The Prez Drinks Beer. Big Deal.

One-hundred four years ago, the great president Theodore Roosevelt skillfully wrought a peace treaty to end the warring between Russia and Japan. It became known as the Portsmouth Peace Treaty, and is considered one of history's great peace treaties. Roosevelt won the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts. Moreover, through this and his other wise counsels and efforts as president (the Big Stick policy, his trust-busting policy, his military expansion policies, and the Panama Canal, to name a few), he helped to elevate the United States of America as a formidable yet beneficent force in world events.

A century later, we have a tepid president about to drink beer to assuage two men in a stupid quarrel over local law enforcement.

If this isn't proof that our country is like a silly little girl run by a bunch of silly little girls, I don't know what is.

Photo from PatriotPost.

Consumed with style over substance, our country is OBSESSED with celebrities, meaningless, mindless news, and the latest best diet pills. Sure, no one wants to be fat, but... As important as being as sexy as a pheromone-infested horny toad is, the Constitution and our eroding Bill of Rights are KINDA important.

I will say that I disliked President Bush almost as much as I dislike Obama as president-- neither are interested in keeping their oaths to defend, protect, and preserve the Constitution. But at least Bush could pitch.

Those Good Old Days of Representative Government

"The house of representatives ... can make no law which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as well as the great mass of society. This has always been deemed one of the strongest bonds by which human policy can connect the rulers and the people together. It creates between them that communion of interest, and sympathy of sentiments, of which few governments have furnished examples; but without which every government degenerates into tyranny." --Federalist No. 57, February 19, 1788

Thank God We Can Now Say: Woodstock TEN YEARS LATER

The further away this Upstate NY scourge gets from us, the better. What a disgraceful, ugly spot on the historical annals of an other wise noble city, Rome, NY. Once known as the area (in nearby Oriskany) of the fiercest battle for liberty during the Revolutionary War, it's known today as the site of the lascivious psychedelic drug orgy for the nation. OK, I'll be fair-- there was music there, too. Woodstock-- the foci of all that's wrong with the Baby Boomers and the Gen Y generation.




Riots erupted, police were brought in. The political "leaders" should have realized that the only way to ever control such a motley crew would have been to slap digital printouts on attendees foreheads before they could enter the grounds, and monitor the overage JDs with sophisticated barcode scanners. Hey, the Army does it!

Oddly enough, amongst all this hooplah about "celebrating" Woodstock, the media has forgotten that the PEOPLE of the area were very much against hosting Woodstock here, and that the then-mayor of Rome worked very hard to thwart the people: Senator Joe Griffo. Such an historic event like Woodstock says a LOT about a politician, I think-- one who is willing to pimp off our respectable area in ANY WAY POSSIBLE and TO HELL with the PEOPLE (watch the video if you don't believe me) for the sake of getting us in the national news (albeit the clips were of rioters) and clogging our streets with drug dealers and violent criminals, and "improving" our economy. Who does Rome think they are, Utica?!?!

If Griffo's political opponents had simply remembered this during the last election, THEY'd be sitting in the posh leather chair in the Senate chambers, and not Joe. All they had to use for their campaign slogan would have been: Griffo brought you Woodstock and the election would have been in the bag. But at least ol' Joe is in good company now, so he's safe in his incumbency. Talk about eternal security...

Mental Health Records of Virginia Shooter Discovered

The New York Post has published a story that the mental health records of 2007's "Virginia Tech shooter" have been discovered.. after being found in the files of an ex-director of the mental health center.

RICHMOND, Va. -- Mental health records for Virginia Tech gunman Seung-Hui Cho that were missing for more than two years have been discovered in the home of the university clinic's former director, according to a state memo shared with victims' family members.

Cho killed 32 people on April 16, 2007, then committed suicide as police closed in. His mental health treatment has been a major issue in the vast investigation of the shootings, yet the records' location had eluded authorities.

They were revealed by a lawyer involved in a lawsuit filed by two families of Cho's victims against the former director, the university and several other parties, claiming gross negligence in failing to prevent the massacre.

A memo from the university to Gov. Tim Kaine's chief legal counsel and shared with victims' family members says Cho's records and those of several other Virginia Tech students were found last week in the home of Dr. Robert C. Miller. The memo was obtained by The Associated Press on Wednesday.

The memo said Cho's records were removed from the Cook Counseling Center on the Virginia Tech campus more than a year before the shootings, when Miller left the clinic.

Kaine said a Virginia State Police criminal investigation was under way into why the records disappeared. Removing records from the center is illegal, he said.

Yes, it is illegal to remove such records. One wonders why Mr. Miller did so. What an odd, odd coincidence; yes, quite strange, wouldn't you say?

Seriously, it's become extremely difficult to maintain faith in quirky coincidences. I mean, when these kinds of things happen all the time, they aren't considered coincidences anymore, now are they?

Miller is named as a defendant in the lawsuit filed by the families of slain students Erin Peterson and Julia Pryde. The suit claims Miller was told by Cho's English professors about his disturbing behavior and by the school's residential director that Cho had a history of erratic behavior, suicidal thoughts and had "blades" in his room.

The lawsuit claims Miller never passed that information on to either of the therapists from the counseling center who dealt with Cho during three 45-minute triage sessions in 2005.

Because Miller never passed on the information and the records were lost, opportunities to "deflect him (Cho) from his dangerous and ultimately tragic course were lost," the lawsuit states.

Notes of the warnings to Miller or those made by the therapists concerning the three meetings were never found by investigators. It is unclear if those are part of the recovered records.

I have but one question about this, and so many other "coincidences" that we see on a constant basis: pro bono? Who benefits? We're not talking about Kettlebell workouts here-- we're talking about the Second Amendment. About Congress making no law to deprive us of our rights!

Wasn't it particularly notable that the second-amendment-haters came out of the woodwork in April 2007, using the VA Tech shooting as "proof" that guns should be banned, or gun ownership regulated to death. Particularly with this news and today's passage in the Senate about carrying concealed weapons.

All very interesting. Pro bono?

And What Have We to Oppose Them?

I ask gentlemen, sir, what means this martial array, if its purpose be not to force us to submission? Can gentlemen assign any other possible motive for it? Has Great Britain any enemy in this quarter of the world to call for all this accumulation of navies and armies? No, sir, she has none. They are meant for us: they can be meant for no other. They are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains which the British ministry have been so long forging. And what have we to oppose to them? Shall we try argument? Sir, we have been trying that for the last ten years. Have we anything new to offer upon the subject? Nothing. We have held the subject up in every light of which it is capable; but it has been all in vain.

I think Patrick Henry's words are coming to life once again, in this time that retries mens' souls. Truly: what have we to oppose them? What do we have to push back the flood of supra-legislation, of global currency, of the loss of national sovereignty, and the complete collapse of the Constitution?

Everyone is saying: "The next election! 2010-- that will be the watershed year!"

I beg to differ.

Haven't we been voting away our time, for decades? What have we got to show for it but more and weighty legislation, more Congressional spending, and a chugging ahead towards a "global governance"? Is this what we want, international background checks, foreign law, etc?

No, the solution is not in voting, it is not in running for office, it is not with elections.

I loathe the thought of any violent course in the fight against encroaching tyranny; will someone please inform me of a more effective action? Voting has been meangingless and empty. I cannot pretend that going to the polls once again will solve ANYTHING. I keep hearing how liberty-lovers need to stand up and rise up out of their complacency, but my question is: what complacency? That is not voting or running for office?

I heard a snippet of the Glenn Beck program this week (I rarely have time to tune in, so when I do, it is usually memorable), and he was asking the same things! What do we do, what do we really have that we may push back? He didn't offer any ideas, saying that he is formulating a book that will denote more details. But we do not need to wait for a book to be written. I think we know already what we can do to protest, although doing these things will require sacrifice.

The main thing is not to fight back with violence-- but rather to fight back by removing ourselves from their system.

Ronald Reagan proposed this back in the 1980s, but he was not heeded. Here is a scratchpad of some of my ideas:

1. Get saved. Yes, I'm talking about Jesus Christ. No other God has risen from the dead, and He did it to save sinners. Your soul is of utmost importance, first and foremost. If you're not convinced that Christ is real, and that He is risen-- study. There's a lot of information available that will prove it- read the gospel of Matthew in the New Testament. I also recommend the book The Case For Christ by Lee Strobel.

2. Attend church. Human beings need moral accountability in their lives. Left to himself, a man rarely lives as he ought. We need to become accountable--willingly accountable-- by a group other than law enforcement.

3. Educate your own children. The reason this tyranny has progressed so far as it has is because the youth are taught from a very early age that government is distant, that government is the beneficent decision-maker and provider, and that government gives us our freedoms. Take your children out of this system.

4. Throw out the trash in your home: the television, the magazines, etc. It's time to live a virtuous life, as the Faounding Fathers said we must if our republic was to last. A man needs to govern himself before he can govern others.

5. Educate yourself. Know the issues, study the facts and the writings of the founders. There must be a unity of knowledge amongst us. Certainly not all of us are going to attain to the same levels in belief or knowledge, but we must be united in purpose (liberty) and in the facts as they are (such as, licentiousness is not liberty, etc).

Like Samuel Adams, I also believe that we the people of the United States must return to a virtuous way of living- virtuous in our morals, our knowledge, and our purpose. The time for marching the town square with picket signs is over. It's time to act, and the best place to begin is in our own homes.

Watermelon Politics

Watermelons: "Green" on the outside; "Red" on the inside.

This takes world dominance to a new level.

Gore: U.S. Climate Bill Will Help Bring About 'Global Governance'

Former Vice President Al Gore declared that the Congressional climate bill will help bring about “global governance.”

“I bring you good news from the U.S., “Gore said on July 7, 2009 in Oxford at the Smith School World Forum on Enterprise and the Environment, sponsored by UK Times.

“Just two weeks ago, the House of Representatives passed the Waxman-Markey climate bill,” Gore said, noting it was “very much a step in the right direction.” President Obama has pushed for the passage of the bill in the Senate and attended a G8 summit this week where he agreed to attempt to keep the Earth's temperatures from rising more than 2 degrees C.

Gore touted the Congressional climate bill, claiming it “will dramatically increase the prospects for success” in combating what he sees as the “crisis” of man-made global warming.

“But it is the awareness itself that will drive the change and one of the ways it will drive the change is through global governance and global agreements.” (Editor's Note: Gore makes the “global governance” comment at the 1min. 10 sec. mark in this UK Times video.)

Gore's call for “global governance” echoes former French President Jacques Chirac's call in 2000.

On November 20, 2000, then French President Chirac said during a speech at The Hague that the UN's Kyoto Protocol represented "the first component of an authentic global governance."

“For the first time, humanity is instituting a genuine instrument of global governance,” Chirac explained. “From the very earliest age, we should make environmental awareness a major theme of education and a major theme of political debate, until respect for the environment comes to be as fundamental as safeguarding our rights and freedoms. By acting together, by building this unprecedented instrument, the first component of an authentic global governance, we are working for dialogue and peace,” Chirac added.

Former EU Environment Minister Margot Wallstrom said, "Kyoto is about the economy, about leveling the playing field for big businesses worldwide." Canadian Prime Minster Stephen Harper once dismissed UN's Kyoto Protocol as a “socialist scheme.”

Essentially, socialism is the dumbing down of society, culture, and economics. But Americans don't seem to mind, and they certainly don't seem to object funding such schemes. After all, they've been sending their own flesh and blood to dumbed-down socially-engineered indoctrination camps, willingly dumping their property tax money into the school system.

And doesn't anyone find it the least bit creepy that Gore holds up his hands like iconoclastic Jesus and announces "I bring you good news" (of great joy) to all the people? These people are just insane.

FFQF: Term Limits

Haven't done this in a long while. Then again, neither has Mulligan. You there, Mr. Mulligan?

Well, here's a good quote for you. I know you love the idea of term limits as well as I do.

"Nothing so strongly impels a man to regard the interest of his constituents, as the certainty of returning to the general mass of the people, from whence he was taken, where he must participate in their burdens."

--George Mason, speech in the Virginia Ratifying Convention, June 17, 1788

Founding Father's Quote Friday is hosted at Meet the Founders blog

TERM LIMITS: It's just a good idea.

Cap & Trade= Controlling the Resources

The Cap & Trade Bill recently narrowly passed in Congress is a farce. It's a not-too-thinly-disguised effort by the fascists to legally grab more control of our economy and of the natural resources.

While I am somewhat disenchanted with the Big Oil culture our nation has built since the 1950s (that Planned Obsolescence and Materialistic Consumerism and all), you can't change an entire national culture and new economy with a swipe of the pen and a Gaiain emphasis on "green." Especially when the new economy rising isn't better than the old one. Bureaucrats, intoxicated with power, do such silly, idiotic things.

Australian town bans bottled water sales

SYDNEY (AP) -- Residents of a rural Australian town hoping to protect the earth and their wallets have voted to ban the sale of bottled water, the first community in the country - and possibly the world - to take such a drastic step in the growing backlash against the industry.

Residents of Bundanoon cheered after their near-unanimous approval of the measure at a town meeting Wednesday. It was the second blow to Australia's beverage industry in one day: Hours earlier, the New South Wales state premier banned all state departments and agencies from buying bottled water, calling it a waste of money and natural resources.

"I have never seen 350 Australians in the same room all agreeing to something," said Jon Dee, who helped spearhead the "Bundy on Tap" campaign in Bundanoon, a town of 2,500 about 100 miles (160 kilometers) south of Sydney. "It's time for people to realize they're being conned by the bottled water industry."

Australians, you're being conned even more by the bureaucrats. Banning bottled water for your little county does NOTHING for "saving" the earth. It does EVERYTHING in giving bureaucrats more power; in deluding more people; in giving government more and more control over natural resources.

Mundus vult decipi.