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   We are going to be ‘blessed’ with a health-care plan that we will be forced to purchase, and fined heavily if we don’t, (find that government power in the Constitution, good luck). This plan purportedly covers ten million more people without adding a single new doctor, worse yet, doctors will quit because of it,  this plan will provide for 16,000 new IRS thugs, oops, ‘agents’ to enforce it and was written by a committee whose Chairman, (Tom Harken D-IA) says he “did not understand it“! It was passed by a Congress that could not be bothered to read it, (“But we have to pass the bill so we can find out whats in it, away from the controversy“ Nancy Pelosi (D-Ca), quote unquote) but this Congress made damned sure they would be exempted from it!

   The funding will be administered by the Treasury Thief, oops I mean Chief, (Tim Geithner) who didn’t pay his taxes, and in which we will all be taxed, (those who still work) for the next four years before any benefits can take effect, by a government which has already put Social Security, Medicare, (and the overall economy) well on the way to bankruptcy, all to be overseen by a Surgeon General who is obese, (Dr.Regina M. Benjamin) and a President, (Obama) who smokes, all the while he is telling people that Social Security, (that we pay into all our working lives) is an entitlement!! He really believes that we are all that stupid…..

NOW, WHAT THE HELL COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG WITH GOVERNMENT CONTROLLED HEALTH CARE ?!!!!

NOTE: I took some liberties with this by adding a few highlights such as names and quotes where they should have been inserted in the first place, but were not. I don’t like ‘sugar coating’.

This country is in real trouble, but if the government shuts down on August 1st maybe we should celebrate, at least all the pin heads in D.C. who caused this entire mess will not continue mis-spending our money right away.

Scalia Upbraids Obamacare Defender: ‘We’re Not Stupid’   Conservative Justices Attack Obamacare Mandate In SCOTUS Hearing

For a real eye opener you might want to look at the above two links, this will show you the Obama socialists vs. consevatives, and how important it is that Obama is not given another chance to appoint one more retard to the Supreme Court!

Sincerely, Mark Shean

   Ma. On June 21 there will be over 20 anti gun bills presented by our glorious so-called ‘representatives’. Let me give you a little preview of the communistic agenda they would love to force onto all law abiding gun owners of  Ma., this may look fictitious but let me assure you, it is a real attack on our freedoms. Here are four of the more outlandish, from four honest to God clowns, oops, I mean ‘reps’:

1. Senate Bill 1202 by Senator Cynthia Stone Creem (D-Newton), She wants to make it a crime for already licensed, law abiding gun owners who buy more than one large capacity firearm, (10 rounds or more) in any 30 day period punishable to the tune of $5000 dollars and/or, a two and a half year prison term!! Gee that should curb crime….pedophiles are treated better in this state. News Flash Cindy, CRIMINALS cant legally buy guns, they don’t have a gun license because they are CRIMINALS!!  So who would your foolish bill effect Cindy……? Take a guess. Oh, by the way, The Gun Control Act of 1968 already regulates legal gun ownership, maybe you should read it and concentrate your energy on unlawful ownership, as in criminal.   Cynthia.Creem@masenate.gov

2. Senate Bill 1234 by Senator James Timilty (D-Walpole), He wants to ban ammo larger than .22 caliber intended for handguns that have a outer jacket weighing more than 25 percent of the total weight of the projectile. AND he wants to ban ammo made with ANY combination of tungsten alloys (pay attention duck hunters), or made with steel, iron, BRASS,(which takes care of all ammo), bronze, beryllium, copper- (for BB guns and frangible ammo) or depleted uranium for God sakes!   I guess that Dick’s will have to remove its nuclear grade ammo from the shelves… gee. Hey Jimmy boy, Castro is looking for a replacement, why don’t you apply, you would feel right at home there with your agendas.  James.Timilty@masenate.gov

3. House Bill 665 by State Rep.Timothy J. Toomey (D-Cambridge), This wing-nut wants all of us law abiding concealed carry permit holders to turn in a list of every handgun we own along with a valid certificate of insurance with no less than $250,000 dollars of coverage! I will bet the insurance industry is in bed with this nitwit.  Can you say Heil Hitler!!? Really? He wants gun registration? Toomey must have flunked history, not to mention having no clue about the Constitution, and this jackass made it to where he is? Amazing, what a sad reflection he makes on Cambridge! Timothy.Toomey@mahouse.gov

4. House Bill 1561 by State Rep. David Paul Linsky (D-Natick), This guy has a two part bill, one part has already been in place forever, (The National Firearms Act of 1934, 77 years old) I guess no one told Linsky, he wants a serial number on each new gun, and wants them on record with the gun maker. The second part of his bill, (which is impossible) is designed to require all gun makers sending their products to Ma. to design semi auto guns that will micro-stamp each shell casing with the make, model, and serial number when they are fired! Can you say Total Semi-Auto Gun Ban? Very Cute, Clever, Cunning, and Evil on Linsky’s part, as are all these bills. David.Linsky@mahouse.gov

It is always Democrats, (democrat), is that  a cover word?  What they really are, it would seem, is anti American, socialist ‘progressives’ bent on disarming honest America so that they may then ride roughshod over the rest of the hated Constitution. First they need to rid it of the Second Amendment! And to think Ma. was once the ‘cradle of freedom’! That idea is long dead and gone…….

Check this link, http://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Read.aspx?ID=6925  then call your ‘Reps’ to warn them that if they pass this BS they will be creating a very new breed of non compliant criminal, and that they can all pound sand with their pipe dreams of disarmament! They do not, never have, and never will have a mandate from Americans to strip us of our Second Amendment, or right to self defense, yet these morons pretend they do. Who the hell do these empty suits think they are!? Really? I think we know them for what they are. These people do not rate the title ‘Honorable’. The laws they dream up are criminal!

  Now a word from two real Patriots who would have considered these people ‘Tory’s. Tory’s were the enemys from ‘within’ in their day. Today it seems to be democrat’s.

   “Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force you are ruined.” –PATRICK HENRY–

   “We are right to be alarmed at the first experiment upon our liberties. Americans have the right and advantage of being armed; unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.” –JAMES MADISON–

Submitted by Mark Shean on 6-19-2011 www.mafirearmsafety.com

Committee Members: Senate & House, (D) James.Timilty@masenate.gov   (D) Michael.Moore@masenate.gov  (D) Katherine.Clark@masenate.gov  (D) James.Welch@masenate.gov  (D) Mark.Montigny@masenate.gov  (R) Richard.Ross@masenate.gov

(D) Bruce.Ayers@mahouse.gov  (D) Cleon.Turner@mahouse.gov  (D) Brian.Ashe@mahouse.gov  (D) Rhonda.Nyman@mahouse.gov  (R) Nicholas.Boldyga@mahouse.gov  (D) David.Torrisi@mahouse.gov  (D) Linda.DeanCampbell@mahouse.gov  (D) James.Dwyer@mahouse.gov  (R) David.Vieira@mahouse.gov  (D) Michael.Brady@mahouse.gov  (D) Harold.Naughton@mahouse.gov

 There are 14 Democrats and only 3 Republicans on this so-called ‘joint’ committee, how does that make you feel about your freedoms being protected? If these ‘servants’ represent you contact them. Remind them who they work for and of the oath they took. Timilty is one of these members, he submitted bill 1234, can you say conflict of interest?

    The following are some experiences and feelings of the times I have had and shared at the ‘camp’ over the decades, (built in ’42’) as written on a fall evening in 2000, during hunting season at my camp on St. Froid Lake, Northern Maine:

   My thoughts oftentimes turn to the camp throughout the year. The place is a serene refuge within my mind that helps to counter stress, a retreat that relaxes me and lifts my spirit from the dull routine. It would be difficult for me to imagine the camp not being there. As long as I can remember, this retreat has been a part of my life, and will hopefully remain a part of my future. It is a rustic place in its simplicity, maybe this more than anything else is why I am drawn to it.

The camp was never intended to be more than it is. The only improvements should be maintenance, nothing more, Grampy told me that years ago. I agree. With all the worlds ever changing technology and constantly faster pace, the camp remains a still picture of old. Hewn from rough timber, a refreshing remnant of times past, times that now in the greater scheme of things, are all but forgotten.

I love the sight of the lake as a sudden storm whips the surface into whitecaps, when the boom of thunder and the crack of lightning fills the sky over the adjacent hills. The sky by night, enormous, unfettered from artificial lights, one can see clearly an amazing and limitless number of stars, a very different sky from what I view back home. On a cool early morning I have enjoyed the beautiful Aurora Borealis shimmering across the heavens with my son.

The air is clean and crisp in October, filled with the fragrant aroma of pine. The eyes are dazzled by Jack Frost’s artistry among the hardwoods, this is my favorite time here. A calm cool morning with the lake mirroring the hills. The eerie lullaby of a loon as he calls his mate on the mist laden lake at dusk, and the equally eerie reply. Listening to sounds coyotes make while ‘talking’ among themselves somewhere back in the woods, or the occasional wolf howl echoing around the lake seeking a response deep into the night. Spying the silhouette of a mighty bull moose by the mouth of fish river moments before dawn, or the brief glimpse of our national symbol traversing his lofty heights. The deep raspy call of a raven or the whistle of a midnight freight train at Cushmans Crossing, with its soon to follow rumble and clatter as it passes behind the camp, the sound slowly receding into the night down ’round’ the bend.

I feel right at home when I step off a dirt road or train track and the familiar forest closes around me. I may follow a crystal clear murmuring brook and see speckled trout dart into the shadows beneath the banks. I have watched the partridge drumming in the deep woods as he played to an audience of one or more hens roosted in the pines, and listened to the nocturnal, cavernous croaking, of huge bullfrogs among the water lilies at the mouth of the river. The absence of electricity bothers me not a bit, I do not come here for creature comforts, but rather for the comfort I get from seeing so many of God’s varied creatures and creations. All of these things add to the allure of the camp for me.

A canoe is my choice of travel on the water, and due to its silent advance I have observed many a moose, deer and other critters around the ‘next’ bend by hugging the rivers edge. It was from an Old Town canoe my younger brothers and later my son were all able to spy their first moose up close and personal. My youngest brother Art and I narrowly avoided an angry cow moose advancing on our canoe in defense of her calf. My son and his friend Eddie were with me as we rounded a bend on the back channel and came upon a stodgy black bear as it rapidly churned the water crossing a submerged beaver dam to escape, got a picture. From a canoe we have seen river otter playing their watery games and watched startled beaver slap the water with their broad tails in hasty retreat. With a little stealth a canoe can bring you these sights and more.

The brief times I have spent at the camp with relatives, and the times spent there alone, the pleasure of being in the company of old friends, and new, the sharing of fishing yarns and hunting tales next to the warmth of the old pot bellied stove are treasured. I thought I knew my way around until one snowy November day when I followed the fresh tracks of a huge buck, (found just three yards from the porch) he gave me a grand tour from before sunrise to after sunset. I spooked him from three beds and only got one glimpse of his majesty as the last light of day departed the forest, it made my day. I never crossed another human footprint. I finally came out of the woods, about ten miles down the tracks, and eventually arrived back to the camp to meet a worried looking George Wild sometime after 10 PM.

The sun sets early don’t ya know, so out comes a cribbage board, checkers or chess, or simply a book to wile away the time. maybe some tall tales told to wide eyed youngsters as we roast marshmallows and hot-dogs around the campfire at twilight. Some will remember the call of Bigfoot echoing across the lake as he returns bent on destruction, or the ghost of the Swede! Others may recall the dreaded Billiard!!! (no one was quite sure what a billiard was but when someone at night screamed that it was coming it scared the hell out of us kids). And then there are no end to practical  jokes, with a knew one hatched every visit from some twisted mind, (a tradition). Time to hit the hay, and the deep ‘tick tock’ of the old clock lulling you to sleep, your ‘night light’ is a slow burning candle throwing spooky shadows over the rafters. Then there are Sunday ‘turkey shoots’ at the town of Eagle Lake to pit your skills against the locals, (I won a few over the years). The smell of brook trout or smelt rolled in a mixture of cornmeal and flour sizzling on an iron skillet atop the wood stove, mmmm!

Old times reminisced, new times planed, it has all been, and will continue to be enjoyed by me. Savoring a piece of my wifes famous apple pie, or homemade oatmeal raision cookies, or still hunting deer along the base of Hedge Hog mountain, taking wingshots at partridge, or just chopping wood for the stove to fend off the northern nights, drawing cold pure spring water from the small well for all our cooking needs, as there is no indoor plumbing. I feel like I fit the place, gas lights, outhouse and all. If your of a mind to ice fish, have at it if you dare brave that time of year, Grampy did. There are many reasons, some too intangible to put into words as to why I love the place.

The trip up flies, the knowledge that I must leave and return to work makes the return trip drag. But still, I am always happy to see my wife’s smile upon returning. I guess there really is no place like home after all. ‘Harry’, mounted on the wall, will keep a glass eye on the camp until the next visit.

The camp is a place to momentarily slow down our lives and enjoy natures intricacies, (cell phones don’t even work here). Many have visited through the years since Grampy built it in ’42’. I appreciate the camp and all this simple place offers. It may not be to every one’s liking, but if I were to sum it up with one word, it would be ‘priceless’.

Written by Mark Shean, 11-15-2000

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   Corporal Dipp Rasad Pun, age 31, a Nepali (Gurkha) soldier of the 1st Battalion Royal Gurkha Rifles under British command in Afghanistan, single handily killed more than 30 Taliban fighters as his checkpoint came under a concentrated attack. During the furious action in the time span of fifteen minutes Corporal Pun fired approximately 400 rounds, threw 17 grenades, detonated a claymore mine, and when he had exhausted his ammo used the tripod from his machine gun to club an insurgent that was climbing over the wall. When reinforcements arrived the fighting was already over.

   For his actions Corporal Pun was awarded the Conspicuous Gallantry Cross, ( CGC ) second only to Britain’s highest award, the Victoria Cross. His Medal Citation said he saved the lives of three of his comrades at the checkpoint by his actions.

  “At the time I wasn’t worried, there wasn’t any choice but to fight. The Taliban were all around the checkpoint, I was alone. I had so many of them around me that I thought I was definitely going to die, so I thought I would kill as many of them as I could before they killed me, I wasn’t scared“.

NOTE: The Gurkha are renowned for their ferocity in battle, my only question is why he did not receive the Victoria Cross?  May it be because he is not British?  He is a true hero in the strictest sense of the word, and our news media did not even cover the story.

Submitted 6-6-2011, Mark Shean

  The news story: IMF Head, (a Freudian slip?) Accused of Sexual assault!

   Strauss-Kahn, (related to Genghis-Kahn?) a leading member of the French Socialist Party, one of the most powerful men in the entire world, wow, turns out being a lowly sexual predator. I hope the young woman recovers in time to see justice done.

   The IMF (International Monetary Fund) provides ’emergency’ loans to 187 nations in severe distress and tries to maintain global financial stability I read, what was somehow omitted in this description was that the U.S. tax payer makes the impossible IMF mission remotely possible, were it not in such corrupt hands. In 2003 alone the U.S. tax payer bailed out the IMF, (at the insistence of the Federal Reserve frauds) to the tune of 27,000,000,000 billion dollars! Did you know that?? Research it! How much money has the IMF raped us for since then with our politicians help?  That is a good question to hit your so-called Representative’s and presidential candidates between the eyes with. If you think the IMF is relevant, you need to look no further than the crisis it caused in Argentina to dispel its relevancy.  Yesterday we hit our national debt limit/ceiling because of bailouts/foreign aid, but maybe that’s a topic for another deficit/$ related article?

   Strauss-Kahn, this high ranking socialist seems to be right at home enjoying the rewards of capitalism, an apparent oxymoron. A $3000 dollar a night penthouse suite, on our tax dime. For that kind of money why didn’t we just get him a hooker? Maybe it is because the IMF/Kahn is so comfortable raping U.S. tax payers, that he thought, why not LITERALLY?!  Kahn, a perfect example of a ‘gangster bankster’ elite involved in the rape and pillage of so many countries/people…….this is news?  Just sounds like the rich trying to screw to poor, now its his lawyers turn to try to victimize her, again.

  I hope the police send the DNA evidence to the same lab they sent Monica’s infamous blue dress, a symbol of yet another abuse of power.  Next the book, then the movie……….. Pawns R US.

Kahn/IMF  is one more example of who and what your glorious politician’s are sending our hard earned money too.  U.S. tax payers had better wake up and put an end to it, contact your so-called representative!  This would help take a big bite out of our politically induced deficit.

Kahn will walk free because he will grease the right palms, with our money.

Mark Shean, 5-17-2011

    I remember in the not very distant past, when our representatives spoke of the ‘deficit’, it was in the term of  billions in debt. It was after the Democrats got into office that the deficit took off to a trillion for the first time and quickly snowballed to 3 trillion with all the ‘bailouts’ and other hugely unpopular legislation being forced down our throats such as Obamacare. Three trillion was described to us in the news as something that our great grandchildren would be burdened with as a way of explaining what the size and scope of this debt really meant.

    Now we are pushing the 15 trillion dollar debt mark! This took two short years!  With no end in sight!  The Democrats want to raise the debt ceiling without making any effort to curb spending!  Now that’s being responsible!

    I think that there are two ways to look at this based on how all of our so-called representatives have acted. One way is that we really are not in the financial trouble that is being portrayed in the news and in Washington. That the USA is really super wealthy beyond all of our wildest imaginations and we as tax payers can support not only our country but the whole world, the politicians know that, and therefore show no real concern in their callous spending of our tax dollars. Because, if we were in real trouble, shouldn’t cuts in spending  immediately begin with all foreign aid around the world being cut off ? If you believe the news, explain how we can support the world yet we cant support ourselves??  The money saved by cutting welfare to the world alone could be put to work rebuilding infrastructure, helping the flood and tornado victims in our own country, etc!  The runaway spending simply does not ‘jive’ with our country being broke…..

    The second way to look at a wildly out of control 15 trillion dollar + deficit is,  (if  it is real)  that our entire government from the top down is grossly incompetent with no thought of what is in the nations ‘best interest!  How do you see it?  Is anyone out there getting angry at their ‘representatives’ yet?

   I don’t see many comments here, tear yourself away from the ‘smoke screen’ of sports for a split second to see whats actually going on around you because you will not be prepared to deal with the shock of hyper-inflation, (look it up) in the not very distant future. The majority of  you are not even paying attention….unbelievable.

Mark Shean, submitted 5-13-2011

Reality check.  In the first place, if you/I are not already fabulously wealthy and/or have the backing of people/organizations that are, do not try to make a bid to buy the White House.

Common sense will not get you there, only lots and lots of money will give you a shot to ‘buy it’. Loads of money, even in the absence of any kind of managerial experience such as running a business or a state, tons of money is all that is required to win, along with of course, a good line of bull s***, as history shows.  Heck, you need only be a ‘community organizer’ and have big money backing  to become President. The wealthy are not happy only to be wealthy, they also crave power over the ‘little people’, to have their fingers in the nations collective wealth,  power that their money alone will not give them. These are the kind of people in politics today, not people looking for real solutions, those solutions would have been found long ago had that been the case.

“It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but, they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but, they mean to be masters.”   –DANIEL  WEBSTER-

If the above mentioned were not the only way to buy into the White House, I sure would like a shot at it. I do not believe the empty suits that gain office for the most part have any idea what we, the common hard working, tax paying, middle class have to deal with to make ends meet.  Our taxes are certainly taken for granted and Congress spends it like drunken sailors, its very easy to spend someone else’s  money frivolously, and our so-called ‘representitives’ do it on a grand scale that we do not fully comprehend, mindlessly adding to our burdens. When they reach the limit of debt they just ‘raise the debt ceiling’ to spend more ‘funny money’, money we do not have, then raise taxes to do it!! Responsible on their part right?!

These empty suits claim they have ‘experiance’ and can fix the problems we face, each election cycle we have the same problems, only deeper. We should know the definition of insanity is to do something the same way, vote for the same people over and over and expect different results.  Thinking outside of the box would be placing me in the White House, because I’m as angry as hell about the status quo, as every tax payer should be with our elected ‘servants’.

If I could run for President, my platform would initially include, but certainly is not limited to theses next 8 topics, because I firmly believe the ‘working’ American people would back these money saving ideas and scare the living hell out of Congress if it did not consider implementing them. It just needs someone with the guts to bring these topics up, I would be that guy. If Congress is ever going to get serious about cutting waste, not just giving lip service, let me/us show them the way……..at the ballot box and beyond.

1.     This is the first of many enormous ‘sucking’ sounds that exist in D.C./America, that needs to be more than casually addressed. The IRS needs to be totally abolished, 100% abolished, as in gone. The IRS is nothing more than a HUGE drain on our incomes. The infrastructure that is needed to maintain the IRS is mind boggling in waste, size and scope, we do not need it burdening us any longer. It is a runaway freight train that gets bigger, faster and scarier every year it exists. It must go. Smaller government anyone?  We can replace it with a flat tax system. Money back in your pocket, to do with as you please, boost the economy, you bet!  Big money would fight this tooth and nail because of loopholes, but we the people could beat them handily at the ballot box.

The flat tax system is simple, lets say we, that’s right, we decide to put the percentage we will pay at ten percent, 10%, how hard is that to figure out?  No more volumes upon volumes of contradictory ‘regulations’ designed to confuse/intimidate us into submission. No more layers upon layers of taxes designed to keep us working hard but never quite allowing us to get anywhere. These multiple layers of taxation are like a heavy yoke upon our shoulders, slavery is alive and doing quite well in the IRS states of America!  We can throw the multitude of tax volumes  away and replace them all with just one piece of paper. Example; If you make $1000 per year you pay $100 dollars, if you make $10,000 you pay $1000, if you make $100,000 you pay $10,000 etc., one tenth of your income. The reason Congress loves the IRS it would seem, is because Congress loves to waste our hard earned money and they like giving their big campaign donors nice ‘loopholes’ to avoid paying taxes. Did you already suspect that? Did you know that General Electric made 5 Billion in profits in the United States last year, and because of  ‘sweetheart loopholes’  in the tax laws did not pay 1 penny in taxes? It is true, now do you think the IRS should be abolished?

2.    My next step is towards renewing a free marketplace in America. This would encourage healthy competition and allow small businesses as well as large institutions to stand or fail on their own merits, no more tax payer ‘safety net’! This would be to abolish the monopoly on the banking system by a cartel known as the Federal Reserve. The Federal Reserve is a small group of banks that dictate the rates all banks must charge. That is not how a free marketplace works. The Federal Reserve is not a part of the Federal Government as its name slickly implies, research it.  It runs to Congress whenever its ring of big banks has made risky over extended investments and asks for you, the tax payer to bail them out, under the threat of  “we are to large to fail” sound familiar? No one who is incompetent is too large to fail!

Under this cartel of banks, the men running them are never held accountable, they know they will be bailed out by you should their hair brained ventures fail, so there is never any ACCOUNTABILITY!  That must end, we must let them fail, from the ashes will rise banks/companies that will be stronger. No More Bailouts, Break the Cycle! Who bails you out if you make bad financial decisions? I think you know the answer to that. The Federal Reserve prints devalued paper money, (funny money) with no silver or gold to back it, pumps it into the economy and dilutes the worth of the money that is already in circulation. This is a cause of recession.

Money has not been backed by gold since 1933, without the backing of gold/silver, paper money is, well, just paper. We need desperately to go back to gold/silver backing our money, in this way you could only print paper money to the extent of the value of the gold/silver in our national vaults in Fort Knox etc.. This would reduce, and eventually stop the runaway inflation of worthless paper money that has no gold/silver backing flooding the economy. The Federal Reserve did not want gold/silver backing the paper money because it limited how much money they could print/loan, that is how money is devalued, ‘watered down’ so to speak. If they could print lots of paper unrestrained from gold/silver, they could make more risky ‘investments’, spread more ‘funny money’ around. Bernie Madoff  is a boyscout compared to the Federal Reserve cartel, and Congress is a willing partner fleecing the American tax payer, order them to disband this cartel, NO MORE!! Hey, are you angry about bailouts? Bailouts will happen again, unless we abolish the power of the Federal Reserve frauds, and allow all banks to set their own rates in the healthy spirit of competition. Wow, only use real money and stop printing ‘funny money’ to prop up risky schemes. Gee whiz!

“To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt….I am for a government rigorously frugal and simple.”  -Thomas Jefferson–

3.    My next step towards putting money back into your pocket, to spend as you see fit, is  to have Congress explain why, we as a nation, are somehow beholden to throw trillions of tax dollars to countries all over the world. There is a Beatles song, ‘Can’t buy me love’, well these countries hate our guts but love our money. What do we get for our generosity, “Death to America“!!!!!  They will hate us anyway, so let the handouts end. Funding should end on a country by country basis, to be voted up or down with those votes recorded as to how each so-called Representative votes, this, so the voting public will be able to reward or punish these ‘representatives’ at election time. Real savings, in real time, and all this enormous amount of money saved without cutting any needed services. Charity begins at home, lets take care of our house first and foremost. Wow look at all the money I just saved, and all without cutting into a single ‘service’ here at home! Gee whiz! Why don’t our so-called ‘representatives’ think of these things??? Aren’t they supposed to be ‘smarter’ than us little people?

4.    Everyone I know or talk to about this next subject is on the same page, maybe it is because we are the ones who work for our livings, and care deeply about how we will feed our families, pay our bills. The United Nations, it is nothing more than a conglomerate of anti-American countries sucking up our tax dollars as fast as our so-called representatives can fleece us. It is an impotent ‘debating society’ that would love to void our sovereignty as a nation, and usurp our Constitution with the help of like minded ‘progressive’ politicians within our own government with a ‘one world’ government agenda.  I would move to evict the U.N. from America, against the wishes of Congress, with the support of you, the tax paying voter, cut their tax funded umbilical cord, thus saving the tax payer from this unnecessary, loathsome  burden. The U.N. would be free to move to any country that would have them, they can leech off  their new host to their evil hearts contentment as they continue to bad mouth America. I believe rank and file Americans would support this. Vast amounts of money would be saved, again, without cutting into needed services here at home. Gee whiz! Why only the sound of ‘crickets’ coming from Congress on this? We the People can change that tune.

5.     Tired of listening to president after president give lip service that no legislation will be signed if there are ‘pork’ items stashed/hidden within the bill? I would be the worst nightmare these empty suits ever saw. I would actually use the line item veto power to save the tax payer billions if not trillions in ‘pork’. You can bet the farm on that pledge, I am as sick of it as you are. You and I both know that Congress always talks with forked tongue when if comes to frivolous pork spending, they ALL lie! Both sides of the aisle! A third party is not a bad idea, shake things up a bit. I would save untold amounts of your hard earned tax dollars by stopping all bills in their tracks if need be, until the light filtered through to their pea brains in Congress that no pork means no pork! Again all this money saved without cutting needed services. Gee, why can’t our so-called ‘smart’ representatives think of ways to help you? Because they do not care, cannot relate, there is no common ground, all they see is someone else’s money to waste and they go after it, not coming out of their pockets! Look at the vast amount of tax money we could save without cutting needed services, gee whiz!

6. Are you tired of working hard so that those who have never contributed a dime to Social Security can collect it? Here is a plan that would shore-up S.S. and stop the hemorrhaging. Unless you were born an American, with American citizens as parents, or you took the legal route and were legitimately naturalized to become an American citizen, and worked paying taxes, you do not need apply for S.S., that would save the legitimate tax payer a fortune. The same citizenship rule for Welfare. Again, untold amounts of money saved without cutting one service. Gee whiz!   The only irresponsible ‘solution’ our ‘smart’ so-called representatives have for SS is to keep raising the retirement age, soon you will have to be 80 before retiring!

The second step to saving S.S., and this is a step that was conveniently ‘overlooked’ at its inception in 1935, and continues to be ‘overlooked’, by our ‘smart’ representatives, would be to make it illegal for Congress to ever touch S.S. for any other reason than what was initially intended, retirement, or for those American citizens that through no fault of their own are no longer physically able to work! If this had been the case from the start, there would be no crisis now. It is not to late to protect S.S.  No more worthless I.O.U’s from worthless politicians who have no intentions of returning what they have taken/stolen from the S.S. fund, for ‘other reasons’, that will never again be accepted, no ifs ands or buts! Gee whiz, problem solved! Wow!

Yet another huge saving for the American tax payer, again without touching needed services. I would say that if these ideas were all  implemented to this point alone that we probably would soon be coming out of this dark tunnel that generations of greedy power hungry political empty suits have created.  Do I think the rank and file American worker would back my legislation in this and force their so-called ‘representatives’ to pass it under threat of sudden political ‘retirement’ at the voting booth. Yes.  Should politicians, once they leave power, be able to collect S.S. ? As a gesture of humility they should waive it, they are not financially in need of it. Maybe that should be a law to pursue? Your choice.

7.  Our boarders security is a huge issue that could be addressed in this way. We know,(are told) that most of the people coming across the boarder are looking for work related to crops, that work considered ‘unattractive’ to many Americans. We should give these people temporary visas for the time frames needed to pick the crops, there should be no reason for these people to ‘sneak’ into the country. The companies hiring them would need to pay, at the least, the going  minimum wage, and be responsible for housing and feeding these workers until the job was completed, the company need not pay taxes on these wages to help offset the feeding and housing costs. The workers need not pay taxes on the wages they receive, but neither would they have any claim to the benefits that are the right of American Tax payers. This would be incentive to become legitimately naturalized should they want those benefits. But until that time, when the job is through these workers would be bussed back over the boarder by the company that had employed them.

Anyone who felt a need to ‘sneak’ into the country would be immediately considered a criminal, arrested and deported, on a second arrest, imprisoned and put to work on a ‘chain gang’ cleaning up our highways for 5 years, not an attractive reason to be arrested, actually a better incentive to stay away.   This would save the tax payer money on minor highway maintenance and help offset the costs of keeping these criminals in prison. And we can build more prisons, which would put more Americans to work. The ‘fence’ would be a psychological one rather than a material one.  The National guard would be stationed in large enough numbers to make a real difference, with orders to engage/eliminate any hostile action against them. Money saved by not building a fence, to the tax payer this would be a huge savings. This also would offset the cost of the National Guard. Respect restored, I think ‘Teddy’ Roosevelt would have agreed.

8. Are you tired of listening to politicians promising to stop our dependency for foreign oil?  Total ‘lip service’, it is double speak catering to the big oil lobby, with no end in sight.  I look at this in a much different light, instead of us being dependent on foreign oil, how about foreign oil countries being dependent on our exports of food?  Can we cut our oil dependency almost immediately to foreign countries and survive? Yes.  Start using our own natural oil supplies, that by conservative estimates would last the U.S. 100 years or more. Do you think that these oil rich but food poor countries would last one hundred years without food? I think not, it could be measured in months at best. We can build additional refineries which would put more Americans to work.

We allow these oil countries, and Wall Street ‘speculators’ to hold us hostage when they inflate the price of oil at a mere whim, some Arab farts somewhere and suddenly prices go up,  we do not need to put up with it. What is good for the goose is good for the gander.  Offer them $50 dollars a barrel, when they refuse we walk away, along with our food. They can eat their oil.  I think they would come around to our price rather quickly, and still be filthy rich. Could this boost the average American budget? Of course it could, and in turn Americans would have more money to pump back into the economy. Bingo, a win/win. The majority of the Mid East hates us anyway, so we give them something to hate us for. In turbulent times we let them fight among themselves and use our own oil, and keep our food, quite a mechanism for the peace process don’t you agree? I think they would meet our price on our terms.

I will close with this, if I were to ever become President I realize that as an individual that neither I nor anyone else has the solutions to every problem, I would surely surround myself with the best experts from every field for the optimum advice. I would not surround myself with unqualified Chicago thugs, tax cheats and former anarchists, Americans deserve much better than that.  Americans deserve the very best in Government that can be obtained.  Health care for instance, I would ask health care and medical insurance professionals for their ideas, not a bunch of clueless politicians. At the State of the Union I would talk directly to you, not the politicians in the room. I would name names as to who was trying to fleece you in government, you should know who needs to be removed from office.

Every ‘bill’ would be subject to scrutiny, but bills more than 300 pages would be immediately subject to sever scrutiny. Remember the no strings  “bail out” bill being so huge no one bothered to read it before voting on it? It let big banks do what ever they want with our money (think federal reserve frauds). And the gargantuan health-care bill that Nancy Pelosi said that we needed to pass “so then we could find out what was in it”! Huge bills spell (smoke screen) to me and would never be signed until torn apart with every scrap of ‘pork’ removed. My middle name would be ‘veto’ until Congress learned how to read. There is an old song by Burt Bacharach that should be the theme song for Congress, it is “Promises Promises” and quite fitting. I could write a new song and title it “Results Results”.

Vote for  MARK “VETO” SHEAN” in 2012!!

“ All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent“. –Thomas Jefferson-

Sincerely, Mark Shean, submitted on 3-20-2011

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Forward; By Mark Shean, author of Gun Sense now on Amazon.

This next article has been floating around the Internet, and so far I have seen it attributed to three different people. I think it strikes a very true chord that reasonable people should all easily understand, what ever side of the fence you may be on.  I have decided to post it here for your consideration. At the end I will put the  author as ‘Anonymous’, since I am sure three different people did not all write the same thing word for word….. It echo’s what I have been writing about for years concerning the fallacies of  the so-called ‘gun control’ crowd and their flawed/dangerous reasoning. MS

Why Carrying A Gun Is A Civilized Act;

Human beings only have two ways to deal with one another: reason and force. If you want me to do something for you, you have a choice of either convincing me via argument, or force me to do your bidding under threat of force. Every human interaction falls into one of these two categories, without exception. Reason or force, that’s it.

In a truly moral and civilized society, people exclusively interact through persuasion. Force has no place as a valid method of social interaction, and the only thing that removes  force from the menu is the personal firearm, as paradoxical as it may sound to some.

When I carry a gun, you cannot deal with me by force. You have to use reason and try to persuade me, because I have a way to negate your threat or employment of force.

The gun is the only personal weapon that puts a 100 pound woman on equal footing with a 220 pound mugger, a 75 year old retiree on equal footing with a 19 year old gang banger, and one guy on equal footing with a carload of drunk guys with baseball bats. The gun removes the disparity in physical strength, size, or numbers between a potential attacker and a defender.

There are plenty of people who consider the gun as the source of bad force equations. These are the people who think that we’d be more civilized if all guns were removed from society, because a firearm makes it easier for a [armed] mugger to do his evil deeds. That, of course, is only true if the mugger’s potential victims are mostly disarmed either by choice or by legislative fiat, it has no validity when most of a mugger’s potential ‘victims’ are armed.

People who argue for the banning of arms ask for automatic rule by the young, the strong, and the mob, and that’s the exact opposite of a civilized society. A mugger, even an armed one, can only make a successful living in a society where the state has granted him a monopoly on force.

Then there’s the argument that the gun makes confrontations lethal that otherwise would only result in injury. This argument is fallacious in several ways. Without guns involved, confrontations are won by the physically superior party inflicting overwhelming injury on the loser. People who think that fists, bats, sticks, or stones don’t constitute lethal force, watch far to much TV, where people take beatings and only come out of it with a bloody lip at worst. The fact that the gun makes lethal force easier works solely in favor of the weaker defender, not the stronger attacker. If both are armed, the field is level.

The gun is the only weapon that’s as lethal in the hands of an octogenarian as it is in the hands of a weight lifter. It simply wouldn’t work as well as a force equalizer if it wasn’t both lethal and easily employable.

When I carry a gun, I don’t do so because I am looking for a fight, but because I’m looking to be left alone. The gun at my side means that I cannot be forced, only persuaded. I don’t carry it because I’m afraid, but because it enables me to be unafraid. It doesn’t limit the actions of those who would interact with me through reason, only the actions of those who would do so by force. It removes force from the equation…that’s why carrying a gun is a civilized act.

“The greatest civilization is one where  law abiding citizens choose to be armed, they then can only be persuaded, never forced”. Anonymous-

Submitted on this site by Mark Shean,  2-15-2011

Mark’s NOTE: Governments around the world, through the U.N. would like to force a total gun ban world wide disarming all civilian populations, (not already disarmed) especially, and most importantly to include citizens of the United States through the up coming so-called ‘Arms Trade Treaty‘ that the Obama Administration said they will gladly sign!!  I say let governments lead the way and disarm first, I am sure they would not, saying that to disarm would embolden  their enemy’s to attack their homelands. On a smaller scale why should citizens disarm to embolden madmen to invade their homes?

When politicians want us disarmed so badly, is it because they have very bad intensions that would get them shot if we were not disarmed?

Criminals prefer unarmed victims, Politicians prefer disarmed subjects.

Quotes from two original Patriots;

” Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel.  Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.”  –PATRICK HENRY-

  “A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government“.   –GEORGE WASHINGTON-

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Submitted by Mark Shean Sr. author of GUN SENSE, now on Amazon

I knew I would not be disappointed by the ‘left’  in the wake of the shootings by Jared Loughner in Arizona. Politicians are starting to have ‘brain storms’ as to how they will stop this from ever happening again. They see this as the perfect opportunity to go after our guns, instead of recognizing a glaring fact, that you simply cannot legislate away bad intentions.

One of these ‘brain storms’ would be a law that would make it illegal to come within 1000 feet of any public official/representative with a gun. Do these law makers really believe THAT would have stopped Jared Loughner from committing his demented crime in Arizona?! I suppose these law makers think that if the 1000 foot law had already been on the books, the crime would never have been committed!  That Loughner would have successfully been ‘thwarted’ by this law and would have had to ‘rethink’ his strategy. How naive. That makes law makers proposing this to look as unstable as Loughner! How many laws are on the books already against committing murder? Has that stopped murder? Lets have a few more laws making murder illegal, that should stop murder from happening! Right….

There are so many public officials/representatives running around, how would you know, at any given time, if you were within 1000 feet from one of them in the first place?! I guess that means we should all turn in our guns, just to be on the ‘safe’ side of that law. And that is the point of these stupid laws in the first place, control over us peasant’s. The ‘left’ will never stop trying to politicize these kinds of tragedy’s, the ‘left’ will never stop trying to disarm honest people.  Which by the way, the ‘left’ will never stop the Jared Loughner’s of the world no matter how many laws they dream/scheme up. If a bad person wants you, he will get you, regardless of laws, or whether you have an ‘important title’ or not.

  NOTE:   Has anyone else noticed that Loughner looks like uncle Fester of the Adam’s Family?  His Lawyer probably told him to shave his head and look as crazy as possible in order to claim the ‘insanity’ defense.  After all, its not a matter of  ‘if’ he did it, it is a question of  ‘why’.

As far as ‘progresive’ law makers wanting to impact the entire populations right to keep and bear arms,  how about this novel idea; Hold individuals accountable for their individual actions, leave everyone else alone…..!

And now a word from one of America’s Greatest Founders, in my view, and our first President.   (“It will be an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.”)  George Washington

Mark Shean, submitted 1-12-2011

Author of: #GUN SENSE, on Amazon

    FYI;

     Jury nullification occurs when a jury returns a verdict of “Not Guilty” despite its belief that the defendant is guilty of the violation charged. The jury in effect nullifies a law that it believes is either immoral or wrongly applied to the defendant whose fate they are charged with deciding. Jury nullification can only be applied in criminal cases.

   The American jury draws its power of nullification from its right to render a ‘general verdict’ in criminal trials, the inability of criminal courts to direct a verdict no matter how strong the evidence, the Fifth Amendments ‘Double Jeopardy’ clause, which prohibits the appeal of an acquittal, and the fact that jurors can never be punished for the verdict they return. A jury can nullify a law due to disagreements with the justice of the law, jury nullification can sometimes take the form of a jury convicting the defendant of lesser charges than what the prosecutor sought.

    Early in our history, judges often informed jurors of their legal nullification right. For example, our first Chief Justice, John Jay, told jurors: “You have a right to take upon yourselves to judge [both the facts, and the law]”.

    In the 1895 decision in Sparf v. U.S., Justice John M. Harlan held that a trial judge has no responsibility to inform the jury of their legal right to nullify laws. It was upheld by a 5-4 decision of the Supreme Court. In a 1969 Fourth Circuit decision, U.S. v. Moylan affirmed the right of jury nullification, but also upheld the power of the court to refuse to permit any instruction to the jury to this effect. In part, the decision reads: ” If the jury feels that the law under which the defendant is accused, is unjust, or that exigent circumstances justified the actions of the accused, or for any reason which appeals to their logic or passion, the jury has the power to acquit, and the courts must abide by that decision”.  Once a jury returns a verdict of “Not Guilty”, that verdict cannot be questioned by any court.  NOTE: (But, the court now has no obligation to inform the jury of this nullification right, the jury has to figure this out for themselves somehow! MS)

    Judges seem less likely today to favor jury nullification, or to willingly instruct a jury about their power of nullification as they were in the past. Judges are unable to take away the power of nullification, but have done much to prevent its use by not mentioning it as an option to juries, {that through no fault of their own, know nothing of the choice as it becomes more obscured by the courts.} Lawyers have even gone so far as asking potential jurors if they knew of jury nullification, then excused them from the jury pool if they did! The ‘fix’ is ‘in’ apparently.

    If  jurors have the power to nullify bad laws, shouldn’t they be told so? The omission by judges to give instruction on nullification is an extreme lack of ‘candor’, and, [I believe] in violation of our rights under the Constitution. Jury nullification can be used to  provide the People an important mechanism for ‘feedback’.  For example,  jurors have sometimes used nullification to send clear messages to prosecutors about misplaced enforcement priorities, or what juries see as harassing or abusive prosecutions, (*a case is cited below). Jury nullification can be a tool to prevent our criminal justice system from becoming too rigid, or keep bad judges in check,  it provides some ‘leeway’ in the ‘joints’ for justice, if jurors use this power wisely. But first they need to be educated about this right, something the courts shy away from, as noted above in: Sparf v. U.S. and: U.S. v. Moylan.

    For example, this is a case in point; *In a recent 2010 case, a jury was never informed about their right to nullify by an activist, anti Second Amendment judge in New Jersey. The judge refused to allow evidence that was relevant to ‘exceptions’ in the vague gun laws of N.J..  Had the jury heard these exceptions that were requested from Brian Aitken’s attorney and even the jury itself, they would have rendered a ‘not guilty’ verdict based on the barred exceptions, but because of the instructions from the judge to only render verdict on evidence ‘allowed’, the jury was ignorantly forced into a ‘box’ and only had one choice, to render a “Guilty” verdict. This was a combination of a judge manipulating the verdict, and the jury not knowing their rights. Brian Aiken was subsequently, (wrongly) sentenced to 7 years in prison for crimes he never committed. (He served 5 months before sentence was commuted, 5 months of which he was brutalized in prison and will not discuss…, according to his father).

     In a letter to the governor supporting Aiken’s clemency request, pro-gun Assemblyman Michael P. Carrol rightly noted that even if Aiken had committed “wholly technical violations [of] wholly problematic laws,” “not every violation of the law warrants an indictment, let alone incarceration.”

     The Governor, Chris Christie, has since reviewed the case and has commuted the sentence, a sentence that should never have happened in the first place had it not been for a politically appointed thug in black robes with an anti gun agenda, returning political favors to the anti gun ‘progressives’ that appointed him and were his ‘masters’.  The judge was removed from the bench after an investigation undeniably showed his bias. Other cases he presided over are under review. Now Chris Christy can go one step further, post haste, and give a complete PARDON to wipe the felony that ‘never was’ off  Brian Aiken’s record once and for all. (Please finish the job Gov. Christy).  

     Now, I know this would be labeled under ‘wishful thinking’,  but, let the crooked judge finish the 7 year jail sentence, maybe he should be ‘brutilized’.  Now, wouldn’t that send a message to all the judges that actually believe their job is to legislate from the bench.

    There are many cases where judges are driven by ideology rather than unbiased interpretation of the law/Constitution. One need only look at: D.C. v. Heller 6-26-2008, or: McDonald v. Chicago 6-28-2010, where both decisions were 5-4,  barely in favor of  our Second Amendment. Had these decisions been based only on honest interpretation of  the Constitution and the preponderance of evidence surrounding the actual meaning of the Founders, the decisions would have had to be unanimous, and not along party lines. This points to how  taunt a string our Second Amendment rights are balanced upon and how crucial  judicial appointments are.

    The Founders well understood history and that even a small amount of unchecked power corrupts otherwise good men over a sustained period of time,  this is why they wisely built in ‘checks and balances’ to dilute and curtail this power. For the People, jury nullification is one way, the Second Amendment is another. The Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches are three more, each presumably keeping the others  in ‘check’. The voting booth is yet another, let us not lose sight of this by allowing candidates into public office that view the Constitution as a ‘roadblock ‘ in the way of their socialist/progressive ‘agendas’. You can tell this by what they have done, not by what they say.

Mark Shean, submitted 1-4-2011