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Yeah, it sucks when it’s your wealth being redistributed

(Via the Drudge Report) Bill Maher, media blow-hard extraordinaire, finds out that having your taxes jacked isn’t really all that pleasant. Gee Bill, you’re just…

March 18, 2013February 13, 2021
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Coming soon to a bank account near you?

The government of Cyprus has agreed to an EU demand that it, in effect, confiscate between 6.7 and 9.9% of all bank deposits in order…

March 17, 2013February 15, 2021
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Let me toss something out there to scare you out of your wits

Please step over to Tam’s site and look at this post.  Feel free to read it if you want, but I just need you to…

March 14, 2013February 15, 2021
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Hypocrites gonna be hypocritical, the sequel

In a way, it’s sort of sad.  Before her unfortunate run-in with a homicidal maniac, former Arizona Congresscritter Gabrielle Giffords decided that she needed to…

March 14, 2013February 15, 2021
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Armageddon sewing

When my Dad died, among the many things I inherited was a pair of treadle sewing machines.  One was my grandma’s (my mother’s mother) and…

March 10, 2013February 15, 2021
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Hypocrites gonna be hypocritical

At least until they get caught and the bright light of day is shined all over their butt. It seems one Mark Kelly, whose primary…

March 10, 2013February 15, 2021
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Saving some coin on the noms

So, unless you have been living under a very large and heavy rock, you know that the news in the authorized media is, on the…

March 7, 2013February 13, 2021
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ba da bump bump bump

Hugo Chavez is outta here. I wonder where claimed-to-be-a-socialist-but-was-really-just-another-damn-tyrant goes to when they die?

March 6, 2013February 15, 2021
Self Defense

Nice

(Via the Drudge Report) You know, I thought we had at least passed the whole “They’ll take the gun away from you and use it…

March 6, 2013February 13, 2021
Guns Statists Gonna State

Just remember, they don’t want to take all your guns

(Via the Drudge Report) Yeah, right. Here’s something we can do to help our brothers in arms in Colorado.  Start writing to the state and…

March 2, 2013February 15, 2021
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World fails to end

So, the sequester cuts have kicked in, and so far…zip.  The sun came up, cops are on the job, Mrs. Freeholder is still employed teaching…

March 1, 2013February 13, 2021
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Crazy Joe

Everyone’s favorite funny uncle, Crazy Joe Biden, is dispensing more wisdom about the use of firearms in a self-defense scenario. “Well, you know, my shotgun…

February 28, 2013February 15, 2021
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blarg…gack…snort

Again, apologies for a continuing lack of bloggage.  I have been fighting (as has Mrs. Freeholder and Son; Daughter has been insulated by distance) some…

February 27, 2013February 15, 2021
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Stand on your rights

(Via SurvivalBlog) Sorry I can’t embed this one for you folks (assuming I could get Blogger to cooperate, which is becoming problematic), but go here…

February 24, 2013February 13, 2021
Guns

Another gun-grabber gets powned

(Via Frugal Squirrels) Most entertaining.

February 24, 2013February 15, 2021
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Obviously not getting the message

(Via The Drudge Report) There is a group of 4 “bipartisan” Senators who think they’re going to bargain away our civil rights. Have you written…

February 24, 2013February 13, 2021
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Time again

Weekly nag time–email the Congresscritters.  Call the Congresscritters, do the same with your state and local ones too if they are starting to make anti-civil…

February 22, 2013February 13, 2021
Guns Statists Gonna State

I’ll give the man credit for chutzpah

(Via the Drudge Report) Or, perhaps Joe just had a few drinkie-winkies before opening his mouth.  At any rate, our esteemed excuse for a Vice-President…

February 22, 2013February 15, 2021
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Follow this advice and go to jail

(Via the Drudge Report) “If there’s ever a problem,” Biden said he told his wife Jill, “just walk out on the balcony here–walk out, put…

February 20, 2013February 15, 2021
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Now here’s a Republican who is worth having around

(Via the Drudge Report) In just two months, Mr. Cruz, 42, has made his presence felt in an institution where new arrivals are usually not…

February 16, 2013February 13, 2021
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Nag, nag, nag

Yep, I’m back with my weekly “Have you written your Congresscritters?” nag.  His Obamaness has made it clear he wants teh gunz.  State legislators all…

February 15, 2013February 13, 2021
A funny
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A funny

OK, if you haven’t spent time listening to NPR (National Proletarian Radio), this might not be quite so funny… (anti-gun story fades out) “Funding for…

February 14, 2013February 15, 2021
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Interesting

I find it interesting how little headline coverage the State of the Union speech has gotten.  Sure there’s some, but I would expect a lot…

February 14, 2013February 15, 2021
Statists Gonna State

Dealing with the police state

For any number of reasons, we’re seeing an increase of, for lack of a better description, hard-ass cops who think they are the law–and the…

February 13, 2013February 15, 2021
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Let’s do the math

Everyone from the Pentagon to the President, fromPelosi to McCain are bemoaning those terrible budget cuts that are coming on March 1.  It’s gonna be…

February 11, 2013February 15, 2021
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And the hits just keep on coming

In Budget Rescission Land, we don’t look for excess or extraneous government agencies that we can do without and shut them down.  We shut down…

February 10, 2013February 15, 2021
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Just damn

Ed Rasimus, the proprietor at Thunder Tales, died Friday, February 1. He’d been fighting the good fight with cancer.  His last post is vintage Rasimus;…

February 9, 2013February 15, 2021
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Registration Leads to Confiscation

(Via SurvivalBlog) Always.  Vote with your feet, people–leave while you still can.

February 9, 2013February 13, 2021
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Got to love the game

(Via the Drudge Report) Remember a few years ago, when states, counties and municipalities where in budget trouble?  Remember what they did?  Rather than cutting…

February 9, 2013February 15, 2021
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What a statist prick

(Via the Drudge Report) The King Governor of Massachusetts has decided his subjects the citizens can’t be trusted to use their good sense about traveling…

February 9, 2013February 13, 2021

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