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By Greg L | 12 January 2009 | Uncategorized | 73 Comments
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VIRGINIA STATE TAKES CON. CON. STAGE
By Chuck Baldwin
January 13, 2009
NewsWithViews.com
As I noted in this column a few weeks ago, proponents of assembling a new Constitutional Convention are a scant two states away from achieving that monstrous reality. (Please review my column on this subject) http://www.newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin480.htm
At that time, the state of Ohio was in the crosshairs. Fortunately, enough people from that good state inundated their state representatives with objections, and the matter was tabled (for how long, no one knows). Now it appears that the Commonwealth of Virginia is going to be the next battleground state.
In all likelihood, the Virginia legislature will be the next state government to take up the Con Con issue. It is imperative, therefore, that the citizens of Virginia begin contacting their various representatives, demanding that they not authorize the call for a new Constitutional Convention.
As I noted in my previous column on this subject, “If called, a modern Constitutional Convention could declare the U.S. Constitution to be null and void, and could completely rewrite the document. For example, former U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger once declared, ‘There is no effective way to limit or muzzle the actions of a Constitutional Convention. The Convention could make its own rules and set its own agenda.’”
Since 32 states have already approved the new Con Con, only 2 more states are required for the enactment of this debacle.
For clarification, Virginia already passed a Con Con resolution, but in 2004 rescinded that resolution. Therefore, the debate this year will be whether to reverse the bill to rescind. Simply put, the state legislature in Virginia may again take up the matter of issuing their call for a Constitutional Convention very soon, and citizens in that good state need to rally against it now!
To give readers a simple tally, the following states have never voted to ratify a new Constitutional Convention: California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, West Virginia, and Wisconsin.
These states voted for a new Constitutional Convention but later rescinded their resolutions: Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Idaho, Utah, North Dakota, Arizona, Virginia, South Carolina, and Georgia.
If you do not see your state listed above, it means your state indeed voted to call for a new Constitutional Convention and has not rescinded its vote. I strongly suggest that citizens of these states demand that their legislatures rescind their previous votes calling for a new Con Con. Start now!
Of course, the problem is, it is not clear whether the court will allow states to rescind their votes after having passed a Con Con resolution. Article. V. of the U.S. Constitution is vague on the subject, and there is no case law precedent on the matter. As far as I’m concerned, however, the Tenth Amendment settles the issue, and states should be regarded as fully qualified under the Constitution to determine their own fate in the matter. Since there is nothing in the Constitution prohibiting rescission, states are duly authorized to rescind their votes, as they please. But I don’t expect the powers that be in Washington, D.C., to see it that way. Does anyone remember that little skirmish known as the Civil War? This, in essence, was the same view of the Confederate States: they voted to rescind their decisions to join the Union. The tyrant, Abraham Lincoln, determined that states have no such sovereignty (thus nullifying the Tenth Amendment, among several others) and sent the entire federal army to force the southern states back into the union. If history is any teacher, therefore, no state will be allowed to rescind their votes, and we are only two states away from a new Constitutional Convention being assembled.
There is no question in my mind that, should a new Constitutional Convention be called, it would be the end of the United States of America as we know it, and our current Constitution and Bill of Rights would be forever altered beyond recognition. The globalists who currently control Washington, D.C., and Wall Street are, no doubt, salivating over the opportunity to officially dismantle America’s independence and national sovereignty, and establish a globalist North American Union–in much the same way that globalists created the European Union. A new Constitutional Convention is exactly the tool they need to cement their sinister scheme into law.
I urge readers to contact their state representatives regarding this critical matter.
http://www.newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin484.htm
former constitution party presidential candidate
Baldwin writes for News with Views
Given that our current crop of politicians have shown themselves to be FAR less than their predecessors of old (the original framers of the Constitution), the only way that I could see that the current generation of voters even entertaining the notion of allowing those sticky fingers on such an august document would be because schools have ceased utilizing textbooks which properly document the early days of the Constitutional Republic. They’ve been talking about Constitutional Conventions since back in the days when I first became politically cognizant, with very few takers. Dumbing down subsequent generations would, I imagine, be high on the list of priorities for those who have long been proponents of such an incredibly stupid act.
AWCheney — You just hit the nail square on the head. We have been blessed of late with an educational system in which some of the kids can scarcely, if at all, tell you when and why the Civil War was fought, must less understand the history of the crafting of the Constitution. Good shot, AW. Arrow right into the bullseye. And this is not a follow-up shot at teachers. They have a darn tough job these days. Look instead to the philosophy behind the methods imposed on the troops in the trenches.
Teachers are the unsung heroes of the day. They work for little money and have a big job, keeping our kids educated. Unfortunately they teach to tests these days. I agree, it’s the administrations fault they dont have the tools necessary to ensure our kids are educated properly. And whatever happened to physical education? Kids are getting fatter and fatter these days and it’s sorely needed.
From VCDL: “Repeal the Restaurant Ban”
“…We residents of the Commonwealth of Virginia affirm and assert that all citizens who may lawfully carry a concealed handgun should be allowed to carry concealed in restaurants and clubs even if they sell alcoholic beverages for on premises consumption.”
Sign the petition here: http://www.PetitionOnline.com/VCDLrtrb/
I am wondering, since Obama is the liberal’s messiah, will they start disappearing in some sort of socialist rapture on inauguration day? Is that why the bridges are to be closed? Will we read the headline “One Million in DC Mysteriously Disappear” in the Washington Times the next day (because everyone at the WaPo has disappeared as well)?
Buy guns and ammo.
Whose money will they be spending on all the wonderful programs that they plan to implement? Oh, yeah, our children’s…
AW-for the record, I don’t care for our politicians, either. The only way to stop the cycle of corruption is term limits.
Teach History and Civics? Why? A large number of students in our schoolscannot even speak English! We can’t clutter up Jose’s mind about George Washigton, the Bill of Rights etc. etc. How much interest do you think Abdullah has in learning about the Civil War? Probably little to none but of course, we have to be PC not hurt the feelings of our immigrant populations. (sarcasim)
No “I” in “sarcasm.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ay_Z5adiMG8
Then and now!
So what’s the story with that uncompleted hulk of an office building in MP/Yorkshire on ther north bound side of 28?
There have always been those who try to caution the people about excess government. Former president Ronald Reagan is credited with the following:
“There are those in America today who have come to depend absolutely on government for their security. And when government fails they seek to rectify that failure in the form of granting government more power. So, as government has failed to control crime and violence with the means given it by the Constitution, they seek to give it more power at the expense of the Constitution. But in doing so, in their willingness to give up their arms in the name of safety, they are really giving up their protection from what has always been the chief source of despotism — government. Lord Acton said power corrupts. Surely then, if this is true, the more power we give the government the more corrupt it will become. And if we give it the power to confiscate our arms we also give up the ultimate means to combat that corrupt power. In doing so we can only assure that we will eventually be totally subject to it. When dictators come to power, the first thing they do is take away the people’s weapons. It makes it so much easier for the secret police to operate, it makes it so much easier to force the will of the ruler upon the ruled.”
This on the Drudge Report today:
http://www.wsfa.com/Global/story.asp?S=9655036&nav=menu33_2
They have gone beyond the Confederate Flag, now it’s hoop skirts. “The group reminds him of slavery. “
Re: “Is that why the bridges are to be closed?”
According to my internal sources, the real reason why the bridges and I-395 and I-66 are being closed is to provide a mass evacuation route out of DC if the need arises.
Ted,
that’s not what I heard. I was under the impression it was to allow the hysterical housewives enough room to squeeze by. I also heard that even then there was not enough room and they’ll have to attend and exit single file
Doosh Master said on 13 Jan 2009 at 10:25 am: Flag comment
No “I” in “sarcasm
Oooops! Thanks!
There’s no “we” in “hysterical housewives,” either.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/10/AR2009011002149.html
I love the Doosh Master
On another note, an alleged illegal tried to sell his alleged illegal daughter for beer and gatorade…
http://www.ksbw.com/news/18463472/detail.html
This Nation is done, we are simply on life support right now.
Obama and Congress will pass amnesty for illegals. Obama and Congress will be able to sit liberal Justices on the Supreme Court who will rule the Second Amendment does not include the right for individuals to own guns. Obama and Congress will pass Government health care. Obama and Congress will gut the military.
God help us all.
Greg, Why do I keep seeing Jody Wagner ads on your blog?
This story may have just started.
http://www.insidenova.com/isn/news/crime/article/police_searching_home_of_teen_found_dead/27832/
Ron, that has been an ongoing battle. After a while I got tired of them and added Wagner’s website to my adsense “competitive ad filter” trying to get rid of them. That didn’t work. Then I put the text “if the above ad is for Jody Wager, she stinks”. Adsense stopped showing anything after a while, so I took that text down. Then the Wagner ads showed up again, so I put the text back up, only this time it read “if the above ad is for Jody Wagner, she positively sucks”. Once again, several hours later adsense stopped serving any ads. I again took that down. Now Wagner’s ads are back up.
I’m putting that text back up and it’s staying when adsense comes up as the random ad banner. If adsense is going to screw with me this hard and not do what their documentation says they do, they can go to hell. I don’t make enough from them to offset the aggravation they’re causing me.
Howard the Duck — Seems to me that the next logical step is to ban “Gone With the Wind” from all the libraries and film repositories. After all, we certainly wouldn’t want anybody to feel bad about the past. Shoot, let’s just ban the past and be done with it! Think about how happy all those kids would be if they were relieved of the burden of studying that old, boring , and sometimes unpleasant history.
I got a transcript of O’holybamas speech for Tuesday. I think it is fitting especially being the day after Martin Luther King day.
My Fellow Americans,
I have a dream that one day my Government will provide health care to all and decide who lives and dies.
I have a dream that one day your entire paycheck will be taken by my government and the politicians will decide for you how best to spend your money.
I have a dream of you waiting in a bread line for your families food.
I have a dream that one day your child will live in government subsidized communist style high rise condos, with access to semi adequate public transportation.
I have a dream that if your child works adequately at his communist style government given job, that one day he will move to the top floor penthouse of his government owned communist style high rise.
I have a dream that one day all suv’s will be replaced with government subsidized communist east German style automobiles.
I have a dream that the government will pass a national law telling you what you can eat and drink.
I have a dream that all small business owners will be taxed to the point they give up and live off of welfare.
I have a dream the the spirit of America will be broken to the point that you all will demand food stamps, welfare and government subsidized communist style housing.
I have a dream that all Americans will be satisfied working in the rice fields like the Communists in China.
I have dream that little black children are just as poor as little white, Asian, Latino, and Eskimo children and they all live in government subsidized communist style housing.
I have a dream that you all become equal.
I have a dream that the constitution doesn’t say “pursuit of happiness” but rather just plain ol’ “happiness”.
I hope that one day we will see my dreams come true. I hope that one day you will be equal, you will stand in bread lines and gas lines and welfare lines together, I hope that one day all the evil wealthy rich will get there just desserts, how dare they work hard and earn a decent living. How dare middle class people complain that between state income, federal income and local property taxes that add up to a years worth of mortgage payments every year, that it is to much? Don’t they know, government knows best! Don’t they know that when government creates something it is always the best value for your money?
Look at our public schools they are run so well that only an estimated 40 million Americans are illiterate. In the city of Detroit Michigan the high school drop out rate is only 48% I want to replicate that nation wide. I want the nation and the world to know that government is the answer. I want the same people who run the DMV to run our health care system. I want the same people who spend 671,900 dollars for lighting the dome on the U.S. capitol building to ensure that your retirement is financially secure. I want the same government who is so quick to defend our borders to take care of everything, you house, your car, your job, your will, your liberty and I hope that one day you will dream a dream of progressive tyrannical politics with me. I hope you dream that dream today join me in my quest for hope and change. Change you can count on, change you can believe in, change that will change everything. Tomorrow after the balls and the dancing and the partying I am going to get to work. I am going to do to America what William Ayers and Reverend Write and all my buddies have wanted to do for years. Tomorrow we will began to change the country and the world forever. And if there is anybody who wants to stop me they had better speak up before I take that right away.”
Thank you
Now I have to go put a new born baby on a shelf.
Thank you
Thank you
Its good he finally filled in the blanks of his dreams and hopes. Now all the people who voted for him are going to see what he meant.
I wonder what Ike Leggett is having for breakfast. Can one make sausage out of crow?
Greg,
IS HSM attending lobby day in Richmond this year? I will be heading down to discuss illegal aliens and in favor of gun rights.
“In the city of Detroit Michigan the high school drop out rate is only 48% I want to replicate that nation wide.”
So we all can “hope” for correct “change” at the store, right?
http://www.elpasotimes.com/newupdated/ci_11444354
Hmmm…
http://www.nogalesinternational.com/articles/2009/01/13/news/doc496cb19f2a616043016592.txt
The banner cracks me up (the crossed flags). News isn’t biased, is it?
We need to abolish voluntary deportation forever. Crossing the border without inspection should be a felony punishable by a year in prison, a $10,000 fine and permenant expulsion.
Anon-doesn’t the register tell the cashier the correct amount of change? Some registers even dispense the coins. See? Who needs a high school education?
http://www.wavy.com/dpp/news/LOCAL_wavy_visa_scheme_20090113
Bring ‘em in and marry ‘em off to sailors. The girls get a green card and the sailors keep the basic allowance for quarters and commuted rations. The Navy is HAMMERING the sailors involved, as they should.
Father Accused Of Selling Daughter For Beer -
http://www.ksbw.com/news/18463472/detail.html “…are immigrants from Mexico, face the possibility of being deported as illegal immigrants. “Arranged marriages are common in the section of Mexico where both Galindo and Martinez are from.”
viva diversity!
Johnson said on 14 Jan 2009 at 10:50 am: Flag comment
http://www.elpasotimes.com/newupdated/ci_11444354
Hmmm…
Maybe that is what is needed to get our border secured. Nothing else has seemed to work. When Calderon seeks refugee status, you know things are not going well!
Johnson said on 14 Jan 2009 at 11:05 am: Flag comment
Anon-doesn’t the register tell the cashier the correct amount of change? Some registers even dispense the coins. See? Who needs a high school education?
Yep, it tells them alright, but they have to be able to read too.:)
The nation’s largest veterans organization released this week a policy bulletin that takes a firm stand against illegal immigration and calls on its members to hold elected officials accountable.
http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.printable&pageId=86023
Will Obama try to muzzle the American Legion?
Johnson said on 14 Jan 2009 at 11:14 am
http://www.wavy.com/dpp/news/LOCAL_wavy_visa_scheme_20090113
Johnson- Thanks for the interesting link. It looks like the “export” business from the eastern block is thriving. I guess the “doing the work Americans won’t do” thing has taken on an international flavor.
Next thing we know they will form a worldwide federation of illegal aliens and petition the U.N. for assistance in “accessing” our borders.
Herndon Bob,
Thanks for sharing this news about the American Legion. I’m a member of the American Legion (and the VFW.) I have paid my dues literally and figuratively so I believe my opinion on this issue matters. I support the American Legion so it may continue to fulfill its mission. The American Legion’s primary mission is to help American veterans and their families, as well as American children and youth.
Clearly, the American Legion has made a decision to operate outside its mission and enter the world of partisan politics. Whether or not you agree with their position is academic. As a member, I would be just as upset if they wrote a position paper supporting illegal immigration. This is the wrong issue (or type of issue) for the American Legion to get involved in. It represents a specific ideological domain that has nothing to do with American veterans and their families.
Veterans (particularly the veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan) are being short changed in so many ways. I do not want MY organization devoting scarce and critical resources to tasks that do not directly the mission I expect them to fulfill.
Thanks again, Herndon Bob. I’ll “raise the flag” on this issue.
Citizen12:
The illegal aliens from eastern Europe to this country is nothing new. I’ve noticed a high concentration in the Cleveland area the past few years. I suspect many come in from Canada on tourist visas and stay here.
COM: So what’s your COA if you think the nation is through? Cut and run? I’m digging in.
Why bother to break the law when you can replace American workers legally? Here is how to do it.
http://blog.vdare.com/archives/2007/06/19/cohen-grigsby-youtubevideo-available/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/usnw/20090113/pl_usnw/illegal_immigration_costs_north_carolina_more_than1_2_billion_annually_finds_new_study_from_fair
Taking the benefits reserved for legal residents!
when all illegals are caught, hold them in camps near the border and get them working. They should take a hint from Sheriff Joe in arizona and throw them all in tent cities, feed them bologna sandwiches and give them pink underwear (which I’m sure those macho latino’s will love). Make them work for their meals they receive in jail by participating in a chain gang. treat them like real criminals and they’ll think twice next time in making that mad dash across the border.
holding them accountable for their actions will ensure they dont come back. the problem is they are NOT being held accountable in most places.
http://neighbors.denverpost.com/blog.php/2009/01/12/existence-of-parallel-societies-within-colorado-growing-balkanization-away-from-our-culture/
Trashing our schools in ways that american kids can’t!
Johnson said on 14 Jan 2009 at 7:49 am:
I wonder what Ike Leggett is having for breakfast. Can one make sausage out of crow?
Eggs Benedict Arnold?
Johnson said on 14 Jan 2009 at 2:55 pm: Flag comment
http://neighbors.denverpost.com/blog.php/2009/01/12/existence-of-parallel-societies-within-colorado-growing-balkanization-away-from-our-culture/
It is sad to say, but that article hit the nail on the head. Multiply Denver by virtually every large city in this country and we have a catastrophe in the making as far as American society/culture as we now know it goes. The third world is on the move looking for their “Mecca or Shangrila” and unfortunately with the collusion of governents, they have found it. Look at England, France, the Netherlands and yes, The U.S. as well as a host of other highly developed countries. These countries are being invaded, yes, invaded by the uneducated and poorest of the poor and are turning them into places just like they came from. I have heard that in 50 years, there won’t be a native born englishman alive. Sorry to say, it looks like that will happen in this country in the not too distant future if we continue on as we have been re out borders and the millions of people we “import” every year to work while we “export” our jobs overseas.
Howard the Duck said on 13 Jan 2009 at 10:59 am: Flag comment
This on the Drudge Report today:
http://www.wsfa.com/Global/story.asp?S=9655036&nav=menu33_2
They have gone beyond the Confederate Flag, now it’s hoop skirts. “The group reminds him of slavery. “
That is why there will never be any racial harmony. Idiots like that and the likes of Jackson and Sharpton will continue to raise any little thing and blow it out of proportion. They thrive on things like this and would be out of a job if they didn’t. Maybe we’ll see them protesting andmarching along with the girls. Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn!
Johnson said on 14 Jan 2009 at 11:14 am: Flag comment
http://www.wavy.com/dpp/news/LOCAL_wavy_visa_scheme_20090113
Sounds like an eastern European spy ring to me.
…or “Russian” Mafia, perhaps?
A 47 year old woman in Triangle shot 1 of 3 intruders in her home today. The news report says that 2 fled when she confronted them but the 3rd turned back to her and that’s when she shot him. The one that was shot was arrested and he is still in the hospital and the police caught one of the others that got away.
And to think that some places don’t even let you have weapons to protect yourself in your own home.
http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/0109/585528.html
me said on 14 Jan 2009 at 6:50 pm:
A 47 year old woman in Triangle shot 1 of 3 intruders in her home today. The news report says that 2 fled when she confronted them but the 3rd turned back to her and that’s when she shot him.
The key words are “turned back to her”. Justifiable self defense.
The one that was shot was arrested and he is still in the hospital and the police caught one of the others that got away.
And hopefully he won’t survive long enough to sue her.
She needs more range time.
Kaine’s Prison Plan Should Be Handcuffed
Commentary by Sanford D. Horn
January 13, 2009
So Virginia Governor Tim Kaine is interested in letting a few “good” prisoners out of the gray bar hotel 90 days early as a cost-cutting measure claiming they are “non-violent offenders who have been model inmates” and were due for a 30 day early dismissal, according to an article written by Anthony Barkow of New York.
Barkow, who authored “In Kaine’s Budget Plan, a Reality Check for Prisons,” is executive director of the Center on the Administration of Criminal Law at New York University School of Law. He penned this biased editorial to sing the praises of this early release plan of the non-violent, noting that “prominent Republicans” with backgrounds in criminal justice policy support this plan, but only names one Republican. Barkow then criticizes the current Virginia Attorney General, Bob McDonnell, the presumptive GOP nominee for governor later this year for not marching in lock-step with this less than savory idea.
Meanwhile, in Barkow’s Empire State, the king of the Ponzi Scheme, Bernie Madoff – pronounced Made-off, as in what he did with $50 billion – yes, billion with a “b” in people’s retirements and charitable organizations’ funds, rests easy in his $7 million home, instead of in a prison cell. People nationwide are outraged, and rightfully so, that a lowlife like Madoff is allowed to breathe the air of a free person while countless numbers of people have been bilked out of their life savings and charitable organizations are unable to do the good works they have done for years.
Just because a criminal is non-violent doesn’t mean he or she shouldn’t be incarcerated. In the case of Madoff, the death penalty is not unreasonable, after all, his misdeeds have inalterably affected the lives of people too old to return to work and certainly could not recoup their losses. Some people have even committed suicide because of the actions of this miscreant.
But back to the Commonwealth of Virginia and down the slippery slope the prison system is about to slide. Barkow claims more than $1 billion is spent annually on incarceration in Virginia and labels tough-on-crime positions “irrational,” suggesting that the non-violent offender who pose no danger to society not be imprisoned. As is typical of liberals, Barkow offers no suggestion as to his appropriate method of punishment, for although they may be non-violent, they are still convicts.
Barkow also suggests that to continue to incarcerate the non-violent offenders, schools and additional police on the streets will lose funding. Of course those scare tactics are exactly what he has in mind. Instead of calling for an to pork-barrel spending and a diminution of special-interest funding, which would make the most sense, Barkow wants to instill fear in the hearts and minds of the citizenry in order to garner support for a lame-brained idea.
There’s a reason Republicans like former governor and senator George Allen pushed hard for no parole in Virginia. When a criminal is sentenced to a term of 10 years for example, he or she serves that amount of time. There should not be early release for good behavior. Instead, there should be extended sentences for bad behavior. Stricter sentences should be the order of the day, not more lenient sentences.
Barkow went so far as to praise Kaine as a governor with “guts” for telling “people that the criminal justice system has gone too far.” Well, to be fair, Barkow is right – the criminal justice system has gone too far, just not in the way he thinks or in the right direction.
Prison should not be a pleasant experience for any inmate – white collar, blue collar or ministerial collar. Since when do prisoners have a constitutional right to cable or any television, for that matter. Weight rooms? Athletic equipment? Gone. If prisoners don’t want their muscles to atrophy, don’t commit crimes and end up in the clink. There’s some money saved as well. Strip these prisons down to their bare bones minimum. Prisoners ought to live like minimalists – smaller cells allow for more prisoners to be housed. If a prisoner wants books, newspapers or other reading material, let them procure it from the outside when family or friends visit. No more computers, radios or other electronic luxuries – after all prison is just that, and not summer camp.
Busy prisoners ought to be productive prisoners learning trades such as carpentry, plumbing, cooking, even first aid skills, all of which are marketable on the outside upon release having served their entire sentences. Any prisoner with a skill or a talent can teach other inmates.
Governor Kaine would be wise to procure a page out Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s playbook. Known around the country as “America’s Toughest Sheriff,” he runs the force in Maricopa County Arizona where there are both male and female chain gangs, prisoners painting over graffiti, cleaning the streets and even burying the indigent. Inside the prison Arpaio is known to have the cheapest meals in the United States – averaging roughly 15 cents and the inmates are only fed twice a day.
Now before all the ACLUeless attorneys get their briefs in a twist, once again, for those prisoners who object, don’t become a criminal. They make their choices and those choices come with consequences. There’s a boatload of money to be saved and trimmed from the budget without violating anyone’s rights or giving free passes to non-violent offenders.
While on the budget-trimming subject, any non-indigent sentenced must pay a fine and the money goes in the education and/or transportation coffers. Illegals should not be put in American prisons, but instead, deported to their country of origin. Notice, I do not say illegals who have committed a crime, because once they have taken that first illegal step on American soil, they have broken the law. And for those white collar criminals who have stolen from investors, raided pension funds, bilked charities, all their assets should be liquidated in order to make some form of remuneration to the victims. They may be non-violent, but their crimes certainly are not victimless and they do deserve to fulfill their reservations at the gray bar hotel – sans room service.
Sanford D. Horn is a writer and political consultant living in Alexandria, VA.
Dill-Hole Connelly (or however that useless piece of garbage spells his name) votes for providing free health care to illegal aliens today. Whoppeee!
Battle Cat,
I was thinking about it. All the Liberals in Fairfax driving thier fancy suvs or eco friendly priuses and living in their mcmansions are so broke that they don’t have any money left over at the end of the month to give to charity. Could that be a reason they don’t mind the taxes they pay? They think it is their patriotic duty even their moral duty to pay more and more taxes that provide more and more welfare? Liberals are stupid and selfish people. Gerry connelly is a piece of work. total Obama head.
another thing I find very interesting (and very telling) is that the 9500 liberty people are no where to be found these days. i predicted this long ago, after the election they would fade into the woodwork. A few economy parties here and there and…poof, gone like the wind.
I guess they really DO care about illegal immigrants (sarcasm alert). It’s also funny that now that the economy is worse than before, the anti chicks dont seem to be holding any parties to boost the economy. Not that they ever did really boost anything (other than their ego’s) but that’s pretty telling in and of itself.
I had always said that the illegal immigration issue (and others) were just tools to boost their ego. as soon as the issue died down in the press, so they went their separate ways and found something else to be activist about.
I take words from the person above, liberals are stupid and elitist and they make me sick.
in today’s MJM:
http://www.insidenova.com/isn/news/opinion/columns/article/will_crackdown_leave_a_mixed_bag/27919/
This Jerry Erickson guy sounds familiar, like he posts on the blogs.
Of course the story mentions the Hysterical Housewives yet again, and of course it had to mention “diversity” again. When the chips are down, the economy is bad and illegal immigrants are overrunning everything who gives a damn about diversity?
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/01/15/obama-climate-carina-member-socialist-groups-environmental-commission/
You really can’t make this stuff up…
Some of you squandered your outrage on “Obama faking his birth certificate” and “the media picking on Sarah Palin” to the point where when a real outrage comes along, the usual bi-partisan crookedness, I don’t hear a peep about it.
Obama’s appointment of Geithner for Treasury Secretary is a DISGRACE.
If the average American cheated on his taxes to this tune they will frequently GO TO JAIL. Not this guy. He gets to be Treasury Secretary.
Both parties are A-OK with handing the post over to this guy. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123194884833281695.html?mod=article-outset-box
If we are to believe the spin that the guy didn’t actually understand how to file, if we accept that rather laughable premise, it only makes him MORE UNQUALIFIED to be TREASURY SECRETARY.
Absolutely disgusting - and, apparently, a done deal. Because we don’t really have opposing parties in America. We have two parties that collude to undermine us for the sake of their wealthy cohorts while putting on a dog-and-pony show about “fiscal conservatives” vs. “America-first liberals”, “social progressives” vs. “familly values conservatives”, “Joe Six Pack” vs. “my grandmother’s values”, etc. etc.
the whole thing is rather obvious and disgusting if you look at it objectively rather than through the prism of all this fake partisan politics.
BPCAU-yes, I noticed. I will vote out all incumbants in the next 2 elections, regardless.
Ohhhhhh this needs to be said too.
If you read this - http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/15/bush.legacy/index.html
Bush makes the arguement that he should have used his political capital after 2004 to fight for Immigration Reform as priority #1. What he chose to “fight for” at the time was privatizing Social Security.
Had he privatized it we can see now we would have had a huge disaster and lots of our parents eating dog food.
Instead he wishes he’d been able to sign an Amnesty for millions and degrade wages further for most Americans, and increase poverty in America. His friend Vincente would have liked that I’m sure.
Bush. The wrong man at the wrong time.
A flaming disaster.
Voting out all or nearly all incumbents is a worthy cause. Jailing most of them afterwards would be ideal too i think but probably not feasible.
Both Parties, you are right on about the Treasury pick by Obama. What a disgrace… just who I want to run our country’s Treasury - a man who didn’t pay his taxes until Obama asked him to be the Sec. of the Treasury.
As for what Bush said about comprehensive immigration reform, that was an even bigger disgrace. Bush knows the majority of American do not want amnesty or immigration reform - we simply want the existing laws enforced. Bush has no shame. I am sorry to say that I voted for him in ‘04.
Fellow Patriots,
I don’t have time to mince words…we need action and we need it now! Just in on the newswire from DC today: the State Children’s Health Insurance Program bill (SCHIP) was voted on in the House of Representatives…without any committee hearing!!!
HELP US SEND IN MINUTEMAN CHAIRMAN CHRIS SIMCOX TO DC TO FIGHT SCHIP!!! CLICK HERE NOW!
Folks, as most of you know, standard procedure for any legislation - whether in the House or the Senate - is that a bill is drafted and assigned to a committee. The committee members then schedule the bill for a hearing, debate, and a vote on whether to send it to the floor for a full vote from all the members…
Well…not today…
Leftist pro-amnesty liberals have skirted the system by skipping the committee process altogether!
SCHIP was forced to the floor of the House today for debate and a vote!!! IT PASSED: 289-139!!!
STOP SCHIP FROM GIVING FREE MONEY TO ILLEGAL ALIENS!!! CLICK HERE NOW!
As you may recall, in last year’s session SCHIP was floated by members of Congress - with a full approval from the Bush Administration!
…that should tell you enough right there…but wait, there’s more…
When it was originally conceived, SCHIP was a plan to give federal funds to poor, uninsured children around the country. Sounds harmless and kind, right? Wrong! It was merely the proverbial camel’s nose under the tent for nationalized health care.
Remember the phrase, “It’s for the children”? Well, you get the idea.
As if the original SCHIP proposal weren’t bad enough, the “new and improved” version is downright scandalous!!!
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Voted on the House Floor today was the newer version of SCHIP which–again did NOT get ANY committee hearing at all, NONE, ZIP, ZILCH. Here’s a quick summary of the changes in the bill, which were only made available to Republicans early this morning:
“The bill would dilute the focus on America’s poorest of children by opening SCHIP to the children of illegal aliens as the bill eliminates the identity-verification requirements in the current law and severely limits what states can do to attain proof of citizenship. The bill also removes the five-year waiting period legal residents are currently required to wait before enrolling in Medicaid or SCHIP. The bill does not include a cap on income for eligibility which would permit families making more than $80,000 eligible for coverage, whether American citizens or not.”
WE MUST STOP THIS BILL NOW!!! HELP US SEND IN CARMEN MERCER AND CHRIS SIMCOX TO CONGRESS!!!
Now, I’m sure I don’t have to spell it all out for you here…because it’s obvious what leftists Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are doing!
They are stacking the decks with ultra-liberal legislation - which they hope to pass with their new majorities in Congress - and wait until after the inauguration to send them to President Obama to sign!!!
As if a trillion-dollar “economic stimulus” package [read: give-away package] both by Bush and Obama weren’t bad enough…now the leftists in Congress are proposing to give away free health care to ALL CHILDREN…rich or poor, legal or illegal!
And of course, health care isn’t “provided” by Congress…No, it’s “paid for” by Congress…
…and how do you suppose Congress will pay for that free health care?
That’s right! MORE TAXES!!!
Friends, this is beyond unconstitutional; it’s beyond illegal; and it’s beyond immoral…IT’S SOCIALIST! We warned that this was going to happen, and now here’s the evidence right before our eyes.
We did our best to prepare you for what was coming down the pike, and we hope you heeded our warning. But, now, as we said then, we must stand up and fight this tyranny…just as the Minutemen of the Revolution did.
Obama, Pelosi, and Reid are ready to sell our republic down the river…
…And if we don’t stand together now and fight, we’ll lose our country and have nothing left to pass down to our posterity!
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Here’s what happens next: the House will send the passed SCHIP bill over to the Senate for conference. And we all know how much the Senate loves amnesty and free giveaways to illegal aliens.
When they do, we’ll stage our fight there. We’ve fought amnesty on that battleground before, and we’ll do it again. BUT WE NEED YOUR HELP!
We’re sending in MMPAC Honorary Chairman Chris Simcox AND Vice-Chairwoman Carmen Mercer to personally fight the battle. Carmen Mercer is already there…and Chris is soon to follow. Of course, this fight will come at a great expense to Minuteman PAC, but we must fight it nonetheless!
That’s why we need your help to ensure that they have all the resources they need to sharpen the sword and do battle on The Hill.
In addition to supporting our fight, we need EVERYONE to call their Senators and demand that they vote down this travesty of a bill!
Just as we defeated McCain-Kennedy amnesty, we can defeat SCHIP…but all hands must be on deck for this fight. This is a call to arms; man your post and help us defeat this socialist bill now and forever!
For America,
Brett Farley
Executive Director
Minuteman PAC
P.S. One of the worst bills to be drafted in years has now passed in the House of Representatives. It promises to give free health care to ALL children in the U.S.–rich or poor, legal or illegal…at a cost of billions to you and me. It’s amnesty all over again…we will defeat it, but we need your urgent help now! Click Here to help us send Chris Simcox and Carmen Mercer to DC to fight SCHIP! And pass the word to all your friends and family! We cannot let this bill get to the desk of Barack Obama!
DPortM, glad you can admit a mistake!
http://www.elpasotimes.com/newupdated/ci_11444354
Even the Army thinks Mexico is cooked.
Happy Lee-Jackson Day.
Even timmy can’t get this wrong.
CERTIFICATE of RECOGNITION
By virtue of the authority vested by the Constitution in the Governor of the
Commonwealth of Virginia, there is hereby officially recognized:
LEE-JACKSON DAY
WHEREAS, Generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson are native
Virginians, having served our great nation and Commonwealth as
educators, leaders, and
military strategists; and
WHEREAS, Lee served in the United States Army for more than three
decades until he left
his position to serve as Commander in Chief of Virginia’s military
forces and as
Commander of the Army of Northern Virginia; and
WHEREAS, Jackson taught philosophy and military tactics as a professor
at the Virginia
Military Institute in Lexington for nearly a decade before serving
briefly in the United
States Army and later joining the Confederate Army to fight for his
native Virginia; and
WHEREAS, Lee dedicated his life after the Civil War to reforming higher
education in the
South by serving as President of Washington College, now Washington &
Lee University,
in Lexington, Virginia, where he helped to greatly increase the school’s
funding and expand
the curriculum to create an atmosphere most conducive to learning for
young men of both
Southern and Northern heritage; and
WHEREAS, Jackson’s leadership and bravery enabled him to rally his
troops to several
improbable victories against opposition forces much larger than his own,
and Jackson’s
inspired “Stonewall Brigade” fought alongside General Lee’s troops
toward another victory
even after their leader was fatally wounded on the second day of the
Battle of
Chancellorsville; and
WHEREAS, it is fitting to recognize Generals Lee and Jackson as two of
our nation’s most
notable military strategists, as beloved leaders among their troops, as
pioneers in the field of
higher education and as faithful and dedicated Virginians; and
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Timothy M. Kaine, do hereby recognize January 16,
2009 as
LEE-JACKSON DAY in the COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA and call this observance to
the attention of all our citizens.
/s/ Timothy M. Kaine
_____________________________
Governor
/s/ Katherine K. Hanley
_____________________________
Secretary of the Commonwealth
I keep saying it: decriminalize drugs and watch the governments topple. Mexicans have the government they have fought for.
At last someone had the balls to stick his neck out and complain about
his outrage over the pervert deputy sheriff scandal. I’m talking about
the letter in yesterday’s opinion page, from one Ted Davis. Sad to say,
I didn’t find any outrage from any of the posters here and I wonder why?
A comment to the Davis letter suggested “No big deal…..after all, it was
not a violent crime”. WHAT????? The idiot should tell this to all the
little kids who have been victims . Then, tell it to the parents of those
little kids!!
Is Jeff Frederick still in the House of Delegates and RPV Chairman?
Johnson, you’re nuts on this one…not many, but this one for sure!
Subject: TO MY DEAREST FRIENDS. I KNOW MANY OF YOU DO NOT WANT TO KNOW WHAT IS HAPPENING RIGHT ACROSS THE BORDER BUT IT IS NOW
Date: Wednesday, January 21, 2009, 3:22 AM
SO SEVERE THAT I REALLY THINK IT IS TIME FOR YOU TO OPEN YOUR EYES (I WILL ONLY SEND THIS OUT ONCE TO YOU UNLESS YOU WISH TO READ IT MORE OFTEN - I GET IT ALMOST EVERY DAY FROM THE BORDER PATROL). OVER 5700 PEOPLE HAVE BEEN MURDERED (BEHEADED, STRANGLED, ETC.) IN MEXICO JUST LAST YEAR. NOW READ THIS FROM “1″ DAY. WE HAVE A VERITABLE WAR RAGING 2 HOURS AWAY FROM TUCSON, AZ. PLEASE READ THIS: WE DESPERATELY NEED THE MILITARY ON OUR SOUTHERN BORDER AND N O W!
M3 Report
Reports derived and translated directly from Mexican and Central American News Sources
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Mexico: Homicide toll for 2009 almost double 2008 count for the same period
By m3report
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FORMER BORDER PATROL OFFICERS
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Foreign News Report
The National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers (NAFBPO) extracts and condenses the material that follows from Mexican and Central and South American on-line media sources on a daily basis. You are free to disseminate this information, but we request that you credit NAFBPO as being the provider.
El Universal (Mexico City) 1/15/09
The number of homicides linked to the underworld in the country rose to 205 so far this month, after 15 persons were executed in the last few hours.
According to this dailys statistics, homicides totaled 105 during the same period of 2008. Thirteen men, two of them police officers, were assassinated by gunfire in Chihuahua.
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El Diario (Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, ed.) 1/15/09
In Ciudad Juarez, witnesses mentioned hearing at least six shots, and then a vehicle threw two bodies (sic) while it was moving. Police then found the bodies of two men in the middle of the street; one of them has his hands tied toward his back.
El Financiero (Mexico City) 1/15/09
Two ex-top directors of Interpol in Mexico, Rodolfo de la Guardia Garcia and Ricardo Gutierrez Vargas, were sent to a federal prison in Nayarit for having collaborated with drug cartels by furnishing strategic information and by placing other collaborators as regional chiefs of the AFI (Mex. equiv to FBI), all in return for substantial monthly payments by the cartels. (Under Mexicos criminal justice system, the length of their sentences has yet to be determined.)
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El Imparcial (Hermosillo, Sonora) 1/15/09
Following an anonymous lead, Mex. army personnel seized five tons of marihuana from a house in Agua Prieta, Sonora (this is right across from Douglas, AZ). And in Nogales, Sonora, police went to an area south of town where the chapels of Saint Death are located and there found the wrapped, mutilated and tortured body of a local attorney who had been strangled with a wire used as a tourniquet. A narcomessage was attached to the bedding wrapped around the victim.
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El Informador (Guadalajara, Jalisco) 1/15/09
Adrian Rodriguez, third commander of the police in Pihuamo, Jalisco, and his accompanying son both fell victims to a car-to-car gunfire assault Thursday morning. The police commander was killed and his minor son is in critical condition at a hospital in Colima.
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El Siglo de Torreon (Torreon, Coahuila) 1/15/09
Within the last few hours and in different events five persons in Chihuahua became victims of homicide, all by gunfire. The tally for the month there has already reached 48; three of these latest assassinations took place in Juarez.
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El Sur (Acapulco, Guerrero) 1/15/09
A Justice and Honor Commission president in Acapulco stated that there are currently 66 cases of antidoping (sic) regarding area police officers; 19 of these inquiries have been completed and all that is left to do is to notify those persons that they are fired from their jobs.
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Excelsior (Mexico City) 1/15/09
A group calling itself the Citizens Command for Juarez used the internet to make a massive calling to Mexicos national and local news media as well as to citizens. It proposes and calls to end the life of one criminal every 24 hours in order to bring about calm once again to that border.
FACT OR FICTION….OR JUST PLAIN GOOD OLD FASHION REALITY IN A DRESS?
Michael J. Bruning
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 11:45:21 -0800
From: johnlillpop@yahoo.com
Subject: Preemptive Strike Against Mexico Needed to Protect Americans
To: johnlillpop@yahoo.com
Preemptive Strike Against Mexico Needed to Protect Americans
By John W. Lillpop
As Mexico’s “war on drugs” decays further and further into civil war, President Obama and Homeland Secretary Janet Napolitano need to be aware of the sub-human Mexican animals whose barbaric behavior could eventually endanger the lives and well being of Americans on the U.S. side of the border.
As reported by Reuters (1), in part:
“OJO DE AGUA, Mexico, Jan 23 (Reuters) - A Mexican drug suspect has confessed to dissolving the bodies of 300 rivals with corrosive chemicals near the U.S. border, in a claim highlighting the brutality of Mexico’s drug war.
“Santiago Meza, known as “The Stew Maker,” told journalists he did away with bodies in industrial drums on the outskirts of the violent city of Tijuana.
“More than 700 people died in Tijuana last year as rival gangs battled for control of the city’s lucrative drug trade. Many others are missing and believed dead after being abducted.
“The suspect, who was paraded before journalists by the army on Friday, said he was paid $600 a week by a breakaway faction of the Arellano Felix cartel to dispose of slain rivals with caustic soda, a highly corrosive substance.
“They brought me the bodies and I just got rid of them,” Meza said at a construction site where he said he dissolved 300 corpses last year. “I didn’t feel anything.”
“The bodies took 24 hours to dissolve but left some remains that were dumped in a nearby pit, Meza said.
“A high-ranking army officer told Reuters he believed Meza, who was arrested with three other people on Thursday, was telling the truth.
“Police have previously recovered human remains burned with acid in and around the city.
“Meza, 45, said he had been getting rid of bodies for 10 years.
“May they forgive me,” he said, surrounded by heavily armed soldiers.
“The spiraling violence of Mexico’s drug war has cast a pall over the country and presents a huge challenge to President Felipe Calderon, who has deployed thousands of troops to crush the cartels.
“The drug war claimed 5,700 lives across Mexico last year, more than double the number of victims in 2007. (Editing by Peter Cooney)”
Instead of fretting over nonsense like Rush Limbaugh, assuring that US taxpayer money is available to fund abortions, and gays in the military, President Obama needs to do that which should have been done on the afternoon of September 11, 2001:
Seal off the US-Mexico border with armed military force.
In addition, the Obama administration should immediately implement detailed plans for a preemptive military strike against our third-world neighbor to keep it’s gory violence from despoiling pristine American soil!
Reference 1
http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN23338846
John W. Lillpop
RECEIVED IN MY EMAIL BY ANOTHER GREAT PATRIOT
Dear Mr. Robert Reich,
I have the video of you saying it Robert…and I saw you on TV…what more is there for me to see, hear or read. Your RACIST and discrimination remark against WHITE males is all over the nation.
Is this administration a RACIST one…? It certainly appears to be.
You leave us NO choice but to take this to the legal experts.
Our government employees have run amok…you DON’T listen to those that feed you. This is a REPUBLIC and it is NOT the duty of our government to say who gets to work or what kind of work they will be allowed to do EXCEPT what our constitution says and you all don’t care what THAT says either. Hillary Clinton has NO right to take the job as Secretary of State. She voted for the pay raise and under our constitution has NO right to accept the seat, but YOU employees don’t care about THAT either…you overlook THAT and allow her to be appointed.
Isn’t that TREASON Robert…?
Now tell me Robert, just WHY has this Barry Soetoro/AKA Obama or whoever he REALLY is allowed to keep his “VAULT LIVE BIRTH” birth certificate, his college records, his medical records, his passport SEALED from us…? WHY did he and the Democratic party spend all those hundreds of thousands of dollars to fight his records from being exposed…?
Answer this Robert..!! WHAT is there for him to hide…? Do you think it none of OUR business…?
Our employees are picking and choosing what part of our constitution they want to abide by.
Wake up Robert….this country was founded UNDER GOD and GOD ALMIGHTY is watching all of us. We are the ONLY nation on this planet to be so BLESSED. We only need to look around and see that He is getting fed up too.
God have mercy on our employees for the likes of what evil they do. i.e.; supporting the perversion, the criminals, the INVASION of foreign illegals, the removing of God from our country and the corruption they do.
ILLEGAL aliens in our country have NO SAY what our government should or should not do. They do NOT deserve AMNESTY or ANY benefits from us taxpaying CITIZENS. They SHOULD be DEPORTED. As I see it, pandering to them is TREASON.
Thank you for your reply
Mrs. S. Ellison
SIT BACK AND WATCH……THERE WON’T BE ANY VALID ANSWERS, JUST NAME CALLING, BECAUSE WHEN THEY KNOW THEY’RE IN THE WRONG, THAT’S ALL THEY CAN RESORT TO.
WE MIGHT NOT WIN, BUT YOU CAN’T WIN WITHOUT US!