More thoughts on the Arizona shooting....

I was sickened and saddened when I saw people mostly on the left side of the spectrum immediately try to use the tragedy to score political points against their opponents and to support their pet political cause. I swear these people were gleeful in their joy and that is the most sad thing I can say about the state of discourse in this country.

in the past, people would blame the criminal as is proper. When you are an adult, you have the fun and responsibility of your actions. Now it is fashionable to blame a group, not the individual. this is in keeping with the present fashion with group rights and group identity politics. This is a danger for our country because the constitution protects our individual rights from an abusive gov't. The constitution doesn't endow us with group rights. The gov't has been doing that a lot. I believe that is part of the plan, once people are dependent on some group right, they are chained to the gov't for survival and do what is necessary to guarantee this group right.

"We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions."

~ Ronald Reagan

The spin of the media

 I have been debating how to respond to the tragedy in Arizona with the kooky nut that shot those people in Arizona at a political event.   I have been watching the various people try to twist this tragedy to fir their political agenda.  I am disgusted beyond words by what I have seen.  the bodies ain't even cold and we have the various gun control groups again pushing their tired agenda that banning firearms will being peace to the planet and have everybody sing John Lennon songs( I know...bad pun)   This nutjob was able to legally able to purchase a pistol because his mental derangement issues were never added to the NCIC so when they ran him, he came up clean.   I have been afraid for something like this to happen.  I see the democrats with less scruples than the GOP.  Was it that Rahn Emanuel said " never let a crisis go to waste"  I see the same thing going on here.   We keep forgetting that other people were shot and as a nation mourn, instead I see people using the tragedy...yes the word tragedy as a political pulpit.   Back when the muslim nutcase killed a bunch of soldiers at Ft Hood, we had the president of the U.S.  Barack Obama telling us for 3 days to wait for all the facts to come out.   Now we have this happen and he hasn't said a word?  Makes me wonder that he is silently supporting this because it falls in with his agenda.

   I happen to like a website called "monster hunter nation"  He waited a bit then went on a long dissertation about what has transpired and his rant for lack of a better work I couldn't say it better myself.   So I borrowed his rant for my posting because his statement echoes how I feel and he is a far better wordsmith  than myself.

MrG


It is time to help out my racist/hick/red-state/hate-monger readership again. Some of you have been confused by the media coverage of yesterday’s tragic shooting. As a “wise Latino” who understands the media, let me help you:
A left-wing, Communist Manifesto reading, schizophrenic, nut-bar, dirt bag that posts obviously deranged YouTube videos about mind control, who has no association with the Tea Party, shoots a congresswoman = SARAH PALIN IS EVIL
Yes, that can be confusing. I know. Bear with me. Remember the last time we went over this kind of thing:
A Muslim in the US Army, after preaching Jihad and corresponding with Al Queda in Yemen, goes on a shooting rampage while screaming “Allah Akbar” = NOT TERRORISM
Clear?
I know you may be thinking that the correct thing to do here is to take the assassin, try him, and execute him accordingly, but that would be incorrect. The proper thing to do is pin the whole thing on the people that the media don’t like first.
Remember:
Tea Party movement is about how regular Americans are sick of paying too much in taxes and the government is too big and ineffectual = SETTING A DANGEROUS AND VIOLENT TONE
Making a movie about the assassination of George Bush = ART
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Okay, I’m ticked. You know it is time for a political blog post when you get to sleep in on a Sunday morning and you still wake up angry.
Why am I mad?
Because I am sick and tired, because I’m a gun owner, for being blamed every single time a nut job goes on a rampage. But at least I’m used to it. I was a gun rights activist back when Bill Clinton was president. We’ve been blamed for every whackadoo, schizophrenic, off his meds, mopey-ass nitwit crying for attention that has ended up on the news.
It never mattered that people like me and the people that I trained were the last line of defense against these types. It never even mattered when it was a CCW holder that stopped the shooting. That part usually didn’t get mentioned.
But we got used to it. Gun people see it coming. We expect it as soon as we hear that there has been another senseless murder on the news. We know that we are going to get maligned and vilified by a media that only cares about pushing an agenda (and gun control was liberal cause #1 back in the 90s) and not that their 24/7 coverage and insta-stardom for the bad guy is going to spur copycats, but that’s okay, because like I said, we are used to being the bad guy.
So…  How do the rest of you feel now?
See, now it isn’t just us gun owners, it is the entire right leaning half of the country. It is the one third of the nation that belongs to the Tea Party. This shooting yesterday? The media declared it was your fault, your hatred, your bitterness, that set it off. They were open and blunt about it before the facts came in, and once the facts were out, the mainstream toned it down to just insinuation while the lefty fringe got even crazier.
I wasn’t even paying attention until I stupidly took a break from writing (ironically, about an incident involving a lone nut assassin in 1933) and went onto Facebook where I discovered that there had been a shooting and that it had been caused by (in order of evil):  Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, Arizonans in favor of closing the border, Rush Limbaugh, the Tea Party, and easy access to guns… Whew. My people came in last for once!
So I looked into it, fully expecting the shooter to be some right-wing crazy spouting off Ayn Rand.
Nope. Not even close. But I forgot. Reality doesn’t matter.
Right after the shooting, before anyone knew what was going on, so early that the president himself didn’t even know if the congresswoman was deceased or not, the Daily Kos (the mixed nut selection par excellence) ran an article about how this was Sarah Palin’s fault because Giffords was one of the members of congress she had “targeted”.
Targeted. Yes, to get voted out of office. I missed the part about shooting them.
Apparently, we are no longer allowed to use any words that can be construed as weapons related. The chain of stores known as Target will henceforth be called Big Red More Expensive Walmart.
Oh, but Correia, surely Sarah Palin was calling for VIOLENCE with such careless use of words.
Okay…
If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun. – Barack Obama (in a lame attempt to sound like Sean Connery) during the fight for Obamacare.
Uhm… What? That’s loopy as hell right there. I pointed out that she hadn’t called for violence (outside of in the imagination of lefties where us evil conservatives are going to round them all up and put them in reeducation camps run by Jerry Falwell) and besides the shooter turned out to be a schizophrenic nut-weasel. (I watched his YouTube videos yesterday… wow. Just wow).
We went back and forth, with me typing on my iPhone. The shooter wasn’t even from my side of the political spectrum! I pointed out that among the assassin’s  favorite books were the Communist Manifesto and Mein Kampf.
I was told that there were other books on there too…
Yes, but there aren’t a lot of Tea Partiers with the Communist friggin’ Manifesto in their FAVORITES list. I read the Communist Manifesto once, mostly so I could argue with morons more effectively, but it sure as hell wouldn’t make my favorites list. (It is horrid) Nor would it make the favorites list of anybody who listened to Sarah Palin so intently that they’d go shoot somebody for her.
Then various liberals jumped on said that the Bible was responsible for the most killings of all (actually, I’m pretty sure Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, and Imperial Japan edge out Jesus and the Crusades by a good margin) and then somebody else had a giant rambling bunch of BS about how Communism and Nazism are both exactly like being conservative today, and how they are nothing like being liberal… He also used a bunch of big words to display his academic prowess, though he used several of them wrong. (for the record, I’ve written two books on the 1930s… Don’t try to spout off about historical political theory to impress me, because you are probably going to look like an idiot).

(for the record, I’ve now made 4 different national bestseller lists on multiple occasions, top 25 on Amazon and #4 in the country on Nielsen Bookscan in my genre, and the big dog, the NYT… so I don’t really think the quotes are necessary, Bub)
He told me to take it to my blog.
My pleasure.
Then he posted this to my page:  During his campaign effort to unseat Giffords, GOP challenger Jesse Kelly held fundraisers where he urged supporters to help remove Giffords from office by joining him to shoot an M-16. “I don’t see the connection,” said John Ellinwood, Kelly’s spokesman. “I don’t know this person, we cannot find any records that he was associated with the campaign in any way.” John Ellinwood is clearly an idiot.
Okay. So because somebody else shot a gun at some point in time, that is clearly what motivated the shooter that didn’t listen to nor had any association with the people that shot the gun. If he had asked them to help him shoot an M-16 AT SOMEBODY, then I could see the issue.
Bob, you are an idiot. You are a half-wit, slobbering moron. My brain will not allow me to descend to a level of dumb sufficient to form a response that you will understand.  For everybody else, M-16s are a lot of fun to shoot. (not a lot of fun to carry around all day with crap bolted to them). To most regular people, guns are a normal part of life. We use them. They are fun. Politicians like things that are fun, because then they can use said fun things to raise money.
Only in la-la land can you stretch that far and still sound credible. The rest of us just scratch our heads and feel kind of sorry for you.
Once upon a time, after ObamaCare was passed, Nancy Pelosi said that the founding fathers would be pleased. The response I put on this blog was “Bitch, George Washington would run you through with his sword.”   So by the media’s demented reasoning, if Nancy Pelosi ever gets murdered, it would be my fault.
An Arizona sheriff(you get one guess where he falls on the whole secure the border thing) issued a statement yesterday saying that “Arizona has become a Mecca for prejudice and bigotry”.
What is with these people? Do they wait for something awful to happen so that they can harness it to whatever their pet issue is? Yes. The white congresswoman and a bunch of white people were shot by a crazy white guy because of prejudice against Mexicans. Do these idiots ever listen to themselves? Wait… shouldn’t the sheriff have to apologize for using the word Mecca in a negative light?
I read repeatedly yesterday about how Glenn Beck has been calling for violence… Really? Has he ever actually done that? Or has that just been repeated over and over again on the left as some sort of mantra until it has become their truth?  Here’s the thing. I listen to Glenn Beck on my morning commute because it is one of the only stations I can get up in the mountains. I’m not a Beck defender nor am I a huge fanboy (mostly because a lot of the stuff he’s saying now I was called crazy for saying ten years ago, so it is kind of old news. Welcome to the party, Brother Beck).  Beck is the opposite of calling for violence. He’s railed on it over and over, and he’s terrified that somebody on our side will do something stupid. He’s asked people to pray for the safety of our elected officials.
That sure sounds like a call for violence to me.
This whole thing ticks me off, though it shouldn’t. I should know better. I should know it is coming.  I’m tired of the media talking about average Americans on my side of the fence like we’re just simmering and ready to explode, while Black Panthers threatening people with clubs get a pass.  I’m tired of union leaders being caught on tape talking about using violence and intimidation as a valid political tool getting zero coverage, while people on my side are maligned for things they didn’t say.
None of this is new. Crazies have been killing politicians since they were tossing black powder bombs under their carriages. The only reason Roosevelt lived long enough to become president only because Gieseppe Zanagara (who believed evil capitalists had cursed him with a disease that caused flatulence) was short and had to stand on a wobbly chair to see over the crowd.
The victims are the people that got killed or injured. The villain is the person that shot them, not regular America, no matter how fervently the press wishes it would be.
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“It’s Either Freedom, Or It’s War!”

 “It’s Either Freedom, Or It’s War!”

 

 

Negotiate? Cooperate? Capitulate?

 

Are you kidding?  For God’s sake my fellow Americans, that’s how we got here.  Don’t you get it?  Sure!  While we negotiated, they regulated!  While we cooperated, they indoctrinated!  While we capitulated, they propagated.   

 

When they were in power, which has been for way too long, they did whatever they pleased, in disdain of the constitutional limits placed upon them.  When we were in power they cried for bi-partisanship.   If we took actions to save the country from bankruptcy, they called us baby killers, child “starvers” and abject racists.  If we said some of our institutions and un-funded liabilities would send us headlong into bankruptcy, they said we were crazy.  If we challenged their policies, they called us un-educated, irrational and radical.

 

For over 100 years they have inched us closer and closer to an Absolute Democrat Monarchy.   They were able to achieve it by our side negotiating, cooperating, capitulating and even worse, appeasing.  In that 100 years they bought off huge segments of the American people with “free” gifts from the public treasury (our money) and made those segments weak, dependent on government and loyal voters of the “gift” providers, or all powerful, like big business, big banks and big unions.  As each decade went by and we negotiated, cooperated and capitulated, they took our freedom and stomped on it.  They took our liberty and called it non-sense.  They shredded our constitution and called it meaningless.  They robbed us of our wealth and called it compassion.  They diluted our sovereignty and called it necessary to the one world order.

 

Our side has followed the failed policies of England’s Nevil Chamberlain, that delayed taking on one of the greatest bullies of history, Hitler and the Third Reich.  That delay caused millions more people to needlessly die.  Our delay in not taking on the other side in a more forceful fashion may have just resulted in the end of freedom in America as we know it.  We have been regulated and indoctrinated to death and our public treasury squandered on irrational compassion, waste, fraud, abuse and corruption.  Our actions, or in-actions as the case may be, have allowed our freedom train to build up so much speed, it has no other future than to end in a horrendous crash on a sharp curve, or at the end of the line.  The crash is just around the next bend in the tracks.

 

In the first-ever hydrogen balloon ride across the English Channel on June 4th, 1783, the gondola riders had to start unloading items into the sea.  It seems that their balloon was leaking hydrogen fast and they were in danger of sinking into the channel before they reached the shores of the European Continent.  They had to start dumping every non-essential item over board.  They even took off their pants and threw those overboard as well.  When they arrived in France, the greeters were a little taken back by the lack of attire displayed by these lighter-than-air adventurers.

 

Well ladies and gentlemen, we are perched on a violently tossing gondola, under an un-stable air balloon and the hot air is leaking from that which holds us aloft.  The leak is growing by the day.  We either start unloading our excess baggage from the gondola, our we will descend into the ocean and drown.  It may even come down to dumping our pants and shirts overboard, if we are to prevent ditching into the unforgiving briny deep of bankruptcy, chaos and anarchy.

 

But rather than decreasing the weight of the gondola, we submit that a better strategy would be to determine why the balloon is leaking in the first place and plug the leak, before we start dumping everything overboard, you know, like our freedom, liberty and sovereignty.

 

How to plug the leak is simple.  How to implement the plug is problematical.  It seems that our once-great Republic is now occupied by weak, dependent and loyal, voting subjects of the Absolute Democrat Monarchy and won’t bite the hand that feeds them.  While we negotiated, cooperated and capitulated with the other side for the last 100 years, they were busy regulating, indoctrinating and propagating their failed ideology and convinced millions of naive individuals, who forgot that freedom comes at a price, that the “light”, the “way” and the “path” are that of a powerful, centralized, nanny government.  They opted for security rather than liberty.  They opted for a free handout instead of the harder path of self-reliance, responsibility and independence.  Many of those Americans salivated at the chance to get something for free, their pride and honor evaporating in the false glory of a government-sponsored gold rush.

 

If a free and prosperous nation is to survive long into the future, here are the facts.  Any government policy that makes individual Americans weak and dependent, is wrong!  Any government policy that weakens our defense capability, is wrong!  Any government policy that presents a posture of appeasement to the rest of the world, is wrong!  Any government policy that authorizes or advances an apology for America’s mistakes, is wrong!  Any government policy that increases federal power, over the power and rights of the states and the people, is wrong!  Any federal government policy that exceeds the enumerated powers contained in the U. S. Constitution, is wrong!  Any government policy, or ratified treaty that dilutes, decreases or eradicates American sovereignty, or is in conflict with the U. S. Constitution, is wrong!   Any government policy that brainwashes and indoctrinates our school and college-age children into the ways of liberalism, socialism, multi-culturalism and collectivism, is wrong!   Any government policy that openly refuses to, or inadequately protects our borders, is wrong!  Any government policy that rewards illegal aliens (law breakers) with amnesty, is wrong!  Any government policy that allows environmental protection to override Constitutional 5th Amendment property right safe guards, is wrong! 

 

Each government policy we have outlined in the last paragraph is the policy of the current administration, way too many past presidents and way too many past congresses, including the previous congress and maybe even the current one.  When will we finally yell from the roof tops and once-and-for-all tell the multitudes that the policies of the other side have been wrong ….. all wrong?  Do we shy away from the truth?  Do we avoid a fight because it is distasteful?  Have we become cowards in the defense of liberty?

 

So it must be evident to those who have eyes to see, that it is way past time for negotiating, cooperating and capitulating.  That has gotten us to where it always does ….. no where, or worse, less free!  We either unravel what has been un-constitutionally institutionalized over the last 100 years and do it with the force and vehemence of righteousness, or face the end of our failed experiment with liberty.  If our side does not now take the actions to plug the leak in our sinking balloon, we will be forced to throw everything overboard, in the hopes that we won’t crash into the sea, but crash we will nevertheless.  What we may have to throw overboard could very well be our own freedom.

 

We say, either its freedom, or its war.  Not a shooting war, but a war between vastly different ideologies.  Ideologies, where one of them is more right than the other and in keeping with the tenets of American freedom and liberty.  If we have any hopes of surviving as a free nation, there is only one choice to make, individual freedom.  The only other choice is collective enslavement, a condition brought on by too much negotiating, cooperating and capitulating to the other side. 

 

Rest assured that no matter how the reader may construe our message, it is our firm wish that we can restore individual freedom and reclaim our Constitutional Republic by peaceful means.  To realize that wish, tens of millions of Americans will have to stand up and be counted, for liberty, or a shooting war or unconditional capitulation may be the only two alternatives left to us.

 

 

       This is from the Desert conservative.

If I was in charge...........

The truth hurts . . this was in the Waco Tribune Herald, Waco, Texas on 18 November, 2010:


Put me in charge of food stamps. I'd get rid of Lone Star cards; no cash for Ding Dongs or Ho Ho's, just money for 50-pound bags of rice and beans, blocks of cheese and all the powdered milk you can haul away. If you want steak and frozen pizza, then get a job.

Put me in charge of Medicaid. The first thing I'd do is to get women Norplant birth control implants or tubal ligations. Then, we'll test recipients for drugs, alcohol, and nicotine and document all tattoos and piercings. If you want to reproduce or use drugs, alcohol, smoke or get tats and piercings, then get a job.

Put me in charge of government housing. Ever live in a military barracks? You will maintain our property in a clean and good state of repair. Your home will be subject to inspections anytime and possessions will be inventoried. If you want a plasma TV or X box 360, then get a job and your own place.

In addition, you will either present a check stub from a job each week or you will report to a government job. It may be cleaning the roadways of trash, painting and repairing public housing, whatever we find for you. We will sell your 22 inch rims and low profile tires and your blasting stereo and speakers and put that money toward the common good.

Before you write that I've violated someones rights, realize that all of the above is voluntary. If you want our money, accept our rules. Before you say that this would be demeaning and ruin their self esteem consider that it wasn't that long ago that taking someone else's money for doing absolutely nothing was demeaning and lowered self esteem.

If we are expected to pay for other peoples mistakes we should at least attempt to make them learn from their bad choices. The current system rewards them for continuing to make bad choices.

- Alfred W. Evans, Gatesville, TX

About sums it up.....

Explaination of the American political system in a nutshell...or a box

    Where I work at, we have people that are either legal aliens or naturalized citizens and we got on a discussion on the American political system.   I had for several years used the "box system":

     there are 4 boxes to the American political system:

   The first box is the soupbox, I can stand on it and say anything critical of the government without going to a gulag.

    The second box is the ballot box, I can vote for whomever i want without incurring the wraith of the party in power and having a tire wrapped around me and set on fire.

    The 3rd box of our political system is the jury box, The rule of law applies to all people regardless of socioeconomic status.  The political elite can go to jail as well as John Q public.

    the 4th box of our political system is the cartridge box, you open the 4th one when the government takes the first 3 away and get them back.  the 2nd amendment ain't about duck hunting.

     The United States as with most western based societies have the rule of law, the other places in the world have what is called the rule of man or mob rule, where your civil rights are when they ask which ear do you want the bullet and due process is charging your family the cost of the bullet.   I have been on many other places in the world, I enjoy  the travel and the experience, but it makes me appreciate the U.S.A more so when I return. 

Humorous comparison of AR-15/AK-47/ and Mosin Nagant I own all 3 and see the humor.

 I shamelessly lifted this from www.mousegun.com   Saved it as a favorite and read it from time to time for humor.



Written by Head of the old Headsbunker.com, also known as "Ezra Coli" on the various message boards.
There's an ever present, unending debate over which is best, ARs or AKs, raging across the internet and in gun shops every day sending bile and bitter insults spewing both ways. This debate has turned fathers against sons, best friends against one another, and........well you get the point. The author is of the opinion that there are of course pros and cons to each family of rifle, and I refuse to engage in what is "best". As one who loves them all, especially the AK and AR series, I thought I'd pass on some of the knowledge I have gained over the years concerning these wildly different weapons. As a bonus, I'll toss in my knowledge of another favorite family of weapons at the Bunker, just because they are very popular these days and I often ramble about them. So, here, for the aid of those hammering one another in the debate, is some unbiased, non-slanted, untainted raw knowledge about the AK, the AR, and the Mosin Nagant.

Stuff you know if you have an AK.	Stuff you know if you have an AR	Stuff you know if you have a Mosin Nagant
It works though you have never cleaned it. Ever.	You have $9 per ounce special non-detergent synthetic teflon infused oil for cleaning.	It was last cleaned in Berlin in 1945.
You are able to hit the broad side of a barn from inside.	You are able to hit the broad side of a barn from 600m.	You can hit the farm from two counties over.
Cheap mags are fun to buy.	Cheap mags melt.	What's a mag?
Your safety can be heard 300m away.	You can silently flip off the safety with your finger on the trigger.	What's a safety?
Your rifle comes with a cheap nylon sling.	Your rifle has a 9 point stealth tactical suspension system.	Your rifle has dog collars.
Your bayonet makes a good wire cutter.	Your bayonet is actually a pretty good steak knife.	Your bayonet is longer than your leg.
You can put a .30" hole through 12" of oak, if you can hit it.	You can put one hole in a paper target at 100m with 30 rounds.	You can knock down everyone else's target just from the shock wave of your bullet going downrange.
When out of ammo, your rifle will nominally pass as a club.	When out of ammo, your rifle makes a great whiffle bat.	When out of ammo, your rifle makes a supreme war club, pike, boat oar, tent pole, or firewood.
Recoil is manageable, even fun.	What's recoil?	Recoil often used to relocate shoulders thrown out by the previous shot.
Your sight adjustment goes to '10', and you've never bothered moving it.	Your sight adjustment is incremented in fractions of minute of angle.	Your sight adjustment goes to 12 miles and you've actually tried it.
Your rifle can be used by any two bit nation's most illiterate conscripts to fight elite forces worldwide.	Your rifle is used by elite forces worldwide to fight two bit nations most illiterate conscripts.	Your rifle has fought against itself and won every time.
Your rifle won some revolutions.	Your rifle won the cold war.	Your rifle won a pole vault event.
You paid $350.	You paid $900.	You paid $59.95.
You buy cheap ammo by the case.	You lovingly reload precision crafted rounds one by one.	You dig your ammo out of a farmer's field in Ukraine and it works just fine.
You can intimidate your foe with the bayonet mounted.	Your foes laugh when you mount your bayonet.	You can bayonet your foe on the other side of the river without leaving the comfort of your hole.
Service life, 50 years.	Service life, 40 years.	Service Life, 100 years.
Its easier to buy a new rifle when you want to change cartridge sizes.	You can change cartridge sizes with the push of a couple of pins and a new upper.	You believe no real man would dare risk the ridicule of his friends by suggesting there is anything but 7.62x54r.
You can repair your rifle with a big hammer and a swift kick.	You can repair your rifle by taking it to a certified gunsmith, it's under warranty!	If your rifle breaks, you buy a new one.
You consider it a badge of honor when you get your handguards to burst into flames.	You consider it a badge of honor when you shoot a sub-MOA 5 shot group.	You consider it a badge of honor when you cycle 5 rounds without the aid of a 2x4.
After a long day at the range you relax by watching "Red Dawn."	After a long day at the range you relax by watching "Blackhawk Down."	After a long day at the range you relax by visiting the chiropractor. THEN you watch "Enemy at the Gates."
After cleaning your rifle you have a strong urge for a stiff shot of Vodka.	After cleaning your rifle you have a strong urge for hotdogs and Apple Pie.	After cleaning your rifle you have a strong urge for shishkabob.
You can accessorize your rifle with a new muzzle brake or a nice stock set.	Your rifle's accessories are eight times more valuable than your rifle.	Your rifle's accessory is a small tin can with a funny lid, but its buried under an apartment building somewhere in Budapest.
Your rifle's finish is varnish and paint.	Your rifle's finish is Teflon and high tech polymers.	Your rifle's finish is low grade shellac, cosmoline and Olga's toe nails.
Your wife tolerates your autographed, framed picture of Mikhail Kalashnikov.	Your wife tolerates your autographed, framed picture of Eugene Stoner.	You're not sure there WERE cameras to photograph Sergei Mosin.
Late at night you sometimes have to fight the urge to hold your rifle over your head and shout "Wolverines!"	Late at night you sometimes have to fight the urge to clear your house, slicing the pie from room to room.	Late at night, you sometimes have to fight the urge to dig a fighting trench in the yard to sleep in.

There you have it. In the end, it is clear to any open minded inquirer that the Mosin Nagant is the most superior weapon of all time, but the AR and the AK come out as a draw when compared side by side.

Senator Alexander(R-Tennessee) at a speech at the Heritage foundation.

Senator Lamar Alexander recently spoke against a possible senate rule change that is being considered by some of the Democrats in the senate.  The senate is supposed to be a more gentlemanly forum than the often turbulent proceedings that are prevalent in the house.  There is an undercurrent that the senate majority(democrats) want to abandon the 3/5th majority to pass legislation.  they want to go to a 51 vote rule, basically forcing majority role on any proceedings that are initiated in either the senate or to force closure on any filibuster that may be attempted.  This will force tyranny by the majority party and the minority party will have no say.  This will remove one of the basic check and balances in the senate rules.   I shamelessly lifted this report from HUMAN EVENTS:


Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), in a speech at the Heritage Foundation in Washington Tuesday, struck back at Democrats in the Senate who may try to change the Senate rules regarding the filibuster to make it easier for the diminishing number of Democrats to pass liberal pieces of legislation more easily.

Referencing the recent midterm elections in which Americans sent a clear message that they were dissatisfied with Democrats and their liberal agenda, Alexander said Democrats were attempting to change the filibuster rules because “when you lose the game, you change the rules,” and said such rule changes would amount to an “electoral nullification.”

At issue is the speculation that Democrats are serious about changing the Senate rules so that only 51 votes, rather than the 60 currently needed, will end debate, which would essentially eliminate the ability of the minority to block legislation it deems to be harmful. While they had audaciously planned to to make an attempt on the first day of the new Congress, the Democrats, led by Sen. Tom Udall (D-Colo.), may wait a few weeks to try to change the Senate rules.

Alexander, who was a strong voice against ObamaCare during the health-care debate, said, “Democrats are proposing to use the very tactics that in the past almost every Democratic leader has denounced” and said such a change in the rules would change the institution and would amount to a freight train running through the Senate.

Alexander asked whether Democrats, potentially in the minority in two years, would want such a “freight train running through in two years if that freight train is the Tea Party Express.”

Alexander also accused Democrats of trying to turn the Senate into the House of Representatives so they could ram through legislation like they did with ObamaCare.

“The procedure in the Senate takes longer, but produces better results,” Alexander said.

Alexander compared the civil rights legislation that was passed in the 1960s with the health-care legislation passed in a partisan manner by Democrats in the last Congress. Alexander said that, unlike the current health-care law, there wasn’t an institutional clamoring for repeal of the civil rights laws because those laws passed after adhering to Senate protocol.

Alexander paid homage to the late Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.), who was the master of the Senate’s intricate rules, emphasizing Byrd’s statement that the Senate, because its members are elected in staggered terms unlike Representatives who are up for re-election every two years, was a “continuing body for open and unlimited debate and allows for protection of minority rights.”

In his last speech in the Senate, Byrd, referring to the filibuster, said, “We must never tear down the only wall against executive branch excesses and the tyranny of the majority.”

Alexander ended his speech with a video montage that began with the fictional Mr. Smith, who was followed by Democrats Robert Byrd, Hillary Clinton, Chris Dodd and Harry Reid emphatically making their case in the past that the filibuster must be preserved to maintain the integrity of the institution of the Senate.

In one clip, Reid emphatically and ironically states that those who want to do away with the filibuster “want to do away with Mr. Smith . . . they think they are wiser than our Founding Fathers.”

When asked what would happen if the Senate somehow did alter the filibuster rules, Alexander responded that the “Senate is too valuable to tamper with; I don’t want to even speculate [on filibuster rules being changed]” before adding that he thought it was unlikely that Democrats would succeed in altering the filibuster rules.

 

 

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