WORKING PEOPLE FREQUENTLY ASK RETIRED PEOPLE WHAT THEY DO TO MAKE THEIR DAYS INTERESTING.  

 I WENT TO THE STORE THE OTHER DAY.  I WAS ONLY IN THERE FOR ABOUT 5 MINUTES.  WHEN I CAME OUT THERE WAS A CITY COP WRITING OUT A PARKING TICKET.  I WENT UP TO HIM AND SAID,”COME ON, BUDDY, HOW ABOUT GIVING A SENIOR A BREAK?"  HE IGNORED ME AND CONTINUED WRITING THE TICKET. 

 I CALLED HIM A NAME.  HE GLARED AT ME AND STARTED WRITING ANOTHER TICKET FOR HAVING WORN TIRES.  SO I CALLED HIM A WORSE NAME.  HE FINISHED THE SECOND TICKET AND PUT IT ON THE WINDSHIELD WITH THE FIRST.  THEN HE STARTED WRITING A THIRD TICKET.  THIS WENT ON FOR ABOUT 20 MINUTES.  THE MORE I ABUSED HIM THE MORE TICKETS HE WROTE.  I DIDN'T CARE.  MY CAR WAS PARKED AROUND THE CORNER AND THIS ONE HAD AN "ELECT JOHN KERRY" BUMPER STICKER ON IT.

 I TRY TO HAVE A LITTLE FUN EACH DAY NOW THAT I'M RETIRED.  IT'S IMPORTANT AT OUR AGE.

This was a note I wrote on Sunday, intending to send to Fox News Channel (FNC), but didn't because I blanked on the address to send it to:

While Mr. 'Splainer Man is certainly right that there are 2nd amendment rights, and that they are not absolute (for example felons and other prohibited possessors), he is absolutely wrong about fully-automatic weapons (Uzis, etc.) being banned.

There is a tax "stamp" and almost anyone with a clean background and enough money to buy the weapon and tax stamp together can own one. Would Thompson Center still continue to make Thompson Machine Guns (which they do), if no one could own one? However some semi-autos are banned based solely on magazine capacity and/or country of origin. The ban is pointless, hypocritical and can not be proven to have helped in ANY way claimed.

Much like the fantasy that right to carry laws increase crime (can be demonstrated to have reduce it EVERY TIME tried), the so called "Clinton weapons ban" is a feel-good, but otherwise pointless example of politics run amok and rights being trampled in the name of political glory/grandstanding.

Perhaps he should understand the facts before he 'splains them?

By the way, while using the NRA "lobby" to talk about Kerry's gun positions, I think it is a cleaner argument that he's rated 100% by Sarah Brady's lobbies ... I guess the NRA is just a more PC scapegoat? When I see things like this, I worry about FNC becoming another CNN ... PLEASE don't do that!

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Another plug for the book ... read it to see how Kerry is linked to communism, treason, and assorted other crimes solely to further his own glory!

If just 10% of the claims in this book are true, John Kerry is a traitor and should be up on charges as a war criminal, not up on the campaign for the presidency. If you are STILL ignorant enough to consider voting for this moron, at least read this book!

But vote! No matter how stupid/ignorant/fraudulent I think Kerry supporters are, VOTE for someone. Get involved or don't complain as this country continues to slide into serious decline.

If you want some appreciation for the nation and freedoms we all enjoy, if you want to begin to understand what it means to be the child of a WWII veteran ... what it *should* mean to be an american, read this book.

I registered to vote, for the first time, in 1980. I am ashamed to admit that my motivation for doing so was explicitly to vote against President Reagan. I seem to remember it was because he was both too old and a warmonger. Afterall, I remembered Vietnam. It had been going on for almost my whole life. My dad was a democrat his entire life, and my mother still is to this day (she's voting for Bush though!).

I was 20 years old and very far left for/in those days.

President Reagan, I now know, would have been disappointed that I didn't share his vision at the time (I do now), but overjoyed that he'd motivated me to vote.

I don't, however, remember if I voted for or against him in 1984.

Unfortunately, I remained fairly left, or mostly uninvolved (though I continued to vote), for years after that.

I voted for Clinton the first time he ran. Yes, I admit it, but I'm not proud. Incidentally, THAT gives me the right to criticize him!

I watched Clinton closely because I didn't actually trust him. I voted for him because he was relatively young. He just seemed a bit too "slick" to me. I soon noticed his policies and priorities were both not what he campaigned as, and more importantly, not in keeping with my deepest values.

I know I voted against him when offered a second opportunity.

I truly learned a lot during the Clinton years. I learned what "right" and "left" refer to in the political jargon of this country. I realized that the left was not right. (pun intended)

I read. I listened. I watched. I voted "independent" for a number of years (I don't just vote every 4 years ya know - local is as important as national).

Now I am a Republican. I am 44 years old. I voted for George W. Bush the first time, and I'm going to do so again this year, destiny willing.

I owe Ronald Reagan, at a minimum, getting my attention as, and beginning to be truly proud of being an American.

But I know that I owe him much more. History speaks for itself.

Someday I'll expand on what I learned from Mr. Clinton. In that case, I can assure you, I'll show enough courtesy and respect to wait a respectful amount of time after the dirt is thrown on his ... his repose.

Speaking as someone that was once fully in the Left's camp (when it meant something), those on the left who have lashed out at the corpse of Ronald Regan before he was ever burried, you people show NOTHING but your absolute stupidity and anti-Americanism. You should all move to france and let the rest of us get on with the dream.

That wasn't very "Reagan like," and I apologize for it on that level.

That makes it no less true.

"In God's time, we will all be taken home" - Patti Davis (6/11/2004)

I cried.

One of the greatest survivors of the Greatest Generation has left us. We are all diminished.

If you are not a liberal by the time you're 20, you have no heart;

If you are not a conservative by the time you're 40, you have no BRAIN!

“Whatever else history may say about me when I’m gone, I hope it will record that I appealed to your best hopes, not your worst fears; to your confidence rather than your doubts. My dream is that you will travel the road ahead with liberty’s lamp guiding your steps and opportunity’s arm steadying your way.”

In the 1940's, a well organized, powerful, German and Japanese army would have turned the world in to one huge Nazi and/or Imperial State.

In the 2000's, a loosely organized, powerful, Terrorist army seeks to turn the world into one huge barbaric society whose actual implementation would set all of civilization back to the stone age ... a sci-fi horror movie would be our dying reality.

Where's the difference? The terrorists are scarrier and harder to beat.

WAKE UP!

WE ARE IN A VERY REAL WORLD WAR THREE ! ! ! ! !