Saturday, February 24, 2018

Jb1974x Wins for the 3rd Time in 2018 and Unarmed Die Easier than Armed

No worries. This actually improved Faldo's looks.
Jb1974x proved he is no fluke as he handled a talent laden line up at NPP Tuesday. The two players - 1 & 2 - in the race for the 1st seat in the NPP Finals finished 1 and 2 this week.

2nd - LittleRedElf
3rd - Douge2
4th - Absea98
Bubble - Rjmech

And two weeks ago, a miracle occurred as Poker Stars cheated players and gave Faldo a run of cards like heck would not have it. A rare victory for Faldo over a slightly smaller field:

2nd - 95corolla
3rd - Derf-63
Bubble - Douge2

Congratulations to Jb1974x on his 3rd NPP victory!

Now for some truth:

It is impossible to remove the ability for human beings to inflict harm upon one another. Deprived of a rifle, a human intending harm will simply find other means: a knife, a pipe, a pressure cooker, a truck, acid, even sticks and stones, and, if necessary, fists and feet. Humans can be incredibly creative in their efforts to harm each other.

The only thing that gives predatory humans pause is the possibility of defense in the form of violent counterattack. Everywhere in the Animal Kingdom, violence occurs primarily on the weak and defenseless. Only a desperate predator will risk attack on a strong target that can defend itself. Humans are no different.

Most people supporting “gun control” measures, and now “knife control” measures in the UK, are living in childish denial of this basic reality of the human condition. Democrats are not in denial of anything, but seek to turn the population into defenseless subjects.

Not all violence is morally equal or even practically unacceptable.
The kind of violence that should be of concern to decent people is called AGGRESSION. Aggression is violence directed toward an innocent person who is minding their own business. Defensive violence is not a problem.

The problem decent people face is aggression, not violence. The problem is not “gun violence” or even “gun aggression”. The problem is aggressive violence, by whatever means. Democrat communists with a specific political goal of turning citizens into subjects deliberately confuse this point.

If we accept the obvious reality that a human being dedicated to harming others will find a way, then what can be done?
Since we cannot rid the world of aggression, we must accept radical responsibility for our own safety and the safety of other decent, innocent, people around us.

Technology provides decent people with the means to become stronger. With modest effort, even the physically smallest and weakest person can become quite strong, and a threat to deliver overwhelming defensive violence, making them very unattractive to human predators. This technology, of course, is the firearm. Study after study shows that when decent people are armed, or may be armed, then aggressive violence drops.

A population where a small but significant number of people MAY be armed, but it is unknown to an assailant whether a particular individual is armed, as is the case in jurisdictions with “concealed carry” laws, see the highest reduction in violent crime. These are established facts.

In the 1800’s, the Colt Single-Action Army Pistol was called “The Equalizer”, because equipped with this technology, an otherwise physically weaker or slower person was equal to their bigger, stronger, faster aggressor. Women, who on average are about half the strength of a man, should give this some special consideration.

This, then, is the practical solution for dealing with aggressive violence:
1. Accept that it is impossible to eliminate the means to inflict harm.
2. Accept that some people will seek to harm others.
3. Create in yourself and other decent people the ability to respond to predators with overwhelming counter violence.

History shows us that when people do not have the means to defend themselves, they will eventually suffer atrocities. Nazi Germany, Cambodia, Africa, China, Russia and Cuba have seen hundreds of  millions slaughtered by their own government. Common denominator: Citizens in those countries were first unarmed by their government.

The moral argument is more cut and dried:
A human being is the absolute owner and sovereign over their body. As such, they have an absolute and inalienable right to defend themselves from aggression by others, by ANY means available or necessary, as long as those means do not harm other innocent people around them.
Any attempt to deprive a human being of the right to defend themselves is to deny that person ownership and sovereignty over their own body.

Depriving a human being of the right to keep the fruit of their labor is called “slavery”. Taking a person’s justly-acquired property by force is called “theft”. Both are aggression against the person’s self-ownership and self-determination.

A human being has the absolute right to voluntarily disarm themselves. They do not have the right to forcefully disarm others, interfere with their voluntary relationships with others, take their property, or engage in any other aggression against another person, either directly or by proxy.
Any government which restricts or removes the means for innocent people to defend themselves no longer recognizes those people as free moral agents. It regards them as subjects, and rejects their most fundamental rights as owners of their own bodies. Any such government is de facto a tyranny and illegitimate.

The absolute right to defend one’s self and property is indistinguishable from and synonymous with the existence of the individual as a free moral agent.

Disarmed, we are subjects. Armed, we are citizens. As decent citizens, we have the moral duty to protect ourselves, our loved ones, and other innocent people from those who would harm us.

Bill Campbell and Faldo

Wednesday, February 07, 2018

ThePunk75 Wins for the 1st Time in 2018

The Punk has a groupie waiting in the NPP players lounge.
ThePunk75 was able to make it to the game this evening and promptly took control - as usual. He qualifies for the Tournament of Champions now, so we have to worry when that rolls around. So win a seat before then because it will not be easy to do it that night.

2nd - Absea98
3rd - Mikeniks-Faldo
Bubble - T3chlady

Congratulations to ThePunk75 on his 33rd NPP win!

Now for some well known bumper stickers:



There is plenty of room for all God's creatures. Right next to the mashed potatoes.- Outback Steakhouse

Say NO to drugs. That gives you much more time to drink.- Budweiser

Like a cult but without the animal sacrifice. - Mary Kay

We can't think of any other uses for it either. - K-Y Jelly

We are proud of our privates. -  US Army

Where are the reporters when we don't spill anything. - Exxon

So much easier than parenting. - Ritalin

Like her mugs? You will love her cans. - St. Pauli Girl

Two months salary, my ass! - Zirconia

Need a good screw? - Ace Hardware

Face it. You are not clever, witty or romantic. - Hallmark 

Big egos. Big biceps. Little winkies. - Gold's Gym

Making us all wish we were blind. - Speedo

Come check out our stools. - IKEA

If drinking and driving is illegal, why do bars have parking lots? - O'Grady's Bar

It's all about the bitches. - American Kennel Club

For when you can't get laid on your looks and charm. - Jaguar


Friday, February 02, 2018

Tomservo2 Wins for the 1st Time in 2018 - and Thomas Jefferson Lives!


Tomservo2 had more than enough for the NPP field

The cycle has been broken! Actually it was broken in a big way as the two winners of the first four tournaments were dispatched of early. Tomservo2 built a huge chip lead early and took it all the way to the finish line.

2nd - Tigercub8189
3rd - Mikeniks-Faldo
4th - LittleRedElf
5th - 95corolla
Bubble - T3chlady

Congratulations to Tomservo2 on his 32nd NPP victory!

Ok, Faldo did make a pledge to not be political on the poker results posts. But this is not a political post - it is a historical post.

Anyone who can read it as political has fallen from their lofty perch known as an American. Oh, they may still have citizenship - as does most members of the Democrat Party - but they are no longer Americans.

To still be a Democrat after the last 9 years of Democrat and media behavior you have to be a raving lunatic or a raving traitor. Pure and simple.

Ok the last two paragraphs were political - but also the truth - so forgive Faldo.

Here are the history and words of a founding father as we approach President's Day. Enjoy my fellow Americans:

Thomas Jefferson was a very remarkable man who started learning very early in life and never stopped.

At 5, began studying under his cousin's tutor.

At 9, studied Latin, Greek and French.

At 14, studied classical literature and additional languages.

At 16, entered the College of William and Mary.

At 19, studied Law for 5 years starting under George Wythe.

At 23, started his own law practice.

At 25, was elected to the Virginia House of Burgesses.

At 31, wrote the widely circulated "Summary View of the Rights of British America ? And retired from his law practice.

At 32, was a Delegate to the Second Continental Congress.

At 33, wrote the Declaration of Independence.

At 33, took three years to revise Virginia's legal code and wrote a Public Education bill and a statute for Religious Freedom.

At 36, was elected the second Governor of Virginia succeeding Patrick Henry.

At 40, served in Congress for two years.

At 41, was the American minister to France and negotiated commercial treaties with European nations along with Ben Franklin and John Adams.

At 46, served as the first Secretary of State under George Washington.

At 53, served as Vice President and was elected president of the American Philosophical Society.

At 55, drafted the Kentucky Resolutions and became the active head of Republican Party.

At 57, was elected the third president of the United States .

At 60, obtained the Louisiana Purchase doubling the nation's size.

At 61, was elected to a second term as President.

At 65, retired to Monticello .

At 80, helped President Monroe shape the Monroe Doctrine.

At 81, almost single-handedly created the University of Virginia and served as its first president.

At 83, died on the 50th anniversary of the Signing of the Declaration of Independence along with John Adams.

Thomas Jefferson knew because he himself studied the previous failed attempts at government. He understood actual history, the nature of God, his laws and the nature of man. That happens to be way more than what most understand today. Jefferson really knew his stuff. A voice from the past to lead us in the future:

John F. Kennedy held a dinner in the White House for a group of the brightest minds in the nation at that time. He made this statement: "This is perhaps the assembly of the most intelligence ever to gather at one time in the White House with the exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone."

"When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe ."
-- Thomas Jefferson


"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not."
-- Thomas Jefferson

"It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world."
-- Thomas Jefferson

"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."
-- Thomas Jefferson


"My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government."
-- Thomas Jefferson


"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms."
-- Thomas Jefferson


"The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government."
-- Thomas Jefferson

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
-- Thomas Jefferson


"To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical."
-- Thomas Jefferson


"Thomas Jefferson lives!" - the last words spoken by John Adams.