2007 April | The Bull Speaks! - Part 2

Senseless…

My heart and prayers go out to all those who were affected by the senseless murder of 32 students at Virginia Tech University, to the families who lost loved ones, to the ones who were wounded or injured and to the student community at large.

This horrible incident has fostered a number of reactions. Of course there is a media frenzy, there is a rush to judgment to place blame, finger pointing and accusations leveled at school officials, the state and just about anybody whose head sticks up high enough to be noticed.

The incident had barely happened when the anti gun bunch came out and started their rant, as they always do. They are eager to reduce every violent shooting act to the private ownership of firearms.

They say they advocate gun control, well it may surprise you to know that I’m for gun control too. Guns in the hands of the wrong person can be deadly as has been proven over and over again. And every effort should be made to
keep guns out of the hands of those who would use them for offensive purposes.

But most of those who rave about gun control don’t mean gun control at all. They mean gun confiscation, taking firearms out of the hands of those who would use them for sport and protection.

Cho had no business with a gun or even a finger nail file for that matter. This was a sick and evil young man who had been diagnosed with mental problems and reported to the police something like five times. Yet this information was not available when he filed for ownership of a handgun.

The system failed, there’s no doubt about it but to blame Cho’s satanic behavior on his being able to legally obtain a gun is being incredibly naive. Cho’s problem went much deeper than having a legal firearm.

His problem went to the depths of his heart and soul where dark evil had taken over his very being. There is no other way that a human being could brazenly murder 32 innocent people.

Cho was a fiery time bomb just waiting to happen and would very likely have found a way to carry out his murderous rampage with or without a legal firearm.

He was bitter and jealous and blamed his problems on other people who had absolutely nothing to do with them. He was so full of hate that he would have sought out some means of committing mass murder

Mass murder has been accomplished through something as innocent as fertilizer and diesel fuel and box cutters.

The problem lies with the perpetrator, not the means they use to carry it out and until we realize that there will be no end to this senseless violence.

Such a simple thing as one state agency sharing information with another could possibly have prevented this, but no one will ever know.

I know there has been a lot of prayer offered up on the Virginia Tech campus since this tragedy has taken place and that’s a good thing.

Nobody seems to be concerned about the separation of church and state and I am hopeful that college students and all the rest of us realize that. To quote scripture, Our help cometh from the Lord.

Pray for our troops.

What do you think?

God Bless America!

Charlie Daniels
April 20, 2007

Thanks, Charlie, for putting this tragedy – and the truth – into simple language for all real Americans.
Bull, out.
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A Felon.

A Traitor.

A wanna-be murderer of U.S. troops now in harm’s way.

All of this, and more, are what we have seen so far from one Ms. Nancy Pelosi. Our Speaker of the House – just two heartbeats away from the White House – has proven herself to be nothing more than a pawn of the Liberal Left Extremist. (That is, so long as the Libs are looking. When they turn their backs she’s making sweetheart deals worth many millions of $ to her hubby.) Never forget that she did in the Middle East is nothing less than what ‘Hanoi Jane’ did in Vietnam.

WAKE UP AMERICA!

Is this what you had in mind when you put Pelosi and her liberal crowd in charge of the House and Senate? The Bull thinks not! Remember to check her record and to look closely at the background stories behind Ms. Pelosi, (and every other politician, both Dem and Republican), before casting those ballots.

What this Government needs to recall is that they work for us. Not – as they believe – that we work for them.

Remember: “The people should not fear the government. The government should fear the people.”

Bull, out.  End of Article

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At first I thought this must be a joke. No way any thinking person could possibly consider such action as legitimate. So, I double checked the URL, followed the link to Congress.org, and damn me if there wasn’t a real proposal to make dogs allowable as a tax deduction! DOGS! :roll:

How’s that for Liberal Loony thinking for you? What is next? Cats? Goldfish? Geez…

Look, The Bull helps out here at ‘The Pasture’ with Lady Beth’s 501(c)(3) Exotic Animal Rescue, Chaos & Critters. We believe in the responsible ownership of pets and penalties for those that abuse their pets. Moreover, despite the fact that donations to our Rescue are completely tax deductible, 99% of the cost of housing, feeding, heating, and vet care of the creatures in our care come from our own pockets. And we, (two adults, three minor kids, and one child at the Univ. of S. Alabama), survive on Beth’s income and my meager disability check. We live at or below the poverty level. Mainly, that is by choice. We could close the Rescue and live better, but we believe that we are filling a need. The time may come that we will be forced to close, but even with our financial situation we find the idea of pets – even our beloved Great Danes – to be completely ludicrous!

Apparently not ‘completely ludicrous’ to the Liberals. Here, read the letter sent to, among others, Hillary Clinton and the President:

Subject: New Tax Deduction
To:Sen. Charles Schumer, Sen. Hillary Clinton, Rep. Steve Israel, President George Bush

April 4, 2007

Once again, it’s tax time and as always, we owe money to the state and federal governments because I am married with no children. My husband & I have no children because we cannot afford to have children living on Long Island. But we do have 2 dogs – 2 very expensive dogs – and they are our kids. And while the government sees us as a double income household making decent money, the government doesn’t take into consideration certain expenses that we incur while they’re demanding us to pay over $1200 in money that we don’t have.

If I should mistreat, neglect, abuse or deprive my dog of health care in any way, I can be arrested for animal cruelty. But yet, here we are, spending thousands and thousands of dollars each year giving my dogs the best care in emergency and non-emergency situations, what do we receive? Are you even aware of it?

My proposal is to be able to declare my dogs as dependents on my taxes at the end of the year. Afterall, they do depend on us.

Most children have health insurance coverage under their parents & are still able to be claimed as dependents on their taxes. My dogs unfortunately do not have pet insurance since they are old, and we adopted them from shelters who would have euthanized them since they were older dogs.

My point is, today, dogs to many people are our children. Dogs are now part of families. In tragedies, we would rather risk dying to stay with our dogs than leaving our dogs during evacuations. They’re not just animals and people go to such extremes for their dogs. One of my dogs, Chrissy, was diagnosed with kidney disease in May 2006. I felt my heart hurt like it hadn’t in a long while. The doctors prepared us for the worse. I refused to accept it and today, she is still with us because of my care. My weekends are consumed by making her homemade meals for the week, homemade treats, kidney-friendly foods and providing vitamin supplements. Not to mention the costs of monthly blood tests and urinalysis and the prescription medicine that she’s on.

And as if all this wasn’t challenging enough for us, she has gotten “bloat” (Gastric Volvulus) twice in the last 5 months, which has cost us just under $10,000. If you’re not familiar with bloat, a dog can die within an hour if not treated by a doctor. Unfortunately, we don’t qualify for ‘discounted care’ or reimbursement for senior care as our household makes more than $40k in a year.

While dogs don’t have social security numbers, they do have ID tags with the town for tracking which we pay for each year.

Dogs provide so many people with unconditional love and companionship and we understand the cost to have this. The same way people understand the cost in having human children. Both are incredibly rewarding and fulfilling.

With the request of proper documentation from pet owners, I firmly believe we should propose a new law to be able to claim our dogs as dependents, whether it be for routine exams, medicines and/or emergency care. Anything would be of great assistance to pet owners.
Please contact me if you have additional comments or questions.

Thank you for your time.

(name withheld)
Bayport , NY

I imagine that the White House staff got a good laugh over that one – until someone realized that the Loonies would love nothing better than to make such stupidity a reality.

Can you imagine the horrors that would result from such a law? Apartments with 20 – 30 dogs in there. Home owners with half-assed kennels covering their back yards. Wholesale exploitation of dogs by operators of puppy mills.

Damn, what a mess. :evil:

Well, what do you think?

Bull, out.  End of Article

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Tis on the news channels this morning that European countries are reacting to yesterday’s massacre by a South Korean student Cho Seung-Hui at VA Tech. Statements include such things as that they can’t understand “America’s fascination with firearms” and that America needs to take on European-style gun laws. Even the commie Australian PM is weighing in stating that stringent gun laws have prevented a gun culture from rising in his country.

Well… Let us all remember that America was built from people fleeing the oppressive governments in Europe. Americans remain free to speak, to gather, to believe as they will only because of the 2nd Amendment of our Constitution. Remove the Right to Keep and Bear Arms and the next thing to go will be the First Amendment.

As for the statements from Prime Minister John Howard, let us remember that Australia was populated by English rejects and common criminals. That says pretty much all that needs to be said about the commie Prime Minister.

Looks like The Bull was right, doesn’t it? My predictions in yesterdays post were spot-on. Rather than looking first to comforting the survivors and families of the dead, America’s knee-jerk, Liberal media is much more concerned about starting a witch-hunt against the authorities at VA Tech and America’s law-abiding gun owners.

Tis a sad state America has fallen into, isn’t it? :cry:

Bull, out.  End of Article

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Tragedy in the mountains of Virgina.

Those mountains are both beautiful and deadly, yet on the grounds of Virginia Tech one would expect, indeed feels, some sort of safety. Sadly, that was not the case today. As I write this some 30+ students and faculty lay dead from a madman on a rampage. I can’t imagine the horror that so many families are facing this evening.

The first The Bull heard of this horrible incident was when I received a phone call from my mother who lives in the foothills of Virginia. The best word as of this writing is that the gunman was an Asian, most likely a student, who was armed with two firearms – 9mm semi-autos according to rumor. (UPDATE: The weapons were a 9mm and a .22) An unfortunate side note is that I see that race is still an issue with some. Already I’ve heard various racial insults concerning Asians. What I predict is a ‘witch hunt’, first vs. the authorities and then vs. the guns.

I’ll comment on both.

The authorities at VA Tech deal with 26,000+ students. Nine thousand of those live on campus. Also there are some ten thousand people that work on campus and several thousand visitors each day. Are we to expect everyone to be searched daily? The instant that is tried the very ones starting the ‘witch hunt’ will be screaming about Governmental intrusion in their personal lives. The sad truth is that you simply can’t please everyone anymore than you can prepare for the actions of a madman.

The guns. Here we have just what the Liberal Lefties have been salivating for – a ‘reason’, they say, to ban firearms. We only have to look as far as our nations capital to see how well that works. The tighter the gun controls become, the higher the murder rate by bad guys with guns. City after city has discovered the same thing. Now, had even one person in the classrooms attacked on the campus of VA Tech today been armed with a legally owned firearm then the huge number of deaths could have been cut to a much lower number. Perhaps no one would have died save the madman himself.

What needs to happen here is to remember those lost, not lose them in some effort to gain political points. Let’s remember that.

Pray for those lost and for the families & friends left behind. Let’s show America’s real strength.

Bull, out.  End of Article

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Welcome to the Second ever Alabama Bloggers Carnival!

I, The Bull, am your host this week. And welcome to The Bull Speaks!, my little corner on the Web. Let’s get started…

This week we start of over at the Lake Martin Voice and an article on how, (like every other market), the real estate market at Lake Martin has changed since the explosion of information brought on by the Web. I’ve got to tell you, it sounds very familiar to me. It’s been years since I worked real estate, but what John is saying here matches well to my experiences in the Property Management end of real estate. If you have any interest in Real Estate market, (like owning your own home), go read this post.

Next, I offer to you, Dear Reader, a post from “Degree of Madness” entitled Alabama Bloggers. Common Ground. This is a well-written article concerning political problems right here in our home state of Alabama with voter apathy right up at the top. Also mentioned is a pet peeve of mine: the 61% pay raise that the state legislature voted for itself this year, and how so many folks in Alabama don’t even know that the politicians did it. The Bull has the record of who voted for, and against, this rip-off of the Alabama tax payers on his fridge. Oh yeah! Go read this one. Mad Cow is right on track here. The people of Alabama could really build a wonderful state here if only we could stand up together against the “good ol’ boys” in Montgomery.

While we’re talking about politics in Alabama, let’s go take a peek at the blog “Politics in Alabama” and their article entitled Should Alabama Apologize For Slavery? Now here’s a hot topic! Seems a lot of states are issuing apologies for slavery nowadays. Reading the article, and the comments it has generated so far, has given me a fair idea of what the web-literate folks think of the topic. If you want to know what I’m talking about, then get over there and read for yourself! Don’t be shy either. Leave a comment. Let your voice be heard! :wink:

Over at 7.62mm Justice, Howard Salter gives us a well written, well researched and documented article entitled “America Is Spinning Its Wheels In Syria”. I’m not going to steal his thunder by re-posting his facts or conclusions here. If you are concerned about the way America is fighting this long war against terrorism, or if you are kinda fuzzy on what is going on in the Middle East, then this post is for you. Go. Get educated. There is nothing to fear from facts. Hey, if you think he is wrong you’ll at least get to say so.!

I’ll close this issue of the Alabama Bloggers Carnival with a post of my own, right here on The Bull Speaks!. The title is “Seek and Destroy NAMBLA and/or Its Members”. My personal feelings about pedophiles is fairly well known, so I won’t re-hash that topic here. I do most strongly recommend that you read this post, and even more importantly – the reply from a confirmed member of NAMBLA. It is something you have to read to believe.

Well, that is it for this issue. If c.a. marks thinks that The Bull has done a reasonable job then you may be reading some future issue here. If not, well, I tried. At any rate, keep reading, keep thinking, and make a plan for Life or become a part of someone else’s plan.

Bull, out.  End of Article

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Blast it! :evil:

Sometimes I think that c.a. marks over at Alabama Improper sits around in the evenings looking for stuff she knows I can’t resist. True to form, she found a little script that I had to have. It is called the Airbag Blog Advisory System. They have two scripts on the site.

The first is operated by a shyte-filled computer that takes a peek inside your blog and determines what rating your rantings deserve. That is the one in operation here at “The Bull Speaks!“.The other is simply a script allowing you to place whatever warning you want on your site. No way The Bull would allow that kind of fakery here! I recommend that you don’t either.

One important note: The scripts shown at the site linked above do not have a closing “script” tag. Add one before you save your file or the works will crash. You are warned!

Advisory levels go from “Low” all the way up, past “High”, to the top level of “Asshat”. Just look to the sidebar to see what this blog rates. Yep, “Asshat”. :twisted: Surely no one expected less! Consider yourselves warned. The elderly, the infirm, children, and small pets should probably be shielded before tuning in to The Bull Speaks!

Bull, out.  End of Article

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In 1962 (the year The Bull were born)
baby 1962


John F. Kennedy is president of the US

John Glenn becomes the first American in orbit when he circles the earth three times in the Mercury capsule Friendship 7

Cuban Missile Crisis occurs when Soviet offensive missile build-up is discovered

Cuban Missile Crisis is averted when President Kennedy and Soviet premiere Krushchev agree to remove missiles

Maryiln Monroe is found dead in her Los Angeles home

The drug thalidomide is recalled when it becomes linked with severe birth defects in thousands of children worldwide

Pantyhose becomes available for sale in U.S. department stores

Jim Carrey, Sheryl Crow, Jon Bon Jovi and Tom Cruise are born

New York Yankees win the World Series

Green Bay Packers win the NFL championship

Toronto Maple Leafs win the Stanley cup

Lawrence of Arabia wins the Oscar for best picture

The Beatles release their first recording: the single “Love Me Do”/”P.S. I Love You”

Johnny Carson debuts as host of The Tonight Show

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It is a rather blustery Sunday morning. I’m posting fluff. Sue me.


You Are 24% Sociopath
sociopath 2 Headline: Bull is NOT a sociopath!


From time to time, you may be a bit troubled and a bit too charming for your own good.
It’s likely that you’re not a sociopath… just quite smart and a bit out of the mainstream!

Who me? “Out of the mainstream”? Never! :twisted:   End of Article

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Just so you know, c.a. marks is to blame for me posting this. (No, The Bull is not dissing her by using lower case letters in her name!)


Your Aura is Violet
violet The Violet Glow


Idealistic and thoughtful, you have the mind and ideas to change the world.
And you have the charisma of a great leader, even if you don’t always use it!

The purpose of your life: saying truths that other people dare not say

Famous purples include: Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., Susan B. Anthony

Careers for you to try: Political Activist, Inventor, Life Coach

Great Leader? :twisted: Oh! I reeeeally like that!

Bull, out.  End of Article

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Crystal Gail Mangum

Finally, we know exactly who ruined the lives of three young men, and defamed an entire team, over NOTHING!

Mangum. Hmmm… Man – gum…
Guys, I could really take that one somewhere! :lol: I already see a myriad of jokes headed down the pike just on her name alone. Though I suppose the ‘Imus flap’ will curtail much of what this ‘woman’ has coming to her. Everyone will fear being named a racist for calling her exactly what she is: a profiteering street-walker. Well, I’m not going to be so easy! Just to prove my point, even Fox News is already soft-balling her story by telling us all about how hard her life has been.

The ‘woman’ is only what? 19 years old! Geez, l dare her come compare relative ‘Life hardness’ with The Bull! Any grief she’s seen has been a result of her own piss-poor choices rather than anything dropped on her by Life. Let her have most of her spine ripped open while still being responsible for not only one’s self, but three (suddenly increased to six) kids and a wife to boot. Then maybe I’ll listen to her. Just maybe. (Most likely not, however.)

Little Miss “I’ve Been Raped” needs to find another line to wealth other than false allegations. She might want to try taking on a real job, for instance. (You know, one not requiring her to drop her clothes and ‘assume the position’.) After multiple run-ins with the law, a marriage failed due to her phony allegations and proven infidelity, and multiple bastard children, (It is still the correct term for such situations so shove off, mate!), not to mention the arm long list of other offenses and bone-headed maneuvers, methinks ’tis time for Crystal Gail Mangum to wake up or leave the gene pool.

The Bull looks forward to seeing this hussy dragged through the courts for a year or so. Might do her some good. And while we’re at it, where is “J.J” Jesse Jackson with his public apology to these young men he was so eager to demonize? He damned sure couldn’t wait to scream out their guilt before anything could be proven. Where is Jesse now that we know them to be totally innocent of these charges? Where is Ms. Mangum’s apology? You know, eventually we’ve got to come down hard on these people who use the courts as a quick paycheck and those that use race-baiting to feather their own political nests.

Well? Jesse? Ms. Mangum? We’re all waiting.

Bull, out.  End of Article

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From FoxNews Online

WASHINGTON â€??? Former Tennessee Republican Sen. Fred Thompson told FOX News on Wednesday that he’s in remission from lymphoma cancer.

The “Law & Order” star who is considering a run for the White House in 2008, said he was diagnosed with indolent lymphoma in 2004 after a routine physical. He said the cancer is “fortunately a good kind if you can ever call something like that a good kind” and treatable.

“I have had no illness from it, or even any symptoms. My life expectancy should not be affected. I am in remission, and it is very treatable with drugs if treatment is needed in the future â€??? and with no debilitating side effects,” Thompson said in a personal commentary following the interview.

Fred went on to say that he wanted The People to know and to decide for themselves if his illness was a “big deal” or not.

Well, Fred, it is not a big deal as far as The Bull is concerned.

Run, Fred, Run!  End of Article

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The following is a direct copy of a post directed to Fred Thompson, former Senator from Tennessee, on the forums over at the ‘Draft Fred Thompson for President’ website. The Bull feels strongly enough about this man that I’ll post my message here for public consumption and comment. (You’ll even find a new blogroll listed to the left in my sidebar. Follow the links if you wish to join this blogroll.)

Perhaps it is time to re-institute the draft, and the first to be drafted should be Fred Thompson for President of the United States in 2008!

Read on…

Much is made about the Reagan Legacy. Don’t get me wrong, “Uncle Ronnie” is one of the great heroes of my life. I had the honor of shaking his hand back when I was a young sailor in the US Navy. Never met a stronger soul than Ronald Reagan. He was the man for the time.

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Time goes on and a new world is before us. One filled with even more ways to divert the eyes of the American people from the ‘Golden Ring’. The ‘Evil Empire’ is gone, replaced with frighteningly powerful despot 3rd world nations and cowardly global terrorist organizations. All have their sights set on bringing down the one force standing between them and global control of Islamic Extremism and/or Anarchy:

The United States of America.

Our allies are gone or terribly weakened after years of appeasement to the forces of evil in our world, all in the name of “political correctness”. The time has come for a show-down and America needs a man of strength. We need a man that will anchor America to her proud, historic roots. America needs a plain-speaking man without fear of the forces of Darkness. We need a father figure and a leader for these tender years of the 21st Century.

That man is you, Fred Thompson!

For God’s sake, sir, step up to the plate. We are awaiting you to lead us on to Victory and a brighter future free of the ties to the Middle Eastern oil despots.

I’m no longer a sailor. I’m no longer a worker. At the age of 45 I am a disabled, broken shell of what I once was, and as look around I am seeing my beloved Country nearly as badly broken. Fred, you are the man to pick up the pieces. You can put America together again!

Sincerely,

Rev. Mark “Bull” Jones
Mobile, AL

I sincerely hope you can see the strength of Fred Thompson as a candidate for President and I pray your support will follow.

Bull, out.   End of Article

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