Virginia Revokes Recognition of Concealed Weapons Permits from 25 Other States

 

Remember this ?

    In a surprise move yesterday, Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring revoked recognition by Virginia of the concealed weapons permits of 25 other states. He did so because he said that some of these holders would not be eligible to carry under Virginia's concealed weapons laws.  He furthur explained that this move was designed to keep stalkers, fugitives, drug dealers from obtaining weapons elsewhere and from concealing them here in Virginia.  The plan, he says, is to keep Virginians safer, and he specifically quoted a desire to keep Virginia law enforcement safer.   This change will become effective on February 1, 2016.

                 This means that a reciprocity agreement no longer exists between Virginia and the following states.  This means that if you, as a Virginian traveled to these places with your concealed weapon and your license, that you may no longer do so.     These states are :

   Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Florida, Louisiana, Wyoming and North Dakota



              The states whose permits are no longer recognized by Virginia include:

 Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Washington, Wisconsin and Wyoming.




               Maybe it's just me.    It seems as if the Democrats specifically have declared war on the Second Amendment.  All this means to me is that while traveling out of state, it will be much more difficult for my family and I to be protected and to have my weapon present when it's needed. Law abiding people are going to be the ones who don't have their defensive weapon with them when it's most needed !  How many people who do business in Virginia are going to decide that without their defensive weapon and with an uptick in terrorism, that doing business in Virginia isn't worth it ?  Can Virginia afford that kind of a loss in revenue ?  I know a lot of people who absolutely will not vacation in a place where they are not permitted to carry their concealed weapon, and this is why they got a concealed weapons permit in the first place.   Can we afford this type of a hit to Virginia tourism ?  Things don't look economically very healthy here to me.


               What does this mean to you ?     Does this mean you need to join a pro gun rights organization and take the removal of gun rights more seriously ?    Is this a trend coming to your own state soon ?    Does this mean you can no longer travel safely state to state, and need to spend your money at home instead ?  If you are a Virginian, then you should contact your representatives immediately and give them your input with regard to this matter.

                 Americans must stand up for the rights they once had or watch them be taken one by one.    Wake up now, or find yourself in a position where you are unable to defend yourself and your family, from either Islamic extremism, domestic terrorism, or local thugs and thieves.
_

Authoritative Information on this matter is available from the Virginia State Police at:

http://www.vsp.state.va.us/Firearms_Reciprocity.shtm




Update:

This is updated information from February, 2016

http://freebeacon.com/issues/virginia-gun-carry-deal-more-expansive-than-first-reported/


__

Remember to Cultivate Your Fine Neighbors

               

(  Graphic:  rightfromtheheart.org   )

 



    For most of the years since our graduations from college, my husband and I have moved about every four years.  New jobs, new opportunities and chances to buy or build a new home or acquire additional acreage were more common in the 80s than they are today.   In that time we had many different types of neighbors.   Some were good people, some mildly peculiar, but some were extremely fine people and we were better off for having known them and having had them  live nearby.  I have often said I could probably write a rather entertaining book telling about all the neighbors we have had in so many places.

                    Handling neighbors carefully and well is a skill that can take some time to develop. Whether we are neighbors on big acreage, or on stamp sized lots, the rules really are the same.   We should be on good terms with neighbors, and should avoid feuds whenever possible, although this might not be as easy as Mister Rogers made it sound.    We should also not fall into patterns of appeasement with them, as bullies exist everywhere, and some will walk all over us and our families on an ongoing or an accelerating  basis.  It's important to convey the limits and to stick to these.  For example, the neighbor who tries to borrow hamburger weekly, needs to be told that you need whatever you buy for your own family. He needs not to see a regular pay off in his borrowing with no attempts to return anything.    The neighbor who tells you you'll need to stock beer for him "now that he is your neighbor" needs to know that your cash is already stretched buying your own family's needs.  The family who tells their friends who are invited to a party at their place, that they can park in your driveway, need to be told politely that you need your driveway for your friends and for emergency vehicles. That needs to occur long before the sheriff needs to do it.   Set reasonable limits with people from the outset, or the chance will be gone, and no one will allow you to do this later, without trying to make you feel as if you have betrayed "your buddies".   The neighbor who "borrowed" your lawnmower in 2011, and never bought one for himself, needs to return yours. You might also ask him to pay for the oil, the tune up for it, and a spark plug. Strive for fairness in the beginning of the relationship with them.   Make sure that you don't set your self up in a new neighborhood as a parent, in a neighborhood of adults who behave like children mired in a history of poor planning.


                 As bad as neighbors can be out there, whether you are in the US, Canada, England, Sweden, Russia, Australia or anywhere else, let me tell you that there are also some great neighbors out there.

                 I have had trustworthy neighbors who watched both of our young children on short notice while we headed to a hospital when my husband's father was critically ill.  In another location,  I have had neighbors who checked the house daily and did all manner of things for us while we were away.  I have had neighbors who on first acquaintance, helped us unload the moving van the day we moved in.
 I have had neighbors who brought food and flowers when our youngest son passed away.   One neighbor plowed our farm roads for us one particularly snowy year.

              Nowadays, we live in a place where we have a number of neighbors who are involved in preparedness.   It is important that wherever you live, your neighbors don't know exactly what you stock or where. Even though they might never be a problem, they may mention something to a brother-in-law or other neighbor who may think nothing of breaking in to your place during the next hurricane.   It is enough that your trusted neighbors know you are a thinking person with an interest in preparedness.  They do not need the inventory of your supplies.    This said,  our farm is now surrounded by all preppers.    Some of them may be better prepared than we are.

             With all the cautions aside now, remember that the best way to have a good neighbor is to BE a good neighbor.  I don't mind teaching someone to shoot, or taking care of their horses while they are away.  I have changed surgical dressings of neighbors when they were discharged from the hospital, perhaps a little earlier than was wise.   I have checked on someone's house twice a day while they traveled to buy a secondary "Bug Out" location.   I don't do this for everyone, but for those we know well.  Our days of moving every four of five years may well be over, but one of the benefits to staying put is that around the nine or ten year mark, even those who are guarded begin to trust you.




This post is dedicated to my fantastic neighbor who died suddenly recently............He knows who he is, and I hope he knows how much we appreciated his being our neighbor.    May God bless his remaining family, especially in this first holiday season since his passing.

Former CIA Director Has Deep Concerns

        

I wonder where Iran would like to attack ?

          When I was growing up, I was not in fact blissfully unaware of the geopolitical.  My father had worked in government and I was well aware of the Cold War and its potential implications for my future and for our world. One of the things which allowed me to live as normally as possible is that I knew that many of the people in government were good people and were doing the best that they could to keep our nation safe. In essence, I have it to God and to them, and proceeded to live a normal life for the era and then go to college.

                 One of the reasons I am less comfortable today is that we do not have the same level of competence in many US governmental posts.  Again and again, our leaders appear not to understand not only threats to our US economic survival, but they don't seem to be existential threats to us either.   Mr. Obama and Mrs Clinton seem to see Benghazi as a bad day at the office, whereas the rest of us see an out of touch and incompetent State Department which made actionable errors costing the lives of their own people.  I believe that both of them should have been removed from their posts.

                 Russia continues to fly over Canada, England, Egypt and other nations without permission, and continues to look at expansion into other nations.   Mr. Obama doesn't seem interested.      ISIL and extremist Muslimization is growing like a cancer worldwide, and our president who may well me a not so closet Muslim himself, portrays them as "a religion of peace" and another "flavor of the religious rainbow".
The impression many Americans are getting is that Mr. Obama and his regime are not on the side of the US and that the regime will not protect us, either abroad or here at home.

               For this reason I wanted to make my readers aware of the thoughts of former CIA Director James Woolsey.   Woolsey was director when existential threats to the United States were still of interest to the executive branch..    In an interview on the Blaze Yesterday, this is what Mr. Woolsey said. He warns of a potential attack on US soil from Iran.


The information between the two sets of undulating lines is solely the work product of The Blaze and Glenn Beck.
At the date of my posting on this matter, the link I am quoting could be located at:

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/12/15/former-cia-director-warns-of-potential-catastrophic-attack-from-iran-on-u-s-soil/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Firewire%20Morning%20Edition%20Recurring%20v2%202015-12-16&utm_term=Firewire_Morning_Test

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

“Iran has given every indication they would go forward with [an attack] and they have ballistic missiles that could put something into orbit,” Woolsey told Glenn Beck.
The former CIA official went on to say that he believes Iran is very close to having a nuclear weapon, even adding that he could “make the case” that the Arab country already has nuclear capability.
“With a nuclear weapon and something that can orbit it, they can use an electromagnetic pulse burst over the center of the United States to take down our electric grid.”
According to Woolsey, all infrastructure in the United States relies on the electric grid, adding that the U.S. would suffer roughly an 80 percent death rate if the country was attacked through an electromagnetic pulse.
Woolsey, however, was not optimistic in his belief that the White House is doing anything to help prevent the opportunity for such an attack. The former CIA director’s comments come as conversations continue to ramp up over the Department of Homeland Security’s preparedness, should an attack on the U.S. electrical grid occur.
As it currently exists, the American power grid is interconnected through several regional providers, so, should one system have particularly heavy demand, it can pick up power from a neighboring system. However, this leaves the electrical grid very vulnerable to cyberattacks that could leave large swaths of the U.S. and Canada without power, according to journalist Ted Koppel, author of “Lights Out,” a book about the U.S. power grid.
Koppel said in November that, after talking with every former secretary of Homeland Security and current Secretary Jeh Johnson, the U.S. has “no plan” to prevent an attack on the electrical grid — a statement the Department of Homeland Security quickly denied, claiming not only to have a plan but also saying it has performed national exercises to test the plan in place.
However, Woolsey insisted to Beck that the U.S. government is not prioritizing protecting the American power grid.
“There have been members of Congress that are very helpful on this and trying to get it front and center, but in the Executive Branch, it’s just not something they’re dealing with,” Woolsey told Beck.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
(end of Blaze work product)



             It is therefore very important that we make wise financial decisions, minimize personal debt, and make reasonable plans for relocation should it become necessary.    It is important to stock medical supplies, a means by which we could take care of ourselves at home for a period of time, should our nation's medical resources be otherwise engaged. Our most important task is to make sure our children have training grounded in preparedness, but that they also live as normal a life as possible. It is even more urgent and important to elect thinking and functioning leaders. And, with the possibility of invasion, it becomes very important to hold on to those guns, and most importantly learn to use them safely and competently for defensive purposes alone.

Why Are Famous People Shedding Their Palatial Homes ?

                    

This is 4009 Carter's Creek Pike in Franklin, Tennessee, if you are interested.

                       This week an article surfaced informing us that Tim McGraw and Faith Hill's home in Franklin, Tennessee is being sold.    I am generally not a fan of celebrity homes. Most of them are ostentatious, badly designed and have insufficient acreage for such a grand abode.  However, none of this is true of the historic McGraw Hill estate.    It is a farm and family compound and has seven hundred and fifty plus acres. There are five homes and buildings for farm equipment and a twelve stall barn.  The house itself is extremely well decorated, yet is a home.  This is a place where children can color on the floor, and where family can enjoy Thanksgiving and Christmas. The acreage was smaller when they acquired it, but over the years, they have purchased additional acreage in multiple parcels.   The property in total is said to be up for twenty million dollars although other articles have surfaced indicating that parts of the property have been sold.    The couple says they plan to build another home in the general area  for about three million.



                     Tom Cruise is selling his palatial Telluride Colorado home for fifty-nine million dollars. This one comes with three hundred acres, and palatial is an understatement.  Cruise says he doesn't use the home much and this is why it's being sold.
          

This is an interior picture from the Cruise home.

                            Josh Groban is selling his Malibu home, and it's reduced to four point six million. It was up for six million. 

                     Many other celebrities parted with an amazing estate in the last few years.   One may think that in some of these cases, as these people's children have grown, they feel less need to have a sprawling home for family gatherings, and perhaps would prefer improved mobility for the holidays. Perhaps visiting their older kids as they live their lives is more of a priority.


Many other celebrities have shed or are shedding their large homes and tend to downplay their reasons for doing so.   Perhaps originally. their advisors encouraged them to place a great deal of their assets in a palatial home.  Perhaps they did not realize that a palatial home can cost between one and three million dollars annually simply to pay taxes, homeowner's insurance and simple maintenance and repair, and that is if they paid cash initially, as many of them do. Perhaps they simply wish to diversify their real estate portfolios and own five less expensive homes rather than two  palatial, very expensive estates.  Perhaps they simply desire to simplify their lives and their holdings.

     Since this is such a consistent picture it makes me wonder if something else is going on.  Do the people with the pre-eminent weath advisors know something that the rest of us do not ?    Do they know of an upcoming collapse which will necessitate their having more privacy, more mobility, or more cash uncommitted ?      Or are their decisions to cut the fat from their own budgets simply a reflection of the fact that no one is spending as we once did and therefore wealthy people may not sell more of whatever their product was ?

        This year, I was dropped from the wealth management company I have used in the past.   The A-Team advisors are now reserved for those who will leave a fair chunk of change in the investment account.  I won't comment furthur other than to say there is a great deal of belt tightening in financial circles.     Hear those whispers.  Clean up any debt you have. Get your own financial act together. Prepare for tight times.

A Perspective on World " Muslimization"

The following is the work product of Frank Bianchi, who is a research and content contributor to "The Savage Nation"


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 

 Islam: The Compelling Truth

 

Islam is not a religion, nor is it a cult. In its fullest form, it is a complete, total, 100% system of life.

Islam has religious, legal, political, economic, social, and military components. The religious component is a beard for all of the other components. Islamization begins when there are sufficient Muslims in a country to agitate for their religious privileges. When politically correct, tolerant, and culturally diverse societies agree to Muslim demands for their religious privileges, some of the other components tend to creep in as well.  

Here's how it works:

As long as the Muslim population remains around or under 3% in any given country, they will be for the most part be regarded as a peace-loving Minority, and not as a threat to other citizens. This is case in:

United States -- Muslim 2%

Australia -- Muslim 2.5%

Canada -- Muslim 2.8%

Norway -- Muslim 2.8%

China -- Muslim 2.9%   

Italy -- Muslim 2.5%                                                                                                                                              

At 3% to 8%, they begin to proselytize from other ethnic minorities and disaffected groups, often with major recruiting from the jails and among street gangs. This is happening in: 

 Denmark -- Muslim 5%

Germany -- Muslim 6.7%

United Kingdom -- Muslim 7.7%

Spain -- Muslim 8%

Thailand -- Muslim 7.6%    

From 8% on, they exercise an inordinate influence in proportion to their percentage of the population. For example, they will push for the introduction of halal (clean by Islamic standards) food, thereby securing food preparation jobs for Muslims.They will increase pressure on supermarket chains to feature halal on their shelves -- along with threats for failure to comply.  This is occurring in: 

France -- Muslim 12%                                   

Philippines -- 9%                   

Sweden -- Muslim 8%           

Switzerland -- Muslim 8.3%  

 The Netherlands -- Muslim 8.5%

 Trinidad & Tobago -- Muslim 10.8%

                                                    

At this point, they will work to get the ruling government to allow them to rule themselves (within their ghettos) under Sharia, the Islamic Law. The ultimate goal of Islamists is to establish Sharia law over the entire world.  

When Muslims approach 15% of the population, they tend to increase lawlessness as a means of complaint about their conditions. In Paris, we are already seeing car-burnings.

Any non Muslim action offends Islam, and results in uprisings and threats, such as in Amsterdam , with opposition to Mohammed cartoons and films about Islam. Such tensions are seen daily, particularly in Muslim sections, in:       

Guyana -- Muslim 15%

India -- Muslim 19.4%

Israel -- Muslim 16%

Kenya -- Muslim 18%

Russia -- Muslim 21%

                                                       

After reaching 25%, nations can expect hair-trigger rioting, jihad militia formations, sporadic killings, and the burnings of Christian churches and Jewish synagogues, such as in:

   Ethiopia -- Muslim 32.8%

At 40%, nations experience widespread massacres, chronic terror attacks, and ongoing militia warfare, such as In:

Bosnia -- Muslim 40%

Chad -- Muslim 53.1%

Lebanon -- Muslim 59.7%

From 60%, nations experience unfettered persecution of non-believers of all other religions (including non-conforming Muslims), sporadic ethnic cleansing (genocide), use of Sharia Law as a weapon, and Jizya, the tax placed on infidels,  such as in:        

Albania -- Muslim 70%               

Malaysia -- Muslim 60.4%          

Qatar -- Muslim 77.5%                  

 Sudan -- Muslim 70%                                                                      

After 80%, expect daily intimidation and violent jihad, some State-run ethnic cleansing, and even some genocide, as these nations drive out the infidels, and move toward 100% Muslim, such as has been experienced and in some ways is on-going in:  

Bangladesh -- Muslim 83%

Egypt -- Muslim 90%          

Gaza -- Muslim 98.7%         

Indonesia -- Muslim 86.1%

Iran -- Muslim 98%             

Iraq -- Muslim 97%             

Jordan -- Muslim 92%         

Morocco -- Muslim 98.7%   

Pakistan -- Muslim 97%       

Syria -- Muslim 90%             

Tajikistan -- Muslim 90%      

Turkey -- Muslim 99.8%          

United Arab Emirates -- Muslim 96%

100% will usher in the peace of 'Dar-es-Salaam' -- the Islamic House of Peace.. Here there's supposed to be peace, because everybody is a Muslim, the Madrasses are the only schools, and the Koran is the only word, such as in:

Afghanistan -- Muslim 100%   

Saudi Arabia --Muslim 100%   

Somalia ------- Muslim 100%        

Yemen ---------- Muslim 100%                                               

 

Unfortunately, peace is never achieved, as in these 100% states the most radical Muslims intimidate and spew hatred, and satisfy their blood lust by killing less radical Muslims, for a variety of reasons.

What people have not learned; fail to understand or simply refuse to learn is the basic canon of Islamic life.

Islam demands your strict adherence be held to the letter of the Islamic law, which means your sole allegiance and purpose for creation is to Islam.

So Islam must come ahead of any physical, personal or family relationships under penalty of crucifixion.

 

The canon of Islam defined exactly as this: ''It is me against my brother; me and my brother against our father; my family against my cousins and the clan; the clan against the tribe; the tribe against the world, and all of us against the infidel always in the name of Allah.'' -- Leon Uris, 'The Haj'

It is important to understand that in some countries, with well under 100% Muslim populations, such as France, the minority Muslim populations live in ghettos, within which they are 100% Muslim, and within which they live by Sharia Law.The national police do not even enter these ghettos. There are no national courts, nor schools, nor non-Muslim religious facilities. In such situations, Muslims do not integrate into the community at large. The children attend madrasses. They learn only the Koran. To even associate with an infidel is a crime punishable with death. 

Therefore, in some areas of certain nations, Muslim Imams and extremists exercise more power than the national average would indicate.

Today's 2 billion Muslims make up 28% of the world's population. But their birth rates dwarf the birth rates of Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, Jews, and all other religions combined by a margin of 4.25 to One. At their current rate of growth Muslims will exceed 60% of the world's population by the end of this century.

That's only 85 short years from now for those that can't appreciate how soon that is think of it this way if you gave birth to a child today there is a high probability they will be alive and suffer at the hands of this culture.

Adapted from Dr. Peter Hammond's book: Slavery, Terrorism and Islam: The Historical Roots and Contemporary Threat.

He was born in Capetown in 1960, grew up in Rhodesia and converted to Christianity in 1987. At the young age of 9 he had memorized most of the Koran having been forced to read it 5 hours daily every day from the age of 4 without exception.

Please forward this important information to any who care about the Future of our Country.


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

(end of Frank Bianchi work product)


One thing is sure, they couldn't have a better friend than in Barack Hussein Obama.

In Tribute to Too Many Little Lives Lost

           

            This month in the United States, there has been no shortage of egregiously bad news.   This week, a young Muslim woman from Chicago who thought her parents might kill her over having a child out of wedlock, threw the newly born infant out of her eighth floor bedroom window. The infant girl died at a hospital later with a listing of injuries that would make ISIS cringe.   Another baby was found recently in the Los Angeles area, abandoned with umbilical cord attached and buried with construction debris.  Joggers luckily heard muffled cries.  This baby will survive.    I just read an article concerning an African American bail bondsman who is alleged to have beaten his seven year old son to death and then fed his remains to the pigs. Neighbors seemed to be well aware of a number of instances of severe abuse of children who were residing in the man's home.

                   There has always been wickedness upon the Earth, often bordering the homes of those who do very great good. There have been occasional babies born in toilets since there were toilets.  However, even if we adjust for the ability of the internet to bring all the egregious news of wickedness to us, there is still great evil perpetrated against babies and children, and this appears to be increasing.

                  We cannot always know of the suffering of babies and small children which occurs in our world. Sometimes, such things do occur in relative isolation. Sometimes, other individuals are complicit in such acts and cover for someone who is profoundly ill, or perhaps simply profoundly evil.  However, we must try as a culture, and as a world to do better.  When you are out and around, work on your situational awareness. Don't simply be aware of the man who is watching your purse.  Notice more than that.  Notice the sick infant in a carseat locked in the Altima in the Wal-Mart parking lot.  Maybe the misguided mother will be back in three minutes with tylenol, but maybe she won't.  Maybe that child's only chance at survival is your sitting in your car, noting the time, and calling police when no one returns.   I am a big believer in parent's rights, but there are a number of people who are pervasively neglectful and abusive to small children.  If decent people don't notice things and bring them to the attention of social services and police, then a percentage of these children will in effect, be tortured, and will die.

                 Some years ago, a woman who'd had recent surgery died in a neighborhood I lived in, and her newborn died in the crib in the same room, the result of no one knowing the child was there without being attended to, post the mom's sudden death. No one noticed they hadn't seen them !   I didn't know this woman, but I have felt badly about this ever since.    It may not be wise to intrude in the business of others, but we need to keep an eye on those with young children. Sudden deaths occur, even in young people, and a baby alone may not live more than a couple of days without care. We also know that even young children can carry the scars of a couple of days of neglect which most of us believe they would not remember.

                A child is always a blessing...............not an obligation, a millstone, a killjoy, an expense or an albatross.  Each child is blameless as he or she enters the world, and knows nothing of the circumstances which brought them here.   Each one of them is chock full of human potential and we should all conduct ourselves accordingly.   To those who are bringing a child onto the Earth that they do not wish to raise.....seek an adoption agency immediately.   Hundreds of couples who are carefully vetted would be elated to have the opportunity to love, raise, and educate that child.   Of course, there are less than perfect adoptive parents in the world, but most are incredible parents and will raise incredible children. One of my dear friends was adopted by a wonderful family.

               Especially at this time of year when we throw material goods at one another in Jesus' name, we need to recall that every birth whether legitimate, planned for, wanted, or an infant well, or ill, is proof of the opinion of God that they should overcome incredible odds to join us here on Earth.    When we can, let's start noticing the children at risk, and reporting what you saw to the correct authorities.  Lets save some young lives.