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The first time, earlier this month, was pneumonia. I nearly died because I couldn't breathe. I'm better now.


Then, tonight, I got into an accident. My scooter hit a slick spot on the road in the middle of a rain storm at 40mph. I went over and slid a good 30 ft or so. Unhurt, due to wearing ridiculously heavy clothes(czech military issue pants and a 1950's era italian army jacket, both are heavy canvas) and a helmet, but my scooter's trashed and I'll have to fix it tomorrow.




...yes, I ride a motorscooter. If you laugh, I'll kill you while reminding you cheerfully that I get 100mpg on it and filling the tank costs only 2$ and lasts me forever.

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I don't like it. I'm gonna stick with the beard from now on.

Also, shaving's a bitch, especially with a knife.



This has been a pointless update about my life. have a happy day.





ALSO IN LIFE:

I am now in college.
I am now doing odd jobs for money, regular jobs suck too much for me to bother with one again.
I now have a moped to get around, instead of walking everywhere.

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Hopefully, it means more people are wising up and realizing what he is.

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Firearms Freedom Act Introduced in South Carolina

Posted on 12 May 2009

Introduced in the South Carolina State Senate on May 6, 2009, the “Firearms Freedom Act” (s-794) seeks “to provide that a firearm, firearm accessory, or ammunition manufactured and retained in South Carolina is exempt from federal regulation under the commerce clause of the Constitution of the United States.”

The bill is sponsored by South Carolina State Senators Bright, Bryant, Mulvaney, Davis, Shoopman, S. Martin and McConnell. They join Montana, Utah, and Texas in an effort to limit federal regulation of guns, and specifically invoke the 9th and 10th Amendments as restrictions on federal power:

“the regulation of intrastate commerce is vested in the states under the ninth and tenth amendments to the United States Constitution, particularly if not expressly preempted by federal law. Congress has not expressly preempted state regulation of intrastate commerce pertaining to the manufacture on an intrastate basis of firearms, firearms accessories, and ammunition”

Read the full text of the legislation below:

A BILL TO AMEND CHAPTER 31, TITLE 23 OF THE 1976 CODE, RELATING TO FIREARMS, BY ADDING ARTICLE 9, THE “SOUTH CAROLINA FIREARMS FREEDOM ACT”, TO PROVIDE THAT A FIREARM, FIREARM ACCESSORY, OR AMMUNITION MANUFACTURED AND RETAINED IN SOUTH CAROLINA IS EXEMPT FROM FEDERAL REGULATION UNDER THE COMMERCE CLAUSE OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES.

Whereas, the tenth amendment to the United States Constitution guarantees and reserves for the states all powers not granted to the federal government in the Constitution; and

Whereas, the ninth amendment to the United States Constitution guarantees to the people rights not granted in the Constitution and reserves to the people of South Carolina certain rights. The guaranty of those rights is a matter of contract between the state and people of South Carolina and the United States; and

Whereas, the regulation of intrastate commerce is vested in the states under the ninth and tenth amendments to the United States Constitution, particularly if not expressly preempted by federal law. Congress has not expressly preempted state regulation of intrastate commerce pertaining to the manufacture on an intrastate basis of firearms, firearms accessories, and ammunition; and

Whereas, the second amendment to the United States Constitution reserves to the people the right to keep and bear arms as that right was understood at the time that South Carolina was admitted to statehood in 1788, and the guaranty of the right is a matter of contract between the state and people of South Carolina and the United States as of the time that the compact with the United States was agreed upon and adopted by South Carolina and the United States in 1788; and

Whereas, Article I, Section 20 of the South Carolina Constitution clearly secures to South Carolina citizens, and prohibits government interference with, the right of individual South Carolina citizens to keep and bear arms. This constitutional protection is unchanged from the 1895 South Carolina Constitution, which was approved by Congress and the people of South Carolina, and the right exists as it was understood at the time that the compact with the United States was agreed upon and adopted by South Carolina and the United States in 1895. Now, therefore,

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:

SECTION 1. Chapter 31, Title 23 of the 1976 Code is amended by adding:

“Article 9

South Carolina Firearms Freedom Act

Section 23-31-700. This article may be cited as the ‘South Carolina Firearms Freedom Act’.

Section 23-31-705. For purposes of this article:

(1) ‘Borders of South Carolina’ means the boundaries of South Carolina described in Article I, Section 1 of the 1895 South Carolina Constitution.

(2) ‘Firearms accessories’ means items that are used in conjunction with or mounted upon a firearm but are not essential to the basic function of a firearm, including, but not limited to, telescopic or laser sights, magazines, flash or sound suppressors, folding or aftermarket stocks and grips, speedloaders, ammunition carriers, and lights for target illumination.

(3) ‘Generic and insignificant parts’ includes, but is not limited to, springs, screws, nuts, and pins.

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Tonight I find myself with my rifle in my lap, wondering a simple question. If she could talk, what would she say? What of her creation, forged and milled from large chunks of steel and wood? Did she see combat? If so, what happened to the man who carried her into battle. Was he a proud, courageous man, or a scared conscript doing his best to stay alive? Did she have a name before I named her? Or did she just sit on a shelf her whole life, until someone came along and sold her overseas? What is her history, and her opinion on things?

What does she think of me? And, most importantly, what stories would she tell 20 years from now?

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So, since my thread was locked, I shall put it here.


Apparently dA is now allowing child porn. See these threads(one of them has links to aforementioned images, which ARE PV's according to the rules)

[link]
[link]


Chixor's response was "we do not support or allow child porn here". Yet, apparently, they do.

Here is the relevant FAQ, regarding the rules. The second link(I think it's the second one, anyway) has a link to the image in question. Tell me that does not fit the definition of "child porn" as defined by the FAQ

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Bubba is the real face of America
Bubba is free
Buubba will prevail

That is all.

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I'm pumped for it. It's a biathlon out in the desert in Texas that comes every August. I hope to compete this year. It's a six mile circuit consisting of four or more shooting stages(ranges from 200-300 yards), with naught but open desert between them. It's actually quite grueling, as most entrants don't finish.

Currently, I'm training for it by getting used to carrying large quantities of water with me while I walk long distances(miles). After I've got that down, I'm also going to load another bag of similar style up with weights to replicate walking around with 100 + rounds of ammo. My goal is to be able to handle the competition with relative ease. Once that's done, I can get to work on honing my shooting. I'll be using my accurized Mosin for this, probably with a scout scope on it.

I can't wait!


Do y'all think I'll make it through?

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...who said Obama wasn't in support of gun bans, I suggest you check out his sites.

Now that he's in office, he's taken off the cover and has made it even more blatantly plain. He supports gun bans, ones which would ban all or nearly all firearms.


Also, I told you. I hold each and every one of you personally responsible.

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Edit: Thanks to some advice, I'm editing this to make it seem less aggressive.


Obama might get disqualified! You have no idea how happy that makes me, that that marxist will not only be prevented from taking office, but that he won't be able to run again. Obama has not provided a birth certificate to back up his being a US native born Citizen. He has only provided a Certificate of Live Birth, which is NOT legally valid for asserting that.



The text below is as originally copied from Frugals, with grammar and spelling edits made.



Obama Birth Certificate...the plot thickens...
Evidently its not a dead issue...

Berg filed in Pa...Judge shoots it down...

Berg File to SCOTUS...Souter denies his motion to stay/injunct the 4 Nov Presidential Election but does Petition for a writ of certiorari before judgment filed. (Response due December 1, 2008)

Evidently the SCOTUS want to see an ORIGINAL VAULT COPY of Obama's Birth Certificate NO LATER THAN 1 DECEMBER 2008 prior to the 13 DECEMBER meeting of the Electoral College meeting to certify the election...if Obama fails to provide the Birth Certificate then it would stand to reason that McCain would then be found as winner since Obama had not been sworn in yet and Biden could not then succeed him...

They want his Original Birth Certificate...not his COLB Certificate of Live Birth but the original doc on file from the State of Hawaii...the one with the Hospital on it, the one with the doctors name on it, witnessed, signed and dated, establishing once and for all that his is or is not a NATURAL BORN CITIZEN.

Note, the italicized text is not mine, but from Frugals.



Links:

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EDIT: The form has moved to [link]

Ms. Nihil put it up because it's a better board configuration.





EDIT: Nihil MSN'd me and wanted me to share stuff with you. Here's her message, as she wrote it.

"Hey, guys. It's Nihil.

Yup... I was banned. The reason for it, as given on my page, was "I warned you to back off and stop the drama." OH SHIT GUYS, drama is a bannable offense, now. The population of DA is going to drop to the single digits.

I'm contesting the ban, of course, but it doesn't look too promising. And at this point... even if the ban were lifted, I am not entirely sure I'd want to come back to the site. This whole thing has just gotten utterly ridiculous.
[21:52:51] Nihil says:
...But I'd miss you guys.
So if anyone wants to contact me- my MSN is nihil-ss@hotmail.com, my AIM screen name is NihilSoldat, my yahoo screen name is nihil_soldat, and my email address is achtundachtzig@herzeleid.net. The reason I've stuck with DA for as long as I have is because of the community. I seriously appreciate all the support and friends I've gotten here, and I hope the admins at some point realize that what they've done is wrong and that a lot of people are pissed off about it.

I am pissed off at the moment. I'm epically pissed off. Seriously, I'm in a downright curbstompy mood, not even kidding... I'm not sure if I'd recommend contacting me right now, actually. I'm filled with all kinds of fuming rage and I'd probably say something that would just confirm all the crap people have been saying about me.

Either I'll calm down eventually, or I'll go join the Vanguard News Network forums. Y'know, the ones that Stormfront doesn't like because they're too angry and easily pissed off. I'm sure DA will be very proud of its accomplishments in that.

Well, either I'll see you or I won't. Bis später."



EDIT: does anyone know anything about CSS?


In response to the crap that has happene dtoday, I'm teaming up with a few other people to create a new forum for the forum regs and noobs who wish to join. Spread the word!


[link]

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I'm seriously considering going for a long walk this winter. By long, I mean long. A couple hundred miles, possibly. It'll be good exercise for my mind and spirit and hopefully I'll learn something about myself.

First I have to get into such a condition that I can cover that distance. I'd guess I'll be ready to around late november or early december.


Any suggestions?

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More than someone, actually. I've noticed it among a few people. It's funny though.

You have the Nihil thing, and a handful of folks who are really, laughably butthurt about her merely existing.

You have my violence and gun control threads, and people getting butthurt because I happen to have insulted their pet ideology. I actually loved the intelligent discourse in the threads, but the butthurt people were kind of annoying. Not really very lulzy.

You have that one guy who got butthurt over =mngamojemo's thread about muslin.

People sure are pissy lately.

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From: [link]


Report: Credit card fraud for Obama
By Michelle Malkin • October 14, 2008 10:41 AM

Dead people. Fake people. Cartoon characters.

Now, it looks like Obama supporters are going after unsuspecting credit card fraud victims, too. Better check your Visa and Amex bills twice:

A North Kansas City couple has been left scratching their heads after they became the victims of a political scam.

Steve and Rachel Larman say a strange credit card charge appeared on their statement this month — a $2300 donation to Barack Obama’s presidential campaign. The Larman’s say they don’t want this to be about their political affiliation, but they say they’re not about to give the Obama campaign any help from their pocketbook.

They said they notified Chase, their credit card bank, to report the fraud.

“(They) said that they had seen-they were familiar with this,” said Steve Larman. “It was fraud, they believe through telemarketing but they were going to be doing some more investigations.”

The Larman’s don’t want their politics to enter into what is essentially just a fraudulent charge. But they say that the charge involves the Obama campaign adds insult to injury for the registered Republicans.

“They (Chase) kept on asking me ‘are you sure you wouldnt have gone to a site in support of Obama’,” said Rachel Larman. “And I repeatedly said ‘Im voting for McCain - I would not be going to an Obama site’.”

Chase dropped the charge from the Larman’s card. The couple is thankful that they caught the charge on the card, but worried that others may not see that type of fraud on their own credit cards before it’s too late.



So now, not only is Obama responsible for vote fraud, but also credit card fraud!

Do you REALLY want some asshole like this in power?

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You can see it in the movies and the paper and the TV news
Somebody's army is always on the move
There's gonna be a battle the lines have been drawn
They've got guns and tanks and planes

The wells are gone dry and the water is bad and the air is acid rain
There's war after war and rumors of war from the East
There's a rumblin' in the ground and they're talkin' about the beast

Good mothers cry cause the rivers run high
With the blood of too many sons
Some people say peace is on the way
But the worst is still to come

Cause the prophets wrote about it
And Jesus spoke about it
And John got to take a look
And he told us what he saw and it's easy to see
It's goin' by the book
It's goin' by the book

There's armies in the cities and the missiles stand ready for flight
A pale horse rides like the wind across the night
And that rumblin' in the desert like thunder gettin' closer
Are the trumpet's gettin' ready to blow
There's gonna be a shout that will wake the dead we better be ready to go

Cause the prophets wrote about it
And Jesus spoke about it
And John got to take a look
And he told us what he saw and it's easy to see
It's goin' by the book
It's goin' by the book

It's goin' by the book
Goin' by the book

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IT COMES FRIDAY OR SATURDAY



Yep. Yesterday I won an auction for a 1938 Mosin M91/30. Soon it will be in the mail to me.

It was 55$, plus 20$ shipping fee. I also have to pay another 25 for the dealer transfer fee. Still, that's a great deal.

I already have a name picked out for her too. I'm going to name it after a friend of mine, Mei. I figure a pretty gun deserves a pretty name.

EDIT: Oops, I forgot to add the link to the auction(it has pics). [link]

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Many of you know that I reference Ted Nugent a lot. I've decided to put a whole gaggle of links showing vid of him and his policies up here. His policies are very, very similar to mine.

Ted on gun control:
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Ted on gun control and especially Hillary Clinton:
[link]

Ted on Border Control:
[link]

Ted interviewed:
[link]

More to come!

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EDIT: I stumbled across something hilarious tonight, called Warehouse 23. [link]

You open one of the 1000 boxes on this floor and find...

A fully disassembled P-51 Mustang. The skin and windscreen appear to have been badly sandblasted, and all rubber tires, gaskets, oxygen masks, etc. have severe dry rot. No exterior markings survive, but all controls and indicators are marked in ancient Babylonian.

I want one!!!



As most of you know, I was still stuck using Vista on my computer until I could move and get it hard wired in.

Guess what? Vista. Is. Dead. Through none of my own doing, it just up and died not two minutes ago.

You might be asking "how is he on the computer". Well, I had the other partition on the drive rigged up with Puppy Linux, which isn't the best but at least it works with my wifi(most of the time) and it is stable.

This is a pain in the ass, because I just got a three day trial of Team Fortress 2. So I'm going to make sure I get Vista up just so I can play that. Afterwards, I'll abandon it for good.

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The lyrics to "Kiss My Ass" by Ted Nugent. It sums up my opinion on liberalism, anti-gunners, anti-war types, etc.

Telegram for Mr Billary...

C'mon baby,
Yeah, big ol' wet one...hey!

Kiss my ass,
Kiss my ass, (c'mon, everybody ought'a)
Kiss my ass, (tastes real good)
Kiss my ass. (oh...)

Don't waste your time on me
I got my own direction
Watch me close, wait and see
I'm lookin' for perfection
I make up my own mind
And I'll leave you far behind
When the goin' gets tough
You can kiss my ass

I believe in animal rights
I let my dog hump on my shin
I can tolerate sexual choice
But not with the next of kin (uh-uh, boy)
I've heard it all before
I ain't gonna take any more
When the goin' gets tough
You can kiss my ass

Everybody!
Kiss my ass, (pucker up)
Kiss my ass
Kiss my ass
Kiss my ass, (c'mon babe)

I've heard it all before
And I ain't gonna take no more, no no
When the goin' gets tough
Kiss my ass!

I see the weenies with the dirty hair
Protestin' on the street
They condemn the clothes we wear
And the morality of what we eat, yeah
It's gotta be a fluke
They make me wanna puke
When the goin' gets tough
They can kiss my ass

Everybody gotta
Kiss my ass - C'mon gang bangers
Kiss my ass - Janet Reno
Kiss my ass - C'mon Billary
Kiss my ass - Callin' on Jesse Jackson
Kiss my ass - How about the IRS
Kiss my ass - Hey, Howard Stern
Kiss my ass - United Nations
Kiss my ass - All those Liberals
Kiss my ass - C'mon Sarah Brady
Kiss my ass - Oh, Courtney Love I've got your hole
Kiss my ass - Beavis, Butthead
Kiss my ass - How about Crips and Bloods

I've heard it all before
And we ain't gonna take it no more
When the goin' gets rough
When the goin's to tough
When the goin' gets rough
They oughta' kiss my ass

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This is a test to see if the CSS that *Tooku-Mori so graciously made for me works right and to see if I can figure out how to get this thing up.

Thanks!

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Yet another hurricane. This time we're getting rain.

I just saw a link on another forum, some dumbass Obama worshippers are saying it's "God punishing us" and such!

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Palin got the nomination! This pretty much insures Obama will lose.

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RE-EDIT, redux, 8/25/08: She left me a long-winded suicide note that was convincing. I actually believed her! Then, after the police show up at her door at 0200, she comes back on and tells me that she was "just trying to get me to come back". I'm fucking through with her.

RE-EDIT 8/24/08: I'm single again. I'd like to thank Joi and Hillary for helping me through this, as well as my Sis(not really my sister, but she holds honorary sister status) and Jess, and Jenny.

I like to think I'm in good control of myself, but she really hurt me and such. Oh, fuck, I sound like a crybaby....

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As a few of you know, yesterday I was more than a little down.

Today I'm back to my normal self, with one major difference. I'm now single again. Been a long while since I have been, but I am.

EDIT:

I've taken her back for the time being, but if she screws up again she's gone.

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I FINALLY got Linux working with the internet again. I switched to Puppy Linux instead of Ubuntu and it worked almost instantly with my drivers for my USB dongle.

So now I'm back to using Linux, although I do still need to set up my printer and get the "look and feel" set up again too.

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Today makes the second time the Secret Service showed up at my door, this time because I have a rifle and as a followup to the first time they came.

Someone is trying to stalk me on here, I'm willing to bet it's that teacher.

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Many people think that nations with more firearms will have more murder and that banning firearms will reduce murder and other violence. This canard does not comport, however, with criminological research in the U.S. or elsewhere.

An extensive study that one of us (Keats) recently published with Canadian criminologist Gary Mauser confirms the negative results of two large-scale international studies over the past 15 years. ("Would Banning Firearms Reduce Murder and Suicide: A Review of International Evidence," Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, vol. 30, pages 651-694.)

These studies compared data from a large number of nations around the world. There were no instances of nations with high gun ownership having higher murder rates than nations with low gun ownership. If anything it was the reverse, for reasons discussed below.

For example, though Norway has far and away the highest firearm ownership per ca pita in Western Europe, it nevertheless has the lowest murder rate. Other nations with high firearms ownership and comparably low murder rates include Denmark, Greece, Switzerland, Germany and Austria. Holland has a 50 percent higher murder rate despite having the lowest rate of firearm ownership in Europe. And Luxembourg, despite its total handgun ban, has a murder rate that is nine times higher than countries such as Norway and Austria.

It turns out that in nations where guns are less available, criminals manage to get them anyway. After decades of ever-stricter gun controls, England banned handguns and confiscated them from all permit holders in 1997. Yet by 2000, England had the industrialized world's highest violent crime rate -- twice that of the U.S. Despite the confiscation of law-abiding Englishman's handguns, a 2002 report of England's National Crime Intelligence Service lamented that while "Britain has some of the strictest gun laws in the world, [i]t appears that anyone who wishes to obtain a firearm [illegally] will have little difficulty in doing so."

In the rare case in which gun bans work, murderers use other weapons. Eight decades of police-state enforcement of handgun prohibition have kept Russian gun ownership low, resulting in few gun murders. Yet Russia's murder rates have long been four times higher than those in the U.S. and 20 times higher than rates in countries such as Norway. Former Soviet nations like Lithuania also ban handguns and severely restrict other guns, yet have 10-15 times higher murder rates than European nations with much higher gun ownership.

Nor does the "more guns means more murder" belief square with our own experience. The earliest American figures, dating from just after World War II, showed both gun ownership and murder rates holding at low levels. Today our murder rates are almost identical, despite six decades of massive gun buying whereby Americans have come to own five times more guns than they did in 1946. The intervening years saw a dramatic increase in murder followed by a dramatic decrease. These trends had no relationship to gun ownership, which steadily rose all the while (especially handgun ownership).

American demographic data also refute the myth that fewer guns in a community mean less murder. The murder rate among African-Americans is six times higher than among whites. Does this mean African-Americans have more guns? No, ordinary law abiding African-Americans are markedly less likely than whites to own guns. But the argument for banning guns to everyone is refuted, since fewer guns for law abiding African-Americans does not mean fewer guns for African-American criminals. Incidentally, rural African-Americans own guns as frequently as whites, but the murder rate among them is only a tiny fraction of the urban African-American rate.

Regardless of race, the distinction between good people and criminals is vital. It is utterly false that most murderers are ordinary people who went wrong because they had guns. Almost all murderers have life histories of violence, restraining orders, substance abuse problems and/or a form of psychopathology. It's generally illegal for these people to have guns, but unlike good people, they ignore gun laws -- just as they ignore laws against violence.

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Yes, I finally broke down and created a livejournal. I'll give out the URL on request through notes.

The "mood thingie" is still buggy and doesn't seem to want to change. ]]> ~PaulStrealer http://PaulStrealer.deviantart.com/journal/19242530/ http://PaulStrealer.deviantart.com/journal/19242530/ Sun, 06 Jul 2008 20:23:16 PDT I'd like to thank for her donation of a sub! Your donation is much appreciated.


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Taken from the Confederate Yankee([link]), for he's on the ball pretty well about this

Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama is on a tour across America designed to rehabilitate his reputation, after a CNN poll conducted on June 26-29 revealed that a surprising number of Americans—Democrats (10%), Independents (29%), and Republicans (40%), or 25% overall—say that the candidate lacks patriotism.

I must wonder how much a string of speeches will do to convince people that Obama loves America. They are, after all, "just words."

He certainly loves parts of America. San Francisco. Chicago. New York. D.C. University towns and union enclaves. Where left wing ideologies and identity politics hold sway, you'll find a part of America that Obama likes and understands.

The rest of the nation may as well be another world for the freshman Senator, as remote to him as the Indonesian schools of his youth are to the rest of us.

He doesn't seem to understand that the America outside of his comfort zone doesn't associate the sincerity or depth of love with this nation with fealty to the political party in charge at the time. He's used to seeing feckless American liberals threaten to leave the country if a Republican wins an election—though regrettably, few of these fickle souls live up to their word—and associates that as a normal behavior. Instead of "My country, right or wrong," his life story is a tale replete with a string of associates and mentors that boldly proclaim "my country, my way, or God damn you all."

Speeches are nice, and he certainly plays a teleprompter as lyrically as a human being can.

But Barack Obama has lived his life in the counterculture of America. He counts among his greatest influences a communist poet, a lynching advocate priest, a crackpot conspiracy-mongering reverend, and the detritus remnants of the last great experiment in American self-loathing.

The majority of Americans have been raised with a nearly instinctual love of this nation that is not tied to who resides at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, and that doesn't associate pride or shame in their nation of birth solely on the policies and actions of elected officials that will blow away on an electoral wind.

The freshman Senator from Illinois is surprisingly insulated from the American experience, even as he claims to credit America for his success. He claims to believe in the America, but every policy he outlines, every dream he frames, is nailed to an ever-engorging government. A program for this. A policy for that. Restrictions here, entitlements all around, and a tax on both your houses to pay for it all.

Barack Obama is in love with the possibilities of American government. It's too bad he has so little trust in the American people.

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Where are all of the Hollywood celebrities holding telethons asking for help in restoring Iowa and helping the folks affected by the floods?

Where is all the media asking the tough questions about why the federal government hasn't solved the problem? Where are all of the Hollywood celebrities holding telethons asking for help in restoring Iowa and helping the folks affected by the floods?

Where is all the media asking the tough questions about why the federal government hasn't solved the problem? Why aren't they asking where the FEMA trucks (and trailers) are?

Why isn't the Federal Government relocating Iowa people to free hotels in Chicago?

When will Spike Lee say that the Federal Government blew up the levees that failed in Des Moines?

Where are Sean Penn and the Dixie Chicks?

Where are all the looters stealing high-end tennis shoes and big screen television sets?

When will we hear Governor Chet Culver say that he wants to rebuild a "vanilla" Iowa, because that's the way God wants it?

Where is the hysterical 24/7 media coverage complete with reports of cannibalism?

Where are the people declaring that George Bush hates white, rural people?

How come in 2 weeks, you will never hear about the Iowa flooding ever again?

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I don't understand why so many people hate them. They're fun to talk to and pretty straight up. Today I had a little mini-discussion with some, and it was another enjoyable discussion.

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1. Who are you?

2. Are we friends?

3. When and how did we meet?

4. How have I affected you?

5. What do you think of me?

6. What's the fondest memory you have of me?

7. How long do you think we will be friends?

8. Do you love me?

9. Do you have a crush on me?

10. Would you kiss me?

11. Would you hug me?

12. Would you ever make out with me?

13. Physically, what stands out?

14. Emotionally, what stands out?

15. Do you wish I was cooler?

16. On a scale of 1-10, how hot am I?

17. Give me a nickname and explain why you picked it.

18. Am I lovable?

19. How long have you known me?

20. Describe me in one word.

21. What was your first impression?

22. Do you still think that way about me now?

23. What do you think my weakness is?

24. Do you think I'll get married?

25. What makes me happy?

26. What makes me sad?

27. What reminds you of me?

28. If you could give me anything what would it be?

29. How well do you know me?

30. When's the last time you saw me?

31. Ever wanted to tell me something but couldn't?

32. Do you think I could kill someone?

33. Do you think I would kill someone?

34. Are you going to put this on your deviant journal and see what I say about you?

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I went to the range today. Had only 80 rounds left that I could shoot(keeping 30 at home for defense). Used up all 80.

I shot like crap today. I need a higher magnification scope, because my eyes are bad.

Pics forthcoming.

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The supreme court just decided on DC v. Heller. And guess what? We won! The court ruled that:

1. The DC bans were outright unconstitutional
2. The right to bear arms is an individual right
3. The phrase "to keep and bear arms" means to own firearms

That's three RESOUNDING VICTORIES!

*Dances and celebrates*

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Because I have nothing better to do...

If you are in my friendlist and comment in this journal, I will:

a) tell you why I befriended you
b) associate you with something - a song, a colour, a photo, a mental image, etc.
c) tell you something I like about you
d) tell you a memory I have of you
e) ask something I've always wanted to know about you
f) give you one piece of advice that might be useful to you

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Hope you got your things together, hope you are quite prepared to die. Looks like we're in for nasty weather. One eye is taken for an eye...

That is all...

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I have video of my Weaponeer homebuilt challenge entry firing. The white shit is wadding.

[link]

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I'm going to go to the range in a week or two to prove a buddy of mine wrong. He claims that his AR is 400% better than my SKS, meaning that his AR can shoot .5" groups or that the SKS can't shoot better than 4MOA. The SKS is a 2MOA gun at best, so I'm going to prove it.

We're going to use Wolf, which is crap ammo but it'll do. I'll post pics here of my targets.

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Obama being the Democratic presidential candidate for less than 24 hours already has had one of his fundraiser's Found Guilty on 16 Counts in Corruption Trial.

A federal jury has found a prominent political fundraiser for Sen. Barack Obama and Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich guilty of 16 of 24 counts in his Illinois corruption trial.

Antoin "Tony" Rezko was accused of scheming to get bribes from businesses seeking state contracts.

The jury delivered its verdict Wednesday after a nine-week trial.

Rezko has known Obama since he entered politics and was involved in a 2005 real estate deal with the Democratic presidential candidate, although testimony barely touched on their relationship. Most of the focus was on shakedowns prosecutors said Rezko arranged when he was a top adviser to Blagojevich.

Yup.... I guess CHANGE means 100% government corruption. Seems like Obama's friends list is a whos who of terrorists, anti-americans, and criminals.

If he gets voted into office I guess you can say americans deserve it.

"We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That's not leadership. That's not going to happen." Barack Obama

"What I value most about Pastor Wright is not his day-to-day political advice. He's much more of a sounding board for me to make sure that I am speaking as truthfully about what I believe as possible and that I'm not losing myself in some of the hype and hoopla and stress that's involved in national politics." Barack Obama

"And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations,"

Obama, asked if homosexuality was immoral, in the wake of comments by Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Gen. Peter Pace, sidestepped the question. After pressure from gay groups, Obama issued a statement stating he did not agree with Pace "that homosexuality is immoral."

Last May, in the wake of the deadly Kansas tornado, Obama said "Ten thousand people died - an entire town destroyed". The death toll was actually 12 people.

Obama just last week referred to the 'resident' of Canada. Canada has a prime minister, not a president.

Lets not forget Obama's suggestion this month that America has 57 states, and his bizarre statement in a Memorial Day speech in New Mexico that America's "fallen heroes" were present and listening to him in the audience.

Last year in Selma, Ala., for example, he said that his birth was inspired by events there which took place four years after he was born

His denial last April that it was his handwriting on a questionnaire in which, as a state senate candidate, he favored a ban on handguns. His campaign now contends that, even if it was his handwriting, this doesn't prove he read the full questionnaire.

Mr. Obama told a Portland, Ore., crowd this month that Iran doesn't "pose a serious threat to us," saying that "tiny countries" with small defense budgets aren't much to worry about. But Iran has almost one-fourth the population of the U.S. and is well on its way to developing nuclear weapons. The next day Mr. Obama had to reverse himself and declare he had "made it clear for years that the threat from Iran is grave."

"You know, when the massacre happened at Virginia Tech, I think all of us were grief stricken and shocked by the carnage. But in this year alone, in Chicago, we've had 34 Chicago public school students gunned down and killed. And for the most part, there has been silence. We know what to do. We've got to enforce the gun laws that are on the books. We've got to make sure that unscrupulous gun dealers aren't loading up vans and dumping guns in our communities, because we know they're not made in our communities. There aren't any gun manufacturers here, right here in the middle of Detroit. But what we also have to do is to make sure that we change our politics so that we care just as much about those 30-some children in Chicago who've been shot as we do the children in Virginia Tech. That's a mindset that we have to have in the White House and we don't have it right now.

As a general principle, I believe that the... ]]> ~PaulStrealer http://PaulStrealer.deviantart.com/journal/18679171/ http://PaulStrealer.deviantart.com/journal/18679171/ Thu, 05 Jun 2008 12:30:41 PDT I'd like to thank for her donation of a sub! Your donation is much appreciated.


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It has come to my attention that preparing for a disaster and wanting to protect one's self and loved ones is "paranoid".

HOW THE FUCK IS THAT PARANOID? Tell me. Is it because I expect things to be as bad as they can get? Is it because I have a desire to make sure I don't wind up dead or starving to death?

Could someone PLEASE tell me?

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I apologize for not being as frequent with my writing as I was when I started and also for skipping ahead in time so much. It's kinda needed, because having a one for each day is too creatively draining.

So, what do y'all think of my writing so far? Should I keep going?

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So, apparently banning handguns and swords and such isn't working. Now the UK is trying to ban knives!

Sadly, those same ideas are starting to permeate America as well, we're on the same path to tyranny and chaos the UK is, just not as far gone.

This is another good reason to not let Obama get elected. Or Clinton for that matter.

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I'm running up how much it'll cost to turn my computer into something very, very powerful(by my standards).

Maxing out RAM(need 2 more GB)

Second Video card

Second HDD, this one 500gb

Powerful bilge blower from a boat for cooling

External 500gb HDD for sensitive data storage

Cables for it all

100 ft of CAT-5 network cable

Trackball mouse


Total cost=350$

Donations are being accepted.

This will give me a very handy computer for my system. Lots of space to store data(bringing me up to 1320 gb total), lots of RAM, space for a second monitor and for a TV hookup, nice mouse. Since I'll be doing it with Linux, it will be blazing fast.

The external drive will be encrypted.

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Man, I think I'm starting to love Aus.

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My new computer arrived today!

Although it is still running Vista for now, I think I'll rig up a dual boot with Ubuntu.

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Things are looking up some. I got the computer monitor today, the computer will come in a few days(since HP had to build it).

17" widescreen monitor. I didn't even know it had built in speakers, but it does.

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Yep. Again. This makes 17.

We can't afford to live here anymore. And so, we're going to have to move. To where? I don't know. I don't even think we'll be able to find a place, given that we can't afford much in this town. What we can afford is falling apart.

I'm getting really fucking sick of moving, and especially having to move without even spending a year in a single place.

We'll either find some place or end up screwed. Given that my mother absolutely refuses to leave this area for a house(no idea why, she just does), I'm betting on the latter. We can't even afford the costs of moving.

You probably don't know the reason we have moved so much. I can sum it up in a few words. Kicked out, couldn't pay rent.


I bet I sound rather down about this. I'm not so much down as outright pissed off. Too much shit too soon.

On top of that, I'm getting strung along on the computer thing. I'm also pissed about that. I just wish my family could be honest for once. Guess that's too much to ask.



EDIT: I finally managed to get the new computer ordered. So that makes at least one thing going right.

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The time is fast approaching for me to head to some college.

Right now I'm leaning towards studying Materials Science(which I can use in gunsmithing and other interests) at Moscow State University(in Moscow, Russia). It's cheaper to attend there than it is to attend an American college.

Can any of you higher-educated people who read my Journal give me some advice?


EDIT: I've nixed Moscow State. Can't be in country for more than a half a year at a time(and flying back to the states and then back to Russia a day later isn't an option due to money).

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I did a lot of fiddling and thanks to the donation of a hard drive from a friend, my laptop is working again!

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My computer is humped. Broken. Fucked.

The BIOS isn't recognizing that there's even a hard drive in it, and since it's a laptop, I can't just swap it out with a new one.

I was browsing a site, and all of a sudden it just locked up. I go to restart and it doesn't detect my HD.

It wasn't a virus(Linux is immune to them), just an old comp giving up the ghost.

I lost a ton of stuff. I think around 12GB of music, all of my story I was writing, all the books I had on there, all my homeschooling data(from after the Feburary backup), and a ton of other stuff.

I'm writing this on my ancient backup computer(it sure is a trusty little thing ).

I won't be online for a while, due to my lack of solid computing hardware. Hopefully soon I'll be able to get a new one.

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My gas masks came today!

I got three Finn gas masks from Centerfire Systems. They had a good deal on them.

Right now I'm wearing one to get used to it.

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I'm either going to build a STEN or M-56 from a parts kit some time soon, probably the M-56.

When I do, I'm going to do a write up, possibly with pics.

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Crackdown On Guns Under Way In D.C.
Police Ask Residents To Submit To Voluntary Searches

POSTED: 6:49 am EDT March 24, 2008
UPDATED: 11:43 am EDT March 24, 2008
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WASHINGTON -- A crackdown on guns is under way in the District. Police are asking residents to submit to voluntary searches in exchange for amnesty under the District's gun ban.


The program is starting in the Washington Highlands neighborhood of southeast Washington on Monday and will later expand to other neighborhoods.

Officers will go door to door asking residents for permission to search their homes.

Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier said the "safe homes initiative" is aimed at residents who want to cooperate with police. She gave the example of parents or grandparents who know or suspect their children have guns in the home.

If weapons are recovered, they will be tested and destroyed if they are not found to be linked to any other crimes

What the fuck?

I'm going to vomit blood. I think free America needs to invade D.C. and take it back by force.

What sort of asshole is goign to give the police permission? And If you dont, is it BATFE style raids next? Bradly fighting vehicles in peoples drive ways because some one might have a .38 in their sock drawer?

Is it just me, or does it seem like anti-gun agencies are stepping up abuses, as if they fear the supreme court might over turn the bull shit laws they perform them under, and take away their power?

I think if they get to search my home for guns, i should be able to search theirs for kiddy porn, and womens clothing in mens sizes... Fuckers.

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I took my SKS to the range today to zero in the scope.

Although I'm not perfect, I can actually hit the paper at 100 yards now(before I couldn't even hit the cardboard). At 25(the distance I zeroed it at), I can get a five shot group about the size of a silver dollar. Not good, but a lot better than before.

I only had 120 rounds to burn, but I noticed no problems with my scope once I got it zeroed. The mount is still solid. I'll have to get more ammo to see if it will stay solid.


I wasn't able to get a camera in time, so there are no pics. I'll have to get one before I go the next time.

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Cavalry Arms is under heavy legal shit from the ATF for bullshit reasons. As such, I'm encouraging people here to buy some of their stuff to help out.

They're a great company with solid customer support and very good prices. I'm in touch with guys who work there or used to work there and they have nothing but good to say, as do their customers.

AGP Arms has some Cav arms MKII lowers on sale with all proceeds going to help them out.

I'm pretty sure Cav Arms is still selling acessories and apparel as well.


Even if you just buy a shirt from them, every little bit counts.

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This week, in the spirit of humor, I'm parodying myself. Because of that, expect a lot of extremism and to see my little marker on the political scale go from on the right to the far edge of the right.

This is gonna be fun.

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This is why I might move to Montana


The text of Johnson's letter, as printed, is as follows:

"Second Amendment an individual right

The U.S. Supreme Court will soon decide D.C. v. Heller, the first case in more than 60 years in which the court will confront the meaning of the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Although Heller is about the constitutionality of the D.C. handgun ban, the court's decision will have an impact far beyond the District ("Promises breached," Op-Ed, Thursday).

The court must decide in Heller whether the Second Amendment secures a right for individuals to keep and bear arms or merely grants states the power to arm their militias, the National Guard. This latter view is called the "collective rights" theory.

A collective rights decision by the court would violate the contract by which Montana entered into statehood, called the Compact With the United States and archived at Article I of the Montana Constitution. When Montana and the United States entered into this bilateral contract in 1889, the U.S. approved the right to bear arms in the Montana Constitution, guaranteeing the right of "any person" to bear arms, clearly an individual right.

There was no assertion in 1889 that the Second Amendment was susceptible to a collective rights interpretation, and the parties to the contract understood the Second Amendment to be consistent with the declared Montana constitutional right of "any person" to bear arms.

As a bedrock principle of law, a contract must be honored so as to give effect to the intent of the contracting parties. A collective rights decision by the court in Heller would invoke an era of unilaterally revisable contracts by violating the statehood contract between the United States and Montana, and many other states

Numerous Montana lawmakers have concurred in a resolution raising this contract-violation issue. It's posted at progunleaders.org. The United States would do well to keep its contractual promise to the states that the Second Amendment secures an individual right now as it did upon execution of the statehood contract.

BRAD JOHNSON

Montana secretary of state

Helena, Mont."

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In election 2008, don’t forget Angry White Man
Gary Hubbell
February 9, 2008

There is a great amount of interest in this year’s presidential elections, as everybody seems to recognize that our next president has to be a lot better than George Bush. The Democrats are riding high with two groundbreaking candidates — a woman and an African-American — while the conservative Republicans are in a quandary about their party’s nod to a quasi-liberal maverick, John McCain.

Each candidate is carefully pandering to a smorgasbord of special-interest groups, ranging from gay, lesbian and transgender people to children of illegal immigrants to working mothers to evangelical Christians.

There is one group no one has recognized, and it is the group that will decide the election: the Angry White Man. The Angry White Man comes from all economic backgrounds, from dirt-poor to filthy rich. He represents all geographic areas in America, from urban sophisticate to rural redneck, deep South to mountain West, left Coast to Eastern Seaboard.

His common traits are that he isn’t looking for anything from anyone — just the promise to be able to make his own way on a level playing field. In many cases, he is an independent businessman and employs several people. He pays more than his share of taxes and works hard.

The victimhood syndrome buzzwords — “disenfranchised,” “marginalized” and “voiceless” — don’t resonate with him. “ress ‘one’ for English” is a curse-word to him. He’s used to picking up the tab, whether it’s the company Christmas party, three sets of braces, three college educations or a beautiful wedding.

He believes the Constitution is to be interpreted literally, not as a “living document” open to the whims and vagaries of a panel of judges who have never worked an honest day in their lives.

The Angry White Man owns firearms, and he’s willing to pick up a gun to defend his home and his country. He is willing to lay down his life to defend the freedom and safety of others, and the thought of killing someone who needs killing really doesn’t bother him.

The Angry White Man is not a metrosexual, a homosexual or a victim. Nobody like him drowned in Hurricane Katrina — he got his people together and got the hell out, then went back in to rescue those too helpless and stupid to help themselves, often as a police officer, a National Guard soldier or a volunteer firefighter.

His last name and religion don’t matter. His background might be Italian, English, Polish, German, Slavic, Irish, or Russian, and he might have Cherokee, Mexican, or Puerto Rican mixed in, but he considers himself a white American.

He’s a man’s man, the kind of guy who likes to play poker, watch football, hunt white-tailed deer, call turkeys, play golf, spend a few bucks at a strip club once in a blue moon, change his own oil and build things. He coaches baseball, soccer and football teams and doesn’t ask for a penny. He’s the kind of guy who can put an addition on his house with a couple of friends, drill an oil well, weld a new bumper for his truck, design a factory and publish books. He can fill a train with 100,000 tons of coal and get it to the power plant on time so that you keep the lights on and never know what it took to flip that light switch.

Women either love him or hate him, but they know he’s a man, not a dishrag. If they’re looking for someone to walk all over, they’ve got the wrong guy. He stands up straight, opens doors for women and says “Yes, sir” and “No, ma’am.”

He might be a Republican and he might be a Democrat; he might be a Libertarian or a Green. He knows that his wife is more emotional than rational, and he guides the family in a rational manner.

He’s not a racist, but he is annoyed and disappointed when people of certain backgrounds exhibit behavior that typifies the worst stereotypes of their race. He’s willing to give everybody a fair chance if they work hard, play by the rules and learn English.

Most important, the Angry White Man is pissed off. When his job site becomes flooded with illega... ]]> ~PaulStrealer http://PaulStrealer.deviantart.com/journal/16852385/ http://PaulStrealer.deviantart.com/journal/16852385/ Tue, 12 Feb 2008 22:58:36 PST I'd like to thank for her donation of a sub! Your donation is much appreciated.

Happy Valentine's day

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[EDIT] I would like to ask who my "secret admirer" is. Note me if you don't want to say it publicly.


I know it's two days early, but I feel like putting it up now.

Happy Valentine's day all.

And I'd also like to say that I'm lucky enough to have the best girl in the known universe. Yes, that is you Cortney.


Okay, now that that sappyness is done, I'd like to say that my internet is acting up and I'm a little busy so my replies to comments will be slowed some.

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