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People telling people what to do, what not to do, and you, the Constitutionalist.

09 Wednesday Jan 2013

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…what is law but people telling people what to do, what not to do? Would you rather have a deliberative congress, comprised of representatives of the body of the people, tell you what to do, what not to do, or would you rather one man, or his friends, or five judges, or their friends, tell you what to do, what not to do.
Naturally, generally, you would choose neither, but given that you’d presumably rather also not have complete anarchy, then it is safe to presume that you would rather the representative, deliberative body, telling people what to do, which, as it may enter as a surprise, makes you a Constitutionalist!
…and on those people that are vested with the power of telling people what to do, what not to do, who, or what, tells THEM what to do, what not to do? That’s right! The Constitution, you Constitutionalist! By the way, that Constitution doesn’t tell YOU what to do, what not to do, just THEM, and it also says that ONLY they, that deliberative, representative body, can make law, not one man, or his friends, or five judges, or their friends.

~tdv

Blind Siege, Bearing Weight, Random Slab Cracks, No

06 Thursday Dec 2012

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$16.3TTT Debt… $52k for every Man, Woman, and Democrat! That’s $208,000 for my double-wide-full… and nobody here even got a phone. @ 12.01.12

HHS dictatorial regime to PUNISH the people of non-exchange States. #obamacare #arbitrary #power @ 12.01.12 h/t Bluegrass Pundit

On a happy note, someone learned today that all govt $$$ comes from people, & “free” stuff is actually taken from some person who earned it. @ 12.01.12

We have laid blind siege on our invisible selves, and upon the carcass of freedom’s memory, this shall be laid bare. @ 12.01.12

The Constitution is the foundation on which a House of Laws is built, but beneath a Tower of Decrees it is crushed, and buried to obscurity. @ 12.01.12

That THIS is EVEN a TOPIC of DISCUSSION tells you EVERYTHING you NEED to KNOW!!!~> Govt after 401(k)s? @ 11.30.12

Elite GOP “Pallbearers of Liberty”, extinction of principled conservatism, extinction of the American republic. ~Alan Keyes @ 11.30.12

Walter E Williams’ affirmation that the States have EVERY right to say NO! In this case, with respect to obamacare. (tweeted here @ 11.30)
~Also see my article: Once we were States. Once we would say “NO”

Wonder if the GOP Platform was just paper, like the therein-referenced 60+ times U.S. Constitution, was just paper? @ 11.30.12

What about that CLIFF that obama pushed those 4 Americans over in #Benghazi!? @ 11.30.12

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.

More on Poisons to the Blessings of Liberty

28 Tuesday Aug 2012

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In 1998, the Code of Federal Regulations ~ 134,723 pgs, 201 vols., 19 feet of shelf space. In 1970, the CFR only 54,834 pgs. @ 06.12.12
Ref: http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/uscongress/a/fedregulations.htm 

Obama launched 3,611 new regulations, 106 of them “major”, meaning EACH COST ECONOMY OVER $100 MIL/YR @ 08.12.12
Ref: http://blog.heritage.org/2012/06/08/is-obama-turning-the-economy-around/ 

Obamacare: 2700 pgs., Dodd-Frank: 850 pgs. (1864 Banking Law: 29 pgs., 1913 FedResAct: 32 pgs., 1933 Glass-Steagall Act: 37 pgs.) @ 08.12.12
Ref: Too big not to fail  on the Dodd-Frank Act, from the Economist

Federalist No. 62, paragraph 16 (emphasis mine):

The internal effects of a mutable policy are still more calamitous. It poisons the blessings of liberty itself. It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood: if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes, that no man who knows what the law is to-day, can guess what it will be to-morrow. Law is defined to be a rule of action; but how can that be a rule, which is little known and less fixed.

Government Growth as Per Capita Spending (~yr:‘05$/person) ~1800:$32 ~1900:$170 ~1950:$2,022 ~2000:$7,152 ~2012:$10,433 @ 08.12.12

EPA Costs Manufacturing Sector $117 Billion! Total Federal Regulation costs $500B ~wonder how many JOBS (people) that is? @ 08.12.12
Ref: http://www.sacbee.com/2012/08/21/4744381/nera-report-finds-increasing-number.html 

BY WHAT AUTHORITY does this tyrannical federal monstrosity LOWER our standard of living?! Sure’n Hell NOT by We the People! @ 08.12.12

~Updated 08.30.12 to remove twitter embeds. Tweets are linked with the usual @ symbol.

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There ought to be a law against “There Ought to be a Law”

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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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: Obamacare: Now Even More Supreme than the Law of the Land, & CotUS & Stuff

02 Monday Jul 2012

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Our birthright, our duty, is to throw off this despOtism, and DEMAND of our gov’t, and of ourselves, Respect for the Supremacy of Liberty. @ 06.29.2012

Where to turn now, is where Liberty ever turns us. ~WE THE PEOPLE~ @ 06.29.2012

Me: Ah, my B-day is just another day. Mom: No it’s not, I was There. ~ :] :] #perspective @ 06.29.2012

The greatest victims of obamacare will be those who rely on the greatest healthcare professionals in the world. Bet you know one of them. @ 06.29.2012

scotus today effectively made self-sufficiency and self-determination a federal crime. #obamacare #scotus … @ 06.28.2012
Mind your business, choose not to act, and gov’t can hunt you down, and punish you for inaction. @ 06.28.2012
The precedent leaves us no escape. Comply, participate, be the grid. Cede liberty, or lose liberty. @ 06.28.2012

Ultimately, We the People are responsible for the demise of our liberty, and the death of our constitution. #obamacare @ 06.28.2012

The Constitution uses the phrase “the powers” many times, but the phrase “the power” (singular) is Not Found. Why??? Just askin’. @ 06.28.2012

art.1,s.8,c.1: “The Congress shall have Power To…” Why doesn’t it say “THE Power To”??? Just askin’. @ 06.28.2012

art.1,s.8,c.1: “The Congress shall have Power To…” So they are enabled to, but not mandated to? Just askin’.‬ ex: borrowing @ 06.28.2012

The mainstream media has become a situation comedy with dire consequences, as many don’t know that it’s just a TV show. @ 06.27.2012

Rush Limbaugh taught Tony “there’s always two things.” It don’t get no simpler. @ 06.27.2012

Nov. 6, 2012, is Not about the preservation of our republic, it is about the resurrection of it, and only a single new breath will it bring. @ 06.27.2012

A state-of-things sort of summary:
Is the Country Unraveling? by Victor Davis Hanson, 06.25.2012

art.1,s.7,c.3: basically tells Congress, if it acts like a law, then it shall be passed like a law, else it aint a law. @ 06.27.2012

Never understood the “It’s my ____day, and so-and-so didn’t remember, or call, or get me something”… thing. I say forget, & so will I. @ 06.26.2012

You can find perpetuity next to the sweat of your soul. @ 06.26.2012

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.

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Randoms: Power’s Bidding, & I’ll Only Kill You Once

28 Thursday Jun 2012

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Hey ‪progressives‬, pick your favorite federal law, then imagine Obama on a whim decides NOT to enforce it (his duty). You’d still vote for him, huh. @ 06.26.2012

Government is the criminal’s canvas. @ 06.26.2012

What good is a deal without honor? @ 06.26.2012

The rooftops of hell only echo to the surface of earth. @ 06.26.2012

When I become an expert, I’m not telling anyone. @ 06.26.2012

I have pondered at depth, with continuance, what might return us to “the supreme Law of the Land”. Today, I wonder, why bother? Art.6,cl.2 @ 06.25.2012

So King’O arms Mexican criminals, & refuses to secure territory bordering Mexico, then prohibits said territories’ self-defense? ’bout it? @ 06.25.2012

“Would the States conceivably have entered into the Union if the Constitution itself contained the Court’s holding?” ~Justice Scalia dissent @ 06.25.2012
If AZ is powerless to secure its territory, “we should cease referring to it as a sovereign State. I dissent.” ~Justice Scalia @ 06.25.2012
Ref: On dissent in the AZ ruling 06.25.2012

Sure would be nice if we didn’ t have to worry all the time about what those thug politicians are doing to us and our kids. @ 06.25.2012

You can tell me anything, and don’t worry. I’ll only kill you once. @ 06.25.2012

~hashtag fun
#ObamaInTwoWords ‘Running’ Away @ ~ Pied Piper @ 06.24.2012

Is power a zero-sum-game? Ever losing the pot, never the ante. @ 06.24.2012

When Ocoma goes, where will his $5 trillion worth of bought power go? @ 06.24.2012

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.

There ought to be a law against “There Ought to be a Law”

09 Saturday Jun 2012

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I don’t really care about the plausibility of grand gov’t schemes. If it’s not their job, it’s not their job. Period. @ 06.08.2012 ~tdv

Pondering on the success or failure of this or that gov’t program, let’s remember that it’s probably not their place in the first place. @ 06.08.2012 ~tdv

There ought to be a law against “there ought to be a law”. @ 06.08.2012 ~tdv

Obama launched 3,611 new regulations, 106 of them “major”, meaning EACH COST ECONOMY OVER $100 MIL/YR @ 06.08.2012
Ref: Is Obama Turning the Economy Around? By William Beach, 06.08.2012 

From 1996 to 1999: 15,286 new Federal Regulations. Of these, 222 classified “major”rules @ 06.08.2012
In 1998, the Code of Federal Regulations ~ 134,723 pgs, 201 vols., 19 feet of shelf space. In 1970, the CFR only 54,834 pgs.  @ 06.08.2012
Ref: Federal Regulations; The Laws Behind the Acts of Congress

4,450+ federals crimes as of 2007 ~ 3,000 in early 80’s  @ 06.08.2012
Ref: Revisiting the Explosive Growth of Federal Crimes by John Baker 06.16.2008

ABA says number of crimes uncountable. @ 06.07.2012
Ref: Complex Societies Need Simple Laws, by John Stossel, 03.15.2012

Update 06.16.2012:
Related: Charlie Leonard: Inalienable Rights; There ought to be a law against making so many laws 06.14.2012 The Aspen Times ~via GunnyG 

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Randoms: In Your Face Slight of Hand, Invented Need, Insider Legaling, Peace

14 Monday May 2012

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How did we live, before we couldn’t live without? @

It’s prejudice to judge people based on race, but you vote (judge) based on this criteria, so you are either a bigot, or just an idiot. @

Liberalism is a magician, as it persuades the embrace of known deception, or with a child, creates a fanciful and impossible reality. @

Being a lame duck is liberating when you don’t have a conscience. @

Is it a platitude if it goes without saying? @

Liberalism is a relentless assault on peace, as it endangers the refuge of liberty, and disrupts the tranquility in a free way of life. @

Has Barack Obama ever ruled like he expected a second term? @

Could the 2012 elections be just another distraction? Think on it. @

How ‘bout we ban lawyers from making laws? @

If I were you, I’d report me @

New perspective never grows old, and is never expected. @

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

Some Common Sense Ideas for Fixing the America that Shouldn’t be Broke

04 Friday May 2012

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Got sparked a little while ago on the subject of solutions to America’s problems, you know, instead of just complaining about them, and jotted down these ideas off the top of my head. Some I’ve heard, can’t say where, some I don’t recall hearing, but they may be out there.

You might guess that I’m of the opinion that government largesse and intrusion and corruption is much of the problem, and that’d make you sharp as a tack. If you are new to this sort of thing, consider that everything government has, it first took from the people, or has yet to take from the people. Also note that gov’t IS necessary, but only to the extent summarized in the Declaration, and spelled out in the Constitution. We had a deal.

Anyway, here they are, from a common sense, unedumacated perspective:
updated: 2012.05.11 07:00pm est

  1. How about a 10% flat tax, everybody pays regardless of station? 10%’s good enough for God, it oughta be good enough for gov’t. @
  2. How about a gov’t budget that only spends last year’s receipts? @
  3. How about privatizing every entitlement program? All voluntary! Charity is charity, gov’t is gov’t. See? @
  4. How about quantitative legislation? That is, law specifically measured against loss of liberty and property. @
  5. How about a per capita regulatory limit? Want to make a new law, repeal an old one. @
  6. How about a moratorium on new law, contingent on the reduction of current law by, say, 25%? @
  7. How about a per capita limit on the number of gov’t bureaucrats? @
  8. How about a sunset provision on every law and regulation? Mandated revisits. @
  9. How about every legislation be required in its text to explain its Constitutionality? @
  10. How about voter registration requirements that equal drivers license requirements? Prove identity, take a test. @
  11. How about mandatory recall/impeachment/firing of every civil servant who works against the Constitution, which they vow to protect? @
  12. How about we ban all favoritism by gov’t, whether it be race, gender, business, religion, sexual deviance, or whatever? Equality in law. @
  13. How about we kill those who are trying to kill us? Period. Let the military do its job. @
  14. How about we abolish some  Executive Departments, take your pick, like ED HHS HUD and all unaccountable Czars h/t @blove65
  15. How ‘bout we ban lawyers from making laws? @

Note: the “@” links take you to each item on twitter, if you care to reply there. List is dynamic. Please feel free to comment/add.

Randoms: Wisdom Goes Where it Wants

18 Sunday Mar 2012

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“Everybody’s a Writer… not even me.” ~tdv (@subconch)

“All creations, of mind, by soul, of heart, by hand, are for malicious destructive, for watchful sanctuary, for wise utility.” ~tdv (@subconch)

“If you awoke, and no time elapsed, would you have ever slept?” ~tdv (@subconch)

“Suffrage of conscience, indeed of confidence, assumes and requires comprehension of both.” ~tdv (@subconch)

“With every new person I follow (on twitter), I am assured that America is not dead.” ~tdv (@subconch)

So the same ilk, interpreters by invented intent, also invent intentions open to interpretation? Or are these interpretables an intended diversion from the invented intent? ~tdv (comment at proteinwisdom.com) RE: Originalism and Law

“The destiny of the archaic knows its own will, and the novelty o’ America thru holds still.” ~tdv (@subconch)

“It is only the was or weren’t till it is or aint, when it is was again or never been.” ~tdv (@subconch)

“What the gov’t sells us is never what we bought.” ~tdv (@subconch)

“Shhh! Don’t tell the left, but I know the secret to their success in Nov.2012…”ShutUp and Stop Doing Stuff”… it’s a no-brainer…” ~tdv (@subconch)

“IF truth be relative, THEN choose your family wisely, ELSE orphan yourself without.” ~tdv (@subconch)