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My name is Brian Meyette, and I welcome you to my little corner of the Internet world. This web site started in the mid-1990s as a very simple single page, to teach myself the new HTML code. It's grown to about 100 MB of over 250 pages and 2500 pictures since then. It also features a sub-web-site detailing the building of my Van's RV-7A plane. That RV-7A sub-site has grown until it has taken precedence over this original main web site, which hasn't really been updated much since around 2001.

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NEWS

March 9, 2009 - Sept 11, 2001 made us forget the trouble the Chinese had started with us earlier that year with our new President, by downing one our planes. Now, they're at it again with a new President. See story HERE. Companies are so eager to do business in China that too many people overlook incidents like this. People who think the Chinese are our "friends", business partners, or anything other than our Communist enemy are deluding themselves.

3/3/09 - the Democrats are at it already. Despite gun owners' concerns about radical new attacks on our Second Amendment rights being downplayed by some Democrats claiming the administration has bigger things to worry about, they've already begun the attacks. In addition to the usual pile of anti-Second Amendment bills the left-wing nuts regularly introduce in state and federal legislatures, our new, rabidly anti-gun Attorney General has begun his attack.

Last Wednesday, just over five weeks after Inauguration Day, Attorney General Eric Holder announced that the Obama Administration will seek to reinstate the expired federal "assault weapon" ban and impose additional restrictions. "As President Obama indicated during the campaign, there are just a few gun-related changes that we would like to make, and among them would be to reinstitute the ban on the sale of assault weapons," Holder said. Based on Holder's testimony during his confirmation hearings before the Senate, those other "changes" presumably include prohibiting private transfers of firearms and banning most center-fire rifle ammunition as "armor-piercing." Holder said that new gun control laws are needed because in Mexico, a country with a history of corruption and disregard for individual rights, there's a shooting war going on between drug gangs and government troops, and some of the gangsters' guns have been illegally purchased in the United States.

So, now they're going to use Mexico's problems as the excuse to ban our guns and trample over our Constitutional rights. The absurdity of this is only exceeded by the stupidity of the people who go along with it.

2/18/09 = NEGROES GONE WILD: Combining two of today's stories, where cops had to shoot a berserk chimp, and the rollout of the dubious "Demo-rats only", "unread by anyone" stimulus bill that could have been written by a monkey, Sean Delonas of the New York Post made this cartoon:

People made monkey jokes about Bush for years, and this joke isn't even ABOUT Obama, as anyone with half a brain and capable of independent thought can see. It's (rightfully) about CONGRESS!

So, the usual "the world is so racist against me" morons like Al Sharpton and other blacks started screaming about how terribly racist this cartoon is. Here's the cartoon, Al. If you don't like it, stuff it. The reason white America hates Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and people like them is not because they're black. It's because they're race-baiting, self-serving, loud-mouthed racists who constantly try to stir up racial unrest and keep their names in the news. Face it, without racism, Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are nobodies. So, they keep the pot stirred with outrageous claims like this. It helps fuel black racism by agitation. It helps fuel white racism by increasing whites' resentments. What's even worse is the way the stupid Politically Correct liberals jump on the bandwagon and agree that it's racist.

The only thing that's racist here is minorities who are first & foremost racist as hell, and second scream racism every time something doesn't go their way. It's just like the Hispanics who say anyone is a racist if they disagree with the Hispanics' beliefs that all borders should be eliminated and all the illegal aliens should be given full US citizenship rights, while refusing to adopt our language or culture. I used to respect Hispanics as hard working people, but the more they bitch, whine, and express their outrageous immigration views, the more people like me resent them.

Then our new black (and rabidly anti-Second Amendment) Attorney General said the US is a racist nation and we're "a nation of cowards". Then he hinted at the return of Affirmative Action and racial quotas. I can see where this is going. Also, it's very ironic that he said we're cowards about talking frankly about race. This big protest over the cartoon is exactly why. Blacks and other minorities can say anything they please, but whites can't say anything without being accused of being "racist".

We've elected a black President and we have a black Attorney General, and all these idiots can do is bitch about how racist everything is. If we were as racist as the race-baiters claim, we would not have elected a black President.

Racist minorities who think it's OK for them to be as racist as they please, go around with a racist chip on their shoulder, look for imagined "racism" under every rock and in every story, and claim that anyone who disagrees with their outlandish opinions that, as a minority, they should have special rights, only increase the resentment of white males like me against them.

I don't give a rat's ass what color someone's skin is, but I do judge people by their behavior, and I'm damn sick of the minorities and their whining, reverse racism, and special treatment. Don Imus was fired for far less than what blacks say about whites every day. If a black had said what Imus had said, it would have been nothing. Black comedians routinely make jokes about whites, and that's ok. They frequently portray whites as square, uptight, clumsy doofuses, and get away with it. But let a white comedian say something that some black idiot looking for racism in everything decides is racist and see what happens. If what that moron New Orleans mayor said about wanting New Orleans to be a "chocolate city" had been said by a white person wanting a "vanilla city", loud-mouthed agitators like Sharpton would still be screaming about it years later. And then the weak people and politically-correct liberal fools knuckle under to the outrageous demands of these whiners, and they get away with it.

Just my opinion? Not so - here are comments from others, from CNN, all saying the same thing I am:

1. PHIL - Not only did the cartoonist clearly not intend to attack Obama specifically (anyone who has been within fifty feet of a news source over the past few weeks knows that he didn't write the stimulus package), it takes dedicated effort to find offense in this cartoon. This goes beyond hypersensitivity into the realm of the irrational. I'm disappointed that a columnist whom I usually admire would take such a puzzling turn. Projecting offensive intent in order to have something to write about is beneath you.

You chose what lens to use. A million things can be offensive if you want them to be, but are not intended to be and are not in any sort of objective analysis. What is the future of racism in this country: mutual understanding, acceptance and reconciliation or a bunch of old race warriors scanning every action for some hint of offense with which to keep themselves relevant?

Take offense where it is actually intended, not where you want it to be

2. FREEDOM OF SPEECH - Has anyone thought about the fact that many people compared George W. Bush to a chimp/monkey based on his goofy facial expressions? If everyone goes up in arms every time something comes close to being racist or a racial slur then we wont have time in this country to work at making it better. If the comic claims it wasn't a racial stab and is an upstanding citizen, let him apologize for the UN-intended slight, accept it, and move on.

3. MENTOR397 - Why is it okay to portray a president as a monkey for eight years but not his successor? Is this not an example of reverse racism right here?

4. BRAD - I'd like to add that if the cartoon had said "They'll have to find someone else to SIGN the next stimulus bill" rather than "WRITE", I'd wholeheartedly agree to a racist motive. But that just isn't the case.

5. LEON - Read the caption. It's not about who signed the stimulus bill, it's about who wrote it. Get a grip on reality. Anyone can infer what they want.

6. CALEB - People need to stop being so paranoid about racism. This was not racist, if your too ignorant to put together the two stories; one of a mad chimp and the other of a congress full of monkeys (which by the way i must be referring to Burris or any other political figure of color who would be affiliated with the stimulus bill) I mean people need to grow up and stopping making everything about race, this is the 21st century.

7. STEVE - Do you really think Obama wrote the stimulus bill? This is Reid and Pelosi's baby. Not Obama. If the cartoon said "sign" instead of "write" I would agree with you completely but this is a real stretch.

8. STEPHEN DOMINGUEZ - I'm not so sure I agree with this assessment, but I do think it's become too easy and predictable to play the race card. I think the editorial cartoon is more an indictment against against the real authors of this bill: Congress. Even a grade-schooler is taught the three branches of government, and the president is part of the executive branch. The legislative branch has an entirely different responsibility. I suggest you go back to school and revisit who actually writes legislation before dealing the card that everyone is sick of hearing about.

At work it's not uncommon to hear the sarcastic phrase: "a monkey could do your job..." Only an idiot with a racial agenda would take offense and miss the irony. Given the debate about the intelligence that went into this bill, I think monkeys should be insulted that we compared them to our congressmen.

9. BILL - It is time for Sharpton, Martin and any other person, black or not, that thinks the world revolves around the plight of the African American in the United States, to stop asking for special attention. Racism will only go away when race truly doesn't matter. Inferring insults when insults truly aren't implied doesn't help the cause.

10. THESWAMI - I thought it was funny and the humour was clearly aimed at the author(s) of the stimulus bill, regardless of who they are. Sharpton et al need to get over themselves.

11. JIMR - Ah, here we go. Wondered when this would start. So you're saying that this administration is off limits to the same parodies that wouldn't have raised an eyebrow in any previous administration. Just because they used a monkey immediately makes an attack on Obama. I think not! The meaning is that any monkey could have written that bill. I wondered how long it was going to take censorship of free speech was going to rear its ugly head with this administration just because the President is an African-American. We are treading on dangerous ground here people. We are continuing to keep the wounds open by interpreting ANY editorial attack on this administration as racist. This cartoon clearly was not. And continued attempts at censorship are only going to make the situation far worse.

12. LINDA - Oh come on, how many times was George Bush compared to a chimp? Or worse. He was repeatedly compared to Hitler and you didn't hear the media complaining about that. Must be a slow news day.

13. JOEY - It's moronic to think that EVERY reference to an ape or gorilla is a racist remark. What's next? Banning "Gorillas in the Mist"? Last I heard, Obama didn't write the stimulus bill, Congress did, so trying to tie this OBVIOUS reference to the Connecticut story to the President is a VERY VERY big stretch.
As for tying the Connecticut story and the stimulus bill story together, not everyone thinks the way the bill was handled was done with a lot of intelligence and thought, so it's not as hard to bridge the gap as you may think. There's a large part of the country that doesn't positively credit Obama for every single thing that happens in this nation, you know.

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and these comments about Holder's statement:

Alfred in Virginia writes, "Holder's comments inflame unnecessarily and are counter productive to his desired goal ..."

Lou in Florida says, "You and Holder are idiots! The only cowards are those in the media who feel an urge to be politically correct. This country elected a person of multiple ethnicity to its highest office. What more does this country have to do to demonstrate our color blindness?"

Jerry in Massachusetts: "Holder's speech was divisive and plays right into the hands of people who benefit from keeping us all divided."

November, 2008 - bad news ahead; our new socialist President is going to make the Klinton gang look like Barry Goldwater by comparison. Within hours of the election, the Obama transition team has announced its planned attacks on the Second Amendment. Quote from Valerie Jarrett, Co-Chair Obama Transition Team, on Meet The Press; "President-Elect Obama is prepared to take power and begin to rule on day 1" Funny; I thought we fought a revolution so that we wouldn't have a "ruler".

All of America is now on a guns & ammo buying spree - while the rest of the economy is reporting record drops in retail sales, guns and ammo are selling in record numbers, especially all the things we learned from the Klinton bans that will be the first to be banned under Obama. Every gun shop in the US is doing record volumes. One gun shop owner told me he'd sold more "black guns" in the 4 days since the election than in the previous 4 MONTHS. In the hour I was in his shop, I saw 2 ARs and an AK, plus lots of other stuff, get sold. Every gun & ammo supplier I know of is sold out. One major ammo supplier suspended new orders because he was 4,000 orders behind in the week since the election.

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