The Zombieslayer

…and you’re not responsible for mine.

The Golden Gate Bridge

You probably already know I live in the San Francisco area.  One of her most famous landmarks is her Golden Gate Bridge, a bridge that crosses the Golden Gate from San Francisco to Marin.  It’s a beautiful bridge and a beautiful crossing.  Since its inception in 1937, the bridge allowed pedestrian access.

Now some groups are trying to close the bridge to pedestrians because of all the suicides.  What a load of horse manure.  Look, if you want to kill yourself, go for it.  Just don’t blame me and don’t make it an inconvenience for me either.  If I ever kill myself, I’ll make the same agreement to you.  Deal? Good.

I am not responsible for other people’s stupidity.  Why should I be punished because unhappy people end it all by jumping off my bridge? And yes, I call it my bridge because my tax money maintains it.

Be careful what you wish for.  Don’t go around banning other people’s freedoms just because some people don’t use them right.

The same applies to handguns

I looked at handgun deaths the other day and you know what? Take out suicides and they’re very, very low.  Actually, almost insignificant.  Take out suicides and put them up against cars and they barely register.  Even better, put them up against “accidental deaths in hospitals.”

I knew a crazy anti-gun activist who one day confessed to me that if he owned a handgun, he would have killed himself.  So, my handguns should be banned because this guy is an idiot? Great logic there.

Same applies to drugs

So, I looked for statistics on illegal drug deaths.  The National Drug Control Strategy has them published in 2000, and the stats only go up to ‘97 unfortunately.  Well, less than 16k people died of illegal drugs in ‘97.  Big deal.  Double that figure and you still don’t even come close to what cars do.  Heck, times that figure times five and it still doesn’t match alcohol, and alcohol is only a fraction of cigarettes.

Not at all implying that we need to ban alcohol or cigarettes.  I’m just putting things in perspective.  Seriously, not that many people die of illegal drugs.  It’s simply not worth the damage to our Fourth Amendment to fight this War on Drugs.  No thanks.  I’d rather have my Freedom.  If people want to pollute their bodies, who am I to tell them not to? Besides, I don’t want my tax money wasted on big government playing Dad.

The same study by the same government agency (paid for YOUR tax dollars by the way) also said that $63.2 billion was wasted in ‘99 on illegal drugs.  Great.  More reason to legalize it.  Imagine the tax revenue if those same drugs were legal.

Once again, I’m not at all for taking illegal drugs.  It’s just not my place to tell you how to kill yourself.  Big difference.

Don’t be touching my 401k now

So, once again, the stock market crashes and surprise, surprise, the media is harping about how 401k’s are dangerous and you could lose money.  No, ****, Sherlock.  If you didn’t know that when you started your 401k, you’re an idiot, as far as I’m concerned.  You read the fine print? It clearly says you can lose money.

The bad thing is you hear politicians wanting safety nets on 401k’s now.  That’s stupid.  If you can’t stomach risk, fine.  Buy bonds and cash equivalents instead.  Your 401k should have given you that option.  Just be especially careful with company stock purchases.

If I wanted an annuity, I would have bought an annuity.  I don’t want the government touching my 401k.  If I lose money, it’s my fault.  Not yours.   And you shouldn’t be punished for my mistakes.

Tax money is not free money.  It comes from hard working people, such as yourself.  You work hard.  You deserve to keep as much of your money as possible.

So in summary, I’m not responsible for your stupidity.  And you’re not responsible for mine.

You hear the term “liberal media” all the time, and liberals tend to get really pissed off when they hear it.  Well, do you want to know why it’s used? Because there is some truth to it.

Guns are the perfect example.  The anti-gun media loves to spout off lies about guns and they do absolutely no fact checking.  When normal people hear that crap, it kind of makes the media look like it has a liberal bias.

Example One - The gun show loophole.  I hear this lie all the time.  Look, I’ve been to more gun shows in more states than you have.  I know gun shows.  There is NO gun show loophole.  If you think there is, I have a homework assignment for you.  I want you to buy an assault rifle from a gun show without a background check.

Go ahead.  That’s your homework assignment.  Now, if you end up in jail, don’t complain to me.

Example Two - President Obama, who’s quickly showing he’s just as stupid as the last ass clown, keeps spouting off how 90% of guns bought by Mexican drug lords are bought legally in the United States.  And the media loves it and keeps quoting it as fact.

It’s a lie.  A huge, blatant lie.  If you believe that, I have another homework assignent for you.  Go to a gunshow and try to buy rocket launchers, grenades, and assault rifles (the real definition, not the definition made up by the liberal media).  If you end up in jail, don’t complain to me.

These are the facts.  The drug lords are getting the majority of their guns from the black market in Mexico itself, with fragmentation grenades from South Korea, AK-47s from China, and shoulder-fired rocket launchers from Spain, Israel and former Soviet bloc manufacturers.  They’re also getting it from the Russian mafia.  Interpol is well aware of this, as they know both the Poldolskaya and the Solntsevskaya are trafficking drugs and arms in Mexico.

An other big source - South American revolutionaries.  FARC (from Columbia) has plenty of left over drugs and guns to sell Mexico.

An other big source - according to the Amnesty International, China (big surprise, NOT).  Plenty of Chinese assault rifles and Korean explosives have been found in Mexico.

Yet an other big source - deserters from the Mexican army, taking their assault rifles made in Belgian with them.  150,000 have deserted within the past six years.  Source - Mexican Congressman Robert Badillo.

Yet an other big source - the Mexican-Guatemalan border.  Yes, Guatemala.

President Obama and the liberal media both need to check their facts before spouting off their ignorance.

Want to help Mexico end the drug wars?

Do you really want to help Mexico end their drug wars? Legalize drugs.  Yes, legalize them outright.  You also realize the tax revenue we’re losing by having drugs illegal? It’s not just the crime that will pretty much disappear.  It will pretty much disappear in this country as well.

Legalize drugs and you have a better nation.  No, not everyone will go around on drugs if they’re legal.  I don’t do drugs, other than caffeine (a painkiller, I’m in chronic pain from car accidents and old football, MMA injuries) and alcohol (thins my blood), and I have no desire to add to that.  Heck, the caffeine I’m eventually going to phase out, but I plan on living to be in my 90s so I’ll continue doing alcohol (if anyone wants to argue with me that moderate alcohol is bad for you, believe me, I’ll make you look like a jackass so don’t even start).

Illegals run up our health care costs

As far as I’m concerned, if you try to slip these following facts under the rug, you lose the Right to complain about health care costs. My mother is a damn good Medical Professional with a work ethic that would put 99% of Americans to shame and has worked in some of the best hospitals in the entire WORLD.

She’s told me about this problem years ago. People like Nancy Pelosi like to slip this under the rug, as Pelosi doesn’t live in the real world. She needs to go asap.

This is 3 minutes long. Please watch it. If you have ANY opinion on health care reform, you need to watch this video.

I used to say the only reason for a handgun is to get you back to your long gun. I couldn’t be more wrong.

Buy handguns. You need them. I’ll explain…

As we speak, China is panicking. They should be. You should have heard their diplomats speak. They’re seriously worried that we’ll default on our loans.

As much as everyone seems to love Barack Obama, this stimulus isn’t going to work. Keynes didn’t work before and it’s not going to work this time. The thing that would get us out of our recession would be a technical innovation that creates JOBS. As I’ve been warning about since I started blogging in ‘05, we’ve managed to outsource more jobs than we created and it’s come back to bite us in the ass, and now we owe something like a trillion to China and they’re genuinely worried we may default on our loans.

We can always print more money, but as you know (assuming you understand economics), printing too much money causes inflation and we may end up with hyperinflation, something that has happened this decade in Argentina and of course, the most famous case was the Weimar Republic in Germany before Hitler came into power.

Can’t happen here? I sincerely hope so. If so, my Savings accounts and my 401k become garbage. So do yours.

What does this have to do with handguns?

Everything. Crime will go through the roof. Robbery, rape, and kidnapping stats will look like errors. As bad as that sounds, I live in a border state where we’ve already had sociopathic gang bangers kidnapping and decapitating people. What they do is they kidnap several of your family members, then decapitate one just to show they’re serious. They’ve found that they’re more likely to get their ransoms when they brutally murder one of your family members so you fear they’ll do it to the others. Very effective.

I’m a Historian. I know my shit. No, history doesn’t repeat itself but it follows trends. I did some research and found that the most important way to defend yourself is with handguns. Even with hyperinflation, you still can not walk down the street with a long gun.

Now, handguns are no guarantee that you won’t be kidnapped, robbed, raped (this includes you men out there, no matter how tough you think you are, you’re not going to physically overpower four men), or tortured and decapitated. But they’ll greatly improve your odds. Think in terms of having a choice of two cars - one with a seat belt and an airbag and the other with neither. The seat belt and the airbag greatly increase your chance of survival, but don’t guarantee it. Simply said, play the odds.

So yes, do your own research. Find out about what works and what doesn’t when crime goes through the roof. You will most likely come to the same conclusion - having a handgun on you at all times greatly increases your chance that you will come home to your family in one piece, so you can continue to put food on the table. For the home, you should have a shotgun.

Under hyperinflation, you will still work. You will still have to commute. It’s just, the guy who used to be a stock broker, you know, the guy with the 90k car but nothing in his fridge, is now robbing people to feed his family. Criminals know that they’re better off dealing with unarmed people. No matter what the gun control laws are, criminals will be carrying. You better be too. You want to increase your chance of survival. When they see someone who can shoot BACK, they generally leave and find someone else. Don’t take my word for it, do your own research.

Now, like I said, I hope America doesn’t experience hyperinflation. I have a lot to lose. But remember the Boy Scout motto - be prepared. Things aren’t looking good and hyperinflation can happen here.

If you’re interested, I can find an article from someone who lived through the Argentina mess. It’s a very long read, his English is horrible, but it might just save your life if our economy falls apart. Let me know and I’ll try to find it.

The Supreme Court today did the right thing and reaffirmed that the Right to Bear Arms is a personal Right, not some collectivist group think crap that certain folks on the Left think it is. Finally. Now, let’s roll back some of these anti-gun laws.

Like always, uber-hypocrite Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) said that because of the Supreme Court’s ruling, the country will be less safe. Keep in mind Feinstein has a California Concealed Weapons Permit, yes, a gun, that she keeps on her at all times because she said that if someone wanted to take her out, she’d take “that bastard” out with her.

Now, doesn’t that sound like something that I would say? Sure does. Amazing how someone could be that hypocritical. Well, what do you expect from the anti-gun crowd? They have no respect for our Constitution.

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We have a serious energy crisis, my friends. Now is not the time to point fingers but the time to take action. It’s time we started taking Solar Energy seriously. Get the ball rolling. Start putting out massive Solar Power projects.

It’s not just about the environment any more. It’s about slavery. Do we want to be slaves to foreign oil? No. $400 billion over 40 years is chump change. It’s less than we spend on farm subsidies and much less than we’d spend on foreign wars because of oil. If I had my fingers on the budget, I guarantee you I could cut $10 billion a year in pork, easily.

If you want to hear more about what I’m talking about, read the January 2008 issue of Scientific American. It has all the details, and shows that your energy bill will actually go down, not up. Plus, we won’t have to worry about foreign oil at all.

Imagine, telling the Middle East where they can stick their oil. Following the plan detailed in Scientific American, we can ditch foreign oil altogether.

Did you see the market today? The Dow dropped around 350 points. Why? Because of the price of oil. We need to kick this crack habit.

As for extra drilling here, no. Why not? Because there really isn’t that much. Certain lobbies would like you to believe it’s the greenie meanies who are holding us back but in reality, it’s the scientists. They know it’s not enough to be even worthwhile.

Solar on the other hand is limitless. Twenty years ago, I would have dismissed this concept as a bad joke but technology changes. Solar has grown leaps and bounds in the past decade and has become not only a lot more efficient, but much cheaper, and will continue to be more efficient and cheaper. Unlike oil, there’s an unlimited supply. Well, I take that back. We only have five billion years left of it.

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I’m proud of this last shot. No, I do not have a telephoto lens. I was really this close to the squirrel. By request, I’m going to start posting more pictures that I took.