Posted on 04/02/2007 2:02:49 PM PDT by Unmarked Package
This is off topic, but Mitt is going to be on Hugh Hewitt soon!
He will be on The Big Story on Fox tomorrow as well .Spread the word !
Here goes:
I was about nine and my dad (Superman) had spent half the spring and all of summer carrying 100 pound sacks of feed up this steep hill we lived on way back in the holler to feed this pig he bought to raise for meat to feed his starving family of wife, two brats and his old hag mother (my grandma Superwoman).
Finally the day came in mid fall to whack the fat, senseless thing in the head, gut it on a tripod and carry the carcass a bit farther up the steep hill to a wooden shed atop the cellar.
Superwoman told Superman that he didn’t have the slightest idea how to sugar cure a whole hog let alone start on it in an old drafty shed after dark but Superman, being the stalwart sort he was, shrugged her off with a wave of his mighty hand and bade me follow him to the ritual site to assist in the sacred ablutions.
Being a bit sleepy and more than a little nauseous from the day’s sights and smells, I dutifully followed him up the path, around the back and into the tomb-like musty environs.
Instantly I saw at the flick of a switch that he had carefully laid out the operating theater beforehand as there were brushes, bags of sugar, two or three drop cords and a big old wooden table where the now ripe, corpulent carcass awaited.
Like a village smithy he stripped to his waist, bare chest glistening in sweat; with his brow furrowed in concentration he handed me the nearest dropcord with bare bulb affixed and instructed me to hold it high as he began the gruesome task.
As he began massaging the lifeless corpse he grinned and smacked his lips as though he could already taste the succulent ribs to be presented with great flair when the cupboard ran bare.
Me, I began to sag from all the activity and the awful stench that now filled the entire shed. He reached in his pocket as a magician might pull an endless handkerchief and presented me with an all-day sucker.
Unwrapping it, I figured that this was all I was going to get until the ordeal was over and greedily began to suck on it for whatever nourishment I could glean.
Then the true boredom set in and the lollipop lost its flavor and my eyes began to droop as my hand holding the dropcord began to tire. I switched hands from dropcord to sucker and back as the night dragged on, now becoming quite dark and mixed with unitelligible cursing as the “curing” process appeared to be going terribly awry.
As my head was about to drop to my chest, Superman yelled for me to wake up and slapped his huge hand on the sow’s swollen belly for emphasis.
With a start I lifted the lollipop high in the air, licked the lightbulb and the whole scene disappeared in a wink.
Man, do I hate pigs.
There were fewer restrictions on gun ownership in Massachusetts when Romney left office than when he entered office. As a gun owner in Texas with a concealed carry permit, I was very pleasantly surprised by his record on guns with a fiercely anti-gun, 85% Dem Legislature eager to override any veto.
From the column, his “kid” is at least of voting age and has three kids.
Romney signs off on permanent assault weapons ban
- July 08, 2004
Governor Mitt Romney has signed into law a permanent assault weapons ban that he says will make it harder for criminals to get their hands on these guns.
Deadly assault weapons have no place in Massachusetts, Romney said, at a bill signing ceremony on July 1 with legislators, sportsmens groups and gun safety advocates. These guns are not made for recreation or self-defense. They are instruments of destruction with the sole purpose of hunting down and killing people.
Like the federal assault weapons ban, the state ban, put in place in 1998, was scheduled to expire in September. The new law ensures these deadly weapons, including AK-47s, UZIs and Mac-10 rifles, are permanently prohibited in Massachusetts no matter what happens on the federal level.
We are pleased to mark an important victory in the fight against crime, said Lieutenant Governor Kerry Healey. The most important job of state government is ensuring public safety. Governor Romney and I are determined to do whatever it takes to stop the flood of dangerous weapons into our cities and towns and to make Massachusetts safer for law-abiding citizens.
http://www.iberkshires.com/story.php?story_id=14812
Operative line!
These guns are not made for recreation or self-defense. They are instruments of destruction with the sole purpose of hunting down and killing people.
The Second Amendment was written to keep and bear arms that are “instruments of destruction with the sole purpose of hunting down and killing people.” You’re ignorant.
Correction:
The Second Amendment was written to protect the right to keep and bear arms that are instruments of destruction with the sole purpose of hunting down and killing people. Youre ignorant.
By the way, while I will be nice and give you the benefit of the doubt by saying that you’re merely ignorant, I’ll cut Mitt Romney no such slack. As the elected chief executive of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts he had a duty to have at least a passing knowledge of God-given, unalienable rights. So, I would call his breach of faith with the people a willful violation of the Constitution, not ignorance.
The new bill had the support of law enforcement and Massachusetts gun owners because it also added several measures they favored, including a lengthening of the terms of firearm identification cards and licenses to carry, namely;
1) Extending the term of a firearm identification card and a license to carry firearms from four years to six years,
2) Granting a 90-day grace period for holders of firearm identification cards and licenses to carry who have applied for renewal, and
3) Creating a seven-member Firearm License Review Board to review firearm license applications that have been denied."This is truly a great day for Massachusetts' sportsmen and women. These reforms correct some serious mistakes that were made during the gun debate in 1998, when many of our states gun owners were stripped of their long-standing rights to own firearms."
(MA State Senator Stephen M. Brewer (D), July 1, 2004)"I want to congratulate everyone that has worked so hard on this issue. Because of their dedication, we are here today to sign into law this consensus piece of legislation. This change will go a long way toward fixing the flaws created by the 1998 law. Another key piece to this legislation addresses those citizens who have applied for renewals. If the government does not process their renewal in a timely fashion, those citizens won't be put at risk because of the 90 day grace period that is being adopted today."
(MA State Representative George N. Peterson, Jr. (R), July 1, 2004)"There are a lot of good things in the bill," said Jim Wallace, legislative director of the Gun Owners Action League, the state's leading pro-gun group. "In all, the bill represents a healing process, or the beginning of the healing process, between lawful gun owners and the Massachusetts Legislature."
(State moves on assault weapons ban, Boston Globe, June 24, 2004)The assault weapon ban signed in 2004 prohibited the sale of the same 19 weapons in Massachusetts banned in the 1998 legislation but loosened other restrictions imposed by the 1998 gun bill. Therefore, after Governor Romney signed the gun bill in 2004, gun owners in Massachusetts had fewer restrictions on gun ownership than at any time since 1998.
Anyone who believes the fiercely anti-gun, 85% Democrat Legislature of Massachusetts would have allowed the 1998 state ban on assault weapons to expire on September 14, 2004 is naive in the extreme (dreaming). I especially appreciate that Gov. Romney enacted more lenient provisions for licenses to carry in a liberal state.
Oh high and mighty. You don’t get to chose what I read and not read. I am very able to know what a barf story is or not. Thanks for your concern though.
Great story — thanks for the ping!
I didn’t say you couldn’t read it. And if you know what qualifies as a barf story, then you certainly don’t show it. A story about a Republican presidential candidate is a logical thing to find on a conservative website. Logic doesn’t seem to be your strong point though.
I agree with you that we should be having conservative candidates on a conservative website, but I just don’t think that Romney is conservative. Just my opinion which some people don’t agree with me on. That is just life if FREEPER LAND. Have a great evening.
Americans should have the right to own and possess firearms as guaranteed under the U.S. Constitution. Im proud to be among the many decent, law-abiding men and women who safely use firearms. - Governor Mitt Romney, 01-12-2007,2005
Also, in 2005, Romney designated May 7 as The Right to Bear Arms Day in Massachusetts to honor the right of decent, law-abiding citizens to own and use firearms in defense of their families, persons, and property and for all lawful purposes, including the common defense.
Romney on guns:
Americans should have the right to own and possess firearms as guaranteed under the U.S. Constitution. Im proud to be among the many decent, law-abiding men and women who safely use firearms. - Governor Mitt Romney, 01-
12-2007,2005
Also, in 2005, Romney designated May 7 as The Right to Bear Arms Day in Massachusetts to honor the right of decent, law-abiding citizens to own and use firearms in defense of their families, persons, and property and for all lawful purposes, including the common defense.
Thank you redgirlinabluestate for the link!
Bill
Thank you UP for the links!
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