Quote for the Day

"Rightful Liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add "within the law" because the law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual." -- Thomas Jefferson

Take a Look Around You

Recently there has been quite a bit of talk about how Obama is pushing the country toward socialism via several different routes. You have the nationalization plans, "social reforms", taxing the productive, etc... All things that make for a socialized nation. There is only one problem with all of this. We are already a socialist nation. Obama is merely putting the icing on the cake.

Don't believe me? The banks have already been nationalized. That happened back in 1913 under Woodrow Wilson. Refer to my Quote for the Day to see what he eventually thought of that. Nationalized health care? Already got it. Maybe not in the terms of European nationalized medicine, but we are not far off. Look at all the hoops doctors here have to jump through to get anything done already. Hospitals have to render services to anyone who comes through their doors regardless of their ability to pay. Who do you think picks up the tab on this? Ever wonder why your health insurance premiums continue to go up yet you hardly ever use your insurance other than routine doctor office visits and prescription drugs?

American taxpayers, depending on your sources, have to work the first 3-5 months of the year to pay their taxes. In other words roughly 3-5 months worth of pay goes straight to the government. After that, you may "keep" the rest.

Make no doubt about it, America is already well on its way to being anything but the nation the founding fathers envisioned.

Do a brief exercise with me for a minute. Imagine that Jefferson, Adams, Madison, Franklin, etc... were around today, that things are exactly as they are now and these men had the same lofty ideals they did 230+ years ago. What would they do? What would they be saying? How long before they re-declared independence?

Quote for the Day

"I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the civilized world no longer a Government by free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men." -Woodrow Wilson, after signing the Federal Reserve into existence

Quote for the Day

How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words! --Samuel Adams

Connecticut School Bans Physical Contact

A Connecticut middle school principal has laid down the law: You put your hands on someone -- anyone -- in any way, you're going to pay...Students and parents are outraged. They said the new policy means no high-fives and hugs, as well as horseplay of any kind. The consequences could be dire, Williams warned in the letter...

Now it's almost as if it's a sanitized school. Where you have to keep your distance from everybody? And that's not what school is about," one father said. [link]

Although I would have to agree that this policy takes things way too far. I can't say that I actually agree with the last question by a concerned father. In a way he is correct, but there is something else that needs to be looked at. He is correct in asserting that keeping your distance is not what school is all about, however that is what public education is all about.

Our current public educational system as it is now is not about education, but about indoctrination, group think, collectivism, and getting children used to "following the rules". This was the entire reason behind the Prussian system which our current system is not just based on, but copied exactly from the Prussian system.

Its sole purpose is to try and get everyone to view things the same, those that don't are labeled (such as learning disability, behavior disability, and others) usually to the detriment of their education. Individualism and individual learning are discouraged. Just because someone may take a little more time to learn to read does not necessarily mean they are learning disabled. And what happens if one child exhibits unusual talents above their "grade level"? They are usually asked to help the other children in the class and not given an opportunity to see how much they can improve their talents.

Public education is not broken, and does not more money put into it. It works just as it was designed to work. If people want to see better results they need to look at the system as a whole and not just at parts of it. For an excellent article that captures the abuses of the modern system much better than I do, go here.

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Government Takeover of Private Businesses

In testimony before the House Financial Services committee that just adjourned, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner just had to defend his institutional takeover plan against charges of radicalism.

"Do you realize how radical your proposal is?" Rep. Donald Manzullo (R-Ill.) asked.

"It's not radical. . ." Geither began, before Manzullo interrupted him.

"You're talking about seizing private businesses and you don't consider that radical?" Manzullo replied, his voice rising.

Manzullo is trying to get Geithner to give details of the plan -- that's where Geithner got stung before -- but Geithner doesn't have them yet.

If the plan were not radical, Manzullo said to Geithner, "you would have answers to some of my questions, such as, what size business would be subject to this?" [link]

What an interesting conversation that was. Geithner has no answer for a representative that asked him about the administrations plan to seize private business if they see fit. At least some people are starting to get outraged finally. The government is going too far and they need to be sent a swift message.

Quote for the Day

“It is interesting to hear certain kinds of people insist that the citizen cannot fight the government. This would have been news to the men of Lexington and Concord, as well as the Mujahedeen in Afghanistan. The citizen most certainly can fight the government, and usually wins when he tries. Organized national armies are useful primarily for fighting against other organized national armies. When they try to fight against the people, they find themselves at a very serious disadvantage. If you will just look around at the state of the world today, you will see that the guerillero has the upper hand. Irregulars usually defeat regulars, providing they have the will. Such fighting is horrible to contemplate, but will continue to dominate brute strength.” --Col. Jeff Cooper

Man Saves Wife From Mugger, Yet Police Discourage Fighting Back

"Going to the aid of his wife as she and an armed man struggled over her purse in the parking lot of the Wal-Mart Supercenter in west Little Rock on Monday night, a 63-year-old dentist pulled out a .357-caliber revolver and opened fire, striking the would-be robber in the buttocks, police said Tuesday."

I am just going to warn you. There are some absolutely ridiculous statements by "authorities" that will follow.

"Little Rock police spokesman Sgt. Cassandra Davis said the department generally discourages people from using force to fend off robbers...Instead, Davis said, she would recommend that people cooperate with the robber and “be a good witness,” paying attention to what the robber looks like, remembering what he says and making note of the weapon he uses and the vehicle he drives." [link]

How about we disregard the fact that the mugger here pulled a gun and was pointing it at the man and his wife. He did what any armed person would do (I use this statement, because I have yet to figure out what a gun-grabber would do. I suppose watch their wife get raped and then let themselves get killed) he used cover and fought back.

Things like this always make me think of a pair of Col. Jeff Cooper's quotes: "Fight back! Whenever you are offered violence, fight back! The aggressor does not fear the law, so he must be taught to fear you. Whatever the risk, and at whatever the cost, fight back!"

And

"We continue to be exasperated by the view, apparently gaining momentum in certain circles, that armed robbery is okay as long as nobody gets hurt! The proper solution to armed robbery is a dead robber, on the scene."

You've Heard the Phrase "Follow the Money"

"In 2000 and 2001, while Barack Obama served as a board member for a Chicago-based charitable foundation, he helped to fund a pioneering carbon trading exchange that is likely to fill a critical role in the controversial cap-and-trade carbon reduction scheme that President Obama is now trying to push rapidly through Congress." [link]

In other words while on acting as a board member he helped to get a "stock market" started that deals in greenhouse gases. Now this next part is pure conjecture, but wonder how much of his own money he has invested in this? It is well documented that Al Gore has ties with this same exchange. Wonder how many other people there are yelling to the top of their lungs trying to get this cap-and-trade passed have a huge chunk of money on the line?

Quote for the Day

"If the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up, and claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system." – Samuel Johnson

CCW Holder Kill's Armed Robber

"Police said a man wearing a ski mask walked into the store at Biscayne Boulevard and 54th Street and demanded money from a clerk. A customer, who has a concealed weapons permit, pulled a gun, said Officer Jeff Giordano, a Miami police spokesman. The customer and robber exchanged fire. The robber was shot dead at the scene." [link]

I wonder just how many lives this man may have just saved?

Is it Just Me, Or Has Anyone Else Noticed a Trend?

It is always a tragedy when a human life is lost regardless of how it happens. It is even more tragic when the end comes in an outburst of violence.

Usually after reading something like this you can just about guarantee something about how we need more gun control in order to make our streets safe and protect our children. Well, sorry to disappoint, but this post will not go that way. What I have noticed recently, and would like to find out if anyone else has noticed? Is if it is just me or are there more shootings going on now? Or is the media focusing more on the shootings that are taking place to help strengthen Obama's agenda on promoting the gun ban?

I am sure sociologist could attribute some of the violence to the state of the economy. But how much more coverage are these shootings getting national attention in the media now than they were just several months ago? If the media is bringing attention to these things now that there is an anti-gunner in the White House then you can add another unethical notch to their belt.

For me I am sort of enjoying watching a lot of these huge "liberal" newspapers fall, I just hope congress doesn't decide to use my money to try and stabilize them, but I am sure they will there is already talk about a "newspaper bailout".

I guess that is about enough ranting for today.

Quote for the Day

"To ban guns because criminals use them is to tell the innocent and law-abiding that their rights and liberties depend not on their own conduct, but on the conduct of the guilty and the lawless, and that the law will permit them to have only such rights and liberties as the lawless will allow... For society does not control crime, ever, by forcing the law-abiding to accommodate themselves to the expected behavior of criminals. Society controls crime by forcing the criminals to accommodate themselves to the expected behavior of the law-abiding." -- Jeff Snyder

More Lies and Power Grabs

"...[Obama]failed to consult Congress, as promised, before carving out exceptions to the omnibus spending bill he signed into law — breaking his own signing-statement rules two days after issuing them — and raised questions among lawmakers and committees who say the president's objections are unclear at best and a power grab at worst..." [link]

I think that after seeing all the lies, backhanded dealings, rhetoric, blaming others, etc... That we have a tyrant in the making. He is doing all he can to get as much power into his hands as possible while attempting to console the public while he does so. There were plenty of people before the election that warned about what type of person Obama was and what he would do to the country. I fear we are only starting to see a small portion of what he has in mind for the country.

Some Humor

Great link for a list of top 5 mistakes Obama has blamed someone else for making. A little bit too lengthy for me to list them all, but I will post one or two and if interested you can go to the link and read them all for yourself.

"...Barack Obama said that, yes, he wanted to "ban the manufacture, sale and possession of handguns." That answer wasn't problematic for him in a run at the state Senate in Illinois, but hewing to that position would have made it impossible for him to get elected as President. So, Obama claimed a staffer filled out the questionnaire for him and got the answer wrong. One problem: his handwritten notes were "on the front page of the questionnaire."

"...after Obama was elected, he became enmeshed in scandal as Rod Blagojevich got caught trying to sell his Senate seat. So, what to do? Well, you know our President: he blamed Rahm Emanuel." [link]

You just gotta love how this man has made a career out of lying and then covering up his mistakes with more lies. No wonder he is such a successful politician. He is at the head of the pack when it comes to lying. Only problem is he gets caught up in it so easily. People are now starting to see through the haze a little bit and realize we have a person in power that is in way over their head and really has no idea on how to be president. But good for a laugh nonetheless.

Quote for the Day

"I am well aware of the Toil and Blood and Treasure, that it will cost Us to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these States. Yet through all the Gloom I can see the Rays of ravishing Light and Glory. I can see that the End is more than worth all the Means. And that Posterity will tryumph in that Days Transaction, even altho We should rue it, which I trust in God We shall not." -- John Adams (1776)

The Banana Republic and the Counterfeiting Government

"Peter Schiff, who has correctly predicted much of the present financial calamity that is destroying the wealth of millions of Americans, now says that with the Federal Reserve's decision to print money by the truckload, "America has now become a banana republic." [link]

"Now US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke has revealed part of the answer: the central bank itself will buy $US300 billion of US Treasury bonds and pay for them by electronically printing the money." [link]

Now, I understand that more often than not economics is a very tricky subject, so I will simplify the above in layman's terms. What the Fed will now do (they like to make it sound technical by using the term "electronically printing money") is change the way that they calculate intake, expenditure, overhead, etc... Actually it really doesn't matter, they are doing two very simple things that if a private citizen or a business were to do they would wind up doing time in a federal pen. They are quite simply "cooking the books" or changing the numbers in however they feel will best serve their purpose, and they are counterfeiting.

What I would like to focus on for a moment is the counterfeiting part. There are several reasons why "counterfeiting" is bad, especially when done by the government. If we realize that Federal Reserve Notes (FRN's) are a means of measuring a persons work output, then we can really start to get upset at what the government has been doing. What I mean by this is, if you work, sale items, do something for "money" your work is rewarded by being paid something. More often than not this is symbolized by a paycheck which you can exchange for FRN's. Now, the more FRN's that are in circulation without being backed by someones work the more the value goes down. In other words if out of the blue the government printed enough FRN's to give everyone in America $1million the price of everything would go up drastically, because the value of the FRN has been diluted. This is why the government is always after those pesky citizen counterfeiters, they don't like competition in the FRN market.

So in reality every time the government prints money because it feels like it, it is actually stealing from every hard working American by devaluing their work, ideas, productivity, industriousness, etc...



Make sure when they come out you take at least a large wheelbarrow full to the store it will probably take that many at least to buy a loaf of bread and a gallon of milk.

Quote for the Day

"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered." --Thomas Jefferson

Military demands details on soldiers' private guns

"A military commander at Fort Campbell in Kentucky demanded his soldiers give him the registration numbers of any guns they own privately and then reveal where they are stored. The order was stopped, according to base officials, when it was discovered the commander was not "acting within his authority.'" [link]

Now that is just plain scary. What reason would the army need to know who owns guns and where they are stored?

Also, isn't it funny how some things can be stopped when it is discovered that someone was not "acting within his authority"? How about stopping members of Congress who are constantly doing things not within their authority.

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A Prime Example of Why He Uses Teleprompters

"...And then it happened. Mr Obama said: “It’s like – it was like the Special Olympics, or something.” And in the instant he said it, you could see a flash of realisation in his eyes: I’ve just mocked the disabled. On live TV." [link]

It is a good thing he was elected for his ability to talk because his policies are going to ruin us...Oh wait a minute, he can't speak either unless it is scripted. Guess we're screwed regardless then

Quote for the Day

"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is argument of tyrants. It is the creed of slaves." --William Pitt

Where Is the Closest Tall Oak Tree?

Missouri Governor Stands Behind MIAC Smear Report

"Nixon defends document that equates Ron Paul supporters & people who display bumper stickers with terrorists, says feds will continue to issue similar reports." [link]

Well, honestly if the federal government and others in "power" take this view. Then Claire Wolfe's quote is not longer relevant, because if they think this way about people that know and understand the Constitution then they don't give a damn about anything else sacred in this country.

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Administration to Have Farmers Register

How about we take a brief look at a new bill offered up in Congress? Please take a look at H.R. 875, the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009. The above link is the bill as it appears in the House. The bill in the senate is S. 510.

What these bills propose, is that anyone who produces food of any kind and then transports it for sale, must register with the government. Under a new agency dubbed the "Food Safety Administration". There is no waiver, even for those that sale at Farmers Markets. Even worse those that do register agree to federal agents inspecting their property as well as all records related to food production.

What is quite ironic about all of this is that now the Obama's are starting a garden at the Whitehouse. Isn't it nice that since they are rich and have the means, they can grow their own food as a privilege instead of having to rely on their crops for their livelihood?

Just remember there are three things needed for a successful Revolution. Food, health, and money. And as is evident Obama is not starting to try and limit all three. What is he afraid of?

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We Need To Ask: For What Purpose?

"President Obama's budget would generate deficits averaging almost $1 trillion a year over the next decade, according to the latest congressional estimates, significantly worse than predicted by the White House just last month...Obama's budget will produce $9.3 trillion worth of red ink over 2010-2019. That's $2.3 trillion worse than the White House predicted in its budget... By the end of the decade, the deficit would exceed 5 percent of gross domestic product, a dangerously high level...White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Friday that the new projections won't stop Obama from achieving his goals or keeping his promise to cut the country's red ink in half within four years." [link]

Given this information I think that it is imperative to ask, if the outlook for this plan is this bad, something that will literally cripple the nations economy, and effect every single American in one way or another, then Obama, what is your purpose? What are your goals? What is your agenda?

Is it not already evident that the best interest of the country are not his goals and objectives, but rather some other socioeconomic political agenda?

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Quote for the Day

Laws that forbid the carrying of arms... disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man. --Thomas Jefferson