What Would the Founding Fathers Do?

 

"The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government."

Patrick Henry 

"Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God."   

Thomas Jefferson

 "Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is argument of tyrants. It is the creed of slaves."  

William Pitt

 "A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicity." 

Thomas Jefferson

 "Any people that would give up liberty for a little temporary safety deserves neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin

 "Generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties. Says what the states can’t do to you. Says what the federal government can’t do to you, but doesn’t say what the federal government or state government must do on your behalf."

Barack Obama

There are a lot of people who think the U.S. Constitution is an obsolete document; that since it was written over 200 years ago, it's not really feasible to apply it to today's issues. I think that, if the last few weeks show us anything, it's that The Constitution, The Declaration of Independence, and the beliefs of the Founding Fathers, are more relevant than ever. As Patrick Henry stated in the quote above, the purpose of the constitution, is to restrain or limit the power of government; to shield the people from overreaching, tyrannical government. The quote by President Obama, proves that he understands this; he just thinks it's a bad thing. There's so much more that government could do, but, The Constitution forbids it. So, he ignores The Constitution; out of "necessity". We "need" to provide health care for everyone, so it's acceptable to force the people into buying it, for themselves and those who can't afford it. We need to make sure everyone has a home, food, cell phones, high speed Internet, and a college education, so it's OK to force one half of the people to provide these things to the other half. We need to be sure Muslims and nonbelievers aren't offended, so it's OK to restrain the religious freedoms of Christians. We need to provide free birth control to anyone who wants it, so it's OK to force the Catholic Church to pay for it, which violates their beliefs. We need to catch terrorists and other criminals, so we must allow TSA agents to search the genitals of airline passengers, we must allow the government free access to the private phone records and emails of citizens without requiring them to show constitutional probable cause, and we must wave constitutional protection for any citizen that president decides is an enemy combatant. We "need" the government to protect us from everything, including ourselves; and, as William Pitt said of necessity, "It is the argument of tyrants" and "the creed of slaves".We have traded so much of our liberty, in exchange for what we were told was safety and, as Ben Franklin said, we now, "deserve neither"; and that's exactly what we've received. The key word in the last couple of statements is "we"; we the people have allowed this to happen; in many cases, "we've" willingly surrendered our freedom or asked government to take it. No, I don't like Barack Obama, I think he's arrogant, destructive, un-American, and a tyrant. But, to blame all this on Obama and the Democrats is ignorant and cowardly. I think our two party political system is the root of all evil, and is destroying our nation. For decades, both parties have been equally willing to violate the constitution and infringe on the freedom of the people, so long as it furthered their agenda. "We" the people have looked the other way, or encouraged them, if they were members of our party. The federal government has absolutely no constitutional authority to intervene in the affairs of private business, with the exception of regulating foreign trade and interstate commerce. But, Richard Nixon and the Republicans created OSHA and unleashed it on the private sector over 40 years ago. "We" tolerated it because we "need" to keep workers safe. The tenth amendment to the constitution says:

 "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people."

I'm not a constitutional scholar, but it's not a long document, and I can read. No where, does it delegate authority for worker's safety to the federal government. Michele Obama is widely criticized for telling us what to eat, particularly, what to feed our kids. But, George W. Bush and the Republican congress gave us "No Child Left Behind", which legally defined what we can feed our kids when they're at school. "We" "need" healthy kids. But again, there's not a word in the constitution that gives the federal government any authority to oversee the diets of our kids or to intervene in education. As for the daily revelations of the government seizing phone records, emails, Internet browsing histories, and spying on us with camera drones, Senator Harry Reid said yesterday, that everyone just needs to calm down, because this stuff has been going on for years; and he's right. Well, I don't think we need to calm down, but, it has been going on for years; and Obama didn't start it. After the attack on 9/11, Americans were, rightly, scared. President Bush seized on this fear and passed "The Patriot Act". We were told that it would force law enforcement agencies to share information, which would help prevent future terrorist attacks; all of which sounds sensible. However, it also did a lot of other things. The Patriot Act, authorized government to obtain warrants for "roving wire taps", which means the warrant can apply to multiple of infinite phone lines. That's how they show justify seizing the phone records of hundreds of millions of people. How do you show probable cause for seizing that number or records? The act also allows government to obtain a warrant and conduct surveillance on people without being required to tell them; as was the case with Fox reporter James Rosen. The Patriot Act also expanded the number of judges that can issue these warrants; allowing the justice department to go shopping for judges, as they did in the Rosen case, until they find one that agrees; in the Rosen case, it took 3 judges before one bit.

The point of that boring history lesson is that; "we", all of us, elected the government that has committed these violations of our constitutional rights. And, regardless of any Supreme Court decision, they are, clearly, violations of the constitution. 

Amendment I
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances."
Is the IRS, EPA, and OSHA intimidation and harassment of Tea Party groups, not a violation of their rights to free speech, to peaceably assemble, and to petition their government? Is forcing the Catholic Church to provide birth control to it's employees, not a prohibition of the free exercise of their religion?

Amendment II
"A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed."
Are laws that make it more difficult for law abiding citizens to buy guns, or that restrict the type and capacity of guns, not an infringement or the right to keep and bear arms?

Amendment IV
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
Is the seizure of the personal data and records of millions of people, not unreasonable? Has a sworn oath of probable cause for seizing my phone records, emails, and Internet activity been given?

Amendment X
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people."
Has the federal government not infringed on thousands of rights, which were reserved to the states or the people?

Maybe The Constitution needs some changes. We have a process for that, and it's been done before. But, if the government is not bound or restrained by The Constitution, the the only thing left to govern us is despotism. The founding fathers foresaw this possibility, and Thomas Jefferson wrote in The Declaration of Independence:

"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."

There's no doubt in my mind what the founders would do, and political party or affiliation would never enter the conversation. The question is: What are we gonna do?  Whatever the answer is, we better get started.

Government Porkers

In light of New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's large Coke ban being thrown out by the courts last week, I thought it would be interesting to take a look at just how successful previous government policies have been in rescuing our fat asses from an early death. The answer is that, like everything our government attempts, they suck at weight loss! Are you surprised? Me neither. If we look at just the last decade, the results are laughable; and this is according to the government themselves. I don't trust this data for a second, but according to the CDC, from 2000-2008, childhood obesity rates increased for every single age group. This, despite the fact that federal and state officials, such as Republican President George W. Bush and Texas Governor Rick Perry signed laws mandating what parents can and can't feed their kids. That's right, they told us what to feed our kids and our kids got fatter! On the positive side, I guess this gave an economic boost to the makers of plus size children's clothing. The beauty of this is, even though they have the power to manipulate the data or just flat out lie; their own research shows these policies to be a complete failure. So, if you're the newly elected president or the mayor of the biggest city in the country, how do you reverse the failed policies of your predecessors? Obviously, you just implement bigger, stronger versions of the exact same policies. It's ironic that, while our elected leaders continually find newer, better ways to suck at everything they do; they never even attempt the one thing they could be great at. We should easily be the biggest producers of pork in the history of the universe.

Happy Thanksgiving Dumbass!

Last week, Texas Governor Rick Perry did a press conference at at the offices of Thigpen Energy in Cut N Shoot, Texas. Thigpen Energy is a perfect example of the vision, philosophy, spirit, and individual character that made the United States the greatest economic power in world history. It's about one guy or, in some cases, a group of guys or ladies, risking everything they have on an idea or a dream. Small business owners like this devote their entire lives to it, they work day and night; weekends and holidays. They answer their phones 24/7. They do it for a variety of reasons. Some are simply adventurous, others seek independence; most of them want a chance to control their own destiny and, you're damn right, they want to make money. I'm not sure when the idea of making a lot of money became crime in America; but it's bullshit and it's time we addressed it head on. After Perry's press conference at Thigpen, an assclown named Emily Deprang, who writes fairy tales for a communist rag called the Texas Observer, did a hit piece on Perry, and she took some shots at Thigpen Energy as well. I'm not a big Rick Perry guy, but I'm a huge fan of Sam Thigpen, Thigpen Energy, and the millions of other small business owners who continue to create jobs and power the economic engine of this country; despite the best efforts of our federal government to destroy them. This Deprang moron and the ignorant jackasses she works for are representative of the culture that our federal government has intentionally created. It was bad enough when they all just sat on their worthless asses, and we had to support them. But, since the election of Barack Obama in '08, and especially since his recent re-election; these do nothing parasites have become increasingly more vocal in complaining about the level to which working Americans take care of their sorry asses. Anyone who supports traditional, conservative values, self reliance, personal responsibility, and hard work is crucified and labeled racist, greedy, uncaring, mean spirited, or homophobic. Successful people and corporations are treated as if they went in and stole the food from a table in an orphanage. The reason these attacks have gotten worse and more frequent, is that those of us on the receiving end haven't fought back; we just keep taking it. We don't want to be called any of those names and we don't want to seem insensitive or un-compassionate. It's time to address it in the only terms these scum bags are capable of understanding. So listen up lefties, bums, welfare queens, community activists, race baiters, and anyone else that's trying to gnaw off the hands that have been feeding them; I'm not doing this just because I'm unafraid of the name calling. I'm doing it because it's fun; I'm gonna really enjoy it! Tomorrow is Thanksgiving and you worthless, ungrateful assholes have a lot to be thankful for. Since I know you have no idea who you should thank, start with God! If you don't know who I'm talking about; Google it! FYI, he doesn't live in the White House. Even though I'm sure that the God I worship would like to slap the living shit out of every one of you, he is forgiving. Anyway, it's probably me I was thinking of that wants to slap the shit out of you. When you finish thanking God, start thanking me and the millions of hard working conservatives just like me, that have been taking care of a lot of you stupid bastards for your entire lives. You should be eternally thankful because you did NOTHING to earn it, you're not entitled to it, and you definitely don't deserve it! YOU'RE WELCOME ASSWIPES! Basically, you idiots can be divided in to three groups; 

• Some of you are crackheads. You may not actually smoke crack, your drug might be pot, booze, coke, prescription painkillers, sex, or gambling. The point is, you have no self discipline; you're weak! You can't hold a job or support yourself because you want something else more. But make no mistake, you're not a victim and you're not sick. This is your fault and no one else's. Sick people go to the doctor and get help; you live this way because you choose to and because the government allows you to. 
• A bunch of you are bums. Maybe all of you you don't live under bridges, but the bottom line is; you'd rather sit on your asses than work. You don't deserve free housing, health care, food, phones, or any of the other free shit you get; and we sure as hell don't owe it to you. You get it because politicians have manipulated your dumb asses into voting for them. It's like the way you reward a dog, by giving him a treat for rolling over or fetching a stick. "Punch the button in the voting booth. Good boy! Now come get your bacon strip!"
• This third group actually encompasses the first two as well. YOU'RE STUPID! You can't figure out anything for yourselves. You can be easily manipulated into anything. You have descended to a level of ignorance that would prevent most of you from surviving without your caretakers (conservatives). You've chosen a life of servitude in exchange for minimal rations of food and money. The key word here is "chosen"; You picked this life. YOU'RE STUPID!

Wow! I sure feel better! Not only do you have a lot to be thankful for, I'm extremely thankful that I got a chance to explain it to you. Try to enjoy these approaching holidays because the next four years are gonna suck; bad! Not for us conservatives, we know how to take care of ourselves. The government will take more of our money, but we'll be OK. But, it's gonna get really bad for those of you who voted for a daddy instead of a president. I would feel sorry for you; if you hadn't begged for it. As it is; I DON'T GIVE A RAT'S ASS! Happy Thanksgiving!

What If There Were Two Americas?

I think a lot of us would agree that, as a country, the United States of America is as divided as it's been since the sixties; maybe more so. I've been reading about all these petitions to secede, and it got me thinking. A while back, I read a book called "Are We Rome?", which compared the current state of the U.S. to the fall of the Roman Empire. The author talked about a scenario, in which the country would split and become two separate Americas. I'm wondering what that would be like. I have to think the divide would be along liberal versus conservative lines; perhaps "The Constitutional Republic of America" and "The Progressive Socialist Democracy of America". How about "The Elephants" and "The Jackasses"? Ok, no need for name calling. To simplify things, let's just call it "Red America" and "Blue America". By the way, this is based on philosophy, not politics. A lot of you big government Republicans are gonna need to go to Blue America, because you're really just jackasses in pachyderm clothing. So how would things divide up? Let's take a look.

• Income-Obviously, this is probably the biggest dividing line currently; and that's by the design of the Democratic Party. Americans are classified as the "haves" and the "have nots"; though it would be more accurate to call them "the works" and "the work nots", or as Thomas Sowell once said "the do's" and the "do nots". We have to assume that the vast majority of top income earners would go to Red America (R.A.), initially, because of the lower taxes and regulation on business and the economy. The few rich people, like maybe Warren Buffett, who stayed in Blue America (B.A.) would find a way to shelter and invest their money in R.A., until the B.A. government took them up on their offers to pay even higher taxes; then they would bail out to R.A. when they crossed, oh, let's say the 95% tax bracket. What about middle class income earners? I would think that, at least, 70% in the private sector, would go to R.A., in the beginning and another 15% within the first two years, because that's where the vast majority of businesses and jobs would be. Most government workers would stay in B.A. because government jobs would pay a hell of a lot more than in R.A., and there would be a lot more of them in B.A. The income earners at the bottom would, most likely, be torn, because many of them would be receiving some type of B.A. govt. assistance, that wouldn't be available in R.A. Eventually, those that truly wanted to work, would go to R.A., for the promise of opportunity, rather than the promise of minimal subsistence. Almost everyone receiving income for not working would stay in B.A. until the government ran out of money; at which point, they would go to R.A. and find jobs, or starve to death.
• Race-While the country is racially divided, I really don't think race would play much of an issue in this decision. While most minorities and a large number of whites would have their hearts in B.A., this decision would be guided by survival instinct. You need jobs and money to survive and provide for your family; and the jobs would be in R.A. Whether you believe it, or like it; green trumps all other colors in economics. Provide value as an employee, or as a business owner, and financial motives will triumph over any racial prejudices that may exist.
• Immigration-There would be no illegal immigration in B.A., and it would, initially, be overrun with new citizens seeking government freebies. Then, like the Americans who stayed for the free stuff, they'd leave when the B.A. government went broke; if they were allowed to leave. Illegal immigration wouldn't be much of a problem in R.A. The economy would be prosperous and there would be more jobs than Red American citizens could do. Smart, hard working people from other countries, looking for an opportunity to make a better life, would be welcomed; and would become valuable members of society. No one would be sneaking into R.A. to take advantage of the free health care and other government benefits, because we wouldn't have those things.
• Social Philosophy-Citizens of R.A. would be expected to accept responsibility for their own lives and for their actions. It would be a country of great opportunity, but, on occasion, people would experience rough times. When that happened, their fellow citizens would give them a helping hand; whether privately, through churches and other non-profits, or collectively, through the government. But, it would be on our terms, and those being helped would be expected to help themselves, if they were able. People in need of help are not in a position to dictate the terms of that help, and receiving help is not an entitlement; it's an act of kindness and generosity on the part of those providing it. In B.A., everyone would be entitled to the best health care and education, to a good paying job and a nice home; all free of charge. There would also be laws mandating free cell phones, WiFi, satellite TV,  Ipads, laptops, new cars, and all the other basic necessities of life. The problem would be that, everyone capable of working and paying taxes to provide these things, would be living and working next door in Red America.

It could happen some day, and it might be a good thing for citizens of both countries. Right now, we're all living the lie in Blue America; and we're approaching the time to pay the bill. We don't have the money; no one does.

Merry Christmas Mitt!

"As President, you're entitled to your own house and your own airplane, but not your own facts."

Mitt Romney

We spent the last two weeks, hearing from everyone that had an opinion, how Mitt Romney was having a terrible week, or month. Romney said 47% of Americans don't pay taxes and think they're victims. He's down by 10 points in the swing states. This election is over! Poor Mitt, he just wasn't smart enough or charismatic enough to compete with his excellency. The left was doing a great job of convincing themselves and their flock. Then, truth and reality stepped up and smacked the living shit out of them!

Let's take a look at the month Obama just had. Just as excitement over "You didn't Build That" started to fade, we see a video of Barry, preaching socialism and re-distribution, that would have made Karl Marx proud. He had kicked of the month with a big celebration at his party's convention; where, in a proud moment, the Democrat delegates gave roaring round of boos to: Romney? No. Bush? No. Drum roll please; would you believe...God? That's right; on the floor of their national convention, on national TV; THE DEMOCRATS BOOED GOD! A week later, on the anniversary of 9/11, muslim terrorists attacked U.S. embassies all around the world and, at the U.S. consulate in Libya, kidnapped, tortured, and murdered U.S. Ambassador, J. Christopher Stevens and 3 members of his staff. Immediately after the attacks, the Obama administration stated that this was not terrorism, but a spontaneous uprising of Libyan citizens in response to a Youtube video, that insulted Islam. Additionally, Obama, Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and several other members of the administration publicly, repeatedly apologized to the muslims for the insult. They even paid for TV adds in Pakistan to apologize. As evidence began to emerge, from numerous sources, that the attack was pre-planned by groups with ties to al qaeda, the administration continued to blame and apologize for the video. This week, as it became clear that they knew within 24 hours that it was a planned attack, they were forced to call it terrorism. Unfortunately, several sources have discovered that Ambassador Stevens had made multiple requests for additional security, which were denied by the White House. The protection of Stevens and his staff was left to Libyan security guards; muslim rent-a cops! To make matters worse, if that's possible, the Obama administration has covered the whole thing up, and, in an interview with "60 Minutes" Obama called it a "bump in the road".

On Tuesday this week, "The Daily Caller" released a previously unseen, unedited video of an '07 campaign speech that Obama gave to an audience of mostly black people. In a race baiting, class warfare speech that would make Al Sharpton proud, Obama said that George Bush, Republicans, and the federal government didn't treat New Orleans as well after Katrina, as they had disaster victims in other states, because "they don't care as much about New Orleans" and it's mostly poor black population. He said we need more programs to help poor blacks because they don't know you're not supposed to feed your baby potato chips for breakfast, and they need to be taught how to dress and act appropriately in an office. If what he said wasn't bad enough, he gave the entire speech with a lame southern drawl, that sounded like he was auditioning for a remake of "Gone With the Wind".

Then came the debate. Holy crap! This is why you don't put a community organizer, who's never held a private sector job, in charge of a $15 trillion economy. Romney abused him so bad, it wouldn't surprise me if Eric Holder charged him with a crime. This was the most total domination of a presidential debate, since Ronald Reagan schooled Jimmy Carter. Considering the way the media has hyped Obama, his humiliation was even worse than Carter's. Romney used hard economic facts to battle Obama's utopian fantasies, and looked him right in the eye and smiled while he did it. As you would expect, Obama's leftist supporters went into a complete meltdown and started ripping him on Twitter and MSNBC. Barack Obama's entire career has been one big illusion of smoke and mirrors, and it's coming unraveled at just the right moment. We still have a month to go, but I think Santa may have landed his sleigh on the Romney house a few months early; 
OR MAYBE GOD DOESN'T LIKE BEING BOOED!

"As for me and my household, we will serve the LORD" Joshua 24:15

"All great change in America begins at the dinner table."

Ronald Reagan

The picture above was taken by the owner of "Skyline Burrito Bowls" in Lufkin, Texas. It's just a group of Lufkin firefighters saying a prayer before their meal. One of them is my oldest son Triston. If, like me, you sometimes wonder what ever happened to old fashioned American values; they're alive and well in East Texas. In the first 13 hours that the picture was posted on Facebook, it had over 11,000 likes and 200 shares. Last week, I was touched by the public response to the cheerleader of Kountze High School, which is also in East Texas. These girls are standing up to athiests and courts, who want to ban them from creating banners with bible verses written on them, for their football players to run through before games. In just a couple of weeks, their Facebook group has over 43,000 members. It's not just a Texas thing either; the support for these young people is coming from all over the country. We really are a "Silent Majority"! I guess every generation, as it ages, complains about how the new generation "just doesn't get it". We need to stop that, this generation get's it. Sure, the ones we notice most often are the ones with multiple body piercings or the idiots of the occupy movement. But, walking the walk below the radar, are firefighters, cheerleaders, and people like Lila Rose, who founded the pro-life organization Live Action, when she was 15, or the teenage Chic-Fil-A drive through worker, who smiled and politely offered a jackass customer water, as he spewed hate at her for the views of her company CEO. This young generation of Americans didn't elect leaders that put us $16 trillion in debt, we did that. They didn't allow their government to take religion out of public schools. This generation is not the problem, but they may be the solution. As for our generation; Ronald Reagan once said "All great change in America begins at the dinner table.", evidently, we've been doing something right around our dinner tables.

America's New Slogan Should Be: Pucker Up!

Is it just me or, are a whole lot of Americans getting tired of the daily barrage of crap we have to put up with? A small minority of jackasses in this country are trying to bully us into abandoning our beliefs, our God given rights, and our way of life. I'm sensing, that I'm not the only one who's fed up with it. We need to remember who we are, draw a line in the sand, and refuse to put up with it. We need to tell them all to kiss our asses! If our religion, our patriotism, or our politics offends you, you're free to look the other way. Or, you're free to kneel down, and pucker up! 

• You don't like prayer at high school football games, Pucker Up!
• You don't like the Pledge of Allegiance, pick a cheek!
• You think voter ID is racist, kiss our ass and don't vote!
• You want to make me buy insurance, Kiss My Ass!
• You want to tell me what to eat, Kiss Both Sides of My Ass!
• You want to get paid to sit at home, here's the Chapstick!
• You think hard working business owners owe you something, Kiss All Our Asses!

A lot of things offend me, and there's not a damn thing I can do about them. I don't like to see people wearing their pants in a way that exposes their underwear and half their ass. I don't want to look at idiots, who've covered their entire bodies with tattoos or piercings.The term "transgender" irritates the crap out of me because, there is no such thing. It infuriates me that so many people are stupid, and don't even care. I'm highly offended that the President of the United States has laid down like a $5 crack whore for Muslim terrorists. It offends me that Homeland Security hassles businesses about hiring illegal aliens instead of guarding our border. Most of all, it infuriates, offends, and insults me that, the people who've done the most to screw up this country, have the nerve to tell the rest of us how we should live our lives. That's how I feel, AND I"M RIGHT!

Some of you may be offended by this:

PUCKER UP!