RANT: End of “Constitutional” times?

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig8/roots2.html

Constitutional Dead Letters by Roger Roots

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The list enumerated below, to paraphrase the dead-lettered Ninth Amendment, should not be considered all-inclusive, and there are, no doubt, other dead-lettered constitutional provisions I have neglected to identify.

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This fellow goes thru and creates an impressive list of the “lost” Constitutional protections.

Scary and sad!

Seems like Lysander Spooner had it right: “But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain – that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist.”

Time for secession? Which state will be the first to go? California, Vermont, Texas, Michigan? One thing is for sure, it will fall apart. Especially as times get tough. Americans are no longer that hardy stock that conquered the West. We’ve divided into the “producers” and the “takers”. And, while we may not be on Robinson Crusoe’s island, the impact of too many takers can be seen.

What happens when the “producers” stop producing?

Where do the Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Welfare, Unemployment, and Government pay & “benefit” checks of all forms come from?

No wonder “urban youth discouragement devices” (aka guns) are selling well!

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LIBERTY: Progress in NH

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

http://www.freestateproject.org/intro/2008_election

Libertarian Free State Project elects four of its members to the New Hampshire State House of Representatives — Ridley Report

Low tax activists amend Rochester, New Hampshire charter to cap all spending increases to the rate of inflation — Union Leader

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The Free State Project is showing some results in New Hampshire!

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MONEY: If printing money could solve all our problems, then why not just print up ten million dollars for every household in America?

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

The title says it all.

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LIBERTY: I think this about says it all

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

chesty

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RANT: The local leftist media faults the right for not coming out!

Monday, November 10, 2008

http://channel-surfing.blogspot.com/2008/11/vanishing-republicans-of-south.html

Friday, November 07, 2008
The vanishing Republicans of South Brunswick

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I’ve heard some rumors that there are Republicans living in South Brunswick.

Yes, according to these rumors, there are actual, died-in-the-wool members of the Grand Old Party going about their business, meeting at Pierre’s and going through the electoral motions.

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I am at a loss as to how the Republicans can turn this around, how they can remake themselves so they offer a reasonable alternative, an opposing voice at a time of Democratic control. This year’s candidates, for instance, were the best the party has had to offer in years and still they barely registered. Part of it was a lack of message — it’s not enough to say a different voice is needed. You still have to explain what that voice would say and how it might have an impact on council business. That was never offered.

But still, it is difficult for me to understand how candidates for Township Council can manage to get so few votes in a year of record turnout. It just boggles my mind.

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Posted by Hank Kalet at 1:25 PM

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Libertarian at 08824 said…

Why bother? The people of South Brunswick are content with the chains of the status quo. They have drunk the progressive Democratic kool aid. They must love the high taxes, “fat” bureaucrats, and the Jersey corrupt system. The sheeple are just “free riders” on a waste of effort. Until there is some indication of life, or some minimal support of Liberty in the sheeple, why bang your head against the wall?

“If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams

Before the current Democratic / Republican duopoly came across the land, Republicans were the party of smaller government and the Democrats were the party of individual liberty. Now it’s a disgrace. No difference. The politicians, aided and abetted by the Teachers Union, the Trial Lawyers, and the Unions, have figured out how to feather their own nest, while rewarding their friends and punishing their enemies.

They don’t want anything to disturb the status quo. Just try to get third party on the ballot in New Jersey. What a joke. “They”, the entrenched power elite, make the rules to prevent any change. The sheeple don’t get that the game is rigged. Take for example, school budgets! When the activists in town actually can mount a defeat of the bloated school budgets, there are six levels of appeal that will over ride the will of the people.

Property tax reform? It’ll come when no one can afford to own a home in New Jersey. Ethics reform? When the people refuse to speak to any elected official in any party, caucus, or pact with a corrupt official. State pension reform? When taxpayers, who don’t have a pension, refuse to endow the bureaucrats with a plush lifetime pensions and healthcare. Education reform? When senior citizens refuse to fork over their meager social security to “educate” other people’s children; not that it is “education” to pay unionized teachers to babysit bored children. And on. And on.

The only way to upset the applecart is to have a revolt. Gandhi showed how to do it. Just don’t cooperate. As this country gets more severely divided into producers and drones, eventually the producers will say “why bother”! When they stop producing, there would not be anything for the drones to take. Why do you think there is the continual drain of people out of New Jersey?

No, when my fellow sheeple are ready to lie down in the streets to prevent the schools from opening, storm the municipal building to stop them from stealing any more of our money, and march on Trenton to drive the thieves from the Golden Dome, I’ll be right there with them.

Till then, I object to you castigating “Republicans” who are just being realists.

See you at the demonstrations.

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RANT: The WORST President

Sunday, November 9, 2008

FROM FACEBOOK

Scott did not believe a worse president than Jimmy Carter could be elected, but was proven wrong. 7:50am

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Kevin Edward Kline at 9:43am November 7

So you’re the guy who was stealing my yard signs!

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Scott Moore at 9:59am November 7

No. I was the guy stocking up on gunns and ammo and getting a concealed permit license, and now quitely await armeggedon.

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Kevin Edward Kline at 10:30am November 7

We’ve elected a worse president than Carter. He’s called “W” and he betrayed every major tenet of the conservative movement. History will show the worst presidents of the 20th century as: Harding, Hoover, Nixon, Carter, and W.

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John Reinke at 12:47pm November 7

Well, imho, we need a few decades to properly evaluate the “worst” label. I believe Carter was merely incompetent; not evil. Bush was another incompetent big G socialist. Over the last five years, as I have learned more, experienced more, I’d suggest that “worst” has to be Lincoln. With Wilson and FDR close behind. In my “dimensions”, W isn’t … Read Moreclose and O get his four or eight years to attempt to lower the bar. Luckily, America is pretty tough and seems to be immune to mismanagement. Again, imho, shaking my head. BTW as a gun owner, I don’t think you can stand against the armed thugs of gooferment. You have to gather your neighbors and be Gandhi like. Lay down peacefully in front of them and confront them that way. Bottom line, like Gandhi said, you can’t control 300M people who just refuse to cooperate. Of course, a little French style night time resistance may be just what they need to hurry them along. Think the movie “Red Dawn”, “Casablanca”, or the OSS in Europe during WW2. Peace!

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I clearly think that Lincoln, a tool of the Norther mercantilists, was clearly the “worst”. He started the War of Norther Aggression aka the Second American Revolution aka the “Civil” War. Essential a tax war! In the desire to favor the North over the South.

Slavery was a smokescreen!

It wasn’t about slavery. The rest of the world, for the most part, eliminated slavery peacefully. At the time of the war, there had been plans to buy all the slaves and free them. It was a labor model that was unsustainable. And, Lincoln allowed Sherman’s March to the Sea. War on the civilian population.

Now, runner’s up in my mind: Wilson, who campaigned on peace, and immediately led us into WW1 which set the table for WW2. FDR, who maneuvered us into WW2 via Pearl Harbor and entrenched Socialistic Big Government. Truman who dropped the A-bomb on civilians.

Far behind were the incompetents — Carter and Bush43! The liars — Bush41 (“No new taxes”) and Clinton (“I did not have sex with that woman”) And, the fellows who tried — Eisenhower (Identified the Military Industrial complex) and Regan (Couldn’t control the Congressional spending).

We have to allow O his four or eight years to make his mark. He might be able to slip under the bar, but he’s going to have to really try to get to the bottom of my list. Now he has established his political credentials in my mind by the lies on Infanticide, Public Campaign Financing, and his continual mincing of words. So we’ll have to see how he does in following through.

It’s hard to imagine him getting to the bottom of the list.

Sex with a Republican? Nah, that’s not even close.

And, he has inspired a generation of minority children with the idea that they CAN grow up and be President. That will be a hard positive to overcome. If he does NOTHING else. That’s enough to put him well above all these other names.

Getting to the bottom will require a heroic effort!

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TECHNOLOGY: UBUNTU 8.10

Saturday, November 8, 2008

http://www.ubuntu.com

Downloaded the latest release. Some platform problems getting it down, but got it. Luggable comes up on the live distribution clean. Connected to the home wireless network by selecting the network and supplying the admission password. Looks like we have something that will be my “production” release for my secondary desktop. Good bye Microsoft is on the horizon!

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TECHNOLOGY: No DRM!

Saturday, November 8, 2008

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7708268.stm

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New MP3 logo gets online support

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Seven of Britain’s largest music download sites have got together to promote a new “MP3 compatible” logo.

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No DRMs for me. I’ve been fooled too many times. I have load of cassettes with great content; don’t lock me in. Argh!

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MONEY: Principal Group?

Saturday, November 8, 2008

On Bob Brinker’s radio program today, during the second hour, had a caller call and report that one of the Principal Group’s Stable Value Funds was refusing redemptions. That’s earthshaking. Bob advise legal counsel be retained. Doesn’t sound good for Principal?

Also, on the show, a caller reported a 30+% loss in an California Muncipal Money Market fund. That shouldn’t be possible?

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RANT: Education’s value

Friday, November 7, 2008

http://execunet.blogspot.com/2008/11/mike-for-president.html

Tuesday, November 04, 2008
Mike for President
Dave Opton
Norwalk, Connecticut

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Anyway, what caught my eye was not just the subject which I found of immediate interest, but after reading it, I was pleased to see that he too was pounding the drum on one of the subjects about which readers of this blog will recognize as one about which I have pretty strong feelings – read public education.

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Sorry, but I don’t expect the Teacher’s Union to allow any fundamental shift in “education” policy.

If we have any hope, it will be from parents refusing, or being unable, to pay for “education” that doesn’t have an ROI. If we have any hope, it will be the children realizing that the “eduction” being offered them is a time waster and the strike out on their own. If we have any hope, it will be from the pre-College students refusing to take on the debt load for an education that doesn’t have an ROI.

In short, not a lot of hope.

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