In my nightmare I found myself nude in bed. I was looking at a mirror on the ceiling and I discovered that I am a Negro ... and I'm circumcised!

Quickly I sat up, found my pants and looked in the pockets to find my driver's license photo ... it was that same color, Black!

I felt myself being very depressed, downcast, sitting in a chair ... But it's a wheelchair!!

That means, of course, besides being black and Jewish, I'm also disabled!!!

I said to myself... aloud, "This is impossible. It's impossible that I should be black and Jewish and disabled."

"It's the pure and holy truth", whispers someone from behind me. I turn around and it's my boyfriend, Jimenez ... Just what I needed!!! More...

I don’t know who wrote this piece about the “Change” that has been happening in America but the logic and the history lesson should be heeded. I could have written it because I feel the same way, uneasy and questioning … why? Why is the Country I grew up in so different from the memories of my youth fifty years ago? Is it Progress … or are we simply repeating the dark side of history? David Petronis … 26 October 2009

The Observation … Anonymous.

I have come to think there is something monumentally large afoot and I do not believe it is simply a banking crisis, or a mortgage crisis, or a credit crisis. Yes these exist but they are merely single facets on a very large gemstone that is only now coming into a sharper focus…

Something of historic proportions is happening. I can sense it because I know how it feels, smells, what it looks like and how people react to it. Yes, a perfect storm may be brewing but there is something happening within our country that has been evolving for about ten to fifteen years. The pace has dramatically quickened in the past two.

We demand and then codify into law the requirement that our banks make massive loans to people we know they can never pay back? Why? More...

Bush nor Israel had the Balls to Bomb Iran, Now Obama will Talk them to Death ... Now we have the North Korean Commies to deal with again... Start the Day off Right ... Stay Conservative and buy a gun ... while you still can !

Today is the 70th Anniversary of the Start of World War Two, September 1, 1939.  Fifty Million people were estimated to have lost their lives in the ongoing years till War's end. Something to think about when then, like today, we were not prepared Mentally nor Militarily to respond to a threat from a National Socialist Party of Brown Shirts and Black Shirts who simply wanted to Right the Wrongs of the Past Administration. History can and will be repeated if common people lose their Faith. This Video urges us to Remember ... watch then join the Tea Party.

“I see the Capital Region Quarterly Sales Tax receipt numbers are in for this Second Quarter of 2009 and the area is down from 4 to 10% in tax revenue,” was my first comment to my wife over Sunday morning coffee. I continued, “Saratoga County led the decline with 10.27% less taxes collected over the same period of last year, equating to about 2.5 million dollars.“ Cathy replied, “Didn’t you write about that last week?”

I wrote in a Letter to the Editor of our local Express that sales tax revenue increases are not about to offset any give-a-ways for PILOT Programs to developers of the Esplanade Project in Mechanicville. In the letter I said, “If you want to build it, pay for it; don’t ask us taxpayers to foot the bill.”

Someone asked me why I bother to write Letters to Editors or commentary articles on various subjects. “Generally nobody really cares about anything except their own job and family,” was a comment. I explained simply, “If not me, who?” But with that response I also questioned my motive. Was I the type of person who just wanted to see his name in print? Searching my soul, the answer was much more than, “no.” I’ve had my fifteen minutes of fame supposedly allotted to us all, in fact many times over. I don’t need recognition but I feel a need to speak out when I recognize a problem. I guess I have a need to comment thinking if I don’t, who will? I’ve never been one to leave it up to the other guy to get rid of the dead skunk in the road. More...

Your kids got nothing to do?  Show them this Jazz ....  Jambalaya, Crayfish Pie ...

Assume. What a word it is! What a scenario those two syllables can put together. Know that life is hard enough but when assumption enters a phase of it the process is usually a learning experience. So, for the next several minutes, let’s assume that I, the author, know what I’m writing about and you, the reader, will either be entertained, or learn something.

I have been in sales, in sales management and now own several businesses. I have been trained in and also taught sales, closings and time management. I am of retirement age but choose to be working. I have what some people would call a type A personality. The point is, I have lived a full life and quite probably know what I write about. Many years ago while attending a seminar, my mind was opened to a very interesting question; Who is the ass in assume, you or me?

Sounds dumb, doesn’t it? Let’s take a look at my experiences just this past week and find out what happens when one person assumes another person knows what they are doing. A contractor stopped in to my gun shop and asked if I still needed brick work, we made a deal and I hired him. I knew of his work and he seemed reliable, especially after showing up on time for several days. He was working by the hour and he and I kept time schedules. When his bill came to me I assumed our hours would basically be the same; they were not. More...

Has the NYS Senate staged a comeback? Maybe Monday? Answer was, I guess not!  Republicans had best get off their fat asses and go see the people out there if they want to be on the inside again.

Follow this NRA link to see what the gun grabbers in the NYS Assembly have passed this month of May, real scary!
Think you are alone?  Not if your cell phone is with you. This link will get you to think about what you could be saying to everyone... Cell Talk

Alcohol and Ammo Don't Mix ... Please don't go there!  You've been warned.

Check out the radical Muslims in America Compounds ... time to think !!

The Cost of Raising Offspring!  Below....
...also see our Local News & Views. ... and

Gun Show page with restaurant reviews.

Once upon a time, I was invited to the White House for a private dinner with the President.  I was a well respected businessman, with a factory that produces memory chips for computers and portable electronics.  There was some talk that my industry was being scrutinized by the administration, but I paid it no mind, I live in a free country.  There's nothing that the government can do to me if I've broken no laws.  My wealth was earned honestly and an invitation to dinner with an American President is an honor.

I checked my coat, was greeted by the Chief of Staff, and joined Mr. Obama in a yellow dining room.  We sat across from each other at a table draped in white linen. The Great Seal was embossed on the china and uniformed staff served our dinner.  The meal was served, and I was startled when my waiter suddenly reached out, plucked a dinner roll off my plate and began nibbling it as he walked back to the kitchen.

"Sorry about that," said Obama.  "Andrew is very hungry." More...

Do you really believe that Obama could possibly win a war along with his Liberal Congress that we are engaging in on the Pakistani border?

If so naive, watch this video ... Tribal Industry

By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY 
Posted Friday, February 13, 2009 4:20 PM PT  

Stimulus: Say this for the $787 billion behemoth that Congress voted on on Friday — never in our history has a more important vote been cast on legislation with so little scrutiny. Couldn't they at least read the thing before voting on it?  

The 1,434-page bill is, in a word, massive. It's full of details that deserve to be given a close look before anyone votes. As the old saying goes, the devil's in the details — and if you can't look at the details, you might just end up with the devil.

The bill that President Obama called "the largest change in domestic policy since the 1930s" was jammed down Congress' throat, breaking almost all the promises of bipartisanship and transparency along the way.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid vowed to give members of Congress at least 48 hours to look at the historic legislation before them.

After all, the bill will spend the equivalent of nearly 9% of our GDP while adding $1.2 trillion to our national debt. Obama vows to "create or save" 3.5 million jobs at a cost of $263,000 per job. Shouldn't it get even a little bit of scrutiny?  More...

NEWS RELEASE

HOLDER NOMINATION SIGNALS OBAMA'S TRUE ANTI-GUN RIGHTS AGENDA

BELLEVUE, WA - The nomination of Eric Holder for the post of attorney general of the United States sends an "alarming signal" to gun owners about how the Barack Obama administration will view individual gun rights, as affirmed this year by the Supreme Court, the Second Amendment Foundation said today.

"Eric Holder signed an amicus brief in the Heller case that supported the District of Columbia's handgun ban, and also argued that the Second Amendment does not protect an individual right," noted SAF founder Alan Gottlieb. "He has supported national handgun licensing and mandatory trigger locks. As deputy attorney general under Janet Reno, he lobbied Congress to pass legislation that would have curtailed legitimate gun shows.

"This is not the record of a man who will come to office as the nation's top law enforcement officer with the rights and concerns of gun owners in mind," he observed.

Holder's nomination, like the appointment of anti-gun Illinois Congressman Rahm Emanuel More...