Early mid 60's. ( Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm sixty four? ) Now Medicare eligible! Full time Realtor; part time bartender up until a few years ago. Small time landlord. Quit smoking in 1971.

U.S Navy, 1961-1964, deck Seaman. Married to a beloved Liberal since 1973; two adult sons, grandfather of a delightful little guy since March '07. Just presented with a beautiful granddaughter 1/28/09. District official for county board of elections. Run for fitness; pick-up basketball a couple of times a week (prefer full court run n' gun with the "youts", and those 40 year old kids are killin' me!). Used to run recreational races, mile to marathon; career peaked with a 2:56 Boston Marathon in '83. Choir member, so-so baritone. Reader of almost everything in sight. Regular occasional contributor to letters to the editor. God has been better to me than I deserve.

By my estimation Mrs. JimRed and I stand about a 25% chance of losing one of our sons in the next Islamic bio/chem/nuke attack. Our older son is a union carpenter and commutes to Manhattan; our younger son is an architect living and working in DC.

I can live without the death penalty, provided the alternative makes the criminal WISH for death.

My "rock in the Aleutians solution" applies to career and violent criminals, drug lords and dealers as well as child abusers. In other words, anyone worthy of death. Dump 'em on a barren rock out there with a knife and a blanket. The strongest will quickly kill the weaker ones to steal their knives and blankets; the few who survive will wish that the libs hadn't managed to spare them their execution.

And when the sure-to-come Liberal "rescue missions" happen, the rescuees will turn upon their rescuers and kill them!

TERM LIMITS, NOW!

BUILD THE BORDER WALL, NOW!

U.N. out of U.S.; U.S. out of U.N., NOW!

John Kerry and Nancy Pelosi (treason) belong in prison, not in the U.S. Congress!