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Cringeworthy Zone Defense
The president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, Dr. John Lott, refers to Obama’s recent remarks promoting more gun-free zones as “cringe inducing.”
For those who may have forgotten, Barack Obama reminded many last week what made him such a polarizing president. In a Time magazine essay commending student gun control activists, Obama resorted to his typical name-calling and false statements.
A look at some contemporary statistics from Obama’s home town might provide some insight into his conflict:
There’s a problem alright; besides being intellectually dishonest, it’s too easy to blame guns.
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Justice
Ending The Delay
From 1976 to 1986, one man struck fear in the hearts of Californians from Sacramento to San Francisco to Los Angeles, killing 12 people, raping at least 45 people and burglarizing more than 120 homes in meticulously planned crimes.
He was known by many names: the Golden State Killer, the East Area Rapist, the Diamond Knot Killer and the Original Night Stalker. But until last week, decades of detective work had not uncovered the name of Joseph James DeAngelo.
A statewide hunt for the suspect finally ended on Tuesday, when the authorities said that they had arrested Mr. DeAngelo, 72, and that he was responsible for the series of murders and rapes. In the end, the decades-long hunt for the infamous figure ended not far from where the case started.
It's ironic that this guy was living free like an ex Nazi war criminal in a state that seems to be doing everything that it can these days to infringe on their citizen's right to defend themselves.
In his Friday commentary about the long delay in capturing DeAngelo, Dr. Albert Mohler recalled a statement made by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., "justice delayed is justice denied."
Now is a good time to point out the fact that “justice" will not be delayed too long when it's traveling at 1100 feet per second...... How many of DeAngelo's victim’s (and their descendants) would be alive today if they had been armed and ready to defend themselves?
We know that the police cannot protect individual citizens from the likes of Joseph DeAngelo. In fact DeAngelo had actually worked for five or six years as a California police officer, and was probably so employed during his crime spree.
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Culture
Is syntax really a tax on sin?
If you have ever pondered the question concerning just what it is that makes a human believe that "rights" come from "the government", some of the blanks will likely be filled in by Dr. Albert Mohler's commentary in his Daily Briefing today.
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Culture
Good News-Bad News
It looks like the Parkland school “resource officers” have come out of hiding, but look at what they are doing now!
Sad.
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Culture
Many who identify as socialists don’t know what socialism is
In his Daily Briefing for Monday April 23, 2018, Dr. Albert Mohler illuminates the clueless nature of the current anti-gun (or anti-2nd Amendment) movement—clueless because of their ignorance regarding human nature and world history, especially when it comes to being pro-socialism.
The entire purpose of [an] full-page article in the New York Times is to argue that there is now a resurgent socialism in the United States. Now, of course, in the 2016 presidential election there was the unprecedented rise of Vermont Independent Senator Bernie Sanders running as a democratic socialist. Most Americans, however, didn't know what democratic socialism might mean. Bernie Sanders really didn't care about that, but what he did represent was a resurgence of the far left in American politics. What became clear is that there is an enormous energy and hunger for the far left in the Democratic Party and what was also clear is that many younger Americans, especially amongst the millennials, are at least open to flirting with Marxism and socialism.
To be successful, a revolution in this country would require not only a disarmed citizenry, but sufficient proletarian ignorance. The most fertile ground for ignorance can be found in the youth of our society; e.g. the duly appointed figurehead for the latest attack on our Constitution is a high-school student.
Hence the focused attack on our schools.
For those who believe that socialism is virtuous, I recommend that they review some of the many photojournalist records from history; here is a sampling of some of the historical interaction between a few socialist government's and their citizenry:
What each one of these photo’s have in common is the fact that all of the victim’s pictured had been denied the right to bear arms. A common element of tyranny.
There are thousands more photos, but you get the picture….. Of course there are human lives and stories that go with each photo, but I suspect the target audience for this message would be more impressed by pictures than words.
Socialism and communism are not only humanly degrading, but deadly.
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Culture
What is The Problem?
Boat rams jetty near site of Jose Fernandez crash in Florida.
Three people had to be rescued after their boat rammed into a jetty in Florida on Friday near the spot where the late Miami Marlins pitcher Jose Fernandez and two others died in a boating crash in 2016.
It shouldn't be surprising, knowing that there are people in our culture that cannot safely use a firearm, that there are also people that cannot safely use a boat. If we apply the fashionable liberal 'gun problem' solution to the boat 'problem', then boating will become a whole lot more expensive than it already is...
Are guns and boats really the problem?
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Culture
Digital Ciguatera
Failed by Facebook, We’ll Return to the Scene of the Crime. We Always Do.
As Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s co-founder, begins two days of testimony on Capitol Hill, where he will undoubtedly face withering criticism over his site’s handling of user data, millions of people will spend the day the way they always do: scrolling through their News Feeds, sending each other messages and “liking” posts, oblivious to any privacy concerns...
Being aware of human nature, and the compelling characteristic of voyeurism in our society, this is one of the reason's why I have always referred to it as "Farcebook."
"Do not be conformed to this world ........"
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Culture
Why Gun Culture Is So Strong in Rural America
As Democrats have fled rural America — or rural America has fled Democrats — many of them, living in cities, are left without an understanding of rural culture and its core values. If it isn’t on abortion, our deepest cultural divide might be on guns. The guns issue also has a profound political dimension, reliably driving rural Americans into Republican arms...
....taking guns away from law-abiding citizens will never solve America’s gun problems, including mass shootings.... gun control has never stopped criminals from getting guns, and never will....
....To understand why many conservatives in rural America believe this, you must start with first principles, because the argument ultimately isn’t about guns; it runs even deeper than the Second Amendment....
This New York Times op-ed was a topic of commentary on Albert Mohler's Daily Briefing today.
That bridge that recently collapsed in Miami would serve as a good metaphor for the bridge that some people are trying to build over the Democratic-Republican "cultural divide" in our society!
Good news! There is a way!
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Weather
March Nor'Easters
I was abruptly introduced to the infamous "Nor'Easter" in March 1962 while stationed with the U.S. Coast Guard at Cape May, New Jersey.
Known as "The Ash Wednesday storm", that '62 storm lasted the better part of three days—including five 'spring' tidal cycles. I was impressed with the way that things along the coast just kind of disintegrate when hit with that kind of powerful force....
We had used the old Boardwalk Convention Hall for a meeting not long before the storm, and I remember walking through the rubble shown in the following video.
Below is a time-lapse video released recently by NOAA showing the four back-to-back nor'easter winter storms that impacted the U.S. East Coast in March of this year (2018).
It brings back memories of that 1962 storm!
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Para Bellum
The Price of Peace
Leading up to the onset of World War II, western democracies like Britain and France viewed a policy of appeasement toward Germany as the path of wisdom and restraint. It seemed prudent to make concessions to aggressors if it meant avoiding a bloody war. When Nazi Germany rearmed the Rhineland, annexed Austria, and seized an area of Czechoslovakia, the British and French response came in the form of paper: the Munich Agreement, which conceded these territories to Germany under the condition they make no land grabs. British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain declared to a cheering crowd that the agreement meant “peace for our time.”
A pertinent documentary, now playing on PBS.
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