Osama is dead...and...

By the way, just a thought about Osama's passing.

I don't really care to see a picture of him dead. The SEALs say they got 'im; that's good enough. Besides I only saw pics of him before - I didn't know the guy alive; how would I recognize a picture of him dead? What a waste of time and resources. But my point here is twofold - my two main reactions to his death.

I am not rejoicing or celebrating his demise in any way, shape or form. I'm actually kinda saddened. Because another soul has gone to Hell. And because of the people who ARE celebrating. Many are people whom I respect and even family members. As I heard someone posted to Air1's face book that puts us as guilty of hate as the terrorists. I don't hate them. I pity them. Killing someone is not good. It may be necessary, and the resulting effects may be good, but killing a human, in and of itself, should never be cause for us to celebrate. But, no, I don't celebrate his death. Jude 1:9, "But Michael the archangel, when he disputed with the devil and argued about the body of Moses, did not dare pronounce against him a railing judgment, but said, " The Lord rebuke you!" I rejoice in the effect that his death may save others' lives, no doubt. I rejoice in the hope that maybe, just maybe, we have weakened his terrorist organization. But the realist in me says, "Unlikely".

Which is my second point. Are the terrorists going to avenge him? My initial response - I don't care. Oh, I guess they might. But really, every day we don't know if terrorists are going to decide today is the new "9/11" and I'm in the wrong place at the wrong time. I'm already security-conscious, and practice various methods of personal security, and am as ready for any disruption as I can be, whether man-made, weather, whatever. I categorically refuse to let terrorists control my behavior in any way. Terrorists are punks, cowards, spineless mewling children, throwing temper tantrums because they can't have their way. Terrorists are not soldiers. I understand someone defending his country, whether or not he wears a uniform - most of the revolutionary soldiers didn't have uniforms. I understand taking an invading army under fire INSIDE THE BORDERS OF YOUR COUNTRY. I do not understand attacking women and children, and unarmed people of any degree. I do not understand sneaking bombs on commercial planes or walking into a shopping area wearing a C-4 vest and a detonator. I do not understand counting on fear and terror as a weapon wielded against people who have done you no harm. Terrorists only have the power that we give them, by fearing them. I serve a God who says His Love casts out all fear. I have no fear of terrorists. I also have no respect for them. I will not change any aspect of my life because of what they MAY or may not do. They would better change their plans for what I WILL do if they show their ugly mugs 'round here.

Maybe if we gave all of our spec ops' groups hunting licenses we'd have less terrorists to worry about. Ever hear the song "March of Cambreadth"?

Following is a copy of a text I received a bit ago from Rand Paul's organization, with a petition to sign. I liked what was said enough that I deleted the "Please send money" phrases, and put in the rest verbatim...This is very important and needs to be spread, folks. Please look up Paul's website and sign this petition. And call your senator and congressmen!!

Ultimately, the UN’s Small Arms Treaty is designed to register, ban and CONFISCATE firearms owned by private citizens like YOU. So far, the gun-grabbers have successfully kept the exact wording of their new scheme under wraps. But looking at previous versions of the UN Small Arms Treaty, you and I can get a good idea of what’s likely in the works. If passed by the UN and ratified by the U.S. Senate, the UN “Small Arms Treaty” would almost certainly FORCE the U.S. to:
*** Enact tougher licensing requirements, making law-abiding Americans cut through even more bureaucratic red tape just to own a firearm legally;
*** CONFISCATE and DESTROY ALL “unauthorized” civilian firearms (all firearms owned by the government are excluded, of course);
*** BAN the trade, sale and private ownership of ALL semi-automatic weapons;
*** Create an INTERNATIONAL gun registry, setting the stage for full-scale gun CONFISCATION.
I'm sure I don't have to tell you that this is NOT a fight we can afford to lose. Ever since its founding 65 years ago, the United Nations has been hell-bent on bringing the United States to its knees. To the petty dictators and one-world socialists who control the UN, the United States of America isn’t a “shining city on a hill” -- it’s an affront to their grand designs for the globe. These anti-gun globalists know that so long as Americans remain free to make our own decisions without being bossed around by big government bureaucrats, they’ll NEVER be able to seize the worldwide power they crave. And the UN’s apologists also know the most effective way to finally strip you and me of ALL our freedoms would be to DESTROY our gun rights.
That’s why I was so glad to hear that the National Association for Gun Rights is leading the fight to stop this assault on our Constitution! The truth is there’s no time to waste. You and I have to be prepared for this fight to move FAST. The fact is the last thing the gun-grabbers at the UN and in Washington, D.C. want is for you and me to have time to mobilize gun owners to defeat this radical legislation. They’ve made that mistake before, and we’ve made them pay, defeating EVERY attempt to ram the “Treaty on Small Arms” into law since the mid-1990s. But now time may not be on our side. In fact, we’re likely to only have a few weeks to defeat the treaty when they make their move. And we definitely don’t have a President in the White House who will oppose this treaty. So our ONE AND ONLY CHANCE to stop the UN’s “Small Arms Treaty” is during the ratification process in the U.S. Senate.
As you know, it takes 67 Senate votes to ratify a treaty. With new pro-gun champions joining me in the Senate, rounding up enough votes to kill this thing should be easy, right? Unfortunately, that couldn’t be further from the truth. Even with the Republican tidal wave in November, there still isn’t a pro-gun majority in the Senate to kill ratification of the treaty. You know just as well as I do how few Senators are truly “pro-gun.”
Not only that, but many Senators get “queasy” about killing treaties for fear of “embarrassing” the President -- especially with “international prestige” at stake. They look at ratifying treaties much like approving the President’s Supreme Court nominees. Remember how many Senators turned their back on us and voted to confirm anti-gun Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor? A dozen more only voted against Sotomayor after receiving massive grassroots pressure from the folks back home.
So if we’re going to defeat the UN’s Small Arms Treaty gun owners have to turn the heat up on the U.S. Senate now before it’s too late! Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has announced the Obama Administration will be working hand in glove with the United Nations to pass a new GLOBAL, “Small Arms Treaty.” If we’re going to defeat the UN’s Small Arms Treaty gun owners have to turn the heat up on the U.S. Senate now before it’s too late!

Below are some newsbits I located recently. Old, but (pardon the pun) newsworthy.

I did look in more recent news. Sadly, the illegal immigrants who went into the Arizona ranch were awarded the ranch in court - over the ownership of the legal American who owned it. Oh, he hit one of the illegals, apparently. Lucky break. Someone breaks into my house, I won't hit him, I'll shoot him.

So I looked for 2008 news regarding the border. And it's even worse than in 2006. And I have found where just this past August, of 2008, Mexican soldiers took an American Border Patrol officer into custody - ON AMERICAN SOIL! Although they crossed a barbed-wire fence and other border material, they claim they were lost and State Department and our 'border czar' W. Ralph Basham bought it. In fact, the Oct 14, 2008, Washington Post article titled "Mexican soldiers crossed clear line", they write: Mr. Basham, who oversees the Border Patrol, said that while most incursions into the United States by Mexican military or law enforcement authorities take place in remote areas where the international border is poorly marked, "that was not the case in this particular incident." But, there are no repercussions to the soldiers, the commanders (wasn't someone looking for these lost soldiers?), or to their government? The article continues,

He also described the tactics used against the agent, including the pointing of automatic rifles at him, as "unacceptable," adding that the incident had been "thoroughly documented by the Department of Homeland Security." He said the matter has since been sent to the State Department "with a request for diplomatic action."

At the time of the incident, the State Department described the incursion as a misunderstanding, saying the Mexican soldiers did not know where they were and needed to make certain that the detained agent was who he said he was. It was the same general statement the department had made in dozens of other suspected incursions by members of the Mexican military. (read: the State Department is doing what they always do to protect the citizens of America - NOTHING)

Excuse me? Did you see that, too? "In most incursions..."???? So this isn't an isolated case? Now anyone wonder why gun sales are up? The Mexicans are testing our borders... And the Obamination is wanting to make nice with their president. Ha! After a little more research, I found out that between Oct. 2007 and Oct. 2008, there were 42 reported incursions by uniformed Mexican soldiers and/or police. Reported. I'm feeling just a little uneasy about that.

Please don't misunderstand - I am not anti-Mexican, or anti-foreigner, anything like that. I AM pro-American, and believe our laws, including those of our sovereignty, should be enforced. That is all. Pretty simple, really.

Border News

"These people [mexican narco-terrorists] pretty much have taken control of the border and they're expanding it to New Mexico and Arizona. They want to take control of the whole border, and they pretty much have control right now." -Sheriff Rick Flores, Webb County (Laredo) Texas, 4 April 2006
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Commenting on the barrage of gunfire coming at deputies from across the Rio Grande in July 2006: "This is one of the reasons that I do not allow my deputies to patrol the riverbanks or levies close to the river, because we do know there are drug gangs and human trafficking gangs that will not hesitate to shoot in our direction to get us out of the area." - Sheriff Lupe Treviño, Hidalgo County , Texas, 17 July 2006
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"The weapons we possess are like water guns compared to what they have... It's not just illegal immigrants. Something more frightening is happening." - Sheriff Sigifredo Gonzales, Zapata County, Texas, 26 July 2006
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"If the criminal aliens can put 400,000 unarmed protestors on the streets of Phoenix to DEMAND that we Citizens give them our respect, then they can certainly put 40,000 armed rioters on the streets when the Citizens tell them all to go to Hell." -"Argonaut", Former National Coordinator for Border Rescue

Automatic weapons fire from mexico, Texas Deputies fired upon by narco- terrorists - KRGV TV, 12 July 2006

Uniformed narco-terrorists kidnap and murder private citizens on the Rio Grande, Hidalgo County Sheriff's Deputies pinned down by automatic weapons fire from across the Rio Grande (video)

Cross-Border Military Incursion in Texas - KFOX TV, 31 January 2006: Armed, uniformed foreign troops cross the Rio Grande near El Paso, caught on videotape

Terrorists from mexico land a military helicopter on US ranch
- Arizona Republic, 3 February 2006

Heavily-armed, uniformed, masked bandits invade small Arizona ranch

Another email that needs more reading... an idea (erroneously attributed to various persons) that while strong is really no more than what we need, not that the Obamination will have the cojones much less the will to do anything like it. That usurper simply needs to be shown the door - preferably the back door.

1) 'The US will apologize to the world for our 'interference' in their affairs, past & present. You know, Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Tojo, Noriega, Milosevic, Hussein, and the rest of those 'good 'ole' boys', we will never 'interfere' again.

2) We will withdraw our troops from all over the world, starting with Germany , South Korea , the Middle East , and the Philippines . They don't want us there. We would station troops at our borders. No one allowed sneaking through holes in the fence.

3) All illegal aliens have 90 days to get their affairs together and leave We'll give them a free trip home. After 90 days the remainder will be gathered up and deported immediately, regardless of whom or where they are. They're illegal!!! France will welcome them.

4) All future visitors will be thoroughly checked and limited to 90 days unless given a special permit!!!! No one from a terrorist nation will be allowed in. If you don't like it there, change it yourself and don't hide here. Asylum would never be available to anyone. We don't need any more cab drivers or 7-11 cashiers.

5) No foreign 'students' over age 21. The older ones are the bombers. If they don't attend classes, they get a 'D' and it's back home baby.

6) The US will make a strong effort to become self-sufficient energy wise. This will include developing nonpolluting sources of energy but will require a temporary drilling of oil in the Alaskan wilderness. The caribou will have to cope for a while

7) Offer Saudi Arabia and other oil producing countries $10 a barrel for their oil. If they don't like it, we go someplace else. They can go somewhere else to sell their production. (About a week of the wells filling up the storage sites would be enough.)

8) If there is a famine or other natural catastrophe in the world, we will not 'interfere.' They can pray to Allah or whomever, for seeds, rain, cement or whatever they need. Besides most of what we give them is stolen or given to the army. The people who need it most get very little, if anything.

9) Ship the UN Headquarters to an isolated island someplace. We don't need the spies and fair weather friends here. Besides, the building would make a good homeless shelter or lockup for illegal aliens.

10) All Americans must go to charm and beauty school. That way, no one can call us 'Ugly Americans' any longer.

The Language we speak is ENGLISH! Learn it or LEAVE.

The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying 'Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses' She's got a baseball bat and she's yelling, 'you want a piece of me?'

ps - did you hear about the idea for mandatory military service? I think it's great and go on the record as supporting it!!

From an email, that bears repeating:

There are African-Americans, Mexican-Americans, Asian-Americans, Arab-Americans, etc. And then here are just Americans.
You pass me on the street and sneer in my direction. You call me White Boy, Cracker, Honkey, Whitey, Caveman. And thats OK. But when I call you, Nigger, Kike, Towel head, Sand-nigger, Camel Jockey, Beaner, Gook, or Chink you call me a racist.
You say that whites commit a lot of violence against you. So why are the ghettos the most dangerous places to live?
You have the United Negro College Fund. You have Martin Luther King Day. You have Black History Month. You have Cesar Chavez Day. You have Yom Hashoah. You have Maul’ed Al-Nabi. You have the NAACP. You have BET.
If we had WET (White Entertainment Television), wed be racists. If we had a White Pride Day, you would call us racists. If we had White History Month, wed be racists. If we had any organization for only whites to advance our lives wed be racists.
We have a Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, a Black Chamber of Commerce, and then we just have the plain Chamber of Commerce. Wonder who pays for that?
A white woman could not be in the Miss Black American pageant. But any color can be in the Miss America pageant.
If we had a college fund that only gave white students scholarships you know wed be racists. There are over 60 openly proclaimed Black Colleges in the US. Yet if there were White Colleges That would be a racist college.
In the Million Man March, you believed that you were marching for your race and rights. If we marched for our race and rights, you would call us Racists.
You are proud to be black, brown, yellow and orange, and you’re not afraid to announce it. But when we announce our white pride, you call us racist!
You rob us, carjack us, and shoot at us. But, when a white police officer shoots a black gang member or beats up a black drug-dealer running from the law and posing a threat to society, you call him a racist.

I am proud.. But you call me a racist.

Why is it that only whites can be racists?

BE PROUD TO BE WHITE! Its not a crime yet. But getting real close!

I have a simple question: Is Mr. Barack Obama legally able to serve as President?

I was recently made aware of this question, prior to the election. And I have yet to hear a reasonable answer. So, now, before this really gets out of control, I’m broadening whom I’m asking.

Here’s the history of the question, paraphrased. We have all heard that Mr. Obama was born in Hawaii. We have also heard that at some point in his youth, he was taken to Kenya with his mother and father and spent time in school there, both a presumably Muslim school, and a Christian school. Apparently his mother relinquished her United States citizenship as did Barack. And this is why he was able to attend Kenyan schools. It seems that Kenya at that time did not allow dual citizenship and you had to be a citizen in order to attend the school. So, the first issue and question.

The second part comes later, when Barack and Mom return to the U.S. By the time he was 18, he should have gone through citizenship like any immigrant. But there aren’t any records to show that his happened. This is the second part of the question.

Understand the seriousness of this, please. If this is true, then he is either an illegal alien or an immigrant. Either way, by law, only a natural born citizen can be president. Therein lies the rub. The guy who started much of the investigation has filed numerous suits, in which he gives details and raises many questions. I have clipped in the latest article I’ve found below. All of this is accessible. It is not hidden; it is not obscured – well at least not by the people doing the asking. It is being hidden, and obscured by others, including the courts in Hawaii and the National Democratic Party.

It’s pretty easy to clear up, and the folks behind the suits have said that if Mr. Obama’s folks prove them wrong, fine. It stops and that’s it. He’s vindicated. But then why are they refusing to cooperate? Why is the court and the DNC, among others, obfuscating? Why not just produce the records?

I encourage you to research this, and please, keep asking! I am going to advance this to my state’s senate and legislature, and anyone else, blogs, emails, whatever, I can think of. We simply need a reasonable answer. Then we can drop it.

I copied the article, and this is one of the most recent article’s link: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?a=PAGE.view&pageId=78111

2nd lawsuit challenges Obama's citizenship
Man demands state verify birth records or remove senator from ballots
Posted: October 16, 200812:20 am Eastern
By Chelsea Schilling© 2008 WorldNetDaily
In a second lawsuit challenging Barack Obama's "natural born" citizenship, a Washington resident is demanding officials review original or certified birth documents for the Democratic Party presidential candidate.
Steven Marquis of Fall City, Wash., filed suit Oct. 9 in Washington State Superior Court, calling for Secretary of State Sam Reed to determine whether Obama is a citizen before Election Day. Marquis released a statement saying the state has the authority to "prevent the wholesale disenfranchisement of voters" who might have otherwise had the opportunity to choose a qualified candidate should records show Obama is not a natural-born U.S. citizen.
"At this point, Mr. Obama has not allowed independent or official access to his birth records nor supporting hospital records," Marquis wrote. "The Hawaii Health Department has violated Federal law by ignoring formal Freedom of Information requests for the same."
Marquis referenced prominent Pennsylvania Democrat and attorney Philip J. Berg's lawsuit in U.S. District Court against Sen. Barack Obama and the Democratic National Committee for proof of Obama's American citizenship.
"Mr. Obama failed to respond to the District Court's request to produce or allow access to the official documents (should they exist) and instead filed a motion to dismiss arguing the Plaintiff had no 'standing' or right to know," he said. "This non-response as of 9/24/2008 in Federal court casts doubt on the veracity of the electoral system and is the principal reason for this lawsuit."
Marquis said his late entry of the lawsuit is due to Obama's "delay and subsequent non response to reasonable request for valid certificates."
He indicated that his requests for certification of the birth documents were rejected by Washington's Office of the Secretary of State. Marquis requested an injunction to force the office to confirm Obama's U.S. citizenship or remove his name from Washington ballots. He said the agency is "specifically charged with certifying and guaranteeing the veracity of official documents and overseeing the elections to wit the people's confidence in the fundamental aspect of democracy is maintained."
However, Marquis continued, "To date, in this regard, Secretary of State Sam Reed has not carried out that fundamental duty."

Disarm America?

This is wild, and very, very scary. It is important that you watch this. I think the link has been updated, as it is not a 51 sec bite, but a 1 1/2 minute clip, so that, as the person who posted it states, it is in context, not cut, not edited. I was watching details (there are trees blowing behind the window) and cannot see inconsistencies to make me think it was cut or whatever. Unless you don’t mind seeing America fall and become a lackey to other nations, totally disappear from the face of the earth or become another socialist republic, you will help stop this man. pwm

FOWARDED EMAIL:

"He can't say he didn't say it. TODAY is the day that a leading General in the Russian Army stated that if the USA installed defensive missiles in Poland, it would be provocation worthy of a Russian nuclear attack on Poland. But the hyperlink attached below tells us what Obama plans to do to defend freedom. This video does not tell us what Obama is "reported" to have said; but shows him saying it!THE DEMOCRAT PARTY IS TRYING TO HAVE THIS VIDEO PULLED IMMEDIATELY. PLEASE CLICK THE LINK BELOW-This is an uninterrupted 51-second video of Obama speaking; he's telling us exactly what he will do to the military...watch it before this too is removed off the web site.Pass it on...the USA needs a Wake-up call.

http://macsmind.com/wordpress/2008/06/08/obama-wants-to-protect-america/

this is absolutely shocking & reprehensible. He plans to unilaterally disarm our nation. The question is... for what? And more specifically, for whom?!!!!!!!!"

Please, if you support Mr. Obama, tell me why. I honestly want to know. RESPECTFULLY! And I want facts. Not feelings, not rumors, not wild tales from either the left or the right. I don't care to hear how Mr. Bush lied because he didn't. He was misled, his was fed bad intel. Well, that happens to every leader of any organization about a half dozen times a day on a good day. I won't say he hasn't made mistakes. I won't say I agree with Mr. Bush 100%.

I will say that Mr. Obama scares the begeebers out of me! First the whole taxes thing and how much he wants to get from us, and now this? Folks, if he gets in, I suggest you buy a gun. Because our military will be neutered and we'll need to protect her ourselves as we did many times before. That's what the Second Amendment is all about. I am not exaggerating, nor do I think I'm being alarmist, but rather, I think I'm being realistic. And if you think you will want a gun, do it before November. If Mr. Obama gets in, odds are good he's going start repealing gun possesion laws and we're going to lose the right to buy them privately. Don't tell me that he's pro-gun, or at least not anti-gun. His comment that he comes from a state with hunting does nothing to allay my concerns. The man is a democratic socialist at best, a closet communist at worst. And he's already said that he'll put the Muslims ahead in any decision that makes him choose between them and another group.

God is in control, I have no doubt. But God tells us to pray for our leaders and support them. And take action in our nation. We are responsible. Respect the position if you can't or won't respect the person. Think hard folks. Pray hard. God keep you all.