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Video: Only Days Left Before 50 State Open Carry Demonstration On Feb. 8th!

By Bobby Powell

Alpena Mi – I got up at 0700 after only an hour of fitful sleep and traveled 120 miles to the only open spot in a concealed weapon licensing class. The only reason I got in at all was because I “know a guy”, as CPL classes in Michigan are booked solid for at least two months – and spent the entire day brushing up on the law, taking written exams to prove I knew it, and then spending another three hours qualifying on the gun range for my Michigan Concealed Pistol License.

My classmates ranged from an older (about 70) 1st MarDiv Marine to a young couple in their early 20′s. We were all there for one purpose: to be certified to carry a concealed pistol in Michigan. But why?

Northern Michigan is a beautiful place; and it is also a place where folks stop to help you back out of the snow drift that suddenly jumped out in front of you (me), where the owner of a LOCAL tire store drives your wife and son (mine) back to the car they had abandoned when the tire blew, puts on a used tire for them and charges only $30, and where most people don’t even lock their doors unless they are leaving town for an extended trip. Every now and then, a snowmobile will get stolen (or someone will get busted for drugs, petty theft, or shoplifting.) But by and large, there is not much in the way of violent crime here.

Other than a general desire for personal protection, I can’t say why the others were there; but after the world intruded on our little paradise in the form of threats of my murder and the rape of my wife simply for something I said, there is no way I can NOT carry a gun. I RESENT having to carry a gun up here. It’s totally cheesing my calm, but I refuse to be a victim or to allow my family to be anyone’s victims either. Until the people who made these threats are in jail, I will be forced to carry a gun for our protection.

Since the government has no interest in tracking down and prosecuting those who have made threats against not only me, but every NRA member, Tea Partier, and Republican – basically anyone who isn’t all up on Obama’s jock – in the United States (OR in allowing us to defend ourselves), it is up to every free man, woman, and child to take up that responsibility themselves.

Part of that responsibility is standing up to protect our God-given rights as enumerated in the Constitution, and thousands of Michigan gun owners are going to join me on the capitol steps in Lansing this Friday, Feb. 8th. Even more exciting is the fact that this Open Carry demonstration is going to take place simultaneously in each of the fifty states. With one voice, we are going to say: “No More! No more blaming an entire culture for the horrific acts of of a few deranged DEMOCRATS as an excuse to limit access to guns or take them away entirely. No more stupid, unconstitutional laws that are passed without even being read by those who vote on them. NO MORE!”

Now that Obama has been reelected, he is going to pull out all of the stops in order to institute a demonically inspired, Communistic Tyranny on these fifty individual, free, and Sovereign states. Not one to shy away from doing whatever the hell he pleases through the use of Executive Orders, you all can expect one to gut the Second Amendment any time.

This demonstration is the most important event in which I have ever taken part or covered as a reporter. It is the most important event in which YOU will ever take part, as I believe it is our last opportunity to use our voices to defend our rights. If the Obama administration actually does institute the Draconian gun laws many observers expect it to, the time for talking will be over; and a new American Revolution will be the result.

I’m not advocating violence against any person or entity in any way, shape, or form; I never have, and I never will. I am simply stating what I fear will come true, no matter how badly I wish it wouldn’t.

Continue reading at http://bobpowell.blogspot.com/2013/02/only-few-days-left.html

EDITOR’S NOTE: I produced this episode, and the last one, with a Samsung Galaxy 7-inch tablet and Youtube’s video editor. And I did it like a BOSS! “Improvise, Adapt, and Overcome” Baby! If I have to, I’ll WALK to Lansing with a sandwich board around my neck. If they want to stop me, they’re gonna have to shoot me.

Source: FULL ARTICLE at Western Journalism

Mickelson Chokes

By Michael Reagan

Phil Mickelson SC Mickelson Chokes

Phil Mickelson choked on a gimme putt this week, but it wasn’t on a golf course.

According to the AP’s golf writer, America’s most popular golfer “put his popularity on the line with polarizing comments about how much he has to pay in state and federal taxes.”

“Polarizing comments”?

Good grief.

Now it’s “polarizing” for an American to hint that because of the higher federal and state income tax rates on millionaires leveled by Sacramento and Washington, he might have to migrate to Florida or Texas?

Though he had every right to, Mickelson didn’t knock Obama or gripe like a Tea Partier about the federal, state, and local tax bite on his estimated $45 million in annual earnings — about 62 percent.

Mickelson spoke the truth. Most pro golfers already live in Florida, and for good reason. It’s not because of the warm weather; it’s because there’s no state income tax.

Tiger Woods, who bravely stuck up for Mickelson, has admitted without shame that he moved to Orlando years ago to escape California’s income tax, which is now set at 13 percent on California’s 35,000 remaining millionaires.

Ditto for Rush Limbaugh, who became a Floridian because of New York’s confiscatory state and local taxes.

It’s outrageous that any American — Mickelson, Woods, Mitt Romney, or super-liberals like Babs Streisand or Bobby Redford — is forced to fork over 60 percent of their honest earnings to government.

But it isn’t just wealthy pro golfers who are being driven out of California by high taxes.

Before Jan. 1, an older surgeon I know closed his practice, laid off his four employees, sold his house, and moved to Nevada.

He was still a practicing surgeon, not because he needed the money but because he loved being a surgeon.

But the higher income tax rates now in effect under Proposition 30 for those earning more than $250,000 were too much for him, and so the Broken State of California lost a good surgeon and four other jobs.

It’s a shame Mickelson turned out to be such a wuss. Wouldn’t it have been great if he had stood tall and become a tax-protesting hero — the Gerard Depardieu of America?

Depardieu, the wealthy and popular French actor, shocked the liberal intelligentsia of Europe with his defiant, politically incorrect, and very public stand against France’s confiscatory tax on the rich.

Decrying the 75 percent levy his socialist government is trying to put on millionaires, he moved to Belgium, gave up his French passport, and accepted the grant of citizenship from Russia, where the income tax is a reasonable, flat 13 percent.

Mickelson, meanwhile, chickened out.

He issued a sniveling apology this week, saying, “Finances and taxes are a personal matter, and I should not have made my opinions on them public. I apologize to those I have upset or insulted, and assure you I intend not to let it happen again.”

How pathetic.

Now it’s apparently an insult to the poor — or a thought crime — for a rich and successful American to publicly point out that his taxes are so high he’s thinking of moving to where they’re lower.

It’s too bad about Mickelson. Instead of apologizing and backtracking, he should be telling everyone about how high taxes are driving rich and successful people like him out of the state, demanding serious tax cuts, and threatening to run for governor.

California is a state that already has more takers than makers. It can’t afford any more wusses.

Photo credit: Ed (supergolfdude) (Creative Commons)

Source: FULL ARTICLE at Western Journalism

Problems Within The Tea Party

By Jerry Todd

Tea Party Protesters Problems Within the Tea Party

I’m a Tea Partier! I’m also a lifelong Republican as was my father, a Chicago Packard dealer Service Manager in the Capone Era. We even owned Machine Gun Mike McGurk’s ’29 Packard coupe for a while. Dad said he got to vote against that SOB Roosevelt four times!

I went to Tea Party meetings on three occasions – three different groups. I attended a big rally in Bakersfield, California where John Boehner and my Congressman Kevin McCarthy attended and were denied an opportunity to speak. They never forgave the Tea Party. It was such a stupid move, but that’s history…and I believe we’ve been paying for it with the Establishment ever since – with Karl Rove as the resident strategist. I got to share some thoughts with several gays from the local college who came to protest. We got along fine even if we didn’t agree.

How can I be a Tea Partier if I only went to three meetings and have no serious contact with any “leaders?” Tea Party is a philosophy of governance, not a club or a political party. Tea Partiers sense something drastically wrong with the “progressive” direction the country has been in since Wilson signed the Federal Reserve into law in the dark of night. This created what I call “The Multistory Outhouse” with the mastery of money at the top and a sewer of lost beauty and debt at the bottom. Guess who is in between! The Democratic Party has long abandoned the hard working family man and woman while brainwashing our children.

“Progressives” see the Constitution as a living, breathing document subject to change with the whims of those who make the most noise – classic democracy – not the Republic they hate our kids swearing allegiance to. They believe the Declaration of Independence has no legal tie to the Constitution and is therefore irrelevant. The President sees the Constitution as dead – his oath of office should be interesting, but he could sing “Yankee Doodle Dandy” and it wouldn’t matter to the mainstream media.

Tea Partiers are strong on the Constitution, but not clear on the Declaration of Independence except for its reference to God and the equality of our creation with inalienable rights. They are only slightly aware the bulk of the Declaration of Independence is a litany of history repeated in our time. The Republican Establishment hasn’t the foggiest idea and operates in ways that prove it beyond a doubt.

Contrary to the multistory outhouse, the combination of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution produced history’s greatest secular gift to mankind. I call it “The Fountain of Opportunity and Prosperity,” where money is the medium of exchange and the (profitable) servant of the other eight levels in the structure of society. There is an order of three groups of three priorities in how we think, act and operate. How these are prioritized defines the upside down “progressive” versus the “Beautifully Correct” priorities called “The Political Theory of Relativity.” (I’m willing to share with any who have the intellectual curiosity to inquire!)

We are way past politics as usual and deep into all-out spiritual warfare. We only need to note that attacks on religion, religious freedom and loyalty have accelerated drastically under the current Administration. Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals was dedicated to Lucifer. This is the “bible” of the “progressive” movement, including the teachers union. It is applied with great consistency with significant results against a dumbed down population.

The other horse in the race is the well-entrenched Muslim Brotherhood with a goal of destroying the “Great Satan” and instilling Sharia Law to replace the Constitution – at the cost of American blood and treasure to establish Sharia ruled Middle Eastern countries for starters. In either case, the end game is bloodshed and poverty for the vast majority of the American and world population.

I found the major Tea Party blog groups to be helpful but too buried in choir preaching and fundraising to have a solid effect. They are a necessary element to counter the hundreds of millions of dollars of communist-leaning unions, and Hollywood. And of course George Soros and his lackeys in Academia have poured millions into Luciferian Alinsky and Cloward and Pivens strategies to bring down the Constitution and the economy.

Time for “The whole armor of God!” (Ephesians 6:11-18)

Source: FULL ARTICLE at Western Journalism