Gunny Gives a SITREP

At a benefit for the "USO" and "Toys for Tots", R. Lee Ermey said

"I got to tell you folks, we're having a big problem this year. The economy really sucks. Now I hate to point fingers at anybody, but the present administration probably had a lot to do with that. And the way I see it, they're not going to quit doing it until they bring this country to its knees; so I think we should all rise up and we should stop this administration from what they're doing because they're destroying this country.They're driving us into bankruptcy so they can impose socialism on us. That's exactly what they're doing, and I'm sick and damn tired of it and I know you are too.

"But I know the Marine Corps is going to be here forever. This administration won't.
Semper Fi. God bless you all."

December 10, 2010, appearance on Roe Roeper's Miracle on Indianapolis Blvd. Holiday Extravaganza broadcast, live from The Venue inside the Horseshoe Casino, broadcast Live on NBC Chicago.

Thank you Gunny, for that Christmas gift.

I Pledge Allegiance

h/t Holger Awakens

Remember when?






[update]

Remember when? ...back before we noticed government destroying businesses and farms, courts and financial stability, and now whole industries.

“It is the responsibility of the patriot to protect his country from its government.”
- Thomas Paine

The current form of government has made itself a leech, a cancer, sucking the life out of the country. As it fattens, it is killing the host.


I also remember a time and place where the government provided stability and consistency, and where robust individuals were able to reap the rewards for their innovation and hard work. No, really. Maybe it was a local/regional phenomenon, but I remember it. It's what the founders intended. And I want that back.

That's the attraction in the videos: The nostalgic notion that people are free to do things without begging the government; that 'we the people' are anything other than Eloi to serve the Morlocks.

"--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."
- Jefferson, et al

Imagine that: A government constituted with the specific task of ensuring my Safety and Happiness.

Awesome: Day by Day 'Civil War Blog'

American Interest is blogging the Civil War!
The blog has daily "updates" from the archives of newspapers as they were originally published 150 years ago, day by day.
So on December 20th 2010, the blog feature articles and editorials that were originally published on December 20th 1860. etc.

December 20th 1860 has President Buchannan dealing with the secession of several states.
Buckle up!

Prepare for interesting times.

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Warning: 'American Interest' editorials and essays are frequently pro-Obama pro-Statism-Lenninism, and against traditional American ideals and against many of the traditional 'Liberal' philosophies of Western Civilization as embraced by our founders. The civil war is interesting, even when Marxists and RINOs write about it.

Or at least I hope so.
It would be a shame if marxists try to re-write history, no?
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Fed.Gov at War with Christians

from Drudge: Feds force bank to pull 'Merry Christmas' buttons ... [read the whole thing and watch the video]

A small-town bank in Oklahoma said the Federal Reserve won’t let it keep religious signs and symbols on display.

[...] deemed a Bible verse of the day, crosses on the teller’s counter and buttons that say "Merry Christmas, God With Us." were inappropriate. The Bible verse of the day on the bank's Internet site also had to be taken down.

more

The bank was told that failure to comply would result in referral of the matter to the Department of Justice for further enforcement actions.

Fed.Gov conducts religious war against the people, driving religion out of our society through force.
Stalin behaved similarly.

One of these days, we will constitute a government that is specifically tasked with protecting our religious freedoms. And people who violate their oaths of office will be prosecuted.

"Merry Christmas" to the Fed and to all the fed.petty dictators.
Expect FCC 'net neutrality' coersion of religion soon enough.

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Update: After begging, the bank was granted limited "rights" by their overlords (who deem to have it in their power to grant such requests, when the begging suffices).

Who is being prosecuted for tyranny? Which director of which region is also liable for allowing it?
What are the names of the individual Fed employees involved?
Tyrants deem themselves above the law, and try to avoid responsibility. 'Above the law' also means 'without the rule of law'. Long prison sentences are the 'easy way' to reign in these 'god-like' creatures who have taken over our government.

Without consequences, the long train of abuses continues and gets worse.
Start the prosecuting. Please.

-OR-
Start gathering powder and shot in Concord and Lexington.

-OR-
Do nothing, since your life isn't worth the trouble.


"He who does not punish evil commands it to be done"
-Leonardo da Vinci
as quoted on Stormbringer


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Big Sis. Big Brother.

Big Sis TV: ‘IF YOU SEE SOMETHING, SAY SOMETHING’

from Free Republic

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano today announced the expansion of the Department’s national “If You See Something, Say Something” campaign to hundreds of Walmart stores across the country—launching a new partnership between DHS and Walmart to help the American public play an active role in ensuring the safety and security of our nation.

“Homeland security starts with hometown security, and each of us plays a critical role in keeping our country and communities safe,” said Secretary Napolitano. “I applaud Walmart for joining the ‘If You See Something, Say Something’ campaign. This partnership will help millions of shoppers across the nation identify and report indicators of terrorism, crime and other threats to law enforcement authorities.”

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More than 230 Walmart stores nationwide launched the “If You See Something, Say Something” campaign today, with a total of 588 Walmart stores in 27 states joining in the coming weeks. A short video message, available here, will play at select checkout locations to remind shoppers to contact local law enforcement to report suspicious activity.

Over the past five months, DHS has worked with its federal, state, local and private sector partners, as well as the Department of Justice, to expand the “If You See Something, Say Something” campaign and Nationwide SAR Initiative to communities throughout the country—including the recent state-wide expansions of the “If You See Something, Say Something” campaign across Minnesota and New Jersey. Partners include the Mall of America, the American Hotel & Lodging Association, Amtrak, the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, sports and general aviation industries, and state and local fusion centers across the country.

In the coming months, the Department will continue to expand the “If You See Something, Say Something” campaign nationally with public education materials and outreach tools designed to help America’s businesses, communities and citizens remain vigilant and play an active role in keeping the county safe.

To whom do we report Tyranny, Theft, and the Communist Coup which has hijacked my country?


Eric Blair warned us this would happen.

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Make Mine Freedom

Pirates Grab the Internets

Freedom of the seas is vital. But, from time to time, Pirates rise up and claim dominion over a part of the sea. Freedom, property, free trade, capitalism, and liberty depend on the seas; and therefore our western civilization rises up to beat back evil pirates.

Enemy combatants, during times of economic war, would try to shut down the sea 'lines of communication' and commerce. "What used to be My Navy" fought to keep those lines of communication and commerce open, and to sink those who would try to submarine our nations' cargo.

Like physical 'lines of communication' over the high seas; modern commerce, captialism, and liberty rely on open lines of communication via the internet.

Blockading the internet is an act of Piracy: Taking, stealing at gun point what does not 'belong' to the Pirate.

Embarrased by Truths posted on open communication channels, Pirates now claim control of what previously was free and open. Who the HELL do they think they are!?

Piratical Tyrannts claimed possession of the internets this week.
They only allow to pass, what they deem ok to pass.
Everyone's packages will be opened and inspected.
The Pirates demand Jizyah to be paid in acknowledgement of their raw power.
Questioning their power leads to being designated a 'person of interest', targetted for extra subjugation.

History oft repeated: Pirates were a huge problem for the west, when Muslim Pirates in the Mediterranean interferred with commerce, and ignored the sovereignty, liberty, and property of others. Bitching does not make Pirates go away. Begging does not make Pirates go away. Pirates demand bribes, to acknowledge their power over you. Similar to a Chicago Mob protection racket. Get in their way, and they will kill you. Fail to pay tribute, and they will kill you.

What did all-american Mr Jefferson do?
He sent fighting men (USMC and Navy) to kill the Pirates, routing out their means of power, destroying their strongholds and the villages of all who support them.

The Brits interrupted the Pirate killing for a few years during the war of 1812, after which Madison sent the Marines to finish off the Pirates.

America doesn't stand for Pirates who steal and blockade lines of communication.
We hunt them down and kill them, and eliminate those who support/empower them.
Then we live free. And we are prosperous.

Russia deals with Pirates directly.

Freedom of the Seas. Freedom of Speech. Free Lines of Communication.
Except in war- Then it is vital to block your enemy's lines of communication.
So why is the FCC getting ready to block ours?!? Because the FCC views "we the people" as their 'enemy'.

Piracy.
Transparent plan.
Brute force.
What to do?

Observe.
Orient.
Decide.
Act.

As an ex-squid, and as a sailor ("the wind is free")-- I hate Pirates.
In previous times, 'what used to be my Navy' wiped Pirates from the seas, ruthlessly.
May we as a nation, grow the stones to do what must be done, again, for modern day Pirates.
Foreign, and Domestic.

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Free Lines of Communication

'Diaspora' is a distributed P2P private network where separate computers connect to each other directly using secure protocols (PGP), without going through a central server of some sort. It is 'in development', but much easier to install and use since the Thanksgiving update. Diaspora is a loabor of love of a few college kids taking some time off, to do 'the right thing'.

What others are saying

What the folks at Diaspora are saying

Diaspora Website (for non-IE browsers) Preview. Download. Join. Experiment.

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For browsers, consider bypassing ICANN

Promising Sundial browser using TLDs


other options? Bueller?

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And yes, we all know that the embarrassing leaks du jour are the works of a well known communist sympathizer, who is out to damage our country. It's a Reichstag fire by a known collaborator. A manufactured crisis, intended to lead to this specific outcome: The taking of our lines of communication.
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NRA robo-called Today

Picked up the phone... click.. click.. click.. click.. pause.. "Hello?" [robo-call indication]
Nice guy wanted to talk to me about the NRA and all the good work they're doing.
"And this call is recorded for quality assurance."

I talked to him about Gun Owners of America, Heller, and asked why the NRA was always in bed with the enemies of the 2nd Amendment, working to give away our rights just so the NRA could get 'most favored whore' status. I asked him if NRA stood for "Not Relevant Anymore".

Civil conversation and he was making his points too. He was sincere about 2A, and I commended him for his efforts. And I tried to get him to see that the NRA was not his friend. Then he asked for the $$$.

I told him that I was with Charlton Heston on this: The only way the NRA would get money from me would be
... from my cold dead hands.

At that point, he hung up.

I'm glad they record calls; and I hope they replay mine, over and over.
Maybe some will understand.

Stalin Wants Control Over Food

Anyone think 'food czar' is a frightening concept?
Ask a Ukranian.
Ask the Chinese.

Why is this critical to push through now, during the lame duck session? What is the imminent crisis?
It's the take-over of another industry.
It's a massive increase in the size of a federal agency.
It's a lot of new money, when INCREASING the budget seems like a bad idea.

But this is so much more.
Historically, this is 'how it's done'.
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Give Thanks

Thank you for my family, and our health, our differences, our struggles, and our faith.

Bless our Families.

Bless the FreeFor.

Guide us through these troubled times.

(and yes, the picture was lifted from ssi)

Mr.Podesta: Cross the Bridge. America is Rallying on the Other Side.

Anyone calling for the violence from 'progressives' to stop?

...crickets...

99.44% of individual/small group political related violence in America has been from the left. Check the numbers (not the hype).

In the 20th century, three times as many people were killed by their own collectivist governments than were killed in all wars combined; 120 million citizens killed within their own countries. The propensity to violence is deep seated within the leftist psyche: killing people 'for their own good'.

Now John Podesta is openly calling for Obama to act by fiat against the will of the American people, to use executive orders and the military against the American people. ! ! !

It's like 1775, when the Torries misunderestimated the response.

"I am of his opinion that when once these rebels have felt a smart blow, they will submit; and no situation can ever change my fixed resolution, ..."
- Letter from King George III to Lord Sandwich

Which sounds like what John Podesta is saying. They will act out their violent fantasies.
They will press onto Lexington, and then Concord, and they will cross the Old North Bridge.
America is rallying on the other side.

"The once-happy and peaceful plains of America are either to be drenched in blood or inhabited by slaves. Sad alternative! But can a virtuous man hesitate in his choice?"
-George Washington, upon receiving news of Lexington and Concord

John Podesta offering America a sick choice: be drenched in blood or become his slaves.
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New Jersey Thinks Rights are Granted by the King

So New Jersey takes exception to TSA abuse. And what do they do?

Are New Jersey State Troopers arresting folks for assault? For sexual harrassment? For violating New Jersey laws?
Are New Jersey Prosecutors indicting TSA officials?

WHY NOT!?

They are conditioned to beg the king.
By asking, they acknowledge that they are powerless as individuals, and only the central fed.gov has authority. The implicit assumption is that 'rights' are derived by begging the king. They are granting/acknowledging that only czars, lawyers, court jesters, consultants are empowered. Even as they complain, the chains rest lightly upon these New Jersey folks.



And why do we need TSA? Because fed.gov refuses to end the jihad.

The jihad is barbaric evil, agressively expanding and subjugating new lands.
The jihad is the problem. Ending jihad is the solution.

TSA is not the solution to jihad.
TSA are prison guards for the collective, controlling the movement of prisoners.
That is their purpose.
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When our votes don't count, it's time.

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'nuff said.
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[list below is updated, and grows longer every day]
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tic Mass , 9 November
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tic Nevada, rigged election machines run by SEIU
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tic Chicago
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tic North Carolina, rigged election machines run by SEIU
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tic Military, absentee ballots
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tic Pennsylvania
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tic Illinois, military ballots
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tic Florida, absentee ballot fraud
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tic New Jersey, unions
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tic Arizona, Corrupt Judge, Mi Familia Vota Education Fund and the Service Employees International Union
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tic Colorado, Mi Familia Vota Education Fund and the Service Employees International Union
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tic Washington State, illegals registering
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tic Nevada, felony bribery
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tic Undermining fundamentals
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tic In a saner time, they would be hanged
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tic The "ETRT" - Election Thievery Redress Tool
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tic Nationwide

They not only steal votes, but also our future; they undermine the rule of law and threaten the republic itself. In a saner time, they would probably be hanged. And if it becomes apparent that the government -- the Eric Holder DOJ, judges, and others -- has become so corrupt that it will preserve its power by negating the votes of the people, then we should consider our Founding Fathers' words: "whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness], it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it."

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tic Missouri
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tic Portland ME and New York City
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tic Texas
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tic Texas
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tic Arizona
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tic Texas
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tic Maine, Surrender Gun to Vote
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tic Texas Black Panther intimidation
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tic
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tic
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The Obvious

A fundamental truth.

"Islam and Communism are incompatible with Western Civilization. It really is that simple."
- anon @ 7:20 am in 'comments' at SipseyStreetIrregulars

It really is that simple.

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And, from JohnGaltFla (read the whole thing)

"The Congress will return to session almost immediately after the election and the intelligent voter should be filled with great trepidation. Unlike the Republicans who have been plotting how to carve up their freshly baked power pie, the Democrats and the administration have been designing a systemic attack on our freedoms by planning on the passing and implementation of numerous pieces of legislation previously rejected due to public pressure and long desired by the extremists in power now. The reason the pre-election session did not pass a budget nor appropriations was not because of some mysterious Republican filibuster being held in the men’s room beside the Senate floor. The truth is that the Democrats had a fairly certain determination of the outcome of these elections as early as Labor Day and thus decided to plot the perfect storm to trap the Republicans and complete their agenda. Inserted into omnibus spending acts and defense appropriations will be the largest amount of regulatory whoredom ever witnessed. The design is to force the Republicans into approving the acts or bypass opposing them so they can expand their permanence of an expansive bureaucracy while Americans celebrate the diversions of sport and holiday. A failure or attempt to block any of the Democrat plans will result in chaos by design, with government agencies shutting down and benefits suspended for American citizens, conveniently right before Christmas when they want and need them the most.

"This session of Congress will be anything but lame. It will behave more like a cunning tiger waiting to pounce on its prey and shred it. Everyone feels that after whatever victory occurs next week for those Tea Party candidates and deserving Republicans a call for celebration should be allowed to proceed but I call for increased vigilance. The seven weeks after November 2nd will prove to be consequential, unless of course one elects to imbibe in the victory parades and platitudes which will be the call of the day by the amenable Republicans."

While Treason during the lame duck session should trigger Tar and Feathers and Pitchforks- It will not. Because a gumby nation will watch itself being raped and robbed, again. Darwin might say that America has become too stupid to live.

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Fed Privacy Does Not Exist in ‘Public Places’

David Kravets at Wired writes

The Obama administration has urged a federal appeals court to allow the government, without a court warrant, to affix GPS devices on suspects’ vehicles to track their every move.

The Justice Department is demanding a federal appeals court rehear a case in which it reversed the conviction and life sentence of a cocaine dealer whose vehicle was tracked via GPS for a month, without a court warrant. The authorities then obtained warrants to search and find drugs in the locations where defendant Antoine Jones had travelled.

The administration, in urging the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to reverse a three-judge panel’s August ruling from the same court, said Monday that Americans should expect no privacy while in public.

“The panel’s conclusion that Jones had a reasonable expectation of privacy in the public movements of his Jeep rested on the premise that an individual has a reasonable expectation of privacy in the totality of his or her movements in public places, ” Assistant U.S. Attorney Peter Smith wrote the court in a petition for rehearing.

The case is an important test of privacy rights as GPS devices have become a common tool in crime fighting, and can be affixed to moving vehicles by an officer shooting a dart. Three other circuit courts have already said the authorities do not need a warrant for GPS vehicle tracking, Smith pointed out.

[...]

The appeals court ruled the case “illustrates how the sequence of a person’s movements may reveal more than the individual movements of which it is composed.”

The court said that a person “who knows all of another’s travels can deduce whether he is a weekly churchgoer, a heavy drinker, a regular at the gym, an unfaithful husband, an outpatient receiving medical treatment, an associate of particular individuals or political groups — and not just one such fact about a person, but all such facts.”

We the people instituted a form of government to protect our lives and our liberties. We certainly have natural rights. And especially those that we specifically documented to limit the government we set up to protect us.

But our employees- federal, state, and local agencies - are saying that they have no expectation of privacy.

I'm no legal expert, but fed.gov and the courts seem to be saying that tracking Federal Employees, Judges, Directors/Staff of 3 letter agencies, State and Local bureaucrats - IS LEGAL. This is the new normal.

And by tracking them, it can be determined where they live, where their kids go to school, what church and gym they go to, what bars they hang out at, where they go fishing, where their cabin in the woods is.

We live in interesting times. But if there is no expectation of privacy, then fed.gov and the courts are creating this new reality.

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OPEN LETTER TO GENERAL PETRAEUS

from Chuck Prime

OPEN LETTER TO GENERAL PETRAEUS

“Were the actual burning to take place, the safety of our soldiers and civilians would be put in jeopardy and accomplishment of the mission would be made more difficult.”
– Gen. David Petraeus

General, I ask you this: what in hell is your “mission” if We The People jeopardize it by exercising our First Amendment rights in our own homeland? Is your “mission” to defend our rights against foreign enemies, or to defend foreign enemies against our rights?

You made your choice, and you justified it by claiming that you and those under your command have been taken hostage by our 7th Century terrorist enemy, and that the ransom demand you deliver to us is that we submit to your captor’s restrictions on our natural and constitutional rights – or they’ll kill you.

I remind you and your captors that we do not negotiate with terrorists.

And I remind you that you are the most revered general in the present day, commanding in the most powerful military in all of history, during the most justifiable war in the last seventy years. So please either remember your priorities and slaughter your captors, or resign in disgrace so that we may replace you with a warrior. And if you resign, you should do so right along with President Obama, Gen. Caldwell, Pentagon Spokesman Lapan, Sec. of State Clinton, Atty. Gen. Holder, NATO Sec. Rasmussen and all others in all branches of government and in all alliances who echoed your request, whether they did so mindlessly or with surrender aforethought.

To have our own military leaders beg us to refrain from exercising our Constitutional rights on our own soil is completely un-American. And to have you make that request of us in the name of cowardice is a shocking and unthinkable perversion I still don’t have the words for.

But I do have the plan for it. We The People will force the issue right here and now. We don’t want harm to come to our military, but if peacefully exercising our rightful freedom on our own property here in our own homeland endangers you, then we will endanger you!

We will burn the Koran for freedom and post the videos for all the world to see. We can be overt or covert, named or anonymous, sparse or numerous – but ultimately we will be unstoppable, and eventually we will be effective.

We will do this because you have no fucking right to sell our freedom down the river for the sake of our enemy’s sensitivity. We will do it because you more than have the power to defend yourselves against that enemy if only you would use it. We will do it because facing danger to defend our rightful freedom is why we pay you, train you, equip you, promote you, appoint you, deploy you, and – formerly! – revere you.

You work for us, General, not for our enemy. Therefore we will regain control over you and over this war from the command center of our own backyards. We will force you to end any of your appeasement and nation-building which would restrict our Constitutional rights. We will force you to defend yourselves and us, and to do the job you were appointed to do: destroy the enemy in defense of our freedom.

Our military has the power. We hired you to use it. Now we’ll make sure you do.

When Americans can burn our own copies of the Koran on our own soil without credible threats from jihadists or appeasement of those threats from our President and our Generals, then we will gladly stop burning them.

We are a free people, and although we clearly live in occupied territory psychologically, we do not yet live in occupied territory legally or physically. We will do as we please, and we will continue to expect all branches of our government to secure our right to do it.

I remind you that securing our rights is the only legitimate reason that governments are instituted among men in the first place, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.

And not everybody among the governed consents to surrendering our rights to terrorists.

Freedom for all,

Chuck Prime
www.BurnTheKoranForFreedom.com

Why isn’t Achmed quaking, worried that Gen Petrius will kill his entire village if he gets out of line? Because we have been ‘policing’ for 9 years, rather than fighting to win: Reduce the enemy capitols to rubble, decimate their 7th century culture.

Fight to WIN.
Or ‘bend over for islam’.

Another essay here, about failed leadership:   (read the whole thing)

The real issue is that our government exists in order to protect our rights from oppressors, but in the last week it consistently – without a single dissenting voice being reported – spoke out loudly in order to protect oppressors from our rights.

When a perversion of this magnitude is inflicted on us, then pretty words about “freedom” and “the First Amendment” become feel-good lies, a decayed mantra mindlessly grunted by a zombie version of what was once the land of the free and home of the brave.

We are becoming a nation of surrender. We The People live in occupied territory. We are to obey our new masters – and we did, in full unanimity.

We are Islam’s prison-bitch.

Is it getting clearer?

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Undo the Lawfare

Lawfare is the use of law as a weapon, to destroy businesses and lives, and liberty.

Lawfare has incrementally chained the people and attacked Life, Liberty, and Persuit of Happiness.

THERE OUGHTA BE A LAW July 14, 2010
L.Neil Smith

"Immediately upon passage of this measure, every act, bill, decree, directive, edict, executive or administrative order, initiative, law, mandate, ordinance, proclamation, regulation, resolution, rule, or statute, promulgated or enacted by any agency or any other part of the United States government between January 19, 2009 and January 21, 2013 or the end of the Barack Obama Administration, shall be null and void."

There's a Supreme Court ruling that could be used to agressively stamp out much that was done by Wilson, Roosevelt, Johnson, Carter, Bush, Clinton, Bush:

“All laws which are repugnant to the Constitution are null and void.”
-SCOTUS Chief Justice John Marshall, Marbury v. Madison, 1803

Fed.gov needs trimming. Will GOP majorities make this happen?  Not a chance. At best they stabilize where we are- as 'the new normal'.
 
Fed.gov needs trimming. A lot of trimming. Get out the weed wacker. New parties will form.
 
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Victory Over Evil

from Daniel Greenfield, over at Family Security Matters

... We do not need to feel guilt for what we have, only guilt for forgetting why we have it. Because generation after generation fought challenges of every sort to win it for us. And if we allow ourselves to forget or to imagine that those challenges were only in the past, we throw away what they fought so hard to gain for us. Not mere wealth, but freedom.

9/11 was not only a call to arms, but a call to awareness. The awareness that what we have is not free, it must be paid for in generation after generation. There is no final victory and no permanent armistice. As long as human evil endures in the world, so long we must be prepared to fight against it. The latest phase of a very old war has come again. We can be uplifted by the struggle against it, or destroyed by the submission to it. The choice is ours. The consequences of that choice however will follow us across generations and to the end of time.

Well said. (read the whole thing)

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Dr. Candace de Russey writes

America awakens.

Once again we remember and honor those who perished in the 9/11/01 terrorist attacks. And we stand eternally grateful before those who have sacrificed so much to keep us safe from further attacks and other dangers.

But something new and extraordinary commingles with commemoration on this ninth anniversary of the attacks. One senses a heightened public understanding of Islam, and in particular its dark – theocratic and jihadist – side. Add to that deep fear that our appeasement-minded political and opinion leaders are causing us to lose the war against Islamic radicals who attack us in the name of their religion and against those in our midst who practice “stealth jihad.”

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For twenty years Americans have been slaughtered by Islamists, spilled blood and treasure for Islamic peoples, and accepted the building of thousands of mosques, even though, McCarthy explains, they have been used to violent ends against us. All the while, we have been labeled as intolerant victimizers.

On 9/11/10 many Americans are indicating they have had enough.

(read the whole thing)

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The more we come to know islam, the more we understand 1400 years of "ring of fire" data, and accept that islam is a rabid dog.
It is time to put down the rabid dog, or be destroyed by it.
The sooner this comes to a head, the better it is for our side.


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Islam is War. Accept Reality. Then Eradicate Islam.

News flash: Islam is war. Jihad is the duty of all muslims. They won't stop until they have been reduced to rubble -OR- have conquered you and raped your wife and children (“it’s in the Koran!”).
The Curmugeon Emeritus says:
(h/t PolyKahr)

Just in case you've napped away the past thirty years, there's a war on. No, not in Afghanistan, and certainly not in Iraq. The war of which your Curmudgeon speaks is the stealth jihad of which Robert Spencer and others have so eloquently warned us: the ongoing, loosely organized Islamic campaign to demoralize the nations of the West so that shari'a, Islam's law code, can penetrate our lands and eventually displace our native arrangements. That campaign uses Western "tolerance" toward religious differences to disarm our resistance to Islam's advance.

But Islam is not a religion. It's a totalitarian ideology with a few theological trimmings. If you're aware of its prescriptions, its proscriptions, and its record when in the saddle, you cannot sincerely disagree. If not, you need to complete your education before allowing yourself an opinion on the subject.

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One does not fight a war by conciliating the enemy. No, not even a war of ideas, insofar as Islam can be considered an idea to be assessed objectively and rationally. In a war successfully concluded, there can only be victory and defeat. Inasmuch as Islam has defined itself as a war creed unalterably opposed to all others -- read the Koran if you don't believe your Curmudgeon on that score -- our choice is to prosecute the war to victory, or to meekly accept defeat.

Everyone knows- Mohammed was a psychopath who started a totalitarian culture of brutality that is incompatible with reality.
And now it is time for islam to be extinguished, like other vicious tribal insanities.

PolyKahr points out that we don't have a choice,

We have been at war with these people since the day Mohammad founded his crazy "faith." We are at war whether we want to be or not, whether we recognize it or not, whether we are prepared or not. There can be no peace with these people. Islam is an implacable enemy, who will not stop. That being the case, I think burning some Korans is not a bad idea. Not a bad idea at all. Throw in some copies of Mein Kampf while you're at it.

There will be much commotion and crying and gnashing of teeth.
But exposure to Western freedoms is killing Islam. Islam is dying, and they know it.

Sure they cause some trouble, like the KKK or MS-13 or Mexican Drug Cartels. But they are brutal thugs and will be put down as thoroughly as the KKK, and the SS.
America, the West, and Liberty triumphs over pedophiles, rapists, slavers, wifebeaters, and thugs.

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It is inevitable, so we may as well start talking about it . . .

Sophia Church? Cordoba Cathedral? City of Constantinople? Buddist statuary in Afghanistan?
Temple Mount can erase the mohammedan eyesore and restore the Temple.
Destruction and then building on rubble is an Islamic philosophical schwerpunkt, and therefore a vulnerability, and therefore a necessity.

Here's an updated map of Mecca, outlining plans for the “Kaaba Cathedral”. “Sister Mary’s Convent, and Women’s Shelter” is around the corner. The “Karbala BBQ” is across the street, next to “Mo’s Bar & Grill” and the “Haram-a-Burger” joint. The “Ayisha Massage Parlor” is just down the street.
The pig farms occupy most of the rest of the town. NASCAR Track to the northeast.

Yankee ingenuity, to build something useful on the rubble of Mecca.

By the way, the Pork-Rinds at “Mo’s Bar & Grill” are excellent. And try the Bacon Cheeseburger !
And...for private parties you can book the exclusive "Goat Room" at the "Ayisha Massage Parlor".  (h/t Birk)

Mecca & Medina ? ?    Oh Hell no !

Mecca re-named: The City of Sobeiski.
Medina re-named: The City of Martel.

Sobeiski & Martel.   Has a nice ring to it!
[ And helps us remember 11 September 1683, when Islam got uppity and needed it's ass kicked outside Vienna. ]

We need to find a City worthy of the name Holger Danske.


Never forget the perpetual victims of this sick cult, 1400 years worth.
Light a pyre every 9/11 in remembrance of recent victims and in remembrance of the victory at Vienna.

Grow a pair.                                                             Then do what men do to protect the women and children.

May we re-discover the will to live, and accept that war has come to us, that makes us the latest target of 1400 years of slaughter. May we accept our grim duty and methodically wipe out the mental illness that is islam; branch, stem, and root.

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Inverting The Constitution Goes Unpunished, Again and Again and Again

From the Woodpile Report (read it all)

Remember the promises made after Hurricane Katrina that citizens would never again be subject to gun restrictions and confiscations during such emergencies? Bad news. They lied. On Wednesday, September 1st, North Carolina Governor Beverly Perdue signed an Executive Order declaring a State of Emergency in anticipation of Hurricane Earle. In doing so, she suspended the right of state residents to use or carry firearms outside their premises. And yes, violater's guns would be confiscated.


Notice she did not protect and defend the rights of the citizenry as is her sworn duty. No surprise, Governor Perdue is a socialist activist—master's degree in education, doctoral in education administration, it's all there in the record. She won the Governorship in a squeaker when Obama delivered the crucial voters. Since then she's had an approval rating in the low 30s but governs as if she had a mandate from Mao.


That the Governor was not forced to step aside pending immediate impeachment and conviction says what needs saying. That she holds office in the first place says even more. This walking pile and her errand boys in the legislature are all the proof a person should need that voting doesn't work, not for the citizenry. If voting worked it would have worked by now.

No consequences for actions repugnant to the Constitution.
Until tyrants are held accountable, expect more and more of the same.

We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission.
- Ayn Rand

***

"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent."
- Thomas Jefferson"

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“The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it”
- Albert Einstein

***

"If your children ever find out how lame you really are, they're gonna murder you in your sleep."
- Frank Zappa

***

"If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.”
-Winston Churchill

Will America remember it's heritage and stand up? Or succumb with only a whimper?

That the Governor was not forced to step aside pending immediate impeachment and conviction says what needs saying.

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"Men occasionally stumble over truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened."
- Winston Churchill

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UPDATE: Executive Order 62 (link)

Gun Rights Examiner explanation of Executive Order 62 (link)

Executive Order 63: Termination of Executive Orders No. 61 & No. 62 (link)

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Soros Wages War for Profit. War against America.

Sometimes, we can forget just what we are dealing with.

James Lewis writes at American Thinker

Soros is the moneybags behind Moveon.org and Media Matters, two Leftwing fronts that constantly try to drop Black PR bombs in the media, always trying to smear the democratic Right. But they are so rage-driven, so far beyond the pale, that they risk triggering a backlash. Moveon couldn't resist smearing one of the most admirable people in America, General David Petraeus, as "General Betray-Us," in the pages of the New York Times. ...

Moveon and M-M are slander squads funded by György Schwartz, later known as György Soros (with two sh-sounds), and later George Soros, US citizen.

Now Soros is bankrolling a propaganda campaign to infilitrate and then lie about Tea Party groups.

Teapartytracker.org is sponsored by the NAACP, Think Progress, New Left Media and Media Matters for America.

• Think Progress is a George Soros operation connected to John Podesta’s Center for American Progress. Podesta is Clinton’s former chief of staff.
• Media Matters for America is the brainchild of a MoveOn consultant and Podesta’s Center for American Progress.
• Soros has always been a major supporter of Media Matters and MoveOn.
• And now the NAACP is happy to play poster-child for racism, in exchange for Soros cash.

George has an interesting history. Conservapedia writes

In his autobiograpy, entitled 'Soros on Soros', he described how as a teenager he helped to cart off the stolen possessions of Hungarian Jewish men, women and children after they were rounded up and transported to death camps. He claims it never bothered him a bit, and still doesn't bother him today.

Here is a partial transcript from an interview done by Steve Kroft for CBS’ 60 Minutes 'George Soros' on December 20, 1998:

When the Nazis occupied Budapest in 1944, George Soros’ father was a successful lawyer. He lived on an island in the Danube and liked to commute to work in a rowboat. But knowing there were problems ahead for the Jews, he decided to split his family up. He bought them forged papers and he bribed a government official to take 14-year-old George Soros in and swear that he was his Christian godson. But survival carried a heavy price tag. While hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews were being shipped off to the death camps, George Soros accompanied his phony godfather on his appointed rounds, confiscating property from the Jews.

(Vintage footage of Jews walking in line; man dragging little boy in line)

KROFT: (Voiceover) These are pictures from 1944 of what happened to George Soros’ friends and neighbors.

(Vintage footage of women and men with bags over their shoulders walking; crowd by a train)

KROFT: (Voiceover) You’re a Hungarian Jew…

Mr. SOROS: (Voiceover) Mm-hmm.

KROFT: (Voiceover) …who escaped the Holocaust…

(Vintage footage of women walking by train)

Mr. SOROS: (Voiceover) Mm-hmm.

(Vintage footage of people getting on train)

KROFT: (Voiceover) …by–by posing as a Christian.

Mr. SOROS: (Voiceover) Right.

(Vintage footage of women helping each other get on train; train door closing with people in boxcar)

KROFT: (Voiceover) And you watched lots of people get shipped off to the death camps.

Mr. SOROS: Right. I was 14 years old. And I would say that that’s when my character was made.

KROFT: In what way?

Mr. SOROS: That one should think ahead. One should understand and–and anticipate events and when–when one is threatened. It was a tremendous threat of evil. I mean, it was a–a very personal experience of evil.

KROFT: My understanding is that you went out with this protector of yours who swore that you were his adopted godson.

Mr. SOROS: Yes. Yes.

KROFT: Went out, in fact, and helped in the confiscation of property from the Jews.

Mr. SOROS: Yes. That’s right. Yes.

KROFT: I mean, that’s–that sounds like an experience that would send lots of people to the psychiatric couch for many, many years. Was it difficult?

Mr. SOROS: Not–not at all. Not at all. Maybe as a child you don’t–you don’t see the connection. But it was–it created no–no problem at all.

[ED: Not quite a child. A 14 year old teenager.]

KROFT: No feeling of guilt?

Mr. SOROS: No.

KROFT: For example that, ‘I’m Jewish and here I am, watching these people go. I could just as easily be there. I should be there.’ None of that?

Mr. SOROS: Well, of course I c–I could be on the other side or I could be the one from whom the thing is being taken away. But there was no sense that I shouldn’t be there, because that was–well, actually, in a funny way, it’s just like in markets–that if I weren’t there–of course, I wasn’t doing it, but somebody else would–would–would be taking it away anyhow. And it was the–whether I was there or not, I was only a spectator, the property was being taken away. So the–I had no role in taking away that property. So I had no sense of guilt.

Ezra Levant writes

George Schwartz was born in Hungary in 1930 — not the luckiest time and place to be born a Jew.

George’s father Theodore tried to change the family’s fortunes by changing their name to something less Jewish-sounding. It didn’t help. And soon war came.

When the Nazis took total control of Hungary in 1944, the Holocaust followed. In two months, 440,000 Hungarian Jews were deported to death camps.

To survive, George, then a teenager, collaborated with the Nazis.

First he worked for the Judenrat. That was the Jewish council set up by the Nazis to do their dirty work for them. Instead of the Nazis rounding up Jews every day for the trains, they delegated that murderous task to Jews who were willing to do it to survive another day at the expense of their neighbours.

Theodore hatched a better plan for his son. He bribed a non-Jewish official at the agriculture ministry to let George live with him. George helped the official confiscate property from Jews.

By collaborating with the Nazis, George survived the Holocaust. He turned on other Jews to spare himself.

George moved to London after the war and then to New York, where he became a stockbroker. He’s rich now. Forbes magazine says he’s the 35th richest man in the world. Maybe you’ve heard of him. He goes by the name his father invented: George Soros.

How does Soros feel about what he did as a teenager? Has it kept him up at night?

Steve Kroft of 60 Minutes asked him that. Was it difficult? “Not at all,” Soros answered.

“No feeling of guilt?” asked Kroft. “No,” said Soros. “There was no sense that I shouldn’t be there. If I wasn’t doing it, somebody else would be taking it away anyhow. Whether I was there or not. So I had no sense of guilt.”

A Nazi would steal the Jews’ property anyways. So why not him?

That moral hollowness has shaped Soros’ life. He’s a rabid critic of capitalism, but in 1992 when he saw a chance, he speculated against the British pound, causing it to crash, devastating retirement savings for millions of Britons. Soros pocketed $1.1 billion for himself. If he didn’t do it, someone else would, right?

In 2002, Soros was convicted of insider trading in France, and fined millions of dollars. He admitted buying the shares, but denied it was a crime.

Last year, when he made $3.3 billion off the banking collapse, he called the world’s financial crisis “the culmination of my life’s work.”

This is a man who boasted he offered to help his mother commit suicide. Apparently he didn’t see enough death in Hungary.

Soros is a sociopath. But he’s a sociopath with $14 billion, and he likes to spend it on politics.

Sometimes his gifts are large, like the $24 million he spent in 2004, trying to defeat George W. Bush. Sometimes they’re small, like $20,000 to a woman convicted of helping terrorists.

That immorality and penchant for stealing has carried him far:

James Lewis writing at American Thinker, provides more background

Soros has been blamed for crashing the national currency of Malaysia in 1997. He is still hated for that by Mahathir Mohammed, the former prime minister of that country, who has emerged as a major international voice of Islamic anti-Semitism. Soros claims that somebody would have profited from speculating in Malaysian currency. He may be right. But many of us might not want to be anywhere near the crashing currency of a poor country, even if somebody else would do it anyway. We would feel ashamed to profit from disaster.

According to Wikipedia, 

"Soros is famously known for ‘breaking the Bank of England' on Black Wednesday in 1992. On Black Wednesday (September 16, 1992), Soros became immediately famous when he sold short more than $10 billion worth of pounds, profiting from the Bank of England's reluctance to either raise its interest rates to levels comparable to those of other European Exchange Rate Mechanism countries or to float its currency. ... He was dubbed "the man who broke the Bank of England. ... Soros first traded currencies during the Hungarian hyperinflation of 1945-1946."

In 2002 a French court ruled that Soros was guilty of insider trading, and fined him $2 million. Who knows? He might be innocent. But there is a repeated pattern of manipulative and destructive actions in Mr. Soros' life.

According to Byron Rork of the National Review, "the (Soros) Open Society Institute gave $20,000 in September 2002 to the Defense Committee of Lynne Stewart." Stewart is the "activist" lawyer who secretly passed messages for the "blind sheik" and his fellow Muslim terrorists convicted of trying to truck bomb the World Trade Towers in 1993.

We live in a time of steady public decline in civilized values. The Left shamelessly peddles the idea that real patriotism means leaking national security secrets when our soldiers are risking their lives in combat. The national media have become so vulgarized that scapegoating GOP presidents has become the open aim of the "profession" of journalism. Opportunistic demagogues like Al Gore jump on the phony Global Warming bandwagon, and are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, thus raising his public image while debasing the Nobel Prize.

[...]

We have seen immense vulgarization in one generation, a loss of simple decency in public life. Much of that decline has been deliberately pushed by the Left and the tabloid press, which is no longer separate from the "mainstream" press. Sociopathy is flying high.

With that as background... What is he up to now?

He bankrolling a new coalition for disinformation and slander.
As a student of history, it is interesting to see the pieces being put in place.

Trostky, Marx, Lenin, Stalin- All had very active media arms to slander and bully, and to cover the raw aggression and theft.
Eventually, only Stalin was breathing.

"All politics in this country now is just dress rehearsal for civil war."
- Billy Beck, August 2009

The communists are at war with America. With the very idea of what America is.
And they are winning. (Because they are the only side engaged in their war.)

Ted Kennedy: One Year Sober

Mary Jo Kopechne could not be reached for comment.

Looks Like We're In For Nasty Weather

h/t rose

Bad Moon Rising
(John C. Fogerty)

I see the bad moon a'risin'.
I see trouble on the way.
I see earthquakes and lightnin'.
I see bad times today.

CHORUS:
Don't go around tonight,
Well, it's bound to take your life,
There's a bad moon on the rise.

I hear hurricanes a'blowin'.
I know the end is coming soon.
I fear rivers over flowing.
I hear the voice of rage and ruin.

CHORUS
All right!

Hope you got your things together.
Hope you are quite prepared to die.
Looks like we're in for nasty weather.
One eye is taken for an eye.

CHORUS

CHORUS

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Bad moon risin'? Trouble on the way?
Here are 5 items of news from the last 24 hours:

1) h/t to Holger on an article by Mark Tapscott about American Thinker's Randall Hoven summary of straw being piled unto the camel's back:
(read each link)

So the following are facts, based on the government's own figures.

• Obama's stimulus, passed in his first month in office, will cost more than the entire Iraq War -- more than $100 billion (15%) more.
• Just the first two years of Obama's stimulus cost more than the entire cost of the Iraq War under President Bush, or six years of that war.
• Iraq War spending accounted for just 3.2% of all federal spending while it lasted.
• Iraq War spending was not even one quarter of what we spent on Medicare in the same time frame.
• Iraq War spending was not even 15% of the total deficit spending in that time frame. The cumulative deficit, 2003-2010, would have been four-point-something trillion dollars with or without the Iraq War.
• The Iraq War accounts for less than 8% of the federal debt held by the public at the end of 2010 ($9.031 trillion).
• During Bush's Iraq years, 2003-2008, the federal government spent more on education that it did on the Iraq War. (State and local governments spent about ten times more.)

2) Pre-Crime Technology To Be Used In Washington D.C.

If you’ve got nothing to hide then what is the problem with being scanned for pre-crime?

3) Without probable cause, new roving vans use backscatter x-rays to peer beneath your clothes, inside your car, and inside your home.

From a privacy standpoint, I’m hard-pressed to see what the concern or objection could be.

4) Citizens have become inmates.

Government agents can sneak onto your property in the middle of the night, put a GPS device on the bottom of your car and keep track of everywhere you go. This doesn't violate your Fourth Amendment rights, because you do not have any reasonable expectation of privacy in your own driveway - and no reasonable expectation that the government isn't tracking your movements.

5) Talk of Dow 5,000

If people had confidence, they wouldn't be pouring money into Treasury securities yielding nothing, and paying more than $1,200 for an ounce of gold.

Our communist masters are tightening the chains upon us, as they suck out the last few sheckles of wealth.

Our 'oath keepers' participate in trampling on the Constitution.

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Our American founders must have had similar days, that steeled their nerve.
We see it in their clear statement of the problem, and the remedy:

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.

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What did Sarah Conner say about 7 Nov 2010?


Creedance Clearwater Revival put it succinctly:

Hope you got your things together.
Hope you are quite prepared to die.
Looks like we're in for nasty weather.

Sanity Returns!

Dr. Sanity is back from an extended hiatus!

The first few posts are HERE.
(I have not figured out how to link to individual blog posts there, so please bear with me.)

First post back is a video:


The post titled "Between Brains" on August 8th is a fine example of reasoned Sanity,. Please read it all.
(Apologies for not being able to linke directly again. Go to the August posts, and please scroll down...)

There is no doubt in my mind that the key "boundary conditions" that have enabled the incredible advances in human progress around the world which have decreased both human misery and poverty everywhere is due to the adherence to a rational ethical system that allowed individuals to interact in a socially productive and mutually beneficial manner--"between brains" so to speak; without the use of brute force and government coercion.

Those boundary conditions are being systematically and deliberately dismantled and replaced by a medieval, irrational and unethical system, that depends primarily on force, involuntary servitude, and the submission of the individual to the will of the State.

We need more Sanity in this world! Welcome Back!

Got UAV ?

Having something like this "eye in the sky" might be useful, and good fun for the kids. hmmm...

The FS-HD1 by Mongrel Gear from The Mongrel on Vimeo.

Advantages:

• 4:3 Real-time video from remote control helicopter or aircraft.
• 16:9 720p HD video recording of up to 5 hours onto 16GB SD card, supporting post flight data transfer.
• Separate real-time GPS navigation data download available.

Disadvantages:

• Radio-Control signals up to helicopter/aircraft locate the control station. --> Move transmitter away from high value items. 
• RF video broadcast can be seen by anyone viewing same frequency. --> Minimally Encrypted Video downlink.
• Loiter time. Cycle time to land, refuel, relaunch. --> Multiple units.
• Daylight cameras.  --> Night-time sensors.

This vendor appears to have run out, for now. But FYI - The gear is out there.

If Treason Prospers, None Dare Call It Treason

comments over at The Smallest Minority

"Treason never prospers, what's the reason?
For if it prospers, none dare call it treason."
- GrumpyOldFart,

"Be the leader you want to have."
- Ken

"We are the ones we've been waiting for."
- Ken

Is slavery on private property ok?

Does the 2nd Amendment apply on private property? On government property?

Let's consider some analogies.

Is slavery on private property ok? On governemnt property? Why not?
Is murder or rape on private property ok? On government property? Why not?
(Hint: It's not some piece of paper.)

Unalienable rights.
The Constitution even acknowledges some of them.
The Declaration has those rights as casus belli for government nullifying itself, leaving citizens to re-institute government that will protect these rights.

Unalienable rights apply throughout the land, or they are just conditional privileges.

The founders asserted that the rights exist, everywhere.
Governments and/or individuals who do not acknowledge that everyone has those rights, are repugnant to the Constitution, and natural law.

So - Slave? Or American?

“It is a proposition too plain to be contested, that the constitution controls any legislative act repugnant to it; or, that the legislature may alter the constitution by an ordinary act.”


"All laws which are repugnant to the Constitution are Null and Void."
--Cheif Justice John Marshall, Marbury vs. Madison
-- 5 US (2 Cranch) 137, 174, 176 (1803)

What was that? "Null and Void".
That's almost as strong as "shall not be infringed".


A government that violates the document that institutes it, makes itself repugnant to that document.
Such a government makes itself Null and Void.
John Marshall. Smart Man.


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Property rights do not trump slavery. And as a free man has a right to life, he has a right to protect himself, his neighbors, and his community against tyrants, thugs, and bullies.


Being defenseless, makes one a slave to every petty tyrant. Which is how petty tyrants like it.

TANSTAAFL

Robert Anson Heinlein was born 7 July 1907.  Happy Birthday!

"Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.
This is known as "bad luck."
-- Robert A. Heinlein, 'Time Enough for Love', 1973

"There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch."  (TANSTAAFL)
-- Often misattributed to Robert A. Heinlein or Milton Friedman, but the phrase was common in the1930s. Heinlein's contribution was to make the acronym for it, and record it for history

"There comes a time in the life of every human when he or she must decide to risk "his life, his fortune, and his sacred honor" on an outcome dubious. Those who fail the challenge are merely overgrown children, can never be anything else."
-- Robert A. Heinlein, 'Stranger in a Strange Land', 1961

"It may be better to be a live jackal than a dead lion, but it is better still to be a live lion. And usually easier."
-- Robert A. Heinlein, 'Time Enough for Love', 1973


Everything in excess! To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites. Moderation is for monks.
-- Robert A. Heinlein, 'Time Enough for Love', 1973


"Always store beer in a dark place."
-- Robert A. Heinlein, 'Time Enough for Love', 1973


"If the universe has any purpose more important than topping a woman you love and making a baby with her hearty help, I've never heard of it."
-- Robert A. Heinlein, 'Time Enough for Love', 1973


"Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy."
-- Robert A. Heinlein, 'Time Enough for Love', 1973


"A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future."
-- Robert A. Heinlein, 'Time Enough for Love', 1973


"When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere."
-- Robert A. Heinlein, 'Time Enough for Love', 1973


"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."
-- Robert A. Heinlein, 'Time Enough for Love', 1973

I read every Heinlein book several times while deployed aboard a Destroyer.
Still have three items on my Heinlein To-Do list.
... Two should be done within a year.
... The third, I'll put off as long as possible.

Spooky How Close That Is To Today

from Chris Muir:

Over? Did You Say 'Over'?

'Concerned American' posted this over at Western Rifle Shooters Association



So the marxists won another battle in their campaign to destroy and loot America.
They just destroyed the last vestiges of the Constitution. Health Care was just a 'cherry on top'.
Marxists abuse the law as a means to render it worthless. And to remind us that they are above the law.
And that we could ignore the law too, if only we would join them.

They are sacking and looting pensions, financial institutions, automobile industry, businesses, individuals, corporations, insurance industry, and health care industry.

"They Won!" several battles with only light resistance from the natives.
"They're just animals, I guess"

So is it over?

"What? Over? Did you say 'over'? Nothing is over until we decide it is!"


"When the going get's tough...." (the jury is still out on this generation)


from Doc Zero:

"...it could be the first overture in a rebirth of our commitment to freedom, and the last gasp of an exhausted statist ideology, long overdue for its disposal in the waste bin of history.

"You are an American, and through a dereliction of their duty as elected representatives, the Democrats have forced you to choose whether you will retain the full measure of the honor and dignity your Constitution asserts for you.

"Freedom is not a gift. It is not given to you by the government, in a precise dosage that can be adjusted to match a politician’s diagnosis of what ails the body politic. Your forefathers won an impossible Revolution against an invincible foe to declare the self-evident truth that your rights descend from your Creator. Whether that Creator is a transcendent God, or a random combination of genetic material in the primordial soup, it is a power that existed before the first king assumed his throne, or the first president was elected. Liberty burns in your imagination, flows through your veins, and rings through your words."

"Tonight, the Democrat Party declares war on the American middle class.

"Sometimes freedom demands that you do the incredible to preserve it."

Make it so.

Mark Levin at the Reagan Library, March 5

Well spoken, 1 hour summary of where we are in regards to Liberty and Tyranny.