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The Second Amendment

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“A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”

 
 
 

 Survival

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You cannot compromise with those

who intend your destruction!

 

Oddly, some will dispute that contention.  It is difficult to imagine such a mindset but, unfortunately, it seems fairly common in today’s world. 

 

Logic insists that if anyone expresses a desire to kill you, you must take them at their word and discussion, if any, is conducted with weapons drawn and

ready. 

 

To do any other is to place ourselves at a quite deadly disadvantage.  There are many in government today who would happily put us at that disadvantage.

 

When your adversaries would rather die than live, it is perhaps a great kindness to arrange it for them.

 

si vis pacem, para bellum

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Liberty

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The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

                                 ThomasJefferson

 Letter to William Stephens Smith,  13 November 1787

                                                      

 

 Losing liberties one at a time is like hair which isn’t always noticed or objected to until you wake up to find that you’re bald.

 

 

We have nearly reached that point where more than half the population has its nose in the public trough.  Beyond that point lies disaster when the producers, unable to improve their lot, give it up and join them in feeding at the trough.

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Politics

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“Never give in, never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy”.

                                                                                                      –                              -Winston Churchill – 

                                             (1942)

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Politics

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“A nation can survive its fools and even the ambitious, but it cannot survive treason from within.

 

An enemy at the gates is formidable, for he is known and carries his banners openly against the city, but the traitor moves freely among those within the gates, his sly whispers rustling through the alleys and heard in the very halls of government itself.

 

He rots the soul of a nation; he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city; he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist..”

                                          – Cicero –

A Short History

I was born in December of 1932 on a small farm near Toppenish, Washington, on the Yakima Indian Reservation. My father was an out at the pants dirt farmer who worked his butt off to support his family. His trials and tribulations, along with a strong native laziness, convinced me that I didn’t want to be a farmer.

I finished high school in 1950, attended a trade school (electrical trades) for a while before going to work as an apprentice at the Bremerton Naval Shipyard, from where I was drafted in January of 1953.

My graduation from army signal school was almost exactly coincident with the ending of the “Police Action” in Korea and I spent a pleasant year or so attached to the Army Command and Administrative Network Unit which was then at Clark Air Force Base.

After my discharge, in December of 1954, I took a quick pass at higher education at Washington State College. I soon discovered that higher education was tougher than I was and spent the next twelve years as a draftsman at Boeing.

In 1969, Boeing laid off just about half the population of the city of Seattle and I was just one of them. Three days later, I walked into Stan’s Gun Shop and the proprietor said “I got a proposition for you”. I spent the next thirty-eight years behind the counter there, retiring at the end of July in 2008.

I now, with my cat, loll about in a senior housing apartment building, spending most of my time seated in front of my computer. I do a little photography in my spare time but mostly I roam around in search of a dog to pet…I like ’em…they like me.

That’s my story and I’ll stick to it!

 

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