Why do I have to??

I would really rather not have to be in the position of defending my constitutional rights. I thought I hired someone to do that for me. Wasn't there an oath all these clowns took? I think I saw it on TV. Every government employee, senator and congressman and all the presidential people including the POTUS should be forced to wear a clown suit as long as they are in the government (the first lady doesn't have to). That will keep it all in perspective.

I hate to think of what her idea is of who or what does..... This is a sick attitude on a par with the ESPN guy calling RG3 a Cornball Brother. SMH

Melissa Harris Perry On Cabinet Diversity: Clarence Thomas Doesn't Represent Blacks

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MSNBC host and commentator Melissa Harris Perry excuses the lack of diversity in President Obama's cabinet by saying just because

I don't know how much of this I agree with, but I remember a recent comment related to this by a very smart son of a friend of mine, an African American lad. Commenting on the lack of Blacks not buying Black business. He said that when weed stores start opening up in Chicago it will put the current weed entrepreneurs out of business and these weed retailers will be staffed and owned by people from other parts of the world (think Dunking Donuts and 7-11 owners and employees. LOL

13 Predictions for Small Business in 2013

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Increased bank lending. A marijuana business boom. These are just two of the predictions for 2013. Are you ready for what next year will bring?

I'm certain this has nothing to do with anything going on in Washington...right?

Mark Levin: "I Can Barely Contain My Fury At What Is Going On"

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MARK LEVIN: You know folks, I'll be honest with you. I just told a friend of mine, even though I sit behind this microphone and I try to be civil and so forth, I can barely contain my fury

Noxious Nominations: The Four Horsemen of the American Foreign Policy Apocalypse

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Maybe U.S. policy will just muddle through the next four years and beyond without any disasters. Perhaps the world will be spared big crises. Possibly the fact that there isn't some single big superpower enemy seeking world domination will keep things contained.

Tips for making money from Obamacare (until it goes bankrupt)

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Because it looks like we’re stuck with Obamacare (unless Chief Justice Roberts grows tired of media adulation before other constitutional challenges to the law reach the Supreme Court), here are som

Lots of people seem to be moving to ND. I have no plans thereof. I love living in the Chicago area, I hate the politics, the corruption, the taxes, the poor business climate and the lack of progress to accomplish anything that is here. I don't want to live in WI, IA MO. That leaves IN. Not a great improvement...but at least they are not going down the drain like IL with it's terminal blue government. I'm probably not going to move, but many people are. Ten people a day are fleeing IL. Blue state depressions are just no fun at all.

Moving to North Dakota: The New Census Estimates | Newgeography.com

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The new state (and DC) population estimates indicate a substantial slowdown in growth, from an annual rate of 0.93 percent during the

Just finishing up the work installing these. Time to go home....OOPS

George Soros runs the Center for American Progress. He just gave Obama his orders, which Obama will obey.

Sweeping new gun laws proposed by influential liberal think tank

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Obama-allied Center for American Progress calls for strict new gun restrictions and federal oversight.

We are a divided country.

Republican vs. Democrat

Conservative vs. Liberal

Rich vs. Poor

Black vs. White (or insert any other two races or ethnic groups)

North vs. South

Urban vs. Rural

Anti-Gun vs. Pro-Gun

Male vs. Female

Young vs. Old

Traditional vs. "Modern"

Religious vs. Secular

Can America Survive If Americans No Longer Agree On A Core Set Of Shared Values?

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What does America stand for? That question is a lot more complicated than you might think. Our Founding Fathers established a Republic that was based on a

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The High Price of Porn

I remember reading Think and Grow Rich years ago.  Chapter 11 had to do with the Transmutation of Sexual Power. 

It had a great impact on me in my 20s.  It has turned out to be true in my observations.

I have thought about how the whole lifestyle freedom thing really did damage to our culture starting in the late 60s.  Now people are trying to do business.  It's not working well.   This article is sobering.

The issue for me is chicken or egg.  Did sex addiction and freedom lifestyles lead to economic depression or did it happen the other way round?   This article questions that as well.

I keep thinking that Napolean Hill wrote the book Think and Grow Rich in 1937.. a paralell in time to where we are now.  Perhaps he was trying to unmask what was going on then.  People's sexual problems were keeping them from achievement. It's no different today.

When a person engages their sexual addiction, they feel worse, weakened, defeated, uncreative, tired and unmotivated.  In the movie, Idiocracy, there is a scene where in the USA of the future with totally depravity, someone tries to contact a person and he says, "Go away, batin".  

I wonder how close we are to that right now...?

Jeffrey Tucker, "A Case for Danger"

"The impulse to create environments that are hyper-cushioned and protected does not prepare anyone for effective functioning in real life. That's because this type of environment has nothing to do with the real world. No matter how much we regulate, manage, create safety nets and otherwise build systems that remove obvious dangers from the word, the structure of the universe guarantees that the future is always unknown. Uncertainty does exist and cannot be eradicated. Change happens, and we have to be prepared to adapt to it. Nothing that happened in the past can necessarily be repeated in a changed future".

Heart Surgeon Speaks Out On What Really Causes Heart Disease ~Dr. Dwight Lundell

We physicians with all our training, knowledge and authority often acquire a rather large ego that tends to make it difficult to admit we are wrong. So, here it is. I freely admit to being wrong. As a heart surgeon with 25 years experience, having performed over 5,000 open-heart surgeries, today is my day to right the wrong with medical and scientific fact.

I trained for many years with other prominent physicians labelled "opinion makers." Bombarded with scientific literature, continually attending education seminars, we opinion makers insisted heart disease resulted from the simple fact of elevated blood cholesterol.

The only accepted therapy was prescribing medications to lower cholesterol and a diet that severely restricted fat intake. The latter of course we insisted would lower cholesterol and heart disease. Deviations from these recommendations were considered heresy and could quite possibly result in malpractice.

It Is Not Working!

These recommendations are no longer scientifically or morally defensible. The discovery a few years ago that inflammation in the artery wall is the real cause of heart disease is slowly leading to a paradigm shift in how heart disease and other chronic ailments will be treated.

The long-established dietary recommendations have created epidemics of obesity and diabetes, the consequences of which dwarf any historical plague in terms of mortality, human suffering and dire economic consequences.

Despite the fact that 25% of the population takes expensive statin medications and despite the fact we have reduced the fat content of our diets, more Americans will die this year of heart disease than ever before.

Statistics from the American Heart Association show that 75 million Americans currently suffer from heart disease, 20 million have diabetes and 57 million have pre-diabetes. These disorders are affecting younger and younger people in greater numbers every year.

Simply stated, without inflammation being present in the body, there is no way that cholesterol would accumulate in the wall of the blood vessel and cause heart disease and strokes. Without inflammation, cholesterol would move freely throughout the body as nature intended. It is inflammation that causes cholesterol to become trapped.

Inflammation is not complicated -- it is quite simply your body's natural defence to a foreign invader such as a bacteria, toxin or virus. The cycle of inflammation is perfect in how it protects your body from these bacterial and viral invaders. However, if we chronically expose the body to injury by toxins or foods the human body was never designed to process,a condition occurs called chronic inflammation. Chronic inflammation is just as harmful as acute inflammation is beneficial.

What thoughtful person would willfully expose himself repeatedly to foods or other substances that are known to cause injury to the body? Well, smokers perhaps, but at least they made that choice willfully.

The rest of us have simply followed the recommended mainstream diet that is low in fat and high in polyunsaturated fats and carbohydrates, not knowing we were causing repeated injury to our blood vessels. This repeated injury creates chronic inflammation leading to heart disease, stroke, diabetes and obesity.

Let me repeat that: The injury and inflammation in our blood vessels is caused by the low fat diet recommended for years by mainstream medicine.

What are the biggest culprits of chronic inflammation? Quite simply, they are the overload of simple, highly processed carbohydrates (sugar, flour and all the products made from them) and the excess consumption of omega-6 vegetable oils like soybean, corn and sunflower that are found in many processed foods.

Take a moment to visualize rubbing a stiff brush repeatedly over soft skin until it becomes quite red and nearly bleeding. you kept this up several times a day, every day for five years. If you could tolerate this painful brushing, you would have a bleeding, swollen infected area that became worse with each repeated injury. This is a good way to visualize the inflammatory process that could be going on in your body right now.

Regardless of where the inflammatory process occurs, externally or internally, it is the same. I have peered inside thousands upon thousands of arteries. A diseased artery looks as if someone took a brush and scrubbed repeatedly against its wall. Several times a day, every day, the foods we eat create small injuries compounding into more injuries, causing the body to respond continuously and appropriately with inflammation.

While we savor the tantalizing taste of a sweet roll, our bodies respond alarmingly as if a foreign invader arrived declaring war. Foods loaded with sugars and simple carbohydrates, or processed with omega-6 oils for long shelf life have been the mainstay of the American diet for six decades. These foods have been slowly poisoning everyone.

How does eating a simple sweet roll create a cascade of inflammation to make you sick?

Imagine spilling syrup on your keyboard and you have a visual of what occurs inside the cell. When we consume simple carbohydrates such as sugar, blood sugar rises rapidly. In response, your pancreas secretes insulin whose primary purpose is to drive sugar into each cell where it is stored for energy. If the cell is full and does not need glucose, it is rejected to avoid extra sugar gumming up the works.

When your full cells reject the extra glucose, blood sugar rises producing more insulin and the glucose converts to stored fat.

What does all this have to do with inflammation? Blood sugar is controlled in a very narrow range. Extra sugar molecules attach to a variety of proteins that in turn injure the blood vessel wall. This repeated injury to the blood vessel wall sets off inflammation. When you spike your blood sugar level several times a day, every day, it is exactly like taking sandpaper to the inside of your delicate blood vessels.

While you may not be able to see it, rest assured it is there. I saw it in over 5,000 surgical patients spanning 25 years who all shared one common denominator -- inflammation in their arteries.

Let's get back to the sweet roll. That innocent looking goody not only contains sugars, it is baked in one of many omega-6 oils such as soybean. Chips and fries are soaked in soybean oil; processed foods are manufactured with omega-6 oils for longer shelf life. While omega-6's are essential -they are part of every cell membrane controlling what goes in and out of the cell -- they must be in the correct balance with omega-3's.

If the balance shifts by consuming excessive omega-6, the cell membrane produces chemicals called cytokines that directly cause inflammation.

Today's mainstream American diet has produced an extreme imbalance of these two fats. The ratio of imbalance ranges from 15:1 to as high as 30:1 in favor of omega-6. That's a tremendous amount of cytokines causing inflammation. In today's food environment, a 3:1 ratio would be optimal and healthy.

To make matters worse, the excess weight you are carrying from eating these foods creates overloaded fat cells that pour out large quantities of pro-inflammatory chemicals that add to the injury caused by having high blood sugar. The process that began with a sweet roll turns into a vicious cycle over time that creates heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes and finally, Alzheimer's disease, as the inflammatory process continues unabated.

There is no escaping the fact that the more we consume prepared and processed foods, the more we trip the inflammation switch little by little each day. The human body cannot process, nor was it designed to consume, foods packed with sugars and soaked in omega-6 oils.

There is but one answer to quieting inflammation, and that is returning to foods closer to their natural state. To build muscle, eat more protein. Choose carbohydrates that are very complex such as colorful fruits and vegetables. Cut down on or eliminate inflammation- causing omega-6 fats like corn and soybean oil and the processed foods that are made from them.

One tablespoon of corn oil contains 7,280 mg of omega-6; soybean contains 6,940 mg. Instead, use olive oil or butter from grass-fed beef.

Animal fats contain less than 20% omega-6 and are much less likely to cause inflammation than the supposedly healthy oils labelled polyunsaturated. Forget the "science" that has been drummed into your head for decades. The science that saturated fat alone causes heart disease is non-existent. The science that saturated fat raises blood cholesterol is also very weak. Since we now know that cholesterol is not the cause of heart disease, the concern about saturated fat is even more absurd today.

The cholesterol theory led to the no-fat, low-fat recommendations that in turn created the very foods now causing an epidemic of inflammation. Mainstream medicine made a terrible mistake when it advised people to avoid saturated fat in favor of foods high in omega-6 fats. We now have an epidemic of arterial inflammation leading to heart disease and other silent killers.

What you can do is choose whole foods your grandmother served and not those your mom turned to as grocery store aisles filled with manufactured foods. By eliminating inflammatory foods and adding essential nutrients from fresh unprocessed food, you will reverse years of damage in your arteries and throughout your body from consuming the typical American diet.

Both of these men used Executive Orders for Gun Control... we don't need no steekin constitution

Think I'm kidding?? 

Winning at the Bottom will get you to the TOP

I have a friend who asked me a question I don't think she really knew how hard the answer would be.  There is a cultural insult in the answer and it's one that if we don't overcome, we will fall.

There are millions of educated, bright, unemployed people in the world.  People who are living on government assistance and hand to mouth way under their potential that are wondering why.  Many have taken the route of getting a big education and find they are still on the fringe.  Some have decided to try the route of influence and so for a moment you have musicians, entertainers, sports figures, ministers and "Life Coaches".  None of which really are lifetime ventures.  Most of which are short term flashes in the pan of life.

What no longer seems to be an acceptable pathway is one that starts at the bottom. Everyone seems to have hope that influence, education or connections can leapfrog them into a secure high paying job with benefits.  That worked for a while, but as our economy responds to a burden of too many of these excess capacity at the top jobs by shuffling them off (Layoffs) the reality is we need to rethink the path to achievement in our culture.

The culture however is our enemy.  The jobs that are essential but seen as bottom rung are the ones going begging.  They require willingness to get ones hands dirty and lay aside any pretense of prestige.  Worse then all that, the very ones who are most vulnerable to being unemployed are the ones are the least likely to step onto the essential bottom rung to move up.  The "need" to start at rung 7 in order not to be looked down on means for most of these people the unemployment will remain at over 50%.  That is the REAL statistic of the men in the community who are trapped in this catch 22.  The catch that says, "I'll do any job, but I don't want to do ANY job".

I grew up doing "menial" jobs.  I didn't mind.  I didn't know they were menial.  Tedious yes.  Physical, yes.  But I did them and money came.  Seemed like a good trade to me.  I have watched Mike Roe on Dirty Jobs, the TV show. I have done many of those jobs.  Or worse.  I am a bit insulted that they/he considers them dirty.  No job is truly dirty.  It's only in the thinking.

OK, here is the culturally insulting part.  There are needs, they are unmet.  They are "dirty".  YET... they are because they are not the kinds of work that many are willing to take on.

• Trash collection. Our streets with a 50% unemployment rate should be pristine.
• Weed Pulling.  Every park, boulevard, garden and path should be absolutely perfect
• Window Washing.  Window repair. Window restoration.
• Brick Recovery.  Did you ever wonder where the "Chicago Brick" came from?
• Shoe repair, polish, restoration.  Yes, I believe in buying good shoes and wearing them a long time.
• Hand car washing, polishing, detailing.  White wall restoration.
• Errand Running for elderly.
• Caring for infirmed and elderly.
• Delivering meals to those who can't get out.
• Keeping a careful watch on the neighborhood in which you live.  Watching for bad influence.
• Policing vacant lots. Cutting weeds by hand.  No machine.  The tool for this costs $19
• Collecting aluminum cans.
• Doing facade fix up.  Making the fronts look better then they do.
• Sweeping the sidewalks and streets in your area.  Not for money, for pride.
• Hauling to a collection point dead branches, old tires, bottles and all the other debris collecting.
• Recovering building materials, finding 2X4s and pulling the nails out...for reuse (sale)
• Cleaning out gutters.
• Raking up leaves.
• Shoveling Snow.
• Mowing Grass.
• Picking up dog poo.  (there is a guy who does this full time and does pretty well)
• Taking care of people's pets when they go away
• Doing light maintenance on vehicles, bikes, toys and household repairs
• Learning to trim bushes and trees and doing it BY HAND... A good shear costs $40. 
• Cleaning people's houses, offices, apartments
• Paint up fix up anything
• Taking in Laundry
• Delivering newspapers
• Delivering anything that people want delivered
• If you have a car, using that as a tool for delivery
• Unplugging grease traps, sewers, toilets and drains

I could list more but you get the picture.  The blue collar menial jobs are the first rungs on the ladder to success.  IF you look down on these kinds of things, you will keep jumping to try to reach rung 7 and fail again and again.  The Starbucks employee with a masters degree in fine arts is legendary.

Business administration degrees are nearly as bad.  Education is no longer a short cut.

Here's the key:  What is ONE THING you can do, make or service you provide that most people will agree you do that pretty well.  Keep it clean now.  Who can you sell that to?

To get out of this trap will take a shift in our thinking.

I offer up a few resources:
Here's an opinion that postulates that a menial job is the key to success.  Interesting take.

Here's a side by side comparison to the mindsets that propel or prevent achievement.  IS ANY Job better than NO JOB

Here are some people in a forum expressing opinions about "Blue Collar Jobs".  Very interesting.

I leave you with this quote from Martin Luther King Jr.  It seems to fit:
“If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.”

you knew this was coming didn't you

Rep. Jose Serrano reintroduces bill to repeal presidential term limit

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So, congressman Jose Serrano from Dist 15 in New York introduces resolution 15 to repeal 22nd amendment to constitution. What insanity!

Mexico does not allow individuals to have personal firearms. how's it going for them down there? it should be in there is no murder or violence on a street right right?

News from The Associated Press

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MEXICO (AP) -- Mexico City authorities say they have destroyed thousands of toy guns in an effort to fight real crimes committed with fake weapons.

miracles!!!! This is your year for them!

Welfare recipients take out cash at strip clubs, liquor stores and X-rated shops

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Welfare recipients took out cash at bars, liquor stores, X-rated video shops, hookah parlors and even strip clubs — where they presumably spent their taxpayer money on lap dances rather than diapers, a Post investigation found.

I agree with this, our girls are exploited. forced to grow up too soon.

Girls need more protection from 'greedy corporate world' - Telegraph

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A “greedy corporate world” increasingly sees girls – particularly those in the pre-teen group – as soft targets to be exploited, it is claimed.

this is exactly what I have been trying to say. as ministers of the gospel we have some been so busy feeding the poor we fail to feed the people. as a result we have fat shallow Christians in America. this is an accusation the church in America must answer with action not words.

What's Right and Wrong With American Christianity

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Will the next great awakening will also be quite a rude awakening? Find out why Michael Brown thinks the answer to this question is

IF you want to understand why real incomes are dropping like a rock, why only the rich get ahead...you need to understand, it's the debt. Next up... wild inflation. Your Paycheck might look bigger, but in real dollars you are earning less then I did in 1969 at 23 years old. The destruction of our economy has been created by printing money (not really printing, creating) for a fools folly.

Inflation Since The American Revolution

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As is clear by this chart, inflation was virtually unheard of until the Creature from Jekyll Island (the Federal Reserve) took over. However, more importantly, things didn’t really start to

BREACH IN THE SPIRIT

After the United States presidential election in 2012 some felt a breach in the Spirit. Something changed, something happened, something was different. The spiritual warfare stepped up to another level. There was a breach in the realm of the spirit that some (not all) had not discerned before. Many posted messages on Facebook about the urgent need to increase times of prayer throughout the Body of Christ. 2 Chronicles 7:14 was often quoted.[3] This is a prayer of national repentance, turning away from sin, and looking unto God for healing of the land. More and more intercessors have told me they sense a greater spiritual opposition during prayer than they did before. They call this prayer resistance spiritual warfare. To them national repentance and spiritual warfare will fill the breach, turn the people back to a loving God and advance the Kingdom of God.

spiritual warfare is a spiritual battle with demonic spirits that try to stop the promises of God in a believer’s life. The prayer life of Daniel is a good example of spiritual principalities and powers trying to hinder someone’s prayers. Daniel described his warfare with principalities and powers, “But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me one and twenty days: but, lo, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me; and I remained there with the kings of Persia” (Daniel 10:13). Notice this prince of the kingdom of Persia was not fighting God but opposing Daniel who was seeking God’s will when praying.

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Kingdom Of God Expands As Pentecostalism Explodes

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The Kingdom of God is expanding It s like leaven one of the seven parables of the Kingdom of God it A s unstoppable The law of

Cash for Clunkers was an epic government failure! Find out how the program killed jobs and hurt the environment by clicking here: http://bit.ly/U0QjOD

Very Good - What offends you reveals you

“When a strong man, armed to the teeth, stands guard in his front yard, his property is safe and sound. But what if a stronger man comes along with superior weapons? Then he’s beaten at his own game, the arsenal that gave him such confidence hauled off, and his precious possessions plundered". Jesus said this. Is Jesus in favor of the Second Amendment? From Luke 11:21-22

Shades of President Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe where today if you could exchange a dollar for Zimbabwan money the rate was 100 trillion to one. I don't know what box of cracker jacks Krugman got his Nobel prize from...but it certainly wasn't for his wisdom...of which he has none.

Paul Krugman: Obama Should Solve The Budget Deficit By Making A $1 Trillion Coin

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This has as much wisdom in being a pastor's wife as a box of rocks has in being a cathedral. I hope no one you know is part of this farce....

‘Media Whoredom Has Hit the Church’: What Has Some So Angry Over TLC’s Reality Show About Pastors’ W

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Back to 1995

I have shown people the Case Schiller home price charts and told them that we can expect house prices to fall to 1995 levels or lower. Japan has been fighting this trend for a long time. It is now starting to settle out. Real estate is not a good investment. Buying a home is a good idea, just don't expect more than accumulation of your value... you don't invest in a home, you buy shelter. You don't invest in a car, you buy transportation.

Looking into the Japanese real estate mirror: Residential home prices in Japan back to levels last s

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When the Japanese housing bubble burst in 1990 the economy was left in 

You just MIGHT be from South Dakota

If your local Dairy Queen is closed from September through May, you may live in South Dakota... If someone in a Home Depot store offers you assistance and they dont even work there, you may live in South Dakota... If you've worn shorts and a jacket at the same time, you may live in South Dakota... If you've had a lengthy telephone conversation with someone who dialed the wrong number, you may live in South Dakota... If "vacation" means going to Sioux Falls for the weekend, you may live in South Dakota... If you measure distance in hours, you may live in South Dakota... If you know several people who have hit a deer, more than once, you may live in South Dakota... If you have switched from heat to A/C in the same day and then back again, you may live in South Dakota... If you can drive 75 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard, you may live in South Dakota... If you install security lights on your house and garage, but leave the doors... unlocked, you may live in South Dakota... If you carry jumpers in your car and your wife knows how to use them, you may live in South Dakota... If you design your kids Halloween costumes to fit over a snowsuit, you may live in South Dakota... If driving is better in the winter because all the potholes are filled with snow, you may live in South Dakota... If you know the four seasons: Almost winter, Winter, Still winter, and road construction, you may live in South Dakota... If you have more miles on your snow blower than your car, you may live in South Dakota... If you find 10 degrees "A little chilly" , you may live in South Dakota... If you know how to pronounce, Ipswich, Belle Fourche, and Pierre, you might live in South Dakota...

Have a shotgun?

You're sound asleep when you hear a thump outside your bedroom door.  Half-awake, and nearly paralyzed with fear, you hear muffled whispers.

At least two people have broken into your house and are moving your way.

With your heart pumping, you reach down beside your bed and pick up your shotgun.

You rack a shell into the chamber, then inch toward the door and open it.

In the darkness, you make out two shadows.

One holds something that looks like a crowbar.

When the intruder brandishes it as if to strike, you raise the shotgun and fire.

The blast knocks both thugs to the floor.

One writhes and screams while the second man crawls to the front door and lurches outside.

As you pick up the telephone to call police, you know you're in trouble.

In your country, most guns were outlawed years before, and the few that are privately owned are so stringently regulated as to make them useless..

Yours was never registered.

Police arrive and inform you that the second burglar has died.

They arrest you for First Degree Murder and Illegal Possession of a Firearm.

When you talk to your attorney, he tells you not to worry: authorities will probably plea the case down to manslaughter.

"What kind of sentence will I get?" you ask.

"Only ten-to-twelve years," he replies, as if that's nothing.  "Behave yourself, and you'll be out in seven."

The next day, the shooting is the lead story in the local newspaper. Somehow, you're portrayed as an eccentric vigilante while the two men you shot are represented as choirboys.

Their friends and relatives can't find an unkind word to say about them..

Buried deep down in the article, authorities acknowledge that both "victims" have been arrested numerous times.

But the next day's headline says it all:  "Lovable Rogue Son Didn't Deserve to Die."

The thieves have been transformed from career criminals into Robin Hood-type pranksters..

As the days wear on, the story takes wings.

The national media picks it up, then the international media.

The surviving burglar has become a folk hero.

Your attorney says the thief is preparing to sue you, and he'll probably win.

The media publishes reports that your home has been burglarized several times in the past and that you've been critical of local police for their lack of effort in apprehending the suspects.

After the last break-in, you told your neighbor that you would be prepared next time.

The District Attorney uses this to allege that you were lying in wait for the burglars.

A few months later, you go to trial.

The charges haven't been reduced, as your lawyer had so confidently predicted.

When you take the stand, your anger at the injustice of it all works against you..

Prosecutors paint a picture of you as a mean, vengeful man.

It doesn't take long for the jury to convict you of all charges.

The judge sentences you to life in prison.

This case really happened.

On August 22, 1999, Tony Martin of Emneth, Norfolk , England , killed one burglar and wounded a second.

In April, 2000, he was convicted and is now serving a life term...

How did it become a crime to defend one's own life in the once great British Empire ?

It started with the Pistols Act of 1903.
This seemingly reasonable law forbade selling pistols to minors or felons and established that handgun sales were to be made only to those who had a license.  The Firearms Act of 1920 expanded licensing to include not only handguns but all firearms except shotguns..

Later laws passed in 1953 and 1967 outlawed the carrying of any weapon by private citizens and mandated the registration of all shotguns.


Momentum for total handgun confiscation began in earnest after the Hungerfordmass shooting in 1987.

Michael Ryan, a mentally disturbed man with a Kalashnikov rifle, walked down the streets shooting everyone he saw.

When the smoke cleared, 17 people were dead.

The British public, already de-sensitized by eighty years of "gun control", demanded even tougher restrictions.  (The seizure of all privately owned handguns was the objective even though Ryan used a rifle.)

Nine years later, at Dunblane , Scotland , Thomas Hamilton used a semi-automatic weapon to murder 16 children and a teacher at a public school.

For many years, the media had portrayed all gun owners as mentally unstable, or worse, criminals.
Now the press had a real kook with which to beat up law-abiding gun owners.  Day after day, week after week, the media gave up all pretense of objectivity and demanded a total ban on all handguns.  The Dunblane Inquiry, a few months later, sealed the fate of the few sidearms still owned by private citizens.

During the years in which the British government incrementally took away most gun rights, the notion that a citizen had the right to armed self-defense came to be seen as vigilantism.
Authorities refused to grant gun licenses to people who were threatened, claiming that self-defense was no longer considered a reason to own a gun.  Citizens who shot burglars or robbers or rapists were charged while the real criminals were released.

Indeed, after the Martin shooting, a police spokesman was quoted as saying,  "We cannot have people take the law into their own hands."

All of Martin's neighbors had been robbed numerous times,  and several elderly people were severely injured in beatings by young thugs who had no fear of the consequences.  Martin himself, a collector of antiques, had seen most of his collection trashed or stolen by burglars.

When the Dunblane Inquiry ended, citizens who owned handguns were given three months to turn them over to local authorities.

Being good British subjects, most people obeyed the law.  The few who didn't were visited by police and threatened with ten-year prison sentences if they didn't comply.

Police later bragged that they'd taken nearly 200,000 handguns from private citizens.

How did the authorities know who had handguns?
The guns had been registered and licensed.
Kind of like cars. Sound familiar?

WAKE UP AMERICA ; THIS IS WHY OUR FOUNDING FATHERS PUT THE SECOND AMENDMENT IN OUR CONSTITUTION.

"...It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.."
--Samuel Adams


You had better wake up, because Obama is doing this very same thing, over here, if he can get it done


Just remember - the reason the Japanese didn't invade the USA is because they knew that Most
of the citizens were armed.

I asked, why did you vote democrat in the last election? I got an answwer:

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Dear Editor:

Here are the 12 reasons I voted Democratic:

1. I voted Democratic because I love the fact that I can now marry whatever I want. I now may marry my Labrador.

2. I voted Democratic because I believe oil companies’ profits of 4% on a gallon of gas are obscene but the Government taxing the same gallon of gas at 15% isn’t.

3. I voted Democratic because I believe the Government will do a better job of spending the money I earn than I would.

4. I voted Democratic because Freedom of Speech is fine as long as I agree with what is said & nobody else is offended by it.

5. I voted Democratic because I’m way too irresponsible to own a gun and I know that my local police are all I need to protect me from murderers and thieves.

6. I voted Democratic because I believe that people who can’t tell us if it will rain on Friday can tell us that the polar ice caps will melt away in 10 years if I don’t start driving a Prius.

7. I voted Democratic because I’m not concerned about millions of babies being aborted so long as we keep all death row inmates alive.

8. I voted Democratic because I think illegal aliens have a right to free health care, education and Social Security benefits, and we should take away the Social Security from those who paid into it.

9. I voted Democratic because I believe that businesses should not be allowed to make profits for themselves. They need to break even and give the rest away to the government for redistribution as the Democrats see fit.

10. I voted Democratic because I believe liberal Judges need to rewrite the Constitution every few days to suit some fringe kooks who would never get their agendas past the voters.

11. I voted Democratic because I think that it’s better to pay billions for their oil to people who hate us but not drill our own because it might upset some endangered beetle, spotted owl, gopher or fish.

12. I voted Democratic because my head is so firmly misplaced toward the south end of my body; it’s unlikely that I’ll ever have another point of view.