"The winter of our discontent."

Not my line, but a great one.  And, it aptly describes a future we should be preparing for.  Of course, like anything, it will be worse if Obama is still in office; but, either way, it's likely going to be very bad.  I'm talking about what the "Arab Spring" is turning into.  Let's look at Egypt.  The majority in the legislature is Islamist, talking about putting the Israeli-Egyptian peace agreement up to a popular vote.  As I write this, Americans who were supposedly pitching democray "illegally" have just been released on "bail."  If any of these Americans go back to stand trial, should a trial be scheduled, they should see if the Guinness Book has any category for incomprehensible stupidity.  

As Americans, we make the mistake of assuming that, when there is a popular uprising in a Muslim country, it will lead to some sort of democracy.  These days, that's not going to happen.  Organized groups within the countries in question already have the ability to make their message heard and have the appeal that Radical Fundamentalist Islam somehow seems to engender.  The Islamists don't have to "hit the ground running," because they're already on the ground showing themselves to be the rallying point for the revolution.  

One of these days, unless some new war pops up, a war with game-changing ramifications, the people of the United States and Great Britain are going to wake up to a Middle East that, with few exceptions, is Radical Muslim and out for our blood.  In talking about the future of our relationship with Jihadists, I've very sadly pointed out that my grandchildren's grandchildren will be fighting this same war -- unless, God forbid -- we are too ignorant to realize the nature of the situation and we are dead or reduced to fighting guerilla actions against those who would enslave or kill us.  Am I saying all Moslims are our enemies?  Of course not!  It would be nice, however, if the good Moslims would more aggressively stand against the blood-thirsty killers who hide behind Islam as an excuse for war, brutality, enslavement of women and the barbarism of stonings, hangings and lopping off limbs.  But, whether or not that occurs, I see the escalation of the conflict as all but inevitable.  I wish that weren't the case.  Have a nice day!  JERRY    

THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IS TO DEFEAT OBAMA

I continue to watch the Republicans jockeying for advantage one over the other.  That's great.  But, time is fast approaching for those candidates who know they will not get the nomination -- no matter what -- to bow out gracefully.  Every penny spent with one Republican fighting another is money that cannot be used to fight Obama.  Every jab at one candidate or another is something the Obama re-election machine might be able to use against the Republican nominee.  The saving of America from Obama and his ilk is more important than one man's political aspirations.  We need to get behind the man with the greatest potential to win, then channel all available resources to fight the cancer that is the Obama administration, so that America can be brought back from the brink, knowing full-well as we do that four more years of Obama and his ultra-leftwing socialists will only mean more assaults on our freedoms and could ring the death knell for the United States.  This battle is too important to lose. Obama must be defeated and virtually everything put in place by his administration undone, as if Obama had never been.  If we lose this fight, America may well be finished.  When one considers that, individual egos should be set aside so that all resources and energies can be thrown into the battle to save America and rid America of Obama's dream for America -- a nightmare for the rest of us.  Have a nice day!  JERRY 

WE ARE ALL SAXONS

Last week, when the Obama administration tried to force Roman Catholic institutions to violate their conscience by funding birth control, a lot of us who were not Catholic realized that we were in spirit.  We were Catholic in the sense that Obama and his minions were attempting to force something contrary to one's religious beliefs down the throats of the American people and abrogate the First Amendment in the process.  We didn't like it and we wouldn't accept it.  Sharon and I were looking for a movie to watch last night and we settled on on of our all-time favorites.  In beautiful color, when we used to watch it as kids on regular TV, we thought it was black & white.  It was the first pre-recorded movie we acquired back in the early days -- we learned it was color! -- and, when we got into DVDs, it was a must acquisition.  I'm talking about one of the best action films ever made, beautifully photographed, with one of the truly finest film scores ever written (Erich Wolfgang Korngold).  Directed by Michael Curtiz, it stars Errol Flynn, Olivia DeHavilland, Basil Rathbone and Claude Raines, with a superb supporting cast .  The film is "The Adventures of Robin Hood." from 1938. It takes a great deal of liberty with history, as most tales of Robin Hood do.  One constant, however, is that while King Richard was off at the Crusades, dark machinations were taking place back home in England, the Normans who had conquered England in 1066 very seriously interested in taxing those not on some protected list or another into the ground.  Robin Hood did not rob from the rich to give to the poor.  He was not some proto-Communist trying to re-distribute wealth, like many of the Democrats want to do. He robbed the people who collected illegal taxes, the people who found every excuse to gouge money from the real producers in the English economy.  Most of the exploited and downtrodden were the Saxons, the losing side of the Norman Conquest.  But, England was a country of more than just Normans and Saxons.  There were other ethnic groups as well.  In the Robin  Hood legends, Robin stands up for the oppressed and, in a way, if you were oppressed, whether you were Angle, Saxon, Jute or even a Norman who'd fallen out of favor, in the cause that Robin championed they were all Saxons.

Our government needs to stop finding ways of creating new taxes and playing class warfare games in the process.  People who have earned really big bucks shouldn't be punished for their efforts and their success.  The government needs to lower taxes, not raise taxes.  The government needs to stop spending money it doesn't have.  The Norman conquerors knew that to control the capital confered the real power.  The Democrats know that, too, which is why they want to take money from those who have earned it and generously gift it to those who have not.  Now, there are probably some good Democrats and there are lots of worthwhile Independents and there are Libertarians who don't have to follow their tenets into territory where to do so is positively silly.  We are all Saxons!  When Election Day comes, remember and spread the word:  "Robin in Sherwood at the Gallows Oak!"  Which means, get out the vote and expel the Norman interlopers from office!  We are all Saxons!      

WHITNEY HOUSTON

Whitney Houston had a pop voice that can only be described as magnificent.  She could reach out and grab a note anywhere it happened to be and make it her own, without, it seemed, having to work up to it.  Regardless of the actual circumstances of her death, we all know that she had a life with horrific chapters, there along with her singing and acting triumphs.  The world has lost a great voice and her family has lost a loved one.  Have a nice day!  JERRY 

SIG SAUER P224 .40

SIG Sauer P224.  I just picked up my writer's sample and this little .40 S&W with ten plus one capacity seems ideally suited to concealed carry.  Carry it in a belt or inside waistband holster, just like you would a Glock 27.  Unlike a Glock, however, the SIG 224 is a double action only, the hammer self-lowering.  So,  the SIG 224 can be carried in a coat pocket or even loose in a woman's handbag, fully loaded with one in the chamber.  In the next few weeks, I'll be testing the SIG Sauer P224.  Like any SIG product of my experience, I'd assume it will be an outstanding performer.  But, I'll let you know!  Have a nice day!  JERRY