Monthly Archives: March 2010
Since I will be out tonight……….
I am speaking at my Sons of Confederate Veterans camp tonight, presenting a historical look at General Forrest and what really happened at Ft. Pillow, I will not be doing very much, if any blogging.
So, to keep y’all as up to date as possible, check out these great blogs to keep up with the Dems reckless, sleazy, despicable, unconstitutional power grab!
I have to get ready, so keep praying that this abomination fails somehow. The Dems are so power-obsessed that they are willing to cut their own political throats over this. It is really stunning. They could, if they were acting like typical politicians, say no, we will not vote for this bill, and could, in many cases save their seats. They could then do what their constituents actually desire them to do, and seek reasonable, bipartisan reform. But they are not acting like politicians now. They are acting more like Stalinist starter kits frankly. That should scare you to death!
If it is a fight these sons of bitches want…………….
Then it is a fight they shall have. Michelle Malkin brings news that Mark Levin is taking off his gloves
Mark R. Levin, president of Landmark Legal Foundation, today issued a warning to the leadership of the U.S. House of Representatives about the possible use of the so-called “deem and pass,” “self-executing,” or “Slaughter Rule” to enact H.R. 3590, the legislative version of President Obama’s healthcare proposal that has been previously approved by the Senate. If this tactic is employed, Landmark will immediately sue the President, Attorney General Eric Holder and other relevant cabinet members to prevent them from instituting this unconstitutional contrivance. “Landmark has already prepared a lawsuit that will be filed in federal court the moment the House acts. Such a brazen violation of the core functions of Congress simply cannot be ignored. Article I, Section 7 of the Constitution is clear respecting the manner in which a bill becomes law. Members are required to vote on this bill, not claim they did when they didn’t. The Speaker of the House and her lieutenants are temporary custodians of congressional authority. They are not empowered to do permanent violence to our Constitution.”
This damnable abomination of a bill must be stopped.
Jack Cafferty rips into Dems “sleazy” tactics
The man is dead on right about this. At least one member of the media is over ObamaMania! I am placing Cafferty in my Politically INcorrect Hall of Fame
Does “Deem and Pass” violate the Constitution?
It will, I believe, if the Democrats pass this abomination, come down to whether or not they violated the Constitution, which I believe the process they are using does. But, I am not a Constitutional expert, but, Donald Douglas has a Megyn Kelly interview with Judge Michaell McConnell of Stanford Law School check it out.
Here is the major error the Dems will make, and why I think this will never pass by the Supreme Court.
McConnell’s earlier, WSJ commentary piece is here: “The House Health-Care Vote and the Constitution.” The bottom line:
According to Article I, Section 7, in order for a “Bill” to “become a Law,” it “shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate” and be “presented to the President of the United States” for signature or veto. Unless a bill actually has “passed” both Houses, it cannot be presented to the president and cannot become a law.
If this beast of a bill passes, the Supreme Court will overturn it, and I think it will be by more than a 5-4 vote. Just my personal prediction.
Blog Post of the Day
Comes from Chris and that Robot dude, who got it from this cat
Heaviest Element Yet Known to Science Discovered
The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California has now identified with certainty the heaviest element known to science.The new element, Pelosium (PL), has one neutron, 25 assistant neutrons, 88 deputy neutrons, and 198 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 312.
These 312 particles are held together by forces called morons, which are surrounded by vast quantities of lepton-like particles called peons.
Pelosium is inert, and has no charge and no magnetism. Nevertheless, it can be detected because it impedes every reaction with which it comes into contact.
A tiny amount of Pelosium can cause a reaction that would normally take less than a second, to take from 4 days to 4 years to complete.
Pelosium has a normal half-life of 2 years. It does not decay, but instead undergoes a biennial reorganization in which a portion of the assistant neutrons and deputy neutrons exchange places.Pelosium mass will increase over time, since each reorganization will promote many morons to become isodopes. This characteristic of moron promotion leads some scientists to believe that Pelosium is formed whenever morons reach a critical concentration.
This hypothetical quantity is referred to as critical morass.
When catalyzed with money, Pelosium becomes Senatorium, an element that radiates just as much energy as Pelosium since it has half as many peons but twice as many morons.
That is sheer brilliance!
Oh no! Infamous blogger beating up on famed douchebag again
A battle between Stacy McCain and David Brooks is like a fight between a brown bear and a dead salmon
The World’s Worst Newspaper Columnist descends from Olympus to favor unworthy mortals with his esoteric wisdom:
Human beings, the philosophers tell us, are social animals. We emerge into the world ready to connect with mom and dad. We go through life jibbering and jabbering with each other, grouping and regrouping. When you get a crowd of people in a room, the problem is not getting them to talk to each other; the problem is getting them to shut up. . . .
After hundreds of words of such blather — “Nazi and Jew, Hutu and Tutsi, Sunni and Shiite,” and a dollop of Trollope — he finally gets around to making his point:
Once partisan reconciliation is used for this bill, it will be used for everything, now and forever. The Senate will be the House.
Kazart! He’s talking about the health-care bill! The man went seven paragraphs before bothering to mention Congress and didn’t mention “health care” until the 11th paragraph! No one is interviewed, no one (except Trollope) is quoted, and there isn’t even a pretense that anything we might call reporting or research was involved in this column.
On second thought, maybe the dead salmon comparison is a tad unfair, the dead salmon could at least give the bear indigestion. Of course, reading Brooks babblings can cause mental indigestion so……….
Happy birthday James Madison
If only we had Madison, Franklin, Jefferson, Washington, Mason, and those founders now! Mike has a tribute to the Father of the Constitution.
March 16 marks James Madison’s birthday. He was “the father of the Constitution”; no one had a greater hand in constructing and interpreting the highest law of our land. His understanding is especially important today, given how far we have moved away from the very limited government the Constitution authorized and toward one that continually expands its power at the expense of Americans. We could all profit by remembering Madison’s understanding of the federal government authorized under the Constitution, a sharp contrast to what we see everywhere around us
Mike has some great quotes from one of the greatest and brilliant men to ever draw breath.
You think health care in Canada sucks?
Just wait until we get ObamaCare! Russ has the bad news
You know how bad things are in Canada right? Well, just remember that we have ten times the population to insure. Oh, but that means there’s ten times the number of doctors you say? So what, I say. When doctors here realize that they are no longer practicing a profession but rather unwittingly serving a master like they did there, how long do you think it’ll be before the exact same thing that happened there, happens here? The answer is “way sooner than later”. And what happens then? Your guess is as good as mine.Consider in your mind the most horrible fate for health care imaginable…then multiply it by a factor of ten. You don’t have to be a math wizard to recognize that every single problem experienced in nations with socialized health care will be exponentially worse in the United States.
Just do the math people.
Why, you ask,would I call Senator Reid “Weasel Dick”
What the Hell else would you call a treasonous little bag of dung like him? Dan Riehl has another reason to detest Reid,
Given what we’re witnessing constitutionally in the Obama Care battle and the trillions in debt this fool has helped to rack up over the years, Reid’s invoking the Constitution and his fears of doing harm to America if the Senate limits earmarks is infuriating. I still like Sue Lowden in Nevada. But, please, Nevada, wake up and rid us of this man.
“I think that we have to be very, very careful that we don’t do this country great harm,” he said when asked whether te Senate would ban for-profit earmarks. “Constitutionally, we have an obligation to have congressionally directed funding. That is an obligation we’ve had since the beginning of this country.”
Hearing Reid, excuse me, Weasel Dick bring up the Constitution is enough to make me vomit frankly. He is not fit to be dog catcher much less a UnitedStates Senator! And he is today’s Daley Douchebag!
Yep, it is ALL about control
It, being ObamaCare of course Steve nails the most crucial point.
All Obama and the Democrats want is control. Control of the money, and once he and the United States Government have control over the money and people’s health care, they have control over our lives.
Yep! He is, and always has been a Marxist. I know the Squishy Conservatives will cringe when I say that but too damn bad! It is the truth. If the truth nis too much for you, go read a blog run by a gutless, spineless “Conservative”, or go read about cooking with tofu or something. Here, we speak the TRUTH!
Yet another great Conservative Debate
Debating the issue of a third party. Mind Numbed Robot is covering it, as are Motor City Times, The Classic Liberal, and the combatants are Don of Present Discontent, and Scratcher of Makes My Brain Itch, Check it out and enjoy.
The Robot Dude also points out a response my blogging partner Ed, had to an earlier debate question.
Now that the dust has settled from the first two debates, I would like to reference a comment made on the sidelines that I personally think was spot on and begs to be on a front page somewhere. Why not mine? It was made by darcprynce who resides over at The Daley Gator. His comment was on the CBD Palin Edition concerning what a difference her policies may have had if implemented as opposed to Obama’s. He said:
“…what impact, if any, do you think Sarah Palin’s prior actions as governor or policy pronouncements more recently, would have on any given specific economic indicator or the economy in general?”You mean if she’d been elected President instead of Odipshit?Uh… well, she likely wouldn’t have signed off on a massive, pork-laden “stimulus” bill, so average people wouldn’t be hesitant to spend their money for fear of losing everything they own down the road, when Obamaflation roars over us like a tidal wave from some 1970s disaster movie.She wouldn’t have spent a year frightening everyone with endless talk of socializing the health care industry, so businesses would be hiring people in expectation of a future America which doesn’t so closely resemble Castro’s Cuba.She wouldn’t be threatening to raise every conceivable tax over the next few years, so company owners would be able to make reasonable business plans without fear of their elected representatives bashing them in the teeth at every turn for daring to be successful.Nobody would be concerned with the possibility of her selling out our sovereignty to a bunch of Marxist assholes at the UN, so people who might be considering shooting themselves or someone else over that sort of crap would probably mellow out and concentrate on earning a living.Cap & Trade legislation would be off the table, so the energy industry wouldn’t be shitting its pants waiting for the next federal shoe to drop, and might actually begin to expand production for the first time since I was in grade school.And who knows, maybe Mrs. Palin would have the basic common sense to… oh, I don’t know… not bail out huge failing corporations like GM, thus strangling the corrupt, mafia-run unions that have helped run them into the ground, instead of rewarding the pricks and incentivising them to remain the royal fuck-ups they are indefinitely.
Of course, I could be wrong.
Words of wisdom from Dennis Prager
Prager is one of my favorite thinkers. Here is a recent piece from him
As I regularly note, the bigger the government, the smaller the citizen. One can add: The bigger the government, the less significant the citizen — especially men.
This is easy to explain because it is definitional. The more the state does, the less its citizens are needed to do. One well-known example is the way welfare robbed so many men of significance when women and their children came to depend financially on the state.
And it goes further than that. In order to feel significant, men not only need to have others depend on them, they also need to depend on themselves, on their own work and initiative. But that, too, is destroyed as the state gets bigger. Fewer and fewer people work for themselves (which leads to, among other things, the disappearance of that quintessentially American ideal of the risk-taking entrepreneur).
It gets worse. As being needed and significant shifts from the individual to the state, the state increasingly determines who is needed and who has significance.
That means, first of all, politicians. Obviously, whoever controls the ever-expanding government has the most significance in a society.
Be sure to read the whole piece, H/T Liberal Guy
Quote of the Day
Comes from Bob Belvedere
In taking over 1/6th of the U.S. economy, they will enslave 100% of the bodies of every American.
Short, simple, and the cold, hard truth. Speaking of great quotes Carol, of The Closet has a few from the great Thomas Sowell here are my personal favorites
The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.
The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.
Wisdom, my friends, Mr. Sowell, unlike Mr. Obama has wisdom
Tea Partiers Rally On Capitol Hill In Opposition To Health Care Bill – Fox News
Tea Party activists from across the country rallied outside Democratic congressional offices in Washington on Tuesday to protest the $875 billion health care bill and demand meetings with their respective members of Congress.
And by all appearances, their arrival is not being taken lightly.
House Democrats received a formal memo from the office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, listing tips for how targeted representatives should handle the crowds of activists.
“Tens of thousands of conservative and Tea Party activists will be on the Hill as part of what they are dubbing a ‘Surge Against Obamacare,’” reads the memo, which also includes a checklist of provisions in the current bill to counter the “caricature of the reform bill presented by right-wing media outlets.”
The checklist says: “Reduces the deficit; Cracks down on Medicare waste, fraud, and abuse; Provides historic tax credit for small businesses and individuals to purchase health insurance.”
The rally, dubbed the “Code Red Health Care Rally,” featured a host of Republican speakers, including Reps. Mike Pence, R-Ind.; Michele Bachmann, R-Minn.; Tom Price, R-Georgia; and Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn.
“Kill the bill,” shouted protesters, as a string of Tea Party leaders spoke out against the massive health care overhaul.
Two separate groups affiliated with the Tea Party movement, Freedom Works and the Tea Party Patriots, told Fox News they had expected a large Pennsylvania contingent to be present at the rally. The office of Rep. Jason Altmire, D-Pa., who voted against the health care legislation last fall, was named as a popular destination for protesters.
Altmire, a pro-life Democrat, told Fox News in an interview Tuesday that he remains concerned about the cost of the bill as well as its current language on abortion.
“There’s definitely a lot of anxiety about this bill,” said Altmire. “I’m not gonna cast a vote that my constituents are not comfortable with.”
Tim Phillips, president of Americans for Prosperity, a conservative political advocacy group, attributes the Tea Party’s organized push to kill the legislation as reason for its hold-up.
“I think that the Tea Party movement and activists and rallies like today are the reason this bill isn’t already passed,” said Phillips, who was a featured speaker at the protest.
“They’re trying to cram this 2,000-page bill down the throat of the American people,” Phillips said of the legislation, suggesting that “individual snapshot reforms” are a more viable approach to a health care overhaul.
Wyoming And South Dakota Declare Firearms Freedom – Blog Critics
Today Wyoming became the latest state to enact a Firearms Freedom act, following close on the heels of South Dakota where the governor signed a similar act last week. Oklahoma’s version has passed both houses of its legislature with large majorities and is expected to be signed soon. Five other states have already passed similar acts and 24 more have acts pending or ready to be introduced.
These acts declare that the federal government has no jurisdiction to regulate the manufacture and sales of firearms or ammunition within a state, so long as those activities do not cross state lines, causing them to enter federal jurisdiction under the interstate commerce clause of the Constitution. The Wyoming law includes a $2000 fine and a year in prison for any federal official attempting to interfere with gun rights under the law within the state.
The Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms has disputed the validity of these laws on the basis that they are in conflict with federal firearms laws, asserting that federal regulations supersede state law even if the activities are kept within the state.
The Montana version of the FFA is being tested in federal court. If it is upheld as constitutional these laws may be the first step in the efforts of many state governments to reassert control over areas of governance where authority has been ceded to the federal government over the years. If the law is struck down as unconstitutional other states plan to also file suit over the issue.
If these firearms freedom laws succeed many states have similar legislation pending to assert other rights under the 10th Amendment with the ultimate goal of challenging the ability of the federal government to impose unfunded mandates and unpopular programs on the states against their will.
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