You never know what you've got until it's gone. Just ask the people of Australia or England that are no longer able to bear arms. They will be the first to tell Americans to Stop this before it goes any further. Our founding fathers knew the importance and freedom that our arms allowed. Before we allowed our government to begin stripping us of our rights, with all of the registration and limitations placed on gun ownership, we were a safer country. I am blessed to live in Texas where our leaders in Austin are starting to "get it" and slowly are restoring our gun rights. We have along way to go to change the perception of gun owners and educate people on the importance of preserving our second Amendment rights. One place to start is by understanding how the government is trying to undermine our rights, right under our nose. Here is a great example. It has been halted for now but it will be back as long as this administration is in office so please use this time to read, research, take a firearm training "comfort of skill at arms", become part of the solution to restore our constitutional rights. We need you.
WEAPONS OF CHOICE Military demands details on soldiers' private guns Fort Campbell command reversed under pressure Posted: March 21, 200912:15 am Eastern
By Bob Unruh© 2009 WorldNetDaily
A military commander at Fort Campbell in Kentucky demanded his soldiers give him the registration numbers of any guns they own privately and then reveal where they are stored.
The order was stopped, according to base officials, when it was discovered the commander was not "acting within his authority." The original order was issued on the letterhead of Charlie Company, 3rd Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment and said effective March 11, any soldier with a "privately owned weapon" was required to submit the information, along with any information about any concealed carry permit the soldier may have, and what state issued the permit.
Further, the rule warned, "If any soldier comes into possession of a Privately Owned Weapon following the effective date of this memorandum, he is required to inform the Chain of Command of the above information." One soldier who objected to the demands circulated the memo, commenting that he lives off post. "It just seems a little coincidental to me that within 90 days the most anti-firearm president in history is inaugurated, some of the nastiest anti-firearm laws are put on the table in Washington, and then the Army comes around wanting what amounts to a registration on all firearms, even if they are off post, and doesn't provide any reason or purpose as to why," the soldier said. Base spokeswoman Cathy Gramling told WND the letter apparently was a mistake. She said the base requires anyone bringing a privately owned weapon onto the installation to register it. " As a response to a number of negligent discharges of privately owned weapons, the command decided to explore how to implement a training program for soldiers with privately owned weapons. Their goal is to identify soldiers with firearms and provide additional safety training to them, much like our motorcycle and driver safety classes," she said.
"Our soldiers train and operate in combat with M-4 carbines and various other military weapons, but not all who purchase their own weapons are properly trained to handle them. Determining which soldiers possess weapons will allow the command to identify the soldiers who may require additional training on them," she said. Learn here why it's your right – and duty – to be armed.
Gramling said the memo was "from a subordinate unit commander who, at the time, believed he was acting within his authority." She said requiring the information was halted when it was discovered the commander was not within his authority. The process has been suspended pending a full review, she said. "This is not an effort to infringe on soldiers' rights to own firearms," Gramling told WND. Mistake or not, the commander's order comes on the heels of a Department of Defense policy that limited the supply of ammunition available to the private gun owners by requiring destruction of fired military cartridge brass. That policy already had been implemented and had taken a bite out of the nation's stressed ammunition supply before it was reversed this week. Mark Cunningham, a legislative affairs representative with the Defense Logistics Agency, explained in an e-mail to the office of Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., that the Department of Defense had placed small arms cartridge cases on its list of sensitive munitions items as part of an overall effort to ensure national security is not jeopardized in the sale of any Defense property. "Upon review, the Defense Logistics Agency has determined the cartridge cases could be appropriately placed in a category of government property allowing for their release for sale," Cunningham wrote.
Monday, March 30, 2009
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
What's all the Fuss?
What's all the fuss? It appears that the D.C. crowd is unhappy about AIG giving out employee bonuses. I don't know why they are making such an issue of it when it was totally within their ability to monitor the spending plan and set ground rules before they handed over billions of our dollars to an inept company. If AIG was so badly run then why would you give them our money in the first place? Hey Washington, don't bother with your shock and dismay, it doesn't play well. As a matter of fact, from an internal memo issued today, it stated that the bonus issue had been disclosed all along. Besides, these bonus are less the 1% of the bail out so why is this any different from those spending bill earmarks that Obama doesn't want us to fret over? This is just another reason why we need to let these business go under and let the market work. We really need to start taking responsibility for our actions.
I don't know why it is so difficult for people to simply say "Gee, I messed up and now I have to fix this" we would rather poke fingers and blame the other guy. Reminds me of those credit service commercials, you know, the ones that tell you that it isn't your fault your in credit card debt and don't pay.... negotiate so part of your balance will be forgiven. That is just stupid thinking. I dont mean to sound harsh her but YES it is your fault you have credit issues. Nothing is free and why should a company that did business with you in good faith, suddenly have to renegotiate or forgive (write off) some of your obligations? Now I am sympathetic to some and I do understand that things happen in life that are sad and/or unexpected but that doesn't give us the right to lay our responsibilities off on someone else. Everything works out but we have to" own it" so we can take action to change it.
This is true for you and me as well as groups like D.C. and AIG. Hey it's just another day in America.
I don't know why it is so difficult for people to simply say "Gee, I messed up and now I have to fix this" we would rather poke fingers and blame the other guy. Reminds me of those credit service commercials, you know, the ones that tell you that it isn't your fault your in credit card debt and don't pay.... negotiate so part of your balance will be forgiven. That is just stupid thinking. I dont mean to sound harsh her but YES it is your fault you have credit issues. Nothing is free and why should a company that did business with you in good faith, suddenly have to renegotiate or forgive (write off) some of your obligations? Now I am sympathetic to some and I do understand that things happen in life that are sad and/or unexpected but that doesn't give us the right to lay our responsibilities off on someone else. Everything works out but we have to" own it" so we can take action to change it.
This is true for you and me as well as groups like D.C. and AIG. Hey it's just another day in America.
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
I recieved this in an email today and thought it was just too on the mark, not to share.
Marjy
Pam Geller, an educated, articulate, and patriotic American says here what so many of us feel in our heart but do not have her gift of communication to express. I appeal to you to read her words and add your strength and commitment to those of us who are resisting this disasterous turn of events in the new direction being taken by our government. Those who do not study history are doomed to repeat it. . . . . . . ETSPay special attention to the last six paragraphs and remember that the three pillars of Fascism are total control of the economy by a tightly centralized government with suppression of all opposition. --Boyd "Something of Historic Proportion is Happening" by Pam GellerI am a student of history. Professionally. I have written 15 books in six languages, and have studied [History] all my life. I think there is something monumentally large afoot, and I do not believe it is just a banking crisis, or a mortgage crisis, or a credit crisis. Yes, these exist, but, they are merely single facets on a very large gemstone that is only now coming into a sharper focus. Something of historic proportions is happening. I can sense it because I know how it feels, smells, what it looks like, and how people react to it. Yes, a perfect storm maybe brewing, but there is something happening within our country that has been evolving for about 10 - 15 years. The pace has dramatically quickened in the past two. We demand and then codify into law the requirement that our banks make massive loans to people whom we know can never pay back? Why? We learn just days ago that the Federal Reserve, which has little or no real oversight by anyone, has "loaned" two trillion dollars (that is $2,000,000,000,000) over the past few months, but will not tell us to whom or why or disclose the terms. That is our money. Yours and mine. And that is three times the $700B we all argued about so strenuously just this past September.Who has this money? Why do they have it? Why are the terms unavailable to us? Who asked for it? Who authorized it? I thought this was a government of "We the People," who loaned our powers to our elected leaders. Apparently not. We have spent two or more decades intentionally de-industrializing our economy. Why? We have intentionally dumbed down our schools, ignored our history, and no longer teach our founding documents, why we are exceptional, and why we are worth preserving.. Students by and large cannot write, think critically, read, or articulate.. Parents are not revolting, teachers are not picketing, and school boards continue to back mediocrity. Why? We have now established the precedent of protesting every close election (now violently in California over a proposition that is so controversial that it wants marriage to remain between one man and one woman. Did you ever think such a thing possible just a decade ago?). We have corrupted our sacred political process by allowing unelected judges to write laws that radically change our way of life, and then mainstream Marxist groups like ACORN and others to turn our voting system into a banana republic. To what purpose? Now our mortgage industry is collapsing, housing prices are in free fall, major industries are failing, our banking system is on the verge of collapse, Social Security is nearly bankrupt, as is Medicare and our entire government. Our education system is worse than a joke (I teach college and know precisely what I am talking about.) The list is staggering in its length, breadth, and depth. It is potentially 1929 x 10. And we are at war with an enemy we cannot name for fear of offending people of the same religion who cannot wait to slit the throats of your children if they have the opportunity to do so. And now we have elected a man no one knows anything about, who has never run so much as a Dairy Queen, let alone a town as big as Wasilla, Alaska . All of his associations and alliances are with real radicals in their chosen fields of employment, and everything we learn about him, drip by drip, is unsettling if not downright scary (surely you have heard him speak about his idea to create and fund a mandatory civilian defense force stronger than our military for use inside our borders? No? Oh, of course. The media would never play that for you over and over and then demand he answer it. Sarah Palin's pregnant daughter and $150,000 wardrobe is more important.) Mr. Obama's winning platform can be boiled down to one word: Change. Why? I have never been so afraid for my country and for my children as I am now. This man campaigned on bringing people together, something he has never, ever done in his professional life. In my assessment, Obama will divide us along philosophical lines, push us apart, and then try to realign the pieces into a new and different power structure. Change is indeed coming. And when it comes, you will never see the same nation again. And that is only the beginning. I thought I would never be able to experience what the ordinary, moral German felt in the mid-1930s. In those times, the savior was a former smooth-talking rabble-rouser from the streets, about whom the average German knew next to nothing. What they did know was that he was associated with groups that shouted, shoved, and pushed around people with whom they disagreed; he edged his way onto the political stage through great oratory and promises. Economic times were tough, people were losing jobs, and he was a great speaker. And he smiled and waved a lot. And people, even newspapers, were afraid to speak out for fear that his "brown shirts" would bully them into submission. And then he was duly elected to office, with a full-throttled economic crisis at hand [the Great Depression]. Slowly but surely he seized the controls of government power, department by department, person by person, bureaucracy by bureaucracy. The kids joined a Youth Movement in his name, where they were taught what to think. How did he get the people on his side? He did it promising jobs to the jobless, money to the moneyless, and goodies for the military-industrial complex. He did it by indoctrinating the children, advocating gun control, health care for all, better wages, better jobs, and promising to re-instill pride once again in the country, across Europe and across the world. He did it with a compliant media - Did you know that? And he did this all in the name of justice and.... change. And the people surely got what they voted for. (Look it up if you think I am exaggerating.) Read your history books. Many people objected in 1933 and were shouted down, called names, laughed at, and made fun of. When Winston Churchill pointed out the obvious in the late 1930s while seated in the House of Lords in England (he was not yet Prime Minister), he was booed into his seat and called a crazy troublemaker. He was right, though. Don't forget that Germany was the most educated, cultured country in Europe. It was full of music, art, museums, hospitals, laboratories, and universities. And in less than six years - a shorter time span than just two terms of the U. S. presidency - it was rounding up its own citizens, killing others, abrogating its laws, turning children against parents, and neighbors against neighbors. All with the best of intentions, of course. The road to Hell is paved with them. As a practical thinker, one not overly prone to emotional decisions, I have a choice: I can either believe what the objective pieces of evidence tell me (even if they make me cringe with disgust); I can believe what history is shouting to me from across the chasm of seven decades; or I can hope I am wrong, close my eyes, have another latte and ignore what is transpiring around me. Some people scoff at me; others laugh or think I am foolish, naive, or both. Perhaps I am. But I have never been afraid to look people in the eye and tell them exactly what I believe - and why I believe it. I pray I am wrong. I do not think I am.Pamela "Atlas" Geller ________________________________________
Marjy
Pam Geller, an educated, articulate, and patriotic American says here what so many of us feel in our heart but do not have her gift of communication to express. I appeal to you to read her words and add your strength and commitment to those of us who are resisting this disasterous turn of events in the new direction being taken by our government. Those who do not study history are doomed to repeat it. . . . . . . ETSPay special attention to the last six paragraphs and remember that the three pillars of Fascism are total control of the economy by a tightly centralized government with suppression of all opposition. --Boyd "Something of Historic Proportion is Happening" by Pam GellerI am a student of history. Professionally. I have written 15 books in six languages, and have studied [History] all my life. I think there is something monumentally large afoot, and I do not believe it is just a banking crisis, or a mortgage crisis, or a credit crisis. Yes, these exist, but, they are merely single facets on a very large gemstone that is only now coming into a sharper focus. Something of historic proportions is happening. I can sense it because I know how it feels, smells, what it looks like, and how people react to it. Yes, a perfect storm maybe brewing, but there is something happening within our country that has been evolving for about 10 - 15 years. The pace has dramatically quickened in the past two. We demand and then codify into law the requirement that our banks make massive loans to people whom we know can never pay back? Why? We learn just days ago that the Federal Reserve, which has little or no real oversight by anyone, has "loaned" two trillion dollars (that is $2,000,000,000,000) over the past few months, but will not tell us to whom or why or disclose the terms. That is our money. Yours and mine. And that is three times the $700B we all argued about so strenuously just this past September.Who has this money? Why do they have it? Why are the terms unavailable to us? Who asked for it? Who authorized it? I thought this was a government of "We the People," who loaned our powers to our elected leaders. Apparently not. We have spent two or more decades intentionally de-industrializing our economy. Why? We have intentionally dumbed down our schools, ignored our history, and no longer teach our founding documents, why we are exceptional, and why we are worth preserving.. Students by and large cannot write, think critically, read, or articulate.. Parents are not revolting, teachers are not picketing, and school boards continue to back mediocrity. Why? We have now established the precedent of protesting every close election (now violently in California over a proposition that is so controversial that it wants marriage to remain between one man and one woman. Did you ever think such a thing possible just a decade ago?). We have corrupted our sacred political process by allowing unelected judges to write laws that radically change our way of life, and then mainstream Marxist groups like ACORN and others to turn our voting system into a banana republic. To what purpose? Now our mortgage industry is collapsing, housing prices are in free fall, major industries are failing, our banking system is on the verge of collapse, Social Security is nearly bankrupt, as is Medicare and our entire government. Our education system is worse than a joke (I teach college and know precisely what I am talking about.) The list is staggering in its length, breadth, and depth. It is potentially 1929 x 10. And we are at war with an enemy we cannot name for fear of offending people of the same religion who cannot wait to slit the throats of your children if they have the opportunity to do so. And now we have elected a man no one knows anything about, who has never run so much as a Dairy Queen, let alone a town as big as Wasilla, Alaska . All of his associations and alliances are with real radicals in their chosen fields of employment, and everything we learn about him, drip by drip, is unsettling if not downright scary (surely you have heard him speak about his idea to create and fund a mandatory civilian defense force stronger than our military for use inside our borders? No? Oh, of course. The media would never play that for you over and over and then demand he answer it. Sarah Palin's pregnant daughter and $150,000 wardrobe is more important.) Mr. Obama's winning platform can be boiled down to one word: Change. Why? I have never been so afraid for my country and for my children as I am now. This man campaigned on bringing people together, something he has never, ever done in his professional life. In my assessment, Obama will divide us along philosophical lines, push us apart, and then try to realign the pieces into a new and different power structure. Change is indeed coming. And when it comes, you will never see the same nation again. And that is only the beginning. I thought I would never be able to experience what the ordinary, moral German felt in the mid-1930s. In those times, the savior was a former smooth-talking rabble-rouser from the streets, about whom the average German knew next to nothing. What they did know was that he was associated with groups that shouted, shoved, and pushed around people with whom they disagreed; he edged his way onto the political stage through great oratory and promises. Economic times were tough, people were losing jobs, and he was a great speaker. And he smiled and waved a lot. And people, even newspapers, were afraid to speak out for fear that his "brown shirts" would bully them into submission. And then he was duly elected to office, with a full-throttled economic crisis at hand [the Great Depression]. Slowly but surely he seized the controls of government power, department by department, person by person, bureaucracy by bureaucracy. The kids joined a Youth Movement in his name, where they were taught what to think. How did he get the people on his side? He did it promising jobs to the jobless, money to the moneyless, and goodies for the military-industrial complex. He did it by indoctrinating the children, advocating gun control, health care for all, better wages, better jobs, and promising to re-instill pride once again in the country, across Europe and across the world. He did it with a compliant media - Did you know that? And he did this all in the name of justice and.... change. And the people surely got what they voted for. (Look it up if you think I am exaggerating.) Read your history books. Many people objected in 1933 and were shouted down, called names, laughed at, and made fun of. When Winston Churchill pointed out the obvious in the late 1930s while seated in the House of Lords in England (he was not yet Prime Minister), he was booed into his seat and called a crazy troublemaker. He was right, though. Don't forget that Germany was the most educated, cultured country in Europe. It was full of music, art, museums, hospitals, laboratories, and universities. And in less than six years - a shorter time span than just two terms of the U. S. presidency - it was rounding up its own citizens, killing others, abrogating its laws, turning children against parents, and neighbors against neighbors. All with the best of intentions, of course. The road to Hell is paved with them. As a practical thinker, one not overly prone to emotional decisions, I have a choice: I can either believe what the objective pieces of evidence tell me (even if they make me cringe with disgust); I can believe what history is shouting to me from across the chasm of seven decades; or I can hope I am wrong, close my eyes, have another latte and ignore what is transpiring around me. Some people scoff at me; others laugh or think I am foolish, naive, or both. Perhaps I am. But I have never been afraid to look people in the eye and tell them exactly what I believe - and why I believe it. I pray I am wrong. I do not think I am.Pamela "Atlas" Geller ________________________________________
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
No safety net here. FDIC going broke too.
Now that you have run for safety in FDIC insured banks, it appears we are not safe at all. In fact the FDIC announced today that they are in danger of being insolvent by the end of the year is they are not able to assess emergency fees on to the banks. So what does this really mean. Well, if you have $100,000 in a FDIC insured account then the bank is paying .06 per $100 to carry the insurance on that account. The new fees would take that .06 to just over .20. The amount collected for last year was 3 billion. With the new assessment, the banks will need to cough up 27 billion to replenish this fund. The FDIC reports that they are expecting bank failure losses to reach 80 billion (2008-2013) This is double the estimate they gave us last fall. In 2008, there were 25 bank failures. In 2009 there have already been 15.
The banks will obviously protest this and then the FDIC will do it anyway. The FDIC chairwoman, Sheila Bair said "These steps are necessary because banks - and not taxpayers - are expected to fund the system." What? Where does she think this comes from....um, the profits of the banks.....oh wait, they don't have any profits anymore do they?
Your dollar is getting less valuable by the day and it is costing the banks more to insure it....yeah, it's just another day in America!
Marjy
The banks will obviously protest this and then the FDIC will do it anyway. The FDIC chairwoman, Sheila Bair said "These steps are necessary because banks - and not taxpayers - are expected to fund the system." What? Where does she think this comes from....um, the profits of the banks.....oh wait, they don't have any profits anymore do they?
Your dollar is getting less valuable by the day and it is costing the banks more to insure it....yeah, it's just another day in America!
Marjy
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Zeig Heil!
If at the age of 60 I am no longer responsible enough to own a gun to protect myself, does that mean that I am no longer responsible enough to cast a ballot, to deserve medical care, to drive a car, to take care of my financial responsibilities ? What about people of Special Needs, do we then eradicate health care for the mentally and physically challenged ? Does that mean that at 60 you are not responsible enough to serve in our government, to be productive in any way. If you are mentally and physically challenged you do not have the right to live ? Our government will decide who lives and dies, which child will be born, which child will be killed ?
I find there is nothing more profitable than non-profit. Will our government decide which non-profit agency deserves our tax dollars ? No good deed goes unpunished, if I CHOOSE to support my church, I will be punished by a reduction in charitable giving and further have to pay taxes on these gifts. Will our government decide which churches or religions are suitable for me ? Which church will remain open to worship in the manner I think and believe is right for me ?
The so called Fairness Doctrine will remove my freedom of speech, freedom to read a book, to write and publish a book that is not in agreement with our government, to write a letter to the Editor. Where does it stop ? Every American that truly cares about FREEDOM should not stand for the tyranny that is taking place in our Nation. Regardless of your party affiliation do you not see that your freedoms are being stripped away from you ? That you do not matter, an agenda so vicious that nothing matters but THE AGENDA !
Never in the History of this country has it been under such attack from within and WE THE PEOPLE need to UNITE against the attack on our Constitution ! If you do not see it as a personal attack against YOU, then God help us all !
How can you stand before God and ask Him to continue to bless America, when we allow this attack on the very core beliefs our Country was founded ?
Remember these two words ZEIG HEIL !
from Barbara in Arlington Texas
I find there is nothing more profitable than non-profit. Will our government decide which non-profit agency deserves our tax dollars ? No good deed goes unpunished, if I CHOOSE to support my church, I will be punished by a reduction in charitable giving and further have to pay taxes on these gifts. Will our government decide which churches or religions are suitable for me ? Which church will remain open to worship in the manner I think and believe is right for me ?
The so called Fairness Doctrine will remove my freedom of speech, freedom to read a book, to write and publish a book that is not in agreement with our government, to write a letter to the Editor. Where does it stop ? Every American that truly cares about FREEDOM should not stand for the tyranny that is taking place in our Nation. Regardless of your party affiliation do you not see that your freedoms are being stripped away from you ? That you do not matter, an agenda so vicious that nothing matters but THE AGENDA !
Never in the History of this country has it been under such attack from within and WE THE PEOPLE need to UNITE against the attack on our Constitution ! If you do not see it as a personal attack against YOU, then God help us all !
How can you stand before God and ask Him to continue to bless America, when we allow this attack on the very core beliefs our Country was founded ?
Remember these two words ZEIG HEIL !
from Barbara in Arlington Texas
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