Have You Seen the Mad Hatter?

I spent the weekend traveling across a state listening to talk radio where I heard some things that made me think I cross into another dimension.

I listened to a radio program called "The Weekend" based out of Boston I believe. The host, and I'm sorry I did not get his name, was talking out Pediatricians across the Nation are having parents of their patients answer a "safety" survey in which they are asked if "there are any guns in the house?". A thinly veiled attempt by the liberal, anti-gun and anti-constitution crowd to collect gun ownership records,...perhaps at the urging of the Administration? One of the parent's who called into the show said he asked his child's Doctor "Why do you want to know that?" The Doctor replied "It's a safety issue." Then the parent said "Well, Doctors are responsible for 100 times more negligent deaths than guns do....and besides, if this was a safety issue why did you not ask me about loose handrails on stairs, swimming pools and pit bulls in the house?" This caller also said that a week later he received a notice in the mail from the Pediatrician saying this family had to find a new Doctor!

Florida recently passed a law which made it illegal for Doctors to question their patients about gun ownership. A representative from the American Pediatrics Association says the this organization will push for laws in all States to allow for gun ownership to be questioned in Doctor's offices.

Changing radio channels, the kicker was a talk show about health where the Doctor, whose name sounded something like Ebeenezzer bin Joseph, in between telling old people to buy his supplements,...tons of his supplements,.....lamented that we live in a police state where the cops recently, upon serving a warrant shot a Veteran who was carrying a rifle that had the safety still on. Like that totally made it okay to point a gun at cops with the safety on, and like in a dynamic situation the cops are supposed to notice this. Then this idiot Doctor said that all cops,...yes, he said all cops,....carry throw down guns so they can kill people and make it justifiable.

I then turned the radio off and watched closely for the Mad Hatter and Alice as I was driving down that lonely country road...........I just couldn't take anymore that day.

Please Support President Obama's Cost Cutting Example

I hope all Americans can be as unselfish as President Obama and follow his example on tightening our belts.

The President ordered the cabinet to cut $100 million from the $3.5 trillion federal budget.

I'm so impressed by this sacrifice that I have decided to do the same thing with my personal budget.

I spend about $2000 a month on groceries, household expenses, medicine, utilities, etc, but it's time to get out the budget cutting axe, go through my expenses, and cut back.

I'm going to cut my spending at exactly the same ratio, 1/35,000 of my total budget.

After doing the math, it looks like instead of spending $2000 a month; I'm going to have to cut that number by,......six cents. Yes that's right, I'm going to have to get by with $1999.94, but that's what sacrifice is all about. I'll just have to do without some things, that are, frankly, luxuries.

In all seriousness,... did the president actually think no one would do the math?

Another NRA Victory

Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals Holds NRA Entitled to Attorneys’ Fees in Lawsuits Against Chicago and Oak Park, Illinois

On Thursday 2 June 2011, the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals conclusively and forcefully held, without need for oral argument, that the National Rifle Association has the right to recover attorneys’ fees in its lawsuits against the city of Chicago's and the village of Oak Park’s unconstitutional gun bans. The court held that the NRA was a prevailing party in the case of National Rifle Association v. City of Chicago and Village of Oak Park.

“This is a Second Amendment victory and a civil rights victory. The National Rifle Association and the Second Amendment prevailed against those who sought to deny the right to keep and bear arms in Chicago and Oak Park,” said Chris W. Cox, executive director of NRA’s Institute for Legislative Action. “The attempt to avoid paying the NRA’s attorneys’ fees was rightly found to be unjust by the Court."

After the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Second Amendment guarantees a fundamental right to keep and bear arms for all Americans in the historic McDonald v. Chicago and NRA v. Chicago and Oak Park cases, it remanded them for the purpose of issuing an injunction against Chicago and Oak Park's unconstitutional gun ordinances. Before that injunction was issued, however, those ordinances were repealed. The City and the Village then argued that the NRA was not a prevailing party and should not be allowed to recover attorneys’ fees. The District Court, which originally ruled against the NRA, agreed and denied the fee award.

Today’s Seventh Circuit decision overturns that ruling, holding instead that the NRA is indeed a prevailing party and is entitled to receive reimbursement for attorneys’ fees. The amount to be recovered will be established by the District Court.

“This is a major victory for the NRA. While we are grateful to recover our attorneys’ fees, however, we remain steadfast in our belief that Chicago and Oak Park continue to circumvent the law of the land and deny their law-abiding residents the Second Amendment freedoms protected by the Constitution. We will continue to fight those efforts until the Second Amendment is fully respected," concluded Cox.

About the NRA

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