CHICAGO MAYOR USING COERCION AGAINST GUN MAKERS

Rahm Emanuel, Mayor of Chicago, Using Coercion Against Banks And Gun Makers, Says CCRKBA

 

PR Newswire – Tue, Jan 29, 2013

BELLEVUE, Wash., Jan. 29, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Anti-gun Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is taking his demagoguery to a new level by attempting to coerce banks into refusing service to firearms manufacturers, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said today.

 

CBS News in Chicago reported that Emanuel was pressuring two major banks, identified as Bank of America and TD Bank, to stop lines of credit to Smith & Wesson and Sturm, Ruger, two of the largest gun makers in the industry. In letters to bank executives, Emanuel reportedly said he wanted to send a message to gun makers that they must buckle under to gun control measures being pushed by the Obama administration.

"This is outrageous," said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. "Mayor Emanuel is acting like a Chicago gangster instead of a public servant, and we are very concerned that there might be legal ramifications. How dare the mayor engage in this kind of anti-gun lobbying effort, trying to cut off operating capital to a pair of perfectly legal companies that happen to be engaged in perhaps the most heavily-regulated business in the country.

"Gun owners and people who believe in the Bill of Rights should stop giving Chicago a line of credit by purchasing municipal bonds," he added. "Rahm wants to send a message, and the nation should send him a reply.

"Mayor Emanuel is allegedly contending that lines of credit should dry up unless Smith & Wesson and Sturm, Ruger submit to operating their businesses the way anti-gunners demand," Gottlieb continued. "That conduct seems more in the realm of a street thug than a political leader, but then, again, we're talking about a mayor who presides over a city with Draconian gun laws and a murder rate rivaling a Third World country.

Emanuel is a career anti-gunner who served in both the Clinton and Obama administrations, typically as point man on some kind of gun control effort.

"Mayor Emanuel seems to be under the illusion that he can force banks to act as his surrogates in an unrelenting campaign to crush the firearms industry and erase the Second Amendment," Gottlieb said. "This is insidious and we hope the banks recognize it for the kind of below-the-belt political chicanery for which Chicago politicians have become famous. No wonder they sometimes refer to him as 'The Godfather.'"

With more than 650,000 members and supporters nationwide, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (www.ccrkba.org) is one of the nation's premier gun rights organizations. As a non-profit organization, the Citizens Committee is dedicated to preserving firearms freedoms through active lobbying of elected officials and facilitating grass-roots organization of gun rights activists in local communities throughout the United States.

SOURCE Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms

FBI Director "Unsure If Obama Can Kill Americans"?

EXCUSE ME?  Did I hear this right?

 

For those who thought I was "a little off my rocker", take a listen to this........

 

 

No Budget, No Pay? What a Joke!!!

I need to respond to the facade being perpetrated on this country by the No Budget, No Pay Act.

No Budget, No Pay should mean “no budget, no pay”, however, as usual, it is nothing more than the typical misleading jargon that spews daily from the mouths of the Government that is robbing us, rather than representing us.

 I had a fleeting moment of hope that was quickly dashed by the realization that ‘no pay’ meant ‘holding pay until a later date’. So what? As a Realtor, my pay is ALWAYS held until I do my job, and I certainly won’t continue to get paid for the rest of my life because I did (or didn’t) do my job for a few years.

My disgust with the handling of this country grows daily, and I am not alone. As long as Democrats and Republicans put the party above the people, we have no hope. It is time for change, and the thought of the cost of that change terrifies me.

Home Of The Free And The Brave?

This video needs to be seen by every citizen and public official in this country.

He is a hero in my eyes.

The County Sheriff: The Ultimate Check & Balance

This seemed like the right time to repost this one.....
(originally posted May, 2012)

 

I found this to be a VERY interesting little piece of information I was totally unaware of........

When the United States of America was founded the framers spent arduous hours devising a Constitution that would protect future generations from tyranny and government criminality. A system of checks and balances was established to keep all government, especially at the federal level, from becoming too powerful and abusive.


The Bill of Rights was promulgated to augment the limitations previously placed against the government, to further insure that government would stay in its proper domain.

So, what happens when government does not obey its own constitution? What punishment is meted out to politicians who vote for and pass unconstitutional laws? What happens if they appoint unlawful bureaucracies or allow their agents to violate the rights of the American citizen? The answer to these questions is both astounding and lamentable; NOTHING!

Now the question becomes even greater; who will stop criminal and out-of-control government from killing, abusing, violating, robbing, and destroying its own people? Yes, believe it or not, there is an answer to this one. The duty to stop such criminality lies with the county sheriff. The question needs to be posed to each and every sheriff of these United States; will you stand against tyranny?

The office of sheriff has a long and noble history. It dates back over a thousand years and originated in England. The sheriff is the only elected law enforcement official in America. He is the last line of defense for his citizens. He is the people's protector. He is the keeper of the peace, he is the guardian of liberty and the protector of rights. A vast majority of sheriffs will agree with all of this until they are asked to apply these principles of protection to federal criminals. Their backpeddling and excuses will be more plentiful than radar tickets and louder than sirens at doughnut time. Most of the unbelievers, who themselves have taken a solemn oath to "uphold and defend" the U S Constitution, will passionately and even apologetically exclaim that they have no authority or jurisdiction to tell federal agents to do anything, let alone stop them from victimizing local citizens. The truth and stark reality is that it's just the opposite; the sheriff has ultimate authority and law enforcement power within his jurisdiction. He is to protect and defend his citizens from all enemies, both "foreign and domestic."

Of course, there are those who will maintain that the feds have not and will not commit crimes against law-abiding citizens in this country, the IRS notwithstanding. For the sake of argument, let's just pretend that the government did nothing wrong at the Branch Davidian church in Waco or at Ruby Ridge, Idaho when citizens were killed. Those incidents have been debated and will be forever. However, the immutable truth about both tragedies remains that if the local sheriff had remained in charge of both incidents, not one person would have died, including federal agents, and the law would still have been enforced.

Despite the frequency or the severity of government abuses, if they were to happen in your county, would your sheriff intervene? Well, don't look now, but they are already occurring and some sheriffs have indeed taken very courageous stands against the feds coming in to their counties to "enforce" their laws. Cattle, lands, homes, bank accounts, cash, and even children have been seized and prisons filled all in the name of federal enforcement of EPA rules, The Endangered Species Act, IRS rules, (of which there are over 10 million pages) Forest Service and Dept. of the Interior technicalities and the list goes on and on. The sheriff of NYE County, Nevada stopped federal agents from seizing a rancher's cattle and even threatened to arrest the feds if they proceeded against his orders. Sheriffs in Wyoming have told the agents of all federal bureaus to check with them before serving any papers, making any arrests, or confiscating any property. Why? because they are doing their jobs that's why! It's just another way to provide checks and balances that ultimately protect and help citizens.

Criminality within the IRS has been well documented. Hearings about such crimes were held before congress in 1998. IRS employees testified of hundreds of crimes being committed against law-abiding citizens. Congress did nothing about it. They were too busy checking Monica Lewinsky's dress. The point remains, if any abuse occurs in your county by federal officials; does your sheriff have the guts and the authority to protect and defend you? Does that question not sound redundant? Is he not bound by oath to do just that?

Yes, he has the right and the duty to do so. In Mack/Printz v USA, the U S Supreme Court declared that the states or their political subdivisions, "are not subject to federal direction." The issue of federal authority is defined even further in this most powerful Tenth Amendment decision. The two sheriffs who brought the suit objected to being forced into federal service without compensation pursuant to some misguided provisions of the Brady Bill. The sheriffs sued the USA (Clinton adm.) and won a major landmark case in favor of States' Rights and local autonomy. In this ruling by the Supreme Court, some amazing principles were exposed regarding the lack of power and authority the federal government actually has. In fact, this is exactly the issue addressed by the court when Justice Scalia opined for the majority stating, "...the Constitution's conferral upon Congress of not all governmental powers, but only discreet, enumerated ones."

Scalia then quotes the basis of the sheriffs' suit in quoting the Tenth Amendment which affirms the limited powers doctrine, "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution...are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." To clarify this point, we need to understand that the powers and jurisdiction granted to the federal government are few, precise, and expressly defined. The feds have their assignments within constitutional boundaries and the states have theirs, as well. Scalia also mentions this, "It is incontestable that the Constitution established a system of dual sovereignty" and that the states retained "a residuary and inviolable sovereignty." Scalia even goes so far as to detail who is responsible to keep the federal government in their proper place, if or when they

decide to go beyond their allotted authority. In doing so he quotes James Madison, considered to be the father of our Constitution, "The local or municipal authorities form distinct and independent portions of the supremacy, no more subject, within their respective spheres, to the general authority [federal government] than the general authority is subject to them, within its own sphere." (The Federalist # 39) Thus, the federal government has no more authority to compel the states or the counties to do anything, no more so than the Prime Minister of Canada has.

But what happens when the inevitable occurs; when the feds get too abusive and attempt to control every facet of our lives? The Mack/Printz decision answers this also. "This separation of the two spheres is one of the constitution's structural protections of liberty. Just as the separation and independence of the coordinate branches of the federal government serve to prevent the accumulation of excessive power in any one branch, a healthy balance of power between the States and the Federal Government will reduce the risk of tyranny and abuse from either front." To quote Madison again Scalia writes, "Hence, a double security arises to the rights of the people. The different governments will control each other, at the same time that each will be controlled by itself." (The Federalist # 51) So the state governments are actually and literally charged with controlling the federal government. To do so is "one of the Constitution's structural protections of liberty." (Emphasis added)

Yes, it is regrettable that a sheriff would be put in this position. The governor and the state legislature should be preventing federal invasions into the states and counties way before the sheriff, but if it comes to the sheriff, then he must take a firm stand. James Madison also said, "We can safely rely on the disposition of state legislatures to erect barriers against the encroachments of the national authority." So when the state legislatures go along to get along and are bought off by political cronyism or the disbursement of federal funds, then the sheriff becomes the ultimate check and balance.

It is time for the sworn protectors of liberty, the sheriffs of these United States of America, to walk tall and defend us from all enemies; foreign and domestic. When sheriffs are put in the quandary of choosing between enforcing statutes from vapid politicians or keeping their oaths of office, the path and choice is clear, "I solemnly swear or affirm, that I will protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."

I dare you to send this to your local County Sheriff and ask where they stand.

I DOUBLE DOG dare ya......

The Funny Side of Aging

What's so funny about growing old? Not a whole lot, according to the wisest man who ever lived. Here's what Solomon said about our "Golden Years:"

Honor and enjoy your Creator while you're still young,

Before the years take their toll and your vigor wanes,

Before your vision dims and the world blurs

And the winter years keep you close to the fire.

In old age, your body no longer serves you so well.

Muscles slacken, grip weakens, joints stiffen.

The shades are pulled down on the world.

You can't come and go at will. Things grind to a halt.

The hum of the household fades away.

You are wakened now by bird-song.

Hikes to the mountains are a thing of the past.

Even a stroll down the road has its terrors.

Your hair turns apple-blossom white,

Adorning a fragile and impotent matchstick body.

Yes, you're well on your way to eternal rest,

While your friends make plans for your funeral.

Life, lovely while it lasts, is soon over.

Life as we know it, precious and beautiful, ends.

The body is put back in the same ground it came from.

The spirit returns to God, who first breathed it.


Ecclesiastes 12:1-7 (The Message)


Old King Solomon said it all, didn't he? Sure, aches and pains aren't much fun. Getting wrinkles along with a bigger belly (or butt) isn't much of a laugh either. And say, those mirrors are getting downright vicious!


Tell me, do you make a shopping list because you know you can't trust your memory, and then go off and forget the list? Yep, been there and done that. So my fellow maturing baby boomers, other than joining the vampires in avoiding mirrors and taping our grocery list to our wrist, how can we best cope with the aging dilemma?


I say quotable quotes! That's right; let's turn to the most humorous quotes we can find on aging and see if that doesn't help ease the burden of seeing way too many candles glaring at us on the birthday cake.


Here's the cream of the crop -- or at least the best I have been able to dig up:


"You can only be young once. But you can always be immature." Dave Barry (1947-) American humorist

"The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age." Lucille Ball (1911-1989) American actress

"If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance." Al Bernstein American writer and actor

"There's no fool like an old fool --- you can't beat experience." Jacob Morton Braude (1896-1970) American writer, author

"By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it." George Burns (1896-1996) American comedian and actor

"I can't understand why I flunked American history. When I was a kid there was so little of it." George Burns

"If you live to the age of a hundred you have it made because very few people die past the age of a hundred." George Burns

"Nice to be here? At my age it's nice to be anywhere." George Burns

"Old age is when you resent the swimsuit issue of Sports Illustrated because there are fewer articles to read." George Burns

"No man knows he is young while he is young." G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) English writer

"Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives." Maurice Chevalier (1888-1972) French actor and singer

"He is so old that his blood type was discontinued." Bill Dana (1924- ) American comedian, actor and screenwriter

"I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table." Rodney Dangerfield (1921-2004) American comedian and actor

"The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it." Doris Day (1924- ) American actress, singer

"One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young." Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1879-1958) American author

"I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up." Harry Hershfield (1885-1974) American comic artist

"Middle age is when you still believe you'll feel better in the morning." Bob Hope (1903-2003) American comedian, actor

"Middle age is when your age starts to show around the middle." Bob Hope

"If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old." Edgar Watson Howe (1853-1937) American journalist

"Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old." Washington Irving (1783-1859) American author

"Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough." Groucho Marx (1890-1977) American comedian

"Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do." Golda Meir (1898-1978) Prime Minister of Israel

"A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, ''At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.' " Claude D. Pepper (1900-1989) Florida Senator and a Representative

"Some grow bitter with age; the more their teeth drop out, the more biting they get." George D. Prentice (1802-1870)

"The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists in the circulation of their blood." Logan Pearsall Smith (1865-1946)

"I'm so lonesome; they are all dying; I have hardly a warm personal enemy left." James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) American painter, etcher, and wit

"I am not young enough to know everything." Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Irish author and wit

"As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied." Oscar Wilde


There, did that help? Yeah, I know. Some of the quotes aren't that funny. I just threw them in to see if you were still awake. Why don't you memorize a few of these quotations and try them out on a old friend or two. You might brighten up their day. Or they may just hold up their ear trumpet and cry, "Eh?"


If I haven't listed your favorite aging quote, put it in the comment below.
I believe you eventually become whatever you allow your mind to think about. So if you want to be happy during the "senior years," my advice is: start a collection of humorous quotes. It sure beats mulling over your aches and pains! Who knows, after a few inspiring words from George Burns or Oscar Wilde, even that old buzzard you see in the mirror might start to look more chirpy.

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Resource:
Jerry Boone, Gatlinburg, Tennessee,

Social Security And The Mystery Of The Missing Boomer FICA Payments

Hardly a day goes by that we don't hear some voice of the government bemoaning the sad and unsustainable expense of Social Security. You know the drill: How can it go on with all the baby boomers reaching retirement age?

Here's Bernake at his most daring to date, addressing the Economics Club of Washington, which, we all know, wields much more influence than AARP: ''Reform of our unsustainable entitlement programs'' should be a priority. "The imperative to undertake reform earlier rather than later is great.''


But hold it a moment. Haven't all those baby boomers watched the Federal Government neatly extract FICA payments from their paychecks for the forty or so years they've worked?
So where's the money?


If you really take into consideration that the number of retirees will always pretty much equal the number of people who were recently working and kicking in their share of taxes toward Social Security, you arrive at the conclusion that all this talk about the unsustainable expenditure on "entitlements" as fiscally irresponsible is, in fact, an unsustainable bit of chicanery.


You may ask, What about inflation? Isn't it a factor? Of course, but, hey, what's new about that?


So we arrive at this very puzzling question? Why is it that with more people retiring, there is not more money available?
Don't tell me the FEDS raided the till for other priorities?


Anyway, bottom line is, if we burned up the retirement funds of the boomers on bombs and idiotic wars, it's time to moderate those expenditures, so the money that was slipped out of Social Security to fund those various insanities can be slipped back into it.


We promise not to notice its temporary absence.

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Resource:
Tom Attea, humorist and creator of NewsLaugh.com, has had six shows produced Off-Broadway. Critics have called his writing "delightfully funny," "witty," with "good, genuine laughs" and "great humor and ebullience."