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.