Quote of the day

Gun control means being able to hit your target. If I have a 'hot button' issue, this is definitely it. Don't even think about taking my guns. My rights are not negotiable, and I am totally unwilling to compromise when it comes to the Second Amendment. -Michael Badnarik-

What part of Shall NOT be Infringed dont you understand?

Today freedom has again been defended. Not only on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, but in the court system. The United States Supreme Court has ruled against the city of Chicago's gun ban. Thank you Mr. McDonald and the NRA for pursuing the case. In spite of today's decision, the US Senate is holding confirmation hearings on Elana Kagans appointment to the court. I do hope that she is not confirmed because she is about as qualified to be on the bench as I am.

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There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.  -Alexander Hamilton-

The Star Spangled Banner

Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light

What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?

Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight,

O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?

And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,

Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.

Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave

O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,

Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,

What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,

As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?

Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,

In full glory reflected now shines in the stream:

'Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh long may it wave

O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore

That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion,

A home and a country should leave us no more!

Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution.

No refuge could save the hireling and slave

From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:

And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave

O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand

Between their loved home and the war's desolation!

Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land

Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.

Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,

And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."

And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave

O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave

 

Frances Scott Key

Quote of the day

The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they will win and the decent people will loose. -James Earl Jones-

Uh... can everyone please pay attention?

The deadliest road

Welcome to Florida... Home of the deadliest stretch of Interstate highway in the country. It is definitely not a news flash for me, since I drive it every night, and every night IS an adventure! For instance, last night I was riding along and was being passed by another big rig when I noticed he had his dome light on. RED FLAG, RED FLAG!!! I now have a death grip on the wheel... hands at ten and two... there he goes off into the third lane and I knew it wasn't good so I moved over as far as I could. When he realized he was not in his lane, he jerks the steering wheel to get back in his lane. Eighty thousand pounds of big rig doesn't react like a sports car and the momentum of his actions causes his shiny white freight shaker to cross the line into my lane. He missed me only because I was paying attention. Of course I gave him a one finger salute like I was telling him that he was number one.

Then there are the telephone drivers. Please do not text and drive. No matter how good you think you are at texting it only takes a few seconds for things to go horribly wrong. Line to line they go, faster and faster, and then way too slow.  If you must talk on the phone while driving... use a blue tooth device. Please pay attention while you are behind the wheel.

Driving while sleepy is as dangerous as driving after you have had a few too many. Its late at night and the on coming headlights are hypnotizing . You begin to stare down the road. The roar of the tires starts to relax  you. Your eyes begin to itch and are getting heavy. You know you are getting sleepy so you turn up your radio, maybe to a rock-n-roll station, and immediately you perk up. It doesn't last and soon your eyes begin to close. You shake your head like killer bees are swarming around your hair. Pull over and take a power nap. Even if it is only for thirty minutes. When you wake up you will be refreshed and will be able to continue on with your journey. DO not fall into the trap of thinking that you need to stop and get a cup of coffee because it will not help. Sure, it will let you get a few miles down the road, but after  fifteen minutes or so, you will find that you are staring down the road again.

Quote of the day

To vote is like the payment of a debt, a duty never to be neglected, if its performance is possible.
-Rutherford B. Hayes-

Super Tuesday

The polling places were open today across the country so that we can practice one of the greatest rights we have. That right is taken for granted my a majority of citizens of our country. How many times have you heard people rant about politics and complain about policies that the leviathon force upon us. Then you ask the simple question... Do you vote? It makes me sick to my stomach when they reply "No, I dont have time for that and besides it wouldn't do any good". It is high time that people get off of their high horse, and go make their voices heard. One vote might not do any good. But, if the masses get tired of the bullspit that goes on in DC and decide to get off of their lazy rumps, we could see real change. A change that this country needs.

Some signs from the tax day TEA party in Jacksonville, Florida 4-15-10.

                    

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We have four boxes with which to defend our freedom: the soap box, the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.-Congressman Larry McDonald-

HERE HERE!

If Mexico wasn't such a shiite hole maybe your citizens wouldn't be coming over OUR border Mr. Calderon!

Quote of the day

What I object to the current government intervention in so-called 'solving the crisis', they haven't solved anything. They've just postponed it. -Marc Faber-

Get out there!

Today I took a trip to Fernandina Beach to visit Fort Clinch. Yes, I had been there before, but it had been

20+ years since my last visit. The place had changed and for the better.  You can tell some of the bricks aren't the same color  because they have been restoring it.

Don't SHOOT!

Fort Clinch was built in 1847 and Union troops were stationed there during the Civil War. Although there weren't any battles there it looks like the were prepared for Johnny reb to make an entrance.

The fort was built on this location to protect the entrance of the Amelia River, and during the War of Northern Aggression  it guarded against resupply efforts of the south.

Cannon balls that were recovered from the site.

I was wondering what they did for drinking water... so I asked a park ranger. He told me that some of the roofs were "V" shaped to collect rain water. When the fort was under construction they put in six cisterns that could hold 53,000 gallons of the collected rain water. They also had a hand pump near the cook house

and bakery.Can you imagine just having water to drink, maybe some tea and coffee? I took this photo from the store house and it looks to me like someone was prepared for saturday night!

After checking out the fort I decided to walk one the trails called Willow pond. Some visitors near the trail were slow moving while yet another didnt want to move at all. I told the second one that he could have the trail to himself and that it was time for me to go.

He was on the trail as I approached and I am glad that he moved about a foot or so or I wouldn't have seen him. He sat there and was a lil too close to the trail for me to pass by. IMO the only good poisonous snake is a dead one. Since I was only packing a camera I shot him with what I had!

Quote of the day

The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.  -Sam Houston-

I knew it!

I knew there had to be a rational explanation for why people wore their pants down below the crack of

arse! I shouldn't have posted this picture. Now our incompetent congress will pass a law saying that midgets can not walk around with another midget on their shoulders.