I feel his pain. I am making plans to return to MA someday, but sometimes I wonder.
http://www.thesurvivalpodcast.com/a-letter-from-a-military-vet-to-the-state-of-ny
Monday, February 25, 2013
Saturday, February 23, 2013
Unrestrained by Law or Constitution: Geek Edition
To fully experience this post, explore the imbedded links.
This post came out of nowhere. I have been watching G. I. Joe Renegades with the daughter and we did watch an episode with the Crimson Twins.
Maybe that has something to do with it? I don’t know, it’s all so confusing. I
think I might have skipped too many doses of Prozium.
Here goes.
Tyrant: A ruler unrestrained by law or constitution.
President (United States of America): An elected official
who leads the executive branch of the federal government and is the
commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces.
(Disclaimer: I am not a mathematician nor have I ever played
one on TV)
T+P=TP?
(Disclaimer: I am not a constitutional lawyer nor have I
ever played one on TV)
We are a nation of laws governed by a constitution, and our
current President studied and taught constitutional law, so I think we have nothing to
worry about. I am sure he has great depths of understanding on these things.
And as he reminds us often, this is the most transparent administration ever. Plus, don’t we have protections built in to our
constitution protecting us against this sort of thing? Maybe I would understand
it better if I had studied constitutional law. Or maybe I understand it better
because I have not studied constitutional law. Red pill. Blue pill. Ahhh, I
just don’t know.
Hey! Are you going to watch the Oscars?
Thursday, February 21, 2013
Laziness is Easy and Compounding
Well, readers, if there still are any of you left after such
a great start, and then a short absence that has grown into a little bit of a
long absence. I guess I really don’t have too much to say or talk about lately. I
think that being upset about one thing or another is a full time feeling, and
our government and world gives us plenty to feed those feelings. But wanting to
write about it, or the need to vent about it, is a cyclical thing. I guess I am
in a lull or ebb. So, what I am going to propose for myself, or what I am going
to try to is, post something. If not a massive monologue at least a note or a
link to a story I have read and maybe a little of why I liked it or why it
drove me crazy, and if not that, at least an interesting word or something from
wiki. So, let’s start today off right. Here is a link from wiki. Or as some of
us from a certain generation might want to call “the word of the day.”
The word of the day for today is “Oligarchy.” When you hear or read this word what comes to mind? When you read the definition of this word what comes to mind? Enjoy.
The word of the day for today is “Oligarchy.” When you hear or read this word what comes to mind? When you read the definition of this word what comes to mind? Enjoy.
Monday, February 4, 2013
Drones, Targets, Collateral Damage and American Citizens
I wrote a 1,000+ word monologue with multiple tangents and
when I started editing it, I changed my mind and hit delete. Here is the bottom
line. Kind of.
1. There was a leaked memo pertaining to President Obamas
justification for killing American citizens with drones abroad. A group of
Senators also have some questions for the President on this subject. Let’s see
if the state sponsored media has any questions on this subject.
1A. President Obama is a constitutional lawyer (I am
assuming the Constitution of the United States) and a Nobel Peace Laureate.
2. A drone firing a Hellfire missile is not a sniper rifle. It
is not surgical, it is messy.
When a drone launches a Hellfire missile and that missile hits a target there
is massive destruction. Humans, both good and bad are killed. Young humans,
also referred to as children are killed during these strikes. Not to mention innocent
full grown humans, both male and female. The killed children and innocents are
known as collateral damage.
2A. President Obama wants to restrict the second amendment
rights of all law abiding Americans to “even save one child,” which none of his
proposals will do. As for saving even one child, that only pertains to children
located in the United States, killed by criminals. Not those killed in other countries under his orders. Maybe he sees the loss and
or further restriction of our rights to also be collateral damage. (micro tangent)
3. We have thousands upon thousands of convicted bad guys in
our prisons. Murderers, rapists and pedophiles, legitimate bad dudes. We have a
prison overpopulation problem. The legal system that puts these bad guys in
prison and the prison systems to house these bad guys, costs us bazillions
every year. Just to keep bad guys as pets. There is no rehabilitation occurring.
3A. The cost of an armed drone and its operation is not cheap.
It is not cheap in dollars and not cheap in the cost of ill will towards
America for reigning terror from the sky.
3B. A single round of 45 ACP to the head would solve our
prison overpopulation problem, for under a dollar each, even at an inflated government
cost. It would most likely be incredibly effective in deterring crime as well. This
idea is completely rational and most likely legal if you consider it though an
Obama legal lens.
Read or don’t read the articles I have linked below. But at
least do this for me. Ask yourself what you are and are not ok with and why,
pertaining to drone strikes and the killing of American citizens and the
killing of innocents. I am not ok with this. We have laws and rights, and even
if we didn’t this wouldn’t be legal. We know what is right and what is wrong.
This is not legal, and this is not right. I could go on and on, I shouldn’t, so
I won’t.
I think the founding fathers just shit themselves, in their
graves.
Genius or Laziness: When Someone Can Speak Better Than You On A Subject, You Let Them
Keeping it short and sweet today. Mr. Keene of the NRA does a great job speaking to many points that are germane to the current gun discussion. I will let him speak for himself and for me. A well spent 30 minutes (video).
Here are a few others (articles).
And a few more (articles).
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