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Will Marie “Let them eat cake” Antoinette be the next Speaker of the House?

Too late. Nancy wants to usurp Marie’s best line.*

Because Speaker Pelosi just does not like that niggling lil thing called the First Amendment.

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.

An oft-forgotten but very important portion of the First Amendment is bolded above. Where McCain-Feingold *spit* sought to limit freedom of (political) speech—and largely succeeded due to President Bush’s unwillingness to use the veto (he apparently wanted to play nice with congresscritters, hoping for a Supreme Court “veto”) and a Supreme Court that feels too little debt to the Constitution—Nancy Pelosi’s plan would simply excise the last clause of the First Amendment almost entirely.

Pelosi has already stated she is planning to push through major legislation during the first 100 session hours after the Democrats take control of Congress this week.

At the top of the list is seemingly good legislation intended to curb the power of lobbyists. But the Pelosi law goes far beyond bridling Washington influence peddlers. Under her proposed legislation, Pelosi will seek to control and limit any organization in America from encouraging citizens to communicate and influence Congress.

Well, from Pelosi’s standpoint, it makes perfect sense. Why subject herself to calls, emails and faxes from the little people? She–and her office–has much better things to do than to listen to “the people,” after all!

Let them eat cake.

Continue reading “Chipping Away at the First Amendment”

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The following is something that’s all over the place, in my inbox multiple times, and probably in yours as well, but just in case you’ve not yet seen it, here ’tis. As so many of these sorts of things tend to be nowadays, the apparent attempted burlesque falls short of the reality. *sigh*

A Tale of Two Times: 1963 and 2006

Jack pulls into school parking lot with rifle in gun rack.

1963 – Vice Principal comes over, takes a look at Jack’s rifle, goes to his car and gets his to show Jack.

2006 – School goes into lockdown, FBI called, Jack hauled off to jail and never sees his truck or gun again. Counselors called in for traumatized students and teachers.

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Johnny and Mark get into a fist fight after school.

1963 – Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up best friends Nobody goes to jail, nobody arrested, nobody expelled.

2006 – Police called, SWAT team arrives, arrests Johnny and Mark. Charge them with assault, both expelled even though Johnny started it.

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Little Jeffrey won’t be still in class, disrupts other students.

1963 – Jeffrey sent to office and given a good paddling by Principal. Sits still in class.

2006 – Jeffrey given huge doses of Ritalin. Becomes a zombie. School gets extra money from state because Jeffrey has a disability.

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Billy breaks a window in his father’s car and his Dad gives him a whipping.

1963 – Billy is more careful next time, grows up normal, goes to college, and becomes a successful businessman.

2006 – Billy’s Dad is arrested for child abuse. Billy removed to foster care and joins a gang. Billy’s sister is told by state psychologist that she remembers being abused herself and their Dad goes to prison. Billy’s mom has affair with psychologist.

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Mark gets a headache and takes some headache medicine to school.

1963 – Mark shares headache medicine with Principal out on the smoking dock.

2006 – Police called, Mark expelled from school for drug violations. Car is searched for drugs and weapons.

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Mary turns up pregnant.

1963 – 5 High School Boys leave town. Mary does her senior year at a special school for expectant mothers.

2006 – Middle School Counselor calls Planned Parenthood, who notifies the ACLU. Mary is driven to the next state over and gets an abortion without her parent’s consent or knowledge. Mary given condoms and told to be more careful next time.

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Pedro fails high school English.

1963: Pedro goes to summer school, passes English, goes to college.

2006: Pedro’s cause is taken up by ultra-liberals. Newspaper articles appear nationally explaining that teaching English as a requirement for graduation is racist. ACLU files class action lawsuit against state school system and Pedro’s English teacher. English banned from core curriculum. Pedro given diploma anyway but ends up mowing lawns for a living because he can’t speak English.

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Johnny takes apart leftover firecrackers from the 4th of July, puts them in a model airplane paint bottle, blows up a red ant bed.

1963 – Ants die.

2006 – ATF, Homeland Security, FBI called. Johnny charged with domestic terrorism, FBI investigates parents, siblings removed from home, computers confiscated, Johnny’s Dad goes on a terror watch list and is never allowed to fly again.

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Johnny falls while running during recess and scrapes his knee. He is found crying by his teacher, Mary, who hugs Johnny to comfort him.

1963 – In a short time Johnny feels better and goes on playing.

2006 – Mary is accused of being a sexual predator and loses her job. She faces 3 years in State Prison.

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As an attempt at satire, this fails because it falls short of the truth. Please re-read Samuel Francis on anarcho-tyranny…

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Jerry Pournelle posted a link to copy of this “From a Navy source,” and I thought y’all’d enjoy it:

Be SURE to stay for the “credits” at the end… *heh*

TTFN

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Well, almost. After I finish jamming my “life” on a thumb drive, I’m outa here for the day.

By John Stephenson
I just finished reading Indefensible: 10 Ways The ACLU Is Destroying America by Sam Kastensmidt. I highly recommend it for everyone.

The book covers most of our own top ten reasons to stop the ACLU, however much more extensively. It covers everything the ACLU stands for. From the agenda of silencing the churches and abortion to the sexualization of children…the book covers it in excellent detail.

There have been many great books written on the ACLU. Most focus on the social and religious issues that are under attack. Alan Sears’ book, ACLU Vs. America, focused on mainly on these issues, however it did touch upon how the ACLU attacks our sovreignty. This book, Indefensible, also focuses on the social issues, but I was happy to see that it devoted an entire chapter on how the ACLU is Impeding America’s War On Terror. I’m going to share a few excerpts from sections within that particular chapter.

ACLU Fights Measure To Halt Terrorists’ Funding

Only weeks after the tragedy (911), Congress acted to dismantle the financial infrastructure supporting known terrorist organizations. On October 3, 2001, U.S. Rep. Michael Oxley (OH) introduced the “Financial Anti-Terrorism Act of 2001,” seeking to freeze all accounts directly linked to the “financing of terrorism.”

The need for such legislation was deemed so vital to national security that it passed the U.S. House on a vote of 421-1. Almost the entire Congress recognized that this legislation’s passage was imperative. Still, on the day before the vote was scheduled, the ACLU delivered letters of opposition to all members of Congress.

“We urge you to oppose the ‘Financial Anti-Terrorism Act of 2001,'” the letter began. Why? One portion of the bill made it a federal crime to conceal large amounts of “illegally obtained” cash (over $10,000) while traveling. In a desperate and shameful attempt to justify its stance, the ACLU played the race card. The letter argued, “This provision may impact, disproportionately, people of color and immigrants….[because] these groups of people often have a more difficult time getting access to sources of credit and bank accounts and so use cash transactions more frequently than others do.”

Under the ACLU’s reasoning, impoverished people would be discriminated against by this bill. The likelihood of impoverished minorities carrying around more than $10,000 in cash and concealing it was supposedly a grave concern for the ACLU. Thankfully the ACLU’s efforts to stop this were unsuccessful.

A little more from the book:

Later in the war, the ACLU actually volunteered its legal services to represent suspected terrorists!

In 2001, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments from several alleged “illegal combatants,” including two cases involving U.S. citizens and one case involving 14 foreign “illegal enemy combatants.” The ACLU filed amicus briefs on behalf of the suspected terrorists in each case, arguing that ll “enemy combatants” cpatured during a time of war should have access to American courtrooms-regardless of their citizenship.

The Pentagon contended that “enemy combatants” should face military tribunals-the standard procedure in all previous international wars. U.S. Solictor General Theodore Olson, whose wife, Barbara Olson, was killed on September 11, when Flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon, reminded the Supreme Court Justices that the plaintiffs were requesting a “jurisdiction that is not authorized by Congress, does not arise from the Constitution, and has never been exercised by this Court.”

Though the U.S. Constitution does not extend rights to non-citizen enemy combatants, judicial restraint did not prevent the moder Court from creating this new right out of thin air.

Thankfully this decision was made moot by the passing of the Military Commission Act. However, the ACLU’s war on National Security continues, and giving habeous corpus to non-American citizens is on their New Year Resolution list. It is actually number one on the list, followed by destroying the NSA terrorist surveillance program, and destroying our ability to keep secrets.

Overall the book was well put together and very informative. I highly recommend checking it out.

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The title of this post refers to the text of I Peter 4:17, a call to truth, justice, repentance. Take time to look it up and then read on…

Below is the text of an email from a “retired blogger” *heh* that I’m choosing to pass on, as he suggests, in email but also here:

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The left continues their struggle to turn the liberation of Iraq into a defeat of our military by starting a petition for active duty service members to vote for surrender.

http://www.appealforredress.org/

Blogger patriot Antimedia has taken up the challenge and started his own counter petition.

As a patriotic American proud to serve the nation in uniform and place my life on the line in defense of freedom, I respectfully urge my political leaders in Congress to unconditionally support all American military forces and to cease denigrating us by comparing us with Nazis and followers of Pol Pot and calling us murderers. I further respectfully urge my political leaders in Congress not to abandon the Iraqi people as we so shamefully abandoned the South Vietnamese. The time for all Americans to pull together, take a stand for freedom and support us in the war on terror [sic] is long overdue.

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/ar96892/

Don’t let the left wing redefine the hard work and sacrifice of our men and women in Iraq as a wasted effort! Don’t let them make Baghdad into another Saigon! Please pass this e-mail on.

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Woody
http://alanwoody.blogs.com

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OK, Woody, it’s passed here (as well as to an email list).

Now, folks, what are YOU going to do with this? It’s time to call our representqatives to do justice, discover the true meaning of mercy (and I’ll give you a hint: it’s NOT appeasement! “Mercy” shown ONLY to the offender and not the victims is cruelty) and humility.

IOW, they need a swift kick in the pants, a slap upside the head or a strong right cross to get their attention and call them back (back? Most have never viewed their “service” as true servants ought) to actually serve the citizens of this country, instead of simply viewing us as sheep to be shorn… or worse, fleeced.

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Sharpton Considers Running for President

Having this crooked racist run as a Democrat would be all too fitting. Almost as fitting as having a serial slanderer and monumental dumbass in the running for the Democrats’ nomination. Oh, wait, it looks like that could happen, too!

Kerry Prepares Another White House Run

The only potential dark spot in these two creeps seeking to represent the Demicraps’ hopes in ’08 is that they could make Billary (Two crooks for the price of one!) Clinton and Barack Hussein (“Yeh, I was a druggie for most of a decade. So what?”) Obama look attractive… to dumbass Democraps who just aren’t paying attention (or do not have the mental or moral ability to do so).

Continue reading “Wednesday OTP/Oh, please, let it be so!”

by Debbie of Right Truth

John Edwards is running for president of the United States on his same old theme, ‘two Americas‘. He hopes to get votes by pitting the ‘haves’ against the ‘have nots’. He even chose New Orleans to make his announcement, with the unspoken message that the government failed the poor people and he has stepped in to be their savior.

Edwards is promising universal health care, pulling out of Iraq ,taxing oil company profits and eliminating President Bush’s tax cuts to pay for his priorities. Edwards is not alone in his thinking about the evil rich (of which he happens to BE ONE). Yesterday Thomas Sowell had a wonderful article that relates to this, titled ‘A Dangerous Obsession’.

Mr. Sowell picked up on the media, the left, and academia’s continuous obsession with “gaps” and “disparities” in income. ‘As one talk-show host put it, “It makes no sense” that a corporate executive makes over $50 million a year.’ Sowell says, “Ninety-nine percent of all the things that happen in this world “make no sense” to any given individual.”

If you cannot understand something as simple as making a lead pencil, why should you be surprised that you don’t understand why someone is making a lot more money than somebody else?

Moreover, if this obsession with income disparities is to be something more than mere hand-wringing or gnashing of teeth, obviously the point is that somebody ought to “do something” to change what you don’t understand.

That’s what the left, liberals, and Edwards wants to do. They want to correct what they perceive as something wrong, …some people having more money than others. And how would one go about correcting such an atrocity? That’s easy. Take away the excess from one, and give it to another. Or as Mr. Sowell puts it, “Usually that means that the government — politicians — should impose policies based on your ignorance of what is going on.”

Continue reading “Fair Tax:”

…for more of this:

“…An unborn baby in America is 125 times more likely to be murdered by its own mother than a US soldier has of being killed by an insurgent in Iraq! If our soldiers died at the rate we slaughter unborn children, in the 3 years and 9 months of the Iraq war we’d now have 140,625 dead, not just 2,415.>

Dims Dim on Numbers

Let me draw your attention to the comment quoted in the header of this blog:

“An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher. The society that scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity, and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because philosophy is an exalted activity, will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.”—John Gardner

Consider that for a while as you use it to filter Angel’s post on New York chic. Oh, come back for the rest of this post, would you (otherwise, my wonderfully wise “philosophical” observations will have been in vain. *LOL*)

Continue reading “Honor Where Honor Is Due”