When in the course of human events....

Is it just me, or is anyone else concerned about the increasingly domineering role that government plays in our lives?

In just the last week, a 6 year old cub scout was suspended from school for bringing an eating utensil to school, and an Eagle Scout with aspirations of attending West Point was suspended for 20 days because the survival pack he kept locked in his car contained a pocket knife with a two inch blade. Mindless but enpowered bureaucrats blindly enforcing draconian regulations designed to keep our kids safe. Who protects our kids from the bureaucrats?

Last year, a kid we know pants another kid at school. To most, a school yard prank that deserved at least detention, and at most suspension. The Vice-Principal handling the matter was required by ' school board policy' to contact the school's Police Liason officer because the act constituted an 'assault' and resulted in 'indecent exposure'. Both the kids involved were 12 years old. The vice principal was following a regulation that could have resulted in a 12 year old boy being branded for life as a 'sex offender' because he pants another kid at school. Under that criteria, most of my friends from Jr.High were chronic sex offenders. Who protects our kids from the School Board?

Following nearly every incident involving a gun that makes the news, the immedate reaction among legislators (federal, state and local) is to loudly demand stricter gun control laws. Are these people oblivious to the fact that the criminals are already ignoring the umpteen zillion gun control laws that already exist? Do these morons think that the thugs will read the new law, and suddenly decide that this one new law is the straw that broke the camels back, and that they will now abandon their criminal ways? Nope. You and I will be the ones who obay the law, whose effect is to disarm those who would be victims. The irony is that the thugs, when caught, often get leniency due to a life of deprivation and hardship, and having grown up in a bad neighborhood. Watch what happens when you or I, people who have jobs, pay taxes and participate in the community, violate a gun law that we didn't even know existed. Who protects us from our government?

When in the course of human events.....

A Time of Change

Little over a year ago, my family visited Gettysburg. We walked to grounds, stood among the ghosts, and told the story of that awful war to my son. Prior to that day, he knew that there had been an American Civil War, but he really didn't know why. He understood that President Lincoln had freed the slaves, that good had triumphed, and the world became a better place.

We stood on top of Little Round Top and peered downing into the Valley of Death, and talked about history. We talked about how it must have felt to be a soldier ordered to advance through that tiny valley. My son climbed on the bolders where sharpshooters once hid, and his far away look told me he was thinking about what had taken place on this ground. We walked across some of the ground where the 131st Mississippi suffered 100% casualties during Pickett's Charge, and I told him that was the entire student body of The University of Mississippi.

If you ask most people about the causes of the Civil War, they will tell you it was fought to end slavery in this country. It is true that the war did result in the end of that terrible institution. Sadly, that is generally recognized as 'The' cause of the war. It is simply not true, but a case of the victor writing the history that they 'prefere' over the history that 'was'.

No one in their right mind can defend the practice or institution of slavery. If that was what the war was about, who can say the Union was wrong?

But if the war was about Slavery, why did South Carolina fire on the Union Navy approaching Fort Sumter? Did they fear that the Union Navy was about to free all the Slaves held in the Union fort?

No, the shooting didn't start because of a threat to slavery. It started because South Carolina refuesed to pay unjust taxes and rejected northern political domination. The Confederate Battle flags that flew as hundreds of thousands of young men struggled to their deaths stood not for the enslavement of man, but for his freedom. The cannons that pummeled Fort Sumter drove out those who would blockaid the harbor for the collection of the Merril Tarrifs. The first shots of the war were fired in the same spirit as the battle at Bunker Hill...in defiance of collection of taxes.

There was a time when you could tell this story, and help people understand why so many men fought and died so valiantly for so long. There was a time when it was important that we as a people remembered what it took to create our great country, when we as a people understood the sacrifices that were made by our forbearers and appreciated the legacy of wealth, prosperity and freedom that they left to us.

But, times have changed.

Today, we don't value history. We don't understand freedom. The federal government is about to redistribute our wealth, to tax us over greenhouse gasses, and force a federal health insurance program on us. Every where you look, the government is taking money you and I have sacraficed and worked to earn, and is giving it to someone else to support programs that we are absolutely opposed to. Where once we stood for democracy and freedom, today our government is finding common ground with dictators and petty despots. The cult of personality surrounding the presidency diminishes the office, and insults the individual sovoriegnity of the American People. It certainly has been a time of change.

Which way to Charlston Harbor? Imagine the courage it took to say "Hell no!" and to touch off that first cannon.

Our cannons are the ballot box.

Remember in November.

You Might Be a Racist if.....

You might be a racists if.....
.....you are opposed to unilateral nuclear disarmament. I believe that the United States ought to have clear and unmistakable nuclear deterance.
.....you do not believe that we should halt construction of the ballistic missile shield in Eastern Europe.
.....you do not believe that our health care issues can be solved by a massive federal program, but rather by common sense tort reform and other similar measures.
.....you believe that anything that allies us with Danial Ortega, Hugo Chavez, and Fidel Castro is probably a mistake.
.....you do not believe that taxing me will stop global warming.
.....you do not believe that the president has any business discussing politics with school children.
....you do not believe that pulling of Afganistan is right. If the terrorists win, we lose.

Just a Thought

It's Political Campaign time.

Just a thought.....

A Vote for your Democrat Representative to Congress is a Vote for Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.

He have brought home the bacon for 30 years, but Nancy is going to fix health care for you and me.

He may be your children's Godfather, but Nancy is ramming Cap and Trade down our throats.

He may be your best friend, but remember, a government big enough to solve all your problems is a government big enough to take all you have.

Palintology

I like Sarah Palin because she isn't an ' elitist intellectual'. She didn't go to an Ive League School and most importantly she speaks plain english.

I like Sarah Palin because she is a soccer mom acting on her values, not a political hack or meglomaniac persuing a life long dream of political power. She's not out to establish "economic" justice or 'fix' the Constitution. Sarah Palin is a soccer mom who got angry at her city council for doing things she thought were wrong. She got involved and she won a seat on the council. Next, she became mayor, and finally she became governor. All this, because she didn't like the way things were being done. She wasn't elected because she is a woman. She was elected because a lot of people agreed with her ideas about what was wrong with government.

I like Sarah Palin because she is not the product of an corrupt political machine. Instead, she fought one and put a lot of theiving bastards in the penitentary. She is unsophistocated, which really is just saying that someone can still tell the difference between right and wrong and makes no appologies about it. If Alaskan oil money couldn't buy her, then she can't be bought.

I like Sarah Paline because she doesn't believe the government should be a provider health care, homes, food, cars or jobs. She does not believe that the government should take money away from those who earn it and give it to those who do not. She believes that the government should encourage prosperity, not penalize it; that the government should guarantee equal opportunity for prosperity, not equal access to the fruits of another's prosperity.

I like Sara Palin because no one has to tell her that an American President bows to no man. She knows that we fought a war about that in 1776. She understands that if you need gasoline, then you need oil. and if you need oil, then you have to drill for it, and if you need gasoline you have to refine the oil.

The thing that I think I like the most about Sarah Palin is that she scares the bejesus out of the Democrat nut case leftwingers and the hack corp of the Republican Party. Just mentioning her name drives both into a frenzy. They are absolutely horrified of her because the values they have seen in how she conducts her life are those of middle America. They are the values of farmers, and small bussiness owners, of carpenters, and truck drivers, doctors and country lawyers. They aren't phoney photo op values, but Norman Rockwell values of a good, and honest people doing good and honest things. Those values resonate with the real world.

The Left wingnutts are always better at identifying conservative leaders than the Republicans are, and both are scared to death. The Republican hacks know that the truth of her words and the validity of her record will peel the bark off of many of them and set the rest afire. Because she is a bona fide middle American, she is being assailed by windnutts and hacks. They fear her because they see her for what she is: honest.

They say she has no practical foreign policy experience. That may be a good thing. Though President Obama doesn't have any either, Biden and Hillary have 'mountains' of it, and they still can't send a clear message to any body on anything. I think GovernorPalin will do ok. She has no military experiance either, though I suspect her hunting experience has taught her that if a bear is charging at her, it is a good idea to shoot the bear before he is able to actually attack her. Unlike President Obama, Biden and Hillary, she'll understand that radical Islam is a charging bear who has already attacked more than once. She'll shoot the bear, and won't appologize for it. She has no experience with 'universal' health care, but she has enough sense to understand that America simply doesn't want it. She has never run a car company, but then again, our country never owned one before. She has never run banks or a mortage industry, but again, our country has never owned them before either. That was the Soviet Union. I would suspect she'll find a way to get these back where they belong in private sector. Because she sprang from local politics, I suspect that she respects local preferences and state sovorignity more than any president in recent memory. She may be our best hope to limit the dead hand of federal power.


I like Sarah Palin because she's angry about the same things that I am angry about. I like Sarah Palin because her idea of government help isn't a handout or a hold-up....oops...I mean a 'tax'. Her idea of government help is to get government off our backs, off our minds and out of our pockets. It's not government's responsibility to spend my earnings, it's mine. It's my government's responsibility to defend the boarders. Que Pasa Amigo?

I like Sarah Palin, and I think Thomas Jefferson would have liked her, too. I know she likes Thomas Jefferson, and Madison, and Washington. I believe in the United States Constitution and I like Sarah Palin because she believes in the United States Constitution, too.

What do you believe in?

Nine Out of Ten Morons Agree

Recently a friend commented to me that I ought to be glad that my Social Security dollars were not invested in the stock market as some had advocated a few years ago. After the meltdown of the last year or so, IRA and other investments are worth a lot less today than they were 18 months ago. As the econonmy continutes to crap out, and as President Obama struggles to get things moving again, the market will continue to be a very 'risky' place to put our retirement funds, my friend maintains.

Though tragic, at that moment, I realized that my friend is a moron.

Though my investments have lost roughly a third of their value, I still have them. I own them . They are mine. With Social Security, I have nothing but a 'deal' with the government. The government promised that they would take money from me each payday, which they did. In exchange, starting at 65 years of age, Social Security would send me a stipend for the rest of my natural life. Hmmm....not a bad deal...especially with life expectancies approaching 80 years.

Ah, but there is a catch in the giddy-up. Social Security will be broke in just a few years. This isn't news. We have known that it was acturiarly unsound for several decades. The weasles we send to Washington have not had the guts to fix it, thought they did figure out that if they give Social Security benefits to illegal aliens who 'follow a path' to citizenship, they will have a whole new class of paupers dependant on govenrment handouts for their existance.

After a lifetime of being coerced into contributing to and relying on a government promise of a retirement fund, the benefits side of the promise is about to be changed. Unless you are one of the thousands of illegal aliens who have never contributed to the program but whom the government wants to grant Social Security benefits to, the benefits side of that government 'promise' are about to change for the worse. The reality is that those who have contributed the most to this program are about to become the ones who recieve the least.

My 401k is invested in the America. I contribute to it every month. No matter whether the market is going up, or going down, I put a percentage of my income each month into my retirement accounts. I put my faith in free enterprise and capitalism. Through diversification and prudence, I protect my funds as a shepherd protects his flock, and I pray that President Obama doesn't nationalize anything have an interest in. ( It's really just a fancy way of saying the government stole a business.)

My friend laughed when I told him that I had lost roughly a third of my portfolio's value.

I asked him what he had. He said he had Barak Obama and Social Security.

I laughed.

You can't fix stupid.

The Obama Imperial Court

In the next few days, the Senate will confirm a racist, social engineer to become a member of the United States Supreme Court. Though she denied it during her sworn testimony before the Senate, the trail of her history on the Appeals Court betray her to be an 'activist judge'.

What is an 'Activist Judge'?

For starters, an activist judge is much smarter than you or I. They know what is best, and see it as their responsibity to use the power of their role and position to achieve their personal aims, regardless of what the Framers of the Constitution actually intended, regardless of laws that Congress passes, and regardless of what the people have voted on.

An activist judge is a judge who can find rights and meanings in the Consititution and laws that are not actually written there, and one who can fail to find rights, limitations and meanings that are cenumerated and learly spelled out.

An activist judge is a judge who 'makes law' from the bench. The activist judge is an un-elected super judical legislative functionary who believes that they are enpowered to shape society as they see fit; a super-judicial legislative functionary to solve our problems for us and who is appointed for life.

A activist judge is a judge who doesn't see their mission as the persuit of equal justice all. A activist judge is an advocate for a point of view, and will use their position to advance that point of view regardless of the provisions of the Constitution and the actions Congress.

Now, we have an Activist Judge testifying in Confirmation hearings and about to become member of the United States Supreme Court.

The most damning thing about the Sotomoyor confirmation hearings is that she is lying under oath. It is obvious to everyone on both sides of the isle in the Senate. The good judge knows that her her radical judical history would, in the minds of most Americans, disqualify her for the Supreme Court. Honest and fair minded people want justice based on the facts and the law, and not on their skin color or ethnicity. Judge Sotomoyor knows this, otherwise she would not have denied racist and manipulative past in her testimony.

Her racist comment about a 'wise latina woman' making better decisions than a 'white man' would have disqualified anyone else. Anyone else would be run out of Washington, and probably lose their Appelate Court position. Can you imagine if a white man had said that a 'white man' would make better decisions that a 'wise latina woman'? Several years ago, Senator Trent Lott said nice things to a 90 year old retiring collegue, and was stripped of his Senate post by jackels screaming 'racist'. Where are the jackels now? They are about to confirm Judge Sotomoyor.

Call your Senator. Tell them to oppose this person. This woman isn't really a judge. A judge applies the law. She is an activist. Her interest isn't justice. It's advancing her particular ideology. Is that what we expect from a Supreme Court Judge, or even a municipal judge?

Apparently, justice depends on the color of your skin.

Welcome to The Imperial Court in Obama's World.