4 July 2008
News and Comments - 07/04/08
Posted by Roy Bischoff under: What's News .
HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMERICA
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Sharon Anderson Says:
4 July 2008 at 7:55 am.
Today is a day to celebrate all that is good about America. I appreciated Glenn Beck’s comments this week. On this occasion, he did not go into the issue of illegal immigration, but instead pointed out that thousands of people are willing to risk their lives to come here just hoping for a chance to have a small slice of what we often take for granted. They want to come here because America is still the best place on earth.
When our country was only a hundred years old, a fitting celebration for Independence Day was for frontier communities to gather together and listen to a reading of the Declaration of Independence. This week in our family home evening we read and discussed the Declaration. This might be a good day to review this inspired document if you haven’t already done so.
Blessings, all!
Sharon Anderson Says:
4 July 2008 at 8:00 am.
This focuses on what is right in our country. I received this email from a friend who is a great patriot and national chairman of the American Independent Party.
INDEPENDENCE DAY 2008 - A DAY OF THANKSGIVING AND PRAYER.
During the eight years of our War for Independence with England, there were many instances of Divine intervention that were recognized by both the British and the Colonists. The retreat from Long Island, the first defense of Charleston, the battles of Trenton, Kings Mountain, Cowpens, Saratoga, and Brandywine quickly come to mind. During the war, the Continental Congress proclaimed many days of prayer and thanksgiving in recognition of Divine favor. Since our basic Freedoms are under attack from so many sources, it is altogether fitting that this practice be continued.
Many time over the years we have suggested that a special period of prayer be observed in recognition of Divine help or when that help was particularly needed. This weekend, as we celebrate Independence Day, is an appropriate time for prayer and thanksgiving. We have had numerous victories for Freedom since last Independence Day and gratitude to the Author of Freedom is totally becoming to a free people.
1. We have fought ‘amnesty for illegal aliens’ battles multiple times this past year and have won every one. Late in May of this year, two more amnesty attacks were defeated, making at least six victories in the last year.
2. Since the Federal Government is unwilling to enforce federal law concerning illegal aliens, many state and local governments are enacting legislation to do just that. Most notable is Oklahoma which requires employers to prove legality of employees. After the law took effect, Oklahoma was the only state to have a decrease in their unemployment rate as legal citizens took jobs previously held by illegals. May this trend continue and spread nationwide.
3. Nine state legislatures have rejected the Real ID Act. Once again the states are rejecting big governments’ interference in state affairs.
4. There have been several court cases and legislation positively affecting the Second Amendment. The latest is the Supreme Court Decision this month that the Second Amendment is an individual right. This may result in the overturning of some restrictive gun laws. Firearms in the hands of a free people are a threat only to tyrants.
5. The spirit of Freedom is moving among our citizens. More and more citizens are taking an active roll in the legislative process, and Congress is becoming more receptive to citizen input. It is an election year and this is to be expected, but the amount of input and the pro-Freedom tone of our citizens is surprising to many veterans in Congress. May this process continue and accelerate.
These victories or others you may remember are just some of the things for which we might wish to thank the Father of us all. Our Founding Fathers who gave us a Constitution which protects our God-given rights and the Patriotic Americans who are now working to preserve and restore our Freedoms are other reasons for gratitude.
You may wish to petition God that those who are the enemies of Freedom have their political, monetary, and media support diminished, while those who are preserving Freedom may have their efforts multiplied.
The cause of Freedom will continue to grow until America is once again the shining beacon on a hill proclaiming Freedom for all mankind. May this be our prayer and remembrance on this Independence Day weekend.
God Bless America,
Will Christensen
National Chairman
Independent American Party
http://www.usiap.org
Cameron Says:
4 July 2008 at 8:41 am.
You just have to be more subtle about this like they are in congress.
Minn. teen charged with offering his vote on eBay
Thu Jul 3, 10:59 PM ET
MINNEAPOLIS - A college student claimed it was all a joke when he put his vote in this fall’s presidential election up for sale on the Web auction site eBay. But prosecutors didn’t see the humor.
University of Minnesota student Max P. Sanders, 19, was charged with a felony Thursday in Hennepin County District Court after allegedly asking for a minimum of $10 in exchange for voting for the bidder’s preferred candidate.
“Good luck!” Sanders wrote under the eBay handle zepdrummer612. “You’re (sic) country depends on You!”
Sanders was charged with one count of bribery, treating and soliciting under an 1893 state law that makes it a crime to offer to buy or sell a vote.
According to a criminal complaint, the Minnesota secretary of state’s office learned about the offering on the Web site and told prosecutors. Investigators sent a subpoena to eBay and got information that led to Sanders.
The student told investigators he made the eBay posting, adding, “That was a joke. It’s no longer listed,” according to the complaint.
“We take it very seriously. Fundamentally, we believe it is wrong to sell your vote,” said John Aiken, a spokesman for the office. “There are people that have died for this country for our right to vote, and to take something that lightly, to say, ‘I can be bought.’
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080704/ap_on_re_us/odd_vote_for_sale
Benjamin Says:
4 July 2008 at 9:01 am.
Great fourth blogs Sharon.
I just read that Florida’s governor, Charlie Crist, is getting married. He probably was told it would give him a better chance at VP. I wouldn’t be surprised if he got it as a reward for almost single handedly stopping Mitt. If Mitt had won Florida he would be the nominee.
E.E. Says:
4 July 2008 at 9:17 am.
We’re off for the day to celebrate. Have a great fourth.
Sharon Anderson Says:
4 July 2008 at 10:00 am.
So its wrong to sell your vote, but its OK to BUY votes. Just ask the politicians who make all of those expensive campaign promises. Maybe the difference is that they aren’t using their OWN money to buy those votes, they are using OUR dollars that they will be collecting at tax time.
THINKING Says:
4 July 2008 at 12:03 pm.
I read and study alot , maybe it is time to make a few comments.
FREE TRADE. send manufacturing overseas or to Mexico?
…think about it
No child labor laws
No unions
No minimun wage
No enviromental controls
No workmens compensation
No unemployment
No social security tax
No overtime
No Osha
Etc, Etc
Remember the moto from the past? As General Motors goes, so goes the nation.
GM stocks were at 1954 prices July 2,2008.
Concerned American Says:
4 July 2008 at 3:03 pm.
THINKING, glad to have you here. Good analysis.
This article is stupid. It makes it sound like there is nothing that can be done about oil prices and that they should be high. We could drill, dummies.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080704/ts_nm/oil_price_dc
World must brace for oil beyond $150
The dollar’s weakness relative to other currencies has been partly responsible for the rise in oil and other dollar-denominated commodities as investors try to hedge against inflation and take shelter from battered stock markets.
For central bankers, oil is a vexed problem. It has exacerbated a slowdown in economic growth and stoked inflation.
The natural remedy for inflation should be higher interest rates, but the fear is that could add to the problem of slower growth.
“It (record oil) is constraining what policy makers can do, said Richard Batty, global strategist at Standard Life Investments.
While there are no easy policy answers, expensive oil and weaker economic performance could eventually dent fuel demand enough to lower prices.
“The oil price is not necessarily reflecting the fundamental backdrop at the moment and eventually it will have to as the fundamental backdrop continues to weaken,” Batty said.
The more bullish analysts argue that even if developed countries change their habits, emerging economies will continue to drive up demand and oil prices, which are arguably still too cheap.
The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries has conceded prices at current levels are expensive in relative terms, but the group’s secretary general has also pointed out that per liter crude is cheaper than bottled mineral water.
Concerned American Says:
4 July 2008 at 3:05 pm.
Bush on the Constitution: ‘It’s just a goddamned piece of paper’
By DOUG THOMPSON
Dec 9, 2005, 07:53
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7779.shtml
Last month, Republican Congressional leaders filed into the Oval Office to meet with President George W. Bush and talk about renewing the controversial USA Patriot Act.
Several provisions of the act, passed in the shell shocked period immediately following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, caused enough anger that liberal groups like the American Civil Liberties Union had joined forces with prominent conservatives like Phyllis Schlafly and Bob Barr to oppose renewal.
GOP leaders told Bush that his hardcore push to renew the more onerous provisions of the act could further alienate conservatives still mad at the President from his botched attempt to nominate White House Counsel Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court.
“I don’t give a goddamn,” Bush retorted. “I’m the President and the Commander-in-Chief. Do it my way.”
“Mr. President,” one aide in the meeting said. “There is a valid case that the provisions in this law undermine the Constitution.”
“Stop throwing the Constitution in my face,” Bush screamed back. “It’s just a goddamned piece of paper!”
I’ve talked to three people present for the meeting that day and they all confirm that the President of the United States called the Constitution “a goddamned piece of paper.”
And, to the Bush Administration, the Constitution of the United States is little more than toilet paper stained from all the s— that this group of power-mad despots have dumped on the freedoms that “goddamned piece of paper” used to guarantee.
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, while still White House counsel, wrote that the “Constitution is an outdated document.”
Put aside, for a moment, political affiliation or personal beliefs. It doesn’t matter if you are a Democrat, Republican or Independent. It doesn’t matter if you support the invasion or Iraq or not. Despite our differences, the Constitution has stood for two centuries as the defining document of our government, the final source to determine – in the end – if something is legal or right.
Every federal official – including the President – who takes an oath of office swears to “uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States.”
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia says he cringes when someone calls the Constitution a “living document.”
“”Oh, how I hate the phrase we have—a ‘living document,’” Scalia says. “We now have a Constitution that means whatever we want it to mean. The Constitution is not a living organism, for Pete’s sake.”
As a judge, Scalia says, “I don’t have to prove that the Constitution is perfect; I just have to prove that it’s better than anything else.”
President Bush has proposed seven amendments to the Constitution over the last five years, including a controversial amendment to define marriage as a “union between a man and woman.” Members of Congress have proposed some 11,000 amendments over the last decade, ranging from repeal of the right to bear arms to a Constitutional ban on abortion.
Scalia says the danger of tinkering with the Constitution comes from a loss of rights.
“We can take away rights just as we can grant new ones,” Scalia warns. “Don’t think that it’s a one-way street.”
And don’t buy the White House hype that the USA Patriot Act is a necessary tool to fight terrorism. It is a dangerous law that infringes on the rights of every American citizen and, as one brave aide told President Bush, something that undermines the Constitution of the United States.
But why should Bush care? After all, the Constitution is just “a goddamned piece of paper.”
Sharon Anderson Says:
4 July 2008 at 3:54 pm.
Thanks for this, Concerned. I had heard about this incident but wanted more info and verification. I’m concerned too. Did you know that in Feb. of 2006. Bush signed a bill “into law” that was only passed by the Senate? The version approved by the House was different.
Even IF Bush didn’t SAY that the Constitution is a G..d… piece of paper, his actions i(n this regard and others) seem to demonstrate that this is the way he FEELS.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/21/AR2006032101763.html
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