Read this article.

Interesting how they see things, Innit?

Blame everyone and everything except liberals and Democratic policies. 

It’s like reading “Pravda” in the ’70’s and ’80’s.

Over $100 MILLION .

Yep, Chicago had 88 fewer murders last year (415). A good thing, right? Sorta. It was only 20 fewer homicides than occurred in 2011( 435).  The number of homicides in 2012 was 503.

But that took over $100 million dollars in overtime (partially because the City has chosen to reduce their police officers for several years running, but still.

And a significant portion of the “savings” was just changing the definitions of “Homicide” to reduce the numbers.  “Figures lie and Liars figure” and all that….

But even if we take the numbers at face value (a risky proposition) and assume that the extra police presence made a difference (doubtful) then the city had to spend  $1.136 MILLION for each homicide that they (supposedly) reduced in a calendar year.

Worth it? Not to most people. More than 70% of these homicides were drug or gang related.

You’d think that with all the budget and pension issues that the city has, they’d not spend all that money saving lowlifes in the South Side of Chicago.

(not that there is anything but causal evidence that the extra money spend on police presence really made a difference anyway).

What is a human life worth? Depends on the human, doesn’t it? Is it worth over a million dollars to “save” a gang member or drug dealer (but I repeat myself) from being murdered by a rival? I’m not so sure.

Seems like a lot of money for a dubious level of return. 

An even more Beta male than Pyjama Boy.

Only this one was real.

He and his girlfriend just told me how driving in snow in NW Indiana was the “worst, most scariest night of my life”.

No wrecks, no slide offs, nothing. And to be honest, the roads here were slippery, but really not that bad.

A more weaselly cull of  a man I have never met. If this is what civilization is helping to breed, then I don’t want to be civilized anymore.

If this is the future f our country we are doomed.

Oh, and BTW, his name was “Lance”.

“The duty of a Patriot is to protect his Country from his Government.”

Thomas Paine. 

We haven’t been doing a very good job of that, have we?

and I have to ask you, what will you do with it?

Will you continue to be unhappy with the state of affairs in our government? With the way they (the socialists Left are changing our society? With their (continued) damage to our economic system and to our freedoms?


WILL YOU DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT? 

Will you do anything to change the status quo? To hamper the people who would change this (admittedly imperfect)  republic which has served us so well for over 230 years? To reverse the changes that they have begun? To impede their progress towards changing this to a Soviet-style State? 

Will you agitate for changes to return us to what we once were? 

Will you actively work to demonstrate to people outside of your circle of friends and acquaintances the damage that the Left has done to our fair Republic lo these past 6 years? To show them the path to fixing that damage? 

Will you stand up and be counted? Stand and help lead the changes that are so sorely needed? Stand and be a leader to your neighbors and fellow citizens? 

I intend to. Beyond this blog, with it’s 200 or so daily readers…..I intend to agitate to make the changes that we need to our government…Local, State, and especially Federal. I intend to lead my fellow citizens to the light….to show them the alternative way. 

I urge you to do the same. 

Will I make a difference? Perhaps…Perhaps not. Yet I risk little in making the attempt. I doubt that the organs of the State will choose to silence me by arresting me….(but perhaps that means that I am not trying hard enough?). 

I urge you to make the attempt to change things. We got where we are, in part, by letting apathy take hold of us….and the other side simply tried harder. 

USE all means of communication! Internet, meetings, face time, one on one…whatever it takes. set a goal of converting two people every week…..and urge your like minded friends to do the same. 

There are more unhappy people than you might think. Get them to choose to change the state of their unhappiness. Show them the way. Show them how to engender change. Start conversations. Give them a chance to express their unhappiness, then show them a way to make it better. 

This year we have mid-term elections. We CAN change things. Shift the balance of power in our legislative branch. While the GOP is not the best choice, we can support Tea Party folks and change the balance of power, and at least break the power of the Left to affect our lives and change our Republic. 

As I said above, we got here through apathy. Let us change that.  We are losing because we don’t care enough.

I’d much rather use the Soapbox and the Ballot box than the other one.  

May 2014 bring you happiness, prosperity, freedoms, and satisfaction. 

(for which I will no doubt be called (yet again) a racist….so be it)

So there is a lot of talk lately about “white privilege….You know, that supposed advantage that some of us have because we are white (Caucasian), as opposed to brown (Hispanic) or black (Negro) in ancestry.

I guess it is true. Many of the people I see who are successful have been white. However, many other successful people aren’t white.

Some of those people who aren’t white overcame a lot of prejudices to succeed, obstacles that I did not have. But they also didn’t make excuses for their failures, but capitalized on their successes. Some used all of the benefits that a guilty feeling society gave them over whites…”set asides”, “quotas”, low interest loans to start a business, etc. But they succeeded because of who they were. Are there barriers to success if you are a “minority”? Perhaps. There are also positives to that, however…In many cases a “minority” will get preferences that a “white” person will not. But some people, somehow, succeed despite all of the barriers to success, be they white black, or brown.

Most of the successful people did have the same advantage that I had: A family that imbued them with a work ethic, that taught them how to behave in society…..They are polite, respectful of others, they can speak English, they graduated high school….. they didn’t become a parent at 17….They didn’t get arrested for drug possession as a teenager…..they weren’t running with a bad crowd at 16. Didn’t grow up in a culture dominated by thugs-like men and whore-like women as heroes and role models. Learned to see beyond the immediate, and to look to the future and plan for it.

And that, my friends, is where the “white privilege” is….. It is being raised by a decent set of parents…not one who is absent, or in prison…..Knowing who your father is, where he is, and having him as a part of your life….to guide them and to teach them how to be a successful part of society.

Now, I guess that being white helps, as white people tend to have families moreso than blacks and hispanics. For that, you can blame the white liberals in the 60’s and 70’s for deciding that black people (and eventually Hispanics) were unable to take care of themselves, and therefore the State had to do so….even if it meant that in doing so, it would destroy the culture that was, if repressed, quite successful and decent.

And, sadly, having damaged the Black culture and societal structure, and then the Hispanic family structure and society, they have been working at the White society for the past 10 years.  And they are succeeding there as well.

But realize: success is not a black/white/Hispanic thing. It is a culture thing….with its roots based in FAMILY. And PARENTING. Learning t be successful in our society means learning a set of rules of behavior….

There are many people out there, black, white, and hispanic who are never going to be successful because they don’t know how to succeed and likely never will learn…their families never taught them how to. There are many others whose FAMILY has taught/is teaching them to succeed, at least in some measure, because they have class, and a culture of success, not of blaming others for their failure. But the first group will fail to succeed… Because our government and the liberal do-gooders taught their parents (or grandparents) it was easier to let the State feed and clothe and house you, and in doing so destroy the societal structure that enables success, so there is no culture of success to pass to their children. They don’t know how!

Standing in line to register guns that are “bad” because of cosmetic features. 

Not yet banned, but “we need to know where they are” so that they won’t be used to ….?

Lining up to tell the State which houses to come to when confiscation (inevitably) happens.

Me? I’d bury ’em until I could move out of state. Or give them to an out of state friend for safekeeping until I could move.

I’d not stand in line to make myself a target of State investigations…

Sheeple.

If you don’t, then think of this:

Chase customers who shopped at Target had their accounts limited  to $100 cash withdrawals from ATM’s and $300 purchases until they went to a Chase location and got new cards issued to them.

Now, to begin with, if you use  a debit card that is linked to your main checking account for daily purchases then you are an idiot. Better to either use a secondary account for debit card purchases and transfer money into that account when needed, or better yet, use credit cards for purchases and pay the bills monthly. Ideally, you should have more than one credit card. If someone gets your credit card account number and maxes out your card, at worst you use another form of payment until the card is re-issued and your account is credited. Not so if they get your ATM card information and cleans out your checking account…..Yeah, you’ll get your money back eventually (maybe), but it will take a while, and what do you purchase gas for your car and food for your family with in the meantime? What do you pay your mortgage payment (or rent) with while the system works it’s way to getting you your money back?

And you should have a stash of cash available for times when you cannot access your account. At least two weeks worth of normal spending…. because, at a whim, the banks or the feds can cut your account off….Credit cards too.

Think I am kidding? Chase did it to their customers with no notice when they limited folks after the Target data breach. At a whim, they changed the rules, limiting the amount of money…money OWNED BY THEIR DEPOSITORS…that could be spent until new cards could be issued.

Now, I understand that Chase had to make a hard decision here. Their potential liability was HUGE. Someone got into Target’s computers and had card numbers, magnetic stripe info, and PIN numbers….info that could allow them to duplicate cards and make “legitimate” withdrawals and purchases….money that Chase would eventually have to replace when it was proven that those were  fraudulent purchases. I don’t blame them for making the decision that they did.

But what if the Feds chose to do that? Or if Chase (or YOUR) financial institution chose to cut you off entirely?

They can do that, you know. All it takes is a judge’s signature…or a vindictive IRS agent. Or a bank that is in financial trouble.

Have a stash. And use credit cards rather than debit cards. Or at least use a card that isn’t linked to your main checking account.

Me, I use credit cards. Easier and more convenient.  And I have a stash as part of my SHTF plan.

You should too.

Go read this article. Apparently the author is from some semi-parallel universe.

Take the time to red the comments. about 1/3 of the commenters only know the talking points put out by the DNC folks denigrating the Tea Party. Some of them think that it is a right for the “Government” to take from the “rich” and transfer that wealth to the poor. That people have a right to health care and to free shit especially if they are black or brown….and it is ok to take that from others who have worked for it.

It would seem that there are two versions of reality at play here….the one that I see, wherein the Tea Party folks care mostly about the spiraling increases in the deficit and want to see that cut back, and the other viewpoint, which is that we must give people whatever they cry for at someone else’s expense.

The fact that some people protest increased government growth (and spending) must make us racist because that spending is apparently primarily given to black and brown people (which I doubt).

The point is that I am somewhat scared not only because the author is apparently living in a somewhat distorted view of what I see as reality but also because more than 1/3 of the commenters seem to see the world in much the same way as she does.

Scary