That IS the Underlying Problem!

"Now, I often hear the argument that before reform can move forward, we must first secure our borders. But too often, the border-security-first refrain simply serves as an excuse for failing to address the underlying problems," Napolitano told the Senate Judiciary Committee today at a hearing on immigration.

What exactly is the problem if it's not people coming into the country illegally? The only other problem is the government not enforcing immigration laws, or more to the point, selectively enforcing immigration laws. We have immigration policies - follow them. If we are following them and something needs to be adjusted, fine, adjust it. But don't ignore the laws and then say we have to reform immigration. We don't need immigration reform, we need government reform.

'A Tragic Misinterpretation'

Details emerge in LAPD's mistaken shooting of newspaper carriers

It was around 5 a.m. in Torrance on Thursday and police from nearby El Segundo had seen a pickup truck exit a freeway and head in the general direction of the Redbeam Avenue residence of a high-ranking Los Angeles police official, which was being guarded by a group of LAPD officers.

Police were on the lookout for Christopher Jordan Dorner, a disgruntled ex-cop suspected of hunting down members of the LAPD and their families in a twisted campaign of revenge. The radio call indicated that the truck matched the description of Dorner's gray Nissan Titan.

A few minutes later, a truck slowly rolled down the quiet residential street.

As the vehicle approached the house, officers opened fire, unloading a barrage of bullets into the back of the truck. When the shooting stopped, they quickly realized their mistake. The truck was not a Nissan Titan, but a Toyota Tacoma. The color wasn't gray, but aqua blue. And it wasn't Dorner inside the truck, but a woman and her mother delivering copies of the Los Angeles Times.

Oopsie!



I think it's pretty sad that we live in a time when there is a Monty Python sketch for every occasion. We've become a joke.

It's the Mental Illness

Woman showed up at Charleston school intending to kill, police say

The woman arrested with a loaded pistol outside a downtown private school Monday was trying to kill people, but she couldn’t get the gun to fire, according to Charleston police. Alice Boland, a 28-year-old Beaufort woman with a history of mental illness, was arrested at Ashley Hall on Rutledge Avenue.

Mental illness is the common denominator in most, if not all, of the horrific killings that we have suffered. I only say most because I don't have scientific evidence to back it up - most likely it's all. And most of the time people who have come into contact with the person will remember that, yes, that person had a serious problem. But what can you do? I knew a guy who - if he had a gun - I have no doubt would have used it to kill someone - at least. And I'm not the only one who thought so. All his co-workers knew, his neighbors, and at least two police officers that I knew - more actually, because they also had been called to his house by neighbors. I personally spoke on several occasions to the 2 police officers and there is nothing that can be done unless he does something illegal.

I don't pretend to have the answer about what to do for people like this but I know it's not leave them alone. Psychiatric hospitals can be a sensitive subject but I believe they have a role in helping to curb this problem. There are homeless people right now that need one, the majority of the long term homeless are mentally ill. We need to be helping these people, not putting them out on the street to fend for themselves. And we need to figure out a way to get help for those who are obviously not right in the head but managing to live in society. It's hard, a lot harder than banning guns. But banning guns is not the answer.

Enough With The Stupidity Already

Alexandria cops bust 10-year-old for bringing toy gun to school

The boy, a fifth-grader at Douglas MacArthur Elementary School whose name is not being released, was charged as a juvenile with brandishing a weapon, police said.

How do you charge someone with brandishing a weapon if it wasn't a weapon? It was a plastic toy gun with an orange tip. Why do they have to get the police involved? That's child abuse. Playing with toy weapons is normal behavior - at least for boys. Just take it away and send a note home for the parents to come pick it up, then remind them that it is against school rules. That's all that is necessary. Anything beyond that is child abuse.

They Ruin Everything

I had been watching and enjoying the new Hawaii Five-0 the past few seasons but tonight I lost my taste for it. In what I believe is the first show with an English title (Hookman) they went anti-gun, making a gun shop owner look like an idiot and a kook and Danny angrily ranting screaming about guns killing people - "...no guns, no killing. It's that simple." I can't even finish watching the show. I'm done.

First Response?

If your 1st response to the shooting of dozens of children was to rush out in a 2nd amendment frenzy to buy guns, you are a loathsome human.

--Dave Foley

I don't know anyone who's "1st response to the shooting of dozens of children was to rush out in a 2nd amendment frenzy to buy guns." That was not the first response of the gun community, not at all. There was a local gun show the weekend after it happened and it was not packed, no one was buying everything in sight and there was no rush to buy AR-15's or AK's. The panic buying was the response to the news that the government was going to reinstate the "assault weapons" ban - only stronger. That was when people started the buying frenzy.

What I find loathsome, Dave, is people who paint millions of law-abiding, decent people as evil because their hobby is shooting or they have guns for self-defense. It takes willful ignorance to not understand the difference between a criminal and a law-abiding citizen.

In fact, it was the anti-gunners on the left who were sitting on this legislation waiting to take advantage of a tragedy so they could push it through while emotions were high. Witness New York. That is also loathsome.

Gunshot Wounds

Very interesting talk by an anesthesiologist on gunshot wounds. Must see if you carry. Warning: graphic images.



Most people are shot with handguns, not with rifles.

Handguns are not nearly as deadly as you would think.

There are often no exit wounds, handguns have low penetration.

What Would We Do Without Scientists?

Fish Thinking

Scientists have just observed a thought swimming through the brain of a live fish, and that thought concerned getting something good to eat.

Fish and other wild animals appear to think a lot about food: how to obtain it and what to consume

Who would have guessed?

Pack 'em In

Welcome to Hong Kong

It looks like it's the most popular place to live in China.

Beware the Regulation

15 Tons of Cheese Trashed After Two Year Raw Milk Battle Ends and Sheriffs Called In to Carry Out Order

"...they requested a trial by jury and were denied as the rules governing the safety of the product were a regulation not a law."

You have rights under the law, but not under regulation. And unelected, unaccountable people make the regulations.

Good News is No News

A kid got a gun past metal detectors at Price Middle School in Atlanta yesterday. He shot and injured 1 boy and was apprehended by an armed school resource officer. This from Neal Boortz:

the shooter at the Price Middle School was apprehended by an armed school resource officer. Did you get that word “armed?” That’s right! There was an official in that school with a gun. That leaves you to wonder just who is making more sense here: Homeland Secretary Janet Napolitano and her promotion of scissors as a defense against workplace (and presumably school) shooters? Or NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre who has suggested armed law enforcement in our government schools?

So I checked around to find the story in the news and it is there but guess what? No mention of an armed resource officer. Not here. Not here. Nor here. Not here either.

Finally, this one mentions he was armed. And this one.

So I guess the media is reluctant to admit that NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre was right about armed law enforcement in schools. What a suprise.

Ban the Ski Masks!

Ski masks, a fashion accessory to crime in D.C., may soon be illegal

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?

I see no hope for this country. I'm trying, I'm really trying.

Quote of the Day

"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

Surprise! Surprise! Surprise!

Jim Nabors: ‘Gomer Pyle’ actor marries male partner in Seattle

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.

I Don't Find This Comforting

Especially in light of this report. Why is the military training in America's cities?

Houston:

The sight of Army helicopters and the sound of gunfire created a lot of concern Monday afternoon in one Houston neighborhood.

"I felt like I was in a warzone." Jerrals said. "It was nonstop. I was terrified."

Miami:

"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?

We Need More Dogs

Cats killing billions of animals in the US

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.

Extolling the Virtues of the 2nd Amendment

Well said.

"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."

I Will Not Be Silent

Army should fire author of report on conservative terrorism

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?

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."

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.

Personal Defense Weapons

Why are they called personal defense weapons when the government buys them, but assault weapons when I buy them?

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.

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.

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".

The fact of the matter is the Obama administration, the progressives in power, want to disarm the American public. That is their goal and the reason has NOTHING to do with children. They don't care about your kids, they don't care about you. They are engineering a complete transformation of the United States which includes a new constitution - they probably have a working copy if not a completed version - and are getting to the point where there will be strong resistance from the populace. They don't want anyone shooting back.

Where No Government Should Tread

Big Government Cranks Out the Regulations

The Most Ridiculous Law of 2013 (So Far): It Is Now a Crime to Unlock Your Smartphone

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.

Fell? Or Was Pushed?

Secret Service Dog Guarding Biden Falls to Its Death From New Orleans Parking Garage Roof

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.

You Can't Hide Your Lyin' Eyes

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

Tearing Down Idols

And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light.

What part of evil do you not understand.

Save a Kid, Go to Jail

D.C. man who shot dogs biting boy could face charges

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.

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.

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!!!

Common Sense Solution?

Killers Beware: Students in This School District Will Now Be Protected by 14 Recently Purchased AR-15s

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.

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,

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?

There is no more common sense in America. It's gone. There doesn't seem to be common anything anymore. Common nonsense. Yes, there is common nonsense.

Kiss the Ring

The Godmother



Wow. That is all.

Hey, Let's Ban Cats!

They're coming for your cats soon

"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!

And Another Warning

This is real. This is want they want for us.

Safety

So I'm reading about this Texas college shooting and come across this:

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.").

"It has been safe for 40 years," Carpenter said. "We think it's still safe."

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.

Now I'm not saying you need to be paranoid, just be aware.

Sometimes You Need a Gun and You Don't Have One

Doctor 'with her whole future ahead of her' found slain strangled and burned in Philadelphia home

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.

Turning the Corner

The (g)odless Inaugural Prayer: Time to ask if our country has crossed the spiritual Rubicon?

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.

Fake Singer, Fake Band, Fake President, Fake Country

Beyonce and the band were faking it during the Star-Spangled Banner, it was all pre-recorded.

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.

40 Years of State-Sanctioned Slaughter of Innocents

Roe v. Wade Turns 40

Interesting number, biblically speaking. Seems to be a number connected with trials, testing and probation. Does it have significance in this case? I don't know. If so, I think we failed.

Poll: Majority of Americans now support legal abortion in all or most cases

Satan's Thoughts Exactly

David Attenborough - Humans are plague on Earth

No, I'm not saying David Attenborough is Satan, just that they are in agreement on that point.

But Where Are the Republicans?

NRA Ready to 'Stand and Fight'

No really, where are the Republicans? Pretty much all I hear are crickets.

If we lose the 2nd Amendment, we lose them all. There will not be freedom of speech (there is no freedom of speech in Canada or Europe), there will be no protection from search and seizure, there will be no innocent until proven guilty. Does America not realize this?

What America needs right now is politician control. Politicians are overstepping their bounds with impunity and trampling on the Constitution like it doesn't matter, and the Supreme Court mostly backs this heresy.

I must say I have often thought the way Jim O'Brien does in this essay: Giving Up On America

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 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.

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.

And He gave them into the hand of the nations; and those who hated them ruled over them. --Psalms 106:41

Comedy Central

Eric Holder calls for ‘tough penalties’ for gun traffickers; doesn't get the joke.

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.

Because Government Schools

They make completely inane decisions and there is no reasoning with them at all. Might as well bang your head against a brick wall than reason with government workers.

Governement Fraud, Waste and Abuse

New York Fires Auditor Who Found Misuse of Sandy Recovery Funds

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.

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.

Business as usual.

Once Again and Again and Again

It's not the implement, it's the person wielding it: Palm Bay man bites off girlfriend's thumb during fight

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

Dallas: Robber Beats Dallas Clerk With Several Hammers

Kentucky: Woman Recovering After Violent Attack At Fayette Mall

New Jersey: Woman Brutally Stabbed Inside Bed Bath & Beyond Store In N.J.

Reprehensible

Christie: NRA Ad on Obama Daughters ‘Reprehensible’

I'll tell you what is reprehensible: Sending children into make-believe gun-free zones and pretending they are safe, claiming that a good guy with a gun in a school wouldn't do anything to make the kids safer. They say guns don't make people safer and then surround themselves with people with guns - and take your right to protect yourself away from you. If guns don't make you safer, then why do they surround themselves and their families with people with guns? I don't see police walking around unarmed either. Why? Wouldn't be safe?

What is also reprehensible is the "my way or the highway" approach that is being taken by this administration and New York officials, and surrounding yourself with 8-year-olds and reading the letters their teacher made them write and acting as if they had more sense than an 8-year-old. An 8-year-old doesn't understand all the intricacies that surround this issue and, apparently, neither do progressives. Or do they know all to well? Is that why they want our guns?

Another thing that is reprehensible is demonizing good, decent, law-abiding, patriotic Americans for doing nothing more than owning a gun. Absolutely reprehensible. Guns are not evil and they do not make a person evil. Period.



Gun-free zones belong in the same category as Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and the Tooth Fairy. The only people they disarm are law-abiding citizens. No one is asking for secret service to protect our schools, just some common sense. If a teacher or principal (any school worker) is comfortable with guns, has a concealed carry permit and perhaps takes an additional safety course for school carry, then they should be allowed to carry their gun - concealed,and on their person at all times - to school. No student need ever know. And this is completely different than arming teachers. We don't need to arm teachers. Most teachers are not interested and it wouldn't work.

There are many other reasonable steps schools can take to protect the children and having a security guard or two should be considered. They don't even have to be uniformed, probably shouldn't be, just a nicely dressed person with a concealed weapon.

Also, schools spend a lot of money on fire alarms and fire suppression systems. And they have regular fire drills. When was the last time you heard of a fire at a school? Yet we don't question the need for these things. Firearms are the same. They are like a fire extinguisher: Most people pass by them everyday and never need one, wouldn't even know how to use it really. But thank God they are there and that, in an emergency someone who does know how to use it has one available.

This just in: This is absolutely reprehensible: White House Uses Children Again to Make Anti-Gun Argument: ‘The Only Thing They Do Is Harm or Kill’

Brilliant! Hey, let's let 8 and 10-year-old kids run for president and congress. They are so much smarter than adults. Who knew the solution to violence was so easy: No guns! Remember how peaceful the world was before guns?

They really believe we are idiots, don't they?

Quote of the Day

"Marxism is the opiate of the elites."

--Robert Avrech

Exactly.

Guns don't kill people, the mentally ill do

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.

Guns Are So Completely Not the Problem

Guns are a distraction from the real problems, restrictive gun laws are just a feel good measure that will do nothing except hurt honest, patriotic, good people, and make believe gun-free zones make the emotionally immature feel safe but are targeted by the sick, twisted, evil animals who don't live by the same rules you and I do.

Are Guns the Problem?

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.

Officials R Kollage Edjumacated

Orlando wait time for concealed weapons license longer than rest of state

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.

Imagine That...

Criminals prey on the weak.

Three thugs break into the home of a 63-year-old cancer female patient and attack her, pistol whip and rob her.

"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.

Headed for Trouble

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

Planned Parenthood reports record year for abortions

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.

Roe v. Wade, 40 years later

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?

A List of Preambles to the Constitutions of 50 States

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:

Oh, So True

A Political Fraud

Even if you don't own a gun and never want to and, yes, even if you live in New Jersey, if we lose the right to keep and bear arms your life will be effected negatively. Crime will increase, you will lose ever more freedoms. They are already running roughshod over the Constitution and they are forever testing the limits of what they can get a way with. They have shown no interest in actually getting a handle on crime and if you ask me it is because they are criminals - just on a whole other scale. Lawbreakers can't bring themselves to punish other lawbreakers.

Guns in the hands of good people protect us all. Just knowing they are there offers a level of protection. Politicians are very aware and that is why they want to take them.

She Did It Right

Mother defends herself and 2 children from a home invader

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.

By the way, the man is not dead and if he had been on drugs or alcohol or just been very determined, those 5 shots may not have stopped him. There are no guarantees in self defense and you don't know how many bullets it will take to stop the attacker until after he stops.

Stop Trying to Control the World!

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 hospitals

So, 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.

Personally, I think they should do away with most prescription medication, it should be available over the counter just like aspirin or cold medicine, with the exception of drugs that require - really require - monitoring by a doctor or pose a threat of loss of life in small quantities.

What about people who abuse drugs? Well, what about people who abuse alcohol? They will do it anyway. Most people won't. Most people will be smart about it. Why do we want to live in a society that operates at the lowest common denominator. We are all treated like we have no self control. Most of us do. Or will if we have to. Living in a nanny state causes loss of self control. Do something with the criminals and leave the rest of us alone.

Quote of the Day

"Wrong is wrong even if everybody is doing it, and right is right even if nobody is doing it"

St. Augustine (354-430)

Majority rule, Presidential fiat, law or regulation cannot change that.

Manipulation through Labeling

It's Not a Gun Problem

It just isn't.

New York Man Kills His Grandmother in Fight Over What to Watch on TV

"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."

Wait. What?

France: Is Anybody There? France’s Socialists Generate a New Class of Tax Exiles

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.

The message could not be clearer: The number of requests by French citizens to leave France are suddenly up by 400 to 500 percent.

You have to REQUEST to leave France?

Windows 8 Is Great

I was not really interested in getting Windows 8 as I was very happy with Windows 7 and I kept reading about how difficult it was to work with Windows 8. Someone said all programs open full screen and you can only use one at a time, many said it was not intuitive and if you don't have a touchscreen it's not worth using - too difficult. They were wrong.

My son was having problems with his computer and I ended up replacing the power supply to fix it, but it kept freezing on him and was slow. He doesn't have a really great computer and it came with Windows Vista. After I replaced the power supply I decided to upgrade him to Windows 8 (only $39.95) because his brother got a Windows 8 computer and he liked it. It downloaded and installed with no problems whatsoever and did wonders for the computer. It is actually a joy to use and much faster. He loves it. He did have to reinstall his programs because the install doesn't keep them if you upgrade from Vista - it does keep them if you upgrade from Windows 7 - but he didn't have many and it did keep all his personal files intact.

After seeing it and using it on his computer I decided I would upgrade my laptop. I was a little apprehensive about it but it turned out fine. When I went to the desktop for the first time it looked and worked exactly like it did before - except the start button. The start screen can be accessed by moving the mouse to the lower left hand corner of the screen and clicking on the little square that pops up or, much easier, just press the Windows key to toggle between start screen and desktop. Super easy.

All standard programs work as they did before but there are also apps, just like on your smart phone. The apps, accessed from the Start Screen, open full screen only. Using the apps, closing them, and switching between them is very easy with the mouse. I have no problems at all. Move the mouse all the way to the left top corner to find the last used app or desktop, swipe downward to open a list of all open apps. You can choose them or close them from there. You can also close an app by moving the mouse to the top of the screen, hold the left mouse button and drag to the bottom. Easy, easy, easy. It works fine.

The only problems I had: I had to reinstall the mouse/pointer device driver because I lost the ability to scroll by moving my finger up or down along the right side of the mouse pad. It works fine now. I also had a problem with Comodo Firewall, it didn't work right and kept freezing when I tried to uninstall. I reinstalled the new program from Comodo and it crashed the computer. I uninstalled Comodo - I didn't like the new version anyway - and all is good once again. It uninstalled fine after I installed the new version. I am using the Windows firewall. One more thing was I had to reinstall the driver/program for Bluetooth. I've never once used it but installed it anyway, works fine now. Sony is not supporting Windows 8 on my laptop (too old, I guess) but it works like a charm anyway. I installed the Windows 7 drivers, they work. I use VLC Player for playing DVDs. Windows 8 does not play DVDs, you have to download a separate program. VLC is a great, free program and plays everything except encrypted BluRay. I was using it in Windows 7 as I especially like that the sound can be increased to 200% which helps with the laptop.

I don't miss the start button. My concern was accessing things like Device Manager, Control Panel and things like that. Move the mouse pointer to the lower left corner and right click. There is your menu for all that. No problem. The start screen can be modified to show what you want, programs, apps, whatever. I don't need the start button. I installed one of the Start Menu programs on my sons computer and he didn't like it. I tried it, it was fine but unnecessary. Uninstalled.

Windows 8 is great.

Government Fiasco

Chris Christie came on the scene slamming, but has been going downhill ever since, he probably hasn't hit bottom yet but he's way too low for me. He's just another New Jersey, push your weight around, mob-style boss.

The Sandy Sham

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?

My question is this: Why do we need congress to pass some special hurricane Sandy bill when we have FEMA, for one. This is not our first rodeo. We have had plenty of natural disasters, plenty of whole towns wiped out, but we are not prepared to help our neighbors? What does FEMA actually do anyway? What is the point of having a huge government agency to help when disasters strike and then not be able to do anything without an act of congress? Does anyone else see the problem here?

A second point: We can clearly see that the government is incapable of helping in a time of crisis, they just can't be there when the need is greatest. WHY DO WE WANT TO LET THEM DISARM US SO THAT WE CAN'T EVEN PROTECT OURSELVES IN A CRISIS?

And if the cloud bursts, thunder in your ear
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

The 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.

The "Assault Weapon," Then and Now

"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

I only want to add that the civilian AR-15 is not the military grade assault rifle the media leads you to believe, it is a step down being only a semi-automatic and not fully automatic as military weapons are. So the above point is actually stronger as modern civilian weaponry is not as equal to modern military weaponry as it was in 1789.

How to Reduce Violent Crime?

I think you know in your heart how, but it's not what they want to do.

Hey, Let's Ban Murder!

And rape, robbery and assault.

Man Struck And Killed By Train After Being Pushed Off Platform

Woman set on fire in LA as she sleeps on bench

Miami Man 'Fighting for Life' Following Christmas Torching

Let's make a law that says we have to be nice to one another. That should do the trick.

That's the First Thing I Thought Of

Gutfeld rips paper publishing gun owners addresses: Makes non-gun owners ‘the easiest marks’

"If anything, non-gun owners should be livid for the paper made them the easiest marks. Just look at this map — what do you see? Not just pockets of gun owners in red, but pockets without. How comfy would you feel knowing your gun-free zone is now public?"

A Voice of Reason

You Can't Ban Crazy

And in a country of no guns in the hands of civilians: Chinese man drives car into students, injuring 13

A man angered by a court ruling in the murder of his daughter rammed a car loaded with a gas tank and firecrackers into a group of middle schoolers, injuring 13 in the country's latest attack on students.

Where Have I Been?

There is a world record for a person holding the most rattlesnakes in their mouth? Why? Who thought that up?

There is a show called Rattlesnale Republic? Wow.

Brandishing. How Completely Silly.

DC Police Investigating NBC's David Gregory for Brandishing Illegal Magazine

Washington D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier has confirmed that the department is looking into allegations that NBC's David Gregory violated D.C.'s gun banning laws during a recent taping of Meet the Press.

As is always the case, the only people negatively effected by gun bans are the law abiding. Brandishing a magazine! He could have put an eye out!

How about disarming and putting gang members away? No, that would be too dangerous and politically incorrect.

Sums It Up

Random Thoughts from Thomas Sowell

The more I study the history of intellectuals, the more they seem like a wrecking crew, dismantling civilization bit by bit -- replacing what works with what sounds good.

Ready to eat: the first GM fish for the dinner table

A GM [genetically modified] salmon which grows twice as fast as ordinary fish could become the first genetically-modified animal in the world to be declared officially safe to eat, after America's powerful food-safety watchdog ruled it posed no major health or environmental risks.

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said it could not find any valid scientific reasons to ban the production of GM Atlantic salmon engineered with extra genes from two other fish species – a decision that could soon lead to its commercial production.

If the government puts its stamp of approval on it it must be safe. Right?

I just hope they label them genetically modified (they won't) because I hate the thought of not eating salmon ever again.

Hebrew is a Fascinating Language

"The purpose of giving is to give to the point where the person doesn't need you anymore, to create independence, I want to give to the point where I can give the real gift; you don't need me, I've stopped giving. Real giving is to create an independent person"

There are many insightful tidbits in this video, definitely worth watching.

Only Sensible Solution

Now, we must speak … for the safety of our nation's children.

Because for all the noise and anger directed at us over the past week, no one — nobody —has addressed the most important, pressing and immediate question we face: How do we protect our children right now, starting today, in a way that we know works? The only way to answer that question is to face up to the truth. Politicians pass laws for Gun-Free School Zones. They issue press releases bragging about them. They post signs advertising them.

And in so doing, they tell every insane killer in America that schools are their safestplace to inflict maximum mayhem with minimum risk. How have our nation's priorities gotten so far out of order? Think about it. We care about our money, so we protect our banks with armed guards. American airports, office buildings, power plants, courthouses —even sports stadiums —are all protected by armed security.

We care about the President, so we protect him with armed Secret Service agents. Members of Congress work in offices surrounded by armed Capitol Police officers.

Yet when it comes to the most beloved, innocent and vulnerable members of the American family —our children —we as a society leave them utterly defenseless, and the monsters and predators of this world know it and exploit it. That must change now!

--Wayne LaPierre, NRA. Transcript here

Massad Ayoob: Understanding Both Sides

The "gun control" debate has, from its beginning, been a battle fueled by emotion and symbolism on the banning side, and by logic and common sense on the side of the responsible gun owners. The fires of emotion flare brightly, but they burn down with time, particularly when dampened by logical public discourse.

I suspect this is why POTUS is moving so quickly on his long-promised gun banning legislation, which he has said he wants to see on his desk by sometime next month. It is why he appointed to lead a supposedly impartial fact-finding commission none other than long-time gun ban advocate Joe Biden, which is rather like appointing the leader of the Westboro Baptist Church as chair of a committee to study gay rights.

Leading the charge are "journalists" who've abandoned all pretense to impartiality and fact finding. CNN has become "all gun control, all the time" over the past week.

In a World Without Guns...

Woman Robbed By Man With Sword

Police say the woman was pumping gas at Sweet Pea’s Food Mart, when a man with a sword approached her and held it to her throat.

The victim handed over her purse, and the suspect took off with it.

Ignoring the Facts. Again.

After School Shooting, Anti-Gun Advocates Want NRA President, Members to Be Shot

#1. Shooter was not an NRA member.

#2. Shooter was not even a gun owner. And he was turned down when he tried to buy a gun.

Thomas Sowell, who continues to impress me, writes: Gun-control zealots rise, again

Gun-control zealots’ choice of Britain for comparison with the United States has been wholly tendentious, not only because it ignored the history of the two countries, but also because it ignored other countries with stronger gun-control laws than the United States, such as Russia, Brazil and Mexico. All of these countries have higher murder rates than the United States.

You could compare other sets of countries and get similar results. Gun ownership has been three times as high in Switzerland as in Germany, but the Swiss have had lower murder rates. Other countries with high rates of gun ownership and low murder rates include Israel, New Zealand and Finland.

Guns are not the problem. People are the problem – including people who are determined to push gun-control laws, either in ignorance of the facts or in defiance of the facts.

I Guess It's Dennis Prager Day

Excellent speech by Dennis Prager on the corrupting effects of liberalism.



This is an interview with Dennis:

"God cares that we're free."

If Only...

Family, friends remember the brave, caring legacy of Sandy Hook teacher Vicki Soto, 27

Teacher Victoria Soto used her body to shield her students from the maniacal gunman who launched a massacre at a Connecticut school, relatives said Saturday.

If only she'd had a gun. Of course, that's not her fault, it's verboten in schools. Gun free zone, don't you know. Except when it's not.

Laws do not alter a persons behavior except voluntarily. I choose to obey laws and you choose to obey laws, criminals choose NOT to obey laws. How many laws did this monster break before he even got to the school? He lived in New Jersey, not a gun friendly state by any means. Most likely he could not have gotten his guns legally, certainly it was illegal for him to transport them in his car. Connecticut is not a gun friendly state either. He didn't care. He killed his mother and kindergarteners, they don't come much sicker than that. And more deserving of death.

Love. But God says to love everyone. You don't stop violence with more violence. Really? Would it not have been an act of love if Vicki Soto could have pulled a gun and stopped the monster before he could slaughter so many kids? Was it not a waste - but heroic, yes - that she could only be the first to die? Is it love to let monsters like this do what they want at the cost of so many innocent lives? I think not. It's not love if I let a monster hurt my family and, damn straight, I want to have the advantage if a situation like that arises. The gun is the equalizer. It's my fire extinguisher. I hope against hope I never have to use it, I don't even like to think about having to use it like that, but I hate the thought of what could happen if I don't have the right to use it. Do-gooders who think they are saving the world are, in their ignorance, doing much more harm than good.

Now, watch the video, he's got some good points, too.

Socialists Don't Like Rich People

So they demonize them and harass them and endlessly take from them, then can't figure out why everyone is destitute. It's such an easy thing to think through, why do so many people miss it?

There are evil rich people, yes. But there are also evil poor people. I'd venture to say there are many more evil poor than evil rich. Having money or not having money does not make one evil or good. Coveting and/or stealing another persons property however, that is an evil. We have laws against it. God has laws against it. You don't even need a law to tell you it is wrong, you know how you feel when someones steals from you. Generous? Even if you are forgiving, it hurts.

So, we want to base our government on theft? How does that even begin to make sense to an atheist, let alone some of the "Christians" I hear proclaiming the "virtues" of socialism. Mob rule. Mob rule crucified Jesus.

How Socialism Has Doomed France

"It is the tragic flaw by which the grand ambition of socialism has always failed, and will always fail. Human nature resists any attempt to seize one's property beyond what he would willingly give. This is the very basis of the social contract between a free man and a just government. A man chooses to take part. If that social contract is amended to be uniquely biased against his right to property, absent his consent, he may rightfully exercise his right to liberty and seek avenues to establish a new contract with a government, either by revolution or, more commonly today, expatriation."

Rivals

Kingdoms in Conflict

Luke’s account of the birth of Jesus has a specific reference to the most powerful man in the world. “And it came to pass in those days that a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered.” (Luke 2:1)

Thus we are introduced to two kingdoms, the Kingdom of God and the kingdom of Caesar. And they were – and are – rivals.

Juxtaposition

Hundreds of Union Members Practice Their Chants Ahead of Mich. Capitol Protest: 'We Are Not the Violent Ones...'

Shock video: Union Activists Attack, Punch Conservative Outside Mich. Capitol

This is Not a Government, this is a Tumor

They Should Have Built a Wall

Despite Tax Increase, California State Revenues in Freefall

Democrats thought they could hammer "the rich" by convincing voters to pass Proposition 30 to create the highest state income tax in the nation. But it now appears that high income earners have already “voted with their feet” by moving themselves and their businesses out of state, resulting in over $1 billion shortfall in corporate and income taxes last month and the beginning of a new financial crisis.

That's one reason they can't let people out of a communist country, if all the wealth creating people leave they run out of other people's money faster. Not that they would keep working so hard to create wealth when it is confiscated from them anyway. Will they never admit they are wrong?

Managing the Problem IS the Problem

The Python Challenge

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission touts the month-long contest as a way to raise public awareness about the threat the exotic constrictors pose to native wildlife in the Everglades and potentially put a dent in their population. Scientists estimate that thousands, perhaps tens of thousands, of the once-popular pets now live in the wild

Why not just put a bounty on the snakes? It doesn't have to be large, just enough so people can put some food on the table doing us the favor of ridding the Everglades of an alien species. Open season all year - we're not trying to manage the population, we want them all gone. Believe me, we can hunt a species to extinction if we put our minds to it, it wouldn't be the first time. In this case it would be the right thing to do. Instead, we have:

Increasing public awareness about Burmese pythons and how this invasive species is a threat to the Everglades ecosystem, including native wildlife, is the goal of the 2013 Python Challenge.

Here we have the typical government reaction to a problem - manage the problem so it always exists and government bureaucrats always have a job while bitching about how terrible the problem is. It's enough to make you scream.

Pro-Freedom

An interesting conversation between Glenn Beck and Penn Jillette about the Constitution: Every Problem We Have Should Be Solved With More Freedom, Not Less

How Did the Nanny State Ancestors Cross the Ocean?

In wooden ships powered only by wind, no less. No life jackets, no life boats, no GPS - do or die. How was that even legal?



As seen on Maggie's Farm

Because It Bears Repeating

Over and over.

I’ve said it before, and I’ll keep on saying it until such a time as communism finally falls for good: In practice, communism has only ever been about the wealthy and well-positioned maintaining their power and privilege over the meticulously brainwashed masses. Communism is not and never has been about ensuring the happiness of equality, preventing the misery of suppression, and socio-economic justice for all mankind, or whatever baloney it is the regime force-feeds the masses from all sides — the state runs or regulates the media, the schools, the Internet, just about everything over there. Ain’t no income disparity like communist income disparity, and while the city-dwelling members of China’s billion-strong population generally appear fairly materially well-off, the other hundreds of millions of rural peasants living in back-breaking, dirt-scraping poverty are largely kept out of sight.

Chinese communist party officially bans pomp and circumstance

I Witnessed a Police Chase Today

A middle-aged, heavy black male was jogging down the sidewalk - barely jogging - right around midnight. Following closely behind on foot was a police officer, matching the cadence of the suspect. Slightly to the rear a patrol car was inching along behind on the side of the road, lights on. It was like the O.J. chase on foot. At one point the suspect tripped and fell to the ground.

I was working at the time and that is all I saw, it wasn't a time I could stop and gawk at all the excitement. I so wanted that on camera though!

Not High Enough Yet

Holder's Chief of Staff to Resign After Critical Fast and Furious Report

Attorney General Eric Holder’s chief of staff, Gary Grindler, plans to resign his post at the Department of Justice on Wednesday. Grindler was directly involved in the Operation Fast and Furious scandal.

Still leaves some pins standing.

Patriotism

So what is patriotism? Here’s what it's not: it's not an allegiance to the government of the day, or to its invariably wicked, un-American policies. It's an affinity for your community; it's an understanding of the great principles upon which this country was founded—which have been excised by successive governments, Republican and Democratic alike. And it's a commitment to restoring the republic of private-property rights, individual freedoms, and radical decentralization.

--Ilana Mercer

Sharing is Caring

Forced sharing is theft.

Don't make your kids share

Model sharing for them. Encourage them to share. Tell them the benefits of sharing. But the moment you force them to share, you become a socialist.

Ka-Ching!

Girl Bitten While Feeding Dolphin at SeaWorld — Dad Catches it on Camera



It doesn't seem like they informed anyone at SeaWorld when it happened. Strange.

What You Don't Know Can Kill You

Yes, it's a long video but it is very interesting in that you will learn about what John P. Holdren, the current White House science czar, has written and advocates and why, being in the position that he is, it is a very scary proposition for America and the world. This is someone - one of many - that the President of the United States has chosen to surround himself with as advisors and fellow fundamental changers.

Given what has transpired in the past, over and over again, it is no great leap to think it may happen again in the future, and if it does, these are the among people who will help bring it about.

Winning!

"You have to be an overcomer, but you can't overcome without something to overcome."

"You can't win without an adversary, you can't climb to the top of a mountain without a mountain, you can't get to the other side without a river, you can't forgive unless you have been wronged, you can't be healed unless you get sick."

It's Symbolic of Our Struggle Against Reality

They may leave the roller coaster that fell into the ocean in Seaside Heights, New Jersey during Hurricane Sandy right where it is as a tourist attraction.

To symbolize the direction the country is headed? Yes, that's completely appropriate- off it's foundation and in the water.

Wasn't He Just Re-elected?

Jesse Jackson Jr. Resigning From Congress

Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. has resigned from Congress, citing health reasons and an intensifying federal investigation into the use of his campaign funds.

You know it's bad when a Democrat resigns. Republicans resign the first chance they get but Democrats push on through regardless of the circumstance. Usually. He has a serious mental illness or he has done something seriously wrong - or probably both. Doing something seriously wrong alone doesn't faze Democrats.

Understanding Evil - Part 2

Part 1

Sitzen Machen!

Three excellent James Cagney movies. I've seen his most famous movies on TV a long time ago but I'd never seen, or even heard of, most of his work and thanks to Netflix I found these three gems.

The first, Run For Cover, is a western. This is the first one I ran across and I really enjoyed it. Made me want to watch more James Cagney.

Next: The Gallant Hours. He is Adm. William Halsey in this one during the war at Guadalcanal.

Next: One, Two, Three. I don't know where the title comes from (Yes, I do. He talks fast, missed it the first time) but this one is funny and it highlights the fact that we have already been through the whole communist/free market thing before. It takes place in 1961 Germany after the Communists sealed off the border of East Berlin and James Cagney works for Coca-Cola. His boss sends his daughter to stay in Berlin with Cagney's family and she ends up falling in love with a communist. Hilarity ensues.

Comrade 1: "...then we just cross the border into West Berlin."

Comrade 2: "That's easy for you to say, you're a bachelor, but if I defect, you know what they will do to my family? They will line them up against the wall and shoot them - my wife, my mother-in-law, my sister-in-law, my brother-in-law... Comrades, lets do it!"

Bonus movie (not streamed): Mr. Roberts, but it is on Amazon Prime

Raus Machen!

The New Freedom

Campus bans Ann Coulter, invites professor who calls sex with animals potentially 'satisfying'

After effectively barring conservative columnist Ann Coulter from speaking on campus last week, the Jesuit college Fordham University welcomed infanticide and bestiality advocate Peter Singer for a panel discussion on Friday.

According to Fordham’s media relations website, Singer, a tenured Princeton bioethics professor, spoke from 4 to 6 p.m. in a panel the university promised "will provoke Christians to think about other animals in new ways."

What Are They Teaching Your Children?

Caffeinated Everything

New line of Cracker Jacks to contain caffeine

A Frito Lay spokesman told Ad Age that Power Bites will include two flavours "that will contain coffee, a natural source of caffeine, as an ingredient."

Monster Energy should buy the rights to Twinkies and produce Monster Energy Twinkies.

The Road We're On

Special Report: How a vicious circle of self-interest sank a California city

San Bernardino's problems appear to be mainly the result of back-scratching on an epic scale.

This goes on at all levels of government all over the country. It's only a "problem" in San Bernardino because they ran out of other peoples money before the rest of us. They are one of the first to find the cliff.

What is Freedom?

Rush hits the nail on the head here.

We are the party of liberty. We are the essence of liberty and freedom. That's what it's all about. When I made my CPAC speech, the theme was liberty. We want this to be the greatest country ever. We want you to be the best you can be. We want everybody to be the best they can be. We want to get all the obstacles out of people's way. Freedom. Why is that a hard sell? Because it is. Freedom did not win in this election. Freedom did not win. Why is it a hard sell? Why are those of us proclaiming freedom, why are we the ones mocked, laughed at, insulted or impugned? 'Cause that's all we stand for, that's all we want for anybody and ourselves is liberty and freedom.

And yet look at how we're really viewed. We are seen as the deniers of freedom. And why? Well, we don't believe in abortion, and to the left the ultimate freedom is aborting your baby. Gay marriage. We're said to be on the wrong side of gay marriage. To the left, especially to the young today, gay marriage, gay rights is the legalized pot issue of the sixties. It is the thing they care most about. It is the civil rights issue of the sixties. Gay rights and gay marriage, among young college people, age 30, maybe a little older.

We are not looked at as people who believe in freedom. They see us as thwarting their freedom. Figure that. Now, there's a reason why. I know the answer. That is because on our side, along with freedom, there are natural limits to it that we call morality. And that's what the other side doesn't want any part of. You start talking about morality, that's judgmental. That's not freedom. If you start implementing morality, they say you're imposing your moral views on everybody, when all we think we're doing is continuing traditions and institutions which have been shown to maintain the freest, most productive, conducive, peaceful society the world has known.

Morality is a key element. Don't talk to them about that. Morality, it's old-fashioned, it's none of your business. I mean, when Romney goes around and talks about limiting regulations on entrepreneurs, it's the essence of the liberty agenda, it's the essence of an economic free agenda. But culturally, freedom in pop culture means no obstacles on the road to what we call depravity and decadence. They call it enlightenment, emancipation. I'm sorry. To fix this is going to be a cultural undertaking, in addition to or instead of political.

That's just how they define it, Congressman. What he thinks is liberty and freedom is the absence of totalitarianism, authoritarianism. It's not at all how pop cultural leftists see freedom. They see freedom as no conservatives around. They see freedom as no corporations. They see freedom as you don't have to work, and you can still live. You don't have to have to accept any responsibility or accountability. It will be taken care of. A doctor shouldn't profit from making somebody well. You want to talk about morality, to them that's immoral. Because at the top of all this has been decade after decade after decade of the trashing of capitalism.

What do you think free markets means to the vast majority of people that voted for Obama? You think it means anything? Do you think the phrase "free markets" means anything to them? Greed, exploitation, taking advantage of. Free markets to them is evil corporations outsourcing jobs or paying people the minimum wage. It's the opposite of fair markets. Fair markets, of course, are when authoritarians make rules for everybody that they must follow.

God's formula for freedom works, the world's formula does not. However, in the history of man, being wrong has never stopped him from moving full speed ahead with what it thinks is right and failing miserably.

When Parasites Kill the Hostess

Twinkies Maker Hostess Going Out of Business, CEO Blames Union Strike

Hostess, the makers of Twinkies, Ding Dongs and Wonder Bread, is going out of business after striking workers failed to heed a Thursday deadline to return to work, the company said.

Times are changing. People are trying to eat healthier. You have to adapt or die. Unions only understand more, more, more. Concession is not in their vocabulary. Union members are voting and now striking themselves out of their jobs. Given the economic outlook, this will not be the last time.

I Concur

Mark Steyn rips White House press corps 'court eunuchs': 'You made fools of yourselves'

"The idiot from The New York Times asking a question on global warming? Some giggly little schoolgirl from Chicago wetting her knickers, saying she's watched Obama win every time?"

"I mean, you're supposed to be grown men and women," Steyn continued. "You made fools of yourselves. He gives his first press conference in whatever it is — in one, two, three, twelve years — and you don't even think about extracting any meaningful information from him."

My biggest beef with so-called journalists is that all during the breaking of Fast and Furious and the Benghazi scandal they act like nothing is happening but the minute a general gets a little nooki on the side they are all over it and come out with the minutest of details - pictures, emails, everything comes out of the woodwork - and go on and on for days about, only interrupted by Israel defending itself (How dare they!).

Journalism is a joke!

When Have They Gone Too Far?

For me, they crossed that line long ago, but for most people - when? When will they say, "Enough!"

New York City bans food donations to the homeless

Outlawed are food donations to homeless shelters because the city can’t assess their salt, fat and fiber content