Then you likely fit the criteria to be a potential terrorist.

Jesus H. Tapdancin’ Christ. Can’t they do any better than that?

Fully half of the country trips 3 or more of the indicators.

I must make their indicator light up like a pinball machine. Or a Vegas sign. 

Y’know, I am tired of people referring to this holiday as the “4th of July”….That is, indeed, the date….It is Independence Day, you friggin’ morons! Do you wish someone a “Merry Dec 25th”?

But the holiday, the event that we are supposed to remember, the significance of the date, is that of the Declaration of Independence. That is the date where the leaders of the fledgling country which would one day become the United States as we know it chose to sign the Declaration and declare themselves no longer the subjects of the King. The date wherein they pledged their “Lives, Fortunes, and Sacred Honor.” The day that they basically told the king to stick it up his ass, as they were no longer subject to his authority or his laws.

This isn’t a day for fireworks, nor one for barbecues, or 5K footraces, nor special sales at the outlet mall, nor just a paid day off (or double time or whatever for those who have to work). This is a day commemorating the courage, strength and just plain guts of those folks who Declared their INDEPENDENCE from any other authority.

I’d like to force every person in this country to take the time to READ the full text of the declaration. Force them to understand the reasons that the people decided to remove themselves from the authority of the king of England and his rules, laws and taxes. But  can’t and won’t. If they choose to do so, then they can. Most won’t. Most don’t care.

However, I wonder what the signers of the declaration would think of us today. Would they spit upon us for allowing our government to do the very things which made them decide to throw off the yoke of oppression which the King had placed upon them? I think they would indeed find us lacking and make their displeasure known in such a manner.

Here are some of the things which they point out in the Declaration:

HE has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public Good.
HE has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.

FOR imposing Taxes on us without our Consent

Read the whole list of complaints.


How many are applicable to the government we have today? Both the President and Congress?


I’m not calling for another revolution, but I wouldn’t necessarily be disappointed if there was one, either.


But take the time today, in between your barbecue, and your parade and your fireworks, and your trip to the mall. Take just 5 minutes and think about what this day really is for, what all the celebrations are actually celebrating. Take the time to thank those folks who had the balls to stand up to a king, and pledge their lives, fortunes and honor. Some actually gave their lives and their fortunes to the cause. 


Now go enjoy your day off. 

On Independence Day, to suggest this as an appropriate place for you to send any spare money you have lying around.

Holsters for Heroes seems like a worthwhile cause.

Sponsor a holster for a serving soldier or Marine. I am.

I think it is a Good Thing. Let ’em know that we care.

I can tell you that Michael makes excellent holsters. He has made 3 for me, and 1 for MC (and an awesome knife sheath/holster for her as well.). He’ll likely make more for us too, as the need arises.

In fact, I am evaluating the (slightly customized) Clipper holster he made for me. (Currently breaking it in before doing a review) right now…..If I could convince him to take the time (he’s like really overloaded with orders right now) I’d have him make me a custom recoil pad for the Sharps.

So, seriously, support yer troops.

Just a thought.

It is said that Alcohol solves no problems.

However:

I have noticed that neither does Water.

The final destruction of the America we once knew.

Even immigrants. Ya gotta feel sorry for him. He came here, and then the rules changed. It isn’t the country he adopted any more than it is the country I was born to and learned to love.

Next stop, Europe. with a dash of the USSR.

Why do we let them destroy our Constitution? It is, really the only thing that separates the US from the rest of the world.  Others have armies, some as dedicated as ours. Others have wealth, and productive citizens, same as us.

But no others have that document.

Soon we won’t either.

If you have to choose between evils…

Choose the one you haven’t tried before.

Where any of this is wrong?

’cause I fear that it isn’t.

What happened to the republic that I was taught about in school?

Yeah, I know that it has been slowly eroding, chiseled away bit by bit by the liberals and the “Progressives”. Probably has been that way since well before I was born.

But the country in which I was raised, which I came to believe so strongly for, which allowed me to take pride in the title “U.S. Citizen” has, in not so many years, disappeared. Roadblocks for hard working people, disincentives for folks to make money (and, generally not coincidentally, jobs for others).  Fewer and fewer taxpaying citizens, more illegal immigrants and a whole lot more folks leeching off the rest of society….encouraged to do so by the same government which forcibly takes from the productive and gives to the non productive.

Now this. The outlandish ruling by the Supreme Court. That (once highly held, but no longer) bastion of “Right” and constitutionality. A ruling which gives great power to the federal (and eventually state and local) government. A ruling which upholds their power to coerce you to purchase goods and services and penalize you with a “tax” when you choose not to.

I would never advocate violence against those Justices. But I wouldn’t be surprised if they should see some. They have turned traitor to their oaths. They have perverted their office. They have damaged the Constitution which they swore to uphold.

I truly know not what to do. Where to turn. Where to go. The liberals and Progressives appear to have won.  What choice the US or Europe? Without the laws and rules and limits placed on government by the Constitution, what separates this country from all the rest?

Even if we legislatively get rid of the mismash called “Obamacare” the precedent is set. It will be used against the productive and free citizens of this country again. The Supreme Court ruling will stand forever and another chunk of the greatness of this country, chipped away, leaving the foundation damaged and the rest tottering will be the legacy.

I fear for my country, I fear for the countrymen who made this country the greatest and most productive in the world. I fear for the productive citizens who work hard today, but, like me, see no future. See no hope. See nowhere else to go. Nowhere to run to, to escape to. Nowhere to get away from those who would tear down rather than build up, who would take from those who do and give to those who don’t. Who would damage their country in doing so.

Sometimes I wish that our fathers, grandfathers and great-grandfathers would have shot each socialist as they entered the country and burned the bodies in a great big pile weekly, instead of leaving us to deal with the festering pestilence that they have spread across this country.

You knew the media would try to put a good better face on the Fast and Furious debacle. Fortune magazine tried. 

And here is another example.

Can you spot the lies mistakes in the article?

The half-truths?

The misrepresentations?

No impartiality here.

If we could hook this spin to a generator, we’d be able to power most of Wichita.