”Good Morning Campers!  How about that great issue by Lethal Leprechaun on Wednesday?  Let’s give him a round of applause.” Applause starts slowly and begins to build.
”Yes!”  Applause gets louder and still builds.
”That’s right!”  Applause is getting thunderous and Impish has a frustrated look on his face.
”Okay, that’s enough…”  It continues
”that’s…” and continues
”KNOCK IT OFF!!” The roar from the dragon is punctuated by a huge gout of flame that sears the air and crackles in the humidity. “Okay, let’s start this again…Good Morning Campers!”
”Good Morning, Sir!” A large portion of the campers emphasize the last word and there are several giggles and outright laughter scattered through out the campgrounds.
Impish pauses and considers the situation.  “Okay, let’s try this…everyone who has been paid by Lethal Leprechaun to harass me this morning move over to your left.”  With much shuffling of feet, the entire campgrounds moves to the side.
”I see.  Okay, then, I suppose it’s time to complain about the unfairness of me having to work on an International Holiday.  That’s right.  I’m working this weekend and Sunday is a darn holiday!  Where’s my union?  Where’s my congressman or senator?  Where’s my…”
”What’s that?”
”What holiday is it?  Seriously?”
It’s International Star Wars Day!

 

 

 

Okay, now it’s time, so …

McDonald’s has given their clown mascot Ronald McDonald a makeover, trading

in his jumpsuit for cropped pants and a blazer. While McDonald’s customers are

trading in their sweatpants for bigger sweatpants.

I heard about this, but haven’t seen a picture of the new Ronald McDonald.  So here, for the first time, is the unveiling of the new clown…

Wait…sorry.  Wrong clown.  Hang on a sec… Okay, here it is.
Damn!  Another clown, but still the wrong clown.  I know I have the picture around here somewhere…

 

You gotta love this one as one of the greatest all-time sports quotes:

Yankees radio announcer John Sterling’s call Friday concluded with, “A triple

play. That ends the inning!” to which ESPN newscaster, Jay Reynolds, added,

“As the vast majority of triple plays tend to do.”

Okay, thanks for that one, Mr. Obvious.

 

Now that, my friends, takes a special kind of talent.  That is one cool looking dragon.

On the Russian / Crimean situation…

Joe Biden in Kiev Tuesday vowed that the U.S. will never recognize the Russian

annexation of Crimea and will always stand for a united and undivided Ukraine.

Biden was there giving advice on how to avoid going to war with Russia. In

other words we’re going to war with Russia.

Joe Biden made every effort to raise his profile during his visit to Ukraine. There

has been a lot of speculation, but now it’s becoming clear that he will run for

president. In an effort to appear more presidential today, Joe Biden launched

a website that doesn’t work.

Russian troops in Ukraine were confronted by Ukrainian nationalists Tuesday.

They’ve hated each other five hundred years. It just shows that in a land where

there are no Jews, no Arabs, no black people, no red people, no brown people

and no Asians, people can improvise.

The State Department said satellite photos show Vladimir Putin has sent Russian

troops into eastern Ukraine today. What’s stopping him? Putin has been given a

promise by Obama that the US will not use military force against Russia and

England can’t even get that.

Joe Biden said the U.S. will help Ukraine with financial aid as long as the leaders

tackle corruption. Because if anything stops corruption, it’s bribing someone

to stop corruption. 

 

 

 

Do you know this guy?

He is Edward “Ed” Mezvinsky, born January 17, 1937. 

Then you’ll probably say, “Who is Ed Mezvinsky?”

Well, he is a former Democrat congressman who represented Iowa ‘s 1st congressional district in the United States House of Representatives for two terms, from 1973 to 1977.

He sat on the House Judiciary Committee that decided the fate of Richard Nixon.

He was outspoken saying that Nixon was a crook and a disgrace to politics and the nation and should be impeached.

He and the Clintons were friends and very politically intertwined for many years.

Ed Mezvinsky had an affair with NBC News reporter Marjorie Sue Margolies and later married her after his wife divorced him.

In 1993, Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky, then a freshman Democrat in Congress, cast the deciding vote that got President Bill Clinton’s controversial tax package through the House of Representatives.

In March 2001, Mezvinsky was indicted and later pleaded guilty to 31 of 69 counts of bank fraud, mail fraud, and wire fraud.

Ed Mezvinsky embezzled more than $10 million dollars from people via both a Ponzi scheme and the notorious Nigerian e-mail scams.

He was found guilty and sentenced to 80 months in federal prison.

After serving less than five years in federal prison, he was released in April 2008 and remains on federal probation.

To this day, he still owes $9.4 million in restitution to his victims.

About now you are saying, “So what!”

Well, this is Marc and Chelsea Mezvinsky.

That’s right; Ed Mezvinsky is Chelsea Clinton’s father-in law.

Now Marc and Chelsea are in their early thirties and purchased a 10.5 million dollar NYC apartment.

Has anyone heard mention of any of this in any of the media?

If this guy was Jenna or Barbara Bush’s, or better yet, Sarah Palin’s daughter’s father-in- law, the news would be an everyday headline and every detail would be reported over and over.

And yet liberals say there are no double standards in political reporting. 

And people are already talking about Hillary as our next President!

Lying and corruption seem to make Democrat candidates more popular.

When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty.

                   ~~Thomas Jefferson

—

In God We Trust!

“I love this country, it’s the government I’m afraid of”

 

It sure is a mystery.  I’m sure there’s a liberal conspiracy involved somewhere!!!

 

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced plans for the city to build the Barack Obama College Preparatory High School that opens in three years. The school is already plagued with problems. People are trying to enroll their kids in the school, but the website’s not working.

 

Hillary Clinton said Saturday older women can still make a difference in politics. She said she doesn’t know if she’ll run for president. With three hundred million Americans, what are the odds she’s the only one in the country who doesn’t know she’s running for president in 2016.

It scares the crap out of me.  Gee, I’m sorry, I was thinking out loud.  But it does.  Can you imagine if the Wicked Witch of the West was given the keys to Oz?  Is it any different?  Putting this incompetent bitch in the Whitehouse would amount to a much worse fate than Dorothy could ever conceive of!

 

Iran’s Ayatollah Khameni began promoting a baby-making campaign, offering a

gold coin to every couple that has a baby. He wants to double Iran’s population.

If he’s serious about more pregnancies, he may have to join the sixteenth century

and legalize cleavage and alcohol.

Okay, I know that this is normally Lethal Leprechaun’s bailiwick, but I heard this on the news last night and it just pissed me off to no end.

You want to know why the anti-gun nuts keep getting traction on their claims, because of people like these…
A four-year old boy in the US has accidently shot and killed his 19-month old brother (with) a handgun, the fifth such tragic incident in the country within a month involving children. 

A 9mm handgun had been stored in a nightstand in their parents room and the boy pulled the trigger while the gun was still in the drawer, striking his younger brother in the chest.  Their father was in the living room and the bedroom door was open.

Additionally, the article from the Indian Express (although you can do a google search and find it in many other sites) goes on to site:

• On April 18, a three-year-old girl in Cache County, Utah, accidentally shot and killed her two-year-old brother.
• The day before that, a 6-year-old boy accidentally killed a woman in South Carolina when he shot a loaded gun he found in a car.
• Also in April, a five-year-old boy accidentally shot and killed a seven-year-old girl while playing at a birthday party in Gaston, South Carolina.
• Finally, a two-year-old boy accidentally shot and killed his 11-year-old sister while playing with a handgun in Philadelphia.

Why were these guns where these kids could get them?  Why were they not under lock and key?  And can you understand how the millions of gun-owners who DO take proper care and protection of their firearms are made to look bad in the areas where these types of things occur?

Don’t get me wrong, I’m a huge advocate of the right for people to be armed.  In our day and age it is even more important than ever.  But, people, you have to be aware of your personal weapons at ALL TIMES!  I am a big believer in the proper training in the use of firearms.  I think in most instances, if you can’t prove you’ve been trained by the military or some other organization (the 4H comes to mind) then you should have to take some safety training before being allowed to purchase a weapon.  Most gun dealers either offer the training themselves, or have resources to provide such training and it’s usually at a very reasonable price.

But, you can tell, that in an area where lawful gun ownership is apparent, crime goes down.  No where else has it been more exactly proven than in a situation that happened right close to home.  Well, home for me, anyway.  Here’s a copy of an article from Fox 59 News in Indianapolis, near to where I live:

Correlation between NRA convention and dip in teen violence?

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (May 2, 2014) – Indianapolis Metropolitan police experienced fewer problems with teen violence last weekend.

That’s when the NRA convention was downtown.

About 75,000 people attended the convention, and many of them were legally armed.

IMPD says it was the most peaceful Saturday in the month of April downtown.

Here’s a look at the stats for Saturday Night Problems in the month of April:

• April 5: 300 teens at Circle Centre (the center of downtown is a circle with a monument in the middle and a HUGE shopping mall called Circle Centre Mall right on the circle.  The entire circle is huge hangout and the police actually block off portions of the circle so you cannot cruise around the circle on the weekend nights in cars, you can only go half way round and then get back off again.)
• April 12: 200 teens in large groups
• April 19: 400 teens and shots fired
• April 26 (NRA Convention): 100 teens, dispersed quickly

Now, I think it’s pretty easy to draw conclusions based on the above information, although I’m sure I hear the anti-gun crowd mumbling about “that ain’t provin’ nuttin’!” But it does show, that when bad people with guns know that there are good people with guns around, they are more apt to mind their manners.  It’s been said, that in the “Wild West” when everyone (just about) carried a sidearm openly, it was one of the politest societies in history.

What do  you think?

One more thing.  I have been told, off the record, by more than one member of local law enforcement, that they wished EVERYONE in the county had and kept a firearm.  They are 100% sure that it would be a much safer and less crime county.

Hit me back in the comments and tell me what YOU think.

Until next week, I remain cheerfully yours!

Its fitting that May Day, or as it was known in uld times (before Christianity bulldozed everything we Irish owned), Beltane is here as Monday bought our first 90 degree day to Houston. By Memorial Day it seems likely that we’ll have switched to noting days that are not in the 90s.

Beltane or Beltain /ˈbɛlteɪn/ (also Beltine or Beltaine) is the Gaelic May Day festival. Most commonly it is held on 30 April–1 May, or halfway between the spring equinox and the summer solstice. It was observed in Ireland, Scotland and the Isle of Man. It is one of the four Gaelic seasonal festivals; along with Samhain, Imbolc and Lughnasadh.

Beltane is mentioned in some of the earliest Irish literature and it is associated with important events in Irish mythology. It marked the beginning of summer and was when cattle were driven out to the summer pastures. Rituals were performed to protect the cattle, crops and people, and to encourage growth. Special bonfires were kindled, and their flames, smoke and ashes were deemed to have protective powers. The people and their cattle would walk around the bonfire, or between two bonfires, and sometimes leap over flames or embers. All household fires would be doused and then re-lit from the Beltane bonfire. Doors, windows, byres and the cattle themselves would be decorated with yellow May flowers, perhaps because they evoked fire. In parts of Ireland, people would make a May Bush; a thorn bush decorated with flowers, ribbons and bright shells. Holy wells were also visited, while Beltane dew was thought to bring beauty and maintain youthfulness. Many of these customs were part of May Day or Midsummer festivals in other parts of Great Britain and Europe.

As a festival, Beltane had largely died-out by the mid-20th century, although some of its customs continued and in some places it has been revived as a cultural event. Since the latter 20th century, Celtic neopagans and Wiccans have observed Beltane, or something based on Beltane, as a religious holiday.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beltane

Shall we proceed? There be a Maypole or 3 to dance ‘bout with some pretty fair maidens before Molly gets home!

 

 

Cash, Credit Cards, Gold and Precious Gems Only. No Checks Please!

 

YES, Just Occasionally, IT IS All Worth It

Just occasionally doing this blog results in the odd hidden perk for Impish or myself.

We make a lasting connection with someone (like him and I for example) or one of our readers (there are several). Then there are the occasional generous donations when we call for help to defray the costs of doing this.

 Recently I was the lucky beneficiary of one of these perks.  About 2 years ago Poppa Dragon the Most Senior ( aka Impish’s father) made me a very nice carving which actually won Second Place Masters Division in a Wood Carving Exposition.

Poppa Dragon Most Senior used this graphic which you have all seen as the inspirational basis to create a masterful rendition:

See what I mean?

Up until now its been me pride and joy, perched atop my desk hutch proudly displayed and bragged about. While still on display, as well as still extremely near and dear to my heart, recent it’s sort of been eclipsed by an even grander bit of statuary. The new one is a rendering of me as a wee scupper just out o me apprenticeship learning the uld ways from the Druids. Because of course this took place long before the advent of photography me graduation portrait was done in charcoal on parchment. See here:

Well Impish happened ta mention ta me that Poppa Dragon Most Senior was looking about for new inspiration for his next carving project.

I thought with all the folds in me robe, me scythe and froth tankard that me graduation portrait would make a fine challenge for his skills.

Apparently I was right because about a week ago I received this from Dragon Most Senior via Impish:

 

 

 

Pretty good likeness wouldn’t ya be sayin?

‘Tis blessed I am ta be owning not one but two o’ Poppa Dragon Most Senior’s finest works and both with me as the subject ta boot! The young me has joined the old me proudly on display atop my desk hutch and I gaze fondly at them whenever my give me eyes a break timer goes off.

‘Tis this opportunity I’ll be taking ta publicly thank Poppa Dragon Most Senior aka Bob Wydock Sr. for his largess in honoring me with not one but two of his finest works in my opinion.

It’s moments like opening that box and seeing this that help me get over the days when I’m frustrated at preaching to the choir and pissing against the blowhard liberal’s wind that keep me doing this. Thank You Poppa Dragon Most Senior, for honoring me with these fine examples of your talent.

 

 

Bide the Wiccan law ye must
In perfect love, in perfect trust
Eight Words the Wiccan Rede fulfill:
An ye harm none, do what ye will.
What ye send forth comes back to thee,
So ever mind the Rule of Three.
Follow this with mind and heart,
And merry ye meet, and merry ye part

 

There was a young sailor named Bates
Who danced the fandango on skates.
But a fall on his cutlass
Has rendered him nutless,
And practically useless on dates.

A mathematician named Hall
Has a hexahedronical ball,
And the cube of its weight
Times his pecker, plus eight,
Is his phone number – give him a call.

There was a young girl named Ann Heuser
Who swore that no man could surprise her.
But Pabst took a chance,
Found a Schlitz in her pants,
And now she is sadder Budweiser.

There was an old Count of Swoboda
Who would not pay a whore what he owed her.
So with great savoir-faire
She stood on a chair,
And pissed in his whiskey-and-soda.

On a maiden a man once begat
Cute triplets named Nat, Tat and Pat;
‘Twas fun in the breeding
But hell in the feeding:
She hadn’t a spare tit for Tat.

There was a young tar from the sea
Who screwed a baboon in a tree.
The results were most horrid –
All ass and no forehead,
Four balls and a purple goatee.

There was a young lady named White
Found herself in a terrible plight:
A mucker named Tucker
Had struck her, the fucker,
The bugger, the bastard, the shite!

Sobbed the wife of a worrisome veep,
“I’m so tired and worn I could weep.
It’s my husband’s demand
For a tit in each hand –
And the bastard walks ’round in his sleep!”

 

These two should be self explanatory 

I’ve replaced the peanut butter with any of the following- a halved banana slice (because the 2 halves are a better fit and are an easier wrap), a slice of strawberry and finally 3-4 mini marshmallows (don’t try Fluff, yes it is, but then again, no its not the same thing as marshmallows) I’ve also replaced the Nutella with the banana which is great for breakfast.

 

 

I’m thinking the tops of those were either sprayed with an olive oil based cooking spray or brushed with melted butter before what appears to me to be Italian or Pizza Seasoning ,Garlic Powder and Parmesan Cheese were sprinkled liberally across them.

I’d heat some Marinara sauce for dipping. Also I think this would work with cut portions of thick sliced deli ham and Swiss. or cooled taco filing mixed with cheddar. You might come up with other combinations too. Brie comes to mind though not what to combine it with off hand

It seems that Archie Comics are tired of ol’ Archie Andrews stinking up their pages with his homespun brand of lovable goodness. So they’ve decided to do what any normal, decent human being would do when they can no longer stand the sight of someone: They are having him killed. Read all about it here: http://tinyurl.com/ljh9gkm

The Top 5 Other Fictional Character Deaths We’d Like to See

5> Michael Knight – KITT runs him over when he catches him looking at a De Lorean
4> Jar Jar Binks – Don’t care how, to be honest
3> Lassie – Falls down a well
2> Bugs Bunny – Tunneling for Pismo Beach, turns right at Albuquerque, emerges at Fukushima

and The Number 1 Other Fictional Character Death We’d Like to See…

1> Dora – Hit by an Explorer

That ought to keep Impish in nightmares for a long while!

 

We as both a people and a country could afford to take a few lessons &/or pointers in dealing with some modern day issues from our former Parent.

A thought provoking passage written by an Englishman about the current situation in HIS homeland  –

Racist – me?

I have been wondering about why Whites are racists, and no other race is …

There are British Africans, British Chinese, British Asian, British Turks, etc, etc, etc

And then there are just British.,. You know what I mean, plain ole English people that were born here. You can include the Welsh, the Scottish and the people who live off our shores of Great Britain on tiny islands Yes, we are all true Brits.

The others that live here say the following: :

You pass me on the street and sneer in my direction. You call me ‘White boy,’ ‘Cracker,’ ‘Honkey,’ ‘Whitey,’ ‘Caveman’…. White trash……our women are ‘White Bread’ & ‘White c–t …. And that’s OK..

But when I call you, Nigger, Spade, Towel head, Sand-nigger, Paki, Camel Jockey, Beaner, Gook, or Chink .. You call me a racist.

You say that whites commit a lot of violence against you… So why are the ghettos the most dangerous places to live?

You have the Muslim Council of Great Britain.

You have Black History Month.

You have swimming pools for Asian women.

You have Islamic banks for Muslims only.

You have Year of the Dragon Day for Chinese people.

If we had a White Pride Day, you would call us racists.

If we had White History Month, we’d be racists.

If we had any organization for only whites to ‘advance’ OUR lives, we’d be racists.

A white woman could not be in the Miss Black Britain or Miss Asia, but any colour can be in the Miss UK .

If we had a college fund that only gave white students scholarships.. You know we’d be racists.

There are over 200 openly proclaimed Muslim only schools in England . Yet if there were ‘White schools only’, that would be a racist school !.

In the Bradford riots and Toxteth riots, you believed that you were standing-up for your race and rights. If we stood-up for our race and rights, you would call us racists.

You are proud to be black, brown, yellow and orange, and you’re not afraid to announce it. But when we announce our white pride, you call us racists.

We fly our flag, we are racists. If we celebrate St’ Georges day we are racists.

You can fly your flag and its called diversity. You celebrate your cultures and its called multiculturalism.

You rob us, carjack us, and rape our daughters. But, when a white police officer arrests a black gang member or beats up an Asian drug dealer running from the law and
posing a threat to society, you call him a racist.

I am proud…. But you call me a racist.

Why is it that only whites can be racists??

There is nothing improper about this editorial.. Let’s see which of you are proud enough (and brave enough) to send it on.

I sadly don’t think many will. That’s why we have LOST most of OUR RIGHTS in this country. We won’t stand up for ourselves!

BEING PROUD TO BE WHITE! It’s not a crime, YET… But getting very close!

We can all see the dire similarities between what was allegedly written by an patriotic English subject and our own problem here in the US.

Americans, especially white conservative Americans, are not only rapidly becoming the minority and increasingly penalized for their racial ethnicity and traditional beliefs, but beat over the head with the race card and unfairly labeled raciest for standing up for themselves.

Time for a bit of a history lesson boys and girls-

“The New Colossus” is a sonnet by American poet Emma Lazarus  written in 1883. In 1903, the poem was engraved on a bronze plaque and mounted inside the lower level of the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty.

The title of the poem and the first two lines refer to the Colossus of Rhodes, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. The poem talks about the millions of immigrants who came to the United States (many of them through Ellis Island at the port of New York).

The “air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame” refers to New York City and Brooklyn, not yet consolidated into one unit in 1883.

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she
With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Colossus

Notice the line in the poem I have highlighted.

Let me translate that into modern speak even those with Ebonics, Hooked on Phonics and Ghettobonics educations can understand…

”Yo Dog! Don’t be bring your tired azzed bullshit into my hood! You come here you got to have and show me respect. Don’t be getting all up in muh grill cause you wuz all bad or special where you wuz. You be in our hood now and you duz yo’ bidnez just likes we duz. Dig?”

MY FIRST POINT: The “Race Card” and the “Equal Opportunity” have had their day.  Its past high time to trash both of them! Both are hurting us by contributing detrimentally to our society, our way of life and our economy. Those who use both have abused the hell out of them turning them into crutches they were never meant to be instead of the steps up they were meant as. Even worse yet, liberals have forced the rest of us to sit still for it, allow it and fund it!

Yes I’ll even dare to say the situation has accelerated ever since Obama, the Liberal’s Messiah took office and that his Presidency has enabled if not out right promoted such attitudes.

A coalition of Blacks,  Latinos, Feminists, Gays, Government Workers, Union Members,  Environmental Extremists, The Media, Hollywood, uninformed young people,  the “forever needy,” the chronically unemployed, illegal aliens and other “fellow travelers” have ended Norman Rockwell’s  America.

The Cocker Spaniel is  off the front porch… The Pit Bull is in the back
yard. The American  Constitution has been replaced with Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals”  and Chicago shyster, David Axelrod, along with international Socialist  George Soros will be pulling the strings on their beige puppet to bring  us Act 2 of the New World Order.

People like you and I are  completely politically irrelevant, and I will never
again comment on or  concern myself with the aforementioned coalition which has surrendered  our culture, our heritage and our traditions without a shot being  fired.

You will never again  out-vote these people. It will take individual acts
of defiance and  massive displays of civil disobedience [for which we will be labeled Confrontational and therefore terrorists] to get back the rights we have  allowed them to take away. It will take Zealots, not moderates & shy  not reach-across-the-aisle RINOs to right this ship and restore our  beloved country to its former status.

Those who come after us  will have to risk their lives, their fortunes and
their sacred honor to  bring back the Republic that this generation has
timidly frittered away  due to “white guilt” and political correctness…

http://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-201471-1.html

We welcome people sure. We (IMHO stupidly) have the most open and lax immigration policy of any country IN THE WORLD. We’ve labeled/thought of ourselves as a melting pot yes. Notice the triple emphasized phrase in that last sentence, melting pot, it means our society is an amalgamation, a melding of the beliefs & customs of all of us. IT DOES NOT MEAN we’re a bunch of concierges & caterers willing to bend over backwards for every person arriving here NOT for a fresh start but for an easier (or totally free ride) way of life!

You come here you adapt to US not us to you! Follow our laws. Learn our language. Accept that there are people from many countries ethnicities, and religions here. DO NOT expect us to follow your laws, learn your language to speak to you in our country or adopt your religious beliefs and practices. The damned Jehovah’s Witnesses were here long before you and have had practically no success in converting us (but a great deal in becoming hated for their incessant attempts) so where do you get off thinking your going to force us to adopt ort cater to your religion?!

Don’t like our laws, religions, customs? Don’t try telling me I’m racist in my own land which I have fought and bled for, just get the [expletive deleted] out of my [expletive deleted] country you miserable [expletive deleted} ungrateful for the opportunity we’ve graciously allowed you to join us from your third world backwater [Racial slur deleted] [expletive deleted] and don’t let the exit stamp on your Visa (If you even bothered entering the US legally) catch you in the seat of the pants on the way across our border!

Ahem! I apologize for that last micro rant paragraph folks. I tend to get a little worked up over that issue, particularly as I live with it in my face everyday. Ok moving on to the second lesson we can take from our former parent

Britain Increasingly Invokes Power to Disown Its Citizens

By KATRIN BENNHOLD  APRIL 9, 2014 click here for original article.

LONDON — The letter informing Mohamed Sakr that he had been stripped of his British citizenship arrived at his family’s house in London in September 2010. Mr. Sakr, born and raised here by British-Egyptian parents, was in Somalia at the time and was suspected by Western intelligence agencies of being a senior figure in the Shabab, a terrorist group linked to Al Qaeda.

Seventeen months later, an American drone streaked out of the sky in the Lower Shabelle region of Somalia and killed Mr. Sakr. An intelligence official quoted in news reports called him a “very senior Egyptian,” though he never held an Egyptian passport. A childhood friend of Mr. Sakr, Bilal al-Berjawi, a Lebanese-Briton also stripped of his citizenship by the British government, was killed in a drone strike a month earlier, after having escaped an attack in June 2011.

Senior American and British officials said there was no link between the British government’s decision to strip the men of their citizenship and the subsequent drone strikes against them, though they said the same intelligence may have led to both actions.

But the sequence of events effectively allowed the British authorities to sidestep questions about due process under British law, mirroring the debate in the United States over the rights of American citizens who are deemed terrorist threats. The United States and Britain have a long history of intelligence sharing and cooperation in fighting terrorist threats.

The cases of Mr. Sakr and Mr. Berjawi are among the most significant relating to the British government’s growing use of its ability to strip citizenship and its associated rights from some Britons at the stroke of a pen, without any public hearing and with only after-the-fact involvement by the courts.

Now, faced with concerns that the steady stream of British Muslims traveling to fight in Syria could pose a threat on their return, Prime Minister David Cameron’s government is pushing legislation that would give it additional flexibility to use the power, which among other things keeps terrorism suspects from re-entering the country.

In many Western countries, including the United States, citizenship is considered a right that cannot be taken away except in very limited cases, such as serving in another nation’s military or having obtained citizenship fraudulently. Others strip citizenship from people who take another passport. Britain, along with Israel, is one of the few countries that can revoke the citizenship of dual nationals — even if they are native born — if they are suspected or convicted of terrorist offenses or acts of disloyalty.

Britain is seeking to expand the practice to naturalized citizens who have no other nationality and would be rendered stateless. Citizenship, in the words of Home Secretary Theresa May, is a “privilege, not a right.”

Britain typically strips people of citizenship when they are outside the country. The procedure requires only that the home secretary find that stripping someone of citizenship would be “conducive to the public good,” then sign a deprivation order and send a letter to the person’s last known address. Loss of citizenship is effective immediately. It can be challenged in court, but that is a difficult task in most cases, given the inability of a targeted person to return to Britain for any proceedings.

“Deprivation can help disrupt the terrorist threat,” John Taylor, the junior minister for criminal information, said in a recent parliamentary debate. Mr. Taylor said the government refused to be “at the whim of other countries’ nationality laws” or the view of a court.

Other countries are watching closely. A Canadian bill giving the government some deprivation powers is now before Parliament. Australia and the Netherlands are considering drafting legislation.

I have selectively truncated the article for the editorial purpose of brevity and keeping this on point.

You can follow the link above to review the full article but I will state that the truncated portion deals largely with the internal debate in England on the subject and does not have a bearing for my purpose on the issue I speak regarding today.

Much was made recently of the decision to target US citizens abroad who were working for terrorist organizations sans trial. In a nutshell:

“An American citizen who is a member of al-Qaida is actively planning attacks against Americans overseas, U.S. officials say, and the Obama administration is wrestling with whether to kill him with a drone strike and how to do so legally under its new stricter targeting policy issued last year,” .

The wire service writes that “four U.S. officials said the American suspected terrorist is in a country that refuses U.S. military action on its soil and that has proved unable to go after him.”

The Washington Post, , writes that “U.S. officials” it has spoken with “said that no decision has been reached on whether to add the alleged operative to the administration’s kill list, a step that would require Justice Department approval under new counterterrorism guidelines adopted by President Obama last year.”

CNN writes that a senior U.S. official says “high-level discussions” are under way about “staging an operation to kill an American citizen involved with al-Qaida and suspected of plotting attacks against the United States.”

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/02/10/274707917/u-s-citizen-may-be-targeted-with-drone-strike-reports

… a September 2011 drone strike in Yemen killed Anwar al-Awlaki, an Al Qaeda leader who had been born in the United States, and another U.S. citizen, Samir Khan, and after an October 2011 strike killed Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, al-Awlaki’s teenage son and also a U.S. citizen. Some legal scholars and human rights activists complained that it was illegal for the U.S. to kill American citizens away from the battlefield without a trial….

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/04/21/federal-court-obama-administration-must-release-targeted-killings-memo/

When can a government kill its own people?

The straightforward question has anything but a simple answer, especially for the government of a nation founded on inalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Here’s where the lesson we are not learning from our former parent comes in. Were these people (for just and legal cause) stripped of their citizenship, much like England does with their Citizens actively working for terrorist groups abroad, the need to wrestle this thorny problem  of when its proper and justified for a government to kill its own citizens would be at an end. In fact the entire matter would become a nonissue moot point because it wouldn’t be happening!

Currently the US Government can revoke US citizenship (the proper term for this being ‘Denaturalization’) for one of 7 specific reasons. Those are:

Involuntary Loss: Denaturalization
Loss of U.S. citizenship does not always have to occur through a voluntary relinquishment. There are several actions that may cause the Department of State (DOS) and USCIS to strip you of your citizenship to the United States. These acts can include:

1. Naturalizing in a foreign state

2. Taking an oath or declaration of allegiance to a foreign state

3. Serving in the armed forces of a foreign state engaged in a conflict with the United States or is an officer of any kind in the armed forces of a foreign state

4. Being employed by the government of a foreign state if the person has the nationality of that state or took an oath or declaration of allegiance to that state in order to accept the position

5. Providing false information to the USCIS or misrepresenting yourself during the naturalization process

6. Refusing to testify in front of Congress about any involvement in subversive activities within 10 years of naturalization

7. Being convicted of an act of treason against the United States

I propose we amend these guidelines to to reflect the realities of the present day as follows:

1. Naturalizing in a foreign state

2. Taking an oath or declaration of allegiance to a foreign state or foreign based terrorist organization.

3. Serving in the armed forces of a foreign state or foreign based terrorist organization engaged in a conflict with the United States or as an officer, trainer, interpreter, advisor of any kind in the armed forces of a foreign state or foreign based terrorist organization.

4. Being employed by the government of a foreign state if the person has the nationality of that state or took an oath or declaration of allegiance to that state in order to accept the position

5. Providing false information to the USCIS or misrepresenting yourself during the naturalization process.

6. Refusing to testify in front of Congress about any involvement in subversive/ terroristic activities/ associations/fund raising. 

7. Being convicted of an act of treason against the United States. [see definition of Treason and subsequent comments by me below]

8. Being convicted of an act of Sedition against the United States. [see definition of Sedition and subsequent comments by me below]

Oran’s Dictionary of the Law (1983) defines treason as “…[a]…citizen’s actions to help a foreign government overthrow, make war against, or seriously injure the [parent nation].” In many nations, it is also often considered treason to attempt or conspire to overthrow the government, even if no foreign country is aided or involved by such an endeavor. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treason

Treason is giving an enemy specific information in a time of war as to troop strength, movement, and nature of weaponry. Real time harm is done to the country’s effort in war.

I propose the definition be changed and made broader to include the sort of information a US citizen would have that would make him valuable in the planning of terrorist acts on US soil by foreign based terrorist groups. Further that the term ‘troop(s)’ be changed to include all all enforcement personnel Federal, State & Local, and all Emergency Services Personnel, their response and mass disaster plans and any and all information dealing with security screening concerning any method of mass travel/transit.

Note the underlining in the above paragraph, this is extremely important as this distinction keeps the Government from using the new definition and policy against those US groups and/or member citizens it has defined as terrorists so that they are still subject to due process under the US legal system and afforded all the rights of a US citizen they are entitled to.

Impish will tell you that in the course of his job he frequently runs training scenarios regarding terrorism. In order for these to be a good learning tool there needs to be a more or less constant supply of fresh problems, tricks, traps & gotchas to drive home the point the enemy is motivated, adaptive and clever as well as interested in not only taking out civilians but responders too.

To this end he will readily attest my knowledge (admittedly somewhat out of date & the loop as it might be) as to procedures, responses and what actually happens at a mass causality site has allowed me to provide him with multiple ‘game changers’ which easily and convincingly turn the responders into additional victims or at a minimum make their job exponentially harder. If I can do it off the top of my head for training purposes, just think about what could be accomplished with deliberate  acquisition of knowledge and extensive fore planning plus the significantly greater resources groups like AL Qaida have as compared to what Impish and I dreaming up a training scenario and available because of budgetary constraints and training practicalities.

Sedition is the stirring up of rebellion against the government in power. Treason is the violation of allegiance to one’s sovereign or state, giving aid to enemies, or levying war against one’s state. Sedition is encouraging one’s fellow citizens to rebel against their state, whereas treason is actually betraying one’s country by aiding and abetting another state. Sedition laws somewhat equate to terrorism and public order laws.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedition

Sedition is encouraging one’s fellow citizens to rebel against their state, whereas treason is actually betraying one’s country by aiding and abetting another state. 

Of the two, Sedition is a more slippery commodity, which is why most anti sedition laws have been struck down as an attack on free speech here in America. That is why I propose the definition of Sedition be changed making broader to include terrorism.

The new definition would include such things as fund raising, recruiting, organizing or participating in rallies in support of a foreign based terrorist organization; maintaining websites or means of electronic communication for foreign terrorist groups on US soil, participation in any spontaneous celebration of a terrorist attack by Foreign Based Terrorists on US soil; aiding and abetting known members of foreign terrorist organizations &/or those suspected in having participated or aiding in such attacks successful, failed or aborted and finally the preaching of the values and goals of said organizations under the guise of celebration/observance of a religion.

Certain of these actions after further investigation may be found to rise to the level of treason and being charged with Sedition should not preclude the additional charge of Sedition.

Again note the underlining in the above paragraph, this is extremely important as this distinction keeps the Government from using the new definition and policy against those US groups and/or member citizens it has defined as terrorists so that they are still subject to due process under the US legal system and afforded all the rights of a US citizen they are entitled to.

No where in the Koran, or for that matter the holy books of any other legitimate religion that I am aware of does it say ‘use acts of terrorism against innocents in foreign nations to bring abut our desired religious goals’. Unarguably there are passages in all those same works with fundamentalist zealots can twist and deliberately misinterpret to further their own agendas in the name of their religions. They wish to do that that is their right, just not while enjoying the rights and protection of citizenship in the Nation they are preaching the overthrow of.

By swallowing a little pride opening our eye as well as our minds and learning the first of these two lessons from our former parent Great Britain and applying it properly and vigorously we can stop the stagnation and decline of our once great society. Hopefully we can turn the situation around before we reach the point of no return and lose everything we’ve accomplished in the last 238 years.

By adopting the second example as it applies within the framework of US law we can accomplish many things, avoid a prolonged destructive legal debate over when and what point a citizen becomes a threat to the Nation and eligible for attack in defense of the nation, restore a the status of Citizenship in the Untied States of America to the rare and special privilege it has been in the past which those seeking it in the last decade have sought to deprive it of. Place those who would come here seeking citizenship on notice that all the ‘respect my culture and I refuse to recognize your laws in favor of Sharia Law’ bullshit that has plagued our nation the last 10 years is over and done with. You can assimilate, meld and become part of a great country or we can send you right back to Wherethehelleveryoucamefromistan.

Finally, we can simultaneously make our shores safer while making acts of terrorism and the establishing of networks within the US that much harder for Foreign Terrorist Organizations.

Good Morning,

Fast opening, fast close.  It’s been a bad week for me and it ain’t over yet.  I’m working tomorrow…well, today. But, there are plenty of laughs for all. So…
This is an amazing display of control and is a wonderful video to just watch and enjoy

The College Board announced intense changes in the SAT test in two years. They want it relatable. For instance, the math tests asks, if you see a six-foot man drowning in ten feet of water, do you throw him a twenty-foot rope or take a video of the situation and post it online?

 

President Obama called Russian president Vladimir Putin in an effort to prevent further escalation of U.S.-Russian tensions over Ukraine. There’s one ray of hope for peace. China just ordered North Korea not to attack the United States until they get their money back.

 

 

Rush Limbaugh had ear surgery in Los Angeles Thursday, three years after undergoing heart surgery. The media was nice to him for a day. Fox News sent a bouquet of flowers to his hospital room and MSNBC sent him a double chili-cheeseburger plus an order of steak fries.

Vladimir Putin retained his right to send Russian troops into Eastern Ukraine Friday. In the last month he’s annexed the Crimea, divorced his wife, threatened to invade Ukraine, and destabilized Estonia. Most guys who are going through a mid-life crisis just buy a red Corvette.

 

A survey says that 37% of Americans fear the federal government. The other 63% are

somewhat afraid but feel better about it after they get their monthly benefits checks.

 

 

What happens when you give a bunch of Sailors and Navy Fighter Jocks video cameras to play with?  You get this teaser to the full length 27 minute promotional video coming out in May.  Enjoy!

 

 

This is just plain fun.  Plain and simple.  Laugh yourself silly.

 

 

 

Magic?  Magic?  Of course we have magic.  Watch all the way to the end, this will NOT end the way you think!

 

Okay, so from magic, to laughter.  The IT Crowd from British TV

 

Well, from magic to laughter to Apocalyptic Catastrophe

 

Okay, so since it’s movie time, let’s do one more….remember the video I showed you of the two young daredevils who climbed the highest tower in the world in Dubai?  Well, these guys take it one further and went to the very pinnacle and base jumped.  Really cool, good short video.

From Kim Komando’s website this is weird:

What’s the nerdiest state in America? California, home to Apple and Pixar? How about Texas, with the fast-growing tech sector in Dallas and Fort Worth?

Would you believe Utah??!

Estately.com analyzed Facebook for every state and Washington, D.C., to find out how many users listed these nerdy pursuits:

1. Star Trek:  The Next Generation
2. Cosplay
3. Harry Potter
4. Star Wars
5. Anime Movies
6. Dungeons & Dragons
7. LARPing (Live Action Role-Playing)
8. Doctor Who
9. Fantasy Lit
10. Lord of the Rings
11. Magic:  The Gathering
12. Comic Books

 

 

 

Hey Dad! (and the rest of you golfers) this one’s for you!

Ten Best Caddy Responses

 

 

Number :10 

 

Golfer:    “I think I’m going to drown myself in the lake.” 

 

Caddy:    “Think you can keep your head down that long?” 

 

         

 

Number : 9 

 

Golfer:    “I’d move heaven and earth to break 100 on this course.” 

 

Caddy:    “Try heaven, you’ve already moved most of the earth.” 

 

           

 

Number : 8 

 

Golfer:    “Do you think my game is improving?”

 

Caddy:    “Yes . . . . You miss the ball much closer now.” 

 

           

 

Number : 7 

 

Golfer:    “Do you think I can get there with a 5 iron?” 

 

Caddy:    “Eventually.” 

 

           

 

Number : 6 

 

Golfer:    “You’ve got to be the worst caddy in the world.” 

 

Caddy:    “I don’t think so . . . .That would be too much of a coincidence.” 

 

 

Number : 5 

 

Golfer:    “Please stop checking your watch all the time. It’s too much of a distraction.” 

 

Caddy:    “It’s not a watch – it’s a compass.” 

 

         

 

Number : 4 

 

Golfer:    “How do you like my game?” 

 

Caddy:    “It’s very good – but personally, I prefer golf.” 

 

         

 

Number : 3 

 

Golfer:    “Do you think it’s a sin to play on Sunday? 

 

Caddy:    “The way you play, it’s a sin on any day.” 

 

         

 

Number : 2 

 

Golfer:    “This is the worst course I’ve ever played on.” 

 

Caddy:    “This isn’t the golf course . . . . We left that an hour ago.” 

 

           

 

And the Number : 1 . . . . Best Caddy Comment: 

 

Golfer:    “That can’t be my ball, it’s too old.” 

 

Caddy:    “It’s been a long time since we teed off, sir.” 

 

         

 

Bonus . . . . . 

 

An old favorite . . . . . About the Golfer who has been slicing off the tee at every hole . . . . .. He finally gives up and asks his long suffering caddy. . . .. ..

 

Golfer:    “Can you see any obvious problems . .. . .?” 

 

Caddy:    “There’s a piece of s**t on the end of your club.”

 

Golfer:     He picks up his club up and cleans the club face . . . . ..

 

Caddy:    “No sir, it’s at the other end”

 

Really makes you proud, doesn’t it?

That’s all I have for today folks, have a great weekend.
Cheers,

Impish

Yup its that time of year again, time for Spring cleaning. Yards, houses, cars, clothing basically nothing is immune from Spring Cleaning. Trash, recycling bins and compost piles capacities will be taxed for the next several weeks as that which collect over the winter is done away with.

For some of us that includes our computer systems and hard drives. Mine for example get cleaned out twice a year, old back ups discarded and new complete ones made. (Relax I back up the stuff which changes more often than that but even I can miss things).

Anyway, when it comes to my hard drive, I make an attempt to get out before I clean out and that brings us to todays issue as well as (with a few exceptions like May Day & Mothers Day etc.) the subject of the next month’s worth of issues. Namely getting all the stuff I’ve meant to use out before I delete it off my system. Just think of it as the virtual computer based idea of American Pickers with less traveling and better prices!

OK coffees and napkins at the ready here we go!

 

 

No lewd lines of rhyme from our Lady of the Limericks this week. Her Naughtiness has instead focused her Punny Powers upon the  Squirrel.

Church Squirrels

There were five houses of religion in a small town:

The Presbyterian Church, the Baptist Church , the Methodist Church ,

the Catholic Church and the Jewish Synagogue.

Each church and Synagogue was overrun with pesky squirrels.
One day, the Presbyterian Church called a meeting to decide what to do about the squirrels. After much prayer and consideration they determined that the squirrels were predestined to be there and they shouldn’t interfere with God’s divine will.

In the BAPTIST CHURCH the squirrels had taken up habitation in the baptistery. The deacons met and decided to put a cover on the baptistery and drown the squirrels in it. The squirrels escaped somehow and there were twice as many there the next week.

The Methodist Church got together and decided that they were not in a position to harm any of God’s creation. So, they humanely trapped the Squirrels and set them free a few miles outside of town. Three days later, the squirrels were back.

But — The Catholic Church came up with what was thought to be the best and most effective solution. They baptized and confirmed the squirrels and registered them as members of the church. Now they only see them on Christmas, Ash Wednesday, Palm Sunday and Easter.

Not much was heard about the Jewish Synagogue, but they quietly took one squirrel and had a short service with him called Bris, (in which his circumcision occurred) and they haven’t seen a squirrel on the property since.

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Keep going….

For all who appreciate the outdoors … the rarely photographed South Florida Squirrel.

Our Princess of Puns graces us further with this final piece of advice:

Life is too short for drama and petty things, laugh a lot, love truly and forgive quickly.

I FINALLY got this concept through Impish’s head just about 4 years ago now when he took me on as his Administrative wing man back in June of 2010.

I am truly perplexed that so many of my friends are against another mosque being built anywhere in the US (with the exception of w/in 1 mile of Ground Zero or any other 9/11 location). I think it should be the goal of every American to be tolerant regardless of their religious beliefs. Thus the mosques should be allowed, in an effort to promote tolerance.

That is why I also propose that two nightclubs be opened next door to every new mosque, thereby promoting tolerance from within the mosque. We could call one of the clubs, which would be gay, “The Turban Cowboy “, and the other a topless bar called “You Mecca Me Hot.”

Next door should be a butcher shop that specializes in pork, and adjacent to that an open-pit barbecue pork restaurant, called “Iraq o’ Ribs.”

Across the street there could be a lingerie store called, “Victoria Keeps Nothing Secret,” with sexy mannequins in the window modeling the goods.

Next door to the lingerie shop there would be room for an adult sex toy shop, “Koranal Knowledge,” its name in flashing neon lights, and on the other side a liquor store called, “Morehammered.”

All of this would encourage Muslims to demonstrate the tolerance they demand of us, so their mosque siting issues would not be a problem for others.

Uhh…Impish the fonts blue so the door must be for you!  I’ll go call you an ambulance and get the First Aid kit!

SCARCASM- Just one more service we offer here at DL/LL Electronic Media Enterprises!

Don’t worry Impish I won’t tell anyone that’s actually why you wear one of these, I’ll just swear its because of your job!

 

The Breast Fed Blues

Lyrics copyright by Lethal Leprechaun 2014 all rights reserved

Ain’t no boobies when she’s gone.
Now it’s Similac at least once a day.
Ain’t no boobies when she’s gone-
and she’s always gone to long
When Ma-ma takes my DD milk jugs away.

‘I can still taste his blood’: Ft. Hood survivor pens open letter about colleague whose sacrifice saved 14 comrades but then blames fact soldiers have to be unarmed on base for the shooting

• First Lieutenant Patrick Cook posted letter to Facebook which describes the heroism of Sgt. First class Daniel Ferguson
• Ferguson stopped shooter Spc. Ivan Lopez from entering room and shooting 14 soldiers
• Ferguson, 39, was fatally wounded barricading the doors – but held on until Lopez had left
• His colleagues tried to resuscitate him for 20-minutes – but to no avail
• Cook claims another tragedy will happen again if soldiers are banned from being armed on military bases

By James Nye Published: 18:04 EST, 8 April 2014 | Updated: 18:31 EST, 8 April 2014

 

Tribute: First Lieutenant Patrick Cox (left) posted his open letter onto Facebook on Monday night in which he praised Sergeant First Class Daniel Ferguson (right) and was deeply critical of authorities who insist on keeping military bases weapons-free zones

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In a powerful, open-letter a soldier whose life was saved by a brave colleague during the Fort Hood shooting has described the desperate attempts of his fellow brothers-in-arms to resuscitate him after he had been fatally wounded.

In the letter posted to Facebook, First Lieutenant Patrick Cook hails the ultimate sacrifice of Sgt. First Class Daniel Ferguson as he barricaded closed a door that wouldn’t lock – crucially keeping shooter Spc. Ivan Lopez outside.

In one horrific passage, Cook recalls how one week on he can still ‘taste the blood’ of Ferguson in his mouth only to then rage and demand the ‘God-given-right’ for soldiers to be armed on base to prevent another massacre happening again.

The gripping and tragic account of the 20 minute siege written by Cook, is one part tribute and one part judgment of gun-laws on military bases.

Cook describes how Ferguson, a 21-year Army veteran who had served in both Gulf Wars and Afghanistan rushed to the aid of his comrades as 34-year-old Lopez began to unleash his rampage on Fort Hood on Wednesday which left three dead and 16 injured.

The 39-year-old wedged himself up against an door that wouldn’t lock as Lopez tried to enter – saving his colleagues and Cook.

Outlining how he found himself ‘trapped in an enclosed room with fourteen of my fellow Soldiers, one of whom was barricading the door against a madman with a .45 pistol when he was fatally shot,’ Cook reveals Ferguson to be a hero.

‘Through what I can only describe as a miracle, he somehow found enough strength to continue pushing against that door until the shooter gave up and went elsewhere, at which time he collapsed,’ Cook wrote.

‘Nearly a week later, I can still taste his blood in my mouth from when I and my comrades breathed into his lungs for 20 long minutes while we waited for a response from the authorities.

‘This Soldier’s name was Sergeant First Class Daniel Ferguson, and his sacrifice loaned me the rest of my life to tell this story.’

Using the last of his strength to prevent Lopez from entering the room, Ferguson’s colleagues tried in vain to save him.

However, Cook uses his letter not to simply praise his fallen comrade but to call for the repeal of regulations that disarm military personnel on military bases.

‘But I write to you today not to memorialize this brave Soldier, nor to tell a war story about how we made the best of a losing situation, but to express the part of that story that some in high positions of power clearly do not want told: I knew this was going to happen,’ he wrote.

‘I had been saying for five years that Fort Hood was a tinderbox of another massacre waiting to happen.

‘It had to happen, because our betters failed to learn the obvious lesson of five years ago. Worse yet, I know it will happen again.

‘More will die, more will be wounded, more families will be torn apart, needlessly. It happened again, and will happen again, because Fort Hood is a gun free zone.’

Gun-free-zone: Spc. Ivan Lopez opened fire in the Fort Hood Army base area in central Texas on April 2, 2014 injuring 16 people and killing three before turning the gun on himself

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Cook described the ‘utter helplessness’ he felt that night when he reached for his belt ‘for something that wasn’t there.’

‘As the shooter kicked at the door, I remember telling myself, ‘oh well, this is it.’ It is beneath human dignity to experience the utter helplessness I felt that day. I cannot abide the thought that anyone should ever feel that again,’ he said.

Cook also said that another massacre will happen if things are not addressed and do not change.

‘It happened again, and will happen again, because Fort Hood is a gun free zone,’ he said.

‘To those of you who hold elected office, if you hear nothing else I have told you, hear this: you have the power to stop the next massacre from happening.

‘You have an opportunity to restore the sacred Right to bear arms, which has been either stripped entirely or unjustly relegated to the poor substitute of a probationary, government-issued privilege. For God’s sake, do the right thing.’

The letter was read Monday at the Texas Senate committee on Constitutional Carry, Mr. Cook said on Facebook.

ONE SINGLE PERSON, just ONE in that room armed even with a strictly defensive short range fire arm such as the .410 shot shell firing Taurus  Judge 5 round revolver [ http://www.taurususa.com/product-details.cfm?id=198&category=Revolver&breadcrumbseries=&search=Judge ] could have stopped that attacker cold and prevented the tragedy that occurred in that room and possibly prevented several other deaths.

Hell in all likelihood if the shooter knew prior to arriving on base that he was likely to face a cammo wall of armed and proficient shooters its doubtful even in his whacked out mind he’d think attempting it was a good idea.

Those 2 reasons right there are enough fore me to realize this policy is liberal bullshit designed to make the military easier to control and less likely to initiate a coup against an increasingly socialist government with no regard for the Constitution or the Bill of Rights.

Finally one last thought. Once again the adage has been proven, ‘When you outlaw guns only the outlaws will have guns’. The government stripped our military forces of the right to protect themselves on military bases. While its bad enough that in a post Sept 11th terrorist attacks on US soil world that this  has not been readdressed what is even worse is that the Government once again has done things HALF ASSED. If you take away a persons right to protect themselves YOU  become responsible for their protection!

Show me the metal detectors, pass though or otherwise this shooter was checked with prior to being allowed to enter the base. Show me the vehicle search for weapon or the check for firearms residue with a sniffer and then a search if it was positive. SHOW ME ANY, even the MOST BASIC attempt to keep these people safe from those who would chose to ignore this law!

ANYONE who would tell you that depriving  people of their god given constitutionally assured right to self protect with their liberal ‘guns bad’ laws is not ONLY deluded and full of shit BUT OUTRIGHT LYING TO YOUR FACE AND CARES MORE FOR THEIR NOT FOUNDED IN REALITY BELIEF THAN YOUR SAFETY!

Good Morning Campers!

Welcome to another edition of your favorite on line media source.  Not your grandfather’s e-zine!  Okay, well…since at least one of the main characters and about half the mythical staff have grand kids, maybe it is your grandfather’s e-zine. 

When somebody says that such-and-such is not your grandfather’s – whatever, what they mean is that it is new and modern and hip and all those other buzz words that mean modern.  But we can do anything we put our minds to.  I know we have at least a great-grandfather who reads our e-zine, anybody out there who can beat that?

So, tomorrow is Easter.  Our dear Lethal Leprechaun spent some time in his last issue telling us all about how the holiday came about and the history of the special day.  That means that I get to pick on the Easter bunnies, Easter dragons, Easter baskets and eggs and all the really non-serious stuff about this holiday.  As we go through today’s issue, you will learn how important dragons have been in the Easter history and tradition.  I want you to understand, right from the beginning, that the information I am bestowing upon you concerning the relationship between dragons and Easter is possible to get you into trouble in the mythical realm of suspicion and secrets.  Most mythical creatures are very secretive.  Lethal and I are amongst the small minority who believe that openness in human/mythological creature relations is not only warranted but important.  Granted, we know that many, many humans not only won’t believe but will molest those that do. 

Now, pull up a log, refill your coffee and I’ll tell you the true story of Easter and how it all really started.

Long ago, before Christendom hijacked this holiday,  when dragons ruled the world and had nothing more to fear than the occasional slayer sneaking into the lair whilst we slept or an unusually powerful wizard focusing his attention on us; actually wizards have never been much of a problem, dragons are unusually resistant to magic and wizards aren’t wizards if they wear any armor or use most physical weapons.  Normally, they would have this great plan, have this fantastic new spell, get into position to monologue, go on and on about how they were there to defeat the “evil dragon” and after an appropriate build up, they would fire off this great spell.  The spell in question  would harmlessly bounce off us or do something completely different then they thought and then they would be dragon snacks. 

Oh, and while I’m digressing, let me stray just a little more off track-evil dragons?  Not so much.  Oh, don’t get me wrong, there are evil dragons, but it’s nothing at all like what you’ve been told.  Smaug?  I’d eat the damn hobbit if he interrupted my sleep and then tried to rob me of what I’d rightfully earned!  Probably a damn democrat hobbit wanting to “share the wealth.”  And Thorn?  Completely misrepresented in the book Eldest, he wasn’t vicious or evil,  Paolini would twist his tail every single day before he started writing “to get everyone in the proper mood.” I’d have eaten him straight out, but Thorn, being a VERY young red, had no idea how to deal with the problem and ended getting a reputation he didn’t deserve.  Now, Puff on the other hand.  Yeah, Puff.  The one who played with “little Jackie Paper”?  One of the biggest drug pushers in the mythical realm!  I know you’ve heard the rumors how the song has a lot to do with smoking marijuana and such.  If that was the only thing he ever pushed he’d be an angel compared to what he really was.  Let’s just say that the Mexican cartels learned a lot from him.

But Easter. 

Easter started out as Ease-Her.  Yup, it was a day, just like it sounds, for male dragons to give female dragons the day off.  Ease-Her Day would start with the ladies putting their feet up, easing back in the lazy-boy while the guys would do the housework, take care of the kids, catch and make the meals, all that stuff.  Kind of like your Mother’s Day, but different…and for dragons. 

It was all designed to give her a relaxing day off, so we could talk them into the complete mating ritual the next day.  Normal dragon sex is, well, normal.  But, once a year we went through the whole ritual, which involves having sex while flying and trying NOT to crash into hard objects on the ground.  You know how men get, the get so involved and forget where they are and before you know it, your skull is buried in the side of a mountain while your manly parts are buried…well, let’s leave the rest of that to your imagination.  So, by giving the ladies the time off the day before, it helps them pay a little more attention, since they are so rested, so hopefully you don’t both end up a smoking hole in the granite.  How in Tiamat’s name the eggs and bunnies got involved is anybody’s guess.  But the original holiday was ours.

I lost a lot of good buddies after we lost that holiday!

Damn Christians.

Okay, so now I’m pissed off, so story time is over.  Grab another cuppa and …

Let’s start today with a different little Johnny…

Mohammad, an Arab child, entered his classroom on the first day of school.

“What’s your name?” asked the teacher.

“Mohammad” answered the kid.

“You are in America now. From now on, your name will be Johnny,” replied the      teacher.

That evening, when Mohammad returned home. “How was your day, Mohammad?”, asked his mother.

“My name is not Mohammad. I’m in America and now my name is Johnny.”

“Are you ashamed of your name, are you trying to dishonor your parents, your heritage, your religion? Shame on you!” and she beat him. Then she called his father and he too beat him.

The next day Mohammad returned to school..

When the teacher saw him with all the bruises, she asked, “What happened to you, Johnny”?

“Four hours after becoming an American, I was attacked by two Muslims.”

 

 

 

 

For all you Game of Thrones Geeks out there, here’s the smooth version of the theme song…

 

 

 

Aww, ain’t that just the cutest thing ever!

 

 

This is just too good to pass up.  Thanks to Ginny for this one!

Can anyone tell me what movie this was originally from?

 

Impish Dragon, tired of being as round a dragon as he was, calls a company and orders their 5-day, 5 lbs weight loss program.

The next day, there’s a knock on the door and there stands before him a voluptuous, athletic, 19 year old babe dressed in nothing but a pair of Nike running shoes and a sign around her neck..

She introduces herself as a representative of the weight loss company. The sign reads, “If you can catch me, you can have me.”

Without a second thought, Impish takes off after her. A few miles later puffing and puffing, he finally gives up. The same girl shows up for the next four days and the same thing happens. On the fifth day, our rotund dragon weighs himself and is delighted to find he has lost 5lbs as promised.

He calls the company and orders their 5-day/10 lbs program. The next day there’s a knock at the door and there stands the most stunning, beautiful, sexy woman he has ever seen in his life. She is wearing nothing but Reebok running shoes and a sign around her neck that reads, “If you catch me you can have me”.

Well, he’s out the door after her like a shot. This girl is in excellent shape and he does his best, but no such luck. So for the next four days, the same routine happens with him gradually getting in better and better shape.

Much to his delight on the fifth day when he weighs himself, he discovers that he has lost another 10 lbs as promised. He decides to go for broke and calls the company to order the 7-day/25 lbs program.

“Are you sure?” asks the representative on the phone. “This is our most rigorous program.” “Absolutely,” Impish replies, “I haven’t felt this good in years.”

The next day there’s a knock at the door; and when he opens it he finds a huge muscular guy standing there wearing nothing but pink running shoes and a sign around his neck that reads, “If I catch you, you are mine.”

Impish Dragon lost 33 lbs that week…

But I didn’t get caught.

 

 

After living in the remote countryside of Ireland all his life, an old Irishman decided it was time to visit Dublin.

In one of the stores, he picks up a mirror and looks into it. Not ever having seen
a mirror before, he remarked at the image staring back at him.
‘How ’bout that! he exclaims, ‘Here’s a picture of my Fadder ….’

He bought the mirror thinking it was a picture of his dad, but on the way home he remembered his wife didn’t like his father, so he hung it in the shed, and every morning before leaving to go fishing, he would go there and look at it.

His wife began to get suspicious of his many trips to the shed. So, one day after
her husband left, she went to the shed and found the mirror. As she looked into the glass, she fumed, ‘So that’s the ugly bitch he’s running around with.’

 

See under the picture for the translation…

Translation:

“99.9% of males won’t notice the mouse on the donut !”

 

This is a great demonstration of how precise the new big machines are:

 

 

 

 

And yes, if you can’t tell, I am bashing Obama today.  I believe he has been the worst thing for our country since … well … ever!  Him and his administration should all be put in jail for treason!  Call it an Easter wish of mine.

 

 

 

 

 

 

And of course today, we bring you an Easter theme….

 

May you all have a wonderful Easter and truly celebrate it in whatever manner you find best.

 

The headline from this article grabbed my attention immediately and the first thing I thought was, “Have you never raised teenagers?” And then as I read the article I got angrier and angrier!  As usual, my comments are in blue!

White House Counterterror Chief: “Confrontational” Children Could be Terrorists

(See what I mean?  Isn’t that the first thing that comes to mind?  ALL children, especially teens and pre-teens and tweens, are confrontational at times!  They are testing their limits and their boundaries, so for them to be called terrorists? Puh-leese!  Anyway, here’s the article:)

Obama adviser tells parents to be suspicious of their own kids

Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
April 18, 2014

White House counterterrorism and Homeland Security adviser Lisa Monaco gave a speech this week in which she urged parents to watch their children for signs of “confrontational” behavior which could be an indication of them becoming terrorists.  (If that isn’t the dumbest statement I’ve ever heard in my life, then I’m a purple potato!)

During the speech at at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government on Tuesday night, Monaco, who replaced John Brennan last year in overseeing the executive branch’s homeland-security activities, said that parents need to be suspicious of “sudden personality changes in their children at home.” (Okay, I agree with that last statement, 100%!!  But sure as hell, not for the reasons this bimbette is talking about!  Sudden personalities changes in kids is indicative of several things, things that ALL parents need to be well versed in spotting.  Drugs, bullying, peer pressure things of that nature.  Especially drug use.  But terrorism?  Are you out of your friggin’ mind?)

“What kinds of behaviors are we talking about?” she asked. “For the most part, they’re not related directly to plotting attacks. They’re more subtle. For instance, parents might see sudden personality changes in their children at home—becoming confrontational.”

Monaco lamented the fact that, “The government is rarely in a position to observe these early signals,” encouraging parents to act as watchdogs to detect radicalization in line with President Obama’s goal of combating homegrown extremism. (Okay, is it just me, or is that an oh so subtle hint that the government needs to be in more of a position to observe our children?  Of course they are rarely are in a position to observe signs in our children!  The government needs to stay the hell away from our children, and our children’s teachers!)

Over the last decade, the federal government has broadened its definition of what constitutes potential terrorism to such a degree that the term has lost all meaning and is clearly being used as a political tool to demonize adversarial political activism. (Clearly being used as a political tool…which just goes to show, NOTHING is sacred.  Now they are telling us that our children are terrorists.  Returning veterans, people who hang a flag, gun owners, supporters of Cliven Bundy, people who own gold, display political bumper stickers, and I love this one, which is coming up in the article, Americans who are suspicious of centralized federal authority” and “reverent of individual liberty”!!!!!!!!!  Are you kidding me???  The government is saying that it’s okay that they go against the constitution, that they lie, steal, cheat and if we question them or are even suspicious of them, WE are the terrorists!  What the hell, people?  How much of this crap are we going to take before it’s too much?)

Indeed, only yesterday Senator Harry Reid caused outrage when he labeled supporters of Nevada cattle rancher Cliven Bundy “domestic terrorists”.

Although such tactics pre-date the 2009 release of the MIAC report, the Missouri Information Analysis Center document was perhaps the most shocking in that it characterized a whole swathe of conservative Americans as domestic extremists, including Ron Paul supporters, people who own gold and people who display political bumper stickers.

A Homeland Security study leaked in 2012 upped the ante even further, demonizing Americans who are “suspicious of centralized federal authority,” and “reverent of individual liberty” as “extreme right-wing” terrorists.

Lisa Monaco’s speech and the federal government’s track record in assailing both banal behavior and political activism as potential “terrorism” serves as a reminder that the war on terror has now been focused inwardly against innocent Americans, making it all the more harder to detect actual terrorists.  (Quiet or activistic, we are potential terrorists.  Well, that pretty much includes everyone.  Folks, we are being set up.  You mark my words, that things are now only beginning.  The other shoe has yet to drop.  I don’t know that even voting out the incumbents this November will make a difference, because, if past evidence denotes future behavior, the vote is gonna be rigged anyway.  It may come down to this…it may cost us our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor to fix this problem.)

So, how many of you campers, are ready to act?