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[Lil Foot]

Conundrum
Free people are not equal. Equal people are not free. (Think this one over and over…makes sense!)

"A gun is like a parachute. If you need one, and don't have one, you'll probably never need one again."

The definition of the word Conundrum is: something that is puzzling or confusing.
Here are six Conundrums of socialism in the United States of America:
1. America is capitalist and greedy - yet half of the population is subsidized.
2. Half of the population is subsidized - yet they think they are victims.
3. They think they are victims - yet their representatives run the government.
4. Their representatives run the government - yet the poor keep getting poorer.
5. The poor keep getting poorer - yet they have things that people in other countries only dream about.
6. They have things that people in other countries only dream about - yet they want America to be more like those other countries.

Think about it! And that, my friends, pretty much sums up the USA in the 21st Century. Makes you wonder who is doing the math.

These three, short sentences tell you a lot about the direction of our current government and cultural environment:
1. We are advised to NOT judge ALL Muslims by the actions of a few lunatics, but we are encouraged to judge ALL gun owners by the actions of a few lunatics.
Funny how that works. And here's another one worth considering...
2. Seems we constantly hear about how Social Security is going to run out of money. But we never hear about welfare or food stamps running out of money! What's interesting is the first group "worked for" their money, but the second didn't and apparently won't.
Think about it.....and Last but not least:
3. Why are we cutting benefits for our veterans, no pay raises for our military and cutting our army to a level lower than before WWII, but we are not stopping the payments or benefits to illegal aliens. In fact we are suggesting more to come to America??
Am I the only one missing something?

 

[Lil Foot]

Didn't some one start a revolution long ago because king George went nuts with the excessive tax

A lot of new taxes went into effect this year.
Here's a reminder for those who forgot or for the many that didn't know

Here is what just happened on January 1, 2015 :

Top Medicare tax went from 1.45% to 2.35%
Top Income tax bracket went from 35% to 39.6%
Top Income payroll tax went from 37.4% to 52.2%
Capital Gains tax went from 15% to 28%
Dividends tax went from 15% to 39.6%
Estate tax went from 0% to 55%
Remember this fact:
These taxes were all passed only with democrat votes, no republicans voted for these taxes.
These taxes were all passed under the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare.
If you think that it is important that everyone in the U.S. Should know this, pass it on.

 

[Lil Foot]

Guns - what will happen once the 2nd amendment is done away with?
The United Nations, Obama, bought and paid for politicians - most all of them, are all hellbent
on getting guns out of the hands of the American people. I think we can all agree gun laws, no
matter how many are effected, will not stop the criminals from obtaining guns and using them
inappropriately. They will only restrict us citizens from being able to defend ourselves. I personally
detest guns but I would shoot a human to protect my family long before I would kill any animal with
one. Concealed carry makes a lot of sense to me. Here's a statistic you may want to digest.
Here is a list of gun deaths per 100,000 population in 109 countries who have effected gun laws that
take guns out of the hands of the public. Why is the US at the bottom of the list with the lowest
percentage of gun deaths? DUH! Because the citizenry is still armed, ya think?????

The latest Murder Statistics for the world: Murders per 100,000 citizens per year

Honduras 91.6 (WOW!!) El Salvador 69.2 Cote d’lvoire 56.9 Jamaica 52.2
Venezuela 45.1 Belize 41.4 US Virgin Islands 39.2 Guatemala 38.5 Saint Kitts and Nevis 38.2
Zambia 38.0 Uganda 36.3 Malawi 36.0 Lesotho 35.2 Trinidad and Tobago 35.2
Colombia 33.4 South Africa 31.8 Congo 30.8 Central African Republic 29.3 Bahamas 27.4
Puerto Rico 26.2 Saint Lucia 25.2 Dominican Republic 25.0 Tanzania 24.5 Sudan 24.2
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 22.9 Ethiopia 22.5 Guinea 22.5 Dominica 22.1 Burundi 21.7
Democratic Republic of the Congo 21.7 Panama 21.6 Brazil 21.0 Equatorial Guinea 20.7
Guinea-Bissau 20.2 Kenya 20.1 Kyrgyzstan 20.1 Cameroon 19.7 Montserrat 19.7 Greenland 19.2
Angola 19.0 Guy ana 18.6 Burkina Faso 18.0 Eritrea 17.8 Namibia 17.2 Rwanda 17.1
Mexico 16.9 Chad 15.8 Ghana 15.7 Ecuador 15.2 North Korea 15.2 Benin 15.1 Sierra Leone 14.9
Mauritania 14.7 Botswana 14.5 Zimbabwe 14.3 Gabon 13.8 Nicaragua 13.6 French Guiana 13.3
Papua New Guinea 13.0 Swaziland 12.9 Bermuda 12.3 Comoros 12.2 Nigeria 12.2
Cape Verde 11.6 Grenada 11.5 Paraguay 11.5 Barbados 11.3 Togo 10.9 Gambia 10.8
Peru 10.8 Myanmar 10.2 Russia 10.2 Liberia 10.1 Costa Rica 10.0 Nauru 9.8 Bolivia 8.9
Mozambique 8.8 Kazakhstan 8.8 Senegal 8.7 Turks and Caicos Islands 8.7 Mongolia 8.7
British Virgin Islands 8.6 Cayman Islands 8.4 Seychelles 8.3 Madagascar 8.1 Indonesia 8.1
Mali 8.0 Pakistan 7.8 Moldova 7.5 Kiribati 7.3 Guadeloupe 7.0 Haiti 6.9 Timor-Leste 6.9
Anguilla 6.8 Antigua and Barbuda 6.8 Lithuania 6.6 Uruguay 5.9 Philippines 5.4 Ukraine 5.2
Estonia 5.2 Cuba 5.0 Belarus 4.9 Thailand 4.8 Suriname 4.6 Laos 4.6 Georgia 4.3 Martinique 4.2
And
The United States 4.2 !!!!!

ALL (109) of the countries above America, HAVE 100% gun bans.
SWITZERLAND is not shown on this list, because it has...NO MURDER OCCURRENCE!
However, SWITZERLAND’S law requires that EVERYONE:
1. Own a gun.
2. Maintain Marksman qualifications ... regularly. Did you learn anything from this?
GUN bans and restrictions. DO NOT work!
The bought and paid for media document the Sandy Hooks and negative stuff (many of which are
simply false flag events to further the agenda of gun removal from the citizenry) but fail to report all
the times an armed citizenry has saved themselves, their families, and others from harm, robbery
and death by being armed. Subscribe to or go to http://gunsnfreedom.com and read some of these
stories about how guns save lives and you get a whole different perspective about why we need to be
armed today.

 

[Daren Todd]

Well said lil foot. Our military is not only getting pay cuts, but there pay also gets delayed on a regular basis. Upwards to six weeks sometimes. Now there bills still need to be paid. So they are continuously having to play catch up. I find thats a pretty crappy way to treat someone whose fighting for our country.

Happened to get my quarterly statement for my 401k the same time my annual social security statement came in. Now thats something that will p&$$ you off I have paid in 4 times as much to social security as I have to my 401k. But come time to retire, I'll get 5 times more a month from my 401k then I will social security. I could get more of a return putting the social security money into a savings account at minimal interest each month.

 

[Diydave]

this one is a little dated, being from 2010, but here goes:

If you had purchased $1,000 of shares in delta airlines one year ago, you would have $49.00 Today
If you had purchased $1,000 of shares in AIG one year ago, you would have $33.00 Today.

If you had purchased $1,000 of shares in lehman brothers one year ago, you would have $0.00 Today.

But, if you had purchased $1,000 worth of beer one year ago, drank all the beer, then turned in the aluminum cans for the recycling refund, you will have received $214.00.

Based on the above, the best current investment plan is to drink
heavily & recycle. It is called the 401-keg.

 

[Tomcat]

I'm a firm believer in recycling

 

[85Hokie]

I'm a firm believer in recycling

The beer or the cans??????

 

[Tomcat]

The beer or the cans??????

I do both! The cans go to the junk man and the beer goes to the citrus trees

 

[Daren Todd]

Wife and I had a house full of kids yesterday. Ages 4-8, grand kids, nephew and niece, and a couple.of friends kids. One of the boys parents aren't together and is involved in a custody battle. Pretty heated one since the mom is worthless, dating a felon,and both mom and boyfriend are into drugs and ripping people off. One of the things the mom is into is check fraud , and is fixing to have a warrant out for her arrest. Cops are just waiting on the video from wal-mart for a seperate incident.

Any way, this boy disapears for a few and isn't playing with the other kids, so my wife goes looking for him. Finds him going through our desk in the office looking for something. Well, he finds the check book, along with a couple books of checks, along with the book for the savings account. He reaches into the middle of the pile, grabs a book of checks and starts to hide them in his clothes. So my wife asks him what he's doing? He says he needs to take the checks to his mamma!!! But is supposed to get them when no one is looking!! So my wife sit's him down and starts talking to him. Asking a bunch of questions just to keep him talking. He points to the checks, say's these are good!!!! Then points to the savings account book and say's these are better to get a hold of since they have thousands of dollars in them!!! My wife then asks if there is anything else in here that he's supposed to give to his momma. He digs through the little basket, where I keep the bills that are do. Pulls out the credit card statement, truck loan statement and bank statement. He said he needed to give his momma those as well. So now my wife is really concerned, so she grabs my wallet and her purse. Asks again if there is anything in there that he needs to give to his mamma. He say's yup, finds both of our bank cards, and my credit card and said if he see's those, he is supposed to grab them and give them to his momma Then he say's he needs to tell his momma where the necklaces or bracelets, and rings are kept. And if we have any tv or game consoles and where they are Needless to say, things have been moved and locked up

What kind of POS parent trains there 6 yo kid on this crap???? Wife had a long talk with a police officer yesterday, talked to the boys father, and is gonna be testifying on his behalf at the custody hearing.

 

[ShaunRH]

That's pretty horrific Darren, but what scares me more is that I am utterly unsurprised.

30 years ago that behavior would've been laughed out of the justice system because nobody would teach their kids that stuff. Today, children are just an extension of the parents and you get the kids of dubious parents doing exactly what their parents did. The good side is that good parents still tend to have good kids, so I guess we are just seeing an utter lack of good parents.

However, all of that goes to a complete collapse of morality and ethical foundations. I'll post up a different point to this that goes on what some of Lil Foot's conundrums bring up.

 

[Lil Foot]

I'm speechless with anger. Mother & boyfriend need to be dealt with harshly, preferably with a large, dull brush chipper, feet first.

 

[ShaunRH]

A simple course in logic would pretty much pinpoint all the failures in any nation, not just the United States, but lets use our 50 state + Federal system as an example.

Everyone keeps tinkering with the system, trying to add their own brand of 'whatever' to a system that really was working fine. It has been working so fine that the tinkerers haven't been able to destroy the system for over 200 years, and that's impressive.

However, they are finally breaking the system down. The lies, deceit and other levers of destruction are succeeding. There is hope though.

All of this can be undone in a dramatically short period if the People of World, led by the People of the US realize a few universal truths:

1. You cannot be a moral or ethical person if you do not pursue greatness beyond yourself. Call it God or a greater sense of self, humans do not succeed alone and we must pursue a morality beyond what our natural inclinations tell us to do.

2. Only through hard work is success accomplished. Nobody succeeds easy. Even if you inherit all the money in the world, what matters in life, that true sense of accomplishment, cannot be bought with money.

3. There are many ways to success. That is why the US government system allows for individual States to try different ways to accomplish the same thing. Now that the Federal Government is stifling that freedom, the county only has one path and that is horrible for the future of greatness. It is the same with us, if we don't listen/watch others and only follow one path, we are not likely to succeed either.

4. Get up and try again. You will likely fail many times trying to succeed, but the mark of a successful person isn't the first or even final success, it's how many times they had to pick themselves up after a failure and try again.

We've lost sight of just those basic truths, not just in the US but around the world. We keep listening to the voices that want to toss us all in the same bucket and treat everyone to the same 'result', calling that "fair". Well, fair is what we were born with: nothing. So the only "fair" thing in this world is that we can all try to achieve our own measure of betterment of self with the talents and challenges we were born with.

Life does not create victims, we do. Life just is. What you do with it success or victim, is exactly what your actions determine, or so all our grandparents told us. You know what, they were right.

 

[85Hokie]

"children are just an extension of the parents and you get the kids of dubious parents doing exactly what their parents did."

damn if that aint the truth .....

I have students that look like they own a tattoo parlor , and run around (girls) looking like whores......and then MOM comes in for a parent / teacher conference .....

then it hits me - the acorn doesnt fall far from the tree.......

that mother Daren needs to be locked the __ __ __ __ up......and the kid needs to be be taken away and reprogramed!

 

[OldeEnglish]

Darren, it seems that you are damm lucky your wife caught him. It's awful how our family court system works, my best friend has gone through it. Men have zero rights when it comes to this even when they are a responsible parent and the mother is a POS. My friends little boy has been present for multiple SWAT team raids on drug houses where she would be with him. Was abused by one of her Boyfriends that left bruises on him that were visible when my buddy picked him up. He set him in his car seat, kicked the guys door down, gave the guy a beating like no other. Cops got called and were about to arrest my friend when he pointed out the bruises on his kid, they were kind enough to let him go . It still took thousands upon thousands of dollars for a good attorney to finally get custody. Absolutely insane how the system works. I hope all works out well for your friend and his child.

 

[Daren Todd]

They are into it for about $5k right now. Plus this time around. Dad started out with zero rights, handed her, her butt last year in court. Judge actually read her the riot act. which she's nocompliant with just about the everything the judge laid out. Dingbats mom is fixing to be dragged into court as well since she kicked the daughter, boyfriend, and her grand kids out of her place because she got ripped off. Same story with dingbats step mom. Kids, mom, and bf spent several nights in a car. Court order states she needs to have her own place in her own name if she's not living at her moms. Supposed to supply an address and phone number to where the kids are at any given time. Non compliant on that as well. Supposed to have a job also.
They had a friend over july fourth weekend let them move in to his autistic brothers house. After everyone went to sleep, they ran off with every thing portable. Ps3, xbox and games, tv's, and anything else they could get there hands on. Went on vacation with stolen checks. so far we know of one that was made out and cashed by dingbat. Cops are waiting for footage from a security cam at a walmart where another check was cashed before filing charges on the first check. Went and bought drugs with the boys in the car. Everyone will tell you about it, but won't testify because they don't want to tick off the dealer

If he can provide proof of one of three things the judge will grant him temporary full custody.
1: sleeping in the car with the boys (need a witness)
2: buying drugs with the kids with them (need a witness)
3: committing a crime with the kids with them (need a witness)

Mom and the bf were caught with stolen property before, but no proof that the boys were with them when they did it The boys were in the car with the stolen property though

We're at a loss as to how the bf keeps getting out of jail. He's in and out every month or so for something. Parole violations, identity theft, theft, fraud, forgery, drugs, plus other charges. There are two active warrants for him right now. One for three counts of theft, and the other is violation of parole.

 

[85Hokie]

Daren,

I am sorry to hear all of that .....the good news is - they cannot go on forever - the good folks (cops) WILL catch them and then you will get the peace of mind that you deserve !!!

BUT I WOULD have little patience for that if blood kin is involved ......my scorpio temper would get the best of me and I would place somebody in a position that would take a while to get out of ! Then my ass would be in the ringer !

 

[Daren Todd]

Hokie, I have that same scorpio temper when it comes to my family I can't stand someone messing with a kid. They showed up when we were watching the boy a few months ago and started some stuff with my wife. I happened to walk out with a shot gun while they were going off on my wife. Shot a squirrel in the front yard Then walked over and had a talk with them. The bf won't come any where near the property ever since I may have made them think I got's the crazy gene

We got comfirmation that she was involved in the other check, so she's up to $1400. Should have a warrant out for her arrest in a day or so. As soon as she's picked up, the lawyer will file for an emergency custody hearing. And they both are too stupid to not get caught.

We have the boy till sunday, and then the dad has him for another week. She should be picked up by them

 

[skeets]

My view on any one, molesting, hurting, or killing a child, or an old person that cannot defend them selves.
A short drop and a sudden stop, and I don't care what color, religion, or sex they are.. And I will supply the rope, as long as it is done in the center of town for the world to see!!

 

[Daren Todd]

Skeets, I couldn't say that any better In this case, the mamma is making sure the kids are fed. Nothing funky happening too the boys. If there was, then honestly it would end up with a good ol fashioned lynching!!! She's making poor choices, not making sure the kids have a stable home, a bed, a safe place to sleep. And not doing any thing to better there living situation, or finacial situation. Like actually getting a job!!!! The momma has a college education and is a liscensed dental assistant. But deems it more important to be homeless, rip people off, snort oxy, live with a felon, and remain unemployed

 

[skeets]

If he is a tweeker then like the old saying goes;;;; the right word in the right ear,'''' well then you know what happens.
Not saying that the word should go out that he's a house mouse or anything but you know how shyt happens