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!
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!
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.
Almost $1 billion each year goes to state wildlife and natural resource agencies courtesy of checks written by firearms, ammunition, and related manufacturers. It is the result of an 11 percent excise tax on firearms, ammunition, and related goods known as Pittman-Robertson, or the Federal Aid in Wildlife Restoration Act of 1937.
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.
Consider this: of all firearms sold in America today, only about one-quarter are used for hunting. Modern sporting rifles (like the AR family) are used for hunting at essentially the same rates as all other firearms. In fact, more modern sporting rifles are sold each year than all traditional hunting rifles combined—the same rifles Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke would go door to door “buying back” (confiscating).
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.
The fact is, law abiding gun owners and their so-called “assault weapons” contribute more money annually to conservation than the Sierra Club, Humane Society, Natural Resources Defense Council, Environmental Defense Fund, and the National Audubon Society combined. It’s not even close.
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.
At least if those seeking election (or even their staff) would dive into the real numbers and outcomes, America could have a more honest and informed debate. We must do a better job of education. If not, the future of shooting sports and the enormous conservation success it has funded dies with the goose.
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.
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.
READ ALL THE WAY TO
THE BOTTOM!
LOTS OF GOOD INFO HERE!
Costco
sells Goodyear wiper blades for almost
half the price that you will pay
on the outside and they are made in
the U.S.A. Read and do the following.
Unfortunately our
politicians and top CEOs have
pushed for trade to China and Mexico
for years so Americans are now out of
work.
Did You Know that there is no
electric coffee maker
made in the US and that the only
kitchen appliances made in the US is
Viking? This information came from
the a report by Diane Sawyer. Hopefully this has
changed or will soon!!
I DIDN’T KNOW HALLMARK
CARDS WERE MADE IN CHINA
That’s why I don’t buy
cards at Hallmark anymore, They are
Made in China and are more expensive!
I buy them at Dollar
Tree – 50 cents each and made in USA
I have been looking at
the blenders available on the
Internet. Kitchen Aid
is MADE IN THE USA. Top of my list
already…
Yesterday I was in
Wal-Mart looking for a
wastebasket. I found some Made
In China for $6.99. I didn’t want to
pay that much so I asked the lady
if they had any others. She took
me to another department and they
had some at $2.50 made in USA. They are
just as good.. Same as a kitchen rug I
needed. I had to look, but I found some Made in
The USA – what a concept! – and they were $3.00
cheaper.
We are being
brainwashed to believe that everything that
comes from China and Mexico is cheaper. Not so.
One Light Bulb at A Time.
I was in Lowe’s the
other day and just out of curiosity, I looked
at the hose attachments. They were all
Made in China. The next day I was in Ace Hardware and just for the heck of it I checked the hose
attachments there. They were made in USA
Start looking, people
. …In our current economic
situation, every little thing we
buy or do affects someone else – most often,
their job.
My grandson likes
Hershey’s candy. I noticed, though, that it is
now marked “Made in Mexico.” I don’t buy it
anymore.
My favorite toothpaste
Colgate is made in Mexico …now I
have switched to Crest.
You have to read
the labels on everything.
This past weekend I was at Kroger. I needed
60W light bulbs and Bounce dryer
sheets. I was in the light bulb
aisle, and right next to the GE
brand I normally buy — was an
off-brand labeled,
“Everyday Value.” I picked up both types of
bulbs and compared them: they were the same
except for the price . .. .the GE bulbs
cost more than the Everyday Value
Brand, but the thing that surprised
me the most was that that GE was
Made in MEXICO and the Everyday
Value brand was made in – you guessed
it – the USA at a company in
Cleveland, Ohio.
It’s way past time to start
finding and buying products
you use every
day that are made right Here.
So, on to the next
aisle: Bounce dryer sheets. Yep,
you guessed
it, Bounce cost more
money and is made in Canada. The
Everyday Value Brand cost less, and was MADE IN
THE USA! I did laundry
yesterday and the dryer sheets performed
just like the Bounce Free I have been
using for years, at almost half the price.
My challenge to you
is to start reading the labels when
you shop for everyday things and
see what you can find that is Made
In the USA –
The job you save may be your own or your
neighbor’s!
If you accept the
challenge, pass this on to others
in your address book so we can all
start buying American, one light bulb at a
time!
Stop buying from
overseas companies – you’re
sending the jobs there.
(We should have awakened a decade
ago…)
Let’s get with the
program and help our fellow
Americans keep their
jobs and create more jobs here in the
USA .
I passed this on.. ..Will you???
If you care about American workers, you will pass it on
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.
An excellent article by a dear friend and brother Marine (retired). “HB”, goes by Mustang. I’m sure most of you know the term, but for those who do not, it is a title earned by an Officer of Marines who came up from the enlisted ranks. HB is a true Mustang in all respects!
September 30, 2019 — Bunkerville
By: Mustang
America’s political left continually refer to conservatives as “fascists.” Is this true? Hardly —and here’s why. We must begin with an understanding of what fascism really means, who started it, and what was that person’s overlying political philosophy.
We know, for example, that the father of capitalism was Adam Smith (1723-1790), a Scottish philosopher and a key figure in the Scottish enlightenment. And we know that the father of Marxism was Karl Marx (1818-1883).
Most people, however, do not know the name of the person who started “fascism.” There is a reason we do not know that much about Giovanni Gentile (1875-1944): most academic historians, who identify with leftist politics, have worked overtime to erase Gentile from our memory. But, in his own time, Gentile was one of the most influential philosophers.
Giovanni Gentile
Giovanni Gentile believed that there were two diametrically opposed forms of democracy. The first was liberal democracy, which we Americans sometimes call “classical liberalism.” This was what our founding fathers believed.
Gentile thought of this as individualistic, overly focused on human liberty and personal rights. He thought of this, not as unalienable rights, but as socially selfish. The other form, according to Gentile, was “true Democracy,” which occurs when individuals willingly subordinate themselves to the will of the state.
In a manner similar to Karl Marx, Gentile argued for a society that was formed much like a family, a condition in which all of us faced life’s challenges “together.” We have witnessed this peculiar view in the statements, platforms, and policies of the Democratic Party.
In 1984, Governor Mario Cuomo argued that America is much like an extended family, where, through the government, people take care of each other. Thirty years later, in 2012, Democrats argued that “government is the only thing we all belong to.”
Giovanni Gentile was a man of leftist politics. He was a committed socialist, and in his mind, fascism was a form of socialism —and, indeed, the only workable form. Whereas Marx sought to organize people based on class, Gentile wanted to arrange society based on class and national identity. In other words, Gentile believed that fascists were socialists with a national identity; it distinguishes them from others, with similar beliefs, from other countries.
One may recall that the Nazis of Germany were “National Socialists.” Gentile believed that all society should be organized to serve the public interests. There was no room for private interests. The administrative arm of society was, in Gentile’s view, the state. To submit to the will of society was to acquiesce to the will of the state —not just in economic issues, but in all matters affecting society. And, since everything in society is political, the people must empower the state to tell everyone how to think, and what to do.
The first national leader to convert Gentile’s philosophy into action was Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), the Italian dictator who controlled Italy from 1922 to 1943. Mussolini once proclaimed, “All is in the state, and nothing human exists or has value outside the state.” It was a statement that paraphrased the philosophy of Giovanni Gentile.
Americans today do not remember Gentile because leftist academics have successfully erased him from our memory. What does remain, however, is his philosophy, which has been entirely adopted by the American political left. Renamed, it is the philosophy of the Progressive Movement in the United States.
It does not require a political scholar to realize that Progressive politics, that is to say, the Democratic Party, has vastly expanded state control over the private sector. We can see this in matters of economics, education, banking, and energy.
State directed capitalism is exactly what German and Italian governments implemented in the 1930’s. Importantly, American leftists cannot acknowledge Gentile because in doing so, it would become the glue that binds American progressivism to fascism.
So let us now review: what do conservatives want? They demand smaller government and expanded personal freedom. They demand liberty. The American political left wants to achieve the opposite: the resources of the individual and industry in the service of a centralized state, such as exists in Russia and China.
Were the American political left to acknowledge Giovanni Gentile, they would have to also acknowledge that fascism bears a deep kinship to the ideology to the Democratic Party.
Are fascists part of the conservative right? No. They are clearly the spawn of the ideology and political philosophy of Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Jerry Nadler, Maxine Waters, and a host of other un-American idiots like Peter Buttigieg, Ilhan Omar, and Rashida Tlaib.
Thinking Americans should know world history … our country’s survival depends on this knowledge. Fascist, thy name is Democrat.
