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If You Can't Take A Joke -----

   I am from Southern Illinois in a region that was isolated for many years. Southern IL was primarily settled from migration of southerners, my heritage goes back to Virginia before the Revolutionary war as do most in the area. A strong southern accent remained in the people I grew up with and in my family. When my family moved up to central IL I found that a southern accent was equated with stupidity. I even had teachers who belittled me for the accent even though  I had  excellent grades.

 There is an uproar presently about a cartoon that supposedly represents obama. Afro Americans become inflamed with any depiction they consider to be a racial slur. Italians Americans, Irish Americans, Hispanic Americans, Jews, and every other ethnic or nationality howl if they are stereotypically treated comically. The network TV shows tread lightly with them. The one group that is constantly put into a buffoonish role is southern "rednecks" . The actual term redneck goes back to the Scotch-Irish dissenters of Anglican rule. Many of the people who took a role in securing our freedom and liberty in the Revolutionary war were Rednecks. And I am proud to be descended from them. How many of the people who find mirth in depicting them in a depreciating light can boast a heritage so steeped in our history. The military has always been largely made up of southerners.  Many of our greatest generals and admirals have come from the south. Today is no different.

 There is another group that is depicted as the fool. When a TV comedy show is all black any whites are usually  playing the fool. An all white show could never get away with treating a black character the same.

 If we put up all the jokes and treatment as low class members of society remember we are the ones who serve in our military, we are the ones who marry and take care of our kids, we are the ones who believe in self responsibility and work for a living, we are the one who are going to church, we are the ones who believe in helping others. We can see the humor in the jokes about us why can't everyone else? 

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THIS WAR IS FOR REAL

     This is a email from a friend still in the Army  and from 3 years ago  THIS WAR IS FOR REA> > This WAR is for REAL!> >> > To get out of a difficulty, one usually must go through it. Our countryis now facing the most serious threat to its existence, as we know it, thatwe have faced in your lifetime and mine (which includes WWII).> >> > The deadly seriousness is greatly compounded by the fact that there arevery few of us who think we can possibly lose this war and even fewer whorealize what losing really means.> >> > First, let's examine a few basics:> >> > 1. When did the threat to us start?> > Many will say September 11, 2001.> > The answer as far as the United States is concerned is 1979, 22 yearsprior to September 2001, with the following attacks on us:> > * Iran Embassy Hostages, 1979;> > * Beirut, Lebanon Embassy 1983;> > * Beirut, Lebanon Marine Barracks 1983;> > * Lockerbie, Scotland Pan-Am flight to New York 1988;> > * First New York World Trade Center attack 1993;> > * Dhahran, Saudi Arabia Khobar Towers Military complex 1996;> > * Nairobi, Kenya US Embassy 1998;> > * Dares Salaam, Tanzania US Embassy 1998;> > * Aden, Yemen USS Cole 2000;> > * New York World Trade Center 2001;> > * Pentagon 2001.> > (Note that during the period from 1981 to 2001 there were 7,581terrorist attacks worldwide).> >> > 2. Why were we attacked?> > Envy of our position, our success, and our freedoms. The attackshappened during the administrations of Presidents Carter, Reagan, Bush 1,Clinton and Bush 2. We cannot fault either the Republicans or Democrats asthere were no provocations by any of the presidents or their immediatepredecessor, President Ford.> >> > 3. Who were the attackers?> > In each case, the attacks on the US were carried out by Muslims.> >> > 4. What is the Muslim population of the World?> > 25%.> >> > 5. Isn't the Muslim Religion peaceful?> > Hopefully, but that is really not material. There is no doubt that thepredominately Christian population of Germany was peaceful, but under thedictatorial leadership of Hitler (who was also Chris tian), that made nodifference. You either went along with the administration or you wereeliminated. There were 5 to 6 million Christians killed by the Nazis forpolitical reasons (including 7,000 Polish priests).> > (see http://www.Nazis.testimony.co.uk/7-a.htm)> > Thus, almost the same number of Christians were killed by the Nazis, asthe six million holocaust Jews who were killed by them, and we seldom heardof anything other than the Jewish atrocities. Although Hitler kept theworld focused on the Jews, he had no hesitancy about killing anyone who gotin his way of exterminating the Jews or of taking over the world - German,Christian or any others.> >> > Same with the Muslim terrorists. They focus the world on the US, butkill all in the way -- their own people or the Spanish, French or anyoneelse. The point here is that just like the peaceful Germans were of noprotection to anyone from the Nazis, no matter how many peaceful Muslimsthere may be, they are no protection for us from the terrorist Muslimleaders and what they are fanatically bent on doing -- by their ownpronouncements -- killing all of us "infidels." I don't blame the peacefulMuslims. What would you do if the choice was shut up or die?> >> > 6. So who are we at war with?> > There is no way we can honestly respond that it is anyone other than theMuslim terrorists. Trying to be politically correct and avoid verbalizingthis conclusion can well be fatal. There is no way to win if you don'tclearly recognize and articulate who you are fighting.> > So with that background, now to the two major questions:> > 1. Can we lose this war?> > 2. What does losing really mean?> >> > If we are to win, we must clearly answer these two pivotal questions:> >> > We can definitely lose this war, and as anomalous as it may sound, themajor reason we can lose is that so many of us simply do not fathom theanswer to the second question - What does losing mean?> >> > It would appear that a great many of us think that losing the war meanshanging our heads, bringing the troops home and going on about our business,like post-Vietnam. This is as far from the truth as one can get.> >> > What losing really means is:> > We would no longer be the premier country in the world. The attackswill not subside, but rather will steadily increase. Remember, they want usdead, not just quiet. If they had just wanted us quiet, they would not haveproduced an increasing series of attacks against us, over the past 18 years.The plan was, clearly, for terrorists to attack us until we were neuteredand submissive to them.> > We would, of course, have no future support from other nations, for fearof reprisals and for the reason that they would see; we are impotent andcannot help them.> > They will pick off the other non-Muslim nations, one at a time. It willbe increasingly easier for them. They already hold Spain hostage. Itdoesn't matter whether it was right or wrong for Spain to withdraw itstroops from Iraq. Spain did it because the Muslim terrorists bombed theirtrain and told them to withdraw the troops. Anything else they want Spainto do will be done. Spain is finished.> >> > The next will probably be France. Our one hope on France is that theymight see the light and realize that if we don't win, they are finished too,in that they can't resist the Muslim terrorists without us. However, it mayalready be too late for France. France is already 20% Muslim and fadingfast!> >> > Without our support Great Britan will go too. reently I read thatthere are more mosques in England than churches.> >> > If we lose the war, our production, income, exports and way of lifewill all vanish as we know it. After losing, who would trade or deal withus if they were threatened by the Muslims. If we can't stop the Muslimterrorists, how could anyone else?> >> > The radical Muslims fully know what is riding on this war, andtherefore are completely committed to winning, at any cost. We better knowit too and be likewise committed to winning at any cost.> >> > Why do I go on at such lengths about the results of losing? Simple.Until we recognize the costs of losing, we cannot unite and really put 100%of our thoughts and efforts into winning. And it is going to take that 100%effort to win.> >> > So, how can we lose the war?> >> > Again, the answer is simple. We can lose the war by "imploding."That is, defeating ourselves by refusing to recognize the enemy and theirpurpose, and really digging in and lending full support to the war effort.If we are united, there is no way that we can lose. If we continue to bedivided, there is no way that we can win!> >> >> > Let me give you a few examples of how we simply don't comprehend thelife and death seriousness of this situation.> >> > President Bush selects Norman Mineta as Secretary of Transportation.Although all of the terrorist attacks were committed by Muslim men between17 and 40 years of age, Secretary Mineta refuses to allow profiling. Doesthat sound like we are taking this thing seriously? This is war! For theduration, we are going to have to give up some of the civil rights we havebecome accustomed to. We had better be prepared to lose some of our civilrights temporarily or we will most certainly lose all of them permanently.> >> > And don't worry that it is a slippery slope. We gave up plenty ofcivil rights during WWII, and immediately restored them after the victoryand in fact added many more since then.> >> > Do I blame President Bush or President Clinton before him?> > No, I blame us for blithely assuming we can maintain all of ourPolitical Correctness, and all of our civil rights during this conflict andhave a clean, lawful, honorable war. None of those words apply to war. Getthem out of your head.> >> > Some have gone so far in their criticism of the war and/or theAdministration that it almost seems they would literally like to see uslose.> >> > I think some actually do, I hasten to add that this isn't because theyare disloyal. It is because they just don't recognize what losing means.Nevertheless, that conduct gives the impression to the enemy that we aredivided and weakening. It concerns our friends, and it does great damage toour cause.> >> > Of more recent vintage, the uproar fueled by the politicians and mediaregarding the treatment of some prisoners of war, perhaps exemplifies bestwhat I am saying. We have recently had an issue, involving the treatment ofa few Muslim prisoners of war, by a small group of our military police.These are the type prisoners who just a few months ago were throwing theirown people off buildings, cutting off their hands, cutting out their tonguesand otherwise murdering their own people just for disagreeing with SaddamHussein.> >> > And just a few years ago these same type prisoners chemically killed400,000 of their own people for the same reason. They are also the sametype of enemy fighters, who recently were burning Americans, and draggingtheir charred corpses through the streets of Iraq. And still more recently,the same type of enemy that was and is providing videos to all news sourcesinternationally, of the beheading of American prisoners they held.> >> > Compare this with some of our press and politicians, who for severaldays have thought and talked about nothing else but the "humiliating" ofsome Muslim prisoners -- not burning them, not dragging their charredcorpses through the streets, not beheading them, but "humiliating" them.> >> > Can this be for real?> >> > The politicians and pundits have even talked of impeachment of theSecretary of Defense. If this doesn't show the complete lack ofcomprehension and understanding of the seriousness of the enemy we arefighting, the life and death struggle we are in and the disastrous resultsof losing this war, nothing can.> >> > To bring our country to a virtual political standstill over thisprisoner issue makes us look like Nero playing his fiddle as Rome burned --totally oblivious to what is going on in the real world. Neither we, norany other country, can survive this internal strife. Again I say, this doesnot mean that some of our politicians or media people are disloyal. Itsimply means that they are absolutely oblivious to the magnitude of thesituation we are in and into which the Muslim terrorists have been pushingus, for many years.> >> > These people are a serious and dangerous liability to the war effort.We must take note of who they are and get them out of office. Remember, theMuslim terrorists stated goal is to kill all infidels! That translates intoALL non-Muslims -- not just in the United States, but throughout the world.We are the last bastion of defense.> >> > We have been criticized for many years as being 'arrogant.' Thatcharge is valid in at least one respect. We are arrogant in that we believethat we are so good, powerful and smart, that we can win the hearts andminds of all those who attack us, and that with both hands tied behind ourback, we can defeat anything bad in the world! We can't!> >> > If we don't recognize this, our nation as we know it will not survive,and no other free country in the world will survive if we are defeated.> >> > And finally, name any Muslim countries throughout the world that allowfreedom of speech, freedom of thought, freedom of religion, freedom of thepress, equal rights for anyone -- let alone everyone, equal status or anystatus for women, or that have been productive in one single way thatcontributes to the good of the world.> >> > This has been a long way of saying that we must be united on this waror we will be equated in the history books to the self-inflicted fall of theRoman Empire. If, that is, the Muslim leaders will allow history books tobe written or read.> >> >> > If we don't win this war right now, keep a close eye on how theMuslims take over France in the next 5 years or less. They will continue toincrease the Muslim population of France and continue to encroach little bylittle, on the established French traditions. The French will be fightingamong themselves, over what should or should not be done, which willcontinue to weaken them and keep them from any united resolve.> > Doesn't that sound eerily familiar?> >> > Democracies don't have their freedoms taken away from them by someexternal military force. Instead, they give their freedoms away,politically correct piece by politically correct piece.> >> > And they are giving those freedoms away to those who have shown,worldwide that they abhor freedom and will not apply it to you or even tothemselves, once they are in power.> >> > They have universally shown that when they have taken over, they thenstart brutally killing each other over who will be the few who control themasses.> >> > What is happening in Iraq is a good example. Will we ever stophearing from the politically correct, about the "peaceful Muslims"?> >> > I close on a hopeful note, by repeating what I said above. If we areunited, there is no way that we can lose. I hope now, after the election,the factions in our country will begin to focus on the critical situation weare in, and will unite to save our country. It is your future we aretalking about! Do whatever you can to preserve it. I reiterate. Anational election is months away.> >> > After reading the above, we all must do this not only for ourselves,but our children, our grandchildren, our country and the world. WhetherDemocrat or Republican, conservative or liberal and that includes thePoliticians and media of our country and the free world!> >> > Please forward this to any you feel may want, or NEED to read it.Our "leaders" in Congress ought to read it, too. There are those that findfault with our country, but it is obvious to anyone who truly thinks throughthis, that we must UNITE!> >> > Lastly, I wish to add: At the risk of offending someone, Isincerely think that anyone who rejects this as just another political rant,or doubts the seriousness of this issue or just deletes it without sendingit on, is part of the problem. Lets quit laughing at and forwarding thejokes and cartoons which denigrate and ridicule our leaders in this waragainst terror. They are trying to protect the interests and well being ofthe US and it's citizens. Best we support them.

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OBAMA REGIME ALREADY GOING FOR PRIVATELY OWNED FIREARMS!

This is an email I received       

OBAMA REGIME ALREADY GOING FOR PRIVATELY OWNED FIREARMS!GOVERNMENT TO TAKE GUNS AND STRIP GUN OWNERSHIP RIGHTSHere they come, ready or not.

Are you ready for the House Bill titled 'HR 45, Blair Holt Licensing and Record Act of 2009'. It will make it illegal to own a firearm unless it is registered with the database in Washington D.C. As a gun owner you will have to be finger printed, you will be required to provide your DL#, SS#, you must maintain a valid address at all times, submit to mental and physical health records being put on file, you will also be required to file any address changes and any ownership changes even if a private sale.

Each update will cost $25 and if you fail to comply you will lose your right to own firearms. This bill and its language mirror almost completely one defeated last year in the House of Representatives by soon to be Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. Will we, the citizenry, be as lucky this time? Pass this on to everyone who believes in The Constitution Of The United States Of America, and remember that laws only apply to those who obey them. Criminals, by definition and nature, do not abide by laws. New laws and restrictions only apply to the law-abiding citizen and are not written with the criminal in mind. With guns, it is not about having laws on the books to prosecute individuals, it is about taking guns away from the people, so that no one has them in the first place.

One last item to note: when assuming power and creating a facist state, Hitler was a proponent of strong gun laws, because a disarmed populace was much easier to control than an armed one. The kings of old also outlawed weapons of any kind, in any region that they conquered, to quell the ability of the citizens to uprise against them. The Founding Fathers of this nation understood all of the above, and because of this, they included the Second Amendment in the constitution. In fact, they knew that at some point in every society's life span, that the need for the population to arise would come about. To this end, they made the right to keep and bear arms against a tyrannical state an absolute right that could not be revoked.  They did this because the first thing tyrants and despots do is to remove a population's right to defend themselves.  When this is done, the tyrants have no problem with the destruction of society as we know it. Send this on to all true patriots!  Protect your Second Amendment!

The following is a summary of the bill as provided by the Congressional Research Service. If you read the whole bill, you'll find it will effectively preclude the ownership of ANY firearms by law-abiding people unless licensed by the Attorney General. How long do you think THAT would take?? Congressional Research Service Summary The following summary was written by the Congressional Research Service, a well-respected nonpartisan arm of the Library of Congress. GovTrack did not write and has no control over these summaries. 1/6/2009--Introduced. Blair Holt's Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2009 - Amends the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act to prohibit a person from possessing a firearm unless that person has been issued a firearm license under this Act or a state system certified under this Act and such license has not been invalidated or revoked. Prescribes license application, issuance, and renewal requirements. Prohibits transferring or receiving a qualifying firearm unless the recipient presents a valid firearms license, the license is verified, and the dealer records a tracking authorization number. Prescribes firearms transfer reporting and record keeping requirements. Directs the Attorney General to establish and maintain a federal record of sale system. Prohibits: (1) transferring a firearm to any person other than a licensee, unless the transfer is processed through a licensed dealer in accordance with national instant criminal background check system requirements, with exceptions;(2) a licensed manufacturer or dealer from failing to comply with reporting and record keeping requirements of this Act;(3) failing to report the loss or theft of the firearm to the Attorney General within 72 hours; (4) failing to report to the Attorney General an address change within 60 days; or (5) keeping a loaded firearm, or an unloaded firearm and ammunition for the firearm, knowingly or recklessly disregarding the risk that a child is capable of gaining access, if a child uses the firearm and causes death or serious bodily injury. Prescribes criminal penalties for violations of firearms provisions covered by this Act. Directs the Attorney General to: (1) establish and maintain a firearm injury information clearinghouse; (2) conduct continuing studies and investigations of firearm-related deaths and injuries; and (3) collect and maintain current production and sales figures of each licensed manufacturer. Authorizes the Attorney General to certify state firearm licensing or record of sale systems. Pleased be advised and pass this along: House Bill HR 45, Blair Holt Licensing and Record Act of 2009Will, in my opinion, be the first of 2 or 3 steps toward confiscation of privately owned firearms. You can follow the sequence as it already happened in Canada and the UK . First the government needs to register the guns so they will know where to find them.