tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70882263168426078292011-11-27T18:42:49.620-06:00Random rants musings and diatribes.bdickenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07528845349747202361noreply@blogger.comBlogger611100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7088226316842607829.post-61253414253785369462010-09-06T07:12:00.000-05:002010-09-06T07:12:13.523-05:00

U.S. National Debt Clock : Real Time

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Some of you showing off your musical abilities and songwriting skills are very talented but... Could we please do some basic editing? The very beginning where you turn on the camera and walk back to sit down on your bed and give a rambling introduction: cut that part, please. At the end where you get up and walk over to turn the camera off: cut that too. And please pay a little bit of 

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Changes happening here. Changing focus. Broadening, mostly. I decided that so much of the political stuff gets on my nerves and stresses me out. Oh, I'll still touch on that now and again but there is so much more that is so much more interesting. I'm just going to periodically let my mind wander and mouth off about anything and everything under the sun. Changing the title. Quirky. Punny.

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As if you needed it. "Boycott Arizona Iced Tea" is the cry from the open-borders, reconquista- enabling crowd. Arizona Iced Tea is made in New York.

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The other day I saw some obviously undereducated kid in line at WalMart wearing a Che Guevara T-shirt. I was struck by the irony. Here he was wearing a T-shirt paying homage to a Communist revolutionary and murderer enjoying all the benefits of the Capitalist society he is deriding - at one of the very icons of American Capitalism itself. I briefly considered speaking to him about it but

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US Constitution. September 17, 1787 - March 21, 2010 R.I.P. God rest her soul.

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Teacher suspended for denying Wiccan altar By LEE ROOD • lrood@dmreg.com • March 4, 2010  A Guthrie Center teacher this week received a five-day unpaid suspension for insubordination for not allowing a student to build a Wiccan altar in his shop class - discipline he said he still doesn't agree with.Dale Halferty, who has taught industrial arts at Guthrie Center High School for three years,

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Congressman John Murtha Dead at 77Good riddance!

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This just may be the solution for a government run amok. Fire your Congressman when he forgets who he's working for. The Right of Recall

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The leftist Dinosaur Media is really something, aren't they? The Obamessiah that they worship can't recite his own name without a teleprompter and yet they have to go on and on about how Sarah Palin is stupid because she was seen with some some crib notes on her hand during a speech to the Tea Party convention. Maybe if Palin had to have a teleprompter to speak to a sixth grade class, she

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Now I can get Obama on my smart phone. Oh, goody. Because I don't get enough of the Obamessiah all day every day. All over the news. All over the cover of every magazine on the rack. All over the shelves at the bookstore.I've never seen such narcissism in my life!

bdickenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07528845349747202361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7088226316842607829.post-65159425851922073042010-01-02T08:32:00.003-06:002010-01-02T08:44:36.428-06:00

Judicial Watch just published their "Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians" for 2009. Odd, (or is it), that nine out of ten people on the list are Democrats. In fact, the list reads like a Who's Who of Democratic Washington movers and shakers.But what would you expect with a government being run by a bunch of Chicago gangsters?

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WW II veteran Harold B. Estes sent the following letter to Barry and it has been circulating around the internet. Confirmed authentic. Google it.Dear President Obama,My name is Harold Estes, approaching 95 on December 13 of this year. People meeting me for the first time don't believe my age because I remain wrinkle free and pretty much mentally alert.I enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1934 and

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The appeasers - the co-dependant enablers of and apologists for evil - in this country are pleading with us to not "rush to judgement" about poor Major Jihad's (AKA Malik Nadal Hassan) motivations for his jihadist attack at Ft. Hood.Why do these people so willfully refuse to see things for what they are? Why do they insist on trying to hide behind a fact-proof shield?Here is a summary of what has

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Yep. I must be some kind of psychic.Headline from the Austin-American Statesman reads: Pistol linked to attack called powerful, concealable 5.7mm handgun called 'an assault rifle that fits in your pocket.'The FN 5.7 has already been demonized as a "cop-killer weapon" by the willfully ignorant. The same yahoos have already been working on trying to get it banned.The legacy media will hype up the "

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Yep, I was right. Major Malik Nadal Hassan is already being portrayed as the victim of islamophobia.The shootings at Fort Hood raise many questions. Major Nidal complained of being treated poorly by fellow soldiers because he was Muslim. It got bad enough, according to a New York Times article, that he hired a lawyer to seek to end his military career early. This request was denied, and he

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A few predictions:1) Even though the cat is out of the bag already, the MSM will studiously avoid and try to bury the fact that Malik Nadal Hassan was a Muslim.2) If they can't do that, the MSM will claim that Hassan was the victim of discrimination.3) The Brady Campaign, VPC, et al will try to link the shooting to Texas' CHL law.4) The anti-liberty crowd will try to use this to further their

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Less than two hours after it happened, the FBI had already issued a statement saying that the shooting was not linked to Islamic terrorism.Isn't that comforting.Besides the fact that a mass shooting is by nature an act of terrorism, let's look at what we know now:The shooter, Major Malik Nadal Hasan, was a Muslim.The shooter, Major Malik Nadal Hasan, was scheduled to be deployed.The shooter,

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Just today, there was a mass shooting at Ft. Hood. At least two shooters. Current estimates are 12 dead and 31 wounded. http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6705518.htmlOne of the shooters' - I mean ALLEGED shooters' - names has been given as Major Malik Nadal Hasan.Surprise, surprise, surprise.Let's see how the MSM spins this one. I'm guessing it won't be good.

bdickenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07528845349747202361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7088226316842607829.post-87878230400106109732009-10-04T08:31:00.001-05:002009-10-04T08:38:06.460-05:00

When I first heard of Michael Savage’s proclamation that “liberalism is a mental disorder,” I thought that he was being hyperbolic. I thought he was overstating his case to make a point. More and more, I see that far from being hyperbole, the statement “liberalism is a mental disorder” is dead-on accurate. Today’s crop of liberals are almost completely divorced from reality. Insanity has been

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Title of this post says it all.I know there are more important things at stake in the debate over the ficticious "healthcare [sic.] crisis" than grammar, but this really bothers me: I keep seeing the non-word "healthcare" being bandied about. Health care is two words, people. Two words, not one. Get it right. Thank you for letting me get that off my chest. Carry on!

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Via Michelle Malkin:So ACORN sues hidden-camera filmmakers. ACORN, that criminal enterprise that engages in every kind of racket from human trafficking to tax evasion to voter fraud has filed suit against sting artists James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles, as well as their supporter, Andrew Breitbart.Is that real smart? I mean, really. With all the evidence mounted against them, wouldn't it be best for

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Is the Baltimore ACORN scandal an abberation? Hardly.Someone needs to tell Charlie Gibson.When is the Attorney General going to bring charges against ACORN's criminal enterprise?

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The House just voted to cut off funding to ACORN in light of allegations of corruption and illegal activities. Including being willing to help fund a brothel for child prostitutes.Follow this link to see the names of the Congressmen who voted to have HUD continue to give grants to ACORN:House votes to cut off funding, but 75 stand by ACORN Washington ExaminerNotice, too that all seventy-five are

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Thanks to Sharp as a Marble. This is funny and not too far from reality.

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The other day, Charlie Gibson (of ABC's World News Tonight) said on a Chicago talk show that he had no idea about the major story of ACORN's involvement with helping people cheat on their taxes and even run child prostitution rings. Watch this; this is outrageous:A pair goes into the Baltimore ACORN office and asks for help in getting a house to use as a brothel that will be staffed with

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Can we just put away some of the televisions? Really, does the idiot box have to be pushed in front of our faces everywhere we go?One of the enduring images from 1984 is the telescreen. The telescreen is everywhere you go, constantly feeding you a barrage of Party propaganda. There is no getting away from it, no turning it off. Just last night, I went out to eat and what was in the restaurant

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More evidence that we are losing our country. Via Michelle Malkin:It looks like Reston, VA needs to provide some remedial training in Constitutional law and in the Virginia Penal Code. Can you say "official opression?"I'd have dared Officer Cheeks to make good on his threat. And then lived like a fat cat off the judgment if he did.

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It is a common misconception among the ill-informed and simpleminded among the American polity that "the Republicans are for the rich and the Democrats are for the poor."Let us take that premise as true, however, examine it and deduce what the logical action should be in that case.First, dissuade yourself of any grand and altruistic notions you may have about politics. Let's not be sentimental

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Thanks to Snowflakes in Hell:No longer satisfied with merely spinning the news to better jibe with their leftist bias, MSNBC has now taken the loathsome step of doctoring video footage to support outright lies. Watch these Obamabots foaming at the mouth about "[racist] white people with guns," "anger over a black President" and "hate groups rising up."Now watch the video produced by the group

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It often seems as though the Left in this country is operating according to some sort of master plan. There is much made by Rush Limbaugh and others of the "Democrat party playbook." Well, guess what, there is one. It is a book by Saul Alinsky entitled Rules for Radicals. The rules can be summed up as follows:Rules for RadicalsRule 1: Power is not only what you have, but what an opponent thinks

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Thanks to Find and Ye Shall Seek for alerting me to this: Are Liberals "Intellectually Dishonest"?In this blog entry, one John W. Loftus writes:In the first comment below this post Bruce the Agnostic asked me whether liberals are intellectually dishonest not to jump ship like I did, once they recognize there is no objective basis for Christianity. It was a good question that gave me pause. Do I

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This is why:So you can use your Second Amendment rights to defend yourself when SIEU thugs assault you for excercising your First Amendment rights. Oh, yeah, befote you start in with that "but they're unarmed" nonsense I suggest you google the terms "disparity of force" and "beaten to death" and do a little reading.

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Well, well, well. It seems as though as of this morning the Obamacare snitch line email address got taken down. Emails sent to flag@whitehouse.gov get bounced back. Did they realize that their intimidation ploy was un-American and quite possibly Unconstitutional? They probably don't care. Probably what happened is that the server got overloaded by patriots flagging themselves and flagging the

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From Pajamas Media:I did. I hope you will too. While I was at it, I flagged the White House's own blog and Pelosi's website, too.I think this transparent attempt at Chicago-style intimidation is going to backfire on them big time.

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Good God! Check out the pure fear in Chris Matthews' voice. I love the way Mr. Kostric keeps his composure in the face of that idiot's unbridled ranting and stays on point. So who's unhinged, the pro-liberty people or the anti-gun nutcases?It's as if he thought Mr. Kostric was threatening the object of his sexual fantasies. Remember Matthews and the tingle up his leg bit? Can't these shills from

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Oh my God! Run for your lives! There's a law-abiding citizen obeying the law and engaging in not one but two Constitutionally protected activities at the same time! Save us, Obamessiah!This is in New Hampshire for God's sake. If this one guy these panty-wetting milquetoasts were freaking out over was the only one carrying a gun, I'd be very surprised. Hell, probably some of the pro-Obama crowd

bdickenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07528845349747202361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7088226316842607829.post-88775823572264140882009-08-07T10:41:00.008-05:002009-08-15T12:51:09.706-05:00

More outrage over Obamacare: Atendees at an AARP meeting start grilling the presenter who in true liberal leftist style tries at first to shut them up and then ends up running away when she can't control them.

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This post off of the official White House blog:TUE, AUGUST 4, 6:55 AM ESTFacts AreStubborn ThingsPosted by Macon PhillipsOpponents of healthinsurance reform may find the truth a little inconvenient, but as our secondpresident famously said, "facts are stubborn things."Scary chain emailsand videos are starting to percolate on the internet, breathlessly claiming, forexample, to "uncover" the truth

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Not satisfied with the carnage that happened there, former Virginia Tech student John Woods (who is now a graduate student at the University of Texas) wants Texas students to die too.As the Texas Legislature is considering whether or not to allow CHL holders to carry on college campuses, Mr Woods is among the leaders of the fight against the measure. His sole expertise in the use of firearms was

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Deleted the "Obama Counter."I put it up in a fit of pique and I apologize deeply for it, not because I don't dislike Obama and the way his disastrous policies are seriously hurting this country, but because it is childish and immature. Sinking to the level of all the Bush-haters we've had to put up with for the last eight years makes me ashamed. Again,I apologize. I should be a better man than

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The Houston Comical published an editorial today full of panty-wetting fear about the recent rule change to allow concealed carry in National Parks.Under fire: Packing heat at YellowstoneIn its waning hours, the Bush administration’s Interior Department pushed through a measure to allow visitors to national parks and refuges to carry concealed weapons. This is a terrible policy.Parks and refuges

bdickenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07528845349747202361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7088226316842607829.post-41216713853900002752009-01-18T07:43:00.005-06:002009-01-18T08:55:13.104-06:00

A group of self-styled atheists tried to file suit to disallow Obama from using the words "so help me God" when he takes his oath of office this coming week. Thankfully, this latest effort spearheaded by Michael Newdow was thrown out.This is the same bunch that tries to sue to have Nativity scenes and the Ten Commandments removed from public placesWhat is it with these people?Why is it only "

bdickenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07528845349747202361noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7088226316842607829.post-62256564043865601502008-12-31T09:04:00.007-06:002008-12-31T12:30:42.183-06:00

Yesterday, the Brady Campaign filed suit in federal court over the Interior Department's recent rule change to allow people with Concealed Carry licences to carry in National Parks in accordance with state law.In keeping with their usual scheme of maneuver, the Bradys resorted to hysteria and lies in their press release. If you bother to read the DOI's press release, you find that the rule is

bdickenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07528845349747202361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7088226316842607829.post-91075930704369712812008-12-12T09:33:00.005-06:002008-12-12T19:24:22.819-06:00

So, Illinois governor Blagojevich got arrested on corruption charges for, among other things, trying to sell Obama's soon-to-be-vacant Senate seat. Normally I wouldn't give a rat's - normally, I wouldn't care about what happens to some corrupt politician on the other side of the country.But this guy comes from the same rotten-to-the-core Crook County political machine that gave us Obama in the

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/11490053@N08/3084176591/sizes/l/These are the same people who once had an empire that spanned the entire globe?

bdickenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07528845349747202361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7088226316842607829.post-31301167138212551222008-12-08T11:10:00.005-06:002008-12-08T12:07:38.453-06:00

Charles Cotton over at Texas CHL Forum has launched PROJECT ONE MILLION: TEXAS.The goal is to quadruple the number of Texas NRA members, bringing the figure from around 250,000 to one million.If you are in Texas and not an NRA member, sign up. If you are, sign your friends and families up.Even if you aren't in Texas, go ahead and do it!

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The Houston Chronicle published an editorial today entitled Border war: Flow of guns to Mexico endangers Texas safety. Look at the hysteria evidenced by these nuggets of wisdom: "While buying guns is close to impossible in Mexico, consumers in Texas can purchase unlimited quantities of cheap imported assault weapons, or .50-caliber sniper rifles strong enough to shoot down helicopters. The

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This just in:Interior Announces Final Firearms Policy UpdateWASHINGTON, D.C. – Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Fish and Wildlife and Parks Lyle Laverty today announced that the Department of the Interior has finalized updated regulations governing the possession of firearms in national parks and wildlife refuges. The final rule, which updates existing regulations, would allow an

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CVS Pharmacy's website is parroting anti-gun propaganda under the guise of “child safety.”Among the misinformation is the statement that “2,852 children and teenagers died of gunshot wounds in 2004.” If you bother to look at the actual tabulated data, you notice that 2,494 of those deaths occur between the ages of 15-19. In fact, 70% of the “children” who are killed by firearms each year are in

bdickenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07528845349747202361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7088226316842607829.post-76198876095880552662008-12-03T13:21:00.001-06:002008-12-08T13:59:34.403-06:00

"Palm pistol" approved for Medicare and medical insurance

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Probably the most anti-gun administration in US history hasn't even taken office yet and the sycophant lap-dog media that worships Obama like he is the Second Coming is already gearing up the propaganda machine in support of a new and improved "assault weapons" ban.An article in this past Sunday's Houston Chronicle tries to lay the blame for drug cartel violence in Mexico on Houston and it's "

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Wow. All I can do is shake my head.I find it sadly ironic that a holiday celebrating the birth of a decidedly non-materialistic religious teacher has turned into a frenzied orgy of materialistic greed. All the more sad it is because this past Friday a WalMart employee in Long Island, NY was trampled to death. Gives the term "Black Friday" a whole new meaning.One witness described the crowd as "

bdickenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07528845349747202361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7088226316842607829.post-3343756538680253552008-12-01T15:15:00.006-06:002008-12-01T16:58:06.402-06:00

I see in the news that Washington is now considering voting to bail out American automakers like they did elements of the banking industry.Too many in Washington seem to forget that it is their constituent's money that they are spending on these golden parachute schemes for people who mismanage their businesses into financial ruin.I find the idea of using my money to prop up poorly managed

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There are many reasons to be worried about Obama's incoming administration. There is his well-publicized anti-gun voting record, his cadre of questionable associates including William Ayers and Rev. Jeremiah Wright, and his thinly disguised socialist politics. But there is more sinister things about this guy that make me think we need to keep a real close eye on him.During the campaign, the NRA

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A couple of weekends ago, I was browsing around through the tables at the latest gun show when my eye caught this beat-up old single-action .22 revolver. Most of the bluing had worn off and the grips were nicked and scarred and had the initials DWJ carved into them.The price was dirt cheap, so I asked about it. Mostly, I wanted to know if it worked and was safe to shoot. As far as I'm concerned,

bdickenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07528845349747202361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7088226316842607829.post-77503732711739982702008-11-09T17:42:00.004-06:002008-11-09T18:27:18.973-06:00

I found the following article reproduced on AR15.com.I've been of the opinion that what is sorely needed to advance the cause of Second Amendment freedoms is a coordinated propaganda campaign. This article describes how the left manipulates the language in order to frame the debate and provides clues on how - and why - to do likewise in order to advance the cause of freedom.Why Are You Losing

bdickenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07528845349747202361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7088226316842607829.post-49651188082072290092008-11-06T14:22:00.024-06:002008-11-23T16:09:34.299-06:00

Whenever I hear someone say "I support the Second Amendment but..," I get the same sinking, twisting, nauseating feeling in the pit of my stomach that I do when I hear "I'm not a racist but...." Such a preface always precedes a comment that belies the pretended disclaimer.Even before he won the Democratic nomination, the NRA and other groups started digging into Barrack Obama's past and unearthed

bdickenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07528845349747202361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7088226316842607829.post-78546406819881146582008-11-05T20:23:00.003-06:002008-11-06T06:37:55.136-06:00

One day I was cruising the aisles at the bookstore, as I am wont to do. Suddenly a book by John Shelby Spong leapt off the shelves into my hand. Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism came to me as if it was sent from God. I turned the book over and read the blurb on the back and then flipped it open to the preface. This was my burning bush. Here was an Episcopal bishop revealing that I didn't

bdickenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07528845349747202361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7088226316842607829.post-69088586791504423242008-11-05T11:45:00.004-06:002008-11-05T15:06:45.320-06:00

"Be careful what you wish for, because you just might get it."An historic moment for sure; America has just elected it's first black President. History isn't always a good thing, however. Pearl Harbor was historic. 9/11 was historic. The Great Depression was historic. The Marxist revolution of 1917 in Russia was historic. America has just elected it's first Marxist President.Let me be among the

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Welcome to my blog. Pull up a chair and sit a spell.There are three volatile topics that "they" say should never be discussed in polite company: politics, religion, and gun control. I will discuss all three here. I believe that all three are inexorably connected.Hang on, it's going to be a bumpy ride!

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