The Armed Citizen Report: Texas 1980

Armed citizens use their legally owned firearms to stop crimes every day.  Sometimes it's a property crime and sometimes it's a direct threat to life and limb.  No matter what the crime, an armed citizen is a criminal's worst nightmare.  That's especially true in Texas.

A young Carrolton, Tex., mother was awakened by early morning pounding on her apartment door. As she answered the door, a youth kicked it open and began choking and beating her. A neighbor, hearing her screams, responded to find the attacker starting after the woman's four-year-old child. He held the intruder at shotgun point for police. Officers identified the youth as a previously arrested suspect in a gang rape who had been released pending a hearing in that case. (The Daily Times, Carrolton, TX, 08/6/80)

A young Bayton, Tex., mother awoke to find a man clad only in a baseball cap and socks exposing himself to her 7-year-old daughter. Grabbing her handgun and daughter, the woman fled to the living room, the intruder pursuing. The mother then turned and shot him three times. Police later apprehended the twice-convicted child molester nearby. (The Houston Post, Houston, TX 08/22/80)

After repeated burglaries at his Pleasant Grove, Tex., used goods store, owner Ernest Graf and his 15-year-old son started sleeping in the office. Awakened by noises on the roof, Graf armed himself with his shotgun and waited. When the would-be burglar was half way down a rope he had secured to the skylight, Graf switched on the lights and held him at bay while his son called police. The intruder, it turned out, was wanted for three Dallas-area murders.  (The Times Herald, Dallas, TX 07/01/80)

Startled by a noise at the front door of her apartment, a Lubbock, Tex., woman got a pistol and investigated. As she entered the living room, she was attacked by a knife-wielding intruder who stabbed her in the shoulder. When the housewife started shooting, the assailant fled, apparently uninjured.  (The Avalanche-Journal, Lubbock, TX, 2/15/80)

When Tod McCray failed to answer a knock at the back door of his Beaumont, Tex., home around mid-morning, four youths opened the unlocked door and walked inside. Hearing the commotion, McCray armed himself with a shotgun, captured three of the young prowlers, and held them at bay until police arrived. Police found the fourth intruder hiding under a bed.  (The Enterprise, Beaumont, TX, 01/17/80)

Awakened by the cries of her 6-year-old daughter, a Baytown, Tex., woman spied a male intruder hiding beside her bed. The woman grabbed a pistol she kept under her pillow, took the child in her arms, and ran into the next room. When the intruder followed, she shot him. The wounded man fled, but police found him hiding in some nearby bushes and wearing only a pair of socks.  (The Chronicle, Houston, TX 04/01/80)

When 89-year-old Fred Green saw a man leaving one of his vacant San Antonio, Tex., rental houses, he called police, found his pistol, and confronted the intruder, who started toward him in a threatening manner. When his warnings to halt were ignored, Green fired a shot near the would-be burglar's legs and thus persuaded him to wait peaceably until police arrived. (The Daily News, Amarillo, TX 04/01/80)

Texans understand that we all need to stand up and assert our right to keep and bear arms or face losing it. Help protect your rights by joining the NRA. The NRA fights to keep your right to keep and bear arms intact.

Join A Travel Club To Save Money On Travel

If you like to travel you may have noticed some changes over the past several years. It used to be that if you wanted to book a trip you could find a travel agent on every corner. You could go in to the travel agent's comfortable office, paid for with your commissions, and have them look into each and every detail of your trip. The travel agent would do the research, make the phone calls, and put the tickets in a nice little folder. Then the internet revolution came and the capability to do it yourself and save money was upon us - supposedly. Now, the latest evolution for the travel industry is here...Travel Clubs.

Travel clubs aren't necessarily anything new. Early versions of travel clubs were groups of friends that saved a little bit of money by sharing expenses on a vacation trip. These early clubs were fine but they suffered from a few problems. First, they often booked travel through a travel agent, paying full commission. Second, if everyone in the club didn't agree to the club's travel plans, the other members might not have the ability to achieve the savings they might otherwise get. Finally, if you didn't know enough people to form a travel club, or you didn't like an existing club's travel choices, you were out of luck. That was then.

Now, travel clubs have combined the power of the internet with the bulk buying power of warehouse stores to bring flexibility and huge savings to members across the country and around the world. By using the internet the newer travel clubs can recruit membership from all over. Large internet-based travel clubs can have many thousand members and that's a really good thing for travelers. Why? Well, as more members join it means more choices of travel and more buying power. Yes, buying power. The new breed of internet-based travel club uses the buying power of thousands of members in the same way big-box warehouse stores do except they don't bulk buy toilet paper, they bulk buy vacation travel. For instance, a travel club's members want to go on a cruise so the travel club goes to the cruise line and negotiates a great price by buying 200-300 cabins on the ship. Or, maybe the members want to go to an all-inclusive 5-star resort in Cancun so the club buys up half the resort's rooms to get a fantastic price. Simple.

Travel clubs are a great deal but before you join one keep a few things in mind. First, all clubs will charge a membership fee. That's ok as it is one of the ways the club gets enough money to make the deals, but it shouldn't be a huge fee and it should be one-time only not an annual fee. Avoid clubs that charge thousands of dollars to join, they're seldom worth it. Second, pretty much all clubs will charge a monthly membership fee. Again, that's ok since the money is used to fund the club's operations and make the great deals happen but, make sure there's a way your monthly fees can be waived. Lastly, make sure there isn't any type of long-term contract or cancellation fee. For that matter the best clubs don't have a contract at all nor a cancellation fee so look for them.

Travel clubs are the future of vacation travel and they help the traveler save loads of money on the travel they're going to do anyway. Join a travel club today and see the world without spending a fortune.

Author Resource:

Ben Crabtree is an avid traveler and fan of getting a really great deal on dream vacations. Ben recommends joining a great travel club like World Ventures to get dream travel at dream prices. Also, be sure to see the DreamTrips Schedule so you can take your DreamTrip soon!

Unemployment Statistics 2000 Through 2010

It might be hard for you to believe but I still have people tell me how horrible George W. Bush’s presidency was when it comes to unemployment. A very liberal, retired union member whose name I won’t use (GH) claimed that unemployment under Bush was over 8%! I can only guess where he got that number but like most libs that attempt to use facts he got them wrong and couldn’t/wouldn’t source the data. The table below comes directly from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics which…is under the Obama administration’s control…not the Bush (or Cheney) administration......

See the rest at: Happily American - Unemployment Statistics 2000 Through 2010

Muslim Suicide Bomber Union May Go On Strike

Muslim suicide bombers in Britain are set to begin a three-day strike on Monday in a dispute over the number of virgins they are entitled to in the afterlife. Emergency talks with Al Qaeda have so far failed to produce an agreement.

The unrest began last Tuesday when Al Qaeda announced that the number of virgins a suicide bomber would receive after his death would be cut by 25% this February from 72 to 60. A company spokesman said increases in recent years in the number of suicide bombings have resulted in a shortage of virgins in the afterlife.

Read the rest on Happily American: Muslim Suicide Bomber Union May Go On Strike

Happily American: Three Things About Islam

If you were to believe everything you hear in the American media you would think that islam is a wonderful religion of peace that's been hijacked by a few radicals. However, the few radicals that blow-up innocent women and children are usually cheered on by so-called "moderates" who loudly chant "DEATH TO AMERICA!" after every explosion and never speak out against their muslim brothers. Islam cannot tolerate democracy, freedom, or America and seeks to destroy all that it cannot tolerate.

Open your eyes, islam is growing and coming your way.



If you can't see the video above just click this link: Three Things About Islam

The Armed Citizen Report: August 2010

What would you do if someone broke into your home while you and your children were sleeping? Yell? Call 911? Hide in the closet and hope for the best? Good luck with that. The stories below chronicle people who defended themselves and others with lawfully owned guns…pay attention, it might save your life.

NRA member Geoffrey Tilga purchased items from a convenience store and began walking home. Unbeknownst to Tilga, two men – one of them wielding a knife – quietly trailed him. Police say one of the suspects approached Tilga and grabbed cash out of his back pocket. Tilga spun around and the suspects threatened him with a knife. Tilga, however, is one of the fortunate few New York state residents licensed to carry a handgun. He drew his Colt Detective Special .38-cal. revolver and fired a shot. The robbers fled the scene. (Democrat and Chronicle, Rochester, N.Y., 04/22/10)

Read the rest at Happily American -The Armed Citizen Report: August 2010

Ann Coulter on Muslims

You really have to love Ann Coulter. She's known for speaking her mind and telling the truth as she sees it without regard for the position of the main stream media. In the video below Coulter is addressing a group of students at Johns Hopkins University. She points out that when 100% of hijackers are muslim it's no longer a profile, it's a description of the suspect. Other than her use of what I consider the very PC term "extremist" when describing the muslims who have attacked our country for decades, I'd have to say she's right on target.

From Happily American: SB1070 Protesters Fly Mexican Flag And Cuban Che Guevara Flag

Protesters in Phoenix, Arizona protesting the SB1070 Immigration Bill show us who they really support by waving the flags of countries other than that of the United States. Seriously, if you love Mexico and Cuba so much - GO BACK!! Supposedly criminal aliens are hard workers, they just don't want to work hard enough to improve conditions in their own country. They'd rather work hard at destroying this country. See the video on Happily American: SB1070 Protesters Fly Mexican Flag And Cuban Che Guevara Flag

HappilyAmerican.com: The Armed Citizen Report July 2010

From HappilyAmerican.com:

What happens when a criminal confronts a law abiding citizen who is armed with a gun he or she is guaranteed able to own by the U.S. Constitution? Generally, the criminal has a real problem – sometimes the last problem of their scummy life.

Home alone with her baby one morning, a woman heard a knock at the door. She declined to answer. A second knock, this time at the back door, aroused her suspicion. She retrieved a shotgun and attempted to obtain the license plate number of the car outside her home. To her shock, one of the suspects was able to pick the lock on the front door’s deadbolt and it began to turn. She aimed the shotgun at the door. Police said the suspect opened the door, saw the shotgun and fled the area with an accomplice while shouting that they were merely lost. The men were arrested. (Chillicothe Gazette, Chillicothe, Ohio, 05/15/10)

Claiming to need money for a bus ticket, a man went begging door-to-door. Several houses into his apparent scheme, he was turned away by Charles and Rita Ray. The suspect allegedly grew agitated and tried to enter the home....

Read More at Happily American - The Armed Citizen Report: July 2010

Save A Ton Of Money When You Travel

Are you planning to go on vacation in a U.S. city? Do you want to save some money? Of course you do but have you really done anything about it? No? Well, you can save 50% or more on great food, entertainment, and more by taking advantage of Living Social deals. Get an email each day with deals in your home city and you can also search cities you're planning to visit. C'mon accept the Invite to LivingSocial

Congressman Ciro Rodriguez Needs To Go

Maybe it's just me but I think that any Congressman who starts yelling at constituents who call him out on his lies needs to be tossed out of office. Ciro Rodriguez is one of those Democrat Congressmen that needs to be given his walking papers. At a town hall meeting in his home district Democrat Congressman Rodriguez lost control, while being video taped, and became verbally aggressive toward a woman (off camera) that called him out on his party-line lies by using the correct information from the Congressional Budget Office. I find it interesting that Congressmen that decide to bully the public never do it to people like me, they do it to young students like Congressman Bob Etheridge of North Carolina did or to a woman correcting the liar that's supposed to represent her. See the video at Happily American: Congressman Ciro Rodriguez Needs To Go

Ted Nugent on BP Oil Spill, Nuclear Energy

(h/t Margaret for finding this)

Want to know what a real American like Ted Nugent thinks? Besides being an amazing rock musician he's also a true American who knows where this country comes from, what it stands for, and what the amazingly incompetent politicians of this country are doing to destroy it.




If you can't see the video above, you can get to it at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYudyA7Ft5M

County Supervisor In Milwaukee Who Supports Boycott Doesn't Know Arizona Borders Mexico

If you've ever wondered about the type of people who voted for Barack Hussein Obama in the 2008 Presidential election you need to watch this video. In the video below Peggy West, a Democrat county supervisor in Milwaukee is speaking in support of boycotting the State of Arizona because of the new immigration law (SB1070). The problem is that she apparently doesn't know that Arizona is having problems with criminal immigrants because Arizona borders Mexico.



Can't see the video? Try using this link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQp8M0bkarM

On Happily American: The Armed Citizen Report: June 2010

Do you have the right to defend yourself? Do you? If so, how will you defend yourself and your family? How will you fend off two, three, or four big nasty home invaders? Are you going to call 911 and hope the police are right outside your door? How about a baseball bat? Loud whistle?

Let’s get real. Millions of times each year Americans use their legally owned guns to defend themselves and their families from criminals. Husbands protect their wives with guns, mothers protect their kids with guns, and the elderly protect themselves with guns. Here are some of their stories:

“He was a big, burly guy,” said 89-year-old Beatrice Turner of the man who allegedly smashed in her front door and entered the home. “He was pulling at his shorts and talking crazy….I always said if they come inside, it’s me or them.” Armed with a .22-cal. revolver, Turner yelled at the man to leave. According to police, the burglar instead advanced on Turner, and she fired a shot in self-defense, narrowly missing her assailant. A neighbor heard the gunshot and phoned police. Officers arrested the burglar in the front yard. “All of [the police officers] were hugging me and telling me how brave I was,” Turner said. The friendly officers even helped Turner reload her gun before leaving. (The Des Moines Register, Des Moines, Iowa, 04/21/10)

Read more at: Happily American: The Armed Citizen Report: June 2010

Congressman Bob Etheridge Assaults Student on Washington Sidewalk

Do you know why Democrats in the media and government like to spread malicious lies about conservatives being intolerant and violent when they gather at Tea Party meetings or anywhere else? It's because they believe everyone shares their point of view and their willingness to shout down and even physically attack anyone they deem a political or ideological opponent. That's certainly the case with Congressman Bob Etheridge the Democrat representative from North Carolina's second district as seen in this video.

7 Lies In Under 2 Minutes

Well folks, Barack Hussein Obama has been in office for nearly a year and a half and many are still waiting for him to fulfill his promises. What promises? How about we start with the promises contained within the "7 Lies In Under 2 Minutes" video which is footage taken during the 2008 Presidential campaign.

Happily American - The Armed Citizen Report: May 2010

Do you own a gun? If so, good for you…make sure you know how to use it. If not, why not? Millions of Americans own guns and it’s a good thing they do because they end up needing them to protect themselves. It annoys liberals every time they hear it but, Americans defend themselves, their loved ones, and their property millions of times every year with guns. Some of the stories of Americans using their guns for their own protection follow.

While taking groceries to her car, a man approached an 82-year-old woman and said something horrible to her: “This is your day. You are too old to be alive anyway.” According to police, he then grabbed the woman’s cane and beat her. Despite the savage assault, the elderly woman managed to reach into her purse, draw her gun and fire a shot. The man fled and, upon hearing the shot, store employees quickly came to the woman’s aid. The self-proclaimed “stubborn, old broad” is badly bruised but will fully recover. “If I go naturally or to a sickness or something, fine,” she said. “I’m ready to go, but I’m not ready to let some idiot like that take me out.” (KVOA-TV, Tucson, Ariz., 03/15/10)

Read more true stories at Happily American - The Armed Citizen Report: May 2010

Wacky Global Warming News: May Snow Sets New Utah Record

Global warming is really having a difficult decade so far considering all the evidence that it may not be happening at all. Another example that could lead one to believe that Global Warming is a hoax created by criminals to separate you from your money and liberty occurred today in Utah…it snowed at Utah’s Salt Lake International Airport.

Yes, you read it correctly. It’s MAY 24th and it snowed in Salt Lake City. I admit that the amount of snow was small and measured only 2/10th of an inch but it hasn’t ever snowed this late in the year in Salt Lake City. If the climate is trending toward warmer temperatures how is it that snow is falling this late in May? Is it the heat causing the snow as many of the Global Warming types tell us?

I’ll say it again, Global Warming is just the latest hoax being used to scare you into handing over your money and liberty.

Wacky Global Warming News: May Snow Sets New Utah Record

The Armed Citizen Report: April 2010

One of the reasons I’m Happily American is the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The Second Amendment is recognition of the right of an American citizen to keep and bear arms in order to defend their life and property from all who would try to take them. Americans exercise their right to self defense using privately owned guns about 2 million times a year but you seldom hear about it unless you read about it here.

When he was awakened by his home security system, NRA Endowment member Steve Bason prepared for the worst – he got his Benelli M1 12-ga. shotgun, while his wife, Beth, an NRA Life member, grabbed her Glock 9mm....Read the rest at: Happily American's "The Armed Citizen Report: April 2010"

FOXNews.com - 'South Park' Creators Could Face Retribution for Depicting Muhammad, Website Warns

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