Man Shoots Armed Robber

A man who says he only tried to rob the store because he was unemployed and needed money was shot as he ran away from the robbery, which he did with a shotgun held to the store owner’s head. The store owner pulled his own gun and shot the robber, who then went home where he and the shotgun, plus the loot were found by police. The store owner says the robber’s story is bogus because he, himself, lost his job, but did the HONEST thing and opened his own business. He didn’t try and rob somebody for his own good. Anti-gun freaks will hate this story because it does not support their phony theories that people who own guns will more than likely shoot THEMSELVES or “go wild,” shooting others, just because they have a gun. They say stories like this don’t happen, but I find them every day—although not in the liberal media. I guess they figure if it isn’t covered, it doesn’t happen. (The Blaze)

The Gun Scam

What the politicians are doing right now is simply part of the scam to disarm the citizens of the United States so they cannot defend themselves when criminals (some wearing badges) come after their property. Those politicians don’t care about getting guns out of the hands of criminals, NOR stopping violent crimes. They just want to DISARM as many HONEST people as they can. They KNOW their laws so nothing to disarm criminals, who will get their guns in any case. Frankly, I don’t think there is a SINGLE criminal whose gun is legally owned. Nor do I think criminals REGISTER their gun ownership. But that’s what politicians concentrate on: taking guns away from RESPONSIBLE people. They KNOW increasing the penalty for USING a gun in a crime DOES work, but they ignore it and even use the CURRENT laws that do that as “throwaway charges” to obtain convictions for other crimes. There should be a law PREVENTING deals that cancel convictions for gun use. That targets GUN USE instead of DISARMING their victims. (Just common sense)

"Mission Accomplished!"

The liberal media had a good time LYING about George W. Bush. One of their biggest lies is when they criticized him for going on a Navy ship and saying “Mission accomplished” after WINNING in Iraq, DEPOSING the dictator and “putting him in the run,” to be found in a “rat-hole” sometime later and executed by his own people for his crimes. They continued that lie when they refused to accept his victory in Afghanistan, forcing the Taliban, which had more recently been RUNNING things there into hiding. They continue that lie to this day by saying “Bush LOST the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.” Are they really that STUPID? The mission WAS accomplished in both places, but they refuse to admit it. Saddam Hussein was toppled and ultimately executed. The leaders of the Taliban were sent running for their “hidey-holes” and new governments were established in both places.

All that was left was the “cleanup” and that was left to the politicians—who WERE the ones who LOST in both places with their STUPID decisions and actions. They should NEVER tried to “democratize” countries whose very HISTORY showed their people didn’t want it. Our PURPOSE there was to remove two “sanctuaries” the Islamic terrorists were using to train and prepare to kill innocent people all over the world while getting rid of a lot of their financing. We did that. “Mission accomplished.” We presented them with a new “slate.” What is written on that “slate” is up to them. What do WE care if they vote themselves into slavery as we (not me) seem to be doing with Obama? The liberal POLITICIANS lost both wars for us. Not George W. Bush. If we don’t do something about THAT, we will be the next Soviet Union or Nazi Germany. And if you don’t know what that means, you’d BETTER find out, or BE the cause of us moving into slavery.

Many people in the United States don’t even know what socialism is through lack of interest in finding out. Yet socialism (a form of collectivism) is at the bottom of ALL the wars and intrigue we’ve suffered for many years. The whole idea of taking from those who EARN and giving to those who DON’T EARN is ruinous and has done so everywhere it has been tried, eventually. It caused the “collapse” of the government imposed upon them for 75 years by the followers of Vladmir Lenin in Russia. Cuba used to be one of the richest countries in the Western Hemisphere until Castro and his socialist accomplices took over. Since then it has “gone down hill” fast and he and his brother have found it necessary to MURDER millions of people to “prop it up” while it goes “downhill” while many flee from it. Today, the average age of cars in Cuba (except for those driven by government officials) is the 1950s and the infrastructure is crumbling. When Castro dies (soon, I hope), his “communist paradise” will collapse, too.

There are many other countries run by collectivists (under whatever name including, but not limited to socialism, communism, Fascism, and Progressivism). They’re being “propped up” by newer collectivist governments who still have some of their victims’ money left and when that ends (and it will), it will be “all over” for them, too. As deceased former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher once said, “The trouble with socialism is that you soon run out of other people’s money.” Hugo Chavez, communist dictator in Venezuela, was quickly going through the money he made from nationalizing (stealing) the oil industry there, which American companies developed, only to have it STOLEN from them, was well on his way to destroying his country when he mercifully died. Other countries are in various levels of collapse due to socialism and I predict they WILL fail. Maybe not in my lifetime, but soon. (Forbes)

Raising Taxes

The politicians think their ONLY job is to RAISE TAXES. They stay awake nights trying to figure out new and better ways to suck more and more money out of us to support their “vote-buying” to get more and more gullible people to vote to keep them in office so as to “keep the goodies coming.” It pains me to see cars, even today, wearing “Vote Obama” stickers, from 2008 and 2012. I wonder why so many people are not only ignorant, but are PROUD of it. I love that story about the factory owner who had to lay off 60 people, so he went out in the parking lot and wrote down the license numbers of those cars sporting Obama stickers, figuring their votes made them responsible for his problems, then laid THEM off. (Just common sense)

How to Keep A Big Secret

Publish a magazine and put it on the Internet. This magazine will show you the best way to use just about anything to build a bomb you can leave on the street in a crowd so you can kill a lot of Infidels and maim many more. Don’t worry; the authorities will never notice and if they do, in America there’s nothing they can do about it because of their First Amendment to the "Bill of Rights." Not even if it shows you how to kill people by the hundreds, even thousands. That doesn’t matter. These fools don’t even understand that they make it possible for you to learn how to kill people, and do it openly, without opposition. Aren’t they stupid? But you can take advantage of America’s stupidity before they get smart enough to make a law against certain kinds of content so they can arrest those responsible without violating the First Amendment under certain kinds of circumstances. The Islamic terrorists did this, and the two men who bombed the Boston Marathon used information from this magazine to kill and maim people who were doing nothing inimical to Islam, but were just running around in skimpy outfits. No, I’m not going to tell you the name of this magazine, nor tell you how to find it so YOU can kill people. This is just to alert you to its existence. (Just common sense)

Blaming Others

Obama has taught us to blame others for our mistakes. After a full five years as president, he STILL blames Bush and all other Republicans for the stupidities HE creates, just as with Clinton’s teaching us that “oral sex is not sex,” he has taught us NEVER to take responsibility for our own actions. One of the best current examples is a drunk driver blaming his “drinking buddy,” the bartender, the bar, etc. for not stopping him from getting drunk and getting a DUI. How STUPID is this? Nobody FORCED him to drink or get drunk, or to drive in that condition. HE did that. He’s a “grown man” and is responsible for his own actions. To sue someone else for them is about as STUPID as it gets. But that is what Obama has taught us. (Just common sense)

How STUPID is Obama?

Does he really NOT think we know what he’s doing? His own idea was the Sequester and he foisted it upon us. It represents about .0l% of the amount he is spending in a year. It is TINY, yet he treats it like a CALAMITY and is ORDERING unnecessary cuts that are DESIGNED to be very painful and blames it in the Sequester. We all know that’s what he’s doing, but he still does it. He stands by and watches while Islamic terrorists KILL one of his ambassadors among other people, and “stonewalls” us, telling us falsely that the attack that killed them was caused by a VIDEO no one had seen and most people have YET to see to support his LIE that al-Qaida is beaten, when it is NOT. He put the maker in PRISON on a trumped-up charge to make it LOOK like he’s telling the truth when we all KNOW he’s LYING. He revives a FAILED Bush program to allow guns to be sold to the Mexican drug cartels so we can “keep track” of the guns’ wherabouts, this time with NO WAY to trace them, while blaming Bush for it. He forces through an unworkable plan that gives him CONTROL of the medical profession when he has NO IDEA how to run it and will RUIN it. He passed it with the specious notion that “We have to pass the bill to find out what’s in it” (Nancy Peelosi). .He thinks we BUY all his lies and stupidities on his way to a dictatorship. There’s something wrong with this man’s BRAIN, but nobody will admit it and “rein him in.” They’d better do it before he destroys us. (Just common sense)

Bloomberg to Ban Headphones

He thinks they are too loud and will hurt your hearing, so he wants to ban them. Typical liberal thinking: blame the device, not the PERSON. If he REALLY wants to do something about that “problem,” he needs to cut off the fingers used to turn up the volume to “bomb explosion loud.” He forgets that most of these people are adults, and have the right to be STUPID without his intervention. New York needs to ban loud-mouthed mayors who think they know more than anybody else. What’s next? Cars? They kill more people than anything else. (Town Hall Video)

The New World Order

That is something that was only whispered about when I came to my majority in the late fifties. To be exposed as being a person who FAVORED it was to be RUINED in politics—and sometimes in business, as well. Today, politicians OPENLY talk about “working toward a new world order.” The first President Bush called it openly “our fifth objective.” Vice President Joe Biden said, “The task we have now is to actually create a new world order.” But what they DON’T say is that a “new world order” means COMMUNISM; something most people growing up today know nothing about and don’t even realize how dangerous that is. Communism is what RUINED Russia. Admittedly what they had wasn’t all that great, but a real examination will tell you it was STILL better. Communism (and all other forms of collectivism) has FAILED everywhere it has been tried, eventually; After all the money STOLEN from citizens of other countries that is used to “prop up” FAILING collectivist (communist) governments runs out.

My advice to kids today becoming adults is to research communism and what it did to Russia. The millions of people it MURDERED to stay in power until it ran out of its people’s money. Progressivism is another word for communism. It is an insidious cancer on the world, and America is in the process of “catching” it. It is growing like a tumor and must be “cut out” before it kills us. Socialism is a paler form of communism and IT is growing, too. If it wins, communism will be the later result. I can’t understand the APPEAL for collectivism in today’s world, except for the “promise” of a “free ride” to all who wish it to those who just don’t want to take care of themselves—and the number of those people voting is increasing apace. And they ARE voting. The evidence is the re-election of Barack Obama, something I consider to be one of the WORST moves this country (not me) has ever made.

My sister didn’t even know what socialism WAS, until I explained it to her. Now she is one of the most ardent foes of socialism on the planet. We need to bring this knowledge to more emerging adults before it is too late. Informing these youngsters is the most important thing you will ever do. If you do not, you will suffer one day under the same thing that inflicted the people who lived for 70 some years under the Soviet Union. Don’t let it happen. I won’t care for myself. I’ll be six feet under. But I sorrow for my descendants, who will have to live under communism, whatever they call it. This item began as a short item for “Ray’s Shorts,” as do many of the posts for this blog do. But somehow I just can’t stop writing, in hopes of convincing SOMEBODY that we live in a dangerous age and are (not me) bringing it on ourselves, as usual. The “Ray’s Shorts” blog is confined to SHORT items of (my) opinion so this had to be moved. I’m thankful I HAVE this one for this purpose, if nothing else. (Just common sense)

Who SABOTAGED the Investigation?

Word was that the younger brother in the Boston bombing was blabbing (as best he could) to FBI questioners until a federal judge showed up and read him his rights just HOURS after formal charges were filed against him. He immediately shut his trap (figuratively). Who sent this judge, and why? He was a recently naturalized citizen and should have NEVER been treated as a citizen. He IS a FOREIGN COMBATANT that was MISTAKENLY made a citizen just before bombing the Boston Marathon and should have been so treated. Do we “give their rights” to combatants captured on the field of battle (which was what the Boston Marathon turned out to be) and should have been treated the same way we treat enemy combatants: that is, sent to GITMO and questioned until he vomits up everything he knows before being “tried” in military court and executed. SOMEBODY in the Obama administration didn’t want him to talk any more and did something about it. We need to know who it was and WHY. I think the order came DIRECTLY from Obama even if that may not be “official.” Whoever “officially” gave that order should be arrested and charged with obstruction of justice. If it was Obama, so be it. (Just common sense)

Hllary WILL win

That’s what liberals are saying. “If she runs for president, she will BE president.” And they’re HAPPY about that! Which shows their abject STUPIDITY. A simple perusal of the news (real news, not the pap put out by the liberal media) would tell them the Democrats (led now by Obama) will be the ruination of this country if they’re allowed to continue their ruinous policies. And Hillary is one of the most obvious causes. If the MOOCHERS in our society (the able-bodied welfare collectors who only want a “free ride”) are allowed to continue to vote that will be true. But if enough INTELLIGENT Americans “come out of the woodwork” and outnumber them (which didn’t happen in 2012, and is why that incompetent FOOL, Obama won) that will not happen.  I just can’t understand the IGNORANCE of voters who put such FOOLS in office time and time again. Either they don't know they're destroying this country, or don't care as long as the collapse doesn't happen in their lifetime. (The Hill)

Kim Wants to Die

And he’ll take most of his citizens with him if he DARES to carry out his threat to “nuke” America. He’s all pissed off t the sanctions we’ve put on him for continuing his nuclear experiments and has threatened to “nuke” America. If he does, his entire country will be a smoking nuclear waste pile that no one will be able to approach for a thousand years. He thinks his one or two MAYBE functioning nukes makes him “king of the hill.” If he tries to use them on America, which has THOUSANDS of well-functioning nukes, he, and his entire country will die. There will no longer BE a North Korea. S. Korea will be the ONLY Korea left, and the N. Korea “problem” will no longer exist. (Mail.com)

Obama Trying to Destroy Us

He has VOWED to bankrupt the coal industry when he KNOWS there is no VIABLE industry to take up the slack and provide the ESSENTIAL service and product to the energy industry coal provides. He has provided FREE PHONES at taxpayer expense that CRIMINALS use to plan and commit crimes while WE pay for the time. He supports the uncontrolled MURDER of INFANTS still in the womb who have NO chance against these MURDERERS in doctor’s clothing. He KNOWS we can no longer survive if we depend upon people who HATE us to supply our oil. Yet he fights every effort to drill on land the United States controls, blocks efforts for an oil pipeline from Canada to the southern United States. It seems like everything he does hurts us, yet the ignorant fools in this country that want nothing more than a “free ride” keep electing him and his accomplices. We need to GET RID OF this nemesis in president’s clothing and elect somebody who actually LIKES this country and wants it to succeed instead of this man, who is KNOWN to HATE this country and all it stands for (and he's our PRESIDENT!).

He is a man who is at the very least is a SUPPORTER of the Islamic terrorists (if not an Islamic terrorist himself) and does everything he can to FACILITATE their war against us. Whenever a question comes up involving an Islamic terrorist, he “rules” in favor of the Islamic terrorist position. He provides guns to the Egyptian Islamic terrorists, and Mexican drug cartels which, I’m sure Islamic terrorists share in and “stonewalls” any questions about the Islamic terrorist attack in Benghazi that took FOUR lives of diplomatic employees including an ambassador, even to the point of ordering Benghazi survivors to “shut up” and answer NO questions about it. He does everything he can to DISARM the American people and provide CRIMINALS with a steady stream of UNARMED victims at all times. He refuses to control our borders so Islamic terrorists can slip in unnoticed and even goes so far as to SUE Arizona for making a law DEMANDING he enforce immigration laws. This fool is out of control and needs to be REMOVED from office for “High Crimes and Misdemeanors.” (Just common sense)

Liar Lies About Being "Lied To"

The next day after the Congress “got a backbone” and rejected his fool gun control legislation, he went right to the rose Garden and whined and bitched and groaned about it, saying the Congress was manipulated and lied to by the “right” and needed to be “bypassed.” Of course, “bypassing” Congress is illegal and unconstitutional, but Obama has never cared about that. He bypasses Congress all the time. He “lied through his teeth” in that speech. Especially when he said “90% of Americans are FOR universal background checks.” He calls those laws that were not passed, “common sense compromise that didn’t infringe on our Second Amendment rights.” That’s ANOTHER lie. He used Gabby Giffords (a Democrat) and Sandy Hook families as “props” in this speech, He said people lied about this bill, which they DIDN’T. the only one LYING about this bill is Obama. The Bill of Rights was upheld when this legislation was rejected. You can’t stand a free people telling you to “go to hell” with your useless legislation that did nothing but take our rights away from us. If you ever come up with some REAL legislation (doubtful), maybe we’ll listen to you. Legislation such as you present will NEVER do anything to stop criminal gun violence. All it will do is give CRIMINALS a steady stream of UNARMED victims. (The Right Planet)

Muslims Are Good People

It is some of their leaders who hate ANYBODY who doesn’t believe EXACTLY the same way they do, and those leaders spend most of their time “radicalizing” other Muslims. American people are “okay people.” Some of them get so mad at Islamic terrorists for killing indiscriminately they want to kill them. Their leaders add to the will to kill Muslims. Not just Muslim terrorists. This adds to the problem created by Muslim leaders. People wanting to kill Islamic terrorists is the natural result of Islamic terrorists killing innocent people, which they do all the time. Muslims call this “Islamaphobia,” trying to make it look like people wanting to kill IN RETURN for Muslims killing indiscriminately are crazy Muslim haters and killing Islamic terrorists (which Islamic terrorists say do not exist) is evil. But innocent people not so much. It’s easy to stop Americans from wanting to kill Muslim extremists: stop killing innocent people for not being Muslim. (Just common sense)

Killing YOU!

“King” Obama has asserted his opinion that he has the power to KILL you without any kind of trial, just on HIS opinion that you are a terrorist. He can decide, on nothing but his own opinion, that you are a terrorist and send a “drone” to find, and KILL you. This is the action of a man who thinks he is a DICTATOR, who is ALL-POWERFUL. He is NOT  There is NOTHING that would give him the right to kill Americans without a trial in our Constitution, which is the BASIS for the “law of the land,” even if Obama does deny it. He’s saying he could arbitrarily DECIDE you are a terrorist and send one of his drones out to KILL you—without any kind of trial. If you do nothing more than DISAGREE with him, he could do so. Or he could do it WITHOUT a reason, according to his opinion. Do you want to live in a country where your government could KILL you, at WILL? (Just common sense)

When Is Obama Going to "Open Up?"

He has “stonewalled” us for a long time about “Fast and Furious,” where he approved selling guns to Mexican Cartels SUPPOSEDLY to “trace where they go” with NOTHING in or on them to find out where they go. Likewise with the “Benghazi incident,” where four diplomatic personnel DIED, including an ambassador. He has even given ORDERS to the survivors to “keep their mouths shut,” which they have. What is he HIDING? Is there ANYBODY in Washington or anywhere else with the GONADS to pursue the questions about these incidents, either one of which would have SUNK a Republican if they had done likewise? (The Blaze)

Cutting Most Impoortant and Visible Things FIRST

Obama is going about, gaily cutting the most important, or the most VISIBLE things. One of those is “White House tours” which he blatantly blames on "The Sequestration." But will he stop his wife’s million dollar vacations, or his own golf outings that take him across the country, sometimes to play with famous people like Tiger Woods (for whom he pays all expenses to show up)? Will he replace his expensive fleet of Cadillacs and Lincoln Town Cars (or Mercedes’ and BMWs) with smaller cars that drink less gas? Or those ubiquitous black SUVs used by the Secret Service and other government agencies? Doubtful. Every “cut” he makes in services is designed to make “The Sequesteration” as hard on the people as possible, in the most VISIBLE way possible. This is how he operates. (Just common sense)

Pissant Bastard's Mad

Obama made yet another attempt to pass legislation that will do NOTHING to stop gun violence, but which WILL make it harder for reasonable, HONEST people to get the guns they need to defend themselves against CRIMINALS and crazies who don’t obey ANY laws. And he lost, after he told multiple LIES like the one about 85% of Americans FAVORING a universal  gun registration, which is a list of gun owners that can be used later to CONFISCATE guns when they’re “ready.”. They DO NOT favor it. Only in his TWISTED “studies” does it SEEM like they do. I’ve asked the same question for years of everybody I can think of including "anti-gun" politicians: “What makes ANYBODY think CRIMINALS and crazies will OBEY a law that says they can’t be armed when they don’t obey ANY other laws? NOBODY will give me a credible answer because they can’t.

The “anti-gun Nazis” just call me names and walk away, Other people just ignore the question and change the subject. Why do these FOOLS continue to bring out those old, tired laws they’ve had in their desk drawers for YEARS and try again and again to pass them, taking advantage of today’s calamities? Obama’s former chief of staff (now mayor of his home town, which has some of the tightest gun laws, combined with the WORST gun murder rate in the nation), who once famously said, “Never let a good panic go to waste,” Obama and his “gang of thieves” never do. I don’t EVER expect to get an answer to my question because there IS no answer an honest man can give. Obama accuses the NRA of lying when they say gun registry will lead to gun confiscation. That is simply a DIFFERENCE OF OPINION, not a lie. Not like the MANY lies Obama told in his attempt to pass this useless legislation. (Washington Post/Jennifer Rubin)

GUNS SAVE LIVES: Don’t tell liberals, but guns SAVE lives. Oh, hell. Go ahead and tell them. They won’t believe you, anyway. They believe too much in THEIR truth. They still think guns kill people on their own, without the intervention of those eeeevil humans. They still think a CRIMINAL, who does not OBEY laws, will OBEY a law that says they cannot be armed. They still believe a CRAZY, who wants to shoot up a school or a shopping center will be deterred by the though of breaking a law, from his plans to break MANY laws. What FOOLS they be! And no amount of logic will change their minds as they go about making more and more laws that keep guns out of the hands of RESPONSIBLE and law-abiding people, but which do NOTHING to keep guns out of the hands of CRIMINALS. This illogic is lost on them. (Gun Owners of America)