"Phony Wizard"

Do any of you remember candy cigarettes; some of them were sugar, and some of them were chocolate? I even remember a toy cigarette that was filled with powder to simulate smoke. As kids, we all wanted to act like grown-ups as we puffed on our imaginary smokes; they were fake, or phony. Magicians cut people in half, or disappear; those things really don’t happen, they are illusions and may be considered fake or phony or unreal.

 

If you order something online that has a lifetime warranty, you sometimes find out that the agreement isn’t quite all you expected it to be, it turns out to be spurious, fake, unreal or phony and we become upset because we were taken in by lies.

 

Lies are terrible things as they betray the trust we may hold with someone we respect, someone who may hold a position of power or authority. A teacher, coach or even a spouse could lie to you, and the consequences of that lie could affect you forever, so it is important to be genuine in all dealings; not fake or phony.

 

Four Americans died in the Benghazi attack, this is a fact. The Obama Administration told the people that the attack was prompted by a You-Tube video; this was an untruth which the Administration clung to for quite a long while, even though they knew it wasn’t true from the beginning; this Administration endorsed a phony story. The Americans were REALLY DEAD!

 

A law enforcement officer was murdered because of the “Fast and Furious” debacle of the Justice Department; this is a fact. The Justice Department continues to dodge the issues of “Fast and Furious” and the responsibility for this DEAD AMERICAN. This is truth, not a phony story.

 

The I.R.S. has been targeting conservative organizations for auditing, as they applied for tax exempt status, and the practice is pointing toward involvement of high Washington officials; this is fact; it is real, not phony.

 

The NSA has been reading e-mails and phone calls of private citizens with abandon with little to no probable cause; this is fact, it is real not phony.

 

Recently our President, Barack Hussein Obama, has said Americans have been flooded by the media with stories of “phony scandals” and they should pay no attention to them. I don’t know about anyone else, but these scandals seem all too real to me and the President’s statements seem to be quite PHONY!

 

The President reminds me of the “Wizard” from OZ who said “Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain” when it was discovered that the “Wizard” was just a liar who wasn’t really a wizard at all, he was a PHONY!

 

The more Barack Hussein Obama speaks, the more he reveals his true character as a manipulator and a confidence man who trades in lies and deception to further his agenda. The man who sits in the Oval Office today is the “man behind the curtain”, not the larger than life “Wizard” who claims knowledge of all things.

 

Americans need to see who is the real “Phony” in America now; we have been deceived too long (not all of us) by smooth talk and falsehoods; it is Barack Hussein Obama who is the real “snake oil salesman” and we should stop listening to his “pitch”: it’s PHONY!!!

"Gang Control = Gun Control"

ASIAN:

Asian Boys

Jackson Street Boys
Menace of Destruction
Triad
Yakuza

 

BIKERS:

Bandidos

The Breed
Brother Speed
Chosen Few
Devil’s Disciples
Diablos
Hell’s Angels
Mongols
Outlaws
Pagans
Warlocks
 

BLACK:

Almighty Black P-Stone Nation

Almighty Vice Lords
Gangster Disciples
Black Disciples
Black Guerilla Family
Black Spades
Bloods
Piru Street Boys
Sex, Money, Murda
United Blood Nation
Crips
D.C. Blacks
Four Corner Hustlers
Philadelphia Black Mafia

 

IRISH:

Irish Mob

Westies
Winter Hill Gang
K&A Gang

 

HISPANIC:

18^th.Street

Association Neta
Barrio Azteca
Fresno Bulldogs
Ghetto Brothers
La Raza Nation
Latin Kings
Los Zetas
Maniac Latin Disciples
Mexican Mafia
MS-13
Nortenos
Spanish Gangster Disciples
Surenos
 

WHITE & OTHER:

Almighty Saints

Aryan Nation
Chicago Gaylords
Nazi Lowriders
South-Side Popes

 

Over the last two weeks, we have seen the reactions of the George Zimmerman verdict. There have been demonstrations and divisive racial rhetoric from many on the left. President Obama said if he had a son, he would look like Trayvon Martin. Race Baiter, Al Sharpton has erupted with racist rhetoric to fan the flames of discord all across America. Now our President, Barack Hussein Obama, is once again making more noises about gun control in America. Like his advisors once said “Never let a good crisis go to waste”, it can be a useful political tool to further his political agenda.

The lists at the head of this blog are the names of active street gangs all across America; this is only a partial list. All of those gangs listed are armed and dangerous, and all are using ILLEGAL WEAPONS!

 

None of the thugs, murderers, rapists and drug dealers listed above use traceable, legally owned weapons to commit their atrocities in America. The above gangs take solace in the fact that there is an administration in power dedicated to keeping their potential victims unarmed and easy prey for their foul deeds.

 

Americans need to ask this question ”Why the Obama Administration isn’t trying to crack down on the ILLEGAL weapons which are used in countless crimes on American streets on a daily basis?”

 

Chicago, a bastion of gun control, is rampant with violent street crime involving ILLEGAL weapons, yet the mayor continues to want to limit the availability of weapons to honest, law abiding citizens, who now live in fear from street gangs who basically run their neighborhoods.

Barack Obama would better serve America by trying to eliminate those ILLEGAL weapons that are in the hands of all those street gangs, and he should understand that those street gangs would think long and hard about attacking an armed populace who only wish to defend themselves from those who have no regard for the law.

 

I’m sorry Trayvon is dead; I’m glad George Zimmerman isn’t; this wasn’t racial, it was self- defense; all the evidence supports the verdict. This has zero business in a Civil Rights lawsuit!

 

If Mr. Obama wants to get street murder to “go away”, he ought to pay more attention to those who are actually committing those murders and leave honest Americans alone.

 

I am an armed American, and I will protect myself from intruders and those who threaten me or my family; my weapons are LEGAL!!

 

 

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"Designed by Monkeys"

Did any of you ever see the inside of an automatic transmission? I know most people haven’t, but believe me, there are enough parts in there to baffle any professor or Ph.D.! The engineers who designed those transmissions had to know what they were doing in order to construct a machine that does all the things that a transmission needs to do. Those guys must be geniuses!  

It’s a good thing experts design those things, and it’s a good thing all that stuff is thoroughly tested before it is placed in the vehicles that you and I purchase, usually for a large amount of money! 

When those parts are tested, a crew of engineers and mechanics go through the entire assembly with a “fine tooth comb” to make sure everything works without a snag or hitch to their performance. I believe there are no parts in a transmission that are extra or unneeded for its proper operation. You can’t just leave out the parts you don’t like to reduce production costs. If monkeys designed a transmission, I guess you could have quite a few parts you didn’t need; but who wants a monkey designing parts for their car? Monkeys don’t know anything about cars!! 

Over the last couple of weeks we are seeing more bad news about Obamacare. It seems that it is turning into the overblown spending monster that it was feared to be at its conception. There are clauses in this 2000+ page bill which just don’t seem to work in the real world without causing disaster in the operation of businesses all over America. 

Now the Constitution is a funny thing; if you implement a law, you are obligated to enforce that law in its entirety, and are not allowed to “edit out” the parts you don’t like, even the parts that don’t work! Our President, Barack Hussein Obama, has decided to “delay” enforcement of some parts of his health care debacle, as there is a Congressional election next year; he doesn’t want any “bad press” about Obamacare. Unfortunately for Mr. Obama, what he wants to do is UNCONSTITUTIONAL!!! Once again, Barack Obama is over-reaching his authority!! Once again, the Obama agenda is being manipulated to fool the American citizen. Once again, Barack Obama is disregarding the United States Constitution.
 

This 2000+ page bill that was “passed before it was read” is showing some design flaws which those “experts” in the Democrat Congress that passed it didn’t notice. I guess that perhaps those Senators and Congressional Representatives should have “read the bill” before they passed it! It sounds a bit like the “monkeys designing the transmission” to me.

 

America doesn’t have the finances to support the farce that Obamacare is turning out to be, and that is becoming clearer as each day goes by. Obama and his minions are now looking for bandages to patch up their mess before the next election.

 

Obama continues to smile while all the warts of his plan are being exposed to America. He believes his “charm” will cover his multitude of mistakes.

 

Think about this; if there isn’t enough money to fund this monstrosity, where will that extra money come from; could it be from the American taxpayer? How much more of your money will be sent to “feed the monster”? Obamacare is only part of the money eating programs that Obama has initiated under his leadership; wait until you start paying the freight for all those “new citizens” we will be letting into America.

 

Yes, my fellow American, this machine was “DESIGNED BY MONKEYS”!!

"Independence???"

Independent-Independence: 1.State of quality of being independent. 2. Freedom from control, influence, support, aid or the like of others. 3. Self-governing. 4. Not requiring or relying on others (as for care or livelihood). 5. Showing a desire for freedom. 

The above definition appears in Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary as in reference to independent and independence. This sounds pretty simple as we read it, yet independence has different meanings to different people. A teenager believes independence means freedom from the restrictions applied by their parents. A senior citizen feels independence is the ability to live without interference from their children. HMMMM! Those two things sound oddly similar!

In 1776, independence meant splitting from an over-reaching monarch in England and forming a nation where each citizen had a chance to shape his own destiny without a government that monitored every move those citizens made; it meant a government that was designed to serve all American citizens without intruding into each individual’s freedoms.

On July 4^th, people all across America will be celebrating “Independence Day”. We will see parades and fireworks in nearly every town and city in America. We will consume thousands of tons of hot dogs, hamburgers, fried chicken, nachos, potato chips and vats of cold slaw and potato salad. We will drink enough soda and beer to float an aircraft carrier, and eat so much ice cream we could form an iceberg big enough to sink the Titanic a second time. On this day, it is great fun to be an American!! 

The big question is “How many Americans really understand what our independence means?” We have more people engaged in some type of government aid now than at any other time in American history. We have more children dependent on food stamps and financial aid than there were during the “Great Depression” of the 1930s. We have an administration that has encouraged people to remain on extended benefits on unemployment compensation and extended those benefits to an unprecedented length. We give benefits to those who are in America ILLEGALLY without a second thought and our Congress seems ready to give them even more benefits at American taxpayer’s expense. Now we will have even more people dependent on the government for their “daily bread”.

How many people understand what our Founding Fathers were trying to accomplish way back in 1776? It seems folks today want to get as much as they can for as little individual effort as possible, and if they can get the government to pick up the tab, then more power to them. 

We have a President who wants a system of government that will control nearly all aspects of an individual’s life, and is willing to monitor everything those individuals say, even in confidential communications.  

Our Founding Fathers designed a system which allowed every man and woman to reach for the stars if they had the ambition to do so. They designed a government whose main duty was to maintain security and freedom, not a government that infringed on the free market economy that would make America the showpiece of the world.

We would all be well served this week if each of us would read something about the principles of our Founding Fathers, and the dream they had for every American; not a nanny state, but a citizenry dedicated to inventiveness and ambition without restriction, independent from a “Big Brother” government. Celebrate the America of Jefferson, Adams, Franklin and Washington; it is a lot better than an Obama Utopia by a long shot!!

"Kitchen Conversation"

Today I would like to take a look back in time. The time is the late 1700s; the place is a kitchen in Philadelphia, the people: Thomas Jefferson and John Adams. These two friends are engaged in a conversation over a pot of tea; the conversation is about the new constitution they are involved in writing.

“Tom, what do you think we should start out with as our first thoughts on the rights of the people? You always have a word or two on these things”.

Jefferson answered “Well John, we are here because we don’t like being told what to do by Old George, we like our freedom, my friend. Unfortunately, when we speak out, we are sometimes jailed or worse for our opinions; George doesn’t like criticism very much; you know what I mean?  I believe we better start out with the freedom to say whatever you want to; you know, without fear from our government hauling us off to jail for speaking out. Yes, I believe that should be number one alright!”

Adams went on to say “That will certainly be a novel idea Tom, and I’m sure it will be well received by the people; we colonists are an opinionated bunch and prone to speak out. That definitely should top the list! What’s next, my friend? My thinking is something about self- protection; you know Old George would love to take every pistol and musket away from us.”

Jefferson agreed and said “The people must retain the right to protect themselves, even from the government when it infringes on their freedoms; they should be able to form a militia just in case of government oppression.”

 

“Now you’ve got something there Tom; we all want and need our weapons and every citizen will go along with that!”

 

Adams injected “Our homes are our sanctums, and we should have the right to restrict them to those who we wish to allow in; no person or government should be allowed to violate that right.”

 

“Good thought John, and our privacy is something we should also protect; no government should be able to invade our privacy without cause. Private conversations and private correspondence belong only to those for whom they are designated and no one else!”

“No person should be arrested without charge and proper complaint; we must adhere to a system of laws applicable to all and the government must show cause before any arrest can be made.” “John, I believe we are making real progress here!”

 

“Yes Tom, and no one shall be held for an indefinite period without a fair trial; justice should be served in a timely manner.”

 

“Once a verdict is made, the people involved should not live in the fear that they will be prosecuted for the same offense again; not guilty should be a permanent verdict in all valid cases or the government could seek to persecute those it finds troublesome. What do think about fair bail, John?”

 

“Well Tom, nothing should be so excessive that the average citizen could rot in jail waiting for a trial, yet it should match the severity of the offense that has been alleged. You know we must presume innocence until a trial has taken place and an innocent man must have time to protect himself in court.”

 

“Well said John; every man must have equal protection under the law, regardless of his station in lifel a poor man can be as innocent as a rich man and each should have equal footing in a court of law!”

 

“What about local ordinances in towns and states Tom? Should this new constitution be dealing in those matters too?”

 

“John, most communities know best how to deal with local problems better than those who are located hundreds or thousands of miles away; after all, we are writing this because we have been interfered with by a monarch who has never set foot on any of our soil and we didn’t like that very much. Local governments should handle local issues.”

 

“Well Tom, we’ve just about finished this pot of tea, and I’m a little tired, but I think we have hit on some real issues to bring forward; things that should stand up well for generations. Let’s bring these notes before the rest of the fellows in the morning and see what they think; I believe they’ll like them. Good night my friend, I’ll see you tomorrow!”

 

I don’t know if this is exactly how it went, but I do believe these good men did have some conversations like this one, and they came up with some pretty good stuff. They didn’t gain much for themselves, but they certainly gained quite a bit for the American people. Let’s try not to forget about this “kitchen conversation” when we watch our government in action. I wish our current leaders could remember it as well!

"No Free Sandwiches"

Last Sunday was “Father’s Day”, a day which is dedicated to those men who led us through all of our lives, by their great examples of love towards family and integrity in their actions.

I always think about the man my Dad was when this day rolls around. My Dad grew up during the Depression, the third son of immigrant parents from Italy. His father did a number of things to make “ends meet” while he was growing up, and he learned that taking care of your family was the primary job of any good father.

My Dad went to work early in life and always did his very best on any job he had; it was a matter of integrity and pride in his family name. He enlisted during WWII, his only time out of the work force.  He always held down a full time job. He married my Mom when he was a young man; very young by today’s standards. In about two years I came along; he was a proud Dad, as most Italians are when it comes to their children. He seldom raised his voice to us growing up; a glance in our direction was enough to know we had done something he wasn’t pleased with, and that was sometimes a chilling feeling.

My Dad never asked for a “handout” from anyone and believed that you needed to work for things in life through effort and determination. He always said “Nothing in life is free, except for a beating, and people will always be willing to give you one of those”, and he was certainly right about that. When I said I wanted a car, his response was “Get a job”; there were no “free sandwiches” as far as he was concerned. He was right again because we always value something a little more when we actually have to work for it. This may all sound a little austere, but this same man would always sacrifice his own needs for that of his family; he would repair his own work shoes so he would have more money to spend on his children. He took in his mother and uncle when they retired, not out of obligation, but because of love and respect for family. My Dad carried quite a bit on his back, yet he never complained; he was a great Dad!

Today we are living in a society that looks at life quite a bit differently than my father did. Even as far back as the 60s, my Dad said a few things about the “welfare society”, and they weren’t too complimentary! We see a society today that cries about their lives, but does very little on its own to take care of its own problems. Our society wants the government to fix everything for us. Our young people seem to want a free ride through life; they want the government to clear a path for them so life will be easy and smooth. It seems there are too many hands outstretched and too few hands willing to get a callous or two by working hard. It seems everybody wants a paycheck, but nobody wants to work for it.

 

I have an extremely successful daughter, and from the time she was young, she knew nothing in life was free; I passed on the same message I received from my Dad, and it worked! America will only recover from our current state of lethargy if we instill the message of hard work back into our lives. We need to forget about government “evening things out” for everybody and getting up off of our collective butts and working for our goals!! America works better when people work toward their own goals. It is like my Dad said, “There are NO FREE SANDWICHES!”