Friday, July 15, 2016
Tuesday, July 12, 2016
Odd Bits
480 homicides (9.4%) were in Chicago
333 homicides (6.5%) were in Detroit
119 homicides (2.3%) were in Washington DC (a 54% increase over prior years)
So basically, 25% of all gun death happens in just four cities, all of which have draconian gun laws. That puts to bed the notion that it's a lack of gun control laws causing these deaths. This basically leaves 3,825 deaths for the entire rest of the nation, or about 75 per state. That is an average because some states have much higher rates than others. For example, California had 1,169 gun related deaths, and Alabama had 1. One might make a correlation between those cities listed above and designated sanctuary cities, and conclude that a high percentage of criminal element residing in those cities drives gun related crime more so than does just the fact of guns being present.
40,000 die from a drug overdose
710,000 people die per year from heart disease
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Monday, July 11, 2016
Technological Slippery Slope
Will AT-ST Walker Be Next Weapon? |
The Dallas Bomb Carrying Robot |
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Friday, July 08, 2016
The Kenyan's Legacy: Chaos
Can't Touch ME! |
Of Course He's A Muslim |
Yep, in the final days and weeks of this corrupt and ungodly administration, the chaos just gets better and better.
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Thursday, July 07, 2016
Corruption Is A Scorpion
It's Just The Nature Of The Beast |
Not the voters; half of whom were blinded by the promises being made, by the utopia that was guaranteed, and who lacked the sophistication to see through the lies being told.
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Tuesday, July 05, 2016
The Crime of Dissent
And what about censorship by media giants that control free speech? If they arbitrarily shut down sites or "pages" with which they disagree, is that not censorship? Of course it is. If you espouse a view or activity that's in contravention with the left wing media apparatchiks that force government group think on users, that's dissent by definition. A case in point is a gun range in Texas that offers free concealed handgun classes for the homosexual-and-sexual-identity-confused community, responding to concerns of homosexuals about Muslims following the Orlando Islamic terrorist attack. That should have been welcomed with open arms by Facebook and lovers of all things homosexual, right? Not so much. You see, it's got to do with guns! We can't advocate self reliance and self defense. That's too American. So Facebook took down both Shiloh Shooting's pages, and as of yet has not restored either account.
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Monday, July 04, 2016
Why We Celebrate Independence Day
Ever Vigilant,Ever Ready |
1760s
1763
10 February | Signing of the Treaty of Paris Ending the Seven Year’s War, also known as the French and Indian War in North America. France ceded all mainland North American territories, except New Orleans, in order to retain her Caribbean sugar islands. Britain gained all territory east of the Mississippi River; Spain kept territory west of the Mississippi, but exchanged East and West Florida for Cuba. |
1763
7 October | Proclamation of 1763 Wary of the cost of defending the colonies, George III prohibited all settlement west of the Appalachian mountains without guarantees of security from local Native American nations. The intervention in colonial affairs offended the thirteen colonies' claim to the exclusive right to govern lands to their west. |
1764
5 April | Sugar Act The first attempt to finance the defense of the colonies by the British Government. In order to deter smuggling and to encourage the production of British rum, taxes on molasses were dropped; a levy was placed on foreign Madeira wine and colonial exports of iron, lumber and other goods had to pass first through Britain and British customs. The Act established a Vice-Admiralty Court in Halifax, Nova Scotia to hear smuggling cases without jury and with the presumption of guilt. These measures led to widespread protest. |
1765
22 March | Stamp Act Seeking to defray some of the costs of garrisoning the colonies, Parliament required all legal documents, newspapers and pamphlets required to use watermarked, or 'stamped' paper on which a levy was placed. |
1765
15 May | Quartering Act Colonial assemblies required to pay for supplies to British garrisons. The New York assembly argued that it could not be forced to comply. |
1765
30 May | Virginian Resolution The Virginian assembly refused to comply with the Stamp Act. |
1765
7-25 October | Stamp Act Congress Representatives from nine of the thirteen colonies declare the Stamp Act unconstitutional as it was a tax levied without their consent. |
1766
18 March | Declaratory Act Parliament finalises the repeal of the Stamp Act, but declares that it has the right to tax colonies |
1767
29 June | Townshend Revenue Act (Townshend Duties) Duties on tea, glass, lead, paper and paint to help pay for the administration of the colonies, named after Charles Townshend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer. John Dickinson publishes Letter from a Philadelphian Farmer in protest. Colonial assemblies condemn taxation without representation. |
1768
1 October | British troops arrive in Boston in response to political unrest. |
1770s | |
1770
5 March | Boston Massacre Angered by the presence of troops and Britain's colonial policy, a crowd began harassing a group of soldiers guarding the customs house; a soldier was knocked down by a snowball and discharged his musket, sparking a volley into the crowd which kills five civilians. |
1770
12 April | Repeal of the Townshend Revenue Act |
1772
10 June | Burning of the Gaspee The revenue schooner Gaspee ran aground near Providence, Rhode Island and was burnt by locals angered by the enforcement of trade legislation. |
1773
July | Publication of Thomas Hutchinson letters In these letters, Hutchinson, the Massachusetts governor, advocated a 'great restraint of natural liberty', convincing many colonists of a planned British clamp-down on their freedoms. |
1773
10 May | Tea Act In an effort to support the ailing East India Company, Parliament exempted its tea from import duties and allowed the Company to sell its tea directly to the colonies. Americans resented what they saw as an indirect tax subsidizing a British company. |
1773
16 December | Boston Tea Party Angered by the Tea Acts, American patriots disguised as Mohawk Indians dump £9,000 of East India Company tea into the Boston harbour. |
1774
May to June | Intolerable Acts Four measures which stripped Massachusetts of self-government and judicial independence following the Boston Tea Party. The colonies responded with a general boycott of British goods. |
1774
September | Continental Congress Colonial delegates meet to organize opposition to the Intolerable Acts. |
1775
19 April | Battles of Lexington and Concord First engagements of the Revolutionary War between British troops and the Minutemen, who had been warned of the attack by Paul Revere. |
1775
16 June | Continental Congress appoints George Washington commander-in-chief of Continental Army; issued $2 million bills of credit to fund the army. |
1775
17 June | Battle of Bunker Hill The first major battle of the War of Independence. Sir William Howe dislodged William Prescott's forces overlooking Boston at a cost of 1054 British casualties to the Americans' 367. |
1775
5 July | Olive-Branch Petition Congress endorses a proposal asking for recognition of American rights, the ending of the Intolerable Acts in exchange for a cease fire. George III rejected the proposal and on 23 August 1775 declared the colonies to be in open rebellion. |
1776
9 January | Thomas Paine's Common Sense published anonymously in Philadelphia |
1776
2 May | France provides covert aid to the Americans |
1776
4 July | Continental Congress issues the Declaration of Independence |
1775-1776
Winter | Invasion of Canada by Benedict Arnold |
1776
August - December | Battles of Long Island and White Plains British forces occupy New York after American defeats. |
1776
26 December | Battle of Trenton, New Jersey, providing a boast to American morale. |
1777
2-3 January | Battle of Princeton, New Jersey. General Washington broke camp at Trenton to avoid a British advance, attacking the British rearguard and train near Princeton and then withdrawing to Morristown. |
1777
13 October | British surrender of 5,700 troops at Saratoga. Lacking supplies, 5,700 British, German and loyalist forces under Major General John Burgoyne surrender to Major General Horatio Gates in a turning point in the Revolutionary War. |
1778
6 February | France recognizes US Independence. |
1780s | |
1780
16 August | US Defeat at battle of Camden |
1781
1 March | Ratification of the Articles of Confederation |
1781
5 September | Battle of the Capes, denying British reinforcements or evacuation. |
1781
18 October | Surrender of British forces under Cornwallis at Yorktown. |
1782
5 March | British Government authorizes peace negotiations. |
1783
3 September | Treaty of Paris, formally ending the Revolutionary War |
1786-1787
| Shays’s Rebellion Massachusetts rebellion led by the Revolutionary War veteran Daniel Shays against high taxes. |
1787
25 May | Constitutional Convention |
1787
| Adoption of the American Constitution |
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Wednesday, June 29, 2016
A Visual Message?
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It's Not The Gun, Son
Conressional Dems: Enemy of the People |
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Tuesday, June 28, 2016
An Ill Wind Doth Blow
In a nod to his sexually confused supporters, and as another poke in the eye to moral Americans everywhere, Our Dear Leader issues yet another unlawful edict. Circumventing Congress yet again, the Kenyan now bans single sex restrooms in all US National Parks. The fallout on this will be intense, but it clearly illustrates that this man's narcissism knows no bounds. One wonders if this psychopath will willingly leave office in January, so drunk with power is he.
Sniffing that ill wind, let's review: discussing Muslim crime is a crime; the US Constitution is "dead", replaced by a "living document" reflective only of the ideology of un-elected judges; the death industry is alive and well; the government continues to disarm and criminalize gun owning Americans; the government seeks foreign intervention to stem and eliminate "domestic terror" of and by Americans; foreign military equipment and materiel are seen within our shores; and the Kenyan takes it solely upon himself to rid us moral Americans of the right to privacy in our most intimate moments.
So. What could possibly go wrong?
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Monday, June 27, 2016
Begin Again Renewed
That's not all the news that's noteworthy, either. But I need another cuppa before I head out into the world to protect my financial interests. Renewed, and fully armed.
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Wednesday, June 15, 2016
Orlando: When Government Propaganda Fails
Good luck in disarming Americans, all you fascists. Molon Labe. Look it up.
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Sunday, June 12, 2016
A Matter Of Survival
" . . . A pro-Isis group has released a hit list with the names of more than 8,000 people mostly Americans. More than 600-people live in Florida, and one security expert believes that many of those targeted live in Palm Beach County and on the Treasure Coast. The “United Cyber Caliphate” that hacked U.S. Central Command, 54,000 Twitter accounts and threatened President Barack Obama is the same pro-Isis group that’s reportedly created a “kill list” with the names, addresses and emails of thousands of civilian Americans. Reports of the list came to light online when Vocativ reported the list was shared via the encrypted app, Telegram, and called on supporters to kill. Former FBI agent-turned lawyer Stuart Kaplan says the threat is especially alarming, because the people on this list are civilians who don’t have the security necessary to protect themselves. “It’s going to create some hysteria,” he said…"
" . . As one ISIS supporter pointed out, the Florida shooting follows ISIS spokesman Abu Muhammad al-Adnani’s most recent speech, in which al-Adnani called upon “soldiers and supporters of the Caliphate in Europe and America” to attack civilians, “spread the terror,” and “open the door of Jihad” in their homes during the holy Muslim month of Ramadan. Another ISIS sympathizer shared images and videos from Orlando and wrote, “there is nothing I love more than the blood of infidels. This is the month of victories and blessings. . . .”
And as the terrorists themselves tell us, there will be more killings. Many more. It's time we stand up to and kill these savages, wherever and whenever they're found. After all, it's a matter of survival.
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