Terrorists, again, that is what myself and others are being called. Why? Did any of us blow up other people with bombs? Did we hold people hostage unless we got our way..? Nope, none of that. Nothing of the sort actually. We advocated the basic value of paying your bills, and not abusing credit. Hmm…
Definition of TERRORISM
: the systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion
So, advocating a social norm. That being paying your debts, is now an act of terrorism. At least according to the authoritarians that are running this nation into the ground.
But, it’s creeps like that who also advocate ex post facto law, and suppression of your civil rights. Just last year they were calling myself and others terrorists because we insisted upon exercising our rights, as defined within the Constitution and Bill of Rights…
Some time back I noted here that we are in fact heading toward a full blown depression, and I believe that this asinine response to the fiscal crisis that we are in by our so call leaders will only make it that much worse when it does hit. The politicos in swampy bottom remind me of children and Corporate types that are more focused on finger pointing and blame assignment than on solutions.
It must just be so much easier to blame TEA Party activists than to accept responsibility and personal accountability…
The Senate yesterday tabled an amendment by Senator Rand Paul which would have protected 4473’s and other gun records from blanket searches by the ATF under the PATRIOT Act.
While some Senators withstood the heat from their leadership to protect your gun rights, many others buckled under the Washington-generated pressure.
Voters are, again, not so pleased with Congress, so says USA Today / Gallup poll. (Wednesday May 18,2011, front page USA today, by Susan Page.)
No kidding..? My, my, I never would have guessed that… Seems that the peoples mandate was in fact ignored by many that reside in hallowed offices in foggy bottom.
Just say what people want to hear, and go on about your merry ways.
Well folks, that, is specifically what the TEA Party is all about. Make it local, and in their faces, period. All this national TEA Party noise simply ignores why people joined together in this movement against higher taxes and ever expanding government. Government that intrudes on your life, right at home… Texas Fred does a great job exposing threats such as intrusion by government under color of law HERE.
Perhaps greeting politicians locally that are failing with a pot of tar and an opened down pillow will open their collective eyes..?
On to other things.
Seems that Emergency Rooms are still going the way of the passenger pigeon. Yet, the various stories that I have read, or watched on the news have been quite politically correct, and refuse to acknowledge one of the primary causes of closures nationwide. Use by illegal aliens, and others, of Emergency Departments for primary care; with no intent whatsoever of paying for the services rendered. It’s called fraud people, plain and simply put.
The Socialist scum head of the IMF get’s popped for alleged sexual assault. All fine and good; however as pointed out by Michael Savage on his show the other evening no proof is needed in this day and age for a woman to be able to destroy a man simply based upon her complaint of sexual or domestic battery. Sorry Michael, but you did not lead the charge. Do a search of “mysandry.” Better late than never though, and welcome aboard!
The middle east… What a mess to say the least. I’ve been calling for Dear Leader Gadhafi’s head to adorn a fence post for more years than I care to admit to. But just who will run the place after he has been ousted..? More Muslim Brotherhood types? Simply exchanging one despot for a group of despots is no solution. Same thing goes for Syria. While we are at it (examining ) the region. The U.N. will be voting on recognition of the Palestinian National State soon. Since epic fail obama, and his cronies are forever kissing the butts of Arabs / Muslims I suppose we can all guess what sort of support Israel will get from the U.S. on this issue of great importance. What’s yet another friend tossed under the bus..?
The Queen visits Ireland. Land of my forefathers never forget “Bloody Sunday.” But at the same time don’t allow Erie to whither because of old grievances.
The economy continues to falter, while the administration continues to tell us all how great things are becoming. This is a recording… (or so it seems!) If this lie can be pulled off, the epic fail obama is indeed assured a second term, and the destruction of America will be at hand.
Our intrepid Congress returned from its Thanksgiving break Monday to take on several important items facing the nation, such as the looming tax increase for all Americans, fixes for some provisions of ObamaCare, the nuclear weapons treaty known as START and funding for the federal government itself. But before our elected representatives could tackle those important chores, they turned their attention to school lunches, a food “safety” bill and regulating volume for television commercials. Ain’t our republic grand?
First Lady Michelle Obama has made it her cause to fight childhood obesity. A fine goal, but not if it includes the $4.5 billion child nutrition bill headed to her husband’s desk. The legislation will supposedly improve the nutritional value of school lunches and take sugary snacks and drinks out of vending machines in schools. To pay for it, future funding for food stamps will take a hit. We’re sure that money will never actually be cut, but it looks good on paper.
The Senate, meanwhile, passed the Food Safety Bill, which would merely saddle the nation’s 2.2 million farms and 28,000 food producers with even more regulations and taxes. As The Wall Street Journal aptly put it, “maybe the bill won the votes of 13 Republicans because there was hardly any public controversy. These days, the government needs to take over entire industries to get anyone to notice.” However, House Democrats may block the bill — because it violates the Constitution. The legislation includes fees (a.k.a. taxes), and according to Article I, Section 7, “All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives.” Don’t be fooled, though. House Democrats aren’t concerned for the Constitution per se, only their own power to get this ball rolling.
Democrats are also set to vote on the quaintly named Commercial Advertising Loudness Mitigation, or CALM, Act, which will regulate the volume of ads on TV. The FCC received tens of thousands of complaints about blaring ads in the first quarter alone this year, but to those who say, “There oughta be a law,” be careful what you wish for — Congress is always willing to oblige.
In the meantime, a massive tax increase awaits all Americans if action isn’t taken to preserve current rates that expire on Dec. 31. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) engineered a rule-making vote that prevents Republicans from offering amendments to stop all of the Democrats’ tax increases from kicking in, and the House voted to extend rates for those earning less than $250,000 a year. Those earning more, i.e. small businesses, will be saddled with a job-killing tax hike. The White House and congressional Republicans are still trying to make a deal.
Senate Republicans have vowed to block legislation of any kind until bills dealing with taxes and funding the government are passed. It’s likely that a temporary extension of all tax rates will garner enough support from both parties to pass, but that merely kicks the can down the road. Rates should be lowered again and permanently, not raised, even if the economy improves. Congress should be focused on reducing taxes and cutting spending, not monkeying around in the school lunch room.
Socialists,from President Obama on down, look at the government as the
creator and administrator of rights. That is why even some on the left
liked the Heller and the McDonald decisions which overturned gun bans
in Washington, DC and Chicago.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m ecstatic that the Supreme Court ruled
against these the gun bans in these two cities. And I’d rather be in
our shoes today than in the Brady Campaign’s — as they saw their
arguments slapped down harshly by the Court.
So why then would some big-government types like these two decisions
— especially the McDonald case out of Chicago? Because in basing
their decision upon the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment, the
Justices perpetuated a false doctrine which has allowed the
Constitution to continue evolving.
The Due Process clause is the place where judges invent rights and
then decide how much the government can control them.
Gun Owners of America argued that the Court should have based its
decision on the Privileges or Immunities Clause of the 14th Amendment.
The Court would have then been using a definitive clause dealing with
rights of citizenship rather than the amorphous “substantive” Due
Process Clause where Courts have run wild and seldom come to
constitutionally-based conclusions.
Justices love the Due Process Clause because it has been interpreted
in such a way to allow judges to twist the Constitution to fit their
big-government world view. They love this approach because they love
righting “wrongs” based on what they THINK are “rights.”
President Obama complained on a Public Broadcasting radio interview,
when he was a state senator, that the Constitution only protects
negative rights and that such a limitation (in his view) must be
overcome. Obama made it quite clear that a constitutional republic
that is governed by our Constitution is antithetical to his socialism.
He talks of a right to health care, and a right to a comfortable
living, and, well, a right to anything the left thinks will help buy
votes.
Indeed, the role of government in the Founders’ Constitution is to
protect liberty, and no more. Socialists want government to provide
for everything, making the people dependent, even at the expense of
liberty.
The left is hoping to pit their understanding of the 14th Amendment
where courts create rights against the Tenth Amendment. They argue
that the Fourteenth Amendment, being enacted after the Tenth, trumps
the earlier amendment. That is why they are so eager to inject their
view of government-created rights into the 14th Amendment.
If the government is the creator of rights, then the government must
be protected from the people. That means they cannot allow any notion
that the Second Amendment is intended to be a check on the
unconstitutional exercise of federal power. The constitutional militia
was intended to be an instrument of the states to protect their
citizens from the federal government (by legal definition throughout
the colonies). All freemen were required to own military long arms.
Wyoming is on the right path. Wyoming has a Firearms Freedom Act which
“interposes” Wyoming against all federal laws involving a firearm
made in the state and which remains in the state. Unlike the other
seven states with identical laws, Wyoming makes violation of the act
by a federal official a state offense punishable by up to 365 days in
jail. Had they added one more day to the potential penalty, any
conviction would result in the loss of gun rights under 18 USC 922(g)
for any federal official who violates their law.
States and county sheriffs are going to need to take the militia
clauses of the Constitution seriously. Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa
County (Phoenix), Arizona has a posse of 3,000. If Arizona were to
create a State Guard and encourage sheriffs to beef up their posse
strength to levels analogous to Maricopa County, and if other states
were to follow suit, the federal government would be less inclined to
assume that there are no limits to their powers.
Such an outcome will not come about until we understand that there is
no conflict between the Tenth and the Fourteenth Amendments, and that
rights come from God, not from government. Government-made
“rights” are the “wrong” rights.
Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA) introduced legislation for the lame-duck session that would repeal right-to-work laws in 22 states. Currently, workers in those states employed in unionized companies can choose whether to join the union and pay dues. In the other 28 states, known as “forced dues” states, it’s legal for unions to mandate that all workers pay union dues and to fire workers who don’t comply. This is a blatantly obvious power grab by unions and their minions in the Democrat Party. Sherman disguises it as an attempt to level the playing field for “forced dues” states like his native California that “have to compete with the race to the bottom as our companies have to compete with those where the workers would like better wages, working conditions and benefits but are unable to organize to get them.”
Sherman is either incorrect or just plain lying about the fact that workers in right-to-work states don’t have the right to unionize. Nothing prevents unionizing in these states other than workers’ votes. Furthermore, while he’s correct that California businesses are losing out to right-to-work states, that’s because unions have put such a squeeze on companies to enrich their own bank accounts that many choose not to set up shop there. Others have simply moved to other states.
Rep. Ted Poe (R-TX) introduced legislation that would require the president to deploy a minimum of 10,000 National Guard troops to the southern border in an effort to stem the tide of illegal immigration. “The uniqueness of this,” said Poe, is that the troops “would be paid by the federal government, because everybody says it is the responsibility of the federal government to protect the border. So the federal government will use the resources it already has to pay for those 10,000 National Guard troops, but they will be supervised by the governors of the four states on the border.”
In other news, the House is waiting on the Senate to take action on some 420 bills it has passed since January 2009. We never thought we’d say it, but we’re thankful for the 111th Senate.
Amid the mortifying prospect of having to face the voters in one month, congressional Democrats voted to abandon ship and head for home. They hope to boost their poll numbers and stem the Republican tide, but their odds aren’t good. The unfinished business they left won’t help, either.
The House vote to adjourn was 210-209, a cynically calculated margin that gave House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) the deciding vote. Vulnerable Democrats staged a minor revolt as 39 of them voted to stay in session in order to extend the Bush tax cuts, which are an issue, of course, because Democrats forced a sunset provision on them in 2001 and 2003. Democrats are willing to “sunset” tax cuts but not spending tax dollars on unconstitutional boondoggles.
One imperiled Democrat, Rep. Zack Space (D-OH), said, “I think that small business, big business, individuals, have a right to expect some certainty. The longer we keep this [tax issue] open, the more uncertainty there is. Our economy is such that I don’t think we can afford that. I just think we need to deal with this. That’d be the responsible thing.” Forty-seven House Democrats signed on to a letter to Pelosi urging the extension of all the Bush tax cuts, and yet only 39 saw fit to vote against adjournment, thereby possibly letting them expire. Hmm.
Of course, Pelosi, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) and other Democrats are too busy waging class warfare to care. As White House adviser David Axelrod spins it, Republicans are “going to have to explain to their constituents why they’re holding up tax cuts for the middle class. And I think it’s an untenable position to say, ‘We’re going to allow your taxes to go up on January 1st unless the president agrees to give tax cuts to millionaires and billionaires.'” In truth, Democrats would rather taxes go up on everybody than to suffer the “rich” (i.e., small business owners) to keep what’s theirs.
Instead of addressing taxes and taking that back to their constituents, the Senate likewise voted to adjourn, and Congress will hold a two-week lame-duck session beginning Nov. 15. Before they fled the swamp, both chambers passed a stopgap measure to fund the government until Dec. 3. After all, with the fiscal year having started today, this fear-stricken Congress has yet to pass any of the 13 appropriations bills for 2011. Apparently, voter anger over skyrocketing deficits hasn’t fallen on completely deaf ears.
Democrats are prioritizing a series of leftist wish-list items they want to ram through in that lame-duck session, including repealing Don’t-Ask-Don’t-Tell, providing citizenry for American-born children of illegal immigrants, extending unemployment benefits (already at 99 weeks), continuing a freeze of cuts for doctors’ Medicare reimbursement payments, etc. However, there’s little chance that many of these items will see the light of the debate floor, considering that all of them failed at some stage already. Still, Democrats seem determined to go out in a blaze of glory.
Quote of the Day: “Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated.” – Thomas Paine, The Crisis, 1776
Congress is coming back for a brief session before the election. At the top of their to-do list is new taxes. They need your guidance . . .
You can borrow from or copy my sample letter . . .
I understand that Congress will be considering whether or not to extend the tax cuts passed during the Bush administration. Please be clear about this . . .
* The problem with our economy is NOT that we pay too little in taxes, but that we pay too much.
* The cure for our economy is NOT to raise taxes, but to cut government spending and all the meddling you guys do.
* In addition, please don’t think you’ll win praise from me by only raising taxes on the so-called wealthiest Americans. These are precisely the people who finance new products, services, and jobs.
* Yes, the deficit is a concern. Address the concern by CUTTING SPENDING, not by raising taxes.
The fiasco that is today’s beltway is much more than a bunch of clowns on parade. Indeed what is going on smacks of real treason, and should be dealt with as such…
Impeach obama, and tar and feather those that have worked to destroy the United States of America! Others are far more eloquent at stating the case for doing so.
Read just one of such essays HERE. Yes, it’s pretty long, but well worth your time.
The things that you get from an Engineer!
AS YOU READ THROUGH THIS VERSION OF THE FAMOUS CHRISTMAS TALE, I THINK
YOU'LL
COME TO THE SAME CONCLUSION I HAVE. IT MUST HAVE BEEN WRITTEN BY THE
CONGRESSMEN
WHO WROTE THAT 2000 PAGE HEALTH CARE BILL. ROA
> Technical Night
Before Christmas
>
> 'Twas the Night Before Christmas' as written by
a technical
> writer for a firm that does Gov't
contracting...
>
> 'Twas the nocturnal segment of the diurnal period
preceding
> the annual Yuletide celebration, and throughout our place
of
> residence, kinetic activity was not in evidence among the
>
possessors of this potential, including that species of
> domestic rodent
known as Mus musculus. Hosiery was
> meticulously suspended from the
forward edge of the wood
> burning caloric apparatus, pursuant to our
anticipatory
> pleasure regarding an imminent visitation from an
eccentric
> philanthropist among whose folkloric appellations is
the
> honorific title of St. Nicholas.
>
> The prepubescent
siblings, comfortably ensconced in their
> respective accommodations of
repose, were experiencing
> subconscious visual hallucinations of
variegated fruit
> confections moving rhythmically through their
cerebrums. My
> conjugal partner and I, attired in our nocturnal
head
> coverings, were about to take slumberous advantage of the
>
hibernal darkness when upon the avenaceous exterior portion
> of the
grounds there ascended such a cacophony of dissonance
> that I felt
compelled to arise with alacrity from my place
> of repose for the purpose
of ascertaining the precise source
> thereof.
>
> Hastening to
the casement, I forthwith opened the barriers
> sealing this fenestration,
noting thereupon that the lunar
> brilliance without, reflected as it was
on the surface of a
> recent crystalline precipitation, might be said to
rival
> that of the solar meridian itself - thus permitting my
>
incredulous optical sensory organs to behold a miniature
> airborne
runnered conveyance drawn by eight diminutive
> specimens of the genus
Rangifer, piloted by a minuscule,
> aged chauffeur so ebullient and nimble
that it became
> instantly apparent to me that he was indeed our
anticipated
> caller. With his ungulate motive power travelling at
what
> may possibly have been more vertiginous velocity than
>
patriotic alar predators, he vociferated loudly, expelled
> breath
musically through contracted labia, and addressed
> each of the octet by
his or her respective cognomen - "Now
> Dasher, now Dancer..." et al. -
guiding them to the
> uppermost exterior level of our abode, through
which
> structure I could readily distinguish the concatenations
of
> each of the 32 cloven pedal extremities.
>
> As I
retracted my cranium from its erstwhile location, and
> was performing a
180-degree pivot, our distinguished
> visitant achieved - with utmost
celerity and via a downward
> leap - entry by way of the smoke passage. He
was clad
> entirely in animal pelts soiled by the ebony residue
from
> oxidations of carboniferous fuels which had accumulated on
>
the walls thereof. His resemblance to a street vendor I
> attributed
largely to the plethora of assorted playthings
> which he bore dorsally in
a commodious cloth receptacle.
>
> His orbs were scintillant with
reflected luminosity, while
> his submaxillary dermal indentations gave
every evidence of
> engaging amiability. The capillaries of his malar
regions
> and nasal appurtenance were engorged with blood which
>
suffused the subcutaneous layers, the former approximating
> the
coloration of Albion's floral emblem, the latter that of
> the Prunus
avium, or sweet cherry. His amusing sub- and
> supralabials resembled
nothing so much as a common loop
> knot, and their ambient hirsute facial
adornment appeared
> like small, tabular and columnar crystals of frozen
water.
>
> Clenched firmly between his incisors was a smoking
piece
> whose grey fumes, forming a tenuous ellipse about his
>
occiput, were suggestive of a decorative seasonal circlet of
> holly. His
visage was wider than it was high, and when he
> waxed audibly mirthful,
his corpulent abdominal region
> undulated in the manner of impectinated
fruit syrup in a
> hemispherical container. He was, in short, neither more
nor
> less than an obese, jocund, multigenarian gnome, the optical
>
perception of whom rendered me visibly frolicsome despite
> every effort
to refrain from so being. By rapidly lowering
> and then elevating one
eyelid and rotating his head slightly
> to one side, he indicated that
trepidation on my part was
> groundless.
>
> Without utterance
and with dispatch, he commenced filling
> the aforementioned appended
hosiery with various of the
> aforementioned articles of merchandise
extracted from his
> aforementioned previously dorsally transported
cloth
> receptacle. Upon completion of this task, he executed an
>
abrupt about- face, placed a single manual digit in lateral
>
juxtaposition to his olfactory organ, inclined his cranium
> forward in a
gesture of leave-taking, and forthwith effected
> his egress by
renegotiating (in reverse) the smoke passage.
> He then propelled himself
in a short vector onto his
> conveyance, directed a musical expulsion of
air through his
> contracted oral sphincter to the antlered quadrupeds
of
> burden, and proceeded to soar aloft in a movement hitherto
>
observable chiefly among the seed-bearing portions of a
> common weed. But
I overheard his parting exclamation,
> audible immediately prior to his
vehiculation beyond the
> limits of visibility: "Ecstatic Yuletide to the
planetary
> constituency, and to that self same assemblage, my
sincerest
> wishes for a salubriously beneficial and gratifyingly
>
pleasurable period between sunset and dawn."
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