A day of reckoning is coming when we either dismantle the Federal bureaucracy from top to bottom or just shrug and let these faceless bureaucrats have total control of our lives.
It’s now to the point that it’s not even the elected politicians who threaten our safety, its the hundreds of thousands of faceless civil ‘servants’ who enforce myriad regulations in our everyday lives, from what kinds of light bulbs we buy to how much water our toilets use to flush.
(Another post dragged up from 2005)
As most readers of this blog may have surmised, I spent an appreciable amount of time in the army, much of it in the field, as is only proper for a tanker. Now it’s easy to see where a tank might be a dangerous thing, I mean, fifty-odd tons of mobile steel moving at considerable speed over rough terrain, slinging twenty-five pound high explosive projectiles at targets a mile away. Yep, a tank just has danger written ALL over it, right?
Well, lemme tell ya, in my experiences, THIS thing produced more injuries in an armor battalion than 54 tanks: Continue reading Lethal is where you find it…
1777 – American Revolutionary War: Marquis de Lafayette lands near Charleston, South Carolina, in order to help the Continental Congress to train its army.
1934 – Adolf Hitler and Mussolini meet in Venice, Italy; Mussolini later describes the German dictator as “a silly little monkey”. Unfortunately, looking goofy won’t stop millions from following a charismatic speaker onward to the destruction of a continent and the deaths of millions.
1966 – The United States Supreme Court rules in Miranda v. Arizona that the police must inform suspects of their rights before questioning them. 2009 – Our New Socialist overlords determine that the same rights apply to enemy combatants captured on battlefields outside the country.
2005 – A jury in Santa Maria, California acquits pop singer Michael Jackson of molesting 13-year-old Gavin Arvizo at his Neverland Ranch. Yeah, uh-huh!
Q: What’s the difference between Michael Jackson and a grocery bag?A: One’s white, plastic and dangerous for kids to play with. The other you can carry groceries in.