In the news today: Richard "Sam" McCroskey, an aspiring "horrorcore" rapper, was sentenced to life in prison for using a wood splitting tool to bludgeon to death his girlfriend, 16-year-old Emma Niederbrock; her parents, Mark Niederbrock and Debra Kelley as well as Emma's 18-year-old friend, Melanie Wells of Inwood, W.Va.

This horrible crime would have never occurred if we had more stringent wood splitting tool control laws. First of all, In most circumstances, only the police and other government agents should have wood splitting tools. In the 21st century, with the widespread availability of gas furnaces and green solar or geothermal heating, only a very few people may need to split some wood. In those very rare situations, the aspiring wood splitter should have to pass an exhaustive series of psychological evaluations and comprehensive wood splitting testing by government authorities. Then if the aspiring wood splitter applicant is deemed stable enough, a temporary but very costly permit may be issued, allowing him/her to possess a wood splitting tool.

Alternatively, more good people should be encouraged take responsibility for their own protection by carrying a handgun; then they can blow away any nut who tries to kill them with a wood splitter. Being one to practice what I preach, I always pack a Springfield XD, .45 ACP for just such occasions. But of course, I live in a state where the mentally ill, freedom-phobic, civil-rights-hating gun banners haven't had much success in denying me my civil right to self-defense. They must be too busy trying to ban wood splitting tools.

On August 28th, in that cesspool of corruption and deceit called Washington, D.C., Glen Beck led a giant rally attended by tens of thousands of people exhorting us to restore traditional American values. I find it to be very ironic that 47 years after Martin Luther King Jr.'s historic speech it was a courageous white man, Glen Beck, who led a gathering premised on the Mr. King's idea that people should be judged on the content of their character rather than the color of their skin. 

On the same day, in the same cesspool, the antithesis to Beck's noble gathering was a counter group, led by a hate-filled black man, a Bull Connor-like racist, a turd right at home in the cesspool of D.C., the "Reverend" Al (the bigot) Sharpton, whose hate-based, race pandering philosophy is that black people should be judged eligible for extra-equal, special rights and treatment by the government and everyone else, based on the color of their skin, rather than the content of their character.

In response to an 8/6/10 Associated Press story on Yahoo.com about how twenty states and the nation's most influential small business demanded that a Federal court hear their challenge to The Obamassiah's recently passed bill establishing crooked politician and government bureaucrat controlled health care because they face imminent harm from its tyrannical mandates, I posted a ditty that elicited an interesting exchange with a duopoly supporter with the pseudonym of J.M.

ME:

We have our troops in Afghanistan and Iraq, ostensibly fighting to preserve our freedom, when the greatest threat to our liberties lies right here within our borders: The duopoly Republicrats and Democans in Washington, D.C. and their relentless quest to deprive us of our liberties. Stand up and fight you spineless state-slaves! Quit voting for the duopoly just because they and the duopoly-controlled lame-stream media tell you that if you don't vote for Republicrats and Democans, that you are wasting your vote.

J.M.:

"Every politician will prostitute themselves to get votes and stay in office. 2 parties or 10 this would be the case. Yep, it's a lousy form of government but it's still better than all the others."

ME:

"'The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." ~~~~Thomas Jefferson

The enabling platitude of "...it's still better than all the others." is the fertilizer of tyranny. It's not better than the kind of government and freedom we enjoyed prior to the duopoly Republicrat's and Democan's all-powerful nanny-state. What was better than all others is the kind of government established by Jefferson and the other Founding Fathers, and most succinctly stated in the 9th and 10 Amendments, both of which are an anathema to the duopoly.

J.M.:

Then get your guns ready. There's no fix for what we have short of your quote and there's not nearly enough will at this point to start killing our neighbors to get back what we supposedly "had." We should go back to only white male landowners voting predominantly or revert from any one of the number of changes that have happened over the years through the process that the FF's started?

 I don't like where the country has gone either but I haven't given up on the idea that it can be changed through legitimate politics and not merely by grabbing our guns, chosing sides and killing off anyone who disagrees with our viewpoints. That's lazy, uncreative, and simplistic. Who gets to decide who needs to die? You? pass, thanks.

ME:

Come-on, J.M., liberty isn't cheap. Sometimes to purchase/regain it blood has to be paid. And damn those Minutemen for daring to kill those Brits who disagreed with them, huh? They sure were lazy and uncreative weren't they? How arrogant they were for thinking that they got to decide who got to live and die. And that Patrick Henry dude, what a dolt for insisting "...give me liberty or give me death!"

I agree with you to the extent that we should first endeavor to regain our lost liberties, non-violently through persuasion and the ballot box; however when you have a situation, exemplified in Arizona, where the people of the state, through their elected representatives, pass a law to put a stop to an invasion from a foreign country and the Federal government takes the side of the invading foreign country, filing a lawsuit against the people of Arizona, it may be time to take up arms. For example: What if the governor of Arizona, exhibiting greater testicular fortitude than all the politicians in D.C., said "Fu*K you, Obama, we're going to enforce our law and if you don't like it eat shi*t!. Then what if the Obamassiah sent Federal Troops or other Federal agents to Arizona to arrest the governor but was stopped by armed, freedom-loving Arizonians with equally large testicles who've had enough of D.C. tyranny. I for one would grab my gun and go to Arizona to fight with the patriots against the tyranny of the Feds. What would you do? I hope you wouldn't offer straw man arguments about, '..white male landowners voting predominantly.

J.M.:

Not a straw man - you were talking about the good old days of establishment by the FF's of which you have to take the "good with the bad" not just the idealistic ideals that both sides seem to cling to. That was policy - fact. Women voting? How about the fact that most states wouldn't allow people in office that were atheists (and it's still on the books unchallenged in some places like Mass for example.) The "good ol days" weren't such for some though I, personally, would like to think that on the whole the ideas were better than not.

 You're right about Arizona - thing is the people have recourse. Vote the b*stards out who don't support it until they are gone, D or R. Disregarding the law by breaking other laws isn't the answer, however. And yes, that means that we have to grit our teeth while it goes through the process and sometimes even lose. If, however, we start breaking it down to shooting people who don't agree with "us" I have a question - who is "us" and which values do they get to impose on "them?" Whoever has the most firepower? I'm a Libertarian, and one of those aforementioned "white male landowners" so I guess I should be here hoping for a return to the "good old days." Which team do I get to be on?

ME:

No, I don't have to take the good with the bad, and the "FF's", as you are wont to call them, in their infinite wisdom, fabricated a system that ultimately expunged the bad. As for Arizona, you didn't answer my question directly, but it is implied that you wouldn't be joining the freedom fighters. I suppose you would be exhorting Arizonians to "Vote the b*astards out". The problem is, the b*astards are mostly in D.C. where they habitually thumb there noses at the 9th and 10th Amendments. So how is the relatively sparsely populated state of Arizona supposed to vote out a D.C. political duopoly that is kept in power by heavily populated, tyranny-supporting states like New York, California, Florida, Massachusetts, et.al.?.

J.M., you're certainly not stupid, this I can tell from your articulate responses; however, with some trepidation, I must assert that you are exhibiting some naivete when you resort to a bromide like "Vote the bastards out...".

"Victim" Omar Thornton murdered eight white people yesterday because he got fired for stealing from his employer. I wondered what he was thinking before he butchered the eight innocent people. Hmmm...

Omar Thornton's Jesse-Jackson-&-Al Shapton-inspired thinking before and after mercilessly murdering 8 "evil" white people:

 "It all beez duh white man's fault! It beez duh white man dat made me steal duh beer. It beez duh white man dat beez mean to meez. Ya knowz what I beez say'n dawg? Duh white man, he beez go'n to fire me. Ya knowz what I beez say'n? Doze white peeples, dey deserved to die! Ya knowz what I beez say'n." Now I beez go'n to kilz muhelf. Sinz I beez go'n to beez daid, I knowz dat duh Congressional Black Caucaus, dey beez go'n to make a hollowdaze to honor meez 'cuz I beez duh victim and it be duh white man dat made me dooz it." Yuh knowz what I beez say'n dawg?

Now, because I attempted to use Ebonics to satirize Thornton's probable thoughts (probable--judging from what his racist family has been saying in their repeated attempts to paint him as THE victim), I shall be labeled a racist, but I had to do so, because had I not, I would have been labeled a racist anyway. Why? Because of my gross racial insensitivity in making this "noble" black man sound like he was trying to "act white"--the Uncle-Tomming of any black man/woman. I'm damned if do and damned if I don't: Such is the blight of the "evil white man".

 Since the statist/progressive/liberal-controlled lame-stream media is feverishly trying to paint Omar Thornton as the victim in this horrible incidence of a black man's personal war of ethnic cleansing against "evil white people", I wonder how long it will be before the members of the racist Congressional Black Caucus, caving to pressure from Thornton's family, Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, introduce legislation that would create an Omar Thornton national holiday for his "bold and courageous fight against white oppression". Tomorrow maybe?

In the news today, in Tampa Florida: A convicted felon, named Dontae Rashawn Morris, 24, turned himself in at a police station and was charged with two counts of 1st degree murder for the shooting deaths of two Anglo police officers. Dontae Morris is a black man.

1st of all, "Progressive" logic dictates that Dontae's arrest was because of police racism. 2nd of all, "Progressive" reasoning would assert that if it weren't for pervasive white oppression of blacks, the Dontae would not have acted on his white-induced rage by allegedly shooting the police officers. 3rd of all, if Dontae Morris ever goes to trial, "Progressive" thinking requires that most of the jurors be black so that they can rectify the white's injustice by their O.J. Simpson-like-acquittal of the otherwise guilty Dontae. 3rd of all, since Dontae the convicted felon ignored the plethora of gun laws prohibiting him from possessing a gun, let alone murdering people with it, "progressive" stupidity requires that more gun control laws be passed to impede our ability to protect ourselves from murderous felons who will simply ignore the new laws. Fourth of all, "Progressive" is a new-speak euphemism; "Regressive" would be a better word, suggesting a backward regression toward totalitarian barbarism.

“NORTHAMPTON, Pa. – A 53-year-old man who rushed over to help when he heard screaming at his next-door neighbor's house was stabbed to death as he got through the front door, and police found his body with three others, according to the victim's brother. David Zernhelt, 36, of Allentown, identified his older brother, Steven Zernhelt, a married father of three, as one of the victims of Saturday's rampage in Northampton borough. Police found the bodies of three men and a woman, each stabbed multiple times, in the brick twin house about 70 miles north of Philadelphia, according to Northampton County District Attorney John Morganelli. State police have a suspect in custody but have not released his name or the names of the dead. Authorities planned to release details Sunday afternoon.”
By MICHAEL RUBINKAM,  Associated Press Writer.

Enough! How much more knife violence must we endure before we pass "common sense" knife control laws? Knives have only one purpose: to stab people. We need knife control laws which, at best, would ban knives altogether. Short of that, the least we could do is to make it illegal to have a knife without a license, acquired only after the knife is registered and the applicant undergoes a lengthy background check. These are the only ways to make sure good, law-abiding citizens are deprived of knives.

 When it comes to knives we must use the same egregious logic, born of the mental illness that afflicts the "progressive", statist, freedom-phobic mind, that was employed to pass our gun control laws. That logic being that if we pass laws, which criminals by their nature will ignore, then we will be safe from criminals intent on harming us.

"With the scrawl of a pen, GOP Gov. Jan Brewer of Arizona awakened the dormant but explosive issue of illegal immigration, immigration sending shock waves across the political spectrum in an election year when both parties had hoped to sidestep the topic.....a topic that's politically perilous for Republicans and Democrats alike, particularly in an election year and as both parties seek to court Hispanics...
Credit to: Liz Sidoti, AP National Political Writer-Fri Jun 25, 6:24 am ET "TUCSON, Ariz.

The political news writer quoted above implies one or more of the following three things:

1. Hispanics, as a group are racist as exemplified by their staunch refusal to support any politician who does not regard their ethnicity as being above the law.
2. Hispanic illegal-alien, foreign invaders are voting in large numbers, and the duopoly Republicrats and Democans know it.This is probably true since all legislative efforts to require proof of citizenship as a prerequisite for being allowed to register to vote have been thwarted by the Republicrat and Democan duopoly while they have mandated multi-lingual ballots.
3. The American people as a whole are politically unsophisticated dimwits who will continue to vote for the Duopoly as instructed by the duopoly and the duopoly controlled media no matter what. The above excerpted news story which alludes only to "both parties", as though there are only two from which to choose, illustrates how the media directs the sheeple to vote only for the duopoly. Of course, the American people, being unsophisticated robotic dolts, who obediently follow the media's and the duopoloy's instructions, continue to vote only for the duopoly Repulicrat or Democan candidates. What a pity, since most candidates of either duopoly faction, once elected, will continue to ignore the Constitution, the need to secure our borders and actually enforce our immigration laws.

Golly, what's wrong with citizens of Fremont Nebraska. They have passed a law banning the hiring of or the renting of property to illegal alien foreign invaders. Don't they know that they are evil for not believing that naturally tanned persons from the corrupt, racist country of Mexico are superior to those who are not naturally tanned; therefore, they should be above the immigration laws that govern the inferior races?

I wonder if the Obamassiah will do to the people of Fremont as he has promised to do against the people of Arizona. Yes, the Obamassiah's Attorney General is going to file a lawsuit against the citizens of Arizona to force them to allow illegal alien foreign invaders to overwhelm their state. Wow! it will be the first time in our history when a president has joined sides with a foreign invading country against the citizens of his own country. The sane among us would call it treason. The mentally ill statist supporters of the Obamassiah call it "Progressive".

In the news today: A "gunman" in San Bernardino, California walked into a Taco Bell and killed his stepdaughter's husband and her 6 year-old son, seriously wounding her and another child before he saved the taxpayers money by killing himself. First of all, notice how if the murderer uses a gun to murder, he/she is always called a "gunman" by the self-defense-hating, statist media. Any other instrument of death employed by a murderer never imparts to the evil doer the title of "Machete-man" or "Knife-man" or "baseball-bat-man". Curious uh?

Anyway, I lived in the San Bernardino area of California for 52 years before moving to New Hampshire in 2006. California has some of the strictest gun control laws in the Nation. Almost all those laws were passed by mentally ill, freedom-phobic politicians who assured us that if another gun control law was passed the criminals wouldn't ignore it as they habitually did with the previously passed laws and as criminals do by definition. The mentally ill freedom-phobes told us that if it were made more difficult for us to defend ourselves, the criminals would not try and kill us. They assured us that we didn't need to be able to defend ourselves because the police would protect us. Well, here we have an example where, again, they were wrong on all counts. Once again, a criminal ignored the laws and was able to obtain a gun. In accordance with the mentally ill freedom-phobe Rx, the victims in this news story were defenseless, but that didn't matter to the career criminal who shot them anyway. Like good, dependent and defenseless citizens they expected the police to protect them but the police arrived minutes later when an effective armed response was needed within seconds--a response that could only have been given by one of the victims, had one been armed.

In reading this news story, I was glad that during the last four years of my residency in San Bernardino county, thanks to sheriff Penrod's strong belief in the 2nd Amendment, I was able, after an unnecessary 3 month investigation into my background, to obtain a license to carry a concealed handgun, something I always had on me while going places with my family. Because of this, neither I nor my family had to live in the freedom-phobe mandated fear that we would be defenseless if some career criminal, intent on killing, walked into a restaurant, grocery story, mall, mini-mart where we happened to be.

The only cure for the mental disorder of freedom-phobia is to be defenseless in the shadow of an armed criminal. At the moment before the criminal wacks the freedom-phobe they have an epiphany; wherein, they think, "Damn, I wish I had a gun!" But alas,this is usually their dying thought.

Police in Winchester Massachusetts are looking for Thomas Mortimer IV. He allegedly murdered his wife, two children and his mother-in-law. According to the news story I read, “Authorities would not say how the victims died,” but the District Attorney, Gerry Leone said the murder scene was “..horrific, distrubing and unspeakable.”

You can bet Thomas Mortimer didn't murder his family with a firearm or the District Attorney, the police and the media would be calling him a "gunman" instead of a murderer. So what did he use? A knife? A blunt instrument? When the murder weapon is disclosed, if the statist freedom-phobes are to be consistent in their faulty logic that you don't need a gun and should depend on the 2nd-responder police to protect you and your family from a mortal threat, they should now advocate the ban of knives and blunt instruments. They would say, "only government agents should possess such items!"

The self-defense advantages of having a knife or a baseball bat are far less noteworthy than possessing a gun, so to be consistent in their reasoning would not the freedom-phobes advocate that If you need to cut your steak or hit a baseball, you should have to phone the Government Bureau Of Steak Cutting or the Government Bureau of Ball Hitting to send a government bureaucrat to your house to cut your steak or hit your baseball. Would not the freedom-phobes say, "Yes, it's obvious that if a knife or blunt instrument had not been readily available, the murderer would not have slaughtered his family." The logic of the typical freedom-phobe clearly shows that their freedom-phobia is a mental illness curable only by a confrontation with a mortal threat, one wherein just before the bad guy ends their pathetic life, the freedom-phobe thinks, “Damn, I wish I had a gun!”

In the news today, there is a story about an Arizona Politician, Republican state Sen. Russell Pearce, a man who actually has common sense. He is advocating legislation that would deny birth certificates, and thus citizenship, to the offspring of illegal alien foreign invaders unless the parents can show documentation demonstrating that they are here legally. Of course the racist pro-invader apologists are wringing their hands and whining that the 14th Amendment guarantees anchor babies citizenship. Not so: "...and subject to the jurisdiction thereof..": The forgoing is an important clause that the racist apologists for the illegal alien foreign invaders deliberately ignore. The innocent offspring of the invaders are subject to the jurisdiction of their native country. In the case of invaders born in Arizona, their home country will most likely be the racist and corrupt country of Mexico.

The author of the “Citizenship Clause”, Senator Jacob M. Howard of Michigan stated that his clause excluded Native Americans who kept their allegiance to their respective tribes and that it also excluded “...persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens, who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers.” The wise senator also defined what he meant by “Jurisdiction” saying, “...the same jurisdiction in extent and quality as applies to every citizen of the United State now..” Furthermore, he stated that the United states had a “...full and complete jurisdiction..” over the person described in the 14th Amendment. So anybody not blinded by a racist zealotry favoring persons with a natural tan and their claim to be so special and superior that they should not be subject to our immigration laws, can see from a careful study of the origins and intent of the 14th Amendment, that it was designed to ensure citizenship for the offspring of slaves residing in the United states, not for anchor babies of a horde of bigoted foreign invaders.

"AP CADDO GAP, Ark., 6/12/10–Rescue crews took to kayaks, horseback and ATVs at daybreak Saturday to resume the desperate search for dozens of campers still missing after flash floods swept through a popular campground, killing at least 17 people."

Well,I'm sure that the Obamassiah will ensure that this will never happen again. Unlike his evil mutant predecessor George Bush who was a sissy when it comes to the necessary, ever-increasing government control over the lives of we, the unwashed hordes, the Obamassiah will soon be appointing a commission to study this horrific tragedy. After a round of golf, he'll also appoint a Czar to dictate who, when and where we may go camping, if at all. He'll also support Pelosi and Reid legislation to create a huge, money gobbling bureaucracy to regulate all things camping or recreational. Additionally since camping will be deemed a hazardous activity that will place a burden on the Obamassiah's bureaucrat and politician controlled health care system, a ginormous new tax will be imposed on all camping and recreational equipment to discourage taking the risks involved in having fun. Thank God for the Republicrat and Democan duopoly and their latest savior the Obamassiah!

"Associated Press Writer Beth Fouhy (6/8/10) NEW YORK – Alarmed by the use of hard-to-track prepaid cell phones by terror suspects, New York Sen. Chuck Schumer and Texas Sen. John Cornyn have introduced legislation requiring consumers to produce identification before buying such phones."

This is typical of the freedom-phobic duopoly Republicrats and Democans: rather than close our boarders and stop visa distribution in and immigration from the islamo-facist countries that hate our guts, their solution is to further erode our freedom and increase government's power over us. But that's alright. They can do that because the sheeple are so stupid they will continue to vote for the duopoly anyway.

A week or so ago, a taxi driver in Merry Ole England went on a rampage with an illegally obtained firearm and killed 12, forced-to-be-defenseless people and injured 25 others. How can this be! According to the freedom-phobic, statist, anti-self-defense zealots, England, wherein gun ownership for self-defense is virtually impossible, is a gun-free utopia where one need not worry about being murdered by a berzerk-a-zor who forgot that it's illegal to have a gun, let alone murder people with it. So, in the final analysis, the freedom-phobes are as culpable for the 12 dead and 25 wounded as the murderer, for it is they who worked diligently to be sure that the victims were defenseless.

The BIGGAs (Bossy,Intrusive,Ginormous Government Advocates) get their panties stuck in their neo-communist butt cracks at the thought that a property owner might deprive some politically favored group of their "civil right" to dictate to a property owner about with whom they must associate and accommodate on their property. What hypocrisy! The same hand-wringing BIGGAs who are so disturbed about Rand Paul's observations, have no problem with depriving babies of their basic, God-given civil right to life. Nor do they have a problem with depriving folks of their basic, God-given right to self-defense through the exercise of the 2nd Amendment. Not surprisingly, they also have no problem with neo-slavery; wherein the income tax paying producers are enslaved to the Republicrat and Democan duopoly for the purpose of buying votes from the 47% parasite class from whom they depend to maintain their unchallenged grasp on tyrannical power.