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Is that the compact?
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Thanks for making the point for me Towerclimber.
While I disagree, fairly strongly, with a lot of what is in the speech I agree with this part:
"You’ve heard the president say, present president and his predecessor, “my first job is to keep you safe.†He’s wrong! His first job is to keep us free. It is his only job to keep us free."
Cause hey, the US is the place it is because of freedom. Not the other way around.
but geeze, you've got to wonder about this:
"In the long history of the world, very few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its maximum hour of danger. This is that moment and you are that generation! Now is the time to defend our freedoms."
Why now? Why not two years ago? That is the problem with the tea party folks, they whine and complain and pretend everything is brand new when it has been going on for years. Plus, they don't want to pay the damn bills.
Everyone wants to pretend this is the worst time ever, this is the decline of the empire and all. Maybe they are right. It could be that the US is falling down to a second tier country. But if that is the case it has been happening for years..
I have to say that I'm astounded. how can you disagree with that speech?
Those folks that you accuse of whining? they're the ones that pay for government excess. It's not their job to pay for your bills, or mine for that matter. If you don't like bills, stop making so many of them.
You also remark about this happening for years and it sounds like you don't care to stop it. I have to opine "why not??" just because it has been happening is no reason to let it continue.
What kind of cockamamie logic is that?
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Oddly, I absolutely trust Obama to do what he thinks best. I absolutely trust Obama to put the good of the nation ahead of his personal gain.
In fact, I absolutely trusted all the presidents I remember to do the same thing. The problem is that what I think is the best thing and what they think is the best thing is rarely similar.
What I think is best for the country and what the guy sitting in office thinks is best haven't crossed paths since 1968. And I'm not sure that they crossed paths then as I was an embryo for the better part of the year.
keep in mind that these guys think they're smarter than the framers of the constitution...the same folks who took 13 years to write the constitution.
These folks think they have the answers that somehow escaped our forefathers.
I don't trust em as far as I can spit. Matter of fact, I think THIS guy had the right idea..
This is a long post but take the time to read the speech. it's worth it.
Judge Andrew Napolitano’s Speech at the Columbus Ohio Tea Party, August 1, 2009
Tenth Amendment Center
August 3, 2009
Keynote speech at the Ohio Rally for State Sovereignty, August 1, 2009.
Let me set down a couple of fervent beliefs that animate everything I do and everything I say.
I believe that God created heaven and earth and every single individual on the planet.
I believe that the God who gave us life gave us liberty and that freedom is our birthright.
I believe that the States created the federal government and not the other way around. And that the power that the States gave to the Federal Government – they can take back.
When we were colonists, and the King and the Parliament needed money from us, and they always seemed to need money, they devised ingenious ways to tax us. One of them was called the Stamp Act. The Parliament decreed that every piece of paper that the Colonists had in their homes; every book, every document, every deed, every lease, every pamphlet, every poster to be nailed to a tree had to have the King’s stamp on it. You think going to a Post Office is bad? You had to go to a British Government office and buy a stamp with the King’s picture.
Question. How did the King know that his picture was on every piece of paper in your house? The Parliament enacted a hateful piece of legislation called the Writs of Assistance Act which let the king’s soldiers write their own search warrants, and bang down any door they chose to look for the stamps or anything else that they were looking for.
It was the last straw.
We fought a revolution. We won the revolution. We wrote the Constitution. The constitution doesn’t grant power, it keeps the government off our backs.
When they were debating the Constitution in the Summer of 1787 in Philadelphia, there were two great arguments – one by the Jefferson and Madison crowd and one by the Adams and Hamilton crowd. Jefferson argued, though he wasn’t physically there in Philly, as he did in the Declaration of Independence that our rights are ours by virtue of our humanity. That as God is perfectly free, and we are created in his image and likeness, we too are perfectly free. The big government crowd – yes they had them even in those days – argued that you can’t have freedom without government, and that government gives us our rights, and therefore, that government can take them away. This is not an academic argument. Jefferson and the natural law argument prevailed because the Constitution was written to keep the government from interfering with our natural rights.
And so, your right to think as you wish, to say what you think, to publish what you say, to travel where you want, to worship as you see fit, to keep and bear arms to defend yourself against a tyranny. And, after the right to life, the greatest and most uniquely American of rights – and I say this in front of the seat of the government – is the right to be left alone.
We wrote a Constitution to ensure that the government would never interfere with these rights. Think about it – if rights come from the government, then the government, by ordinary legislation, or presidential decree can take them away. But if the rights come from our humanity, then unless we violate someone else’s natural rights, the government cannot take our rights away.
This is not just a democrat, upper case D, or a republican, upper case R, problem. It’s a problem with government today. There’s a republican version of big government just as assaultive to our liberties as there’s a democrat version of big government.
We fought a revolution because British soldiers could knock on our doors and demand that we house them, and demand that we turn over property to them because they could write their own search warrants. In the Patriot Act, the most hateful piece of legislation since the Alien and Sedition Acts, a republican congress and a republican president authorized federal agents to do the unthinkable – to write their own search warrants. And the republican administration didn’t even let members of the House of Representatives read the Patriot Act before they voted on it.
Why should the government be able to spy on us? We should be able to spy on them!
When some judge is rationalizing away our liberty, or some congressman is plotting to take away your freedom or your tax dollars, we should know what they do every minute that they do it.
I was speaking to a group of congressman from a neighboring state – I won’t tell you which state it was, but they don’t play football there – and they came up to me and said “this is the first time we have heard that the Patriot Act allows federal agents to write their own search warrants.†Remember, in the Constitution, we put in the 4th Amendment, the right to be left alone, to make sure that if the government had a target, no matter how guilty the target, no matter how widespread is the belief in the guilt of the target, no matter how dangerous is the target, the government has to go through a neutral judge with a search warrant before it can get to that target. These members of Congress said, “we didn’t know that the Patriot Act allowed the government to bypass the courts and write any search warrant they wanted.†Then I asked them a question I knew the answer to already – did you read the Patriot Act before you voted on it? The answer – no. What were you voting on? A summary we received. Let me guess who wrote the summary – some lawyers in the justice department, right? Of course.
Would you hire anybody to run your business that committed you to a violation of the very reason you’re in business if they didn’t even the document by which they were making that committment? Of course not.
The camera is the new gun. There’s nothing that government dislikes more than the light of day, and cameras recording what the government is doing, whether it’s on a street corner, or in there, or in Washington D.C., we have the right to know everything that they do and why they do it, and when they do it, and how they are taking our freedoms.
I have another one of my basic core beliefs. The individual has an immortal soul. Every individual is greater than any government.
Your government is based on fear and force. You don’t have to take my word on it. The 2nd president on the United States, John Adams, said “Of course the government is based on fear.†And the first president, George Washington, said “Government is not reason, it is force.†I think they knew what they were talking about.
Now fast-forward to modern times. Whenever the government wants something, it scares us. During the civil war, Lincoln tried civilians in this state where no battles occured, by military tribunal. After he died the supreme court invalidated everything the military tribunals did. During the first world war, the Wilson administration locked up 2000 people called anarchists – same thing as enemy combatants. No trial, no charge, just jail for the duration of the war. In world war II, FDR locked up 150,000 Japanese Americans, people born in the United States, who got no trial and had no charges, and when the war was over were given $25 and told to go home.
Today we have federal agents. You know I get in arguments with my friends at Fox News, and one of them, I don’t have to tell you who it is, but is truly the most irascible person there. And he said to me, you know you have a problem with Guantanamo Bay, and you have a problem with the Patriot Act, what will you do if I get sent to Guantanamo Bay, will you visit me? And I say, Bill – no, because they’ll probably keep me there as well.
Government likes to say that it’s taking an oath to uphold the Constitution. In the years that I was on the bench, it seemed that every time government lawyers were in my courtroom, if the government was prosecuting someone who was legitimately guilty or whether it was a mistake, or whether somebody was suing the government because government contractors or government doctors, or government workers made a mistake – the government doesn’t come in to the courtroom to enforce the constitution, it comes into the courtroom to evade and avoid it. That, ladies and gentlemen, must be stopped.
This is a great moment in our history. A crowd of this magnitude on a beautiful day, in the boiling sun, in the most middle-American of great middle-American states…comes together not because the president is a democrat, not because his predecessor was a republican, not because a war is just or unjust, not because the Fed is stealing or printing – you’re here because you believe in human freedom.
It is the essence of our existence that we should be free. But remember this: the government hates freedom. It is an obstacle to every one of their designs. Whenever they write laws, whenever they take your tax dollars, whenever they regulate your private behavior, whenever they tell you how to spend your money, whenever they tell you what medicines to take, whenever they tell you what food to eat, whenever they tell you with who you may or must associate, they are taking away your freedom and they love to get away with it. And they cannot get away with it any longer.
In the long history of the world, very few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its maximum hour of danger. This is that moment and you are that generation! Now is the time to defend our freedoms.
Jefferson was no saint but he was the greatest of our American presidents. He believed that the individual was greater than the state. He believed that the states were greater than the federal government. And when he wrote that our rights come from our creator, and that our rights are inalienable, he forever wed the notion of natural rights to the American experience and the American experiment. We must be vigilant about every right that the government wants to take away from us.
You’ve heard the president say, present president and his predecessor, “my first job is to keep you safe.†He’s wrong! His first job is to keep us free. It is his only job to keep us free.
Shortly before he died, Jefferson lamented, that in his view of the world that is was in the natural order of things for government to grow and freedom to be diminished; how ardently he wish that that wouldn’t happen. And in order to prevent it from happening he had a very simple remedy, “When the people fear the government, that is tyranny. When the government fears the people, that is liberty!â€
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Remove the targets. Dodd is tainted, and in a heads up race will lose, so they pull him, do a Tanner and give him a posh appointment in return for faithful service and put up a more "concervative" Dem candidate and keep the seat for the party.
Never forget, Obama is a master politician.
you're kidding right? rofl! this guy is about as bad a politician as you could ask for.
the hallmark of a good politician is that they can tell you to go to hell in such a way as to make you really want to visit.
this guy stays on the campaign trail..folks are seeing past his rhetoric and are calling him and the rest of the DNC on it.
if he was slicker, they wouldn't have half the problems they do now.
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That was my first thought when I read it and it's probably true. Somehow though the trust factor hasn't caught hold of me yet.
same here.
leopards don't change their spots.
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The government option was taken out of the Senate's proposal but not the House's proposal.Now they have to merge the 2 proposals and no telling what will change and come out of it.Then the final proposal has to be voted and passed by both.
And no you dont have to buy insurance you can just pay the fine.Since they cannot deny your from previous symptoms then why not pay the fine which would be cheaper than insurance and purchase insurance when you have a catastrophic problem.
Listen to yourself
It sounds to me like you're paying extortion money. Good luck with that.
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This article puts the whole argument into context for folks..
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yeah but this is the same state that changed the laws just to keep a democrat in power. we'll see what happens on Tuesday I guess.
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425k??? tell him he can come slap me
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From what I understand, a chimp could run a better political campaign than Coakley.
Brown, on the other hand, won the hearts of so many in his state and the US when he rebutted that the senate seat wasn't Ted Kennedy's but the belonged to the people of Massachusetts.
Of course the Democratic apparachniks have said it may take as long as 10 days to 2 weeks to seat Mr. Brown, yet they swore in the distinguished jacka$$ from Minnesota even before the election was over. (then again, they "found" votes for him in abandoned cars and in the morgue..literally more people from minneapolis voted for him than actually lived in the city...go figure)
These folks will do what it takes to pass their health care bill short of reconciliation. To do that means that they'd have to start all over again and they can't afford to take that time. the longer they haggle over this, the deader it gets.
With Brown looming on the horizon as the man to axe their bid for control, you can bet they'll try something fishy, even with so many folks watching.
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What's a good price for that Ishapore? I've always wanted an enfield, and 7.62 Nato is readily available, albeit a bit pricey.
I have an ishapore. great rifle! I paid 150.00 for it about a year ago. the price has gone up on the good ones now but you can find them on gunbroker.com fairly cheap. if you're looking for something to shoot, you can always buy the rifle, ditch the stock and buy a synthetic stock for a nominal price. Then you'll have a decent rifle.
I'm about to take the paintjob off of mine and parkerize it, put a synthetic stock and a nice scope on it.
if you're looking for a good bolt action .308 that's cheap, this is the one to look for.
as long as the barrel and bolt is in good condition, you shouldn't have problems.
that was 6 rounds, rapid fire at 50 yards...not bad for old eyes and iron sights.
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For those of you looking for a RIA tactical, I feel your pain!
It's no surprise that these pistols are accurate and dependable. After all, they're made on the same machines that made pistols for the US military and to the same specifications as the old 1911's.
I think the tactical is the first twist that RIA has ever come up with, though don't quote me on that.
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Hi Sam's dad.
I couldn't give you a price on it, but I can tell you that the grips are always going to be off on the hole spacing..and the screws are not normal screws either..they're made to spanish specifications..i.e bassackward.
good luck on finding grips for it!
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resist authori teh! (in a cartman voice)
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all in all a good question!
I would have to say the first thing I think about is caliber. lets face it, I can say "I want a pistol to carry" and get a .22 derringer. will it protect me or my family? the answer is "maybe".
that's not good enough...so caliber is the first requirement for me.
2nd would be manual of arms..for me, it's second.
I've used single action pistols all my life...it's ingrained in me...while some might think that I'm limited, I don't choose to think so. stick with what you know...it makes a difference in a tight situation. if you're equally versed in other types of firearms, it's not that big of a thing.
3rd would be reliability.
Actually, since manufacturing methods are pretty good industry wide (folks have been making firearms for a long time!) it's not hard to find a good reliable weapon of the type that you're accustomed to using and training with so I guess this would be consideration 2a. It's still a very important question and answering it poorly can lead to catastrophic consequences.
4th would be weight and how concealable it is.
the last consideration I think about is this: How well have I trained with this pistol? can I use it successfully without putting any rounds where they don't belong? How much time can I devote to training with this pistol?
I think one of my greatest fears is having to defend myself and having a round go where I don't intend it. God forbid I shoot someone that I didn't intend to. That is enough to drive me to constantly hone my marksmanship with both rifle and pistol.
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I think that folks who get arrested for drunk driving should be made to show up at every drunk driving accident in their county, in order to help the paramedics..hold trash bags or just to look and see what that kind of behavior brings.
if they get another conviction, take their license for LIFE. this kind of behavior is entirely preventable.
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They even have a guy named Freeman! My money's on this group.
HaH! I got that "half life" reference. but I guess it would be a double entendre.
I suggest that they don't lay down their arms...hang on to them and come over to the side of the people! after all, they're americans too.
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maybe i should have edited his post to what i wanted to agree with... i wasnt at all saying they were clannish. they are great people. i was only meaning they are suspicious of outsiders(which isnt all that bad). my family has done alot of mission work in southeastern ky and it takes years to get to know the people enough to open up to you. once you get to know them they would give you their last $10 or shirt off their back.
I agree with that assessment..that they are suspicious of outsiders. I don't see too much wrong with that. Being poor means you have less options than other folks.
those who would cut and run...find another place to live that's more prosperous have done so long ago. These folks work hard and long to make homes, raise families and keep them fed, and get them educated. Many people who look in from the outside would be quick to judge them as backwoods hillbillies that aren't that bright...they're plenty bright. I know a few of them that have more schooling than I do. The older folks? they're just as smart..and even wiser than they let on. simply because a college gives you a piece of paper doesn't mean you're a bright person..it just means you paid them money and sat through their classes long enough. When it comes to life experience..these folks have ph.D's..they've been through hard times like you wouldn't believe..made due with less, more times than not, and on top of all that hard work..some joker comes by and metaphorically kicks them in the teeth because of how they dress, or how they speak, or where they live or how much they make when they're not trying to take something off the "dumb backwoods hillibillies"... yah..I'd be suspicious of strangers too.
If you ask me these folks are smart where it counts..and they don't like condescension, and they'd just as soon shun you than teach you manners...less trouble that way...but if you're bound and determined to find trouble, you'll find it there..more than you want!
They mind their own business and expect others to do the same. They take care of their responsibilities and know full well the cost of taking on more than they can handle...more than just one person's standard of living is often at stake when they fail. That is why they seem "clannish".
Me? I like em.
more than that, I like where they live..it may be poor but it's beautiful country and the folks are just my kind of folks, for the most part.
RRM I'm not upbraiding you..I'm agreeing with you...but I also want to explain THEIR viewpoint so that others won't be so quick to stereotype them...or if they do, they'll at least know why folks around there act like they do.
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well hell, I think we should start giving all the baseball teams the pennant before the first game.
Give all actors and actresses the oscar before their first movie.
lets give all the college students a degree before the first day of school ..
because we "believe" that they'll accomplish all they set out to do! we have hope, we have a VISION!
meh.
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Not quite the same, but there is no doubt in my mind that I'd kill someone for sodomizing my wife.
Unless he dragged her there against her will, you'd be murdering a man that didn't deserve it.
In this respect, all I can say is that it takes 2 to do that sort of stuff and your wife would be just as guilty...and moreso than the stranger if you want to use moral relativism..simply because she KNOWS the probability of what would happen were she to be caught,when the stranger does not.
That sort of thinking is no way to get justice for all, which is a part of the credo of our justice system.
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you are right on. they are VERY leery of outsiders. i think there is more to the story than they are telling
I live in Laurel County. It's about 20 minutes away and I go up to Clay county all the time. they're good folks. Clannish? they're smart! they trust strangers only when they know their intentions. if that's a bad trait then you can color me clannish.
The idea that they all go armed to do ill will isn't true. It would be more accurate to say that they're armed to insure folks don't take liberties with them that they shouldn't. If that makes you nervous then I submit that perhaps you shouldn't entertain taking those liberties. If more people acted this way our country wouldn't be in the mess it's in now.
These folks are generous, but poor. Last time I was out working a friend of mine from around there, who knows of my love for fresh green beans, MAILED me a mason jar of them. Does that sound like clannish folks to you? Many folks around there live on the thin side of poor and that's a tough situation to be in. To see someone come in and take from them? heh. I can understand their viewpoint.
As for going through there cautious, I would think that cautious should be your standard mindset where ever you go...this is simply common sense!
and being armed all the time...this is a bad thing?
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I would suggest that if you put those screws back in, you get some loc-tite to put on them so that they don't travel when you cycle rounds.
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Just a question here..
How many good men are told to do bad things because it's policy?
I knew quite a few old timers when I was in Germany...many of them were Panzer grenadiers when they were young. they were infantry soldiers who were good men supporting an evil regime.
I am not calling the current administration evil, but I'd like to know something. if a good man supports an administration that takes your very right to choose how you take care of your own body, does that make him an evil man?
if not, what should be done about the good men, should they begin to persecute all of us "evil, no good, murdering taxpayers", simply because it's "their job"? say, they declared martial law, disbanded the Congress and brought federal troops as well as foreign troops in to police the natives?
how would you handle that?
me? I don't advocate violence. as long as the man poses no threat to me, it's simple enough to ask the man to leave or call the sheriff and have him ask the man the man to leave.
I'm asking about that because I can't figure out how one would deal with such a conundrum.
where does one draw the line and say "enough is enough". just how much of the frog has to be slow boiled before he's ready to jump out of the pot?
would it be too far if the Federal government started sending a law enforcement official along with the census worker to both make sure the questions were answered and to protect the census worker?
what if they armed the census workers and told them they had a right to arrest those who didn't comply and answer their questions?
I'm just spit- balling here...
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I can't believe that this drivel wasn't taken down.
TGO is really slipping.
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caveman, The folks here have the right of it...don't do anything to it but clean it, oil it and leave it be.
If it were me, I'd make sure to grease up the exposed metal areas with cosmoline(if you don't handle it much) and put it in a box in a gunsafe with a de-humidifier in it.