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Sunday, December 3, 2017
St. Jude Children's Hospital - Weekly Update
Noah Webster: "Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed."
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| Photo from NoahWebsterHouse.org, in West Hartford CT |
When you have someone that wants to argue gun control, have them contest these numbers.
Let me see someone try.
Let's talk about gun violence:
There are 30,000 gun related deaths per year by firearms, and this number is not disputed. The U.S. population is 324,059,091 as of June 22, 2016. Do the math: 0.000000925% of the population dies from gun related actions each year. Statistically small number! What is never told, however, is a breakdown of those 30,000 deaths, to put them in perspective as compared to other causes of death:
• 65% of those deaths are by suicide, which would never be prevented by gun laws.
• 15% are by law enforcement in the line of duty and justified.
• 17% are through criminal activity, gang and drug related or mentally ill persons – better known as gun violence.
• 3% are accidental discharge deaths.
So technically, "gun violence" is not 30,000 annually, but drops to 5,100. Still too many? Now lets look at how those deaths spanned across the nation.
• 480 homicides (9.4%) were in Chicago
• 344 homicides (6.7%) were in Baltimore
• 333 homicides (6.5%) were in Detroit
• 119 homicides (2.3%) were in Washington D.C. (a 54% increase over prior years)
So basically, 25% of all gun crime happens in just 4 cities. All 4 of those cities have strict gun laws, so it is not the lack of law that is the root cause.
This basically leaves 3,825 for the entire rest of the nation, or about 75 deaths per state. That is an average because some States have much higher rates than others. For example, California had 1,169 and Alabama had 1.
Now, who has the strictest gun laws by far? California, of course, but understand, it is not guns causing this. It is a crime rate spawned by the number of criminal persons residing in those cities and states. So if all cities and states are not created equal, then there must be something other than the tool causing the gun deaths.
Saturday, December 2, 2017
Who is Senator Chris Murphy?
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| Sen. Murphy; "the eyes have it". |
If you don't know who Chris Murphy is, you soon will. He is a career politician from Connecticut, with his eye on the White House, in 2020. He is a dangerous man; dangerous to the liberty of Free Men, capitalizing on the tragedy at Newtown.
On February 24th of 2013, dozens of patriots gathered in Manchester CT to speak to Senator Chris Murphy at was was billed as a "town hall" meeting.
Participants had to write down their questions and submit them for screening and approval by Murphy's goon, Sean. He would read a question and Murphy would give some lame answer. There was no opportunity for discussion or a followup question.
After about 20 minutes, one man got up and objected to this format, calling it more like a lecture than a town hall meeting. This animated participants and turned an otherwise boring event into something a bit more animated, exciting and memorable.
This video was taken by videographer and patriot Chris Ford, aka Palin Smith. (Palin after Sarah Palin and Smith after "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington".
Chris Murphy gets schooled the Second Amendment.
FBI - Ten Most Wanted Fugitives
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Still Trying To Figure Out How Hillary Lost The Election?
Was it the Russian Uranium Deal?
Was it Wikileaks?
Was it Podesta?
Was it Comey?
Was it having a sexual predator as a husband?
The White House - 1600 Daily: Democrats supported tax reform before they opposed it
President Donald J. Trump visits Missouri to deliver remarks on tax reform | November 29, 2017 (Official White House Photo by Joyce N. Boghosian)
Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel took aim at Democrats yesterday for their opposition to the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act currently making its way through Congress.
“Democrats in Congress vowing to oppose the bill should remember what they themselves once supported,” writes McDaniel in the Washington Examiner. She offers a pretty good list:
- Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said last year he favored cutting the corporate tax rate to make U.S. businesses competitive worldwide.
- House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi was on the same page: “It is long past time for tax reform that would lower the corporate rate.”
- Expanding the child tax credit? Former Sen. Tom Daschle and Pelosi called on President Bush to do just that in 2003.
- How about axing the Alternative Minimum Tax? None other than Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) wanted to replace it with a simpler flat rate during his presidential run.
Read more of McDaniel’s op-ed here.
President Trump talks taxes in Missouri
President Donald J. Trump traveled yesterday to St. Charles, Missouri, to speak about the crucial need to pass tax reform. The President emphasized the crippling effects of overtaxation on small businesses and pushed for reform that will “usher in a thrilling new era of opportunity and growth for this Nation.”
Friday, December 1, 2017
Photo of the Day
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| Pine cone. Photo taken in Middletown CT May, 2006 |
If you have a great photo from anywhere in the south central Ohio
vicinity that you would like to share, please forward it for consideration
for the Photo of the Day to SouthCentalBulldog@gmail.com.
Merriam-Webster Word of the Day - "Anachronism"
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The White House - 1600 Daily: The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act moves toward the Senate floor
President Donald J. Trump and Chairman of the U.S. Senate
Republican Policy Committee, Senator John Barrasso, at the U.S. Capitol
| November 28, 2017 (Official White House Photo by Joyce N. Boghosian)
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act moves toward the Senate floor
Yesterday just after 3:00 p.m. EST, Press Secretary Sarah Sanders released a statement commending the Senate Budget Committee for its crucial vote to pass the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. The committee’s decision clears the way for the full Senate to vote on the bill as soon as the end of the week.
“President Donald J. Trump applauds the Senate Budget Committee on taking an important step toward passing historic tax relief and reform,” said the statement. “The President looks forward to providing tax cuts for hardworking Americans by the end of the year.”
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act reduces taxes for families and individuals of all income levels, simplifies America’s complicated and lengthy tax code, and reduces taxes on U.S. businesses to allow them to compete – and win – on the global stage.
Read the full statement and learn more about President Trump’s principles for tax reform.
A sneak peek at the President’s speech today in Missouri
Roots in Ripon - Robert E. Lee, The King of Spades
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| Image from The Daily Beast |
Roots in Ripon
Chuck Roots
27 November 2017
The Ripon Bulletin
It has been said that “if we do not learn from history then we are doomed to repeat it.”
It is my contention that this truism is
uncomfortably accurate. In recent months we have seen the rise of those seeking
to ruin monuments of persons or ideologies they find objectionable and
offensive.
One such person is General Robert E. Lee,
commander of all Confederate Forces during the Civil War of 1861-65. His
statues have been damaged or torn down because he was the military leader of
southern forces during the “War of Northern Aggression”, which is just one of
the many names attributed to the Civil War. But what do we know of this man who
nearly lead the Confederacy to victory over Union forces, often many times
larger than Lee’s?
Robert Edward Lee was the son of Revolutionary
War officer and hero, Henry “Light Horse Harry” Lee III. Robert graduated in
1829, second of his class at the Military Academy (West Point) behind Charles
Mason, who resigned from the Army a year later. Graduates of the academy were
selected for assignments in the Army based upon their academic standing. Those
who scored lowest were sent to the infantry. The brightest were chosen to be
military engineers. Lee served in the U.S. Army for 29 years, mostly
re-engineering military installations around the country. He even served a time
as the commandant of West Point (1852-59). One of the nicknames attributed to
Lee by his academy classmates was, “The Marble Model” because he so typified
the soldier they all aspired to be.
During the Mexican-American War (1846-48), the
commander of American forces, General Winfield Scott, described Lee in this
manner, “He is the best officer in the
Army.”
There are often numerous ironies during war that
can only truly be appreciated after time and temper has passed.
The First Irony: In 1859 Lee was visiting
Washington, DC when the radical abolitionist, John Brown and his ragtag band of
followers seized control of the federal armory at Harper’s Ferry, Virginia. The
War Department asked Lee, a colonel at this point in his career, to take a
detachment of U.S. Marines and recapture the armory. The recapture was
successful. The trial and execution by hanging of John Brown, occurred December
2, 1859. Brown wrote the night before his execution these sobering words, “I, John Brown, am now quite certain that
the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had,
as I now think, vainly flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it
might be done.”
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