Dedication for quality

WELCOME TO THE NO BS ZONE OF TEDDY JACOBSON

NOTICE:
IF YOU HAVE SENT ME AN EMAIL IN THE PAST 5 OR 6 DAYS, I DID NOT RECEIVE IT, PLEASE RE SEND IT OR CALL ME AT 281 565 6977. I TRY TO BE PROMPT ANSWERING MY EMAILS BUT THERE WAS A MAJOR PROBLEM. I WILL HAVE A NEW COMMENTARY UP HERE SHORTLY......................................TJ

PLEASE NOTE: I WILL NOT BE TAKING IN ANY TRIGGER WORK ON A BERETTA MODEL 87 AT THIS POINT IN TIME. I REALIZE THERE IS AN ARTICLE IN THE NOV. 2005 ISSUE OF GUNS MAGAZINE WRITTEN BY MASAAD AYOOB ABOUT THIS 87 THAT I DID MANY YEARS AGO. I WILL ONLY TAKE IN LIMITED TRIGGER WORK ON STREET GUNS ONLY AND YOU MUST CALL ME FIRST. I GIVE NO DISCOUNTS TO ANYONE REGARDLESS OF WHAT YOUR NAME IS AND OR WHAT YOUR STATUS IS IN THIS LIFE. I AM STILL VERY MUCH IN DEMAND BUT I JUST DO VERY LIMITED WORK THAT HAS NEVER BEEN WORKED ON BY SOME ONE ELSE. YOU CAN CALL ME ON MY LAND LINE AT 281 565 6977 MOST ANY DAY AT 10am CENTRAL TIME. I WILL DISCUSS YOUR HANDGUN WITH YOU ANYTIME AND OR ADVISE YOU WHAT TO PURCHASE, I DO THIS AS A COURTESY TO HELP THE HONEST GUN OWNER..........TJ


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DISCLAIMER: THIS COMMENTARY AS WELL AS ALL MY PREVIOUS COMMENTARIES ARE MY PERSONAL OPINION AND MY PERSONAL VIEWPOINT. WHEN I QUOTE SOME ONE IT IS COPIED AND PASTED FROM A PUBLIC DOMAIN OF ONE KIND OR ANOTHER. I DO PAY FOR SOME DETAILED INTELLIGENCE REPORTS THAT I SHARE WITH YOU. IF YOU CAN NOT DEAL WITH REALITY, PLEASE LEAVE NOW.

I USE MILITEC METAL CONDITIONER FOR ALL MY TRIGGER WORK. Go to http://www.militec-1.com/ I do not sell it and you can buy it directly from Militec.

FOR CERAMIC COATINGS I USE PRODUCTS FROM NIC INDUSTRIES Go to http://www.nicindustries.com/Speak with Brandon Grady, he can help you.

FOR ALL MY CLEANING PURPOSES I USE LPS PRODUCTS, THERE IS NOTHING BETER THAN ZERO TRI OR MICRO X http://www.lpslabs.com/ You can purchase these products from http://www.mscdirect.com/

IF YOU NEED A SILICONE PRODUCT FOR YOUR HOLSTERS I USE DOW CHEMICAL SILICONE THAT COMES IN A SPRAY CAN OR A TUBE AND CAN BE PURCHASED AT http://www.mscdirect.com/




I have decided to write a different kind of commentary because of the nature of the emails I have been getting. I have dedicated my entire life to doing the very best of everything when it comes to actual work. Its true I have never learned to play well with others that give me a hard time but my dedication to doing the very best has always been there. Most people do not accept "NO" when I tell them I do not want the job.

I am in failing health and have cut my work load down to a fraction of what it used to be but what I do is vastly superior to anyone out there. I care about every single detail of my action work and I should not have to keep repeating myself when I tell some one I will pass on their job. Every person that has aggravated me has been written down and when they want more work I will not fight or argue with them one bit but I will tell them I do not want the job, most are too stupid to realize how they have pissed me off. I resent people calling me close to MIDNITE about their frustration about a gun or about my commentary or what ever.

I can not remember everything so I write it all down in my books. People are still looking for discounts and free work from me. Let them call people like Ed Brown or Bill Wilson or Les Baer or Bill Lauthridge, etc, at home in the late hours of the nite and see what happens. I have been very reasonable to everyone but because of my semi retirement and my declining health I have been forced to cut down my work load.

I WILL STILL DO SELECTED LIMITED TRIGGER WORK ON STREET GUNS FOR DECENT PEOPLE THAT WILL PLAY IT STRAIGHT WITH ME. They must play by my rules of honesty and integrity and keep their word and we will NOT have any problem.

I am not obligated to anyone to give them free work unless I truly consider them a close friend and they have very limited funds. My life does not revolve around money as Benjamin Franklin is not my G-D. I answer to a higher power than they could ever put in their pocket. My action work is very superior than anyone you know and second to NONE because I care and have trained myself as people depend on me to save their life. Nothing will ever change this.

As for teaching some one what I do and how I do it, its too late as it would take years for some one to learn what I know. There is no one to teach as it must go to the grave with me. The main person that has helped me is my wife Janet and when I am gone, she will shut everything down immediately as she sees fit. Its going to be her call and what ever I have here that must be returned to their owners will be done so immediately with their money. No one has a lease on life and no one knows when it will be over.

I will continue to help the decent folks always. The cutie pies, who think they have outsmarted me are through with me only they do not know it yet. I have spent a great deal of my time in these bloggers to explain how complicated it is to refine a handgun. YOU JUST CAN NOT CHANGE SPRINGS AND GET A DECENT TRIGGER BECAUSE IF THAT WERE THE CASE ALL THE FACTORIES WOULD DO THAT SO THEY COULD SELL MORE GUNS. Its just plain ignorant not to understand that you must remove the friction out of the entire action before you can depend on weaker springs that will take a set.

I have negotiated with my friend Marc at ISMI 800 773 1940 to work on a few specific designs so he can make superior springs out of Chrome Silicon wire that will absolutely help those that really care. Marc under stands my dedication to superior quality regardless of cost. This is not being done for me but for the select people out there that depend on a handgun for protection of life and property.

Most gun manufacturers now rely on LAWYERS and MARKETING PEOPLE OR AGENCIES to direct them to future models and sales. They do not care about past year quality. One of the new presidents of a company came from a plumbing and a tool company, how could he possibly know anything about quality in a firearm whether it be from the internal action or the outside with a fragile fiber optic sight that will crack under severe stess. More important is that people like this are brought into companies because of their marketing skills to earn more GREEN BACKS.

How could you ever rely on or expect this type of person to know what direction quality means as defined by WEBSTER. Its all BS, all they care about are the figures at the end of the week or the end of the month. TO GIVE YOU A PARRALLEL, lets briefly talk about the world series of baseball, It is my opinion that these current players only care about how many millions they can make and they do not even hold a candle to the all time great dedicated players like Babe Ruth or Mickey Mantle or Lou Gherrig, etc. I know my spelling may be off but you understand where I am coming from. The current crop of players have financial advisors that tell them what to do and get them sponsers for advertising a product. The true dedicated ball player has long been gone and it parrallels the older guns and gun manufacturers. ITS OVER.

You need these keyed safeties like another hole in your head. LAWYERS told them to do all this, its all BS. There are very few current production handguns that I would ever buy. I know how to improve most all of them. Know one cares so why bother, I can still refine most of them using my own methods. I always want to install some component that is easily replaced. I will give you a for instance. I would NEVER install a front site on any handgun that requires a tiny roll pin that is installed in a blind hole. HOW WILL YOU GET IT OUT FOR REPLACEMENT, WITH OUT RISKING DAMAGE, but its done every day by MORONS.

You do not like my honesty, no one forces you to come here, just go to a chat room where they will tell you what you want to hear. I have many ideas on ways to improve many handguns especially a 1911 pistol. Does anyone care ?? NO because the bottom line to them is Mr. Franklin, just ask Willie Sutton as hes the authority on where Mr. Franklin hides out.
Did anyone really need a beavertail and round or oval type hammers for a 1911 pistol ?? answer is NO, it was ingenius to the money people as now they can not only sell new oval or slotted hammers and beavertails so you can NO longer cock the gun with one hand. Now you must even pay a "SMITH" for the installaton of a beavertail which is worthless for a lefty like me.

You try and buy a straight spur hammer and if you find more than one or two that are still available I would be shocked. THERE ARE ALMOST NO STRAIGHT SPUR HAMMERS AVAILABLE FOR THE 1911 BROWNING DESIGN. This was intentionally done so everyone could make more Benjamin Franklins. Everyone makes money, the parts supplier and the shipping people and the magazines so they have more to write about and more to advertise, its all about money.

Now the Smiths charge good money to change the radius of the tang of the frame for your new beavertail and fit the part to the frame, that you never needed in the first place. THERE WAS NEVER ANYTHING WRONG WITH THE STRAIGHT SPUR HAMMER. If it bit you all you had to do was shorten it by 1/8 of an inch. Trouble was there was no money in that simple procedure.

So now you can understand why I am not the well liked expert because if people followed my advice they all lose money except the honest gun owner. This world is full of con men and full of suckers. Keep things simple and you will be fine. I rely on many different handguns, mostly my Glock or my HK P7 or my Beretta 92F. I never get complicated.
I do not like to carry a 1911 pistol with 230 grain hardball that gives me less velocity and less foot pounds of energy than my 9mm corbon POWERBALL 100 grain bullet at 1475 feet per second and the energy is close to 500 foot pounds and I carry 16 rounds in the gun itself with an extra magazine of 15 rounds. Its reality, get over it.




ISAIAH - CHAPTER 17, VERSE 1

א מַשָּׂא, דַּמָּשֶׂק: הִנֵּה דַמֶּשֶׂק מוּסָר מֵעִיר, וְהָיְתָה מְעִי מַפָּלָה.
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.

Syrian Bigwigs and Capital Flee under Implied Threat of Military Action

DEBKAfile Special Report
November 1, 2005, 2:30 PM (GMT+02:00)

The threat of military action was embedded in the UN Security Council resolution. It was reinforced by US Secretary of state Condoleezza Rice when she spoke of “serious’ consequences” – diplomatic parlance for military action – should Syria fail to cooperate with the final and conclusive part of UN investigator Dehlev Mehlis’ inquiry into the murder of Lebanese leader Rafiq Hariri last February.

The explicit threat of economic sanctions was deleted from the American-British-French draft demanding Damascus’ cooperation. It was dropped for the sake of a unanimous 15:0 endorsement to appease Russian, Chinese and Algerian objections. Instead, the resolution called for unspecific “measures.” However the motion was adopted under Chapter VII of the UN Charter, which spells out these measures as being “partial interruption of economic relations and of rail, sea, air, postal, telegraph, and other means of communication, and severance of diplomatic relations.”

The same chapter permits the use of armed force if those measures fall short of their purpose. Syria is required to detain any suspects named by the UN investigators and hand them over for interrogation at places and in conditions determined by those investigators.
The second tough clause states: suspects may be subject to a travel ban and a freeze on their assets.

Rice and British foreign secretary Jack Straw both addressed the Security Council session to strengthen the implied phased threats of the resolution.

Faced with this torrent of menacing language, Bashar Assad’s close associates have already decided that escape is the better part of valor. Influential Syrian VIPs appear to have read the UN resolution carefully last week and are absconding. DEBKAfile’s intelligence sources reveal large cash withdrawals from Syrian banks, currency conversions and transfers to banks outside the country.

The flight of money was accompanied by an exodus of some of the leading families of Damascus – anxious to beat “the ban on travel and assets freeze” mandated by the UN resolution for suspects in the Hariri murder plot.
The largest capital transfer – estimated at $6-7bn – was made by the tycoon Rami Makhlouf who lost no time in removing himself, business and family from Damascus to Dubai.

Makhlouf’s defection is a mortal blow for Assad and his shrinking circle of supporters. He is not only the manager of the Assad clans’ finances, his is also a close kinsman; Bashar’s mother is his aunt, sister of his father General Adnan Makhlouf, who served the late president Hafez Assad in a top position of trust as commander of the presidential guard.

His huge capital transfer and removal of his business center from the Syrian capital are capable of bringing the national economy crashing down about Assad’s ears.

His is not the only defection. Several other affluent Syrian businessmen close to the regime have also decamped. The second richest man in the country, Firas Tlas, has moved lock, stock and barrel, to Abu Dhabi. DEBKAfile’s sources report the secret flit of General Bahajat Suleiman, head of Syria’s intelligence council and virtual overlord of the national clandestine services.

Desperate to drum up support from his fellow Arab leaders, Assad demanded an Arab League summit but was informed that a narrow forum was the most that can be convened.

UN investigator Mehlis and his team were back at work in Beirut soon after the Security Council resolution was passed Monday night, Oct. 31. Mid-December is his deadline for winding up his probe.
Bashar Assad is confronted head-on now with a dilemma: which of his close relative should he surrender as a scapegoat? His young brother Maher Assad, or his sister’s husband, Assed Shawqat? Both top the Mehlis list of Syrian suspects in the Hariri murder plot.

WESTERN FRONT

Bye-bye Latin America?

Continent moving away from U.S. influence

Top level

G2 Headlines
Author: Joseph Farah

© 2005 G2 Bulletin
Publishing date: 27.10.2005 22:04

When President Bush leaves Washington for the December 2005 heads of states of the Americas conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina, he will find himself in a polite but not very friendly political environment. Not only will the U.S. president have to face President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, his most outspoken antagonist, he will also have to rub shoulders with several other heads of state representing a left of center political position.

Hugo Chavez This group, including Brazil’s Lula da Silva, is known to have openly criticized the U.S., at times using arguments demonstrating the super power, the most powerful nation of the hemisphere, is perhaps not so powerful after all. Intelligence and strategy analysts have been warning for more than 10 years the administration is too immersed in problem solving far away from home.

These analysts clearly state their opinion U.S. foreign policy is at one of its lowest points since World War II. Fresh winds of political, social and economic changes in Latin America are gaining strength from Argentina in the south all the way up to Mexico in the north. Observers agree these winds of change, unhindered by U.S. policies, are blowing now from various directions.

Regional nations, including those of the Caribbean, feel free to criticize the U.S., exhibiting more confidence in their expressions of defiance, in an atmosphere where constraints seem to have almost vanished. This new political environment will probably surprise President Bush who, like his Democratic predecessor President Clinton, neglected Latin American and Caribbean diplomacy to such an extent that a whole new reality has emerged unnoticed.

Apparently the Bush administration was oblivious to the need to stand guard and keep vigil over the seemingly infinite new energy resources in Latin America, a commodity vital to the U.S. economy, national security and way of life perhaps more than any other single mineral. One problem arising from political ideology changes in countries such as Brazil and Venezuela can be clearly identified through a new trend in the Latin American Common Market, created in 1991 by Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay, known as MERCOSUR.

This trend indicates a number of Latin American countries prefer these days to initiate business ventures, from which the U.S. is deliberately excluded, a possibility almost unheard of not so long ago. Two weeks Latin American ministers of the interior met in Caracas to discuss matters of security and cooperation. A Latin American summit held far from the hemisphere in Salamanca Spain, around the same time as the Caracas meeting, was attended by all South American presidents and by the prime ministers of Spain and Portugal.

Jose` Diaz, Uruguay’s minister of the interior, informed his colleagues in their Caracas meeting that issues related to future trade relations with the U.S. were discussed openly in Salamanca. Most importantly, Jose` Diaz could tell the representatives of Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil, that at the Latin American summit President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela made headlines by announcing his country intends to join MERCOSUR.

In the next top-level meeting to be held in December 2005 in Argentina, Venezuela will participate as a full member of the prestigious Latin American Common Market. Analysts following these developments pointed to expressions made by President Chavez who did not bother to hide his plans for the nature of Venezuela’s future relations with the U.S. President Chavez is head of a country listed as the fifth largest oil exporter in the world, currently shipping most of its oil, some two thirds of its total production, to the U.S. As his popularity continues to rise, and as he finds more allies in Latin America, President Chavez is clearly looking for other markets.

It is an uninhibited attempt to divert the massive oil flow going to the U.S. towards oil thirsty markets close to home or even far away. Bridges, Weekly Trade News Digest, has this to say in an October 19 piece titled: “Venezuela to fully join MERCOSUR Abandon ANDEAN Block?“ Venezuela believes being a member of MERCOSUR will place her in a prime position to boost its supply of energy to South America. Chavez has been actively seeking new markets for the country’s oil and natural gas exports in an attempt to reduce its dependency on the U.S., which currently imports two thirds of Venezuela’s oil production.”

Among others a plan is being implemented to build a natural gas pipeline between Venezuela and Brazil, which will allow, as Bloomberg.com reported on October 16, “for the integration of Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela and Uruguay, into one gas system.” The U.S. is about to be faced with a serious challenge in the very near future. It is amazing to watch its negligible response to this critical political shift in the hemisphere.

G2B has learned from several diplomatic sources connected to Latin America, U.S. diplomats have been trying in vain to alert the Department of State to react proactively to what should be plainly defined as looming danger. At the very least, and as a first step towards rehabilitating U.S.-Latin American relations, U.S. regional foreign policies should improve working relationships with left wing Brazil and Venezuela.

Frustrated diplomats are quietly talking of a small fire ignited by President Chavez, soon to engulf more nations as he encourages them to follow his Bolivar style socialist ideology. Other Latin American nations are already showing tendencies towards the left with one source strongly pointing to Mexico. The U.S. southern neighbor is in the midst of a colorful and lively election campaign.

The man leading in the polls is former Mexico City mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador who is on record saying he intends to follow the example of Lula da Silva in Brazil, promising major social changes. Obrador’s promises are more than attractive in a country of 36 million people where more than 40 percent live under the poverty line.

Obrador is also of the opinion Latin America’s natural resources should be used first and foremost to help impoverished centers scattered like ugly open sores across Latin America. According to Obrador Latin American oil and natural gas can easily be sold to markets other than the U.S., especially at a time when manufacturers are outsourcing thousands of American jobs and whole production lines owned by multi-national corporations are moving to the south and to the east anyway.

This gloomy picture can only be interpreted as an on-going erosion of U.S. power in her own hemisphere, unfortunately an additional bleak reality to an array of disappointments the U.S. is confronting around the globe. At this stage there are no signs President Bush and his top advisers, most of all Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, seem to be too worried over the political dynamics shaping a new, almost hostile, Latin America. President Theodore Roosevelt believed the U.S. should be a policeman for the western hemisphere and that the U.S. should “walk softly and carry a big stick.” But the days of the “big stick” are gone.

G2B contributor Yoram East


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