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Randoms: First Fortune, Losing It, My Soul can Feel Pain

25 Saturday Aug 2012

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Notes to reader (more accurately, note to self):
1.) If the deterioration of the America that we once knew and loved seems to be worsening, well that’s because it is, but also it seems that folks who can actually write are more frequently compiling synopses that, for us dummies and amnesiacs, paint a better picture of the whole of our decline. Leastwise, I’m noticing it more.
2.) I am fully aware of the fact that I still cannot write, nor am I expert on any thing, save my living, even which may be stretch’n it. ~tdv

First fortune is birth among liberty, second is counting on living it. ~tdv @ 08.24.12

The progressives really have no right to your liberty. They NEVER did, they always knew it, and they are dangerous. @ 08.24.12
Re: Don’t Play by JHoward

If desertion of the Constitution equals rebellion against the U.S. (amd.14,s.3), then any debt to that end is void (amd.14,s.4). see obamacare, etc. @ 08.24.12
~Below emphasis mine, and it ties, I’m tell’n ya :]

amd.14,s.3: No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

amd.14,s.4: The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.

My Soul can Feel Pain…
READ THIS~> by @AnnBarnhardt “THIS SOCIETY AND NATION CANNOT SURVIVE” posted 08.20.12 (no permalink, scroll to it)

Habeas Corpus; “you have the body”, right, and that govt may have it in secret is a fatal evil, more dangerous engine. Federalist.84.par.5 @ 08.23.12
~> Special Operations Speaks: Release Brandon Raub Immediately
~> Ex-Marine Raub Freed From Va. Psychiatric Ward
~> Vets Being Rounded Up Nationwide? Must Watch Interview

Read~> Will Obama Keep Power ‘by Any Means Necessary’? by Stella Paul @ 08.21.12

In my land, a mom was killed with a stick! Parliament quickly banned sticks… & women, saving us, from shade mostly, & kids, but we’re safe. @ 08.22.12
Silly Americans… don’t you see our betterness? ftw ~ be the world @

@ Let Facts be submitted to a candid world:
“For Us or against Us” ~by Matthew May 08.11.12
~Excellent

Liberals need know that if ANY of the Constitution is disposable, then so are ALL its guards, of their beloved specific liberty! @ 08.21.12

Nobody likes to be proven wrong… least of all the wrong. @ 08.21.12

Read~> Will Voters Choose ‘Issues’ Over America? by Thomas Sowell 08.21.12
~issues, and obama’s “banana republic” over the Constitution. @ 08.21.12

Perspective~>  World Poverty, Immigration, and Gumballs, presented by Roy Beck

Russell Kirsch, “Inventor of the Computer”:
“Nothing is withheld from us which we have conceived to do.”
“Do things that have never been done.”
Ref: An Unexpected Ass Kicking BY JOEL RUNYON 08.02.12 h/t: @darthlevin

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Randoms: Government’s Not the Problem… Ceding to THIS Government IS

22 Wednesday Aug 2012

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One of these days is gonna wind up being one of those days. @ 08.19.12

Why don’t we just cancel the whole Congress thing, ya know, the people’s house, and get on with it? @ 08.19.12
Cuz we’re all aware, that benevolent bettership of an orange dictator is soooo preferred over that silly old constitution & secured liberty. @ 08.19.12
Ref: Cybersecurity: President Threatens to Override Congress
Did I say orange? Damn, I meant scarlet! Gotta get the man’s character right… sheez. BTW, I heard those chartreuses are angelic! #Vote4Hue @ 08.19.12

Enraging: People who slothfully support a progressive paradise over a responsible and proven Constitutional government. @ 08.19.12

What harm is the pat suspicion of govt. motive? If erroneous, are we not just as safe from encroachment, than if we accurately exposed it? @ 08.18.12
“…practice of arbitrary imprisonments have been, in all ages, the favourite and most formidable instruments of tyranny.” @ ~A.H. fed.84,par.5

Awesome, Disgusting, Sad~> America’s Debt Visualized

In the 1790s, it was thought unconstitutional for fed. funding of infrastructure, as locality made projects not in the “general welfare” @ 08.18.12
Ref: Essays on the Preamble ~Heritage

Government is so far removed from its intended role, that now We the People are seen as an Impeachable Offense. @ 08.18.12
“impeachments are… an essential check in the hands of (Congress), upon the encroachments of the executive.” ~fed.66,par.2

It is the foundation of responsible self-governance, a diligent citizenry. The inverse created the mess we’re in. @ 08.17.12
I’ll not judge a man who cares for his own, & knows to reason. @ 08.18.12
If all Americans took note, at Least, and Began to know our Constitution, basics, we’d be safer from the string pullers. @ 08.18.12

Wonder what portion of libs, identify as libs, only because a lib told them it’s best to be libs? @ 08.17.12

Politics: Science of govt.; preserve safety, peace, prosperity. Politician: Man of artifice, deep contrivance ~Websters1828 @ 08.17.12
Twisted is the Politician and the Politics he contrives, when continuance of either precedes liberty and lives. @ 08.17.12

The more these liberal race-baiting hacks speak, the weaker they become. Let them cobble their little constituency of fools. @ 08.17.12
RE a certain comment by msnbc’s tour’e 08.16, look it up.

As the left increasingly marginalizes itself, they serve to bolster the sanity of conservative principles. @ 08.17.12

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Randoms: The Formula Redux, Reduction in Terms, Ryan, & Rectitude

18 Saturday Aug 2012

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“There is a sublimity in conscious rectitude – in comparison with which the treasures of earth are not worth naming.” ~J. Hawes? @ 08.16.12
note: found this quote at Webster’s 1828 Dictionary; Definition of “Rectitude”

If you need a reason to be reasonable, then it is unlikely that you can be reasoned with. @ 08.16.12

Did you know that Hamilton considered the Preamble a better recognition of popular rights than any Bill of Rights? ~fed.84,par.8 @ 08.16.12
CotUS merely intended to regulate general political interests of the nation, not every species of personal & private concerns. ~fed.84,par.9 @ 08.16.12
Hamilton said of the Bill of Rights: “why declare that things shall not be done, which there is no power to do?” ~fed.84,par.10 @ 08.16.12
Ref: Federalist No.84 ~Alexander Hamilton

Fun with HashTags ~ 08.14.12 Edition ~ #ObamaDictionary
BUSINESS: 1) A bothersome piggy bank, 2) Labor union underling @
RADICAL: Any traditional activity or person @
FAILURE: The United States before Obama Monarchy @
MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD: Political focus group @
DEPENDENCE: 1) A high and virtuous calling 2) Perpetuity of the Democrat Party 3) Reparations by redistributive retribution @

Hope lies exclusively with the people, that they might awake from the dreams of his father. @ 08.12.12

Next VP Paul Ryan today: “We wont replace our founding principles, we will reapply them… We will honor You” @ 08.11.12
Related: His Jan’10 speech “Health Care in a Free Society” ~RESPECT for the founding principles.
Only a true Marxist progressive would view the support for America’s founding principles as radical. Wear it with honor, Mr. Ryan. @ 08.11.12
If Paul Ryan is radical, then socialism is the new norm, and the American experiment is dead. This is pure leftist progressive delusional spin. @ 08.11.12
It is Needed and Refreshing, Paul Ryan using his New Stage to expound our Founding Principles, natural rights, etc. Thank you, sir. @ 08.13.12

Yeah, maybe everything has already been said… but not everybody has heard it. @ 08.11.12

The only problem with reducing things to their simplest terms is that you really don’t have anything else to say when you’re done. @ 08.11.12

The last thing I’ll do, is the last thing I can. @ 08.10.12

“The liberal/progressive way…. is just not the American way.” ~ @Daggy1 That this needs saying, marks what they’ve done to us. @ 08.09.12

Repeal ObamaCare… Hell, let’s Repeal 95% of 20th century legislation, & all the 21st. Let the People & the States sort it out after that. @ 08.09.12

The formula we had, is the formula we have, And if we will, it shall secure us still, Our liberty to be greater again. DoI+CotUS= @ 08.09.12

Ever notice how every goodly intended Democrat scheme involves some sort of plunder? When are they Not in some or all pockets? @ 08.09.12

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Randoms: Where the People, Can You Spell Usurp, Halfwise to NO

09 Thursday Aug 2012

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As the law of averages imparts, the answer of NO is halfwise equally appropriate as the seemful everwise response of YES. ~tdv @ 08.08.12

There are No dangers of government seizures of freedom, where there are No people to mind them. ~tdv @ 08.08.12

~Excerpts from Federalist No.31 pars.11-12 ~Alexander Hamilton
States, by their orig. constitutions, are invested with complete sovereignty. […] strength is always on the side of the people; @
Every thing beyond (the federal powers delineated in the constitution), must be left to the prudence and firmness of the people; @
…the people; who, as they will hold the scales in their own hands, it is to be hoped, @
…hoped, (the people) will always take care to preserve the constitutional equilibrium btwn the general and the state govts. @
~~Once universal understanding of American government and faith in the America people… forgotten. ~series tweeted 08.08.12

“This doctrine supposes the perfections of God to be the representatives to us of whatever we perceive in the creatures.” ~Locke ? @ 08.07.12

EPA’s Ex, Armendariz ~ Recycled Tyrant @ 08.06.12
Siezera Club… Comrade Commandeered. Forward the American Averse. ~tdv @
Ref: Ousted EPA administrator vows to “stop the construction of any new coal plants in Texas” by Rob Bluey 08.06.12
Other Abuse: City Moves to Cut 1/3 of Austin’s Power & Jack Up Prices
h/t @Libertarian_ish 

“declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.”… “establishment of an absolute Tyranny” @ 08.05.12
from the Declaration of Independence

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Randoms: Perspective of Value, Deviant Defaults, Our 20th

06 Monday Aug 2012

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It’s sad that the state has become so embedded in American life, that people who simply wish to be left alone with their liberty are rebels. ~tdv @ 08.04.12
It is Unnatural, the new normal condition of life-by-state-designed & rights-by-state-defined. ~tdv @ 08.04.12

Required Reading~> Basic Concepts of “Government” by Publius Huldah …as is everything else on her blog, “Understanding the Constitution“. Really a fine resource.

Discourse that assumes special liberty for some, will finish as it started, arguing liberty for none. ~tdv @ 08.03.12

Great Article~> Conservatives Have a Secret  ~by Daren Jonescu 08.03.12

“I would not my unhoused free condition, Put into circumscription and confine, For the sea’s worth.” ~Shakespeare @

Thanks hon, for 20 years today, for our great kids, for love; my friend, my wife. ~tdv @ 08.01.12

Liberty never gets tired, or old, as someone is born every day to embrace it. Liberty doesn’t age, or become obsolete, it is only abandoned. ~tdv @ 07.31.12

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Milton Friedman – on Greed; to Phil Donahue ’79
…priceless. h/t & thanks Rush Limbaugh

Is there some society you know that doesn’t run on greed?…
The world runs on individuals pursuing their separate interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus…
In the only cases in which the masses have escaped the kind of grinding poverty you’re talking about, the only cases in recorded history, are where they have had capitalism and largely free trade.
If you want to know where the masses are worst off, it’s exactly in the kinds of societies that depart from that…
Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest? You know, I think you take a lot of things for granted. Just tell me where in the world you find these angels who are going to organize society for us?

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Read~> DEA Gone Wild … ~Un-Frigin-Real…
h/t http://proteinwisdom.com/?p=42280 

“Your driver was shot in your truck,” said the caller, a business colleague. “Your truck was loaded with marijuana. He was shot eight times while sitting in the cab. Do you know anything about your driver hauling marijuana?”
[…]
And without Patty’s knowledge, the Drug Enforcement Administration was paying his driver, Lawrence Chapa, to use the truck to bust traffickers.

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Randoms: That Lovable Tyranny, How to Vote, & I’m Gonna Be Mauve

31 Tuesday Jul 2012

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The state, the TV, the mags & rags, music, schools, THEY are defining you, progressives. ~MY American Dream is MINE. Not yours or theirs. Get it? @ 07.29.12

Politik: What does that have to do with Liberty? How is that Constitutional? Wrong answer, not representative, no power. Simple. CotUS2012 @ 07.29.12

All that remains are the faint echo of liberty, and the thunderous voice of tyranny. Speak, or be spoken for, and to. @ 07.29.12

A vote for anything less than wholesale reduction in govt is nothing less than suicide. @ 07.29.12

These threats to our liberty by executive order, are only as perilous as our liberty will tolerate. @ 07.27.12

Government oppression, while choosing winners and losers, is just fine so long as you’re the winners, huh progressives. @ 07.27.12

Eurika!!! Strung together: FF @ RT ~Twitter’s a GAS :] :] @ 07.27.12

…the stranglehold on reason. If these mass hystericals had any clue the harm they do, bet they’d STILL do the harm. @ 07.27.12
Ref: Chick-fil-A Victimization: Discrimination Under the Guise of Diversity & Tolerance

SCIENTIFIC BREAKTHROUGH!!! Selective Epidermal Pigmentation Possible! Campaigners choosing sky blue, Elected officials~Red. *Developing* @ 07.26.12
I want to be maroon… or to show my sophistication… mauve. I’m voting mauve, too. That’s what I know. @

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Randoms: Not What It Was or Is and Your Able Nothing

28 Saturday Jul 2012

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Read~> It Matters Who Obama’s Father Is Speech by Joel Gilbert 07.19.12 h/t @Libertarian_ish
…as does the wholesale disregard for the Journalist’s Creed! ~tdv
Read~> The Commie’s Commie By Herbert E. Meyer 07.25.12
“Comrades, there are no coincidences.”

It never fails that at the very time of comfort in my understanding, that I learn how little I have learned. @ 07.25.12

Read~> What we would have learned from the Aurora theater shooting, had we listened to nothing but the mainstream press: a brief, incomplete list 07.23.12

Jewels of the Crown are its knighted thieves, for among their spoils is the progressive death of liberty. @ 07.23.12

The left, the statists, work with assumptions of foregone liberty, and this, is tellingly conclusive. @ 07.23.12

It really comes down to us… in the end. @ 07.23.12

Fun with Hashtags #LiberalBumperStickers 07.22.12
Got Bilk? @
Useful Indolent @
Freedom of Leech @
Indigenous Foreigner @
C.C.C.P. ~ Compliant ~ Complicit ~ Comatose ~ Peasant @

Read~> The Rule of Law  ~by Judge Andrew Napolitano 07.19.12
“what do we do about it?”

Read~> The Democrat Race Lie via http://www.black-and-right.com
h/t @NewsNinja2012

Your station is a natural place of sovereign power ~born of liberty~ to know, to accept, to claim, to wield, to guard. @ 07.21.12

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For the arrogant SOB-in-Chief:
h/t http://proteinwisdom.com/?p=42076

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Related:

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Randoms: War on the War on Us

21 Saturday Jul 2012

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We are who we were, before we were who we are. ~tdv @ 07.21.12
to which @CarrieKHutchens aptly replied:
yes… even when they say we aren’t and never were… ~ch @ 07.21.12

WORSE than govt power to push our economy #OffTheCliff IS the gleeful campaign by leftist Democrats to get it done. @ 07.20.12
Related: What Taxmageddon Really Means for Families by Romina Boccia 07.19.12

My focus in on focus @ 07.20.12

People will fight… if they know what for. @ 07.20.12

Look! The war on SUVs is Back On! … Govt didn’t take Ford over, did it? @ 07.18.12

Check out this comprehensive illustration of “unfairly prejudicial to the poor” ID requirements: IDs, egos, superegos *perspective

“Would to God that wise measures may be taken in time to avert the consequences we have but too much reason to apprehend” ~G.Washington 1786 @ 07.18.12

“What a triumph for the advocates of despotism to find that we are incapable of governing ourselves” ~George Washington 1786 @ 07.18.12

Read~> Nullification Of The Act Is The Rightful Remedy by Mark Ross 07.14.12

How can a man RUN FOR an office of the U.S. of A. and simultaneously RUN AWAY from the principles of the United States of America? @ 07.17.12

If the so-called “safety net” were not funded by force of government, would the people entrust their benevolence to government oversight? @ 07.17.12

Liberalism’s ‘claim’ to a monopoly does not signify its possession. @ 07.17.12

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Randoms: Provoking the Power Nap, Listening, Gifts O’Plenty

17 Tuesday Jul 2012

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Read~> Obama: “Outsourcing is unpatriotic, except … [Darleen Click]
~Also see: U.S. Constitution: Article I, Sect. 9, Clause 8?…(pictured)

Blue Shield, late ’30s, devised by dr’s worried that soc.sec. would lead to compulsory heavily regulated health ins.; harm dr./pat.bond? hmm @ 07.16.12
Ref: In Sickness and in Health: The History of Health Insurance

Power is intolerant of independence, but liberty’s will is supreme in its impatience with power. @ 07.15.12

My new health insurance premium is in: 29.7K/yr! 9.2% INCREASE over last year. 44.4% HIKE since obamacare passed. Affordable Care Act my AZZ! @ 07.15.12

Fun with HashTags
It is ‪#impossibletoknow‬ what reprisals are waiting for we who restore our liberty. @ 07.15.12
It’s ‪#ImpossibleToKnow‬ how many little obamas are out there being groomed to lead the final fundamental transformation. @ 07.15.12
‪#WhatObamaTaughtMe‬ is that liberty can be easily swayed to bind itself. @ 07.15.12

Read~> Libs Say the Darndest Things by James Lewis, 07.13.12
Be sure to check out the comments.

If you don’t understand the proper role of the state, then you don’t understand the proper state of liberty. @ 07.14.12

Contemporary Relevance:
Federalist No.1, Para. 3, Hamilton (emphasis mine @)
“Among the most formidable of the obstacles which the new Constitution will have to encounter may readily be distinguished the obvious interest of a certain class of men in every State to resist all changes which may hazard a diminution of the power, emolument, and consequence of the offices they hold under the State establishments; and the perverted ambition of another class of men, who will either hope to aggrandize themselves by the confusions of their country, or will flatter themselves with fairer prospects of elevation from the subdivision of the empire into several partial confederacies than from its union under one government.”

Time for the government to take a power nap. @ 07.14.12

Today is the last Friday the 13th till Sept. 13, 2013, which is 427 days away, & the sum of them digits is… 13! It’s OVER!! :] @ 07.13.12

Figure she’ll start listen’n right after she’s no longer required to… @ 07.13.12

Tho it’s thinkable that the powerful are inciting the wrath of the people, so they can quell it for more power, it may be they do it for fun @ 07.12.12

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Randoms: All the World’s a Cage, Too Big to Jail, Empirical CotUS

14 Saturday Jul 2012

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King George the relatively trivial usurper…
Seriously! Read ~> July 4th Musings by Karl Denninger, h/t & thx @AnnBarnhardt

I forget, is it “too big to fail”, or is it “too big to jail”… or are these mutually inclusive? @ 07.12.12

Either I don’t know what I’m talking about, or nobody understands what I’m talking about, or both, or neither. Doesn’t matter, does it? @ 07.12.12

Read~> “20 Republicans set to uphold controversial UN treaty” 07.10.12
& Law of the Sea Treaty: Bad for American Energy Policy 07.09.12
& U.N. Agreement Should Have All Gun Owners Up In Arms 06.07.11
International Gun Registry!?!? Are they kidding?! 

If “science” can burn us on global warming, what else are they cooking up? @ 07.10.12

I don’t have to like the President. I just want him to do his ef’n job… so I don’t have to hate him. @ 07.10.12

Read~> Is President Obama Intentionally ‘Destroying’ America? by David Limbaugh 07.10.12 @

No recession tax hike, Yes election tax hike, whichever comes first… for me(bho). ‪#Obamageddon‬ ‪#ClassFare‬ ‪#Tyranny‬ @ 07.10.12
Related: Obama’s Tax Hike on Job Creators by Amy Payne 07.10.12

Read~> Atlas Still Shrugging… By Victor Davis Hanson 07.06.12 @

Have you taken your dictation today? serf! @ 07.09.12

Every debate with a liberal starts with the assumption that central govt authority is the norm, then they demand you prove THEM wrong. @
It’s like the left says “I can enter your house whenever I want”, then the argument is about which door to leave unlocked. @
Constitutional, limited govt & individual liberty in ALL forums is the true default. Let the liberals prove IT wrong. @
We already have the formula, declared and constituted, innocent until proven guilty. @
~series tweeted 07.09.12

Read~> ObamaCare Is Shovel-Ready for You by Stella Paul 07.09.12 @

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