"A man may deal with theory, and miss the whole impact of the truth." - G. Campbell Morgan
D.C. law already ban individuals — ages 16 and up — from wearing masks in public under certain circumstances, such as while committing a crime or with "the intent to intimidate, threaten, abuse or harass any other person."Already banned while committing a crime? And that didn't work, huh?
"The government is not your salvation. The government is not your road to prosperity. Hard work, education will take you far beyond what any government program can ever promise."
-- Mia Love
The actor best known for playing the TV character Gomer Pyle in the 1960s has married his male partner of 38 years.I didn't know but I am not really surprised, I just wanted to use that headline so badly. To be honest I never even thought one way or the other about it.
The sight of Army helicopters and the sound of gunfire created a lot of concern Monday afternoon in one Houston neighborhood.Miami:
"I felt like I was in a warzone." Jerrals said. "It was nonstop. I was terrified."
"Diving Blackhawks, blank rounds of machine gun fire, strafing runs, troops rappelling from choppers, and road blockades," writes Karen De Coster. "All over the skies of Miami at night, just a few days ago. According to this local TV clown in the video, this event was for the purposes of ‘meeting requirements,’ preparing for overseas military drills, and making sure the equipment is in check."Preparing for a war on Americans?
Cats are one of the top threats to US wildlife, killing billions of animals each year, a study suggests.
The authors estimate they are responsible for the deaths of between 1.4 and 3.7 billion birds and 6.9-20.7 billion mammals annually.
"The 2nd Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptional, rare circumstances when all other rights have failed. A free people can only afford to make this mistake once."
Individuals enlisting in the U.S. Armed Forces must swear an oath to "support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic." But what happens when the only crime perpetrated by the “enemy” is supporting and defending the Constitution?Four years ago I was just another law-abiding American, now I'm being spoken of and treated as an enemy of America. I haven't changed. I have done nothing wrong - just go to work everyday and support my family and mind my own business. My so-called "crime" is not agreeing that we should trash the Constitution of the United States. Call me crazy. I will not shut up.
Such is the dilemma facing future military officers at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point — who are being taught to view freedom-loving Americans as violent, racist terrorists-in-waiting. As part of the federal government's ongoing jihad against common-sense fiscal conservatism and constitutionally limited government, West Point’s Combating Terrorism Center (CTC) has issued a new report making some dangerously irrational generalizations about the "far-right."
The Department of Homeland Security is seeking to acquire 7,000 5.56x45mm NATO "personal defense weapons" (PDW) — also known as “assault weapons” when owned by civilians.The civilian version is NOT select-fire, they are semi-automatic only. So the rip-roaring full auto version is a "personal defense weapon" in the hands of the government but the tamer semi-auto version, in the hands of a civilian, is an "assault rifle".
Citing a General Service Administration (GSA) request for proposal (RFP), Steve McGough of RadioViceOnline.com reports that DHS is asking for the 7,000 "select-fire" firearms because they are "suitable for personal defense use in close quarters." The term select-fire means the weapon can be both semi-automatic and automatic. Civilians are prohibited from obtaining these kinds of weapons.
But there is another matter of critical importance: Laws that can place people in jail should be passed by Congress, not by the decree of the Librarian of Congress. We have no way to hold the Librarian of Congress accountable for crazy laws. There are still plenty of crazy laws passed by elected officials, but at least we can then vote them out of office.Actually, this is probably not the most ridiculous law of 2013, just the most ridiculous law that came to the attention of and bothered the person writing this. There are crazy laws and regulations passed all the time that you have no idea about because it is impossible for anyone to keep track of them all. And, yes, increasingly these laws or regulations come from unaccountable, unelected czars. Welcome to the world of big government.
A Secret Service dog fell to its death from the roof of a six-story parking lot while working to protect Vice President Joe Biden in New Orleans Saturday night.There are unconfirmed reports the dog was Tea-Party friendly.
The whole world we live in ... has become a giant madhouse, where everything that we know is true we're told is not true and vise versa.
We live now in a world where ideology trumps realism, ideology trumps common sense, ideology trumps facts, ideology trumps experience, ideology trumps what you see with your own lying eyes and it's going to get worse and worse and worse and worse.
--Bill Whittle
And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light.
When the man, a neighbor, saw the boy being mauled by the dogs, he went inside his home and got a gun. The man killed one of the dogs. The gunfire attracted the attention of a police officer in the area near Eighth and Sheridan streets, where the attack occurred. The officer responded and shot the other two pit bulls as they continued to attack the boy.Wow, that sounds horrible. But, apparently, he should have just minded his own business and let the dogs have their meal.
The man could face a host of charges depending on the specifics of the case, including whether the gun used is a registered firearm that the man was legally permitted to own, Mr. Gross said. Possession of an unregistered firearm or ammunition is punishable by up to one year in prison and a $1,000 fine, and determining whether the man legally possessed the gun used will likely have greater bearing on the way the case is handled, Mr. Gross said.Ban the dogs!!! - for the sake of the children. We can't take the chance someone may have to save another child with a gun!!!
Also to be taken into consideration is whether the man was within his property line when he fired the weapon — a small but significant distinction. Mr. Gross said it could mean the difference in whether he could be charged with carrying a pistol without a license.
The Fontana Unified School District Police Department is refusing to leave students unprotected and has purchased 14 AR-15 semi-automatic rifles in response to a number of recent shootings in the U.S., several occurring at schools.OK. So we have 14 rifles locked up in the school for use by responding police officers. What is the point? Guns do no good locked in a safe while you wait for police. And don't police officers have their own guns?
Superintendent Cali Olsen-Binks approved the purchase of the rifles, which are reportedly being stored in a locked safe intended for responding police officers during a shooting or attack,
"cat owners should keep their pets indoors and not replace them when they died."There is no constitutional right to keep cats. Let's ban cats, dogs, snakes, fish, all pets. You don't need a pet. Think of all the money spent on pets that could be redistributed to "The Government." Obama needs your pet money!
The Lone Star Campus System is a gun-free zone (Obviously), Carpenter said. State officials said the school had a plan to handle a shooting or other emergency situation (again, obviously - it's "Call 911! and wait for help.").The truth is it has never really been safe. Just because no one brought a gun on campus intending to hurt someone before doesn't mean they couldn't. No place is ever really safe, criminals can walk, drive, take buses or taxis. There is no safety in this life and being completely oblivious to possible danger doesn't change that. You think you're safe in your house? So did Melissa Ketunuti.
"It has been safe for 40 years," Carpenter said. "We think it's still safe."
Melissa Ketunuti, was found dead in the basement of her row home Monday afternoon, her hands and feet bound, her body set on fire.The gun is the equalizer. Not a guarantee, but a fighting chance.
"Who would want to do this?" the neighbor said.Evil people. And they are out there. Banning guns won't change that.
The choice of Myrlie Evers-Williams, widow of slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers, departed from historical protocol. She was the first female and first non-clergy member to lead an inaugural prayer. She did so in the wake of Pastor Louie Giglio’s unceremonious removal from the dais after the discovery he had preached a sermon 20 years ago expositing the Bible’s position on homosexuality. While it’s understandable that Evers-Williams would feel the need to temper her prayers, lest the current administration banish her from future public speaking engagements, her words represent a stunning departure from historical inaugural prayers and from anything resembling a Christian, Jewish, or even a generic Judeo-Christian prayer.America has fundamentally changed.
To press seated just below the podium, in front of the "President's Own" Marine Corps Band, it was evident that the band wasn't actually playing during the song—even though band director Colonel Michael J. Colburn was conducting energetically and the band members mimicked blowing into their instruments.Nothing is as it seems anymore, we pretend we're rich, we pretend we care, we pretend to fix problems - America is an empty shell about to collapse.
Now I know that God is patient. I know it from my own experience so it's a scary thing to think that eventually even God loses patience with a man. But He did. He made a decision to quit using Saul and move on to Plan B. From that point there was no need begging, pleading or even praying. The decision had been made in the 3rd heaven and the time had come to plan accordingly.I don't know if there is no turning back, but I do know the road we are on leads to a tremendous amount of pain for a hell of a lot of people. It's hard knowing it is coming and not being able to do anything about it.
I think many Christians are making Samuel's mistake today in regard to America. They think they can change the mind of God by continual pleading. Now understand, I'm not a prophet nor do I claim a vision of divine revelation but I suspect a decision is already made about America and no amount of pleading will change it.
Nor am I sure when the decision was made. Maybe it was when America legalized abortion; maybe after the public approval of homosexuality; maybe with the rejection of God from textbooks and schools. There are abundant reasons to justify God's rejection of America as a protected and blessed nation!
But I was jarred into reality when I witnessed an entire political convention boo God. Now I'm left with a dilemma-I love my country but can I sincerely ask God to bless a country which has shown such contempt for God? I wonder what the Founding Fathers would do if they were alive today? I can't imagine John Adams or George Washington or even Ben Franklin going to war against England if the Continental Congress had expressed such disdain for God.
And He gave them into the hand of the nations; and those who hated them ruled over them. --Psalms 106:41
Too bad the attorney general wasn’t talking about getting to the bottom of Fast & Furious, his own gun trafficking scandal. No, no — he was encouraging the federal government to crack down on Americans’ gun rights, not those of the Mexican drug cartels. And he said it with a straight face.
In his report, Sadowski found that the state was buying equipment it didn't need but had wanted for other purposes, had bought equipment that cannot be tracked, and even lost some equipment bought.Business as usual.
Sadowski uncovered examples of spending that appeared to take federal money for things that had no direct connection to Hurricane Sandy recovery efforts. He also found that credit card purchases weren't being properly tracked or accounted for.
Palm Bay police spokeswoman Yvonne Martinez said Ricardo Marquis Davis, 35, confessed to biting off the thumb and spitting it onto the floorboard. He told police she had pushed his head while they were in the car.Meanwhile, in Philadelphia: Woman Thrown on Subway Tracks During Violent Attack
Taking guns away from single women who live alone and other law-abiding citizens without mental illnesses will do nothing about the Chos, Loughners, Holmeses or Lanzas. Such people have to be separated from civil society, for the public’s sake as well as their own. But this is nearly impossible because the ACLU has decided that being psychotic is a civil right.
Customs, traditions, moral values and rules of etiquette, not laws and government regulations, are what make for a civilized society. These behavioral norms -- transmitted by example, word of mouth and religious teachings -- represent a body of wisdom distilled through ages of experience, trial and error, and looking at what works. The importance of customs, traditions and moral values as a means of regulating behavior is that people behave themselves even if nobody's watching. Police and laws can never replace these restraints on personal conduct so as to produce a civilized society. At best, the police and criminal justice system are the last desperate line of defense for a civilized society. The more uncivilized we become the more laws that are needed to regulate behavior.
Many customs, traditions and moral values have been discarded without an appreciation for the role they played in creating a civilized society, and now we're paying the price. What's worse is that instead of a return to what worked, people want to replace what worked with what sounds good, such as zero-tolerance policies in which bringing a water pistol, drawing a picture of a pistol, or pointing a finger and shouting "bang-bang" produces a school suspension or arrest.
The earliest appointment to apply with the Department of Agriculture is at least four months out.
Sending the application in the mail also takes just as long, sometimes a full 90 days, officials said.
"It looks like she was specifically targeted because of her vulnerabilities,"I guess we have to make everyone weak, just to be fair. Well, everyone who is not important anyway.
Over the years I have done many radio programs about ancient Israel and Judah. It's always amazed me how patient God was with them. Maybe they believed they could get away with their sins, but they didn't. Maybe that's where we are as a people. This week Planned Parenthood boasted that they performed one abortion every 94 seconds and that this was their best year yet financially.
Israel and Judah's most intolerable sin was the sexual abuse of children and child sacrifice. What about us, do we think we can get a way with it? How much longer will a just God allow us to keep slaughtering helpless innocent babies in abortion clinics. Two hundred years ago, Thomas Jefferson said, "I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just and that His justice cannot sleep forever." May God have mercy on us. "
--Ronald L Dart
In its latest annual report for fiscal year 2011 to 2012, Planned Parenthood reveals that it performed 333,964 abortions in 2011 – a record year for the organization.
According to annual reports, the organization performed 332,278 abortions in 2009, 329,445 in 2010, making the total number of abortions in three years to 995,687.
Planned Parenthood reported receiving a record $542 million in taxpayer funding, according to a Susan B. Anthony List analysis of the report, in the form of government grants, contracts, and Medicaid reimbursements. The amount is 45 percent of Planned Parenthood’s annual revenue.
The number 40 has great significance in the Bible.
Perhaps best known is the 40 years that the Israelites were condemned to wander in the desert before being permitted entry into the Promised Land.
Maybe this mystical quantity will bear significance as we note, this month, the 40th year since the Roe v Wade decision legalized abortion in America.
Forty years we have lived with the silent, and sometimes not so silent, holocaust in our midst as the lives of 55 million innocent and unborn children have been snuffed out, plucked from their journey to enter this world.
Who were they? Who would they have become?
I live in the USA – a nation rapidly moving away from God just as ancient Israel did. There were grave consequences for ancient Israel for that trend, and there will be grave consequences for the USA.
Some people might suggest that’s not true because America was never a "Christian nation."
If you're one of those people, I would like to offer up as exhibits one through 50 the following partial preambles to the constitutions of the several states:
The mother, later identified as Melinda Herman, shot the man five times with a .38 caliber revolver after he cornered them in an attic crawlspace, successfully protecting herself and her two children,She even went further than she had to, they hid themselves in the attic but the guy just couldn't be satisfied with that and went after them.
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg ... in an effort to crack down on what he called a citywide and national epidemic of prescription drug abuse.Wait for it...
Some of the most common and most powerful prescription painkillers on the market will be restricted sharply in the emergency rooms at New York City’s 11 public hospitalsSo, the people who need the painkillers - now, in the emergency room - have to suffer because Michael Bloomberg wants to look like he's doing something to save the world.
"Wrong is wrong even if everybody is doing it, and right is right even if nobody is doing it"Majority rule, Presidential fiat, law or regulation cannot change that.
St. Augustine (354-430)
"By the time the police got there, it was obvious she was DOA," Det. Sgt. John Best told Newsday. "They were arguing over the television and what they were going to watch on TV."
The fiscal frenzy that has seized French socialists is not only grinding France’s economy to a halt; it is also attacking the very foundations of French society by destroying entrepreneurship and responsibility. Taxes are raining down on French citizens, and the promised “benefits” often seem to disappear before they have even been introduced. The French government’s 2013 finance bill has announced confiscatory tax rates on incomes and capital gains, and payroll taxes will be increased as well. But the socialists are shooting themselves in the foot, as such tax rates will destroy wealth and drive out entrepreneurs, capital, businesses, and young people. Thus, tax revenues will ultimately not rise but fall.You have to REQUEST to leave France?
The message could not be clearer: The number of requests by French citizens to leave France are suddenly up by 400 to 500 percent.
Between NY Rep. Peter King and now New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, Republicans in Congress, and particularly House Speaker John Boehner, have endured a bludgeoning. Over what? Over their failure to consider this Sandy-sham bill. Christie said that there is only one group to blame: The House Majority and John Boehner. He says, “It was disappointing and disgusting to watch. Shame on you, shame on Congress.” Christie’s never one to mince words, and just because he’s a Republican doesn’t mean he isn’t going to give it to members of his own party when he feels he deserves it. However, did they deserve it?
Well let’s see … if the Sandy relief bill had actually been for hurricane relief efforts, then a frustrated drubbing from Christie and others would be understandable. But the Sandy bill wasn’t just for hurricane relief efforts. It was just another pathetic, pork-laden bill disguised as legislation for a worthy cause. If someone can definitively prove how the following expenditures in the bill are related to Superstorm Sandy relief, then maybe the Republicans should reconsider their opposition:
* $150 million for Alaskan fisheries.
* $8 million for cars for the Homeland Security and Justice departments.
* $2 million for the Smithsonian to repair roofs damaged before Sandy.
* $336 million in Amtrak expenses
Yeah, I didn’t think so. It’s clear that these people in Washington are never going to learn when it comes to these pet projects, and it is also clear that we Americans are never really willing or capable of holding their feet to the fire on the issue. But back to Chris Christie, perhaps his frustration should have been directed at those who chose to use this bill as a vehicle for pork projects and thus render it unpassable (is that a word?). It sucked. Is that better?
And if the cloud bursts, thunder in your earThe American people have gone completely mad letting our "leaders" go on as they do. Why do we have to be exceptional? Why can't we be just like all the other countries? History has already played that record and we know how it ends - at least those of us who are paying attention do.
You shout and no one seems to hear.
And if the band you're in starts playing different tunes
I'll see you on the dark side of the moon. --Pink Floyd, Brain Damage
"In 1789, the flintlock musket was the "assault weapon" of its day. It was every bit as dangerous and menacing then as the AR-15 is now. Anyone who doubts this need only reflect upon the fact that civilians took their weapons into battle against the greatest military power in the world, and prevailed." --Two--Four