The novel gun-owners have been waiting for.

A novel written by a gun-owner.

A novel about gun-owners in which they are seen for the real people they are--hard-working, taxpaying people with lifestyles and interests as diverse as any other demographic rather than the "good ol' redneck beer-swilling skirt-chasing Bubba boys" so many other novels portray them to be.

A novel in which the absolute importance of the Second Amendment is shown in an inarguable example of our nation's original and first line of defense against "all enemies, foreign and domestic."

A novel that shows the enemies of freedom, both inside the U.S. and outside for who they truly are.

A novel in which it's not a super-hero government commando past or present special forces CIA bullet-proof character that repels the most serious threat ever lodged against Americans, but average ordinary everyday Americans who legally carry firearms.

On April 15th, the novel will be available for purchase online at Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, Copia, the Apple iBookstore, the Reader Store (for Sony's e-reader), Kobo, Gardner', and Baker and Taylor as well as at selected pro-gun and pro-Second Amendment websites.

From the review stack (reviews from actual gun-owners who were chosen at random for advance proof copies):

Thoroughly enjoyed the book, will be purchasing copies for family and friends. I am a avid reader not many books get me unable to put down. Fine effort developing all the arguments against gun control.

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Above Reproach captures the heart of real Americans—loving freedom and being willing to do whatever needs to be done in order to preserve it. If this doesn't make your heart pump red, white, and blue, nothing will!

***

This book grabs you, and quickly pulls you deep into it's pages. An all too realistic look at what can, and very well may happen in this country in the near future. A strong statement on why every responsible citizen should be armed. Once you read this book, you will never leave the house unarmed again!

***

You've done a bang-up job rolling some of this nations toughest problems into a story that mirrors the thoughts and concerns of patriotic conservative citizens across this country, in a story that carries real life consequence for all of us.

***

To say that "Above Reproach" is a good read does not do this book justice! A page turner from the start to the end! Highly recommend this to any supporter of the Second Amendment!

An excerpt from the book:

Darren Holt raised his .357 magnum and drew a sight picture on the Middle Eastern man who had just pulled out an SKS rifle from his equipment bag. “Drop it!” he yelled, holding his weapon in the classic Weaver stance. The terrorist looked at Holt, then looked quickly around him as another burst of automatic weapons fire erupted. Looking straight back at Holt, the student raised his rifle and began to move the muzzle towards—

A thunderous double-tap knocked the SKS-wielding terrorist to the ground. Holt lowered his gun and along with two of his teammates, raced around the backstop to the other side of the baseball diamond where they’d heard the last burst of gunfire. Just when they were abeam the first-base dugout, they heard a pop-pop-pop-pop that Holt recognized all too well. Instinctively ducking, he followed the source of the sound and saw a sixty-ish year-old man holding a Glock pistol, and in front of him was one of the gun-toting terrorists, laying dead with a fully automatic AK-47 in front of him. Behind him in the parking lot, Holt heard four loud shots and wheeled around to see a young female student holding a small five-shot revolver. In front of her was the third dark-complexioned young man, also on the ground and dead with an AK-47 still in his hands.

Holt looked around and surveyed the scene. Local citizens everywhere had their guns out looking for danger. The older man with the Glock had put it back in his holster underneath his loose shirttails. Holt walked over to the young female, who was clutching her revolver with a death grip and shaking. “Are you okay?” he asked her gently.

“I-I-I-saw h-h-h-him just shoot those two people in cold blood,” the young woman stammered, on the verge of breaking down. “I had my gun out and then he saw me and turned towards me and, and, and—”

“You did the right thing, ma’am,” Holt assured her, gently taking the young lady’s gun from her. It still held one more live round, he saw upon checking the cylinder. “Let’s sit down for a minute, I’m a little shaky, too.” Flipping his cell phone on, Holt called for his wife to come over with the boys. All around him, local citizens were forming a protective ring around the ballpark. Somebody he didn’t know came up to him.

“You okay, buddy?” the stranger asked, handing Holt a bottle of Gatorade.

“Yeah, I’m fine,” he said, gulping down half the bottle. “Did someone call the police?”

“I did, as soon as I first heard the shooting,” the man said. “Did anyone besides the bad guys get shot?”

“Two old folks, over there,” Holt pointed, looking around him for his wife and boys.

“Dad!” one of his kids yelled. “Daddy! Are you okay?”

“I’m fine, I’m fine,” Holt assured the ten-year-old, mussing up his hair. Even though he was an avid sport shooter, hunter and reloader, he never thought he’d ever have to fire a weapon in anger, not here in Lubbock, Texas.

Finally the sirens could be heard, along with the wails of ambulances. Reaching over to the young lady who’d shot the last bad guy, he gently put his arm around her shoulders. She was no longer trembling. “The police are coming. Everything will be all right now,” he assured her, not realizing how foolish that sounded.

The college student turned and looked at Holt. “My mom argued with my dad over me having a gun. She was against it, big time. But for once, thank God, my dad refused to give in. I’d be dead if he had,” she said, pointing to the airweight revolver still in Holt’s hand. “That guy,” she said, motioning towards the dead terrorist she had shot, “was going to kill me and I don’t even know why.”

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  © 2012 J.D. Kinman

A picture is worth a thousand race riots.

Unbiased media?

Question for the race-baiters leadership: Why isn't THIS being shown?

New company policy: We are not hiring until Obama is gone.

Hey, how about that hope and change?

I find it funny, in a macabre sort of way, that coming up on four years later, the diehard liberals (translation: absolute idiots) are still wanting to blame George W Bush for the nation's unemployment woes.

Even with the Obama administration constantly weasling around with the stats (ie, dropping those who are no longer eligible to file for monthly unemployment claims from the statistics, intentionally adjusting then falsifying season hiring criteria for statistical purposes, etc), unemployment is a big problem for the Socialist Party, er, excuse me. . . the Democrat Party.

I'm trying to recall. . . I never saw a sign that said, "New company policy: We are not hiring until Bush is gone."

I recall hearing a bunch of Hollywood asses like Baldwin and Sarandon PROMISING to leave the country if Bush was elected, then promising again if he was elected to a second term.

Last I smelled, both Baldwin and Sarandon were still polluting the ozone layer above Hollywood.

I don't recall seeing signs that read, "New company policy: We are not buying any overpriced gasoline until Bush is gone."

And so on and so on.

Read the story here, and pay attention to some of the comments from actual business owners. Students and OWS losers can whine and bitch all they want, but the fact is, small business IS the backbone of America and Small Business is on a hiring freeze until Mr. When We Spread The Wealth Around It's A Good Thing is gone.

Business in America is hurting. Businesses in America are hurting. Small businesses in America are being crippled by our government, led by a community organizer who couldn't organize a one-Kenyan horseshoe tournament, let alone a group of advisers with REAL WORLD BUSINESS EXPERIENCE. Spoonfed CEOs like that jackoff from General Electric don't cut it

This changes nothing--and a proposal regarding the New Black Panthers.

Glad that some more facts are coming out in the Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman fiasco.

It seems that unlike the portrayals by the rabble-rousing asshole Al Sharpton and other race-baiters of his stinking ilk, little Trayvon Marin wasn't quite the angelic altar boy they portrayed him out to be.

He was in the midst of a four-day suspension from school because of possession of drugs, according to the Miami Herald. Another report claims this was his second suspension from as many high schools in as many years.

There are some stories circulating with links that allegedly show Trayvon Martin's "gangsta alias" profiles on MySpace and Twitter and Facebook. Lots of pictures of guns, his tattoos (autopsy report should show conclusively how many--if any--tattoos Martin had) and comments.

If true, Martin was no angel. Sad, because other links to sites hosted by his (alleged) family members show a pretty typical All-American family. Unfortunately, good kids sometimes go bad. Our jails and prisons--and cemeteries--are full of such examples.

But recent reports are also showing something else about the Zimmerman/Martin incident.

It seems that according to witnesses, Zimmerman was getting his butt kicked.

But this changes nothing.

The facts are, and always will be, Zimmerman was in his SUV and had a cell phone and his gun. He was in direct contact with the police. He was in absolutely zero danger.

He chose, willingly, to exit his vehicle and accost Martin. Zimmerman put his own well-being at risk.

It is my sincere hope that any closet "hero-wannabe" who has their CHL and fantasizes about chasing down bad guys learns something from this case.

Now, for the New Black Panthers who put out a bounty on Zimmerman. . .

I propose a bounty be put on the head of every single active member of the New Black Panthers. And if a member of the black community itself turns one of these racist alpha-hotels in, then I propose the reward be tripled.

Never forget that such groups like the New Black Panthers, the Ku Klux Klowns, Aryan Nazikooks and other race-baiting hate-groups exist to divide--not unite.

And never forget that the mainstream media will always give them attention and coverage if it means or presents the opportunity to cause yet more controversy and division between the races.

People of ALL races are smarter that than. Do not fall prey to the antics of those who make their living by creating, stirring up and feeding hate, division and controversy.

If you go looking for trouble. . .

George Zimmerman apparently wanted to be a cop.

He found out, the hardest way of all, it ain't so easy--and sure as hell isn't like the bullshit you see on all these equally bullshit "reality" TV shows like Cops and SWAT and other such crap.

Welcome to the real world, George.

For anyone, besides me, who has been living in a cave for the past few weeks, George Zimmerman is the guy who chased, confronted, fought and then shot a sixteen-year-old kid by the name of Trayvon Martin.

This happened in a popular third world resort town's suburb, Sanford, Florida, just outside of Orlando, Florida just south of the United States of America.

Anyone familiar with the story already knows all the details and "facts" as reported by the drive-by, race-baiting media. I won't bore you with those.

What's important for those of us who have CHLs (Concealed Handgun Licenses for the pacifist liberal readers) is that the old adage of "If you go looking for trouble, you'll probably find it" was once again born out to be true in this case.

Zimmerman saw something, he called 9-1-1. Great. End of story. He did his job as a concerned citizen playing watchdog for his gated community. Should've stopped while he was ahead.

Unless Trayvon Martin drew down on Zimmerman or decided to rush Zimmerman's SUV or something else, Zimmerman wasn't in any danger. He had a gun and a phone. Good enough--and hell, he was on the phone to 9-1-1 who told him to hang around and wait for a (real) cop.

Nobody was dying.

A CHL is not a license to go hunting. It's a license to defend yourself, lethally, from the hunters--those criminals and psychopaths and human sewage who prey on (seemingly) innocent and (seemingly) defenseless people.

I've had several "licenses" to carry firearms during the course of my life. The first was when I was in the military. Go figure. The second was when I was in law enforcement. Go figure. I now have a CHL as a private citizen and I have about as much interest in going around hunting bad guys as I do in being a research subject for some new strain of syphilis.

Been there, done that. Hunting bad guys, that is, not the other.

Hell, it was scary enough kicking doors and peering around corners of houses and going up stairs and into dark rooms looking for bad guys--even when I had other law enforcement folks with me.

Why in the bloody blue hell would I want to voluntarily do that on my own simply because I have a license to legally carry a firearm?

In Texas, I have the right to defend myself, my family AND my property using lethal force.  I'll do it, too, if I have to. But what I won't do is see some schmuck rummaging around the neighborhood and then go chasing him down and doing the Sergeant Joe Friday dragnet routine. My taxes pay our cops to do that. And even though they rarely do a very good job at it, I ain't doing it anymore.

I'm all for neighborhood watch groups. In one myself. I walk the Doberman at various times during the day in our little development and know most of the folks who live here. However, this is still America and I don't know them all, nor do I know all of their friends or relatives which means I'm not going to be dialing 9-1-1 everytime I see someone I don't know. In America, you're (for the time being) still free to come and go as you please pretty much wherever you please.

Message to Zimmerman: This is still America, son. You want to go chase bad guys, here's what you do.

You lose some weight, get yourself in shape and go join the United States Marine Corps--the best outfit in the world for chasing down bad guys and taking care of business.

But something tells me that you wouldn't make it past four or five nights on the Island, which would be good for the Corps.

In the meantime, you dickhead, your stupid-ass antics are making life a bit more difficult for millions of law-abiding CHL holders who have no aspirations to play hero. Thanks to you, we're being judged as though we're all of your challenged IQ and abilities.

Thanks a lot, asshole.

Public schools. Shut 'em down.

Whoever wins/survives the November dictator/king/czar election needs to dismantle the Department of Education.

Of course, if the Communist Party wins, they'll add to it because today's public schools are achieving the manifest.

This video from a college professor in Florida says it all and is THE most compelling argument for shutting down every public school in America, bulldozing them, and throwing at least nine out of ten teachers and administrators in jail.

Or, export them to Cuba or Russia or France or other socialist countries where they'll obviously be much happier.

To the percentage of today's youth who are not a part of this parasitic entitlement mentality group, my advice to you is you better damn well do anything and everything you can to set yourself apart from your leeching comrades.

In talking with other employers, we all agree: When we see young people coming in today to apply/interview for a job, our first impression is of the stereotypical Generation Y entitlement individual, and that means your interview starts off rocky and uphill.

Watch the short video. It says it all.

The professor is dead on correct. This is the kind of garbage our public schools and socialist government is perpetrating on the American citizenry.

I'd write more, but I'm off to raise some hell with my elected assholes to push (again) for private school vouchers and tax breaks for those parents who home-school.

So, your neighbor pays you to have sex with his beautiful wife. . .

(from the e-mail stack)

You just can't make some things up. . .

For fear, or want, of a penis.

Gloria Allred.

What a whack job.

I didn't think it possible, but Allred gives feminists a worse name and rep than they already have.

Her latest diatribe is in screeching to some state's attorney somewhere or the other in south Florida about having Rush Limbaugh arrested for calling Sandra Fluke a "slut."

Really. Really?

Let's think about this for a minute, and only a minute. Fluke is lobbying for free birth control supplies (pills, foam, inserts, sponges, condoms, IUDs, IEDs, blah blah blah) for women at Georgetown University.

Why?

It's a Catholic school and the Catholics believe in abstaining from doing the Wild Thing until which time they are married.

So, if they/she (them/Fluke) are running around having scaddles of sexual encounters--and obviously unprotected sex if they all agree they can't afford for birth control without the university paying for it--and they're not married, then by definition. . .

If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, swims like a duck (or f-bombs) like a duck. . .

But what about Bill Maher and his calling Sarah Palin the c-word? Allred is strangely silent, or maybe it's not so strange after all.

Personally, I think Gloria Allred, like most feminists of her ilk, harbor some mixed and confused notions that on one hand have them wishing they had a penis, but on the other hand, fearing any man who DOES have a penis.

Which is obviously why she is not afraid of Bill Maher.

He qualifies on both notions.

Seven advertisers that we, as conservatives, can live without.

Last week I posted about the Sandra Fluke mess and a week later, I'm not the least bit remorseful over it.

She's a freeloading, typical liberal. She got a degree in "Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies" from Cornell, along with a degree in "Policy Analysis and Management."

Policy Analysis and Management? There's a friggin' degree in THAT? That's almost as amazing as a degree in Feminist Gender crap.

And these losers wonder why their future is in the cardboard huts occupied by the Occupy Wall Street sewage?

And since the freeloading President of Reproductive Rights (???) at age 30 can't find a real job anywhere else, aka a public sector job, she trots to a Catholic University and then begins demanding free birth control.

What the fornication has our country come to?

Even worse, what the fornication has our BUSINESSES come to?

Rush Limbaugh illustrated the absurdity of Fluke's absurdity and the feminists and squat-to-urinate males species of the nation had a collective PMS menstrual cycle.

And what do liberals do. . . what CAN liberals do?

They call for boycotts.

Liberals have to call on others to boycott because the vast majority of liberals are hypocrites when it comes to their own money. They prefer to tell me how to spend my money on issues, while they donate little to nothing to the very causes they ram down our throats.

Joe Biden is their poster child, along with Al Gore in his limos and private jets while lecturing the world about so-called greenhouse effects.

So the liberals begin twitting and tweeting and seven advertisers sit up and make it clear that they value the opinions of left-leaning socialists who favor more government handouts, higher franchise/business taxes, more regulatory controls over businesses, internet taxes, etc etc. . .

These seven advertisers have got to be seven of the biggest dumbasses there are. They are:

• ProFlowers.com

• Quicken Loans

• Sleep Train

• Sleep Number

• Citrix Systems Inc.

• Carbonite

• LegalZoom

Word had it that AOL was going to pull their advertising from Limbaugh as well. What a hoot--the same bankrupt company that bought the ultra-liberal Huffington Post.

I ordered from ProFlowers twice, and both times the flowers looked like hell, weren't delivered on time and there was no getting a refund. Offers of a discount on a future purchase. . .

We bought a Sleep Number bed when they were the fad. It sucked. Worst bed we've ever owned and it didn't even last six months in our house. Worse yet, we had to almost give it away because when we advertised it, too many OTHER people had either had similar experiences or heard about them. Maybe some folks like them, but they are nothing more than an overhyped air mattress.

LegalZoom? Yeah right. I'm going to trust my will and estate to an internet legal service. . . 'nuff said.

Carbonite going kinda bothers me, but I still didn't have any problem cancelling the accounts (one per computer in the house) we have with them and explaining exactly why.

Sometimes I like it when companies like the above "make their stand" because it FINALLY lets us know where they actually do stand, politically--and in this case, it is solidly with the far-left Democrats.

And that tells me all I need to know about them in terms of ever doing business with them.

Which is never again.

So this Arab gets into a taxi. . .

(From the e-mail stack)

SO, this Arab gets into a taxi.

Once he is seated he asks the cab driver to turn off the radio "because he must not hear music as decreed by his religion and, in the time of the prophet, there was no music, especially Western music which is music of the infidel's and certainly no radio."

So the cab driver politely switches off the radio, stops the cab and opens the back door.

The Arab asks him: “Watt are you doing man?”

The cabby answers: “In the time of the prophet there were no taxis. So get the hell out and wait for a camel.”

Translation: If you don't like the way we do things here, get the hell out and go back home. Nobody made you come here, and for sure, nobody is making you stay.

San Diego sports anchor is a complete ass.

Is it any wonder that the mainstream media's relevancy to the majority of Americans is waning faster than their ratings?

Scrolling through some headlines this morning, I saw where some schmuck at the San Diego Fox affiliate got suspended for calling Danica Patrick a bitch.

Of course, he apologized and said he "never meant it, really.

I call bravo-sierra.

At issue was a remark Patrick had made over wondering why the media, and the sports media in particular, always refer to female athletes as "sexy," and especially if they're competing in a sport traditionally dominated by men.

Like NASCAR.

I'm kind of a Patrick fan, although if she were my daughter I wouldn't be too happy with some of the racy stuff she's produced. As a retired marketing guy, however, I know what sells to the very crowd she is appealing to.

Can't have it both ways.

On the other hand, I think she has a lot to learn about the real world, such as her remark about "leaving it up to the government to make good decisions for us." I disagree with that, a lot, but like many of you reading this, I also laced up a pair of combat boots and put on an ill-fitting uniform and helped defend Americans' rights to think as they please--even if I disagreed with it.

But more importantly, I also think the young lady has guts. Lots of them. If you disagree, strap an Indy car on your back and go racing 200+miles per hour with a bunch of other cars buzzing all around you at the same speed. Or, strap on a NASCAR stockcar and spend all afternoon making left turns in front of 200,000+ screaming fans and tens of millions more watching on the TV.

The Fox anchor in San Diego looks like a geek. Looks like a typical sports reporter--a sissified loser who could never rise to varsity ranks or stardom in high school athletics, or even MAKE the team (the norm), so they have to settle for writing about others' feats and accomplishments.

Right off the bat, envy and resentment shows through in their writing. This pencil-necked geek in San Diego is no exception.

The most action-packed driving he's probably ever done has been on the PCH highway, so naturally he feels qualified to comment on a professional race car driver who also happens to be quite beautiful.

Maybe Patrick's remarks about wishing to be called something other than sexy were confusing since she IS sexy--even moreso when she poses in bikinis and the such, but again, was it reason for this pissant anchor to call her a bitch?

Don't think so.

Justice in this case would be more than a week's suspension without pay. That's a vacation. No, justice would be Patrick's dad or brothers or boyfriend taking this geek out behind the station in front of the other geeks, knocking his ass on the ground until he cried, then asking him, "How do you like that, bitch?"

The mainstream media. May it just go away.

Who'd want to have sex with Sandra Fluke anyhow?

That was my first thought when I saw pictures of this rabble-rousing woman.

In case some of you haven't heard of her, Sandra Fluke is a law student (typical) who sought out Georgetown University (a Catholic school) for admission, then once in, started raising hell because Obama's "contraception rights" BS wasn't being followed.

She went on and on about how important sex was and birth control and reproductive rights, blah blah blah.

So, like any other red-blooded American male, I headed to the internet looking for pictures of this supposed babe who, from the way she presents herself, is perpetually more horny than a pack of Dallas middle-aged cougars grazing on cocktails at a midtown martini bar across from the local Gold's Gym.

I figured Sandra Fluke would be a babe. A cover girl for a condom advertising spread. Someone Hugh Hefner would drop millions on to get in his Playboy mansion.

But I remembered a popular line from the 70's about some of the more self-righteous women who were piously in everyone's face about abortion.

"What do those broads care? They're so ugly, nobody would want to (ahem, er, fornicate with) them anyhow."

Now oh yeah, that is a sexist statement, no doubt. It also sounds like it's pro-choice. But to a typically hormone-equipped young man in the 70's, it was really neither. Instead, it was just a simple observation.

Now some three-plus decades later, I'm still anti-abortion but find myself drawing the same analogy to this Sandra Fluke person.

Or, to put it another way, I think she's uglier than a batch of homemade soap gone bad. Uglier than an empty glass of buttermilk. Uglier than Death itself reading a Mad magazine in an outhouse basement.

I mean, this woman is approaching Nancy Pelosi ugly, and that's some serious ugly.

Yet, she wants Georgetown to spring for her "protection" against unprotected sex because she wants to have sex all the time?

I can see why.

She's probably never had much, and probably never with the same guy more than once.

In college, we used to call girls like Fluke "coyote dates." The reason was that if you got THAT drunk to where you woke up in the morning, and Fluke's head was resting on your arm, it was preferable to chew your own arm off and leave rather than risk awakening her and possibly having to do the "deed" again just to be able to grab your clothes and leave.

Fluke could be a recruiting poster for the AA 12-step program on college campi everywhere.

Yeah, I'm really sounding sexist here but I'm trying to make a point.

Fluke CHOSE a Catholic university. She KNEW what their moral standards were. She KNEW what their "health plans" were, etc. Yet she chose to apply and enroll for the sole purpose of raising hell about not being supplied condoms or little daily white pills or vaginal foam or sponges or whatever.

I don't recall anyone else at Georgetown University complaining over these things. Those that did simply dropped out and enrolled at universities more to their liking.

If a liberal looney tunes idiot like Fluke really wants to make a point, maybe she should try dropping a few pounds, doing a little wardrobe experimenting, do something with her hair and makeup and make herself a bit more sexually appealing if she wants to argue on behalf of free-range sex with "protection" sponsored, provided and paid for by a religious institution that disagrees adamantly with her.

But on the other hand, if I were the Georgetown head priest guy, I think I'd take pictures of Fluke and blow them up to poster size, then put them up in all the dorms and bars around campus.

The sight of Fluke and her supporters alone might do more for abstinence than one could ever imagine.

Damn Spam.

Like a number of others, I removed the word-verify for posting comments.

The new captcha or gotcha or crapcha or whatever it is called is garbage.

Can't read it.

Can't read it, then you can't type it.

So I've been buried in spam. Filters are getting most of it--but it still appears in the e-mail box.

Such BS.

Way too much on my plate this week and next to deal with it.

Taking a short sabbatical.

Message to Mexican el Presidente: Besa me culo, puta.

So the Mexican el Presidente wants the U.S. to quit making guns? I have a simple response and I'll even say it in English this time:

Kiss my ass, bitch.

Get a little control over that stinking cesspool you call a country, grow some cajones and start eliminating your cartels and crooked cops and government agents, quit exporting your citizens illegally across our border, quit accepting our "foreign aid," quit polluting our air and our water on the border, quit exporting your third-world diseases, start educating your citizens, cleaning up your cities and being a better neighbor and then ask us to quit making guns. . .

You can still kiss our ass.

Pinche idiota

Ron Paul Attorney General, Michele Bachmann Secretary of Treasury, and the rest of the 2013 Cabinet.

Let's face it. Romney isn't exciting anyone. Newt excels at irritating us. Santorum confuses us. Ron Paul is ignored.

While each has some strong points about them, none of them are what we need.

A good president appoints the right people, which is why our present Chosen One is so weak and ineffective.

But he still hasn't figured out that he's no longer community organizing. Or is he?

What the winning GOP candidate needs is to tell America, and the world, who his Cabinet will be. Do that, and the Dems do not stand a chance.

With no further adieu, here is my proposal for a landslide winning Dream Team 2013 Cabinet. Some departments would be combined, others outright eliminated--beginning with the Department of Homeland Security (moved under the Attorney General's responsibility), Housing (totally eliminated), Health and Human Services (moved under Treasury) and Interior--give the parks back to the States.

Attorney General: Ron Paul.

No one is stronger on the Constitution than Congressman Paul. No one. As AG, anything this government does will have to pass constitutional muster. No pass, no play. As a bonus, he can review the new president's Supreme Court nominees' records and decisions.

Paul would put an end to much of the BS presently carried out by today's law enforcement such as no-knock raids, random checkpoints for motorists, and gross abuse of authority under color of law. When it comes to the law, you cannot go wrong by strictly following our Constitution--and that is what we desperately need.

Secretary of Treasury: Michele Bachmann.

Bachmann understands tax law--the single biggest inhibitor to new business growth in America today. Furthermore, no agency abuses or intentionally intimidates the American citizen more than the Internal Revenue Service, although the numbnuts at the Department of Homeland Security are quickly catching up. Appoint Bachmann as SecTreas and instruct her to clean house, revise the tax code, abolish IRS, and make America prosperous again. To help her do that, we'll appoint--

Herman Cain, Secretary of Commerce.

Cain's record on private sector achievement is unmatched by anyone presently serving in government, and I would dare say, anyone who has ever served in government. The Commerce Department's entire raison d'etre is for the purpose of job creation, sustainment and helping keep the economy healthy and vibrant. Herman is the man for the job.

Secretary of Defense and Veterans Affairs: Congressman Alan West.

The Florida congressman and combat veteran understands the military, the American fighting man and woman, and more importantly, unlike the nimrods inside the Beltway, he understands our enemies. West has been there while hardly any of our present serving disgraces have. John Kerry doesn't count--Purple Hearts that he requested for wounds treated by a band-aid, then coming home to malign the very people he served with should have had him tried for treason and hung by the neck until dead. We need a warrior who's been there, done that leading our Department of Defense. West is the guy.

Secretary of Education and Labor: Mark Levin.

Levin has written two back-to-back New York Times bestsellers about what is wrong with America. He is an absolute Constitutional scholar and outspoken critic of today's educational system. He's also a strong supporter of Hillsdale College which teaches the Constitution.

I propose combining Education with Labor because I see the two as inter-related. Education results in a smarter, better, more affluent labor force and a better product for America. To that end, Secretary Levin would work closely with Secretary Cain.

Levin has no fear of the NEA or any other teachers' unions, is not afraid to step on toes, and doesn't give a damn what the media thinks of him. Give him Education with the instructions of cleaning house, fixing the problem.

Secretary of Agriculture and Energy: Rick Perry.

Perry has already served as Agriculture Commissioner for the State of Texas and Texas' standing in the world of agriculture is unparalleled. When it comes to energy, no one in Washington understands energy better than the Texas governor. In Texas, there is oil, natural gas, wind and solar power and the major universities continue to explore additional forms of energy creation. Why put a Beltway lifer who thinks gas comes from their Exxon credit card in charge of the nation's energy production?

Secretary of Transportation: Chesley Sully Sullenberger.

You know him as one half of the heroic flight crew that safely ditched his French-made Airbus in the Hudson, stayed aboard until all passengers and crew members were safely out, then exited the plane.

Sully is also co-chair of the EAA (Experimental Aircraft Association) Young Eagles program which provides first time small airplane rides to youngsters. Sully is a military veteran and airline captain who has traveled all over the U.S. and the world. Unlike our past appointed SecTransportation jesters, Sully did the driving rather than the riding. He knows what is needed to traverse America, North America and the world. He knows what gets in the way and what helps. Sign him up.

And finally--

Chief of Staff: Sarah Palin.

No explanation needed.

Flying the dragon.

I know a number of readers here have seen the world outside of the United States, and I think many will agree with my favorite sentiment:

It's not the people of other countries I necessarily have a problem with, it's the governments of other countries that I have a problem with.

United States government being at or near the top of the list.

I've also often said that if the time came to leave North America, my first choice would probably be Asia.

I have no problems with the Chinese people, mainland, Hong Kong or Taiwan. No problems with the Japanese, the Koreans, Thais, Cambodians, Laotians, Malaysians, Filipinos, Vietnamese.

At no time have I ever been treated other than graciously and with utmost respect and honor in their cultures.

The same cannot be said of experiences in Paris or Washington DC or Quebec.

Radical religions, extremist government ruin people. Of course, those institutions are led by extremist people.

Every crowd seems to have them.

But check out this video. It's breathtaking and exhilarating. The scenery is captivating and truly awesome. It will put a smile on your face.

Most of all, though, look at the Chinese people enjoying the experience. They're just like you and me. You can see the working class people, the smiles on their face for enjoying some time away from the house and the job. The students on the bridge, youthful innocence filled with passion and hope.

I'm an American. I love my country. I served it in uniform, and defended it from behind a badge. But it's the people, our spirit, our history--brief as it may be compared to most other countries--that I defend and not our government.

At the end of the day, we all have the same hopes and dreams.

Share this video. It's a good reminder that although language, looks and culture may separate us, our hearts are interchangeable.

Never forget that.

The government's manipulation of your mind continues. Fortunately, only the idiots believe it.

There used to be a time in which you could actually trust some mainstream financial publications like The Wall Street Journal. But as we've seen of late, Wall Street has fallen into the pocket of Washington D.C., so it stand to reason that the WSJ has as well.

Look at the headline from a few days ago, "Jobless claims fall to nearly four-year low."

By this reckoning, we should be on Happy Street, singing Zippity-Doo-Da out our collective butts.

Why is no one dancing except for the Obamas?

The housing market is down. Gasoline prices are skyrocketing again. Many national retailers, even, like Walgreens are on a national hiring freeze. Jobs lost are not being replaced at the nation's largest drug store chain except in case-by-case scenarios.

But the government releases a report about jobless claims using Enron-accounting like tactics, and a publication once respected like the Wall Street Journal jumps right on and happily parrots what this administration demands we believe.

The reality is that there are a variety of other factors at play here, chiefly of which is that we, as a nation, are going broke faster than Terrell Owens.

Even at 99 weeks of unemployment, or almost two years, people laid off around or after the anointment of the Chosen One have exhausted ALL benefits. They CAN'T apply for new jobless claims because they ain't got any.

So, they become a new statistic to the government by becoming a non-person. They can't file a new unemployment claim, so therefore our geniuses inside the Beltway conclude that they must've found work.

Only the head-up-the-ass elected clowns and their mindless minions can come up with logic like that.

Only the American mainstream media can believe it.

Only Utopian American liberals can trust in our government.

No wonder we're in such bad shape.

Want a more realistic indicator of how our job market is doing? Take a look at the number of Americans on food stamps and other supplemental forms of welfare. Then take a look at how much more our government is wanting to tax the remaining businesses and individuals that have somehow managed to remain financially solvent in order to support the citizens that our government has helped ruin.

Socialism. It's what Obama, the Democrats and the liberals are about. Remember the Chosen One's famous campaign utterance to Joe the Plumber about "When we spread the wealth around, it's good for everyone."

What a dumbass we have for president.

Mr. President, you may be able manipulate the numbers coming out of your cesspool administration, but you cannot manipulate the facts. The facts are that unemployment claims are not going down--the benefits for unemployment are running out for those who cannot find work.

The facts are that more Americans than ever before in the history of the very nation you despise and continue to destroy are on some sort of welfare assistance. Even your own CBO bears this fact.

Oh, and speaking of your Congressional Budget Office? Here's what they have to say about real unemployment. They're reporting actual unemployment at 15% as of January 2012.

Yet one more example why the mainstream media is no longer relevant, nor trustworthy.

Here's an excerpt from that CBO story:

Worse, the CBO reports that the ravages of the Obama Economy have created an unprecedentedly high rate of long-term unemployment, which the CBO defines as a person who has been seeking work for over 26 months.

Over 40 percent of people who are currently unemployed have been out of work for more than half a year, as compared with about one-quarter during the 1981–1982 recession. The extent of long-term unemployment is much greater than would be expected on the basis of its historical relationship with the overall unemployment rate.

That means that during the 1981-1982 recession President Ronald Reagan led America out of–which was the only other time in the post-World War II era that unemployment rose above 10 percent as it did in October 2009 under Barack Obama–long-term unemployment was 15 percent less than it presently is today under Barack Obama.

The CBO report was issued at the request of Rep. Sander Levin (D-MI).

A Democrat with guts. Of course, Rep Levin resides in one of the states most devastated by the Chosen One's politics. Any port in a storm, I suppose.

How will the clowns inside the Beltway try to manipulate this?

Remember all of this come November and vote against every damned incumbent office-holder in Washington.

Throw the CEO's ass in prison.

I read about JP Morgan getting fined some $200,000,000.00 for some scam or another, so I decided to google them.

Holy cow. Lots of fines.

Lots.

In googling for other companies with big fines levied against them, I found CVS and Walgreens, interestingly enough, being fined for everything from blatant OSHA violations to Medicaid and Medicare overbilling.

My question is this:

Why not throw the CEO's asses in prison along with fining these companies?

Hell, it's not the CEO's money being lost. With companies like JP Morgan, it's the investors' money being used to pay fines. With CVS and Walgreens, it's the shareholders' money, the employees' money and the customers--you and me--being used to pay the fines.

The CEO and senior executives get off scot-free.

I suspect if we started tossing CEO's asses in prison for these blatant schemes and huge fines, a lot of that nonsense would stop.

As in immediately.

Anyone want to bet against me?

God Bless Canada. And Australia. And Great Britain.

(From the e-mail stacks)

This was written by a Canadian woman, but oh how
it also applies to the U.S.A., U.K. and Australia.

THIS ONE PACKS A FIRM PUNCH

Written by a housewife in New Brunswick , to
her local newspaper. This is one ticked off lady...

"Are we fighting a war on terror or aren't we? Was
it or was it not, started by Islamic people who
brought it to our shores on September 11, 2001
and have continually threatened to do so since?

Were people from all over the world, not brutally murdered
that day, in downtown Manhattan , across the Potomac from
the capitol of the USA and in a field in Pennsylvania ?

Did nearly three thousand men, women and children die a horrible, burning or crushing death that day, or didn't they?
Do you think I care about four U. S. Marines urinating on some dead Taliban insurgents?

And I'm supposed to care that a few Taliban were
claiming to be tortured by a justice system of a
nation they are fighting against in a brutal Insurgency.
I'll care about the Koran when the fanatics in the Middle
East, start caring about the Holy Bible, the mere belief
of which, is a crime punishable by beheading in Afghanistan .

I'll care when these thugs tell the world they are
sorry for hacking off Nick Berg's head, while Berg
screamed through his gurgling slashed throat.

I'll care when the cowardly so-called insurgents
in Afghanistan , come out and fight like men,
instead of disrespecting their own religion by
hiding in Mosques and behind women and children.

I'll care when the mindless zealots who blow
themselves up in search of Nirvana, care about the
innocent children within range of their suicide Bombs.

I'll care when the Canadian media stops pretending that
their freedom of Speech on stories, is more important than
the lives of the soldiers on the ground or their families waiting
at home, to hear about them when something happens.

In the meantime, when I hear a story about a
CANADIAN soldier roughing up an Insurgent
terrorist to obtain information, know this:
I don't care.
When I see a wounded terrorist get shot in the
head when he is told not to move because he
might be booby-trapped, you can take it to the bank:

I don't care. Shoot him again.

When I hear that a prisoner, who was issued a Koran and a prayer mat, and fed 'special' food, that is paid for by my tax dollars, is complaining that his holy book is being 'mishandled,' you can absolutely believe, in your heart of hearts:
I don't care.

And oh, by the way, I've noticed that sometimes
it's spelled 'Koran' and other times 'Quran.'
Well, Jimmy Crack Corn you guessed it.

I don't care!!

One last thought:

Only five defining forces have ever offered to die for you:

1. Jesus Christ

2. The British Soldier.

3. The Canadian Soldier.

4. The US Soldier, and

5. The Australian Soldier

One died for your soul,
the other four, for you and your children's Freedom.

Retail whores.

It happened again, this time at a Walgreens.

I'm standing in line to check out and in front of me are a couple of fat, grossly overweight women, one of whom is talking on her new iPhone and bragging about all its new features.

The counter is loaded with ice cream, cokes, chips and enough candy to make the entire dental industry giddy in anticipation of the cavities to come.

Time to pay up, and you guessed it.

Out comes the food stamp card--known as a SNAP card. Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, the key word here being nutritional.

I'm steaming. I've been trying to get back home while fighting weather and an impending head cold. Detours and delays equal additional income spent on food, lodging and gas while also resulting in lost income by not being able to be back at the home base. Money which I earned and comes out of my pocket--not the government's.

The cashier bags up the first hog's junk and it fills up that little shopping cart. The second hog places a pack of gum on the counter, whips out her EBT card, which stands for Electronic Benefits Transaction, paid for the chewing gum and got $20 bucks cash back. Then she bought two packs of cigarettes.

Then she did ANOTHER transaction for more gum, got ANOTHER $20 bucks back and used that to buy a case of beer!

I blew.

I let both of those fat, arrogant parasitic pieces of human sewage know exactly what I thought of them. A manager was called. He tried explaining to me the store's "policy" on taking food stamps and EBT and cash back for cigarettes and beer. I told him what I thought. He told me he'd call the police. I handed him my phone, made sure he noted it was NOT a brand new high-dollar iPhone like the one used by Hog #1, and told him to call the police because a crime was damned sure being committed--only not by me, but by him and his Hog slopping clientele.

Police show up. I'm still steaming. Hogs have left. Didn't see what kind of "ride" they were in, but you know, it wouldn't have surprised me if they were in a new car than my pickup truck.

Police tell me I was out of line. I tell the police to basically kiss my ass. They explain the concept of "criminal trespass" to me if the store wants to go that route. I explain the concept of how much CASH my wife and I spend at said store on prescriptions and goods (although that came to a screeching halt). Dipshit manager tells me they don't care WHERE the money comes from (government welfare or cash from hard-working honest citizens) that it all spends the same.

I leave.

For good.

Retail whores.

We have a choice where we can spend our hard-earned money. So long as we continue to spend it at the large corporate entities that support Obamacare, welfare for anyone and everyone simply so that they can skim from it, retailers who buy the vast majority of their goods from communist China, who mark their prescriptions up for insurance reimbursement 1000% or more, who cut thousands of jobs while giving their senior executives huge raises and bonuses. . .

So long as we continue to spend our money with brands like that, we, America, as a nation, will continue to go under. So long as we continue to stay silent when we see the abuses go on, we, America, as a nation will continue to go under.

Nobody wants to rock the boat. Nobody wants to take a stand. Nobody wants to dare have to explain themselves to a police officer.

Son of a bitch.

If our forefathers had thought like that, we'd still be having tea at 4:00 every day and bowing to some king or queen.

Just where, in our societal evolutionary process, did we lose our collective ovaries and testicles?

Money runs our government. Trying to get the whores inside of the beltway to listen to us is futile. They listen to the big corporations.

So long as we continue to feed the big corporations, who in turn, screw us, there is no reason for the Beltway whores to pay us any mind whatsoever. Half the nation pays taxes, the other half doesn't. Washington pays more heed to those who pay no taxes because they are the easiest votes to buy.

And those easy votes are being courted by retail whores like Walgreens and CVS.

No thank you. I'm still free to spend my money where I choose, and I choose not to support corporations who promote and pander to those who abuse a system designed to help those temporarily struggling.

Because when you start putting up your "We welcome SNAP" signs over your private brand JUNK FOOD and ICE CREAM and private brand COKES and PASTRIES, you are promoting a gross abuse of the system.

Think about that the next time you find yourself in one of these places.

Then have the guts to take a stand.

Talk about being hard up for sex. . .

OK, so either the women in Iowa are more than a little homely or this one certain individual who is the focus of this story is so ugly that he couldn't get laid in a whorehouse.

I've been to Iowa and they have pretty girls there. Not as many as Texas or Florida or California, but they got 'em.

So that means this masked man who robbed a sex-toys store of a $250 sex doll, known as the "F**k Me Silly Mega Masturbator" model must be more than hard up.

He must be desperate.

Or, perhaps, he's a fan of Bill Clinton's former Surgeon General, Jocelyn "Let's teach the kids how to masturbate" Elders. If we knew this clown's age (the sex doll robber, not the former Surgeon General), it might shed a clue as to whether or not he was influenced by Ms. Elders, who some say was Bill Clinton's right hand on certain matters.

According to the police, the desperate robber walked into the Romantix Pleasure Palace around 3 a.m. on January 12 and, standing erect at the counter, whipped out his. . . knife and wagged it in the clerk's face.

He then took his love doll, described the manufacturer as "the best piece of blank that you'll ever blank in your entire blanking life" and hauled blank out of the Pleasure Palace.

(There are some more colorful, leave-little-to-the-imagination descriptions in the actual story, but I can't type them here without blushing something horrible.)

Police in Iowa City are asking for your help to apprehand, er, sorry, appreHEND this dangerous pervert. The crime fund is even offering a cool thousand bucks for information leading up to the man's arrest.

Now I'm kind of wondering about a few things, such as--

1. Is crime so non-existent in Iowa City that police can utilize their vast resources to have citizens chase down a masturbation-happy petting, er PETTY thief? Are their no drug dealers or robbers or burglars or auto thieves in Iowa City?

Just curious.

2. Judging from the picture, this meat-beater weighs a lot more than the police's estimate of 165 lbs. That might be a good place for the fearless Iowa City pervert patrol to start. This perv has some pretty good pudge going on.

3. I'm assuming prostitution is frowned upon in Iowa City, but what if the Romantix Pleasure Palace were to "rent" these sex dolls and give patrons their own private little room in the back of the sex shop. Would that still be considered prostitution?

4. If/when this guy is finally caught, will he be charged with A) Aggravated Robbery, B) Kidnapping or C) a sex crime?

And if convicted, will he have to register as a sex offender? Inquiring minds want to know.

So far, though, this is about all we know about this story. We'll bring you more as things come up.

No word on whether or not the sex shop wants their kidnapped love doll back.