THIS MORNING, WHEN I ACCESED MY PAGE ON LINKEDIN, I DISCOVERED THAT I WAS A TOP INFLUENCER OF THE WEEK REGARDING MY POSTS IN TAX TECHNICAL DISCUSSION/
THE REASON I WAS NAMED ONE OF THE TOP INFLUENCERS WAS REGARDING MY COMMENTS ON THE UNFAIR TAXATION OF SOCIAL SERCURITY BENEFITS AND MY EFFORTS TO EDUCATE POLITICIANS ABOUT IT
Rep. Andre Carson (D-Ind.), the CBC whip, told attendees at the CBC's Job Tour visit to Miami that the Tea Party is actively taking steps to keep down the black community and other vulnerable populations.To date, Obama has not stepped forward to demand that Carson and others “tone down the rhetoric;” perhaps because the president agrees with Carson’s hate speech, but is constrained from saying so openly by virtue of his high office.
"This is the effort that we're seeing of Jim Crow," Carson said. "Some of these folks in Congress right now would love to see us as second-class citizens."
"Some of them in Congress right now of this Tea Party movement would love to see you and me ... hanging on a tree."
Friends and fellow Patriots; We have at our fingertips the most powerful voice imaginable. This is not by accident or whim. From the Founding of this Nation, the Hand of the Almighty has guided us when we listened, and we strayed when we did not. Current assessments are-WE ARE IN A WORLD OF HURT.
We can't blame Bush, Clinton, Carter, Wilson, Roosevelt, or Obama....woops...YES WE CAN.
We can also blame the American electorate for falling down face-first in a pool of politically-correct BS in an ill-advised attempt to mollify those who wish to KILL US.
The names may have changed, but the goals have not. Tyranny cannot abide freedom and liberty. Despotism is never altered by the meanderings of the human heart, or human nature. It is specifically the meanderings of the human heart and human nature that allow tyranny and despotism to flourish. When strict adherence to the Rule of Law exists, as in our Founding Documents, liberty, freedom and prosperity flourish. When that begins to change, as our Founding Fathers knew it would, we begin to lose those God-given rights.
"The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for, among old parchments or musty papers; They are written on the whole of human nature, as with a sunbeam, by the Hand of the Divinity Itself, and cannot be obscured by mortal power."---Alexander Hamilton.
Even the most basic exploration of the writings of the Founders illuminates the dangers inherent in any attempt at self-governance as witnessed by the corpses of past civilizations laying on the ash-heap of history.
James Madison wrote, "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations."
Washington also wrote, "Should, hereafter, those incited by the lust of power and prompted by the supineness or venality of their constituents, overleap the known barriers of this Constitution and violate the unalienable rights of humanity: it will only serve to show, that no compact among men (however provident in its construction and sacred in its ratification) can be pronounced everlasting and inviolable, and if I may so express myself, that no Wall of words, that no mound of parchment can be so formed as to stand against the sweeping torrent of boundless ambition on the side, aided by the sapping current of corrupted morals on the other."
There you have it-"...the supineness or venality of their constituents..."
"...aided by the sapping current of corrupted morals..."
Here is where we need to be going, IMHO...and I don't hear one damned "candidate" for POTUS speaking of this; restoration AND ADHERENCE to our ORIGINAL Constitution and Bill of Rights that would eliminate this over-reaching, over-spending, out-of-control central/behemoth government monstrosity WE WERE WARNED ABOUT!!! They nibble at the fringes, but are afraid to approach the TRUTH, because they are part-and-parcel born and fed by the Leviathon.
Thomas Jefferson: "Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written Constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction. ... To consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions [is] a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy. ... The Constitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that to whatever hands confided, with the corruptions of time and party, its members would become despots. ... The opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional and what not, not only for themselves in their own sphere of action but for the Legislature and Executive also in their spheres, would make the Judiciary a despotic branch. ... On every question of construction carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed. ... [C]onfidence is every where the parent of despotism; free government is founded in jealousy and not in confidence; it is jealousy & not confidence which prescribes limited constitutions to bind down those whom we are obliged to trust with power ... in questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution."
I know this may seem to some as getting long, so GET ANOTHER CUP OF COFFEE WHILE YOU CAN AFFORD IT AND LISTEN UP:
Time is NOT ON OUR SIDE. But I believe that the "Hand of the Divinity" IS.
Alexander Hamilton: "[T]here is not a syllable in the [Constitution] which directly empowers the national courts to construe the laws according to the spirit of the Constitution, or which gives them any greater latitude in this respect than may be claimed by the courts of every State. ... The Judiciary ... has no influence over either the sword or the purse; no direction either of the strength or of the wealth of the society, and can take no active resolution whatever. It may truly be said to have neither force nor will. ... If it be asked, 'What is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our security in a Republic?' The answer would be, an inviolable respect for the Constitution and Laws -- the first growing out of the last. ... A sacred respect for the constitutional law is the vital principle, the sustaining energy of a free government. ... [T]he present Constitution is the standard to which we are to cling. Under its banners, bona fide must we combat our political foes -- rejecting all changes but through the channel itself provides for amendments."
Through the mists and fogs of history, through all the obfuscations and lies and corruption of the past and present, we still have that one, insurmountable thing: The yearning for liberty that resides in every human heart, and the MEANS WITH WHICH TO RETAIN IT---our Constitution. The only document ever written by man that asserts the God-given rights of mankind as never before. It is only going to be through a complete return to our Founding Principles, and an aggressive defense of them, that we will survive Barack Hussein Obama, Communism, Islam, and every other bogey-man wet-dream devised by the dark and devious minds of evil.
John Adams: "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. ... The only foundation of a free Constitution is pure Virtue, and if this cannot be inspired into our People. ... [T]hey may change their Rulers, and the forms of Government, but they will not obtain a lasting Liberty. ... A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever."
Article VI of our Constitution proclaims: "This Constitution ... shall be the supreme Law of the Land."
This is our avenue of "hope and change"...we will NOT SURVIVE WITHOUT IT.
Race Baiting and Double Standards
by Toddy Littman
A little something on racism due to Allen West leaving Congessional Black Caucus:
Mr. West has done what is necessary in joining a group he knows he has nothing in common with but the color of his skin, a small affirmation of the historical claims made by this caucus in having the modifier "black" in its name.
It is a repulsive hypocrisy to the intellect to regularly require a racial identity modifier to every organization, even religious beliefs "Black Liberation Theology," while saying "we must get rid of racism."
There may have been a time that such modifiers were necessary, just as there may have been a time when the "n-epithet" was necessary as a form of identity amongst people similarly situated, though today, as Elizabeth Hasslebeck tried to explain, this seems out of touch and provides no opportunity for us to bridge the divide.
This, to me, is a perfect illustration of racists explaining their right to be racists, to carve out an exclusivity for themselves based on race, to want equality in the midst of screaming, "but this you can't touch," which only perpetuates the negatives and stereotyping. This n-epithet is erroneously being used as one word to state an entire history, based on the idea that all of one particular skin color, without exception, have suffered at the hands of white slavery. This is the tone, the mind, the cult side of Progressivism, of those remaining on the Democrat Plantation and who will vote democrat no matter what happens, irrespective of the truth of the situation: That African-Muslims were the largest source of slaves. Emmitt Smith learned, , in his "Who do you think you are" genealogical adventure that was on NBC, that the same people who sold his ancestors into slavery are carrying on this ancient business.
This truth must be repeated at all costs, that it was these African Muslims in Africa who sold their own people into bondage, and it is also this fact that the n-epithet is used to ignore; the "n-word" the way to never have to actually know the truth of history, and is also the left arm that hangs over the ear of the rose colored glasses of Progressivism in a persistent imprisonment for Utopian equality, all giving rise to another slave-master at the cost of the Honor of their ancestors true desire for freedom, vengeance.
Let us hope more come to terms with idea of us being in one World, one reality, instead of trying to keep a second world, an imaginary reality of ancestors we never knew alive, a reality of anguish, fear, and pain, that has only been exploited by others because it is a weakness that can be used divisively for political purposes.
I regularly consider if the slaves who wanted freedom as badly as Our Founders did from the peonage imposed by the Crown Heads Of Europe, are looking at their posterity and fuming, angry that these cannot see that freedom of the kind the master had is what they wanted, not a freedom according to government's permission and allowance, A freedom to access the opportunities available to all through private property rights that assured no central power government holding it all, and knowing they too can use the Constitution to enforce limits on government, not for some subset of "Civil Rights" entirely reliant on government's recognition of them.
And I am sure these slaves knew that their freedom would be for nothing if they were just being "adopted" by a new master named, "Government," or were to carry on the political continuation of the Plantation by supporting the the fire-hose carrying "Dixiecrats."
But just like we're removed from the oppression Our Founders endured which has led us astray from comprehending the meaning of Our Written Constitution (see first few pages of "To discipline & Punish" by Michele Foucault for a detailed account), so too have the modern generations of African-Americans who have risen on the basis of color alone, as shown by their need for "black" as a modifier, have went astray. This is the folly to efforts claiming a historical even the entire heritage of a particular ethnicity in one word whose receiving generation may have misunderstood and misconstrued the larger meaning as applying to all, and therefore, are now the ones, who by claim of "took it from those who used it and made it ours" are the racists now.
This "n-word" was used for all classes of people who were not politically represented, and the reason is, that taxation was once a very limited specie of governments actions, and that is because the people of this nation knew that government isn't entitled to revenues, that the authority to tax must be earned by using the tax paid to accomplish the Will of The People according to a strict schedule, Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution, without usurpation. The people and government both knew they were subject to our rescinding the powers granted if they violate Our Written Instrument instituting this government, Our Written Constitution.
You'll find the following accounting term a good means to discover the whole and accurate meaning of this "n-word," historically: "niggardly." -- A term used occasionally in public, and even then erroneously charged as a racist term, whose root exposes that the term never had anything to do with race, until a race tried to claim it as theirs, and fostered racism.
Sensitive issue? Yes it is. Does it have to be? No, it doesn't, but for those wanting to use it to divide & conquer, by exploiting a people and their history as a source of such division, which is a sort of 3rd party exploitation of the rest of the nation. The racism itself being exploited for political purposes is only obvious at the next point in time where the "racist" accusation is thrown, if we don't get caught in the emotional charge that comes with it.
Mr.West, overall, has taken great steps forward in the truth of and ending all of this in his being a military man, a conservative aware of government's duty to the Constitution, and running as a republican. To me, Mr. West is carrying Honor in all of America even further forward when he leaves the Congressional "Black" Caucus, certainly an organization based on racism by its own terms. In fact, race based caucuses are the epitome of racism by their mere existence, at least today.
It's just like Whoopie in the above clip kept telling Elizabeth what Elizabeth must understand, while not actually having a way to go forward that included what Whoopie needed to understand: use of a specific word, phrase, or term by a particular race or group, as a reserved use, that's never to be questioned, while making sure to watchdog all other users of the same term, is promotion of racism and empowering government over the people as a censor of their Free Speech.
Apologize for length, but there is no escaping that naming something with the term "Black" in it, for purposes of racial identification, is racism, and it seems to me this must be said and never ignored again.
MR. OBAMA'S GOVERNMENT SPENDING $ 3 MILLION
DOLLARS A MINUTE !!! TREASON RIGHT ON ~
“to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries.”Section 18 allows the USPTO to withdraw or void a patent, without due process, even if a high federal court has examined the patent, confirmed it, and ordered transgressors to pay the patent-holder damages for unlicensed use of the intellectual property.The second difficulty is the separation of powers issue (noted above) raised by allowing the executive branch to overrule the judicial branch. Section 18 does not simply allow for the possibility of violation of the separation of powers, it requires it in every case. The USPTO cannot consider a challenge to withdraw or void a patent unless that patent has already been challenged in court.Violation of property rights, absence of due process, and violation of separation of powers is non-trivial in my world.Politics is no predictorCuriously enough, politics is no predictor of the position a given member of Congress is likely to take on Section 18. Obama and Reid are for it, but Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and uberliberal Maxine Waters are against it. The best predictor of a politician's position on this issue is to look at campaign contributions. You can figure that one out.
New book scandalizes ATF and DOJ...
Charly Gullett
They called it "...the perfect storm of idiocy."
The Gunwalker scandal encompassed the resources of multiple Federal agencies including Eric Holder's Department of Justice, the DEA, CIA, FBI, DHS and the ATF; it was the most profoundly misguided law enforcement effort in our nation's history...but it's only half the story.
Before the scandal was finally exposed two Americans lay dead. US Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry killed in a fire-fight with a drug cartel rip-crew and Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agent Jamie Zapata who died in an ambush deep in Mexican cartel territory. The scandal is they both died in gunfights where the criminals left behind firearms supplied originally by agents of the ATF in Operation Fast and Furious. Worse, it appears the plans had been to intentionally traffick firearms to Mexican narco-terrorists and then blame American gun owners and gun stores in order to leverage onerous anti-rights gun control legislation.
The meticulously footnoted research in this book details how the ATF and FBI use a computer program called "e-Trace" to collect private information on law-abiding citizens and then with a digital portal called "Armas Cruzadas" provide that information on American citizens to over thirty foreign governments, many of them with long histories of corruption.
Here is the story that has not been told about the much larger and more dangerous source of Mexican cartel firearms-an international culture of crime that includes the Muslim Brotherhood, Hezbollah, Hamas, their state sponsors of terror in Iran and Syria as well as Central and South American Islamic radicals and incredibly...our own US State Department. Revealed here for the first time, it is an alliance known to Federal law enforcement since at least the 1970's. It is now largely funded not only by Iran and Syria, but by American Muslims funneling cash for radical Jihad through illegal money-laundering operations back over the same shared Arizona trails used by their drug cartel partners.
This exposé includes "Secret" US embassy cables proving Eric Holder lied to the American public about Mexico's "iron river of guns" and the number of firearms found at Mexican crime scenes; confidential emails between ATF agents looking for data to support President Obama's gun control agenda; Federal court documents filed by Sinaloa drug cartel officers revealing a deal with the US Government to trade information on competing cartels in exchange for guns in the Operation Fast and Furious venture.
Extensive endnotes detail the complete and stunning investigative reports by House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) and Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) as well as the infamous Muslim Brotherhood's Explanatory Memorandum revealing their strategic and violent plan for the takeover of the United States.
You can read the books introduction here...
A leading voice in the Congressional Black Caucus told supporters last week that Tea Party-affiliated lawmakers are devastating the black community economically and would be happy to see black people "hanging on a tree."Given Barack Obama’s persistent call for “dialing down the rhetoric” and demand for more civility, one must ask: Where is Barack? Why has the president failed to use his bully pulpit to demand that the CBC refrain from such vile, intemperate public discourse?
Rep. Andre Carson (D-Ind.), the CBC whip, told attendees at the CBC's Job Tour visit to Miami that the Tea Party is actively taking steps to keep down the black community and other vulnerable populations.
"This is the effort that we're seeing of Jim Crow," Carson said. "Some of these folks in Congress right now would love to see us as second-class citizens."
"Some of them in Congress right now of this Tea Party movement would love to see you and me ... hanging on a tree."
A spokesman for Carson, later in the article, actually defended his boss' "strong language," saying:
"A child without basic nutrition, secure housing, and quality education has no real chance at a meaningful and productive life. So, yes, the Congressman used strong language because the Tea Party agenda jeopardizes our most vulnerable and leaves them without the ability to improve their economic standing."
Being without the ability to improve one's economic standing is indeed a dire situation. But it is not the same thing as being strung up by an angry mob from the nearest tree. It just isn't.
The accusation that the Tea Party harbors racism or racist elements has been around since soon after the Tea Party appeared on the American political scene. It is a subject for intense debate. Strong language is often used in this debate. But Congressman Carson's remarks have taken this language to an entirely different level -- a level where he really shouldn't have gone.”
“In July 2008, FOX network aired a video in which Jackson leans over and whispers, "See, Barack been, um, talking down to black people on this faith based ... I want cut his n**s off ... Barack ... he's talking down to black people."
For emphasis, Jackson appeared to make a stabbing or cutting motion with his hand.”
Jim Labriola from the “Home Improvement” TV sitcom has been a wonderful addition to our Tea Party Express V national bus tour team. Jimmy's comedic family friendly monologues are a hit with the patriots at our rallies.
With most of Hollywood being hardcore liberals, conservative actor/comedian Jim Labriola is a breath of fresh air.
One of our two tour buses was under repair causing the twelve member administrative crew to pile on the entertainers bus for the two mile ride to the hotel. It was uncomfortable.
Jimmy spontaneously went into a hilarious monologue worthy of a Jim Labriola TV Special. My stomach contracted so much from laughter, I had a great ab workout. As corny as this might sound, we truly are a family on Tea Party Express. Jimmy masterfully used his gift of humor to bring us a little bit closer together.
Hey Jimmy, you should market an exercise video, “The Jim Labriola Ab Workout: Laugh Your Way to Great Abs”.
We just completed our Tea Party Express rally in Sioux City, IA. This morning I logged on my computer to read, “Obama: The Unemployed Are Being Discriminated Against”.
Obama and company never changes their play book to get-their-way. They always divide Americans into victimized groups saying they are either disenfranchised or discriminated against.
Last night, we arrived early enough in Omaha, NE for me to do laundry. The hotel washing machine was not working. The front desk sent a black tech to fix it. After solving the problem, he asked, “So, are you the driver of that bus?”
I explained my role on the Tea Party Express team. Obviously hostile, the big young black man subtly confronted me, “What are you people doing?” Clearly, he was a victim of the liberal media spin which says we are racist against a black president.
I shared with him what the tea party movement is REALLY about. The young black man was clueless about politics.
Listening intensely, he was like a sponge. Amazingly, he said, “I am beginning to see things differently”. Praise God!
God is tooooo cool. A broken washing machine lead to opening a young man's eyes.
Patriots, I pray that someone will sponsor and help organize a tea party tour to black colleges and communities. Misinformed blacks need to see and hear black conservatives such as Herman Cain, myself and others.
Lloyd Marcus, Proud Unhyphenated American
Labriola / Bachmann photo courtesy Andrea Shea King
Co-Chairman of The Campaign to Defeat Barack Obama.
Please help me spread my message by joining my Liberty Network.
Lloyd is singer/songwriter of the American Tea Party Anthem and author of Confessions of a Black Conservative, foreword by Michele Malkin
LloydMarcus.com
OBAMA AND THE PEOPLE IN THE WHITE HOUSE, STILL
DO NOT GET IT. THEY JUST DO NOT KNOW WHAT TO DO TO GET THE JOBS BACK !! NOTHING THEY HAVE
DONE, HAS WORKED. NOW HE IS GOING TO GIVE
ANOTHER SPEECH THAT THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD
SPEND MORE MONEY ~ ON SEPT. 8TH, 2011!!!
HE IS THE ONE IN THE WAY. GET THE GOVERNMENT
OUT OF THE WAY. LET BUSINESS DO ITS JOB. THE
DONKEYS HAVE NOTHING TO GIVE ANY MORE ~
ST. NANCY PELOSI
Last Saturday afternoon, in Washington, D.C. an aide to Nancy
Pelosi visited the Bishop of the Catholic cathedral in D.C.
He
told the Cardinal that Nancy
Pelosi would be attending the next day's
Mass, and he asked if the Cardinal would kindly point out Pelosi to the
congregation and say a few words that would include calling Pelosi a saint.
The Cardinal replied, "No. I don't really like the woman,
and there are
issues of conflict with the Catholic Church over certain of Pelosi's
views."
Pelosi's aide
then said,
"Look, I'll write a check here
and now for a
donation of $100,000 to your church if you'll just tell the congregation
you see Pelosi as a saint."
The Cardinal thought about it and said, "Well, the church can use the
money, so I'll work your request into tomorrow's sermon."
As Pelosi's aide promised, Pelosi appeared for the Sunday
worship and seated herself prominently at the forward left side of the
center aisle.
As promised, at the start of his sermon, the
Cardinal pointed out
that
Speaker Pelosi was present.
The Cardinal went on to explain to the congregation, "While
Pelosi's presence is probably an honor to some, the woman is not numbered
among my personal favorite personages. Some of her most egregious views are
contrary to tenets of the Church, and she tends
to flip- flop on many other
issues.
Nancy Pelosi is a petty,
self-absorbed hypocrite, a thumb sucker, and a
nit-wit.
Nancy Pelosi is also a serial
liar, a
cheat, and a thief. I must
say, Nancy Pelosi is the worst example of a Catholic I have ever personally
witnessed. She married for money and is using her wealth to lie to the
American people. She also has a reputation for shirking her Representative
obligations both in Washington, and in
California. The woman is
simply
not to be trusted."
The
Cardinal concluded, "But, when compared with President Obama,
Nancy Pelosi is a saint."
PRESIDENT OBOMA PROFFESSES THAT HIS SPEECH ON HIS PLAN TO IMPROVE JOBS IS NOT POLITICAL
SURPRISE! OR SURPRISE?
HE HAS SCHEDULED A JOINT SESSION OF CONGRESS TO PRESENT HIS PLAN???
THIS SMACKS OF POLITICS AS FAR AS I AM CONCERNED. HOPEFULLY THE CONFERENCE WILL BE PUT OFF FOR A DAY SO THE G O P CANDITATES CAN PROBERLY PREPARE TO TEAR THAT SMUG NESS OFF HIS FACE
RATES of mental illnesses including depression and post-traumatic stress will increase as a result of climate change, a report to be released today says.
The paper, prepared for the Climate Institute, says loss of social cohesion in the wake of severe weather events related to climate change could be linked to increased rates of anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress and substance abuse.
As many as one in five people reported ”emotional injury, stress and despair” in the wake of these events.
The report, A Climate of Suffering: The Real Cost of Living with Inaction on Climate Change, called the past 15 years a ”preview of life under unrestrained global warming”.
”While cyclones, drought, bush fires and floods are all a normal part of Australian life, there is no doubt our climate is changing,” the report says.
”For instance, the intensity and frequency of bush
fires is greater. This is a ‘new normal’, for which the past provides little guidance …
”Moreover, recent conditions are entirely consistent with the best scientific predictions: as the world warms so the weather becomes wilder, with big consequences for people’s health and well-being.”
