It didn’t take long to introduce more gun ownership regulation. (See http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:H.R.45.IH:) The short list of requirements are:
1. Guns must be registered (any rifle with a clip or any pistol)
2. You must be fingerprinted.
3. You must supply your social Continue reading HR-45, the Blair Holt’s Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2009
Yesterday (Feb 13, 2009) radio host Mario Solis Marich asked former President Bill Clinton if it was time for “some type of enforced media accountability.” Clinton replied:
“Well, you either ought to have the Fairness Doctrine or we ought to have more balance on the other side, because essentially there’s always been a lot of big money to support the right wing talk shows and let face it, you know, Rush Limbaugh is fairly entertaining even when he is saying things that I think are ridiculous….”
For someone who attended law school and was President of the United States to blatantly ignore the First Amendment to the Constitution (not to mention the fact that the Constitution gives the Federal Government no power to regulate the press) is appalling.
When all power is concentrated in Washington and there is no one permitted to speak up for Freedom and Liberty, we can look back on comments such as these and see the steps we took to get there.
“Where was I going to get $400 a month to give her if I got these expenses,” Henrietta Hughes told WINK News.(This is the woman who had told President Obama on Tuesday (Feb 10, 2009): “I have an urgent need, unemployment and homelessness, a very small vehicle for my family and I to live in. The housing authority has two years’ waiting lists, and we need something more than the vehicle and the parks to go to. We need our own kitchen and our own bathroom. Please help.”)
Now on Friday she asked where she was “going to get $400 a month.” Henrietta, it is called a J-O-B. You don’t “get” $400 per month. You EARN it for doing WORK that is of VALUE to someone else.
I want to know where I’m “going to get $4 million a month.” The only answer is that I am going to EARN it or I am going to TAKE it from someone else by force. If I come up with an excuse that I *really* *really* NEED $4 million per month, will Washington send it to me?
When you are asking for a hand-out from the rest of us (or worse, taking it at the point of a gun), you better be ready for the strings that come with it.
If the Obama Administration really wants to do something productive with the stimulus money, use $100 billion or so and begin to harden the United States Infrastructure against EMP.
A single high-altitude nuclear weapon detonation (perhaps 200 miles) would create an electromagnetic pulse that would cover most of the continental United States, some of Canada and Mexico. The EMP would disable much of the electronic equipment in the United States. Even a small – by nuclear weapons standards – fission weapon would do significant damage. EMP would mean loss of power for everyone. This would mean no delivery of food or medicine or any other supplies. People that require water and sewer systems would be without power. Computers, TVs, radios would be damaged. The damage would not be a matter of resetting circuit breakers. Decades would pass before we were back to a 1920 level. Half a century before we were back to the 1970s. Tens to hundreds of millions of people would die in the United States within a year from starvation, disease, and untreated medical conditions. Many more hundreds of millions from around the world would die from ripple effects.
A country such as Iran or North Korea with a nuclear weapon and a delivery system could put the United States back to 1850 in terms of technology in 1 second. Without a weapon defense system, the United States is completely helpless.
Do we want to be at the mercy of an insane leader of a foreign country?
Two steps that must be taken as soon as possible:
1. Missile defense to stop the EMP before it starts.
2. Try to “harden” much of the United States electrical network. This is not a quick solution, but should be started.
If we are ever hit by EMP it will be too late.
One wonders about the carbon footprint of President Obama’s Inauguration. One million people, travel, food, waste and more.
The price of various items, on January 20, 2009, the date of the Obama Inauguration:
Average price of Gas: $1.81 (update: also $1.81 average for the week of January 26, 2009)
Gold/oz: 854.60
Silver/oz: 11.158
Yet again:
And more were released in 2010:
It is the eternal struggle between these two principles — right and wrong — throughout the world. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time; and will ever continue to struggle. The one is the common right of humanity, and the other the divine right of kings. It is the same principle in whatever shape it develops itself. It is the same spirit that says, “You toil and work and earn bread, and I’ll eat it.” No matter in what shape it comes, whether from the mouth of a king who seeks to bestride the people of his own nation and live by the fruit of their labor, or from one race of men as an apology for enslaving another race, it is the same tyrannical principle.Abraham Lincoln, The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
“That’s not part of his power, but this is part of the whole theory of George Bush that he can make laws as he goes along. I disagree with that. I taught the Constitution for 10 years. I believe in the Constitution and I will obey the Constitution of the United States. We’re not going to use signing statements as a way of doing an end-run around Congress,” Senator Obama, 2008.