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Sunday, April 21, 2013
TIME TO STOP STUPID.... NOTE BY MARIO MURILLO
Mario’s note: Stupidity is in the willful ignorance of the general
public on this and so many other power grabs that are going on right
now. People can get the facts and arm themselves with information. The
stupidity is not in the lawmakers. They already know that none of these
laws will prevent another Sandy Hook, or Batman shooting. They know
that they cannot waste a good crisis that can be used as an excuse to
enlarge their control of the people.
Stupidity believes the
Government defends rights. Not a day goes by where we do not lose
another right. Government has no other skill but to invent rights in
order to take away even more rights and to make sure that the right they
are defending is not a right at all. In the name of freedom,
government takes away freedom and leaves a false freedom in its place.
Stupidity believes that government agencies today are looking out for
our good. Obamacare will make insurance worse, doctors worse, patient
care worse and add misery to the poor. From this point on everything
that comes out of Washington is going to cost you more and give you less
in return. The only condition that is going to improve is the power
and control of government.
Stupidity is supposing that either
political party today is committed to your welfare. Both sides of the
aisle have caved into the larger momentum of government regulation of
the everything we watch on television, hear on radio and soon they will
tax and control the internet.
Stupidity is when Christians
believe that a minister should not be speaking out because it is
political . What is happening to America left the world of politics on
September 11, 2001. At the very least a preacher of conscience would be
calling the nation to repent and the believer to be strong against real
enemies and not the imagined ones they blather about in their pulpits.
Wisdom gathers information, speaks up and fears not because God is in
us and He will work through us. Wisdom demands that every Christian
demand that their church confront the issue of America and what is
happening to our freedoms.er
http:// mariomurilloministries.wordpres s.com/page/5/
Mario’s note: Stupidity is in the willful ignorance of the general public on this and so many other power grabs that are going on right now. People can get the facts and arm themselves with information. The stupidity is not in the lawmakers. They already know that none of these laws will prevent another Sandy Hook, or Batman shooting. They know that they cannot waste a good crisis that can be used as an excuse to enlarge their control of the people.
Stupidity believes the Government defends rights. Not a day goes by where we do not lose another right. Government has no other skill but to invent rights in order to take away even more rights and to make sure that the right they are defending is not a right at all. In the name of freedom, government takes away freedom and leaves a false freedom in its place.
Stupidity believes that government agencies today are looking out for our good. Obamacare will make insurance worse, doctors worse, patient care worse and add misery to the poor. From this point on everything that comes out of Washington is going to cost you more and give you less in return. The only condition that is going to improve is the power and control of government.
Stupidity is supposing that either political party today is committed to your welfare. Both sides of the aisle have caved into the larger momentum of government regulation of the everything we watch on television, hear on radio and soon they will tax and control the internet.
Stupidity is when Christians believe that a minister should not be speaking out because it is political . What is happening to America left the world of politics on September 11, 2001. At the very least a preacher of conscience would be calling the nation to repent and the believer to be strong against real enemies and not the imagined ones they blather about in their pulpits.
Wisdom gathers information, speaks up and fears not because God is in us and He will work through us. Wisdom demands that every Christian demand that their church confront the issue of America and what is happening to our freedoms.er
http://
Saturday, April 20, 2013
New Supermarket
The
new Supermarket near our house has an automatic water mister to keep
the produce fresh. Just before it goes on, you hear the sound of distant
thunder and the smell of fresh rain.
When you approach the milk cases, you hear cows mooing and witness the scent of fresh hay.
When you approach the egg case, you hear hens cluck and cackle and the
air is filled with the pleasing aroma of bacon and eggs frying.
The veggie department features the smell of fresh buttered corn.
I don't buy toilet paper there any more
The Marathon Bombing: What the Media Didn’t Warn You About - WhoWhatWhy
We’re the products of our environment, and, in many respects, the media defines that environment.
Monday’s bombing at the Boston Marathon provides a perfect example of the defects of conventional news reportage—and proof that we urgently need something better. We got “scoops”, “experts”, “updates,” and post-tragedy Kumbaya, but at the end of those days of saturation coverage, we were none the wiser. It’s like what studies find about television news: the more you watch, the worse you perform on knowledge exams.
We ought to care more about the narrative we’re getting, about the texture of what saturates us. The way in which a story is handled shapes our emotions and perceptions, determines priorities, and influences seemingly unrelated outcomes that affect us in profound ways, sometimes transforming our society.
The Marathon Bombing: What the Media Didn’t Warn You About - WhoWhatWhy
MAN RULES
AT LAST A GUY HAS TAKEN THE TIME TO WRITE THIS ALL DOWN
FINALLY, the guys' side of the story. ( I MUST ADMIT, IT'S PRETTY GOOD.)
WE ALWAYS HEAR 'THE RULES' FROM THE FEMALE SIDE
NOW HERE ARE THE RULES FROM THE MALE SIDE
THESE ARE OUR RULES!
PLEASE NOTE. THESE ARE ALL NUMBERED #1 ON PURPOSE!
1. MEN ARE NOT MIND READERS.
1. LEARN TO WORK THE TOILET SEAT. YOU'RE A BIG GIRL. IF IT'S UP, PUT IT DOWN. WE NEED IT UP, YOU NEED IT DOWN. YOU DON'T HEAR US COMPLAINING ABOUT YOU LEAVING IT DOWN.
1. CRYING IS BLACKMAIL.
1. ASK FOR WHAT YOU WANT. LET US BE CLEAR ON THIS ONE:
SUBTLE HINTS DO NOT WORK!
STRONG HINTS DO NOT WORK!
OBVIOUS HINTS DO NOT WORK!
JUST SAY IT!
1. YES AND NO ARE PERFECTLY ACCEPTABLE ANSWERS TO ALMOST EVERY QUESTION.
1.. COME TO US WITH A PROBLEM ONLY IF YOU WANT HELP SOLVING IT. THAT'S WHAT WE DO. SYMPATHY IS WHAT YOUR GIRLFRIENDS ARE FOR.
1. ANYTHING WE SAID 6 MONTHS AGO IS INADMISSIBLE IN AN ARGUMENT. IN FACT, ALL COMMENTS BECOME NULL AND VOID AFTER 7 DAYS.
1. IF YOU THINK YOU'RE FAT, YOU PROBABLY ARE. DON'T ASK US.
1. IF SOMETHING WE SAID CAN BE INTERPRETED TWO WAYS AND ONE OF THE WAYS MAKES YOU SAD OR ANGRY, WE MEANT THE OTHER ONE.
1. YOU CAN EITHER ASK US TO DO SOMETHING OR TELL US HOW YOU WANT IT DONE. NOT BOTH.
IF YOU ALREADY KNOW BEST HOW TO DO IT, JUST DO IT YOURSELF.
1. WHENEVER POSSIBLE, PLEASE SAY WHATEVER YOU HAVE TO SAY DURING COMMERCIALS.
1. CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS DID NOT NEED DIRECTIONS AND NEITHER DO WE...
1. ALL MEN SEE IN ONLY 16 COLORS, LIKE WINDOWS DEFAULT SETTINGS..
PEACH, FOR EXAMPLE, IS A FRUIT, NOT A COLOR. PUMPKIN IS ALSO A FRUIT. WE HAVE NO IDEA WHAT MAUVE IS.
1. IF WE ASK WHAT IS WRONG AND YOU SAY 'NOTHING,' WE WILL ACT LIKE NOTHING'S WRONG. WE KNOW YOU ARE LYING, BUT IT IS JUST NOT WORTH THE HASSLE.
1. IF YOU ASK A QUESTION YOU DON'T WANT AN ANSWER TO, EXPECT AN ANSWER YOU DON'T WANT TO HEAR..
1. WHEN WE HAVE TO GO SOMEWHERE, ABSOLUTELY ANYTHING YOU WEAR IS FINE...REALLY.
1.. DON'T ASK US WHAT WE'RE THINKING ABOUT UNLESS YOU ARE PREPARED TO DISCUSS SUCH TOPICS AS FOOTBALL OR MOTOR SPORTS.
1. YOU HAVE ENOUGH CLOTHES.
1 .. YOU HAVE TOO MANY SHOES.
1. I AM IN SHAPE. ROUND IS A SHAPE!
1.. THANK YOU FOR READING THIS. YES, I KNOW, I HAVE TO SLEEP ON THE COUCH TONIGHT.. BUT DID YOU KNOW MEN REALLY DON'T MIND THAT? IT'S LIKE CAMPING...
PASS THIS TO AS MANY MEN AS YOU CAN - TO GIVE THEM A LAUGH...
PASS THIS TO AS MANY WOMEN AS YOU CAN - TO GIVE THEM A BIGGER LAUGH, BECAUSE ITS TRUE!
Friday, April 19, 2013
Thursday, April 18, 2013
Little Boy's Explanation of God
It was written by an 8-year-old named Danny Dutton, who lives in Chula Vista , CA . He wrote it for his third grade homework assignment, to 'explain God.' I wonder if any of us could have done as well?
I certainly don't think an adult could explain this more beautifully!
(and he had such an assignment, in California , and someone published it -- I guess miracles do happen!)
EXPLANATION OF GOD:
'One of God's main jobs is making people. He makes them to replace the ones that die, so there will be enough people to take care of things on earth. He doesn't make grownups, just babies. I think because they are smaller and easier to make. That way he doesn't have to take up his valuable time teaching them to talk and walk. He can just leave that to mothers and fathers.'
'God's second most important job is listening to prayers An awful lot of this goes on, since some people, like preachers and things, pray at times beside bedtime. God doesn't have time to listen to the radio or TV because of this. Because he hears everything, there must be a terrible lot of noise in his ears, unless he has thought of a way to turn it off.'
'God sees everything and hears everything and is everywhere which keeps Him pretty busy. So you shouldn't go wasting his time by going over your mom and dad's head asking for something they said you couldn't have.'
'Atheists are people who don't believe in God.I don't think there are any in Chula Vista . At least there aren't any who come to our church.'
'Jesus is God's Son. He used to do all the hard work, like walking on water and performing miracles and trying to teach the people who didn't want to learn about God. They finally got tired of him preaching to them and they crucified him. But he was good and kind, like his father, and he told his father that they didn't know what they were doing and to forgive them and God said O.K.' And God did not let Jesus stay in the grave, but raised him from the dead
'His dad (God) appreciated everything that he had done and all his hard work on earth so he told him he didn't have to go out on the road anymore. He could stay in heaven. So he did. And now he helps his dad out by listening to prayers and seeing things which are important for God to take care of and which ones he can take care of himself without having to bother God. Like a secretary, only more important.'
'You can pray anytime you want and they are sure to help you because they got it worked out so one of them is on duty all the time.'
'You should always go to church on Sunday because it makes God happy, and if there's anybody you want to make happy, it's God!
Don't skip church to do something you think will be more fun like going to the beach. This is wrong. And besides the sun doesn't come out at the beach until noon anyway.'
'If you don't believe in God,besides being an atheist, you will be very lonely, because your parents can't go everywhere with you, like to camp, but God can. It is good to know He's around you when you're scared, in the dark or when you can't swim and you get thrown into real deep water by big kids.'
'But...you shouldn't just always think of what God can do for you. I figure God put me here and he can take me back anytime he pleases.
And...that's why I believe in God.'
Breaking: Saudi National & Exchange Student Ali Alharbi Is Being Deported Back to Kingdom (Video) …Update: With Anonymous Mask | The Gateway Pundit
On Tuesday, the day following the Boston Marathon bombing, Boston officials detained Saudi national Abdulrahman Ali Alharbi a 20 year-old exchange student. He is believed to have entered the country on a student visa. Late yesterday Abdulrahman was cleared by federal officials in the Boston bombing.
Here is his Facebook page.
Abdulrahman Ali Alharbi

The name was released by Townhall and Free Republic.
Abdulrahman Ali Alharbi studied English at NESE – The New England School of English.

Tonight Steven Emerson told Sean Hannity that the non-suspect Abdulrahman Ali Alharbi is being deported back to the Saudi Kingdom.
Breaking: Saudi National & Exchange Student Ali Alharbi Is Being Deported Back to Kingdom (Video) …Update: With Anonymous Mask | The Gateway Pundit
Posted by Jim Hoft on Wednesday, April 17, 2013, 9:02 PM
On Tuesday, the day following the Boston Marathon bombing, Boston officials detained Saudi national Abdulrahman Ali Alharbi a 20 year-old exchange student. He is believed to have entered the country on a student visa. Late yesterday Abdulrahman was cleared by federal officials in the Boston bombing.Here is his Facebook page.
Abdulrahman Ali Alharbi
The name was released by Townhall and Free Republic.
Abdulrahman Ali Alharbi studied English at NESE – The New England School of English.
Tonight Steven Emerson told Sean Hannity that the non-suspect Abdulrahman Ali Alharbi is being deported back to the Saudi Kingdom.
Breaking: Saudi National & Exchange Student Ali Alharbi Is Being Deported Back to Kingdom (Video) …Update: With Anonymous Mask | The Gateway Pundit
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Five Big Reasons Our Economy Stinks and Government is to Blame
- We’re spending too much. Two wars, entitlement growth, and a massive stimulus are the results of a spending frenzy over the last decade.
- We’ve got too much debt. Every level of government is in over their heads. The literal and figurative bankruptcies of cities such as Stockton, California and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania are the canaries in the coal mine.
- Debt overhang kills growth. The latest studies are clear: excessive debt, sustained over long periods of time, hurts economic growth. Beyond the cost of higher interest rate payments, increasingly higher debt loads – which Gillespie calls “a ziggurat of doom” – promises to reduce opportunities for everyone.
- Spending growth is driven by entitlements. Since the Great Society programs of the 1960s, the government has switched from providing infrastructure and basic services, to being a national insurance broker. The consequences of this are dire because, as statistician Nate Silver notes, "most of us don't much care for our insurance broker."
- Trust in government is at historic lows. This kind of distrust is an inevitable result of a mismanaged economy. Yet it's also cause for optimism. Public discontent sow the seeds of reform, allowing the possibility of meaningful fiscal reform.
Monday, April 15, 2013
I endorse this whole thing
1. PRAY TOGETHER ALWAYS
2. READ THE SCRIPTURES TOGETHER ALWAYS
3. Go on regular date nights
4. Hide notes in secret places
5. Go to bed at the same time
6. Listen to music together-share ear-buds
7. Buy him gifts he will love
8. Revitalize the romance with intimate dates
9. Wear shirts that tell the world you love your spouse
10. Praise your spouse to other people
11. Read a marriage devotional
12. Sleep in his t-shirts
13. Renew your vows privately with whispers and memories
14. Renew them publicly with cake and bubbly
15. Go away together at least once a year
For Women Only
16. Hang pictures of the two of you around your house
17. Make his favorite dessert
18. Make sex a priority
19. Spend time apart occasionally
20. Learn to enjoy something he loves
21. Surprise each other
22. Meet him at the door
23. Text each other from across the room
24. Set reminders on your phone to remember him/her throughout the week
25. Call him right now and tell him you appreciate him
For Men Only
26. Leave work on time and come home early
27. Engage every day in meaningful conversation
28. Compliment each other
29. Take one day a month to make your spouse your total focus
30. Argue fair: avoid these words “you always” and “you never”
31. Kiss every day
32. Find tangible ways to serve your mate without complaining
33. Forgive quickly
34. Be honest.
35. Get on the same page: plan your budget together
36. Look your best as often as you can
37. Guard your marriage
38. Laugh together
39. When you are together-BE TOGETHER (take a break from phones, technology, etc)
40. Tell her she’s pretty, especially when she’s not feeling it
Both
41. Make each other breakfast in bed
42. Do her chores for her
44. Get a couple’s massage or host your own privately
44. Dance together-soft music (both of you alone) or rocking music with the kids
45. Exercise together- hikes, bike riding, etc
46. Choose not to be annoyed by an irritating behavior/disappointment from your spouse
47. Thank your spouse often even for the least reason or gesture
48. Lay in bed together and stare into each other eyes, without talking
49. Learn something new together-take an art class, cooking lessons, etc
50. Leave a sweet comment on the Facebook wall
51. Support each other’s goals
52. Bring her flowers/gifts (even when she says they are too expensive)
53. Wear something your spouse loves
54. Share furniture-sit in his lap
55. Fight for your marriage
56. Make a point to eat dinner together most days of the week.
57. Never let your spouse feel like they come second place to your career or any other thing.
58. Talk about your dreams and aspirations. Be supportive of each other and dream big together!
59. Maintain a united front as your motto: Meaning- “Me and you against the world.
60. Speak well of your spouse.
Remember your Spouse Rocks- Even when they don’t at the moment!
Saturday, April 13, 2013
THE AGE OF AWAKENING OVER GOVERNMENT MUST NOW MOVE US TO ACTION OR AMERICA WILL BE LOST IN THIS SEASON OF OUR HISTORY...! by Sara DeMeulenaere
BEING IN THE WASHINGTON AREA AND THE ARENA OF DEBATE AND PETITIONS.....I AM REALLY GAINING A GREATER PERSPECTIVE ON THE "LOCK-DOWN" OVER THE MIND OF PEOPLE IN THIS CITY AND REGION......VIRGINIA IS KNOWN IN HISTORY AS A GOVERNMENTAL STATE....MEANING ONE THAT REGISTERS AND FORMULATES, HONORS AND GIVES INTO GOVERNING DOGMA IN HIGH ESTEEM....!
IN THIS, THERE IS A BROAD MISCONCEPTION THAT IF IT IS CALLED GOVERNMENT, YOU MUST OBEY IT, LEAN INTO IT AND FOLLOW SOME BANDWIDTH OF MENTALITY OF SUBMISSION TO ABUSE, WHAT WE THE PEOPLE DO NOT STAND UP TO STOP. AS LONG AS IT HAS A STAMP THAT SAYS WE ARE TO STAY IN PLACE UNDER MAN'S FORMULATED KIND OF GOVERNING SYSTEMS...NO MATTER THE COST TO US PERSONALLY AND TO OUR NEIGHBORS....WE ARE BOUND TO IT'S DEMANDS OF UNLAWFUL AND UNGODLY JURISDICTION.
CHRISTIANS IN THIS REGION BOW TO THIS FALSE GOD OF MAN MADE GOVERNING IN MASS, THINKING ONLY DUE PROCESS OF LAW AND LEGAL MANDATES CAN KEEP US IN ORDER, SO WE PUT OURSELVES IN THAT PLACE TO BE ABUSED AND MISUSED BY SAID GOVERNMENT BOGGED DOWN IN LEGALISTIC AND PHARISAICAL MINDSETS TO BIND US IN CHAINS OF DESTRUCTIVE AND EVIL SCHEMES OF CONTROL.
THERE ARE AMAZINGLY, A MYRIAD OF CHRISTIAN LAW SCHOOLS THAT ARE DOTTING THE STATE OF VA TODAY...ALL WITH ADVOCACY OPTS FOR TEACHING SOUND BIBLICAL IDEAS, YET ONE FLAW IS STILL OBVIOUS AND THAT IS WE STILL FORMULATE LEGALISTIC FORMATS TO PUT THE POPULOUS UNDER TO CONTROL AND EVEN IF IS NOT FROM GOD...WE SOMEHOW BELIEVE WE HAVE TO STAY UNDER THAT CONTROLLED FORMULA BECAUSE IT IS ENACTED BY MAN'S GOVERNMENT , SO IT MUST BE OBEYED...! AND FOR LACK OF KNOWLEDGE, PEOPLE PERISH THE BIBLE ALSO TELLS US..!
GOD IS WAITING ON US TO WAKE UP IN THIS CAPACITY AND USE OUR BRAINS TO PUT WISDOM INTO PLAY HERE...THE FRENCH REVOLUTION WAS A PRIME EXAMPLE FOR THE PEOPLE BECOMING SLAVES TO A SYSTEM OF ABUSE UNTIL THEY WERE SO BEAT DOWN, THEY HAD NOTHING LEFT TO FIGHT WITH....AND AFTER THEY FINALLY FIGURED OUT THAT THE RULING CLASS AND ELITES WERE RAPING THEM OF GOD GIVEN RIGHTS , THEY ALLOWED THEMSELVES TO BE TOTALLY TAKEN OVER...(THE OLD FROG IN THE SLOW COOKER IDEA) AND MANY WHO WERE CHRISTIANS WERE FORCED TO LEAVE THE NATION UNDER DURESS AND PERSECUTION.
OVER THE COURSE OF HISTORY, MEN IN DISTRESS DO TWO THINGS....WAKE UP TO FIGHT THE FINAL BATTLE USING GOD'S WORD AS THEIR STANDARD, OR THEY ARE TAKEN DOWN AND OVER THROUGH THEIR GIVING UP AND LOSING THEIR FAITH ENOUGH TO ACTIVATE THEIR POSTURE TO ARISE AND OVERCOME EVIL IN THEIR MIDST...!!
HERE IS ONE ACCOUNT I COMMENTED ON TODAY THAT I SEE ALL TO OFTEN IN THE CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY...WHEN THEY DO THE LEAST TO CALL UPON JUSTICE TO ARISE THINKING IT IS SOMEHOW GOING TO INFLUENCE THOSE BENT ON EVIL INTENT IN LEADERSHIP.....THEY JUST SEND PETITIONS TO WASHINGTON.....!
MY COMMENT IN RETURN WAS......."Remember petitions are only skin deep here people.....They are like a false flag for us, who give this president more power then he is deserving as well over a PARTICULAR jurisdiction he should have no say in..The dogma about him being set up as a king is our responsibility to go around, in order to get proper action accomplished......In reality, he is a formidable enemy of the God of Israel and America...sent as a mole to take us down....By not going straight to the source of the matter and taking action in legal course around him....we are resting on his actions alone to make a judgement call over issues and ultimately over our nation's future and survival."
"God is the one that intervenes through our wisely and collectively taking maters into correct and orderly directions here.....Obama in reality is not a bonafide leader, but has usurped only what the citizenry has opted to grant him through false pretense, thus we lose by default by our own irresponsibility to say NO< NOT ON OUR WATCH>>all too often."
It is like saying we have to succumb to a cancer that can be healed, by just giving in to it's ravaging our body and inevitably taking us down...We have a will to either live or give up to die every time...!!
The president is only a CEO of a giant legalistic entity that we put into play by not speaking up collectively to cast it down properly...!! Prayer without action in wise choices only diminishes our victory in righteously holding a firmer grip on governments inconsistencies and abuses !
AND THE LORD OF GLORY WOULD SAY TO US TODAY....IF YOU CALL YOURSELF ONE OF MY OWN...THEN WAKE UP AND TAKE BACK YOUR NATION FOR THE SAKE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS ,THAT IT NOT PERISH AS A LIGHT FROM THE EARTH ON YOUR WATCH....!! AMEN..!
Friday, April 12, 2013
Gun Control Texas Style!
Last Thursday night around midnight, a woman from Houston , Texas was
...arrested, jailed, and charged with manslaughter for shooting a man 6
times in the back as he was running away with her purse.
The
following Monday morning, the woman was called in front of the
Arraignment Judge, sworn-in, and asked to explain her actions.
The woman replied, "I was standing at the corner bus stop for about 15
minutes, waiting for the bus to take me home after work. I am a waitress
at a local cafe. I was there alone, so I had my right hand on my pistol
in my purse hanging on my left shoulder. All of a sudden I was spun
around hard to my left. As I caught my balance, I saw a man running away
with my purse. I looked down at my right hand and saw that my fingers
were wrapped tightly around my pistol. The next thing I remember is
saying out loud, "No Way Punk! You're not stealing my pay check and
tips." I raised my right hand, pointed my pistol at the man running away
from me with my purse, and started squeezing the trigger of my pistol.
When asked by the arraignment judge, "Why did you shoot the man 6
times? The woman replied under oath, "Because, when I pulled the trigger
the 7th time, it only went click."
The woman was acquitted of all charges. She was back at work the next day! That's Gun Control, Texas Style
Last Thursday night around midnight, a woman from Houston , Texas was ...arrested, jailed, and charged with manslaughter for shooting a man 6 times in the back as he was running away with her purse.
The following Monday morning, the woman was called in front of the Arraignment Judge, sworn-in, and asked to explain her actions.
The woman replied, "I was standing at the corner bus stop for about 15 minutes, waiting for the bus to take me home after work. I am a waitress at a local cafe. I was there alone, so I had my right hand on my pistol in my purse hanging on my left shoulder. All of a sudden I was spun around hard to my left. As I caught my balance, I saw a man running away with my purse. I looked down at my right hand and saw that my fingers were wrapped tightly around my pistol. The next thing I remember is saying out loud, "No Way Punk! You're not stealing my pay check and tips." I raised my right hand, pointed my pistol at the man running away from me with my purse, and started squeezing the trigger of my pistol.
When asked by the arraignment judge, "Why did you shoot the man 6 times? The woman replied under oath, "Because, when I pulled the trigger the 7th time, it only went click."
The woman was acquitted of all charges. She was back at work the next day! That's Gun Control, Texas Style
No War anytime soon
To
put your mind at some ease. N Korea is NOT going to start a war... they
want to tweek the American Government. They want to embarrass us.
China is not going to take steps to stop them. Heck, they sold the
North Koreans the missile launchers.
So when Kerry goes to
Japan expect N Korea to shoot one sort of Japan's way. Lots of noise
will be made about this. Kerry will be embarrassed. The wild card in
all this is if a shooting war should break out on the border with South
Korea. We are pledged to assist and defend. Will we? We aren't really
ready to do this.
The real problem with all this is Iran.
They are taking notes. They will assume that our insipid response to
North Korea is how we will react if THEY (Iran) mounts an offensive
against Israel. The difference is South Korea doesn't have nuclear
weapons. That's the trade off they made to have us be their defender
(at our expense). Israel DOES have nukes. IF Iran decided to attack,
the rubble would astonish.
While it's good to be vigilant,
the game of cat and mouse is just that. No matter how nuts the N Korean
Leader is, he knows deep down inside that Dennis Rodman doesn't want to
visit a pile of nuclear waste rubble next time. We would HAVE to nuke
them till they glowed if they DID start a war. SO relax. 3 years ago,
God told me this would happen, the end of which will be a collapse of
the North Korean government and eventual re unification. That will make
Korea (N&S together) a formidable power in the Asian Rim. Just
thought you would want to know.
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Something is Really Wrong with this Picture
This is what the Boy Scouts have promised for over a hundred years.
To do my duty to God and my country and to obey the Scout Law;
To help other people at all times;
To keep myself physically strong, mentally awake and morally straight.
Note that the Boy Scout Oath has traditionally been considered to have three promises. Those three promises are delineated by the semicolons in the Oath, which divide it into three clauses. The three promises of the Scout Oath are, therefore:
Men and women of the past worked to make America great, and many gave their lives for their country. By being a good family member and a good citizen, by working for your country's good and obeying its laws, you do your duty to your country. Obeying the Scout Law means living by its 12 points.
DUTY TO OTHER PEOPLE: Many people need help. A cheery smile and a helping hand make life easier for others. By doing a Good Turn daily and helping when you're needed, you prove yourself a Scout and do your part to make this a better world.
DUTY TO SELF: Keeping yourself physically strong means taking care of your body. Eat the right foods and build your strength. Staying mentally awake means learn all you can, be curious, and ask questions. Being morally straight means to live your life with honesty, to be clean in your speech and actions, and to be a person of strong character.
Boy Scout Oath or Promise
On my honor, I will do my bestTo do my duty to God and my country and to obey the Scout Law;
To help other people at all times;
To keep myself physically strong, mentally awake and morally straight.
Note that the Boy Scout Oath has traditionally been considered to have three promises. Those three promises are delineated by the semicolons in the Oath, which divide it into three clauses. The three promises of the Scout Oath are, therefore:
- Duty to God and country,
- Duty to other people, and
- Duty to self
Men and women of the past worked to make America great, and many gave their lives for their country. By being a good family member and a good citizen, by working for your country's good and obeying its laws, you do your duty to your country. Obeying the Scout Law means living by its 12 points.
DUTY TO OTHER PEOPLE: Many people need help. A cheery smile and a helping hand make life easier for others. By doing a Good Turn daily and helping when you're needed, you prove yourself a Scout and do your part to make this a better world.
DUTY TO SELF: Keeping yourself physically strong means taking care of your body. Eat the right foods and build your strength. Staying mentally awake means learn all you can, be curious, and ask questions. Being morally straight means to live your life with honesty, to be clean in your speech and actions, and to be a person of strong character.
Boy Scout Law
A Scout is:- Trustworthy,
- Loyal,
- Helpful,
- Friendly,
- Courteous,
- Kind,
- Obedient,
- Cheerful,
- Thrifty,
- Brave,
- Clean,
- and Reverent.
Boy Scout Motto
Be Prepared!Boy Scout Slogan
Do a Good Turn Daily!The Outdoor Code
As an American, I will do my best to -- Be clean in my outdoor manners
- Be careful with fire
- Be considerate in the outdoors, and
- Be conservation minded.
Tuesday, April 09, 2013
Obama Fears the Armed Citizenry
Barack Obama recently made some extraordinary statements about gun ownership that need a thorough refutation.
Not only did Obama misrepresent the very reason the Bill of Rights includes a specific protection of the unalienable right to bear arms, he also misrepresented his own personal position, which is clearly for the ban of most firearms currently owned by Americans.
Here’s what he said in Colorado last week: “The opponents of some of these common-sense laws have ginned up fears among responsible gun owners that have nothing to do with what’s being proposed, nothing to do with the facts, but feeds into this suspicion about government. You hear some of these quotes:
‘I need a gun to protect myself from the government.’
‘We can’t do background checks because the government’s going to come take my guns away.’
“The government’s us,” Obama continued. “These officials are elected by you. They are elected by you, I am elected by you. I am constrained as they are constrained by a system that our founders put in place. This is a government of and by and for the people. So surely we can have a debate that’s not based on the notion somehow that your elected representatives are trying to do something to you other than potentially prevent another group of families from grieving the way the families of Aurora or Newtown or Columbine have grieved. We’ve got to get past some of the rhetoric that gets perpetuated that breaks down trust and is so over the top that it just shuts down all discussion. And it’s important for all of us when we hear that talk to say ‘hold on a second.’ If there are any folks out there right now who are gun owners and you’ve been hearing that someone is taking away your guns, get the facts! We’re not proposing a gun registration system. We’re proposing background checks for criminals. Don’t just listen to what some advocates or folks who have an interest in this are saying. Look at the actual legislation. That’s what happened here in Colorado. And hopefully if we know the facts and we’re listening to each other, then we can actually move forward.”
Obama makes light of the argument that free citizens have a right and duty to be armed and vigilant to protect their liberty – including from government. But, it’s not some crazy idea. It is exactly what the men who drafted and ratified the Second Amendment believed.
James Madison wrote in the Federalist Papers: “Americans have the right and advantage of being armed – unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.”
Thomas Jefferson wrote in a proposal for the Virginia Constitution: “No Free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.”
Again, James Madison wrote in support of the Second Amendment: “The right of the people to keep and bear … arms shall not be infringed. A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the best and most natural defense of a free country. …”
George Mason said: “… to disarm the people – that was the best and most effectual way to enslave them.”
Noah Webster wrote: “Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom of Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any bands of regular troops that can be, on any pretense, raised in the United States.”
Alexander Hamilton wrote in the Federalist Papers: “… but if circumstances should at any time oblige the government to form an army of any magnitude, that army can never be formidable to the liberties of the people, while there is a large body of citizens, little if at all inferior to them in discipline and use of arms, who stand ready to defend their rights. …”
Samuel Adams said: “The Constitution shall never be construed … to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.”
Richard Henry Lee, the initiator of the Declaration of Independence and a member of the Senate that passed the Bill of Rights, wrote: “To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms, and be taught alike especially when young, how to use them.”
Again, Alexander Hamilton wrote in the Federalist Papers: “The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.”
Again, Thomas Jefferson wrote in a letter quoted frequently by leftists of the 1960s and 1970s: “And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. … The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”
Patrick Henry said: “Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.”
The intent of the founders couldn’t be clearer. In fact, I defy any proponent of further federal firearms restrictions to find even a single quote from a single founder to support their attacks on the Constitution. They can’t do it. Yet the record of support for the protection of firearms ownership by these men would fill volumes.
Obama argues that he is not supportive of gun bans. But the record is equally clear he is – and always has been.
In 1996, while still in Chicago, Obama supported a ban on handguns. In 1998, he supported a ban on all semiautomatic guns, which represent the vast majority of firearms currently owned by citizens in the U.S. In 2004, he advocated banning gun sales within five miles of a school or park (essentially a ban on virtually all gun stores). He served on the board of directors of the Joyce Foundation, the largest private funder of research seeking ways to ban gun ownership in the U.S.
When Obama ran for the Illinois state Senate, he was asked by Independent Voters of Illinois if he supported a “ban [on] the manufacture, sale and possession of handguns.” He responded “Yes.” Later, when he ran for president, he flatly denied making the statement and attributed it to a staffer from his Senate race. The problem for Obama is that the questionnaire includes his own handwritten notes to at least one answer. Another questionnaire provided by Illinois State Legislative National Political Awareness Test in 1998 found that Obama wanted to “ban the sale or transfer of all forms of semi-automatic weapons.”
He is also on record in opposition to current laws in 48 states permitting citizens to carry concealed handguns for protection. About concealed carry laws, Obama said, “I think that creates a potential atmosphere where more innocent people could (get shot during) altercations.” Of course, the statistics prove just the opposite.
But the Obama record gets worse.
In March 2004, the Illinois Senate passed Senate Bill 2165, a law with provisions designed to assert a right of citizens to protect themselves against home invasions so that self-defense requirements would take precedence over local ordinances against handgun possession. The measure passed the Illinois Senate by a vote of 38-20. Barack Obama was one of the 20 state senators voting against the measure.
Then Gov. Rod Blagojevich vetoed the bill. On Nov. 9, 2004, the Illinois Senate voted 40-18 to override Blagojevich’s veto. Again, Obama acted against the override.
It’s fair to conclude, with Obama in January issuing 23 executive actions with gun-control provisions, that he not only hates private ownership of most, if not all, firearms, but he is obsessed with imposing restrictions.
More to the point, just do a reality check for a moment: Does anyone genuinely have any doubt that Obama would like to impose draconian gun control regulations on Americans? Will anyone seriously try to defend such a claim?
Again, Obama has a historical pattern of taking strong anti-gun positions, only to attempt later to obscure them. His website once said there were only two reasons for private gun ownership: “Hunting and target shooting.” Later the website was scrubbed when it became an embarrassment and a politically inexpedient and indefensible position.
Why does Obama speak out of both sides of his mouth on the gun issue? In 2008, Democrat pollster Mark Penn explained the doublespeak: “The formula for Democrats is to say that they support the Second Amendment, but that they want tough laws that close loopholes. This is something (Democrats) can run on and win on.”
In other words, don’t pay attention so much to what Obama says, watch what he does. What he says changes with the political winds. What he does has not changed through his political life.
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2013/04/why-does-obama-fear-armed-citizenry/#1wUWiEOlfByxkVmd.99
Not only did Obama misrepresent the very reason the Bill of Rights includes a specific protection of the unalienable right to bear arms, he also misrepresented his own personal position, which is clearly for the ban of most firearms currently owned by Americans.
Here’s what he said in Colorado last week: “The opponents of some of these common-sense laws have ginned up fears among responsible gun owners that have nothing to do with what’s being proposed, nothing to do with the facts, but feeds into this suspicion about government. You hear some of these quotes:
‘I need a gun to protect myself from the government.’
‘We can’t do background checks because the government’s going to come take my guns away.’
“The government’s us,” Obama continued. “These officials are elected by you. They are elected by you, I am elected by you. I am constrained as they are constrained by a system that our founders put in place. This is a government of and by and for the people. So surely we can have a debate that’s not based on the notion somehow that your elected representatives are trying to do something to you other than potentially prevent another group of families from grieving the way the families of Aurora or Newtown or Columbine have grieved. We’ve got to get past some of the rhetoric that gets perpetuated that breaks down trust and is so over the top that it just shuts down all discussion. And it’s important for all of us when we hear that talk to say ‘hold on a second.’ If there are any folks out there right now who are gun owners and you’ve been hearing that someone is taking away your guns, get the facts! We’re not proposing a gun registration system. We’re proposing background checks for criminals. Don’t just listen to what some advocates or folks who have an interest in this are saying. Look at the actual legislation. That’s what happened here in Colorado. And hopefully if we know the facts and we’re listening to each other, then we can actually move forward.”
Obama makes light of the argument that free citizens have a right and duty to be armed and vigilant to protect their liberty – including from government. But, it’s not some crazy idea. It is exactly what the men who drafted and ratified the Second Amendment believed.
James Madison wrote in the Federalist Papers: “Americans have the right and advantage of being armed – unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.”
Thomas Jefferson wrote in a proposal for the Virginia Constitution: “No Free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.”
Again, James Madison wrote in support of the Second Amendment: “The right of the people to keep and bear … arms shall not be infringed. A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the best and most natural defense of a free country. …”
George Mason said: “… to disarm the people – that was the best and most effectual way to enslave them.”
Noah Webster wrote: “Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom of Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any bands of regular troops that can be, on any pretense, raised in the United States.”
Alexander Hamilton wrote in the Federalist Papers: “… but if circumstances should at any time oblige the government to form an army of any magnitude, that army can never be formidable to the liberties of the people, while there is a large body of citizens, little if at all inferior to them in discipline and use of arms, who stand ready to defend their rights. …”
Samuel Adams said: “The Constitution shall never be construed … to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.”
Richard Henry Lee, the initiator of the Declaration of Independence and a member of the Senate that passed the Bill of Rights, wrote: “To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms, and be taught alike especially when young, how to use them.”
Again, Alexander Hamilton wrote in the Federalist Papers: “The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.”
Again, Thomas Jefferson wrote in a letter quoted frequently by leftists of the 1960s and 1970s: “And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. … The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”
Patrick Henry said: “Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.”
The intent of the founders couldn’t be clearer. In fact, I defy any proponent of further federal firearms restrictions to find even a single quote from a single founder to support their attacks on the Constitution. They can’t do it. Yet the record of support for the protection of firearms ownership by these men would fill volumes.
Obama argues that he is not supportive of gun bans. But the record is equally clear he is – and always has been.
In 1996, while still in Chicago, Obama supported a ban on handguns. In 1998, he supported a ban on all semiautomatic guns, which represent the vast majority of firearms currently owned by citizens in the U.S. In 2004, he advocated banning gun sales within five miles of a school or park (essentially a ban on virtually all gun stores). He served on the board of directors of the Joyce Foundation, the largest private funder of research seeking ways to ban gun ownership in the U.S.
When Obama ran for the Illinois state Senate, he was asked by Independent Voters of Illinois if he supported a “ban [on] the manufacture, sale and possession of handguns.” He responded “Yes.” Later, when he ran for president, he flatly denied making the statement and attributed it to a staffer from his Senate race. The problem for Obama is that the questionnaire includes his own handwritten notes to at least one answer. Another questionnaire provided by Illinois State Legislative National Political Awareness Test in 1998 found that Obama wanted to “ban the sale or transfer of all forms of semi-automatic weapons.”
He is also on record in opposition to current laws in 48 states permitting citizens to carry concealed handguns for protection. About concealed carry laws, Obama said, “I think that creates a potential atmosphere where more innocent people could (get shot during) altercations.” Of course, the statistics prove just the opposite.
But the Obama record gets worse.
In March 2004, the Illinois Senate passed Senate Bill 2165, a law with provisions designed to assert a right of citizens to protect themselves against home invasions so that self-defense requirements would take precedence over local ordinances against handgun possession. The measure passed the Illinois Senate by a vote of 38-20. Barack Obama was one of the 20 state senators voting against the measure.
Then Gov. Rod Blagojevich vetoed the bill. On Nov. 9, 2004, the Illinois Senate voted 40-18 to override Blagojevich’s veto. Again, Obama acted against the override.
It’s fair to conclude, with Obama in January issuing 23 executive actions with gun-control provisions, that he not only hates private ownership of most, if not all, firearms, but he is obsessed with imposing restrictions.
More to the point, just do a reality check for a moment: Does anyone genuinely have any doubt that Obama would like to impose draconian gun control regulations on Americans? Will anyone seriously try to defend such a claim?
Again, Obama has a historical pattern of taking strong anti-gun positions, only to attempt later to obscure them. His website once said there were only two reasons for private gun ownership: “Hunting and target shooting.” Later the website was scrubbed when it became an embarrassment and a politically inexpedient and indefensible position.
Why does Obama speak out of both sides of his mouth on the gun issue? In 2008, Democrat pollster Mark Penn explained the doublespeak: “The formula for Democrats is to say that they support the Second Amendment, but that they want tough laws that close loopholes. This is something (Democrats) can run on and win on.”
In other words, don’t pay attention so much to what Obama says, watch what he does. What he says changes with the political winds. What he does has not changed through his political life.
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2013/04/why-does-obama-fear-armed-citizenry/#1wUWiEOlfByxkVmd.99
When the Revolution Comes it will be Bloody - The government has it right on this
I have been reading German accounts of D Day. About the war. The German's didn't fear the soldier. He was doing what he was called to do. In many ways they were cannon fodder. The Germans were better soldiers than the Americans. They did fear the armed patriot. The zealots. Those hardened slightly off kilter backwoods boys who knew how to fight, kill and die if need be. The fearless ones. The ruthless ones. Those who would fight to the death without reservation. Those who came to the battle not with army green but with leather, cowboy hats, bib overalls, looking unregimented, but fearless. When they came ashore, the easy targets were all dead or cowering.
It wasn't like the Tom Hanks movie. The young men who died on the beach revealed the placement of the machine gun and cannon sites, the ones who came afterwards out of the boat looking rag tag went immediately for the throat. They scaled the wall. Some with swords on their side. With rifles. Armed. Wild eyed. They attacked with force and innate strategy. No commander was needed to lead them. They had only one objective. KILL THE ENEMY. When they encountered the Germans... there were no prisoners taken. Those who had been taken earlier were the lucky ones. One man with a samurai sword on his side beheaded a dozen in two seconds. The fear they felt was a fear of the zeal of the patriot. The average age of those who died on the beach at Normandy was 20. The average age of the German soldier at Normandy was 30. The average age of the informal citizen militia that turned the battle was 33. Hardened. Experienced. Brutal. Angry. Ready since birth.
When I read this I thought of the fear our currant administration has of the armed citizen militia. The drive to disarm it. The need to demonize anyone who has patriotic view. Perhaps they read the same book I did. Perhaps they know that if a revolution were to break out... the military may not prevail. And, in the end can they depend on a military who's members share many of the views the Germans have? Sure they can bomb and drone. But 20 million armed Americans is a substantive force. Some of them are JUST LIKE those men who came on shore late and destroyed the German opposition. IS past prologue?
It wasn't like the Tom Hanks movie. The young men who died on the beach revealed the placement of the machine gun and cannon sites, the ones who came afterwards out of the boat looking rag tag went immediately for the throat. They scaled the wall. Some with swords on their side. With rifles. Armed. Wild eyed. They attacked with force and innate strategy. No commander was needed to lead them. They had only one objective. KILL THE ENEMY. When they encountered the Germans... there were no prisoners taken. Those who had been taken earlier were the lucky ones. One man with a samurai sword on his side beheaded a dozen in two seconds. The fear they felt was a fear of the zeal of the patriot. The average age of those who died on the beach at Normandy was 20. The average age of the German soldier at Normandy was 30. The average age of the informal citizen militia that turned the battle was 33. Hardened. Experienced. Brutal. Angry. Ready since birth.
When I read this I thought of the fear our currant administration has of the armed citizen militia. The drive to disarm it. The need to demonize anyone who has patriotic view. Perhaps they read the same book I did. Perhaps they know that if a revolution were to break out... the military may not prevail. And, in the end can they depend on a military who's members share many of the views the Germans have? Sure they can bomb and drone. But 20 million armed Americans is a substantive force. Some of them are JUST LIKE those men who came on shore late and destroyed the German opposition. IS past prologue?
You gonna serve somebody... who?
The Southern Poverty Law Center is a hate group of anti Americans who
published this chart of people those in the Military is supposed to
fear. Note that Catholics, Evangelical Christians and Mormons are
lumped in with Muslim extremists. YET... if you look at the bottom, you
will see that being an Islamaphobe is considered an extremist viewpoint
as well. IF you are reading this, you are probably an extremist. Just
to be clear, The SPLC is radical left wing group who fully supports ALL
of Obama's objectives. And if you oppose him at all they label you a
racist. Of course at the core of their purpose is raw racism. I just
want to be clear... Read this report and shudder at the voices speaking
in to President Obama's life. They really ARE out to get YOU!! Soon
you will have to choose whom you will serve. God or Government.
http://www.examiner.com/ article/ army-training-material-lists-ev angelical-christians-catholics -as-extremists
http://www.examiner.com/
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