Reinke Faces Life

http://www.survivalblog.com/2010/09/a_womans_perspective_on_person.html

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Imagine this frightening scenario and try to envision yourself here: You’re strolling through an empty parking lot at dusk thinking about the events of the day when suddenly your arm is clasped from behind and pulled forcefully downward. Your head crashes against the unforgiving concrete. Blood gushes from your nose. Before you have a moment to process anything, your attacker is now on top of you, beating your face with open fists. Gasping for air from fear and excruciating pain, you scream and slap him in an aimless attempt to shield yourself, by which time he has secured your flailing arms. His eyes are dark and empty. He barks out orders that your mind fails to decipher, while pressing the icy blade of a knife against your throat. Your shrieks of panic echo through the air, but no one seems to hear. Subdued under the weight of his body, you have nowhere else to turn. You are the next victim.

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This post, cited below. should be required reading for all females of “age”. All! “women’s lib”, no victims, ever.

“So if a Bravo Golf was to try and rape your sister, you’d kill to stop him; right?” “Yes, Miss Marie.” “If someone was going to kill any of your Classmates, what then?” “I’d do what needs doing.”“Yes, we women do. Did you know John’s paternal grandmother traveled the Oregon Trail, bore 13 children, and fought Indians and Outlaws? She’s in her 90’s now. I’ve read her letters. Women can kill when it’s needed. We may not be as physically strong as men, but who seems to get to change all the diapers?” — character “Marie” answering a question in CHURCH 10●19●62 Volume 1 Page 262

Always thought women needed to have the confidence to defend themselves and their children. Guess I was always lucky to be around strong women.

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Robert A. Hall is a Marine Vietnam Veteran who served five terms in the Massachusetts State Senate.

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I’m tired At 63…

I’m 63. Except for one semester in college when jobs were scarce and a six-month period when I was between jobs but job-hunting every day, I’ve worked hard since I was 18. Despite some health challenges, I still put in 50-hour weeks, and haven’t called in sick in seven or eight years. I make a good salary, but I didn’t inherit my job or my income, and I worked to get where I am. Given the economy, there’s no retirement in sight, and I’m tired… very tired.

I’m tired of being told that I have to “spread the wealth” to people who don’t have my work ethic. I’m tired of being told the government will take the money I earned, by force if necessary, and give it to people too lazy to earn it.

I’m tired of being told that I have to pay more taxes to “keep people in their homes.” Sure, if they lost their jobs or got sick, I’m willing to help. But if they bought McMansions at three times the price of our paid-off, $250,000 condo, on one-third of my salary, then let the left-wing Congress-critters who passed Fannie and Freddie and the Community Reinvestment Act that created the bubble help them with their own money.

I’m tired of being told how bad America is by left-wing millionaires like Michael Moore, George Soros and Hollywood Entertainers who live in luxury because of the opportunities America offers. In thirty years, if they get their way, the United States will have the economy of Zimbabwe , the freedom of the press of China , the crime and violence of Mexico , the tolerance for Christian people of Iran , and the freedom of speech of Venezuela .

I’m tired of being told that Islam is a “Religion of Peace,” when every day I can read dozens of stories of Muslim men killing their sisters, wives and daughters for their family “honor”; of Muslims rioting over some slight offense; of Muslims murdering Christian and Jews because they aren’t “believers”; of Muslims burning schools for girls; of Muslims stoning teenage rape victims to death for “adultery”; of Muslims mutilating the genitals of little girls; all in the name of Allah, because the Qur’an and Shari’a law tells them to.

I’m tired of being told that “race doesn’t matter” in the post-racial world of Obama, when it’s all that matters in affirmative action jobs, lower college admission and graduation standards for minorities (harming them the most), government contract set-asides, tolerance for the ghetto culture of violence and fatherless children that hurts minorities more than anyone, and in the appointment of U. S. Senators from Illinois.

I think it’s very cool that we have a black president and that a black child is doing her homework at the desk where Lincoln wrote the Emancipation Proclamation. I just wish the black president was Condi Rice, or someone who believes more in freedom and the individual and less arrogantly of an all-knowing government.

I’m tired of a news media that thinks Bush’s fundraising and inaugural expenses were obscene, but that think Obama’s, at triple the cost, were wonderful; that thinks Bush exercising daily was a waste of presidential time, but Obama exercising is a great example for the public to control weight and stress; that picked over every line of Bush’s military records, but never demanded that Kerry release his; that slammed Palin, with two years as governor, for being too inexperienced for VP, but touted Obama with three years as senator as potentially the best president ever.. Wonder why people are dropping their subscriptions or switching to Fox News? Get a clue. I didn’t vote for Bush in 2000, but the media and Kerry drove me to his camp in 2004.

I’m tired of being told that out of “tolerance for other cultures” we must let Saudi Arabia use our oil money to fund mosques and mandrassa Islamic schools to preach hate in America, while no American group is allowed to fund a church, synagogue or religious school in Saudi Arabia to teach love and tolerance.

I’m tired of being told I must lower my living standard to fight global warming, which no one is allowed to debate. My wife and I live in a two-bedroom apartment and carpool together five miles to our jobs. We also own a three-bedroom condo where our daughter and granddaughter live. Our carbon footprint is about 5% of Al Gore’s, and if you’re greener than Gore, you’re green enough.

I’m tired of being told that drug addicts have a disease, and I must help support and treat them, and pay for the damage they do. Did a giant germ rush out of a dark alley, grab them and stuff white powder up their noses while they tried to fight it off? And I’m tired of harassment from cool people treating me like a freak when I tell them I never tried marijuana.

I’m tired of illegal aliens being called “undocumented workers,” especially the ones who aren’t working, but are living on welfare or crime. What’s next? Calling drug dealers, “Undocumented Pharmacists”? And, no, I’m not against Hispanics. Most of them are Catholic, and it’s been a few hundred years since Catholics wanted to kill me for my religion. I’m willing to fast track for citizenship any Hispanic person, who can speak English, doesn’t have a criminal record and who is self-supporting without family on welfare, or who serves honorably for three years in our military. Those are the citizens we need.

I’m tired of latte liberals and journalists, who would never wear the uniform of the Republic themselves, or let their entitlement-handicapped kids near a recruiting station, trashing our military. They and their kids can sit at home, never having to make split-second decisions under life and death circumstances, and bad mouth better people than themselves. Do bad things happen in war? You bet. Do our troops sometimes misbehave? Sure. Does this compare with the atrocities that were the policy of our enemies for the last fifty years and still are? Not even close. So here’s the deal. I’ll let myself be subjected to all the humiliation and abuse that was heaped on terrorists at Abu Ghraib or Gitmo, and the critics can let themselves be subject to captivity by the Muslims, who tortured and beheaded Daniel Pearl in Pakistan, or the Muslims who tortured and murdered Marine Lt. Col. William Higgins in Lebanon, or the Muslims who ran the blood-spattered Al Qaeda torture rooms our troops found in Iraq, or the Muslims who cut off the heads of schoolgirls in Indonesia, because the girls were Christian. Then we’ll compare notes. British and American soldiers are the only troops in history that civilians came to for help and handouts, instead of hiding from in fear.

I’m tired of people telling me that their party has a corner on virtue and the other party has a corner on corruption. Read the papers; bums are bipartisan. And I’m tired of people telling me we need bipartisanship. I live in Illinois, where the “Illinois Combine” of Democrats has worked to loot the public for years. Not to mention the tax cheats in Obama’s cabinet.

I’m tired of hearing wealthy athletes, entertainers and politicians of both parties talking about innocent mistakes, stupid mistakes or youthful mistakes, when we all know they think their only mistake was getting caught. I’m tired of people with a sense of entitlement, rich or poor.

Speaking of poor, I’m tired of hearing people with air-conditioned homes, color TVs and two cars called poor. The majority of Americans didn’t have that in 1970, but we didn’t know we were “poor.” The poverty pimps have to keep changing the definition of poor to keep the dollars flowing.

I’m real tired of people who don’t take responsibility for their lives and actions. I’m tired of hearing them blame the government, or discrimination or big-whatever for their problems.

Yes, I’m d*amn tired. But I’m also glad to be 63. Because, mostly, I’m not going to have to see the world these people are making. I’m just sorry for my granddaughter.

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There is no way this will be widely publicized, unless each of us sends it on! This is your chance to make a difference.

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New York Post is running a story in today’s paper that state and local D’s are putting poll workers on the payroll with tax documents to make the unemployment rate look better than it is. Poll workers are “employed” for a training day, primary day, and election day. Then, “unemployed”. Some boost to employment numbers. But may fool the press and public enough to keep thm from voting everyone out.

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http://townhall.com/columnists/MichaelBarone/2010/09/13/gangster_government_stifles_criticism_of_obamacare/page/full/

Criticism of Obamacare
Michael Barone
Gangster Government Stifles Criticism of Obamacare

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Sebelius objects to claims by health insurers that they are raising premiums because of increased costs imposed by the Obamacare law passed by Congress last March.

She acknowledges that many of the law’s “key protections” take effect later this month and does not deny that these impose additional costs on insurers. But she says that “according to our analysis and those of some industry and academic experts, any potential premium impact … will be minimal.”

Well, that’s reassuring. Er, except that if that’s the conclusion of “some” industry and academic experts, it’s presumably not the conclusion of all industry and academic experts, or the secretary would have said so.

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First of all, as part of the Gooferment, the Health and Human Services Secretary is restrained by the First Amendment. If she feels that the Gooferment is being maligned or the public is being mislead, the Gooferment has a plethora of lawyers. In the 17 tons of diktats, surely she can find one to charge the Insurance Companies with. Fraud, defrauding consumers by raising prices while blaming the Gooferment. Perjury, get them in front of Congress, like Roger Clemens.

Second, it’s only common sense, if I’m the insurance company and I know have to cover “children to age 26” starting today, that cost has to be spread over everyone in the pool. Insurance is just sharing a small guaranteed annual loss to avoid a random gigantic one at an inopportune time. Sort of like a child’s balloon, squeeze one end and the the other end bulges. If there a million people in the pool and the risk of some one’s college kid hast be covered, then every one in the pool has to cough up one millionth of the probably cost. If you have no college age “children”, find a better pool to be in. Argh! It’s just common sense. Only the gooferment can level the pool by taking water from the “deep end” and pouring it into the shallow end.

So, the H&HSS should just shut up!

Obamacare is a disaster and no amount of jawboning insurance companies is going to change it. Argh

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http://www.keywestlou.com/2010/09/day-of-remembrance.html

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Then there is this minister who wants to burn the Quran. In poor taste, also. But…..the Muslims burn my flag and hang my President in effigy. So why not!
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A few reasons why not:

(1) This is America and we have religious tolerance. It affords us a measure of peace that is not enjoyed elsewhere. We don’t need to import that problem. Especially not due to the action of some pastor of a no name Church with 30 members.

(2) When teams go into a game, you don’t give your opponent “bulletin board” material. Stuff to motivate them to strive harder. Our boys and girls, some mere children, are in <Expletive Deleted> harm’s way and this bozo is making it more dangerous. I’d think every vet in his vicinity would explain the facts of life to him. With or without tar and feathers as necessary.

(3) There probably is no more stupid act than to burn a book. Any book. It represents the DNA of humanity. Even it’s totally wrong (i.e., the Earth is flat); it’s important in it shows the errors in our thinking at that point in time. Too much dikw (i.e., data, information, knowledge, wisdom) is lost; we don’t need to make it an acceptable activity. Ever. Besides isn’t that what Nazis do?

(4) If he wants to burn something, try a politician. (Just joking, I’m a Right to Life fellow who abhors the death penalty.) Not only did the Gooferment fail to protect 4,000 Americans on 9/11, they have failed to lead us. I blogged today how we should have had a national priority to rebuild the twin towers with an extra ‘middle finger” building in the middle, that was one story taller than the old buildings, and align it to face the Middle East. (I’m a little L libertarian; not a pacifist. I don’t start fights; I finish them!)

So we should tell this bozo to put a cork in his gas can. And, if someone overseas wants to burn the President in effigy, we should send them some more effigies of other “political leaders” to throw on the pyre. Saves us the gas.

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http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=6105570

Ground Zero Memorial Service: 9th Anniversary of Terror Attacks

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I empathize with the 9/11 families. I think the 9/11 responders got screwed. I would hope that we can do better in the future.

I blame the political leadership.

We should have the WTC rebuilt in record setting time. Any bully knocks you down, you jump back up and get in the fight. I would, if I was “King”, have selected the three tower design with a larger middle tower that was exactly one foot taller. And. I’d have “faced” it towards the Middle East.

Also if I was “King” I’d have bought every “first responder” a Gooferment employee health insurance plan. And, I’d have ensured that all the families were appropriately compensated for this colossal Gooferment failure. The Gooferment has only one job and that’s to protect us from force or fraud. They failed miserably.

Now, I’d be looking at the kooks who want to burn books or build mosques to mark the conquest. Isn’t that out of the Nazi playbook? The Gooferment has NO role telling them what they can and can’t do with respect to religion. But this is about PR. And, yes, in foreign countries they burn stuff. We’re not responsible for that. But I would “encourage” my fellow citizens to express their opinions to these kooks. I’d proved police protection from bullets to them. However if unorganized citizens want to deliver a load of “barbara streisand” to them, I’d step aside and let the free market operate. Where are these poeples’ relatives and neighbors? (BTW what union iron worker is going to build that mosque?)

BUT, politicians can spare me the faux sympathy and ersatz patriotism.

They failed in their duty because they were too busy jerking around playing political games.

A pox on them.

GBA!

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http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.260c2246a5c77075ff7ab46b021e9239.371&show_article=1

Iran ‘stoning woman’ to be lashed over photo: son
Sep 4 01:08 PM US/Eastern

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Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani, an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery, has also been sentenced to 99 lashes for a photo published of her without a headscarf, according to her son.

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Clearly, we have to stand up morally for the rights of this oman, and all women. The greatest power we have is “ostracism”. We turn our backs on those that are immoral and shun them. So, we have to declare a diplomat persona non grata and send them home. We should identify any one in the Iranian Gooferment, PNG them should they show up at our porous borders looking for some “fun”, and finally Congress should pass a “marque and reprisal” on them. Basically saying we won’t prosecute or extradite anyone who takes action against these folks.

We should urge the Brits, French, Germans, and Swiss to do the same. Let’s see how these “big men” enjoy a little “adult time out”!

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