A lot of people are hitting the road for the holiday weekend. Remember, friends and neighbors, alcohol and gasoline don’t mix, no-one gets a trophy for the most consecutive hours driven, everyone else on the road is an idiot, and seat belts save lives.
Y’all have a good weekend!
Posted by daddybear71 on May 24, 2013
https://daddybearsden.com/2013/05/24/todays-earworm-369/
I received this from Ray Carter at the Second Amendment Foundation. If you can help them, please do, especially if you’re in Europe yourself. Like Ray said in his message, what happens there will inevitably spread over here.
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Dear friends and gun rights activists,
Joining the call of British Shooting Sports Council we ask to IAPCAR and all gun rights association in its organization, to participate to the online survey organized by European Union Commissioner, Cecilia Malmstrom.
The menace to semiautomatic firearms in private hands is IMMINENT, as the online survey maliciously suggests a possible link between private possession of firearms and their us for criminal or terrorist purposes, being nothing else than another attempt to disarm honest citizens for the sake of added “firearms security”.
The questions are utterly misleading.
Question C.2 suggests that the list of prohibited firearms should be extended (it is understood that the Commission is referring to semiautomatic rifles and possibly also to semiautomatic shotguns and handguns).
Question C.4 pursues the mandatory use of locking devices in firearms (imagine the impact if this was made retrospective).
Question C.7 would provide a justification to introduce compulsory mental health tests and suppress the current derogation that allows people under the age of 18 to hunt and sport-shoot if they have parental permission or guidance.
We can expect for sure that the various anti-gun EU associations will take action to orchestrate a deliberate number of answers resulting in a public call for tighter gun control.
Deadline for participation is June 17th 2013.
This can’t happen and we ask you to take part to the online survey in the following steps:
Please follow the following steps:
All of the European associations, especially Swedish ones, can contact the proposer of this survey in the person of European Commissioner Ms. Cecilia Malmstrom which can be contacted at these sites, possibly to explain her that firearms of private honest citizens are not to be confused with the ones of criminals and terrorists:
http://ec.europa.eu/commission_2010-2014/malmstrom/contact/contact-me_en.htm
https://twitter.com/malmstromeu
https://www.facebook.com/MalmstromEU
Swedish citizens in particular can also contact her party, Folkpartiet liberalerna (Liberal People’s Party), to let them know what you think, at the following site and email:
http://www.folkpartiet.se/ — info@folkpartiet.se
While EU citiziens can contact Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (A.L.D.E.):
http://web.cor.europa.eu/alde/contact-us/Pages/default.aspx
Asking their respective national parties NOT to support Maelmstrom initiatives, you can find various parties members of ALDE at the following page:
http://www.alde.eu/alde-group/alde-across-europe-map-member-state/
We thank you for your help, immediate action is necessary for the protection of our common gun rights.
Best regards,
Simone Ciucchi – FISAT President
May 2013
Bologna, Italy
Posted by daddybear71 on May 24, 2013
https://daddybearsden.com/2013/05/24/help-out-our-european-cousins/
Banana Republic – it’s like Gar animals for gay men! — Irish Woman, commenting on a discussion at the dinner table.
Posted by daddybear71 on May 24, 2013
https://daddybearsden.com/2013/05/24/quote-of-the-day-111/
Posted by daddybear71 on May 23, 2013
https://daddybearsden.com/2013/05/23/thoughts-on-the-day-135/
History has shown time and time again that handouts hurt more than they help. The cliché of giving a man a fish vs. teaching him to fish is perfectly valid. Society benefits more by holding Fishing Clinics versus handing out all you can eat tilapia. Expecting people to work for their sustenance is not cruel or heartless, teaching them a life of dependency is. — Robb Allen, “How I feel about the poor and downtrodden“
Posted by daddybear71 on May 23, 2013
https://daddybearsden.com/2013/05/23/quote-of-the-day-110/
Posted by daddybear71 on May 22, 2013
https://daddybearsden.com/2013/05/22/thoughts-on-the-day-134/
Posted by daddybear71 on May 22, 2013
https://daddybearsden.com/2013/05/22/todays-earworm-367/
Posted by daddybear71 on May 21, 2013
https://daddybearsden.com/2013/05/21/blogs-roundup-31/
I wanna sleep right now
I’m DaddyBear and I need to lie down
I don’t even need a bed,
Just somewhere to lay my head.
Because I’m tired, I mean exhausted.
In the morning, I want my PopTarts frosted.
Stay away from me until I’ve had some sleep.
If you bother me, your soul I’ll reap.
Because…
It takes sleep for me to feel right.
Ten or twelve hours would be out of sight.
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With thanks to Rob Base.
Posted by daddybear71 on May 20, 2013
https://daddybearsden.com/2013/05/20/todays-earworm-365/
My Fellow Americans,
Over the past few weeks, a series of revelations about the attack in Benghazi, the conduct of the Internal Revenue Service over the past few years, and the tactics used by the Justice Department in an investigation have shaken the confidence of the American people in their government. I must admit that I was as surprised by some of the allegations myself, and I am also shocked that I did not know about the IRS and Associated Press situations before everyone else did. For that, I apologize to you, for my foremost duty is to be a good steward of the nation, and there is no excuse for knowing when my subordinates are violating the trust of the American people.
I have reached out to Senate Majority Leader Reid and Speaker of the House Boehner and requested that they convene bi-partisan joint committees to fully investigate and air out these issues. There is no better disinfectant than sunlight, and I believe that when you all see your government openly discussing these scandals, you will regain your trust in us. I am directing all members of the executive branch of government to cooperate fully with the Congress in this, and will not be invoking executive privilege. Those who fail to cooperate with the investigations will be removed from their positions, and anyone who is found to have broken the law will be referred for prosecution with no hope of a pardon from me.
Ladies and gentlemen, as Harry Truman once said, the buck stops here. I am the chief executive of the government, and while I give authority to the members of my cabinet and their agencies to run the government and enforce the laws, the responsibility for what they do with that authority rests with me. I pledge to each and every one of you that I will redouble my efforts to be a deserving recipient of your trust, and have changed the ways that I oversee the various departments and agencies of the government. In addition, I have made it clear to all of the cabinet secretaries that I expect to know about major issues as soon as they come to light, and that I will not hesitate to fire anyone who tries to keep such things from me, either by deception or omission.
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So that’s it. If President Obama were to make that speech, preferably on national television, and follow through on what he promises, I’d give him a lot more credit than I ever have in the past. If there is “no there, there”, then taking these steps would finally put out these fires. If there is indeed something there, then it would get it out in the open so that we can deal with it and be done with it.
I must say, if he were to do this, he’d be the first chief executive in my lifetime to do so, Democrat or Republican, and they all have had something rotten that needed a little sunshine.
Posted by daddybear71 on May 19, 2013
https://daddybearsden.com/2013/05/19/the-speech-id-like-to-hear/
