Chicago Mayor Daley, in an attempt to push his socialist agenda of no guns has once again imposed strict gun laws for Chicago - and just like the previous laws, this one will also be struck down. Apparently, Mayor Daley (D) has no use nor respect for either the Constitution nor the courts.
His new law states there can only be ONE gun per household. But if 2 or more American adults live in the household, EACH of those adults have the right to bear arms, so Daley's law, again, is unconstitutional.
His law also states that the gun must remain IN the house - you cannot even bring it out onto the porch, or take it for target shooting so you can learn to hit what you are shooting at. Apparently Daley, again, does not comprehend simple English, as in "the right of the people to BEAR arms shall not be infringed."
Like most liberals and progressives, Daley does not like the fact that the "people" have rights that get in the way of the liberals taking over altogether. Daley and his ilk hate the Constitution because it gives the "little people" power - over HIM, and all government. And people like Daley do not like that. He believes he should be the only power.
Daley needs to go. Not because he is a liberal, but because he does not respect the people or their rights. And for him to say his gun laws are to bring violence under control, that is a farce - Chicago has the toughest gun laws in the nation, yet also has the highest rate of violent crime.
Here's a clue for you, Daley - if town A bans guns, and town B has armed residents, where do you think the criminals are going to go? They will go where the pickin's are easy because residents cannot defend themselves.
A place like Chicago...
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Monday, July 12, 2010
Come Again?
In an AP article today, I found the following statement concerning why half of California voters are backing Jerry "Moonbeam" Brown:
"The five biggest plusses Brown's supporters see in him are that he supports the new health care reform law, is a Democrat, supports President Obama and his policies, has experience working with legislative leaders and holds a progressive view on the issues"
I used to live in Long Beach and Rialto back in the '60's. It was nice then. In the late '60's I saw the beginnings of a dangerous trend that could destroy the state - progressivism. And for the last 30 years I watched in dismay as progressives kept pushing California off a cliff. And now the job is nearly complete - California is bankrupt from all the expensive and foolish "social" programs that progressives love, but no one can afford.
And I find it amazing that today almost half of all California voters want more of the same. (The definition of insanity is doing the same thing and expecting a different result.)
It only goes to show that, with the right piper, the lemmings will march themselves right into the ocean and drown. That is what happens when ideology trumps reality and common sense.
Although I am a conservative libertarian and do not hold with progressivism (previously known as Marxism), I almost hope Brown does win. It will finally send California into default and maybe, just maybe, the rest of us can see the result of progressive thinking before it is too late.
NOTE: The 5 states closest to bankruptcy happen to be the 5 states that have been run by progressives for at least two decades. CA, IL, NY, NJ and MA. MI and CT, also progressive, are close behind.
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"The five biggest plusses Brown's supporters see in him are that he supports the new health care reform law, is a Democrat, supports President Obama and his policies, has experience working with legislative leaders and holds a progressive view on the issues"
I used to live in Long Beach and Rialto back in the '60's. It was nice then. In the late '60's I saw the beginnings of a dangerous trend that could destroy the state - progressivism. And for the last 30 years I watched in dismay as progressives kept pushing California off a cliff. And now the job is nearly complete - California is bankrupt from all the expensive and foolish "social" programs that progressives love, but no one can afford.
And I find it amazing that today almost half of all California voters want more of the same. (The definition of insanity is doing the same thing and expecting a different result.)
It only goes to show that, with the right piper, the lemmings will march themselves right into the ocean and drown. That is what happens when ideology trumps reality and common sense.
Although I am a conservative libertarian and do not hold with progressivism (previously known as Marxism), I almost hope Brown does win. It will finally send California into default and maybe, just maybe, the rest of us can see the result of progressive thinking before it is too late.
NOTE: The 5 states closest to bankruptcy happen to be the 5 states that have been run by progressives for at least two decades. CA, IL, NY, NJ and MA. MI and CT, also progressive, are close behind.
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Friday, July 9, 2010
Summer Soldiers & Sunshine Patriots
It was December, 1776. The American army, led by General George Washington was virtually beaten. One more battle would end it.
But on December 23, 1776, as Washington prepared to cross the Delaware to engage in a decisive surprise victory at Trenton, he read to his troops an article just published by Thomas Paine. That article, from "The American Crisis" began as follows:
"These are the times that try men's souls: The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman."
Today, we have another American crisis. And we have altogether too many "summer soldiers and Sunshine Patriots". Such people will talk about patriotism and put up a good fight with their mouths so long as it does not cost them anything or place themselves in jeopardy.
What we need are true patriots, willing to stand and be counted, to fight the good fight regardless of personal cost to themselves. We need the "silent majority" to finally get out of their LazyBoys and stop being silent. They need to take a stand, and be counted at the polls. Only then will we have a government that truly represents "We, the People."
As Thomas Jefferson once so clearly and accurately said, "Every person gets the government they deserve." If your government is not all that you think it should be, or is on the wrong track, then that is what you deserve by not taking steps to change it. If a person keeps leaving it up "to the other guy", the "other guy" will put the screws to you, in favor of himself. Every time.
It is only 3 months to the mid-term elections. If you are a "sunshine patriot", do nothing. But if you are a true American patriot willing to stand and be counted, do just two things:
1) Get informed. Not from the mainstream media - they only tell one side of the story, to suit their agenda. Whether you like Fox News or not, at least they give the WHOLE story, and you will learn a lot. For example, only FOX reported the ACORN mess for the first couple months, and only FOX is reporting that the Department of Justice refuses to proceed to prosecute the New Black Pathers for voter intimidation AND that the DOJ policy is now, according to Congressional testimony "if the victim is white and the defendant black, we will not pursue the case."
Find out what is REALLY going on, and not just the one-sided crap being fed to people by the mainstream media.
2) Once informed, get out and VOTE. No matter the weather, no matter what else you may have to do, make arrangements to vote.
I'm just sayin'...
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But on December 23, 1776, as Washington prepared to cross the Delaware to engage in a decisive surprise victory at Trenton, he read to his troops an article just published by Thomas Paine. That article, from "The American Crisis" began as follows:
"These are the times that try men's souls: The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman."
Today, we have another American crisis. And we have altogether too many "summer soldiers and Sunshine Patriots". Such people will talk about patriotism and put up a good fight with their mouths so long as it does not cost them anything or place themselves in jeopardy.
What we need are true patriots, willing to stand and be counted, to fight the good fight regardless of personal cost to themselves. We need the "silent majority" to finally get out of their LazyBoys and stop being silent. They need to take a stand, and be counted at the polls. Only then will we have a government that truly represents "We, the People."
As Thomas Jefferson once so clearly and accurately said, "Every person gets the government they deserve." If your government is not all that you think it should be, or is on the wrong track, then that is what you deserve by not taking steps to change it. If a person keeps leaving it up "to the other guy", the "other guy" will put the screws to you, in favor of himself. Every time.
It is only 3 months to the mid-term elections. If you are a "sunshine patriot", do nothing. But if you are a true American patriot willing to stand and be counted, do just two things:
1) Get informed. Not from the mainstream media - they only tell one side of the story, to suit their agenda. Whether you like Fox News or not, at least they give the WHOLE story, and you will learn a lot. For example, only FOX reported the ACORN mess for the first couple months, and only FOX is reporting that the Department of Justice refuses to proceed to prosecute the New Black Pathers for voter intimidation AND that the DOJ policy is now, according to Congressional testimony "if the victim is white and the defendant black, we will not pursue the case."
Find out what is REALLY going on, and not just the one-sided crap being fed to people by the mainstream media.
2) Once informed, get out and VOTE. No matter the weather, no matter what else you may have to do, make arrangements to vote.
I'm just sayin'...
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Tuesday, July 6, 2010
Preemption???
Today, the incompetent Attorney General Eric Holder filed suit against the state of Arizona on the basis of "preemption". In other words, the federal law pre-empts the state law under the so-called "supremacy clause."
But here is the problem, and any first year law student can verify it: the supremacy clause and preemption is only a valid basis for suit if the state law conflicts with the federal law.
It does not. The Arizona law basically says, "Hey, ya know the federal law that makes being here illegally a crime? Well, Arizona is applying that exact same law as a state law - so that which is illegal under the fed law is now illegal also under state law."
There is NO conflict at all. In fact, the Arizona law is even easier on illegals than federal law, and the Constitution permits states to pass laws that do not step on federal toes. Fed law does NOT prevent authorities from racial profiling, but the Arizona law does. And that is permissable.
It's like the speed limit - the feds put a maximum speed limit of 55 on interstates at one time. States could REDUCE that to 50, or 45. But they could not INCREASE it to 65 or 70.
What would NOT be permissable is if the Arizona law were to require stiffer racial profiling than federal law.
Someone should give Holder the boot - HARD! This is not his first big screw up. Remember he wanted to try Sheik Kahlid Mohammed in New York in criminal court? And even AFTER the government won its case against the New Black Panthers on voter intimidation, Holder dismissed the case - AFTER IT WAS WON - stating the DOJ did not have the evidence to win. But they had already won.
And now this.
Holder is nothing short of an incompetent dolt, incapable of even being ON a jury. He should not be Attorney General. Heck, he should not be the White House dog sitter.
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But here is the problem, and any first year law student can verify it: the supremacy clause and preemption is only a valid basis for suit if the state law conflicts with the federal law.
It does not. The Arizona law basically says, "Hey, ya know the federal law that makes being here illegally a crime? Well, Arizona is applying that exact same law as a state law - so that which is illegal under the fed law is now illegal also under state law."
There is NO conflict at all. In fact, the Arizona law is even easier on illegals than federal law, and the Constitution permits states to pass laws that do not step on federal toes. Fed law does NOT prevent authorities from racial profiling, but the Arizona law does. And that is permissable.
It's like the speed limit - the feds put a maximum speed limit of 55 on interstates at one time. States could REDUCE that to 50, or 45. But they could not INCREASE it to 65 or 70.
What would NOT be permissable is if the Arizona law were to require stiffer racial profiling than federal law.
Someone should give Holder the boot - HARD! This is not his first big screw up. Remember he wanted to try Sheik Kahlid Mohammed in New York in criminal court? And even AFTER the government won its case against the New Black Panthers on voter intimidation, Holder dismissed the case - AFTER IT WAS WON - stating the DOJ did not have the evidence to win. But they had already won.
And now this.
Holder is nothing short of an incompetent dolt, incapable of even being ON a jury. He should not be Attorney General. Heck, he should not be the White House dog sitter.
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Thursday, July 1, 2010
Timelines
I was going through a bunch of material gathered after 9/11. And I noticed that many, many liberals blamed Bush for 9/11, stating he should have somehow seen it coming and stopped it. Note that Bush had been in office for just 9 months.
Obama has been in office for 18 months, and the economy is Bush's fault, the 10% unemployment rate is Bush's fault, the stock market is Bush's fault, immigration is Bush's fault, and even the oil spill is Bush & Cheney's fault.
So, why is it that Bush is responsible for things after being office 9 months - and even after being OUT of office for a year and a half - but Obama is not responsible for ANYTHING after 18 months?
I'm just askin'...
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Obama has been in office for 18 months, and the economy is Bush's fault, the 10% unemployment rate is Bush's fault, the stock market is Bush's fault, immigration is Bush's fault, and even the oil spill is Bush & Cheney's fault.
So, why is it that Bush is responsible for things after being office 9 months - and even after being OUT of office for a year and a half - but Obama is not responsible for ANYTHING after 18 months?
I'm just askin'...
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Immigration
So I'm listening to President Obama and his speech on immigration. It is truly amazing how he can spin ILLEGAL immigration into something that is not really wrongdoing.
Yes, we are a nation of immigrants - LEGAL immigrants. We have immigration laws for a reason, and whenever any person breaks those laws, they have committed a crime. And those who commit crimes should not be exonerated simply because, as Obama put it, "they are simply looking for a better life."
Pardon me for being blunt, but a bank robber is robbing banks because he is looking for a better life. Should we also exonerate them as well? How about Bernie Madoff? The mugger in the park?
Liberals simply do not comprehend, because they live in a world of ideals instead of a world of reality. Yes, it would be great if everybody could come here, unfettered, and chase the American dream because we have open borders. But that is not reality, and here are just a few of the reasons why:
1) We do not need more criminals, and many criminals are coming here from other countries, including the latino gangs
2) We do not need terrorists coming here, for obvious reasons
3) Room. American schools, cities, and streets are already overcrowded. With open borders, we would be swamped with hundreds of millions more people. Currently a population of 300 million, and suffering overcrowded schools, prisons, streets and hospitals, imagine if that were doubled to 600 million. Imagine twice as many cars on the roadways during your commute.
4) Jobs. Where would we all work? Not only are there not enough jobs, there are not enough businesses to accommodate that many more people. Lines at any store would be 4 times longer, and prices would skyrocket as demand quickly surpasses supply.
Obama also used the same tired mantra that we have to grant amnesty because there is no way to round up 11 million people.
He is wrong, and he knows it. He knows that you can grant immigrants a "guest worker" pass that allows them to live and work here WITHOUT granting them a path to citizenship. And he also knows that if current immigration laws were enforced and employers could no longer hire illegals, we would not have to "round them up" - without a source of income they would leave on their own.
He knows this, but chooses to ignore it because it does not help him push his agenda.
NO pathway to citizenship should be made available to ANYONE here illegally. You simply do not reward people for breaking the law. Period. Give illegals a choice - stay, work, enjoy America as a GUEST WORKER, or go home and return LEGALLY. Only those who choose to enter LEGALLY should be granted any path to citizenship.
Obama, just because we may let them stay does not mean we must give them a path to citizenship. The ONLY reason you want to give lawbreakers citizenship is to pad the ballot box with grateful Latino votes.
Stop politicizing this issue. It is too important.
First, secure the borders. Any EMT will tell you that you must stop the bleeding and stabilize the patient before doing anything else.
Second, give illegals a choice - pass a criminal records check, then get a Guest Worker pass. NO path to citizenship, ever, unless they return home and re-enter legally, to show respect for our laws. If you want to be a citizen, return home, then re-enter legally. Take your choice.
Obama wants "comprehensive" reform that ties securing the border to amnesty. We already tried that. In the '80's, Reagan said he would grant amnersty if the government would secure the border. He granted the amnesty. But the border was never secured, which is the ONLY reason we have this problem today. Had the border been secured, we would not be arguing this and the problem would not even exist.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. No, Mr. President, secure the border FIRST to show good faith. Then we can talk about what to do with the illegals already here.
Now Obama has said, "We can put politics aside" to do this. However, his entire speech was politics, and his suggested solutions are strictly political - granting amnesty with a path to citizenship, as if one requires the other. It does not. That is a POLITICAL solution, for political purposes.
There are 6 BILLION people on this rock. At least 20% of those would prefer to be in America. Imagine open borders that would allow that billion to come here, quadrupling our population virtually overnight.
We do not have the room. Nor the housing. Nor the businesses required to sustain so many. Nor the schools. Nor the highways. We simply do NOT have the infrastructure to support open borders.
And that is why immigration must be carefully metered, so as not to swamp the system that supports us and provides the "American Dream".
Open borders would make it the American Nightmare.
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Yes, we are a nation of immigrants - LEGAL immigrants. We have immigration laws for a reason, and whenever any person breaks those laws, they have committed a crime. And those who commit crimes should not be exonerated simply because, as Obama put it, "they are simply looking for a better life."
Pardon me for being blunt, but a bank robber is robbing banks because he is looking for a better life. Should we also exonerate them as well? How about Bernie Madoff? The mugger in the park?
Liberals simply do not comprehend, because they live in a world of ideals instead of a world of reality. Yes, it would be great if everybody could come here, unfettered, and chase the American dream because we have open borders. But that is not reality, and here are just a few of the reasons why:
1) We do not need more criminals, and many criminals are coming here from other countries, including the latino gangs
2) We do not need terrorists coming here, for obvious reasons
3) Room. American schools, cities, and streets are already overcrowded. With open borders, we would be swamped with hundreds of millions more people. Currently a population of 300 million, and suffering overcrowded schools, prisons, streets and hospitals, imagine if that were doubled to 600 million. Imagine twice as many cars on the roadways during your commute.
4) Jobs. Where would we all work? Not only are there not enough jobs, there are not enough businesses to accommodate that many more people. Lines at any store would be 4 times longer, and prices would skyrocket as demand quickly surpasses supply.
Obama also used the same tired mantra that we have to grant amnesty because there is no way to round up 11 million people.
He is wrong, and he knows it. He knows that you can grant immigrants a "guest worker" pass that allows them to live and work here WITHOUT granting them a path to citizenship. And he also knows that if current immigration laws were enforced and employers could no longer hire illegals, we would not have to "round them up" - without a source of income they would leave on their own.
He knows this, but chooses to ignore it because it does not help him push his agenda.
NO pathway to citizenship should be made available to ANYONE here illegally. You simply do not reward people for breaking the law. Period. Give illegals a choice - stay, work, enjoy America as a GUEST WORKER, or go home and return LEGALLY. Only those who choose to enter LEGALLY should be granted any path to citizenship.
Obama, just because we may let them stay does not mean we must give them a path to citizenship. The ONLY reason you want to give lawbreakers citizenship is to pad the ballot box with grateful Latino votes.
Stop politicizing this issue. It is too important.
First, secure the borders. Any EMT will tell you that you must stop the bleeding and stabilize the patient before doing anything else.
Second, give illegals a choice - pass a criminal records check, then get a Guest Worker pass. NO path to citizenship, ever, unless they return home and re-enter legally, to show respect for our laws. If you want to be a citizen, return home, then re-enter legally. Take your choice.
Obama wants "comprehensive" reform that ties securing the border to amnesty. We already tried that. In the '80's, Reagan said he would grant amnersty if the government would secure the border. He granted the amnesty. But the border was never secured, which is the ONLY reason we have this problem today. Had the border been secured, we would not be arguing this and the problem would not even exist.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. No, Mr. President, secure the border FIRST to show good faith. Then we can talk about what to do with the illegals already here.
Now Obama has said, "We can put politics aside" to do this. However, his entire speech was politics, and his suggested solutions are strictly political - granting amnesty with a path to citizenship, as if one requires the other. It does not. That is a POLITICAL solution, for political purposes.
There are 6 BILLION people on this rock. At least 20% of those would prefer to be in America. Imagine open borders that would allow that billion to come here, quadrupling our population virtually overnight.
We do not have the room. Nor the housing. Nor the businesses required to sustain so many. Nor the schools. Nor the highways. We simply do NOT have the infrastructure to support open borders.
And that is why immigration must be carefully metered, so as not to swamp the system that supports us and provides the "American Dream".
Open borders would make it the American Nightmare.
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