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THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IS TO DEFEAT OBAMA

2012-02-19T21:43:41Z

I continue to watch the Republicans jockeying for advantage one over the other. That's great. But, time is fast approaching for those candidates who know they will not get the nomination -- no matter what -- to bow out gracefully. Every penny spent with one Republican fighting another is money that cannot be used to fight Obama. Every jab at one candidate or another is something the Obama re-election machine might be able to use against the Republican nominee. The saving of America from Obama and his ilk is more important than one man's political aspirations. We need to get behind the man with the greatest potential to win, then channel all available resources to fight the cancer that is the Obama administration, so that America can be brought back from the brink, knowing full-well as we do that four more years of Obama and his ultra-leftwing socialists will only mean more assaults on our freedoms and could ring the death knell for the United States. This battle is too important to lose. Obama must be defeated and virtually everything put in place by his administration undone, as if Obama had never been. If we lose this fight, America may well be finished. When one considers that, individual egos should be set aside so that all resources and energies can be thrown into the battle to save America and rid America of Obama's dream for America -- a nightmare for the rest of us. Have a nice day! JERRY

WE ARE ALL SAXONS

2012-02-14T20:28:35Z

Last week, when the Obama administration tried to force Roman Catholic institutions to violate their conscience by funding birth control, a lot of us who were not Catholic realized that we were in spirit. We were Catholic in the sense that Obama and his minions were attempting to force something contrary to one's religious beliefs down the throats of the American people and abrogate the First Amendment in the process. We didn't like it and we wouldn't accept it. Sharon and I were looking for a movie to watch last night and we settled on on of our all-time favorites. In beautiful color, when we used to watch it as kids on regular TV, we thought it was black & white. It was the first pre-recorded movie we acquired back in the early days -- we learned it was color! -- and, when we got into DVDs, it was a must acquisition. I'm talking about one of the best action films ever made, beautifully photographed, with one of the truly finest film scores ever written (Erich Wolfgang Korngold). Directed by Michael Curtiz, it stars Errol Flynn, Olivia DeHavilland, Basil Rathbone and Claude Raines, with a superb supporting cast . The film is "The Adventures of Robin Hood." from 1938. It takes a great deal of liberty with history, as most tales of Robin Hood do. One constant, however, is that while King Richard was off at the Crusades, dark machinations were taking place back home in England, the Normans who had conquered England in 1066 very seriously interested in taxing those not on some protected list or another into the ground. Robin Hood did not rob from the rich to give to the poor. He was not some proto-Communist trying to re-distribute wealth, like many of the Democrats want to do. He robbed the people who collected illegal taxes, the people who found every excuse to gouge money from the real producers in the English economy. Most of the exploited and downtrodden were the Saxons, the losing side of the Norman Conquest. But, England was a country of more than just Normans and Saxons. There were other ethnic groups as well. In the Robin Hood legends, Robin stands up for the oppressed and, in a way, if you were oppressed, whether you were Angle, Saxon, Jute or even a Norman who'd fallen out of favor, in the cause that Robin championed they were all Saxons.

Our government needs to stop finding ways of creating new taxes and playing class warfare games in the process. People who have earned really big bucks shouldn't be punished for their efforts and their success. The government needs to lower taxes, not raise taxes. The government needs to stop spending money it doesn't have. The Norman conquerors knew that to control the capital confered the real power. The Democrats know that, too, which is why they want to take money from those who have earned it and generously gift it to those who have not. Now, there are probably some good Democrats and there are lots of worthwhile Independents and there are Libertarians who don't have to follow their tenets into territory where to do so is positively silly. We are all Saxons! When Election Day comes, remember and spread the word: "Robin in Sherwood at the Gallows Oak!" Which means, get out the vote and expel the Norman interlopers from office! We are all Saxons!

WHITNEY HOUSTON

2012-02-12T20:51:56Z

Whitney Houston had a pop voice that can only be described as magnificent. She could reach out and grab a note anywhere it happened to be and make it her own, without, it seemed, having to work up to it. Regardless of the actual circumstances of her death, we all know that she had a life with horrific chapters, there along with her singing and acting triumphs. The world has lost a great voice and her family has lost a loved one. Have a nice day! JERRY

SIG SAUER P224 .40

2012-02-09T21:25:20Z

SIG Sauer P224. I just picked up my writer's sample and this little .40 S&W with ten plus one capacity seems ideally suited to concealed carry. Carry it in a belt or inside waistband holster, just like you would a Glock 27. Unlike a Glock, however, the SIG 224 is a double action only, the hammer self-lowering. So, the SIG 224 can be carried in a coat pocket or even loose in a woman's handbag, fully loaded with one in the chamber. In the next few weeks, I'll be testing the SIG Sauer P224. Like any SIG product of my experience, I'd assume it will be an outstanding performer. But, I'll let you know! Have a nice day! JERRY

SAVED BY "FLINT"

2012-01-26T21:09:20Z

On last Tuesday night, “IN LIKE FLINT” was just as much fun as Sharon and I had remembered it to be. The late Jerry Goldsmith’s music was excellent, as always. The film also saved us from watching the guy who lives in The White House, which kept my digestion and my blood pressure in the normal range and helped to guard against injury to the middle finger of my right hand. After “Derek Flint” had saved the world from a conspiracy involving a fake President and traitors who were out to control the world, we flipped over to FOX News. Sadly, the guy who lives in The White House was still talking. We got off that as quickly as possible and caught fifteen or twenty minutes of another film. At last, when we turned once again to FOX News, there was a FOX News panel critiquing the Address – and being “fair and balanced,” I might add. Then, as Sharon and I had hoped for, we caught the excellent Republican Response, delivered by Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels, former Director of The U.S. Office of Management and Budget under George W. Bush. The major point, as we understood it, is that the Republicans want to see America once again become a nation of “haves” and “soon-to-haves,” rather than a land where initiative is condemned, small business is beaten to death by never ending numbers of government regulations and the jobs situation in America does not improve. Lots better than what the other guy said, I’m sure, and much easier on the stomach. Have a nice day! JERRY

In Like Flint

2012-01-24T21:53:00Z

As I write this, tonight is the STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS. Normally, good citizen that I am, I would watch that on television. But, I don't feel like getting myself all out of sorts, listening to a guy I don't trust telling me things I don't believe -- principally, because he's saying them. If you feel as I do, yet don't have anything in mind to watch out of your DVD library, I would suggest what Sharon and I intend to do. We're going to tune in to TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES and watch that great old comedy spy flick "IN LIKE FLINT," starring the late James Coburn. In the film, the ever versatile Andrew Duggan plays both the real President and a fake president who is working with the bad guys to take over the world. "Derek Flint" has to stop him and save the country and the world. Check it out! JERRY

Some Book News

2011-09-27T21:28:00Z

www.speaking-volumes.us is a website in which many Ahern readers may be interested. Some sixty plus of our books are coming out in all the popular downloadable E-formats. Additionally, those same books will be available in trade paperback print format. And, except for THE SURVIVALIST, already available in fully soundscaped audio from www.graphicaudio.net on both CD and MP3, these other books — THEY CALL ME THE MERCENARY, THE TAKERS, THE DEFENDER – will be coming out as audio books fromwww.speaking-volumes.us, some already available. The first several books in THE SURVIVALIST are already available in print and E-formats, as well as THE KILLER GENESIS, the first book in THEY CALL ME THE MERCENARY. A reader asked a while back about the third book in THE TAKERS series. Entitled SUMMON THE DEMON, it was previously only available in one E-book format and as audio. It, too, is coming in new audio, all major E-formats and in print. Our latest novel from Baen Books (www.baenbooks.com) is WRITTEN IN TIME. Debuting October of 2010, it is still available in paperback and in E-format from Baen. Additionally, our first novel for Baen, THE GOLDEN SHIELD OF IBF, is also available from Baen in E-format. If you’re a fan of THE SURVIVALIST series, and you do Facebook, there’s a Facebook group that’s devoted to THE SURVIVALIST. I partcipate in that group and Sharon and I would be happy to see anyone who follows our books join it. All the best!

My Musashi Katana

2010-08-30T16:57:00Z

If you read about "Reclaiming The Sword," you may recall I mentioned two favorite edged weapons that I keep at hand in case a firearm won't quite do the trick should we have a nocturnal visitation. This Musashi Katana from CAS-Hanwei is a superior sword that I really trust. I like the double peg arrangement, called Mekugi, which gives the sword added reliability, even though a single Mekugi is usually all that is needed.

Defend Your Home

2010-07-16T21:27:00Z

Sharon and I are finishing up our latest book, so appologies for not posting here on the website too recently. The book is entitled DEFEND YOUR HOME and should be out in early 2011. But,we wanted to give you a heads up. Starting Saturday July 17th for a period of several days, I assume, if you go to www.modernsurvivalonline.com you’ll find an interview with me that is pretty detailed and contains a number of my views on the current political situation. I posted this announcement on the Facebook group page for THE SURVIVALIST. If you haven’t checked out the Facebook group, Sharon and I would be grateful if you would.

STUFF I WANT TO TALK ABOUT

2010-06-20T21:25:00Z

For those of you who don’t see the Facebook SURVIVALIST page, Sharon and I celebrated our 500^th month anniversary on June 19^th. Sharon and I met the day after Labor Day 1961, were friends who had a first date the day after Thanksgiving in 1964, were engaged on Memorial Day of 1965 and married on October 19^th, 1968. I got the idea of counting months decades ago and have kept it up. Sharon’s the most wonderful and prettiest girl in the world or anywhere else and I’m hoping and praying for at least another five hundred and, after that – well, who knows? So long as we’re together.

By way of celebrating this anniversary, Sharon and I went to the movies. And, we had fun. No, we didn’t get to sit in the very back row of a balcony, but we did enjoy the movie. We saw THE A-TEAM and we loved it! Funny, exciting, great special effects, respectful of the original series, it was terrifically entertaining and the new guys, led by Liam Neeson as “John Hannibal Smith,” didn’t try to re-invent nor did they try to impersonate the original characters – which is why they came off so faithful to the originals. If you see it in the movies or wait until you can rent or buy the DVD, be sure to watch all the way through the end titles – the score’s rousing anyway – and you’ll be in for a surprise. Unlike the TV show, bad guys do get killed, so be prepared. And, the film lends itself very nicely to the possibility of a sequel or sequels. Sharon and I’d stand in line for tickets. If you have a sense of humor, like action and great special effects, you’ll like THE A-TEAM.

We have close friends who went on vacation this week. Rather than going to Florida beaches, they elected to go to South Carolina, instead, just in case. It’s a shame. Not that they are having a well-deserved vacation, but that so many people will likely avoid even the parts of Florida and the rest of the Gulf Coast so far unaffected by the oil situation. As much as I find the guy living in the White House to be a waste of time, I cannot, in conscience, blame him for the oil situation. The people comprising the decision-making leadership of British Petroleum, on the other hand, do deserve a lot of blame, if for nothing else than their cavalier attitude toward the destruction of miles of beaches, countless thousands of sea creatures and birds and economic disaster for entire populations. What I do hold the guy in the White House accountable for is the slow response, the lack of action and interaction concerning BP and general incompetence. What I can actually commend the guy in the White House for is the potentially expandable twenty billion dollar escrow reserve for claims payment. It’ll likely go higher.

America needs leadership that won’t be afraid of shallow water drilling on the Continental Shelf and elsewhere and not allow deep water drilling until a plausible, realistic step-by-step provable methodology is shown for dealing with such disasters. That done, go for it. And, we need leadership that is more concerned with the welfare of the American people than the advancement of a social agenda.

Neither Sharon nor I want the guy who lives in the White House and his leftist stooges to bring about fundamental change in America. If he and his minions in Congress and the bureaucracy want to live in a Communist or Socialist society, fine. Let them move. I’ll contribute a few bucks to help get them on their way. Venezuela is probably lovely this time of year.

The BP gusher is a problem we will be dealing with for years and longer. The group of wannabe socialists in the government and the idiots who elected them could be a problem that will be our undoing unless we act in the 2010 elections, the 2012 elections and rid ourselves of the last of the leftists in the 2014 elections. I don’t know about you, but I hope I do. And Sharon and I don’t want our grandchildren coming of age in an America that is no longer free, one that is run by leftists who hold political success more important than country.