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  • Class war
    By Ken McLean on November 28th, 2011 | No Comments Comments

    Class war at its best. 

    The folks who are getting the free stuff, don’t like the folks who are paying for the free stuff,
    Because the folks who are paying for the free stuff,
    Can no longer afford to pay for both the free stuff and their own stuff,

    And,
    The folks who are paying for the free stuff,
    Want the free stuff to stop.
    and the the folks who are getting the free stuff,
    Want even more free stuff on top of the free stuff they are already getting!

    Now…
    The people who are forcing the people who Pay for the free stuff, 
    Have told the people who are RECEIVING the free stuff,
    That the people who are PAYING for the free stuff,
    Are being mean, prejudiced, and racist.

    So… the people who are GETTING the free stuff, 
    Have been convinced they need to hate the people who are paying for the free stuff, by the people who are forcing some people to pay for their free stuff,
    And giving them the free stuff in the first place.

    We have let the free stuff giving go on for so long that there are
    Now more people getting free stuff than paying for the free stuff.

    Now understand this. All great democracies have committed financial suicide
    somewhere between 200 and 250 years after being founded. The reason? 

    The voters figured out they could vote themselves money from the treasury by electing people who promised to give them money from the treasury in exchange for electing them.

    The United States officially became a Republic in 1776, 231 years ago. The number of people now getting free stuff outnumbers the people paying for the free stuff. We have one chance to change that in 2012.
    Failure to change that spells the end of the United States as we know it.

  • ADVICE FROM CONCEAL CARRY INSTRUCTORS
    By Ken McLean on November 28th, 2011 | No Comments Comments

    ADVICE FROM CONCEAL CARRY INSTRUCTORS

     

    A WORD TO THE WISE -

    comments and saying from various Conceal Carry Instructors…..

     

    It is always better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6.

     

    And you can take that to the bank……….

     

    Words of Wisdom:

     

    If you own a gun, you will appreciate this.

     

    If not, you should get one and learn how to use it.

     

    Shooting Advice:

     

    Cops carry guns to protect themselves, not to protect you.

     

     

    Never let someone or something that threatens you get inside arm’s length and never say “I’ve got a gun”. If you feel you need to use deadly force for heaven’s sake let the first sound they hear be the safety clicking off, and they shouldn’t have time to hear anything after that if you are doing your job.

     

    ‘The average response time of a 911 call is over 23 minutes, the response time of a 9mm/.357 or .44 magnum is 1400 feet per second.’

     

    “The most important rule in a gunfight is: Always win - and cheat if necessary.”

     

     

    “Make your attacker advance through a wall of bullets. You may get killed with your own gun, but he’ll have to beat you to death with it, cause it’s going to be empty.”

     

    “If you end up in a gun fight… If you’re not shooting’, you should be loading’. If you’re not loading’, you should be moving’, if you’re not moving’, your dead.”

     

    “In a life and death situation… Do something. It may be wrong, but do something.”

     

    “If you carry a gun, people will call you paranoid. That’s ridiculous. If you have a gun, what in the hell do you have to be paranoid for?”

     

    “You can say ’stop’ or ‘alto’ or use any other word you think will work, but I’ve found that a large bore muzzle pointed at someone’s head is pretty much the universal language.”

     

    “You have the rest of your life to solve your problems. How long you live depends on how well you do it.”

     

    “You cannot save the planet, but you may be able to save yourself and your

    family.”

  • Occupy Wall Street protesters - “Who parented these people?”
    By Ken McLean on November 28th, 2011 | No Comments Comments

    Marybeth Hicks On October 19, 2011


    Call it an occupational hazard, but I can’t look at the Occupy Wall Street protesters without thinking, “Who parented these people?” 

    As a culture columnist, I’ve commented on the social and political ramifications of the “movement” - now known as “OWS” - whose fairyland agenda can be summarized by one of their placards: “Everything for everybody.” 

    Thanks to their pipe-dream platform, it’s clear there are people with serious designs on “transformational” change in America who are using the protesters like bedsprings in a brothel. 

    Yet it’s not my role as a commentator that prompts my parenting question, but rather the fact that I’m the mother of four teens and young adults. There are some crucial life lessons that the protesters’ moms clearly have not passed along. 

    Here, then, are five things the OWS protesters’ mothers should have taught their children but obviously didn’t, so I will: 

    1. Life isn’t fair. The concept of justice - that everyone should be treated fairly - is a worthy and worthwhile moral imperative on which our nation was founded. But justice and economic equality are not the same. Or, as Mick Jagger [2] said, “You can’t always get what you want.” 

    No matter how you try to “level the playing field,” some people have better luck, skills, talents or connections that land them in better places. Some seem to have all the advantages in life but squander them, others play the modest hand they’re dealt and make up the difference in hard work and perseverance, and some find jobs on Wall Street and eventually buy houses in the Hamptons. Is it fair? Stupid question. 

    2. Nothing is “free.” Protesting with signs that seek “free” college degrees and “free” health care make you look like idiots, because colleges and hospitals don’t operate on rainbows and sunshine. There is no magic money machine to tap for your meandering educational careers and “slow paths” to adulthood, and the 53 percent of taxpaying Americans owe you neither a degree nor an annual physical. 

    While I’m pointing out this obvious fact, here are a few other things that are not free: overtime for police officers and municipal workers, trash hauling, repairs to fixtures and property, condoms, Band-Aids and the food that inexplicably appears on the tables in your makeshift protest kitchens. Real people with real dollars are underwriting your civic temper tantrum. 

    3. Your word is your bond. When you demonstrate to eliminate student loan debt, you are advocating precisely the lack of integrity you decry in others. Loans are made based on solemn promises to repay them. No one forces you to borrow money; you are free to choose educational pursuits that don’t require loans, or to seek technical or vocational training that allows you to support yourself and your ongoing educational goals. Also, for the record, being a college student is not a state of victimization. It’s a privilege that billions of young people around the globe would die for - literally. 

    4. A protest is not a party. On Saturday in New York, while making a mad dash from my cab to the door of my hotel to avoid you, I saw what isn’t evident in the newsreel footage of your demonstrations: Most of you are doing this only for attention and fun. Serious people in a sober pursuit of social and political change don’t dance jigs down Sixth Avenue like attendees of a Renaissance festival. You look foolish, you smell gross, you are clearly high and you don’t seem to realize that all around you are people who deem you irrelevant. 

    5. There are reasons you haven’t found jobs. The truth? Your tattooed necks, gauged ears, facial piercings and dirty dreadlocks are off-putting. Nonconformity for the sake of nonconformity isn’t a virtue. Occupy reality: Only 4 percent of college graduates are out of work. If you are among that 4 percent, find a mirror and face the problem. It’s not them. It’s you. 

    (C 2011 Marybeth Hicks) 

    _______________________________ 

    Columnist Marybeth Hicks, a wife of 20 years and mother of four children, lives in the Midwest. She is the author of The Perfect World Inside My Minivan — One Mom’s Journey Through the Streets of Suburbia, a compilation of her columns. She uses her column to share her perspective on issues and experiences that shape families nationwide. She currently writes a column for the Washington Times. 
  • Jazz - The Tourettes Of Music
    By Ken McLean on November 15th, 2011 | No Comments Comments

    Jazz - The Turrets Of Music

    A buddy of mine told me the other day that I should listen to this Cool Jazz.

    I listened for a moment and told him to could he please change to something that made sense.

    I can listen to music that has a beat, something that I can tap my foot to, maybe sing or hum along.

    You can’t dance to Jazz, well that is not true. I think a Dorkey White Boy could take ahold of a Jazz Beat.

    Close your eyes - I know you can see him dancing to it the Noise.

    Jazz is like going over to a Piano Keyboard and start hammering on the keys. Hey Cool Jazz.

    Please!

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