There is No Honor among Thieves, nor Among Islamic Radicals!

            Just when one thinks that one can rely on fellow terrorists and nut cases, the whole enterprise seems to break apart.

            It is now reported that “Al-Qaida” is “ticked-off” at President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran. Al-Qaida says enough of this conspiracy stuff that Ahmadinejad has been spouting about the 9/11 attacks on the US being a “Bush Conspiracy”. The Iranian President’s most recent tirade being delivered at last week’s U.N. General Assemblage of all the world’s less than Potentates.

            Per an article in Al-Qaida’s English language magazine, Inspire, “The Iranian government has professed on the tongue of its president Ahmadinejad that it does not believe that al-Qaida was behind 9/11 but rather, the U.S. government. …So we may ask the question: Why would Iran ascribe to such a ridiculous belief that stands in the face of all logic and evidence?” (My answer to this rhetorical question is because Ahmadinejad is a nutcase and only under some Islamic form of government is a nut permitted to rule as long as he is “US-phobic”).

            The article, ascribed to one Abu Suhail, goes on to demand that Ahmadinejad stop all of his efforts to discredit 9/11 with conspiracy theories. It goes on to opine that the Iranian leadership is exploiting anti-American sentiment for political gain and engaging only in “lip-service jihad”!

            Well, there you have it, Al-Qaida tarring Iran for anti-American sentiment and for using it for political purposes. The very idea of them misusing anti-American sentiment for political purposes, it’s scandalous! Every nutcase Islamic radical should understand that you exploit anti-American sentiment for terrorist activities only.

            I suspect that some of the extreme anti-American sentiment express by the nutcases is partial based on their names. They would love to have simple names like Bill, Bob, Jane, or Tyrone. Instead they are marred for life toting around a monicker like Ahmadinejad. What do his friends call him, “Ah”, or “Jad”? Don’t know but his enemies probably call him “Mad”; seems to fit.

            And then there are the poor, under stress Al-Qaida leaders dropping like flies from airborne diseases (U.S. drones), unable to tout their one success in killing thousands of innocent people because that nut over in Iran is convincing the world that Bush did it.

            Next Al-Qaida will probably whine that Michael Moore and all our homegrown nut cases should stop espousing this same conspiracy nonsense. Yea, lots of luck on that one, Abu.

            Do you think that it really ‘ticks off’ Al-Qaida that they must resort to an English language magazine edition to communicate to the world rather than one that is printed in those rather attractive curly-cue figures that resemble the tracks of two inch worms engaged in some type of erotic dance?

On The Agony of Reporting a Terrorist.

            I was uncomfortable as I considered my responsibility to actually call the FBI to report my having apparently identified a real, live terrorist.

She didn’t fit the mold of the typical terrorist that I pictured in my mind. She didn’t wear a burka or walk three paces behind her husband; who only has one wife, the same person I had now identified as a potential terrorist. She was in her seventies, walked with an arthritic limp, had reared three children and had two grandchildren currently serving in the US Army, both paratroopers. She even attended a Christian house of worship on a rather regular basis and was involved in several Bible study classes. Overall, rather a perfect cover for a now identified terrorist.

            To my knowledge she has never previously engaged in any terrorist activity; not any crime for that matter. Yet she was now publicly called out by our political leaders and identified as a terrorist, a person whose very existence was hazardous to the health and future of our nation. It broke my heart to think that I should be the one to call Home Land Security and turn her in; yet what else could I do? And she and all of her friends would eventually figure out that the “snitch” was I. Would they retaliate against me?

            But, my President has made it clear that she poses extreme danger to our country. The White House even has its own website for reporting citizens that disagree with the current administration. Could I do less then and not report a recognized terrorist?

           In the agony of my mental turmoil I decided that prior to turning her in to the FBI that I should at least attempt to verify that she really was a member of a terrorist cell.
          I summoned up the courage and in a face-to-face encounter, (conducted in a public place to help ensure my safety), I ventured to verify if she were actually “one of them”. I asked her, “Are you really a member of the T.E.A. Party?”

The Three “S’s” Rules of Life.

            It’s not really my fault, it just happens! I was surfing the “net” and stumbled (can you stumble while surfing?) onto a “gun-toter’s” site. I’ll confess that it was actually interesting and entertaining. The discussion or debate was over carrying concealed weapons and the need for or not, or something like that. Well a large number of the responders have little “tag lines” or quotes at the end of their response. But one of the best came inside the response. Wish I had clipped the name of the person, as he deserves credit for what has grown on me to be a timeless structure for rearing kids. So whoever you are, the credit is yours.

            In essence his advice to your life’s safety was simple and right on target.

            “Largely if you avoid the "3 stupids" (hanging with stupid people, going stupid places and doing stupid things) then none of this is ever even an issue.”

            What a timeless and effective “three rules of life” by which to rear your kids as well as run your own life.

            The 3 STUPIDS to avoid:

1.      Don’t hang out, go out, or be with stupid people;

2.      Don’t go to stupid places;

3.      Don’t do stupid things!

“My son, don’t go with stupid people. Bad things happen around/to them. Be discerning about your friends, do they espouse or perform stupid things?  If so, find other friends.”

“My darling daughter, don’t let someone convince you to go to a stupid place. Bad things happen to those who are in stupid places. Chances are the person advocating your going there also qualifies as a stupid person. Explain to them that your second law of survival is to avoid stupid places.”

“My children, don’t do stupid things! Nothing good will come from them and a great deal of hurt, regret and misery just might result. Before you do anything, ask yourself, “Is this something that my Father would call stupid? If so, then don’t do it.”

          After drilling these three simple “S” rules into their brain from age 6 months, all you need to do is constantly and continually point out “stupids” to them. Such as going to a bar at 2am might sound like fun, but it is a stupid thing to do and a stupid place to be at that time of nite. I have yet to read of some grand and glorious event that transpired at a bar at 2am, yet I’ve read hundreds (?) of newspaper article about bad things occurring there at late hours.

          So gain the agreement on the Rule of Three “S’s” and then all discussions center of the specifics of an item. Can they honestly say that what they did, or want to, do does not violate at least one of the three S’s? And if you have done your work well over the years, you have already educated them on what many stupid actions and places are. It just might make a difference in their life.

Avoid Walgreens Drug Stores, It could be VERY Dangerous to your health!

            Two gun-toting perps invaded a Detroit Walgreens Drugstore at 4 am and pointed the gun at the pharmacists and demanded drugs and money. The Pharmacists, not wanting to become a statistic, drew his concealed weapon, for which he was duly licensed, and fired at one “felon to be” who immediately fled the premises along with his brave partner without shooting the pharmacist, other employees, or customers.

            Now I know what you are thinking, the pharmacist is a bloody hero, no pun intended. He foiled a robbery of his employer’s merchandise, he saved the other employees from harm; he saved any early morn customers from harm all at the risk of his own life. Plus he prevented a druggie from using his pills to get hopped up and roam the streets looking for additional victims. You probably are thinking that Walgreens, if not promoting this pharmacist, at least gave him a raise, or bonus, or an extra week’s time off for his heroic action.

            Well you are sort of partially correct; Walgreens did give him some time off; a lot of time off. Walgreens FIRED the pharmacist for violating company policy! Seems employees are not allowed to have guns on company premises or resist robberies. Compliance is the company rule. Remember how hijackers were to be treated prior to 9/11? But fire the guy? It’s not like he caused a problem; in fact he stopped a major incident, maybe some murders, including his own! So what do the executives at Walgreens do, they not only fire the hero, but they make a public announcement that their employees are not allowed to have guns on premises and compliance with the perp's request is the store’s policy!

            My reaction was that this was a complete miscarriage of judgment and that the executives should all be fired for small minds and crooked thinking. Unable to fire them, I concluded that the best thing for me to do was to tell my wife and sweetheart, they are one in the same, to avoid Walgreens from now on! Boycott the Stupid imbeciles!

            Wait a minute, I see that knee-jerk, pointee-headed, gun loathing, commie-pinko eastern seaboard liberal attitude. This isn’t about gun control; this is about the safety of my wife and loved ones.

            Those imbeciles at Walgreens have now announced to the world that none of their employees will be armed. Now think about that. You are a perp and or a drug addict. Where can you go and get drugs? How about a pharmacy? Of course they don’t have heroin or cocaine, but apparently there are a lot of prescription pain-killers that are high on the list of abusers and the Walgreens pharmacy is just full of them and no one there is armed. So, since 70% of all shootings are drug related and the perps know this; why not go to a place with drugs but no guns? I.E., Walgreens!

            No, I do not want my wife, my daughters, my sons, and their children to set foot inside a Walgreens and place themselves in harms way in what is now open territory for drug seeking robberies- Walgreens.

      Thank you very much, but we will buy our drugs and stuff from a pharmacy where the crooks don’t know whether the pharmacist is “packin’ heat” or not! After all, our life just might depend on it.

The $4,000,000.00 Rabbit Problem

            OK, I confess, I’m doing it again. I’m filching a complete story from The Taipan group. But it’s not my fault. If they didn’t write stuff that just absolutely infuriates me, reference our govmint’s interference, I’d not have to resort to full scale plagiarism! So, I’m innocent. Read the below and see if you feel safe from our overreaching, no quarter given, Liberal Lead Government.

Joseph McBrennan, Editor, Taipan Publishing Group
Thursday, 25 August 2011

Dear President Obama:

          The following is a 13-second solution to this nation's most festering economic issue: unemployment.

          Employment will increase rapidly only when you fix the $4,000,000 RABBIT problem.

          Mr. President, you're probably asking yourself what, if anything, does a $4,000,000 rabbit problem and unemployment have do with each other?

Allow me to take just a few minutes of your vacation time and tell you a story.

There's a little hamlet in southwest Missouri, just a stone's throw from the Arkansas border, called Nixa. Apart from being the birthplace of Tom Clancy's Jason Bourne, there is a couple by the name of Mr. and Mrs. John and Judy Dollarhite.

         In an act of parental love, the Dollarhites bought a couple of rabbits for their son to raise and, hopefully, learn some responsibility. As any parent knows, the promises children make to acquire pets are seldom kept, as was the case in this rural community in Missouri.

          Rabbits being rabbits, they quickly multiplied.

          Young entrepreneurial Dollarhite began selling his extra rabbits and a new enterprise was born. After a short while, he grew bored of his venture and sold it to his parents for a few hundred bucks.

          The husband-and-wife team, already running a small computer company, took the hobby and managed to eke out a profit. This, of course, excluded any payments to either for the large amount of time it took to properly care for the little critters.

          In 2010, the total profit was $4,600. This is was when the trouble began.

As every young boy and girl learns in the first grade, right after the Pledge of Allegiance, the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) section 9 C.F.R. § 2.1 (a) (1) clearly says it's illegal to sell more than $500 worth of rabbits in one year.

          After an unannounced visit from the government's inspector, these evildoers were sent a registered letter explaining they owed $90,643 for their violation. If they didn't send a certified check they could face additional fines up to $4,000,000. (They were offered the convenience of a website that would take their credit card to handle this as well. How thoughtful.)

          The Dollarhite crime syndicate appealed for help from their senator, Roy Blunt, who appears to be in full support of the USDA's actions. Brave man,that Senator Blunt. Way to go, helping out the little guy.

          The case is still pending.

          The moral of the story is clear. Businesses are terrified to take a chance and make a wrong move.

          You, and your crackerjack economic team, have been aware of this solution for a while. Take a look at your own White House blog where you write:

For too long the federal government allowed billions of taxpayer dollars to be wasted on things that are inefficient, unnecessary, or just plain dumb.

And from another blog post at the same site:

The Administration's commitment to hunting down and eliminating waste, fraud and abuse is clear, and with the Campaign to Cut Waste, we will continue to make improvements that protect taxpayer dollars.

          And so, our sound economic advice is JUST DO IT. (My apologies to Nike for stealing their slogan.)

          If you accomplish this simple step, and eliminate the "unnecessary" and "just plain dumb," businesses will begin to hire.

          It really is that simple.

          When the number of laws and regulations are measured by the thickness of the volumes containing them, we are all made, unknowingly, criminals. Why would anyone hire in this environment?

          When a couple barely scraping by finds themselves in a legal battle against an opponent that literally has an unlimited budget, and manpower in which to harass, attack or even imprison, why would anyone take a chance on a new employee?

          Mr. President, if there is any chance this finds your desk or if you're listening at all, this story falls into the category of federal government action that is "just plain dumb," "abuse" and "inefficient" that you've promised to eliminate.

Use your executive power you seem so eager to wield. Increase employment by removing the boot from the neck of U.S. businesses.

          Begin by helping the Dollarhites.

          This isn't an isolated case nor is it limited to the Department of Agriculture. You have the USDOJ, EPA, DNR and an alphabet soup of federal agencies that run roughshod over individuals and businesses.

          Is it any wonder U.S. corporations have retreated to countries that actually welcome the productive? If you want to increase employment, Mr. President, call off the dogs of this bureaucracy war that is being waged on us all.

Sincerely,

Joseph McBrennan

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City of Cleveland’s Clever Sting Operation!

            Public Officials and Liberals never seem to tire of finding a fall guy but in Cleveland they have found a way to place the law abiding citizen into a fall guy sting operation. If it weren’t so diabolical, you would have to salute them for their cleverness and creativity.

            Let me set the background for this so you can appreciate their creativity. Seems as though the city of Cleveland, as in Ohio, has a crime problem. Well as every Liberal knows, “guns cause crime”; ergo if we can get all the law-abiding citizens to turn in their guns, and only the criminals are left with guns, there will be less crime. Follow?

            Well, wouldn’t you know it but the old Supreme Court has disallowed gun confiscation under some obscure, arcane legal reference called the 2^nd Amendment to the Constitution. So the city of Cleveland comes up with the next best plan. Pass a law that requires all guns to be registered with the police. You know, bring ‘em all down and let the cops check them out.

The process involved:

1.            Applicants will need to bring a photo identification, specifically a government issued driver's license, passport, Ohio identification card or military identification

2.         All applicants should bring all handguns unloaded and securely wrapped to the police district of their choice.

3.         A police officer will verify the applicant's identification, verify the make, model, caliber and serial number of the weapon and do a record check on the gun.

4.         If the investigation turns up nothing, the handgun owner will make an appointment to have a photo taken and pay a fee for the registration process.

          Now think about this for minute, who do you think will show up carrying a gun? A criminal? A Parolee? A Convicted Felon? Someone owning a gun known to have been involved in a crime? Who was the City after? Of course no perp with “beans for brains” is going to go to the Police District for any purpose voluntarily, much less carrying a gun, even if wrapped like a Christmas present. See, even criminals know that they ain’t supposed to carry handguns, even if wrapped; “it’s agin’ the law and they’s likely to go backs to prison ifs they do’s dat dumb stunt”.

            So who’s likely to comply? Well you and me, the innocent, law-abiding citizen who believes the govmint is here to help and protect us.

            Well as it would happen The Ohio Supreme Court ruled 4-3 that the City can’t enforce that law. Citizens don’t have to register their guns with the Cleveland Police. Really pissed, but unbowed, the City now asks that all citizens obey this “Voluntarily”.

            Under a “Freedom of Information” request by one clever person named Larry C. Moore the city finally had to cough up the results of this “voluntary” legal registration. The timeframe is December 2010 through May 2011. There are 88 total lines of registered handguns! The list includes the make and model of the handgun and the owner's name and address. Folks that’s not 88 people, it’s 88 guns! And 22 of the guns are registered to the Cleveland Clinic Security. And as reported by Larry C. Moore, ”he wonders if they took all 22 guns to the district police offices at the same time? If so who was guarding the clinic if all the guns were gone?” I sort of wonder what’s going on in the clinic that they feel the need to have 22 handguns.

           That left 66 handguns registered to 52 individuals. The highest number of handguns registered is 5 to one individual. Do you think these 52 people understand their gun specs, plus their name and address are part of public record? If you were a perp and needed a “free” handgun, you now have a shopping list, provided at no cost to you, by the City of Cleveland. The perp can even be selective and go for the gun of his choice.

            But even that’s not the really clever part of the potential sting on law-abiding citizens. Here’s the really clever aspect of the plan. It is against OHIO STATE concealed carry law to enter a police station with a firearm, especially a concealed weapon! (Remember the gun had to be ‘wrapped’. Folks, that’s concealed). The City of Cleveland Attorney cannot grant immunity to a perp for breaking a STATE law, only a City law.

            So now the state of Ohio has the names of 55 potential perps plus the Clinic folks who have violated Ohio State law. The only reasonable action for the State AG to take is to now confiscate the guns from all those new, formally law-abiding citizens, felons! Bingo!

City of Cleveland can now use the strong arm of the State to do what those 4 rednecks on the Ohio Supreme Court wouldn’t let them do for themselves – Confiscate the guns from law-abiding, armed citizens!

            Aren’t politicians wonderful?

“No One Is Safe From the Government”

      

I generally refrain from just plagiarizing someone else’s hard work, but I confess that I’m unable to add anything to the following, so I’ll give the Taipan Group full credit and as I am just stealing their article putting truth to their headline, “No one is Safe”.

“No One Is Safe (From the Government)
by Joseph McBrennan, Editor, Taipan Publishing Group

It would be easy to site the $4 million rabbit [Blogger's note: I’ll blog this story from Taipan another day] we wrote about two weeks ago. However, we'll give the Department of Agriculture a pass and just acknowledge the remarkable job these men and women have performed by saving us from a mom-and-pop-organized rabbit-selling crime syndicate, where the ill-gotten gains exceeded nearly $4,600 in 2010.

(I wonder how much the prosecution of these two villains has cost us taxpayers?)

We'll shift our focus to Memphis, Tenn., to the scene of a more dastardly crime.

Our story begins on the morning of Aug. 24. Federal agents raided a warehouse and carried away nearly $1 million in illegal contraband.

This dreaded material was wood. It wasn't filled with cocaine, marijuana or any other illegal substance. To date, the only details the company has been given is that the wood was imported.

I would try to be more specific and say that it was an endangered species of wood, but no charges have been filed yet against the company. Their goods are still in the custody of Uncle Sam, and remember, that's at least a million dollars' worth of product.

Oh, and every piece of this imported wood has been properly accounted for, so the alleged crime that this company committed took place overseas, and outside their knowledge. They even purchased the wood from a Forest Stewardship Council certified supplier.

In other words, the company has done everything possible, except check the driving record of the wood exporter, to ensure the goods are not tainted.

And what's the name of a company so dangerous that the raiding agents of the U.S. Fish and Game Service carried automatic rifles and donned Kevlar?

It's called Gibson Guitars, and is as much a part of rock & roll history as the legends who have played these instruments.

As of yesterday, no crime has been alleged, but that hasn't prevented the government agents from seizing their raw lumber, finished guitars, computers and about anything else they could carry off.

And let's say for a second Gibson is guilty of being swindled by a broker in India that falsified papers, and the wood was actually from an endangered plant.

What would be the end result of this crime?

Likely Gibson would pay some hefty fines. Then, the company would need to import the exact same wood, but it would need to be finished and manufactured overseas. The importation of the finished goods, if labeled properly, is completely legal.

The real net result would be the 580 new jobs created over the past two years by this U.S.-based manufacturing icon would disappear and reappear where they are welcomed.

This would be, of course, outside the U.S. borders. Businesses are not fleeing the U.S. because of greed. They leave because of fear of government prosecution.

Most have heard the story of the Amish farmer being bankrupted by the FDA for selling milk labeled NOT PASTEURIZED to a consumer wanting raw milk.

I can just see the black-clad federal agents now, guns drawn and screaming, "Put the glass down; now slowly raise your hands, and walk away from the milk carton."

An alert reader wrote to highlight the plight of an Idaho man who saved the life of his family but likely will be eaten alive by our government.

The long and short of this man's problems began when he courageously defended his wife and four children against a grizzly bear, shooting and killing one of the creatures that entered his property.

The local sheriff, county officers and even state government have all exonerated him of any wrongdoing. In fact, they've recognized his courage and know all too well the possible outcome that could have resulted had he not acted properly and with a pretty large-caliber weapon.

The federal government, on the other hand, has decided to try to imprison Jeremy Hill of Bonners Ferry, Ida., for killing an endangered species.

Even the Idaho governor has been pleading for leniency to the federal official in charge.

It doesn't matter if you are a U.S. business giant, medium-size manufacturer, a tiny mom-and-pop business trying to eke out a living or even a father protecting his family. The government is built to protect only their interests, and eliminate yours.

The only way to increase jobs and turn this economy around is to get government out of our lives.”

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