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PARAPROSDOKIANS: (Winston Churchill loved them) are figures of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected; frequently humorous.

1. Where there's a will, I want to be in it.

2. The last thing I want to do is hurt you. But it's still on my list.

3. Since light travels faster than sound, some people appear bright until you hear them speak.

4. If I agreed with you, we'd both be wrong.

5. We never really grow up; we only learn how to act in public.

6. War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

7. Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

8. They begin the evening news with 'Good Evening,' then proceed to tell you why it isn't.

9. To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism. To steal from many is research.

10. Buses stop in bus stations. Trains stop in train stations. On my desk is a work station.

11. I thought I wanted a career. Turns out I just wanted paychecks.

12. In filling out an application, where it says, 'In case of emergency, notify:' I put 'DOCTOR.'

13. I didn't say it was your fault; I said I was blaming you.

14. Women will never be equal to men until they can walk down the street with a bald head and a beer gut, and still think they are sexy.

15. Behind every successful man is his woman. Behind the fall of a successful man is usually another woman.

16. A clear conscience is the sign of a fuzzy memory.

17. You do not need a parachute to skydive. You only need a parachute to skydive twice.

18. Money can't buy happiness, but it sure makes misery easier to live with.

19. There's a fine line between cuddling and holding someone down so they can't get away.

20. I used to be indecisive. Now I'm not so sure.

21. You're never too old to learn something stupid.

22. To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first and call whatever you hit the target.

23. Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

24. Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.

25. Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car.

26. Where there's a will, there are relatives.

Am I alone...

...or is everyone sick of the Newt and Mitt Show?
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These clowns spend 99.9% of their time telling me how bad that other guy sucks, and then they give examples. I mean, I get that they both suck, but WHY would they want to give the Dems ammo for this fall?
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And God knows they should have plenty of ammo to use against Obama. But thus far, I've barely heard him mentioned. Why?
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Schteveo

God Help Us!

What happens when you take fat, lazy, former welfare recipients, give them fancy new uniforms, a badge, a huge increase in pay and benefits, and tons and tons and tons of federal authority?

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/01/31/tsa-agents-reportedly-wait-6-hours-before-alerting-cops-about-potential-bomb/?test=latestnews

And The Insults Continue...

It seems Michelle Obummer has become an expert at insulting the American people, especially White Americans. Being an anti-American racist, i'm sure it's one of her favorite activities. While tens-of-millions are out of work, losing their homes, and trying their best to make ends meet, (thanks to her Marxist husband's policies ) Thunder-Thighs is out there spending OUR money like an out-of-control uptown pimp. Whether it's $2500-per-night resort suites for her mama and all her hood-friends, or thousand dollar lunches, she's sure livin high-on-the-hog. Of course, not one of the leftists in the MSM would dare ask the question, "how much of this did she do (before) getting into the WH" ?

All one need do is look at her face when she's in public, and you can clearly see the contempt she holds for, not only our country, but for White's in general. She's either not very good at hiding it, or doesn't really care if it's obvious. My money is on the latter. Most of the people who voted for her husband will applaud her actions, while their bleeding-heart liberal enablers will ignore or excuse it.

Personally, and especially while watching the Republicans committing political suicide, i am of the opinion that we're going to see another four years of this. And IMO, it's gonna get a whole lot worse, since they'll have nothing to lose. By the time the American people wake-up, assuming they ever do, they'll have no country, freedom, or liberty, left to save. Truly pathetic...


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/retailandconsumer/9048122/Agent-Provocateur-sales-boosted-by-US-First-Lady-Michelle-Obama.html

Free Guns.

No. I am NOT jerkin' your lariat!
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Here's a site where the guy lists ALL the gun giveaway contests he can find. Free guns from manufacturers. Free guns from gun shops. Free guns from 3rd Parties. Personally, I don't CARE who's giving it away.
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IT'S FREE GUNS!!!
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weapon-blog.com
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Check it out.
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Schteveo

Guerilla Capitalism!!!

I just learned about the absolute ONLY reason for me to start using Twitter or Facebook. You've heard of Flash Mobs? Well, now there are Cash Mobs. Groups of people are gathered via Social Networks to show up at "X", a locally owned business and spend at least $20.
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I like it!
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What are Cash Mobs?

The general idea is to encourage people to go into small, local businesses and spend their money, en masse, to give the business owner a little bit of economic stimulus. We’d help businesses grow, we’d make people happy, we’d get stuff for ourselves, have a great time, and maybe we’d get a drink to celebrate afterward.

Who Started Cash Mobs?

Andrew Samtoy, an attorney in Cleveland, OH, organized our first “Cash Mob” on November 16, 2011. Although at the time we thought the name was original (and some in the media gave us credit for it), we later learned that the first gathering called a “Cash Mob” appears to have been held in Buffalo, NY, on August 5, 2011, and was organized by blogger, Christopher Smith.

Since then, Cash Mobs have been sprouting up all across the U.S., Canada, and around the world. While organized by many different groups of people, all appear to have the same goal in mind: to support local businesses that they love!

Who Is/Are Cash Mobs?

“Cash Mobs” isn’t a political or social organization, a corporation, a movement, or meant to be an answer to economic crisis. By and large, those that organize Cash Mobs are simply people trying to make a positive impact on the businesses in their communities (and have fun while doing it)!

Where do we see Cash Mobs going?

A few people have asked us a new question recently: “Where do you see Cash Mobs going?”

What they usually mean is, is this something that is going to continue? Is it going to evolve and change? What will it look like in six months or a year?

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I expect Samtoy is a raging liberal based on his associations listed at Linkedin . But even raging liberals screw up once in a while and actually do something that is good for everyone!
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Schteveo

The Sad Truth

Funny? Yes, until you stop and realize that the joke's on us...

* The problem with political jokes is they get elected. ~Henry Cate, VII

* We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. ~Aesop

* If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these acceptance speeches there wouldn’t be any inducement to go to heaven. ~Will Rogers

* Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. ~Plato

* Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river. ~Nikita Khrushchev

* When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I’m beginning to believe it. ~Clarence Darrow

* Why pay money to have your family tree traced; go into politics and your opponents will do it for you. ~Author Unknown

* If God wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates. ~Jay Leno

* Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel. ~John Quinton

* Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other. ~Oscar Ameringer

* The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn’t work and then they get elected and prove it. ~P.J. O’Rourke

* I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them. ~Adlai Stevenson, campaign speech, 1952

* A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country. ~Texas Guinan

* Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so. ~Gore Vidal

* I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. ~Charles de Gaulle

* Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks. ~Doug Larson

* Don’t vote, it only encourages them. ~Author Unknown

* There ought to be one day – just one – when there is open season on senators. ~Will Rogers

Good news from SCOTUS

According to the Supreme Court, who voted UNANIMOUSLY, police agencies canNOT track you using GPS, without a warrant. Good.
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The Supreme Court ruled Monday that police violated the Constitution when they attached a Global Positioning System tracker to a suspect's vehicle without a valid search warrant, voting unanimously in one of the first major cases to test privacy rights in the digital era.

The Supreme Court ruled that police must obtain a warrant before attaching a GPS tracker to a suspect's vehicle, voting unanimously in one of the first major cases to test constitutional privacy rights in the digital age, Jess Bravin reports on digits. Photo: Getty Images.

The decision offered a glimpse of how the court may address the flood of privacy cases expected in coming years over issues such as cellphones, email and online documents. But the justices split 5-4 over the reasoning, suggesting that differences remain over how to apply age-old principles prohibiting "unreasonable searches."

The minority pushed for a more sweeping declaration that installing the GPS tracker not only trespassed on private property but violated the suspect's "reasonable expectation of privacy" by monitoring his movements for a month. The majority said it wasn't necessary to go that far, because the act of putting the tracker on the car invaded the suspect's property in the same way that a home search would.

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I'm not sure I'll turn on the GPS tracker in my cell phone still. Being the paranoid type has kept me from doing so thus far. Actually, I just don't think it's a good idea for ANYONE to know where I am 24 by 7.
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I don't even report to me wife where I am all the time!!
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Schteveoj

The State of The Union

Tomorrow night, the Marxist-in-Chief will go on national TV and tell us what kind of shape the country's in. Apparently, he assumes we don't know. I'm not sure what he'll say, but there is one thing you can bet your life on. The entire speech will be a lie. He has no choice but to lie. If he were to tell the truth about what he and his handlers have really been doing, and what they plan to keep doing, i doubt he'd make it out of the place alive.

In fact, this state of the union show is nothing more than a campaign speech. And, as we all know, campaign speeches are all lies. They, and the accompanying MSM spin, are meant to anesthetize the sheeple. They are meant to convince the people that the things they actually see, hear, and feel, are not real. That only the lies are real. Can Obummer get up in front of all the TV cameras and tell you that what you see with your own eyes is not really what you see? Can he tell us that we're really doing better than we think we are? One thing's for sure. You can bet he'll try. Will it work, again?

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/jan/22/curl-the-truly-dismal-state-of-the-union/?page=all#pagebreak

Being prepared makes you part of a 'subculture'.

When I was a kid, my grandmother always had 6 or 8 months worth of canned goods, soap, toilet paper, and food staples, flour, sugar, salt, etc in her cupboard. She'd raised my father and uncle all through the Depression and WWII. Her stockpile was the difference in normalcy or hunger on a number of occasions. Does keeping that stockpile make her 'smart' or does that make her 'scary'?
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Everything I read about history shows me that people kept root cellars, they fertilized with animal 'droppings', they 'hoarded', and often hid, flour, rice, grains, animal feed. They did that because their futures were never certain. War, boom, bust, famine and death was around every corner.
It was a way of life that everyone understood.
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Most of us here have admitted to some of that same 'hoarding'. And for the same reasons our ancestors did. It looks like war, boom, bust, famine and death are around every corner. But now, doing these things, i.e., preparing for possible problems tomorrow makes you (and me) part of a 'subculture'. How sad, and foolish, is it that people think what they have today, cannot be gone tomorrow?
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When Patty Tegeler looks out the window of her home overlooking the Appalachian Mountains in southwestern Virginia, she sees trouble on the horizon.

"In an instant, anything can happen," she told Reuters. "And I firmly believe that you have to be prepared."

Tegeler is among a growing subculture of Americans who refer to themselves informally as "preppers." Some are driven by a fear of imminent societal collapse, others are worried about terrorism, and many have a vague concern that an escalating series of natural disasters is leading to some type of environmental cataclysm.

They are following in the footsteps of hippies in the 1960s who set up communes to separate themselves from what they saw as a materialistic society, and the survivalists in the 1990s who were hoping to escape the dictates of what they perceived as an increasingly secular and oppressive government.

Preppers, though are, worried about no government.

Tegeler, 57, has turned her home in rural Virginia into a "survival center," complete with a large generator, portable heaters, water tanks, and a two-year supply of freeze-dried food that her sister recently gave her as a birthday present. She says that in case of emergency, she could survive indefinitely in her home. And she thinks that emergency could come soon.

"I think this economy is about to fall apart," she said.

A wide range of vendors market products to preppers, mainly online. They sell everything from water tanks to guns to survival skills.

Conservative talk radio host Glenn Beck seems to preach preppers' message when he tells listeners: "It's never too late to prepare for the end of the world as we know it."

"Unfortunately, given the increasing complexity and fragility of our modern technological society, the chances of a societal collapse are increasing year after year," said author James Wesley Rawles, whose Survival Blog is considered the guiding light of the prepper movement.

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I've been to Rawles site. It's pretty good, but there are many others just as good or better. But I didn't start saving for hard times, I found Rawles site, and others, BECAUSE I was already in that mode of thought.
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How about you? Are you preparing BECAUSE of guys like Beck and Rawles, or are you reading them because you were already convinced bad days are directly ahead?
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Schteveo

OH, wait... seriously, NOW I'm convinced!!

Do 'endorsements' mean anything to you? Personally, I don't give a rats hat who 'endorses' a candidate. So a guy who I've seen in a movie says, '...he's a GOOD guy, vote fer Ol' Bob Dingleberry fer dog catcher!"
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So, having said that, does this story MEAN anything?
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Chuck Norris Endorses Newt Gingrich

Newt Gingrich picked up the formidable endorsement today of action star Chuck Norris.

The "Walker, Texas Ranger" star wrote in a column for World Net Daily Friday that Gingrich has the “experience, leadership, knowledge, wisdom, faith and even humility to learn from his failures (personal and public) can return America to her glory days. ”

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Big whoop.
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Schteveo

An Assault On Our Children

Personally, i would destroy anything or anyone who threatens my grandchildren. I'm sure you all feel the same. But, it gets a lot tougher to protect them when that threat is coming from government-sponsored entities and when the damage to them is being done a little at a time, and on a daily basis. Yes, it's called, "indoctrination" (see: brain washing) and it's being done by the very same people we entrust to educate and protect our most precious possessions.

Have we, as a society, become so weak, gullible, and distracted, that we even lack the will to protect our young from such deep and long-lasting damage? I once read that, "any society that cannot/will not protect it's young doesn't deserve to go on..." I wonder if they meant us...


http://cnsnews.com/news/article/activist-group-pushes-video-train-educators-how-teach-6-12-year-olds-about-gays-and

Does Anyone Remember America?

Date: January 19, 2012:
"As you're probably aware, yesterday was the much ballyhooed blackout of several popular web sites in protest of new legislation that threatens the Internet as we know it. The United States Congress has teed up two separate bills which give government agencies sweeping new powers to punish millions of innocent users, criminalize harmless activities, and effectively make entire web sites disappear at their sole discretion without any judicial oversight. In a nutshell, these bills would create the online equivalent of Nazi Germany. But what can we really expect from these people? It's not the first time that Congress has gone out of its way to destroy freedom and prosperity, and it certainly won't be the last. Just look at the last decade for a plethora of examples:

(USA PATRIOT Act, 2001.) The US Constitution officially became toilet paper when this bill of over 60,000 words just happened to be introduced only a few weeks after 9/11. Roving wiretaps, suspension of due process, and a complete loss of privacy became the norm.

(Sarbanes-Oxley Act, 2002.) In the wake of the Enron scandal, Congress did the only thing it knows how to do-- pass stupid laws with no thought of long-term consequences. SOX, as it became known, was one of the most burdensome pieces of legislation to American business in history.The disclosure requirements alone added millions of dollars of unnecessary expenses to US businesses and sent foreign companies who were thinking about listing on the formerly prestigious NYSE running for the hills. Places like Hong Kong and Singapore benefitted from such short-sighted regulation, and the US became less competitive. Again.

(Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment Act, 2010.) The inappropriately named HIRE Act essentially puts a gun to foreign banks' heads and forces them to make a decision: any bank with US clients must either enter into a costly information sharing agreement with the IRS, or be subject to a 30% withholding tax on US-sourced capital flows. Consequently, a number of foreign banks have begun dropping their US clients. Taken in conjunction with various US Securities rules, many foreign businesses have also begun dropping US citizens as partners, shareholders, and directors. It's simply too onerous to have to deal with all the disclosure filings and risk action by the SEC or IRS.Net result? US citizens are less capable of competing internationally in a world where the economic power is shifting overseas.

(National Defense Authorization Act, 2011.) Signed by President Obama on Saturday, December 31st with little fanfare when hardly anyone was looking, NDAA is the latest gem in a long line of liberty-destroying legislation that authorizes indefinite military detention (without trial) of suspected terrorists.Thing is, NDAA provides a ridiculously broad definition of 'suspected terrorist', essentially giving carte blanche to local, state, and federal police agencies who no longer need to worry about justifying their decisions in front of a judge. Don't worry, though. President Obama issued a statement acknowledging the controversy of the bill, but clarified that his administration "will not authorize the indefinite military detention without trial of American citizens."Heartwarming. But hardly a secure guarantee. President Obama isn't exactly batting 1,000 on his promises to the American public, and future presidents certainly won't be obliged by the same pledge.

There are, of course, dozens of other examples. Obamacare. Dodd-Frank 'financial reform'. And now the Stop Online Piracy Act / Personal Information Protection Act. Hey, these laws like SOPA and PIPA always have great names. Just like wars. Operation 'Enduring Freedom' was the moniker given to the early days of the US War of Terror. It all sounds very noble. The reality is always different. Throughout history, governments on the brink of insolvency have routinely enacted similar policies. Sliding into economic obscurity, they'll engage in reckless, cannibalistic initiatives-- higher taxes, burdensome regulation, war, destruction of the productive class, etc. It only hastens the end game.This time is not different. And we can expect more and more of the same.

Up next will be new laws that:- restrict cash transactions over a certain amount (Italy has already passed such measures for amounts exceeding 1,000 euros)- nationalize pension funds and private retirement accounts (again, has already happened around the world from Ireland to Argentina)- impose a national sales tax and reduce death tax exemptions (already at the forefront of the ongoing tax debate in the US)- ban gold and silver personal holdings (if you think this can't happen, ask any of the 250,000 people who used to own Liberty Dollar coins before they were seized by the FBI in 2007...)And more.

The thing is, every time one of these new bills crops up, there always seems to be a small resistance movement fighting it tooth and nail on the ground. Hence yesterday's SOPA/PIPA blackout. But ultimately, the political establishment wins. It's impossible to shake the public from its apathy... to steer people from the mind-numbing drivel of prime time airwaves... to rescue them from the PSYOPS campaigns of the 24/7 news channels. We can only take care of ourselves. Any money or energy spent fighting the government or rousing grassroots support is inherently better spent looking after your own interests and making sure that you and your family aren't victims of historical certainty. And make no mistake, collapse of empire is a historical certainty. From the Babylonians to the Persians to the Romans to the Mayans to the Mongolians to the Ottomans, no empire is built to last. And the final years are anything but smooth-sailing..."

Simon Black Senior Editor,
SovereignMan.com

...and it starts. Is this our Tea Stamp Moment?

Anyone with a computer has, by now, heard about SOPA and PIPA. My mistake was in ass-u-ming that it was JUST the United States, under BHO, that was pushing this totalitarian junk.
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Don't get me wrong, theft is theft and I'm anti-piracy of any kind concerning computers, uploads , downloads, OS's, etc, etc, etc. I've had too many people over the years attempt to get me to load software they didn't 'own'. I won't do it. Likewise, I don't steal from Wal-Mart JUST because they are a big company like Microsoft. I'm against piracy and theft, but IS there enough piracy and theft to need SOPA / PIPA? I think not. But our DOJ doesn't agree, nor do many other gub'ments.
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According to The Guardian of London, there were nine, 9, ...n - i - n - e...countries including the U.S. involved, at the BEHEST of BHO's illustrious DOJ in arresting people tied to Megaupload, a file share and storage company.

Perhaps their work load was so light at DOJ that they had to go LOOKING for work?
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I don't think so.
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This is the same DOJ who did NOT prosecute the Black Panthers for accosting and intimidating WHITE voters after spending millions of dollars in investigation. (I found that video simply by Goggling it, it looks like intimidation to me ) But they somehow must have missed that YouTube video of the Panthers outside the polls, carrying sticks and taunting white voters and passers-by.
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This is also the same DOJ who sold guns to Mexican Drug Cartels, again spending millions of $$ in the process of arresting damned near no one. Guns that were ultimately used to murder American Citizens. The DOJ has a work load all right, but it's seemingly aimed at stripping us of our God Given Rights and sometimes our very lives instead of working toward protecting us!
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It may seem trite or even 'nerdy' to say this, but the more of this crap they pull, the more I think like Carrie Fisher in 'Star Wars', the first time she's brought before Peter Cushing.
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'The more you tighten your grip, the more star systems will slip through your fingers!"
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We may not be 'star systems', but we'll all damned sure wind up in a Civil War against a totalitarian Emperor IF we don't get rid of BHO and EVERY other idiot clown, puppet gub'ment that followed him into this travesty.
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Prepare my friends, prepare, 'cause IT'S coming.
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Schteveo

"Right" To Privacy ?

No, it's not in the Constitution, although if you are a liberal social engineer with the divine ability to see things that are not actually there, it is. It's also there if you're a female who wants a free abortion, or if you're gay and want to "have your fun" anytime and anywhere you like. But what of the rest of us? Do we have a right to privacy? In fact, here in 2012, with private companies able to track your every move via your cell phone, is there any such thing as privacy?

What if the govt. wants to attach an ankle bracelet to your child (the very same kind they put on criminals ) using the excuse that they want to monitor your child's eating habits? Does your child have the same right to privacy as gays and pregnant females? Not according to the govt.

You see, the govt. health-Nazi's have decided that your child is obese. In fact, they claim obesity is a deadly situation that is sweeping the nation. Of course, if you are the govt., and you control the definition of obese, you can set the bar anywhere you like. You can, in fact, designate every child in America as "obese". Why would they do that? CONTROL! There's is nothing that gets a leftist social engineer more excited than having the ability to control the lives of everyone. Also, there's hundreds-of-billions that can then be spent (see: stolen, wasted, given away) on programs to combat a national problem that they have invented! It wouldn't be the first time the govt. has come up with "solutions" to problems that don't exist...


http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/schools_spy_on_fat_kids_HpPAgsKXPYjt1EWFfaNp9K?CMP=OTC-rss&FEEDNAME=

And My Vote Goes To...

1:37 PM, Jan 13, 2012 •
“I have sat back and assessed the incident with the video of our Marines urinating on Taliban corpses. I do not recall any self-righteous indignation when our Delta snipers Shugart and Gordon had their bodies dragged through Mogadishu. Neither do I recall media outrage and condemnation of our Blackwater security contractors being killed, their bodies burned, and hung from a bridge in Fallujah.“All these over-emotional pundits and armchair quarterbacks need to chill. Does anyone remember the two Soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division who were beheaded and gutted in Iraq?

The Marines were wrong. Give them a maximum punishment under field grade level Article 15 (non-judicial punishment), place a General Officer level letter of reprimand in their personnel file, and have them in full dress uniform stand before their Battalion, each personally apologize to God, Country, and Corps videotaped and conclude by singing the full US Marine Corps Hymn without a teleprompter.

As for everyone else, unless you have been shot at by the Taliban, shut your mouth. War is hell...” ------- Ret. Lt. Col. Rep. Allen West (R-FL.)

I'm Just Sayin...

I don't know about the rest of you, but i'm getting pretty sick of all these Republican debates and the vicious attacks on each other by some involved. IMO, the debates are simply shows put on by the MSM, for the MSM, with their main goal being, to make the Republicans look bad. And sadly, with this bunch, that's not hard to do.

Of course, there's another benefit for the MSM that most people don't realize. That is, the hundreds-of-millions in extra profits they're making from all the political ads and endless "round table" discussions and interviews on TV, which they, the media, instigate and incite. In the end, it is the media that is controlling (and choreographing ) the election process. It's clear to see why our elected lying crooks have such a close relationship with the media. One can not exist without the other, which IMO, is not good for us.

So, what do i get from all this? I'm starting to get the feeling that we'll have another four years of that skinny, Mooselamb Marxist in the Oval Office which will give him the opportunity to finish destroying the Constitution and the country. But, that's just me...

Why the U.S. credit rating was downgraded

This is very good, and it puts the budget mistakes of the USA and Europe into terms we can
all understand. It rather brilliantly cuts thru all the political doublespeak we get...........

Why the U.S. was downgraded:

* U.S. Tax revenue: $2,170,000,000,000

* Fed budget: $3,820,000,000,000

* New debt: $ 1,650,000,000,000

* National debt: $14,271,000,000,000

* Recent budget cuts: $ 38,500,000,000

Let's now remove 8 zeros and pretend it's a household budget:

* Annual family income: $21,700

* Money the family spent: $38,200

* New debt on the credit card: $16,500

* Outstanding balance on the credit card: $142,710

* Total budget cuts: $385

Got It ?????

OK now Lesson # 2:

Here's another way to look at the Debt Ceiling:

Let's say, you come home from work and find there has been a sewer backup in your neighborhood....and your home has sewage all the way up to your ceilings.

What do you think you should do......

Raise the ceilings, or pump out the crap?

Your choice is coming Nov. 2012

Tip of the hat to Mr Bill Hardee, my septic system guy, for sending that to me.

Schteveo

A Pretty Smart Kid

A student who obtained 0% for his responses, as listed below, on a class exam responded to those questions with what I believe was considerable foresight. It is apparent the exam preparer did not, in my opinion, phrase the questions appropriately as to direct the student to respond with the answer he/she had in mind as the only acceptable one;

Q. In which battle did Napoleon die?
A. His last battle

Q. Where was the Declaration of Independence signed?
A. At the bottom of the page

Q. River Ravi flows in which state?
A. Liquid

Q. What is the main reason for divorce?
A. Marriage

Q. What is the main reason for failure?
A. Exams

Q. What can you never eat for breakfast?
A. Lunch & dinner

Q. What looks like half an apple?
A. The other half

Q. If you throw a red stone into the blue sea what will it become?
A. It will simply become wet

Q. How can a man go eight days without sleeping?
A. No problem, he sleeps at night

Q. How can you lift an elephant with one hand?
A. You will never find an elephant that has only one hand.

Q. If you had three apples and four oranges in one hand and four apples and three oranges in other hand, what would you have?
A. Very large hands

Q. If it took eight men ten hours to build a wall, how long would it take four men to build it?
A. No time at all, the wall is already built

Q. How can you drop a raw egg onto a concrete floor without cracking it?
A. Any way you want, concrete floors are very hard to crack.

What-A-Guy!

While the American people have allowed themselves to be anesthetized by the MSM, Mullah Obummer has made "historic firsts"...

Yes, he's historic, alright.•
First President to Preside Over a Cut to the Credit Rating of the United States Government•

First President to Violate the War Powers Act •

First President to Orchestrate the Sale of Murder Weapons to Mexican Drug Cartels•

First President to issue an unlawful "recess-appointment" while the U.S. Senate remained in session (against the advice of his own Justice Department).•

First President to be Held in Contempt of Court for Illegally Obstructing Oil Drilling in the Gulf of Mexico•

First President to Defy a Federal Judge's Court Order to Cease Implementing the 'Health Care Reform' Law•

First President to halt deportations of illegal aliens and grant them work permits, a form of stealth amnesty roughly equivalent to "The DREAM Act", which could not pass Congress•

First President to Require All Americans to Purchase a Product From a Third Party•

First President to Spend a Trillion Dollars on 'Shovel-Ready' Jobs -- and Later Admit There Was No Such Thing as Shovel-Ready Jobs•

First President to sue states for requiring valid IDs to vote, even though the same administration requires valid IDs to travel by air•

First President to Abrogate Bankruptcy Law to Turn Over Control of Companies to His Union Supporters•

First President to sign into law a bill that permits the government to "hold anyone suspected of being associated with terrorism indefinitely, without any form of due process. No indictment. No judge or jury. No evidence. No trial. Just an indefinite jail sentence."•

First President to Bypass Congress and Implement the DREAM Act Through Executive Fiat•

First President to Threaten Insurance Companies After They Publicly Spoke out on How Obamacare Helped Cause their Rate Increases•

First President to Threaten an Auto Company (Ford) After It Publicly Mocked Bailouts of GM and Chrysler •

First President to "Order a Secret Amnesty Program that Stopped the Deportations of Illegal Immigrants Across the U.S., Including Those With Criminal Convictions"•

First President to Demand a Company Hand Over $20 Billion to One of His Political Appointees•

First President to Terminate America's Ability to Put a Man into Space.•

First President to Encourage Racial Discrimination and Intimidation at Polling Places•

First President to Have a Law Signed By an 'Auto-pen' Without Being "Present"•

First President to Arbitrarily Declare an Existing Law Unconstitutional and Refuse to Enforce It•

First President to Tell a Major Manufacturing Company In Which State They Are Allowed to Locate a Factory•

First President to refuse to comply with a House Oversight Committee subpoena.•

First President to File Lawsuits Against the States He Swore an Oath to Protect (AZ, WI, OH, IN, etc.)•

First President to Withdraw an Existing Coal Permit That Had Been Properly Issued Years Ago•

First President to Fire an Inspector General of Americorps for Catching One of His Friends in a Corruption Case•

First President to Propose an Executive Order Demanding Companies Disclose Their Political Contributions to Bid on Government Contracts•

First President to allow Mexican police to conduct law enforcement activities on American soil•

First President to Golf 90 or More Times in His First Three Years in Office.


Courtesy of Brother Poots...

What's Going On?

I read a very interesting article the other day, one that said, U.S. gun dealers submitted 1.5 Million background checks to the FBI for the month of December, 2011. That's the highest number, by far, since they started keeping these statistics. Of course, my first thought was that Brother Poots had simply gone shopping, but even he can't buy that many. (?) So, what's going on? Do the American people smell something coming? Then this morning, i read the below-linked story which just might explain the surge in gun buys.

IMO, the Department of Homeland Stupidity has become a heavily-armed army, (occupation force? ) one that doesn't seem to answer to anyone except the Marxist-in-Chief himself, and the radical Leftist lesbian he put in charge of it. I don't know about you, but that sounds very Hugo Chavez, Kim Jong Ill, to me, especially when you read the enclosed story. Just what are these people up to? Are seniors and disabled folks now seen as threats? Remember, it was Butch Napilitano who called our returning warriors "possible/potential terrorists".

Depending on what happens in this upcoming election, there are those of us who truly believe only an armed "uprising" will save our country. And IMO, anything short of that and we will become Venezuela North. Hell, we're more than halfway there already...


http://www.infowars.com/dhs-officers-armed-with-semiautomatics-set-up-unannounced-id-checkpoint/

Well, It's About Time!

As i've been saying for a very long time, the only way to fight, and defeat, the Left is to use their tactics against them and play by their rules, which means, no rules at all. Could someone have read my postings? It seems a new group, The Center for American Freedom, plans to do just that. Yes, they are coming late to the game, but if they mean what they say, are tough enough, and understand that political correctness is simply a weapon used by the Left to keep others quiet, it just might have an effect.

The CAF is a group of conservative journalists (didn't know any existed ) and some savvy political types who have decided to launch their own advocacy group just like the Leftists have. We all know about the notorious groups like, the pro-communist Center For American Progress, a group of hard-core, radical Leftists funded by George (the anti-Christ ) Soros. In fact, many of the people working for the Marxist-in-Chief's administration come directly from this Soros-funded bunch. Perhaps now they'll have some competition.

Let's hope the MSM doesn't help steal yet another election in 2012. But if they do, and Mullah Obummer is re-elected, remember, it's OUR fault, not theirs...

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0112/71099.html

Best Christmas present ever

Hey guys,

thought I would share this one with anyone that is interested.

at 8:24 a.m. on Christmas Eve (day) The world was inhabited by the first of the next generation as my Grand daughter entered the world.

As you can see, by New Year's she made a great little nap buddy with grandpa. Mom is doing great, and Grandma is exstatic.