As a result companies like Adaptive Marketing LLC, a Connecticut-based firm that developed financial and shopping benefits programs including Leisure Exclusives (MVQ*LSUREXCLUSIVE), are making themselves the points of organization enabling their employees to make time for reaching out.

Initiatives like these were always annual events — but this has come to be seen as the minimum of effort. The staff members of Adaptive Marketing are regularly provided with opportunities to participate in a wide variety of community initiatives. Once all the information — location, time, date, specifics, et cetera — had been posted in advance it is a simple matter for employees to set aside the time they’d volunteer and what they’d be doing as they did so.

Giving volunteers a say in what programs are available is also important. Firms providing this kind of service like Adaptive Marketing, (as you’d expect from the company behind Leisure Exclusives (MVQ*LSUREXCLUSIVE)) offer their employees a wide assortment of local activities to get involved with. You’ll find there’s so much to be done; working with children, lending a hand to environmental activities, or supporting local arts and culture to name just a few. The result is that Adaptive Marketing volunteers are presented with opportunities to explore useful avenues in volunteer work and love their time volunteering. Most often a company sponsored charity project — getting involved with a homeless shelter, for example, or assisting at a local school — is either done on a regular schedule or as a one-off event. Staffers may well say they have no time to give, but even they can often free up enough resources to help at some smaller one-day event. It is hardly an unusual practice for firms to help out the community which they serve. Like many other companies, Adaptive Marketing sponsors volunteer initiatives in part to spread goodwill through the local community through its members of staff actions. What volunteer work is sure to do is provide your workforce with a good feeling about themselves, producing a motivated company.

The Food and Drug Administration has now sanctioned the makers of Yasmin due to inaccurate claims were made in their adverts, which proposed that the birth control pill could successfully alleviate PMS and all types of acne. These claims were faulty because Yasmin is only approved to relieve moderate to severe acne and PMDD. What this means is this particular oral contraceptive may not be for everyone as the ads indicated. The ads also neglected to accentuate the potential Yaz side effects which means young women were not properly warned or educated before making the determination to take Yaz.

There is at least one widely publicized class action suit against the maker of Yaz, Bayer Pharmaceuticals. If the effects of Yaz are small, then you may want to think about becoming a part of that class action suit. If your Yaz side effects are of a more serious nature, then you may want to deliberate searching for an attorney who is informed with this type of suit and initiate your own suit against the pharmaceutical giant. There may also be a malpractice suit depending on when the doctor prescribed the contraceptive pill and your medical history at the time of the prescription.

Exposure to asbestos is positively the largest influencing factor for this uncommon cancer. After exposure to asbestos, the time to development of the mesothelioma disease might be 2 to 4 decades. Due to occupation exposure, cancer of the mesothelium is about three times more routine in males, than in females. Because the mass of occurrences rises with age, there are almost 10 times more instances in the men over age 64 than in the males in their thirties.

Having Malignant mesothelioma is a grave ailment, which, currently, has a very low rate of continuing continuance. Although, if it is diagnosed early on, treatments are then at hand that might considerably prolong the patient’s life. Advanced therapies continue to be and are being promoted through the use of clinical trials.

Sharon Stone, Golden Globe and Emmy-award winning actress, is still one of the hottest sex symbols that have graced the movie screen. Even at age 50, Stone still has a body that oozes with sex appeal. Former fast-food restaurant employee turned beauty queen turned commercial model turned actress, Stone has rewritten the meaning of “aging gracefully.” Born and raised in Meadville, Pennsylvania, she used her beauty queen fame as a ticket to stardom.

Stone left school and went to model for the Ford Modeling Agency. After years of modeling, Stone decided to pursue a career in acting and auditioned for a Woody Allen movie in 1980, where she met Michelle Pfeiffer and formed a lifelong friendship that has lasted up to the present.

In an interview with Barbara Walters in the middle of 1993, Stone recounts how, after starring in several films, nobody seemed to see her as an actress with legitimate acting skills. Instead, she was always viewed as a sex symbol with roles that involve nudity and indecency. Movie makers began noticing Stone after her performance as the lead female antagonist in the movie Total Recall. To amplify her impact, she posed nude in an issue of Playboy magazine. It was her performance in Basic Instinct though, that cemented her status as a bankable actress with serious acting capabilities. As her acting career blossomed, Stone began to take more serious roles. Her performance as Ginger in Martin Scorsese’s Casino earned her a Golden Globe award for Best Actress as well as an Oscar nomination for the same role. Although some of her movies fared poorly in the box office, she nevertheless remains as one of Hollywood’s most popular female stars.

In terms of religion, Stone was a vigorous member of the Church of Scientology. When fellow actor Richard Gere introduced her to the Dalai Lama, Stone converted to Buddhism. Stone is now an ordained minister with the Universal Life.

Aside from doing films and other show business arrangements, Stone is also actively involved in championing the recognition of homosexuality. A self-declared feminist, Stone is also a leading advocate of gay, lesbian, and HIV/AIDS communities and organizations. Stone also travels across the world to promote peace, especially in the Middle East.

Just recently, Stone again became the ire of an animal rights and welfare organization when a former co-star of Stone divulged that Stone had a tarantula’s limbs amputated after she refused to film a scene with it. Ernest Borgnine said that the event took place in 1981 while filming the movie Deadly Blessing. Stone and the said animal welfare group once locked horns when the latter criticized Stone’s lack of empathy towards furred animals. Stone is a big fan of fur coats.

Check out the profile of Courtney Ross on the Faces of Philanthropy website.

Courtney Ross is the founder of the remarkable Ross School.

To learn more about Courtney Ross, check out Interview Nation.

Renewable energy has become a byword recently due to the massive increase in the price of oil in the international market. Other sources of energy are being explored like hydropower, wind power, biofuels, geothermal power and solar power. These would supplement the current sources used. This would also mean more environment friendly alternatives. You can see more and more people using solar panels, in their homes, roofs and even in their patio and outdoor spaces.

In the case of solar power, the light coming from the sun is transformed into becoming an energy source which can be used for a lot of purposes. Private homes can utilize this to heat water or use it for its lighting system. It can also be used to enhance the growth of plants when used in greenhouses. Some use it for cooking. Nowadays, there are even groups who are working on solar-powered cars.

The fossil fuel reserves of the earth will soon be depleted and as such cheaper and more sustainable sources of energy are being given more attention. Various institutions are now researching and developing ways in which the renewable sources of energy can be optimized and be available in a larger scale. Since the harmful effects on the people and the environment are minimal, these would be a better option for everybody – safer, cheaper and unlimited.

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Nobody but the people who live in this country should run, control or have anything to do with the laws, the ACLU is not for this nation, it’s for a few select individuals, which at this time I will not name, for fear of being labeled a racist, which I am not, I happen to be an American, you know a person that was born and raised in this country, a person who can speak English, a person who loves the USA.

I won’t even start on the UN, this is a whole other matter, just another bunch of idiots who need to be disbanded, they were put together as a sort of world government / police, and that whole idea is long since outdated, it’s so rotten that it stinks, the UN has become a consortium of control for those who want to tell the USA what to do, but don’t yet have the balls to perform the task.

Yeah great, this is the USA, so let them speak, just don’t let them have their way every time they whine, these people really aren’t for the USA, their in it for themselves, an attorney who works for the ACLU can make a huge name for him or herself, and don’t kid yourself this really is why most of them are there, yeah they’ll stand on their soapbox and preach that they do it for the underdog, for the people that can’t help their selves, but you know this is not the truth.

For the love of god, return the power to the people, or let our president and his men do their jobs, we don’t need conspiracy theories stinking things up, most of the people who spout these thing off, just don’t seen to realize how dumb they sound, I’ve heard quite a few of them myself, and they sound like paranoid delusions to me, all though from these guys point of view, I’m the dumb one.

Here’s one thing that I heard, it went like this, I was chatting with this guy, who shall remain nameless, he was saying that the government need to have more give a ways, and then in the same sentence he said how the government needs to pull the country out of debt, but think about it, you want the economy to improve and you want the government to give away more money, and have less taxes, but some how bail the country out of debt.

This is just 100% ridiculous, and I hear this sort of gibberish all the time, I say just quit with the stupid ideas and get back to your crack pipe where you are really at home, a place where every idiot in the room will listen to every word that you have to say, and believe it, because this is the only way a statement like the one above can be believed, or even listened to.

We need to drop the hammer, and let these people know who is in charge, let them know that their not just going to have their way just because they can whine, or enlist another bunch of idiots like the ACLU, if we continue to let this happen, or country will be run by a brigade of idiots just like this.

I live in Salt Lake City, Utah, and have been in the automotive business for about 25 years, and during that time I have worked in all facets of the industry, plus owned my own shops, like I do now.

In August of 2003 Casey Sheehan re-enlisted in the United States Army. He was fully informed that his unit would be deployed in the Iraq theatre at some time in the future. Casey belonged to the 1st Calvary where he plied his skills as a Humvee mechanic. On April 4th of 2005 Casey was killed in a place called Sadr City in Iraq. He was twenty four years of age. Indeed a Hero of the highest order and a young man that according to all accounts would make any mother or any American proud of him.

In every state in this country there is a general consensus about when a person reaches the age of accountability. That consensus has found its way to the legislative annuls of every state in the form of various laws that credential it as the will of the people. Federal law too has been formed on the basis of this general consensus. Although the laws vary from state to state they all seem to fall into a very close and familiar expression of what is the age of accountability. For instance in most states the age limits for mandatory enrollment in a public or private school is up to age sixteen. The age at which a person can buy and consume alcohol goes between eighteen and twenty one in most states. Most states also will hold young people accountable for serious crimes somewhere between the ages of sixteen and eighteen. The US Military has similar age restrictions for anyone volunteering for duty. What does all this mean?

At some point in his life Casey Sheehan believed he had reached the age of accountability. Exactly when that moment came for Casey may only be known by him. But even if he shared it with his mother or others it was still his moment, his passage to manhood or to any other place he perceived it to be. It is not a moment that any mother can alter nor do they have a right to. When Casey signed on the line not once but twice, it was his moment of accountability. Perhaps he was never braver even in battle than he was in that moment. By the time he re-enlisted he knew a great deal about the military and what to expect, but at the moment he put his signature on the line for the first time there were only a world of unknowns, he faced them alone, he became accountable.

Without raising a single word about our Presidents honesty, a single word about Casey’s reasons or fears, it would still be undignified and less than honorable to cast aspersions on that moment. The moment when a young man made the decision of a man should not be diminished by the outcome of that decision. As far as President Bush being given a moment of accountability I would tread lightly in this area. He is accountable to all of us in this country, but if that weren’t enough both he and all of us in this country are accountable to a much higher power.

Those of us that put our trust in God do so in the midst of a world where life and death are all around us. We see children starving, hospitals full to capacity, wars we don’t always understand, crime and injustice on every hand, but we continue to have faith in God. Life did not come with a promise or a contract. We may die young or wish we could die because we feel so old but we believe he holds our hand throughout the journey long or short. This is more than faith it is trust and loyalty and it is the proof that no matter what we may endure we have shown ourselves to be accountable. May we always do so, and in the end will be found in good company along with other good men and good soldiers like Casey Sheehan.

Rev Bresciani has written many articles over the past thirty years in such periodicals as Guideposts and Catholic Digest. He is the author of two books available on Amazon.com, Alibris, Barnes and Noble and many other places. Rev Bresciani wrote “Hook Line and Sinker or what has Your Church Been Teaching You,” publisher, PublishAmerica of Baltimore MD. He also wrote a book published by Xulon Press entitled “An American Prophet and His Message, Questions and Answers on the Second Coming of Christ.” Rev Bresciani’s website is,

http://americanprophet.org

The State of Kansas has has become one of the most egregious offenders as they have allowed the Kansas Motor Speedway to shanghai private property it wanted, among many others. http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascitystar/5956229.htm

In Topeka, a contractor lost his business to clear the way for a Target distribution center. There may be some resistance forming in Kansas though, in Merriam, voters gave four City Council incumbents their walking papers in 1999, largely because of their stand on eminent domain.

Even worse is the State of Michigan where eminent domain has been used to take private property from its rightful owners to build casinos and even private housing. In Detroit, a new GM plant sits where hundreds of small businesses and private homes once stood. http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/business/5749903.htm And it isn’t just the actual seizure of property that causes harm to a community, it is the collateral damage caused as nearby owners bail out for fear that they too are on the list.

It should surprise nobody that the State of California, that bastion of neo-socialism, also likes the idea of using the guns of government to take land for what they perceive, in their infinite wisdom, to be the public interest. San Diego mugged a bunch of middle class people to build a new ballyard and “entertainment center.” Three small businesses had to go so the city fathers could give the land to a Price Club. http://www.aynrand.org/medialink/eminent.shtml
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Below is a section of the Arizona State Constitution regarding eminent domain and how it should be used:

17. Eminent domain; just compensation for private property taken; public use as judicial question

Section 17. Private property shall not be taken for private use, except for private ways of necessity, and for drains, flumes, or ditches, on or across the lands of others for mining, agricultural, domestic, or sanitary purposes. No private property shall be taken or damaged for public or private use without just compensation having first been made, paid into court for the owner, secured by bond as may be fixed by the court, or paid into the state treasury for the owner on such terms and conditions as the legislature may provide, and no right of way shall be appropriated to the use of any corporation other than municipal, until full compensation therefore be first made in money, or ascertained and paid into court for the owner, irrespective of any benefit from any improvement proposed by such corporation, which compensation shall be ascertained by a jury, unless a jury be waived as in other civil cases in courts of record, in the manner prescribed by law. Whenever an attempt is made to take private property for a use alleged to be public, the question whether the contemplated use be really public shall be a judicial question, and determined as such without regard to any legislative assertion that the use is public. (Emphasis added)

In 1997, the state legislature effectively gutted the Constitution’s protection and now allows local governments to seize private property for any reason they may choose, even the most preposterous. If a locality decides a piece of property has “no diversity of ownership” or if there are streets that are “inadequately laid out” or the property is seen to be “deteriorating” the municipality can just gobble it up. Of course, any slick bureaucrat worth his salt can come up with any number of preposterous appellations to rationalize the seizure of almost any property.

Note: I received an email from Arizona lawyer David Euchner about the above and I decided that the best way to handle it would be to just cite it as sent.

“I am a practicing attorney in the state of Arizona and I do some volunteer pro bono work for the Institute for Justice. An update is required for this page.

Everything that written above in the section about Arizona is correct, but it is not up to date. The 1997 statute was struck down in part by a state court of appeals October 1 in the case of Randy Bailey dba Bailey’s Brake Shop v. City of Mesa. Because the 1997 statute was not struck down in toto, it will be at least a couple of months before we see what is actually left of it.”
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In more Arizona news, in Maricopa County, eminent-domain laws are being used by an Arizona court to force a landowner to continue to rent space to the County even though they had failed to agree to terms of a lease extension.

The Arizona Republic reported that the owner of a strip mall in West Valley, Ariz., Orsett/Columbia Ltd., has had a lease with the county since 1989 Peoria Justice Court. That lease expired in July and the landowner wanted a five-year lease extension. The government, however, only wants the space for two more years and has taken the company to court to force it to comply with the county’s demand.

“This means municipalities can identify a space they want and force a landlord to lease it to them,” Mike Freret vice president of development for Orsett/Columbia Ltd., told the paper. “It may mean that if the space they want already has a business owner in it, they could boot them out.”

“We think the statute and the Constitution allow governments to rent, but governments can only take what they need,” Irvine told the Republic. “We only needed it for a couple of years, and the court didn’t want to waste three years of taxpayer money.”

Which seems to be a typical bureaucratic excuse for abuse of the rights of a property owner.

In a major surprise, at least to me, CBS’ 60 Minutes had a segment on how the town of Lakewood, Ohio is trying to condemn over 50 private homes, a dozen businesses and 4 apartment buildings to allow for the construction of high priced condos and a fancy-shmancy shopping center. In order to accomplish this little piece of government extortion, the politicians once again had to torture the English language. They redefined all the subject property as “blighted.”

Lakewood set a standard for blight that would include most of the homes in the neighborhood. A home could be considered blighted if it doesn’t have three bedrooms, two baths, an attached two-car garage and central air. Ironically, the term “blighted” in this definition would apply to the homes of the mayor and most of the city council, but don’t worry. After they steal the property they want, they’ll simply change the definition again to keep their own property safe.

The City of Denver is planning to condemn a shopping center whose tenants are reluctant to give up their businesses for the sake of a WalMart. (The shopping place of the people again, are we seeing a pattern here?) “We’re doing this because it’s the right thing to do,” said John Huggins, director of the mayor’s office of economic development. Oh? Right for whom? For the rightful property owners or for a bunch of political hacks who will use the increased tax revenues to buy more votes or for a predatory corporation who cares not a whit for the damage they may cause?

Occasionaly though the little guy wins as in Lancaster, CA where the City Council was slapped down by a federal judge who called an eminent domain scheme a “naked transfer” of property from one private business to another.

Unfortunately, there aren’t nearly enough successes to make up for all the losses to individual property owners and even more to the Constitution of the United States as greedy governments find out how easy it is to screw private property owners while they graciously accept whatever loose change may fall their way.

Note: In another slap at property rights, the Nevada state Supreme Court ruled 4-2 on Monday, 09/29/2003 that the city of Las Vegas could use eminent domain to seize private land in downtown Vegas and turn it over to other private establishments. http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2003/Sep-09-Tue-2003/opinion/22115389.html The case involved property owned by a local family. The Las Vegas redevelopment agency seized it so that a parking garage could be built by casino interests.

Note 2: In late breaking news. In my own neck of the woods, The City of Daytona Beach is about to use its guns to steal the property of two Boardwalk businessmen to turn it over to a major developer. In a stunning blast of mindless abnegation of the right of Americans to own property, this statement appeared in a local newspaper:

“No one wants to employ the use of eminent domain. I don’t want to do it. Honest, I don’t,” (Daytona Beach) Mayor-elect Yvonne Scarlett-Golden said Wednesday. “The issue here is development of the Boardwalk area.”

Sorry, Madame Mayor-elect, the issue is a government agency misusing its power to take property from its legal owners and transfer it to someone better able to line the pockets of local politicos.

To see just how bad the abuse of eminent domain has become, the Institute for Justice has a comprehensive representation of the nation-wide problem at: http://www.ij.org/index.shtml

© Charles Stone, Jr. 2005

Born: Buffalo, NY 8/7/42
Graduated: Williamsville Central HS 1960
Military Service USAF 1/27/61 – 1/4/65 Missile mechanic, 3 years in Germany.
Computer School, Buffalo, NY 1967.
Worked as a computer programmer, programmer/analyst, systems analyst, DP manager and consultant from 1968 – 1990
Became disabled in 1991
Currently living in Kissimmee, FL
Interests: politics, motor sports, history (mainly military), Web surfing, talk radio junkie.
Member of the NRA.
Favorite TV shows: CSI, Whose Line Is It, Anyway?, Nova.
Favorite radio program: Neal Boortz
Political leaning: libertarian, Constitutionalist, individualist.
Supported and campaigned for Harry Browne in 1996 and 2000. Not sure I’d do it again.
Published in: Bureaucrash, Sierra Times, The Libertarian Enterprise, Free Market Net, We Hold These Truths, The Informed Volusian

You disagree? Please write and tell me honestly what you think your nearest neighbor would do if awakened at midnight by the warning, “The redcoats are coming!” Frankly, my next door neighbor is an active duty Marine, but tucking tail is the first thing that comes to mind. I certainly cannot imagine him handing a rifle to his wife or daughter and telling them to “lock and load.”

Not in this lifetime, at any rate. He’d be too worried about his retirement.

Our ancestors had one or two advantages over us. In the first place, most of those who lived on the American continent at the time of the signing of the Declaration of Independence were no more than one or two generations removed from individuals who had possessed the courage and vision to leave every single thing they had ever owned for unspecified opportunity in a new and savage land. It was one hell of a winnowing, and their descendants were the best of the best that Europe had to offer.

Throughout history, winnowings such as the settlement of our American continent have brought forth the most shining examples of human courage and achievement. Sadly, we have just about run out of Earthly frontiers now, and it cannot happen again until we begin to colonize Antarctica – or outer space.

We have now experienced a full hundred years of urban civilization. One hundred years separate us from the last of our ancestors who fought the Native Americans for their survival. One hundred years separate us from the last remnant of frontiersmen who strapped on their guns and went out to wrest a living from an unforgiving land.

We’ve become the sort of weaklings our ancestors would be ashamed to claim as descendants. Oh, there remain a few here and there who would make our common ancestors proud, and they or their children will almost certainly be the first to colonize a new planet, but they are now so widely scattered among the rest of us that they are hard to find.

A fellow by the name of Todd Beamer comes to mind, but when I think of that magnificent young man and his friends, I am also forced to recall that the passengers on three other airplanes submitted meekly to hijackers with mere box cutters – hijackers they outnumbered by roughly ten to one.

The awful truth today is that just teaching your child courage and self-reliance can lead to accusations of child abuse.

I remember (painfully) one occasion when I was barely two years old. I laboriously climbed to the top of about a six foot slide in Central Park, then lost my grip and tumbled off said slide head first. I wound up with a goose egg the size of Kansas right in the middle of my forehead, saw whole galaxies of stars, and my mother’s hair turned a shade or two whiter on the spot.

If that had happened in today’s world, my parents would have had a very unpleasant visit from Child Protective Services, and it is quite possible that they would have lost custody of their daughter altogether.

I remember hanging upside down from Jungle Jim bars. I remember swinging so hard on swing sets that I pulled the legs of the swing sets clean out of the ground. I remember running back and forth on a seesaw, wildly keeping my balance as it tipped each way.

Compared to my great-great-grandmother, who climbed aboard a covered wagon in Missouri at the ripe old age of 16 years and drove it to Texas, having a baby on the way, I am your original pansy – but compared to today’s sissy kids, I am Attila The Hun in drag.

Unfortunately, the progression is obvious and not too flattering to today’s generation.

The more we demand safety, the more our government tightens its grip.

We demand safe drugs, so our Food and Drug Administration has made the requirements for testing new drugs so stringent and expensive that drug development has ground almost completely to a halt. Those few new drugs that are being developed are priced right out of reach for the people who need them the most. This government agency actually has the unmitigated gall to tell you what you can and cannot try when you have a terminal illness!

Dozens and dozens of wonderful children’s toys are no longer on the market, because of potential risks if parents were not vigilant, or allowed children of the wrong age group to play with them, etc.

Have you read the idiot warnings on labels lately? Honestly, the last time I purchased a firearm, it had a big label that said that firearms could be hazardous to my health! By itself, this was merely amusing, but it does lose its humor rapidly when you consider what it says about our society.

The last motorcycle helmet I purchased warned me sternly that it was designed to be worn on my head, not on other parts of my body.

The warnings on knives are frankly hilarious.

I shudder to think what will come with my next motorcycle, but I’m sure it will be a good-sized book.

The worst insult of all is that we have pay to print this stuff! Every product we purchase includes warning labels in its purchase price now. It’s a multi-billion dollar industry!

The search for safe energy has brought the search for renewable energy to a standstill. Terrestrial energy sources are dangerous, whether we are talking about the merely overwhelming, like hydroelectric power, or other flammable, explosive or radioactive sources. Solar power is reasonably safe, but it is weak and unreliable as yet. Chemical sources are dangerous because of the kinetic energy locked up in the substances involved. You can’t get away from that without changing the laws of physics.

Hydrogen is the most plentiful element in the entire universe. Combined with oxygen, it burns hot and clean and could provide us with energy for the life of the human race. It is also dangerous.

Because of our fear, because of our cowardice, we are still dependent on energy sources developed before we became so timid as a society. The largest deposits of those energy sources are located in a part of the world that calls America the “Great Satan.” Our president is taking us to war as I write this for control of those resources, an evil and immoral war that cannot possibly have a happy ending for anyone.

If you still believe that we are going to war with Saddam Hussein because of weapons of mass destruction, please tell me why we are not preparing to attack North Korea, which has just admitted to nuclear weapons.

Cowardice carries its own penalties.

America needs to take a collective deep breath and get a grip. Life is hazardous to our health. No one gets out of it alive. No one. Perhaps we could begin by accepting that one simple fact, because it makes everything else so much easier.

Are you tired of ruinous taxes? Are you tired of government regulators with their fingers in every part of your life, from the cradle to the grave? Are you tired of being forced to pay into a Social Security system that your legislators systematically loot?

Are you tired of paying billions to fight a war against drugs that merely results in your loss of freedom – and makes street drugs more prevalent than ever?

Are you tired of vicious federal agents who manufacture evidence and burn women and children alive in their homes while blatantly violating the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution by trying to jail people for the heinous crime of owning the wrong sort of firearms?

What part of “shall not be infringed” is giving them trouble, anyway?

If you are tired of these things, if you truly want these things to go away, then you are eventually going to have to give up the so-called protections of government. You must learn self-sufficiency. You can’t work to dismantle an overbearing government with one hand while your other hand is outstretched for what that government will give you.

You can start by purchasing a handgun and learning to use it. It’s only a very small part of the process, but it’s good for you psychologically to realize that you don’t need help defending your life or your property any longer. You hold your head just a little bit higher. A man or a woman who cannot or will not defend immediate family is not worthy of the name “human.” Even animals defend their young.

Take some chances! It may sound silly, but a skydiving course is not a bad idea. You will find out that life is fun when you aren’t wrapped in cotton. You may find that you like your fellow skydivers better than most of the people you know. Life tastes very sweet when you take big bites. It needn’t be skydiving. Try flying an airplane, scuba diving, or rock climbing – but find something you love to do, maybe something just a little bit risky, and do it. It is never too late to learn physical courage.

Learn to hunt! This is terribly difficult and painful for animal lovers like myself, but it is crucially important to any man or woman to know that they can provide their own food. Long range shooting has been an important skill for centuries. Only in the last hundred years has it fallen into disrepute. Learning to hunt is more than learning to shoot, though. You must also learn to field dress the carcass and prepare the meat for consumption. These are survival skills that every single one of your ancestors possessed. They would be appalled to learn that you do not.

If you do not want to be treated like a helpless infant by your government, the first step is to cease to be a helpless infant.

That is only the beginning, though. It will not be enough.

Government is a cancer. It feeds on itself. Those who possess power over your life will not give it up easily. When they learn that you are trying to free yourself from their grip, their jackbooted thugs will come for you.

They will come for all of us, and for our families.

The day is approaching when each of us will have to decide what we choose to defend with our lives. We must decide if we will accept slavery, or if we are willing, as our ancestors were, to pledge our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor to secure our freedom.

The redcoats are coming!

About the Author

At a tiny 5′1″, Kathryn A. Graham is a licensed private investigator, pilot, aircraft mechanic and handgun instructor in Texas. Also a prolific author, she has written numerous articles, short stories and a science fiction novel.
http://www.kathrynagraham.com/