Today I’ve been sitting on the couch, watching the History Channel with my kids.  Every year I like to reflect on the greatness of our founders.  They did something that was unthinkable, and virtually impossible, and somehow pulled it off.   They laid the foundation for the greatest nation in the history of Earth. 

I just wish more people today would study history and the fundamentals of what this nation is supposed to be about. It sure would simplify politics in our time.  I do honestly believe that George Washington would scissor kick Barack Obama in the throat, but I digress. 

God bless America.  Happy 4th of July.

Here are the upcoming classes and events:

Pistol: August 9th at Global One
Tactical Carbine: August 15th (FBMG classroom) August 16th at Global One
Precision Rifle: September 12th (FBMG classroom) September 13th at Global One
AR15 Armorer’s:  July 31 at FBMG
CCW:  July 7-8 (Cabelas), July 19 (Cabelas), July 26 (FBMG), July 28-29 (Cabelas), Aug 11-12 (Cabelas), Aug 25-26 (Cabelas), Sept 6 (Cabelas), Sept 8-9 (Cabelas), Sept 22-23 (Cabelas). 
Machine Gun Mega Shoot ’08:  October 4th (Global One)

If you pick up the August SWAT, (Kriss .45 on the cover) there is an article in there by me about the Ironman.  There’s a picture of me dangling from a zipline, and that’s Atomic Ferret breaching a door with a battering ram, and Intern Nick rocking with a subgun.

Yay!  My incumbent congressman got whooped in the Republican primary. 

Cannon is trying to say that it was becasue of low voter turn-out.  Personally I think it is because of Cannon’s comments about how Utah loves its immigrants, and we don’t care if they’re illegal or not.  No offense Chris, but that’s pretty darn out of touch with reality. 

I think Chaffetz summed it up well.  It is morally wrong to create an illegal underclass of people that we can use as virtual slave labor, and justify because it is good for business. 

Cannon was okay on guns, I’ll give him that.  Otherwise he was a pretty standard go along Republican showing the same lack of leadership that has gotten us into this current mess.  The more like that who get cleaned out, the better.

Personally I think we need to kick out 90% of our legislators and start from scratch, then fire most of the bureacrats and hire half that number of fresh people to replace them.

Our government can’t build a border fence in 5 years.  We can’t get oil for at least 10.  Correct me if I’m wrong, but we’re the same damn country that tooled up and defeated the Nazis in the greatest war of all time in 5 years, and went from Sputnik to Neil Armstrong in about a decade.  If the inertia is that bad, it is time to get some fresh blood.

So long Cannon.  I’ve met you in person, and you’re a nice guy.  Have a happy retirement. 

Just to clarify, because it is driving me absolutely NUTS.  The FLDS people that have been on the news with the polygamy and child brides are not Mormons.  People keep mixing these up, but they’re not the same. 

There’s The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, called LDS, or Mormons, that’s the church that’s got like 14 million people in it.  Then there’s a group that broke off a long time ago called the FLDS, they’re the ones with the multiple wives and all the controversy in Texas.  Mormons don’t practice polygamy, and haven’t practiced polygamy for about a hundred years. 

Just to clarify, because I talk to a lot of people around the country, and around the world, and when they find out I’m Mormon, they always want to know how many wives I’ve got.  One.  Just one.  Pretty normal stuff there.  And we were both in our early twenties when we hooked up, not 12.  And no, she doesn’t wear a Victorian prarie dress while she manually churns butter, either. 

To break this down, if you’re a normal Christian, you don’t claim the people that broke off from your organization a hundred years ago and set up that weird compound up in the hills, where they handle poison snakes, kidnap “sinners” who get lost on the backroads, and occasionally sacrifice a virgin.  (Deliverence music plays).  And I’ve lived in MIssissippi and Alabama, so don’t tell me you don’t know about that one.  Same difference.

So Mormon is not equal to FLDS.  Thank you.