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Dingell Says ObamaCare Will Eventually ‘Control the People’

Citizen Jane — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 17:40:48 +0000

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Remember This Night..

Flashy — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 02:45:48 +0000

For it is the eve of what may very well be the 2nd American Revoloution..

If the democrats pass this incredibly irrational piece of shit know as the health care bill, it should be the lighting of the proverbial fuse that results in an amazing sequence of events. There are turning points and hinges in history, this is without a doubt a profound one.

I for one plan on losing some people that heretofore I considered “friends.” I will be asking people who they voted for, and if they supported this nightmare. If they answer Obama and/or Yes. That’s it, its FUCK YOU ASSHOLE and Good bye. I am getting a very strong sense of what it must have felt like to live in the south just prior to the start of the war for southern independence..

Folks, this is the time when all honest men and women need to stand up and start judging. Forget all that bullshit about thou shalt not judge! If you don’t judge your neighbors and your elected representatives on this, then shame on you! You will be part of the sinking of this formerly great county damn it!

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Lieutenant Dan — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:26:30 +0000

They will not force us
They will stop degrading us
They will not control us
We will be victorious…

Doctors 9000 Times More Dangerous Than Gun Owners

In the Know — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 03:05:22 +0000

(A) The number of physicians in the U.S. is 700,000.
(B) Accidental deaths caused by Physicians per year are 120,000.
(C) Accidental deaths per physician is 0.171.

(Statistics courtesy of U.S. Dept. of Health Human Services)

Guns
(A) The number of gun owners in the U.S. is 80,000,000.
Yes, that is 80 million.

(B) The number of accidental gun deaths per year, all age groups, is 1,500.
(C) The number of accidental deaths per gun owner is 0.000188.

Statistically, doctors are approximately 9,000 times more dangerous than gun owners.
Remember, “Guns don’t kill people, doctors do.”

FACT: NOT EVERYONE HAS A GUN, BUT ALMOST EVERYONE HAS AT LEAST ONE DOCTOR.

Flexing States Rights

Lieutenant Dan — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 13:50:23 +0000

More states flexing their States rights.

This week in the Missouri state Capitol, a large rally was held in favor of defending state sovereignty. Rep. Tim Jones and Senator Jane Cunningham spoke about their respective bills filed to protect Missourians right to choose their own healthcare and not be forced into the federal governments plan under threat of fines or imprisonment. This centralization of more and more power in Washington D.C. is fostering a citizens movement to understand and defend personal liberty and the federalist principle of state sovereignty – a governing principle captured eloquently in the 10th amendment to the U.S. Constitution: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

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It is Time to use the N-Word

Henry Patrick — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 03:54:33 +0000

After the United States Senate passed its version of nationalized healthcare, Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky warned Democrats that they would catch an earful from constituents. Several neighbors have already sent scorching emails to Senators Feingold and Kohl and Representative Ron Kind.

The correspondences berated these Wisconsin representatives for their yes vote on several fronts ranging from the havoc government run health care will bring to medical care, the cost, and the Constitutionality of it all. These arguments were well vocalized at town hall meetings during the congressional summer recess and tea party rallies. Even recent opinion polls have reflected distaste for government-run healthcare by a vast majority of respondents. Despite all of this, the Democrats turned their backs and voted aye.

No reason exists to believe that votes will be switched before the final conference bill comes to the respective floors of Congress just because representatives receive an additional load of outraged public sentiment. It is obvious the Senators and House members who support the legislation do not care about opinions, economic logic, or the Constitution they swore to uphold and defends (to be fair, the Republicans have not shown any adherence to the Constitution either).

Some believe the wrath of 2010 elections will bring a dramatic realignment in Congress and the possibility that health care legislation in part or whole will be rescinded; unfortunately, the numbers damper such wishful thinking. Republicans plus any moderate Democrats will need to control two-thirds of the seats in both houses of Congress in order to override a certain Presidential veto. The odds of this happening are about the same as an individual hitting Powerball.

But not all is lost and the country does not need to blindly follow the path of Washington D.C. Letters need to be written and emails sent to state representatives urging one of two actions. Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 states,

all Duties, Imports, and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States

The special treatment exempting Nebraska from future Medicare tax increases in order to garner the vote of Senator Ben Nelson is one of the more egregious usurpations of the Constitution ever witnessed. The state of Wisconsin and the other 48 states must bear the costs of federal law for the Cornhusker state. Our elected officials in Madison should not stand idle while the citizens of Wisconsin shoulder the burden for the special exemption of another state. For me and my neighbors, emails need to bombard the in boxes of Kitty Rhoades in the State Assembly and Shelia Harsdorf in the Senate demanding that they protect the people of Wisconsin from this legislation. The state legislature needs to file suit with the US Supreme Court and ask that the healthcare bill with its Nebraska exemption be declared unconstitutional.

In the Kentucky and Virginia Resolves, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison argued that the Constitution was a compact among the states. The federal government had no rights to exercise power not specifically granted to it by the Constitution (enumerated powers). When Washington D.C. assumed powers not granted, states would be the final arbiter as to the Constitutionality of such acts and could render them void.

The Tenth Amendment states that those rights not specifically granted to Congress shall remain the rights of the states and individuals. If Congress wishes to attain more power than Article V of the Constitution (method for amending) provides a process for additional rights to the federal government. The 16th Amendment, which allowed for the establishment of an Income Tax, is a perfect illustration of the amending process where Congress gained power not originally given to it. If Congress wants the authority to bailout corporations, provide farm subsidies, control the climate, or provide health care, then they must ask the states permission to do so (two-thirds of the states must approve for an amendment to be ratified).

For too long state governments have remained mute while the federal government has eroded state and individual rights. State legislatures by their silence have become agents of Congress and national bureaucracies.

The good news is that some states have found their constitutional voices for nullification whereby federal laws are declared void. Montana and Tennessee have already passed laws in direct defiance of federal gun laws. A host of other states that include Texas, Utah, Florida, Missouri and Michigan are also considering similar legislation.

Thirteen states have some type of medical marijuana laws in direct contradiction to national legislation. Over the past two years twenty-five states have passed resolutions or laws that refuse to implement the Real ID Act. Even though the law is on the federal books, actions by the states for all practical purposes have kept it from being enforced.

In response to possible healthcare legislation, Arizona has a ballot proposition in 2010, which if passed, will override any federal law requiring individuals or corporations to participate in any Congressional mandated health system. Seven additional states (Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Missouri, Virginia, and Georgia) are in some stage of the nullification process.

The question for 2010 is who echoes the voices of Wisconsin citizens. Who will protect our natural rights and hold the federal government to the limitations of the Constitution. Not to diminish the importance of national elections, but the resurrection our republic begins at home. It is our state representatives that need to receive an earful about national healthcare, gun laws and every intrusion by Congress outside of it Constitutional boundaries.

It is time for them to hear from the people!

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Russian Mosin Nagant

admin — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 06:48:00 +0000

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The Soviet Union collected these after the 2nd World War and reconditioned the actions and barrels. They then dipped them in Cosmoline for storage in barrels and buried them along the borders in the old Soviet Satellite countries. During the cold war they were the guns that were going to be used against the western invasion. There were millions upon millions of these buried. Since the cold war ended, entrepreneurs in many countries started digging the barrels up and legally importing them to the United States. You can get one for as cheap as $79 at AIM Surplus.

With a little cleanup of the Cosmoline these babies are looking for a home. What is Cosmoline? Cosmoline is a “petrolatum-base corrosion preventative compound,” to use the words of MIL-C-11796C, the US Government specification for Cosmoline. Its a beefier cousin of Vaseline petroleum jelly. It comes in three classes. Class 3 is the variety used to preserve military small arms. American Cosmoline is specifically formulated not to stain the materials it is preserving. Its flash point, the temperature at which it will burn, is 350 degrees Fahrenheit. It melts at 135 degrees F. It penetrates permeable substances like wood to a depth of 0.2 to 0.25 millimeters. It is stable between a range of 255 degrees F. and 40 degrees F. It will protect anything coated with it indefinitely anywhere on the planets surface. Thats why military establishments around the world adopted it for preserving firearms.

These are a great piece of world history and would make a fine addition to your collection. As with any firearm that is purchased through a business, you need to have it shipped to someone holding a Federal Firearms License. You can find one through your local gun club.

You can find out more about Mosin-Nagants at Gun and Game and ammunition is extremely reasonable at $89.97 for 440 rounds.

Tea Party Bomb – Support Rand Paul

Lieutenant Dan — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 02:10:20 +0000

Well I just found out that the National Republican Senatorial Committee has formed a joint fundraising committee to support Rand’s Paul’s opponent. Rand Paul is running for Senate in the state of Kentucky. The party bosses are desperate to keep Rand out of the Senate because they know he will fight against the big government, high taxes and out of control spending that they helped create. Rand can win, but he needs your help.

Tomorrow, December 16th, the grassroots are holding a Money Bomb for Rand. This date is of course the anniversary of the Boston Tea Party and the day we made history together by raising $6 million in one day. Please visit www.RandPaul2010.com and consider contributing whatever you are able. Every single contribution will help.

The time to stand up for liberty in NOW!

Click the image above to donate.

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Dr. John Lewis – Charlotte Tea Party

bildanielson — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:18:29 +0000

I suspect there will be more posts regarding Tea Parties, but having personally met Dr. Lewis recently (in Fort Collins, Co at a Young Aristotle Competition) I can personally attest to this man’s incredible intellect for, grasp, and knowledge of history (bio here)…

Transcript of video 1 below, h/t to capmag..

But to do this right, we need to understand what it means. So I want to think back for a moment to what happened over 200 years ago, at the time of the original Boston Tea Party.

The Founders of this nation brought forth a radical idea. It was truly radical, practiced nowhere before this time.

This idea was the Rights of Man. The Founders saw each of us as endowed with certain inalienable rights, rights that may not be separated from our nature as autonomous beings.

These inalienable rights are:

The Right to Life–the right to live your own life, to choose your own goals, and to preserve your own independent existence.

The Right to Liberty, which is the right to act to achieve your goals, without coercion by other men.

The Right to the Pursuit of Happiness, to act to achieve your own success, your own prosperity, and your own happiness, for your own sake.

And the Right to Propertythe right to gain, keep, and enjoy, the material products of your efforts.

Unless Im mistaken I dont see anything here about a right to happiness. I see a right to the pursuit of happiness: the right to take the actions needed to attain ones own happiness. Nor do I see any rights to things at allno rights to food, clothing, healthcare or diapers. There is only a right to act to achieve those things. This is called freedom.

These rights to actthe rights to life, to liberty, and to the pursuit of happinessare founded on a certain view of man. Each of us is an individual, autonomous, moral being, with the right to choose his own values and capable of directing his own life.

Look at the person next to you, and look in the mirrordo you see the individual sovereign human being, existing for his own sake, with the right to live, to love, and to act?

This ideathe Founders idea of the individual Rights of Manled to a radical view of government. Government was not to be inherited by the force of an entrenched aristocracy as in Europe, imposed by the divine right of kings through generations of oppression, or enforced by the force of a club.

Government in America was to be designed and instituted by thinking men, for a single purpose: to protect and defend the Rights of Man.

This is what the American Declaration of Independence says: To secure these rights, governments are instituted among men. Thinking men, armed with the idea of rights, created a government limited to the protection of individual rights.

For centuries in Europe, the relationship between the people and the government had been that of serf to master: everyone was a servant of the ruling elite. In America, this was turned upside down: government became the servant of the individual. The very reason for a government–and its purpose–is to secure our inalienable, individual rights.

The results in America speak for themselves: the greatest most prosperous nation the world has ever seen. I here quote the writer Ayn Rand (and if you want to understand what is happening today, read her novel Atlas Shrugged). Ayn Rand, speaking to the graduating class at West Point, said that the United States was the first and only moral nation in the history of man, the first nation founded on a moral principle, the Rights of Man, and with a moral purpose, to secure these rights for all men.

This principle of rights is so strong that over years the Americans were able to correct the original shortcomings that the Founders could not overcome. Slavery and the denial of womens suffrage both fell when the principle of rights was properly applied to all men. To correct the original errors did not require the Americans to overthrow the principle, but rather to strengthen and to deepen it, to apply it to everyone, and to renew their commitment to it.

And that is what we must do today.

Because something very bad has happened in America over the last century. A cancer has implanted itself in the land of the free. A cancer has grown in our government and in our society. The cancer is the idea that government is no longer to be the defender of our rights, but rather the grantor of wishes.

Over the past century the idea took hold that governments purpose was not to secure our rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, but rather to satisfy our needs, whims and wants. That idea has been implanted in our schools, our media, and our government.

Do you wish for a better house? Theres a government housing agency to give it to you, with taxes extorted from those who buy their own house. Do you wish for health care? There is a government agency who will extort it from others and give it to you. Do you need food? There is a welfare agency to grab the wealth needed to give you food stamps.

And who will provide these handouts? The government, many people say, the all-powerful being that looms over us and grants our wishes. But who is to provide the goods that government hands out? Every person who works and produces, and whose property, gained by the sweat of his efforts, is taken from him by force.

The government has, once again, become a ruling aristocracy, set up as our masters, disposing of our lives.

This cancer has now grown to the point where this ruling elite controls a budget of over four thousand billion dollars a yearmore money than can be conceived by the human mind. The government had to grow this bigand it will continue to grow until it destroys this nationbecause it is acting according to the idea that it is morally right to take the wealth from those who produce it, and to give it to those who want it.

At the root of this idea is a view of man that is totally at odds with the vision of the Founders: the modern vision of man as a whining dependent, who begs for the needs of life from an all-powerful governing aristocracy. This ruling elite claims the moral right to distribute the wealth of those who earn it to those who wish for it.

If we are going to challenge this monstrosity, if we are going to expunge this cancer, then this is what we must reject. We need to regain the vision of ourselves held by the American Founders. We need to stand up, and assert ourselves as autonomous moral beings, with the right to our own life, liberty and the pursuit of our own happiness. We need to reject the claim that we are weak and dependent beggars, and to assert our own competence to run our own lives.

It is going to take as great a commitment to destroy this cancer as it took to build it. Were going to have to be strong, were going to have to be independent in our thinking, and we are going to have to reject handouts when they are offered to us. And were going to have to speak out.

At its heart, the economic and political crisis is a deeper problema moral problem. The cause of the crisis today is the worship of need, and the view of man as too stupid to act for his own sake, and worthy of being milked of all his values, to provide for others. This is what we must reject.

Do you think that this is a conspiracy to seize your wealth? It is far worse than that. As Ayn Rand wrote, It is not your wealth that they’re after. Theirs is a conspiracy against the mind, which means: against life and man.

This is an attempt to seize your life, to destroy your sense of self as an independent human being, and to replace it with a being with no self-esteem and no capacity for individual actiona being doomed to beg for sustenance from an all-powerful ruling elite.

This ruling elite, looking down on us right now, cannot understand gatherings such as these, in which free people gather to defend liberty. They think that this must be orchestrated by a vast conspiracy, because they cannot understand how autonomous human beings might gather by their own choice, to affirm their commitment to liberty.

Our so-called leaders think this because they dont see autonomous moral beings at all. They see only serfs, sniveling and whining, begging their masters for the scraps needed to survive, acting as a collective mob rather than as thinking individuals.

Look at yourselves again. Do you see in your face, and in the face of the person next to you, the slave of a group, with no moral status, no rights and no liberties, who is bound from birth to serve? Or do you see an autonomous being with the right to live for his own sake?

Will you knuckle under and become a helpless dependent? Or will you stand tall, and defend your right to your own life, your own liberty, your pursuit of your own individual happiness, and your own property?

It is time to stand up, to say no to the creed of dependence, to assert ourselves, to assert our own moral status, to defend our right to our own lives and property, and to make our voices heard.

Thank you very much.

John David Lewis

Mr. Jefferson

Chris — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 18:32:45 +0000

Loose Trousers At Mustang Ranch

Flashy — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 18:50:55 +0000

Peter Schiff writes:

Now that the Fed has recklessly shown its hand, the mad dash to get out of Treasuries and dollars should not be far off. The more the Fed prints to buy bonds the less the dollar is worth. Holders of our debt (read China and Japan) understand this dynamic. We must expect that they will not only refuse to buy new bonds, but they will look to unload those bonds they already own.

Under normal circumstances, if creditors grew concerned that inflation was eating into their returns, the Fed would raise interest rates to entice them to buy. However, the Fed will avoid this course of action as it fears higher rates are too heavy a burden for our debt-laden economy to bear. To maintain artificially low rates, the Fed will be forced to purchase trillions more debt then it expects as it becomes the only buyer in a sellers market.

Assuming you have read the full piece from which the above quote was taken, one could ask the question: Is Schiff alluding to Hemmingway? Hmmm, let’s follow this just for fun because, if the bell is tolling, as Schiff suggests, the question then becomes for whom? I love rhetorical riddles and this one really should sit for a spell before you reach your conclusion…

Schiff has been stunningly correct (but at times precisely incorrect in the short term) in his larger, longer, view of economic matters; when he speaks in terms of long term trends it would be wise to take him very seriously.

Being a student of George Reisman (pronounced rees-man), I see in Schiff much Reisman-esque thinking. Peter would wise to keep some of this to himself, however, lest he wish to face the fate of the Republicans who were persecuted after the rise of Francisco Franco… Who? What?

Too dramatic, you say?

Well, one should not be surprised to know that in most government schools Nazi Germany is a unit that is brought up totally out of context, eliminating, for all intents and purposes, the Spanish Civil War and its antecedents (particularly philosophical). Generally speaking, kids in government institutions being force-fed history do not get anywhere near the dose of context that is required to understand Hitler, the Nazis, and the gestalt of national socialism. But if you knew that the Spanish Civil war was a precursory or proxy for WWII, and you knew the philosophical fronts of the battles, would you not understand Nazism in a, well, actual way? Of course you would.

Of course, one of the primary reasons for the omission of the basis is more often than not that the institution itself and its education degreed automatons don’t understand the philosophical battles that were brewing, where those battles came from, either – at the end of the day they have a unit to present, and a fixed period of time to present it.. Pragmatism rules the government schools.

Similarly, in today’s analysis of economic matters people in general do not get any context in which government intervention is taking place. Schiff, however, is the antidote to much of this and is generally an inoculation to such context swapping and context blanking that is so obvious to some of us on the outside looking in.

Time will tell, but Peter’s rhetorical question at the end of his piece is loaded: “Got Gold?”

Well, yes. I do… nowhere near as much as I wish I had.

So, let me leave you with this thought: If you knew today that the price of gold will likely double in 12 to 18 months, and the value of the dollar would drop like a pair of loose trousers at the Mustang Ranch over the noon hour, what would you do?

Bubba Effect

Chris — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 10:15:50 +0000

Who is “Bubba?”

According to Glen Beck, Bubba is rural man who is:

* self-reliant down to making his own bio fuel
* uses the Internet to educate himself and communicate with other “Bubbas”
* reads, believes in and is willing to defend the Constitution
* owns guns and is prepared to use them if provoked
* is community minded and does not trust the federal government

Is North America preparing for civil war? On U.S. Soil.

Today’s Revolutionary Minute

Chris — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 20:20:44 +0000

Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.), the longest-serving Democratic senator, is criticizing President Obamas appointment of White House czars to oversee federal policy, saying these executive positions amount to a power grab by the executive branch.

Enough said.

Today’s Revolutionary Minute

Chris — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 12:38:15 +0000

You cannot legislate the poor into wealth and freedom by legislating the rich out of wealth and freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving anything. Remember, the government cannot give to anybody anything the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they worked for, that my dear friend is about the end of any nation.

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