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The Fact that the I R S Exists is proof that America is the Home Of the Brave

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The Fact that the I R S Exists is proof that America is the Home Of the Brave
We must love misery. We have lived under this sword for over 100 years.

Amendment XVI (1913)

“The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several states, and without regard to any census of enumeration.”

You would think that after getting hit in the head every April 15th that the average citizen would call their congressmen and request they look into a better way of funding the government, one that required less paperwork for the tax payer. Why are we chained to all this paper and hours of computer time just so we don’t give the I R S any reason to Jail us.

I have not paid a dime in federal income tax in twenty years. Because of my disability retirement I don’t have to. One year my accountant said, “why it not necessary for you to file”, I said whoopee got that off my back. The next year I got slammed with an audit. I found out that it was better to pay the accountant than to strain the brain of the I R S. So for twenty years I have been paying an accountant to tell me and the IRS something that we [all] already know.

Now the IRS is in charge of our health care. Now they can kill me off and still make my kids dig me up so I can continue to file. Well that’s what I believe will happen. I think someone up there read Joseph Heller’s book Catch 22.

I think the better solution is a value added tax. The Government could still screw with us all day long by manipulating the tax on this or that, but we would not be doing the paper work as individuals. The company accountants would handle it and I could go fishing on the first two weeks of April instead of doing all that paperwork, and retirement might mean something. Even better if some of us don’t want to fund this or that we can just make all of our own stuff and get in trouble bootlegging. I’m sure we can keep the federal prisons full. They will hardly miss a beat. Nobody gets hurt and I can go fishing.

S. Henry knocker
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Double down and lie some more

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Double down and lie some more

Nancy!— Nancy!— Nancy! You have stepped into the tar pit!

Ok it is not enough that the former Speaker of the House; Nancy Pelosi is seen as the voice of Obama Care. Now she is seen as the liar in chief of a Democratic Party; top heavy with Prevaricators. The new liberal wing of the Democratic Party seems bent on sticking to the “That’s my story and I’m sticking to it”, tactic that the criminal element among us is so famous for.

What is the matter with you guys? You really do think we are stupid. Where are the voices from the left telling her to just shut up already!

OH, give me the days of Scoop Jackson and Tip O’Neil. Don’t you think you are giving us independents the impression that you have become a criminal element within the government?

It is time for new leaders in the Democratic Party. If there are any young Dem.’s with backbone now is the time to show it. These old curmudgeons have got to go, and by go, I mean go to jail, and here is why.

If you or I lie to a government official we will get 10 years for the lie and if you or I conspire with others in doing so, we will all get another 10 years for that. In the lead up to the passage to this national healthcare law they did exactly that to us. Who the Hell do they think they are?

There I have said my peace But I won’t hold my breath.

S Henry Knocker
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The everybody does it defense

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The everybody does it defense

It seems that once again the political class is determined to spin their way out of a smelly situation. Yesterday on fox I saw no less than three of the regular apologist for the liberals come to the defense of the Americans are stupid comments, made by the architect of Obama care, by saying in effect everybody does it. The Republicans do it too. It’s just politics.

B.S. I’m not buying it! I’m sick and tired of these liars jumping out of the frying pan by pointing there boney fingers at the rest of us and trying to implicate everyone in their criminal behavior. Let me tell you what happened when I tried that with my grandfather when I was eight. Apparently these people never had a grandfather that loved them. Mine said this to me

“ I don’t care what the other boys did YOU are going to apologize to those you wronged. You will clean up the mess YOU made, and never do anything like this again, or I’ll fix it so YOU can’t sit down for a week”
Then my Dad, my Mother and two uncles said the same thing

Where do these political thieves get off? They reached in our wallets and went to the store and bought Ice cream for the whole neighborhood. Well the kids on the block love them, but it was at our expense, and some of us are going to have a hard time making ends meet this Christmas as a result. How dare they try to blow this off and smirk about it; Mr. Colmes!

You won’t laugh if I indict you as a criminal coconspirator.
Some of you liberals need to have your Grandpa talk.

Grandpa S. Henry Knocker

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Are the American People Really Stupid?

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Are the American People Really Stupid?

“First you have to pass the bill before you can know what is in it”. We didn’t grab our rifles and head for Washington DC: And then came November 2012 and they denied the smoke coming out of the ears of the American Electric. Now comes November 2014 and we find out that the left; thought all along that the voting public was Stupid.

It is time “we the people” remind the political class we are aware of the politicians creed. “You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time”

Now I’ll add this; and I’m looking you square in the eye politicians of this country; fooling the people is not advised! November 2016 is coming

J F K said “ask not what your country can do for you ask what you can do for your country” and then he cheated on our first lady. Nixon said “I am not a crook” and resigned the presidency: And every manor of duplicity has been rot on the American people. Well! I for one am sick of it. If we have to have a come to Jesus moment with the American political class; then so be it!

Republicans it is your turn. We will see if you are up to the job. Maybe what we need from you is a constitutional amendment that says any legislation that is passed with lies to the electret is void. Of course that would effectively end the I R S would it not? Yah, that promise; that it would only be 3% and only affect the rich might scuttle that ship.

A little advice and then I’ll shut up and let someone else comment on what I have said.

When you are in your respective caucuses and someone says “this or that will not fly with the American people. Drop it: don’t say but we can make FOOLS OUT OF THEM in this way or that. Just punch the offender in the right eye and throw it out the door so the people of it’s State can deal with it in the proper manor, and YES I meant ”IT.”

Sometimes you just have to beat the FOOL out of people.

S. Henry Knocker
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A snippet from My Book; A View From The Street/ River City Policing; coming out this winter

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A snippet from My Book; A View From The Street/ River City Policing; coming out this winter
A day in the life of The Corporal

I was minding my own business on a warm fall day. Our Corporal had been dispatched to the scene of a car-deer encounter. The Corporal was one of those tender-hearted souls who had a hard time with gun play. He had been involved early in his career in a shootout with a robbery suspect in which his training officer was wounded.

After I cleared a call, the Corporal called me to assist him. I pulled up and the conversation went like this.

“Hi Knocker, I have situation here. There is this deer, and it has been hit by a car, and there is no animal control unit on duty now, and I was thinking you’re good at this sort of thing. I just can’t do it.” “What am I good at?” I asked. “Well you know the deer is hurt? It keeps looking at me. I just can’t do it, do you mind?”

I know you’re thinking Officer Knocker was screwing with the Corporal, and you would be right. I was playing stupid with him, letting him dangle. He was a corporal and could order me to shoot the deer, but he could not bring himself to shoot the deer or to order me to do it. I am of the belief that if you are confronted with a situation like this and you don’t take the opportunity to screw with the “do the minimum” office poge, you are just not being reasonable.

You have to have fun with this job or drink heavily. I chose fun. I kept obfuscating until he walked me over to the deer. I looked at it and said,” Yeah, you should just shoot it when there are no cars in view.” “Well a I well I can’t a would you mind a.” “Oh! Do you want me to shoot the thing?” I asked. “Well, yeah!” came the somewhat annoyed response. “Oh, ok.” I said.

All the pent up tension that the Corporal was experiencing was released at that moment.

I pulled my weapon and fired one round hitting the deer between the eyes and re-holstered. The Corporal jumped straight up in the air and yelled, Dang it, Knocker! You were supposed to wait till I was ready.” All the tension that was previously released was back. “You can’t do this to me Knocker.” “Why not? Isn’t that why they pay you all that extra money? Do you want me to leave a note for animal control, or do you think you could do that? Yah I can do that. Oh I’ll need around to replace the one I fired? Here take one of mine says the corporal. Gee did you have to do that he asked? Well I’m off. See you later I said
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Some people are cut out to be cops and some are cut out to be insurance agents. We had a lot of insurance agents and not enough Real cops. Just something I like to muse about.

S. Henry Knocker
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Parenting with substandard DNA

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Parenting with substandard DNA

It is said that we have to be 10% smarter than the thing we are trying to control.

OK Knocker What are you getting at now?

I’m just thinking here but it seems to me that the sheer number of world calamities in the past two hundred years have caused a deterioration in the part of the human DNA that effects courage and the ability to determine cause and effect. I allude to this development in my book; A View from the street/ River City Policing; coming out this winter. I Postulate that at some point in our recent history the population of western nations just fought too many wars. In doing so too many of our brave young men were eliminated from the gene pool. This has allowed for the genetic trait for male passive behavior to be brought out in the population.

The seeming complete lack of ability, of young parents, to control the two year old population of the nation, is in my considered opinion complete and utter cowardice. How can we call ourselves “The home of the Brave” if we can’t discipline a two year old? Further evidence of this is Very low turnout in the voting booth, but I’ll address this in a later blog.

I heard on the news today that a growing number of young children are being poisoned by dish washer soap packets. How can this be? Well I believe that it is due to the in ability of parents to correct or see the need to train toddlers early enough in their development. Many that I have seen are just plain scared of the little tikes. Others are not smart enough to realize you can’t carry on adult conversations with children under 8 years old.

I watched my daughter in-law stand with her hands on her hips and repeat the word, “really ”, over and over while the child refused to grasp the meaning of her request and was heading into a dangerous confrontation with the public street. Her Grandmother had to head the kid off and do the scolding. This never happened with our boys they learned from the time they could reach out and touch things what was ok and what was not. We never picked up anything, and nothing was ever broken. The kids knew they were not allowed to get into cabinets or enter certain rooms in the house. Danger is everywhere and the sooner parents and young children learn this FACT the safer life is for us all.

Lest anyone think I’m not speaking from experience here are some things I did because my parents were in attentive to the lessons I abdicate. At two I climbed to the top of the refrigerator in our kitchen with a hammer and started breaking moms stem ware. She got up and screamed and I fell and cut my head on the glass. I picked up a coke bottle and struck my father with it while he was sleeping and received the nick name Slugger. At four I stuck a Bobbie- pin in an electrical plug and was knocked across the room. When I was eight I got my arm caught in the wringer of the washing machine and beat apart an electric motor my dad was going to make a grinder out of. Later My Sister was badly burned when she backed into our unscreened fire place and caught her dress on fire. My brother took a peeler to the woodwork and they all colored on the walls with color crayon. And on and on it went till my youngest brother was hit by a car running into the street. It is a wonder none of us were killed. Liberalism did kill two of my brothers but that’s another story. The long and short of it is I know what it is I am talking about when it comes to raising kids.
It takes time and dedication to discipline. That doesn’t mean beating them either, but a slap on the hand or the diaper does wonders. When you couple it with a hug and explanation, of why they don’t touch the hot stove; it is the ounce of prevention that is worth the pound of cure. Your Bad DNA can be compensated for if you realize your faults and overcome adapt and have courage. You really are smarter than a two year old.

S. Henry Knocker
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Schools and the general lack of discipline

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O’Reilly Knows; and keeps saying the trouble with American schools is not money. The trouble with the schools in this country is a general lack of discipline.

When the teachers Union wants more money for the paychecks of its members they say we need money to reduce class size. This is a ruse, but an effective one. It sounds so good but remember, teaching is a part time job, getting fulltime pay and benefits. Full time work is 2080 hours a year. Most teachers work 182 days a year times 8 hrs. a day will give you 1456 hrs., of work. They claim that they put in much more time grading papers. There is some truth to that, however most of the time the guy behind me graded my papers. How about you?

The Real problem was a general lack of respect for teachers by disruptive students, and the liberal attitude that nothing can be done about it.

The answer is that every school needs a couple 6’5” goons walking the halls. When a student becomes disruptive the teacher calls the goon squad and the urchin is escorted out to a waiting vehicle and he or she is transported to mommy or daddy for correction. Then mommy or daddy are billed for the service, and JR. gets a week added to the school year in the summer time to make up missed assignments and extra instruction in school rules and expectations.

All this can be waived if the parents sign a waiver and the disruptive one can be taken to the wood shed; where the board of education is applied to the seat of understanding.

Teachers brought this on themselves with the notion that they wanted to be the friend of the student rather than living up to the true meaning of the word teacher which is defined as the leader. There is nothing equal about being a leader

Every new class that a teacher takes on should be told the following “You are my class. From here there are two directions. You are either going up or you are going down. Up means you are learning and I will stretch you as far as I can. Down means you are not ready for this level of instruction and I am returning you to the appropriate level for retraining. ““No one is on idle here.”

Teachers! That is how you deal with the problem of large class sizes, and disruptive students.
The Knocker-!ism: Give them a reason not to be disruptive!
S. Henry Knocker
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Honoring our veterans this November 11th 2014

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Honoring our veterans this November 11th 2014

On November 11 in the 11 Hour of the day in the year 1918 The first great war of the twentieth century came to an end, and the roots of Veterans Day were planted.
On September 2 1945 the second great war of the twentieth century came to an end. Wars to end all wars, but it was not to be, Korea, Vietnam, The first gulf war, the Iraq war, Afghanistan and now another lumens in our future. We cry Peace, Peace but there is no peace. The world is crying out for American blood and they will have it.

Throughout these trying times American men and women have gathered themselves and gone off to war in a never ending battle against the forces of evil in this world.

Now on November 11 we will pause to once again to honor those who gave it their all in service to the nation and it is altogether fitting that we should do this.

On this day all over this great nation the living veterans of the V.F.W. American Legion and other service groups will pause to honor publicly that which they do daily in service to the fallen and the widow and orphan of our veterans.

In small towns everywhere Like Our town McCleary Washington The local post of the V.F.W. will open its doors and provide some refreshments. Seek them out and support their efforts to do what is right and fitting for the families of those that have made the sacrifices for you and the nation. If you are a VET, and have some time on a Monday once a month join us for a little time to honor those that have given all. Afterwards we will bump elbows down at the Rain Country Restaurant in McCleary over a cup of Joe and worry Dan about his new truck and how many recalls are out on it this week. Dan’s Navy I’m Army, Russ is a Marine, I even heard some guy say he was Air force; you know that other branch of the Army.

S. Henry Knocker

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The separation of church and state

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The separation of church and state

According to Liberals The constitution Of The United States contains a “ wall of separation between the church and the state”

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

I keep reading this and can find from this text, No! such separation. Liberals are sticklers for the law when it benefits their argument. The Constitution is a contract between the citizenry and the federal government

So let’s break this down. It says the congress; and it only speaks to the congress; shall make no law establishing a state sponsored religion. and then it says OR, make any law prohibiting the FREE exercise thereof;

It would seem to me that CONGRESS has to stay out of the fray! That leaves only the courts and the executive branch with any say at all. Sense these two branches are not empowered to make law only interpret law and sense no law exist or can exist under our constitution. We then must defer to the tenth amendment

“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.’

In other words we the people get to decide whether in our state, we say under god; or have a monument to the Ten Commandments in the public square. If our kids want to carry a bible to school or pray at a football game it is our decision. Un less of Corse we have somehow given up these rights in our respective state constitutions; a matter that we may easily remedy in the voting booth.

Just some food for thought.

S. Henry Knocker
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Respect for elders and the liberal left

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Respect for elders and the liberal left

When I was in grade school in the 50’s the average class size was between 35 and 40 students. Most of the teachers after the 4th grade were ex-military officers fresh out of the Korean War. They commanded respect. They came to class in business suits and ties. We did not even know their first names let alone call them anything but MR. Mrs. Miss. Or Sir or MAM! I do remember one boy in the class asked my 5th grade teacher what his first name was.

He got a strong rebuke, and this explanation “I have graduated from college with a BA in History. It took me 4 years of my life to do that. I have the right to be addressed as Mister. You will address me as mister. You do not need to know my first name until you have received your degree”. From that moment on I wanted a college degree.

Many of The teachers today want to be addressed by their first names. I personally find this offensive. It diminishes them and me. How can adults in society be so indifferent to their social responsibility to teach respect for others. They don’t respect themselves and the effort it took to get them too where they are as the leaders and the moral guides they report to be.

What could be the reason the left thinks it is a good idea to do away with respect. Why? If you do this you put one’s self at the same level as those you are trying to elevate. Now you are trying to push them up rather than trying to lift them up. Lifting requires greater effort on the part of both parties. You have to want to be a good college student. You can’t or should not be pushed into it. I was 24 before I was ready for college it took 8 years to get my degree while working fulltime as a police officer. I wanted it!

Why are there so many cases these days of teachers having inappropriate relations with students? I don’t think the teachers that want to be on a first name bases with their students are trying to lift anyone up. They are trying to get down with the kids if you know what I mean. Now maybe not all of them have this goal in mind, but those that don’t are giving aid and comfort to the one’s that do. Liberalism is constantly excusing bad behavior, redefining words, and belittling those that differ from there doctrine of can’t we all just get along.

A civil society is not a go along to get along society. It is one that sets standards and adheres to those standards. I don’t completely disagree with liberals because society sometimes forgets the golden rule when they set standards. Injustices must be fought against with all the vigor we can muster. The trouble comes when for political advantage we fail to recognize that the war has been won.

A case in point is this phony race war,the liberals keep waging. It’s over, get over it. Stop stirring up phony race wars and get on with correcting the real problem of enforced poverty. If an oppressed minority wants to get out of poverty they must stop voting for people who depend on their vote to stay in office. Make both parties compete. Don’t give it to them by default make them earn it. Don’t listen to race baiting politicians. Kick them in the nuts and tell them it’s about jobs and education. Demand policies that foster home, family and work opportunities. Money and upward mobility will follow the family that stays together and works hard. Demand things like charter schools. Police your street, stand up and demand the respect you are entitled to. Tell the criminal element in your midst to straighten up or ship out. It’s not the color of one’s skin that makes you right or wrong it is your actions and what comes out of your mouth.

Those of us that grew up poor and got out of it, know this fact. To break the cycle poverty you must opt out of the poor cycle. Leave everything behind that seeks to keep you in the cycle. This may mean that you lose your best friend. Never mind that you can come and get them later, if they are worth it, and show them the way. We are NEVER! going to get even with the people that hurt us and ground our faces in the dirt. That’s GOD’S job anyway. Our job as Christians is to fight the good fight.

See you on the other side.

S. Henry Knocker theknockerblog.com