--Sarah Hoyt, at According to Hoyt
Just so we know what I'm referring to, the Missouri rodeo clown:
Exercising his Constitutional right to freedom of expression and poking fun at the real clown:
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Thursday, August 15, 2013
Quote of the Day: I am Spartacus because...
"I am Spartacus because a Rodeo Clown CAN laugh at the king. As can we all. As SHOULD we all."
--Sarah Hoyt, at According to Hoyt
Just so we know what I'm referring to, the Missouri rodeo clown:
Exercising his Constitutional right to freedom of expression and poking fun at the real clown:
--Sarah Hoyt, at According to Hoyt
Just so we know what I'm referring to, the Missouri rodeo clown:
Exercising his Constitutional right to freedom of expression and poking fun at the real clown:
Tuesday, July 9, 2013
Quote of the Day -- Walid Shoebat on Immigration "Reform"
As the immigration debate continues to rage, its proponents insist conscientious objectors to the plans of the Gangs of eight (Senate and House) are racist xenophobes who simply have no compassion for Mexican nationals that desperately want a better life. Yet, the small minds of such accusers are impenetrable to painful facts. The ‘race card’ is a ‘bully card’ and bullying is the most base of human tendencies that requires brain activity from little more than the brain stem. Such individuals are either pushing an agenda or are the useful idiots of those who are.
Walid Shoebat, former member of the Muslim Brotherhood, at http://shoebat.com/2013/07/08/merciless-indian-savages-of-the-21st-century/.
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Quote of the Day
"The power of the sword, say the minority..., is in the hands of Congress. My friends and countrymen, it is not so, for The powers of the sword are in the hands of the yeomanry of America from sixteen to sixty. The militia of these free commonwealths, entitled and accustomed to their arms, when compared with any possible army, must be tremendous and irresistible. Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man against his own bosom. Congress has no power to disarm the militia. Their swords and every terrible implement of the soldier are the birthright of Americans. The unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments but where, I trust in God, it will always remain, in the hands of the people."
Tench Coxe, anti-federalist, quoted from his writing as "A Pennsylvanian" in The Pennsylvania Gazette, February 20, 1788.
Hat tip to Kurt Hofmann for his mention in "Call Them 'Regime Change Rifles'".
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Quote of the Day
"...common sense is derived from rough and tumble contact with reality."
Sultan Knish, aka Daniel Greenfield, expounding on reality, unreality, and the consequences of taking the blue pill in Everything is Fake Now.
Monday, March 26, 2012
Quote of the Day
In sum, from January 2009 to January 2011 — in the pre-Climategate days before Al Gore was a “sex poodle” and when the Himalayan glaciers were to be swamps and polar bears extinct — new gas and oil production was considered “bad,” given that Obama was pushing wind, solar, and “alternative” energies. In those giddy cap-and-trade days, he could afford to pontificate because he was not up for reelection and world demand was sluggish, dropping oil prices at the wellhead. When the world economy began rebounding, demand picked up, prices spiked, and now Obama is in campaign mode: suddenly high gas prices are bad and he claims not that he wants his House-approved cap-and-trade bill pushed through his Democratically controlled Senate, but rather that all along he has encouraged private enterprise to drill while successfully persuading us to cut back our consumption (as if we did so because of the impressive oratory of Barack Obama rather than because he had managed to ensure millions of Americans now had no jobs to drive to work to).
Victor Davis Hanson, The Gaseous Policies of Barack Obama
My Note: A must-read article for anyone who is a producer. Democrats and their ilk are requested to continue their immersion in Obamaganda.
Victor Davis Hanson, The Gaseous Policies of Barack Obama
My Note: A must-read article for anyone who is a producer. Democrats and their ilk are requested to continue their immersion in Obamaganda.
Friday, March 16, 2012
Quote of the Day
"My choices in life were either to be a piano player in a whore house or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference!"
Harry S. Truman
By the way, some information about the last arguably honorable Democrat to occupy the White House:
Harry Truman was a different kind of President. He probably made as many, or more important decisions regarding our nation's history as any of the other 42 Presidents preceding him. However, a measure of his greatness may rest on what he did after he left the White House.
The only asset he had when he died was the house he lived in, which was in Independence Missouri . His wife had inherited the house from her mother and father and other than their years in the White House, they lived their entire lives there.
When he retired from office in 1952 his income was a U.S. Army pension reported to have been $13,507.72 a year. Congress, noting that he was paying for his stamps and personally licking them, granted him an 'allowance' and, later, a retroactive pension of $25,000 per year.
After President Eisenhower was inaugurated, Harry and Bess drove home to Missouri by themselves. There was no Secret Service following them.
When offered corporate positions at large salaries, he declined, stating, "You don't want me. You want the office of the President, and that doesn't belong to me. It belongs to the American people and it's not for sale."
Even later, on May 6, 1971, when Congress was preparing to award him the Medal of Honor on his 87th birthday, he refused to accept it, writing, "I don't consider that I have done anything which should be the reason for any award, Congressional or otherwise."
As president he paid for all of his own travel expenses and food.
I have not personally verified this information. I received it in an email from a family member, and thought it sufficiently interesting to pass along.
Harry S. Truman
By the way, some information about the last arguably honorable Democrat to occupy the White House:
Harry Truman was a different kind of President. He probably made as many, or more important decisions regarding our nation's history as any of the other 42 Presidents preceding him. However, a measure of his greatness may rest on what he did after he left the White House.
The only asset he had when he died was the house he lived in, which was in Independence Missouri . His wife had inherited the house from her mother and father and other than their years in the White House, they lived their entire lives there.
When he retired from office in 1952 his income was a U.S. Army pension reported to have been $13,507.72 a year. Congress, noting that he was paying for his stamps and personally licking them, granted him an 'allowance' and, later, a retroactive pension of $25,000 per year.
After President Eisenhower was inaugurated, Harry and Bess drove home to Missouri by themselves. There was no Secret Service following them.
When offered corporate positions at large salaries, he declined, stating, "You don't want me. You want the office of the President, and that doesn't belong to me. It belongs to the American people and it's not for sale."
Even later, on May 6, 1971, when Congress was preparing to award him the Medal of Honor on his 87th birthday, he refused to accept it, writing, "I don't consider that I have done anything which should be the reason for any award, Congressional or otherwise."
As president he paid for all of his own travel expenses and food.
I have not personally verified this information. I received it in an email from a family member, and thought it sufficiently interesting to pass along.
Friday, March 9, 2012
Quote of the Day
"Due process and judicial process are not one and the same, particularly when it comes to national security. The Constitution guarantees due process, not judicial process."
Eric "Himmler" Holder, Attorney General of the United States of Amerika.
The above quote was Gestapomeister Holder's response to questions about whether or not the Obama regime felt that it could target Americans for assassination within U.S. borders.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/03/07/mueller-have-to-check-with-holder-whether-targeted-killing-rule-is-outside-us/#ixzz1oeGKOfOg
This story was covered by other blogs such as Zero Hedge and Mike Vanderboegh, but I did not see mention of this quote, which should scare the pants off of anyone with even passing knowledge of the Constitution and the concept of Due Process of Law.
Holder's statement is a very broad statement that exceeds the context in which it was given. He states that there is a right to due process, but not to judicial process. Think about this for a moment. What is due process and how does a citizen obtain it?
The simple answer is that judicial process is an inseparable part of due process. Without judicial process, the review of government action by the judiciary, due process is only the two words, a hollow shell of the idea that a person's rights under the Constitution are respected and enforced. Without judicial process, due process is whatever the executive branch says it is, without the mechanism of judicial oversight and review guaranteed by the Constitution. Due process would simply be a label plastered over the regimes practices, used to justify its actions, in this case the action being the sentencing to death of a citizen without judicial process.
How is judicial process essential to due process? Judicial process is the real time application of due process, the proceedings which form the check and balance on the power of the state. It is the court procedure and case law interpretation of statutory law which, for example, examines whether the state has reasonable suspicion of a crime committed, probable cause to believe that a person committed the crime, whether the state violated the person's rights such as to remain silent, to ensure that proceedings are fair and that the accused has legal counsel, to apply the legal standard of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, and to ensure that the punishment is not cruel or unusual.
Holder's statement, taken at face value, declares that none of the judicial process in the preceding paragraph is required.
Decades ago, the Supreme Court ruled that persons accused of misdemeanor traffic violations have the right to counsel where imprisonment was a possible penalty under the statute, even if it were unlikely that a defendant were to be sentenced to a day of jail time.
We have gone so far down the road to tyranny that, in a country that once upheld the right to a defense attorney for a misdemeanor traffic violation, there is no outrage when the nation's lead attorney declares that there is no right to judcial process (much less a defense attorney) when the government decides that a citizen's life is to be extinguished.
Holder is not only an embarrassment to the legal profession, but is a domestic enemy to the American people. FBI Director Robert Mueller, himself an attorney and former U.S. Attorney, is a co-conspirator to Holder's crimes against the American people. I only hope that the next administration prosecutes Holder and Mueller to the fullest extent of the law, but I will not be holding my breath in anticipation.
Sometimes I don't recognize this country that I was born and raised in.
Eric "Himmler" Holder, Attorney General of the United States of Amerika.
The above quote was Gestapomeister Holder's response to questions about whether or not the Obama regime felt that it could target Americans for assassination within U.S. borders.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/03/07/mueller-have-to-check-with-holder-whether-targeted-killing-rule-is-outside-us/#ixzz1oeGKOfOg
This story was covered by other blogs such as Zero Hedge and Mike Vanderboegh, but I did not see mention of this quote, which should scare the pants off of anyone with even passing knowledge of the Constitution and the concept of Due Process of Law.
Holder's statement is a very broad statement that exceeds the context in which it was given. He states that there is a right to due process, but not to judicial process. Think about this for a moment. What is due process and how does a citizen obtain it?
The simple answer is that judicial process is an inseparable part of due process. Without judicial process, the review of government action by the judiciary, due process is only the two words, a hollow shell of the idea that a person's rights under the Constitution are respected and enforced. Without judicial process, due process is whatever the executive branch says it is, without the mechanism of judicial oversight and review guaranteed by the Constitution. Due process would simply be a label plastered over the regimes practices, used to justify its actions, in this case the action being the sentencing to death of a citizen without judicial process.
How is judicial process essential to due process? Judicial process is the real time application of due process, the proceedings which form the check and balance on the power of the state. It is the court procedure and case law interpretation of statutory law which, for example, examines whether the state has reasonable suspicion of a crime committed, probable cause to believe that a person committed the crime, whether the state violated the person's rights such as to remain silent, to ensure that proceedings are fair and that the accused has legal counsel, to apply the legal standard of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, and to ensure that the punishment is not cruel or unusual.
Holder's statement, taken at face value, declares that none of the judicial process in the preceding paragraph is required.
Decades ago, the Supreme Court ruled that persons accused of misdemeanor traffic violations have the right to counsel where imprisonment was a possible penalty under the statute, even if it were unlikely that a defendant were to be sentenced to a day of jail time.
We have gone so far down the road to tyranny that, in a country that once upheld the right to a defense attorney for a misdemeanor traffic violation, there is no outrage when the nation's lead attorney declares that there is no right to judcial process (much less a defense attorney) when the government decides that a citizen's life is to be extinguished.
Holder is not only an embarrassment to the legal profession, but is a domestic enemy to the American people. FBI Director Robert Mueller, himself an attorney and former U.S. Attorney, is a co-conspirator to Holder's crimes against the American people. I only hope that the next administration prosecutes Holder and Mueller to the fullest extent of the law, but I will not be holding my breath in anticipation.
Sometimes I don't recognize this country that I was born and raised in.
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Quote of the Day
"When you tweet your meat, expect defeat."
Comment left by "Attila the Pun" on Andrew Breitbart's post on the Democrats' loss in the NY-9 special election, the former seat of disgraced Rep. Anthony Weiner, at biggovernment.com.
Comment left by "Attila the Pun" on Andrew Breitbart's post on the Democrats' loss in the NY-9 special election, the former seat of disgraced Rep. Anthony Weiner, at biggovernment.com.
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Quote of the Day
"THERE IS NO SHORTAGE OF FUNDS TO PAY SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE UNDER THE EXISTING DEBT CEILING. IN FACT, TREASURY COULD PAY THOSE BENEFITS EVEN IF THERE WAS ZERO TAX COLLECTED FROM ANYONE IN THIS COUNTRY FOR SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE - SUCH AS IF UNEMPLOYMENT WAS 100% - FOR A PERIOD OF MORE THAN THREE YEARS, AND NOT VIOLATE THE DEBT CEILING."
Karl Denninger, "Social Security Is NOT At Risk On Debt Ceiling"
Karl Denninger, "Social Security Is NOT At Risk On Debt Ceiling"
Monday, March 7, 2011
Quote of the Day
Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.
He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound's the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
Robert Frost, Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening
This poem has always resonated with me, especially in my more contemplative moods. Whenever I'm about to succumb to the distractive curiosities in life, this poem seems to emerge from the recesses of my mind. Lately there have been many distractions and curiosities. It sure would be nice to stop and gawk for a while, but there is family to be with, a job to go to, and preps yet to be put away. And miles to go before I sleep.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.
He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound's the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
Robert Frost, Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening
This poem has always resonated with me, especially in my more contemplative moods. Whenever I'm about to succumb to the distractive curiosities in life, this poem seems to emerge from the recesses of my mind. Lately there have been many distractions and curiosities. It sure would be nice to stop and gawk for a while, but there is family to be with, a job to go to, and preps yet to be put away. And miles to go before I sleep.
Monday, February 14, 2011
Quote of the Day
"DHS is a honey pot for political preeners, unpromotable time-servers, affirmative action misfits and well-mannered sociopaths. In other words, it's a badly led catch basin for the otherwise unemployable. It's extraordinarily well funded and well equipped even by D.C. standards. It has a nearly unlimited mandate and the powers to go with it. Even so, it excels only at pratfalls and conspicuous incompetence. DHS is "predictably unpredictable" and dangerously so. It's an aimless but determined malevolency lurching between imagined threats and self-created crises, issuing and retracting bizarre directives as they go. FEMA and TSA are two of their outfits. Enough said. What they offer, you don't want. You'll have no emergency so dire they won't make it worse. Wariness isn't enough, dodge any—any—avoidable contact."
Ol' Remus, Woodpile Report issue number 203, on Reichsfuhrer Incompetano's Department of Homeland Security.
Could not have said it better myself. If you have not, read the whole thing.
Ol' Remus, Woodpile Report issue number 203, on Reichsfuhrer Incompetano's Department of Homeland Security.
Could not have said it better myself. If you have not, read the whole thing.
Monday, December 13, 2010
Quote of the Day
"With me, abortion is not a problem of religion, it's a problem of the Constitution. I believe that until and unless someone can establish that the unborn child is not a living human being, then that child is already protected by the Constitution, which guarantees life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness to all of us."
Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Bullshit Quote of the Day
“We don’t know much. If you were to try and devise a template about what connects this terrorist to this terrorist and how they were raised and what schools they went to and their socioeconomic status, or this or that, it’s all over the map. I think there’s some important work that’s being done on that but … the Secretary of Homeland Security cannot wait for that.”
JanetIncompetano Napolitano, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security
Gee, Janet, even I know the answer to this one. Can I get paid a six figure salary like you for giving you the answer?
No? OK, I'll give you the answer anyway.
Chances are, your suspected terrorist attended a madrassa, can recite the Quran, prays five times a day, cowers in fear from a slice of bacon, won't pet your dog, calls you a kaffir, wants to build a mosque near the site where 3,000 innocent persons died on September 11, 2001, and treats women like dirt.
Instead of recognizing the obvious, you and your perverted sociopathic employees choose to molest women and children with porno scanners and dirty exam gloves. What a pathetic bunch of Nazi scum you all are.
-Nairb
Janet
Gee, Janet, even I know the answer to this one. Can I get paid a six figure salary like you for giving you the answer?
No? OK, I'll give you the answer anyway.
Chances are, your suspected terrorist attended a madrassa, can recite the Quran, prays five times a day, cowers in fear from a slice of bacon, won't pet your dog, calls you a kaffir, wants to build a mosque near the site where 3,000 innocent persons died on September 11, 2001, and treats women like dirt.
Instead of recognizing the obvious, you and your perverted sociopathic employees choose to molest women and children with porno scanners and dirty exam gloves. What a pathetic bunch of Nazi scum you all are.
-Nairb
Sunday, November 14, 2010
Quote of the Day
"I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness. Amazing. My conservative friends look at me and say, 'Welcome to the club. What took you so long?' Well that's what it took and I think it's worth recording."
Christopher Hitchens, in this article.
Christopher Hitchens, in this article.
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Quote of the Day
I would tell you to GO TO HELL....but I work there and I don't want to see you every day.
bumper sticker I observed while on my way to work this morning.
bumper sticker I observed while on my way to work this morning.
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Quote of the Day
"The plain fact is that the American people are too morally degenerate to be capable of effective self-government."
David Deming, Associate Professor of Arts & Sciences at the University of Oklahoma, in America Is Gone.
David Deming, Associate Professor of Arts & Sciences at the University of Oklahoma, in America Is Gone.
Monday, October 25, 2010
Quote of the Day
"Democrats hate Democrats most of all. Witness the policies that Democrats have inflicted on their core constituencies, resulting in vile schools, lawless slums, economic stagnation, and social immobility. Democrats will do anything to make sure that Democratic voters stay helpless and hopeless enough to vote for Democrats."
P.J. O'Rourke, in They Hate Our Guts (And They're Drunk on Power).
Worth a read for it's insights, none of which surprise your humble correspondent.
P.J. O'Rourke, in They Hate Our Guts (And They're Drunk on Power).
Worth a read for it's insights, none of which surprise your humble correspondent.
Thursday, October 7, 2010
I Stand Corrected, and Quote of the Day
In my last post regarding Asshat Extraordinaire Patty Murray I made an error. In the interest of fairness I will correct my misstatement.
Patty Murray was elected to the senate in 1992, not 1994 as I had stated.
I was feeling sheepish about this error until I read this whopper from Patty Murray herself, uttered shortly after 9/11/2001, about Osama Bin Laden:
"He's been out in these countries for decades, building schools, building roads, building infrastructure, building day-care facilities, building health-care facilities, and the people are extremely grateful. He's made their lives better."
Thanks to Ann Coulter, who reminded me of the Retarded Senator's statement. Read the rest at Townhall.
Patty Murray was elected to the senate in 1992, not 1994 as I had stated.
I was feeling sheepish about this error until I read this whopper from Patty Murray herself, uttered shortly after 9/11/2001, about Osama Bin Laden:
"He's been out in these countries for decades, building schools, building roads, building infrastructure, building day-care facilities, building health-care facilities, and the people are extremely grateful. He's made their lives better."
Thanks to Ann Coulter, who reminded me of the Retarded Senator's statement. Read the rest at Townhall.
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Quote of the Day
I unloaded on him in words to this effect:
"Look, your right to self-defense, your right to arms, is natural and God-given. The most that any scrap of paper can do is codify that fact. The Second Amendment doesn't "guarantee" anything. The Supreme Court doesn't "guarantee" anything. Do you know what does?"
"God?" he offered.
"No, not God. The rights come from God but they're not guaranteed by Him."
I snatched a rifle off the display rack in the middle of the shop and held it at port arms.
"This. This, and millions like it in the hands of citizens willing to use them to defend their liberty and property against free-lance criminals or tyrannical governments. It is those millions of rifles and the will to use them that secures our liberties in this country. First comes the military fact of the firearms in the hands of citizens, then follows the legal niceties of the liberty recognized after the fact by politicians. Without the one, tyrants don't respect the other. Remember that."
And without another word, I replaced the rifle in the rack, picked up my cane and gimped out of the store.
Mike Vanderboegh, fellow Dutchman, at Sipsey Street Irregulars
"Look, your right to self-defense, your right to arms, is natural and God-given. The most that any scrap of paper can do is codify that fact. The Second Amendment doesn't "guarantee" anything. The Supreme Court doesn't "guarantee" anything. Do you know what does?"
"God?" he offered.
"No, not God. The rights come from God but they're not guaranteed by Him."
I snatched a rifle off the display rack in the middle of the shop and held it at port arms.
"This. This, and millions like it in the hands of citizens willing to use them to defend their liberty and property against free-lance criminals or tyrannical governments. It is those millions of rifles and the will to use them that secures our liberties in this country. First comes the military fact of the firearms in the hands of citizens, then follows the legal niceties of the liberty recognized after the fact by politicians. Without the one, tyrants don't respect the other. Remember that."
And without another word, I replaced the rifle in the rack, picked up my cane and gimped out of the store.
Mike Vanderboegh, fellow Dutchman, at Sipsey Street Irregulars
Friday, April 9, 2010
Quote of the Day
"Obama has made it crystal clear for even the most avidly self-duping progressive: He will murder his fellow citizens without trial or evidence if he sees fit. The state can murder whom it pleases. This is the system we have. This is what you support when you support Barack Obama.... If you support Obama now, in this, then there is no crime he can commit that you will not support. And thus you become one of those people that we all used to puzzle over, the accomodationists to brutal tyranny: `How did all those people go along with the Nazis? Why wasn't there more opposition to Stalin? How could they countenance all those obvious abominations? What kind of people were they?' Now you know. They were you. You are them."
Chris Floyd, in "The Accomodationists: Memo to Liberals on the White House Death Warrants".
My comment: This is a deadly important issue. If Obama can order the murder of an American citizen overseas, no matter how odious the character of that citizen, what is to stop him from murdering citizens here in the USA?
Chris Floyd, in "The Accomodationists: Memo to Liberals on the White House Death Warrants".
My comment: This is a deadly important issue. If Obama can order the murder of an American citizen overseas, no matter how odious the character of that citizen, what is to stop him from murdering citizens here in the USA?
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