Wednesday, April 9, 2014

Posted: 08 Apr 2014 06:27 PM PDT

To accept the resignation of someone who gave a legitimate donation to a group that had the same position as Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton and not defend his right to participate in our democracy is an act demonstrating unworthiness to be a board member of an organization that purports to be about the public good.

-- steve

PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRATS MUST BE REMOVED FROM OFFICE -- ESPECIALLY IN IN THE SENATE

Posted: 08 Apr 2014 03:54 PM PDT

How stupid or corrupt is progressive socialist democrat Senator John Tester if he believes a warm launch silo is of any strategic use in defending the United States when a retaliatory strike must be done within minutes of a confirmed enemy launch notification as the silos are likely to be targeted during the initial strike? [My comments in blue italic]

Apr 8, 2014 -- US will cut deployed nuke missile force by 50
The U.S. will keep its current force of 450 land-based nuclear missiles but remove 50 from their launch silos as part of a plan to bring the U.S. into compliance with a 2011 U.S.-Russia arms control treaty, the Pentagon said Tuesday.
[This is tantamount to destroying the weapon’s effectiveness as a deterrent, and does not make the United States one iota safer – and demonstrates to our enemies that our military strength can be bargained away in a political process.]
The resulting launch-ready total of 400 Minuteman 3 intercontinental ballistic missiles would be the lowest deployed ICBM total since the early 1960s.
The decisions come after a strong push by members of Congress from the states that host missile bases - North Dakota, Wyoming and Montana - to not eliminate any of the silos from which the missiles would be launched.Fifty silos will be kept in "warm" status - empty of missiles but capable of returning to active use.
[This appears to be a political ploy to insure that money will continue to flow into the state.]
Sen. John Tester, a Montana Democrat, called the Pentagon's announcement "a big win for our nation's security and for Malmstrom Air Force Base," home of the 341st Missile Wing with 150 Minuteman 3 missiles. "ICBMs are the most cost-effective nuclear deterrent, and keeping silos warm is a smart decision and the kind of common sense Montanans expect from their leaders," Tester said.
[This is not a big win for our nation’s security as we do not have a similar agreement with other nuclear powers. We need additional missiles to target more than Russia.There is China, North Korea, Pakistan, and a nuclear Iran if the democrats have their way.]
Source: News from The Associated Press

Something is wrong -- Did the Obama Administration buy off the Senator who appears to had a radical change of mind?

Feb 11, 2013 -- Tester, Baucus: Potential cuts to nuclear weapons ‘misguided’ and ‘simply don’t make sense’
Senators Jon Tester and Max Baucus today released the following statements amid reports that President Obama will push to reduce the country's nuclear weapons arsenal in his State of the Union address on Tuesday night:
"It would be misguided to further alter our nuclear stockpile before the New START Treaty is fully implemented, and the Administration needs to put the brakes on any plan that weakens our national defense," Tester said. "Nuclear weapons are the centerpiece of our defense strategy, and I will not support any short-sighted effort that threatens our national security."
"Without a doubt, a strong ICBM force gives America maximum nuclear deterrence for our money - and in today's budget crunch, it simply doesn't make sense to cut one of the most cost-effective ways to keep America safe. I will fight hard against any plan that ignores the facts and puts American security or Montana jobs at risk," said Baucus, who was recently named co-chair of the Senate ICBM coalition.
The United States' nuclear weapons arsenal is divided into three elements: land-based missiles in silos, missiles aboard nuclear submarines, and nuclear bombers. Inter-continental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) are the most cost-effective leg of the triad because they cost less to maintain and recently underwent a thorough modernization program.
Malmstrom Air Force Base, in Great Falls, maintains and secures 150 ICBMs across north-central Montana.
The bipartisan New START Treaty will be implemented between now and 2017. The Obama Administration previously indicated that it would not need to make any personnel reductions at Malmstrom as a result of the treaty's implementation.
Tester and Baucus, both members of the Senate's bipartisan ICBM Coalition, strongly support Malmstrom's ICBM mission. Malmstrom's ICBM mission accounts for more than 40 percent of the economy in north-central Montana and contributes to approximately 5,000 jobs.
Source: Tester, Baucus: Potential cuts to nuclear weapons ‘misguided’ and ‘simply don’t make sense’ | Jon Tester | U.S. Senator for Montana

Bottom line …

I have a great deal of difficulty believing any elected official from the great State of Montana would turn his back on his country, but there must be exceptions when it comes to party ideology and money over national defense.

Is it all about money or did Senator Jon Tester roll over from his 2013 position to support Barack Obama’s progressive socialist democrat agenda of weakening the United States of America because Obama believes we are just another unexceptional nation like all of the other member-states of the United Nations and that our historical actions are the proximate cause of much of the world’s problems? Something he continually apologizes for on his foreign trips to Muslim countries?

It is apparent to me that the progressive socialist democrats are a clear and present danger to the safety and security of the United States and all Americans. Sitting idly by while our country is being invaded by foreign citizens of a sovereign nation – welcomed as having the right to break our laws and disadvantage our citizens.

We must regain control over the Senate in the upcoming 2014 election and maintain control over the House of Representatives lest we continue down the socialist/communist rat hole with the rest of the progressive socialist democrats. President Obama is a communist and the democrat party has become the Communist Party in the United States, if not in name, then in actions meant to bring about the transformative destruction of capitalism and our nation.

-- steve

Attorney General Eric Holder disrespects Congress and needs to be impeached -- warns Gohmert (R-TX) to avoid talking about Holder's contempt citation

Posted: 08 Apr 2014 03:06 PM PDT

There comes a time when the Constitution must be defended by those members of Congress, regardless of their party affiliations, who have taken an oath …

“The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.” — U.S. Constitution, Article VI, clause 3
“I, [your name], do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion, and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.” --Title 5, Section 3331 of the United States Code.

It appears that the Attorney General remains unresponsive to numerous requests from Congress to provide documents to legitimate Congressional oversight committees regarding the actions of various Executive Branch agencies and which are not legitimately subject to a Presidential Exception. While these documents may be embarrassing to the Administration, they may also contain information regarding past and present criminal activity. To withhold documents while claiming there is an ongoing investigation to run out the clock on any statute of limitations or to see that those involved in subject activities have left the government, amounts to a charge of criminal obstruction of justice.

Therefore, after the Attorney General was cited for civil Contempt of Congress and the matter referred to the courts, it appears that Congress has little or no choice to defend the United States Constitution from an overly broad abuse of power by the Attorney General and the President of the United States. An abuse which negates the constitutional authority of Congress.

See for yourself, how the Attorney General Eric Holder and the Department of Justice is willing to provide documents to terrorists and their lawyers, but not to Congress. Bear in mind that documents downloaded from the Internet are not the same as the documents that are handed over to Congress as a result of a legitimate congressional inquiry.

Gohmert: “I realize that contempt is not a big deal to our attorney general, but it is important that we have proper oversight.,”
Holder: “You don’t want to go there, buddy! You don’t want to go there, okay.”
Gohmert: “I don’t want to go there?”
Holder: “No.”
Gohmert: “About the contempt?”
Holder: “You should not assume that that is not a big deal to me. I think that it was inappropriate, I think it was unjust. But never think that that was not a big deal to me. Don’t ever think that,”
Link to Video

Bottom line …

I have little or no doubt that the Obama Administration, like no other Administration before them – with the possible exception of the Nixon Administration – has engaged in stonewalling Congress in their attempt to investigate alleged potential criminal activity within the government. And, for the mainstream media to ignore the major implications of these actions for the purposes of pushing a progressive agenda is despicable.

-- steve

On his death bed they asked him where he wanted to be buried and he said. "Surprise me." Enjoy. Do you remember Bob Hope? You'll enjoy this...

An oldie but goodie.

I had forgotten that he lived to be 100, and also didn't realize it has beenover 10 years since he died. Always enjoyed him, his movies, and his show. He touched a lot of lives during his life. Thought you might enjoy a bit of memory touching, so sent it along to you. Enjoy and recall a neat comedian.
BOB HOPE IN HEAVEN
For those of you too young to remember Bob Hope, ask your Grandparents and thanks for the memories. WHAT A WONDERFUL E-MAIL.

I HOPE THIS WILL PUT A SMILE ON YOUR FACE AND IN YOUR HEART. This is a tribute to a man who DID make a difference.

ON TURNING 70
'I still chase women, but only downhill.'

ON TURNING 80
'That's the time of your life when even your birthday suit needs pressing.'

ON TURNING 90
'You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.'

ON TURNING 100
'I don't feel old. In fact, I don't feel anything until noon. Then it's time for my nap.'

ON GIVING UP HIS EARLY CAREER, BOXING
'I ruined my hands in the ring. The referee kept stepping on them.'

ON NEVER WINNING AN OSCAR
'Welcome to the Academy Awards, or, as it's called at my home, 'Passover.'

ON GOLF
'Golf is my profession. Show business is just to pay the green fees.'

ON PRESIDENTS
'I have performed for 12 presidents but entertained only six.'
ON WHY HE CHOSE SHOWBIZ FOR
HIS CAREER
'When I was born, the doctor said to my mother,
Congratulations, you have an eight pound ham.'

ON RECEIVING THE
CONGRESSIONAL GOLD MEDAL
'I feel very humble, but I think I have the strength of character to fight it.'

ON HIS FAMILY'S EARLY POVERTY
'Four of us slept in the one bed. When it got cold, mother threw on another brother.'

ON HIS SIX BROTHERS
'That's how I learned to dance. Waiting for the bathroom.'

ON HIS EARLY FAILURES
'I would not have had anything to eat if it wasn't for the stuff the audience threw at me.'

ON GOING TO HEAVEN
'I've done benefits for ALL religions. I'd hate to blow the hereafter on a technicality.'
<Preview Document>
Give me a sense of humor Lord, give me the grace to see a joke,
To get some humor out of life, and pass it on to other folk.
To the person receiving this, the grace to pass it on to other

This Video Is Only 10 Seconds Long But Well Worth The Watch! "Shopping in Texas"

Shopping in Texas

My kind of shopping place.

This little video is about 10 seconds long ...BUT YOU HAVE TO HAVE YOUR SOUND ON!

http://www.youtube.com/embed/Vt7FDTpzGvo?rel=0

Putin Invades, Obama Dismantles...an Interesting View and Analysis!

The U.S. rushes to obey a nuclear arms treaty while Russia cheats.

John Kerry told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday that "Russian provocateurs" had infiltrated eastern Ukraine in order to foment "an illegal and illegitimate effort to destabilize a sovereign state and create a contrived crisis." Also on Tuesday, the Pentagon announced steep cuts to U.S. nuclear forces, four years ahead of schedule, in accordance with the 2010 New Start treaty with Russia.

At this point in Barack Obama's Presidency we should be used to the mental whiplash. But we still feel concussed.

So let's slow down and follow the thread. Russia has seized Crimea and has 50,000 troops as a potential invasion force on the border with eastern Ukraine. The Kremlin is also abrogating the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, in which Kiev agreed to give up its nuclear arsenal—at the time the third largest in the world—in exchange for guarantees of its territorial integrity from Russia, the U.S. and U.K. That memorandum has now proved to be as much of a scrap of paper to the Kremlin as Belgium's neutrality was to Berlin in the summer of 1914.

The Kremlin is also violating the 1987 Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty, which bans the testing, production and possession of nuclear missiles with a range between 310 and 3,400 miles. Russia has tested at least three missiles—the R-500 cruise missile, the RS-26 ballistic missile and the Iskander-M semi-ballistic missile—that run afoul of the proscribed range limits.

The Obama Administration has suspected for years that Vladimir Putin was violating the INF Treaty, which supporters hail as the triumph of arms control. The Russians were boasting of their new missile capabilities in open-source literature as far back as 2007. Yet as defense analysts Keith Payne and Mark Schneider noted in these pages in February, "since 2009, the current administration's unclassified arms-control compliance reports to Congress have been mum on the Russian INF Treaty noncompliance."

At a minimum, Congress should call on Rose Gottemoeller, confirmed last month as under secretary of state for arms control over strenuous objections from Florida Senator Marco Rubio, to explain what the Administration knew, and what it disclosed, about Moscow's INF violations when she negotiated New Start.

Ms. Gottemoeller has been publicly noncommittal on this point, perhaps because she knew New Start would never have won a two-thirds Senate majority if Russia's INF cheating had been widely known. The episode reminds us of why people like former Arizona Senator Jon Kyl were right to oppose the ratification of New Start.

Which brings us to the Administration's announcement on cutting U.S. nuclear forces to levels specified by New Start four years before the treaty's 2018 compliance deadline. The news comes a few days after Hans Kristensen of the Federation of American Scientists reported that "Russia has increased its counted deployed strategic nuclear forces over the past six months." Yet at the same time America's stockpile of warheads and launchers has declined.

Mr. Obama has dismissed Russia as a regional power, but he is maneuvering the U.S. closer to a position of absolute nuclear inferiority to Russia. The imbalance becomes even worse when one counts tactical nuclear weapons, where Russia has a four-to-one numerical advantage over the U.S.

To the surprise of defense analysts, the Pentagon will make the sharpest cuts in the submarine and bomber legs of the nuclear triad, while mostly preserving the silo-based Minuteman ICBMs. This means that the U.S. will maintain a stationary, and vulnerable, nuclear force on the ground while largely dismantling what remains of our second-strike capability at sea and in the air. A crucial part of deterrence is convincing an adversary that you can survive a first strike. It does not help U.S. security to dismantle the most survivable part of the U.S. arsenal.

It's fashionable in the West to dismiss this as "Cold War thinking," but it appears that Vladimir Putin hasn't given up on such thinking or he wouldn't be investing in new nuclear delivery systems.

Cold War or no, recent events are providing daily reminders that the great-power rivalries of previous centuries are far from over. They have also offered the grim lesson that nations that forsake their nuclear deterrent, as Ukraine did, do so at considerable peril. After the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979 the Senate refused to ratify Jimmy Carter's SALT II Treaty. Any serious response to Russia's aggression in Ukraine should include a formal and public U.S. demarche about Russian cheating on the INF treaty, while promising to withdraw from New Start if the cheating continues.

Nuclear arsenals aside, the timing of Mr. Obama's nuclear dismantling couldn't be worse as Mr. Putin contemplates his next moves in Ukraine and sizes up a possible Western response. Someone said recently that Mr. Putin plays chess while Mr. Obama plays checkers, but that's unfair to the noble game of checkers.

Florida Urgent Action Needed Now: Sheriffs Trying to Gut Evacuation Bill, [Video] Entire Family Opens Fire on Early Morning Home Invader

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Bushnell Introduces Professional Grade Red Dot Sight – Aimpoint Competitor?

Posted: 08 Apr 2014 03:21 PM PDT

It looks like Bushnell is stepping up their red dot game. According to the press release below, Bushnell will be releasing an optic that looks like it will compete directly with the popular Aimpoint PRO. Here is the full press release from Bushnell, Bushnell, an industry leader in high performance sports optics for 65 years, […]

BREAKING: Tennessee Senate Passes Unlicensed Open Carry Bill

Posted: 08 Apr 2014 03:00 PM PDT

The Tennessee State Senate approved a bill by a vote of 25-2 that would legalize unlicensed open carry in the Volunteer State. The companion bill is still awaiting a vote in the state house and the governor would still need to sign the bill before it became law. According to a local media report, The […]

[Video] Mayor and Detective Brainwash School Children – “Everybody Knows That Guns Are Really Bad, Right?”

Posted: 08 Apr 2014 12:56 PM PDT

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, the biggest threat to the future of our second amendment rights lies not in the courts or the legislatures, but in our public schools. Current school officials and politicians are raising a new generations of children to fear guns and people who own guns. Case in […]

ATF Bans 7N6, Steel Core, 5.45×39 Ammo From Importation

Posted: 08 Apr 2014 10:49 AM PDT

The ATF has released a press release on their website that addresses a specific 5.45×39 round. It looks like the ATF has effectively shut down the import of the 7N6 variant of 5.45×39 ammo. This only affects this specific Russian made round, but it is still never good to see ammo being limited in any […]

Florida Urgent Action Needed Now: Sheriffs Trying to Gut Evacuation Bill

Posted: 08 Apr 2014 08:04 AM PDT

The following story is from the NRA-ILA. Tuesday, 4/8/2014, Senate Bill 296 by Senator Jeff Brandes will be heard in the Senate Community Affairs Committee at 3:00 pm. SB-296 Mandatory Evacuation is the Senate version of HB-209 that has been under constant attack by the Florida Sheriffs Association and continues to be under attack in the Senate. Amendments […]

[Video] Entire Family Opens Fire on Early Morning Home Invader

Posted: 08 Apr 2014 07:08 AM PDT

You’re going to have a bad day if you’re a home invader and you’re facing a single armed citizen. You’re probably going to have a terrible day if you’re facing an entire armed family. According to WFLA, that’s exactly what happened to one unlucky home invader in Winter Haven, FL, According to WHPD, the suspect […]

[Video] Eric Holder Reveals Obama Admin’s New Gun Control Plan – “Smart” Guns

Posted: 08 Apr 2014 06:55 AM PDT

Well, if you can’t ban them, regulate the crap out of them. That seems to be the Obama admin’s new plan for gun control. In a recent discussion with a House appropriations subcommittee, Holder said the DoJ was looking for $2 million in order to explore smart gun technology. Holder states the following in the […]

Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Liz Cheney: ‘Pelosi’s Spine Doesn’t Seem to Reach Her Brain ... What Brain?

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8 April 2014 / 102 Comments

Liz Cheney on Tuesday defended her father from House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s criticism that he cheered on the CIA’s use of harsh interrogation techniques blasted in a recent Senate report.

Cheney said Pelosi herself was briefed on the programs, and suggested her criticism of VicePresident Dick Cheney was hypocritical.

“Frankly, Mrs. Pelosi is somebody who was briefed on the program,” Cheney said on Fox News’s “Fox and Friends.”“She forgot she was briefed on the program, later to admit it,” Cheney said. “And I have to say that when I heard those comments yesterday, I was reminded of something that Margaret Thatcher once said about one of her political opponents. Mrs. Pelosi’s problem is her spine doesn’t reach her brain.”“We’ve got too many in Washington who were all in favor to doing everything necessary to defend the nation after 9/11 and now seem to be not interested in looking at the facts, but really just looking for a way, frankly, to cast blame and say things that aren’t true about those brave men and women,” Liz Cheney said Tuesday.

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Wednesday, April 9, 2014

PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRATS MUST BE REMOVED FROM OFFICE -- ESPECIALLY IN IN THE SENATE

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On his death bed they asked him where he wanted to be buried and he said. "Surprise me." Enjoy. Do you remember Bob Hope? You'll enjoy this...

This Video Is Only 10 Seconds Long But Well Worth The Watch! "Shopping in Texas"

Putin Invades, Obama Dismantles...an Interesting View and Analysis!

The U.S. rushes to obey a nuclear arms treaty while Russia cheats.

Florida Urgent Action Needed Now: Sheriffs Trying to Gut Evacuation Bill, [Video] Entire Family Opens Fire on Early Morning Home Invader

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Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Liz Cheney: ‘Pelosi’s Spine Doesn’t Seem to Reach Her Brain ... What Brain?

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