I can’t believe this happened, but I know damned well it happened. That dumb ass didn’t have a clue what was signed in his name. First of all, I find it hard to understand why anyone should have the ability, let alone the authority, to use that machine for anything other than BS congratulatory letters sent out. Hell, his Executive Orders could have been written by some aide. Unbelievable!!
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Times Have Changed!
If this doesn’t light your patriotic fire then I suppose your wood is wet . It’s a sad commentary on how far we have deteriorated in just 14 years. There is a definite difference today with the singing of our National Anthem.
These days you have a rock star, sexy women with revealing dresses, strange musical variations…where are we going from here the next 13 years? Super Bowl XXXIX 2005. This video was shot 14 + years ago. Been quite a change since then, hasn’t there? I watched it twice, the second time I paid particular attention to the reaction of the players; oh how they have changed!
Originally posted 2019-11-07 08:09:14.
Wildlife Conservation Primer
I used to be an avid hunter learned from my Dad. He and I hunted what used to be called Upland Game e.g., rabbits, squirrels, turkeys, etc., and of course deer. He grew up in the state that was in the forefront of game management, Pennsylvania. They were first to have a doe season, while many other states laughed and cajoled PA claiming they would destroy their whitetail deer herd. However, PA got the last laugh, and now all states have a doe season. Same applies to their Trout management program and the taking only the large native Trout from non-stocked streams. Montana has the same policy for their Blue Ribbon Streams
Okay Jim where were you going with this? LOL I do not hunt anymore. The last animal I killed was an Elk when we lived in Montana. I was remorseful afterwards and stowed my guns, and I must tell you I have plenty of them for I also have Dad’s guns.
This post comes from my dear friend and brother Marine, who goes by the nick name “Mustang,” which I would hope by now my readers know what that moniker means. Anyway, it was posted on his blog, BUNKERVILLE | God, Guns and Guts Comrades! Check it out, he has some great posts and he does so almost daily.
This post struck a chord with me and I wanted to pass it on to my readers so they have the facts. There is so much misinformation being discussed during the comical debates, and I am sure their followers are gobbling it up. As the writer points out they are simply BS-ing their followers with information that is simply not true. Enjoy and be informed!
How Democrats’ Gun Control Plans Would Wreck Wildlife Conservation
By Nephi Cole October 28, 2019
Democrat presidential candidates, like most Americans, seem to be unaware that the bulk of wildlife conservation funding in this country comes from a healthy firearms industry.
People seeking public office should do homework before embracing bad policy. If they don’t have the time, at minimum they should require their staff to be informed.
Every current Democratic presidential candidate is advocating an assault on wildlife and habitat conservation in America. It’s fair to assume they don’t know. They, like most Americans, are likely unaware that the bulk of wildlife conservation funding in this country comes from a healthy firearms industry.
The act was originally proposed by the firearms industry and supported by conservation groups like the National Wildlife Federation. It was bipartisan. It allowed states to marshal resources needed to recover dwindling populations of animals like white tail deer, elk, turkeys, and others. Because much of the success benefited hunters, there is a false assumption: they “pay the bill” in generating the tax. While it was mostly true in 1937, now it’s mostly not.
Today, roughly 80 percent of this firearms and ammunition tax comes from non-hunters. How’s that? We all hear left of center politicians and even “moderates” tying gun ownership and use to hunting. “I am a hunter” and “you don’t need that for hunting” are popular catchphrases of politicians endorsing certain gun, ammunition, and magazine bans.
They miss the target. What they don’t understand are the demographics of today’s gun ownership. Even as hunting‘s popularity is slowly declining, sport and practical shooting are way up. By sheer numbers, more people in America are shooting now than ever, although less are hunting.
Even more telling, half of all firearms purchased are handguns. These are primarily semiautomatics, also identified as “assault weapons” in misguided legislation. Ammunition purchased to use in these guns lines up in similar fashion.
This all means the lion’s share of wildlife conservation funding comes from the “non-hunting” shooting community. It also means that individuals, politicians, hunting, and conservation organizations that tacitly or openly endorse those pushing “bans” harm conservation across North America. They are complicit in gutting the goose that lays the golden egg: removing the primary source of state funds for conservation of wildlife and dedicated habitat.
In the future, spending on wildlife and habitat should continue to be the bedrock ideal of Pittman-Robertson. But it is time for realization, acceptance, and support of gun owners and recreational shooters who don’t hunt. They’re the ones who pay three-fourths of the bill.
In states like Montana, California, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Washington, Minnesota, Colorado, Hawaii, and others, top political leaders are hostile to the firearms industry and recreational shooters. Maybe they don’t realize they are taking hundreds of millions of dollars from recreational shooters in the name of conservation.
Those seeking public office need to be more informed. They need to know where the golden egg comes from—at least to consider it before they kill the goose.
Maybe if Pittman-Robertson’s billion dollars went only to those states where policies and leaders are supportive, they would see it differently. Perhaps if they knew their proposals would result in the largest single loss of conservation funding in our history, they would tone down the rhetoric.
Nephi Cole is the director of government relations-state affairs for the National Shooting Sports Foundation, the firearms industry trade association. He was previously a policy advisor to Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead on natural resources and other issues.
Originally posted 2019-10-29 09:45:51.
Made in the USA
I picked this up off the internet several days ago and passed it along to folks I thought would be interested. Now I decided to post it. Is it all true? Maybe not; however, I am a nut about this hearsay of foreign goods. We have been duped for years into thinking anything made in China, Vietnam, Mexico, Guatemala, and all the rest of the world is cheaper. Well, check it out gang, it’s NOT! In fact, in many cases it is more expensive , and surely of less quality. Before I buy anything, and I do mean anything, I look to see where it’s made. Granted sometimes I have no choice, because over the years some things are no longer made in the US. As an Economist, I am not so quick to blame the CEO’s as most folks do. It boils down to one fact; they are in business to make a profit and if our government has hamstrung them to the point where they cannot make a profit for their stockholders, they either close the doors or find a way to make the product cheaper. That is what happened, plain and simple. So, don;t shoot the CEO’s for trying to do their job. Might I encourage you to test some of what you read here. The President is trying his best to bring the companies back into the fold, we can help.
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Originally posted 2019-10-17 09:36:03.
Hunter VS Eric. You Decide
By Eric Trump:
I am keenly aware of how fortunate I was to be born the son of one of the wealthiest and most well known businessmen in America. I am also the first to admit that things are different when you grow up as a Trump.
Anyone who has paid attention to the news, especially since my father announced his run for the White House, knows the media has attacked every member of my family viciously and given us anything but kind treatment. The adult “children” in our family are certainly not off limits. We did after all fight alongside our father in his quest to win the presidency. We stood on that stage and campaigned across the nation, and are certainly willing to take the punches where they are warranted and deserved. The double standard, however, is nothing short of glaring.
It would be a waste of print to recount every smear, hit piece, and invasion of privacy my family has faced. But allow me to sum it up by highlighting an article published by Forbes and re-posted in virtually every major news outlet, attacking a charity that I started when I was 20 years old. In less than 10 years, I raised more than $20 million for terminally ill children at Saint Jude Children’s Research Hospital. I maintained just over a 9 percent cumulative expense ratio, one of the lowest expense ratios of any charity in the nation, and funded the construction of one of the most cutting edge intensive care units and surgery centers dedicated to children.
The Eric Trump Foundation intensive care unit treats some of the sickest children in the world, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, and it gives their parents and families hope. Yet I was viciously chastised by the Democrats and the media who relentlessly tried to manufacture stories about me, my mission, and my intentions with the charity. At the same time, the Clinton Foundation controversy was in full swing, and the media knew that it could use me as their punching bag to distract from one of their own.
One might say it comes with the territory, and that is absolutely true. As a Trump, I am held to an incredibly high public standard and I have lived an exceptionally clean and honest life with that in mind. But can you imagine, if they were willing to try and destroy a “kid” who dedicated his life to pediatric cancer and philanthropy, what the media would say if I had secured a $50,000 a month job on the board of a Ukrainian company, with no discernable duties, in an industry I knew nothing about, in a country where I did not even speak the language? What if my father on live camera threatened to cut off military aid to that country unless the prosecutor investigating that company for corruption was fired?
To make the hypothetical picture sufficiently vivid, also imagine that I had previously been kicked out of the United States Navy Reserve after testing positive for cocaine or was given a contract potentially worth $1.5 billion by China weeks after traveling to Beijing with my father aboard Air Force Two. I worked hard to raise millions of dollars for dying children, yet crickets from the media and weekly parodies on Saturday Night Live.
For the record, I do not know exactly what Hunter Biden did or did not do in Ukraine, in China, in his personal life, or elsewhere. There are plenty of other controversies that measure below the dignity and character of this article to regurgitate. I do like to give people the benefit of the doubt, since that courtesy is so seldom bestowed upon me and my family.
One thing, however, is absolutely certain. If the situation were reversed, I would have been front page news in every newspaper, online publication, and cable news outlet for the rest of my life. Reporters would be camping outside of my door, my family would have been picked apart, my name would have been smeared in the news every single week, and my father arguably would not even be president of the United States today.
I do not always agree with Bill Maher, but the late night host was honest enough to admit that if my brother or I had done what Hunter Biden did, “it would be all Rachel Maddow was talking about.” I do not know what he learned while growing up as a Biden, but if what we know about his life indicates anything, it is that there are different rules if you are the son of a powerful Democratic politician. Money grows on trees, there are no rules, and the press will always cover for you if it benefits the political left.
To quote the great Marcus Aurelius from The Gladiator, “Your faults as a son are my failures as a father.” I owe all of my work ethic, character, integrity, and moral fiber to my father. Hunter Biden can say the same.
Postscript: My bride and I have a granddaughter, currently 34, who was diagnosed with Leukemia at age 6. By an act of God, she was referred to St Jude Children’s Hospital in Memphis, They took over her case and paid for everything, and I do mean EVERYTHING, including treatment, transportation, lodging for her and her mother from Illinois to Tennessee on a consistent basis for years and years. She is now a dedicated marathon runner, lives a full life, is married, is still in remission, and has become a poster person for St. Jude’s
From someone who knows what you’ve done, THANK YOU!
To Hunter Biden, go to hell and take your POS father with you.
Originally posted 2019-10-16 10:01:42.
