Edward’s Evil Insurance Scam « Liberty Just in Case
Edwards is not just another run of the mill big government politician. He is downright dangerous. Take a look at his proposals and it all becomes clear as a bell.
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Edward’s Evil Insurance Scam « Liberty Just in Case
January 10, 2008Immigration enforcement… « I am a shadow
January 8, 2008Immigration enforcement… « I am a shadow
First, as a University student you should know not to rely on spell check alone. Go and re-read what you posted.
How can such a large majority have any fear..? How many people were here in America when a small band of people changed the world by flying into buildings? That is how. It has been pretty well documented that Islamic terrorist’s are in America, and that most got here after being smuggled across the border with Mexico.
Then there is the issue of law. We are a nation of laws, not of men. It has nothing at all to do with compassion, humanity, or weakness.
Independent’s Day Rant « Morgan’s Musings
January 7, 2008Independent’s Day Rant « Morgan’s Musings
Morgan has independently discovered what so many of us have been saying for many years.
Militant Gay agenda; Coming to your state soon!
January 7, 2008
Seems like it was just yesterday when homosexuals were saying that all that they wanted was to be left in peace. I’m Okay with that myself; Just don’t try popping my pooper, or my grandson’s. Then the true goals started showing up. Open gays in the military, then special rights for homosexuals supposedly to prevent discrimination here in Colorado. Then gay “marriage.” Will the list never stop? I submit that the true agenda is total social domination. Check out what my home state has done now. To be sure, in recent times trends start in California, and migrate east.
You may remember that in October, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R-CA) signed SB 777, a sweeping pro-homosexual education bill, into law. Arguably the most devastating anti-family bill ever passed in California, SB 777 requires all curricula—even that of private schools—to treat homosexuality and heterosexuality ‘equally.’ Under this misguided mandate, teaching students about the benefits of traditional families will be considered discrimination. Schools will no longer be asked to tolerate but to advocate a lifestyle with devastating consequences to the public health and conscience. Among other things, history books will be required to include stories of ‘famous gays,’ literature assignments will feature homosexual influences, and sex education will include so-called ‘safe sex’ for ‘alternative’ lifestyles. A large coalition of parents and activists is doing all it can to stop the law from going into effect.” —Tony Perkins
If there is anyone out there that still thinks the guvinator is still a Conservative watch out for them because they must have LSD in their lifestyle.
The Libertarian Case Against Abortion
January 3, 2008I decided to stir up a hornets nest, and show that Libertarians can be against abortion while still holding to fundamental Libertarianism.
The Libertarian Case Against Abortion
To explain and defend our case, LFL argues that:
1. Human offspring are human beings, persons from fertilization.
2. Abortion is homicide — the killing of one person by another.
3. There is never a right to kill an innocent person. Prenatally, we are all innocent persons.
4. A prenatal child has the right to be in the mother’s body. Parents have no right to evict their children from the crib or from the womb and let them die. Instead both parents, the father as well as the mother, owe them support and protection from harm.
5. No government, nor any individual, has a just power to legally depersonify any one of us, born or preborn.
6. The proper purpose of the law is to side with the innocent, not against them.
For details, please read LFL’s literature.
Libertarians for Life was founded in 1976 to show why abortion is a wrong, not a right. Our reasoning is expressly scientific and philosophical rather than either pragmatic or religious, or merely political or emotional. Politically, of course, our perspective is libertarian. Libertarianism’s basic principle is that, under justice, each of us has the obligation not to aggress against (violate the rights of) anyone else — for any reason (personal, social, or political), however worthy.
SOURCE: http://www.l4l.org/
The Insane Logic of Gun Control
January 2, 2008This just popped up on a search for some information. Please go to the website and read the comments as well.
The Insane Logic of Gun Control
WTMA commentary broadcast 12/11/07
When a 19-year-old gunman walked into a mall in Omaha, Nebraska last week and began shooting customers, no one had an answer to what might have prevented such a random act of senseless violence. When churchgoers were randomly shot in Colorado Springs Sunday, police still had no answers as to why someone would do such a thing. Neither of these incidents are the first of their sort, nor unfortunately will these instances be the last time innocent people are gunned down in cold blood for no good reason. As with Columbine High School shootings and Virginia Tech massacre, there will always be people in this world who want to inflict harm for its own sake and if this sort of sadism is not the definition of evil, then I don’t know what is. But when combating such evil men, it never ceases to amaze me that so many believe the answer is to disarm good men through gun control.
Gun control advocates have been known to argue that while cowboys fighting Indians and such might have been an appropriate era in which to carry a six-shooter, guns have no place in modern America. An early American cowboy, or even an Indian, might have used a firearm to defend his family, tribe or honor, but today we have nutcases who, without conscience, will murder random women, children and old people for no apparent reason. We simply can’t trust people with guns these days, because we can’t trust people period, they tell us. We live in an age of moral anarchy, where the consequences are becoming more violent and bizarre with each passing year.
But again I ask, what about good men? Why would any sane person want to disarm them? There was a time in this country when packing heat was as common as packing lunch. Not only would our ancestors have been outraged at the notion of having to seek permission from their government to own a gun, but often the government itself was outraged by those who didn’t own guns. A state like Virginia even used to prosecute men for failing to carry a firearm at all times, with particular mandates to make sure guns were brought to church.
The only possible protection in bizarre situations like the recent mall and church shootings, would be constant police protection, which is impossible, or a society in which it was a given that most or even a significant portion of the population was packing heat. For example, does anyone believe the mall shooter in Nebraska would have got as far he did at say, the Ladson Flea Market? According to gun control advocates, gun shows should be the most violent places on earth by the mere presence of firearms, which is all the proof one needs to realize that arguments for gun control are as absurd as they are dangerous.
The only possible protection against random acts of evil is random acts of good, carried out by good men with the means to get the job done. When 22-year-old Clara Riddles was drug by her hair through CNN Center last April and shot to death, essayist Bob Allen wrote of the incident “There was a time when a majority of American men would almost surely have come to Clara’s aid. It was a day when men, recognizing the reality of evil, carried weapons that enabled them to stand in the gap for those being unjustly tormented and threatened. Virtually any man on the street could come to the aid of a victim like Clara. (But) that was then; this is now.”
And so it is. According to both statistics and sheer logic, the very notion of gun control is so patently stupid, that only people with too much education could possibly believe it, and it is no accident that for self-described “progressives,” gun control is often at the top of their list. Call me old fashioned, but I much prefer English statesman Edmund Burke’s observation that “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” And when it comes to these random shootings, allowing as many good men possible the ability to shoot back is our only hope for less deadly results in the future.
http://southernavenger.ccpblogs.com/2007/12/11/the-insane-logic-of-gun-control/
North American Union « Truth, Lies and In Between
December 30, 2007North American Union « Truth, Lies and In Between
Better late than never I suppose. Becoming armed is only part of preparation for what is coming though. Ultimately, the destruction of the Constitution of the United States, and most especially the Bill of Rights is the all to obvious goal of these people that would Laird it over us all.
Slavery in Africa – A Modern Horror Story « AfricaRights
December 29, 2007Slavery in Africa – A Modern Horror Story « AfricaRights
This story raises many questions. Not the least of which is the shear illogical situations presented. Severing Achilles tendons for refusing to become Muslim? One Muslim may not own another Muslim as I understand things. Crippled slaves also would not be very productive either.
Then there is the statement about how westerners all think that slavery was abolished with the Emancipation Proclamation. That just makes no sense whatsoever. It applied only to slaves that were residing in the rebellious southern states, not even to those that were in the north. So how on earth could people all over the western world think that it applied everywhere?
This is not at all to say that modern day slavery does not exist. It does, and it is every bit as evil today as it was in the past.
Irish Christmas Cookies
December 22, 2007
Some things are timeless indeed. My forefathers brought certain things from the Emerald Isle that persist to this very day in fact! A Pint of plain, was, and still is the very same Guiness. Celtic gold work is still among the finest made. Celt whisky, be it Irish or Scot, is, and always be, ambrosia…
1c of dark brown sugar
1c (2 sticks) butter
1c of granulated sugar
4 large eggs
2c of dried fruit, such as dried cranberries or raisins
1tsp salt
1tsp fresh lemon juice
1c coarsely chopped walnuts or pecans
2c all-purpose flour
1 bottle Knappogue Castle
Instructions:
Take a large bowl, sample the Knappogue Castle to be sure it is of the highest quality, pour one level cup and drink.
Turn on the electric mixer… beat one cup of butter in a large bowl. Add one teaspoon of sugar. Beat again.
At this point it’s best to make sure the is still OK, try another cup, just in case.
Turn off the mixerer thingy. Break 2 legs and add to the bowl and chuck in the cup of dried fruit. Pick the frigging fruit off floor…
Mix on the turner. If the fried druit gets stuck in the etrrs, just pry it loose with a drewscriver.
Sample the Knappogue Castle to check for tonsisticity.
Next, sift two cups of salt, or something.
Check the Knappogue Castle.
Now shift the lemon juice and strain your nuts. Add one table. Add a schpoon of sugar, or somefink… whatever you can find.
Grease the oven. Turn the cake tin 360 degrees and try not to fall over.
Don’t forget to beat off the turner.
Finally, throw the bowl through the window, FINISH the Knappogue Castle and make sure to put the stove in the dishwasher.
Cheery Mishmas..
stolen in principle from; http://texasfred.net/archives/870#comment-5805
A different kind of rescue assignment
December 21, 2007WILDLIFE OFFICERS, COUNTY EMERGENCY WORKERS RESCUE ELK
In one of the most unusual emergency operations in Colorado this year, three cow elk that fell through the ice of a private pond south of Pagosa Springs were rescued by Division of Wildlife officers, a local volunteer fire fighter and ten other law enforcement workers. The rescue occurred on Dec. 15.
Another elk, a young spike bull, died in the pond during the effort.
It is not uncommon for big game animals to break through ice during winter while searching for water. But it’s not common for the animals to be rescued.
James Romero, a DOW officer, received a call from the Colorado State Patrol about 8:30 a.m. and was told about the animals struggling in the pond. The call also went out to Archuleta County emergency operations. Staff from the sheriff’s office, the Pagosa Fire Protection District, the Pagosa Springs Police Department and Upper San Juan Search and Rescue also went to the scene and all arrived within a few minutes of each other.
The elk, apparently, had seen open water in what was the middle of the pond. When they moved to the edge the ice broke under their weight. Romero estimated that the animals weighed from 300 to 500 pounds each.
“I think they’d probably fell in earlier in the morning,” Romero said. “They were panicked and struggling, but appeared they had enough energy to last awhile.”
One of the people who came to the scene was Thad McKain, a volunteer with the Pagosa Fire District who is certified to perform ice rescues. He had been called by the search and rescue workers. They carry two suits designed for ice rescues in their truck.
McKain said he’d been involved with three rescues of dogs on ice, but had never been called on to save wildlife.
“We put the suits on and I gave James a crash course about what to do,” McKain said.
Without the suits, rescue of the animals might not have been possible.
Secured by ropes, the two men moved to the edge of the water with an ax and broke some ice away to make a narrow slot into which they hoped to guide the elk. On the bank the 10 others stood to help.
“Then we just started making things up as we went,” said Mike Reid, another local DOW wildlife officer who helped with the rescue.
Romero, who had never attempted to rescue a big game animal before, wasn’t sure what to expect as he moved toward the elk. When he got to the edge of the ice, one of the cow elk swam to him.
“I was surprised. I didn’t anticipate that, she came right up to me and seemed to be very calm,” Romero said.
He dropped a rope around the elk’s neck and held it close to the edge. McKain got on his knees, reached his hands into the water and tied a rope around the animal’s legs. Then the whole crew worked to pull her out of the water. She fell down in the snow and the rescuers threw a blanket over her.
“Thank goodness that she made it a lot easier than it could have been,” Romero said.
The rescue, however, didn’t go quite so smooth with the other animals.
Romero went back to the edge of the ice and a second cow swam up to him. She was pulled out in the same way. But when the rope was removed she dashed back into the water. Romero went back to the edge and swinging the rope cowboy style threw it around the elk’s neck. The crew pulled her out again, held her down and tied her feet together.
By this time the spike bull had died and was floating. Romero and Reid speculated that the cow elk might have been going back to the water to protect the young animal. So they threw a rope around the dead animal’s antlers and dragged it out of the water.
The last cow elk proved to be the most difficult: It resisted being pulled up and fought its way back into the water three times. By the last time the elk was exhausted and crew was able to hobble her.
“We were all pretty wiped out by that time,” Reid said. “The surprise is that we got three of them out alive.”
The crew made sure the elk were hobbled securely, dried them off as much as possible, and then lifted each of them into separate pick-up trucks. Reid and Romero decided to take the animals to an area about 20 miles south of Pagosa Springs and let them go on U.S. Forest Service land.
They arrived at the release site by about noon, unloaded the elk and removed the hobbles. The animal that had run back into the water three times stood her ground and acted to protect the others. It charged toward the rescuers and reared up, kicked at them and grazed the face of one of the men with a hoof. Then it turned, jumped a fence and ran toward the forest.
A second elk stood up a few minutes later and made a similar escape. But the third elk, exhausted from the ordeal, fell back down after trying to stand up several times.
The wildlife officers stayed with the animal for an hour then left to make their work rounds. About 4:30 p.m. they returned and found a sheriff’s deputy there. He had not been part of the rescue, but went to the release site after receiving a report that an elk was injured near U.S. Highway 84. The elk was in obvious physical distress and he decided to end its misery.
“It was frustrating to see, but the deputy made the right call,” Romero said.
Romero said that the other two elk appeared to recover and looked good when they ran off.
“I think they had a pretty good chance,” Romero said.
For McKain, who also owns a construction company, the effort put an unusual wrinkle in his career. “It gave me a new addition to my rescue resume,” he said.
Romero credited the team effort for the rescue.
“We couldn’t have done it without the help from the other agencies,” he said.
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NOTE TO EDITORS: Below are links to photos on the DOW web site of the rescue effort. Also below are photo cutlines. The photos were taken on Dec. 15. Please credit photos to: Elizabeth Reid, for C-DOW.
ELK IN POND: Rescue workers from the Colorado Division of Wildlife and Archuleta County move to rescue elk that had fallen through ice in a pond south of Pagosa Springs. Four elk fell through the ice and one died in the water. The photo was taken Dec. 15, 2007.
Photo by Elizabeth Reid, for C-DOW
http://dnr.state.co.us/imagedb/images/3795.JPG
RESCUING FIRST ELK: Rescue workers wearing special ice- rescue suits, prepare to pull an elk out of the pond where it had become trapped. The photo was taken Dec. 15, 2007.
Photo by Elizabeth Reid, for C-DOW
http://dnr.state.co.us/imagedb/images/3796.jpg
ELK OUT OF WATER: Colorado Division of Wildlife Officer James Romero, left, walks away from the edge of the water after pulling four elk out of a pond south of Pagosa Springs. Thad McKain, a volunteer fire fighter with the Pagosa Fire Distrct, tries to catch his breath. Ten other people worked ropes to help pull the elk out of the water. The photo was taken Dec.15, 2007.
Photo by: Elizabeth Reid, for C-DOW.
http://dnr.state.co.us/imagedb/images/3797.JPG
CAPTURING ELK: A cow elk scrambles to move away from rescue workers after it was pulled from a pond near Pagosa Springs. The photo was taken: Dec.15, 2007.
Photo by: Elizabeth Reid.
http://dnr.state.co.us/imagedb/images/3798.JPG
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The Colorado Division of Wildlife is the state agency responsible for managing wildlife and its habitat, as well as providing wildlife related recreation. The Division is funded through hunting and fishing license fees, federal grants and Colorado Lottery proceeds through Great Outdoors Colorado.
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