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It is no longer justice. It no longer makes sense. When you click on the link you will recognize this shooter:

School Shooter Convicted on Gun Charge

By JON GAMBRELL – 1 day ago

“FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) — A federal jury convicted a 23-year-old man on an obscure weapons charge Tuesday, apparently unaware that 10 years ago he and another boy killed four classmates and a teacher in a schoolyard ambush.

Mitchell Johnson faces 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine when he is sentenced in the next 45 days on a count of possessing a firearm while being a drug user. Through his attorney, Johnson declined to comment Tuesday.

Johnson was arrested on New Year’s Day 2007 after police stopped his van and said they found a bag of marijuana in his pocket and a 9 mm pistol and a 20-gauge shotgun in two bags. Police said they stopped the van after getting an anonymous tip about drugs in the vehicle.

In 1998, Johnson, then 13, and 11-year-old schoolmate Andrew Golden opened fire as students and teachers left Jonesboro Westside Middle School after Golden pulled the fire alarm. The boys killed English teacher Shannon Wright and four students ages 11 and 12. They wounded 10 other people.

Government lawyers did not bring up Johnson’s violent past. The only clue during the two-day trial came during jury selection, when potential panelists were asked whether Johnson’s name sounded familiar. Some jurors said they had heard the name but didn’t know why.

State courts sent Johnson and Golden to a juvenile prison until their 18th birthdays. Federal prosecutors then got them locked up until they turned 21. Johnson left prison with an “adjudicated” record — meaning he could own firearms.”

I don’t know about you but I vote we hold anyone responsible for freeing and then allowing this turd to own firearms (obviously they are liberals) personally and financially responsible for everything he does as long as he lives.

For those of us who had enough sense to change the channel when Gov Nancy Kathy Sebelius (Kathy wanna be Nancy Peolosi) came on the TV to give the Democrat Response to the State of the Union message. None of us realized what a bomb that speech would be.

So bad even Jon Stewart would feature it. As viewed by him …… it’s entertaining.

Here’s hoping all Liberal Democrats crash and burn like this.

*****The commercial before this thing is sometimes rude******

Election practices revealed!

****** NOTE FROM NER ******

Make sure the kids aren’t in the room when you play this one.

Thanks Ner

How about that he gets some time off … comes home … visits a few places and one of the places asks him to come work a few days on their computers.

And that’s where he is. Managing electrons. He likes that kinda thing.

However Beer Deliveries for today and tomorrow are cancelled. Good thing we all stocked up in advance eh?

From Rush:

“RUSH: Earlier in the program, ladies and gentlemen, I mentioned to you, and quite accurately so, you can take this to the bank, that the Clintons, Mrs. Clinton, in order to blunt the two-to-one shellacking she took in South Carolina, the majority of black voters voting for Obama — this is what they want, I mean I’m sure they didn’t want this kind of racial rift but they got it, caused it — but they gotta have a firewall now. They can’t take the chance that there will be lingering black, shall we say, animus and dislike for them. We have to find somebody to replace those votes, and that’s the Hispanic vote. Mrs. Clinton is going to make a beeline to the Hispanic vote, and she’s going to play the race card there. She’s going to pit these two minority groups against each other. She’s going to point out, in her own way, “Look how powerful those black voters are in South Carolina, look how powerful.” And it’s supposed to scare the Hispanics into blocking up for the Clintons so as to blunt the loss of blacks voting for Obama.”

I despise those who play one group against the other. The politics of division. The Clintons have always done that, but ususally it’s the rich against the poor…. but it’s always somebody against somebody else.

They are backing themselves out on a real limb here. As ye sew so shall ye reap.

I think they are about to get royally reaped…. which they deserve, but this sort of thing always leaves lingering resentment.

There is this group of Church Ladies. There are nearly a dozen. Let’s call the the Holy Dozen (play on Dirty Dozen). They care about the troops. They care about Military Brats. Jujubeans is a military brat. So is Skateboard Brother. When one of these is a tad under the weather, they want to make sure that this Army/Marine Brat knows someone cares. This is what it looks like:

So many people you don’t know … want  you to know you are important.

From out of nowhere earrings … necklace … 2 bracelets … 2 bears … and a wonderful bear poem. A bit confused about who these people are and why they care.

Dad looks at the jewelry. It has been a very good day. Jujubeans got to go to school for a time today. She feels good, and now this.

ScateBoardBrother is a game kinda guy. Small games big games he loves them all and he plays them well. His favorite WII game is RAYMAN.

Against the current background of selfishness as seen in politics … mainly democratic politics … we occasionally need to read something more inspiring. I recommend this.

It is an article .. not a book, so it is a short read:

“Over Our Dead Bodies

Men Who Are Willing to Lay Down Their Lives Are Truly Indispensable

by Anthony Esolen

For God has created us men to be the ones who do not give birth, and who therefore are, as a brute biological fact, dispensable. Therein lies our glory and the claim we justly make upon our wives. A man is indispensable, so to speak, only insofar as he assumes the danger of leading in faith and love. Such a man knows that the breath in his lungs is of no consequence.

Women, as a brute biological fact, are indispensable. They bear children, wherein their glory lies and also, if we may trust Paul’s mysterious words, their salvation. In humility the woman is called to acknowledge that indispensability and to bind herself to it, in physical or spiritual motherhood. In humility the man is called to recognize that he matters as a man only if he knows that he does not matter at all, and to allow himself to be severed, if need be, from those he loves most.

True Soldiers

The humility of risk is perfected in Christ and is, even when marred or hidden by the swagger, essential to natural manhood. The men of all really thriving cultures know that their lives, if truly lived, are not their own. The samurai was taught to relish each day as one won from death, an unexpected boon: For the moment he swears allegiance to his lord, he must consider his life as already forfeit. Thus, he can lay that life down at a nod, whenever the sacrifice should be required.

Men who went down to the sea in ships, Viking marauders or Nantucket whalers, knew well they might never return, yet they did go; and the man on the mizzen in the midst of a storm knew that his life literally hung by a thread, and that many of his fellows in just his situation never saw land again, but without him and his obedience there could be no voyage beyond the calm of a bay. The crewmen on the Titanic held it as their duty, once the iceberg’s devastation had been reckoned, to assume that their lives were lost. Only so could they tax their muscles and their broken hearts to the last stretched fiber, to save as many other souls as they could, particularly women and children.

The lad who carried the flag in the old fields of war was unarmed and most conspicuous, but most necessary for the rallying and ordering of his comrades. He was indispensable in his choosing the honor of being the single man least likely to survive the battle. The man first up the ladder to scale the walls of a besieged city would likely also be the first man dead beneath; but if he does not go, no one goes.

The Spartans at Thermopylae knew they could not hold that pass forever against a Persian army many times their strength, but they held long enough for the Athenians to prepare for the onslaught. And you hold a pass by understanding that your life is not your life. You block the opening. The foe must break through over your dead body.

A man need not bear a saber to be a true soldier. When Louis Pasteur was searching for cures for infectious diseases, he had not our same luxury of safety. He was a devout Catholic who attracted to himself young men of high ideals and similar devotion. Those men knew that to be Pasteur’s assistant meant constant exposure to, and experimentation with, disease. Theirs was less a profession than a creed. They went forth in the wake of a plague in Egypt, to seek knowledge and cure the sick.

One gentle young man, like the holy Damien of Molokai, contracted the disease himself, and laid his body down in that alien land. The men embraced the risk. They were dispensable; the cause was not.”

The ultimate example is Jesus Christ.

The Beer Delivery Man on the left watches Chris, Lil E, Jujubeans and Scateboard Brother unwrap some gifts sent by the folks Chris works with.

Being all together is a good thing. There is strength in family.

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