Britain Kicks the EU to the Curb

  Yesterday Britain had a vote on whether to stay in the EU or not.  The EU lost and Britain took back the their country.  Over the years of belonging to the EU, Britain and many other countries have given up much of the control of their own countries to mainland European power brokers.
  These  control freaks have put restrictions on vacuum cleaners in Britain and want to restrict toasters, hair dryers, crooked bananas, (really) and tea bags.
  I am not going into detail about these, they can be googled.  The thing is power and control.
  Joining the EU meant that countries gave up running a portion of their country and agreed to follow laws and restrictions  from the leaders of the EU.
On my blogs I even got a notice saying I was supposed to provide cookie information according to EU rules.
  To be crude about it, fuck them.  They can go to hell.  If anyone comes to my pages and comments, fine.  If they don't fine.  I track no one for any reason.  If the internet powers that be require cookies then it is their problem, not mine.  They can kiss the EU ass, I will not.
  My posts are not normally crude, but I made an exception this time.  If you are offended I apologize.  Go somewhere else.

Getting Older Kinda Sucks Sometimes

  I am 66 now and never thought I would get to be this age.
Over the last few years I have noticed certain things I like to do that are not so good for me anymore, or easy!
  I went camping last week.  By the second day the heat had about done me in and I went home.  I got in one early morning 2 mile hike and that was all.
Last summer I was going to drive to the Guadalupe Mountains to camp and hike.  I found the drive was way too much for me and never made it.  I was pretty upset because I love that area.
I guess getting older is something we all have to deal with.  It is difficult to convince our minds that we cannot do some things.
 I came back from Afghanistan in a coma in 2010, recovered, got a pacemaker/defibulator for my birthday a week later and have been trying to get myself back.  Finally I think I realize there is no going back and I just have to accept some things.
Still sucks though.

Poor Me! I Don't Know What Sex I Am!

  I really do not care about the gay populace.  They have their lives and I have mine.  I have had some friends in the past that were gay.  It was not a big deal.
  That recently changed though because of one group.
 The transgenders "feel" like they are supposed to be the opposite sex and want to change.  Now I really do not care that much about it but then they started making it harder for other people.  Once they interfered with normal society they became a problem.  Yes, I said normal society. You know, male guys and female girls?
  They cannot change the DNA and they are really guys pretending to be females.  It is a fact, political correctness be damned.
  It became a problem for the rest of us when guys feeling "girly" want to use the ladies room.  It became a problem when you have transgendered kids competing in sports for scholarships.
Our bodies, muscles, endurance, all of that is different.  So when a boy is competing against girls it is not only unfair but it is downright stupid. I can see female sports in the future when all the players will be transgendered boys.
  What is next?  Well, what if you ask a girl out on a date and find she is transgendered?  Would you be considered a bastard for holding that against her?
  This opens up a whole mess of problems that will have to be dealt with.
What if I just want to be in the ladies room for a while and check things out.  I pretend to feel girly just to do that.  What then?
  It seems clear to me.  Look in your pants if you cannot figure out what you are or which bathroom to use.
  And yes, maybe I should apologize for the guy that went into the ladies restroom behind my wife the other night.  But I won't.  He will get the same treatment every time that happens.  He is just lucky I left him alive.

Muslims,Guns, and the Left Wingers

  The other night a muslim killed 50 people and wounded about the same in Orlando, Florida.  Many of us knew instantly how this would be played out in the media and the political circles.
   The killers identify was not forthcoming.  Many "celebrities" and liberals mentioned they believed and hoped it was a white Christian.  But, again it was another muslim. 
  Most of us were raised believing that it is wrong to paint on whole group of people with the same brush.  Conservatives anyway. I do not really know about the democrats.  Things have changed though over the years.
  Muslim beliefs in no way conform to the United States, our cultures, religions, or laws.  They did not move here and integrate into our society.  They want us to change to theirs.  As long as they are here it will never change.  Islam is at war with all western nations. Unfortunately, we are not at war with them.  The only solution to this problem will occur when they win or we win.  Or maybe God will intervene.  That is why I paint them all with the same brush.
Anyone that supports them, apologizes for them, or in any way believes in them is the enemy of this country, our culture, and every patriot that has ever served or died for this country. Yes, that pretty much labels every democrat, liberal, and many republicans.

Invasion!

  Over the last few months we have listened and cringed when they announced when and where they would be dropping muslim "refugees". 
  To me it has become obvious what they are doing.  They are scattering islamic troops throughout the country.  A hundred here a hundred there.  They are being scattered into places that do not conform to the obama agenda, or who ever is running him.
  We are at war with Islam.  No, not just "extreme Islam", but Islam.  The extreme label is just smoke and mirrors.  It is designed to give us something to worry about and misrepresent what Islam really is.  Which is really a cult of sadistic murderers with nothing to offer the world except violence and fear.
  Few people want to see this, but it is real.  If you look through history you see that Islam has brought nothing to this world except death and destruction for anyone that does not believe.
This has to stop and we need to fight it.  If not, in 10 years we will not be able to complain about them and sharia law will show up in parts of the country.  Within 20 years this country will be toast.
Fortunately for me, I am 66 and will not have to tolerate it.  I will not live under Islamic rule.

I don't know which bathroom to use!

  As silly as that sounds it has become a reality here in this country.  The simple solution is looking in your pants to see if you are male or female.  Oops, my mistake, the destructors of the United States have decided that your genitals do not determine if you are male or female.  Your idea of what you are determines that.  LOL
  I can see hundreds of years in the future when they discuss our ideas and laugh at how stupid we are not know if we are male or female.
If you disagree with them on this you are considered a hater and a racist.  So if I follow the teaching of obama, I can go pee in the bathroom with his daughters.  I wonder how fast that would get me in jail or dead? 
  With this kind of thought process then nothing is real unless the government says it is real.
  In my paranoid mind though, while everyone is arguing and fighting this silly mindless crap, what is really going on that they do not want us to know about or focus on?
  Meanwhile in California, illegal aliens can get a valid drivers license.  Of course this would have nothing at all to do about the presidential elections coming up and in Kalifornia if you have a drivers license you can vote.

And Time Marches On

  I have not blogged here for several years.  Sometimes life gets in the way of things.
The last eight years have been crazy.  In 2008 I went to Afghanistan as a contractor.  I lived there for two years.  My job was providing maintenance services to the different military groups.  A regional support center located in Bagram.  I was the deputy manager.
  In November of 2010, I had a health issue.  I woke up from a coma three weeks later in Houston, Tx.    My decision to go there in the first place was a mix of money, they paid really well, and wanting to get back in a military environment.  Some of us old soldiers never get over it I guess.
  While there, I had to work a lot with the Afghani's.  I learned a lot about their culture and beliefs.
Then I learned what they really thought of us.
  We had several afghan civilians that worked for us.  I would go down the main gate and process them into the base, then take them to our facility to work. At the end of the day they were taken back to the gate to process back out.  They were not allowed to stay overnight.
Getting a clearance for these guys to work was a nightmare.  Obviously security was primary.  Toward the end of 2010, one of the guys was picked up by our MP's and given over to afghan security.  We never saw him again and just heard rumors of the reason.

History of America

   I do not know how history will judge the last couple of months, or the next few years.  I guess that history will be written by the winners anyway.
  I was more than shocked when obama won the election.   It was apparent to me that the administration did not care at all about voters opinions.  He just went ahead issuing executive orders, expecting everyone to believe in His judgement.  The next 4 years will be a disaster.
I see no way of saving this country, but there are many that will not just roll over and accept it.

 

No Right to Self Protection

This is not mine. I am not sure who wrote it. However, it says a lot about England today and America tomorrow if we are not careful.


You're sound asleep when you hear a thump outside your bedroom door. Half-awake, and nearly paralyzed with fear, you hear muffled whispers. At least two people have broken into your house and are moving your way. With your heart pumping, you reach down beside your bed and pick up your shotgun. You rack a shell into the chamber, then inch toward the door and open it. In the darkness, you make out two shadows.
One holds something that looks like a crowbar. When the intruder brandishes it as if to strike, you raise the shotgun and fire. The blast knocks both thugs to the floor. One writhes and screams while the second man crawls to the front door and lurches outside. As you pick up the telephone to call police, you know you're in trouble.
In your country, most guns were outlawed years before, and the few that are privately owned are so stringently regulated as to make them useless. Yours was never registered. Police arrive and inform you that the second burglar has died. They arrest you for First Degree Murder and Illegal Possession of a Firearm. When you talk to your attorney, he tells you not to worry: authorities will probably plea the case down to manslaughter.
"What kind of sentence will I get?" you ask.
"Only ten-to-twelve years," he replies, as if that's nothing. "Behave
yourself, and you'll be out in seven."
The next day, the shooting is the lead story in the local newspaper. Somehow, you're portrayed as an eccentric vigilante while the two men you shot are represented as choirboys. Their friends and relatives can't find an unkind word to say about them. Buried deep down in the article, authorities acknowledge that both "victims" have been arrested numerous times. But the next day's headline says it all: "Lovable Rogue Son Didn't Deserve to Die." The thieves have been transformed from career criminals into Robin Hood-type pranksters. As the days wear on, the story takes wings. The national media picks it up, then the international media. The surviving burglar has become a folk hero.
Your attorney says the thief is preparing to sue you, and he'll probably win. The media publishes reports that your home has been burglarized several times in the past and that you've been critical of local police for their lack of effort in apprehending the suspects. After the last break-in, you told your neighbor that you would be prepared next time. The District Attorney uses this to allege that you were lying in wait for the burglars.
A few months later, you go to trial. The charges haven't been reduced, as your lawyer had so confidently predicted. When you take the stand, your anger at the injustice of it all works against you. Prosecutors paint a picture of you as a mean, vengeful man. It doesn't take long for the jury to convict you of all charges. The judge sentences you to life in prison.

This case really happened.

On August 22, 1999, Tony Martin of Emneth, Norfolk, England, killed one burglar and wounded a second. In April, 2000, he was convicted and is now serving a life term. How did it become a crime to defend one's own life in the once great British Empire?

It started with the Pistols Act of 1903. This seemingly reasonable law
forbade selling pistols to minors or felons and established that handgun sales were to be made only to those who had a license. The Firearms Act of 1920
expanded licensing to include not only handguns but all firearms except
shotguns.

Later laws passed in 1953 and 1967 outlawed the carrying of any weapon by
private citizens and mandated the registration of all shotguns.

Momentum for total handgun confiscation began in earnest after the
Hungerford mass shooting in 1987. Michael Ryan, a mentally disturbed Man with a Kalashnikov rifle, walked down the streets shooting everyone he saw. When
the smoke cleared, 17 people were dead.

The British public, already de-sensitized by eighty years of "gun
control", demanded even tougher restrictions. (The seizure of all privately owned handguns was the objective even though Ryan used a rifle.)

Nine years later, at Dunblane, Scotland, Thomas Hamilton used a
semi-automatic weapon to murder 16 children and a teacher at a public school.
For many years, the media had portrayed all gun owners as mentally
unstable, or worse, criminals. Now the press had a real kook with which to beat up
law-abiding gun owners. Day after day, week after week, the media gave up
all pretense of objectivity and demanded a total ban on all handguns. The
Dunblane Inquiry, a few months later, sealed the fate of the few sidearm
still owned by private citizens.

When the Dunblane Inquiry ended, citizens who owned handguns were given
three months to turn them over to local authorities. Being good British
subjects, most people obeyed the law. The few who didn't were visited by police and threatened with ten-year prison sentences if they didn't comply.
Police later bragged that they'd taken nearly 200,000 handguns from private
citizens.
How did the authorities know who had handguns? The guns had been
registered and licensed. Kind of like cars.

Sound familiar?

During the years in which the British government incrementally took away
most gun rights, the notion that a citizen had the right to armed self-defense
came to be seen as vigilantism. Authorities refused to grant gun licenses to
people who were threatened, claiming that self-defense was no longer
considered a reason to own a gun. Citizens who shot burglars or robbers or
rapists were charged while the real criminals were released.




Indeed, after the Martin shooting, a police spokesman was quoted as
saying, "We cannot have people take the law into their own hands."

All of Martin's neighbors had been robbed numerous times, and several
elderly people were severely injured in beatings by young thugs who had no fear of the consequences. Martin himself, a collector of antiques, had seen most of his collection trashed or stolen by burglars.

WAKE UP AMERICA, THIS IS WHY OUR FOUNDING FATHERS PUT THE SECOND
AMENDMENT IN OUR CONSTITUTION.

It was not put there to insure that we had the right to hunt. Only a complete idiot would believe that.
It was put there in order to insure that we had the right and the duty to defend ourselves and our families and property and also to defend this country and our Constitution. Yes, guns kill, that is what they are for.

"..it does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate,
tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds...”

--Samuel Adams


PART II

On 10 January 2000, Fearon and Darren Bark, 33, both from Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire, admitted to conspiring to burgle Martin’s farmhouse. Fearon was sentenced to three years in prison, and Bark, to 30 months (with an additional 12 months arising from previous offences). Fearon was released on 10 August 2001.
On 23 August 1999, Martin was charged with the murder of Barras, the attempted murder of Fearon, "wounding with intent to cause injury" to Fearon, and "possessing a firearm with intent to endanger life".
The jury at the trial was told that they had the option of returning a verdict of manslaughter rather than murder, if they thought that Martin “did not intend to kill or cause serious bodily harm". However, the jurors found Martin guilty of murder by a 10 to 2 majority. He was sentenced to life in prison, the mandatory sentence for murder under English law.
An appeal was considered in October 2001 by three senior judges headed by Lord Lane. Submissions by the defense that Martin had fired in self-defense were rejected by the appeal court. However, on this occasion the defense submitted evidence that Martin suffered paranoid personality disorder specifically directed at anyone intruding into his home.
This submission was accepted by the Court of Appeal and, on the grounds of diminished responsibility, Martin's murder conviction was replaced by manslaughter carrying a five year sentence, and his ten year sentence for wounding Fearon was reduced to three years. These sentences were to run concurrently.
Martin was imprisoned in Highpoint Prison, Suffolk. When he became eligible for parole and early release, the Parole Board rejected his application without stating a reason. The chairman of the parole
board, Sir David Hatch, in an interview with The Times described Martin as "a very dangerous man" who may still believe his action had been right. Martin challenged the decision in the High Court, where the parole board's decision was upheld. Probation officers on Martin’s cases said there was an "unacceptable risk" that Martin might again react with excessive force if other would-be burglars intruded on his Norfolk farm.
On 28 July 2003, Martin was released after serving three years of his five-year sentence, the maximum period for which he could be held following good behavior.

During 2003, Fearon applied for, and received, an estimated £5,000 of legal aid to sue Martin for loss of earnings due to the injury he sustained. However, the case was thrown into doubt when photographs were published in The Sun suggesting that Fearon's injuries were not as serious as had been claimed. Fearon later dropped the case when Martin agreed to drop a counter-claim.


Never shoot to wound, you might miss and that could be dangerous for your family.