10 ways Obama is going to screw up America

1. He’s going to spend your money like a drunken sailor on shore leave. It’s just going to make our debt worse. You can’t raise taxes and make debt go away. He plans on bailing more companies out, and is even for another “stimulus check”. Raise taxes in a recession on the rich, they’re going to tighten their belts and lay people off. That’s less people paying taxes to the government… I’m no economist, but less people paying taxes means less revenue, thus more debt. Less revenue and more spending, means more debt.

2. He’s going to nationalize our banks, auto industry and other companies… oh wait, we’ve already done some of that. If no one else see’s a problem with the Government owning part of the auto industry, you must be a socialist. The problem here is Government will then mandate what you can and can’t buy. That or they will make the freedom to choose your vehicle of choice extremely hard. If you’re not “green” you will be by proxy. This is a simple issue of liberty.

3. He’s basically going to sign over our nation to the U.N. The U.N. has been waiting many years to get its grubby little meat hooks on our sovereignty. They hate the fact that we are powerful and have a successful nation. Obama wants to bend knee to the U.N. and the EU socialists so they can dictate to our nation what we can and can’t do via treaties and world courts. Do you think they have the American constitution and people in mind? I don’t think so.

4. He’s going to end the war on terror. He has already stated that he wants to withdraw from Iraq. This causes a few problems and is dangerous because guess who is waiting next door? Iran. They haven’t been very kosher on the world stage as of late. We leave Iraq a very new fragile Democracy, all it’d take is for Iran to drop a few bombs and cause a little chaos, and Iraq is toast. The second problem is the terrorists will see America leaving Iraq as a victory to them. They will use this new victory to rally more troops if you will for defeating the “great evil” in the world. Our war on terror would have been in vain, and they will come after us here.

5. To add to the one above, he has said he wants to cut our military budget, and “unproven” missile defense systems. You know like the one that shot the falling satellite out of the sky? Not only has he said this, he has announced to the world what rollbacks we’re going to take with our military. If there is one thing you don’t tell your enemy, it’s how you plan to cut your military.

6. He supports the Fairness Doctrine. This is one of the major anti-freedom thing’s Obama is for. He wants equal airtime for liberal opinions. Sure it sounds great on the surface, but the fairness doctrine forces radio stations to have 50/50 airtime of both views, to make it fair. Basically the station would get flooded with calls demanding equal time for an opposing view, and people would stop listening to it as the left view is not what they want to hear and/or agree with. Want proof? Look at Air America. It fails, hardcore. No one wants to listen to it, ratings will begin to drop, and since radio stations are in it for the money their Freedom of Speech is banned by proxy. Obama knows traditional means to block talk radio won’t work, so this is his crafty way of banning the right talk radio from the backdoor.

7. He opposes civilian gun ownership. Just look at his voting record. Don’t be fooled by his silly Pro-2nd Amendment ads or speeches. This is a man that would take your guns from you if he could. He supports a 500% tax increase on guns and ammo. He wants to ban handguns and all semi-auto “assault rifles”. Again like with the Fairness Doctrine, he knows he won’t be able to ban guns by traditional means, so he’ll tax it and make it difficult to get. This is quite simply another restriction on your liberty.

8. He opposes drilling our oil, but is also against nuclear power. Both are cheap and can generate the BTU’s, but he’d rather us use unproven power sources and pay out the ass for them. Solar is not cheap, nor is wind power. Sure they are clean, but most of us have a budget to keep and can’t afford these “green” power sources. He wants to force them down our neck and not allow us to make a choice for ourselves. This proves his anti-capitalist stance. Capitalism if left unmolested will weed out what works and what doesn’t. Again, this is another issue with personal liberty. Anyone else beginning to notice a theme here?

9. He wants the Government to control everything. Education, healthcare, banks and the auto industry etc… anyone been to the DMV lately? Government run business is a blast isn’t it? Now imagine the DMV superimposed on to our health care system. 250 years of the freest country on earth is proof enough that free people can create a nation. No government program created our nation, free people did. When you start sticking Government in where it does not belong, you begin turning into a socialist Euro welfare state. Look where that left Europe.

10. To prove my above point, Obama is quite simply a Socialist. Socialism is not an American ideal, nor did it get America where it is today. To prove he is a socialist, he was voted the most liberal senator in 2007. Bernie Sanders a self proclaimed Socialist is the 4th most liberal senator. It doesn’t take rocket science to figure out where that leaves Obama. Socialism as I have listed out above will ruin this country from the inside out.

Obama is quite simply a threat to our nation.

Separation of Church from Bullshit.

The next time I hear someone say we can’t do something because of the separation of church and state, I’m going to punch them. Nowhere in the U.S. Constitution does it mention anything about the separation of church and state. If you can find it and link me to the source, I will personally send you $100 dollars. What the constitution says in the 1st Amendment is that “Congress shall make no law establishing a religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof”.

Congress shall not establish a religion. Basically there is not to be a Church of the United States. The government cannot prohibit someone from freely exercising their religion of choice. It’s really not that hard to understand. There is no amendment, law or clause that says that church and state have to be separate. Someone holding a prayer in school is not establishing religion. The school board prohibiting it is prohibiting the free exercise of religion, thus unconstitutional. Having a manger scene in a square downtown is not establishing religion. The city council saying that it has to be taken down because it’s offensive to people is prohibiting the free exercise, and again, unconstitutional.

The problem I believe is we have a whole party of control freaks who like to control everything that is God centered in everyone else’s lives. The ACLU doesn’t protect freedom of religion; they protect people from the freedom FROM religion. I’m no constitutional scholar but I’m pretty sure it doesn’t say in the 1st amendment that you can practice religion unless it offends someone, then the government can step in and infringe on someone else’s right to practice that religion.

Separation of church and state is bullshit. Using this as a tool to drive all God centered religion out of public life; the control freak left actually establishes an official state religion. That religion is Atheism.

Open carry reports

I've decided to clump together a log of some open carry outings. They are all past posts I've made on www.pafoa.org about my open carry interactions un-editied. Enjoy.

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Interesting story here today. On the way home from Wal-Mart to get a few things I stopped at Sheetz to get a drink, some lunch and some gas on the other side of I-81 here in Chambersburg.

As I was filling up, a truck with a camper pulled up in the vacant spot behind me. I noticed the Ontario tags. The driver proceeded to get out and filled up his tank, all the while watching me. My strong side was facing him. Afterwards I went in to order and pay for my food, he did the same. As I was standing there waiting for my order he struck up a little small talk.

Him: "Interesting you have an exposed pistol like that. Are you a cop"?
Me: "No sir, just a regular citizen"
Him: "I'm from Canada and this is something you don't see up there at all unless you're a cop"
Me: "Well the laws concerning firearms are very different down here".
Him: "Well yes, but out in the open like that"?
Me: "Depends on the state. Here in PA you can. In NY for example you can't".

We continued our conversation about carry laws in America and I gave him a flyer. He told me he had long guns in Canada for hunting, but no handguns as the laws are much more strict up there. He said its not worth the hassle. I told him some states in America are like that, but after the SCOTUS ruling hopefully things will be changing here soon. We talked for a few minutes about guns and hunting before we returned to our vehicles. Overall it was a good OC encounter. He was more curious than anything.

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Well I finally made it to the holy grail of states for all CCers and OCers… Vermont

Actually we just got back from Maine for the week, we just passed thru Vermont. I mostly concealed up in Maine as I was around a lot of family and friends. We we’re in Winthrop just outside of Augusta for the week. We had a cabin on the lake, and we went swimming, fishing, boating on the lake, had bon fires, drank beer… it was a good time. I was pleasantly surprised to find out my uncle had his Maine CCL after telling him I went to Kentucky to the NRA convention. We chatted for a bit about CCL’s and explained to him about Maine non-resident permits which I had because he seemed confused that I was able to carry in Maine.

Besides having to disarm in NY the trip was uneventful. We made it across to Vermont where we stopped for some lunch in Bennington. I open carried my Glock and concealed my Kel-Tec P3AT sterile. It felt liberating not having to have a LTCF on hand in order to carry. No looks, not one stare. We stopped again in Battleboro for a tinkle break and a stretch, and then we headed up 91 to St. Johnburys then across to New Hampshire where I “re-permitted” myself and carried into McDonalds for some dinner. I had a few head turns from New Yorkers and people from Mass… but no police showed up, nothing. We headed over to Maine from there without stopping.

While in Maine I CCed everywhere we went (because of family), the store, gas stations, dinner etc… The only exception was when my wife, kids and I went to Rockport for the day and had some lobster lunch, I OCed with no stares at the restaurant.

When we came back I OCed the whole way to the Vermont/New York border. We stopped at a few gas stations along the way with no stares.

Over all a fun, and uneventful OC/CC vacation.

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So while my mom and sister were here visiting from California I decided I was still going to OC despite their objections, this is a complete list of places that I went to and OCed:

Philly Airport, no issues.
Hotel, nothing.
Ruby Tuesdays in Philly, nothing.
The Philly Diner (Next day for breakfast). I had one question from a patron, but after I explained the law that was it.

I disarmed for the monuments (Liberty Bell, Independence Hall, Constitution center, and the US Mint) Irony just sucks huh?
I CCed in the King of Prussia mall... something just told me security would boot my ass out.
Drove home and OCed again at the Bass Pro (Harrisburg mall), not a stare.
Greenvillage Diner for breakfast, nothing.

Sheetz for gas. There was a state trooper parked out front with his window down. My sister made the comment that "you shouldn't do that there’s a cop right there". To which I said I'm doing nothing illegal and got out of the car and went in. Nothing but a few stares. Nothing from the LEO.

Hershey park, left the gun in the car 1. Because I was going to the water park all day and I don't want to CC in the pool and 2. Park security at the gate "for all of our guests safety, please leave all undesirable objects in your vehicle"

Dinner at Casey’s Restaurant in Greencastle... at this point my mom was irritated that I OCed so much and gave me the "can't you leave it at home just this once". I said I'm not going without my firearm and that its going with us. She asked me to cover up, to which I objected again. I OCed without an issue.

Forgot to add: I OCed at Midas and Giant grocery store with my mom. I had to get my car inspection done and picked up a few things from the store (besdes my mom rolling her eyes) I had no issues.

Drove back to Philly, and I OCed at the airport again, no issue.
Got gas in the city somewhere near 1-696 I got a few stares, but nothing.
Rest stop on the turnpike... besides the abundance of Jersey plates and stares, I ate my lunch and was on my way.

Over all it was an uneventful week.

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Here I am in Philly... OCed at the airport, walked past a Philly cop... nothing.

OCed at the hotel check in, nada.

OCed at dinner... not a glance.

Can't carry tomorrow tho because of the "Federal park" bullcrap, and I'll CC at the King of Prussia mall before we head home. I saw a "Welcome to Philly" sign from Mayor Nut-job... I had to point and laugh.

I'll be sure to report more tomorrow.

Edit: I was a little nervous at fisrt, but soon got over the OC in a questionable place jitters.

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Well today is my first day off in god knows how long I got off work at 2:30 yesterday and came home, cleaned up washed the truck and headed off to move my friend. Places that I went to:

Jiffy Lube: My truck needed an oil change and new anti-freeze. I got out and talked to the guys. No one really noticed or cared if they did. The manager was quite friendly when I was talking to him about what needed done.

Beer distributor: Pulled up and bought a case of beer for the evening. No one cared or noticed.

Kmart: Stopped in to get a new pair of sandels and some toiletries for myself. The cashier noticed I was OCing, and asked "Whats that"? I said "A firearm". She glared at me and said "Oh..." and continued to ring me up.

Sheetz: I stopped in to get a few powerball tickets. A group of thug looking mexican kids noticed for sure. One looked right at it and started saying something in Spanish and they all looked down, eyes wide as saucers. After they left I was rung up for my tickets. The cashier neither noticed nor cared.

Friends parents house: They have guns and like them. I got a few "Nice gun" comments while I was there. His family was having a get together or some such thing.

EDIT Added to today:

Ruby Tuesdays: No one noticed except for one man we assumed was out of state. He looked at it and did a double take. Over all a non-eventful experience.

Giant grocery store: Walked around with out a hassle. Cashier glared, but nothing was said. I paid and was off.

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I had yet another positive OC experience last night. My wife and I decided we were going to go out to eat for dinner with the kids. It was a nice evening out so I had a T-shirt on with my Glock 36 in an OWB holster. Not one set of eyes drifted. The only thing is one guy looking down as he walked past. That was it. No one noticed. We went to Moe's over on Gateway Ave. by the Ford dealership. It is privately owned, and the owner was very receptive to the fact of me OCing. I gave him our flyer, and said sometime in the future maybe we could have a meet there. So to everyone in Franklin County, Moe's is a gun-friendly zone After dinner we made our way to Gander to check out a few guns and to see how much ammo has gone up. We left empty handed... there was a nice camo Mossberg Tactical 835 Ulti-Mag I had to play with I set it down and made note of it to purchase elsewhere for cheaper. No one in Gander really noticed or cared. I think a few guys looking at guns saw it, but didn't care.

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Liberals are really beginning to piss me off

This is more of a rant then a political blog, but I am getting fed up with this sophomoric behavior of these sniveling little liberals. I came home the other night to find my new McCain/Palin sign smashed and bent into the ground. I picked it back up and bent it back into shape and put it back in the ground.

Again tonight, now it’s missing, and so is the original McCain sign that I had set on my front porch. Word has it the Democrats in the area are on a little campaign to snatch and destroy yard signs. Apparently a large McCain sign down in Hagerstown was butchered and burned…

People have cut me off and flipped me off in traffic "McCain sucks!"... "Vote for someone better you idiot". One of them was even kind enough to leave a Obama sticker on my windshield which I gladly left in the parking lot in the puddle.

Tonight at work someone brought up politics because of my McCain sticker. They gave me the whole “Bush lied, people died” liberal chant that they are always on about. They rambled on about Enron, Bush’s oil cronies and how this was “daddies” war. This is all crap that has been thoroughly debunked. They wouldn’t even listen to me and laughed at everything I attempted to say. It got old real quick.

The Democrats are supposed to be the party of tolerance? Oh wait, only if you're not a conservative...

I thought you wanted "Change" Obama?

So Sarah Palin was the VP pick for John McCain, and if I may add a fine looking one too. The liberals claim her experience doesn't compare to Joe Biden, who has been a Senator for many decades... I thought the Obama people wanted to get rid of the beurocrats in Washington? I thought we needed a fresh face in Washington. We need "change" not the same old crap. Palin is young and energetic, she will be a nice addition to our government in Washington.

Palin has proven herself in many ways. One she is not involved in big government, the same government that has lost touch with its constituents back home. Palin will be a welcome fresh face in Washington. She will clean house if you will. Look what she did in Alaska as governor. Her first act as governor was to sell the governor's jet on ebay and vow to fly commercial. She reduced general fund spending by $124 million in 2007. Basically she is against pork barrel spending. Something Obama is NOT for.

She is Pro-life an family values... I know, I know, her daughter is pregnant. I'm sure that's not anyone's dream for their children. unlike Obama's view, if that happened to one of his daughters, he would want an abortion for that "mistake". Palin's daughter is doing the responsible thing...marrying the father, and having the baby. Besides, I'm not sure with Obama's family tree and upbringing the way it is, you really want to get into this discussion?

Palin is better prepared, and has more experience to bring to the presidency than then Obama. He only has 2 years of experience in the U.S. Senate before he started running for president. Only 2... Palin at a minimum has experience in the executive branch, and how it works. She is pro-life, against pork barrel spending, drilling OUR oil, and not to mention a life member of the NRA.

She gets a lot of crap about taxes, but as both mayor and governor she cut property taxes & increased sales tax to compensate (You know sales tax is constitutional while property tax isn't). She repealed many "nuisance taxes" including the tire tax and other little taxes on things that are just ridiculous. She promised tax cuts, and as Mayor Palin largely delivered on her promises.

Palin was a smart move on McCain's part to seal the right wing vote. He would have done himself in with a Liberman or Romney pick. The reason so many Democrats attack Palin is because they know she is ultra-conservative, and they are scared of her. I can't wait to see the debate between her and Biden.

Providing the general welfare...

....The preamble to the US constitution says nothing of the sorts. Liberals over time seem to have reversed what is says."We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, PROMOTE the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America".

No where does it say we have to provide the general welfare, all it has to do is promote it. Basically encourage private charity. Thats about it. The only thing the government provides is the common defense... i.e. the Military. You liberals really need to read the constitution, and more importantly, the Federalist and Anti-Federalist papers. The founders were CRYSTAL clear on their intent.

I believe and always believe in private charity. People will donate their time and money. There are good people in this country. Orgnizations like the Red Cross are good because people will give. It gives them a good feeling. Think about when you do something for a good cause, you get a warm feeling deep down. You know what you did, and what you gave was for a good cause.

When the iron fist of government strikes down and demands money from the people you get resentment and negative feelings. The government then gives it to others who don't deserve it, and they generate animosity among the people. Animosity towards the government, animosity towards social programs, and animosity for welfare. People are less inclined to donate to good causes like churches, the Red Cross and the like because they are forced to do it thru the government.

I believe in "welfare" but it shouldn't be mandated by government. People who are genuinely disabled after exausting private contributions should be entitled to government welfare. Everyone else... get a job. I have two, you can't get one?

For all Pennsylvanians who care about their privacy rights

There is a class-action lawsuit underway against PennDot for stealing your identity. We are currently in the beginning stages, trying to get as many plaintiffs on our list as possible before filing this lawsuit.

In the words of Rep. Sam Rohrer, from his press conference:

"Exactly two years ago, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania entered into a $45 million contract with Viisage Technology, self-described as 'the industry leader in instant issue digital driver's licenses.' Viisage, later renamed L-1 Identity Solutions, became responsible for issuing Pennsylvania driver's licenses.

Under the authority of Governor Rendell, Viisage and PennDOT launched a new program in June 2006 known as FaceEXPLORER to be used in conjunction with the issuing of driver's licenses. This program uses an upgraded, high-definition photograph taken at a driver's license center to create a facial recognition template, or 'faceprint,' similar in purpose and uniqueness to a fingerprint. This faceprint is a form of biometrics based on the measurements of a person's unique, personal facial geometry. The faceprint goes beyond such easily recognizable physical features as haircut, glasses or facial hair and into an analysis of one's unique facial structure. Once this personally unique faceprint has been created, it is stored in a database to be used to compare against the faceprint of others. By these means, PennDOT and Viisage hoped to reduce identity fraud and theft. In reality, FaceEXPLORER has been a 'back-door' means to implement the REAL ID Act of 2005 without the consent or knowledge of either the legislature or the people."

Rep. Rohrer goes on to say that " . . Neither PennDOT nor Viisage has inherent authority nor have they been granted any exception to take biometric information from the citizens of the Commonwealth. . .The actions allowed by Governor Rendell further violates statutory law. . .Significantly, this issue constitutes a major Constitutional violation. . . "

Your biometric faceprint can be picked up by surveillance cameras to track your every move. This has to be stopped. Our biometric data must be destroyed/deleted!

We need to join together. This is a crucial moment that we cannot let slip away.

If you want to be part of this lawsuit, contact Renee' Baumgartner by email at real.idlawsuitpa@gmail.com, or call her cell (sparingly) at 717-286-8042.
She is a state co-coordinator of Pennsylvania for Restore the Republic and a member of the Campaign for Liberty in Lancaster County.

Email your: Name, Physical Address, phone number & email address

(This information will be kept strictly with her and the attorney that we retain for the lawsuit. Updates will be available as we move forward.)