Fiddlin'

Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice, and moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

The above is the way I remember the quote from Barry Goldwater addressing the Republican National Convention at the Cow Palace in San Francisco in 1964.

And, quoting the Chad Mitchell Trio, "Barry, Barry,
                                                          Make your bid.
                                                          I love John Birch,
                                                          But, oh, you kid!"

I'm so sick and tired of all the Republican candidates and all the Democrat candidates and all the Independent candidates (oh, yes there are--two as a matter of fact, Sanders and Trump) not even dancing around the defense of liberty and the pursuit of justice.  None of them have the plain old guts to do what needs to be done to restore this country to it's high estate in the world's consciousness.

As for the current front-runners, on the one hand we have a crook who may well be in prison before her first term would be over and on the other we have a guy whose braggadocio is unbelievable--just as his methods are for accomplishing anything.  As for the others it's like a thousand monkeys on a limb farting and then telling you how sweet smelling it is, while you are puking your guts out and the puke smells better, believe me.

God, where is Harry Truman when you need him?  Where is Teddy Roosevelt with his big stick?  Even, where is JFK with his plagiarized comment about asking America or doing it yourself?

All I can see right now is twenty-two (at latest count) Nero's out there.

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I'll let you figure that out.

So they've done it again.  Three guys killed another cop.  This time in Illinois.

After Deputy Goforth's killing the other day in Cypress, TX.

After the 'Black Lives Matter' group in Minnesota pranced down the street shouting, "Pigs in a blanket.  Fry 'em like bacon."

And our supposed leader has been strangely (sure!) quiet about the recent rash of blacks killing policemen.

But you can bet your sweet ass that if a white policeman killed a black man, he'd be on it like a duck on a junebug.

Hell, he even insults the Jewish faith by never yet mentioning Kate Steinle (I think that was her name.).

All he has to say on such matters is that we need to ban every gun.

And just to think, the gutless wonders in this country re-elected him.

HJJHCAGD!


Yes.  I believe in the Bill of Rights, all ten of the amendments making it up are vital to our representative democracy.  I may have a few reservations about some of the other amendments, but the first ten are solid rocks.

That is not to say that I approve of handguns. Or assault rifles.  Or any other device whose sole purpose is to kill human beings.  But rifles and shotguns for game hunting only, I heartily approve.  Any other use is a corruption of the intent of such hardware, and should be grounds for confiscation.  I did NOT say control, I said and mean, CONFISCATION!

Why would any law abiding citizen desire to own an assault rifle?  Or a Glock.?  Or any gun which can shoot more than three bullets in a row?

A seven shot clip is too  much for any kind of game hunting.  A fifteen shot clip is ridiculous unless the game you are hunting is two legged.

There is no sport in trap shooting.  Can you eat a skeet?

Oh, and to complete the package, I also do not approve of the death penalty under any circumstances.  Nor do I believe in the modern day 'Correctional facilities".  Use 'em as penitentiaries in the original sense, a place of punishment.  I disapprove of any and all attempts by any and all governmental units to rehabilitate drunks and dope addicts.  If they want to chew, inject, snort, smoke, whatever their method of getting 'high,'  by God, let 'em.  Let 'em die for their efforts. I have no sympathy for them at all.

Just as I have no sympathy for those wannabes that elected our current excuse for a man to pretend to be president.

Have I gotten you riled up yet?

Well, that's a shame, 'cause I haven't even gotten wound up yet.

Stick around and see.