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What It’s All About

14 Tuesday Jun 2022

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San Fran Gran Nan gets to the heart of matters:

Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi made an appearance the television show ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race,’ a weekly program on VH1 that features drag queens.

“It’s my honor to be here,” Pelosi said after being introduced by host RuPaul Andre Charles. “Your freedom of expression of yourselves in drag is what America is all about.”

This may, in fact, explain more than a few things.

Pelosi Right About Facebook

17 Friday Jan 2020

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One of those rare moments when I see eye-to-eye with Madame Speaker (see, here I described her kindly!). Farcebook is shameful.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) slammed tech giant Facebook on Thursday, accusing the social media company of abusing technology to mislead users and calling its behavior “shameful.”

“The Facebook business model is strictly to make money. They don’t care about the impact on children, they don’t care about truth, they don’t care about where this is all coming from, and they have said even if they know it’s not true they will print it,” Pelosi said at a press conference.

“I think they have been very abusive of the great opportunity that technology has given them,” she added.

So, Mrs. Pelosi, do something about it. That, or shift some of the blame to the fools (not the innocents, not the kids) who continue to behave as Zuck called them, “dumbf@#ks.”

Dear Nancy; At Least He Calls it a Coup

19 Thursday Dec 2019

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After four years of science fiction writing, the House Dems impeached the President. He sent them a letter – really worth reading.

Now, what will he do about it?

No Vote = No Impeachment

17 Thursday Oct 2019

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So much for the Russia Ukraine fake news “impeachment.”

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Tuesday she will not stage a vote on the House floor to officially launch an impeachment inquiry into President Trump.

The decision came after Democratic leaders, returning to Washington following a two-week recess, had reached out to members of their diverse caucus to gauge the party’s support for such a vote.

After back-to-back meetings with party leaders and then the full caucus, Pelosi announced that no such vote would take place. Democratic aides emphasized, however, that the process remains fluid and that Pelosi may reverse course and stage such a vote at any point in the future.

“There’s no requirement that we have a vote, and so at this time we will not be having a vote,” Pelosi told reporters during a last-minute press briefing in the Capitol.

She’s right: there is no requirement for a vote unless they kick off impeachment proceedings. Then, one is mandated by that law thing. Of course, that would mean giving the GOP subpoena power and risk exposing Biden, Clinton, Obama, etc. Not going to happen. At what point do some of these people earn the official title of an enemy combatant?

An Admission About “America”

09 Tuesday Jul 2019

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Sometimes the enemy slips and admits something. Nancy Pelosi admits what America WAS:

“This is about keeping — you know … his hat — Make America White Again,” she said.

If one makes something a certain way AGAIN, it means that it was that way BEFORE. Of course, her forked tongue couched the admission in lies, claiming “it’s not what our founders had in mind.” OUR Founders. You know, she knows, the men in the diversity-free portrait on the back of the Two Dollar Bill.

And, indeed upon a time:

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Tears of a Clown: Goodbye Boehner

27 Sunday Sep 2015

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Smokey and the Miracles were Smokin’ back in 1978.  John Boehner smokes whenever he can and certainly while tanning.  Soon he will be able to devote himself full-time to his hobbies.

Last week the House Speaker, the worst since Nancy Pelosi, announced he would retire from the Speaker-ship and from Congress at the end of October. Through his usual crocodile tears the Ohio Republican reminisced, “I never thought I’d be in Congress, let alone be speaker.”  It really would have been better if he had not.  The country will never be the same.

Getting in one last shot at his own sordid party Boehner warned: “The Bible says beware of false prophets. And there are people out there spreading noise about how much can get done [to hurt the people].  I heard Jesus is willing to forgive this false prophet’s warning of false prophets since he is as thrilled as any about the resignation.

Boehner’s long list of accomplishment’s include:

  • Piling on Trillions of dollars of debt for the people to deal with (soon);
  • Securing the world for banks, insurance companies and other large transnational outfits;
  • Making sure Planned Parenthood gets your financial help to murder babies;
  • Keeping the Obamacare tax and related headaches alive and well;
  • Big government, uber alles;
  • Keeping the sheeple focused on the Republicrat charade, fiddling while the Republic burned;
  • Trading away your job;
  • Marching America towards an impoverished third world status;
  • War, war, forever more.

Thank God in Heaven this reign of mediocre terror is coming to a swift end. Sadly, we know another speaker will rise from the sewers of D.C. to take the place of the crying tan man.  News is the GOP is currently consulting the Oracle of Baphomet for replacement ideas.  Given his knack for circumventing the Congress at most turns, I nominate Boehner’s bestie, Barack Obama.

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Boehner tearfully regrets he could not do more to screw up the nation. Google Images.

Really, and in all seriousness and optimistic sentiment, this could be a fantastic start to a beautiful new era.  If only the other 534 clowns would follow suit – tears or no.  Good riddance.

The United States Constitution

08 Friday Mar 2013

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The United State Constitution is a historical anomaly.  The Constitutions of the several States are as well.  Our English predecessors had a Constitution of sorts as did the Romans long before.  These are however, rarities.  Many nations today have “constitutions” or charters which allege the rule of law, but which in reality are no different from the dictatorships and dominions of old.

Traditionally, most people have lived under one regime or another which ruled by the whims of men and the force they could exert.  Ayn Rand discussed this phenomenon, labelling it “Attila and the Witch Doctor.”  For the New Intellectual (1961).  Attila is representative of the ruling big man, a brute whose law” extends from the barrel of a gun or the tip of a spear.  The Witch Doctor is the “holy” man who finds some “divine” reason to justify Attila’s power and also placated the people to avert their suspicion or anger.

In 1775 the American colonists were under the rule of a gentler Attila, King George, III, who was constrained by Parliament and the English Constitution.  He even had a state-chartered church to serve as the Witch Doctor.  The next year the colonists declared their independence from England and instituted on earth thirteen new nations.  During the Revolutionary War these nations were united in Congress due to their dire predicament.  In 1781 the 13 states adopted the Articles of Confederation (the ratification process began in 1777) which tied them loosely together for mutual benefit.

Not being satisfied with loose ties, in 1789 the early Americans drafted a stronger document to commence a stronger central government – the Constitution.  The first ten amendments to the document, the Bill of Rights, came along in 1791. 

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(The Constitution.  Federal Archives.)

People like me are always rallying to the Constitution, its limits on government power, and it’s protection of individual rights.  When comparing the reality of modern American government to the government set forth in the original text of the Constitution, the two things seem polar opposites.  Thus, the constant call for a return to Constitutional government.  There is no doubt, from a libertarian perspective, the latter would be far easier to accept than the former. 

However, the problem I have finally come to terms with is that the two opposites are really the same thing – separated only by time.  Again, I quote Lysander Spooner: “But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain – that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it.  In either case, it is unfit to exist.”  “Unfit” is a harsh assessment, but it is probably the most intellectually honest view. 

I have personally sworn (affirmed) several oaths to support and defend the Constitution as an attorney.  Then, immediately, I have been told to look the other way as nearly every provision of the document is rendered moot.  The government these days does what it wants, end of discussion.  Its power is always on display.  If one or two of your rights happen to be respected, be happy.  The government will tell you it gave you those rights!  There is no respect for the letter of the Supreme Law.

In 2009, then Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, was asked by a reporter, “Madam Speaker, where specifically does the Constitution grant Congress the authority to enact an individual health insurance mandate?”  Mrs. Pelosi responded with indignation, “Are you serious?  Are you serious?”  She then put on the record that the question was not serious.  http://www.aim.org/guest-column/yes-nancy-pelosi-we-are-serious/.  The question was dead serious and the true answer is “nowhere.”  Truth gets in the way.

Rep.  James Clyburn clarified the issue: “There’s nothing in the Constitution that says that the federal government has anything to do with most of the stuff we do.”  http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203917304574412793406386548.html.  Jimmy was brutally honest.  Over the long-span of our Republic, a few pet phrases and ideas in the old parchment have been used to systematically justify the awesome growth of the federal government – the commerce clause, the necessary and proper clause, the general welfare clause, national defense, and taxation.  Today, when most of what the government does is illegal, they don’t even try to justify their actions.

This was hard for me to accept as an attorney.  Actually, I never did accept it.  In many (most) cases there absolutely nothing I could do for the interests of true justice and Constitutional fidelity.  However, I remain one of the few who will stand on principle to the point of Quixotic excess.  I do not fear being labeled wrong when I am right.

Here’s how the Constitution was supposed to work.  It was quite simply compared to today’s leviathan.

First, please read the Constitution.  Here’s a link: http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution.html.  This is the official site of the Constitution, complete with pictures of the original text.  Make it a “Favorites” link on your browser. 

The Constitution created the federal government, divided into three branches.  The branches were listed in order of importance.  Article One defines and empowers the legislative branch, Congress.  The powers of Congress or the legislative authority it has are mainly derived from Section Eight though a few powers reside elsewhere (some have been added by subsequent Amendments).  The powers enumerated in the text are the only powers which Congress may legally exercise.  The Tenth Amendment says so.  The number of these powers is the subject of some speculation among libertarians.  Some count the individual sub-sections only.  Some delineate each power from the subsections – I follow this approach.  Some extrapolate reasonable relations between the individual powers.  However you calculate them, the powers are few in number.  Let’s say there are about 30.  That’s it!  Those are the only things the government is supposed to do. 

Today we are trapped under tens of thousands of laws and countless regulations which cover literally everything imaginable.  The regulations are issued by various agencies, supposedly to implement the laws Congress passes.  You can find this mind-boggling collection of verbosity at: http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/browse/collectionCfr.action?collectionCode=CFR.  Don’t make too close of a study; the regulations change constantly.  In my view none of these rules are valid as they are not the expressly permitted work of Congress.  However, the agencies that make them have armies of men with guns to ensure compliance.

Article Two concerns the executive, The President. The President’s authority is even more minimal than Congress’s.  He is supposed to only attempt to enforce the valid laws Congress passes, run the day-to-day operations of the government, and prosecute wars as declared by Congress.  That’s about it. 

Of course, today the President is a virtual government unto himself.  The executive’s ability to take “emergency” action and the constant acquiescence to these actions by the other branches, have made the President the most dangerous part of the central government.  He issues Executive Orders, which were originally only supposed to concern policy implementation within his administration, but today are taken as Acts of Congress (without Acts of Congress).  My view is that almost all of these Orders are invalid.  There again, the President is in charge of all those armies of armed men and the regular military too.  He usually gets his way.

Article Three concerns the federal Judiciary.  This article only established the Supreme Court.  It left another power to Congress to create and empower inferior courts of different kinds.  Originally, legal matters were supposed to be handled by State Courts for the most part, with the Supreme Court deciding differing outcomes from different States when a controversy arose.  Many libertarians think the judiciary has become too powerful.  Perhaps it has.  Most attorneys take the opinions of the courts to be divine.  I do not, for the most part, agree.  Congress has the ultimate authority over law in this nation and has the power to override a contrary court decision.  Congress also has the express authority to limit the jurisdiction of the courts, meaning Congress can prohibit a court from reviewing certain matters.  Congress rarely uses this power.

The rest of the original articles explain various concepts, procedures, and guarantees.  Perhaps the most important feature of the remaining articles is in Article Five – the procedure for adding Amendments to the Constitution.  This has been done 27 times since the original charter was enacted.

The Bill of Rights, those first 10 amendments, was added as a cautious afterthought.  The rights therein were acknowledged as Natural Law in origin and eternal.  In 1789 all ten were taken as a given.  The Founders assured everyone, including each other, that due to its explicitly limited nature, the new government would never be a threat to individual liberties.  There was no point in adding statements of protection.  But, in 1791, suspicion gave way to action, and several core rights were definitely stated and protected.  They have been poorly defended of late.

The remaining seventeen amendments were added over the course of years.  Most granted the government more power.  Only one of those has ever been repealed – the 21st Amendment, the only one ratified following State Convention origination, repealed the 18th Amendment, which outlawed alcohol.  In my estimation, of all the Acts of the federal government in its entire history, none were more cruel than the 18th Amendment.  During a period of dramatically increasing federal power and erosion of individual liberty, the government decided to take away the People’s ability to legally drink their serfdom away.  Thank God it was erased after only 14 years.  True to form though, the government could not simply end prohibition, rather, the ability to regulate alcohol was passed on the States.  The ATF and your State’s revenue department bear witness to the enduring character of legislative folly.

In conclusion, while the Constitution may be revered as creating a government of limited powers, it still created a government.  That government has vastly exceeded its authorized power to the detriment of our Liberty.  I would like to see a return to The Articles of Confederation or some other less powerful central state.  This is not likely to happen.  The best alternative would be to simply adhere to the Constitution as written, no more.  This is equally unlikely to occur.  As is, we will have to wait until time takes its toll on the remains of the Republic.  This process may not be pleasant for us.  Plato described the cycle of the theoretical state about 2500 years ago – we would appear to be somewhere near the end.  Aristocracy gives way to timocracy (rule of land owners).  Timocracy becomes oligarchy (the rule of an elite).  Oligarchy degenerates into democracy.  Democracy can also be called “ochlocracy” or mob rule.  Ultimately this paves the way for a despot to seize power.  The cycle then repeats. 

We can really only hope that someday, a future generation will learn from our mistakes and correct them.  History says that correction won’t last long.

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