So, I took a page out of David Codrea's book and e mailed his list of pertinent 2nd Amendment questions to Mark Walberg, who is running for Congress against Mark Schauer, here in Michigan. I will post his answers when I get them. I'll also post the questions, which came from David Codrea, so that you can send them to your candidates.
1. Do you believe that the Constitution is the "supreme law of the land" and that the Bill of Rights acknowledges our birthrights?
2. If so, should these rights be proactively protected from infringement by all levels of government, including city, county and state?
3. Please give some examples of gun laws you consider constitutional.
4. Please give some examples of gun laws you consider unconstitutional.
5. Does the right to bear arms include the right for any peaceable citizen to carry them concealed without a permit, as in Vermont?
6. Do you believe that Americans have a right to own, use and carry weapons of military pattern, and will you use the prestige of elected office to publicly promote that right?
7. Do you support or oppose registration of weapons? Why?
8. Do you support or oppose licensing requirements to own or carry firearms?
Why?
9. What specific gun laws will you work to get repealed?
10. If elected, will you back your words of support for firearms rights up with consistent actions? How?
Thanks to David Codrea for thinking this up. It's about time we started finding out what the people running for office really think.
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Sigh
I become weary and more than mildly frightened while reading the news these days. I'm an amateur historian and I can recall reading the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution and feeling chills at the wisdom of these founding documents. Reading the histories and realizing what these great men risked to do what they did to create the greatest nation this planet has ever known.
Now, I feel very much like sobbing as I realize that our current government is destroying all of that while risking almost nothing because the American Patriot is asleep or unconcerned. I believe it was Patrick Henry that said "The price of freedom is eternal vigilance", we seem to have forgotten to remain vigilant, lulled to sleep by the Whores of the Potomac and their media pimps feeding us their "everything is under control" pablum. We can't even see what's happening right in front of our faces.
An organization called the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) which has nothing to do at all with poverty and damn little to do with law, is actually working with the Department of Homeland Security to brand anyone that questions the course of government as a domestic terrorist. FUCKING WAKE UP PEOPLE! If you are a veteran, you're a terrorist. If you own a gun, you're a terrorist. If you attend your local church or synagogue, you're a terrorist. If you question anything the government is doing or speak out about what you might think is wrong, you're a terrorist. You care to explain to me what's wrong with this picture? Do you realize that according to the guidelines published by SPLC and DHS that the founding fathers were terrorists?
An election approaches. You have a responsibility to find out what each candidate for office believes and stands for. YOU HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY to find the truth for yourself about the people who seek office. Start your research right now! RIGHT GODDAMN NOW! Contact them, ask them the tough questions. Take not the counsel of the Whores of the Potomac or their media pimps. Do not listen to the bullshit about experience instead, look at where that experience has gotten us. You may want change, I want a clean house (and senate). It's time to throw a dose of bleach into the political pool. It's time to find some true patriots to elect to public office, people who have read and understand the founding documents and respect them as the ultimate law of this nation.
Do not fail in this charge. There are but 4 boxes to defend liberty, the soapbox, the ballot box, the jury box and the bullet box, pray let us never need the 4th box, but I fear that we will use it and probably within my lifetime, if the American Patriot does not awaken and regain control.
Now, I feel very much like sobbing as I realize that our current government is destroying all of that while risking almost nothing because the American Patriot is asleep or unconcerned. I believe it was Patrick Henry that said "The price of freedom is eternal vigilance", we seem to have forgotten to remain vigilant, lulled to sleep by the Whores of the Potomac and their media pimps feeding us their "everything is under control" pablum. We can't even see what's happening right in front of our faces.
An organization called the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) which has nothing to do at all with poverty and damn little to do with law, is actually working with the Department of Homeland Security to brand anyone that questions the course of government as a domestic terrorist. FUCKING WAKE UP PEOPLE! If you are a veteran, you're a terrorist. If you own a gun, you're a terrorist. If you attend your local church or synagogue, you're a terrorist. If you question anything the government is doing or speak out about what you might think is wrong, you're a terrorist. You care to explain to me what's wrong with this picture? Do you realize that according to the guidelines published by SPLC and DHS that the founding fathers were terrorists?
An election approaches. You have a responsibility to find out what each candidate for office believes and stands for. YOU HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY to find the truth for yourself about the people who seek office. Start your research right now! RIGHT GODDAMN NOW! Contact them, ask them the tough questions. Take not the counsel of the Whores of the Potomac or their media pimps. Do not listen to the bullshit about experience instead, look at where that experience has gotten us. You may want change, I want a clean house (and senate). It's time to throw a dose of bleach into the political pool. It's time to find some true patriots to elect to public office, people who have read and understand the founding documents and respect them as the ultimate law of this nation.
Do not fail in this charge. There are but 4 boxes to defend liberty, the soapbox, the ballot box, the jury box and the bullet box, pray let us never need the 4th box, but I fear that we will use it and probably within my lifetime, if the American Patriot does not awaken and regain control.
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Added to the Not Good List
I spotted this at the USNI Blog and I'm going to risk angering my female readers by showing my dinosaur. This is an article from Navy Times and I'll link to the article here.
Apparently, CNO Adm. Gary Roughead thinks it's time to place female sailors on submarines.
I say that this is a galactically stupid idea. Subs: Small crews, very close quarters, hot-racking, when work needs to be done, it's of an urgent nature that can involve extremely heavy work. Let's not get the ex-Damage Controlman started on how heavy and nasty that work can be. I shall allow it to be left at...I doubt a 100 lb female is going to carry a 200 lb unconscious sailor out of an escape scuttle.
There are some jobs that women can do better, they're better welders, properly trained, they're better precision shooters because the have steadier hands. but the day to day life on a sub isn't like that. 6 to 8 months out at sea? Young, lonely horny people together in close quarters = bad fucking idea. Go over to hulu.com and watch the series Carrier and you get an idea of what goes on aboard surface ships, now transpose that to a sub where the passageways are so tight that rubbing up against one another is almost mandatory and you get an idea how ludicrous this idea is.
No, I'm sorry, but I say no. Bad, bad idea.
The dinosaur has spoken.
Apparently, CNO Adm. Gary Roughead thinks it's time to place female sailors on submarines.
I say that this is a galactically stupid idea. Subs: Small crews, very close quarters, hot-racking, when work needs to be done, it's of an urgent nature that can involve extremely heavy work. Let's not get the ex-Damage Controlman started on how heavy and nasty that work can be. I shall allow it to be left at...I doubt a 100 lb female is going to carry a 200 lb unconscious sailor out of an escape scuttle.
There are some jobs that women can do better, they're better welders, properly trained, they're better precision shooters because the have steadier hands. but the day to day life on a sub isn't like that. 6 to 8 months out at sea? Young, lonely horny people together in close quarters = bad fucking idea. Go over to hulu.com and watch the series Carrier and you get an idea of what goes on aboard surface ships, now transpose that to a sub where the passageways are so tight that rubbing up against one another is almost mandatory and you get an idea how ludicrous this idea is.
No, I'm sorry, but I say no. Bad, bad idea.
The dinosaur has spoken.
Friday, September 11, 2009
Just thinking
(dry your eyes)
(dry your eyes)
(dry your eyes)
(dry your eyes)
(dry your eyes)
Dry your eyes and quietly bear this pain with pride
For heaven shall remember the silent and the brave
And promise me they will never see, the fear within our eyes
(my eyes are closed)
We will give strength to those who still remain
So bury fear, for fate draws near
And hide the signs of pain
With noble acts, the bravest souls
Endure the heart's remains
Discard regret, that in this debt
A better world is made
That children of a newer day might remember
And avoid our fate
And in the fury of this darkest hour
We will be your light
You've asked me for my sacrifice
And I am Winterborn
Without denying, a faith is come
That I have never known
I hear the angels call my name
And I am Winterborn
Hold your head up high-for there is no greater love
Think of the faces of the people you defend
(you defend)
And promise me, they will never see the tears within our eyes
(my eyes are closed)
Although we are men, with mortal sins, angels never cry
So bury fear, for fate draws near
And hide the signs of pain
With noble acts, the bravest souls
Endure the heart's remains
Discard regret, that in this debt
A better world is made
That children of a newer day might remember
And avoid our fate
(prepare for battle)
And in the fury of this darkest hour
We will be your light
You've asked me for my sacrifice
And I am Winterborn
Without denying, a faith in God
That I have never known
I hear the angels call my name
And I am Winterborn
And in the fury of this darkest hour
I will be your light
A lifetime for this destiny
For I am Winterborn
And in this moment..I will not run
It is my place to stand
We few shall carry hope
Within our bloodied hands
(bloodied hands)
And in our dying
We're more alive, than we have ever been
I've lived for these few seconds
For I am Winter-born
And in the fury of this darkest hour
We will be the light
You've asked me for my sacrifice
And I am Winter born
Without denying, a faith in man
That I have never known
I hear the angels call my name
And I am Winterborn
Within this moment
I am for you, though better men have failed
I will give my life for love
For I am Winter-born
And in my dying
I'm more alive than I have ever been
I will make this sacrifice
For I am winterborn
Winterborn - The Cruxshadows
(dry your eyes)
(dry your eyes)
(dry your eyes)
(dry your eyes)
Dry your eyes and quietly bear this pain with pride
For heaven shall remember the silent and the brave
And promise me they will never see, the fear within our eyes
(my eyes are closed)
We will give strength to those who still remain
So bury fear, for fate draws near
And hide the signs of pain
With noble acts, the bravest souls
Endure the heart's remains
Discard regret, that in this debt
A better world is made
That children of a newer day might remember
And avoid our fate
And in the fury of this darkest hour
We will be your light
You've asked me for my sacrifice
And I am Winterborn
Without denying, a faith is come
That I have never known
I hear the angels call my name
And I am Winterborn
Hold your head up high-for there is no greater love
Think of the faces of the people you defend
(you defend)
And promise me, they will never see the tears within our eyes
(my eyes are closed)
Although we are men, with mortal sins, angels never cry
So bury fear, for fate draws near
And hide the signs of pain
With noble acts, the bravest souls
Endure the heart's remains
Discard regret, that in this debt
A better world is made
That children of a newer day might remember
And avoid our fate
(prepare for battle)
And in the fury of this darkest hour
We will be your light
You've asked me for my sacrifice
And I am Winterborn
Without denying, a faith in God
That I have never known
I hear the angels call my name
And I am Winterborn
And in the fury of this darkest hour
I will be your light
A lifetime for this destiny
For I am Winterborn
And in this moment..I will not run
It is my place to stand
We few shall carry hope
Within our bloodied hands
(bloodied hands)
And in our dying
We're more alive, than we have ever been
I've lived for these few seconds
For I am Winter-born
And in the fury of this darkest hour
We will be the light
You've asked me for my sacrifice
And I am Winter born
Without denying, a faith in man
That I have never known
I hear the angels call my name
And I am Winterborn
Within this moment
I am for you, though better men have failed
I will give my life for love
For I am Winter-born
And in my dying
I'm more alive than I have ever been
I will make this sacrifice
For I am winterborn
Winterborn - The Cruxshadows
Not Seeing The Problem
Sorry folks, I'm just not seeing the problem with someone finally calling charades with Obambi. So he got called a liar and everyone wants to crucify the person responsible. Probably the same assholes that thought it was funny when some alleged comedian wished that Rush Limbaugh would die.
The American people have been calling Obambi a liar since day 1. I for one, think it's high time a congress critter finally stepped up and followed suit. Nice job Rep. Joe Wilson, thanks for standing up. I don't think you should have apologized, but at least you said it to begin with. Hell, if the left wing can shout down a presidential speech like they did to Bush in 2005, then this should be fair play as well.
In the immortal words of Emperor Misha I:
Rope. Tree. Politician.
Some assembly required
The American people have been calling Obambi a liar since day 1. I for one, think it's high time a congress critter finally stepped up and followed suit. Nice job Rep. Joe Wilson, thanks for standing up. I don't think you should have apologized, but at least you said it to begin with. Hell, if the left wing can shout down a presidential speech like they did to Bush in 2005, then this should be fair play as well.
In the immortal words of Emperor Misha I:
Rope. Tree. Politician.
Some assembly required
Wednesday, September 02, 2009
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