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2ND AMENDMENT, FOOD FOR THOUGHT

THE 2ND AMENDMENT....
This  is the law:  The purpose of fighting is to win.  There is no possible victory  in defense.  The sword is more important than the shield and  skill  is more important than either.  The final weapon is the brain.  All  else is supplemental.  As John Steinbeck once said.

1.   Don't pick a fight with an  old man.  If he is to old to fight, he'll just  kill  you.    

2.   If you find  yourself in a fair fight, your tactics  suck.    

3.   I carry  a gun 'cause a cop is too heavy.  (Gotta love this   one!!)

4.   When seconds count, the cops are just  minutes away.  (Yep, time is some time, but  shoot  first, then call 911)

5.   A reporter did a human interest piece on the Texas Rangers.  The reporter  recognize  the Colt Model 1911 the Ranger was as carrying and  asked him "Why do carry a  .45?".  The Ranger responded with, "Because they don't make a .46."

6.   An  armed man will kill an unarmed man with monotonous   regularity.

7.   The old sheriff was attending an  awards dinner when a lady commented on his wearing his  sidearm. "Sheriff, I see you have  your pistol.  Are you  expecting trouble?"  "NO Ma'am.  If I were  expecting trouble, I would have brought my rifle."  (Winchester Model 94  30-30 Cal. and loaded with   Winchester Silver Tips, no doubt).

8.    Beware the man who only has one gun.  HE PROBABLY KNOWS HOW TO  USE IT!!!

To  this I will add my comments.   I was once asked by a lady visiting if I had  a gun in the  house.  To which I said I did.  She said "well I  certainly hope it isn't loaded!"  To which I said, "of course  it is  loaded, can't  work without bullets." She then  asked, "Are you that afraid of someone evil coming into your house?"  My reply  was,"No not at all. I am not  afraid of the house catching afire either, but I have fire  extinguishers around, and THEY ARE ALL  LOADED."

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Our thanks for this piece goes to RiteOn.org Contributor CP of Phoenix, AZ.

THIS CHRISTMAS, REMEMBERING THOSE WHO GAVE EVERYTHING TO PRESERVE OUR FREEDOM

"FOR ALL WHO MAY NOT HAVE SEEN THIS VIDEO, or BEEN AWARE OF THE ACT OF A REAL PATRIOT, MORRILL WORCESTER of HARRISON, MAINE."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v= o6du7TgAClk

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(We thank RiteOn.org Contributor AM of Boston, MA for sending us his comment and this must-see clip.... Ed)

MORE ABOUT THE GLOBAL WARMING HOAX

(Forwarded to RiteOn.org by Contributor MD of St Charles County, MO...)
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Year of Global Cooling
December 19, 2007
By David Deming -

Al Gore says global warming is a planetary emergency. It is difficult to see how this can be so when record low temperatures are being set all over the world. In 2007, hundreds of people died, not from global warming, but from cold weather hazards.

Since the mid-19th century, the mean global temperature has increased by 0.7 degrees Celsius. This slight warming is not unusual, and lies well within the range of natural variation. Carbon dioxide continues to build in the atmosphere, but the mean planetary temperature hasn't increased significantly for nearly nine years. Antarctica is getting colder. Neither the intensity nor the frequency of hurricanes has increased. The 2007 season was the third-quietest since 1966. In 2006 not a single hurricane made landfall in the U.S.

South America this year experienced one of its coldest winters in decades. In Buenos Aires, snow fell for the first time since the year 1918. Dozens of homeless people died from exposure. In Peru, 200 people died from the cold and thousands more became infected with respiratory diseases. Crops failed, livestock perished, and the Peruvian government declared a state of emergency.

Unexpected bitter cold swept the entire Southern Hemisphere in 2007. Johannesburg, South Africa, had the first significant snowfall in 26 years. Australia experienced the coldest June ever. In northeastern Australia, the city of Townsville underwent the longest period of continuously cold weather since 1941. In New Zealand, the weather turned so cold that ... (click the link to continue...)

MORE AND HIGHER TAXES?

Rick Fischer and Lyn Schipper comment on issues...

... facing the City of O'Fallon and more briefly, St Charles County and Wentzville. They lay out some of the reasons why residential taxes are skyrocketing. If you are a residential taxpayer living in St Charles County, Missouri (Maybe the same things are going on in Lincoln County or your area if you aren't!) it's well worth your time to listen to this sound clip and hear what these well informed people have to say. Due to technical difficulties, we did not enclose the clip in this message but you can hear it at:

http://www.ofallonwatchdog.org(Click on the link located on the Watchdog site)

If you are a Republican or a fiscal conservative, it might be important to ask yourself why the Republican Party in St Charles County supports politicians who RAISE taxes, support poor planning and are creating mountains of DEBT. We thought the Republican Party stood for fiscal responsibility, responsible community planning and an improving lifestyle. St. Charles County, Missouri votes overwhelmingly for Republicans and, in spite of this, there are unmistakable signs that big trouble is brewing with higher taxes and extremely burdensome debt loads.

There IS a Republican Club in St. Charles County that DOES stand for fiscal responsibility and TRADITIONAL Republican values. It was formed because the present Republican Party leadership in the County demonstrates time and again that it does not. If you are concerned about higher taxes and more responsive and responsible government,you might take a look at the St. Charles County Republican Club's web site web site at:
http://www.stcharlescountyrepublicanclub.com... Lyn Schipper is President of the Club.
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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all. Chuck

THE "RELIGION" OF GLOBAL WARMING

A RELIGION FAR MORE DANGEROUS THAN ROMNEY'S (Excerpts)  http://www.tothepointnews.com/index2.php?option=com_content&task=
view&id=2999&pop=1&page=0&Itemid=1

Written  by Dr. Jack Wheeler      
Friday,  07 December 2007
(Please note that many of the links provided in this article can only be seen by subscription. We have no position on whether one should subscribe or not, that is a personal decision. However, the option is provided in the link if you should choose to subscribe to Dr Wheeler's commentaries.)

... there is a religion that is in fact a grave danger to America, and believing in it should disqualify anyone aspiring to the presidency. It's not an alien faith of foreign invention like Islam, but homegrown, originating right here in the US. Among the members of its "church" are many of our country's most prominent citizens, including several presidential candidates.

I refer, of course, to the "Church" of Global Warming.(emphasis added by Ed...)

We've gone over the scientific lunacy of the glowarmers.[1] http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/2999/1/   What needs to be understood is  how this Liberal Religion, believed in with all the fanatical passion of true religious zealotry, is so gravely dangerous to America's national security.

Let's take a look, for example, at the deep connection between the threat of "Sharia finance," discussed this week by Frank Gaffney in The Islamofascists' Trillion Dollar Trojan Horse http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/2996/87/ , and glowarm alarmism.

Where do Moslems get a trillion dollars with which to Islamacize our financial institutions?  Oil. 

Or just how did Vladimir Putin become The World's Richest and Most Dangerous Gangster http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/2661/44/, enabling Russia to restart the Cold War and become once again a threat to the West? Oil and natural gas.

Or what gives the world's most obnoxious thug, Hugo Chavez, the wherewithal to be Fidel Castro on steroids? Oil. (...read on to see the current position of the Presidential Candidates.)

DEFINING A BILLION

The next time you hear a politician use the word 'billion' in a casual manner, think about whether you want the 'politicians' spending YOUR tax money.

A billion is a difficult number to comprehend, but one advertising agency did a good job of putting that figure into some perspective in one of its releases.

A. A billion seconds ago it was 1959.
B. A billion minutes ago Jesus was alive.
C. A billion hours ago our ancestors were living in the Stone Age.
D. A billion days ago no-one walked on the earth on two feet.
E. A billion dollars ago was only 8 hours and 20 minutes, at the rate our government is spending it.

While this thought is still fresh in our brain, let's take a look at New Orleans It's amazing what you can learn with some simple division . .

Louisiana Senator, Mary Landrieu (D), is presently asking the Congress for $250 BILLION to rebuild New Orleans .  Interesting number, what does it mean?

A. Well, if you are one of 484,674 residents of New Orleans (every man, woman, child), you each get $516,528.

B. Or, if you have one of the 188,251 homes in New Orleans, your home gets $1,329,787.

C. Or, if you are a family of four, your family gets $2,066,012.

Washington, D.C .. HELLO!!! ... Are all your calculators broken??

THE RIGHT "TAKE" ON "HOLIDAY" BUYING?

WE THANK Contributor CP of Phoenix, AZ for sending us this great link. We hope you enjoy it as much as we did!  ...... click on the link below and then click on the RED light to see the video.

http://www.citizenlink.org/Stoplight/A000005834.cfm

MORALLY PARALYZED

by Thomas Sowell (Excerpts from JW Review, July 24, 2007)

"Moral paralysis" is a term that has been used to describe the inaction of France, England and other European democracies in the 1930s, as they watched Hitler build up the military forces that he later used to attack them.

It is a term that may be painfully relevant to our own times.

Back in the 1930s, the governments of the democratic countries knew what Hitler was doing ­ and they knew that they had enough military superiority at that point to stop his military buildup in its tracks. But they did nothing to stop him.

Instead, they turned to what is still the magic mantra today ­ "negotiations." ...

...Looking back after that war, Winston Churchill said, "There was never a war in all history easier to prevent by timely action." The earlier it was done, the less it would have cost.

At one point, Hitler could have been stopped in his tracks "without the firing of a single shot," Churchill said. ...

...As Hitler himself confided, the Germans would have had to retreat "with our tail between our legs," because they did not yet have enough military force to put up even a token resistance.

Why did the French not act and spare themselves and the world the years of horror that Hitler's aggressions would bring? The French had the means but not the will. ...

...Pacifism became vogue among the intelligentsia and spread into educational institutions. As early as 1932, Winston Churchill said: "France, though armed to the teeth, is pacifist to the core."

It was morally paralyzed.

History may be interesting but it is the present and the future that pose the crucial question: Is America today the France of yesterday?

We know that Iran is moving swiftly toward nuclear weapons while the United Nations is moving slowly ­ or not at all ­ toward doing anything to stop them.

It is a sign of our irresponsible Utopianism that anyone would even expect the UN to do anything that would make any real difference.

Not only the history of the UN, but the history of the League of Nations before it, demonstrates again and again that going to such places is a way for weak-kneed leaders of democracies to look like they are doing something when in fact they are doing nothing. ...

...Iranian leaders today make only the most token and transparent claims that they are building "peaceful" nuclear facilities ­ in one of the biggest oil-producing countries in the world, which has no need for nuclear power to generate electricity.

Nuclear weapons in the hands of Iran and its international terrorist allies will be a worse threat than Hitler ever was. But, before that happens, the big question is: Are we France? Are we morally paralyzed, perhaps fatally?