• 1. “Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not.” ~Thomas Jefferson
• 2. Those who trade liberty for security have neither. ~John Adams
• 3. Free men do not ask permission to bear arms.
• 4. An armed man is a citizen. An unarmed man is a subject.
• 5. Only a government that is afraid of its citizens tries to control them.
• 6. Gun control is not about guns; it’s about control.
• 7. You only have the rights you are willing to fight for.
• 8. Know guns, know peace, know safety. No guns, no peace, no safety.
• 9. You don’t shoot to kill; you shoot to stay alive.
• 10. Assault is a behavior, not a device.
• 11. 64,999,987 firearms owners killed no one yesterday.
• 12. The United States Constitution (c) 1791. All Rights Reserved.
• 13. The Second Amendment is in place in case the politicians ignore the others.
• 14. What part of ‘shall not be infringed’ do you NOT understand?
• 15. Guns have only two enemies; rust and politicians.
• 16. When you remove the people’s right to bear arms, you create slaves.
• 17. The American Revolution would never have happened with gun control.

The latest “BIRTHERS” sign has arrived in front of the Mandalay Bay (Las Vegas, NV)

For those of you not familiar with this GRASSROOTS campaign started by Joseph Farah CEO of WND. It is real GRASSROOTS not “Pelosi Astroturf”. Want to contribute to their effort? Do it HERE.

Astroturf? … where does this embarrassment to all women come up with this stuff? I was never a fan when she hit the political stage (some people just have an “innate air” of phony about them). My opinion of her today is below that of pond scum.

I almost rolled out of my chair with laughter when I heard Dennis Miller’s description of her the other night on Bill OReilly. He called her a “Karma Compromiser” … one who compromises or negated all of the good work you have accumulated by your own good deeds by just be being around her.
As if that was not enough to bring tears of hysterical laughter to me his further description was the crowning glory … “vapid, insipid, empty headed, nasty piece of work”. I had to wonder how divinely inspired those comments were … LOL still.

I use to turn on the TV and find myself yelling at the stupidity of it all. Today I turn it on for my laugh of the day.

So what do I think about the “birthers” sign campaign?
1. They are certainly keeping the “birth certificate” in the public eye.
2. They demonstrate how the “Saul Alinsky” tactic of “attack the character of your opponent when you have no real valid attack” is alive and well in the Obama supporter camp. Much to their chagrin their opposition (conservatives, liberals, libertarians as well as thinking Democrats) are a quick study and are FINALLY starting to fight fire with fire (Ann Coulter leading the charge … with real life facts “not astroturf” as her shield and sword).
3. No matter what they are NOT GIVING UP!

I have to wonder how long it is going to take (if ever) before the Republicans pull their heads out of the sand (or worse their own asses) and wake up to the fact AMERICANS are FED UP.
WE ARE NOT MUSHROOMS!

The “ONE THING” that I can not reconcile in my mind is:
WHY!
Why is Obama spending close to a million and a half dollars on hiding ALL OF HIS RECORDS from a public that hired him?

I do not buy into Bill OReilly’s “he is simply arrogant”.
What? … is “arrogant” a good reason to piss off 1.4 million in lawyers fees. Is “arrogant” better than “arrogantly stupid”?
How does someone let “arrogantly stupid” over ride pride in your life achievements (if indeed your achievement is real)?
At what point in life being proud of your achievements (if you actually have them) over rides arrogance?

So for me it boils down to something fairly simple.
For a man to continue a fight over something so trivial (IF INDEED HE IS LEGITIMATE) means clearly?
HE DOES NOT HAVE THE PROPER CHARACTER TO LEAD THIS COUNTRY.

I was reading this morning an article at Mises Daily about our American dollar.

Here is a snip: Store ‘em If You Got ‘em
Interestingly, when asked if there is anything else a person can store their savings in, globetrotting investor Doug Casey recently offered up an item that has historically been used as money — cigarettes. “Well, they keep raising the taxes on cigarettes — a pack now costs $10 in some places in the US, that’s 50 cents per individual cigarette,” Casey says.

If you’re American and are going to be storing things, you probably can’t go wrong building a stash of cigarettes. Even if you don’t smoke — or perhaps especially if you don’t smoke — every time you return to the US, you should buy the maximum amount of duty-free cigarettes allowed and store them.

Cigarettes, despite flunking the “durability” test, meet all the other criteria to make them a good monetary instrument. They are generally marketable, despite the constant attacks on their use as being unhealthy. Cigarettes are divisible, recognizable, (somewhat) homogeneous, and, due to the increased taxation, fairly stable in value and have a high value per unit weight. In fact, a 7-Eleven at the Jersey shore recently advertised selling cigarettes priced “at the state minimum.”

Cigarettes are so valuable that they are being stolen by the truckload to be sold in high-tax states — like New Jersey, New York, and Washington. But individual counties also ladle taxes on each pack leading to smuggling within a single state with varying county tax rates, reports the Wall Street Journal. “It’s a big business and it’s getting horribly bigger,” Paul Carey III, enforcement coordinator for the Northern Virginia Cigarette Tax Board, told the Wall Street Journal.

As in the case of counterfeiting, states don’t take cigarette bootlegging lightly. Undercover agents for the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance arrested 18 people, including two 7-Eleven operators, for buying untaxed cigarettes. Smugglers are even willing to trade cocaine for cigarettes. “That tells you about the profit margin they saw on cigarettes,” the ATF’s Edgar Domenech told the Wall Street Journal.