — and his family members are definitely innocent.”Maybe they were stolen in the 1930s,” a leading numismatist told The New York Times, “but they certainly weren’t stolen by the people who are holding them now.” Amen to that. At a minimum, the government should do what it did in 2002 — let the coins go to auction and split the proceeds 50-50 with the family. But I hope the family gets all of they money. They deserve it after the government’s greedy gold coin grab. Filed under: Coin Collecting and Government Comments: 2 Comments |
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Posted on 08.26.09 by K. Daniel Glover @ 12:16 pm
I love a good coin story, and this is the best one I’ve read in a while:
That news account reminded me of my favorite coin story of all time. It’s my favorite because it involved friends of ours. Our friends regularly frequented the “Too Good To Be Trash” facility at our local dump, where people took old or broken items they didn’t want anymore but that other people might be willing to whip back into usable shape. Our friends scored some great finds over the years, including a grandfather clock that needed a minor repair but was otherwise in fantastic shape. One day while our friend was scouring the non-trashy goods on the grounds with her daughter, they caught a glimpse of something shiny on the pavement. At first glance, they thought it was just toy money, but a closer inspection made them think it was real gold. And indeed it was. I don’t recall the denomination or the exact year, but it was a U.S. gold coin from the 1800s. It wasn’t extremely valuable (maybe $150), but it was absolutely free — and a great piece of history. Even better, it’s now a family heirloom with a great story behind it. Filed under: Coin Collecting and Friends and History and Human Interest Comments: None |
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