In an amazing admission of impotence, Tennessee's Senator Lamar Alexander has caved to pressure from his drinking buddies in the Senate Cloakroom and will support Sotomayor. (Story from the AP by way of Yahoo News)
In typical RINO fashion, this move is being hailed as a brave show of strength on the part of the esteemed politician for standing up to the evil Conservatives on the right. In so doing, he is breaking with his party leadership (such as it is) and voting with the Democrats to confirm the judge to the Supreme Court.
"Even though Judge Sotomayor's political and judicial philosophy may be different than mine, especially regarding Second Amendments rights, I will vote to confirm her because she is well qualified by experience, temperament, character and intellect to serve," Alexander said in a speech on the Senate floor.
Let's just parse that one for a second... Put another way, Alexander just said "Even though Sotomayor is an enemy of civil liberties and is hostile to gun rights, I am going to vote for her. And, while she has shown herself to be racist, sexist, and bigoted in previous decisions, this train is leaving the station anyway so I might as well get some drinks in the club car on the way to Hell".
Is that any clearer?
Tennessee, do you have anybody better than this guy to run in the primary?
Just askin'
Newbius
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Thursday, July 30, 2009
Old ground, newly plowed
Civilizations come and go with boring regularity in the span of history. Every couple of hundred years, a society begins, waxes great, then decays in the slime of lethargy and sloth, or burns in the fire of radicals and revolutions.
We are at that crossroads in American history.
We have a radical attempting to remake our society into a despotic hell of tyranny and bureaucracy from the podium of Hope and Change. On the other hand we have decay, decadence, and filth assaulting us from the "culture centers" of Hollywood and New York. All the while, our State-run schools turn out under-educated, self-absorbed, cretins with low morals, no ability to think rationally, but with phenomenal self-esteem.
And we wonder where our country is going?
Anybody who has ever read history and understood it can tell you where we are headed. The real question is this one: "What are you going to do about it?" YOU, the VOTER, need to get OFF of your ass and get involved again. You, the person who pays your taxes but cannot be bothered to get involved in the system early, RIGHT NOW WHEN THE CANDIDATES ARE CHOSEN, but can find the time to text your favorite no-talent on American Idol...you are getting what you deserve. And, I don't like it.
Don't like the choices? Find someone else and support them! Run yourself! DO SOMETHING!
Do not let Alinsky-like tactics bowl you over. You, the citizen, are the boss. Not Washington. Not Richmond, or Sacramento, or Albany, or Springfield, or Tallahassee, or Olympia. Do not let them get away with passing bills they haven't read. John Conyers won't be bothered to read the crap his committee is spewing onto the floor of Congress for a vote? FIRE HIM.
All of you effing cowards who wail into your beers but refuse to walk precincts, recruit talent, and get involved make me angry. You will all sit idly by and watch, until they knock on your door in the middle of the night and ask for your guns...Which you will then hand over because you have already lost your spine.
Less than 30% of Americans want to turn our country into another progressive workers paradise. More than 50% want to keep our country honoring conservative values. Sadly, fewer than 3% of you would willingly fight for what you profess belief in. The <30% crowd will win this one if we don't stop them.
Find a way to get engaged in the process right now. Before it is too late. Because if you do not, the process will engage you and saying "I didn't think it would be like this" won't cut it with me.
The Tree of Liberty is dying of thirst...
Newbius
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We are at that crossroads in American history.
We have a radical attempting to remake our society into a despotic hell of tyranny and bureaucracy from the podium of Hope and Change. On the other hand we have decay, decadence, and filth assaulting us from the "culture centers" of Hollywood and New York. All the while, our State-run schools turn out under-educated, self-absorbed, cretins with low morals, no ability to think rationally, but with phenomenal self-esteem.
And we wonder where our country is going?
Anybody who has ever read history and understood it can tell you where we are headed. The real question is this one: "What are you going to do about it?" YOU, the VOTER, need to get OFF of your ass and get involved again. You, the person who pays your taxes but cannot be bothered to get involved in the system early, RIGHT NOW WHEN THE CANDIDATES ARE CHOSEN, but can find the time to text your favorite no-talent on American Idol...you are getting what you deserve. And, I don't like it.
Don't like the choices? Find someone else and support them! Run yourself! DO SOMETHING!
Do not let Alinsky-like tactics bowl you over. You, the citizen, are the boss. Not Washington. Not Richmond, or Sacramento, or Albany, or Springfield, or Tallahassee, or Olympia. Do not let them get away with passing bills they haven't read. John Conyers won't be bothered to read the crap his committee is spewing onto the floor of Congress for a vote? FIRE HIM.
All of you effing cowards who wail into your beers but refuse to walk precincts, recruit talent, and get involved make me angry. You will all sit idly by and watch, until they knock on your door in the middle of the night and ask for your guns...Which you will then hand over because you have already lost your spine.
Less than 30% of Americans want to turn our country into another progressive workers paradise. More than 50% want to keep our country honoring conservative values. Sadly, fewer than 3% of you would willingly fight for what you profess belief in. The <30% crowd will win this one if we don't stop them.
Find a way to get engaged in the process right now. Before it is too late. Because if you do not, the process will engage you and saying "I didn't think it would be like this" won't cut it with me.
The Tree of Liberty is dying of thirst...
Newbius
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Monday, July 27, 2009
MidwayUSA comes through!
I got an email notification that the DPMS 308 upper was in stock. Their website still showed out, with no backorder. So, I called...
It turns out they actually had 9 in stock.
Now they have 8. :)
If you are in the market for an LR-308 Flat top Upper, with 24" stainless bull barrel, call them or hit their website. You'll be glad you did. I sure am!
Pax,
Newbius
It turns out they actually had 9 in stock.
Now they have 8. :)
If you are in the market for an LR-308 Flat top Upper, with 24" stainless bull barrel, call them or hit their website. You'll be glad you did. I sure am!
Pax,
Newbius
Sunday, July 26, 2009
Cynics, Thieves, and Whores
The most recent vote on National Reciprocity for concealed carry, while failing, did expose an interesting phenomenon. Namely, that the thieves in the U.S. Senate believe gun owners are idiots, and that they will do anything to get a vote from us.
Judging by the rhetoric they used, they think we are all morons (and maybe they are right, they DO seem to get re-elected). Senator Thune has an interesting press release worth reading about this. You can find it HERE.
Being the cynical sort that I am, I decided to look into the NRA Report card (at the time of their previous election) for each Democrat Senator who voted FOR the Thune Amendment, and when they are up for re-election. I am of the opinion that while several of the Democrats who voted for the Thune Amendment were making votes based on principal, the rest were whores looking for a payoff in the form of votes from NRA members in their upcoming re-election.
I was not disappointed.
The current class of Democrat Senators whose terms expire in 2011, their NRA Rating, and their vote on National Reciprocity:
Bayh : D- : Yea
Bennet : NR : Yea
Boxer : F : Nay (Safe incumbent)
Burris : NR : Nay
Dodd : F : Nay (Safe incumbent)
Dorgan : D+ : Yea
Feingold : D : Yea
Inouye : F : Nay (Safe incumbent)
Leahy : D : Nay
Lincoln : D+ : Yea
Mikulski : F : Nay (Safe incumbent)
Murray : F : Nay (Safe incumbent)
Reid : B : Yea (Safe incumbent, usually for gun rights though)
Schumer : F : Nay (Safe incumbent)
Specter : A : Nay (Darlin' Arlen, the turncoat)
Wyden : F : Nay (Safe incumbent)
Of the Class of 2013, the only surprise vote among the Democrats was:
Conrad : D+ : Yea
Similarly, the surprise vote of the most recent class was:
Hagan : F : Yea
So, an optimist would look at these votes and think "Hey, these Democrats are finally getting on board with protecting our rights". I suppose you could look at it that way, given the recent Heller decision. The other way to look at it is this: These people are up for re-election soon...
As a member of the hated gun lobby (in that I am a gun owner, and I regularly contact my Congress-Critters about gun issues before Congress), I have a slightly different take. My take on this is that these people need and want our votes (because they are whores, remember?). They have been voting partisan politics for a long time, and the demographics are changing in their states and districts. Their political reality is that they are no longer safe enough to vote with Sarah Brady and George Soros. The HuffPo gadflies won't re-elect them all by themselves.
They need us.
They hope that an engineered vote that everybody KNEW was going to fail would provide them with some political cover to come back to us and say "Didn't I do great? I voted for your gun rights. Vote for me." I say that the vote was engineered because Lugar and Voinovich are both "F" rated Republicans and the Dems are in the majority in both houses. So if we fall for this, we will have proven that you really CAN fool most of the people most of the time, especially if your political ad can truthfully say you support gun rights and point to this vote for validation.
Let's not fall for another Hubert Humphrey and vote for these people just because they tossed a bone into our yard. Let's make true Humphrey's quote about us: "...gun owners never forget and very seldom forgive". Let's throw every bum out who dares to trample on our Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. Because, without the Second Amendment, what guarantee do you have for any other right recognized by our Constitution? If these thieves and whores in Congress think it is OK to trample your gun rights, what do you think they are doing to the rest of your civil liberties?
Think about that.
Pax,
Newbius
Judging by the rhetoric they used, they think we are all morons (and maybe they are right, they DO seem to get re-elected). Senator Thune has an interesting press release worth reading about this. You can find it HERE.
Being the cynical sort that I am, I decided to look into the NRA Report card (at the time of their previous election) for each Democrat Senator who voted FOR the Thune Amendment, and when they are up for re-election. I am of the opinion that while several of the Democrats who voted for the Thune Amendment were making votes based on principal, the rest were whores looking for a payoff in the form of votes from NRA members in their upcoming re-election.
I was not disappointed.
The current class of Democrat Senators whose terms expire in 2011, their NRA Rating, and their vote on National Reciprocity:
Bayh : D- : Yea
Bennet : NR : Yea
Boxer : F : Nay (Safe incumbent)
Burris : NR : Nay
Dodd : F : Nay (Safe incumbent)
Dorgan : D+ : Yea
Feingold : D : Yea
Inouye : F : Nay (Safe incumbent)
Leahy : D : Nay
Lincoln : D+ : Yea
Mikulski : F : Nay (Safe incumbent)
Murray : F : Nay (Safe incumbent)
Reid : B : Yea (Safe incumbent, usually for gun rights though)
Schumer : F : Nay (Safe incumbent)
Specter : A : Nay (Darlin' Arlen, the turncoat)
Wyden : F : Nay (Safe incumbent)
Of the Class of 2013, the only surprise vote among the Democrats was:
Conrad : D+ : Yea
Similarly, the surprise vote of the most recent class was:
Hagan : F : Yea
So, an optimist would look at these votes and think "Hey, these Democrats are finally getting on board with protecting our rights". I suppose you could look at it that way, given the recent Heller decision. The other way to look at it is this: These people are up for re-election soon...
As a member of the hated gun lobby (in that I am a gun owner, and I regularly contact my Congress-Critters about gun issues before Congress), I have a slightly different take. My take on this is that these people need and want our votes (because they are whores, remember?). They have been voting partisan politics for a long time, and the demographics are changing in their states and districts. Their political reality is that they are no longer safe enough to vote with Sarah Brady and George Soros. The HuffPo gadflies won't re-elect them all by themselves.
They need us.
They hope that an engineered vote that everybody KNEW was going to fail would provide them with some political cover to come back to us and say "Didn't I do great? I voted for your gun rights. Vote for me." I say that the vote was engineered because Lugar and Voinovich are both "F" rated Republicans and the Dems are in the majority in both houses. So if we fall for this, we will have proven that you really CAN fool most of the people most of the time, especially if your political ad can truthfully say you support gun rights and point to this vote for validation.
Let's not fall for another Hubert Humphrey and vote for these people just because they tossed a bone into our yard. Let's make true Humphrey's quote about us: "...gun owners never forget and very seldom forgive". Let's throw every bum out who dares to trample on our Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. Because, without the Second Amendment, what guarantee do you have for any other right recognized by our Constitution? If these thieves and whores in Congress think it is OK to trample your gun rights, what do you think they are doing to the rest of your civil liberties?
Think about that.
Pax,
Newbius
Friday, July 24, 2009
Missed it by *that* much...
Got an email from MidwayUSA that the DPMS flat-top upper with 24" stainless barrel was in stock. Except...I got it 5 hours after it was sent.
< sigh >
When I clicked the link, "Out of stock, No Backorder".
Ratzlefratz!
Better luck next time. (Next time, my email will be forwarding to my phone like it used to). Oh well, maybe this means that the supply is beginning to catch up with the demand. One can hope.
Pax,
Newbius
< sigh >
When I clicked the link, "Out of stock, No Backorder".
Ratzlefratz!
Better luck next time. (Next time, my email will be forwarding to my phone like it used to). Oh well, maybe this means that the supply is beginning to catch up with the demand. One can hope.
Pax,
Newbius
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
National Reciprocity Fails
Reciprocity has enough votes to pass, but fails a filibuster-proof majority.
The vote on the Thune amendment was today, and it went 58-39 for passage. Short of the number required to break a filibuster. Since the amendment failed to garner 60 votes, the amendment was withdrawn.
We now have a roll-call vote on who supported the amendment, and as soon as the roll-call is posted to either Thomas or the Senate website, I will cross-post here. The good news: proponents got more votes than expected. The bad news: some of those votes may have been political cover for the upcoming 2010 election. As in..."See, I voted for gun rights so support me!", even though the vote was meaningless due to the pre-conditions placed upon the Senate by the leadership for the vote to take place at all.
If your Senator voted in favor of this amendment, please take the time to call them and thank them for the vote. Let them know that you are watching and keeping score. If your Senator voted against this amendment, let them know that you were watching and were disappointed in their vote against your Second Amendment rights.
Additionally, if your Senator voted against, why in Hell aren't you doing everything in your power to defeat them? Bringing home the PORK shouldn't be a sufficient reason to keep some of these bastards in office...
Keep pressuring them. Keep their phones lit up 24/7 until they realize that you will no longer sit idly by while they continue to obstruct and erode your Constitutional Rights.
Because, the alternative is something that no sensible person wishes to contemplate...
Newbius
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*** UPDATE ***
The roll call has been posted. Thanks to David Codrea for putting it online. You can see the vote HERE.
I spoke to a representative in Senator Thune's office about the vote. According to Thune's office, all votes in the Senate require 60 to pass (she said Constitutional requirement, which is not true, it is just the reality of the current rules of engagement). Thune's office did not know if they would be able to garner the other 2 votes if the amendment is introduced again, and also did not know if he was going to re-introduce the measure as either a stand-alone measure (unlikely) or as part of another mandatory appropriations bill (possible, depending on circumstances).
Looking at the vote, however, 2 Republican Senators could have stood for the Citizen and voted for the amendment instead of against. The Senators in question are Voinovich (R-OH) and Lugar (R-IN). These two are all it would have taken to pass National Reciprocity through the Senate (arguably the tougher body to pass legislation through).
We can call their offices and thank them for their failure to support the Second Amendment, and remind them that we will score this vote at their next election. It is the least we can do...
Newbius
The vote on the Thune amendment was today, and it went 58-39 for passage. Short of the number required to break a filibuster. Since the amendment failed to garner 60 votes, the amendment was withdrawn.
We now have a roll-call vote on who supported the amendment, and as soon as the roll-call is posted to either Thomas or the Senate website, I will cross-post here. The good news: proponents got more votes than expected. The bad news: some of those votes may have been political cover for the upcoming 2010 election. As in..."See, I voted for gun rights so support me!", even though the vote was meaningless due to the pre-conditions placed upon the Senate by the leadership for the vote to take place at all.
If your Senator voted in favor of this amendment, please take the time to call them and thank them for the vote. Let them know that you are watching and keeping score. If your Senator voted against this amendment, let them know that you were watching and were disappointed in their vote against your Second Amendment rights.
Additionally, if your Senator voted against, why in Hell aren't you doing everything in your power to defeat them? Bringing home the PORK shouldn't be a sufficient reason to keep some of these bastards in office...
Keep pressuring them. Keep their phones lit up 24/7 until they realize that you will no longer sit idly by while they continue to obstruct and erode your Constitutional Rights.
Because, the alternative is something that no sensible person wishes to contemplate...
Newbius
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*** UPDATE ***
The roll call has been posted. Thanks to David Codrea for putting it online. You can see the vote HERE.
I spoke to a representative in Senator Thune's office about the vote. According to Thune's office, all votes in the Senate require 60 to pass (she said Constitutional requirement, which is not true, it is just the reality of the current rules of engagement). Thune's office did not know if they would be able to garner the other 2 votes if the amendment is introduced again, and also did not know if he was going to re-introduce the measure as either a stand-alone measure (unlikely) or as part of another mandatory appropriations bill (possible, depending on circumstances).
Looking at the vote, however, 2 Republican Senators could have stood for the Citizen and voted for the amendment instead of against. The Senators in question are Voinovich (R-OH) and Lugar (R-IN). These two are all it would have taken to pass National Reciprocity through the Senate (arguably the tougher body to pass legislation through).
We can call their offices and thank them for their failure to support the Second Amendment, and remind them that we will score this vote at their next election. It is the least we can do...
Newbius
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Wal-Mart comes through
Recently, while perusing the mostly-empty shelves of ammunition at the local Wal-Mart, I remarked to the friendly (yes, seriously, she was very friendly) clerk behind the counter that they didn't have any 16GA shot shells in stock. Yet, all of the other gauges were in plentiful supply. Her response stunned me..."would you like me to order a case in for you?"
Yesma'ampleasedothankyouverymuch!
The case arrived today. I now have 10 boxes of 7 1/2 16GA for my drilling. :)
I also noticed that 22LR is starting to become more plentiful. As in, the shelves are no longer bare of that cartridge from certain manufacturers. And, I was able to buy a box of .308 Winchester. Still no .380 though (Sorry Breda!).
Now if only Brownell's would fill my back-ordered parts purchase, I would be very happy!
Keep 'em oiled...
Newbius
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Yesma'ampleasedothankyouverymuch!
The case arrived today. I now have 10 boxes of 7 1/2 16GA for my drilling. :)
I also noticed that 22LR is starting to become more plentiful. As in, the shelves are no longer bare of that cartridge from certain manufacturers. And, I was able to buy a box of .308 Winchester. Still no .380 though (Sorry Breda!).
Now if only Brownell's would fill my back-ordered parts purchase, I would be very happy!
Keep 'em oiled...
Newbius
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Monday, July 20, 2009
S.1390 and Reciprocity
Senate Appropriations Bill 1390, the National Defense Authorization Act for FY 2010 is on the floor of the Senate right now. Senator Sessions (R-AL) successfully attached a hate crimes amendment to the bill, which passed nearly unanimously.
The next item to be discussed then was Senator Thune's (R-SD) pending amendment (S.A. 1618) which will force national reciprocity among the states which currently issue concealed carry permits. In a stunning show of Hubris, Senator Lautenberg (D-NJ) complained vocifersously about this amendment being attached to a defense authorization bill, as if the hate crimes law voted on immediately prior was in-line with the goals of national defense! Senator Lautenberg then trotted out the typical "blood in the streets" arguments, followed by a complaint about the Fed usurping State's rights or some such nonsense. The poor states! How dare the Fed impose its will upon them in the area of gun rights!
Puhleeeeeze!!!
At this instant there is a quorum call going out to the body of the Senate, the membership having snuck out the back door upon passage of the hate crimes amendment. Given the fact that this amendment will force a vote by every senator in Congress on gun rights, I can see why they would run scared. Most of these twits are between the rock of partisan politics on the one hand, and the hard spot of their constituencies on the other.
I called both of my senators today, and could not speak to a live body in either office. Senator Warner's office allowed voice mail, and I dutifully left a message. Senator Webb's office could not come up with either a live body, or a working voice mail system (the box was full).
Developing...
Newbius
*** UPDATE (19:25ET) ***
The Senate has adjourned for the evening without considering the amendment. The quorum call failed (cowards...). It looks as though the amendment has been tabled for consideration until Wednesday, at which time they will take the matter up again for debate and a vote. Call your Senator and request that they vote in favor of SA1618 to S.1390, the Thune Reciprocity Amendment to the Defense Authorization bill.
Newbius
The next item to be discussed then was Senator Thune's (R-SD) pending amendment (S.A. 1618) which will force national reciprocity among the states which currently issue concealed carry permits. In a stunning show of Hubris, Senator Lautenberg (D-NJ) complained vocifersously about this amendment being attached to a defense authorization bill, as if the hate crimes law voted on immediately prior was in-line with the goals of national defense! Senator Lautenberg then trotted out the typical "blood in the streets" arguments, followed by a complaint about the Fed usurping State's rights or some such nonsense. The poor states! How dare the Fed impose its will upon them in the area of gun rights!
Puhleeeeeze!!!
At this instant there is a quorum call going out to the body of the Senate, the membership having snuck out the back door upon passage of the hate crimes amendment. Given the fact that this amendment will force a vote by every senator in Congress on gun rights, I can see why they would run scared. Most of these twits are between the rock of partisan politics on the one hand, and the hard spot of their constituencies on the other.
I called both of my senators today, and could not speak to a live body in either office. Senator Warner's office allowed voice mail, and I dutifully left a message. Senator Webb's office could not come up with either a live body, or a working voice mail system (the box was full).
Developing...
Newbius
*** UPDATE (19:25ET) ***
The Senate has adjourned for the evening without considering the amendment. The quorum call failed (cowards...). It looks as though the amendment has been tabled for consideration until Wednesday, at which time they will take the matter up again for debate and a vote. Call your Senator and request that they vote in favor of SA1618 to S.1390, the Thune Reciprocity Amendment to the Defense Authorization bill.
Newbius
Sunday, July 19, 2009
Quotes
I present for you today several quotes, arranged so as to provide contrast between proponents of Liberty against a proponent of Tyranny. I do so in the spirit of the following quote by George Orwell: "In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
“I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.” --Barry Goldwater
“Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism” --Barry Goldwater
"A nation ceases to be republican...when the will of the majority ceases to be the law." --Thomas Jefferson
"The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the foundations of society." --Thomas Jefferson
“Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have.” --Barry Goldwater
"I won." --Barack Obama
To those who would engage the power of the Federal Government to achieve "change" wrought of envy, driven by a thirst for power, and aggrandized through the use of mischief and deceit, a warning: "Do not press a desperate enemy" --Sun Tzu
Newbius
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“I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.” --Barry Goldwater
“Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism” --Barry Goldwater
"A nation ceases to be republican...when the will of the majority ceases to be the law." --Thomas Jefferson
"The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the foundations of society." --Thomas Jefferson
“Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have.” --Barry Goldwater
"I won." --Barack Obama
To those who would engage the power of the Federal Government to achieve "change" wrought of envy, driven by a thirst for power, and aggrandized through the use of mischief and deceit, a warning: "Do not press a desperate enemy" --Sun Tzu
Newbius
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Saturday, July 18, 2009
President for Life.
How does that sound?
We already have entrenched congressional representatives serving consecutive terms for as long as their Gerrymandered districts remain idealogically pure, and their vote-buying schemes continue to reap rewards. Why not have a President for Life?
It really makes sense, if you think about it. I mean, our pure and chaste congress-persons only have our best interests at heart whenever they vote a new law into place, right? And, our government masters always seek the very best outcomes for the greatest number of people without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, or station in life, right?
And we have absolutely no evidence that our government representatives engage in ethically dubious dealings with lobbying firms, corporations, influence peddlers, international cartels, or criminal syndicates, right?
We have never seen any evidence that our particular form of government causes people to fulfill Lord Acton's observation on the nature of power, right?
We have no evidence that entrenched bureaucracies answerable to the Executive Branch have abused their authority and oppressed their subjects, right? Miller, Ruby Ridge, Waco, and Olofson are aberrations, right?
What could possibly go wrong?
House Joint Resolution 5, introduced on January 6th, 2009 by Rep. Jose Serrano (D-NY) proposes the repeal of the 22nd Amendment to the United States Constitution. If passed in Congress and ratified by 38 states, HJR5 will remove the term limit to the Presidency that was put into place after the last attempt at President for Life, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. It would allow again for the US equivalent of "dictator-in-chief" similar to what was experienced in the 1930's, a very dark time in our nation and the beginning of our decline into a Progressive Worker's paradise.
This bill is sitting in committee right now, and has been since February 9th. I do not expect any action on it, but do find it interesting that these things only raise their ugly heads when a popular Democrat is in office. I confess that the presence of this bill is not ominous by itself, and even sparks a hint of optimism on my part. Optimism, because I fully expected the 2012 (or even the 2010) elections to be disrupted by some "emergency" preventing their occurrence (swine flu, anyone?).
The Libertarian and Conservative in today's political scene is over-matched. They do not believe that government is the answer to any question. They will be destroyed by those who are devout in their belief that government is the solution to every problem, and who are willing to kill to prove it. The Leftist, Socialist, Fascist, Communist, STATIST, political animal however, KNOWS that politics is blood sport. The STATIST knows that politics is the means to whatever end they desire. They know that the power usurped from the people will be used to subjugate the people. They will do so to achieve their end.
Al Gore recently let slip that the Cap and Trade legislation was a foundational building block to global governance. Government-run Universal Health care will be a tool to weed out the undesirables like you and me who believe we have the right to Liberty, and who oppose global government. Al Gore believes, as does every Statist I have ever met or read, that global governance is the solution to all the world's ills. They ALL believe that they will be the one holding the levers of power, for power is what they are truly after - Constitution be damned.
Your rights as a human being, my rights as a human being, will be trampled by them. No doubt about it. Their goal line runs through you. What are you going to do about it?
< Tired refrain time>
Call your Congressperson. Tell them you oppose HJR-5, the resolution for the repeal of the 22nd Amendment. Tell them you oppose Cap and Trade. Tell them you oppose the current Health Care reform plans. Tell them you oppose another stimulus. Tell them you oppose increased taxes (on anybody, not just the "wealthy").
< /tired refrain>
Tell them to get out of your lives.
Tell them that the choices are narrowing.
Tell them that the hogs are hungry.
Newbius
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We already have entrenched congressional representatives serving consecutive terms for as long as their Gerrymandered districts remain idealogically pure, and their vote-buying schemes continue to reap rewards. Why not have a President for Life?
It really makes sense, if you think about it. I mean, our pure and chaste congress-persons only have our best interests at heart whenever they vote a new law into place, right? And, our government masters always seek the very best outcomes for the greatest number of people without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, or station in life, right?
And we have absolutely no evidence that our government representatives engage in ethically dubious dealings with lobbying firms, corporations, influence peddlers, international cartels, or criminal syndicates, right?
We have never seen any evidence that our particular form of government causes people to fulfill Lord Acton's observation on the nature of power, right?
We have no evidence that entrenched bureaucracies answerable to the Executive Branch have abused their authority and oppressed their subjects, right? Miller, Ruby Ridge, Waco, and Olofson are aberrations, right?
What could possibly go wrong?
House Joint Resolution 5, introduced on January 6th, 2009 by Rep. Jose Serrano (D-NY) proposes the repeal of the 22nd Amendment to the United States Constitution. If passed in Congress and ratified by 38 states, HJR5 will remove the term limit to the Presidency that was put into place after the last attempt at President for Life, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. It would allow again for the US equivalent of "dictator-in-chief" similar to what was experienced in the 1930's, a very dark time in our nation and the beginning of our decline into a Progressive Worker's paradise.
This bill is sitting in committee right now, and has been since February 9th. I do not expect any action on it, but do find it interesting that these things only raise their ugly heads when a popular Democrat is in office. I confess that the presence of this bill is not ominous by itself, and even sparks a hint of optimism on my part. Optimism, because I fully expected the 2012 (or even the 2010) elections to be disrupted by some "emergency" preventing their occurrence (swine flu, anyone?).
The Libertarian and Conservative in today's political scene is over-matched. They do not believe that government is the answer to any question. They will be destroyed by those who are devout in their belief that government is the solution to every problem, and who are willing to kill to prove it. The Leftist, Socialist, Fascist, Communist, STATIST, political animal however, KNOWS that politics is blood sport. The STATIST knows that politics is the means to whatever end they desire. They know that the power usurped from the people will be used to subjugate the people. They will do so to achieve their end.
Al Gore recently let slip that the Cap and Trade legislation was a foundational building block to global governance. Government-run Universal Health care will be a tool to weed out the undesirables like you and me who believe we have the right to Liberty, and who oppose global government. Al Gore believes, as does every Statist I have ever met or read, that global governance is the solution to all the world's ills. They ALL believe that they will be the one holding the levers of power, for power is what they are truly after - Constitution be damned.
Your rights as a human being, my rights as a human being, will be trampled by them. No doubt about it. Their goal line runs through you. What are you going to do about it?
< Tired refrain time>
Call your Congressperson. Tell them you oppose HJR-5, the resolution for the repeal of the 22nd Amendment. Tell them you oppose Cap and Trade. Tell them you oppose the current Health Care reform plans. Tell them you oppose another stimulus. Tell them you oppose increased taxes (on anybody, not just the "wealthy").
< /tired refrain>
Tell them to get out of your lives.
Tell them that the choices are narrowing.
Tell them that the hogs are hungry.
Newbius
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Friday, July 17, 2009
Declaration of Rights
Dear Fellow Citizen,
You do not have the right to my efforts, property, or life.
You do not have the right to lay a claim against my labor to fund your desires or your lethargy.
You do not have the right to lay a claim against my property to fund your desires or your avarice.
You do not have the right to lay a claim against my life for the benefit of yours, which you have squandered in idleness and sloth.
You have supported those whose purpose is to destroy our great nation and strip her wealth for their own benefit, while leaving her citizens to die, uncared-for, as slaves to the government. You have supported the open declaration of war upon the productive in our society, for the benefit of the idle. You have associated yourself with smiling killers who are using you as foils in the battle to remake our government into a spoils system that benefits only those in power and their friends.
You are not their friend.
You have the right to live your own life, through your own efforts, solely for your own benefit and for the benefit of anybody whom you wish to support voluntarily, as do I.
I have the right to defend myself against your predations, and I will do so.
If you support the forced subjugation of your fellow citizens under oppressive taxation and stifling bureaucracy, then I will oppose you.
If you attempt to enforce your will at the point of a gun, then I will oppose you at the point of a gun.
You have drawn the battle lines too closely for my comfort.
Don't Tread On Me.
Newbius
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You do not have the right to my efforts, property, or life.
You do not have the right to lay a claim against my labor to fund your desires or your lethargy.
You do not have the right to lay a claim against my property to fund your desires or your avarice.
You do not have the right to lay a claim against my life for the benefit of yours, which you have squandered in idleness and sloth.
You have supported those whose purpose is to destroy our great nation and strip her wealth for their own benefit, while leaving her citizens to die, uncared-for, as slaves to the government. You have supported the open declaration of war upon the productive in our society, for the benefit of the idle. You have associated yourself with smiling killers who are using you as foils in the battle to remake our government into a spoils system that benefits only those in power and their friends.
You are not their friend.
You have the right to live your own life, through your own efforts, solely for your own benefit and for the benefit of anybody whom you wish to support voluntarily, as do I.
I have the right to defend myself against your predations, and I will do so.
If you support the forced subjugation of your fellow citizens under oppressive taxation and stifling bureaucracy, then I will oppose you.
If you attempt to enforce your will at the point of a gun, then I will oppose you at the point of a gun.
You have drawn the battle lines too closely for my comfort.
Don't Tread On Me.
Newbius
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Saturday, July 11, 2009
New Friends
The people of the gun community continue to amaze me.
I met an acquaintance today at the range. OldNFO offered to play host at the Fairfax Rod and Gun Club. We had met over lunch last week, and made arrangements to connect at the range to do some shooting and tell some lies. We connected this morning and worked out a plan for the day and then proceeded to have a grand time.
We spent several hours punching holes in paper and giving our firearms a workout. We've determined that Beauty might have an issue with the iron sights, beyond my inability to hold a steady aim. So, I will get the manual out and see if there is something obviously amiss. We were able to get her sighted in fairly tightly with the scope, so it is not an issue with the mechanics, barrel, or upper. I'll get it figured out soon.
Lunch was great. The shooting facilities were impressive. I gained a friend.
Today was a good day.
OldNFO, Thank you again for a great time today. I hope we can do this again soon. Maybe even shoot a little trap next time. ;)
Pax,
Newbius
I met an acquaintance today at the range. OldNFO offered to play host at the Fairfax Rod and Gun Club. We had met over lunch last week, and made arrangements to connect at the range to do some shooting and tell some lies. We connected this morning and worked out a plan for the day and then proceeded to have a grand time.
We spent several hours punching holes in paper and giving our firearms a workout. We've determined that Beauty might have an issue with the iron sights, beyond my inability to hold a steady aim. So, I will get the manual out and see if there is something obviously amiss. We were able to get her sighted in fairly tightly with the scope, so it is not an issue with the mechanics, barrel, or upper. I'll get it figured out soon.
Lunch was great. The shooting facilities were impressive. I gained a friend.
Today was a good day.
OldNFO, Thank you again for a great time today. I hope we can do this again soon. Maybe even shoot a little trap next time. ;)
Pax,
Newbius
Friday, July 10, 2009
End of an Era?
Thunder Tales has a clear and concise post today which summarizes everything I have been thinking about this week. Go check it out here.
Pax,
Newbius
Pax,
Newbius
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Independence Day
America's birth as an independent country, the beacon of freedom in the world, began on this day in 1776. A group of courageous men staked their lives and fortunes on an ideal. The ideal was that men yearned to be free, to be able to succeed or fail on their own, without the overbearing hand of rulers and kings oppressing them.
Our freedom was secured by a small fraction of the population, perhaps 3 percent of the available populace, who were willing to take up arms and muster against the most powerful army in the world. These brave riflemen risked everything they had on the ideals of self-determination, liberty, and equality.
Today, we face another dilemma. We face another government which has grown too strong, too tyrannical, and too insular and removed from the charter which established and legitimized it. Today, it is possible that another three percent of the population will have to take up arms against the most powerful army in the world in order to secure again Liberty, Equality, and the right of Self Determination against am overbearing and oppressive government.
I hope not.
I hope that the people elected to represent the best interests of their constituents remember their oaths today. I hope that the bureaucrats and politicians will remember where their power derives. I hope that they will again be responsive to the will of the people, up to the limits of their Constitutional authority, and remove from their decisions their desire to aggrandize power unto themselves and enrich their bank accounts at the expense of the people with whom they have been entrusted to serve.
If the Representatives in the Federal Leviathan wake up, we can avert another American tragedy like the one which befell us in the Civil War. If not...
On this Independence Day, please remember the founding principles of this Nation. Jefferson had it right. It is worth your time to remember as well. I give you the Declaration of Independence:
IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
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. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. — And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.
— John Hancock
New Hampshire:
Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton
Massachusetts:
John Hancock, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry
Rhode Island:
Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery
Connecticut:
Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott
New York:
William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris
New Jersey:
Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark
Pennsylvania:
Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross
Delaware:
Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean
Maryland:
Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton
Virginia:
George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton
North Carolina:
William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn
South Carolina:
Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton
Georgia:
Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton
Our freedom was secured by a small fraction of the population, perhaps 3 percent of the available populace, who were willing to take up arms and muster against the most powerful army in the world. These brave riflemen risked everything they had on the ideals of self-determination, liberty, and equality.
Today, we face another dilemma. We face another government which has grown too strong, too tyrannical, and too insular and removed from the charter which established and legitimized it. Today, it is possible that another three percent of the population will have to take up arms against the most powerful army in the world in order to secure again Liberty, Equality, and the right of Self Determination against am overbearing and oppressive government.
I hope not.
I hope that the people elected to represent the best interests of their constituents remember their oaths today. I hope that the bureaucrats and politicians will remember where their power derives. I hope that they will again be responsive to the will of the people, up to the limits of their Constitutional authority, and remove from their decisions their desire to aggrandize power unto themselves and enrich their bank accounts at the expense of the people with whom they have been entrusted to serve.
If the Representatives in the Federal Leviathan wake up, we can avert another American tragedy like the one which befell us in the Civil War. If not...
On this Independence Day, please remember the founding principles of this Nation. Jefferson had it right. It is worth your time to remember as well. I give you the Declaration of Independence:
IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
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. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. — And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.
— John Hancock
New Hampshire:
Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton
Massachusetts:
John Hancock, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry
Rhode Island:
Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery
Connecticut:
Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott
New York:
William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris
New Jersey:
Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark
Pennsylvania:
Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross
Delaware:
Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean
Maryland:
Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton
Virginia:
George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton
North Carolina:
William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn
South Carolina:
Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton
Georgia:
Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Birthdays
What can you say, you get another year older. If you are lucky...
I consider myself to be very lucky. I got to log another one. Had to work, but "them's the breaks" and made it through the day.
Had dinner at the the Fredericksburg Pub, and olde english style pub with microbrews and good pub food. The beer was outstanding, as was the food. Will definitely go there again.
Presents! Books, Games, and the Firefly series (complete season) on DVD. Lots of well-wishes from friends and family, and other assorted hangers-on. :)
To all who remembered, a heartfelt "Thanks!" to you. You made my day.
To my family, I love you all more than you will ever know.
Pax,
Newbius
I consider myself to be very lucky. I got to log another one. Had to work, but "them's the breaks" and made it through the day.
Had dinner at the the Fredericksburg Pub, and olde english style pub with microbrews and good pub food. The beer was outstanding, as was the food. Will definitely go there again.
Presents! Books, Games, and the Firefly series (complete season) on DVD. Lots of well-wishes from friends and family, and other assorted hangers-on. :)
To all who remembered, a heartfelt "Thanks!" to you. You made my day.
To my family, I love you all more than you will ever know.
Pax,
Newbius
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