Ron Paul is this Blogger's choice

The funny thing is most people admire Rudy for his stance on Homeland Security. The the problem is he does not fundamentally understand the consequences that our foreign policy has lead to. Do the Fundamentalist Muslims have a problem with the USA? Absolutely not...they have a problem with America's foreign policy. We need to stop this imperialism.

I think Ron Paul has the appeal from both the Liberals, Conservative Republicans, and Libertarians alike.

Ted Kennedy makes an ass of himself (again)...

Today Ted Kennedy took the spotlight only to make himself look like an ass when he grilled Justice Roberts regarding the “less fortunate.”  He makes every attempt to ensure that Justice Roberts will try to use the courts, instead of legislation, to what Kennedy calls “eliminating discrimination in society.”  I’m sorry Senator Kennedy but Justice Roberts has a little bit more class and abides by our Constitution regarding this sort of legislative duty. 

"But not every president, not every legislator, and not every judge agrees that the federal government has the power to address and try to remedy the twin national problems of poverty and access to equal opportunity," Kennedy said.

"Judge Roberts, today we want to find out how you view the Constitution and our ability to protect the most vulnerable," said the Massachusetts Democrat.

"Do you believe that Congress has the power to pass laws aimed at eliminating discrimination in society, or do you believe that our hands are tied - that the elected representatives of the people of the us are without the power to pass laws aimed at righting wrongs, ending injustice, eliminating the inequalities that we have just witnessed so dramatically and tragically in New Orleans," Kennedy asked.

"The American people want to know where you stand. We want to find out your view of the rule of law and the role of courts in our system," said the senator.

Roberts Praised for Standing Up to Democrats
By Melanie Hunter
CNSNews.com Senior Editor
September 13, 2005

This all explains the mind-set of Democrats that they don’t want a justice to interpret law, but they want a justice that is willing to legislate from the bench to forgo any decision by Congress or the American public.  For crying out loud, is it really inequalities that has caused tragedy in New Orleans?  If the poor in New Orleans were given additional welfare checks would have that solved the issue?  Actually, the welfare state has much blame in causing this type of mentality.  By increasing the size of the welfare state we have created an entitlement mentality, therefore the people that had looted merchandise from stores in New Orleans probably thought that they were entitled to do so.  What about working for your money, Senator Kennedy?  What happened to the American Dream?

Related Links:
Kennedy: What About the Less Advantaged?
Roberts on Equal Opportunity

Out with the Old, in with the New

The catch phrase is Out with the Old, In with the New...that is what we need to do about our congressmen and representatives.  Why do we have seasoned politicians?  The longer they stay in office the more distance they have between their constituency.  There was once a time when farmers and other reluctant individuals knew the issues of their local politics and were sent by their peers to engage themselves in debate at the House of Representatives.  Now we have a groups of politicians that concentrate on their next election and create some type of incumbancy that secures their job.  This is not the type of politician I want...nor the type of politician that cares about the real issues.  Perhaps we need to start recruiting righteous citizens to step up to the job.

Related Link:

• Democracy Demands Ousting the Incumbent Class

 

Ten Commandments, is it really religious?

Isn’t it funny that these commandments:

1. Have no other gods before me [the God of the Hebrews].
2. Make no images of anything in heaven, earth or the sea, and do not worship or labor for them.
3. Do not vainly use the name of your God [the God of the Hebrews].
4. Do no work on the seventh day of the week.
5. Honor your parents.
6. Do not kill.
7. Do not commit adultery.
8. Do not steal.
9. Do not give false testimony against another.
10. Do not desire another's wife or anything that belongs to another.

Source:  The Real Ten Commandments

consistently come under attack by people.  I’m not just talking Liberals…although they are the ones that shout out the most about this topic…but people in general think that we have something called Separation of Church and State.  Where in the Constitution does it mention that there is separation of church and state?  It is a long-time tradition of our founding fathers to uphold religious liberty (through separation of church and state) and for the federal government to not aid religion.  This is why I have no problems displaying the ten commandments at a Texas courthouse but not in favor of Bush’s faith-based initiative.  Our founding fathers saw the corruption and how government was like under a religious monarchy, they new that when the government and religion were intertwined that religous jihad (i.e. the Crusades) could result.  If we really wanted to track the root of the separation of church and state we need to read up on Anne Hutchinson.

Related Link:
Supreme Court Issues Split Ruling on Displays of Ten Commandments

AOL's Privacy Breach and criminal Clintons

AOL seems to have silently changed their terms of service and now no AIMers have any privacy.

"You waive any right to privacy. You waive any right to inspect or approve uses of the content or to be compensated for any such uses," according to the AIM terms-of-service.

 

Gas prices too high? Write to your senator about this...

Looks like Kerry and Edwards are no longer in the Honeymoon Stage.

Republicrat McCain seems to want to run for President annually. He has not ruled out 2008 but have we already ruled him out?

We need to constantly attack Clinton's credibility if we want to lessen the chances of her candidacy in 2008.

Iraqis rejoice after a successful election...Democrats mourn

With very few hiccups (no reference to Ted Kennedy there) the Iraqi people with a near 60% of the people voting rejoice in the streets as they celebrate their potential future. They have choosen their own elected officials for once instead of just having two options such as below...

Bush Praises Iraq Vote as `Voice of Freedom' From Middle East, I'm sure the Democrats are banging their heads against the wall as they are only worried about partisan politics and this historic event only makes Liberals against the war look bad. Here are some pictures of people looking for freedom.

Global Tax to Help Tsunami Victims makes France feels good...

France again is touting a Global Tax to help the relief effort after a devastating tsunami hit Asia decimating resources and killing upwards of 150,000 lives. What this shows us is the difference between the French people and the American people. Before I go into this discussion we have to venture if it is appropriate for government donations to aid other countries. Government represents citizens and levies taxes to provide services for the nation. To use this money for foreign aid is making a blanket statement that the American people ALL want to contribute (Not that we don't). What happened to private citizens donating their money or private companies providing relief effort to the region?

This comes to the diference between the French people and American people, in France the government has to coerce people to make "donation" by instituting a tax. By doing this is saying that the French people are incompassionate and are unwilling to help others in need. On the other hand, America's citizens have raised more than $350 million and will continue to raise additional funds as they are needed. American are compassinate and willing to donate money when people are in need, no matter where in the world.

Related Links:
French Globalists Want to Tax U.S. and Rest of the World
Chirac urges aid tax
AP Poll: 3 in 10 in U.S. Gave Tsunami Aid

Ronald Reagan--He had it right

Here's my strategy on the Cold War: We win, they lose."
- Ronald Reagan

"The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help."
- Ronald Reagan

"The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant: It's just that they know so much that isn't so."
- Ronald Reagan

"Of the four wars in my lifetime none came about because the U.S. was too strong."
- Ronald Reagan

"I have wondered at times about what the Ten Commandment's would have looked like if Moses had run them through the U.S. Congress."
- Ronald Reagan

"The taxpayer: That's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination."
- Ronald Reagan

"Government is like a baby: An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other."
- Ronald Reagan

"If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under."
- Ronald Reagan

"The nearest thing to eternal life we will ever see on this earth is a government program."
- Ronald Reagan

"I've laid down the law, though, to everyone from now on about anything that happens: no matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting."
- Ronald Reagan

"It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first."
- Ronald Reagan

"Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it."
- Ronald Reagan

"Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book."
- Ronald Reagan

"No arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. "
- Ronald Reagan

Welfare results in the 9/11 Commision report

Redhunter makes a good point, basically resulting in the privatization of welfare to some extent. While I was reading the 9/11 report I came across this quote that shows us an example in the Middle East in which the current state of our social security will lead us as well.

In the 1970s and early 1980s, an unprecedented flood of wealth led the then largely unmodernized oil states to attempt to shortcut decades of development. They funded huge infrastructure projects, vastly expanded education, and created subsidized social welfare programs. These programs established a widespread feeling of entitlement without a corresponding sense of social obligations. By the late 1980s, diminishing oil revenues, the economic drain from many unprofitable development projects, and population growth made these entitlement programs unsustainable. The resulting cutbacks created enormous resentment among recipients who had come to see government largesse as their right. This resentment was further stoked by public understanding of how much oil income had gone straight into the pockets of the rulers, their friends, and their helpers.

The 9/11 Commission Report (*.pdf) - 2.36MB

We need to watch out as this could result in dire consequences with the current situation we have here in the United States.

Foiled terrorist plot, Spain is not safer...

Spanish Say Foiled Plot Targeted Anti-Terror Headquarters

Even though they have committed to removing their troops from Iraq they are still having problems! Do you think if we got out of Iraq now that we will not have any more threats on American lives? Do you think that John Kerry is going to make you safer if he wins the election? Do you want to be like France and Spain who are like dogs with their tails between their legs. C'mon...we need to realize that we have a problem here...if we don't learn from the Spanish...talk to the Russians!

MPAA and RIAA can kiss my @$$

Aren't you sick of the MPAA and RIAA invading your privacy and monitoring your internet usage and file trading? I sure don't appreciate the RIAA and MPAA acting like they are government agencies and trying to illegally crack down with semi-automatic weapons. Not to mention they try to crack down young users and the elderly, what a great way to build a legal case. Grandma are you swapping songs illegally?

Related Links:
Music firms target 12-year-old
RIAA withdraws charges against 65-year-old
12-year-old's mom settles with RIAA, P2P association pays the bill
Judges rule file-sharing software legal
Judge: File-swapping tools are legal
Hollywood takes P2P case to Supreme Court
MPAA asks Supreme Court to crush P2Pers

Badnarik Arrested!

It seems that Libertarian Candidate for President Michael Badnarik and Green Party Candidate for President David Cobb recently got arrested by trying to walk across the police barrier to attend the Bush and Kerry debates last Friday. Although I do wish to see more of the major third parties in the debates I do not think that this action was necessary. However, it does give publicity (good or bad) to the party. I believe people are realizing that we need to stop receiving only 2 sides in a debate since there are many other opinions and views on the issues. I'm hoping for the Libertarian Party in the debates in 2008. We need to appeal to the public file a suit to who controls the debate to allow at least more organized 3rd parties like the Libertarians or the Greens.

Related Links:
MICHAEL BADNARIK ARRESTED
Candidates arrested at debate

Response to John Kerry's Speech at Temple University

My priority will be to find and capture or kill the terrorists before they get us.

Oh Boy! Let's see what we have in store for this speech.

As president, I will expand our Army by 40,000 troops so that we have more soldiers to find and fight the enemy. I will double our Army Special Forces capacity. And we will accelerate the development and deployment of new technologies to track down and bring down terrorists.

How will you expand troops? How are you going to recruit additional troops to join the armed forces? Will you institute the draft? Are you assuming that young men and women will automatically sign up for the military if you become President? I'm sure more people will likely stay out of the military if you were elected.

Terminating the Draft - Senator John Forbes Kerry voted NO.

How will you double the Army Special Forces, Senator Kerry? Will you lower the standards for Special Forces entry? Don't you think that would be an unwise decision since Special Forces are suppose to be our elite military power?

I will strengthen our intelligence system to detect and stop the terrorists before they can strike.

How can you possibly say this when you have a 20 year history of being soft on strengthening our defense systems?

Missile Defense - Senator John Forbes Kerry voted NO.
Space-Based Laser Development - Senator John Forbes Kerry voted NO.
Vote on an amendment to reduce funding for a national missile defense program. - Senator John Forbes Kerry voted YES.
Fiscal04 Supplemental for Iraq and Afghanistan-Passage - Senator John Forbes Kerry voted NO.

I will create a National Intelligence Director with all the budget and personnel authority the Commission says is needed to keep us safe. I will double our overseas clandestine service, train the linguists and Arab experts we need, and make sure the operation – hunting down bin Laden and al Qaeda -- has all the resources it needs.

Why do we have a National Security Advisor, Secretary of State, Department of Defense, and Directory of the CIA? The answer is NOT more government Senator Kerry.

I will secure all nuclear weapons and materials in the former Soviet Union within four years. At President Bush’s pace, it will take 13 years.

How will you do this? What are the means and methods for this 4 year timeline? How will you make Russia and other rogue nations comply?

I will make it clear to Iran that we will lead an international effort to impose tough sanctions if they do not permanently suspend their uranium enrichment program and provide verifiable assurances that they are not developing nuclear weapons.

How are you able to enforce this? Through sanctions? Do you think they care? Will you go plea to the UN for international effort?

Third, as president, I will wage a war on terrorist finances every bit as total as the war we wage on the terrorists themselves. We will trace terrorist funds to their sources and freeze the assets of anyone -- any person, bank, business or foreign official -- who is financing terrorism.

President Bush started freezing assets of these financiers immediately after 9/11. This is old news...

At our seaports we’re physically inspecting only 5% of the cargo coming into America. The Bush Administration is spending more in Iraq in four days than they’ve spent protecting our ports for all of the last three years.

Senator Kerry, you are more willing to anticipate terrorists to come to our shore and then retaliate for an attack? How about trying to stop them from even reaching our shores?

So we will win when we show that America uses its economic power for the common good, doing our share to defeat the abject poverty, hunger, and disease that destroy lives and create failed states in every part of the world. The world’s poorest countries, suffering under crushing debt burdens, need particular attention. As president, I will lead the international community to cancel the debt of the most vulnerable nations in return for them living up to goals of social and economic progress.

Senator Kerry, the Islamic Terrorist do not care about poverty nor do they care about economic aid. They have an agenda...that agenda is to destory anything that is American. They will continue to live in poverty for the prospect of destroying America. Giving them aid will only further this cause. It shows that you are detached from this world.

I will be clear with repressive governments in the region that we expect to see them change – not just for our sake but for their own survival.

How are you going to do this? Through the UN? Wage War?

But the Bush administration would have you believe that when it comes to our allies, it won’t make a difference who is president. They say the Europeans won’t help us, no matter what. We’re not going to get more cooperation in the war on terror, no matter what. Ordinary people around the world will resent us, no matter what. But I have news for President Bush: just because you can’t do something, doesn’t mean it can’t be done.

How will you gain a coalition? France has already said they will not deploy additional troops if you were elected. What is your strategy? Which countries will back you on this coalition?

Excerpts taken from: Speech at Temple University

Al-Qaida steals Air Canada uniforms for possible plot

We still need to watch out for Al-Qaida. They are around and willing to attack America to perhaps sway the election in November.

Related Links:
Putin cites Al-Qaeda link to Russian plane disasters
Air Canada uniform theft raises fears

Bush: Terror War Impossible to Win

No shit! Tell me something I don't know already. The War on Terror is akin to the War on Drugs...no end objective and more taxpayer money going into the government.

Related Link:
Bush: Terror War Impossible to Win

Rights vs. Privileges, Do you know the difference?

Michael Badnarik, 2004 Presidential Candidate for the Libertarian Party, teaches an 8 hour long class on the Constitution. I have watched this and I highly recommend this to anybody that is American. You will learn what your Government is doing without your knowledge or control. He clearly details the rights and liberties that the government has infringed upon and leave it up to the individual to determine what needs to be done. A lot of eye-opening realizations in his lectures!

Download the movies here: Constitution Class taught by Michael Badnarik

Website: Michael Badnarik, 2004 Libertarian Presidential Candidate

The 4th of July...

Okay, this update may offend, so good!  But, be warned.

    Where do you live?  I bet you live in the United States of America, the home of the free and the free to make your home.  What have you seen in the past couple of years that seems so prevalent in our daily lives?  I don't know about you, but there seems to be an influx of immigrants that our government allows the same benefits we have as Americans.  What we don't know is that they carry their own Patriotism.  I tell you people, their loyalty is not to the greatest nation on the planet, the United States of America, but maybe to some other country where most of their relatives reside.  What we are seeing is the watering down of our way of life and culture.  I do not know about you, but I believe that if people are going to hold the right to call themselves CITIZENS of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, then they must learn what our country stands for and take an oath to loyalty.  If they don't like it, then tough luck...they can go and see if they like living in Russia, or maybe even better yet Communist China.  However, how are we suppose to accomplish this task when our own people do not know our founding fathers of this nation?  How are we suppose to teach these immigrants of our country when the person that teaches cannot even name their Senators, Congressman, or even the President of the United States?  I don't know about you, but when I hear our National Anthem play or some emotional soldier recount what he went through to uphold our freedom, frankly I get sort of choked up.  I get a deep inner sense feeling of respect and the need to share that emotion with that person or persons.  We as Americans need to hold dear those documents that have given us our Right to Liberty, Right to Personal Property, and the Right to the Pursuit of Happiness.  We should be willing to fight for our country in the wake of invasion of a country or ideal that counters the freedoms given to us by our forefathers.  We should stand up to what we believe in and have our voices heard...WE ARE AMERICANS...if not by birthright then by PRINCIPLE and BELIEF of the right to FREEDOM.  I have had my say, now it is up to you to show your true colors on this INDEPENDENCE DAY, the 4th of July.  Have fun out there, take care, eat lots of barbecue, and expect an update on Thursday.  BE PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN.

The Oath of Allegiance for United States Citizenship

I hereby declare, on oath,

• that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty, of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen;
• that I will support and defend the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic;
• that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same;
• that I will bear arms on behalf of the United States when required by the law;
• that I will perform noncombatant service in the Armed Forces of the United States when required by the law;
• that I will perform work of national importance under civilian direction when required by the law; and
• that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; so help me God.

Courtesy of http://www.immigrationlawweb.com/naturalization-oath-of-allegiance.htm

Stop Looking Over My Shoulder!!!

Has our privacy been invaded? Are we victims of a crime that steals our personal freedom to a right of privacy? Can you find cases of how the government invades our privacy unknowing to its citizens? Of course not, otherwise it would defeat the purpose of invading your privacy. If you know that somebody was going to invade your privacy, then I hope you would try to stop them at all costs. However, if you didn't know that your privacy was being invaded then how would you know who to stop and when? Take for example the United States Post Office that delivers your mail everyday. Are they invading your privacy as you wait in line counting your money? Who is to say that they aren't profiling you as a drug dealer as you count your own money that you have to send to Aunt Frieda for her debilitating disease? How are you sure that they aren't filling out a form while you stand there waiting for the next clerk to send off that money? Well fellow Americans, they ARE filling out their forms for those customers that send large denomination money orders or count a large wad of cash. What is so wrong about it? Well if you take a look at the form it has a statement at the top saying, "Without alerting customers provide as much of the following information as possible." Is this an invasion of privacy? It sure is an invasion of privacy and it should be stopped. It even says, "Without alerting the customer.." How many of these forms have your name on it? Take a look at this form here. Maybe you want to distribute these to those that are standing in line at the post office and ask them, "Has your name been on one of these?"