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February 25, 2009

Quote of the Day

"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the
system, but too early to shoot the bastards."
Claire Wolfe (101 Things to Do 'Till the Revolution'.)

I received this quote as part of an e-mail I got this morning, and it really resonated with the way I feel...I'm just thinking that the time to 'shoot the bastards' may just be a lot closer than Ms. Wolfe thinks.

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February 21, 2009

Urban Intrusion

"Exercises" like THIS ONE scare the hell out of me.

As an ex Grunt, I see the need for training to specific types of operations, and Urban Operations are among the toughest assignments any military unit has to engage in. Training saves lives, of both the soldiers and the civilians engaged in any conflict. Having said that, something about this training exercise makes my skin crawl. My gut tells me there is more involved, and in my years as a LEO I learned to trust my gut. There are times that there are subtle hints that you are not consciously aware of that warn you of danger, and my spider sense is tingling all over this one.

Yeah, I know it makes me sound like a conspiracy theorist, but I wouldn't trust ANY Administration with this type of power, much less a Socialist one like Obama's. Posse Comitatus was put into place to prevent any political entity in the U.S. from arbitrarily using troops to perform Police functions.

Ask yourself WHY they would find a need to train for such activity unless they are planning to use it in the near future? Given Mr. Obama's past record on gun control, and even more importantly, the past history of his appointee for AG on gun control, doesn't it strike just a little twinge of fear that this might just be a rehearsal for the future; or if nothing else, a trial balloon to see how it floats with the American public?

Only time will tell, but, remember, "just because you're paranoid doesn't necessarily mean that there is no one out to get you.", and in the case of our rights as free people, I believe a little paranoia is healthy if you want to keep those rights intact.

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February 20, 2009

Biofuels SINFULL?

Sheik Mohamed al-Najimi of the Saudi Islamic Jurisprudence Academy told Saudi newspaper Shams that the prophet Mohammed banned alcohol for all uses...and since most bio-fuels are simply natural sugars converted to ethyl alcohol, it would be sinful for a Muslim to use. I wonder if the recent drastic drop in oil prices has anything to do with this opinion?

al-Najimi did stress that this was his opinion as a scholar and not to be considered a fatwa...YET. He stated that it is a topic meriting further study to finally determine.

Funny how when the tide turns against the Islamists, they always find some way to use their religion to obfuscate the issues involved....

H/T to Marina at the Rott

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Quote of the Day

"Our task of creating a socialist America can only succeed when those who would resist us have been totally disarmed." -Sarah Brady

STILL believe the Brady Bunch don't want to confiscate your weapons?

What will it take to wake you up to the GFW Agenda; the police breaking down your front door in a search for your (heretofore) legally owned weapons and ammunition? Get educated, get aware to what is truly happening, get involved in protecting one of your most basic rights.

If you don't do these thing, and soon, May I wish you all the happiness in the United Socialist States of Amerika, Comrade?, as for me, I believe I will be one of those "Capitalist Running Dog Counter-Revolutionaries that the State protected you from. I may be dead, but I died free...may your chains ever lay lightly upon you, but you will deserve to wear them if you won't fight before they come to put them on you.

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February 19, 2009

Just for Grins

Subject: Stutter

A teacher is explaining biology to her 4th grade students. 'Human beings are the only animals that stutter,' she says.

A little girl raises her hand. 'I had a kitty-cat who stuttered.'

The teacher, knowing how precious some of these stories could become, asked the girl to describe the incident.

'Well', she began, 'I was in the back yard with my kitty and the Rottweiler that lives next door got a running start and before we knew it, he jumped over the fence into our yard!'

'That must've been scary,' said the teacher.

'It sure was,' said the little girl. 'My kitty raised her back, went Sssss, Sssss, Sssss' and before she could say 'Shit!', the Rottweiler ate her!

The teacher had to leave the room.

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Hoosier Humor

Forget Rednecks, here is what Jeff Foxworthy has to say about
Hoosiers....

If your local Dairy Queen is closed from
September through May, you may live in Indiana.

If someone in a Home Depot store offers you
assistance and they don't work there, you may live in Indiana.

If you've worn shorts and a parka at the same
time, you may live in Indiana.

If you've had a lengthy telephone conversation
with someone who dialed a wrong number, you may live in Indiana.

If 'Vacation' means going anywhere south of
Muncie for the weekend, you may live in Indiana.

If you measure distance in hours, you may live
In Indiana.

If you know several people who have hit a deer
more than once, you may live in Indiana.

If you have switched from 'heat' to 'A/C' in
the same day and back again, you may live in Indiana.

If you can drive 75 mph through 2 feet of snow
during a raging blizzard without flinching, you may live in
Indiana.

If you install security lights on your house
and garage, but leave both unlocked, you may live in Indiana.

If you carry jumpers in your car and your wife
knows how to use them, you may live in Indiana.

If you design your kid's Halloween costume to
fit over a snowsuit, you may live in Indiana.

If the speed limit on the highway is 55 mph
-- you're going 80 and everybody is passing you, you may live
in Indiana.

If driving is better in the winter because
the potholes are filled with snow, you may live in Indiana.

If you know all 4 seasons: almost winter,
winter, still winter and road construction, you may live in Indiana.

If you have more miles on your snow blower than
your car, you may live in Indiana.

If you find 10 degrees 'a little chilly', you
may live in Indiana.

If you actually understand these jokes, and
forward them to all your Indiana friends & others, you
definitely live in Indiana.

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February 18, 2009

Prayer Request

I just found out that one of the finest people I have ever met is is in the hospital in Savannah, with what sounds like double Pneumonia.

Been there, done that, and I wouldn't wish it on Obambi.

Please, when you say your prayers tonight, join me in adding one for Joe Goodman aka Da Catfish, and his wife Nancy.

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February 14, 2009

Friday the 13TH.

Went to my primary care quack today for my monthly check under the hood.
As quacks go, he's a real prince among the usual frogs of the profession.

He had some good news and some bad news. My blood pressures are still holding steady at only slightly above "normal", so no changes in the meds for now....then came the sledgehammer...seems my blood sugars are averaging over 450 and my last A1C was 8.4...so the pills weren't doing the job, and I have to start an Insulin regimen...I have to start with 10 units a night and increase it 3 to 5 units every Friday until my morning fasting tests average 130 or below.

BUMMER!

See, I have this little problem with needles, I don't merely dislike them, they are one of the two major phobias I have (the other is heights).
Yes, I know Insulin needles are ultra fine, and don't really cause any real discomfort, much less real pain, but the reason they call them phobias is because they are totally unreasonable reaction(s) to a certain stimuli.

Well, I self administered my first injection at 2300 hrs. Only took me three minutes to build up the nerve to plunge the needle in my thigh.... Totally NO real pain whatsoever...but the resulting nervous reaction lasted over twenty minutes...shaking like an Aspen tree in an Oklahoma prairie wind; sweating and gasping like a marathoner just off a major race.
Yep, this regimen is gonna be real fun all right. I can only hope repetition will cause the overreactions to diminish with familiarity over time.

It's highly embarrassing to have to admit to such a piddly fear with all the REAL terror and pain going on in every day the world,but it's very real to me. I will overcome this mini-dragon that has entered my life. I really have no choice, after all. Sounds melodramatic, but it really is a matter of life and death.

Maybe I'll tackle that fear of high places while I'm at it...taking an injection while balancing on a tall pole, that would make the injection seem minor to the danger of going "splat"!

My next appoint is scheduled on , you guessed it, Friday, March 13..Doc has a real sense of humor..I just hope that it won't be more unlucky news on that day.

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February 12, 2009

COWABUNGA !

You just can't make this stuff up...let the cow piss jokes commence!

H/T to BC at the Rott.

UPDATE: Seems the Uluating Adherants of Allah are not to be outdone by any mere Hindus....but their ungulate waste product of choice is Camel instead ofCow...Maybe we better get on the stick....Bison Piss, perhaps?

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Damnation

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Nicki over at at The Liberty Zone has had it.

I sure couldn't put it any better than she has in this scathing condemnation of those responsible for the current state of the Republic.

As cartoon character Pogo once remarked "We have met the enemy, and he is us".

I'm tired of yelling into the wilderness, all I can do from this point on is prepare myself and mine for the coming storm and the chaos it will bring. I beg you all, do the same.

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February 10, 2009

Prophetic?

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February 09, 2009

H.R.45 -- Death Knell of Liberty

Blair Holt's Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2009, otherwise known as HR45 is wending it's insidious way through the House.....I sincerely hope that it never gets out of committee, but the mere fact that a GFW is bold enough to even suggest such an act shows just how far down the path to Fascism we have trodden.

Any Congress-critter "bold" stupid enough to even THINK of such a bill even ten years ago would have, rightly, been run out of town on a rail with a thick coat of tarry feathers to keep him warm.

Why I am I so incensed? Read some of the provisions of the bill, if YOU are not incensed at the proposed denials of a basic right recognized in our Constitution, I question your patriotism, if not your sanity.

Mr. Rush (D -IL) is proposing a vast new bureaucracy that will have control over your basic right of self protection, the very bedrock of our Republic. He is of the opinion that the Government has the right to restrict weapons to those few it deems "safe" and control even those people to such an extent that their ownership becomes a mere caricature of ownership.

The only question before us now is: are We the People made of the same stuff as our Founding Fathers ? They threw over a tyranical government for much less reason. Have We become too complacent and/or cowardly to stand up for the basic rights They fought,sweated,bled, and died to let us freely exercise?

Read your history people. I suggest you concentrate on Germany circa 1934 to 1938. Don't make the mistake to believe "it can't happen here". It IS happening here, at the least, the beginnings are happening NOW; we have time to change it before it's too late, but not much time, and it will take courage and a steely resolve to fight to stop it.

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R.I.P.

'Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Common Sense,
who has been with us for many years.
No one knows for sure how old he was,since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape.
He will be remembered as having cultivated such valuable lessons as: Knowing when to come in out of the rain; why the early bird gets the worm; Life isn't always fair; and maybe it was my fault.

Common Sense lived by simple, sound financial policies (don't spend
more than you can earn) and reliable strategies (adults, not children, are in
charge).

His health began to deteriorate rapidly when well-intentioned but
overbearing regulations were set in place.

Reports of a 6-year-old boy charged with sexual harassment for kissing a classmate; teens suspended from school for using mouthwash after lunch; and a teacher fired for reprimanding an unruly student, only worsened his condition.

Common Sense lost ground when parents attacked teachers for doing the job
that they themselves had failed to do in disciplining their unruly children.

It declined even further when schools were required to get parental
consent to administer sun lotion or an Aspirin to a student; but
could not inform parents when a student became pregnant and wanted to
have an abortion.

Common Sense lost the will to live as the churches became businesses;and
criminals received better treatment than their victims.

Common Sense took a beating when you couldn't defend yourself from a
burglar in your own home and the burglar could sue you for assault.

Common Sense finally gave up the will to live, after a woman failed
to realize that a steaming cup of coffee was hot. She spilled a little in
her lap, and was promptly awarded a huge settlement..

Common Sense was preceded in death by his parents, Truth and Trust; his
wife, Discretion; his daughter, Responsibility; and his son, Reason. He is
survived by his 4 stepbrothers; I Know My Rights, I Want It Now, Someone Else
Is To Blame, and I'm A Victim.

Too few people today knew him, and we are are much the lesser for that.

Not many attended his funeral because so few realized he was gone. If you
still remember him, pass this on. If not, join the majority and do nothing.'

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February 08, 2009

Subject: New Willy


A man wakes up in the hospital, bandaged from head to foot.

The doctor comes in and says, 'Ah, I see you've regained consciousness.
Now, you probably won't remember, but you were in a pile-up on the freeway.
You're going to be okay, you'll walk again and everything, but..... something happened....

I'm trying to break this gently, but the fact is, your willy was chopped off in the wreck and we were unable to find it.'

The man groans, but the doctor goes on, 'You've got $9,000 in insurance compensation coming and we have the technology now to build you a new willy that will work as well as your old one did -better in fact! But the thing is, it doesn't come cheap. It's $1,000 an inch.'

The man perks up at this. 'So,' the doctor says, 'it's for you to decide how many inches you want. But it's something you'd better discuss with your wife. I mean, if you had a five inch one before, and you decide to go for a nine incher, she might be a bit put out. But if you had a nine inch one before, and you decide only to invest in a five incher this time, she might be disappointed. So it's important that she plays a role in helping you make the decision.

'The man agrees to talk with his wife.

The doctor comes back the next day.
So,' says the doctor, 'have you spoken with your wife?'

'I have,' says the man. 'And has she helped you in making the decision?'

'Yes, she has,' says the man.

'And what is it?' asks the doctor.

'We're getting new countertops

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February 06, 2009

Death of Capitalism

Allen Davis has a great piece on just what the "stimulus package" currently being proposed by Mr. Obama is really all about.

Plain and simple, it's an end run to end the free market economy as we know it.
Period, end of story....the only question is, will the electorate wake up in time to stop it or not.

My bet is the sheeple will continue to snooze on....excuse me while I go check my inventory of precious metals.

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Subject: Texas job qualification

A man seeking to join a south Texas Sheriff's Department is being interviewed.

The Sergeant doing the interview says: "Your qualifications all look good, but there is an attitude suitability test that you must take before you can be accepted."

Then, sliding a service pistol and a box of ammo across the desk, he says: "Take this pistol and go out and shoot six illegal aliens, six meth dealers, six Muslim extremists, and a rabbit."
"Why the rabbit?"

"Great attitude," says the Sergeant. "When can you start?"

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February 04, 2009

Medicine and Socialism don't mix

Yeah, Socialized medicine is really swell! I can't wait for the day that I'm refused emergency care courtesy of Obama/Pelosi/Et All...after all I really care for the poor (after all I AM one) and downtrodden (can't be that...apparently White people aren't allowed) /sarcasm

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Democratic Arithmetic

For the last eight years we have been treated to a constant barrage of Bush-bashing. I'm glad that that is finally over, and I don't wish to respond to the Opposition in the same way....BUT, when a member of the Opposition is so blatantly stupid in public, I do feel it's incumbent on those of us who have not drunk the DemoCrapic Kool-Aid to point that stupidity out.

The latest data (July 200 indicates the entire population of the United States is just approaching 304 million. Those in the workforce represent less than half that number.... I know I was edumacated indoctrinated in a Publik Skool, but even I can see that Ms. Pelosi's statement has a little mathematical problem attached to it....500,000 workers a month Ms Pelosi?!? out of a workforce of approximately 140,000,000? If true, that means we would have an unemployment rate of over 20 percent in just four months...the worst year of the Great Depression we had an unemployment rate of just under 20%....I know we're have some economic troubles, but..

I just don't believe that we are headed that far that fast, and if we are, I have a question. Read below the fold if you are curious what the question is (rant alert), if not, just consider Ms. Pelosi's public statements and consider if you feel comfortable with her being third in the line of succession for the Presidency...

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Just for Grins, A Rant

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I JUST LEARNED THAT OBAMA IS GOING TO IMPOSE A 40% TAX ON ASPIRIN!
THE REASON GIVEN WAS BECAUSE IT'S WHITE AND IT WORKS!

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Yeah, I know, it's a racist joke, but folks, humor works because at the base of the supposition there is some kernel of truth. Mr. Obama's proposals to date to try to repair our present economic slump have all been based on class envy and populist pandering to the economically disadvantaged (Hey Barry, you WON the election, there is no need to keep campaigning!).

These so called "bailouts" and "economic stimulus" packages are nothing more than pork payback to keep the sponsors fat and happy, at the expense of our country and our grandchildren's' economic health. In summation, "politics as usual". These are difficult times and such shortsightedness will result in ever increasing hardship and a severe lowering of the standard of living for every citizen now existing and even worse conditions for those as yet unborn.

It is our fault. We have installed a socialist in the highest office of the land and shouldn't be surprised that he wants to try the same old dis-proven socialist economic programs that have proven to be disastrous time after time in the past (see Russia, China, Cuba, etc,etc,etc).

There IS a way out of the morass we find ourselves in. It requires that we think outside of the box that has shaped our thinking about government financing since another socialistic President used WWI as a way to institute personal income taxes. We need to return to our roots. The FAIR TAX is the best solution, IMHO.

People forget that for the first half of our countries existence, the people at large DID NOT PAY TAXES ON THEIR INCOME. The federal budget at that time was equal to or smaller than some state budgets today....
It's unrealistic to dream that we will ever return to that small of a Federal budget, but we CAN and SHOULD reduce the present budget to a point where we no longer have trillion dollar deficits and require monetary dependence on foreign countries to service that debt. That's an open "dirty little secret" folks. Currently, China has control of most of our government debt...the pandering politicians in Congress have mortgaged our economic freedom to, arguably, our worst enemy...and the average person on the street doesn't realize that fact, or know the implications of that fact, due to the lowering of educational standards over the last thirty years.

Mr. Obama is the first culmination of a long-sighted Socialist agenda that has been festering in the American background since the 1930s. The Socialists have been patient and cautious to never reveal their true agenda over that period of time, and they have been highly successful; so successful that anyone that tries to raise an alarm is viewed by the masses as a conspiracy nut-job.

The Socialists are aware that their true agenda is unpalatable to the average free thinking American, so they use the principle of incremental application. First they gradually inculcate themselves into the academic structure. By becoming the teachers of the next generation, they install their values onto the next generation of leaders and their followers. They lower the standards in the interests of "fairness" so as to not damage the fragile egos of those that are unable or unwilling to exert the effort it takes to become truly educated; indeed, they pander to those egos, coddling them, raising them unwarrantedly, and maintaining them in a fragile state, as that type of ego is much easier to exert control over.
They tell little Johnny that "it's all right he didn't get the correct answer to that arithmetic problem, the important thing is he TRIED to solve it". They tell little Suzie that she shouldn't "settle" for being a good mother/homemaker/wife; she deserves to be able to "do it all" without questioning what sacrifices she must make in some other area of her life.
I'm NOT saying that she can't be anything she wants to be {except a father, and science is probably working on that too..},but she has to realize that there are choices that have to be made in that decision, and that being a mother and homemaker is THE ultimate career there can be. The decline of society started when society at large lost sight of that fact.

When women starting abdicating motherhood to the State, the Socialists made their greatest gain in the furtherance of their agenda.

Just what is the Socialist agenda anyway? It's difficult to fight against an enemy whose goals are unknown to you. Stripped of all it's politics and covers, Socialism is merely the exertion of control. Control by the socialist over everyone else around him. Every Socialist believes in his very heart that HE will be that ultimate controller. That is the reason that Michael Savage is correct when he states that "Liberalism(Socialism) is a mental illness"; every adherent believes that he is the ultimate arbitrator over others in his own mind, regardless of the openly observable fact that he is not (Savage is a nut-job, but, as they say, even a broken clock is correct at least twice a day).

I know I put a lot of different ideas in a not-so-coherent package in the diatribe above. Sometimes trying to express myself is frustrating; like the manic phase of a manic/depressive it can get confusing because there is so much to say and no control to put it into a coherent form....I need to get an editor... but I hope I did sow some small seeds in some one's mind.

Time to get off the soapbox, I need to clean a few items and load some magazines, I always find that calms a racing mind.

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February 01, 2009

Ice Cream & The Election


Excellent analogy!

From a teacher in the Nashville area:

Who worries about "the cow" when it is all about the "Ice Cream?

The most eye-opening civics lesson I ever had was while teaching third grade this year.

The presidential election was heating up and some of the children showed an interest.

I decided we would have an election for a class president.

We would choose our nominees. They would make a campaign speech and the class would vote.

To simplify the process, candidates were nominated by other class members.

We discussed what kinds of characteristics these students should have.

We got many nominations and from those, Jamie and Olivia were picked to run for the top spot.

The class had done a great job in their selections.

Both candidates were good kids. I thought Jamie might have an advantage because he got lots of parental support. I had never seen Olivia's mother.

The day arrived when they were to make their speeches Jamie went first.

He had specific ideas about how to make our class a better place. He ended by promising to do his very best.

Everyone applauded. He sat down and Olivia came to the podium. Her speech was concise.

She said, "If you will vote for me, I will give you ice cream." She sat down.

The class went wild. "Yes! Yes! We want ice cream." She surely could say more. She did not have to.

A discussion followed. How did she plan to pay for the ice cream? She wasn't sure.

Would her parents buy it or would the class pay for it? She didn't know.

The class really didn't care. All they were thinking about was ice cream.

Jamie was forgotten.

Olivia won by a landslide.


Every time Barack Obama opened his mouth he offered ice cream and fifty-two percent of the people reacted like nine year olds. They want ice cream.

The other forty-eight percent of us know we're going to have to feed the cow and clean up the mess.

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