So Where Would You Hide A Deer?

So where would you hide a deer? My friend with the deer had a problem, pointedly an out-of-season buck. What he told me was something that I would have never thought of doing.

Actually in the days when I was hunting and hunting was a religious experience, I would sometimes go without taking a shot after searching all weekend for a legal deer. Unlike a lot of other parts of the country, California's terrain of thick woods and hilly country can make finding a deer sort of tricky. So most of us hope that luck will be on our side when hunting season rolls around. Sometimes it is and sometimes it isn't!

There was one winter back in the early 1990's that I worked up in very unfriendly Monticello Minnesota for a few weeks. I was only there for a little while working at the power plant during an annual planned outage.

Driving to the plant was always interesting because snow was coming down very heavily and none of the native population acted as though they ever drove in snow before. I'd never seen so many people spin out in my life. It was incredible to watch.

Yup, outside of the plant was colder than a polar bear's backside. And yes, inside wasn't much better. Inside the plant, almost no one was at work. I wondered why for a few minutes before a guy walked by where I was working, so I took the opportunity to ask what was up with only having a skeleton crew on duty?

"So tell me pard, where is everyone?" I asked while hoping he was different than everyone else that I had met in Minnesota.

"You must not be from here, right?!" he said completely dashing my hopes that he was different as soon as he opened his mouth.

"Right!" I admitted to him. "I'm not a local. I'm out here from California. So where is everyone?"

"Ah California! It figures! Out here men hunt! Today is the first day of Deer Season! No one works today if they can get it off. I'm out of here later," he answered.

Thinking that he might be nicer if I told him that I hunted also, I was wrong as soon as I asked, "I deer hunt in California, so tell me, how tough is it out her?"

"What's tough about it? The deer are brown and the snow is white! I shot one yesterday outside my bathroom window. I bet you never shoot one just after ...."

Just then the noise of the plant picked up and I really couldn't hear what he asked, so I just shock my head no and went back to what I was working on.

Now friends I can honestly say that up until that point in my life I'd never met anyone who has taken a rifle to the bathroom with them or has ever shot a buck from their bathroom window, either standing or sitting.

Over the years I've been told a lot of hunting stories, some funny and some strange. I remember a friend telling me once how he was still in his sleeping bag when a big old buck walked through his camp. Another friend once told me about a deer he shot on a slope across where he was only to find out that the downed buck was actually on the other side of a river unknown to him. I remember him saying how he had a heck of a time getting it across and what a pain that was.

Then of course there are those people who've told me about shooting and loosing this or that deer after taking their shot.  Most say they'll never know whether they missed it, or whether it was just wounded and the deer disappeared in the thicket.

Knowing the guys who've told me this, I can honestly say that they probably missed.  Poor shots as they were, it wouldn't surprise me.  I know some guys who can't shoot real well unless the buck is big and close, almost standing right in front of them. Other than that, they probably couldn't hit it even if they were using a rifle. And God knows how they'd be with a bow?

So friends over the years very few hunting stories surprise me. And now with times getting tougher with gas prices at almost $4 a gallon again, and of course food and especially meat prices climbing as well, I personally don't have too much of a problem with someone taking a deer out-of-season to feed their family. To feed their family makes it OK in my book.

I'm not advocating poaching or breaking any laws, especially to the extremes that some people do break the law. I'm talking how I can understand how someone can take a deer because of economic hard times out of necessity to feed your family. I believe there is a difference.

You can call me wrong, or whatever else, but I can't help but wonder how many other folks out there understand and maybe agree with what I'm saying here. It is a man's first responsibility in life to provide for his family. So for me, hunters taking a deer out-of-season these days just doesn't surprise me one bit.

Maybe that's why when my friend was talking about shooting this buck, and just how terrified he was that a Game Warden was going to come down on him like a hammer, I understood both the reason he took the deer and how he'd have good reason to be so concerned.

Game Wardens have a lot of authority. If a Warden finds that you weren't within the Law, then a Game Warden can fine you, confiscate your gun, and even jail you.

So when my friend told me that as he was opening his front door that he heard a police siren closer than he'd like and that he panicked, well I understood real well how he could have gotten a little rattled. Then when he said that after hearing the siren that that made him run over to his truck and grab up his deer and he decided to hide his deer in his house somewhere, well I have to admit that that was new!

But friends, when he said that he hid that deer in his shower with the water running and the radio on just in case the Game Warden came knocking on his door, well my friends what can I say that's definitely something you don't hear about everyday.

Which One Is The Real Communist?

A friend of mine put that interesting question to me. Since Chinese President Hu Jintao is visiting President Obama in Washington, which one is the real Communist?

While talking about the fact that Chinese President Hu Jintao was visiting and had a state dinner with the President Obama, the Chinese President among other things has supposedly pressed President Obama to focus on our economic problems.

Everyone knows that the Chinese government is our biggest lender. We owe them One Trillion Dollars in loans. Loans for money that went where? Who knows? 

The Obama administration spent almost a Trillion Dollars on a so-called Stimulus Bill approved by the Democrat controlled Congress during Obama's first few months in the Oval Office.

The problem that most folks have is that no one knows where the money went, or who it went to. It's true. No kidding. Other then sending money to States who have spent themselves into a ditch, the administration has funneled money to so many Democratic Party politicians and their aides, DNC Party donors, and liberal organizations and other liberal causes.  Interesting enough the administration has no idea where all the money went. 

It's sort of like what happens to the U.S. dollars that Americans send to other countries in foreign aid, or as disaster relief or famine relief.  First the heads of those governments take their percentage, then the lower bureaucrats take their cut, the local military get theirs, then of course there's handling charges, and it goes on and on. Heck, what makes it to the actual people that need help? Well, no one knows how much money actually makes it to where it is supposed to go because no one in the money chain wants to tell us what they got or even who got what.

Giving American dollars to foreign governments as Foreign Aid is stupid when we have to borrow the money from China in the first place.  It's like borrowing from a friend who happens to be a Banker so that you can give money to your sister.  You may look like a great brother because your sister knows she doesn't have to pay you back, but your friend just hopes you won't screw him out of the money you borrowed. Especially while the interest on the money is growing.

When the Chinese did their Stimulus Plan for their country, they gave the money directly to their people to spend and stimulate their economy. And it worked! Imagine that.

So at the State dinner, one has to wonder if President Hu has lectured Obama on the benefits of Capitalism? No kidding, the Chinese are all for it these days. They have found a great deal of power in making money. So maybe spending some time with President Hu will rub off on Barack Obama.

You see the question is a legitimate one. Obama wants to CHANGE America. And since entering office many Americans have seen his idea of CHANGE and now are asking if President Obama truly is some sort of a Communist?

Seeing President Hu with President Obama, it's fair to ask ...

Yes There Is A Difference!

Yes There Is A Difference between us and them!

An e-mail that I received asked me if I thought that there really is a difference between the people who attended the Liberal Hate Fests of George W. Bush and those who have attended the Tea Party rallies?

Well, I do. I believe Tea Party rallies are made up of people who are "mad as hell" and are refusing to take it anymore because they believe that they have been skipped over, ignored, abused, and beaten down. On the overall, they believe that they have been silent too long and now is their time to be heard.

They are the great silent majority that has traditionally been quiet and just took whatever the government has handed them. Whether it's higher taxes or more regulation that no one should be asked to have to adhere to, the Tea Party is a reaction to too much!

And how do they protest that's different from Liberals protest you ask, ah there's the difference.

Yes, they are dissatisfied and unhappy with the direction of the country. Yes, they are frustrated with the coverage they get in the Liberal News Media which paints them as something they are not. Yes, they wear the clothing like that of the Patriots of the Revolutionary War. Yes, they list their grievances. And yes, they wave non-threatening signs while they scream and shout their support of OUR Constitutional Rights.

Anyone who goes to a Tea Party rally would find that no they don't preach hate.

They mingle and talk among each other to find other like minded people and brainstorm for solutions. They ask about you and your relations. They want to know if your burden is like theirs. They ask you to join them if you to are tired of dealing with over taxation, no representation, and a life ruled by Big Brothers in Washington and in State capitols across the nation.

I remember attending two big Tea Party rallies, and being involved in Security for many years, I asked the police who were there how things were going? At the first rally the police reported that they had zero incidents. At the second rally, not only did the police report that they had zero incidents but also that there was something else. When I asked what that was? The police said the area of the protest was "cleaned up". There were no trash left behind and everything was as it was when they arrived.

I asked if that was different from other protests and the police supervisor that I spoke to advised me that most anti-U.S. protests like the anti-Bush protests of a few years ago would leave the area a wreck with trash everywhere and property damaged or tagged with graffiti.

From my experience supervising the security for businesses around a Liberal anti-U.S. protest, the businesses always suffered property damage of some sort. And of course the cost to repair the damage had to be passed on to the public. But I'm sure that that was never a concern for them. After all that is the big difference between them and the those who attend Tea Parties and other Conservative rallies.

They threaten and are callus beyond imagination. They incite and they almost enjoy the idea of violence on Americans. They hate. That's the difference between us and them.

 I can't imagine knowing anyone who would wave any of these types of protest signs. They are of the same mentality of the people who hung a symbol of Sarah Palin on their home. Their hate overwhelms them!

The difference is that they hate, and it consumes them!

Look To The Left, Not Sarah Palin!

So in the last few days, Senator Majority Leader Harry Reid said the Tea Party will disappear once the economy gets better, a lunatic goes into a crowd and shoots up everyone including a Congresswoman, and the Left Wing Media immediately blames Sarah Palin if you can imagine that.

First off Harry Reid is just showing once again that he is truly out of touch with reality. Heck, I remember when he attacked our troops in Iraq by telling them that they were fighting there for nothing and that the "War Is Lost" according to him.

He doesn't understand that the Tea Party is bigger than just some sort of an economic rebellion by the American people. It has grown to be a force that has taken over the role of watchdog for our democracy. It has grown into a guardian movement. One that is concerned with the counter-Constitutional actions of elected representatives. While others simply call them politicians, some of us know them better for what they really and truly are and that my friends is our hired help in Washington.

Harry Reid thinking that we in the Tea Party will just go away is wishful thinking on his part. And guess what, Twenty12 is coming. The Senate is on the line again in Twenty12 as well as the Oval Office. The President and people like Reid who are still out of touch with the fact that America is not yet willing to surrender to a Communist or Socialist ideal, yes will feel the voter wrath in November of next year. And friends, when November of 2012 gets here, it won't be a repeat of November of 2008 with Union SEIU workers with nightsticks standing polling place to threaten voters this time. 

This time it won't happen because the Tea Party which some like Reid and Obama hope and pray would go away will be there instead to watch and document the attempts made by Liberals to block to will of the people.

Now as for this shooting in Arizona, it is a shame that something like this has happened. It's a shame whenever someone takes the life of anyone. It shouldn't be made more special because that person was a Congressperson. It should be looked upon as it is, and that is with horror that it happened at all.

But that is not the way life is is it? There are always those people who will take the bad action of others and try to use it to their benefit. Their are always those who are ready to make a horrible thing like a shooting in which people were killed something that serves their position on something or other.

The anti-2nd Amendment Right people in the media and Congress are all a buzz that "this proves Americans need to be disarmed". And then there are those anti-Conservatives who will take this and use it to attack people that they have nothing but disdain for. And yes, the Left's number one target is Sarah Palin.

Arizona's Pima County Sheriff Clarence W. Dupnik who has said the "vitriol" in today's political discourse contributed to the shooting incident. Many in the News Media have taken that to mean Conservatives, especially Sarah Palin.

On CNN's State of the Union with Candy Crowley, Senator Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) was asked to comment on Saturday's shooting.

Majority Whip Durbin did not lose any time in accusing Sarah Palin when he said, "We live in a world of violent images and violent words." then went on to cite the phrase "don't retreat, reload," in an attempt to paraphrase a statement used in a tweet by former Alaska governor Sarah Palin.

Shame on him for such a low blow. The "don't retreat, reload," statement that Sarah Palin made was in actuality to her daughter when giving her instructions on how to shoot Trap on an episode of her TLC show Alaska. To use a phrase out of context and now saying that Sarah Palin actually incited the shooter to do his horror filled act is just pitiful. Shame on the Left for doing such a thing!

I guess they have short memories. To my dislike sometimes, I don't. For me, I remember when the Left truly DID incite people to violence and murder. Remember these during protests just a couple of years ago.

So where was the FBI, or the Secret Service, or the local police? Did anyone ever look into these people to find out what sort of sanity these people had? What sort of person holds up this sort of thing?

Where were the outraged Liberals like Dick Durbin or Arizona's Pima County Sheriff Clarence W. Dupnik, or as a matter of fact any of the Liberal Left's Champions, when signs like these were being waved?

No my friends, none of what has happened in Arizona has anything to do with Sarah Palin.

If the Liberal News Media and the Left's Politicians want to really and truly acknowledge where the fault lies with hate speech and rhetoric that provokes and urges on all sorts of hatred in America ... then let them look to themselves and those who they openly sponsor.