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		<title>The Dr. Laura Dustup</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t like Dr. Laura. I think she is a  bitch and always has been. It does not bother me at all that she has decided to get off the airwaves, it&#8217;s saves me from having to listen to her as I travel across the fruited plain, searching for a radio station that doesn&#8217;t have [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I don&#8217;t like Dr. Laura. I think she is a  bitch and always has been. It does not bother me at all that she has decided to get off the airwaves, it&#8217;s saves me from having to listen to her as I travel across the fruited plain, searching for a radio station that doesn&#8217;t have crappy programming.</p>
<p>With that being said, this story about her being racist has gotten on my last nerve. I heard the call, both sides of the conversation. While Dr. Laura is still a bitch, I didn&#8217;t see or hear that she was being racist at ALL! No, what I heard was her being tired of other people always claiming racism. Dr. Laura has been railroaded simply because she could be. Dr. L opened herself up to a media slam because she used the word nigger. Oops&#8230;oh my&#8230;wait, the world didn&#8217;t end. Whew&#8230;OK, on with the story.</p>
<p>The fact is people are way to sensitive, included CNN for the story and the way they ran the story about Dr. L. I&#8217;m tired of it, move on. The word has no power in a modern generation. We no longer class people by color. We are all brothers in the world and the struggle to survive is just that, everyone&#8217;s struggle. Unless your talking about Muslims then all bets are off. Cause dem mudda fukkers is fo sho SandNiggas!!!&#8230;.LOL Have a sense of humor eh?</p>
<p>How about this, go about your life and leave everyone else alone. See if that doesn&#8217;t work better for everyone. I promise you, life will be better. Next item.</p>
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		<title>Mayor Daley lays out strict gun rules for Chicago &#8211; Daley is Scum</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mayor Richard Daley of Chicago is Scum. The un-safest City in America goes one step further. CHICAGO (AP) &#8211; With the city&#8217;s gun ban certain to be overturned, Mayor Richard Daley on Thursday introduced what city officials say is the strictest handgun ordinance in the United States. The measure, which draws from ordinances around the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mayor Richard Daley of Chicago is Scum. The un-safest City in America goes one step further.</p>
<p>CHICAGO (AP) &#8211; With the city&#8217;s gun ban certain to be overturned, Mayor  Richard Daley on Thursday introduced what city officials say is the strictest  handgun ordinance in the United States.</p>
<p>The measure, which draws from ordinances around the country, would ban gun  shops in Chicago and prohibit gun owners from stepping outside their homes, even  onto their porches or garages, with a handgun.</p>
<p>Daley announced his ordinance at a park on the city&#8217;s South Side three days  after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Americans have a right to own a gun for  self-defense anywhere they live. The City Council is expected to vote on it  Friday.</p>
<p>&#8220;As long as I&#8217;m mayor, we will never give up or give in to gun violence that  continues to threaten every part of our nation, including Chicago,&#8221; said Daley,  who was flanked by activists, city officials and the parents of a teenager whose  son was shot and killed on a city bus while shielding a friend.</p>
<p>The ordinance, which Daley urged the City Council to pass, also would :</p>
<p>- Limit the number of handguns residents can register to one per month and  prohibit residents from having more than one handgun in operating order at any  given time.</p>
<p>- Require residents in homes with children to keep them in lock boxes or  equipped with trigger locks.</p>
<p>- Require prospective gun owners to take a four-hour class and one-hour  training at a gun range. They would have to leave the city for training because  Chicago prohibits new gun ranges and limits the use of existing ranges to police  officers. Those restrictions were similar to those in an ordinance passed in  Washington, D.C., after the high court struck down its ban two years ago.</p>
<p>- Prohibit people from owning a gun if they were convicted of a violent  crime, domestic violence or two or more convictions for driving under the  influence of alcohol or drugs. Residents convicted of a gun offense would have  to register with the police department.</p>
<p>- Calls for the police department to maintain a registry of every handgun  owner in the city, with the names and addresses to be made available to police  officers, firefighters and other emergency responders.</p>
<p>Those who already have handguns in the city &#8211; which has been illegal since  the city&#8217;s ban was approved 28 years ago &#8211; would have 90 days to register those  weapons, according to the proposed ordinance.</p>
<p>Residents convicted of violating the city&#8217;s ordinance can face a fine up to  $5,000 and be locked up for as long as 90 days for a first offense and a fine of  up to $10,000 and as long as six months behind bars for subsequent  convictions.</p>
<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve gone farther than anyone else ever has,&#8221; said Corporation Counsel Mara  Georges.</p>
<p>Still, the mayor, whose office is trying to craft an ordinance that will  withstand legal challenges, had to back off some provisions he&#8217;d hoped to  include, including requiring gun owners to insure their weapons and restricting  each resident to one handgun.</p>
<p>Georges said it would be expensive for homeowners to include guns on their  homeowners&#8217; and renters&#8217; insurance policies, so such a requirement could be seen  as being discriminatory to the city&#8217;s poorer residents. Limiting the number of  handguns could be seen as discriminatory to people who owned weapons before the  city&#8217;s ban went into effect in 1982 or before they moved into the city.</p>
<p>&#8220;We can limit the place in which those handguns can be located,&#8221; she said,  before adding a not-so-veiled swipe at the court: &#8220;For instance, the Supreme  court does not want them coming into the courthouse.&#8221;</p>
<p>Still, Daley indicated that no matter what was included in the ordinance, he  expects legal challenges.</p>
<p>&#8220;Everybody has a right to sue,&#8221; he said</p>
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		<title>Supreme court overturns Chicago&#8217;s gun ban</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 04:09:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a 5 to 4 decision the Supreme Court has overturned the ban currently in effect in the city of Chicago, otherwise known as Murder Capital of the US. Mayor Daley is having a really bad day due to this court action. He (Mayor Daley) has stated that he and his band of Liberal cronies [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In a 5 to 4 decision the Supreme Court has overturned the ban currently in effect in the city of Chicago, otherwise known as Murder Capital of the US. Mayor Daley is having a really bad day due to this court action. He (Mayor Daley) has stated that he and his band of Liberal cronies will re-write the city&#8217;s handgun law to keep the ban in effect.</p>
<p>What simply puzzles me is that this moron, being the mayor of a city that just 4 days ago had 52 shootings in 48 hours, has the unmitigated gall to insinuate that his city is safe for anyone. Any citizen of Chicago that cast a vote for Mayor Daley deserves to be the next victim of gun violence in this super safe city. If Mayor Daley would do his job maybe Chicago would be again, a great American city, as of today is isn&#8217;t.</p>
<p>DUMP MAYOR DALEY ASAP!!!!!! And get rid of ALL his cronies. Chicago was better when the Mob ran it.</p>
<p>This type of Government is of course what the Obama weasels have in store for the country.</p>
<p>Here is a gift for Mayor Daley</p>
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		<title>52 shot over the weekend in murder capital/Gun free zone</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 23:52:28 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The story below is a great example of just how out of control things have gotten in Chicago. Is this no surprise to the pro-gun community that the #1 city in America that is ANTI-GUN has a weekend like this. Mayor Daley should pack his bags and head for the hills.</p>
<p>Need we remind that Chicago (south side) is where our good President is from? Might he want to take a fresh look at his beloved home city? After all it his people (blacks) that are getting shot. Or is this supposed to be one way to control the population eh? What this is, is absolutely outrageous.</p>
<p><strong>Sun-Times Media Wire</strong></p>
<p>Ten people were killed and at least 44 others were shot across the city Friday night into early Monday, including a baby girl who suffered a graze wound to the neck when gunfire erupted at a Near West Side barbecue.</p>
<p>The latest victims were found naked, shot to death and lying face down on railroad property near West 91st Street and South Holland Road on the South Side about 8:50 a.m Monday, according to a Calumet Area sergeant. Both were shot at some point Sunday night.</p>
<p>The victims, black males believed to be between 16 and 20, remained unidentified as of late Monday afternoon.</p>
<p>On Monday, a 28-year-old man was found shot in the chest about 3 a.m. in the 7500 block of South Halsted Street near a South Side church, according to Gresham District police. A passing motorist found the man, identified as Credale Woulard of the 7700 block of South Ada Street, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner&#8217;s office. He was dressed in women&#8217;s clothing and was found lying dead on the sidewalk.</p>
<p>In the South Side Englewood neighborhood, 44-year-old Darryl Dunn was found dead with a gunshot wound to the head in the 7200 block of South Marshfield Avenue at 2:02 a.m. Monday, authorities said.</p>
<p>About 1:52 a.m. Monday, 25-year-old Larry Johnson, of the 14000 block of Park Avenue in Lansing, was shot in the 6400 block of South Ingleside Avenue in the South Side Woodlawn neighborhood. He died nearly two hours later at a hospital, police said.</p>
<p>Durwin Hackman, 20, of the 3100 block of West 172nd Street in Hazel Crest, was killed in a shooting that also injured two others about 11:10 p.m. in the 700 block of West 111th Street in the Far South Side Roseland neighborhood. The three victims were involved in a verbal altercation over a female when other males began to shoot before fleeing the scene.</p>
<p>Three men, two related, were found fatally shot in the West Side&#8217;s Lawndale neighborhood early Saturday in what police consider gang-related slayings. The victims were 25-year-old Waseem Smith, 45-year-old Barry Smith and 28-year-old Leon Smith, according to the medical examiner&#8217;s office. They were shot just after 3 a.m. in the 2300 block of South Springfield, police said. Police found two of the men in separate cars and the third lying on the street outside one of the cars.</p>
<p>A 19-year-old man died Sunday night after being shot in the head Friday night in the 1800 block of West 87th Street, police said. Pierre York, of the 8600 block of South Wood Street, was walking down the street with a friend when they were confronted by a gunman, who fled after shooting York, police said.</p>
<p>In addition to the homicides, at least 10 people were shot early Monday, including a baby girl and four men who were injured when gunfire erupted during an outside barbecue on the Near West Side early Monday.</p>
<p>The shooting happened at 12:11 a.m. in the 1300 block of West Hastings Street, according to a Monroe District police lieutenant. Several people attending the barbecue heard shots fired and &#8220;everybody started running,&#8221; the lieutenant said.</p>
<p>One shot struck a 1-year-old girl, who suffered a graze wound to the neck. Four men were also shot, police said. One of the victims, a 34-year-old man, was taken to John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County in critical condition with a gunshot wound to the abdomen. The other three men suffered injuries that were not believed to be life-threatening.</p>
<p>On Sunday, at least 11 people were injured in shootings, including a 16-year-old girl who was critically wounded when shots rang out during a fight on a South Side street.</p>
<p>The girl was standing outside in the 1200 block of East 78th Street at 8:15 p.m. when several fights broke out and one person pulled out a handgun, according to a South Chicago District police captain. The girl was struck in the back and taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn in critical condition.</p>
<p>On an especially violent Saturday, at least 22 people were injured. That included five people hurt in four shootings in the West Side Humboldt Park neighborhood, just blocks from the annual Puerto Rican festival.</p>
<p>And following Friday&#8217;s violent storms, at least one person was injured in a shooting on the South Side</p>
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<p align="left">I carried this holster as an off duty officer years ago when Kydex holsters first came on the scene. I made some MIC holsters for friends and fellow officers and the concept quickly caught on. Now there are several companies making a style of holster similar to the MIC but there is no holster on the scene like the one and only original MIC.</p>
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		<title>Israel Blows it again &#8211; Loose Loose for President Obama</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dude&#8230;. Can you believe that Israel has again done something really stupid. I won&#8217;t bother with posting the op ed&#8217;s, or any of the main stories about this as I am sure you have all read it, seen on CNN, or just don&#8217;t care. This may just be the straw that breaks the camels back [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dude&#8230;.</p>
<p>Can you believe that Israel has again done something really stupid. I won&#8217;t bother with posting the op ed&#8217;s, or any of the main stories about this as I am sure you have all read it, seen on CNN, or just don&#8217;t care.</p>
<p>This may just be the straw that breaks the camels back with these boat attacks. Very poor political move on the part of Israel. talk about giving the Muslim world a new topic to bitch about! And now Turkey is even pissed at the Jews.</p>
<p>This matter is not good for the US, for our security and certainly not good for President Obama. The Pres is in a really tough spot on this one and here is why.</p>
<p>President Barrack Obama has some decisions to make regarding Israel / Muslim countries. If the Pres condemns what (our ally) Israel has done the world of Republicans will call him anti-Semitic, a Muslim, a traitor, liberal&#8230;.and on and on. If the Pres doesn&#8217;t condemn Israel&#8217;s actions the entire world will be pissed at us. Bombings will increase, acts of terror all over the world will see an uptick. Wonder what he will do&#8230;&#8230;hmmmmm?</p>
<p>He&#8217;s my take. The US will be strangely silent on this hot new  news item. Oh yes you won&#8217;t see the Obama administration say much at all. They will instead pray that it all blows over real fast, or that something else happens that will galvanize the US population and move us toward forgetting about Israel&#8217;s obvious fu fu. Lets what a few days and see. I bet we hear very little from Washington on this.</p>
<p>For my part, Israel&#8217;s government is a bunch of dick heads (circumcised of course&#8230;LOL). Why they can&#8217;t just LEAVE PEOPLE THE &#8220;F&#8221; ALONE is beyond me. Pretty obvious that peace is not in there REAL agenda. Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I think even less of the wack job Muslims and their towel head mentality about cramming Islam up everyone&#8217;s ass.</p>
<p>So lets see&#8230;.Can I make a list of all the races or relegions that don&#8217;t want to kill me because I am an american. Lets take a crack it it shall we?</p>
<p>Christians, Buddhists, Catholics, Protestants, Hindu, Jews, and many more&#8230;</p>
<p>Nope, don&#8217;t see any of these threatening to cut my head off, burn off my wife&#8217;s clitoris, blow up the shopping mall where I go, or anything else.</p>
<p>Now lets take a look at the list of religions that ARE trying to fuck me up.</p>
<p>Ok here we go&#8230;.</p>
<p>Muslims, and&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; and&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;well OK, just Muslims. Hmmmm, how strange that only one group of people in the whole entire world want to kill me just becasue I and an American. Gee even the Mexicans are not this bad. Maybe we can get Arizona to pass a cool law that lets us deport  the towel heads. Oops, that would not work, that would be racial profiling people, can&#8217;t have that&#8230;.LOL</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rand Paul on Rachel Maddow show   WASHINGTON — Rand Paul, the Tea Party candidate who challenged the Republican establishment to win the party’s Senate nomination in Kentucky two days ago, criticized a landmark civil rights law on Thursday, landing himself in a potentially damaging dispute over civil rights and race. In doing so, he [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://video.nytimes.com/video/2010/05/21/us/politics/1247467888412/rand-paul-on-the-civil-rights-act.html">Rand Paul on Rachel Maddow show</a></p>
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<p>WASHINGTON — Rand Paul, the Tea Party candidate who challenged the Republican establishment to win the party’s Senate nomination in Kentucky two days ago, criticized a landmark civil rights law on Thursday, landing himself in a potentially damaging dispute over civil rights and race.</p>
<p>In doing so, he provided Democrats an opportunity to portray him as extreme and renewed concern among Republicans that his views made him vulnerable in a general election.</p>
<p>Mr. Paul, in a series of television and radio interviews, suggested that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was too broad and should not apply to private businesses, such as luncheonettes. As his statements drew a swarm of attacks from his opponents, Mr. Paul issued a statement declaring that he would not support repealing the landmark 1964 statute and blaming political opponents for trying to distort his views by saying he favored repeal.</p>
<p>“Let me be clear: I support the Civil Rights Act because I overwhelmingly agree with the intent of the legislation, which was to stop discrimination in the public sphere and halt the abhorrent practice of segregation and Jim Crow laws,” he said. Later, in an interview on CNN, he said that if he had been in the Senate in 1964, he would have supported the act.</p>
<p>Still, it was not clear that he had quelled rising concerns among Republicans about his ability to win in the general election, especially given his libertarian views in favor of limiting the role of government. “I hope he can separate the theoretical and the interesting and the hypothetical questions that college students debate until 2 a.m. from the actual votes we have to cast based on real legislation here,” said Senator Jon Kyl of Arizona, the Senate’s No. 2 Republican.</p>
<p>Democrats quickly mobilized to draw attention to what they cast as out-of-the-mainstream positions espoused by Mr. Paul — from raising the Social Security retirement age to 70 to questioning the legality of the Americans with Disabilities Act — as they sought to discredit what Jack Conway, the Democratic Senate candidate in Kentucky, described in an interview as Mr. Paul’s “narrow and rigid philosophy.”</p>
<p>The Tea Party phenomenon has provided a bolt of energy for the Republican Party. But the case of Mr. Paul also shows the risks that have emerged as new figures move to the forefront of conservative politics, as candidates with little experience and sometimes unorthodox policy positions face the kind of scrutiny and pressure that could trip up even the most experienced politicians.</p>
<p>Mr. Paul said in an interview with Rachel Maddow on MSNBC on Wednesday night that he supported the sections of the Civil Rights Act that applied to public accommodations but had concerns when it came to its applicability to private business; he raised similar concerns earlier in the day about the Americans with Disabilities Act in an interview on National Public Radio.</p>
<p>Asked by Ms. Maddow if a private business had the right to refuse to serve black people, Mr. Paul replied, “Yes.”</p>
<p>“I’m not in favor of any discrimination of any form,” Mr. Paul continued. “I would never belong to any club that excluded anybody for race. We still do have private clubs in America that can discriminate based on race. But I think what’s important about this debate is not written into any specific ‘gotcha’ on this, but asking the question: what about freedom of speech? Should we limit speech from people we find abhorrent? Should we limit racists from speaking?”</p>
<p>“I don’t want to be associated with those people,” he said, “but I also don’t want to limit their speech in any way in the sense that we tolerate boorish and uncivilized behavior because that’s one of the things freedom requires is that we allow people to be boorish and uncivilized, but that doesn’t mean we approve of it.”</p>
<p>While those views reflect the libertarian philosophy that Mr. Paul and many Tea Party members have embraced, they are politically treacherous for someone making an appeal to the electorate at large, as Mr. Paul learned as he struggled with questions about whether he thought the government had a role in regulating food safety and working conditions.</p>
<p>Congressional Republicans were peppered with questions about Mr. Paul’s position on civil rights. “I just want to be on the record that I believe the Interstate Commerce Clause was properly used by the courts and the Congress to make sure that when you travel in this country you can’t be denied food and lodging based on your race,” Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, said. “That is not a big heavy lift for me.”</p>
<p>Mr. Paul’s father, Representative Ron Paul, a Texas Republican who ran for president in 2008, angrily defended his son, saying he was being treated unfairly. “I think there’s a lot of resentment because he became a star,” said Mr. Paul, who ran for president in 2008.</p>
<p>Democratic leaders have long said that they viewed Mr. Paul as the weaker of the two major candidates in the Republican primary — the other was Trey Grayson, the secretary of state — because, they said, his views would not be embraced by the general electorate as they were by primary voters. That view was shared by many establishment Republicans, as reflected by the fact that Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the minority leader, did not support him in the primary.</p>
<p>Mr. Paul also found himself on the defensive on Thursday when he sought to justify his decision to hold his election night celebration at a country club in Bowling Green, arguing that was not in any way at variance with the grass-roots movement he has come to epitomize.</p>
<p>“I think at one time, people used to think of golf and golf clubs and golf courses as being exclusive,” Mr. Paul said in an interview with ABC’s “Good Morning America,” adding, “Tiger Woods has helped to broaden that, in the sense that he’s brought golf to a lot of the cities and to city youth.”</p>
<p>Representative James E. Clyburn, the Democratic majority whip, who was active in the civil rights movement during the 1960s, described Mr. Paul as “extreme” in an interview. Mr. Clyburn said Mr. Paul’s decision to hold his victory rally at a country club was a slap at his own supporters. “Who would have a victory party in a place where the minions who just voted for you ain’t welcome?” he said.</p>
<p>More broadly, Mr. Clyburn said that he viewed Mr. Paul, should he get elected, as a threat to gains made by the civil rights movement over the past 50 years, given his views on the Civil Rights Act. “If we see someone like this get elected to the United States Senate, that will be the first step in my opinion to turning back the gains that we started making way back in the 1860s,” he said.</p>
<p>Representative Al Green, a Texas Democrat, demanded on the House floor on Thursday afternoon that Mr. Paul explain his views, which Mr. Green said were painful to those who experienced segregation. Mr. McConnell said through a spokesman that he was a fervent backer of the civil rights law and welcomed Mr. Paul’s statement that he would not seek to repeal it.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[This came from a friend. And it is pretty good.   Never miss a chance to rest your horse Only a cow knows why they stampede Always drink upstream from the heard Don&#8217;t name a cow that you plant to eat Don&#8217;t  sell your mule to buy a plough Never corner something meaner than  you [...]]]></description>
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<p>Never miss a chance to rest your horse</p>
<p>Only a cow knows why they stampede</p>
<p>Always drink upstream from the heard</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t name a cow that you plant to eat</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t  sell your mule to buy a plough</p>
<p>Never corner something meaner than  you are</p>
<p>Lettin the cat out of the bag is a whole lot easier that puttin it back</p>
<p>If you find yourself in a  hole the first thing to do is stop digging</p>
<p>Every trail has some puddles</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t squat with your spurs on</p>
<p>It doesn&#8217;t take a genius to spot a goat in a flock of sheep</p>
<p>Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear, or a fool from any direction</p>
<p>Behind every successful rancher is a wife who works in town</p>
<p>Never ask a barber if you need a haircut</p>
<p>Never interfere with something that ain&#8217;t bothering you</p>
<p>Generally you ain&#8217;t learning nothing when your mouth&#8217;s a jawing</p>
<p>Sometimes you get, and sometimes you get got.</p>
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<p>And don&#8217;t anyone write to tell me that some of these things are miss-spelled&#8230;..ANGE!!</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[The information below has some very disturbing aspects and could indeed be just what it appears to be. Most know that I don&#8217;t follow the mainstream opinion that the Liberals dream of taking our guns but this I will say, has some serious ramifacations. Read the blub that went around the email and blog world, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The information below has some very disturbing aspects and could indeed be just what it appears to be. Most know that I don&#8217;t follow the mainstream opinion that the Liberals dream of taking our guns but this I will say, has some serious ramifacations. Read the blub that went around the email and blog world, the follow the link to Reuters at the end and decide for yourself.</p>
<p>Next month I&#8217;ll address how the typical American should deal with this issue in order to protect there families in the not to distant future. And that my friends is a day that will I&#8217;m sad to say, be sooner than later!</p>
<p> </p>
<p>The Obama administration intends to force gun control and a complete ban on all weapons for US citizens through the signing of international treaties with foreign nations. By signing international treaties on gun control, the Obama administration can use the US State Department to bypass the normal legislative process in Congress. Once the US Government signs these international treaties, all US citizens will be subject to those gun laws created by foreign governments.</p>
<p>These are laws that have been developed and promoted by organizations such as the United Nations and individuals such as George Soros and Michael Bloomberg. The laws are designed and intended to lead to the complete ban and confiscation of all firearms. The Obama administration is attempting to use tactics and methods of gun control that will inflict major damage to our 2nd Amendment before US citizens even understand what has happened.</p>
<p> Obama can appear before the public and tell them that he does not intend to pursue any legislation (in the United States) that will lead to new gun control laws, while cloaked in secrecy, his Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton is committing the US to international treaties and foreign gun control laws. Does that mean Obama is telling the truth? What it means is that there will be no publicized gun control debates in the media or votes in Congress. We will wake up one morning and find that the United States has signed a treaty that prohibits firearm and ammunition manufacturers from selling to the public. We will wake up another morning and find that the US has signed a treaty that prohibits any transfer of firearm ownership. And then, we will wake up yet another morning and find that the US has signed a treaty that requires US citizens to deliver any firearm they own to the local government collection and destruction center or face imprisonment. This has happened in other countries, past and present!</p>
<p> </p>
<p>As sure as government health care will be forced on us by the Obama administration through whatever means necessary, so will gun control. Read the Article U.S. reverses stance on treaty to regulate arms trade WASHINGTON (Reuters) &#8211; The United States reversed policy on Wednesday and said it would back launching talks on a treaty to regulate arms sales as long as the talks operated by consensus, a stance critics said gave every nation a veto. The decision, announced in a statement released by the U.S. State Department, overturns the position of former President George W. Bush&#8217;s administration, which had opposed such a treaty on the grounds that national controls were better. View The Full Article Here <br />Click on the link below for further acknowledgement…..</p>
<p><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSTRE59E0Q920091015">http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSTRE59E0Q920091015</a></p>
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		<title>Repost from TheShootist.net</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to Don Shuffitt for forwarding this to us. Reposted from the shootist.net DOD Ends Sale of Expended Military Brass to Remanufacturers   Everyone had best read this over, and read it today! We all wondered when it was going to start&#8211;when the new administration would make their move against us as gun owners. Oh, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks to Don Shuffitt for forwarding this to us. Reposted from the shootist.net</p>
<p><a href="http://www.theshootist.net/2009/03/dod-ends-sale-of-expended-military.html">DOD Ends Sale of Expended Military Brass to Remanufacturers</a></p>
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<p>Everyone had best read this over, and read it today!</p>
<p>We all wondered when it was going to start&#8211;when the new administration would make their move against us as gun owners.</p>
<p>Oh, everyone got upset about HR45&#8211;I&#8217;ll bet I got over 100 e-mails warning me about this draconian gun registration bill that had been introduced in Congress.</p>
<p>I was really glad to see Tom Gresham, host of &#8220;Gun Talk Radio,&#8221; an editor, writer, television host on &#8220;Self-Defense TV,&#8221; and one of the foremost gun spokespersons, come out and tell everyone to stop worrying about legislation so absolutely over-the-top&#8211;it would never get out of committee.</p>
<p>Tom said save your energy for when we really need it&#8211;don&#8217;t expend it trying to warn everyone in your e-mail list about legislation that would go nowhere.</p>
<p>Now, Tom just interviewed me, and Larry Haynie, owner of Georgia Arms (<a href="http://www.georgia-arms.com/">http://www.georgia-arms.com/</a>), on Gun Talk (<a href="http://www.guntalk.com/">http://www.guntalk.com/</a>)&#8211;and Tom agrees, now is the time to &#8220;&#8230;unleash the hounds&#8230;&#8221; by which he means start e-mailing and writing your senators and congressmen.</p>
<p>Now it has come clear&#8230;now we know what they intend to do.</p>
<p>It is an end-run around Congress. They don&#8217;t need to try to ban guns&#8211;they don&#8217;t need to fight a massive battle to attempt gun registration, or limit &#8220;assault&#8221; weapon sales.</p>
<p>Nope. All they have to do is limit the amount of ammunition available to the civilian market, and when bullets dry up, guns will be useless.</p>
<p>Think we jest?</p>
<p>Here are copies of two letters sent to Georgia Arms just Thursday evening&#8211;effectively cancelling a contract he had to purchase 30,000 pounds of expended military brass in .223, 7.62mm, and .50 caliber:</p>
<p><em>Dear Valued Customer:</em></p>
<p><em>
<p>Please take a moment to note important changes set forth by the Defense Logistics Agency:</p>
<p>Recently it has been determined that fired munitions of all calibers, shapes and sizes have been designated to be Demil code B. As a result and in conjunction with DLA&#8217;s current Demil code B policy, this notice will serve as official notification which requires Scrap Venture (SV) to implement mutilation as a condition of sale for all sales of fired munitions effective immediately. This notice also requires SV to immediately cease delivery of any fired munitions that have been recently sold or on active term contracts, unless the material has been mutilated prior to sale or SV personnel can attest to the mutilation after delivery. A certificate of destruction is required in either case.</p>
<p>Thank you,</p>
<p> </p>
<p></em>
<p><em>DOD Surplus<br />15051 N Kierland Blvd # 300<br />Scottsdale, AZ 85254<br /></em></p>
<p><em>March 12, 2009</em></p>
<p><em>
<p>Larry Haynie<br />Georgia Arms<br />PO Box 238<br />Villa Rica, GA 30180</p>
<p>Re: Event 7084-6200:</p>
<p>Dear Larry Haynie,</p>
<p>Effective immediately DOD Surplus, LLC, will be implementing new requirements for mutilation of fired shell casings. The new DRMS requirement calls for DOD Surplus personnel to witness the mutilation of the property and sign the Certificate of Destruction. Mutilation of the property can be done at the DRMO, if permitted by the Government, or it may be mutilated at a site chosen by the buyer. Mutilation means that the property will be destroyed to the extent prevents its reuse or reconstruction. DOD Surplus personnel will determine when property has been sufficiently mutilated to meet the requirements of the Government.</p>
<p>If you do not agree with the new conditions of your spot sale, please sign the appropriate box provided below stating that you do not agree to the new terms and would like to cancel your purchase effective immediately. If you do agree to the new terms please sign in the appropriate box provided below to acknowledge your understanding and agreement with the new requirements relating to your purchase. Fax the signed document back to (480) 367-1450, emailed responses are not acceptable.</p>
<p>Please respond to this request no later than close of business Monday, March 16th, 2009.</p>
<p>Sincerely,</p>
<p>Government Liquidation.</p>
<p> </p>
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<p>Got that? From now on, remanufacturers of military brass will not be able to buy surplus brass from DOD&#8211;actually from Government Liquidators, llc.&#8211;the corporation that sells surplus materials for the U.S. government. At least, not in any form recognizable as once-fired brass ammunition.</p>
<p>Now all brass ammunition will have to be shredded, and sold as scrap.</p>
<p>Georgia Arms, who brought this to our attention, is the 5th largest ammunition manufacturer of centerfire pistol and rifle ammunition in the U.S.</p>
<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re right up there behind Hornady,&#8221; Larry Haynie told me.</p>
<p>He also told me with the cancellation of his contract to purchase this brass, and the ending of his ability to purchase any more expended military ammunition, he will have to severely curtail his operation&#8211;laying off approximately half his 60-person work force.</p>
<p>Haynie further pointed out this move is a stupendous waste of taxpayer money&#8211;reducing the worth of the brass some 80%&#8211;from casings, to shredded bulk brass.</p>
<p>He stated most of this will now go to foundries where it will be melted down, cast in shippable forms, and likely be sold to China, one of the largest purchasers of U.S. metals on the open market.</p>
<p>Haynie was manufacturing over 1 million rounds of .223 ammunition every month, which he sold on the civilian market to resellers, and to law enforcement agencies across the country.</p>
<p>He will start tomorrow sending cancellations of orders for .223 to law enforcement agencies all over the country.</p>
<p>You can expect this to affect every bullet you purchase in the future&#8211;with no reloaded ammunition available, the already strained new manufacturers will be unable to meet demand. They are already turning out everything they can build for the military market. The civilian market is stressed to the point even reloading components have become hard to find.</p>
<p>Now, with this hit, ammunition prices will go through the roof in the next year.</p>
<p>Your quality piece, sitting in your gun rack, will become a very expensive wood and steel, or plastic and steel club.</p>
<p>What can you do?</p>
<p>Google &#8220;contact members of Congress&#8221; or simply type in<a href="http://www.congress.org/">http://www.congress.org/</a>.<br />When you reach that site, type in your zip code&#8211;it will give you all your representatives, senators, and their web pages.</p>
<p>Or you can find the addresses and e-mails of your own senators and congressmen by going to <a href="http://www.senate.gov/">http://www.senate.gov/</a> and<a href="http://www.house.gov/">http://www.house.gov/</a>. Both pages have locator aids at the top of the page.</p>
<p>Here is a letter I just sent to Representative Bill Cassidy, Congressman from the 6th District of Louisiana, and Senator David Vitter of Louisiana. I will be sending it to every member of our congressional delegation. Feel free to copy it and paste in your own e-mail, sending it to your legislators.</p>
<p>We have to stop this now!</p>
<p><em>The Honorable Bill Cassidy<br />Member of Congress from Louisiana</em></p>
<p><em>
<p>Dear Congressman Cassidy:</p>
<p>It has come to my attention that the Department of Defense has issued a directive that all expended military brass (fired cases) will now be shredded and sold for scrap material, rather than resold by Government Liquidators LLC to the civilian market for remanufacture.</p>
<p>You may not be aware of it, but there is a severe shortage of ammunition available for sale to the public across the country, causing problems for shooters, hunters, and reloaders everywhere.</p>
<p>Now, apparently the Obama administration, realizing they cannot move against private firearms ownership since the landmark decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in the Washington D.C./Heller case, has made their move in another way.</p>
<p>By cutting off the resale of expended military ammunition to remanufacturers, they have put a stranglehold on the nation&#8217;s ammunition supply.</p>
<p>Further, they have reduced the return to the government on expended brass by 80%. What was sold for remanufacturer at a fair return to the government, will now cost the taxpayers untold sums of money as the cost of scrap brass is far below the price per pound for expended military ammunition.</p>
<p>In addition, the use of remanufactured ammunition is a huge asset to law enforcement agencies across the country who buy millions of rounds of reloaded ammunition a year from these manufacturers for practice rounds.</p>
<p>With this market gone, law enforcement will no longer be able to purchase inexpensive reloaded ammunition, and with the continuing combat status of military forces across the Middle East, original manufacturers of new ammunition are turning out everything they can make to the government, thus exacerbating the shortage of new ammunition in both the civilian and law enforcement market.</p>
<p>Lastly, in these harsh economic times, does it not strike you as cold and calculating that the Obama administration has no compunction against ruining an industry that employs thousands of American citizens in the remanufacturing of sporting and military ammunition. One major resupplier, Georgia Arms, the fifth largest manufacturer of centerfire pistol and rifle ammunition has informed me he will have to quickly lay off half his 60-person workforce, as he has had to cancel contracts with dozens of police agencies who had contracted with him to supply them with remanufactured .223 ammunition.</p>
<p>Georgia Arms has been practically put out of business by this directive that all expended military brass must be shredded. His current contracts have been canceled, and he is notifying his customers across the country he can no longer supply their ammunition needs.</p>
<p>Please look into this immediately. This move by the Obama administration is nothing but a back-door strike against firearms ownership in this country&#8211;if shooters can&#8217;t buy ammunition, the guns are little better than steel clubs&#8211;and this is obviously the intent.</p>
<p>Thank you for your time and efforts in this serious attack against the Second Amendment rights of the American citizenry.</p>
<p>Sincerely,</p>
<p>Gordon Hutchinson</p>
<p>Author &#8220;The Great New Orleans Gun Grab&#8221;</p>
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<p><em>Firearms Columnist for Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Mississippi Sportsman magazines.</em></p>
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