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FREE NAVY JACK with Utah CCW Class in South OC

Ben Franklin preferred the rattlesnake as national symbol noting its reluctance to attack without warning (unlike the biblical serpent, it has a rattle), though fierce on sufficient provocation. See www.7-4-1776.us

Fr. Sirico on Pope's Caritas in Veritate (Love in Truth)

WSJ: #articleTabs%3Darticle.

This encyclical is a theological version of his predecessor's more philosophical effort to anchor the free economy's ethical foundation. Much of it stands squarely with a long tradition of writings of a certain "classical liberal" tradition, one centered on the moral foundation of economics, from St. Thomas Aquinas and his disciples, Frederic Bastiat in the 19th century, Wilhelm Roepke, and even the secular F.A. Hayek in the 20th century. It also clearly resonates with some European Christian democratic thought.

Roundtable on Caritas in Veritate « Acton Institute PowerBlog

Roundtable on Caritas in Veritate « Acton Institute PowerBlog.

A round up of commentary on the new encyclical was published yesterday on the Web site of Catholic World Report. CWR asked “a group of leading Catholic intellectuals to reflect on the encyclical, its place in the larger body of Catholic social teaching, and Pope Benedict’s vision of a well-ordered and just society.” Those who contributed included J. Brian Benestad, Francis J. Beckwith, Father Joseph Fessio, S.J., Richard Garnett, Thomas S. Hibbs, Paul Kengor, George Neumayr, Tracey Rowland, Father James V. Schall, and Rev. Robert A. Sirico. Here’s what Rev. Sirico had to say:

Two-thirds of State Attorneys General File Amicus Brief Supporting Second Amendment Incorporation

NRA-ILA: Two-thirds of State Attorneys General File Amicus Brief Supporting Second Amendment Incorporation

Tuesday, July 07, 2009

Fairfax, Va. – Two-thirds of the nation’s attorneys general have filed an amicus brief asking the U.S. Supreme Court to grant certiorari in the case of NRA v. Chicago and hold that the Second Amendment applies to state and local governments through the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. This bi-partisan group of 33 attorneys general, along with the Attorney General of California in a separate filing, agrees with the NRA’s position that the Second Amendment protects a fundamental individual right to keep and bear arms in the home for self-defense, disagreeing with the decision recently issued by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.

“The historical record clearly shows that the Second Amendment was intended to apply to every American in every state in the country,” said Chris W. Cox, NRA chief lobbyist. “As the Supreme Court said clearly in last year’s landmark Heller decision, the Second Amendment protects an individual right that ‘belongs to all Americans’. Two-thirds of America’s state Attorneys General agree.”

The Seventh Circuit claimed precedent bound it from holding in favor of incorporation of the Second Amendment. However, it should have followed the lead of the recent Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision in Nordyke v. King, which found that those cases don't prevent the Second Amendment from applying to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment’s Due Process Clause. The Seventh Circuit opinion upholds current bans on the possession of handguns in Chicago and Oak Park, Illinois.

California attorney general Edmund G. Brown Jr. is filing a separate brief arguing that the Supreme Court should take up NRA’s appeal and hold that the Second Amendment is incorporated against the States.

“It is fundamentally wrong to violate the civil rights of any law-abiding person based on their zip code,” Cox concluded. “The fundamental right of self-defense must be respected by every jurisdiction throughout our country.”

State Attorneys General Amicus Brief
California Attorney General Amicus Brief

Chat live with O.C. Sheriff Hutchens

Chat live with O.C. sheriff | chat, sheriff - News - OCRegister.com.

Have a question for Orange County Sheriff Sandra Hutchens? The sheriff will answer questions in an hour-long online chat beginning at 2 p.m. today. To join the chat and see her answers, go to ocregister.com on Friday.

UPI and Snopes Follow WND, yet Parrot Propaganda from Village Idiot

WND: News sites swap Obama's birthplace like magic.

If you happened to read online news sites such as United Press International or the popular hoax-busting Snopes.com anytime up until Tuesday night, you would have seen definitive statements that President Obama was born at the Queen's Medical Center in Honolulu, Hawaii. But checking back now, both sites are suddenly providing an entirely different location, the Kapi'olani Medical Center for Women and Children, also in the capital of the Aloha State. Within hours of a WND report revealing Obama's birth being reported at two different Hawaiian hospitals, both sites changed their information to suddenly fall in line with the president's claim that he was born at Kapi'olani.

Communist Party takeover almost complete – 1963 checklist – Amazing! « DirtyRottenScoundrels

Communist Party takeover almost complete – 1963 checklist – Amazing! « DirtyRottenScoundrels.

PLEASE take a look at the comments below – the original comment from a biased individual, my original reply and then another reply after I went to this site: http://www.cpusa.org/article/static/758/#6 and got very similar messages from the communist site from their own documents. You be the judge! Communist Goals (1963) ——————————————————————————– Congressional Record–Appendix, pp. A34-A35 January 10, 1963 Current Communist Goals EXTENSION OF REMARKS OF HON. A. S. HERLONG, JR. OF FLORIDA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Thursday, January 10, 1963 Mr. HERLONG. Mr. Speaker, Mrs. Patricia Nordman of De Land, Fla., is an ardent and articulate opponent of communism, and until recently published the De Land Courier, which she dedicated to the purpose of alerting the public to the dangers of communism in America. At Mrs. Nordman’s request, I include in the RECORD, under unanimous consent, the following “Current Communist Goals,” which she identifies as an excerpt from “The Naked Communist,” by Cleon Skousen: [From "The Naked

Ginsburg thought Roe was ethnic cleansing until Medicaid funding rejected by Supremes?

Stunning admission, stunning lapse in reasoning.

WND: Ginsburg: I thought Roe was to rid undesirables.

Question: Are you talking about the distances women have to travel because in parts of the country, abortion is essentially unavailable, because there are so few doctors and clinics that do the procedure? And also, the lack of Medicaid for abortions for poor women?

Ginsburg: Yes, the ruling about that surprised me. [Harris v. McRae – in 1980 the court upheld the Hyde Amendment, which forbids the use of Medicaid for abortions.] Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don't want to have too many of. So that Roe was going to be then set up for Medicaid funding for abortion. Which some people felt would risk coercing women into having abortions when they didn't really want them. But when the court decided McRae, the case came out the other way. And then I realized that my perception of it had been altogether wrong.

Extreme Blue Helicopter Thinking Plagues NAACP

WND: NAACP to governor: Declare martial law.

An NAACP official has demanded the governor of Pennsylvania call out the National Guard, suspend civil liberties and impose martial law to deal with a recent wave of shootings.

SAFE OC - Working to Elect a Sheriff Who Supports Personal Safety and Firearm Freedoms

SAFE OC - Working to Elect a Sheriff Who Supports Personal Safety and Firearm Freedoms.

Dedicated to Electing a Pro-Freedom Sheriff in Orange County July 22 Event: Come Meet Your NRA (Ed Worley, NRA Sacramento Representative and Paul Payne, Assistant to Wayne LaPierre) from 6 pm to 9 pm at OnTarget Range. If you’re reading this, your rights as an American citizen and a resident of Orange County are at stake. Last year, Sandra Hutchens was appointed Sheriff of Orange County to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of the former Sheriff and to finish out his elected term in office. Despite inheriting a Department plagued by accusations of political favoritism and a poorly run jail system, our new Sheriff immediately targeted law-abiding citizens holding licenses to carry concealed weapons (CCWs). Since last autumn, Hutchens has embarked on a single-minded campaign to revoke, deny and restrict the number of CCWs in Orange County. She has even drastically changed her Department’s definition of “good cause” in order to make it far more difficult for an ordinary person to obtain a CCW. Hutchens has also decided that a large number of citizens no longer deserve to have a CCW, and is revoking their permits. Many of these citizens have invested hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars and hours of time applying for their CCWs and undergoing the required background checks, training and inspection. Many have held

California Ammunition Bill: Give Box of Ammo to Sister, Go to Jail

Bill to Restrict Ammunition Sales Takes a Step Forward in the Golden State
 
Tuesday, July 07, 2009
 
Please Contact the Senate Appropriations Committee!

Earlier today, the Senate Public Safety Committee passed Assembly Bill 962.  The bill now moves to the Senate Appropriations Committee for consideration.  No hearing date has been scheduled.

AB962, sponsored by Assembly Member Kevin De Leon (D-45), would make it a crime to privately transfer more than 50 rounds of ammunition per month, even between family and friends, unless you are registered as a “handgun ammunition vendor” in the Department of Justice’s database.  Ammunition retailers would have to be licensed and store ammunition in such a manner that it would be inaccessible to purchasers.  The bill would also require purchasers submit to fingerprinting, which would be kept in dealers' records and subject to inspection by the Department of Justice.  Lastly, mail order ammunition sales would be prohibited. 

Please contact the members of the Senate Appropriations Committee TODAY and respectfully urge them to oppose AB962.  Contact information can be found below.

SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE:

State Senator Christine Kehoe (D-39), Chair
(916) 651-4039

State Senator Dave Cox (R-1), Vice-Chair
(916) 651-4001

State Senator Ellen Corbett (D-10)
(916) 651-4010

State Senator Jeff Denham (R-12)
(916) 651-4012

State Senator Mark DeSaulnier (D-7)
(916) 651-4007

State Senator Loni Hancock (D-9)
(916) 651-4009

State Senator Mark Leno (D-3)
(916) 651-4003
senator.leno@senate.ca.gov

State Senator Jenny Oropeza (D-28)
(916) 651-4028

State Senator George Runner (R-17)
(916) 651-4017

State Senator Mimi Walters (R-33)
(916) 651-4033

State Senator Lois Wolk (D-5)
(916) 651-4005

State Senator Mark Wyland (R-38)
(916) 651-4038

State Senator Leland Yee (D-8)
(916) 651-4008
 
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"Defiance" (Starring Daniel Craig) Awarded Golden W.Exie

World Examiner awards its prestigious, microscopic W.Exie (Serqet, depicted at left with crocodile on head) award, for best "Guns and the Right to Life" picture of the year to the movie "Defiance" starring Daniel Craig.

Seriously, this film is highly recommended, brilliant on many levels as it illustrates family loyalty, the need to bear arms in protection of life, dignity of women, and even dignity of the unborn.  Tremendous (all the more because it's TRUE) story of how the Bielski brothers saved thousands of fellow Jews and trained them to fight against the Nazis.  (I've heard of Jews fighting back in the Warsaw ghetto, but had not heard of the Bielski brothers and their fellow partisans, who fought in Byelorussia.)

The film is a MUST SEE for anyone reading this blog.  See trailers here.  And here: 

Rick Warren Spends 4th of July at Islam Convention in DC

The man who gave the invocation at Barack Hussein Obama's inauguration is spending the Fourth of July not in Lake Forest with his congregation, or anywhere else in Orange County, but in Washington, DC, speaking before an Islamic convention.

Rick Warren to address Islam convention in D.C. today - Total Buzz - OCRegister.com.

Pastor Rick Warren of Saddleback Church is in Washington, D.C. today for a Fourth of July speaking appearance at the Islamic Society of North America’s annual convention. He has suggested that members of his congregation to pray for the event.

Happy 4th of July!

Just got back from participating in Huntington Beach parade, second largest in the country, largest west of the Mississippi.  Man, seems to get longer every year.  I was walking ahead of the trucks carrying a Navy Jack (Don't Tread On Me flag).  I passed out several to enthisiastic NRA supporters in the crowd.  Brian, a vet who walks with a cane, carried the Stars and Stripes.  Babushka from Ukraine was in one of the trucks, along with my wife Helen and daughter Ayn, who wore their Kalashnikitty t-shirts.

This afternoon I'll go to the TEA party in Mission Viejo, then back to Ladera Ranch for a block party in my neighborhood where I'll be conducting free shooting lessons and setting up my mobile laser simulator.  Fireworks mixed in there too, along with our traditional Mel Gibson in The Patriot, dubbed in Russian. 

Seasoned Citizens Frolic in Fountain of Youth

Email from concerned citizens:

Working people frequently ask retired people what they do to make their days interesting.
Well, for example, the other day my wife and I went into town and went into a shop.
We were only in there for about 5 minutes. 
When we came out, there was a cop writing out a parking ticket.
We went up to him and said, 'Come on man, how about giving a senior citizen a break?'

He ignored us and continued writing the ticket.  I called him a Nazi.  He glared at me and started writing another ticket for having worn  tires.

So my wife called him a sh*t-head. He finished the second ticket and put it on the windshield with the first. Then he started writing a third ticket. This went on for about 20 minutes. The more we abused him, the more tickets he wrote.

Personally, we didn't care.  We came into town by bus and the car had an Obama sticker.  We try to have a little fun each day now that we're retired.  It's important at our age.

California Fair Employment and Housing?

No, this is not legal advice. Just an anonymous bit of humor:

 

Difficult Times

 

As the CEO of this organization, I have resigned myself to the fact that Barrack Obama is our President and that our taxes and goverment fees will increase in a Big way.  To compensate for these increases, our prices would have to increase by about 10%.  But since we cannot increase our prices right now due the dismal state of the economy, we will have to lay off sixty of our employees instead.  This has really been bothering me, since I believe we are family here and I didn't know to choose who would have to go.

 

So, this is what I did.  I walked through our parking lots and found sixty "Obama" bumper stickers on our employees' cars and have decided these folks will be the ones to let go.  I can't think of a more fair way to approach this problem. They voted for change, I gave it to them. I will see the rest of you at the annual company picnic.

 

THE BOSS