Thinking of retirement? Have I got a new deal for you, you pay me $300 a paycheck until you’re sixty five and then I’ll give you $150 a month until you die. Sounds very good. You probably jumped right through the screen to talk to me. Yeah, this is what you are doing every day, paying money into something that you will never get equal or greater money out of. This makes no sense when you are putting money aside for your retirement, so why do we do it? Because we have to!
Social security was a bad idea from the start, people pay into it, the population grows and there isn’t enough money to go around. So guess what? You’ve been screwed by another democrat! It takes up 37% of government expenditures that could be better used on something else. Even though you’ve been paying into this scheme for years you still aren’t guaranteed to get your share, in the 1960 Supreme Court case Fleming v. Nestor, the court ruled that nobody was entitled to Social Security benefits; it is not a contractual right. Yet we are still forced to pay this unjust tax. Of course this is not mandatory on paper, but you can’t file your taxes without it, that is your serial number in the military. For the most part you are at a disadvantage if you don’t have a social security number, because as you know, the I.R.S. will get their money.
For all intensive purposes your SSN is the mark of the beast, try to get a loan or credit card without one. Part of the downfall of this is where the funds go. The Federal Reserve is existing under the façade of being a federal entity, but it is actually a private bank. For whatever reason money keeps disappearing from them and nobody knows where it went. $5 trillion of bailout money just up and vanished! This happens with social security money all the time. They are responsible for the Great Depression and the current economic crisis, it is their job to prevent this but ever since Woodrow Wilson signed them in they have failed us. They control interest rates, mortgage rates, and inflation. They do all of this to keep our economy thriving and they can’t do it.
When the stock market crashed in 1929, the Federal Reserve bankrolled the nation, but since at the time we couldn’t pay them bank they pushed the debt onto all future generations through social security. If you don’t believe me look it up. If you watch The Obama Deception on YouTube they explain much better.
Different times I have been told that social security was designed as a supplement to retirement. That is not what all the documentation and surrounding statements from the time state. One argument back then was that more jobs would be created because older people could retire. So that shoots that in the foot. Don’t you think that if that was the case those people would have already retired? No, it is a plain and simple Marxist principle, redistributing wealth. So if they really wanted to make this our retirement plan, then why don’t they make it better? A town in Texas did an experiment and invested the same money in private groups and made something like six times what they invested.
Social security is just that; socialism, it’s right there in the name. We have people that are out there scamming to get unemployment benefits, and then get the retirement benefits when they are old enough. These people can work, but they are looking “for a job” at the bottom of a bottle. We pay them to sit and be lazy, while we toil and slave to put food on the table. A great example is the film Million Dollar Baby, the daughter buys her mom a house and the mom goes nuts because they will cut her welfare benefits. So what she’ll have to be like the rest of us and work and contribute to society. What they are breeding here is dependence on the government. That is what the liberals want, America to be a bunch of piglets suckling themselves off the teats of the government. That of course contributes to why social security will go bankrupt because we have people collecting the money before retirement and never paying into it, so those that do end up getting screwed because more is being given out than went in.
We need to stop paying people to sit around and do nothing. This whole they owe me mentality is destructive. We need to stop paying into a flawed socialist system. Why don’t they stop taking it from us, or use it to lower the deficit. The whole number being your identity thing is a bit crazy to, its like prison, you’re a number not a name. This madness needs to come to an end.
29 August 2009
Cybersecurity Act of 2009
The Cybersecurity Act of 2009 may, if effected, "offer President Obama emergency control of the Internet and may give him a 'kill switch' to shut down online traffic by seizing private networks" (FNC). Originally, the wording of the bill would have given Obama power "'to essentially turn off the Internet in the case of a cyber-emergency,'" (FNC). An edited version was released Thursday, and "allows the president to 'declare a cybersecurity emergency' relating to 'non-governmental' computer networks and make a plan to respond to the danger . . . that rights experts worry would give the president 'amorphous powers' over private users" (FNC). The Cybersecurity Act "would centralize regulations for an industry that is too varied to fall under the control of a single set of rules without endangering the economy and security" (FNC).
Would someone please define a "cyber-emergency?" They compare this bill to Bush's grounding of all aircraft on September 11. In my opinion, taking control of private networks is nothing like grounding aircraft following a devastating terrorist attack. Perhaps it would be different in a cyber-emergency, but considering the fact that no one seems to know what that is in the first place, this just seems to be another power grab to me.
Would someone please define a "cyber-emergency?" They compare this bill to Bush's grounding of all aircraft on September 11. In my opinion, taking control of private networks is nothing like grounding aircraft following a devastating terrorist attack. Perhaps it would be different in a cyber-emergency, but considering the fact that no one seems to know what that is in the first place, this just seems to be another power grab to me.
27 August 2009
Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead
Ted Kennedy has kicked the bucket. It’s about time, there wasn’t much material left to my voodoo doll. The “Lion” has let loose his death roar, and now they want his name on it. It is people like this that remind us of why abortion remains legal; all of this could have been prevented. Mary Jo Kopechne might still even be alive.
He is not going to go away. They will continue to try to honor him by doing a large amount of ridiculous things. Hopefully this will take “That’s Ignorant” Michael Jackson who has croaked forever ago; off of the news. Things like this are like the times when you poop a portrait of the Mona Lisa; you call everyone in to see it, then you flush it down and forget it happened. But since he was a bureaucrat, a member of “America’s Royal Family” and a liberal, they will be making documentaries on the legacy of the lion, or some other pathetic name.
First off, our founding fathers never intended for there to be royalty, we are supposed to be equal. But because of who he was, he got away with murder, fleeing the scene of a crime, and a DUI. On top of that when they convicted him of fleeing the scene, he never served a day of his sentence. He should have been convicted of treason and hung, but that’s a separate issue.
This man made a career of being a senator. That is not right. We need new people and new ideas. Instead we have people continue to try and force down our gullets the same crap we threw right back to them before, only for them to try and put it back on the plate. Nothing gets done this way. Teddy probably didn’t remember creating HMO’s yet he was against what he created in earlier in his career. This makes me wonder, if they were so concerned with Reagan possibly having Alzheimer’s disease while he was in office, (he started at age 70) what if Teddy had it? He died at age 77; if he didn’t have it he was at least old and senile.
This man who did more to make America communist; a system proven not to work; is going to be paraded around and speeches will be made in his honor. It is this attitude that someone so destructive to American ideals that will bring us down. This drunk was nothing worth honoring yet they will, I’m wondering who else could get drunk, rape a girl, kill her, drive the car with her body in it off a bridge, and flee the scene could put forth such a successful attempt to mess this great country. So to you Teddy I thumb my nose at you, and fart in your general direction.
He is not going to go away. They will continue to try to honor him by doing a large amount of ridiculous things. Hopefully this will take “That’s Ignorant” Michael Jackson who has croaked forever ago; off of the news. Things like this are like the times when you poop a portrait of the Mona Lisa; you call everyone in to see it, then you flush it down and forget it happened. But since he was a bureaucrat, a member of “America’s Royal Family” and a liberal, they will be making documentaries on the legacy of the lion, or some other pathetic name.
First off, our founding fathers never intended for there to be royalty, we are supposed to be equal. But because of who he was, he got away with murder, fleeing the scene of a crime, and a DUI. On top of that when they convicted him of fleeing the scene, he never served a day of his sentence. He should have been convicted of treason and hung, but that’s a separate issue.
This man made a career of being a senator. That is not right. We need new people and new ideas. Instead we have people continue to try and force down our gullets the same crap we threw right back to them before, only for them to try and put it back on the plate. Nothing gets done this way. Teddy probably didn’t remember creating HMO’s yet he was against what he created in earlier in his career. This makes me wonder, if they were so concerned with Reagan possibly having Alzheimer’s disease while he was in office, (he started at age 70) what if Teddy had it? He died at age 77; if he didn’t have it he was at least old and senile.
This man who did more to make America communist; a system proven not to work; is going to be paraded around and speeches will be made in his honor. It is this attitude that someone so destructive to American ideals that will bring us down. This drunk was nothing worth honoring yet they will, I’m wondering who else could get drunk, rape a girl, kill her, drive the car with her body in it off a bridge, and flee the scene could put forth such a successful attempt to mess this great country. So to you Teddy I thumb my nose at you, and fart in your general direction.
A Few Good Writers
Lately, there have been a few changes around L2. L2 is welcoming two new writers to the team -- Xavier Brightside and Mad Dog 20/20.
Brightside is a soldier with the U.S. Army, OIF VII/VIII veteran and the friend of a friend.
Mad Dog 20/20 is a Conservative Christian, former U.S. soldier and Vietnam era veteran.
L2 is currently looking for more writers to add to the team, since some write more consistently than others and I would prefer to have new material on a fairly regular basis. We would prefer writers who:
Brightside is a soldier with the U.S. Army, OIF VII/VIII veteran and the friend of a friend.
Mad Dog 20/20 is a Conservative Christian, former U.S. soldier and Vietnam era veteran.
L2 is currently looking for more writers to add to the team, since some write more consistently than others and I would prefer to have new material on a fairly regular basis. We would prefer writers who:
- are fairly knowledgeable about current events and politics (depending on what you choose to write about).
- share Conservative values.
- have a decent grasp of the English language (I will proofread if you'd prefer).
Questions Asked
Why is it that the people that are crying the loudest for free health care are the same ones that wouldn't think of giving up their tobacco, giving up their alcohol, giving up their cable tv or their cell phone, trips to McDonald's, movies and other things they probably could be saving money on. Why is that?
Why is it they test people in the military for drugs, and police for drugs, and government officials for drugs, but they don't test welfare recipients for drugs?
I can't tell you how many times I had to pee in a bottle when I was in the military. By giving these people welfare checks and not guaranteeing that it isn't being spent on food and other necessities, we're supporting a lot of people's drug habits.
Written by Mad Dog 20/20. Posted by Eun.
Why is it they test people in the military for drugs, and police for drugs, and government officials for drugs, but they don't test welfare recipients for drugs?
I can't tell you how many times I had to pee in a bottle when I was in the military. By giving these people welfare checks and not guaranteeing that it isn't being spent on food and other necessities, we're supporting a lot of people's drug habits.
Written by Mad Dog 20/20. Posted by Eun.
25 August 2009
Honey I'm Not Stopping For Directions
So as the national deficit reaches an all time high, I think it is time to ask, why? As of 1355 today, or for you army types, Mickey’s big hand is on the…. Anyhow, the national debt is at $11,734,241,780,087.89. With an estimated population in the U.S. of 306,799,737 every man, woman, and child would have to shell out $38,247.24 to make us even. The last I had heard was in the spring of ’07 and the debt was nine trillion something, and it would cost everyone $27,000 to get us out of this slump. Since September 28 2007 the national debt has risen $3.9 billion a day! I recall the messiah saying something about lowering it, yet as of yesterday I was hearing claims that it will go up an additional 2 trillion. Now today I heard that it might go up another 11 trillion!
Of course those are just rough figures, but why are we here? Have they not heard of a sound financial principle that if you don’t have it you can’t spend it? But what do they care; it is only the tax payers money. Roosevelt made the same promise during his first presidential campaign he promised to lower government spending by 25%; instead he increased spending by 83%! During the Great Depression he pulled this crap. Now at what is the worst economic crisis since then, we have another savior trying to do the same thing that has been proven not to work. So since they can’t seem to do their jobs I’ll help out and all they have to do is vote for them.
Eliminate all luxuries for inmates. They screwed up, they wronged. They broke the law. Yet they get to call people for free. I am in the military and I have to pay to use the phone. They get cable TV, I don’t even have a TV and I haven’t killed anyone. Do you know that they get steak and lobster? While our troops are eating freeze dried, dehydrated slop and getting blown up, the scum of the earth, the dregs of society are eating steak and lobster. They get Christmas presents that you I pay for while we have people that can’t even buy food for their families. I thought prison was supposed to be hard time not a vacation. There are inmates that get released and go right back into prison because they don’t have to do anything and live well. My dad has seen this; I hear stories all the time about it. So I even know how we can fix it, and stop prison violence and the spread of AIDS and drugs in the prison system.
The inmate is in a cell all by their lonesome, with a bed, a toilet and a sink. They are fed essentially bread and water. Once a week they can do laundry, and get a shower. They can only receive one screened letter consisting of one page a month and they are given the opportunity to write their family once a month. Once a month they get to spend some more quality alone time in an open area for one hour to exercise. The rest of the time they are in their cell, so that they can reflect on how they did wrong. That will make that pervert think twice before going into the park and telling little kids he has a lollipop. To save more money we can use the death penalty more often so that there is more room, and more incentive to stay on the straight and narrow. For lesser risk criminals we can use them to do jobs that are dangerous or that nobody wants to do, like clean up along the roadside. Also they wouldn’t be getting paid.
Another way to save money is to cut down on luxuries for politian’s. In 1996 at the cost of $50,000 Air Force One, was equipped with a deck of gold embossed playing cards. Apparently they didn’t realize that you could get a deck for a dollar at a gas station, or if you’re in a good mood a buck fifty for Aviators. We pay congress, presidents, all those people for the rest of their lives. What are they doing that serves the people that is worth that money when they no longer hold their position? Nothing! Do you pay the plumber if he doesn’t come by and fix anything? No, why would anyone pay for a service that you aren’t using? It doesn’t make sense. They live in the lap of luxury, not following the rules that they pass down to us, while collecting a pretty good paycheck. Then continue to get that paycheck until they finally push up daisies. (If only some would do it faster) Most are already wealthy, so why do they need the money? A large amount were lawyers, they must have sucked at that or else they’d still be doing that because there is more money in it. No they are already wealthy, they should get paid while doing their job, then get out and do whatever it is they did before without the people having to pay them for getting fat and continuing to annoy.
On your tax form that you usually fill out around April 14th every year there is a box asking you if you want a dollar of your taxes to go the presidential campaign. That should be removed. Why is it necessary that the taxpayers pay for another puppet of the communist party to run a smear campaign against someone that could probably do a great job without taxing the living snot out of everyone? They don’t need it, it isn’t a concern of the people that the Blair Witch Hillary can’t come up with the funds to do a fake safari to try and get the hunters support. It is a waste.
So there. I just saved loads of money by thinking logically. We don’t need to raise taxes we can keep them the same and still lower the deficit, or lower taxes, maybe both when we get out of the U.N. But we just have to let it work for a year or so. But this makes me wonder, why don’t we the people say anything about this? Are we just zombies that pay taxes and don’t care what they do with our hard earned money? It is our money, our government that is supposed to be benefitting us, so why do we let this happen all of the time? It is time for us to put or collective feet down, and them in Washington that we are tired of their stupid little games. Checkmate, you pinko!
Of course those are just rough figures, but why are we here? Have they not heard of a sound financial principle that if you don’t have it you can’t spend it? But what do they care; it is only the tax payers money. Roosevelt made the same promise during his first presidential campaign he promised to lower government spending by 25%; instead he increased spending by 83%! During the Great Depression he pulled this crap. Now at what is the worst economic crisis since then, we have another savior trying to do the same thing that has been proven not to work. So since they can’t seem to do their jobs I’ll help out and all they have to do is vote for them.
Eliminate all luxuries for inmates. They screwed up, they wronged. They broke the law. Yet they get to call people for free. I am in the military and I have to pay to use the phone. They get cable TV, I don’t even have a TV and I haven’t killed anyone. Do you know that they get steak and lobster? While our troops are eating freeze dried, dehydrated slop and getting blown up, the scum of the earth, the dregs of society are eating steak and lobster. They get Christmas presents that you I pay for while we have people that can’t even buy food for their families. I thought prison was supposed to be hard time not a vacation. There are inmates that get released and go right back into prison because they don’t have to do anything and live well. My dad has seen this; I hear stories all the time about it. So I even know how we can fix it, and stop prison violence and the spread of AIDS and drugs in the prison system.
The inmate is in a cell all by their lonesome, with a bed, a toilet and a sink. They are fed essentially bread and water. Once a week they can do laundry, and get a shower. They can only receive one screened letter consisting of one page a month and they are given the opportunity to write their family once a month. Once a month they get to spend some more quality alone time in an open area for one hour to exercise. The rest of the time they are in their cell, so that they can reflect on how they did wrong. That will make that pervert think twice before going into the park and telling little kids he has a lollipop. To save more money we can use the death penalty more often so that there is more room, and more incentive to stay on the straight and narrow. For lesser risk criminals we can use them to do jobs that are dangerous or that nobody wants to do, like clean up along the roadside. Also they wouldn’t be getting paid.
Another way to save money is to cut down on luxuries for politian’s. In 1996 at the cost of $50,000 Air Force One, was equipped with a deck of gold embossed playing cards. Apparently they didn’t realize that you could get a deck for a dollar at a gas station, or if you’re in a good mood a buck fifty for Aviators. We pay congress, presidents, all those people for the rest of their lives. What are they doing that serves the people that is worth that money when they no longer hold their position? Nothing! Do you pay the plumber if he doesn’t come by and fix anything? No, why would anyone pay for a service that you aren’t using? It doesn’t make sense. They live in the lap of luxury, not following the rules that they pass down to us, while collecting a pretty good paycheck. Then continue to get that paycheck until they finally push up daisies. (If only some would do it faster) Most are already wealthy, so why do they need the money? A large amount were lawyers, they must have sucked at that or else they’d still be doing that because there is more money in it. No they are already wealthy, they should get paid while doing their job, then get out and do whatever it is they did before without the people having to pay them for getting fat and continuing to annoy.
On your tax form that you usually fill out around April 14th every year there is a box asking you if you want a dollar of your taxes to go the presidential campaign. That should be removed. Why is it necessary that the taxpayers pay for another puppet of the communist party to run a smear campaign against someone that could probably do a great job without taxing the living snot out of everyone? They don’t need it, it isn’t a concern of the people that the Blair Witch Hillary can’t come up with the funds to do a fake safari to try and get the hunters support. It is a waste.
So there. I just saved loads of money by thinking logically. We don’t need to raise taxes we can keep them the same and still lower the deficit, or lower taxes, maybe both when we get out of the U.N. But we just have to let it work for a year or so. But this makes me wonder, why don’t we the people say anything about this? Are we just zombies that pay taxes and don’t care what they do with our hard earned money? It is our money, our government that is supposed to be benefitting us, so why do we let this happen all of the time? It is time for us to put or collective feet down, and them in Washington that we are tired of their stupid little games. Checkmate, you pinko!
24 August 2009
This Is the "Change" Leftover From the New Deal
The way we were taught in school, and the way the history books are written today would have you think that we were led by this great god fearing, red blooded American named Franklin Delano Roosevelt out of the Great Depression. But that is what they want you to think, in reality it was a man from across the pond as they say, that really got us out of that mess instead of making it last much longer. He was a Bavarian (amazing donut filling) paper hanger; his name has been thrown around a lot on the news lately, maybe you heard of him? His name was Adolph Hitler.
At this point in time there are probably alarms sounding off somewhere, with babies crying as their mothers clutch them closer to their bosoms, there are probably crowds gathering outside my door with torches, and pitchforks screaming. “Racist!” “Bigot!” “Anti- Semitic monster!” But that is really how it happened. I’ll break it down for you probably in a demeaning manner that will illustrate my point.
When the depression struck it affect the entire planet, and countries like Germany, and Italy were still trying to get back to their former glories after WWI. Some the depression hit them hardest and quickest, it is from these ashes of burnt out countries that raised some strange folk. Lenin came to power much earlier, because Russia couldn’t handle the war and was already at an economic low. He promised the people “Change.” So did Hitler, Mussolini, and RuskyRoosevelt, when their countries were at the worst time in known history. They promised to change all of these things that caused the depression in the first place. They preyed on the bad times and hardship that plagued their countries, placing the blame on whomever they felt the people would believe caused it. We all know the stories of Hitler and Lenin, but let’s review our American history.
In his 1933 campaign he promised to reduce the national by cutting government spending by twenty five percent, (pay attention to the date, you could almost substitute 2008 in here) in his first year in office he proposed a budget of ten billion dollars with only three billion dollars revenue. In the years 1933 – 1936 government expenditures went up 83%. In order to “help” reverse the tides of the depression Roosevelt implemented a plan called The New Deal. (Sounds original) When he came into office there were 11,586,000 unemployed, in 1939 there were still 11,369,000 without jobs, and yeah he really helped us out. In 1935 the Supreme Court said that the National Recovery Administration was unconstitutional. So what does he do? In 1937 he proposes to appoint six new justices to the Supreme Court, so that it may finally rule in his favor.
Eventually Roosevelt figured that he was losing the peoples affection over his New Deal scheme, so he went off and regrouped creating the New New Deal. It was failing so bad that Winston Churchill said: "The Washington administration has waged so ruthless a war on private enterprise that the US...is actually...leading the world back into the trough of depression."
Another plan of his was the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, which forced people to plow their crops under, and slaughtered their livestock, at a cost of $700,000,000 over a period of two years; in 1936 the Supreme Court ruled that the AAA was unconstitutional stating that the AAA was: "a central government exercising uncontrolled police power in every state of the union." As a result of the under plowing we had to import 30 million bushels of corn from other countries.
Here are the 10 planks of the Communist Manifesto which should be engraved on every statue of FDR, every school named after him, and every book about FDR:
1. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes. (FERA acquired 25 million dollars of land by mid-1935; the Resettlement Administration later bought many millions of Acres; FDR called for national land redistribution in his 1st inaugural)
2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax. ("...the duty rests upon the government to restrict such incomes by very high taxes." FDR, PPA 1935:274; 1935 Wealth Tax Act; FDR imposed a 90 percent rate on corporations and issued a decree that no one could make more than $25,000 after taxes - overridden by Congress.)
3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance. (1935 Wealth Tax Act with its confiscatory inheritance taxes)
4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels. (cf. 117,000 Americans of Japanese descent 1941 which the ACLU calls "the worst single wholesale violation of civil rights of American citizens in our history." FDR wanted to put ethnic Germans in concentration camps too, but there were too many.)
5. Centralization of credit in the banks of the state, by means of a national bank with state capital and an exclusive monopoly. (Banking Act of 1935, gold confiscation by Proclamation 2039 in March 1933 and formalized in the 1934 Gold Reserve Act, etc.)
6. Centralization of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the state. (Federal Communications Act of 1934, Railroad Coordination Act, ICC, FTC; FDR put private air mail carriers out of business and had the Army deliver mail in '34)
7. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the state; the bringing into cultivation of waste lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan. (TVA (FDR proposed 7 other TVA-like projects), Rural Electrification; the NRA was business and industrial planning; on 8/14/41 the House rejected FDR's Property Seizure Bill passed by the Senate which would have given him dictatorial power over all business and industry as well as confiscated all private arms; Resettlement Administration)
8. Equal obligation of all to work. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture. (CCC, CWA, PWA, WPA, etc)
9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of all the distinction between town and country by a more equable distribution of the populace over the country. (Subsistence Homestead Division, Rural Rehabilitation Division of FERA, and the Resettlement Administration)
10. Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children's factory labor in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production, etc. (NRA)
What about forcing social security on people? Well it’s a good thing, blah, blah…. Will you shut up already!? When you pay into a retirement plan that you get way less out of than you put in and are forced to contribute, when in reality it only encourages people not to work and contribute to society; you might as well not pay into it! This is a true communistic ideal, if you can’t comprehend that now I’ll let it sit awhile until I finish my socialist security fund post.
Today is very much like the thirties; someone preys on the fears of the people and the current times during an economic crisis, and emerges as a tyrant. You elected him, I definitely did not. Now once again, you let yourselves become pawns, by not educating yourselves, and now history will repeat itself.
At this point in time there are probably alarms sounding off somewhere, with babies crying as their mothers clutch them closer to their bosoms, there are probably crowds gathering outside my door with torches, and pitchforks screaming. “Racist!” “Bigot!” “Anti- Semitic monster!” But that is really how it happened. I’ll break it down for you probably in a demeaning manner that will illustrate my point.
When the depression struck it affect the entire planet, and countries like Germany, and Italy were still trying to get back to their former glories after WWI. Some the depression hit them hardest and quickest, it is from these ashes of burnt out countries that raised some strange folk. Lenin came to power much earlier, because Russia couldn’t handle the war and was already at an economic low. He promised the people “Change.” So did Hitler, Mussolini, and RuskyRoosevelt, when their countries were at the worst time in known history. They promised to change all of these things that caused the depression in the first place. They preyed on the bad times and hardship that plagued their countries, placing the blame on whomever they felt the people would believe caused it. We all know the stories of Hitler and Lenin, but let’s review our American history.
In his 1933 campaign he promised to reduce the national by cutting government spending by twenty five percent, (pay attention to the date, you could almost substitute 2008 in here) in his first year in office he proposed a budget of ten billion dollars with only three billion dollars revenue. In the years 1933 – 1936 government expenditures went up 83%. In order to “help” reverse the tides of the depression Roosevelt implemented a plan called The New Deal. (Sounds original) When he came into office there were 11,586,000 unemployed, in 1939 there were still 11,369,000 without jobs, and yeah he really helped us out. In 1935 the Supreme Court said that the National Recovery Administration was unconstitutional. So what does he do? In 1937 he proposes to appoint six new justices to the Supreme Court, so that it may finally rule in his favor.
Eventually Roosevelt figured that he was losing the peoples affection over his New Deal scheme, so he went off and regrouped creating the New New Deal. It was failing so bad that Winston Churchill said: "The Washington administration has waged so ruthless a war on private enterprise that the US...is actually...leading the world back into the trough of depression."
Another plan of his was the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, which forced people to plow their crops under, and slaughtered their livestock, at a cost of $700,000,000 over a period of two years; in 1936 the Supreme Court ruled that the AAA was unconstitutional stating that the AAA was: "a central government exercising uncontrolled police power in every state of the union." As a result of the under plowing we had to import 30 million bushels of corn from other countries.
Here are the 10 planks of the Communist Manifesto which should be engraved on every statue of FDR, every school named after him, and every book about FDR:
1. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes. (FERA acquired 25 million dollars of land by mid-1935; the Resettlement Administration later bought many millions of Acres; FDR called for national land redistribution in his 1st inaugural)
2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax. ("...the duty rests upon the government to restrict such incomes by very high taxes." FDR, PPA 1935:274; 1935 Wealth Tax Act; FDR imposed a 90 percent rate on corporations and issued a decree that no one could make more than $25,000 after taxes - overridden by Congress.)
3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance. (1935 Wealth Tax Act with its confiscatory inheritance taxes)
4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels. (cf. 117,000 Americans of Japanese descent 1941 which the ACLU calls "the worst single wholesale violation of civil rights of American citizens in our history." FDR wanted to put ethnic Germans in concentration camps too, but there were too many.)
5. Centralization of credit in the banks of the state, by means of a national bank with state capital and an exclusive monopoly. (Banking Act of 1935, gold confiscation by Proclamation 2039 in March 1933 and formalized in the 1934 Gold Reserve Act, etc.)
6. Centralization of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the state. (Federal Communications Act of 1934, Railroad Coordination Act, ICC, FTC; FDR put private air mail carriers out of business and had the Army deliver mail in '34)
7. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the state; the bringing into cultivation of waste lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan. (TVA (FDR proposed 7 other TVA-like projects), Rural Electrification; the NRA was business and industrial planning; on 8/14/41 the House rejected FDR's Property Seizure Bill passed by the Senate which would have given him dictatorial power over all business and industry as well as confiscated all private arms; Resettlement Administration)
8. Equal obligation of all to work. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture. (CCC, CWA, PWA, WPA, etc)
9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of all the distinction between town and country by a more equable distribution of the populace over the country. (Subsistence Homestead Division, Rural Rehabilitation Division of FERA, and the Resettlement Administration)
10. Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children's factory labor in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production, etc. (NRA)
What about forcing social security on people? Well it’s a good thing, blah, blah…. Will you shut up already!? When you pay into a retirement plan that you get way less out of than you put in and are forced to contribute, when in reality it only encourages people not to work and contribute to society; you might as well not pay into it! This is a true communistic ideal, if you can’t comprehend that now I’ll let it sit awhile until I finish my socialist security fund post.
Today is very much like the thirties; someone preys on the fears of the people and the current times during an economic crisis, and emerges as a tyrant. You elected him, I definitely did not. Now once again, you let yourselves become pawns, by not educating yourselves, and now history will repeat itself.
22 August 2009
Horse Hockey In Coat Tails
Remember when the news media was up in arms about the government wiretapping to catch terrorists? How about the use of water boarding on terrorists to save American lives? They complained. They made a big deal about something that had vast potential to save your miserable pathetic life. Yet these were evils of the most terrible sort. Yet now we have a government sponsored spy on your neighbor website, and death panels.
Who died from water boarding? Who died from a wiretap? Yet the news media is silent about this. They try to make us out to be Nazis and yet they try to sneak in a bill a way to kill people. What hypocrisy! I guess they forget about the six million plus that were killed in concentration camps throughout Europe when they try to compare us to Nazis, yet they try to emulate their healthcare.
Big brother is watching. It is not someone on a government payroll necessarily though. But when you least expect it, expect it. Currently you can report people who are “misinforming” people about this whole socialist healthcare plot. Now my question is why? The official statement is something about keeping people informed about the “truth”. Shortly after this started, people started getting emails from a man at the White House named David Axelrod. The people have not had any correspondence with the White House for any reason, yet they have their email. Now under law they are required to keep these correspondences, which later become public record. Now every wacko that wants to can send you a picture of himself wearing what you assume is a Speedo but can’t tell from the blubber that is pouring over top of it. Here is a clip from Fox news of Megyn Kelly and Deputy White House Press Secretary Bill Burton:
KELLY: "Bill Hemmer complains about health care and he has a message and I forward you Bill Hemmer's e-mail to me, saying, 'You know, Bill is saying there are death panels.' So I forward Bill's e-mail to you, and you get my e-mail," Megyn Kelly's e-mail, "you get Bill Hemmer's e-mail. You're deleting Hemmer's e-mail address, right? Do you purge and delete the name of the complainant?"BURTON: I understand your question, but do not confuse your viewers into thinking that we are keeping a list of the opponents of reform. KELLY: You've already said that three times, Bill. BURTON: We're not. We're just trying to go out and answer the --KELLY: Please just answer my question.BURTON: I know, but it -- but -- KELLY: Are you purging and deleting those e-mails or aren't you? BURTON: Apparently it is not clear to you.KELLY: It's not, because you're not answering.BURTON: If it's not clear to you, it's because you keep (sputtering). Megyn, you're flabbergasting, I gotta say. We're not keeping an enemies list. We're answering people's questions, and the fact that you guys keep talking about this so much is confusing people, I think, because we're not keeping any list.
KELLY: You're not keeping an enemies list, you said.BURTON: About what's going on.KELLY: I hear you. You've made that point three times. Now if you will just please answer my question. Are you purging --BURTON: I think it was four times.KELLY: -- or deleting -- BURTON: I think it was four times.KELLY: -- the actual... Are you purging or deleting the e-mails of the citizens who have raised complaints?BURTON: Right. I appreciate that question. We're not altering their e-mails in any way. We're just answering the person who e-mails us with the facts.KELLY: I'm saying, do you delete --BURTON: Megyn, I really want you to stop confusing your viewers --KELLY: This is an important question, sir.
BURTON: -- because you're not doing a service to the American people you're not doing a service to the American people by confusing them about whether or not there's an enemies list.KELLY: Bill, you're being unfair, because you and I both know -- BURTON: I'm not being unfair.
KELLY: "Listen, Bill, you're being unfair you and I both know there's a federal law and it's called the Presidential Records Act and it prohibits you from deleting the e-mails in the records that are received by the White House. So in the example I just gave you you're not deleting Bill Hemmer's e-mail because you will have it and you will maintain it for years and then at some point it will become publicly available and this is why some people say you requesting the people forward their neighbors' or other people's complaints, which will include e-mails in many instances, will have a chilling effect on free speech."BURTON: I think the reason why people are confused is because journalists, not unlike you, are saying things like our knowing that the Presidential Records Act suggests that, uh, we keep records here. But none of that -- none of that information is made public for a very long time and we are not keeping a list because that is ludicrous. We are just answering questions that people have about, uh, legitimate concerns that they have and answering is some of the real myths that are out there that get, uh, propagated by leaders of anti-reform movement and are sometimes, uh, often talked about on cable news networks.
KELLY: "Look, you have the Speaker of the House referring to these people at swastika-wearing. You have another Democrat calling them Nazis. You have the president calling complaints about health care smears saying he's going to fight them. Then the White House comes out and says send us the e-mails those of us behind the e-mails may feel a little reluctant to engage in such speech in the future, and that's the complaint not just cable news has about it, Bill Burton, but the ACLU as come out and said: We have a serious problem with what you're doing."BURTON: Well, for starters, I don't think Speaker Pelosi was just claiming that people were wearing swastikas. People are showing up at events with swastikas, dressed up as Hitler, with signs invoking Nazi Germany. So that's not something that's being made up.
Really? Let me see the pictures of the “brown shirts”, that might give you some of your credibility. This entire racist ploy is just an attempt to make people feel guilty about not falling for their trap. I don’t think it’s working comrade Pelosi.
Of course the news media doesn’t saying anything about this because it looks bad for the whole liberal movement, but when it’s a republican, they are sooo so EVIL! they must be stopped, let’s make them look bad and blow everything out of proportion. Why doesn’t the media complain that Obama reinstated a plan to end veterans lives while under care at the VA? Remember that next time you decide to vote and do a little research yourself, because the media is only telling you what they want you to know.
Who died from water boarding? Who died from a wiretap? Yet the news media is silent about this. They try to make us out to be Nazis and yet they try to sneak in a bill a way to kill people. What hypocrisy! I guess they forget about the six million plus that were killed in concentration camps throughout Europe when they try to compare us to Nazis, yet they try to emulate their healthcare.
Big brother is watching. It is not someone on a government payroll necessarily though. But when you least expect it, expect it. Currently you can report people who are “misinforming” people about this whole socialist healthcare plot. Now my question is why? The official statement is something about keeping people informed about the “truth”. Shortly after this started, people started getting emails from a man at the White House named David Axelrod. The people have not had any correspondence with the White House for any reason, yet they have their email. Now under law they are required to keep these correspondences, which later become public record. Now every wacko that wants to can send you a picture of himself wearing what you assume is a Speedo but can’t tell from the blubber that is pouring over top of it. Here is a clip from Fox news of Megyn Kelly and Deputy White House Press Secretary Bill Burton:
KELLY: "Bill Hemmer complains about health care and he has a message and I forward you Bill Hemmer's e-mail to me, saying, 'You know, Bill is saying there are death panels.' So I forward Bill's e-mail to you, and you get my e-mail," Megyn Kelly's e-mail, "you get Bill Hemmer's e-mail. You're deleting Hemmer's e-mail address, right? Do you purge and delete the name of the complainant?"BURTON: I understand your question, but do not confuse your viewers into thinking that we are keeping a list of the opponents of reform. KELLY: You've already said that three times, Bill. BURTON: We're not. We're just trying to go out and answer the --KELLY: Please just answer my question.BURTON: I know, but it -- but -- KELLY: Are you purging and deleting those e-mails or aren't you? BURTON: Apparently it is not clear to you.KELLY: It's not, because you're not answering.BURTON: If it's not clear to you, it's because you keep (sputtering). Megyn, you're flabbergasting, I gotta say. We're not keeping an enemies list. We're answering people's questions, and the fact that you guys keep talking about this so much is confusing people, I think, because we're not keeping any list.
KELLY: You're not keeping an enemies list, you said.BURTON: About what's going on.KELLY: I hear you. You've made that point three times. Now if you will just please answer my question. Are you purging --BURTON: I think it was four times.KELLY: -- or deleting -- BURTON: I think it was four times.KELLY: -- the actual... Are you purging or deleting the e-mails of the citizens who have raised complaints?BURTON: Right. I appreciate that question. We're not altering their e-mails in any way. We're just answering the person who e-mails us with the facts.KELLY: I'm saying, do you delete --BURTON: Megyn, I really want you to stop confusing your viewers --KELLY: This is an important question, sir.
BURTON: -- because you're not doing a service to the American people you're not doing a service to the American people by confusing them about whether or not there's an enemies list.KELLY: Bill, you're being unfair, because you and I both know -- BURTON: I'm not being unfair.
KELLY: "Listen, Bill, you're being unfair you and I both know there's a federal law and it's called the Presidential Records Act and it prohibits you from deleting the e-mails in the records that are received by the White House. So in the example I just gave you you're not deleting Bill Hemmer's e-mail because you will have it and you will maintain it for years and then at some point it will become publicly available and this is why some people say you requesting the people forward their neighbors' or other people's complaints, which will include e-mails in many instances, will have a chilling effect on free speech."BURTON: I think the reason why people are confused is because journalists, not unlike you, are saying things like our knowing that the Presidential Records Act suggests that, uh, we keep records here. But none of that -- none of that information is made public for a very long time and we are not keeping a list because that is ludicrous. We are just answering questions that people have about, uh, legitimate concerns that they have and answering is some of the real myths that are out there that get, uh, propagated by leaders of anti-reform movement and are sometimes, uh, often talked about on cable news networks.
KELLY: "Look, you have the Speaker of the House referring to these people at swastika-wearing. You have another Democrat calling them Nazis. You have the president calling complaints about health care smears saying he's going to fight them. Then the White House comes out and says send us the e-mails those of us behind the e-mails may feel a little reluctant to engage in such speech in the future, and that's the complaint not just cable news has about it, Bill Burton, but the ACLU as come out and said: We have a serious problem with what you're doing."BURTON: Well, for starters, I don't think Speaker Pelosi was just claiming that people were wearing swastikas. People are showing up at events with swastikas, dressed up as Hitler, with signs invoking Nazi Germany. So that's not something that's being made up.
Really? Let me see the pictures of the “brown shirts”, that might give you some of your credibility. This entire racist ploy is just an attempt to make people feel guilty about not falling for their trap. I don’t think it’s working comrade Pelosi.
Of course the news media doesn’t saying anything about this because it looks bad for the whole liberal movement, but when it’s a republican, they are sooo so EVIL! they must be stopped, let’s make them look bad and blow everything out of proportion. Why doesn’t the media complain that Obama reinstated a plan to end veterans lives while under care at the VA? Remember that next time you decide to vote and do a little research yourself, because the media is only telling you what they want you to know.
21 August 2009
Glenn Beck Loses Sponsorships
As of Tuesday, twenty corporations, "classified as either responsible corporate citizens or easily bullied cowards," (AOL) dropped their sponsorship of Glenn Beck due to the fact that he called Obama "racist." For expressing his personal opinion, his licentia loquendi (freedom of speech), Beck has been punished. In my opinion, regardless of how one feels about Beck's opinion, he should still be allowed to state it.
The list includes Wal-Mart, Travelocity, Best Buy, Geico, CVS, Radio Shack, Men's Wearhouse, Procter & Gamble, State Farm Insurance, GMAC Financial Services, ConAgra, Roche, Sanofi-Aventis, Sargento, Lawyers.com and Progressive Insurance (I'm still searching for the others).
I believe that Bowflex, Nutrisystem, Gerber, UPS, Vonage, Ameritrade and Verizon Wireless still sponsor Beck.
The list includes Wal-Mart, Travelocity, Best Buy, Geico, CVS, Radio Shack, Men's Wearhouse, Procter & Gamble, State Farm Insurance, GMAC Financial Services, ConAgra, Roche, Sanofi-Aventis, Sargento, Lawyers.com and Progressive Insurance (I'm still searching for the others).
I believe that Bowflex, Nutrisystem, Gerber, UPS, Vonage, Ameritrade and Verizon Wireless still sponsor Beck.
MIL101
I meant to post this in January. I was reorganizing the post tags when I noticed that this was still in draft form.
Trust in Obama and War Waning
Despite President Obama's attempts to prepare the American people for rising casualties in Afghanistan, a new poll shows most Americans see the war as a wasted effort.
Congressional lawmakers say this is a sign the president needs to make the war in Afghanistan a front-burner issue in his public addresses and do a better job explaining the stakes to the American public.
Though the war in Afghanistan is a clear priority for the president, the push for health care reform has dominated his public appeals. And when he does address Afghanistan, some lawmakers say, Obama is telling more than explaining.
"You can't just say it's the good war and trust me, because actually his trust factor is dropping. He's going to have to build a case for it," said Rep. Buck McKeon, R-Calif., ranking Republican on the House Armed Services Committee.
The Washington Post-ABC News poll showed 51 percent of people say the war is not worth fighting. That sentiment was particularly high among members of the president's own party, with seven in 10 Democrats saying the war is not worth its costs.
Imagine that -- the American people aren't willing to trust a man with no military experience with a war, a war in which many of our brave men and women are sacrificing their lives (July saw the most casualties since the war began), a war that the Democrats, of all people, don't support. I would like to know how many Democrats have loved ones fighting this war.
I believe that healthcare, privatized healthcare, is an important issue. But I also feel that our current system is working, and we might want to turn our attention to something more pressing. Like a war. I would also like to see that poll conducted on Fox News or something other than WaPo and ABC.
Congressional lawmakers say this is a sign the president needs to make the war in Afghanistan a front-burner issue in his public addresses and do a better job explaining the stakes to the American public.
Though the war in Afghanistan is a clear priority for the president, the push for health care reform has dominated his public appeals. And when he does address Afghanistan, some lawmakers say, Obama is telling more than explaining.
"You can't just say it's the good war and trust me, because actually his trust factor is dropping. He's going to have to build a case for it," said Rep. Buck McKeon, R-Calif., ranking Republican on the House Armed Services Committee.
The Washington Post-ABC News poll showed 51 percent of people say the war is not worth fighting. That sentiment was particularly high among members of the president's own party, with seven in 10 Democrats saying the war is not worth its costs.
Imagine that -- the American people aren't willing to trust a man with no military experience with a war, a war in which many of our brave men and women are sacrificing their lives (July saw the most casualties since the war began), a war that the Democrats, of all people, don't support. I would like to know how many Democrats have loved ones fighting this war.
I believe that healthcare, privatized healthcare, is an important issue. But I also feel that our current system is working, and we might want to turn our attention to something more pressing. Like a war. I would also like to see that poll conducted on Fox News or something other than WaPo and ABC.
18 August 2009
Assault On Weapon
First off what is an assault weapon? Let’s break it down Barney style, Webster’s says: a threat or attempt to inflict offensive physical contact or bodily harm on a person (as by lifting a fist in a threatening manner) that puts the person in immediate danger of or in apprehension of such harm or contact. Now weapon: something (as a club, knife, or gun) used to injure, defeat, or destroy. Pretty straight forward I’d say, so the true essence of the word is anything threatening that could cause bodily harm. Well that could be my truck when I run some idiot off the road. It could also be my entire body that I have learned to utilize through MCMAP. It could also be the spoon that I use to disembowel you with. Or maybe Janet Reno’s teeth that she uses to eat small children. (She prefers before they’re weaned she says it’s like veal.)What about the internet? How some forty year sitting in front of his computer in his tighty whiteys, poising as some teenage girl to lure boys in to meeting up. How about the whole hacking thing that allows a total stranger to look at those embarrassing photos of you trying to fit into B cup when you thought no one was watching, but you should know better, man boobs that big are at least a D.
The internet is just as threatening as a firearm. But the real reason that they make such a big deal about firearms is because they know that we won’t stand for tyranny, we wouldn’t let it happen before, and I know I would do everything in my power to prevent it from happening now. The whole purpose for the second amendment was so that the people always had a way of defeating tyranny. That was how we beat the British, by the average citizen rising to arms against a common enemy. The whole militia part was because they realized the importance of the people knowing how to use a firearm.
There was a time when the government realized that having the people know how to use a firearm was in no way a bad thing. The Civilian Marksmanship Program was started because they noticed that the people who already knew how to use a firearm were that much easier to train. A good example would be in some long forgotten text in your attic, be careful when you blow the dust off you don’t want to aggravate your allergies. During the Civil War the southern troops were well known for their accurate rifle fire. Why? Because they already knew how to use a firearm, and if they didn’t they didn’t eat, while the Union troops couldn’t hit a barn while standing inside it because they were prim and proper city slickers. If you turn a hand full of pages you will come to the chapter on WWI. In this chapter you will find the story of a long forgotten national hero, named Alvin York. Who single handedly captured thirty two machine gun nests, killed twenty eight Germans, and captured one hundred and thirty two more. By himself! For this courageous act he received the Congressional Medal of Honor. The reason he was so effective was that he knew how to shoot. In a later interview he said that on the numerous attempts that they charged him he would shoot the man in the back of line and continue working his way forward. Just like when he was shooting ducks, because if you shot the one in the front the ones behind would see and then fly away. So at this point some of you, (especially from the west coast) are wondering what this has to do with civilians and guns. Well for starters he was the local deadeye, he would travel all over when shooting competitions, and on occasion they would call him up, he would lick his thumb and rub it on the muzzle then bring his rifle to shoulder and blow Sputnik out of the sky! Yes Rio Linda California that is called sarcasm, but those ducks he shot out of the air back home was done with a .22. For those that are from the west coast this means that only one projectile leaves the barrel meaning that he had to be very good to hit something the size of a duck while flying. Carlos Hathcock is probably the best known sniper to ever live, and he learned how to shoot as a little kid. So the proof is in the pudding as they say.
The CMP was funded by the government as a way to allow people to learn the fundamentals of marksmanship and gun safety making for a better military and less accidents with firearms. Today the CMP still exists, but does not receive a dime from the government, because guns are evil. Oooh I think I soiled myself from all this talk on guns.
They say it’s for our own safety, for the safety of children. Oh really, than why don’t they allow the National Rifle Association’s Eddie the Eagle program into schools nationwide? Here is an excerpt from the NRA’s website: Eddie Eagle is never shown touching a firearm, and he does not promote firearm ownership or use. The program prohibits the use of Eddie Eagle mascots anywhere that guns are present. The Eddie Eagle Program has no agenda other than accident prevention -- ensuring that children stay safe should they encounter a gun. The program never mentions the NRA. Nor does it encourage children to buy guns or to become NRA members. The NRA does not receive any appropriations from Congress, nor is it a trade organization. It is not affiliated with any firearm or ammunition manufacturers or with any businesses that deal in guns and ammunition.
Teaching children like this does not force a pro gun agenda on them, does not teach them how to use a gun, but how to be safe around a gun. That is how you prevent accidents, through education. They say the streets will be safer once they get all the guns off the streets. Oh really? Firearm registration is rather new and there are millions of guns that are legally not registered that I would like to see be taken off the streets. The fact is you aren’t going to get firearms off the streets ever, and by taking them away from law abiding citizens, you are robbing them of the ability to defend themselves from the criminal that still has a gun. If you look at countries that have banned firearms such as South Africa, the medieval weapons manufacturers are bringing in big bucks, because that is the only way they can defend themselves now. Personally I would rather be shot and die quickly than be hacked apart by a claymore, but that’s just me. So safety; that just doesn’t fly. Remember Hitler, Stalin all those guys, guess what they did? They used legislation to ban firearms and take them from the people. Hitler did that very early on, and after that began to really take control of Germany. I don’t want that happening here, but that is the dark truth behind this madness.
I apologize for going off, but it couldn’t be helped. When I read the words assault weapon in Betsy’s post today I went psycho for a second then regained my composure and let go of a random passerby’s throat, and straitened by his collar for him, then sat down and started this. But using the term assault weapon gives a negative connotation to something that shouldn’t have one. A firearm is not to be feared, but respected. I don’t see what is so shocking about someone having a gun in public or at any time, I probably would’ve suggested something with a little more oomph than a .223 but whatever. If anything more people should carry guns, remember Virginia Tech? If one person had a gun, there would be one dead or wounded instead of having numerous families grieving the loss of their children. Now comes the cold, hard, reality, what’s worth more, one dead psycho crazy guy, or two other lives?
Now as I let that sink in I’ll leave with this important message, from my cold dead hands.
The internet is just as threatening as a firearm. But the real reason that they make such a big deal about firearms is because they know that we won’t stand for tyranny, we wouldn’t let it happen before, and I know I would do everything in my power to prevent it from happening now. The whole purpose for the second amendment was so that the people always had a way of defeating tyranny. That was how we beat the British, by the average citizen rising to arms against a common enemy. The whole militia part was because they realized the importance of the people knowing how to use a firearm.
There was a time when the government realized that having the people know how to use a firearm was in no way a bad thing. The Civilian Marksmanship Program was started because they noticed that the people who already knew how to use a firearm were that much easier to train. A good example would be in some long forgotten text in your attic, be careful when you blow the dust off you don’t want to aggravate your allergies. During the Civil War the southern troops were well known for their accurate rifle fire. Why? Because they already knew how to use a firearm, and if they didn’t they didn’t eat, while the Union troops couldn’t hit a barn while standing inside it because they were prim and proper city slickers. If you turn a hand full of pages you will come to the chapter on WWI. In this chapter you will find the story of a long forgotten national hero, named Alvin York. Who single handedly captured thirty two machine gun nests, killed twenty eight Germans, and captured one hundred and thirty two more. By himself! For this courageous act he received the Congressional Medal of Honor. The reason he was so effective was that he knew how to shoot. In a later interview he said that on the numerous attempts that they charged him he would shoot the man in the back of line and continue working his way forward. Just like when he was shooting ducks, because if you shot the one in the front the ones behind would see and then fly away. So at this point some of you, (especially from the west coast) are wondering what this has to do with civilians and guns. Well for starters he was the local deadeye, he would travel all over when shooting competitions, and on occasion they would call him up, he would lick his thumb and rub it on the muzzle then bring his rifle to shoulder and blow Sputnik out of the sky! Yes Rio Linda California that is called sarcasm, but those ducks he shot out of the air back home was done with a .22. For those that are from the west coast this means that only one projectile leaves the barrel meaning that he had to be very good to hit something the size of a duck while flying. Carlos Hathcock is probably the best known sniper to ever live, and he learned how to shoot as a little kid. So the proof is in the pudding as they say.
The CMP was funded by the government as a way to allow people to learn the fundamentals of marksmanship and gun safety making for a better military and less accidents with firearms. Today the CMP still exists, but does not receive a dime from the government, because guns are evil. Oooh I think I soiled myself from all this talk on guns.
They say it’s for our own safety, for the safety of children. Oh really, than why don’t they allow the National Rifle Association’s Eddie the Eagle program into schools nationwide? Here is an excerpt from the NRA’s website: Eddie Eagle is never shown touching a firearm, and he does not promote firearm ownership or use. The program prohibits the use of Eddie Eagle mascots anywhere that guns are present. The Eddie Eagle Program has no agenda other than accident prevention -- ensuring that children stay safe should they encounter a gun. The program never mentions the NRA. Nor does it encourage children to buy guns or to become NRA members. The NRA does not receive any appropriations from Congress, nor is it a trade organization. It is not affiliated with any firearm or ammunition manufacturers or with any businesses that deal in guns and ammunition.
Teaching children like this does not force a pro gun agenda on them, does not teach them how to use a gun, but how to be safe around a gun. That is how you prevent accidents, through education. They say the streets will be safer once they get all the guns off the streets. Oh really? Firearm registration is rather new and there are millions of guns that are legally not registered that I would like to see be taken off the streets. The fact is you aren’t going to get firearms off the streets ever, and by taking them away from law abiding citizens, you are robbing them of the ability to defend themselves from the criminal that still has a gun. If you look at countries that have banned firearms such as South Africa, the medieval weapons manufacturers are bringing in big bucks, because that is the only way they can defend themselves now. Personally I would rather be shot and die quickly than be hacked apart by a claymore, but that’s just me. So safety; that just doesn’t fly. Remember Hitler, Stalin all those guys, guess what they did? They used legislation to ban firearms and take them from the people. Hitler did that very early on, and after that began to really take control of Germany. I don’t want that happening here, but that is the dark truth behind this madness.
I apologize for going off, but it couldn’t be helped. When I read the words assault weapon in Betsy’s post today I went psycho for a second then regained my composure and let go of a random passerby’s throat, and straitened by his collar for him, then sat down and started this. But using the term assault weapon gives a negative connotation to something that shouldn’t have one. A firearm is not to be feared, but respected. I don’t see what is so shocking about someone having a gun in public or at any time, I probably would’ve suggested something with a little more oomph than a .223 but whatever. If anything more people should carry guns, remember Virginia Tech? If one person had a gun, there would be one dead or wounded instead of having numerous families grieving the loss of their children. Now comes the cold, hard, reality, what’s worth more, one dead psycho crazy guy, or two other lives?
Now as I let that sink in I’ll leave with this important message, from my cold dead hands.
Armed Protesters at Obama Speech
About a dozen people carrying guns, including one with a military-style [AR-15] rifle, milled among protesters outside the convention center where President Barack Obama was giving a speech Monday -- the latest incident in which protesters have openly displayed firearms near the president.
Gun-rights advocates say they're exercising their constitutional right to bear arms and protest, while those who argue for more gun control say it could be a disaster waiting to happen.
Phoenix police said the gun-toters . . . didn't need permits. No crimes were committed, and no one was arrested.
The man with the [AR-15] . . . told The Arizona Republic that he was carrying the assault weapon because he could. "In Arizona, I still have some freedoms," he said.
In spite of the fact that I completely support the Second Amendment and firmly believe that Americans should exercise their rights (or otherwise lose them), the fact that people are bringing guns (loaded or otherwise) to a presidential event is slightly disconcerting. Considering the pre-existing tensions and disputes over the current administration, throwing guns into the mix would not, in my opinion, calm the situation.
On the other hand, props to those gun-toters for fearlessly exercising their rights. I also highly suggest reading the article in its entirety.
17 August 2009
Who me? (looking behind)
So, I guess I’m racist, at least that is what comrade Pelosi would like you to think. Hmmmm, which party opposed slavery? Which party was for slavery? This happened how long ago? But now we are racist. I find that a bit strange. I think we should look somewhere other than the republican party for racism.
What about Rev. Wright? Remember this is Obama’s preacher of twenty plus years. Let’s see what he has to say: Jesus was a poor black man who lived in a country and who lived in a culture, that was controlled by rich white people! The Romans were rich. The Romans were Italians, which means they were European, which means they were white -- and the Romans ran everything in Jesus' country. It just came to me within the past few weeks, y'all, why so many folk are hatin' on Barack Obama. He doesn't fit the model! CONGREGATION: Right!WRIGHT: He ain't white, he ain't rich, and he ain't privileged.WRIGHT: Hillary never had to worry about being pulled over in her car as a black man driving in the wrong! I am sick of Negroes who just do not get it! Hillary was not a black boy raised in a single parent home! Barack was. Barack knows what it means to be a black man living in a country and a culture that is controlled by rich white people! Hillary can never know that! Hillary ain't never been called a nigger! Hillary has never had her people defined as nonpersons! Hillary ain't had to work twice as hard just to get accepted by the rich white folk who run everything, or to get a passing grade when you know you are smarter than their C-students sitting in the White House. Hillary ain't never had her own people say she wasn't white enough!
WRIGHT: The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law, and then wants us to sing God bless America? No, no, no! Not God bless America! God damn America! (cheers) -- it's in the Bible -- for killing innocent people! (cheers) God damn America for treating her citizens as less than human!
That’s right he said god damn America. Now when you pick a church, you pick a church because it goes with your beliefs.
WRIGHT: We bombed Hiroshima! We bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon, and we never batted an eye. We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians, and black South Africans, and now we are indignant (cheers) because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back into our own front yards! (cheers and applause) America's chickens are coming home...to roost.
This is the same church where is children go and their young impressionable minds are being filled with this nonsense. So as a conservative I’m racist, but I haven’t been exposed to anything like that in my entire life, let alone force it on children. Twenty years of this I think it would have rubbed off at least a little. Look at what he is saying, whites and jews are bad. Because that is the only “state terrorism” against the Palestinians that we participated in was the preservation of Israel. Let’s hear what Obama says.
OBAMA: Jeremiah Wright, who was my pastor in the past, has said some things that are considered controversial because he's considered that part of his social gospel.
Contraversal?! He has bullet proof glass surrounding the pulpit! I’m just going to go out on a limb and say that he knows what he is saying is controversial.
"I don't think my church is actually particularly controversial." He said Rev. Wright "is like an old uncle who says things I don't always agree with," This guy married the Obama’s and even helped him come up with the title the Audacity of Hope. Hope? Change? Horse hockey!
"The violence of 9/11 was inexcusable and without justification, it sounds like he was trying to be provocative," Obama says this after claiming not to have been there that Sunday. Provocative? Lies. Pure and simple lies. This guy believes this otherwise he wouldn’t be saying it in the first place. Obama must believe this too, since he has been listening to this for the past twenty years. Wright even denounces black conservatives calling them lower than the sea. I guess he is still upset about not getting his forty acres and a mule.
So comrade Pelosi why don’t look in your own backyard before pointing the figure, and remember there are four more fingers pointing back to you.
What about Rev. Wright? Remember this is Obama’s preacher of twenty plus years. Let’s see what he has to say: Jesus was a poor black man who lived in a country and who lived in a culture, that was controlled by rich white people! The Romans were rich. The Romans were Italians, which means they were European, which means they were white -- and the Romans ran everything in Jesus' country. It just came to me within the past few weeks, y'all, why so many folk are hatin' on Barack Obama. He doesn't fit the model! CONGREGATION: Right!WRIGHT: He ain't white, he ain't rich, and he ain't privileged.WRIGHT: Hillary never had to worry about being pulled over in her car as a black man driving in the wrong! I am sick of Negroes who just do not get it! Hillary was not a black boy raised in a single parent home! Barack was. Barack knows what it means to be a black man living in a country and a culture that is controlled by rich white people! Hillary can never know that! Hillary ain't never been called a nigger! Hillary has never had her people defined as nonpersons! Hillary ain't had to work twice as hard just to get accepted by the rich white folk who run everything, or to get a passing grade when you know you are smarter than their C-students sitting in the White House. Hillary ain't never had her own people say she wasn't white enough!
WRIGHT: The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law, and then wants us to sing God bless America? No, no, no! Not God bless America! God damn America! (cheers) -- it's in the Bible -- for killing innocent people! (cheers) God damn America for treating her citizens as less than human!
That’s right he said god damn America. Now when you pick a church, you pick a church because it goes with your beliefs.
WRIGHT: We bombed Hiroshima! We bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon, and we never batted an eye. We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians, and black South Africans, and now we are indignant (cheers) because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back into our own front yards! (cheers and applause) America's chickens are coming home...to roost.
This is the same church where is children go and their young impressionable minds are being filled with this nonsense. So as a conservative I’m racist, but I haven’t been exposed to anything like that in my entire life, let alone force it on children. Twenty years of this I think it would have rubbed off at least a little. Look at what he is saying, whites and jews are bad. Because that is the only “state terrorism” against the Palestinians that we participated in was the preservation of Israel. Let’s hear what Obama says.
OBAMA: Jeremiah Wright, who was my pastor in the past, has said some things that are considered controversial because he's considered that part of his social gospel.
Contraversal?! He has bullet proof glass surrounding the pulpit! I’m just going to go out on a limb and say that he knows what he is saying is controversial.
"I don't think my church is actually particularly controversial." He said Rev. Wright "is like an old uncle who says things I don't always agree with," This guy married the Obama’s and even helped him come up with the title the Audacity of Hope. Hope? Change? Horse hockey!
"The violence of 9/11 was inexcusable and without justification, it sounds like he was trying to be provocative," Obama says this after claiming not to have been there that Sunday. Provocative? Lies. Pure and simple lies. This guy believes this otherwise he wouldn’t be saying it in the first place. Obama must believe this too, since he has been listening to this for the past twenty years. Wright even denounces black conservatives calling them lower than the sea. I guess he is still upset about not getting his forty acres and a mule.
So comrade Pelosi why don’t look in your own backyard before pointing the figure, and remember there are four more fingers pointing back to you.
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