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Randoms: The Grapes Ain’t Sour, They’re RIPE

16 Friday Nov 2012

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The Constitution is the Governor of the government. (ya know, engines use a ‘governor’ device to regulate power & prevent self-destruction) @ 11.15.12

Too many sayin’ who says, not enough sayin’ SAYS WHO!?… That’s what I’m sayin’. @ 11.14.12

We should expect that our tyrants have anticipated whatever the form of our defiance. @ 11.12.12

Where we go from here is precisely where our grandchildren will wind up. I pray they will know where we almost went. #liberty #posterity @ 11.12.12

Bet there’s NO Exit Poll data in those 59 Philly divisions where Romney got Zero votes. #votefraud @ 11.12.12

https://twitter.com/RandallHoven/status/268028971499786240

So obama’s ‘win’, facilitated by division, lies, cover-up, media complicity, vote fraud, & exploiting the ignorant, means WE cease to EXIST? @ 11.12.12

Just a Warm-up~> 6,125 O’admin Proposed Regulations and Notifications Posted in Last 90 Days–Ave. 68/day h/t @mclean_2  @ 11.11.12

White House website deluged with secession petitions from 20 states ~David Martosko 11.11.12
…wonder if this occurred in ’08, or ’04 even? @ 11.12.12

The Fallout Has Begun…Welcome to the societal version of Nuclear Winter by Bob Belvedere 11.11.12
Quoting Editing Mike Hendrix: “May the Moron Majority have joy of their tin God ‘Golden Calf’ and all his mighty works.”

Seeing these R’s & D’s on FNS talking about the cliff… come away thinking SCHEMERS all, and I don’t know what the hell they’re saying. @ 11.11.12

Preparation does not portend inevitability, but rather is a bulwark against surrender to a possibility. @ 11.11.12

Great Read~> After Obama: The Coming Reign of Incredibly Small Government
By Andrew K. Boyle 11.11.12

Libs trounce biz w/ regulation, obamacare – biz lays-off & part-times workers to survive – libs boycott biz… now That’s LOGIC!!! @ 11.11.12

Despair! Again the Executive branch is Tyrannical… Did we FORGET that Constitutional Checks & Balances exist? #House #States #JustSayNO @ 11.11.12

Some anger comes from the same place as love. @ 11.09.12

Liars, CHEATS, and thieves… any of the above is bad, and ALL of the ABOVE is EVIL, the left, obama, and his corrupt media and enablers. @ 11.09.12

In addition to the Left being ‘ALL OF THE ABOVE’ liars, cheats & thieves, that’s how they see themselves hovering over rest of US. @ 11.09.12

Why Accept Tyranny and Ruin? ~J.Robert Smith 11.09
…or WHEN will we accept, separate from, or just say “Enough” of it? @ 11.09.12

Boehner: “Obamacare is forever”… “TEA Party Caucus Never”… and this guy “speaks” for OUR representatives? @ 11.09.12

Prepare for Liberty~> RT @Wendypowerboatr “Maybe we all just need to ‘Shrug'”… @ 11.09.12

Wonder how many voted to lose their jobs… because they COULD!? @ 11.09.12

“Well done America … the following companies have all announced layoffs …” [Darleen Click] …after the not-near-inclusive-list, there’s this, just makes my stomach sick:

I’m a California Republican (I know, masochistic, right?) and the local talk radio is full of small business owners calling in and discussing their plans. One man, owner of a trucking firm in Ventura — 75 employees, $6 mill payroll, discussed how even as times have been tough over the last few years, he’s made it a point to make his payroll, even dipping into his own savings. He was walking by the breakroom and heard some of his employees snickering about the election and they had wanted Obama to stay President to make sure the rich pay. He then thought “what am I putting myself at risk? He then went and canceled his order for 6 new trucks (approximately $600,000 worth of an order) and is planning to layoff 20 or more people. So sad, too bad.

Note: The preceding random musings are mine, except as quoted/linked. ~tdv (@subconch) The @ symbols take you to the specific quotes on twitter if you care to RT, Favorite, or Reply.

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

Note: The preceding random musings are mine, except as quoted/linked. ~tdv (@subconch) The @ symbols take you to the specific quotes on twitter if you care to RT, Favorite, or Reply.

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

Note: The preceding random musings are mine, except as quoted/linked. ~tdv (@subconch) The @ symbols take you to the specific quotes on twitter if you care to RT, Favorite, or Reply.

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

~~~
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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Some Things Never Change

02 Thursday Aug 2012

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Allow me to present one of those old things we read, and then instantly recognize the text as having absolute application to current times, as having a striking timelessness of truth, of reality, and even evoking eerie images and voices of individuals as they campaign for authority vested by the people. You are of course free to draw your own inferences.

Plainly, this 225 yr. old article sounds like today, in a way. You can figure out how, if you want. :]

Reference paragraph 17: Federalist No. 6: Concerning Dangers from War between the States by Alexander Hamilton 1787 (my emphasis)

From this summary of what has taken place in other countries, whose situations have borne the nearest resemblance to our own, what reason can we have to confide in those reveries, which would seduce us into the expectation of peace and cordiality between the members of the present confederacy, in a state of separation? Have we not already seen enough of the fallacy and extravagance of those idle theories which have amused us with promises of an exemption from the imperfections, the weaknesses, and the evils incident to society in every shape? Is it not time to awake from the deceitful dream of a golden age, and to adopt as a practical maxim for the direction of our political conduct, that we, as well as the other inhabitants of the globe, are yet remote from the happy empire of perfect wisdom and perfect virtue?

max·im  noun  \ˈmak-səm\
1: a general truth, fundamental principle, or rule of conduct

practical maxim
1: The Constitution of the United States

Indecorous the Exodus from American Tradition

02 Thursday Aug 2012

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A tactical double-standard, the left relies on our goodness to limit us, while they, without conscience, act with impunity. @

It is like fighting a war in which we say “Oh, I can’t hurt anybody”, while the enemy makes us dead, with happy faces. @

Sometimes we confuse our good manners with our good sense. When being robbed, it’s best not to say please and thanks. @

And these steady assaults on our Constitution & liberty, on our traditions & sensibilities, are extremes from which we only partly unravel. @

When we DO beat back the radical leftist advances, it is only a predetermined mine-riddled “middle ground” that we “win”. @

Radical is relative to the tradition which it seeks to overrun, traditions morph by a progression of radical departures. @

Tradition in American government is enshrined in our Declaration and Constitution, and radically indecorous is its every exodus. @

Tradition in American life includes faith, family, independence, hard work, industry, and charity, and radically impolite is its every rival. @

…rudely barking ~tdv

update: 08.10.12
in·de·co·rous: conflicting with accepted standards of good conduct or good taste

The “Natural Born Citizen” debate RESTS

19 Thursday Jul 2012

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Please read these thoughtful and reasoned articles regarding the definition of a “Natural Born Citizen”. Truth is truth, take it or take it.
Note: This is NOT to be confused with the birth cert. issue.

The Constitution, Vattel, and “Natural Born Citizen”: What Our Framers Knew By Publius Huldah, 07.19.12, and an article he links to:
ROMNEY, RUBIO, McCAIN AND NATURAL BORN CITIZEN By J.B. Williams, 06.11.12
Among the references cited: the lexicon in the days of our founding (Vattel’s Law of Nations), the language of the First Congress in the Naturalization Act of 1790, and even the current-day resolution in the U.S. Senate which cleared John McCain to run for President.

Conclusion:

“Natural Born Citizen”: Child born of a father who is a citizen.
Barack Hussein Obama: At birth, his father was NOT a U.S. citizen, but a subject of the British Crown.
Marco Rubio: At birth, his father was not a U.S. citizen, but a citizen of Cuba.

This is not to imply that these men are not U.S. citizens, but rather points out that they were not naturally born so, thereby making them ineligible for the office of President of the United States, as set forth in Article II, Section 1, Clause 5 of the Constitution.

These articles also debunk the whole “Anchor Baby” lie that foreigners giving birth in the U.S. somehow bestow U.S. citizenship upon these children.

I recommend you read both of these articles with an open and sober mind. ~tdv

 

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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Randoms: We the Neighbors, Chinese City on the Hill, Can’t Get No Constitution

13 Friday Jul 2012

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We built it. We broke it. We fix it. The Constitution is the owner’s manual, and we are the tools. ‪#CotuS2012‬ @ 07.09.12

“The Chinese are more successful [in bldg infrastructure] because in their country, only three people make the decision.” Ray LaHood 06.30.12 @ 07.09.12
Ref: Morning Bell: Transportation Secretary Wants Us to Be Like Communist China 07.09.12

Obama says he was outspent in 08 campaign. He spent 730M to McCain’s 333M @ 07.09.12
h/t: http://proteinwisdom.com/?p=41718

I’m learning the Constitution. He’s learning how to game the system. The system is teaching HIM. @ 07.09.12

Our watchfulness is always countered by the conspiracy of our neighbors’ blindness. @ 07.08.12

You should just go ahead and agree with me. It’s easier that way. :] @ 07.08.12

When a businessman stands up to tyranny, and fearlessly defends the Constitution, We should reward him with our patronage. @ 07.08.12
See:  Will the Marketplace Sponsor the Constitution? Or Are They Afraid to “Take Sides”?

The disciples of the state are weak and indolent, hence, their servitude. So ultimately, how hard will they fight to continue that station? @ 07.08.12

The statists know the failures of their controls, yet they deny and double them down. There can be no other reason than malice. @ 07.08.12

Fun with HashTags: #DemocratSongs‬ 07.07.12
Commie Chameleon @ ~ Abracadabra @ ~ Sweet Home AlaPravda @ ~ Feelings (nothing more than…. woe, woe, woe) @ ~ Spreebird @

Obama “tried”… and ought to be tried. ~ Fed.66: encroaching on powers of Congress; Fed.77: abuse of exec. auth. @ 07.07.12
Ref: Obama: Most People “Would Acknowledge That I’ve Tried Real Hard”
Ref: The President’s Enumerated Powers, Rulemaking by Executive Agencies, & Executive Orders.

When Government is the Only Answer, Liberty is Always in Question. @ 07.07.12

A tyrant with the best intentions is still an ef’n Tyrant! @ 07.07.12

dichotomy: CotUS’ aim to “secure the Blessings of Liberty” & Congress’ unbound power to usurp the blessings. @ 07.07.12
“we will be subject to a government unlimited in its power to extort our obedience to its will in every detail of life” ~Alan Keyes 07.05.12 @
Ref: From Preserving Liberty to Destroying It by Alan Keyes 07.05.12
on “Roberts Court’s despotic repurposing of taxation”

Fun with HashTags
Obama’s ‪#BettingOnAmerica‬ to ante up another generation. @ 07.05.12

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