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A couple of brief thoughts for the Fourth

From George Washington’s resignation as commander of the Revolutionary Army in 1783:
“I now make it my earnest prayer that God would have you, and the State over which you preside, in his holy protection; that he would incline the hearts of the citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination and obedience to government, to entertain a brotherly affection and love for one another, for their fellow-citizens of the United States at large, and particularly for brethren who have served in the field; and finally that he would most graciously be pleased to dispose us all to do justice, to love mercy, and to demean ourselves with that charity, humility, and pacific temper of mind, which were the characteristics of the Divine Author of our blessed religion, and without an humble imitation of whose example in these things, we can never hope to be a happy nation.”
And, Washington’s Innagural Address to Congress in 1789:
“Such being the impressions under which I have, in obedience to the public summons, repaired to the present station, it would be peculiarly improper to omit, in this first official act, my fervent supplications to that Almighty Being who rules over the universe, who presides in the councils of nations and whose providential aide can supply every human defect, that His benediction may consecrate to the liberties and happiness of the people of the United States a Government instituted by themselves for these essential purposes; and may enable every instrument employed in its administration to execute with success, the functions allotted to his charge.
In tendering this homage to the Great Author of every public and private good, I assure myself that it expresses your sentiments not less than my own; nor those of my fellow-citizens at large, less than either. No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the Invisible Hand which conducts the affairs of men more than the people of the United States.
“Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency; and in the important revolution just accomplished in the system of their United government, the tranquil deliberations and voluntary consent of so many distinct communities, from which the event has resulted can not be compared with the means by which most governments have been established, without some return of pious gratitude, along with an humble anticipation of the future blessings which them past seem to presage.
“These reflections, arising out of the present crisis, have forced themselves too strongly on my mind to be suppressed. You will join with me I trust in thinking, that there are none under the influence of which the proceedings of a new and free Government can more auspiciously commence.
“We ought to be no less persuaded that the propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained; and since the preservation of sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered as deeply, perhaps finally, staked of the experiment…
“I shall take my present leave; but not without resorting once more to the Benign Parent of the Human Race, in humble supplication that, since He has been pleased to favor the American people with opportunities for deliberating in perfect tranquility, and dispositions for deciding with unparalleled unanimity on a form of government for the security of their union and the advancement of their happiness, so His divine blessings may be equally conspicuous in the enlarged views, the temperate consultations and the wise measures on which the success of this Government must depend.”
(Note to the ACLU and the SCOTUS: you’re both wrong about the First Amendment and religious expression.)
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Bloggers’ FEC Pledge

Note in my sidebar. It bears repeating as we approach Independence Day:

“If the FEC makes rules that limit my First Amendment right to express my opinion on core political issues, I will not obey those rules.”—Patterico. Check that. I will spit on those rules and throw them back in the FEC’s face.

Repeat after me:

Bill of Rights

Amendment I


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.

If President Bush hascommitted an impeachable offense against his office and the Constitution he has (twice) sworn to uphold, it was signing the UNconstitutional McCain-Feingold law into effect.

And if there is any cause that would justify sending John McCain back to prison in North Vietnam it would be his sponsorship of that abortion of the First Amendment right to free speech and a free press he championed in that bill.

And if there is any case for instroducing a majority of the Supreme Communists of the United States (SCOTUS) to Dr. Tarr and Mr. Fether, it is that they did not strike this law down, spit on it, sow salt in the ground that it sprang from and then burn the ones who framed and passed and signed it.,

Shame on all of them.

And shame on us for letting them get away with it.

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“Advice and Consent” ? “Adversarial Dissent”

Scrappleface speaks more truth in jest

Senate Democrats have a serious problem with the language of the Constitution. Their problem is simply that the pesky phrase “Advice and Consent” ? “Adversarial Dissent” (as they seem intent on translating it).

Forget Mass Media Podpeople newsreaders. Trash you copy of The Daily Lies and The New York Slimes. Get your news from Scrappleface. It’s more likely to be accurate, even prescient, as this lil excerpt probably is:

The Massachusetts… Senator’s office issued a news release to the media documenting the allegations against the potential high court judge, with a convenient blank line allowing reporters to fill in the nominee’s name as soon as that information is leaked.
Yup. Just fill in the blank. Any name NOT chosen by the minority party will be unacceptable. Bet on it. (What part of “democracy” do the Senate Democrats not understand? Oh. The part where the LOSERS uhm… LOSE. Anti-democratic Democrats. Now there’s a hint for ya. They stand firmly against the meaning of their own label.)
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What fun…

Riiiigggghhht…

heh. Thought I’d better test out an old backup internet connection. It’s a dialup. Funny thing. Haven’t uwsed it for a couple of years, and the last time I needed it I was lucky to get a 28.8k connection.
It’s been upgraded. A solid 57.6k connection reported. But after a couple of years where my slowest download speed has been about 1.3 mbits, a solid 57.6 seems like molasses in January.
nice to know the backup connection works, but oh, am I ever glad I’m not stuck with it for everyday connectivity!
See? I knew I could find something else to be thankful for today (beside the fact that Wonder Woman’s connections on an email discussion group have begun turning up some solid job leads for Lovely Daughter… :-).
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Get Outa the Road!.

Confirmation hearings for whomever Bush picks to replace O’Connor *sigh* Just pull the pin on the so-called “nuclear option” already…

A wee peek into a personality issue: I HATE driving behind a slow-moving roadblock down a two-lane road with no-passing stripes…

No, you didn’t hear me right: I HATE it. Folks who want to drive slow down a narrow two-lane road counting their cows or whatever should pull off the road, park, get out and “count their cows” or whatever it is that’s causing them to drive at 15mph down a 60mph road. In front of me.

Just move it or get outa the way!

*sheesh*

But that’s not even a patch on how much I am coming to hate the way petty liars, cheats, whiners and poltroons in the fascist loony left are bent on depriving the U.S. of a properly-functioning judiciary. Kinda reminds me of this “minor” quibble the Founders had with a minority tyrant in their day:

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.

Yeh, that’s one of the “long train of abuses” the Founders included in the Declaration of Independence. The current minority tyrants who have refused to vote up or down for judges for empty seats are just as guilty of “refusing assent” since they have refused to fill the courts the laws have created.

Jerks.

Get outa the road!

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Dysfunctional America

I let my mixmaster loose on the current scene and here’s what resulted…

Yes, there is a culltural divide in these United States. And here are a few of the dividing points:

Positives Negatives
The American State Papers Rampant Historical Illiteracy
113,809 libraries (excluding corporate, etc.)_1_ Illiteracy and subliteracy rates far worse than the educrats tell you*_2_
A tolerant society A bigotted (soi-disant “liberal”) elite
“Free” public education for everyone

“Free” public “education” for everyone (*sigh)
A culture that values liberty and justice A media, academic and governmental culture that values control and entitlements
Built upon a cornerstone of Western Civilization and Judeo-Christian values The ACLU, SCOTUS, Congress, MMPA and LLMB value anything BUT Western Civilization and Judeo-Christian values
Families Neo-fascist nanny state

Thanks to a popular culture defined more and more by ACLU-tyoe values filtered through public schools (AKA “prisons for kids”) that are informed by a neo-fascist, subliterate academia and by a Mass Media Podpeople’s Army bent on the destruction of Western Civilization, everything on the “Positives” side listed above is under daily attack by the “Negatives” listed.

And these are just a few areas right off the top of my head. (An area where I can hardly afford to lose anything more “off the top” —heh.)

*In its 1991 National Literacy Act, Congress defined literacy as:

an individual’s ability to read, write, and speak in English, and compute and solve problems at levels of proficiency necessary to function on the job and in society, to achieve one’s goals, and develop one’s knowledge and potential.

Now, that’s scary. Think of the numbers of people you know just offhand who are deficient in each of those areas, and you’ll soon see why nearly half of the voters voted for a slanderous mook like Jean Fraud sKerry: they just didn’t know any better and are likely unable to “develop [their] knowledge and potential” to a degree where they can know better in the future…

The only wonder is that with conflicts like this that the U.S. can continue to function effectively at all. It just demonstrates that even watered down and weakened by the incessant assaults of the LLMB and MMPA, the weakness of Western Civilization values is still—just—stronger than the strengths of its enemies.

But for how long, absent a resurgence by those of us who share its values?

As the Protest Warrior sign proclaims:

heh
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News from the Islamic jihad

Warning: avert eyes if you have one ounce of sympathy for the savages that make up the Islamic jihadists.

A Precision Guided humor Assignment from The Alliance

News Update from Al-Jizeera
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“Muhammed “Splodydope” Muhammed Muhammed prematurely detonated Thursday morning during his morning prayers when he failed to execute his exit strategy from his favorite goat.”
Poor Muhammed. Now he won’t get his 72 murdering, suicidal prostitutes.
And for those illiterate splodydope buddies of Muhammed, here is something the 2 out of 10 semi-literates among your buddies in Goat-lovers’ Cave, Iraq might be able to read to you:
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OK, so what’s so bad about the ACLU?

Check out Stop the ACLU for lotsa links.

The Stop the ACLU Blogburst usually has a suggested topic (thanks, Gribbit) but this week, it’s a free fire zone, as it were, so I thought I’d take a step back and look at the ACLU from a slightly different angle.
First, I’d like to differentiate between organizations that have fallen from their origins and those like the ACLU that have stayed true to their purpose. Bodies like Congress, the YMCA and the UN (YMCA lumped in with Congress and the UN?!?!? 🙂 have quite obviously degenerated from their original purposes. The ACLU, however has remained true to its founders’ goals. While I applaud the ACLU for steadfastly standing firm in its purposes, let me note that the founders of the ACLU firmly believed that their communist philosophy would eventually overcome American capitalism and democracy, and the organization has remained true to both the goals and the methods of the founders.
ACLU founder Roger Baldwin stated in 1935, “Communism is the goal.” A year before, he had said: “When the power of the working class is once achieved, as it has been in the Soviet Union, I am for maintaining it by any means necessary.” Then in 1978, Baldwin said, “We’ve depended on the courts as the vehicle by which we assert our interpretation of the Constitution.” _1_
And the goals and methods have remained: to destroy the American experiment via corruption of the Constitution via the courts. The gains that the ACLU made in its plans through the corruption of the First Amendment, with the aid of the activist Warren SCOTUS, in suppression of Christian speech in the public arena and corruption of “free speech” into the contradictory (well, contradictory of the First Amendment itself) “free expression” has aided it well in its goal of using cultural jiu jitsu on a free and open society. By using our own values against us, via warping their meanings and winning the media war to make their interpretation popular, the ACLU has been instrumental in creating a culture that welcomes the barbarians who seek to tear it down. All in the name of tolerance and “free expression.”
Indeed, one can see how well the ACLU, which was at the forefront of the fight to redefine “free speech” as “free expression,” has won in its primary goal of changing the battleground in its favor by simply reading last week’s ACLU blogburst on the topic of the ACLU’s opposition to the Anti-Flag-Desecration Amendment being pushed in Congress, now. Many of the bloggers who posted on the topic essentially supported the ACLU’s position, because they have been brainwashed into believing that the Warren court’s invention of a right of “free expression” out of thin air is actually what the First Amendment says.
It does not. And in fact, until the Warren court, “freedom of expression” had been consistently rejected, first by Madison himself and all the way up until the early 1960s activist court made new Constitutional law ex nihilo, as this representative quote from Justice Felix Frankfruter in 1951 illustrates:
“The historic antecedents of the First Amendment preclude the notion that its purpose was to give unqualified immunity to every expression that touched on matters within the range of political interest. . . .” _2_
Madison himself noted that “free expression” was not a substitute fro “free speech.” If it were, then a separate “freedom of the press” would be redundant.
No, under any reasonable person’s reading of the Constitution, desecration of the nation’s flag is not a First Amendment issue at all. Ask Madison, who believed such a thing was criminal.
But, using just this one example, it’s easy to see how the ACLU has won at least a major battle when folks who know the ACLU is a highly destructive element in our society get steamed about flag burning as “wrong” but somehow “protected” by… the ACLU’s redefinition of the First Amendment.
See? Cultural jiu jitsu. Using our tolerance and belief (largely created with the input and direct aid of the ACLU) in protection of “free expression” as equivalent of “free speech.”
Try this: teach your dog to “speak.” Can your dog then “speak” intelligibly on matters of public policy and thus be protected in its “speech” by the First Amendment? No. Because it’s not speaking, it’s just “expressing” itself.
And that’s just about as equivalent a description as one can make of “free expression” absent words, intelligible speech. Speech, specifically political (and referencing an earlier portion of the First Amendment, religious) speech is protected by the First Amendment.
Is it protected speech if it is intelligible, political (or religious) and inflammatory?
The courts have held that it is not always so.
Is it preotected speech if it is intelligible and inflammatory and neither religious nor political?
The courts have held that it is not so far more often in these sorts of cases.
Is it even speech if it’s not… SPEECH?
Duh. Of course not, unless one is a judge or justice brought up under the propaganda of the ACLU and its ilk.
And that is the most serious threat the ACLU poses: dumbing down, watering down, diluting and polluting the Constitution with the ACLU’s “interperetation” on the way to its genuine ultimate goal of supplanting our republican government with a socialist-communist state.
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Personal request

This is a rare personal request for help

Oh, it’s not for me, though God knows how much help I need. 🙂 Here’s the story:

Daughter completes grad school. Gets job. Moves to new town. Goes to work. Discovers that the HR person who extended the job to her had, uhm, not been in communication with the person my daughter was to work for.

The job does not exist. HR guy seems to be dodging her.

Bummer.

Running out of $$, spinning wheels, running as fast as she can toward another job.

Anyone know of work for someone with a psych undergrad and sociology grad degree in the OKC area? (Actually, “A day job is one you take to pay the bills so you can do what you really want, like play in a band, or invent relativity” would seem to apply at this point…

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