SHORT SHOTS FOR SPRING

Every once in a while, I get in the mood to fire off some Short Shots.  This is your lucky day.

Of course we know that the California economy sucks.  One of the many, many reasons is the City of Long Beach, which just signed a deal with a Chinese company to manufacture some electric buses.  You’re right: the jobs will be in China and the financing is done with U.S. taxpayer dollars.  We shouldn’t allow our great thinkers to take their brains out and play with them. 

A Pennsylvania woman who went missing back in 2002 and was declared dead has surfaced in Florida.  The rumor is that she decided to drop out of society when she had a premonition of Obama’s coming election.  She had been in divorce proceedings at the time and was having problems with housing.  She should have looked up Barney Frank. 

Woo & Prince of New York City is getting ready to market a dress shirt that can be worn for 100 days without washing, dry cleaning or ironing and, they say, without odor.  It is made with wool.  Now, I’ve learned something…. Evidently, I guess sheep don’t stink, (probably because, as we all know, they’re Democrats). (Woo, woo, prince!)

Bolivia’s President Evo Morales Wednesday expelled the U.S. Agency for International Development for allegedly seeking to undermine Bolivia's leftist government, and he harangued Washington's top diplomat for calling the Western Hemisphere his country's "backyard."  In 2008, Morales expelled the U.S. ambassador and agents of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration for allegedly inciting the opposition. On Wednesday, he said Washington "still has a mentality of domination and submission" in the region.  When will we ever learn? 

There’s no truth to the story that the FBI is looking for the remains of a Union military jet aircraft allegedly shot down by the Confederates near the Appomattox battle field during the Civil War. 

You’ve got to hand it to Microsoft: Millions of users of their operating systems can’t get onto their computers because the new Windows 8 doesn’t have a start button.  Vrooom!  Vrooom! 

You can buy land for about $20 an acre from a real estate mogul located in Gardnerville, Nevada.  The only problem is, getting a house built on your lot; the land is on the moon, Venus, Mars, Mercury… you name it, you’ll have your choice of the solar system.  Let’s get together and buy 100 acres and we’ll build a retirement residence for Obama on the Moon. 

The stock market almost shot to 20,000 the other day when Obama said, “Maybe I should just pack up and go home.”  Of course, he was kidding; he really doesn’t want us to know where “home” is. 

What I cannot for the life of me understand is: if they can’t enforce the gun laws they already have on the books, how can they possibly enforce any more?  Take Chicago, for instance:  they have the toughest gun laws in the country and the highest rate of gun crimes.  What that translates to is: if you want your crime rate to go up, make more gun control laws. 

Why doesn’t Obama just get it over with and declare the Constitution null and void? 

Here we sit in a country full of radical Muslim cells and you want us to get rid of our guns?

Are you really ready for a Hillary-Michelle ticket in 2016? 

If I have your bowels in an uproar, don’t be surprised to see the Republicans counter that with a Bush-Christi ticket.  If you really think you have a choice in whom they put up, study the last election. 

Now that Americans have had a chance to find out what actually is in the ObamaCare law “away from the fog of the moment,” they all want Nancy Pelosi to visit a proctologist. 

Harry Reid is on the hot seat, just where he should be.  He’s got a President who is demanding gun control legislation and he represents a state where there are more legal gun owners per square foot than there are Czars in the White House. 

Obama insists that U.S. intelligence is right on top of things.  As in Benghazi?  As in Iran?  As in North Korea?  As in Boston?  As in… What’s next?  I guess I’d better not talk about it; Obama might fire me. 

That’s MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.      

FACING AMERICA'S GREATEST ENEMY

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This is not about North Korea, Iran, immigration, the economy or George Soros; it's about ObamaCare.  

ObamaCare was ill-conceived, not well-thought-out and shoved down American's throats in the multitude of lies, manipulations and economic miscalculations, smack-dab in the middle of the fog of 2,300 pages of  political doublespeak.  As time has ticked along, it has become increasingly evident that the myriad of costs is too extensive for even the greatest nation on Earth to absorb.  

Rather than saving taxpayer dollars as it was sold to us, it is going to cost us at least $1 trillion more right off the bat.  It is going to create an agency with 55,000 initial jobs just to handle the related patient paperwork and claim forms.  There are countless new fees and taxes in its pages.  Insurance premiums started to rise the very day Obama signed it into law and, by some accounts, 2011 rates will go up by as much as 200% by 2016.  

Doctors are already rebelling, refusing to accept Medicaid or Medicare patients or closing up shop altogether.  Enrollment in medical schools is precipitously down.  Elderly patients in need of cancer treatments are being denied or put off.  

The fact is, the greatest show on Earth that was supposed to be inexpensive healthcare for all and savings on the national debt has already run out of money.  Obama and his hucksters lied to us about every facet of the law in order to get it passed.  Now, they are trying to force the Republicans to cough up hundreds of billions of more dollars to try and make it work.  

To make a long story short, ObamaCare is not only the worst piece of legislation to be passed in the history of the nation, it threatens to doom our economy and our very way of life.  More and more members of both major parties are coming to agree that ObamaCare is going to create a national "train wreck" and have begun to speak out about it.  

We desperately need to stop this train wreck before it happens, not after.  We need to stop the implementation of ObamaCare now, before it's too late.  The only remaining problem is... No one seems to be willing to swallow their pride and do it.  It is up to us to put on enough pressure to force them to action. 

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.   

ANOTHER INJUSTICE AT PINE RIDGE RESERVATION

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On December 28, 1890 at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, the final great battle of the Indian Wars took place.  A group of Lakota Sioux had joined up peacefully with a detachment of the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment commanded by Major Samuel M. Whitside.  Shortly after, the rest of the Regiment arrived and camped outside the original group.  The next morning, some troops from the outer portion of the Regiment went into the camp to disarm the Sioux.  For some unclear reason, one of the tribe refused to give up his weapon and a struggle ensued, during which a shot was fired.  Subsequently, the Regiment opened fire and effectively slaughtered virtually all Sioux there; those who managed to escape were chased down and shot.  150 men, women and children were killed and 51 injured, (some estimates were as high as 300 dead).  

Today, the Oglala Lakota Sioux Tribe has had an opportunity to purchase the 40-acre site as a memorial.  Owner James Czywczynski has said if the tribe did not agree to the $4.9 million asking price for that parcel and another parcel, he would open up bidding to outside investors.  Like most tribes, the Oglala Lakota Sioux was decimated by invading U.S. Calvary regiments.  Much of their land was stolen from them and they ended up in destitute living conditions for decades. 

The two lots involved have been appraised at a total value of $14,000, but the owner refuses to accept less than $4.9 million and says he will sell it off to developers if the Tribe doesn't cough up the money. 

How would YOU like some ritzy-tooty commercial development sitting in the middle of YOUR sacred site?  How would YOU like a Muslim Temple at the site of the World Trade Center?  This is an outrage and an injustice that someone needs to set straight before the fait accompli. The Secretary of Interior needs to get involved in this, big time. 

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted. 

GUN CONTROL FREAKS GETTING OBNOXIOUS

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Gun control advocates, having lost Round One in a key Senate vote a couple of weeks ago, have turned to doing what liberals always do when they are outvoted and out-maneuvered... screaming.  Bound and determined to get their own way, regardless of what the sane part of humanity thinks, they are now getting into people's faces and screaming irate epithets.  Most of those shouting their lungs out make it painfully evident that they have no idea what a gun is or how it works.  

During a town hall event in Warren, N.H. on Tuesday, the daughter of slain Sandy Hook Elementary School principal Dawn Hochsprung went after Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.) for voting against expanding background checks on all firearms sales.  Ayotte offered sympathy and started to explain her position, but in typical close-minded liberal fashion, the woman walked out in the middle of the answer. 

Sen. Joe Manchin says he's going to reintroduce his bill that expands background checks for gun purchases to sales made at gun shows and online, and he predicts that the second time around, it will get enough votes to move out of the Senate.  Although Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, the cosponsor of the original and defeated bill, has backed totally away from it, Manchin said he is bound and determined to get the bill passed in the Senate, whatever it takes. 

These idiots will not listen to reason about anything.  If you try to reason with them, they scream in your face and if you win on the merits, they throw childish tantrums. 

Well, if they don't want to live in a country where reason and the majority vote counts, maybe they should moved to where they can bully their way around more easily.  How about Antarctica?  

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted. 

DISSERTATION ON NOTHING

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Here's a nation full of bellyachers, a nation that complains about the high price of gas, the outrageous budget deficit, the endless attempts to raise taxes, immigration, the lack of national security, corruption in government, gun control, ObamaCare, violence, the Great Benghazi Massacre cover-up, abortion, gay marriage, inflation, the Keystone Pipeline, North Korea, Iran, unemployment and the economy.  

It seems like Americans are complaining about everything.  

And, what does all of that complaining accomplish? 

Nothing.  

All of that complaining won't mean or accomplish a damned thing until we decide to do something about it. 

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted. 

PENDING CALIFORNIA GUN BILLS

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On Monday, April 29, the state Senate Appropriations Committee is scheduled to hear several anti-gun bills.  Please call AND e-mail members of the Senate Appropriations Committee urging them to OPPOSE these anti-gun bills that will have no effect on reducing crime.  

Anti-gun bills to be heard in the Senate Appropriations Committee on Monday, April 29:

Senate Bill 108 (Yee) requires mandatory locked storage of firearms within a locked house regardless of whether anyone is present. (Try and unlock the safe while a thug is breaking down your door)

Senate Bill 293 (DeSaulnier) BANS the sale of conventional handguns, if the state Department of Justice approves the sale of “Owner Authorized – Smart” handgun technology.  (And, what about the millions of handguns already out there?)

Senate Bill 299 (DeSaulnier) turns victims of firearm theft into criminals for failing to report the loss of their firearm within 48 hours. (What if I'm in Europe on vacation?)

Senate Bill 475 (Leno) requires the prior approval of the board of supervisors of both the County of San Mateo and the City and County of San Francisco to allow a gun show at the Cow Palace. (Arbitrary and discriminantory, they've been trying to ban gun shows there in various attempts for decades)

Don't forget to forward this alert to your family, friends and fellow gun owners throughout California and urge them to do the same.  We need all of California gun owners and Second Amendment supporters to continually call AND e-mail state legislators opposing all anti-gun legislation. The California Legislature needs to know that these egregious attacks against law-abiding citizens must stop.

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted. 

INTROSPECTION: WHY AMERICA IS TO BLAME FOR THE BOSTON MASSACRE

I’ve heard a couple of propositions from well-known people that the United States is just as much to blame for the carnage in Boston as the perpetrators themselves.  In both cases, the theory was met with a firestorm of denial and outrage.  I thought to myself, “Those guys should be shot for sedition.  How can you blame America for this horrendous act?” 

Then, I got out of the house and took a drive around my own backyard, areas I haven’t visited because I was “too busy” during these seven years since I moved here to make the effort.  And, it was during this brief hiatus that I came to the realization that, indeed, we Americans ARE to blame.  My argument revolves around who we used to be as a nation, what we became and how we now portray ourselves to the world. 

We were a nation born of rebuke of high taxes and oppressive rule.  We were a nation founded upon religious principles with the highest of ethics, morals and standards… almost to the point of puritanism in its most absolute forms.  We went to church on Sundays, we shunned immorality, and we were not afraid to defend any attack on our liberties, or justice system or on our ways of life.  If you murdered someone, you got hung.  If you raped someone, you might get hung or castrated or both.  You didn’t have kids out of wedlock and any thought of abortion made you sick to your stomach.  Marriage was an institution and divorce was unheard of.  We emerged in the 1950’s as a strong nation, well-respected in the international community.  Those were the days when the President, Congress and the Supreme Court recognized their roles as servants of the people, and acted accordingly. 

What we have become today would be entirely foreign and repulsive to our forefathers.  We’ve lost four wars, (Korea, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan).  People don’t even bother to get married; they just move in with each other and start screwing.  Murder and rape garner a mere slap on the wrist.  We not only tolerate a corrupt, power-hungry government, but we encourage it by ignoring our basic responsibilities as citizens in a democracy.  We depict bad behavior in our various forms of entertainment and place those who create it on a pedestal. 

We portray ourselves as being weak, immoral, self-absorbed elitists.  We are well-known liars, both to our own people and to our world allies.  We are no longer content as a nation in living a good life, we are bound and determined to stick our collective noses into the internal affairs of other nations and we use taxpayer money to get what we want, wherever we want.  We do not display strength, but weakness.  We do not display character, but evil.  We are not good neighbors; we are the bully on the block.  We don’t see our commitments in to the end. 

The admiration we ourselves and nations around the world once had for our country has dissolved into disgust.  We suffer from low self-esteem.  We have an “I don’t care” attitude.  We’re like battered women, huddling in the darkness and waiting for the next shoe to drop. 

Why WOULDN’T some radical, left-wing extremist want to take a shot at us?  There will be no retribution.  Who would WANT to be our ally? We can't be trusted.   

I have a favorite saying that applies whenever adversity strikes, whether it be in business or a relationship.  As a nation, we need to follow it.  “It’s time to get back to our roots, the ideas and ideals upon which we were founded.”  It’s time to set aside internal bickering and self-serving politics.  We need to contemplate where we started, (as in Paragraph three).  We need to reach again for those high standards that made us a great nation. 

This nation needs to return to excellence. 

To settle for anything else is to invite further self-degradation, further condemnation, and further attack. 

That’s MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.  

OBAMACARE: STINKY STEW AT FOGGY BOTTOM

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One of the arguments before the passage of ObamaCare was that Congress was shoving the plan on all Americans and not subjecting its own members to the same plan.  Obama, Reid and Pelosi assured the country that the cushy plan Congressional Members are still under would be converted to ObamaCare.  That magnanimous concession was made in the days just before Pelosi's famous "You'll get a chance to read it's foggy language after it's passed" line. 

Now that it's finally being read by a few of the people who passed it, it turns out that the law did not include provisions for the funding and establishment of an insurance exchange for Congress.  My, what an oversight!  How could that possibly happen? Holy shit, Batman!

Well, as the day rapidly approaches, there have been some in high places in both parties of Congress, meaning Reid and Pelosi, who have been whispering to each other that now is the time to exempt Members of Congress from the ObamaCare disaster on the basis that there's no funding and no insurance exchange. 

Isn't that all just a fine kettle of bullshit stew?  How many bowls are you going to buy? 

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted. 

AT LAST: SOME MOVEMENT ON BENGHAZI STORY

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House Republicans in five House committees have cleared the Pentagon and U.S. intelligence in the Benghazi massacre, laying the blame squarely at the feet of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama: Obama and the State Department set the military up for failure.   Obama’s team lied about the attacks afterward, first by blaming mob violence spawned by an anti-Muslim video, and then wrongly saying it had misled the public because it was trying to protect an FBI investigation.  Since that time, the Administration has steadfastly refused to allow anyone to talk to survivors of the massacre and has directed those involved at the time to clam up.  Question of Clinton and other by Congress amounted to smoke and mirrors and a carnival side show. 

The report says that intelligence sources has been passing warnings to the State Department and the White House, both of which ignored the warning and failed to act.  "Senior State Department officials, [Clinton included], knew that the threat environment in Benghazi was high and that the Benghazi compound was vulnerable and unable to withstand an attack, yet the department continued to systematically withdraw security personnel," the report states.

We still don't know why Susan Rice went to five different national talk-shows and lied.  We remain unclear as to what happened at Benghazi and we still do not know who did it or why.  The Administration continues in its outright, blatant stonewalling.  

Americans deserve better than this.  

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.  

NOW, WHAT ABOUT BENGHAZI?

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I don't know about you, but I've heard every excuse, tall tale, and outright method of obfuscation and stonewalling that God ever invented.  No one cares about our Ambassador and three brave Americans who died in Benghazi?  Congress basically fluffed it off with a lot of rhetoric and now they are letting it die?  Obama won't allow anyone to talk?  

HOW MUCH MORE OF TOTAL THIS LACK OF ACTION & ANSWERS ARE WE GOING TO ACCEPT?

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted. 

THE ENEMY WITHIN

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The time for niceties and political correctness has passed.  The Boston Marathon Bombing makes it clear that we have enemies among us.  This is intolerable. 

Do we sit around the living room watching Sesame Street, waiting for the next shoe to drop?  If there is a murderer on the loose, do we wait until he pulls the trigger to do anything about it? 

The authorities are all admitting that the country has terrorist cells in it and that many Muslim Mosques are radicalized Mosques fomenting anger and hatred against the United States.  The radicals are all waiting for the call to Jihad or for when the situation is ripe to strike.  Why should we continue to be sitting ducks in our own country? 

These radicals, Muslim or not, need to be identified and neutralized.  If that means shipping a bunch of innocent Muslims out of the country, so be it; I have yet to hear any outrage from the Muslim communities over what happened in Boston.  Their silence is ominous and says everything we need to know about where their true loyalties lie. 

Let's rid ourselves of the scourge that is waiting on our own doorsteps, waiting to kill us all off.  The sooner the better.

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted. 

SOME HARD QUESTIONS

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Now that we can pause and reflect about what happened to our nation last week, there are so many questions that need to be answered:

1. Why, just a week after the Boston Bombing, do we have one dead suspect and another in the hospital and we know so much about them already, but well over seven months down the road, we don't know spit about Benghazi?  
2. What will it take to get the Benghazi Massacre answers?   
3. If we knew that the Cambridge Muslim Mosque was fostering radicalism, why didn't we have an undercover agent in it?
4. Why do we allow any group that advocates the killings of Christians and Jews and violence against Americans to exist in this country? 
5. Why didn't the FBI pursue the Russian lead regarding Tamerlan Tsarnaev?
6. Why don't we hear an outcry from the Muslims in thus country against the Boston Bombings? 
7. How can you even think about disarming American citizens when we have enemies living among us?  

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted. 

OBAMA TO ISSUE EXECUTIVE ORDERS ON GUN CONTROL

Only days after the U.S. Senate turned down sweeping legislation on gun control, President Barack Hussein Obama is now furiously writing new Executive Orders to force his will on the American people, according to Vice-President Joe Biden during a telephone call with gun control "stakeholders" Thursday.  Should this happen, and there is every reason to believe it will, such orders would certainly be unconstitutional and therefore be impeachable offenses.  

There is a school of thought that the only reason impeachment proceedings have not already been started against Obama for past offenses is that authorities fear a "race war."   

As Americans, the time is rapidly approaching when we are going to have to stand up for our country; frankly, we should have done so months ago.  We have a de facto dictator in charge of the country already; virtually no one has displayed the guts and courage to stand up to him except, of course, for Dr. Ben Carson.  I think Obama underestimates the will of the American people and that, should he enact such Executive Orders, the move may well ignite a new American Revolution.  Should we allow such moves to go unanswered, such a lack of will on our part would surely signal the imminent end of American Democracy and of the United States of America as we know it.  

These are not empty words.  Any person who has studied world history to any significant degree must recognize that the stage has already been set for the downfall of the American republic.  With only a few more moves, the takeover of our country can be completed.   

These are dangerous times for America.  We cannot afford to let our guards down for even a brief moment.  We must be constantly attuned to what is going on at 1600 Pennsylvania Street and prepared to respond to the call to action.  Yes, the Liberty Bell is cracked; we must not allow it to be torn totally apart by a pretender to the American throne.  

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted. 

WHAT SHOULD BE NEXT ON GUN CONTROL?

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Now that the Senate has failed to pass a new gun control measure, what should be next when it comes to dealing with things like Newtown?  Should we just drop it and move on?  

While I am sincerely relieved that the background check bill did not pass, I am convinced that there really is an answer to gun violence in general, knife violence, bomb violence, baseball bat violence and other types of violence being played out on the streets of America every day.  What that answer is I do not know, but I do believe it involves the destruction of the family unit, the breakdown of religious principles, the depiction of violence in many entertainment forums and the bad-ass ugly attitude being passed down throughout America from Washington D.C. in total.  

We need to take a deep breath, step back from the political rush to judgment on gun control, and investigate probable and likely causes of violence.  We need to gather knowledgeable professionals to do a collaborative, non-partisan study into the cause and the solutions; then, we need to set a course toward achieving less violence in general across all levels of our society.  Our tax dollars would be far more wisely spent on such an effort than on a study of the mating practices of the desert tortoise. 

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.