Remembering JFK

Folks I don’t get all the hype around JFK.  Now I was born after he died so maybe I just didn’t see the magic in this guy because I didn’t live through it.  But then I didn’t like Slick Willy Clinton or Obama either and they have a great cult following too.

What I see when I look at JFK is a POTUS that was lucky and average at best.  Probably not even that good.  Today everyone would hate the guy. .. .

He cut taxes

His foreign relations sucked, leading the USSR to assume they could put nuke in Cuba

He almost started WWIII with the USSR in Cuba and sold us out in Turkey to get out of it

He started Medicare/Medicade which is bankrupting our country

He got us into Vietnam or at least well on the way into it.

His voting record was self serving, he backed raciest votes if it helped him, was against it when that helped

He chased anything in a skirt even more than Clinton did

So other than being killed in office, and being a martyr that no one wants to speak ill of what did he do?

Someone please explain this to me because I don’t see it.

CPR Class

Spent last Monday night at my gun club getting rectified in CPR.  It has been a good 10 or 15 years since I took the class.  Now it covers the use of AEDs too.

Folks I cant say it enough.  Go learn CPR.  It was about a 3 hour class and it could save someones life.  They tell us that for every minute a person is down without CPR their chances drop 7%-10%. . . That is quick.

We like to say we are the first responders, we are the ones who call the fire or police for help.  Well if you really want to be useful as a first responder you should know CPR and First Aid. (going for my certs in a week or so for First Aid)  The life you save may be a family member.

And once you go, get the stuff you need to be ready.  You can get breathing shields and such for small money on Amazon.  Some will even come in a pouch you can hang on a key chain so you always have it.  If you go camping or hunting it is even more important to have a good First Aid kit and training to use it when help is not a simple quick 911 call away.

As an NRA instructor I felt it was important to take the course, but I would have taken it instructor or not.  This is a critical skill that is easy to pick up.  Everyone should be trained to save a life.

Obamacare gets delayed

I don't get this one folks. . .

Someone please correct me if I am wrong but the GOP wanted to delay Obamacare for a year due to this mess and Obama shut down the government for weeks putting families into hard times for his ego.

Now that the screw up we call Obamacare is in full swing and we are all paying the price, some with their health and lives as they lose insurance suddenly Obama has seen the light and wants a year delay. . . .

Excuse me?

Folks Obama has already shown us he does not care about anyone but Obama.  His ego won't let him.  This is all about keeping his namesake law on the books.

If you really want to fix this mess then dump it.  Sorry folks but it is a major failure all around. 

Obama lied and people are going to die because they can't afford his ego or the insurance he is pushing on them.  Tens of thousands have had their insurance dropped.  Employers are cutting back on people and hours.  Insurance is going up.  26K have signed up for Obamacare and it needs 7 million to break even.  It won't work.  Costs will keep going up to cover this mess since health folks are not buying, only the ill are.  This fails all around no matter how you add it up.

We need to repeal this mess and then work through this one issue at a time, one law at a time and fix it.  No more 2K page laws, we need step by step issue by issue laws that we all understand and can read before they are voted for.

Thanks You Vets!

Thank You for what you have done for us and still sacrifice so we can stay free.

Another Mall Shooting - this time in New Jersey

So here we go again. . . . and what have we learned?

Looks like we had another shooting in a mall, this time in New Jersey.  Now some basic facts –

·         No one hurt

·         Shooter killed self

·         NJ is a very strict gun control state

Looks like this was more of a case of someone wanting to go out big and let everyone know about it.

It also happened in NJ which is another important fact. 

Why?

Because New Jersey just like California and the LAX shooting is a state with VERY tight gun control.  Yet the individual with the mental problem still got a gun and still did what he wanted.

Folks it is time we wake up from the lie we are being sold.  Gun control has failed yet again and put many lives at risk.  We got lucky this time and the shooter did not hurt anyone.  Not because he couldn’t but it seems he was seen shooting in the air and then went to an area under construction and killed himself.  We will see as more facts come out.

But the basic facts of these shootings remains.  Both were in states with very heavy gun restrictions.  Heck in CA you can’t even have removable magazines on a rifle like the one used in the attack.  If gun control really worked like they tell you neither of these shooting should have taken place.

Instead we have one dead at LAX and we got lucky in NJ.  Gun control meant no one there could defend themselves.  Gun control meant they had to wait until the cops arrived and the gunman had free reign until then.  Gun control put many lives at risk.

We need to start a serious talk about ending this foolishness.  End gun control and let’s put our energy where it will do some good and look at how we deal with mental health in this country.

Arm the TSA?

This makes me sick folks.  The nice folks at the TSA are not trained well enough to do their job now and you want to give them guns?  They have been shown time and again when tests are run to be unable to do their basic function of finding arms or weapons getting on to aircraft. . . not to mention theft is up when it comes to our baggage. . .

But enough of that.  This basic question, do we arm the TSA shows the lie of gun control and the liberal gun grabbers. . . .

Either gun free zones work, in which case the TSA does not need arms because no one will have a gun and they have nothing to defend themselves from. . .

Or we must admit that the gun free zones don’t work and the TSA needs to protect itself just like you and I need to and therefore we need to get rid of EVERY gun free zone we have because we now admit they don’t work. . . 

Even Interpol is starting to see the basic fact that an armed populous is a safe one.

So which is it?

Gun Class #2 and MA gun laws.

Spent another Saturday down at the range helping with our MA gun class.  Yet again the class was full. . . .

We had 22 people, most of whom were there to get their cert so they could get a MA license.  Once again I am shown in the most obvious way our news papers lie.  People in MA are trying to get access to their rights and to guns.  They do support the Second Amendment.  These folks were young, old, male, female - they were you and me, the neighbor the guy on the street.  These folks spent a day learning to jump through the hoops MA has put in the way of a Constitutional right and they will get their permits.  They shot well and pass the test.  To get permits they will pass a background check.  Lawful gun owners have been proven time and again to be some of the most law abiding folks around, and the least likely to be involved in criminal activity.  They are good citizens.

This spring at the Boston Marathon we were shown in glorious color that our laws don't work.  Two madmen blew up the Marathon.  The cops then went nuts and our rights were tossed in the trash.  They searched homes, and closed down towns in search of the bombers and ignoring the rights and laws of the people of this land.  Folks saw first hand that they could not get protection from the police and that they were denied the ability to protect themselves.

All the shootings in the news have shown time and again that gun laws and gun free zones do not make us safe.  In fact we can see again today that they put us more at risk than anything else.  Mass shooters go to gun free zones to commit their crimes.  They know those are the best places to go with the lease chance anyone can stop them quickly.  They are criminals, not fools.

People are waking up.  They are getting training and getting permits where required and buying guns.

 

This graph shows permits are up and gun sales have doubled in the last 6 years in our state.  MA is a contraction.  The state tells us folks don't like guns and and gun sales and permits are down . . . facts show permits are up, and sales are WAY up.

As for our great gun laws passed in 1998. . . .

The laws that they tell us are keeping us safer have actually made us much less safe with gun fatalities are up.  They lie.  Criminals know that the state is trying to disarm us and make it easier for them to work.  This is the result.

Folks gun control does not work.  People know that.  They have rediscovered our basic right to self defense.  They are going for classes and permits.  They are learning to defend themselves.  They are learning to shoot and this is a great thing for our country.  

I hope they are waking up to how close we are to losing our rights and our way of life.  I hope they will take an interest and become informed voters.  That is the best thing for us all.

LAX Shooting

I think it is about time we admit that gun control is not working, does not work, and will not work. . .  time to give up on it folks.

Today a man in a state with some of the strictest gun laws in the country, using a gun that is illegal in CA and standard capacity mags which are illegal in CA in a place that it is illegal to have a gun killed a person which is also illegal.

Folks we are nuts if we think gun control works.  Nothing stopped him, not the laws, not the signs, nothing. . . .

To make it even better he came from NJ if the reports are correct where all this stuff is also illegal.

So where did he get the gun? 

We need to wake up and smell the coffee folks.  Gun control won't fix this, we need criminal control and common sense to come back into favor in this country.  We need to go back to our roots, our values, and our Constitution.  Things have gone way to far in the wrong directions.  Time to fix that folks.  We have an election coming up next year, we need to get the right people elected so we can bring America back and make it great again.

Obamacare is putting insurance out of reach.

This should make anyone who supported Obamacare ILL!

The lie is coming out now, and the news is ACTUALLY REPORTING IT.  You can read the full story here.  I hope this is the future we are seeing. . . where the media actually reports the facts and stops their cover-up of the mess that is the Obama Presidency.  If the media had actually reported the facts on Obama he never would have been re-elected folks. . .

But in a nutshell here is a quote from one person losing her health care coverage due to the cost increase under Obamacare:

"Before I had a plan that I had a $1,500 deductible," she said. "I paid $199 dollars a month. The most similar plan that I would have available to me would be $278 a month. My deductible would be $6,500 dollars, and all of my care after that point would only be covered 70 percent."

So in the world of Obamacare affordable insurance cost you 140% of what you pay now, and the new deductible is  433% of what you use to pay. .  . with a max of 70% coverage of your bills. . .  this woman got screwed folks and she is not alone.  Reports are coming in that show literally hundreds of thousand of folks are getting hit by this now. . . .

Folks this is what the “conservatives” have been warning you about. . . this is what we said would happen and why Obamacare had to be stopped but no one wanted to listen.

The liberals all screamed “The conservatives hate the poor and don’t want them insured. . .”

Ya right. . . looks like the mask is off now and it is not the conservatives that hate the poor or are taking away what insurance they could afford. .  . that is Obama doing that folks.  Welcome to the world of the liberal. . . screw the poor and blame the conservative for the damage they are doing.  We call that projection folks.  So when you hear them claim the conservatives are doing X, Y or Z you should expect that is exactly what the liberals are going to do to you.  And here is the proof for all to see.

So when you get your hours cut, or your insurance drops your plan but has this really cool Obama plan to replace it at double the cost and 5x the deductible remember it is the Democrats that are doing this to you. . .  they wouldn’t delay or fix Obamacare. . . they are the ones that forced it’s passage before anyone could read what was in the THOUSANDS of pages of bill. . . .

When will America wake up and Impeach Obama for what he is doing to the poor and middle class of this country?

Bush did it = Bad . . . Obama did it = Good WTF?

What is it with the Obama robots that whenever a conservative blasts some stupid Obama move I always hear them cry “but it was Bush’s idea, Obama is just copying him” like it was OK that Bush did it so it is OK that Obama does. . . . Bush was a RINO and did plenty wrong folks including grow the government.

Folks let’s get something straight here.  Bush was not a good POTUS. . . he was no friend to our rights (see the Patriot Act) but he was better than the other guy on the ballot both times (barely). . . which does not say much.  We continue to get bad choices for our elections and are forced to pick the lesser of two evils.  This is no way to run a country and we are in the mess we are because of it.

Let’s add to this that folks who voted for Obama claim they wanted change from the Bush policies. . .  Wasn’t the idea something about hope and change?

So how is it OK that Obama is following the Bush lead?  Didn’t you elect him to NOT do what Bush was doing because you thought that was WRONG????  Why is any bad policy now OK because Obama wants it but you rallied against it when Bush did???

I for one am now part of the Hope and Change crowd.  I am hoping we can change things and get back to our Constitution, a free market, a small government, and having rights again.

I don’t get this, someone please explain this to me. . . .