Category Archives: Constitution

Abuse of Power, big government, Constitution, Freedom

National Tea Party Convention’s William Temple hurts the Tea Party

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Fox is running a story, “Tea Party Slams Boehner and Ryan on Debt Ceiling.”  The store includes a picture of William Temple (whomever that is) who is stated to be “chair of the “National Tea Party Convention” (whatever that is) showing him dressed in a costume along with someone else dressed similarly.  Stunts like this do nothing but damage the Tea Party movement. Does he want to be taken seriously? He should not be  dressing like a fool. Taxes, debt etc are serious topics, and trivializing them does no good.

No one is ridiculing free speech here, but Temple trivializes the issues and hurts the tea party movement by dressing like a fool. If Obama or McCain had shown up dressed as a clown in 2008 or Darth Vader, who would take them seriously?  The answer is no one.

It is necessary that one be aware of how people perceive you and these gentlemen do not appear to be aware. Concentrate on ideas, not playing dress-up.  Not all press is good.  This is one example of an occasion when the ideas matter, not stunts.  It makes one question their judgement which is the last thing that the Tea Party needs.  Unless they are intentionally attempting to hurt the Tea Party.

There are numerous Tea Party groups, the National Tea Party Convention and William Temple are doing nothing but damaging the other groups.

The press will look for nuts like him in order to portray the entire Tea Party movement as old, out-of-touch, and touched.

Tea-Parties.com does not support stunts like this either.

Abuse of Power, big government, Constitution, First Amendment, Obama-Biden, Racists

CBS Bob Schieffer calls Trump a racist for discussing racism

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Schieffer stated that Trump’s questions about Obama’s school grades were an ‘ugly strain of racism’.

Let’s see how this works.  Colleges admissions departments can treat people differently due to the color of their skin. Rephrased, colleges can discriminate against one group of people due to their ‘race’.  Apparently CBS’ Bob Schieffer thinks that racist behavior is acceptable.  However, if you discuss that fact that people can be treated differently by college admission departments, you are a racist.  According to an illogical, Schieffer, the discriminatory action itself is not racist, but discussing the act is racist.

Welcome to the insane 1984-ish world of racist CBS News anchors where discussing discrimination based on skin color is racist while discriminating based on skin color is not.

 

Abuse of Power, big government, Constitution, Freedom, personal responsibility, rights

Rick Hernandez Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office and Jim Coats of Pinellas County disgraces to the badge

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Here is video explaining how some Sheriffs in Florida intend to infringe upon the rights of law abiding citizens in the State of Florida, if Florida becomes an open carry State. Rick Hernandez, Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office, and Jim Coats of Pinellas County are disgraces to the badge for making statements like this. Hernandez states that anyone open carrying will be stopped. “When someone is walking down the street with an exposed gun, nobody knows if they’re legal or not legal. Do they have a permit? Maybe they do maybe they don’t.” No mention of probable cause. There are millions of people driving in Florida every day no one knows if they are legal or legal.  Do they have a license?  Maybe they do, maybe they don’t.  Imagine if you could be stopped in your car just to verify your license? Sounds like a police state.

Jim Coats goes so far as to say “rights need to be granted in a responsible way.” Sheriff Coats, I think you have the United States confused with a Fascist country, perhaps Hitler’s Germany. In the United States, rights are not granted to the people.  Rights are retained by the people.  Privileges are granted, rights are not. Hernandez ends with “If we think that people carrying guns openly makes you safer, I think that is a bad assumption.”  If we are operating on assumptions, I think Sheriffs like these two individuals carrying guns openly makes the entire State of Florida less safe.

Sheriff Rick Hernandez says it will be “very, very cumbersome, and very, very scary” if Florida becomes open carry. “Very cumbersome”? Sorry, Sheriff, if doing your job is “cumbersome” perhaps you should find a different profession? We wouldn’t want to have our rights make your job more difficult now would we. He goes on to state that “our stress level is very high at this point.” Well excuse the public for making you do your job. You don’t like the stress level? Pick another profession.

I do not know who is hiring these Sheriffs and police officers in Florida, but the quality and caliber of the men involved is so low as to be disappointing to anyone in the State.

Remember: when seconds count, the police are just minutes away.  Exercise your rights or lose them.

 

Abuse of Power, big government, Constitution, elections, Freedom

Fascism was the shadow or ugly child of Communism. As Fascism sprang from Communism, so Nazism sprang from Fascism. Winston Churchill

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Fascism was the shadow or ugly child of Communism. … As Fascism sprang from Communism, so Nazism sprang from Fascism.

Winston Churchill. The Gathering Storm

 

Both are totalitarian systems where the government controls everyone and everything “for the common good” – and the good of the masters.

Abuse of Power, big government, Constitution, elections, First Amendment, Obama-Biden, personal responsibility

“our belief that those who benefited most from our way of life can afford to give back a little bit more” – Obama

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It’s a basic reflection of our belief that those who benefited most from our way of life can afford to give back a little bit more. Moreover, this belief hasn’t hindered the success of those at the top of the income scale, they continue to do better and better with each passing year,” President Obama said at an address about the budget at George Washington University. April 2011

Mr. President, “give” means voluntary.  “Gifts” do not occur at the point of a gun.

 

Constitution, elections, First Amendment, Obama-Biden, personal responsibility

Where’s the Birth Certificate? What does “natural born citizen” mean?

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The question is what does “natural born citizen” mean?  Since Reconstruction, it has usually meant one parent was a United States citizen.  Plainly President Obama meets the requirements if those are the criteria.  There have been arguments as to whether that is the definition for President or what the Constitution means, but ignoring that for now, the real question is if the President has nothing to hide, why has he spent so much money and effort to hide his birth certificate?


It is amazing that so many people are ignorant an uninformed and they work in the media, starting with The New York Times.  The press has decided to ignore important questions, and carry water for the White House.  Let’s be clear:

1. A certification of live birth is not a birth certificate, contrary to what George Stephanopoulos seems to think.

2. If there is nothing to hide, release the birth certificate.

3. Write a letter to the Governor of Hawaii and ask them to release it.

4. Stop spending millions of dollars to stop its release.

Where is the media asking WHY is the President hiding the information?

One wonders what this book will show:

http://www.amazon.com/Wheres-Birth-Certificate-Eligible-President/dp/1936488299

 

big government, Constitution, taxes

It would be recklessly naive to go about our business in Washington pretending there won’t be severe consequences for the mountains of debt we are piling up.

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It would be recklessly naive to go about our business in Washington pretending there won’t be severe consequences for the mountains of debt we are piling up.  Yet today it is evident that this kind of willful ignorance is sweeping across Washington. We are set to lift our Nation’s debt burden to $14 trillion.  I would ask my colleagues in this chamber if they know how many zeroes 14 trillion has. I would ask the American people if they know how many zeroes are in 14 trillion. It is 14 trillion. It is beyond comprehension to be talking about numbers this big. More precisely, the limit is 1, 4, 2, 9, 4, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0. It is a travesty.  The writing is on the wall. Congress needs to wake up and realize that the future of American prosperity is in dire straits, mortal danger. As Americans hunker down to weather the economic storm, Democrats in Congress boosted Federal spending by 12 percent.

February 4, 2010, when the then-Democrat-controlled House of Representatives voted to lift the debt ceiling to $14.294 trillion, then-Minority Whip Eric Cantor

 

Abuse of Power, big government, Constitution, Doing the Right Thing, elections

I’m pledging to cut the deficit we inherited in half by the end of my first term in office. Obama

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We cannot, and will not, sustain deficits like these without end. Contrary to the prevailing wisdom in Washington these past few years, we cannot simply spend as we please and defer the consequences to the next budget, the next administration, or the next generation.

We are paying the price for these deficits right now. In 2008 alone, we paid $250 billion in interest on our debt — one in every 10 taxpayer dollars. That is more than three times what we spent on education that year; more than seven times what we spent on VA health care.

So if we confront this crisis without also confronting the deficits that helped cause it, we risk sinking into another crisis down the road as our interest payments rise, our obligations come due, confidence in our economy erodes, and our children and our grandchildren are unable to pursue their dreams because they’re saddled with our debts.

And that’s why today I’m pledging to cut the deficit we inherited in half by the end of my first term in office. This will not be easy. It will require us to make difficult decisions and face challenges we’ve long neglected. But I refuse to leave our children with a debt that they cannot repay — and that means taking responsibility right now, in this administration, for getting our spending under control.  President Obama, February 23, 2009

 

The sad part is that he is right, but instead of doing what he said, the deficits have continued, become much worse, and will have tripled the national DEBT according to projections.  In short, it is the exact opposite of “A New Era of Responsibility.”   Unfortunately the actions have not followed the words.

See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jJvkkNmR_8 and http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A_New_Era_of_Responsibility