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A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights~ Napoleon That quote is very true if only when you consider that we must pick our battles (our interests) because there is only so much time to pursue relatively inconsequential battles, and with that, I hope it can apply to the gun control movement--i.e., will those who support the 2nd Amendment put their concerns on the back burner because their interests--the lives of their children--far exceed their wish to fire various guns? I think there is resolute evidence for that; just note that there were indeed massive teenager protests but for every one there, there were parents giving their permission. For those adults without children to worry about, they can worry about they themselves being killed at a movie or a concert. On a Margaret Brennen show (FTN), Emma Gonzalez said that the Parkland group preferred to focus on the issues rather than the candidates. I don't know what her thinking is but if the NRA can give ...

Quick! note on previous post. I don't have any objections to how much the U.S. Government decides to pay its employees in salary and even retirement benefits; however allowing them to retire at age 50 at sizable fractions of their regular salary is nothing short of freewheeling on the part of Uncle Sam. The FBI, according to the present director, only accepts 5% of applicants. The draw may be service to country or sweet compensation. One is noble and the other self-serving but neither should merit the right to retire with partial salary unless disabled on the job. It just borders on the reason many revolutions are fought. They are ought against the privileged. If I have and you have, there is no reason to fight other than greed. If bureaucrats (including defense and law enforcement) want to ride "high on the hog," they and we should ask that it be Federal law that whatever benefit is granted to the Federally-employed, also be granted to the rest of us. Not to level th...

At first I thought McCabe was being targeted unfairly; then, I learned that he was retiring at age 50 with a $55,000 yearly pension. Then I learned that the man had a net worth of 11 million dollars. Over the course of 15 years--the time between his retirement at age 50 and the time the rest of us schmucks are allowed to retire--he would increase his wealth by $825,000. Why do we tolerate this largess for our public officials? These sobs at the top of the FBI are incapable of differentiating between the Mafia and inside traders and counterfeiters--and people like those of Ruby Ridge or Waco. They were powerful enough to erase the latter from existence; the former are still with us. Have they kept us safe from foreign actors and from our own country? I bring your attention to 911 and the Parkland Shooter and I ask them to answer for why they should be able to retire at 50; BTW, only to keep on making money in the private sector which they invariably will do. I see them all the time on...

Protests   A message that Teenagers may prevail in exerting their right be safe. We spend billions on protecting our shores from oft nebulous bogeymen; yet the very real domestic killer is allowed to riddle us with bullets with absurd absolute abandon sanctioned by those who swore to uphold our Constitution while leaving out "...establish Justice...," and "...ensure domestic Tranquility..." Is it a just society when we allow the mowing down of our children. Have they done anything other than maintain for us troubled and anxious lives? Anti-kudos to Sayreville, New Jersey for threatening to expel any student that leaves in order to take part in gun protests. One girl had the courage to resist that authoritarianism that is so prevalent in New Jersey's schools. I'm guessing they'd be more tolerant if New Jersey were to find itself another statistic? That scenario is unlikely being that, post Columbine, N.J. was one of the first state...

            This photo NASA calls a dramatic view of Dione, a Saturnine moon. Was it photo shopped? Where are the stars, if not? POTUS Mr. Trump pulled another one of his fast ones by reneging on his proposal to raise the age of purchasing a gun to 21. What this tells me is that Mr. Trump, in his second bid, will either be in need of a few extra bucks or or in need of votes from NRA members and assorted supporters. The first, I don't believe--even the Koch brothers benefited from the tax plan to the tune of a billion and, certainly, they alone could provide all the funds the President needs to run again. The second is also incredulous because whom would they vote for instead of Mr. Trump--a Democrat? So what caused the turnaround? Either the President is a moron as Tillerson has said, or the NRA has something on the President and is threatening to use it against him. Looks like the teenagers have their work cut out fo...

North Korean Tic-Tac-Toe I could  blame Mr. Trump for backtracking on the North Korea invitation but it's really our State Department and Congress that's to blame. These bureaucrats and career politicians only know one game, Tic-Tac-Toe, and we know that once you learn that game, you'll soon see that whosoever goes firts will either win or result in a draw if the opponent also knows the game well. Naturally, our State Department wants to go first. Never mind that their meddling has brought us to the brink of nuclear war. We had detente with the North Koreans until W. Bush listened to his state department and backtracked. As Americans, we need to remind ourselves of the constant wars and the failure to protect our ambassadors perpetrated by the State Department. It sickens me that the MSM is now suggesting that Korea has more to gain than the U.S. Really? We are willing to risk mayhem here in the states and on the Korean peninsula? The jingoists here are quick to tell yo...

My previous piece on the AR-15 left me wanting . There was something missing from my usual Second Amendment position. I have come up with three additional possibilities for the allure of the AR-15 not covered in my previous blogs. None of them, IMHO, have merit; nevertheless I do not condemn those who may harbor unreasonable and oft irrational fears. The first no leader can hope to assuage. I hypothesize that my fellow Americans may want the semi-automatic weapon because they fear that no authority can protect them from a race war. The reasons why they may fear a race war are complex and deserve a bigger treatment that what I could provide here. Nevertheless, bigotry is to be found around every nook and corner of the world and it rears its ugly head when we fail to analyze history in all its ramifications. Diversity* is good for any species including our own. Merely look at the success of England, a country invaded from three directions in its history and ended up benefiting from ...