Okay, here's something a little more contemporary from psycho rocker Ted Nugent:
"Obama, he's a piece of shit. I told him to suck on my machine gun...Hey Hillary [Clinton] you might want to ride one of these [machine guns] into the sunset, you worthless bitch."
and
"Apartheid isn't that cut and dry. All men are not created equal".
Well, okay, whatever the hell that means. Although I was wrong. Nuge is on the Board of Directors, but has yet to be president of the NRA. To his supporters, it is a dead heat, whether he'll be President of the USA or of the NRA.
By the way, if you go to the NRA website,

http://dataservices.nranews.com/svc/nra_classic


the lead (only) article is by Wayne LaPierre, who is the actual leader, disguised as an Executive Vice President. The President is either Ronald Schmeits (Wikipedia) or Kayne Robinson (NRA Website). Robinson would be the third president this year, as Schmeits replaced John Sigler.
Doesn't matter. See "LaPierre, Wayne".
And who could possibly give a wet crap about Sarah! the Quitter Palin? Why, the NRA, of course!


Governor Palin Honored With NRA’s Gold Medial Award of Merit & Benefactor Life Membership
Monday, August 03, 2009
ANCHORAGE, AK- Sarah Palin is back, almost a week since she stepped out of the spotlight.
Governor Palin gave a speech on 2nd Amendment rights at a banquet in Anchorage.
The Saturday night event capped a 4-day National Rifle Association seminar hosted by the Alaska Gun Collectors Association.
NRA director Wayne Anthony Ross, president of the gun collectors' group, says Palin attended the dinner with her husband, Todd. Ross says about 130 people attended the event.
Gun collectors groups from outside the state presented Palin with lifetime memberships. She also received the NRA's Gold Medal Award of Merit for the Promotion of Gun Collecting.
An avid defender of our 2nd Amendment rights, Sarah Palin spoke about Big Government intrusion and the importance of being vigilant in protecting our right to bear arms.
A star-studded banquet concluded the events of the NRA's XVIII Gun Collectors Seminar in Anchorage, Alaska on Saturday night, August 1, 2009.
Luminaries such as NRA President Ronald Schmeits and Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre attended the four-day seminar in downtown Anchorage. The seminar was hosted by Gun Collectors Committee Chairman Wayne Anthony Ross and the members of the Alaska Gun Collectors Association.
Seminar activities included sessions on World War II in Alaska as well as the life of the common soldier of the American revolution and culminated Saturday evening with a visit from former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin who gave a stirring speech on 2nd Amendment rights. Following the speech she was presented with Life Memberships in The Missouri Valley Arms Collectors Association, Ohio Gun Collectors Association and the Dallas Arms Collectors Association. The members of the Missouri Valley Arms Collectors Association also presented Gov. Palin with an NRA Benefactor Life Membership as well. She was also presented with the NRA's Gold Medal Award of Merit for the Promotion of Gun Collecting. This is only the second time in 10 years the award has been presented on behalf of the NRA's Gun Collectors Committee.

This was culled from a Sarah! website

http://governorpalin4president.blogspot.com/2009/08/sarah-palin-honored-with-nras-gold.html


Should you go, prepare to stay awhile. There are a lot of links to sites run by some no doubt fascinating people.
So why is she "Governor" Palin? She quit. Isn't "Governor" an honorific for those who at least tried to do the job?
Here is the link for the NRA's "enemies list"


http://www.nraila.org/Issues/FactSheets/Read.aspx?ID=15


Given the body of work of some of these people, it seems a damn shame to boycott them on a single issue.
Such is the NRA.
Okay, I really, really, really want to be on the enemies list. Woe that I am insignificant...

As everyone knows, Tuesday is Science Day at The New York Times, and yesterday there was an article reporting findings that a dog's coat, a significant factor in breeding and a distinctive feature of many of the 146 breeds recognized by the American Kennel Club, and possibly a hundred others, is controlled by three genes. Three. See

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/01/science/01obdogs.html?_r=1&ref=science

An interesting thing is one of the oldest pure breed dogs, the Afghan hound, doesn't conform.
Ever wonder what that "Afghan" refers to? I hadn't.
But it explains the dearth of records for the dog.
The first appearance or notice of the breed in the Western world, from an unmistakable picture in some copies of a collection of letters from 1809 India, was published in England in 1813. Claims the breed can be traced back 4000 years, to Egypt, are unsubstantiated, but a genereader will surely find out, when piqued.
It is a bit odd the Afghan hound, with that luxurious coat (although they are goofy: a friend who owned one said you could never be sure when you opened the door whether the dog would be lying on the couch or sitting on the refrigerator - so Afghani) is exempt from this genealogical expression. Have fun guessing why.

So I don't lose the thread of this blog, here's some bird stuff: there was a red tail on a post just out of town south this morning, a first, and I wanted to take a slower look, but a moron was on my bumper, one of those alleged "people" who would rather follow by inches than pass.
I used to carry a selection of golf balls to deal with this, but there is no place for them in my little truck.

More bird stuff later. And the end of the NRA stuff, unless they should threaten me with the "enemies list"... oh, please... The Who, Magic Bus, "I want it I want it I want it"...
Be kind and spare me the next line.

One more for Nuge: it's "cut and dried", you submoronic sack of vomit. "Cut and dried" as in making hay, as in it's finished, made, ready for bailing, which is work, a term, concept, reality your mangy ass has never had to face.