How is Obama, Iran & the Economy Tied Together? - The Answer may Scare You

The impending train wreck in the economy, its coming. Whats this another doom and gloom prediction? No. Its a view of what may/will occur in the next few months, maybe next spring or so. Its not the normal stuff you hear on the news or read in the paper, so give me a few minutes of your time, and follow along.

We all know the problems with Iran, we all know the problems with the stagnant economy. Now what would happen if tomorrow the economy started gaining 250,000 new jobs a month? Here is an answer for you, since we have lost close to 7 million jobs since the recession started and using what the Obama administration calls a robust growth rate, the 250,000 number, it would take 56 months to just get back to where we started. How does this work? According to the Department of Labor, the United States needs to create 125,000 new jobs a month just to keep up with growth in the work force. That leaves 125,000 going to cut into people already jobless. So if we use their numbers and Obama's assumptions you end up at 56 months, over 4 1/2 years just to get back to where we were. This assumes no bumps along the way and the job growth starting today. Neither of which is happening.

Here come the bumps. Iran wants nukes, most everybody concedes that fact, everybody but the Russians and the Chinese and the Iranians that is. The Iranians have already made it clear they will not negotiate over their nuclear program and the Russians and Chinese have made it clear as well, they will not support harsh sanctions, which may or may not work anyway. Lets says that the Iranians test a nuke in a couple months. Oil prices will jump to $200.00 a barrel in a few days trading. Panic will set in over the Persian Gulf. The panic will be lead by the Arab states who do not under any circumstance want Iran with a nuke. Assuming the Israeli's do not bomb them after learning of the nuclear test. Take another scenario where the Israelis get worried and strike Iran. Oh yea, terrorism will be all over the Middle East, it will make its way to Europe and America soon thereafter.Now that's bad enough, imagine what happens to the price of oil then, $200.00 - $250.00 a barrel like a shot. What does this mean?

It means gas is $4.50 to $5.50 a gallon in a week or two. Heating oil at $4.50 a gallon. We have seen last summer what happens at $4.00 a gallon, collapse. Now we all can concede that the economy is not what it was a year or so ago. If it ground things to a halt then, it will stop everything now, won't it? Prices will skyrocket for everything, people are already broke. How many new jobs get created then? None. This tosses out the window the job growth numbers for the foreseeable future, I mean a long while. Now why am I bringing this whole story up? Because I think most people believe that there is a very good chance that these events or worse will unfold. I did not make any assumptions or criticize Obama at all. What I did was too take what is really happening in the big picture.

My worry, no my belief and many many others believe this was well, is that Obama is in over his head on the world stage. Yes he gives great speech's, yes he apologizes for America everywhere he goes. Liberals can spin the tale any way they choose, how the world loves Obama and its a whole new era of cooperation and so on. But, and its a big but, facts don't bear any of it out. Since Obama took office North Korea tested multiple missiles including long range missiles. Iran launched a satellite into space. Then North Korea tested another nuke. Then the Iranian elections turn into a bloodbath. Wait, we find a new enrichment site in Iran and they responded so well to Obama's gestures they tested several new medium and long range missiles, missiles able to reach Europe and Israel. Chavez agrees to supply Iran with refined fuels which is their only real weak point. The Chinese remain silent while Russia gives statements that they oppose strong actions against Iran, this even after Obama pulled the missile shield from two of our most dependable allies.

American voters are known for not following complex issues. This is a complex issue. Iran affecting our economy, how does this work? I just took a little of your time, you need to look into this yourself. Most voters last year never looked at anything like this happening. I can sit here and tell you I did, but so what. Others can say the same thing, but it won't change things right now. The only thing you can do is try to understand whats happening and get engaged. Make the changes when you can. Listen, I hope I'm wrong but I don't think I am.

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If Obama is serious about Iran, Why are over 20 American Companies still doing Business with the Mullah's? See the List Below

After all the news swirling around Iran, I found a few interesting items. First is the list below of the companies, American Companies still doing business with Iran. This was actually surprising to me since I believe I heard Obama telling everyone about sanctions at the UN. Even Hillary is out there telling people that she believes Iran can't prove that their nuclear program is peaceful in nature.

That I agree with, what I do not agree with is that 20 or so US companies are still are doing business with the worlds most dangerous regime. I also find it a little confusing that the Obama administration is pushing for actions on Iran but we can't stop US companies from selling things to them. Another little item, GE announced a little over a week ago that they would stop doing business with Iran, really good timing right? I think not, since Obama and GE are joined at the hip, think NBC/MSNBC, its more than just luck that GE made the announcement a few days before Obama made his big announcment at the UN regarding the secret enrichment site in Iran.

Notice that companies including Chrysler made the list. The billions of tax payer dollars they recieved must not have been enough, so Iran just makes sense. Can someone explain to me how Obama and his car czar can permit this to happen? To see a complete list of companies from around the world you can go to http://www.uani.com/, they have a complete listing with the stock market symbols that go to each company. They even offer a downloadable scroll that shows them in a ticker form. I added one to the bottom of the site and it looks good. The real deal is that if Obama was serious about stopping Iran from getting nuclear weapons, why is he and the State Department permitting this to happen? That should be a great anwser. Take a look at the list below, you will be surprised who is there.

Copco-Atlas Copco - Baker Hughes - Calypte Bio Medical Corp - Chrysler - Coca Cola - Conoco Phillips - Exxon Mobil - Fametech Inc - Halliburton - Hewlett Packard - Huntsman - Hyatt Hotels - Iridex Corp - Master Card - Ship Holding Group - Pepsico - Secure Computing - Speaking Roses International - Tyson Foods - Visa - Wells Fargo

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Democrats propose Health Care for Illegal Aliens in The Bill - I'm not Making this Up, 22 of them Sign On, Watch the Video

This is almost funny, but its too pathetic to be funny. Democrats, liberals in Congress have started pushing for health care coverage under the government plan, get this, for known illegal aliens. They make the argument that since they are mostly young and healthy it only makes sense to let them help pay for everybody else, like the seniors who need coverage. Great, how far off of the cliff have these people gone?


Listen to Greta ask why if they are able to be found for health care, can't they be found and arrested and then deported. Remember this is Sheila Jackson Lee, the congresswoman caught on video taking a cell phone call during a town hall meeting, oh yes, that's her. This whole debate is nuts, now liberals want to give health care to illegals, and people complain about Joe Wilson, you must be kidding. Think about this, we have elected officials out in the open wanting to induce people to violate U.S. law. We have a terrorism problem and they want to not only let illegals in, they want to give them health care. America ask yourself this: Is this the type of people you want running the nation? Obama is having the Empire State building lit up in Yellow and Red tomorrow to celebrate the Communist Chinese revolution. Again, is that the leader you want?

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This is going too Far - Community Organizers really Praying to Obama! A must See Video

This video is courtesy of www.breitbart.tv, this is stunning, it takes place after Obama was elected and before he took office. These people really believe Obama is the messiah. This is starting to really get sick. The best part is the woman who is leading the prayer is now working in the White House for Obama, thats tax payer money she is getting paid with. This woman was the Vice President of LaRaza.

America, wake up, this man is dangerous and so are some of his followers. This is bad and only getting worse. The kids in school chanting for Obama is bad, but these people are asking him to grant prayers, whats going on here! Go to www.breitbart.tv to get the whole story. Don't get the video from you tube, going directly to the source, help get this out. Without the video people won't believe you.

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A Thought on Poll's - Why Not Show the American People Who Does Support Obamacare? What are Liberals Trying to Hide?

A look at the recent numbers shows a few things that should help to dispel the new liberal talking points. First is that some how all of a sudden, liberals are saying they are the majority in the country. For months now, poll after poll shows that's not true. A recent poll showed 61% of the people polled said they were "conservative". While I understand that your version and my version of conservative might be a little different the base definition is the same. Only 32% said they were liberal. Now while we have polls on all kinds of things, some things no one wants to poll, why? Probably because they won't like the answer, or they don't want to give information out that proves the oppositions pionts.

Rasmussen came out yesterday with numbers on health care, the numbers are going in the opposite directions. The approval number is down to 41%, the disapproval number is now up to 56%. That's getting to be a sizable spread, yet liberals are trying to push the bill through no matter what the public wants. The new line from the administration is now saying the numbers have "stabilized". Ok, true the slide has slowed because it can't get much lower, you are cutting into the Democratic base now. Another thing, Obama's personal numbers are going down as well. He is below 50% in most polls, or just hugging the line at 50%. Yet, no matter what they see in polls, liberals are still saying Obama is a popular president that has wide support from around the country. Why don't we have a poll of the middle class, the famous middle class, showing support for the health care bill inside that group?

Another number inside the Rasmussen poll, is the number of people who strongly support the health care bill proposed by the Democrats is at 23%, while the number who strongly oppose it is at 43%. Again, this is a two to one swing, yet they want this bill no matter what. The only thing I do not understand, is when was the last time in the history of our nation has the public resisted anything this one sided and the government plowed ahead anyway? This is a government that was designed to represent the people through elections. The representatives and senators who are in Washington are there to represent the views of the people who sent them there. So ask yourself this. If these people represent you, and you have made your opinion known to them, the last part is very important never forget that, do you believe the majority of the people who voted that person into office feel the same as you? If you answered yes, then who ever your congress person is, he or she is responsible to follow the wishes of their constituents aren't they?If this plan has wide support the Democrats have an obligation to at least show us where and from whom it is being supported don't they?

Another number to consider, seniors are now only giving the Obama plan a 33% approval rating, with 59% against. Yet, they still move forward. The question everyone should be asking and the answer would be very telling to be sure, is who exactly supports the Obama health care agenda?

Show us in these polls what groups support it, meaning its not seniors, its not independents, its not conservatives, so who is it? Are these people black or white, young or old, man or women, show the American public were the plan has majority support, don't you want to know? I know I do. I also know this, if the numbers that are out there in every sampling hold, the liberals and Democrats in congress and the one at the White House are disregarding the will of the American people, which is who they where sent there to represent.

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The truth Behind, The UN, Obama, Iran & Nukes

The story we got last week from the meeting at the United Nations was pure theater. Obama was playing his role as "president of the world" while everyone looked on. The production itself left a little to be desired when you get the whole story.

The last day of the big UN meeting Obama came out and announced the well known secret that Iran has another enrichment site. The French and the British came out stronger than did Obama when addressing the media, the French president drawing a line in the sand so to speak. Obama sounding like a dove, talking about new deadlines and such. How about this, any Obama supporter out there please feel free to respond. The day before, Obama was given the rare opportunity to preside over the meeting of the United Nations Security Council. Since Obama knew of this enrichment site for weeks, why didn't he bring it up in the proper forum where any action that can be taken against Iran through the UN must occur? He could have simply put this out on the table and said lets go. Instead of threatening harsh sanctions, why not just do it? Why not lay out your plan in front of the body who is where you will need to go anyway to get want you want? This could save months and time is of the essence, or at least we are being told that by Obama. If this is the case why play around, unless of course you don't have the votes, like Russia and China.

Now how could this be? We dropped the missile shield right? Russia is happy now, they would want to help us right? China, the fact that we owe them $780 billion means nothing, right? Or could it be, that Obama knows full well he can't do anything on Iran and he won't use the military so he just wants to talk to them, no matter what? The real story is that Obama knew of the plant in Iran and did nothing when he had the opportunity to. He did nothing to avoid embarrassment over the fact that Russia and China won't do anything meaningful to Iran, its not in their best interest to do so. Don't worry, the main stream media will hide this and you will never hear of it, but just take a minute and think about what I just said. Obama and most of the world knows the UN will never do anything to Iran that really has meaning, which leaves us where? In the hands of the community organizer in chief, thats where.

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Congratulations to Erick Erickson of RedState.Com on making the "List" for the Southern Poverty Law Center

I wanted to take a minute to congratulate Erick Erickson from http://www.redstate.com/. He has made the Southern Poverty Law Centers evil/nasty persons list. It seems that Erick got added last week and they didn't even have a party.

The Southern Poverty Law Center, a group of dedicated liberals has decided that people like Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, Rick Perry (The Gov. of Texas) and Chuck Norris, Chuck Norris? Anyway, they seem to feel these people are inciting people to have Timothy McVeigh like episodes where they bomb federal buildings and hate minorities. A couple things here, first if these morons watched the news in the past week, they would find out we do have a domestic terrorist problem, its called Islamic Extremism. Second, most normal people in America would not mind being on a list with Chuck Norris, why Chuck Norris I do not know. I remember now, he is not exactly a big fan of Obama's health care agenda.

Anyway, once again, congratulations to Erick for making such a prestigious list. May you continue to have such good fortune. Take notice to the fact that I put his picture on the "right" side of the post.

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Health Care the Post Office Way - The return of the Pony Express

I wanted to give you a perfect real world example of why the federal government can't be allowed to run health care. To do this I wanted to use the example that Obama gave last month on how the post office was going broke and UPS and FEDEX are doing well. Yes it sounded funny, as he was making my point, but to show you how this really works I wanted to document something for you, its a true story.

I wanted to mail a package to a person who lives just outside of Pittsburgh, I was mailing the package from the capitol of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg. Harrisburg is due east from Pittsburgh, a straight shot on the PA Turnpike. According to Map Quest, the distance to the destination was 226.4 miles, with a travel time of 3.5 hours. Ok, when I sent this package I used the Post Office delivery confirmation system, which enables you to track the package you sent. So I decided to track it after a day or two to see if it had arrived. I was amazed by what I had found.

The package had been sent to Swedesboro, Nj, which is east and south of Harrisburg, where it started. Again, using Map Quest, it turns out that Harrisburg to Swedesboro is 105.8 miles with a travel time of just over 2 hours. Then the next day they shipped it from Swedesboro back out towards Pittsburgh, which again per Map Quest was 328.8 miles and 5.4 hours. The package did finally arrive at its destination three days after I sent it. Why am I telling you this, simple.

The time required to send the package to its destination was 3.5 hours, but it took 7.4 hours. The distance was 226.4, but after shipping it in the wrong direction, to I am sure a "sorting" center, it became 434.6 miles. I don't care how you look at that, they doubled the required time and distance needed to complete the task at hand. In other words, it took twice as long and they went twice as far as needed. Because of economic competition from UPS and FEDEX they can only charge a certain amount for their services, so in the end they loose money. Now using this valuable information, just imagine how they will take care of your health care. If you can't find an efficient way to deliver a letter, how can you handle the huge task of running health care for over 300 million Americans? I would love to see Obama comment on that?

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Bill says its a "Vast Right Wing Conspiracy" again, This Time they are After Obama - Yes he Really Said It

I was watching the Sunday morning shows today and there was my boy, Bill Clinton giving an interview with David Gregory from MSNBC talking about the problems that Barack Obama is facing as president. Clinton was talking about all kinds of things, and then it happened, Gregory asked him if as Hillary had said somewhere around 1995, was Obama facing a vast right wing conspiracy? And the best part here is that he said, Yes he is. Bill told him that it was stronger when he was president because he thinks the country has shifted somewhat since then. So as to help clear this up, I grabbed this video for you to watch. Its kind of a blast from the past.

If you remember the whole thing started over Monica and Hillary's defense of slick willie. She said it was all a lie and that it was a "vast right wing conspiracy" that was working to bring down Bill's presidency. She was "standing by her man", at least until the truth came out. This video is for all of us "right wingers" who need a good laugh, its just another liberal fabricating the truth but hey, its kind of fun when that liberal comes out and tells you that the very same group that was conspiring against him is now conspiring against Obama. I know one thing, Obama had better hope Clinton isn't trying to help him with these comments because what they point out is how discredited and foolish Hillary looked when the truth came out. Or maybe Bill is trying to tell us Obama is lying too?

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Springfield Armory's Squad Scout may be the best Of the M1A Bunch

Springfield Armory Makes the ever popular M1A rifles, a civilian version of the military M-14. It makes them in three sizes, small, medium and large. It even adds whipped cream and nuts if you like. They have deluxe versions with all the bells and whistles and they have the basic original as well. What you choose is up to you, but here is something to consider about the Scout carbine, or as they call it the Squad Scout.

If you want a heavy hitter in a rifle, bigger than an AR-15 style weapon, this might just be the rifle. Its not as small as the SOCOM 16, but is much shorter than the Standard M1A. The Scout features good things from both and I think comes up the winner. It has an 18" barrel, a lot shorter than the Standard, but 2" longer than the SOCOM. It has normal rifle sights like the full sized version, but also has a forward mounted rail for putting optics on the weapon, like the SOCOM again. By the way, the Squad Scout was first out the gates ahead of the SOCOM 16. The Scout comes in at just over 40" in total length and at about 9.3lbs according to Springfield. They offer the Scout in wood, black or camo stock versions, the weapon also has a unique flash suppressor/muzzle break that works very well. Now a few the basic's like the fact that the weapon is chambered in 7.62 NATO and feeds from standard M-14 magazines make things a little nicer for the owner. The 7.62mm provides the punch many people feel the 5.56mm lacks. To be sure if you need more power, then the 7.62mm is the way to go compared to the M-16 family of weapons. Yes it does recoil a little more than a 5.56mm but in no way does it get to a point where you feel any pain. No you can't shoot it as fast as the AR-15, but it can produce a good deal of fire if needed. My Scout is set up with a fixed three power scope mounted on the rails with quick disconnect mounts. I can promise you at 100 yards head shots are no problem at all, at 50 yards you pick which eye. The rifle, like the other M1A's I have is extremely accurate, at 50 yards it drop's a magazine of 18 rounds into a hole a little bigger than a golf ball. Not bad when you consider I am using 147gr military ammo. I have never fired match ammo out if it as I have no reason to, this rifle is perfect for its designed role, it provides punch out to longer ranges than the 5.56mm can. Look at the military use of the M-14 in both Iraq and Afghanistan, they needed more weapon and they got it. They dusted off the old M-14's and found that having a 7.62mm weapon was still needed in the US arsenal.

Just so everybody understands, the 7.62x51 NATO round is a 308 Winchester in the civilian world, so if you have a 308win bolt, these weapons make nice companions. If you are like the military and think one is needed in your arsenal as well, the Squad Scout might by just the ticket. The full size rifle is longer and hard to move fast, this rifle seems to cut into those problems in a big way. The SOCOM is short and fast but doesn't seem as accurate and is harder to control when you are in a hurry. If you have shot an M-14 or the full size M1A, this is the exact same weapon, cleaning and operation are the same for all three M1A's. Springfield has a hit with these rifles to be sure, they are hard to find on a regular basis. Now that the "Obama rush" is over they should be out there again. Good shooting.............

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Iran test's New Missiles - The Nightmare Scenario gets Closer, The "Commander in Chief" Gap Starts to Show

The nightmare scenario in the Middle East is getting closer everyday and most people don't seem to either care or they don't understand how close we really are to it. The worse part is that I don't think Obama does. The real question is what happens when/if Israel strikes the Iranian nuclear facilities? Iran testing new missiles just makes things speed up, not slow down.

First people need to understand that an Iran with nuclear weapons is not something which can be let to happen. Iran doesn't want a nuke to say "we have one", they want a nuke to use one. If Iran has nuclear weapons and they decide to invade Iraq, do you believe Obama has the nerve to stop them if they are providing a nuclear umbrella for their forces? You know the answer and so do I, and so does Iran. How about a port in Spain just goes up in a mushroom cloud? No warning nothing. Hezbollah, which is the largest terrorist organization in the world is funded and run by Iran and would be the first thing that comes to mind in a case like that. Would Obama strike back, or would he have the FBI under the direction of Eric (Renditions) Holder investigate it until everyone got put to sleep and if we did find anyone involved we would never get any information from them as we have to ask politely and read them their rights. Forget all that, what about an American city instead. Not a real good picture is it?

If Israel strikes Iran, what happens next? Iran will attempt to block crude oil shipments, that's the same as the 1979 era strategy. Then what? Iran will retaliate against American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, not in a direct frontal attack but in a end run using groups like Hamas and Hezbollah. They also will attack American and Israeli interests around the world, such as businesses, tourist spots, shipping ports, military bases and airports. You know that Israel will be the first place they will attempt to strike back at with a terrorist campaign. This where things change, what about inside America itself? Do you really believe that won't happen? Look at the arrests this week alone, we have plenty of terrorist problems even after Obama thinks the "war on terror" somehow ended.

Hezbollah has dozens of training camps in this country. Dozens of funding groups pouring in cash and other support to them. Thousand of supporters maybe more inside this country. Everyone focuses on Al Qaeda, with good reason, but Hezbollah is the worlds largest most deadly terrorist organization by far. One thing everyone must understand, Obama can't talk them into not acting if they choose to. Hezbollah is the group that blew up the Marine barracks and US embassy in Beirut in 1983, remember them. Obama is still believing he can talk them out of doing whatever they choose to do, he can't. While he plays games they move forward. The "new" enrichment site he was "disclosing" this past week is not new. After Iran says sure come look, they start testing new missiles. Tomorrow they will be testing new longer range weapons that can reach Israel. Remember that whole missile defense thing last week?

The bottom line here is simple. Obama may or may not be in over his head. But, one thing for sure, he is spending way to much time and effort trying to get his precious health care bill passed. The world is a dangerous place, running around apologizing for America is getting old fast with Americans. Obama is worried "his" presidency will be a failure like Carters. He believes he if does not get health care passed he will be broken or a failure. Maybe, honestly I hope that's true, but I will promise you one thing for sure. If Obama allows Iran to go nuclear, his health care bill will be the last thing anyone remembers for what will be considered the single worst administration in at least a century.

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Survivalist's - Fire Power or Stopping Power, which is Best and Why? Just keep Looking for the Phaser

Ok here's a topic that has been going around for a long time. If you were in a survival situation do you want your weapons to have "fire power" or "stopping power"? No, its not a trick nor is it a dumb question. Most people really don't understand the difference and what it means to your weapons selection.

First lets understand that "fire power" means the amount of fire(bullets)you can put on a target. Stopping power is as it appears, its relates to the ability to "stop" the threat with as much certainty as possible with one round. It goes like this, the typical debate is 9mm vs 45acp in a pistol. The 45acp is bigger and slower, but has a habit of knocking people down. The 45acp pistol in general does not carry as many rounds in the magazine as the 9mm, that's the firepower part. Depending on the threat you believe you will face, you could adapt your choice of weapon to fit your needs. People being what they are try to have it both ways. High capacity 45's are out there now, like the Glock 21/21sf, or the Para Ordnance government model style pistols, there are others I'm sure. Another idea was to make a cartridge in the middle, hence the 40s&w, a shortened 10mm. It has a higher capacity than a 45acp, a little less than a 9mm, and has good stopping power. Its a compromise weapon, there is nothing wrong with that but you can't apply it to other weapons, such as rifles.

Remember you need to have a military grade weapon that can take abuse and that ammunition will be available for. In a rifle you end up with two main calibers, 5.56mm/223rem or 7.62mm/308win. Why these two? Because that's whats out there.Yes you could have an AR-15 style weapon in 6.8mm, again a compromise caliber. But you need to feed this weapon, and it may be a long time before commercial ammunition will be available to you again if things go bad. Don't even start with reloads. The problem no one looks at is cases only reload so many times and if you can't stop to picked them up, sooner rather than later you run out. Having a caliber that may be as good as a phaser is wonderful, when you have it. Another thing to think about, reloading is a hobby, in a survival situation will you have time to sit down a reload say, 2500 rounds at a time? For a carry pistol everyday, a 357sig is a hard round to beat, but if things melt down, where do you get ammo?

Now look, if you use a 40s&w and like it and are good with it, stock up on ammo and go with with you have. If you have a bolt 30-06 rifle that has been around forever, fine just realize its short comings. Survivalist have many movie driven beliefs, like shooting at people 300 yards away. Its almost assured in real life its going to be close and fast. For rifles probably under 100 yards, around the house or on your property, its probably gonna be dim lighting to dark and very close, think 5 to 10 feet. So you have already got the idea, one weapon won't cover both too well. You can make do with a carbine, but unless you are Ok with slinging the weapon in the open, its almost impossible which leads to handguns. I am a huge fan of government 45's, especially the Wilson Combat kind. Pretty much everyday that's what I carry, I believe based on where I live that I should be able to settle most disputes with 9 or less 230gr hydra shok's. I always have at least one extra mag with me so I believe I should be Ok. I must confess that as a police officer I always liked having my Sig P226 9mm sitting there holding 16 rounds and the hydra shok thing seems to work pretty well in 9mm as well. It seems the Navy SEALs are pretty fond of their P226's also.

In the end, for a survival situation when things melt down, I'm afraid you have to go with fire power over stopping power. Shot placement is really the most critical fact in stopping a target. A well placed 9mm round will be more effective than a 45acp round that hits the bad guy in the shoulder. In rifles, kind of the same thing applies. I love Springfield M1A rifles, big bark and a big bite. Great for sitting in your bunker looking over your sand bags, not so great when you need to lug it around. In a car, forget it. You can carry twice as much ammo with a 5.56mm as you can with a 7.62mm, in the same space not to mention the weight factor. Control with an AR-15/M-16 is much greater when firing rapidly, like at multiple targets which I can almost assure you is what you will be facing. If things go badly you will be looking at protecting yourself and maybe others from multiple people, that's how bad guys work, they don't like fair fights.

One other thing, I know where some of you are going, I live in Wyoming and a 223 won't stop a Moose. Ok, your right. But guess what, for the other 99% of people out there its not going to be a moose they need to shoot, its a person. A 5.56mm/223rem will do just fine knocking off a deer sized animal if needed should you get hungry. And no, its not my first choice but it beats whats second. As far as a pistol, 45's are my favorite, but again, a reliable 9mm is probably the way to go for all the reasons I just covered. The 30-06, 7mm mag, 243, 40s&w, 357mag, 38spl and others are all great cartridges. What you need to look at is having enough stopping power to get the job done, combined with the maximum fire power available to you. Keep one other thing in mind, you are not limited to one weapon, meaning a pistol and a rifle and a shotgun go well together. It truly is like looking for a Star Trek phaser, man I want one.

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3 Terrorist arrests Prove One Thing - We are still in The War on Terror, No Matter how bad Obama doesn't Want to Be

After this week a couple things should be very clear, America does have a domestic terrorist problem and the other thing that should be very clear is that its not who the Obama administration was warning law enforcement about.

After the memo from Homeland Security came months back warning of "right wing" extremists, you know veterans, gun owners, Ron Paul voters, pro-life people, those kind of people, it appears that America may really have what many have long expected, a true domestic terrorist threat. The problem is that if the Obama administration had its way they would be watching you, not the bad guys. The three arrests in the past week or so are being done by professional law enforcement personnel, not political hacks like Janet Napolitano who owes her job to Barack Obama. It was her idea to let the memo that came fly in the first place. These arrests also make very clear one other thing, no matter how much Obama thinks he can talk he way out of anything and how much the liberals think the world loves us now, the war on terror is not over.

The arrest of Najibullah Zazi is the first time a person has been arrested inside the United States who was directly being controlled by Al Qaeda, the controller is located in either Pakistan or Afghanistan, the place where Obama doesn't know what to do. It is also significant that he had plenty of help here other than his father, he had twelve back packs in his apartment, twelve, its a good bet he wasn't planning on wearing them all. On Thursday a Jordanian named Hosam Maher Smadi was arrested in Dallas after he attempted to blow up a building using fake explosives. He was arrested after, get this, after he pushed send on his cell phone to detonate the bomb, I think he meant it, don't you? Then we have Michael Finton, who calls himself Talib Islam. He was arrested in Illinois after trying to blow up the federal building in Springfield. He apparently is a big fan of the American who turned into an Al Qeada/Taliban soldier, John Walker Lindh. Another whack job who was from California.

None of these people snuck into the country across the border in the dead of night, they live here. They are all Al Qaeda inspired, one of them was Al Qaeda controlled. All three were intent on killing as many Americans as possible. All three either had the means, or thought they did, to complete the task at hand. Two of them showed they had every intention of following through on what they set out to bomb. What this once again demonstrates is that despite all the Obama spin in the world, we as a nation face a very real threat from radical Islam. Walking around and apologizing for America will not change that fact. While George Bush may have done many things wrong, he did one thing very well, he kept the country safe. The operations were going on for months, if Obama wants to blame Bush for everything, then he has to concede that these attacks were stopped by plans and people put in place by the Bush administration. Destroying the CIA's ability and desire will certainly not aid in helping to prevent future attacks, and there will be future attacks, from taking place, it can only hurt.

One other small thing, maybe its time that the Obama administration stop kissing up to Islam and start looking at the real situation on the ground. Obama is not grounded in fact, he like other liberals love theory. Its kind of like saying I want a world without nuclear weapons, nice thought, but its not gonna happen. This is the same thing, they need to stop worrying about a "vast right wing conspiracy" and focus on the true enemy before a lot of Americans die because of he and his administrations naive views of the world.

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Funny Two weeks makes All the Difference - Or Maybe Its the People who were Protesting that Are Different

I guess it must just be me, but when the protesters marched in Washington a couple weeks ago, the press didn't show up and neither did the riot police. Remember this was the "angry mob" the "astro turf" gang. Compared to what took place in Pittsburgh with only a few thousand at most, protesters, they weren't so bad after all.

You won't hear the main stream media say it, but the people in Pittsburgh are leftist radicals who hate capitalism and the United States. The people in Washington, were proud Americans who love capitalism and America and just want the country to go back to were it belongs. One a conservative group of patriots, the other a leftist group of anarchists. Yea those dam tea party people were a real mess, they caused all kinds of problems, arrests every where, bad, bad,bad.

Dozens of stores broken into, trash strewn every where you looked, police fire rubber bullets just to keep them under control, what a scene. I guess this women with her sign must have really gotten out of hand. Oh yea, what a difference a couple weeks make. Its hard to imagine that all it took was a few days for things to change. Or maybe, just maybe, it really was the people who made the difference. These are the same people who, despite the lack of press coverage sent a pretty loud message, a lot louder than the nit wits in Pittsburgh. The only question is did the White House and Congress hear it? One thing is for certain, they will next November. Look at it this way, by then all the broken glass will have been cleaned up in Pittsburgh.

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Iran has a Secret Uranium Enrichment Plant, Really - Can someone tell me why Chrysler is doing Business with Iran? Where is the Car Czar Now?

As Iran announces it is running another uranium enrichment plant that has been hidden for some time, Obama stands at the United Nations acting and talking tough, the only problem is he is talking out both sides of his face again. Americans saw their tax money go into a bailout of Chrysler, and it made them mad. Answer this. If Obama wants to be so tough on Iran, why is Chrysler still doing business with them? Where is the Car Czar now?

Obama wants to bring other countries on board to get Iran to talk. He had drawn a mid summer dead line, then is was the September 15th dead line, now that they have admitted to a secret enrichment plant, he is looking at October. Sounds line the line in the sand is truly in the sand, its constantly shifting. What I can't understand is why is Chrysler doing business with Iran? For that matter, why are they allowed to sell or trade anything with Iran. American tax payers poured millions into a bail out to save union jobs which was bad enough. Now we find out they are doing business with a country that wants to destroy us.

Where is the Car Czar now? How did he miss this? Or, was it just not important enough to do something about? How can the American people have faith in anything Obama is saying about anything, when they find out a company that he had to save and walk through bankruptcy ruining thousand of Americans in the process, is still doing business with the Iran, an Islamic dictatorship who is bent on obtaining nuclear weapons? Its time for Obama to stop talking out both sides of his mouth, pick a side America, or your union backers you need to pay back. Its a real shame when an American company, who just received tens of millions of government money is doing business with our enemy, yes our enemy.

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If the IRS Collects It, Its a Tax - Dem staff: Baucus $3800 Fine is an "Excise Tax" - The Only person in the World who thinks its Not: Obama

You know I don't have a dictionary in front of me, but I believe if the Internal Revenue Service is charged with collecting money, they can only do that with a "tax" of some form. For example, they can't collect tolls for roads or parking tickets or money for a camping spot in a national park, right? What can they collect? Taxes.

Senator Baucus seems to have a nice little tax stuck in his bill, this tax he is calling a "fine" would cover everybody, regardless of income level. Sure they are trying to craft credits based on income but the truth is that they can't get the money to make the plan work unless they tax people well below the promised line of $200,000 income level. So in other words, the middle class gets taxed. Everybody in America even democratic staffers now concede its a tax, even the IRS calls it a tax by definition. The only and I mean only person left that thinks its not a tax is Barack H. Obama. Look, Obama is many things but he is not stupid. He is dishonest and he lies, but he is not dumb. He looked like a fool on Sunday trying to tell people what was so obvious was not really the truth, or at least his version of it. It is intellectually dishonest to lie, get caught, and then sit there and try to actually get people to believe your lie by inventing new definitions to fit your words which is exactly what he did.

Obama made a campaign promise a few hundred times, that not one penny in new taxes would be placed on anybody making below $200,000 per year. I think even the most devoted Obama follower would have to concede that. What he is simply doing is trying to dance around breaking a core campaign promise to the American people. Whats worse is that in either the house or senate versions of the bill, the democrats have loads of taxes on everything you can think of, yes including soda. That's a tax, that's a tax on middle income America. That was a promise he made to middle income American, now he is trying to get out of it and tax middle class America, period end of story. It is clear that Obama would not have been elected if he had sworn over and over, no new taxes. People in this country just don't have it to give, he knew it and he played on it and now he is going back on his word to fund "his" cornerstone agenda item, universal government run health care.

Don't fear, democratic senators feel your pain, they are talking about dropping it down to half, only $2000 per year, isn't that nice of them and they are doing it all for you. It doesn't matter, without the tax revenue the Baucus plan does not as he claimed "pay for itself", none of the plans can. It simple math, without forcing everyone into the health care pool, they can't raise enough money to come close to paying for it. The CBO, even after Obama leaned on them, still says the democratic house plan is $1.5 trillion upside down and the senate plans cut both medicare and medicaid and still does not make it across the no cost line without significant tax increases. Obama and the democrats are being dishonest at every turn, they don't want the light of day on these bills because they know people do not support them. It is becoming clear that Obama and most democrats will do or say anything to get health care passed, they are betting the farm on it so to speak. Obama should like the farm analogy, since all he is selling is bull.

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Gen.Petraeus backs McChrystal's plan Hillary supports Obama, What a Surprise - Obama turns Afghanistan into a Polical Football

General David Petraeus, the general that executed the surge strategy in Iraq, has come out to support General McChrystal's troop request. Not to worry, Obama picked up a supporter too, Hillary Clinton. Yea, that makes thing even alright.We now have two camps in Washington, the military experts made up of Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Admiral Mike Mullen, General David Petraeus and General Stanely McChrystal. These three support sending more troops to Afghanistan to prevent a defeat and to enable the Afghan Army and police to get up to speed, which could take 2 to 3 years.

On the other side of the field is the political hack squad lead up by the community organizer Barack Obama. It's no surprise that with all her world experience especially in regard to military operations Hillary fell in line. I did not realize that between Hillary and Obama they had so much experience and talent when it comes to the United States Military, I had no idea they were such strong supporters of the military. Hillary came out yesterday and said other people said we don't need any troops and that General McChrystal didn't know what he was doing. Obama said he wants to make sure he gets the strategy right. That would be the strategy "he" put in place in March, and his general, that would be "McChrystal" who was executing it. From Obama's own mouth was talk of a surge and more troops and routing out the Taliban and Al-Qaeda.

I was trying to figure out what happened, then it dawned on me, health care happened, or didn't happen would be more correct. Obama is caving to his left wing base. Pelosi, Levin and others made it clear before congress came back that they would not support more troops for Afghanistan. Now since we all know that Obama has made it clear over and over and over that health care is not about him, it can't be that he is afraid he could fail on his number one agenda item could it? What no one is saying is that two separate civilian reports came back over the summer and concluded the exact same thing as General McChrystal, tens of thousand of more troops would be needed, soon. Hillary is playing word games with American military lives. Obama is playing politics with a war.

Its really pretty simple, on one side you have decades of military experience including command and combat experience. These are some of the best we have to offer. On the other side we have the community organizer and a political has been who is sucking up to her boss. Neither have one minute of relevant experience in what they are talking about. Obama flat out lies and says he wants to get the strategy right, Hillary swears to it. If it was not so serious it would be funny. We have the military experts saying one thing and Barry saying something else. This is a war, the military is charged with fighting the war, if you are not going to let them fight it, then bring them home. Using our military and its soldiers as pawns in a political game borders on treason. These people are putting their lives on the line for us, for the nation, not so Obama can try to pass health care without upsetting his liberal base. What Obama does not under stand is that the more of this type of things he does, the deeper the will to oppose anything he wants will get. Democrats in congress can support him at their own peril if they choose. The American public won't forget anytime soon.

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The Congressional Budget Office says Medicare Will Be Cut, Joe Biden says No - Who do You Believe?

10 FACTS EVERY AMERICAN SHOULD KNOW ABOUT SEN. BAUCUS’ COSTLY GOVERNMENT-RUN HEALTH CARE BILLGOP LEADER: “THIS PARTISAN BILL IS THE WRONG PRESCRIPTION DURING THESE TOUGH ECONOMIC TIMES"
September 23, 2009 House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) Permalink
As the Senate Finance Committee gets set to begin its second day examining Senator Max Baucus’ (D-MT) costly government run-health care bill, House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) released a list of 10 facts every American should know about what he calls “the wrong prescription during these tough economic times:”
“This partisan bill is the wrong prescription during these tough economic times. It increases health care costs, cuts Medicare for seniors, imposes new taxes on struggling middle-class families and small businesses, and has a trillion-dollar price tag. This issue is too important to get wrong. That’s why Democrats should scrap their expensive plans and work with Republicans on a fiscally-responsible proposal that lowers health care costs and expands access for the American people.” Here are the top 10 facts every American should know about Senator Baucus’ proposed government takeover of health care:1. Medicare Cuts Mean Reduced Benefits, Fewer Choices for Seniors. The Baucus plan cuts Medicare by nearly $500 billion, slashing coverage millions of seniors depend on. These benefit cuts will ultimately eliminate choices currently enjoyed by seniors today. Doug Elmendorf, the head of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, told the Senate Finance Committee yesterday he “expected the Medicare Advantage plans to lose 2.7 million enrollees over the next decade” as a result of the Baucus plan. 2. Individual Mandate Results in Hefty Tax Increase for Millions of Americans. The Baucus plan mandates that every American buy health insurance or pay a hefty new tax to Washington of up to $1,900 per year. This new tax will take another $20 billion hard earned dollars from working families. Especially during a recession, this new tax will place another large burden on the family budget.3. No Junk Lawsuit Reform to Reduce Health Care Costs. The Baucus plan includes only a “Sense of the Senate” with respect to the very pressing issue of junk lawsuit reform. Seriouschanges are needed to reduce costly,unnecessary defensive medicine practiced by doctorstrying to protect themselves from a feeding frenzy of trial lawyers. The Baucusplan misses an opportunity for real reform.4. New Taxes Harm Small Businesses, Costs Jobs. The Baucus plan saddles small businesses that have more than 50 employees with a new tax of up to $199,600 per year if they do not provide health coverage to their employees. Census data compiled by the Small Business Administration, however, reveals that the Baucus “small business exemption” – for businesses with fewer than 50 employees – will still subject many small employers to new taxes and mandates. In fact, this so-called “exemption” could still subject 220,000 small businesses that employ 44% of all small business employees and 22% of the entire private sector workforce to the new taxes and mandates. The 220,000 small businesses targeted by the Baucus plan employ 26.4 million employees and provide those employees $982 billion in wages annually.5. Higher Health Care Costs for Working Families. The Baucus plan would actually raise insurance premiums for working families, not lower them. In a letter to Chairman Baucus, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office stated, “premiums in the new insurance exchanges would tend to be higher than the average premiums in the current-law individual market…” Meanwhile, a recent study published in Health Affairs found that a government-run plan similar to the one being proposed in House Democrats’ bill could cause annual insurance premiums for a family of four to increase by more than $4,500.6. $420 Billion in New Tax Increases on Families & Small Businesses. The Baucus plan includes a host of new taxes on American families and job creators. Taxes on individuals who are uninsured, taxes on employers that do not offer health insurance coverage, and taxes on health care products like wheelchairs and other medical devices and insurance are just some of the more than $420 billion in new tax increases included in the bill. At a time when families and small businesses are already struggling to make ends meet, new taxes of this magnitude would only further slow the economy and raise the cost of care for those patients who need it most.7. Lower Wages and More Unemployment. The Baucus plan would impose a new $27 billion tax on employers, including small businesses, that cannot afford to provide health coverage or that don’t offer coverage. The effect of this type of tax, similar to a payroll tax increase, would ultimately fall squarely on workers in the form of lower wages or reduced employment. In fact, the Tax Policy Center concluded that “economists generally believe that the burden of payroll taxes is borne by workers in the form of lower wages, regardless of whether the tax is levied on the employer or the employee.” The tax proposed in the Baucus plan will likely have the same effect. 8. Higher Taxes on American Manufacturers. In order to find revenue to “pay for” his plan, Senator Baucus included massive new taxes on various industry segments in the health care sector. These new taxes include $17.2 billion tax on pharmaceutical manufacturers, a $30 billion tax on medical device manufacturers, and a $45 billion tax on health insurers. These massive tax increases on American manufacturers will be passed on to American families, and they will make the cost of health care more expensive. These tax increases will also serve as a major disincentive for innovation, capital investment and job creation. With some Senate Democrats clamoring for additional – and costly – subsidies, how many more tax increases will be added before it goes for a vote in the Senate? When will Democrats reveal what other tax increases they have in store for American working families and employers?9. A Lack of Support From Senate Democrats. Key Senate Democrats have voiced concern about the Baucus plan, including Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV,) who said “there is no way” he would support it “unless it changes in the amendment process by vast amounts.” What’s more, Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL) described the Medicare cuts in the Baucus plan as “intolerable” in remarks on the Senate floor last week, while Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) “complained the legislation would ask working Americans to commit as much as 13% of their income to buy basic insurance,” calling it a “real hit on middle-class families.” 10. Is the Baucus Plan Written in Invisible Ink? While House Democrats have marked up legislation in three different committees, the Senate Finance Committee is taking a different approach. The Committee is working off of a framework document that summarizes what they would like to do, but doesn’t offer specifics on how it would be done. That leaves big questions about just how this plan will work and doesn’t allow for a full and transparent debate on the plan. At a time when the American people are asking their legislators, “Have you read the bill?” the clear answer among Senate Finance Committee members will be “no.”BONUS: House Republicans have offered fiscally responsible solutions to make health care more affordable and accessible for every American. Our proposals recognize the need to implement reforms that build on what works in health care, rather than replacing it with a one-size-fits-all government-run system.
REPUBLICAN LEADER PRESS OFFICEREP. JOHN BOEHNER (R-OH)H-204, THE CAPITOL(202) 225-4000 GOPLEADER.GOV

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Carter, Brzezinski Give a Climpse into the Liberal Mindset and how Far They would Go to get What they Want - Israel gets Hung out to Dry

You know I enjoy watching the democratic party trot out the dim wit's like Jimmy Carter, they just demonstrate to the American people how marginalized the liberal base of the party really is. Over the weekend liberals were out defending Obama and one actually said that conservatives were trying to turn Barack Obama's presidency into a failed administration like Jimmy Carter's, oops.

Carter comes out saying the country is opposing Obama because of race, forget policy. Forget anything or everything else, its just race. Remember a few months back Carter snuck into the Gaza strip and was talking with HAMAS, waiving to the crowds, telling the media he felt responsible because American weapons were being used by Israel to kill Innocent people. Remember how it was Israel's fault, not any mention of terrorist groups, just Israel. Now after telling the world Americans are evil, he tells Americans they are evil because we oppose Obama's socialist agenda, your a racist. Well, Carter has gone one better.

His administrations National Security Advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski has come out and told the media that the United States Air Force should shoot down the Israeli Air Force jets should they attempt to strike at the Iranian nuclear program. Now you may or may not have heard this, but that doesn't matter. Just stop for a minute and think about what they are saying here and put everything together. Israel, like them or hate them is by far our single best ally in the Middle East, no questions ask. Take Carter's comments a couple months back, add to that this moron Brzezinski and you could very easily make the argument that the "Carter" wing of the liberal base is not too fond of Israel. Obama is pressuring the Israeli's on making peace with the Palestinians no matter what. He gives speeches telling the United Nations that Israel can not continue to construct buildings on certain disputed grounds. Obama pulls the missile shield program, aimed at Iran.

My question is how much do the liberals in this country dislike Israel? How far are they willing to go in taking actions against them? I don't know, I know this, Jews in this country overwhelmingly vote Democratic, why? They supported Obama, he is throwing Israel under the bus, where are their voices now? Where is Senator (Upchuck) Schumer, what about Levin or Durbin, what they just didn't hear him? Now you know that they are very aware of whats going on and being said. How many house members are Jewish? I don't know I never counted. You may say why does this matter, how many are Jewish, who cares. I'll tell you why it matters, if these people will not even defend their own home land, Israel, what makes you think they will defend you from the government and health care reform, cap & trade, card check, for that matter anything the great one proposes. Jewish members of Congress won't even speak out to help defend their own families, many of whom have relatives in Israel. They won't even speak up to defend what is considered their home land, and you think they are going to help or listen to you over Obama? Not gonna happen.

When ideology takes precedence over doing whats morally right, or representing the people who sent to you there, its time for them to go. They are falling lock step in line with Obama, no that was not a slip, they are goose stepping their way down Pennsylvania Avenue smiling all the way. Carter coming out crying about racism is garbage, but Carter showing you how the liberals really feel about Israel is another story all together. It shows one other thing, it shows were the liberals and their loyalties are, and it's not with the American people, or Israel either.

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Obama talks Cap & Trade - Americans are Talking an Extra $1761 per Year

Boehner Responds to the President’s Remarks on Climate Change
GOP Leader: “Middle-class families and small businesses are struggling, and they shouldn’t be punished with costly legislation that will increase electricity bills, raise gasoline prices, and ship more American jobs overseas to places like China and India.”
WASHINGTON, DC – Earlier today, President Obama spoke to a United Nations “Climate Change Summit.” House Republican Leader John Boehner made the following comment in response: “Yesterday, President Obama’s Energy Secretary compared the American people to ‘teenage kids’ when it comes to energy policy. Earlier today, the President addressed a United Nations ‘Climate Change Summit’ in New York and touted a variation on the Democrats’ national energy tax – legislation that, according to the Administration’s own estimates, will cost families an average of $1,700 a year in higher costs. Out-of-touch Washington Democrats don’t seem to get it. Middle-class families and small businesses are struggling, and they shouldn’t be punished with costly legislation that will increase electricity bills, raise gasoline prices, and ship more American jobs overseas to places like China and India.
“There is a better solution. Republicans’ ‘all of the above’ strategy is the fastest route to a cleaner, more reliable energy future. Our legislation – the American Energy Act – will clean up the environment, lower energy costs, reduce our dependence on foreign oil, and create a millions of good-paying, new American jobs. That’s change we can truly believe in.”
NOTE: Last week, CBS News and other media outlets reported that a private analysis prepared by the Obama Administration’s Treasury Department estimates that the cap-and-trade national energy tax will result in an average $1,761 in increased costs for American families.

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Beretta's Best Kept Secret - The 3032 Tomcat - One of the Best Pocket Pistols you never See

Most people know Beretta for their famous 92F/S service pistol. As soon as the US military adopted it, they became "the" 9mm to have. The Lethal Weapon movie series added to that with Riggs shooting everything that moved and never running out of ammo. Well, this pistol is the smaller cousin that no one ever sees. The Beretta Tomcat, 3032, in 32acp is the real deal in a pocket pistol.

This pistol looks kind of like a small version of the 92F. It has one feature the 92F doesn't have, a tilt up barrel. Its a really nice touch to load or unload the pistol. When I say pocket pistol, I mean pocket pistol. The pistol is only 4.9" long and just over 1" wide. It weighs in empty at 14.5 oz. It feeds from a 7 round magazine with a push button release which sometimes is hard to find on a pistol this size. The Tomcat has a safety mounted below the slide and a set of sights milled into the slide and the top of the barrel.

Some dismiss small caliber pistols as lacking stopping power. While that is a valid concern, I would rather have a small pistol than none at all. These type of weapons are for a second/back-up gun or when you can not carry anything else. The nice thing is that a small holster is available for it and it fits in your front pants pocket and does not leave an outline. Now the little Beretta fires the 32acp cartridge, not a power house to be sure. But, this is a close range weapon, at 7 or 8 feet, a couple 32acp "silver tips" would probably really ruin someones day, maybe for good. This is the part that makes the Tomcat a great little pistol, it works, really works. Pocket pistols are known for having reliability problems, regardless of caliber. One thing I can say for certain, my 2 Tomcats have fired hundreds of rounds of various ball and hollow point ammo without a hitch. Believe me this is a big deal in this size pistol.

Granted the Tomcat cost's a little more than most pocket pistols you see out there for sale. But this is truly a life saving pistol, it has to work. No it is not a great home defense pistol. No its not the weapon you want if you know your going into harms way. No you should not be clearing a house with it. But, when you can't carry anything bigger, or you need a small pistol that fits everywhere, this little bugger just might be the pistol your looking for. Its small and dependable and with a decent round can cause serious harm to someone. I would much rather have this in my pocket than a cell phone or pepper spray.

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Obama gag order on Health Ins. Companies to hide $500 Billion in Medicare Cuts to Seniors

Obama's administration has found a new way to attempt to silence critics of his health care plan. Legal action. Obama has the government threatening to cut off funding and start investigations into the critics of his health care plan if they are a government service provider. This is blatant intimidation trying to silence opposition. With over $500 billion in proposed Medicare cuts proposed, Obama is desperate to stop insurance companies from telling their customers the truth. He is now threatening legal action against them to do so. What does Obama and the Democrats have to hide if everything is as they say? Below is a statement from John Boehner, the minority leader in the house. If you think I'm making this up, read it for yourself.

Boehner: Stop the Obama Administration’s “Gag Order;” Seniors Deserve Truth About the Democrats’ Medicare Cuts GOP Leader: “It is outrageous that the Obama Administration is trying to keep seniors in the dark about the consequences of congressional Democrats’ costly government-run health care bills”
WASHINGTON, D.C. – House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) issued the following statement today criticizing actions by the Obama Administration to impose a gag order on critics of the $500 billion in Medicare cuts proposed by the congressional Democrats: “It is outrageous that the Obama Administration is trying to keep seniors in the dark about the consequences of congressional Democrats’ costly government-run health care bills. Would the Administration impose this sort of gag order if seniors were being given information promoting the Obama health care plan? I don’t think so. Seniors have a right to know about the cost and consequences of the Democrats’ health care bills, and Republicans will continue to tell the American people the facts about the nearly $500 billion in Medicare cuts that Democrats are proposing.”

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Do You Know Obama now Supports the Patriot Act & "Roving Wire Taps" ? What has Happened to the ACLU & NAACP?

I don't know if you have heard but the the much criticized Patriot Act is coming up for renewal and guess what, Obama now supports it. What I am amazed by is that the liberals who supported him screamed bloody murder over the act being passed after 9/11 and now they are silent. Or is it a case were the main stream media won't cover them either?

The fact that Obama now supports three of the most controversial parts of the act, including "Roving Wire Taps", is not surprising to me and many others. I think it may shock some of the liberals who supported him as he criticized the Bush administration over it. Whats truly amazing is that according to Obama we are no longer in a "war on terror" and he has tried to not even use the word "terror" when talking. If it is the case that we no longer face these types of threats, then why would he want the Patriot Act renewed? Is he not the same community organizer that wants to ensure everybody is protected under the constitution? I think is was the ACLU and dozens of other liberal groups who came out against the Patriot Act when it was first enacted. Those groups included the National Council of LaRaza, People for the American Way and best of all the NAACP. As a matter of fact it was the NAACP president at the time who said the Patriot Act would deny basic civil rights to thousands. My how things have changed. These groups are silent now, don't you want to know why?

Obama and the left attacked Bush over this on a regular basis, now because Obama is president it must be Ok, how does that work? This is my problem with the whole deal. If you were for it in the past fine, if you were against it in the past fine. Why the change now? Obama is changing because he wants the power, period. For the left, including the ACLU and the NAACP is was a travesty when Bush was in office, but now they remain silent. When as I have said in the past, people complain about the left and liberals being hypocrites, this is what they are talking about. When it was Bush, it was an issue for "people of color" as the NAACP put it. Now its not. When it was Bush it was a "violation of the 4th Amendment" as the ACLU argued. Now its not. How could this have possibly changed, except for the fact that we are being told we face less of a threat from terrorists and how the world just loves America now because of Barack Obama. If the liberal spin is true, why do we need the Patriot Act at all?

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The GOP Questions Obama's "No Tax" Answer on Health Care - Forget the Dictonary You Know the Truth

REALITY CHECK: TEXT OF DEM HEALTH CARE BILL, PRESIDENT’S SENIOR ADVISORS REFUTE HIS ‘NO TAX INCREASE’ CLAIMBILL TEXT CALLS INDIVIDUAL MANDATES A “TAX ON INDIVIDUALS WITHOUT ACCEPTABLE HEALTH CARE COVERAGE;” PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE OBAMA CALLED THEM A “VERY HARSH PENALTY”
September 20, 2009 House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) PermalinkOnce again, President Obama’s health care rhetoric doesn’t match the reality of congressional Democrats’ costly government takeover of health care. On ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos yesterday the President repeatedly insisted that requiring Americans to buy government-approved health care does not constitute a tax increase, yet that is exactly what it says in the 1,018-page House bill. What’s more, the idea that an individual mandate is a tax on working families has been confirmed in earlier writings by senior Obama Administration officials. All told, H.R. 3200 contains roughly $820 billion in tax increases, according to the nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation and the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) called on President Obama to “be straight with the American people” and admit that his health care plan requires significant tax increases:
“Once again, the President’s health care rhetoric doesn’t match reality. The massive tax increases working families will see under the Democrats’ costly government takeover of health care aren’t hidden in the fine print. The President should be straight with the American people and admit that his health care plan requires significant tax hikes in the middle of a deep recession. The President’s inability to meet his own standard of not repeating ‘bogus claims’ about health care reform is yet another indication it’s time to hit the reset button and start working together on a bipartisan plan the American people can support and afford.”As the following shows, both the text of the House Democrats’ health care bill and President Obama’s own advisors have refuted his “no tax increase” claim:
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REALITY

President Obama: “For us to say you have to take responsibility to get health insurance is absolutely not a tax increase.” (ABC’s This Week, 9/20/09)“STEPHANOPOULOS: But you reject that it’s a tax increase?
OBAMA: I absolutely reject that notion.” (ABC’s This Week, 9/20/09)
From p. 169 of H.R. 3200, as amended: “SEC. 59B. TAX ON INDIVIDUALS WITHOUT ACCEPTABLE HEALTH CARE COVERAGE. (a) TAX IMPOSED.—In the case of any individual who does not meet the requirements of subsection (d) at any time during the taxable year, there is hereby imposed a tax equal to 2.5 percent of the excess of — (1) the taxpayer’s modified adjusted gross income for the taxable year, or (2) the amount of gross income specified in section 6012(a)(1) with respect to the taxpayer.”
President Obama: “Nobody considers that a tax increase." (ABC’s This Week, 9/20/09)
Sherry Glied, Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, Department of Health and Human Services: “The individual mandate offers new options, but it also introduces risks. The mandate is in many respects analogous to a tax. …[T]he mandate will act as a very regressive tax, penalizing uninsured people who genuinely cannot afford to buy coverage.” (New England Journal of Medicine, 4/10/08)Larry Summers, Director of the National Economic Council: “Economists have generally devoted little attention to mandated benefits – regarding them as simply disguised tax and expenditure measures.” (American Economic Review, May 1989)Then-Sen. Barack Obama: “In order for you to force people to get health insurance, you’ve got to have a very harsh penalty.” (Democratic presidential debate, 2/21/08)House Republicans have proposed fiscally responsible solutions to make quality health care more affordable and accessible for every American. As Leader Boehner said on NBC’s Meet the Press yesterday, “We’ve outlined a number of ideas to make the current system better. Why not allow small employers to group together through national associations so they can buy health insurance for their employees like big companies and unions can today? Why not allow the American people to buy health care plans across state lines? Why not get serious about medical malpractice reform and more importantly the defensive medicine that doctors practice because we haven’t reformed our tort system?”
REPUBLICAN LEADER PRESS OFFICEREP. JOHN BOEHNER (R-OH)H-204, THE CAPITOL(202) 225-4000 GOPLEADER.GOV

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What do China, Pakistan and Iran all Have In Common? The same Source for Nuclear Weapons - Iran had a Big Head Start

The Times of London yesterday leaked out a confidential letter from Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan, in the west he is known as A.Q.Khan, the father of Pakistan's nuclear weapons program and bomb. This letter is coming to light a couple of weeks after he has been released from house arrest by Pakistan for having passed on weapons technology to various not so nice countries, most of whom don't really care for the United States very much.

Here is what is really scary, Khan is complaining he is being made to take the fall in the nuclear proliferation controversy. Khan flat out states he was told to give the information Iran by then Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. Oops. Khan went on to state that he was told by then Defense Adviser General Imtiaz, to give the Iranians a set of drawings and some components to them as well. Further, he was instructed to furnish the Iranians with the names and addresses of the parts suppliers, which he did. Khan must have been worried because he sent another copy of the letter to his daughter who lives in London and has for years.

Now comes a little twist, China supplied Pakistan with a large amount of highly enriched uranium that was enough to produce two(2) nuclear weapons. This took place in 1982. The Chinese also furnished drawings of the weapons, they gave Pakistan 50kg of enriched uranium, and 10 tons of UF6, raw uranium. It gets better, the Pakistanis built an enrichment plant in China at Hanzhong.

So what does it all mean? It means Iran is much farther down the road than any one had been willing to state up to this point. This release follows the leaks of the IAEA report that shows Iran has the ability and know how to produce a bomb now. They lack a delivery system and maybe fuel to complete the process but they are working the problem every day. It further means that you know the White House knows of this report, and they continue to play games with Iran anyway. Obama thinks he can just talk them out of their nukes, ain't gonna happen. The Iranians have been at this a long time, at least a couple decades. It also means the Russians know what is taking place, they also know what has taken place in the past. They aren't stepping into help Obama and have made that pretty clear. Hows that hope and change thing working out for you anyway? Oh I almost forget, its China we owe $780 billion in debt to. You gotta love all that help we are getting from around the world and how the whole "soft power" thing is working.

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A Tax is A Tax is A Tax, No Matter How Obama Spins It - Do You want to Pay for His Supporter's to Get Health Care? Sen.Baucus a $3800 fine for You

Its pretty bad when ABC News kicks his butt on national television. This man can't even defend his own ideas because he knows he's lying. Now you know why he did not go on Fox, don't you?

Listen to this pathetic dribble closely. First he slips and blurts out the word "campaign" and then corrects himself, he does not want to be seen as "campaigning" for health care, he's above that now, just in case you don't know he is the president. Then he makes another little admission, health insurance costs went up on average 5.5% last year. Stop everything, just last week he did the famous 60 minutes interview and health insurance was going up 25% a year. Wow, that's a big drop in a week. Almost like saying we have 47 million without health care coverage and it dropped down to 30 million in just 60 days, Obama is really good, no one even knew this huge surge in health care coverage was taking place. That's really something, no one can figure out how that happened, can you? It couldn't be that your not counting illegal aliens anymore, could it? I wonder if Joe Wilson was on to something.

No, I'm not done yet, you see Senator Baucus has a neat little plan, in it he will fine up and your family up to $3800.00 a year if you don't buy government approved health care coverage. No, that's not a tax, that's a fine. Really, were do you get the authority to fine people for not buying something. That must be one of those new communist ideas Obama is peddling around, while he is campaigning for, sorry he is not campaigning on health care my mistake. While he is spreading the word, how does that sound? Anyway, to me a tax is a tax is a tax, kind of like a communist is a communist is a communist. They just seem to go together don't they!

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President Obama - Give them the Troops, or Leave Now! - Obama Stalls Playing Political Games while US Soldier's Die in Afghanistan

The answer is simple, Obama is pulling a typical liberal con game. Stall, delay, deny and just flat out lie. Obama wanted the job as Commander in Chief, now he needs to earn his money instead of stalling and trying to kiss up to his liberal base and Democrats in congress. Remember this is the same person who said our goal was not to win, he doesn't even have a strategy he is just fumbling around like an idiot in the dark, but in this case he is expending U.S. military lives. If we are in a war, we are in it to win or we should not be there. Its time for Obama to face the American people, we simply can not allow the trade of lives for Obama's stall tactics for political gain.

A report that the White House was hiding leaked out over the weekend, in that report General Stanley McChrystal makes it very clear that without more U.S. combat troops, we will loose the war in Afghanistan. He believes with a great deal of certainty, that the Afghan war will deteriorate into a Taliban lead insurgency like the one that defeated the Soviet Union, after loosing thousands of their soldiers. Democrats have a bad habit of dragging the country into long drawn out wars, think Kennedy/Johnson and Vietnam. We did not fight that war to win and look what happened. We lost 58,000 lives and were embarrassed around the world. We ended up leaving our allies and friends hang out to dry. It took a great leader like Ronald Reagan to rebuild the spirit and pride in our armed forces, we can ill afford to have that type of thing happen again.

Obama needs to understand this is not Vietnam, these people will follow us home. These people will see a retreat from Afghanistan as a huge victory and rallying cry to their followers around the world. Pakistan is located just next door with nukes, the Taliban can not be allowed to operate freely in this region or sooner or later, they will obtain what they seek, a nuclear weapon and as they have made very clear, they will use it. Guess who they would like to use it against? Obama is inept and naive, he is playing with the lives of American soldiers because he can't afford to upset his base any further and they have made it clear they do not want to send more troops to the "good war" as they once called it. Obama's political agenda is all he cares about, and its stalled and he needs liberals to get it through its pretty simple. What is also pretty simple to understand is that Obama has no clue, none, as to what he is doing. This man has no concept of what to do, he gives political hacks his ideas and what he wants to happen and they craft some type of plan to try to accomplish it. The military leaders are the people in this case that we need to be relying on for advice, they gave it, he just won't follow it because its not politically advantageous to do so.

We are in a war in Afghanistan, we are not loosing we are in a stalemate and can't go forward. We are expending lives while Obama tries to craft a purely political strategy on what to do. He is so worried about his health care bill he has forgotten his first responsibility which is as commander of the U.S. armed forces. We should not loose one more life while he plays games. If we are there to win, then win, give them what ever they need to get the job done. If not, we need to leave now without spending one more American soldiers life for Obama, simply put, his grand agenda is not worth it.

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A couple of Web Sites you May Like: Women of Caliber & Real Military Network

I found a couple of good sites people may be interested in checking out. I have set up links to them if you want to go check them out. They are different in nature but they are very good in their niche, they also have a little cross over coverage.

The first web site, which has been running for some time is, http://www.womenofcaliber.com/, if you like weapons, if you like information on self defense and related things, you should really like them. The site, as the name indicates is run by woman, who are located in the great state of Utah. They offer a wide range of topics and services. They even have instructors for the Utah concealed weapons training course. The blog is full of interesting and useful content. If these things appeal to you, check them out and I think you will like what you find.

The other site, is completely different, but thats not saying its totally unrelated to the Women of Caliber. No doubt there will be plenty people who like both sites, this site has guns too, some really big guns as a matter of fact and lots of them to boot. This new site which is still testing itself will be called http://www.realmilitarynetwork.com/, as I said the site is still in the testing phase but it is up and running. If you like military topics on everything from history, games, photos, videos and breaking news this could be a great place for you to go. This site is packed full of all kinds of good information on current and past military conflicts, tactics and equipment. It features articles on just about anything military related. The graphics are good and feature things not found on other sites. Again, if military related topics is your thing, you will like this site.

When I bump into good things I try to let you know, both of these sites offer excellent information in their topic areas. They can both be entertaining and informative at the same time. If you desire, check them out let me know what you think, good, bad or indifferent. The links are on the right or in the post.

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