Dragon Laffs

I’ll try to make this quick this morning, I know most of you are in a hurry to get back to work so you can clear your desks and To-Do lists so you can entertain the idea of skipping out at noon on Friday to start the 3 Day weekend early.

I really like Labor Day for several reasons. It means that fall, my favorite time of year is near as well as the end of hurricane season traditionally, which regardless of your seasonal preference cannot be seen as a bad thing if you live anywhere a hurricane has ever hit. Here in Texas it also means that relief from the high heat, high humidity and high electric bills is only about  6 to 8 weeks off as well.

Unfortunately it is also the last 3 day weekend holiday and unless you have a generous employer the last extended weekend your likely to see this year due to the way the holidays fall. It also means you have just 118 days after that for Christmas shopping!

Well we best get a move on I see some of you are growing impatient and  I do have a lot to say today seeing as this will be my last blog in which I mention politics for an entire month!

Two weeks ago I made you a challenge, 2 weeks of my not haranguing the Liberals, Democrats and Obama or preaching about Politics in Leprechaun Laughs if we raised $100 to cover our costs before August 31st. I also said I would tack on a week for each additional $50 we got over the initial $100. Well Impish informed me this morning that we had slightly over $250 in the pledge fund. That means I owe you guys 5 weeks of no Liberals, Democrats and Obama or Election related material in Leprechaun Laughs. Likely as not somewhere along the line I’m going to suffer a stroke or a stress related heart attack from keeping it all in but a promise is a promise and I keep my word regardless of the cost.

Oh, one last thing…I’d like to thank two particularly generous donors who contributed between them $150 of those $250 we received. My special thanks to the Democratic National Committee and Obama’s CREEP (Committee to Re–Elect the President) for helping us overachieve our goals!

 

  

What can I say? It beats the HELL out of most of the alternatives!

 

 

The editorial staff of DL/LL Electronic Media Enterprises Ltd has decided against producing a Labor Day Issue this year.  Or to ‘speak da straight up plain’…

Impish and I are taking the opportunity for a 3 day weekend respite for all our labors on and off line to spend time with our actual flesh and blood families instead of you guys.

QUITCHERBITCHIN NOW! We’ve earned a holiday off from holiday special issues (well I have anyway) and we’re (I’m) going to have it! This one is the least significant and most appropriate for it so that’s that!

 

Nothing kills your self image nearly as fast as a mother!

Robin Williams – Weapons Of Self Destruction

Get comfy this is a full length show! You can Watch it on Labor Day instead of reading a holiday issue

 

 

 

Hope the colored inside the lines!

Well my Parting Shot on gun control last week generated a few reader responses . Predictably I got some from the loonies spewing their tired already shot down 500 times arguments. I got several that I could use graffiti & expletive remover on then power wash with an abrasive and still not clean up enough for publication (NOT that I would give those people any air time or the satisfaction of a reply.)

I also received two I can and do want to address here. The first was from a personal/professional acquaintance, who due to the nature of his job and his position I decline to identify. He didn’t actually SAY anything in his e-mail, he just sent me the results of the following poll. Since I know him and where he lives I also know enough to say that this comes from the same source and my “What Were You Thinking Feature” which is a group of on-line newspapers for the Northeast Corridor a.k.a. the Blue State Bastion. Keeping that fact in mind along with the fact that Democrats claim such overwhelming support for gun control I find the figures  to put it mildly interesting.

Do you think gun violence is on the rise, based on the recent movie theater shooting in Colorado and Friday’s shooting in New York City?

10% Yes. It’s out of control and calls for better gun law enforcement.

5% Yes, because it’s easy to get guns. They should be outlawed except for law enforcement.

75% No. It’s the same as it’s always been. Some people just shouldn’t be allowed to have them.

10% I don’t know.

There is one ting that the shootings in Colorado and NYC have made abundantly clear and painfully obvious, or at least it should be if you have half a brain….

–  mass shooters prefer gun free zones –

 

These signs are an open invitation for those bent on killing people.!

It tells them they will face no meaningful resistance and will have free reign until the police arrive and can get organized to make a response.

Signs like this need to be met with signs like these:

( OK so  maybe not the BEST sign but I do know of someone who had a bunch of these made as those Mylar near impossible to remove stickers and slapped them up prominently right next to or on the above signs when ever he encountered them. He said out of the 20 stickers he managed to get up before he was caught in the act, 11 of the signed were taken down permanently.)

Probably a better choice of signage

 

From Gailwynds331:

sadly, this needs to be sent on……terrible times we’re living through…………

This video is being sent to my family, friends, and all the people that mean so much to me.

Please watch this video. You will be glad you did.

This is a video the city of Houston put together on what to do should

you run across an active shooter, such as the guy in the movie theater.

They were just finishing it when the Colorado shootings occurred.

If you haven’t seen it……please watch. I’m sending this to everyone on my mail list….Be Safe!

 

“Run, Hide, Fight”

 

and now for an opposing view point which sadly takes about 1/2 the things I want to say about this right out of play…

“Run, Hide, Fight” Response

 

First of all let me state that despite what the gentleman above said, carrying a concealed weapon is not something I recommend for everyone, nor is owning a gun.

It takes a certain mindset to actually use a weapon on another living breathing human being. Most people do not have what it takes to perform competently under the pressure of a life and death situation with regards to using a firearm. Protection of home and family is one thing and I will freely admit that the number of people willing to pull the trigger in defense of their own family is much higher.

However out in public, the chances of that same person functioning well enough not to endanger himself or others drops significantly. Under those circumstances that weapon in your possession becomes a liability, the sense of safety and security you derive from it is false. Any person in a confrontational situation with an armed assailant is at least TWICE as likely to be targeted over a non armed person. If you are not willing to use that gun, use it first and with lethal intent, then all you’ve done is painted a huge THREAT! sign on yourself.

That’s why I in the strongest possible terms, suggest, urge and advise that you and your families watch the following 3 short instructional videos. In all sincerity, honesty and with deadly seriousness I say that doing so might just at some future time save someone’s life, most likely yours.

Last Resort Active Shooter Survival Measures by Alon Stivi

When Seconds Count: Stopping Active Shooters

Defensive mindset gets you killed or the very least hit!

Thanks to those who shared their thoughts on the subject. I hope and pray you will take the time to review the above information and that by posting it I have helped to make you more aware and safer. Stay safe, but most importantly stay aware at all times

 

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http://facethefactsusa.org/

One of every 50 federal dollars buys food stamps

Program costs double in five years

Food stamp costs are mushrooming. More than 46 million Americans – about one in seven – rely on food stamps, the equivalent of the entire populations of Texas and New York. The program now consumes 2 percent of the federal budget, or $78 billion in fiscal 2011. That’s about the cost of the auto industry bailout.

Check the original sources behind the fact:

• US Department of Agriculture: “Building a Healthy America: A Profile of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program”
• US Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service annual data: “Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Participation and Costs” (July 2012)

 

Ask for the corporate rate. Or not.

Stifling innovation? Or paying a fair share?

The United States has the world’s highest corporate income tax rate at up to 35 percent. Japan recently lowered its corporate tax rate to 30 percent, and some US companies are moving operations to countries with lower rates such as Ireland, where the corporate tax rate is 12.5 percent. After various tax deductions and credits, the US collected $205 billion in corporate income tax in 2009 from 5.8 million corporations, down from $228 billion the year before. 

How do we know?

Check the original sources behind the fact:

• Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Tax Database: Section C, Table II.1 “Basic (non-targeted) corporate income tax rates” (2012)
• Internal Revenue Service: 2009 Statistics of Income, Corporation Income Tax Returns

 

Money can’t buy genius

Big school outlays don’t lead to straight A’s

We spend an average $10,995 in public dollars on each US elementary and secondary student, but other countries spend less to get better reading, math and science test scores. Japan spends $8,301 per student and South Korea spends less, at $6,723, but both outpace US academic performance. The US outlay per student is $2,826 more than the average in industrialized countries. Then again, the biggest spenders per student – Luxembourg, Norway, and Switzerland – have mixed results compared to the US.

How do we know?

Check the original sources behind the fact:

• US Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics: “The Condition of Education 2012” report (Indicators 22 and 26, Tables A-22-1, A-26-1 through A-26-30)
• OECD: “Annual Expenditures per Student, by Educational Institutions on Core Services, Ancillary Services and R&D (2008)” (Table B1.2)

Supersized hunger pangs, supersized waste

We fight hunger while throwing away more food

Americans wasted 33.79 million tons of food in 2010, enough to fill 91 Empire State Buildings, and a 16 percent increase from a decade ago.  The average American wastes 209 to 254 pounds of edible food each year.  Meanwhile, more than 17 million American households were considered “food insecure” in 2010, meaning it was difficult to provide enough food for everyone in the family.  46 million Americans, about one in seven people, relied on food stamps. 

How do we know?

Check the original sources behind the fact.

• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations: “Global Food Losses and Food Waste: Extent, causes and prevention”
• US Department of Agriculture: Household Food Security in the United States, 2008

Who holds the note? Look in the mirror

Uncle Sam owes many things to many people

As of summer 2012, the federal government’s outstanding debt surpassed $15 trillion. Who are the nation’s creditors? The government owes the most money to — itself.  U.S. government agencies, including giant trust funds of the Social Security and Medicare systems, and the independent Federal Reserve System account for 41 percent of the federal debt, more than $2 of every $5. Nearly one-third of the national debt is owed to other countries. China is the biggest foreign creditor ($1.144 trillion), followed by Japan ($1.076 trillion), but together they own less than 15 percent of it. Mexico and Canada together are owed $90 billion.

How do we know?

Check the original sources behind the fact:

• US Department of the Treasury: “Ownership of Federal Securities”
• US Department of the Treasury: “June 2012 Treasury Bulletin”

Think you know who gets social security? Think again!

Elderly retirees, yes, and many more

Thirty-six percent of Social Security recipients are not retired workers, but children, the disabled, or spouses and survivors of workers. Almost one of every six Americans receives a Social Security benefit today.

How do we know?

Check the original sources behind the fact:

• US Social Security Administration: “Annual benefits paid from the OASI Trust Fund, by type of benefit, calendar years 1937-2011”
• US Social Security Administration: “Fast Facts & Figures About Social Security, 2011”

 

Generally Labor Day weekend makes the start of school, the start of football and the start of fall. It also is generally the last big weekend for family picnics and cookouts…unless you tailgate football games. Since I would not dream of interfering with what might just well be your last chance for outdoor grilled burgers, hot dogs, brats and sausages, here is a little something for before and after the grill centric main course(s)

Beefy Taco Dip

Prep: 5 minutes
Cook: 15 minutes

Serves: 18

Spicy ground beef, picante sauce, cream cheese and Cheddar are heated together for a hearty dip with maximum flavor…it’s a quick and tasty appetizer to serve with tortilla chips.

Ingredients:

1/2 pound ground beef

1 1/2 teaspoons chili powder

1 cup Picante Sauce

1/2 of an 8-ounce package cream cheese, cut into pieces

1/2 cup shredded Cheddar cheese

2 tablespoons each diced tomatoes, sliced green onion, sliced pitted ripe olives and/or seeded sliced jalapeño pepper

2 tablespoons sour cream

Tortilla chips

Directions:

Cook the beef and chili powder in a 10-inch skillet over medium-high heat until the beef is well browned, stirring often to separate meat. Pour off any fat.

Stir the picante sauce, cream cheese and Cheddar cheese in the skillet. Cook and stir until the cheese is melted.

Spoon the beef mixture into a medium bowl.  Sprinkle with the tomatoes, onion, olives and pepper and top with the sour cream, if desired.  Serve with the tortilla chips.

Nutrition Information

Nutritional Values per Serving

Using Pace Picante Sauce: : Calories 60, Total Fat 4g, Saturated Fat 2g, Cholesterol 18mg, Sodium 160mg, Total Carbohydrate 2g, Dietary Fiber 1g, Protein 3g, Vitamin A 4%DV, Vitamin C 0%DV, Calcium 3%DV, Iron 2%DV

Toffee Apple Coffee Cake Bars

Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cook Time: 50 minutes
Yield: 24 bars

INGREDIENTS:

• CRUST

• 2 cups All Purpose Flour
• 1/2 cup powdered sugar
• 1 cup butter

• FILLING

• 1 (14 oz.) can Sweetened Condensed Milk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1 large egg
• 1 cup peeled, chopped apple
• 1 cup chopped pecans
• 1 cup toffee baking bits

• GLAZE

• 1 cup powdered sugar
• 2 to 3 tbsps. strong brewed coffee, cooled to room temperature

DIRECTIONS:

1. HEAT oven to 350°F. Combine flour and 1/2 cup powdered sugar in medium bowl. Cut in butter with pastry blender or fork until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Press in bottom of ungreased 13 x 9-inch pan. Bake 15 minutes or until set while making filling.
2. COMBINE sweetened condensed milk, vanilla, cinnamon and egg in large bowl; blend well. Stir in remaining filling ingredients; mix well. Pour mixture over partially baked crust.
3. BAKE an additional 35 to 40 minutes or until filling is set and top is golden brown. Cool 10 minutes. Run knife around sides of pan to loosen. Cool 1 hour or until completely cooled.
4. COMBINE glaze ingredients in small bowl, adding enough coffee for desired drizzling consistency. Blend until smooth. Drizzle over bars. Let stand 10 minutes or until glaze is set. Cut into bars. Store in loosely covered container.

 

Perks of reaching 50, Or being over 60, And heading towards 70 or beyond!

1. Kidnappers are not very Interested in you.

2. In a hostage situation, You are likely to be released first.

3. No one expects you to run — Anywhere.

4. People call at 9 PM (or 9 AM) and ask, ‘Did I wake you?’

5. People no longer view you as a Hypochondriac.

6. There is nothing left to learn the hard way.

7. Things you buy now will probably last the rest of your life.

8. You can eat supper at 4 PM.

9. You can live without sex but not your glasses.

10. You get into heated arguments about pension plans.

11. You no longer think of speed limits as a challenge.

12. You quit trying to hold your stomach in no matter who walks into the room.

13. You sing along with elevator music.

14. Your eyes won’t get much worse.

15. Your investment in health insurance is finally beginning to pay off.

16. Your joints are more accurate meteorologists than the national weather service.

17. Your secrets are safe with your friends because they can’t remember them either.

18. Your supply of brain cells is finally down to a manageable size.

19. You can’t remember who sent you this list.
And you notice these are all in big print for your convenience.

Forward this to everyone You can remember… Right now!

AND THE MOST IMPORTANT THING:

20. Never, NEVER, NEVER , Under any circumstances… Take a sleeping pill and a laxative on  the same night!

 

Seductive Motion

 

 

 

The following is an excerpt from a newsletter forwarded to me by reader Paul Bader. Paul is very bad for me. He seems to excel at sending me information that pushes my buttons and makes me angry. Statistically speaking, I’d say at least 1/3 of my Parting Shots have been instigated or influenced in some form by his sends to Impish and I.

The somewhat misleading title to the e-zine article was:

AZ TEACHER EXPOSES ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION IN CLASSROOMS

Tony Hill’s letter will make you cry and his letter will make you angry. You will cry as you realize this attack on American culture comes from children who should be innocent and preparing to realize a good life in the freest nation the world has produced. You will grow angry when you realize these children openly defy allegiance to America, refuse to gain the education U.S. public schools are intended to provide, and advocate an allegiance to other countries.

Tony Hill, a substitute teacher, unknowingly ignited a rhetoric bomb when he wrote a letter to Arizona State Sen. Russell Pearce, the legislator behind Arizona’s infamous SB 1070 border security enforcement bill. This letter was read on the AZ state Senate’s floor to support legislation requiring parents to prove their children are citizens of the United States before the children may enter school. After substituting at Harold W. Smith Elementary School, on March 15, 2011, Tony Hill wrote:

“During the Pledge of Allegiance I notice the vast majority of students refusing to stand and say the pledge. I asked the students why they refused to say the Pledge of Allegiance and they responded by saying, “we are Mexicans and Americans stole our land.”

The teacher’s instructions were for the students to read a few pages and answer the questions regarding Mark Twain in their history textbook and to finish their final drafts to Senator Steve Gallardo thanking him for his position on Illegal Immigration rights. Their teacher apparently had showed them a video with Senator Steve Gallardo and Lou Dobbs.

Most of the students came unprepared for class not possessing paper and pencil. I provided the students with paper and pencils only to have them wad-up the paper and throw it at each other along with their pencils.

The students’ final drafts that I read were basically the same. Most of them stated they were in the country illegally, white Americans are racist, and that they came here for a better life. I asked the class if America adopted Mexico immigration laws would Americans still be consider racist?

That question they could not answer and called me a racist for asking it. I mentioned that my wife and children are Hispanic so how could I be racist? I asked the students to stop speaking Spanish in class because it was impolite to speak a language in front of people who may not speak that language. Their response was that Americans better learn Spanish and their customs because they are taking their land back from us.

When it came to completing the Mark Twain assignment only 10 students completed it out of all my classes. Most of the students refused to open the book, tore the pages out of the book, or threw the textbooks at each other. I thought, are these the students we are trying to educate with taxpayers’ money? I have found that substitute teaching in these areas most of the Hispanic students do not want to be educated but rather [want to] be gang members and gangsters.

They hate America and are determined to reclaim this area for Mexico. If we are able to remove the illegal’s out of our schools, the class sizes would be reduced and the students who wanted to learn would have a better chance to do so and become productive citizens.”

Let me save us all time by expounding on the basic situation by saying you can read more about the situation as it evolved here:

Teachers, students speak out about substitute’s controversial letter to Arizona lawmakers

here:

Substitute Teacher’s Letter Backed Up In Part by Exit Report; Tony Hill Gave Students “Poor” Rating for Behavior

and here:

Letter about Hispanic students in Glendale spurs controversy

I’ll give you a minute to get your temper, heart rates and blood pressure under control. Here’s a little hint; try some medicinal Bailey’s in that cuppa as an Rx from your favorite Dr of Quackery. Go ahead take your time, its ok I understand completely, Lord knows I have been a bear for the 3 days its taken me to write this because it makes me so angry.

Feeling better? Got everything under control now? Good because I’m here to tell you2 more unpleasant facts.

• Irregardless of the exact circumstances of the exact circumstances of Tony Hill’s employment, how many times he experienced it or if any of the other liberal teacher say it bunk IT’S ALL TRUE!

How do I know this? How can I say with a certainty what Tony Hill in Arizona encountered and saw when I live in Houston Texas? Do I know him? Have I met him personally? Been to an Arizona school and seen it first hand myself? To the last three question the answer is “No.”

As to the first two I can say this because I have first hand knowledge of the exact same situation not in Arizona, but right here in Texas. It occurs here every day in the Rio Grande Valley where my Mother In Law taught public school for 20 years and now is a substitute teacher across 4 school districts. The same kinds inhabit her class rooms on a daily basis and she has seen it go from an occasional one or two kids to where any Hispanic kid that actually wants to learn is the exception!

She has been slapped, spit on, had things thrown at her, her safety threatened and her classes disrupted daily by these kids. It’s SO bad that some district down there have been forced in some cases into paying a premium to get qualified substitute teachers to teach in certain problem schools! Even with that the substitutes rarely agree to teach there for more than one or two days at a time!

This wastes our teachers (a valuable resource), our tax dollars and is detrimental to the education of those  of our kids who actually WANT to learn. Parents of those kids are forced to shoulder the burden of private schooling their kids (which according the the Mexicans then makes them racist for not wanting to be with their disrespectful disruptive asses and there for the target of their harassment) IN ADDITION to paying for these adolescent agitators ‘schooling’.

Mexicans Attack Fellow Students For Waving American Flag-Shocking Footage

Anti-American Outrage: Hispanic Students in California Ditch Classes to Protest the Wearing of US Flag on Cinco de Mayo

• Second ugly fact: Not ONLY is this just the tip of the iceberg, being indicative of a much greater problem, the kids are not actually the ones with the bad attitudes! They are getting this mindset and learning their attitude from their parents and the rest of their illegal aliens society with which the interact. They just have not learned to keep their fat mouths shut about it and so now we have a clear indication of just how big the issue actually is.

What issue Lethal? Glad you asked! It’s called ‘The Reconquista Movement’ and is a serious threat to our border states and if nothing is done soon probably the root cause of your looming next civil war. A war not of American against American but American against Illegal Mexican immigrants for most of the American Southwest and California!

                             

Apparently any Native Americans reading this can plan on having problems with La Raza & The Reconquista Movement as well. Note the large sign in the background of this next photo:

here is their intent is spoken plainly with  regard to California:

Mexican aliens seek to retake ‘stolen’ land

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2006/apr/16/20060416-122222-1672r/?page=all

DENVER — La reconquista, a radical movement calling for Mexico to “reconquer” America’s Southwest, has stepped out of the shadows at recent immigration-reform protests nationwide as marchers held signs saying, “Uncle Sam Stole Our Land!” and waved Mexico’s flag.

Even as organizers urged marchers to display U.S. flags, the theme of reclaiming “stolen” land remained strong. One popular banner read: “If you think I’m illegal because I’m a Mexican, learn the true history because I’m in my homeland.”

The revolutionary tone has surprised even longtime immigration watchers such as Ira Mehlman, the Los Angeles-based spokesman for the Federation for American Immigration Reform.

“I’ve always been skeptical myself about this [reconquista], but what I’ve seen over the last few weeks leads me to believe that there’s more there than I thought,” Mr. Mehlman said.

“You’re seeing people marching with Mexican flags chanting, ‘This is our country.’ I don’t think that we can dismiss this as youthful exuberance or a bunch of hotheads,” he said.

Hispanic rights leaders insist there’s nothing to the so-called reconquista, sometimes referred to as Aztlan, the mythical ancestral homeland of the Aztecs that reportedly stretches from the border to southern Oregon and Colorado.

Nativo Lopez, president of the Mexican American Political Association in Los Angeles, one of the march organizers, was infuriated when a reporter asked him about the reconquista.

“I can’t believe you’re bothering me with questions about this. You’re not serious,” Mr. Lopez said. “I can’t believe you’re bothering with such a minuscule, fringe element that has no resonance with this populous.”

At the same time, some analysts say the seismic demographic shifts brought on by unchecked border crossings and birth rates are resulting in a de facto reconquista.

“Demographically, socially and culturally, the reconquista of the Southwest United States by Mexico is well under way,” Harvard University professor Samuel P. Huntington said in 2004.

“No other immigrant group in U.S. history has asserted or could assert a historical claim to U.S. territory. Mexicans and Mexican-Americans can and do make that claim,” he said.

A three-minute videotape made by the Immigration Watchdog Web site plays speeches by Hispanic professors and elected officials making references to Aztlan and the idea of a demographic takeover.

“We are millions. We just have to survive. We have an aging white America. They are not making babies. They are dying. It’s a matter of time. The explosion is in our population,” Jose Angel Gutierrez, political science professor at the University of Texas at Arlington, said on the videotape.

In an interview, Mr. Gutierrez said there was “no viable” reconquista movement. He blamed interest in the issue on closed-border groups and “right-wing blogs” such as American Patrol and L.A. Watchdog, but those Web sites are getting plenty of ammunition from groups like La Voz de Aztlan, a Whittier, Calif.-based news service that advocates a separatist state while criticizing Jews and “gringos.”

Then there’s the Mexica Movement, which wants to “reconstruct” the United States as an “indigenous” nation called Anahuac. Professor Charles Truxillo of the University of New Mexico envisions a sovereign Hispanic nation called the Republica del Norte that would encompass Northern Mexico, Baja California, California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas.

MEChA, an acronym for the Chicano Student Movement of Aztlan, has come under fire for revolutionary language in its “El Plan de Aztlan,” a founding document that declares “the independence of our mestizo nation,” decries the “brutal gringo invasion,” and says that land “rightfully ours will be fought for and defended.”

What’s notable about MEChA is its otherwise mainstream image. Most Hispanic leaders, including Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, belonged to MEChA in high school or college. Former Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante came under fire from conservatives for refusing to renounce his membership during the 2003 gubernatorial race.

Federico Rangel, a University of Colorado graduate student and MEChA officer, said most students view Aztlan as part of their history, not as a rallying cry for revolution.

“Aztlan isn’t what people say it is, like the reconquista,” said Mr. Rangel, who carried a MEChA sign at Monday’s rally. “It’s a spiritual homeland to Chicanos.”

 

 

FACT CHECK:

In 500+ years of recorded history Mexico had dominion over Texas for exactly 15 years, roughly 0.3% of its recorded history.

By comparison Spain held sway over it for 302 years though 77 of those years were apparently contested by France

Republic of Texas- 12 years

The Confederacy- 4 years

The United States of America – 167 years

So in order of claim precedence Mexico has a snowballs shot in an Arizona summer of legal claim of any sort. The ludicrousness of these claims is right up there with Blacks demanding “compensation  & reparations” for slavery in a monkey see monkey do imitation of Jews who actually suffered the Atrocities of the Concentration Camps getting it. Do I even have to go into the fact that if they are illegal aliens then by definition this is not their homeland? How is that refusing an education thing working out now you bunch of illegal illiterate ignorant dumb asses?

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/atlas_texas/six_national_flags.jpg

At the beginning of 1846 the population of California included, with about two hundred thousand Indians, six thousand Mexicans and perhaps two hundred Americans. In 1848 California and New Mexico were ceded to the United States- BY MEXICO!

http://history-world.org/california.htm

http://www.americanpatrol.com/10-FEATURES/100507-FEATURE/100507_Feature.html

http://www.frugal-cafe.com/public_html/frugal-blog/frugal-cafe-blogzone/2010/05/07/anti-american-outrage-hispanic-students-in-california-ditch-classes-to-protest-the-wearing-of-us-flag-on-cinco-de-mayo/

La Reconquista Manifesto (Me gusta tu)

IT COULDN’T BE ANY MORE CLEAR. Welcome to the world of Brown Supremacist Groups like MECHA, LA RAZA, BROWN BERETS, MALDEF, LULAC and the millions of illegal Latin immigrants aliens covert enemy combatants  that subscribe to and support their goal of converting nearly one third of the United States into the mirror image of the Third World SHITHOLES they left behind ON YOUR TAX DOLLAR FUNDED WELFARE, FOOD STAMPS & SOCIAL SECURITY ALONG WITH THE VOTING RIGHTS ALSO SUPPLIED TO THEM BY U.S. PRESIDENT BARRAK OBAMA COURTESY OF HIS HOPE & CHANGE!

My father watched as his friends & family died in WW II, and I watched as my family died in Vietnam. My parents watch as I went to war in Beirut, Grenada, and Kuwait- which almost killed me. None of them died for the Mexican Flag and I sure as HELL didn’t fight for it.  Everyone fought or died for the U.S. flag.

In Texas, a student raised a Mexican flag on a school flag pole; another student took it down. Guess who was expelled…the kid who took it down. Kids in high school in California were sent home this year on Cinco de Mayo because they wore T-shirts with the American flag printed on them. Enough is enough. Every American needs to stand up for America . We’ve bent over to appease the America-haters long enough. I’m taking my stand. I’m standing up because the hundreds of thousands who died fighting in wars for this country, and for the U.S. flag can’t stand up. And shame on anyone who tries to make this a racist message.

Let me make this perfectly clear!

THIS IS MY COUNTRY!

And, because I make this statement DOES NOT Mean I’m against immigration!!!

YOU ARE WELCOME HERE, IN MY COUNTRY!

Welcome to come through legally:

1. Get a sponsor!

2. Get a place to lay your head!
3. Get a job!
4. Live By OUR Rules!
5. Pay YOUR Taxes!
And
6. Learn the LANGUAGE like all immigrants have in the past!!!
AND
7. Please don’t demand that we hand over our lifetime savings of  Social Security Funds to you.

If you don’t want to forward this for fear of offending someone, Then YOU’RE PART OF THE PROBLEM!

When will AMERICANS STOP giving away THEIR RIGHTS???

We’ve gone so far the other way… bent over backwards not to offend anyone. But it seems no one cares about the AMERICAN CITIZEN that’s being offended!

WAKE UP America !!! BEFORE ITS TOO LATE!

If You agree…. Pass this on. Vote those who believe the same come November.

If You don’t agree.. You’re free to leave along with the illegal enemy aliens you apparently love more than your own country.

You know it occurs to me that the liberals want to pull our troops out of Afghanistan and the Middle East to bring them home. It occurs to me they just might have a point!

Our country is under siege and our southern border is overrun by hostile invaders ON A DAILY BASIS! Its HIGH TIME we PROTECT and DEFEND our country’s Borders and SOVERENTY against incursion by HOSTILE FOREIGN GUERRILLAS AND INSERCTIONISTS!

 

I know, huge surprise, like the dragon has NEVER screwed up before.  First of all, I missed the punch line on the cowboy joke. (“I had to walk.”)

But even worse, I asked for a last push for donations to our wonderful experiment in laughter and anti-bullshit-isms and I don’t even remind you how to donate.  So, here you go…

The easiest and best way is to go to the website at http://dragonlaffs.com and on the top right column you will see:

Click on the writing where it says:
”If you enjoyed what you read here, please consider donating through our Paypal link.
Thank you!”
and you will be taken right to the site on PayPal to fill out a donation for us.  You don’t even have to have a PayPal account.  All you need is a bank account or a credit card and it’s easy.  I’ve used PayPal for years and have never had a single problem with them.  Never!
If you don’t want to go to the website (I really can’t figure out why you wouldn’t want to, but if that’s the case) then you can click the little logo to the right and it will take you to the same site.  Or, if for some reason your email doesn’t work with hyperlinks, you can cut and paste this address into your web browser and do it that way: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=4X2MEADWHBYE8

As to why we are asking for money?  As you know, the Leprechaun and I do this in our spare (neither of us have “spare” time) time.  We have no advertising on the page because both of us hate giving up space to advertise someone else’s crap.  We’d rather use the space for our own crap…um…I mean stuff.  Our own good stuff.  Keeping the name “dragonlaffs.com” and paying for the bandwidth, and the storage space so that all our past issues are available to you costs money.  Neither of us is independently wealthy, recent lottery winners, or owners of our own web server.  Our families have agreed that we can spend our time, but if we have to spend our money, then it’s no longer beneficial for the good of our families.

So, there it is.  You probably won’t hear such an in-depth request for donations out of us again.  Well, at least not this year.  Let’s keep Dragon Laffs on the net and ad free. We can’t do it without your help.

Cheers!

Good Morning Campers!  I hope everyone has had a great week I have a special surprise for you!  But first, I have to give you another plea for funds!  Thank you, thank you, thank you to the few of you who’ve already given!  Bless you!  We couldn’t do any of this without you!  We’re asking for a little bit from the rest of you.  Just loose pocket change, what you find under the couch cushions, forgo that second chocolate latte, you get the idea.  We hate to beg for money, but we hate to see the end of our dream even more.  Okay, so no more preaching or begging and on to the surprise.
Here’s a picture of me in the midst of my acting career during the exercise I told you about.  There were lots of other pictures, but of other people that I’m sure you aren’t interested in.  And there were some of them that haven’t been cleared for general release yet, so here I am:
Yes, I know.  I can almost hear the words to Fiddler on the Roof.  Or that stupid hyena yell that they seem so fond of.  And yes I also know that I’m not only mixing my analogies, by I’m also mixing my religions, and races.  Oh well, it was still fun.  What do you say we get on with the fun!

A plethora of blonde jokes…to all you blondes out there in the campground, I’m really sorry, but that’s okay, ‘cause you probably won’t get most of these jokes anyway.

“We’ve been trying for months now, Doctor, and I don’t seem to be able to get pregnant,” she confessed miserably.

“I’m sure we’ll solve your problem,”  the doctor reassured her. “If you’ll just take off your underpants and get up on the examining table…”

“Well, all right, Doctor,” agreed the young woman, blushing, “but I’d rather have my husband’s baby.”


Q: What’s the quickest way to get into a blondes pants?
A: First…pick them up off the floor…

A blonde is telling one of her friends, “Christmas is on a Friday this year.  Let’s hope it’s not the 13th.”

A woman phoned her blonde neighbor and said: “Close your curtains the next time you & your husband are having sex. The whole street was watching and laughing at you yesterday.” To which the blonde replied: “Well the joke’s on all of you because I wasn’t even at home yesterday.”

For Sale!

Dog For Sale . Free to good home.
Excellent guard dog.
Owner cannot afford to feed Jethro anymore,
as there are no more drug pushers, thieves,
murderers, or molesters left in the neighborhood
for him to eat. Most of them knew Jethro only by
his Chinese street name,
Ho Lee Schitt.

 

A woman hired a contractor to repaint the interior of her house. The woman walked the man through the second floor of her home and told him what colors she wanted for each room. As they walked through the first room, the woman said, “I think I would like this room in a cream color.”

The contractor wrote on his clipboard, walked to the window, opened it and yelled out, “Green side up!” He then closed the window and continued following the woman to the next room. The woman looked confused, but proceeded with her tour. “In this room, I was thinking of an off blue.” Again, the contractor wrote this down, went to the window, opened it and yelled out, “Green side up!”

This baffled the woman, but she was hesitant to say anything. In the next room, the woman said she would like it painted in a light rose color. And once more, the contractor opened the window and yelled, “Green side up!”

Struck with curiosity, the woman mustered up the nerve to ask, “Why do you keep yelling ‘Green side up’ out my window every time I tell you the color I would like the room?”

The contractor replied, “Because I have a crew of blondes laying sod across the street.”

 

 

 

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The Mars Curiosity rover sent back photos which scientists suggested

 

A cowboy rode into town and stopped at a saloon for a drink. Unfortunately,
the locals had a habit of picking on strangers. So when he finished his
drink, he found his horse had been stolen. He went back into the bar,
handily flipped his gun into the air, caught it above his head and fired a
shot into the ceiling. “WHICH ONE OF YOU SIDEWINDERS STOLE MY HOSS?” he
yelled.

No one answered.

“ALL RIGHT, I’M GONNA HAVE ANOTHA’ BEER, AND IF MY HOSS AIN’T BACK OUTSIDE
BY THE TIME I FINISH, I’M GONNA DO WHAT I DONE IN TEXAS! AND I DON’T LIKE
TO HAVE TO DO WHAT I DONE IN TEXAS!”

Some of the locals shifted restlessly. The cowboy had another beer, walked
outside, and his horse was back! He saddled up and started to ride out of
town. The bartender wandered out of the bar and asked, “Say partner,
before you go. . .what happened in Texas?”

I want to be a watchmaker. It is a great job because you can make your own hours. A woman called her insurance company to see if her policy covered psychiatric treatment. After reviewing her policy, the agent told her, “Yes, Virginia, there is an insanity clause!”   He drove his expensive car into a tree and found out how the Mercedes bends.   Did you hear about the new pinata? It’s a huge hit.   Smaller babies may be delivered by stork, but the heavier ones need a crane.   Didja hear about the kangaroo that was hopping mad?

Archie Bunker called it right:

You must go to the website in order to view the videos….it’s well worth it!  http://dragonlaffs.com

“Wrinkled” was not one of the things I wanted to be when I grew up!

Talk about a windy day!

Everyone knows that highway signs aren’t supposed to bounce like they just remembered the lyrics to “Jump Around” by House of Pain. But this particular sign across a highway in Calgary, Alberta, Canada doesn’t care about your so-called common knowledge.

A storm that brought some serious wind sent this crossbar into gyrations so severe that cars began changing lanes to get out of the way. Watch all the way to the end of the short video, you’ll see they had good reason.

And of course, the video needs to be watched on our website!  Go to http://dragonlaffs.com

Well, early Saturday morning we learned that Congressman Paul Ryan, Republican from Wisconsin, is to be Mitt Romney’s pick for the next Vice President of The United States.

What are we to think of this selection?  He’s not a graduate of Columbia University.  He’s not a graduate of Harvard.  He wasn’t selected as the President of the Harvard Law Review. [Well, for my money, that’s three in the plus column!]

 

He didn’t get a special free quota scholarship ride to any prestigious university and, instead, had to work his way through Miami University of Ohio.  [For you left wing liberals out there I present this definition: work [wurk] noun, adjective, verb,worked or wrought; working. noun 1. exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil.]

 

For God’s sake the man drove the Oscar Mayer Wiener Truck one summer and waited tables another!  [Look up work in the previous paragraph.]

One morning when Paul Ryan was sixteen years old he went in to wake his father up and found him dead of a heart attack.  He didn’t write two books about that experience.  [What? A missed liberal opportunity.]  Instead, he assumed the role of adult at an early age, never having the luxury to pursue youthful drug use and the art of socialist revolution.  [No drug use?  Not even casual drug use?  Geez!  What qualifications for office does this guy even have?]

Instead, Paul Ryan and his mother took his grandmother, suffering from Alzheimers, into the household and served as the primary care provider for his grandma.

 

His grandma wasn’t the Vice President of the Bank of Hawaii so she could offer nothing in return, except the element of “need”.

Once Paul Ryan got his BA in Economics from Miami University of Ohio he was hired as a staff economist in Wisconsin Senator Kastin’s office.

 

The job must have not paid well because young Ryan moonlighted as a waiter and fitness trainer.  No one offered him a “token honor” position at the University of Chicago and a $200,000 dollar a year salary. [Do I even need to keep asking these same questions over and over again?  It’s obvious that this gentleman led quite the different life than the individuals he and Mr. Romney are looking to replace.  That alone should be enough for us to vote them both in!  But, let us continue this look into Mr. Ryan’s life, shall we?]

When a still young Paul Ryan returned to Wisconsin to run for Congress he didn’t demonize his opponent and dig up dirt to shovel against him. He waited until the standing Congressman vacated the office before seeking the office.  In Janesville, Wisconsin they don’t have a big political machine to promote you, to criminalize your opponent; instead Paul Ryan had to go door to door and sit at kitchen tables and listen to his future constituents.

After getting elected to Congress Paul Ryan didn’t triumphantly march into Washington, buy himself a Georgetown townhouse and proceed over to K Street to rub elbows with lobbyists.  He bunked in his Congressional office and used the house gym for showers and a fresh change of clothes.

Paul Ryan then married and took his bride back to Janesville.  He lives on the same street he lived on as a kid and shares the neighborhood with eight other members of the Ryan clan.

 

He hunts with the local Janesville hunt club and attends PTA meetings and other civic functions.

For those who can’t make those public functions, Paul Ryan bought an old bread truck, converted it into a “mobile constituent office” and drives around to meet with those who need his help and attention.  [Does this sound anything at all like the yahoos who currently occupy the positions?  I don’t think that any of them could get out of their own way to actually help someone.  Heaven forbid, they might have to delay a vacation or a tee time!]

No, I don’t know if we can vote for a guy like this.  He doesn’t have a regal pedigree; he’s Irish for God’s sake!  No one awarded him a Nobel Peace Prize two months after getting elected.  No one threw flowers or got “chills down their leg” as a he took his seat in Congress.

What is most despicable about Paul Ryan is that he has had the nerve to write the House Budget for three years in a row.  He’s is brazen and heartless in advocating in that budget for a $5 trillion dollar reduction in federal spending over the next ten years!  The House passed his budget three years in a row and three years in a row the Democratically controlled Senate has let it die in the upper house, without ever proposing a budget of their own. 

What is wrong with this guy? 

If Congress were to cut $5 trillion dollars from the budget where would the President get the money to give $500 million dollars to a bankrupt Solyndra?  Or $200 million dollars for bankrupt Energy 1?  Or $11 billion dollars to illegal aliens filing INIT, non-resident tax returns to claim $11 billion big ones in child tax credits, even for their children living in Mexico?

I don’t know.

Paul Ryan seems heartless to me.  He keeps wanting to cut government waste, he keeps wanting to put a halt to those big GSA conventions in Vegas and, worse, he keeps trying to make people look at that $16.7 trillion dollar deficit! 

The guy’s no fun at all!

Who wants a numbers cruncher?  Who wants someone spoiling the party by showing folks the bill?  Nothing will spoil a party quicker than sending the host the bill before the party’s over.

Party Hearty folks!  At least until November.

And may I offer a loud and hearty AMEN!!!

  And naturally low in fat too!, but higher in caffeine than an entire Starbucks full of Red Bull!

 

Good Morning Fellow Coffee Slurpers !

Last week I made a pledge to with hold any and all political comments concerning Obama and the election if we could raise $100 in donations to cover the up for renewal blog costs.

Specifically what I said was:

I’ll even make you a challenge!

If between now and August 31st we can get $100 in contributions between the Paypal link and the DragonLaffs Store I will forgo a single political comment or Obama joke for 2 consecutive issues!

EVEN BETTER YET for each additional $50 in contributions beyond the first $100 I will forgo those jokes and comments an additional week!

Well Impish informed me on Sunday that you’ve met the $100 goal, so I owe you two weeks of Election and Obama free issues. Since there is still time before the 31st and its possible I’ll owe you at least one additional week, I’m delaying paying off (I feel only logically) until after Labor Day. The reason being the closing date for the challenge and Labor Day fall on top of each other. Additionally the vast majority of the next  issue of Leprechaun Laughs is already largely framed out (I TRY to work 2 weeks ahead in case of real life surprises or having to step in for Impish).

Guess I better start cutting down so I don’t suffer withdrawal!

 

But at least I won’t be crazy AND depressed!

 

GOING TO PUT ONE OF THESE ON RAIN GUTTER.

BET MOLLY WILL BE SUPRISED

 

  The Lone Ranger

Jay Thomas on Letterman

 

 

Due to the popularity of the “Survivor” shows, The state of Texas is planning to do one entitled:
Survivor, Texas Style

 

The eight (8) contestants will all start in Dallas, then drive to Waco, Austin, San Antonio.
Then over to Houston & down to Brownsville.
They will proceed up to Del Rio, El Paso, Odessa, Midland, Lubbock & Amarillo.
From there they will go on to Abilene & Fort Worth .
Finally, back to Dallas .
Each will be driving a pink Prius w/a bumper sticker that reads:
1 ~ I’m a Democrat
2 ~ Amnesty for Illegals
3 ~ I love the Dixie Chicks
4 ~ Boycott Beef
5 ~ I Voted for Obama
6 ~ George Strait Sucks
7 ~ Re-elect Obama in 2012
&
8 ~ I’m here to confiscate your guns
The 1^st one to make it back to Dallas alive wins.

God Bless Texas !!!

 

Today we’re making two old time favorites, Stuffed Peppers and Cabbage Rolls but in a deconstructed manner that makes them easier and faster to prepare!

Unstuffed Pepper Bake

 

Prep time: 15 minutes
Total time: 35 minutes
Serves: 4-6

• 1 lb Ground Beef
• 1/3 c  Frozen Diced Onion
• 10 oz pkg fzn Chopped Green Peppers
• 2 Garlic Cloves, minced or ½ tsp Garlic Powder
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1/4 tsp Ground Black Pepper
• 14.5 oz can Petite Diced Tomatoes, drained
• 1 cup Instant White or Brown Rice
• 1 tsp Worcestershire Sauce
• 1 tsp Italian Seasoning
• 8 oz pkg Finely Shredded Sharp Cheddar Cheese, divided
• 15 oz can Tomato Sauce

Directions

• Preheat oven to 375°F.
• In a large sauce pan, sauté ground beef and onions, green peppers and garlic for 5 minutes, or until beef is browned. Drain off excess fat, and season with salt and pepper.
• Stir in the tomatoes, rice, Worcestershire sauce and Italian seasoning. Remove from heat, and stir in 1 cup cheese.
• Spread mixture evenly into a 13×9 baking dish and top with tomato sauce and remaining cheese.
• Bake for 20 minutes, until heated through and cheese is melted and bubbly.

 I’ve been know to use Israeli Couscous, Orzo or Acini de Pepe soup pasta in place of the rice. ( I rarely have instant rice around the house as we prefer the real deal) These you all cook barely al dente as they’ll cook some more in the dish.

Want more of an Italian taste? Use half a jar of your favorite spaghetti sauce in place of the can of tomato sauce (I like using an Herb & Garlic flavored one for this) and substitute a shredded Italian cheese blend or Pizza Cheese blend for the Cheddar

Cabbage Roll Casserole

This is a fairly new classic around my house.  I use to make regular cabbage rolls until I found this recipe. Now, instead, I make this and it is as good as the regular cabbage rolls and a lot easier. If you’ve ever made a batch, you know how time consuming this can be. This recipe gives you the flavor of cabbage rolls without the long preparation time and the mess.

•    2 medium or 1 large cabbage
•    1 to 1.5 lbs (.5 to .75 kg) ground beef
•    1 or 2 medium onions, finely chopped
•    1 to 1.5 cups (250 to 375 ml) regular short grain rice
        (not instant or converted)
•    1 or 2 28 oz (750 ml) cans diced stewed tomatoes (I mix a can of diced and a can crushed)
•    salt, pepper
•    tomato juice or extra stewed tomatoes ( one of those soda can size V-8 cut with half a can of water is good for this)

Time: 3 to 4 hours from start to finish
Servings: 4 or more

1.    To prepare filling, cook ground beef, onion, salt and pepper over medium heat til the pinkness is gone. Turn burner off and cover frying pan to keep meat warm.

2.    At the same time, bring rice, along with an equal amount of water, to a boil, stirring occasionally. Turn burner off, cover pot, and let it sit till you need it.

3.    Remove the first few outer leaves from the cabbage. You’ll need
enough to cover both the bottom and the top of the casserole dish(es). Cut the rest of the cabbage into quarters and shred it, using whatever means is easiest for you. This can be a bit messy if you get enthusiastic with your shredding. 🙂

4.    Once the cabbage is all shredded, you’re ready to assemble the casserole. Mix the ground beef and rice together thoroughly, adding a bit more salt and pepper if you like.

5.    Place a layer of whole leaves in the bottom of the dish. Next goes a layer of shredded cabbage. Then a layer of the meat and rice mixture. Lastly a soup ladle or two full of stewed tomatoes. Repeat this once or twice more, depending on the depth of your casserole dish. After the last tomato layer, add another of shredded cabbage, a few more stewed tomatoes, sprinkle with salt and pepper, then cover the whole thing with a few more whole cabbage leaves.
6.    Cover and place in a 325 to 350 F oven for 1.5 to 2 hours, adding some tomato juice from time to time if it seems to be drying out or burning.

Notes

•    Be sure the casserole doesn’t dry out, adding a few spoonsful of water if necessary during cooking.

•    This recipe makes 1 to 2 casseroles, depending on the size of the dishes (and the cabbage!).

•    To reheat leftovers, Sprinkle with about .25 cups of water and place in the oven for an hour at 325 F.

•    Genuine cabbage rolls have more rice than meat in the filling, it’s a poor man’s meal after all, but I usually use this larger amount of meat in the casserole to make a more substantial meal.

I’ve found that putting a layer of cabbage leaves on the top like the bottom greatly reduces the need for extra liquid while cooking.

Also twice I have not had enough rice for the recipe when I went to make it and wound up using frozen shredded hash browns in place of the rice. While not the same dish, it is still very edible and besides when does an Irishman ever object to a potato unless its thrown at him raw by a mad wife?

 

Play golf online

They say that “golf is a good walk spoiled.” Well now you can “spoil” sitting at your computer!

World Golf Tour is a free online golf game played right in your Web browser. Its main claim to fame is GPS reconstruction of some of the most famous courses in the world.

You’ll be able to tee off at Pebble Beach, Bethpage Black, the Olympic Club and more. As you play, you’ll gain levels and be able to enter tournaments against other online players and possibly win real prizes!

World Golf Tour is free, and only requires an email address to sign up. But buying extra clubs, new gear and paying green fees for certain courses will cost you credits. Credits can be bought or earned by completing online surveys.

https://www.wgt.com/signup.aspx

 

Is this my weapons locker? Straight up? Noneyo! I ain’t sayin’!

 

Is it still too soon to talk gun control?

By John Avlon, CNN Contributor updated 11:22 AM EDT, Mon July 30, 2012

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

• John Avlon: The view that it’s too soon after Colorado to talk about gun control is wrong
• He says politicians are making a mistake by ducking action on the issue
• A new poll of NRA members shows support for reasonable restrictions on guns, he says
• Avlon: Nearly 10,000 are murdered by gunshots each year; that must be reduced

Editor’s note: John Avlon is a CNN contributor and senior political columnist for Newsweek and The Daily Beast. He is co-editor of the book “Deadline Artists: America’s Greatest Newspaper Columns.” He is a regular contributor to “Erin Burnett OutFront” and is a member of the OutFront Political Strike Team. For more political analysis, tune in to “Erin Burnett OutFront” at 7 ET weeknights.

New York (CNN) — The bodies of the victims are being buried. The court case will continue, without cameras. The horror in Aurora has faded from the front page in favor of Olympic coverage.

So it is worth asking, 10 days after the largest mass shooting in American history, whether it is still too soon to start a conversation about reasonable gun restrictions. What actions could we take to make such slaughters more difficult to perpetrate?

Because if it is true, as the National Rifle Association says, that “guns don’t kill people; people kill people,” then it’s equally irrefutable that people with guns kill people.

The liberal nausea continues on from here if you have a strong stomach, high capacity for bullshit and circular logic, are a snipe from the shadows chicken shit liberal DL blog lurker or are just plain masochistic you can read on here:

http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/30/opinion/avlon-gun-control/index.html?iref=allsearch

Now for an opposing view point that has NEVER gotten NEAR to coverage ANY “tragic shooting” has, we take you to Central Florida where a 71 year old man graphically demonstrates for us via Store Security video footage of an actual robbery in progress how you prevent another Aurora from happening

How To Stop a Massacre: Surveillance Video Reveals Simple, Low-Cost Solution That Works Everywhere

In the aftermath of the Aurora , Colorado Batman movie theater shooting, a surveillance video has surfaced that shows the simple, obvious answer to the question on everybody’s mind: How do we stop a massacre?
The answer is revealed in the stunning short video shown below. This remarkable solution:

1. Requires no police.
2. Costs the taxpayers no money.
3. Requires no up-front paperwork.
4. Protects innocent lives.
5. Is deployed in as little as FIVE seconds.
6. Works everywhere.
7. Deters violent crime.
8. Makes bad guys flee immediately.
9. Is easy to learn.
10. Functions at the local level.
11. Does not require control or intervention by the United Nations or any government entity.

 

Florida senior citizen Samuel Williams thwarted a robbery at the Palms Internet Cafe when he managed to quietly pull his concealed gun and shot the would-be robbers. Williams, who is being hailed as a hero by Internet cafe patrons for quickly taking action when the armed robbers rushed in wearing masks and smashing computer screens, according to The Blaze.

Williams was seated near the back of the cafe when Duwayne Henderson, 19, pointed a handgun at customers inside the Palms Internet Cafe. Davis Dawkins, also 19, is shown in cafe surveillance tapes swinging a bat, the Ocala News reports.

When Henderson turned his back, Samuel Williams pulled his .380-caliber semi-automatic handgun from his concealed holster, took several steps and then dropped to one knee and fired two shots at Henderson as he bolted for the door. Samuel Williams walked closer to the door of the Palms Internet Cafe and continued firing at Dawkins and Henderson. The two would-be robbers reportedly “fell over one another” trying to get away from the building.

Neither Henderson or Dawkins suffered life-threatening gunshot wounds and were later arrested by local law enforcement officers. The men were charged with attempted armed robber with a firearm and felony criminal mischief. Henderson is currently being housed at the Marion County Jail and Dawkins was released after posting bond.

“I think he is wonderful. If he wouldn’t have been there, there could have been some innocent people shot,” Palms Internet Cafe patron and shooting witness Mary Beach told the Ocala News.

Samuel Williams holds a Florida concealed carry permit and will not face any criminal charges for shooting the armed suspects at the Palms Internet Cafe, according statements made by Florida State Attorney’s Office representative Bill Gladson to the Ocala News.

Read more at http://www.inquisitr.com/278528/senior-citizen-samuel-williams-shoots-robber-at-palms-internet-cafe-in-florida-video/#7fHmHLHxg7VCPF1m.99

THAT boys and girls is how you prevent the misuse of weapons by ANYONE. You do not take them away from the law abiding populace, that’s just plain STUPID. You do not restrict where people can and cannot carry, also imbecilic thinking. The only two things these measures do is prevent honest citizens from protecting themselves.

[Dresses like a Rastafarian Dipshit too but has no idea what any of it means]

 

PAY CLOSE ATTENTION NOW BOYS AND GIRLS!:

The very wise and worldly Leprechaun is going to cut right to the heart of this matter and explain WHY the liberals refuse to let go of the subject of gun control despite its blatantly obvious impracticality and unconstitutionality.

Additionally this will explain why Obama wants it so bad and why you should fear for your gun rights if he gets another 4 years to dismantle the US.

ARMED we pose a threat to the Obama government and the liberals socialist agenda. IF they go too far, push their Socialist agenda too hard, or are too flagrant 7/or forceful in their redistribution of YOUR wealth while armed we have the power to resist and remove them. We are a FREE PEOPLE and (more or less) governed BY OUR CONCENT.

UNARMED we are defenseless Sheeple with no effective capability for resistance to the tyranny of the New Socialist Order hiding in the shadows and pulling the string of their willing puppet president Obama.

THESE ARE NOT JUST ‘MY PERSONAL CRACKPOT’ VIEWS!!

In proof I offer 50+ quotes from some of the most famous and influential people in the history of our nation. Founding Fathers, Presidents, Newsmen, our Enemies, Prescient Setting Court Rulings, ALL saying the exact same thing I am. (With a few pictures for you that have written word perceptions problems)

1.”A free people ought to be armed.” ~George Washington

2.”To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them…” ~Richard Henry Lee

3.”[The Constitution preserves] the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation (where) the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.” ~James Madison

4.”Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples’ liberty’s teeth.” ~George Washington

5.”By calling attention to ‘a well regulated militia,’ ‘the security of the nation,’ and the right of each citizen ‘to keep and bear arms,’ our founding fathers recognized the essentially civilian nature of our economy… The Second Amendment still remains an important declaration of our basic civilian-military relationships in which every citizen must be ready to participate in the defense of his country. For that reason I believe the Second Amendment will always be important.” ~John F. Kennedy

6.”The congress of the United States possesses no power to regulate, or interfere with the domestic concerns, or police of any state: it belongs not to them to establish any rules respecting the rights of property; nor will the constitution permit any prohibition of arms to the people.” Saint George Tucker

7.”The right of the people to keep and bear…arms shall not be infringed. A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the best and most natural defense of a free country…” ~James Madison

8.”And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms….The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants” ~Thomas Jefferson

9.”The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they will win and the decent people will lose.” ~James Earl Jones

10.”The tank, the B-52, the fighter-bomber, the state-controlled police and military are the weapons of dictatorship. The rifle is the weapon of democracy. If guns are outlawed, only the government will have guns. Only the police, the secret police, the military. The hired servants of our rulers. Only the government-and a few outlaws. I intend to be among the outlaws.” ~Edward Abbey

1.”Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birthright of an American… The unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state government, but, where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people” ~Tench Coxe

12.”The right of a citizen to keep and bear arms has justly been considered the palladium of the liberties of the republic, since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers, and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them.” ~Joseph Story

13.”God grants Liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.” ~Daniel Webster

14.”A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government.” ~George Washington

15.”You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.” ~Charles A. Beard

16.”The balance of power is the scale of peace. The same balance would be preserved were all the world not destitute of arms, for all would be alike; but since some will not, others dare not lay them aside … Horrid mischief would ensue were one half the world deprived of the use of them … the weak will become prey to the strong.” ~Thomas Paine

17.”You are bound to meet misfortune if you are unarmed because, among other reasons, people despise you….There is simply no comparison between a man who is armed and one who is not. It is unreasonable to expect that an armed man should obey one who is unarmed, or that an unarmed man should remain safe and secure when his servants are armed. In the latter case, there will be suspicion on the one hand and contempt on the other, making cooperation impossible.” ~Niccolo Machiavelli

18.”The danger (where there is any) from armed citizens, is only to the ‘government’, not to ’society’; and as long as they have nothing to revenge in the government (which they cannot have while it is in their own hands) there are many advantages in their being accustomed to the use of arms, and no possible disadvantage.” ~Joel Barlow

19.”Self defense is a primary law of nature, which no subsequent law of society can abolish; the immediate gift of the Creator, obliges everyone … to resist the first approaches of tyranny.” ~Elbridge Gerry

20.”No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.” ~Thomas Jefferson

21.”Laws that forbid the carrying of arms… disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes… Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.” ~Thomas Jefferson (quoting Cesare Beccaria)

22.”I am thus far a Quaker, that I would gladly argue with all the world to lay aside the use of arms and settle matters by negotiation, but unless the whole will, the matter ends, and I take up my musket and thank Heaven He has put it in my power.”
~Thomas Paine

23.”Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined” ~Patrick Henry

24.”To prohibit a citizen from wearing or carrying a war arm . . . is an unwarranted restriction upon the constitutional right to keep and bear arms. If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of constitutional privilege.” ~Wilson v. State

25.”Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and bear arms. … the right of citizens to bear arms is just one more guarantee against arbitrary government, and one more safeguard against a tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible.” ~Sen. Hubert Humphrey

26.”To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.” ~George Mason

27.”The philosophy of gun control: Teenagers are roaring through town at 90MPH, where the speed limit is 25. Your solution is to lower the speed limit to 20.” ~Sam Cohen (inventor of the neutron bomb)

28.”From the hour the Pilgrims landed, to the present day, events, occurrences, and tendencies prove that to insure peace, security and happiness, the rifle and pistol are equally indispensable . . . the very atmosphere of firearms everywhere restrains evil interference – they deserve a place of honor with all that is good” ~George Washington

29.”The Constitution of most of our states (and of the United States) assert that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves; that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.” ~Thomas Jefferson

30.”If gun laws in fact worked, the sponsors of this type of legislation should have no difficulty drawing upon long lists of examples of crime rates reduced by such legislation. That they cannot do so after a century and a half of trying — that they must sweep under the rug the southern attempts at gun control in the 1870-1910 period, the northeastern attempts in the 1920-1939 period, the attempts at both Federal and State levels in 1965-1976 — establishes the repeated, complete and inevitable failure of gun laws to control serious crime.” ~Senator Orrin Hatch

31.” `The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.’ The right of the whole people, old and young, men, women and boys, and not militia only, to keep and bear arms of every description, and not such merely as are used by the militia, shall not be infringed, curtailed, or broken in upon, in the smallest degree; and all this for the important end to be attained: the rearing up and qualifying a well-regulated militia, so vitally necessary to the security of a free State. Our opinion is that any law, State or Federal, is repugnant to the Constitution, and void, which contravenes this right.” ~Nunn vs. State

32.”Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed, as they are in almost every country in Europe.” ~Noah Webster

 

33.”That the people have a Right to mass and to bear arms; that a well regulated militia composed of the Body of the people, trained to arms, is the proper natural and safe defense of a free State…”
~George Mason

34.”The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subjected people to carry arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subjected peoples to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by so doing. Indeed, I would go so far as to say that the underdog is a sine qua non [“something essential” lit. “without which not”] for the overthrow of any sovereignty. So let’s not have any native militia or police.” ~Adolph Hitler

35.”There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period.” ~Ted Nugent

36.”The right of self-defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals.”
~James Monroe

37.”The strongest reason for people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.” ~Thomas Jefferson

38.”Americans have the will to resist because you have weapons. If you don’t have a gun, freedom of speech has no power.” ~Yoshimi Ishikawa

39.”The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.” ~Wayne LaPierre

40.”When seconds count between living or dying, the police are only minutes away.” ~Phillip Van Cleave

41.”I sympathize with people who want to ban guns, but I can’t agree with them. We have to be careful in our zeal to abolish guns that we don’t wind up with counter-productive legislation that will leave armed only the people most likely to do harm with them.” ~Hugh Downs

42.“The fundamental force behind the Second Amendment is to empower the people and give them the greatest measure of authority over the tyranny of runaway government.” ~Bob Schaffer

43.”There’s no such thing as a good gun. There’s no such thing as a bad gun. A gun in the hands of a bad man is a very dangerous thing. A gun in the hands of a good person is no danger to anyone except the bad guys.” ~Charlton Heston

44.“The Second Amendment is not about duck hunting, and I know I’m not going to make very many friends saying this, but it’s about our right, all of our right to be able to protect ourselves from all of you guys up there.” ~Dr. Suzanna Gratia Hupp – this video from her is amazing

45.”Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the outcome of the vote.” ~Benjamin Franklin

46.”These Sarah Brady types must be educated to understand that because we have an armed citizenry, that a dictatorship has not happened in America. These anti-gun fools are more dangerous to Liberty than street criminals or foreign spies.” ~Theodore Haas, Dachau Survivor

47.“Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.” ~Plato

48.”This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or their revolutionary right to dismember it or overthrow it.” ~Abraham Lincoln

49.”Assault is a type of behavior, not a type of hardware.” ~Alan Korwin

50.”Four out of five politicians surveyed prefer unarmed, ignorant peasants.” ~Unknown

51.”Taking my gun away because I might shoot someone is like cutting my tongue out because I might yell `Fire!’ in a crowded theater.” ~Peter Venetoklis

52.”If you carry a gun, people will call you paranoid. That’s ridiculous. If I have a gun, what in the hell do I have to be paranoid about?” ~Clint Smith

53.”An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it.” ~Col. Jeff Cooper

54.”Gun control has not worked in D.C. The only people who have guns are criminals. We have the strictest gun laws in the nation and one of the highest murder rates. It’s quicker to pull your Smith & Wesson than to dial 911 if you’re being robbed.” ~Lowell Duckett

55.“You won’t get gun control by disarming law-abiding citizens. There’s only one way to get real gun control: Disarm the thugs and the criminals, lock them up and if you don’t actually throw away the key, at least lose it for a long time… It’s a nasty truth, but those who seek to inflict harm are not fazed by gun controllers. I happen to know this from personal experience.” ~Ronald Reagan

 

BTW I should point out that I was forced to exercise extreme restraint in selection these quotes as when I searched for them I found well over FIVE HUNDRED and among those multiple by converts from gun control crowd. Strange that when I saw this and looked I spent roughly ONE HALF HOUR searching but was unable to find a SINGLE SOLITARY convert in the other direction!

 

 

Good Morning Campers.  Another Saturday spent with your favorite dragon… Nol!  Not Barney!  Dammit Lethal!  Stop spreading rumors!  Me!  Impish Dragon, I’m your favorite dragon….right?  RIGHT?
“I Love You, You Love Me, we’re a great …””
Shut that crap off!  I swear to Tiamat, that if I find out who has been sabotaging all my audio recordings with that crap, I’m going to eat the person responsible!!!
”…happy family.”
<sound of gun fire>
Okay, now, where was I?

Okay folks, all you wonderful generous people, I hate that we have to do this, but last weeks request for donations only garnered 3 donations.  Not near enough to cover our expenses again for the next year.  Yes, I know things are tough all over for everyone, us too.  We provide the work and the material for free.  Well, it’s not really free, it’s our time.  Time we take away from our family, time we take away from our friends of away from sleep.  Don’t get me wrong, we both LOVE doing this, but if I have to turn to Mrs. Dragon and say, not only am I taking away from the time spent with you and the little dragon, but I’m going to take from our very tight budget as well?  Well, I’m not sure I can do that.  We’re not asking for bunches of money from a couple of people, if everyone even just sent in one dollar, what ever you can spare, that would help immensely.  And to the three who have donated, I say thank you very much.  You help and generosity are deeply appreciated.  Again, go to the web site at http://dragonlaffs.com and at the upper right, directly under the word blogroll,  you can see where you can click on the words to donate through paypal.  If you really don’t want to go to the website….and I’m not really sure why you wouldn’t, but here’s the direct address to paypal to donate to dragonlaffs: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=4X2MEADWHBYE8 

Now, let’s get on with the laughter!

Ain’t it the truth!  We ALL need to let them know that.  Your chance comes in November.  You must be sure to take advantage of that opportunity!  Please, don’t sit your ass at home.  You need to get out there and:
This is probably the best question I have EVER read.  And it makes the most sense!

And Everybody Seems To Think That Lethal Leprechaun’s Irish Blessings Are So Nice…

Thanks to Lynn for this Way Cool Website to Visit:

Telegrams From Last Century

There is something that is absolutely fascinating about telegrams to me. Telegrams have a romantic air of the past about them. They are like touchstones to people and places that are now captured in time on a piece of paper.

Created in August of 2011, this site features telegrams from the last century. The blog-style navigation is a breeze – just scroll down the page and click Older to view previous entries or newer to see more recent entries. On the left side of the page there is menu that gives you the option of viewing a full list of tags, emailing the site’s author, viewing the archive, sending the author a message (send me a telegram), submitting telegrams, or viewing a random post.

Beneath that menu there is a search field.  Just type in a key word and hit enter. For example, if you type in Howard Hughes and hit enter, you’ll bring up all the telegrams that he sent sent. Several of those telegrams were sent to Katherine Hepburn via her secretary Emily Perkins under the pseudonym Dan or Stephen.

Most of the telegrams are from someone famous to someone famous, but I think that just adds to the intrigue and romance allowing us a glimpse into their communications. You’ll also find telegrams to politicians like the one from Jackie Robinson to President Lyndon B. Johnson, communiqués from FBI agents about escaped prisoners like John Dillinger, and  telegrams of congratulations or condolences. It is also very neat to see how the actual physical form of the telegrams change over time, what kinds of paper they are printed on, and  how they are formatted.

This is a great site that celebrates the telegram, check it out today!

http://telegramsfromlastcentury.tumblr.com/

A dear nurse friend of mine sent me this.  She knows that I have this thing for nurses.  Not sure if it’s the uniform or the large breasts or just what it is, ….

The phone rings, and the wife answers.
A pervert, with heavy breathing, says, “I bet you have a tight ass with no hair?”
Woman replies, “Yes, he’s watching TV – who shall I say is calling?”

Olympic gymnast Gabby Douglas became America’s darling
when she won the gold medal. She spun in the air, twirled
and flipped twice and landed squarely on her feet. President
Obama called her and asked if she would be his
new press secretary.

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Last Saturday afternoon, in Washington , D.C, an aide to Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi visited the Bishop of the Catholic cathedral in D.C. He told the Cardinal that Nancy Pelosi would be attending the next day’s Mass, and he asked if the Cardinal would kindly point out Pelosi to the congregation and Say a few words that would include calling Pelosi a saint.
The Cardinal replied, “No. I don’t really like the woman, and there are issues of conflict with the Catholic Church over certain of Pelosi’s views.

Pelosi’s aide then said, “Look, I’ll write a check here and now for a donation of $10,000 to your church if you’ll just tell the congregation you see Pelosi as a saint.”
The Cardinal thought about it and said, “Well, the church can use the money, so I’ll work your request into tomorrow’s sermon.”
As Pelosi’s aide promised, Pelosi appeared for the Sunday worship and seated herself prominently at the forward left side of the center aisle. As promised, at the start of his sermon, the Cardinal pointed out that Pelosi was present.
The Cardinal went on to explain to the congregation, “While Congresswoman Pelosi’s presence is probably an honor to some, the woman is not numbered among my personal favorite personages. Some of her views are contrary to tenets of the Church, and she tends to flip-flop on many other issues.
Nancy Pelosi is a petty, self-absorbed hypocrite, a thumb sucker and a nit-wit. Nancy Pelosi is also a serial liar, a cheat, and a thief. I must say, Nancy Pelosi is the worst example of a Catholic I have ever personally witnessed. She married for money and is using her wealth to lie to the American people. She also has a reputation for shirking her Representative obligations both In Washington and in California. The woman is simply not to be trusted.”
The Cardinal concluded, “But, when compared with President Obama, Pelosi is a saint.”

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Bottle feeding: An opportunity for Daddy to get up at 2 am too.
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Whoops: An exclamation that translates roughly into “get a sponge.”
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Puddle: A small body of water that draws other small bodies wearing dry shoes into it.

Here’s another opportunity for you to help us out.  A plea for help. A begging for funds.  All those things that we hate to do, but are forced to through economically troubled times.  Click on the little blue dragon and it will take you to our paypal donation site. Please help us keep this blog free!  Thanks for all you do!

Mt. Vernon Times Headline:

MT. VERNON , TEXAS WHOREHOUSE SUES LOCAL CHURCH OVER LIGHTNING STRIKE!

Diamond D’s brothel began construction on an expansion of their building to increase their ever-growing business. In response, the local Baptist Church started a campaign to block the business from expanding with morning, afternoon and evening prayer sessions at their church. Work on Diamond D’s progressed right up until the week before the grand reopening when lightning struck the whorehouse and burned it to the ground!

After the cathouse was burned to the ground by the lightning strike, the church folks were rather smug in their outlook, bragging about “the power of prayer.”

But late last week ‘Big Jugs’ Jill Diamond, the owner/madame, sued the church, the preacher and the entire congregation on the grounds that the church … “was ultimately responsible for the demise of her building and her business either through direct or indirect divine actions or means.”

In its reply to the court, the church vehemently and voraciously denied any and all responsibility or any connection to the building’s demise.

The crusty old judge read through the plaintiff’s complaint and the defendant’s reply, and at the opening hearing he commented, “I don’t know how the hell I’m going to decide this damn case, but it appears from the paperwork that we now have a whorehouse owner who staunchly believes in the power of prayer, and an entire church congregation that thinks it’s all bullshit!”

This is one tough repo lady!  Just give her the damn car!

Doctors automatically know what’s wrong with you.
They have a sick sense.

Okay, so this one is old.  I won’t call it a golden oldie cause…well…cause it isn’t.

A woman was having a daytime affair while her husband was at work. One wet and lusty day she was in bed with her boyfriend when, to her horror, she heard her husband’s car pull into the driveway.
“Oh My God! Hurry! Grab your clothes,” she yelled to her lover, “and jump out the window. My husband’s home early!”
“I can’t jump out the window!” came the strangled reply from beneath the sheets. “It’s raining out there!”
“If my husband catches us in here, he’ll kill us both!” she replied. “He’s got a very quick temper and a very large gun! The rain is the least of your problems!”
So the boyfriend scoots out of bed, grabs his clothes and jumps out the window! As he began running down the street in the pouring rain, he quickly discovered he had run right into the middle of the town’s annual marathon. So he started running along beside the others, about 300 of them. Being naked, with his clothes tucked under his arm, he tried to “blend in” as best he could. It wasn’t that effective!
After a little while, a small group of runners, who had been studying him with some curiosity, jogged closer.
“Do you always run in the nude?” one asked.
“Oh, yes!” he replied, gasping for air. “It feels so wonderfully free having the air blow over all your skin while you’re running.”
Another runner moved alongside. “Do you always run carrying your clothes with you under your arm?”
“Oh, yes!” our friend answered breathlessly. “That way I can get dressed right at the end of the run and get in my car to go home!”
Then a third runner cast his eyes a little lower and queried.
“Do you always wear a condom when you run?”
“Only when it’s raining,” he replied.

While waiting in line at the bank, a co-worker developed a very loud
case of hiccups. By the time he reached the teller’s window, the hiccups
seemed to have worsened. The teller took my friend’s check and proceeded
to run a computer verification of his account. After a minute she looked
up from her terminal with a frown and said that she would be unable to
cash his check.

“Why not?” my friend asked incredulously.

“I’m sorry, sir,” she replied, “but our computer indicates that you do
not have sufficient funds to cover this amount. As a matter of fact,”
she continued, “our records show your account overdrawn in excess of
$5000.”

“It CAN’T be!” he cried. “You have GOT to be kidding!”

“Yes, I am,” she answered with a big smile, counting out his cash. “But
you will notice that your hiccups are gone.”

The following video is a GREAT representation of how the current political regime is concerned more with their own re-election and popularity than they are with the lives of the men and women and their family and friends, who are protecting this country.  You must watch this video.  Which means you are going to have to go to the website to see it.  Our website is http://dragonlaffs.com .  The video is called Dishonorable Disclosures: How Leaks And Politics Threatens National Security.  It’s put together by a group called OPSEC.  Those of you in the military or associated with the military know that this acronym stands for OPERATIONS SECURITY.  The hallmark of keeping our brothers and sisters safe.  As one of the speakers at the end puts it so succinctly, “Shut the fuck up, Mr. President.”  Here’s the video’s own description:

Intelligence and Special Operations forces are furious and frustrated at how President Obama and those in positions of authority have exploited their service for political advantage. Countless leaks, interviews and decisions by the Obama Administration and other government officials have undermined the success of our Intelligence and Special Operations forces and put future missions and personnel at risk.
The unwarranted and dangerous public disclosure of Special Forces Operations is so serious — that for the first time ever — former operators have agreed to risk their reputations and go ‘on the record’ in a special documentary titled “Dishonorable Disclosures.” Its goal is to educate America about serious breaches of security and prevent them from ever happening again.
Use of military ranks, titles & photographs in uniform does not imply endorsement of the Dept of the Army or the Department of Defense. All individuals are no longer in active service with any federal agency or military service.

and here’s the video itself.  Sit back, relax and try to not get so pissed off.  I know that advice didn’t work so well with me.

So?  Are you as pissed as I am?  I hope so.  Truly I do.  Now, go out and enjoy the rest of your day.