Each human being comes to Planet Earth sovereign, subject to no other without explicit permission. It’s “natural law”, the rational and logical analysis of what can and what cannot make sense.
Each human being comes “equal”, i.e., human, not horse or pig, not broccoli or tree. Each human being comes unique, unlike any other, as with snowflakes. So each human being comes endowed by the Creator or “nature’s God” with the unalienable rights to life, to liberty, and to the pursuit (which means “earning or achieving”) of happiness.
And each comes with the unalienable right to self-defense of those rights. From whence, then, comes the “right to bear arms”? The 2nd amendment is but iteration, re-statement by the Founders of what was granted by the Creator.
A frail octogenarian woman still has the right to self-defense, and the great equalizer between her and an early-20s gang banger is a firearm.
There are two categories of people who oppose the right to bear arms: (1) those who seek more political power over We the People, and (2) those with unresolved personal mental-health issues. The latter need psychological help with their issues. The former make crystal clear why We the People must not let them win.
While bloggers here and elsewhere focus their rhetoric on either President Obama or Mitt Romney or the Race for the White House, few focus on Congress and fewer on the Senate. Let me try to briefly and tersely describe why this all is so darned important. I mean, this is even more important than Dancing With the Stars, The Bachelorette, and American Idol . . . combined!
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Further, while Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Delano Roosevelt were flaming progressives, and Lyndon Baines Johnson and Richard Nixon and Jimmy Carter and both Bushes, along with Bill Clinton were, say, smoking progressives — so believing devoutly in situational government as opposed to constitutional government, so believing in government control of the people rather than people control of the government, so most-though-not-all also believing in redistribution of wealth and equality of outcomes rather than equality of opportunity — we now have Barack Hussein Obama (umm umm umm). This is a horse of a different color. ( I wanted here to make it even easier for folks to call me “racist”.)
Dinesh D’Souza, speaking at CPAC earlier this year previewed a film coming at this Summer. In it he contrasts Obama with his progressive presidential predecessors.
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This President of the United States is, yes, turtle-atop-the-fencepost frontman for an oligarchy of the most powerful individuals alive. He has progressive ideology. He is also influenced and mentored by Saul Alinsky and Coward & Piven on rules for radicals and how to implode a system. He’s been propped and prodded by a Communist mentor in Hawaii in his youth, by terrorists Bernadine Dohrn and Bill Ayers, and by anti-American Reverend Wright.
At the Obama core, however, he is the product of his adoption of dreams from his father. His father was surely a Communist and wanted said for Kenya. He was also, however, and not uniquely so for a “non-westerner”, anti-colonial. By most in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and South America, the countries of France and Holland and the Brits and the Americans are seen to be the colonialist enemy. It has been they who have plundered the rest of the world, subjugating them, raping their natural resources, plundering their people.
It is this truth that Congressman Ron Paul has alluded to, albeit badly and to his serious detriment. Barack Hussein Obama’s dream from his father is to implode capitalism in favor of Communism, and to implode the United States so that it is in the very same boat as the countries of Asia and the Middle East and Africa and South America. Not mere equality of outcome among Americans. Equality of outcome among the Peoples of the world.
For those who understand how capitalism and free markets work in the context of the unalienable rights to, say, life, to liberty, and to property, and who also understand how Communism works, given adequate historical reflection and review, it becomes clear that Barack Hussein Obama (umm umm umm) intends to take America to somewhere just (metaphorically) north of Bangladesh and Haiti.
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It is my sense that many Americans have become — if not completely understanding — at least nervous about this President and where he is trying to take us. Most are unclear whether it is result of incompetence or intent. As a guy who on a number of earlier and much-earlier occasions has opined that it is over, game-set-match, fat lady has sung, exit stage left, I ask here and now, even if President Obama is thwarted and defeated in his bid for a second term, can America survive the fiscal and monetary and political deathtrap into which it has placed itself? Is the life and the liberty of anyone with property in America even remotely safe from what’s inevitable?
I get regular — 3-4 times per week — emails from leaders of the Obama Presidential Campaign. That is because when the Campaign started a website to get people to inform on folks who said or wrote negative things about President Obama, I self-reported http://thedrpete.wordpress.com. No surprise that the Campaign’s left hand didn’t communicate with the right, so they thought me a friend and supporter.
Stephanie Cutter, a Campaign mucketymuck, sent me an email today from the Truth Team, and conveyed her message via a video.
Given Ms. Cutter’s regurgitation of the anti-”Big Oil” mantra, let me explain the “special tax break” afforded by Congress to oil companies. Progressives ad nauseum tout “renewable” energy, ala solar and wind as suitable substitutes for “finite” sources, ala oil and coal. A manufacturer gets to to “depreciate” assets like machines and equipment which wear out and become obsolete, that so that they have the money to replace, when repairs and maintenance (also tax-deductible) cease to be feasible.
Oil and coal companies get to deduct from taxable income for the depreciating supply of raw material — oil or coal — because they’re harvesting themselves out of business. The “tax break” is there to reward immediate production and punish stringing out the game.
It is my take — for whatever that’s worth — that the kind of ads being run by the Romney Campaign and by the PACs supporting his candidacy are effective when viewed by 65-70% of likely voters. Here’s just one more.
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It is also my take — again for whatever that’s worth — that ads being run by PACs supporting re-election, along with speeches and appearances by the President, albeit in campaign-mode, are effective with 20-25% of likely voters. Facts in the news and facts in individuals’ lives and families’ lives just keep being 180 degrees out of phase with what comes across the President’s teleprompter and lips.
Okay, boys and girls, so you wanna have the government regulate pencils? You wanna have some agency — say, the PPPP (People Pencil Protection Program), known by those in-the-know as “4P” or “Quad-P” — keep us safe from Big Pencil. You don’t want some guy — undoubtedly a guy — who’s out to make money — you know, profit (which the President calls “excess profits”) — for himself deciding how many of those little yellow thingies to foist on us and a price that gouges us, driving up the costs of education and the arts.
Let that happen and you just know that Big Pencil will merge with Big Pen, monopolistically cornering the market and controlling how and with what we write and draw. And you’re thinking just how long can it be before that conglomerate buys out Big Crayon. America will in a flash become corporate-controlled, they the masters and We the People the slaves.
You’ve heard of “free markets”, of “capitalism”, and of “economic liberty”, but as President Obama has said, we’ve tried that and it didn’t work. So, I ask but 3 and 2/3rd minutes of your time and attention. Who knows, you might just learn something.
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The last thing that I want to do is to lecture someone, so that probably matches up pretty well with what you want. That said, you might wanna think — I suggest thinking rather than feeling, though that was probably a bit lecturey — about what actually works.
You just might, for example, wanna think how during the 20th century Big Ag — the farmers and ranchers of America — farmer-by-farmer, crop-by-crop, season-by-season — along with the co-ops, the truckers, the wholesalers, the feed and fertilizer places, and the retailers lowered the prices — inflation adjusted — of everything we eat while producing much more food and reducing the labor required to do that by about 4,000%.
You might also wanna consider whether that productivity increase — output per cost — would have been even greater had not the federal government brought to life the Department of Agriculture, which thought it wise to pay farmers to grow what they didn’t want to, pay farmers to not grow, pay non-farmers — say, residents of New York City — to not grow, disallow retailers from allowing customers to choose which chicken they wished to purchase, interfere with market-pricing, and much much more.
You might wanna contrast what farmers and ranchers did during the 20th century with what, say, the United States Postal Service did. The number of employees has increased while the volume of mail decreased. Some of those employees rotate to just sitting in a quiet room doing nothing while be paid. The price of a first-class stamp has increased from 2 cents to 45 cents.
If you’re not old enough to remember, ask your parents how much it cost them to get a calculator which would add, subtract, multiply and divide. Texas Instruments first made one in 1971, handheld and with a microchip. In 1972 the MSRP was $149.95. Today, you can get the same capability on a $9.95 wristwatch at no extra charge, so less than the price of a circa 1900 postal stamp and about the same as a 2012 . . . pencil.
The latest iteration of the above Gallup poll — a longitudinal study — has just been released.
“It doesn’t really matter who the nominee is gonna be,” President Obama said on CBS’ “60 Minutes,” in an interview that aired Sunday evening December 11. “The core philosophy that they’re expressing is the same. And the contrast in visions between where I want to take the country and what– where they say they want to take the country is gonna be stark.”
He added that “the American people are gonna have a good choice and it’s gonna be a good debate.”
Should a Republican hopeful for the presidency be focusing on restraining “big business”? “Big labor”? Or might the confluence of principle on the one hand and political expediency on the other have such a candidate focusing on cutting the national government down to size, what it is, what it does, and what it spends?
The below e-mail has been pinging around Wall Street, writer — at least to me — unknown.
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“We are Wall Street. It’s our job to make money. Whether it’s a commodity, stock, bond, or some hypothetical piece of fake paper, it doesn’t matter. We would trade baseball cards if it were profitable. I didn’t hear America complaining when the market was roaring to 14,000 and everyone’s 401k doubled every 3 years. Just like gambling, its not a problem until you lose. I’ve never heard of anyone going to Gamblers Anonymous because they won too much in Vegas.
Well now the market crapped out, & even though it has come back somewhat, the government and the average Joes are still looking for a scapegoat. God knows there has to be one for everything. Well, here we are.
Go ahead and continue to take us down, but you’re only going to hurt yourselves. What’s going to happen when we can’t find jobs on the Street anymore? Guess what: We’re going to take yours. We get up at 5am & work till 10pm or later. We’re used to not getting up to pee when we have a position. We don’t take an hour or more for a lunch break. We don’t demand a union. We don’t retire at 50 with a pension. We eat what we kill, and when the only thing left to eat is on your dinner plates, we’ll eat that.
For years teachers and other unionized labor have had us fooled. We were too busy working to notice. Do you really think that we are incapable of teaching 3rd graders and doing landscaping? We’re going to take your cushy jobs with tenure and 4 months off a year and whine just like you that we are so-o-o-o underpaid for building the youth of America. Say goodbye to your overtime and double time and a half. I’ll be hitting grounders to the high school baseball team for $5k extra a summer, thank you very much.
So now that we’re going to be making $85k a year without upside, Joe Mainstreet is going to have his revenge, right? Wrong! Guess what: we’re going to stop buying the new 80k car, we aren’t going to leave the 35 percent tip at our business dinners anymore. No more free rides on our backs. We’re going to landscape our own back yards, wash our cars with a garden hose in our driveways. Our money was your money. You spent it. When our money dries up, so does yours.
The difference is, you lived off of it, we rejoiced in it. The Obama administration and the Democratic National Committee might get their way and knock us off the top of the pyramid, but it’s really going to hurt like hell for them when our fat a**es land directly on the middle class of America and knock them to the bottom.
We aren’t dinosaurs. We are smarter and more vicious than that, and we are going to survive. The question is, now that Obama & his administration are making Joe Mainstreet our food supply…will he? and will they?”
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Be careful what you wish for. Be careful what you ask for. Be very careful what you demand. Yoe just might get it.
bear arms”? The 2nd amendment is but iteration, re-statement by the Founders of what was granted by the Creator.
