Nothing Succeeds Like Success

If I hear one more person tell me that I must, without preconditions come together and unite behind Obama and pray for the success of his administration I swear I am going to put a drill in my ear. Just what would success look like? If he succeeds in doing what he said that he wants to it will be the end of our republic, freedoms and Constitution, as we know them. I will not and cannot hope for that brand of change. Certainly I pray that no misfortune befalls him or his family, but I must pray that his stated plans come to nothing. Those plans must be opposed and defeated at every turn. I will pray for the successful survival of our nation through his one-term (God-willing) foray on the Presidential stage. Hopefully no external force will prevail against us, though rumblings in the Middle East, Russia and Venezuela don’t bode well. Likewise I pray that no internal mischief rears its head during this term. Our economic, cultural and institutional foundations should be strong enough to endure four years of Jimmy Carter redux, and then some; barring some catastrophic event. So let’s pray against catastrophic events and for 41 ‘no’ votes in the Senate.

Signs of the Times

During the months leading up to the election we had the Obama Campaign Seal (an offshoot of the Presidential Seal). Now at his first press conference we have the sign of the Office of the President Elect. Is there also a sign for the Bathroom of the President Elect? How about an insignia for the BVD's of the President Elect? Does anyone see a pattern here? Dr. Phil call your office.

Speaking of Birth Certificates...

OK. now that the election is over. let's have a look at that mysteriously sealed BHO Hawaiian birth certificate. Does it refute the claim of his paternal grandmother that she was present in the delivery room when he was born in Kenya, Africa? Is it a forgery? Are there matching records at any hospital in Hawaii? Let's clear the air of this once and for all. What's to hide or be afraid of?

Obituary or Birth Certificate?

R.I.P. United States of America
1776-2009

Our 220 year experiment in constitutional republicanism is now drawing to a close. We face a ‘fundamental transformation’ into some vague poorly defined brave new world. After 40 years of pathetic public education and welfare payments we will now reap the results of government of the uninformed, by the uninformed and for the uninformed. The ‘something-for-nothing’ crowd has succeeded in selecting the most liberal, radical, socialist and inexperienced president in American history. The prospects for the safety and well-being of the ‘New America’ are chilling. Rather than uniting the country this election has the potential to be drastically polarizing, further accentuating the divide between producers and takers, haves and have-nots and, yes black and white. The Obama team constantly raised the race issue, while all the time claiming it was McCain. I do not believe that this issue is now settled, but rather heightened. I lost count of how many times I heard the chant, “He’s black, it’s our turn, we don’t care (or probably even know) what he stands for.” Unity my…as…k me later.

Please know that I have no intention of playing the dutiful role of ‘loyal opposition.’ The only thing that I am loyal to is Truth. I do however absolutely oppose the new administration. I firmly believe that Barack Hussein Obama is evil and evil must be vigorously opposed at every juncture. His personal belief about abortion and babies born alive after failed abortions is sufficient for me to clearly brand him as evil. No other issue is needed. And no other belief mitigates or negates that position. As such I must fight to utterly and completely politically destroy him and his policies as fast as I can. There is no virtue in dancing with the devil. While I pray for his and his family’s safety and that he would have a genuine transforming encounter with Christ, beyond that I must pray that his administration succeeds no more than the builders of Babel. The damage which could be done in the next few short years could take decades to undo, if at all. The legacy which he could leave in the federal judiciary will last for generations.

So who now protects and defends the Constitution?

Here is what we face:

-Further abridgement of the First Amendment: The ‘Fairness Doctrine’
-Further abridgement of the Second Amendment: Confiscatory taxes and registration requirements on the purchase and ownership of guns and ammunition with the intent of ultimately disarming the citizenry
-Abridgement of the Fourth Amendment: Unreasonable search and seizure and not being secure in our homes as witness the unprecedented assault on ‘Joe the Plumber’ and various media figures and outlets that dared to speak against the O
-No guarantee of life for unborn children and even children born alive after failed abortions
-Further Abridgement of the Fifth Amendment: The Kelo decision revisited?
-Further ignoring the Ninth and Tenth Amendments
-Open borders and unfettered illegal immigration leading to an invasion and assault upon our sovereignty and treasury of unparalleled proportions
-Gutting our national defense making us more vulnerable in a dangerous world
-Negotiating with and appeasing terrorists
-Socialist economic policies which will destroy the engine that pulls the train of prosperity
-An acceleration of the blatantly unconstitutional policies of the federal government including socialized healthcare, Medicare, Social In-security, a federal minimum wage and most federal programs and spending
-A federal judiciary filled with judges who legislate from the bench and shred the Constitution with no check or balance by the Congress and President

I hereby withdraw any allegiance, respect, loyalty and recognition for the new Obama administration, Congress and the federal judiciary. I consider myself a citizen of the ‘Old America’ living in exile within the borders of my sovereign state. Barack Hussein Obama is NOT MY President; he is the President of the thugs and hoodlums who elected him. I know; I stood on a major street corner last night waving McCain signs while carloads of young thugs and hoodlums drove by flipping us off and shouting obscenities about John McCain. These are the people you can thank for putting B.O. in the White House. Just another reason to raise the voting age to 25, and maybe require property ownership to vote, as well as not allowing people to vote who don’t pay taxes or receive welfare. Well, just a fleeting thought.

So, as our freedoms and liberties dissolve, wealth, business and jobs flee offshore, our enemies circle the wagons, the takers fleece the producers and the feds nationalize and bail out everything in sight; I urge the true American patriot remnant in exile to keep their collective powder dry. We once fought a war to overthrow tyranny and retain the right to do so again if, God forbid that is ever necessary. Short of that we must do everything within our power to retain and regain our Constitutional guarantees. And may God have mercy upon us all. God Bless you and God Bless America. God save the republic!

“Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God”
--Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin

Wednesday, November 05, 2008

ps

Just joined the N.R.A. and went out and bought some extra ammo. Just because I still can.

The Suitcoats are Coming, the Suitcoats are Coming!

So, if McCain wins we will have a second Civil War and if BO wins we will have to have a second Revolutionary War to retake the country.

Up in Smoke

If BO smokes a ciagrette and nobody sees him, does he need free healthcare?

Obama Logos

Flush twice, it's a long way to D.C.

A mind is a terrible thing to waste.

Two for the Road

Two quick suggestions for the good of the Republic.
First: The voting age should be raised to at least 25. Based upon the discussions that I have had with kids in the 18-24 voting demographic and interviews that I have heard on the radio, I don't think that they are ready to vote. That's not a slam at them, they just don't have the life experiences yet to understand what is at stake and how things work. They haven't bought a house, started a family, really paid income taxes or held a job for very long. Many are still in school, not always the best training ground for life. At this age many are still struggling with their religious philosophy. I have heard the argument that we shouldn't send kids off to fight in a war if they can't vote. I don't buy it. If they can vote and go to war at 18, why can't they drink until 21? We have our kids do things all the time without allowing them to participate in the decision process. And now the military is all-volunteer, not draft-based. Each one of these policies should be based upon its own merits.
Second: We must, as a first step in tax reform (hopefully culminating in a national sales tax, not a V.A.T.) abolish the temporary emergency WWII policy of employer income tax withholding and have people actually write the checks and mail them in every year to pay their federal income taxes. The cry for reform would instantly drown out everything else. And we will instantly discover that the politicians don't really trust the people to pay their own taxes. Well, guess what, we don't trust the politicians to do much of anything!
So there, that's a start.

Love is in the Air!

Hey Chris Matthews, would you and BO please get a room! At least he does probably smoke after sex. Let us know!

Now is the Time for All Good Men

I have written extensively about the federal government’s drift away from its constitutional moorings over the last forty years, culminating with President Bush signing the patently unconstitutional mortgage take-over bill several weeks ago. Now the prospect of a President Obama (God forbid) yoked up with Pelosi and Reid looms large on the Republic’s horizon. Such an unholy troika would devastate what remains of our constitutional liberties and protections. He would pack the federal judiciary and Supreme Court with far-left radical activist judges who would change the legal and cultural landscape for generations for the worse. Barry has even voiced his support for a long-touted second Bill of Rights which would include a federal constitutional right to a job, a home and health care. Not to mention the backdoor disarming of the citizenry and a no-holds-barred abortion juggernaut. On top of these abominations he would gut the military, one of the few legitimate and critical federal functions thereby ceding our vital positions around the globe to those who would cut off our oil and our heads.

This anti-constitutional orientation infects all three branches of the federal government and sadly both political parties, though I would judge that there is a much greater dose of it in the Democrat party. Lord Acton was quite right when he observed that, “Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Judge R. Barclay Surrick of the federal district court in Philadelphia stated in his dismissal of Democrat Philip Berg’s suit questioning the birth certificate of Barack that we mere people have no standing to raise constitutional issues about our candidates running for President. His belief is that only the Congress has such standing. Are you kidding?! So our only recourse against constitutional infractions is to wait for Congress to bring the issue forth? They are as guilty and complicit or more of such heinous constitutional infractions as Obama. That’s tantamount to me handing a pistol to a thief breaking into my home in the dead of night and begging him to arrest himself! We the people through our states own the Constitution. We do indeed have standing. The federal government does not own and is not a party to the constitution. The states wrote it and created the federal government to serve the needs of the states and at their pleasure, not vice versa. The states are not mere governmental subdivisions of the federal government. The federal government is charged to provide for the common defense and promote the general welfare of the states and the people through the very specific enumerated powers and restrictions within Article I, Section 8 and the various amendments. And that’s it! It is NOT carte blanche for the federal government to tax, spend, regulate and run every minute aspect of American life.

Now is the time for the people acting through their states to rise up and enforce the absolute tenets of the constitution upon the federal government. We must not be intimidated. The states can amend the constitution and call a constitutional convention. I hope it does not come to a convention. Let me say that I am not an advocate of state secession, but I do think that states should consider ways that they can reign in a rogue federal government and perhaps operate as more sovereign, independent states while remaining within the republic. States choosing not to participate in unconstitutional federal programs would become laboratories of liberty which would attract or repel people and industry based upon their success or failure. As a parting thought I pray that we do not take up arms over these issues as we did in 1775 and 1860. That course of action though is the final recourse of a people oppressed by tyranny. It is for this reason that the Second Amendment was written into the Bill of Rights. History teaches that one of the first actions taken by a despot is to confiscate the people’s arms. What better way to protect himself from forced removal? The American people must never cede that right. Let’s look back to our very own Declaration of Independence for guidance from our Founding Fathers:

…”We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”…

And a few final thoughts from Thomas Jefferson, the liberal’s favorite Founding Father:

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants."

"Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God."

God save the Republic!

October 29, 2008

When Judges Won't Judge--Punt

Hey "Judge" R. Barclay Surrick of Philadelphia, if the American people have no standing to enforce the U.S. Constitution upon a rogue government then who does and what is the point of a Constitution? The Constitution is a covenant between the People and the Federal Government it created. We cannot rely upon the Congress as you suggest to bring suit to enforce the Constitution when Congress is a primary violator of its tenets. The Federal Government, the Congress, the Supreme Court, the President do not own the U.S. Constitution; the People own it. And the People have every right to enforce it! Your arguments in dismissing Mr. Berg's case are specious and disingenuous. Actually they are downright cowardly. The People demand the truth not some legal mumbo-jumbo technicality. Shame, shame on you. Mark my words, this question is far from resolved.

What Happened?

U.S. Constitution - Preamble
The Preamble

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

(The Preamble is a general statement of purpose and intent for the document that follows. It confers no authority or power.)

U.S. Constitution - Article 1 Section 8
Article 1 - The Legislative BranchSection 8 - Powers of Congress

The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
(“Welfare” in this clause does not refer to what we think of today as welfare. It is not a handout or redistribution of wealth. )
To borrow money on the credit of the United States;
To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;

(Regulation of commerce among the several States referenced in this clause does not empower the Federal Government to micromanage every facet of every business transaction in the country. It does not empower the Federal Government to buy private businesses or assets. It does not empower the Federal Government to set up government owned, managed, mandated or run business enterprises.)

To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;
To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;
To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States;
To establish Post Offices and Post Roads;
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;
To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court;
To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offenses against the Law of Nations;
To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;
To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;
To provide and maintain a Navy;
To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;
To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;
To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;
To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings; And
To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.

U.S. Constitution - Amendment 16
Amendment 16 - Status of Income Tax Clarified

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 or enumeration.

(The above language is the full extent of powers and authorities granted to the Federal Congress. Period. There are no more. Any other power or authority to act is reserved to the People acting through the States, as below.)

U.S. Constitution - Amendment 9
Amendment 9 - Construction of Constitution

The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

U.S. Constitution - Amendment 10
Amendment 10 - Powers of the States and People

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.

(There is no authority or power to be found above for the Federal Government to establish, run or mandate such things as Social Security, Medicare, welfare, a federal minimum wage, health care or spending for a huge majority of the things in the current federal budget.

So what are We the People (referenced in Amendments 9 & 10) going to do? Nothing? I pray to God, no.)

Prescription for Healthcare

The debate about healthcare has been going on for some time and will continue long after this election. Unfortunately, most of the dialog has focused on who should pay for it and how. And while I agree that there are some artificial constraints that pervert the payment system which should be addressed (read more freedom and choice=less government), but the underlying issue driving this problem is skyrocketing cost. Without addressing this underlying cost problem any reforms dealing only with payment structure are…spitting… in the wind.
One factor in cost is the high price of labor in the United States, driven to a large part by the labor union movement. It’s fine for people to organize and negotiate for the best salaries and benefits they can get. But they must then understand that these costs of business must be passed along in the price of the product or service of their industry; in this case healthcare. As William F. Buckley, Jr. would exhort, “He who says A must say B.”
Another factor is the expense of discovering and developing new medications and treatments. This is a very lengthy and costly process driven partly by government regulation and oversight (which does help to protect us). It is also driven by the fact that the easy drugs and treatments have already been discovered. The new ones are more complex and much more costly to bring to market.
Finally, is the cost of liability protection built into every level of the healthcare system. This includes doctors’ malpractice insurance and product liability protection for pharmaceutical companies, medical equipment manufacturers and hospitals. These costs are driven to astronomical levels by trial lawyers and the tort system. Fair compensation for bona fide errors is one thing; headline grabbing settlements are quite another.
So while we evaluate better ways of paying the healthcare bill, let’s not lose sight of the factors driving the rising cost. Labor unions, government regulation of research and development of new drugs and treatments and liability tort reform must be part of the equation or we are simply putting a bandaid on a gapping wound.

Historic Election

I'm voting for the WHITE GUY because I think it would be HISTORIC to elect a WHITE MAN as PRESIDENT.

The Silent Scream for Justice

The one issue in this presidential election that should be absolutely disqualifying is BHO's support for letting babies born alive after botched abortions be ignored and left to die. Once a human fetus leaves the womb, has its umbilical cord severed from its mother and draws a single breath of air, it is then a human baby; an American citizen and entitled to the full protection of its constitution and laws. His position on this horrid issue makes him complicit in the crime of murder and complicit in the sin of murder. That he is not in prison is an injustice. That he is a serious candidate for President of a major U.S. political party is an abomination. God save us from ourselves.

Klaatu Barata Nikto

The robot man is coming! Yes, the debate last night was dreadfully dull. The blame falls squarely on Tom Brokaw. The questions were a repeat of the last debate and totally uninspired or revealling. This was nothing but a series of campaign television commercials. It was a rerun of the first debate. We learned nothing new about the candidates, their lives and experiences and background. Barack I swear looks like a robot doll that you pull a string in his back and he flatly recites a list of boring platitudes. That man never smiles, laughs or even blinks. He has no emotion or passion. He never even attempts to crack a joke or slip in a sly one-liner. You look into his eyes and there is nothing there. He is utterly soulless. And if you listen to his reasoning on the topic of babies born alive after botched abortions you realize that he is not just soulless, but sinister. Why couldn't we have some discussion of abortion, immigration, judicial nominees, gay marriage or gun rights? Why not some insight into the candidates' personal backgrounds, the things that inform and motivate and inspire them? Couldn't we hear about their greatest successes, failures and fears? What have they learned in life and what are their core values and beliefs? What is their overarching vision for the future of America in the world? I have been watching exerpts from the speeches of Ronald Reagan of late. No matter the topic of the talk he always seems to come back to the idea that our government Of, By and For the people exists to serve the people, at the pleasure of the people. He exorts that the people do not serve the government and the government must not abuse it's position granted by the people. He believed in minimal taxes only as needed to fund the absolute necessary functions of government; that the government should protect the people, and otherwise get off their backs and out of their way so that they can flourish and live their lives to the fullest extent. He believed in the basic greatness of America and its people and that our best days are ahead. He believed that we are the beacon of hope in a dark world, that shining city on a hill. And it wasn't phony or corny, people really related to his vision. He made us believe in ourselves and our neighbors. He made us feel good about America. We would get that chill up the spine and tear in the eye when the flag and the troops paraded by while playing the National Anthem. He wasn't a policy wonk, he was a visionary. That is the true role of a leader. The President is not a corporate manager, he hires them to get his things done. He casts the vision and then sells it to the American people. I believe that the American people are desparately hunger for that kind of leader. John McCain are you listening? Are you hearing?

Sign of the Times

Well, in the last week I have had a McCain sign taken from my yard and a bumper sticker ripped off of my car. So this is change we can believe in? It seems more like typical Chicago-style dirty politics. I'm sure that Senator Obama would insist that he does not encourage or condone such behavior. However, the mindset of the followers belies the mindset of the movement. We simply cannot abide this in Washington.

Wake Up! The Empty Suits are Coming!

The fact that Barack Hussein Obama has garnered more than 20% of the national vote is a sad commentary on the state of our country and people. This hollow, neo-communist street hoodlum from Chicago should never have even made it onto a national ticket. That he has beguiled millions into following his bizarre, dangerous and reckless radical left agenda speaks volumes about the deleterious effects of 40-odd years of sub-par public education. People just don't know what they don't know. The class warfare strategy has turned friends and neighbors into jealous enemies and turned people against the very businesses and institutions that provide the income to fuel their lifestyles. The cult of greed has overtaken far too many of us. William F. Buckley, Jr. once said that when the people of the middle class discover that they can vote themselves largess from the public treasury the country is doomed. We are nearly there. Barack's ascendence on the national political scene is a frightening harbinger of things to come. The more sinister reality is that he is not the primary architect of this movement, but rather a hapless pawn in this deadly chess game. The dark forces behind the scenes pulling his puppet strings and plotting the strategy are those who must ultimately be reckoned with. On fundamental issues of governance, the economy and morals this country must find wide-ranging agreement if we are to survive. A house divided cannot stand. Let's hope saner heads prevail before we pass the point of no return.

Is Anybody There, Does Anybody Care, Does Anybody See What I See?

On the Third Day of October in the Year of our Lord Two Thousand & Eight,
At one o’clock in the afternoon, Mountain Daylight Time;

With the flourish of his pen President Bush dissolved the political bands which have connected this federal government to the Constitution which formed it. What was for over two centuries is no more. The United States of America no longer exists in the form into which we born. Our elected servants have jettisoned our Constitutionally based representative Republic and what will replace it is anyone’s guess. All that can be said is that our freedoms, liberties and Constitutional protections have vanished before our very eyes today. The constraints placed upon the federal government by Article 1, Section 8 of the now defunct U.S. Constitution have been nullified and tossed out with the rest of the document. Truly we are now sailing dangerous stormy seas with no rudder. We don’t even have a skiff made of paper.
Who will constitute the new government to replace the one which just passed away? When will it be created? What form of government will it be? Our best guess based upon the private market take-over bill that was enacted today is that it will be a socialist collective state. No doubt people of a liberal redistributionist mindset will seek to form and control the new government. Beyond that we cannot speculate at this time. The coup d’etat is still too fresh in our minds.
One must surmise that all of the laws and institutions of the old government are now null and void. The federal court system, Social Security, federal income taxation and the Internal Revenue Service no longer actually exist. Who now commands our military assets and personnel? These are sobering questions which must be quickly and thoughtfully resolved so as to attempt to maintain peace and order among the people.
The next few months and years will be a time of uncertainty and ideological struggle among the differing factions within the populace as we attempt to find our way in the dark with no light, save the One from Heaven to guide us. Let us fervently pray for peace and wisdom to prevail during the coming conflict. As we look forward to a new government we should pause to look back and reflect upon the guidance of those who formed our first government upon this continent. While we have now tossed out their handiwork it would seem prudent to a least feign deference to their collective knowledge and wisdom to inform us. The States, which formed the first federal government now hold the highest power in the land and they must act collectively in the best interests of the People to maintain stability and lay the framework for a new federal government, if they so choose.
May God have mercy upon us all.