ONLY 30?????

Lar of Galen...

There might be decent people who vote Democrat because they fall for the rhetoric, taking everything at face value and failing to think things thru.  BUT, in my opinion, you can't be a decent person and think it's okay for the government to confiscate what rightfully belongs to one person and use it to buy the votes of those who are too lazy to fend for themselves.  Paying for college, buying a house, feeding and clothing your children, paying your bills, etc. are YOUR responsibility. 

    When I was young I tended to be flummoxed when people said "But what about the poor?"  I knew there was something wrong with liberalism, but I didn't know how to answer the question.  Because my father grew up poor, I was sympathetic -- which is a natural American response.  BUT, I figured out somewhere along the line that the government can't fix people's lives.  NOR is it supposed to. 

     I'm all for charity to those who are born into poverty or have suffered a disaster beyond their control.  But it is actually evil for the government to steal from producers and give to people who are the 3rd (or 4th or 5th) generation in a row in their family to be born out of wedlock to an absent father and unwed mother, and then followed their parents' example and dropped out of school so they can spend all their time doing drugs and working on the next generation of illegitimate children.

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The Gun is Civilization by Maj. L. Caudill USMC (Ret)

Human beings only have two ways to deal with one another: reason and force. If you want me to do something for you, you have a choice of either convincing me via argument, or force me to do your bidding under threat of force. Every human interaction falls into one of those two categories, without exception. Reason or force, that’s it.

In a truly moral and civilized society, people exclusively interact through persuasion. Force has no place as a valid method of social interaction and the only thing that removes force from the menu is the personal firearm, as paradoxical as it may sound to some.

When I carry a gun, you cannot deal with me by force. You have to use reason and try to persuade me, because I have a way to negate your threat or employment of force.

The gun is the only personal weapon that puts a 100-pound woman on equal footing with a 220-pound mugger, a 75-year old retiree on equal footing with a 19-year old gang banger, and a single guy on equal footing with a carload of drunk guys with baseball bats. The gun removes the disparity in physical strength, size, or numbers between a potential attacker and a defender.

There are plenty of people who consider the gun as the source of bad force equations. These are the people who think that we'd be more civilized if all guns were removed from society, because a firearm makes it easier for an armed mugger to do his job. That, of course, is only true if the muggers potential victims are mostly disarmed either by choice or by legislative fiat--it has no validity when most of a mugger's potential marks are armed.

People who argue for the banning of arms ask for automatic rule by the young, the strong, and the many, and that's the exact opposite of a civilized society. A mugger, even an armed one, can only make a successful living in a society where the state has granted him a force monopoly.

Then there's the argument that the gun makes confrontations lethal that otherwise would only result in injury. This argument is fallacious in several ways. Without guns involved, confrontations are won by the physically superior party inflicting overwhelming injury on the loser.

People think that fists, bats, sticks, or stones don't constitute lethal force, watch too much TV, where people take beatings and come out of it with a bloody lip at worst. The fact that the gun makes lethal force easier works solely in favor of the weaker defender, not the stronger attacker. If both are armed, the field is level.

The gun is the only weapon that's as lethal in the hands of an octogenarian as it is in the hands of a weight lifter. It simply wouldn't work as well as a force equalizer if it wasn't both lethal and easily employable.

When I carry a gun, I don't do so because I am looking for a fight, but because I'm looking to be left alone. The gun at my side means that I cannot be forced only persuaded. I don't carry it because I'm afraid, but because it enables me to be unafraid. It doesn't limit the actions of those who would interact with me through reason, only the actions of those who would do so by force. It removes force from the equation... and that's why carrying a gun is a civilized act.

By Maj. L. Caudill USMC (Ret)

So the greatest civilization is one where all citizens are equally armed and can
only be persuaded, never forced.

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July 27, 2016

Thirty reasons not to vote for Hillary

By James Arlandson

She would make a terrible president and Bill an equally terrible “First Gentleman” for these thirty reasons.

1. She repeatedly denied requests from Ambassador Stevens to provide more security in Benghazi, and now he and three others are dead due to her indifference. Their names, for posterity: Ambassador Stevens; Information Officer Sean Smith; and two CIA operatives, Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods, both former Navy SEALs. 
2. During the attack, which lasted over a day, she refused to send reinforcements, but instead watched Obama get on Air Force One to raise money at a fundraiser in Nevada.
3. She lied to the families of the dead heroes about a video provoking the attack, and not her indifference.
4. She said the reset button with Russia was effective, but after its attack on Georgia, Russia has reconstituted its military and fielded new medium-range missiles.
5. She was a cheerleader in the overthrow of friendly governments, such as Egypt, along with the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi, who had previously given up his nuclear weapons program, promising an Arab Spring in Libya. Now ISIS-style militants are fighting in the country and wreaking havoc.
6. In Syria, hundreds of thousands of civilians have died and millions have been forced to flee as refugees. Her negligence disqualifies her from being commander-in-chief.
7. She did not see the growing threat of radical Islam, but believed in an “Arab Spring.”
8. She advocates for admitting more refugees from troubled Arab countries, despite the growing number of attacks in Germany and France (and no doubt elsewhere).
9. She pushed for the Iran deal, which gives them $100-150 billion and no real incentive to stop its nuclear program.
10. In 2009, three opponents of then-president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said the election was fraudulent, so masses of people took to the street, yet Clinton and Obama affirmed the election results. The Green Revolution was suppressed brutally.
11. Until recently and only under pressure, she has refused to say “radical Islam,” and still believes terror has nothing to do with Islamic jihad / qital against the infidel, described in the Quran itself.
12. She may have partly opposed the withdrawal from Iraq, but as Secretary of State she should have negotiated a better Status of Forces Agreement that would have allowed our military presence in Iraq to keep things stable.
13. She affirmatively rejected efforts to give her a state.gov email account. A reasonable person, particularly a senator and Secretary of State, should have known that a private email was not the proper conduit to receive and send classified emails.
14. She lied about sending classified information, including classified information not being marked “classified.”
15. She lied about all work-related emails being returned to the State Department, and about herself or anyone else not deleting work-related emails from her personal account.
16. She lied about her lawyers reading every one of the emails.
17. She destroyed public records over a long period of time.
18. She was “extremely careless” (= grossly negligent) in her use of classified information through her private email account.
19. Russia and any number of friendly and unfriendly nations hacked her email account and the Clinton Foundation, so now they have classified information.
20. She couldn’t pass a background check to work for the government, let alone become president.
21. She benefitted from a “double-track” justice system that allowed her to escape prosecution.
22. The Clinton Foundation has welcomed donations from foreign countries with an interest in US foreign policies: the foundation failed to report $500,000 from Algeria for relief toward the earthquake in Haiti. It’s unclear how the foundation could help in Haiti.
23. Shortly after other donations from various sources, the donor received favorable treatment or policy.
24. From 2010 to 2012 there were errors in how the foundation reported donations from foreign sources in Form 990.
25. Bill Clinton’s speaking fees doubled at tripled after Hillary became Secretary of State, e.g. $500,000 for speaking at a Russian investment bank and $750,000 to address a telecom conference in China.
26. While her “husband” was president, she pushed for “Hillarycare,” which was worse than or as bad as Obamacare.
27. She would continue Obama’s terrible economic policies, since they are both leftists.
28. She is indifferent to the national operating debt of over $19 trillion.
29. She is an enabler of a serial adulterer.
30. She is an unlikeable person, while Bill’s character is a laughingstock.