Memorial Day

On this Memorial Day we need to reflect on the Americans who have fallen in order to protect our country and our way of life. Go out of your way to thank an active duty service member or veteran, they have stood on the line between our reletively safe lives and the anarchy of a savage world. May God bless the USA and her citizens and her citizen soldiers.

Play On Words...

Usually when looking for something on the Internet, something I am not looking for finds me, for example: A new patient dressed only in saran wrap enters the psychiatrist's office, the doctor looks up and says: "I can clearly see, you're nuts." Some days....

The American Police State

Like it or not the USA is rapidly becoming a police state to rival the old Soviet empire. With the US courts eliminating our Fourth Amendment rights, constant video taping, and police killing citizens we are looking more like one of the 'banana republics' we so like to make fun of. The 10th Circuit Court has issued over 200 'sneak and peek' search warrants, which enable law enforcement to enter your home or business, search through your belongings, and not inform you that the search ever happened, much less what they were searching for, this clearly violates the letter and spirit of the 4th Amendment. And in Indiana the courts were more blatant: Read this, from Indiana Supreme Court Justice Steven David: “A right to resist an unlawful police entry into a home is against public policy and is incompatible with modern Fourth Amendment jurisprudence. We also find that allowing resistance unnecessarily escalates the level of violence and therefore the risk of injuries to all parties involved without preventing the arrest.”

As one of the two dissenting judges wrote, the ruling “sweeps with far too broad a brush by essentially telling Indiana citizens that government agents may now enter their homes illegally – that is, without the necessity of a warrant, consent or exigent circumstances.”

And it gets worse:FEMA is preparing a list of farms and what they produce so that in 'case of emergency' they know where to come to confiscate (government jargon for stealing) the farmers crops.
Local police are regularly killing honest citizens: Detroit police shot and killed a seven-year-old girl during an early morning raid of a home on the city’s east side Sunday morning. The child, Aiyana Stanley Jones, was struck in the head and neck area while sleeping on a couch at the home on Lillibridge Street.

"Vanessa Guerena thought the gunman might be part of a home invasion -- especially because two members of her sister-in-law's family, Cynthia and Manny Orozco, were killed last year in their Tucson home, her lawyer, Chris Scileppi, said. She shouted for her husband in the next room, and he woke up and told his wife to hide in the closet with the child, Joel, 4.
SWAT officers fired at least 71 shots at suspect Jose Guerena, a former U.S. Marine, and a family struggles to put the pieces together. Guerena grabbed his assault rifle and was pointing it at the SWAT team, which was trying to serve a narcotics search warrant as part of a multi-house drug crackdown, when the team broke down the door. At first the Pima County Sheriff's Office said that Guerena fired first, but on Wednesday officials backtracked and said he had not. "The safety was on and he could not fire," according to the sheriff's statement."

DeAuntae Farrow, 12, who was shot twice by a West Memphis police officer just over a week ago was laid to rest over the weekend. The accused officer said Farrow was playing with a toy gun, which he mistook as real.

When Tony Arambula managed to corner an armed intruder in his son's bedroom he expected police to come to his aid.

Instead, a Phoenix police officer confused Arambula for the intruder and shot him six times before realizing his mistake, a moment captured on the 911 call with a simple "F**k."

Even after realizing their mistake, Arambula said he was treated roughly, being dragged out of the house and transported briefly on the hood of a police car.

Now Arambula, 35, who survived but faces a lifetime of pain, is suing the city of Phoenix and the officers who responded to his house that night.

The lawsuit, filed in Maricopa County Court, alleges that Phoenix Police Officer Brian Lilly and his on-scene supervisor, Sgt. Sean Coutts, quickly conspired to cover up the mistake, not realizing that 911 was still recording Arambula's call for help.

We the people have to know what is going on and hold the government accountable. We have to be responsible for governing ourselves, as our founders intended, or we will return to the tyranny our founders fought against. Now is the time for ballots, not bullets; for reason, not action; for preperation for when the wolves vote on what is for dinner.

Obama Tells Israel to Return to Pre-1967 War Borders

Isn't that fascinating? History repeating itself, yet again. I am reminded of Chamberlain telling Czechoslovakia that they had to surrender the Sudetenland to Hitler to insure "Peace in our Time". We saw how well that worked out. Now Obama wants Israel to surrender all lands they gained when the Arabs attacked them in the various wars since 1967. Why would a US president want to undermine Israel in such a way? Why would any national leader want to undermine a key ally of so many years? I am assuming that since Obama's speech in Texas, USA, that he would want the US to return to the borders we had with Mexico in 1846. The last two speeches of the 'President' would encourage the extremists of the middle east to intensify their attacks on Israel and would encourage the criminal cartels running Mexico to increase their illegal smuggling of drugs and people (513 illegals caught in two tractor trailer trucks bound for the US). Both situations are bad for the US and its honest citizens and this US government seems to be dead set on undermining our allies and our country. Obama, born to spread the misery.

Bad Politicians on Both Sides of Border

Get ready, Cinco de Mayo is coming and all the usual suspects will be out praising the illegals here in the USA. One thing that the USA and Mexico has in common is that both have bone headed politicians, for example, Mexican opposition senators are proposing legislation to ... fight drug cartels? No....to introduce a bill of rights for their people? No.... try to draw more industry to their impoverished nation? No.....The legislation they are proposing is to ban bullfighting.... With all the critical issues facing Mexico, these animal rights wackos are concerned with bullfighting. Sounds like some of our loopy legislation, doesn't it? Maybe they are counting on Obama to grant amnesty to all illegals in exchange for voting democrat and the entire population will go north so they can be left to love their bulls in private. Who knows, sounds like San Francisco to me. But seriously, make sure you fly the flag of the USA on May 5, 2011, here, in the USA.

Example of Obama's Financial Mismanagement

Dismissing concerns over possible links between Libyan rebels and al Qaeda, the Obama administration has notified Congress it is providing $25 million in nonlethal aid to the rebels’ effort to drive Col. Moammar Gadhafi’s regime from power.

First, it is the congress which appropriates and distributes funds, according to the Constitution, not the president.
Second, Obama's own "intelligence" services indicate that al Qaeda is highly involved with Libyan rebels.
Third, we cannot afford to give any money to any foreign group, period.
I know that the US governments at all levels waste huge amounts of taxpayer money, which reinforces the fact that we cannot afford to give money to any one overseas. I mean, get real, Workforce Central Florida spent more than $14,000 on the red capes as part of its "Cape-A-Bility Challenge" public relations campaign. The campaign featured a cartoon character, "Dr. Evil Unemployment," who needs to be vanquished. Is that not ridiculous? And that is just one example, this goes on all over the country, and no one is held responsible, and with the president being so willing to give away hard earned tax dollars, what deters other government officials from wasting money? Especially since 45% of US households do not pay any federal income tax. As one of the tax payers, I say it is past time to call in our elected officials and cut their budgets back. Cut their salaries, cut their benefits, eliminate their travel expenses, for example, Al Kamen reported Tuesday, April 19:
"If it’s Passover, it must be Hong Kong. If it’s Easter, it must be Beijing. If it’s spring break, it must be a week-long jaunt by a large Senate delegation to China, led by Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.).Ten senators, coming off a tough legislative session, plus spouses, staffers and military escorts, landed in the Middle Kingdom on Monday to begin a fine tour to Hong Kong, Chengdu, Xian and Beijing. The Senate news release calls it an “informational trip throughout China,” which Loop Fans know is a tip-off that this is going to be an excellent time." This is all done at taxpayer expense. We have to get control of our free spending elected officials and take away the charge card. Let's start with Obama and keep him from giving away tax dollars to people overseas.

Contact BATFE About Import Shotgun Ban

This is copied from the NRA-ILA:
Friday, April 08, 2011

As we reported on Jan. 28, May 1 is the deadline for public comments concerning a shotgun importation ban that has been proposed by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives. A working group within the BATFE has recommended that any shotgun (semi-automatic, pump-action or any other) that has any one of 10 specific features should be banned from importation, on the grounds that such shotguns are not “generally recognized as particularly suitable for a readily adaptable to sporting purposes.”


The features in question are a folding, telescoping, or collapsible stock; a magazine of over five rounds or a drum magazine; a flash suppressor or a muzzle brake that also suppresses flash; an integrated rail system other than on top of the receiver or barrel; a light enhancing device; a forward pistol grip or similar protruding part; an “excessive” weight of over 10 pounds; an “excessive bulk” of over three inches width and/or over four inches depth; a bayonet lug; or “a grenade-launcher mount.”

The working group considers “sporting purposes” to be limited to hunting, skeet, trap and sporting clays, but not to include practical shotgun matches or recreational target shooting. To have considered practical matches, the working group said, could have led to conclusions that would undercut the BATFE’s 1989 and 1998 bans on the importation of semi-automatic rifles, and its 1993 ban on the importation of various semi-automatic pistols. The working group also indicated a reluctance to accept practical matches because they test defensive firearm skills, which the working group believes are of military and police orientation.


Since the law conditions a firearm’s ability to be imported on whether it is “generally recognized” as meeting the law’s sporting purpose test, it is important that the BATFE hear from members of the general public. Particularly relevant will be the comments of people who use shotguns equipped with one or more of the features for hunting or any form of competitive or recreational target shooting, and people who adapt such shotguns to a sporting purpose by simple modifications, such as attaching or removing a flashlight, attaching or removing a forward grip, or installing or removing a magazine extension or magazine plug.


Comments to the BATFE may be submitted by e-mail to shotgunstudy@atf.gov, or by fax to (202) 648-9601, and must be received by May 1, 2011. Faxed comments may not exceed 5 pages. All comments must include name and mailing address.
If you believe in the Second Amendment and that the government, especially the BATFE, is out of control, send your comments, politely and factually, to the email address in the article. Thanks!