As most of you know, I spent a fair amount of time in New York City. On that basis I’ve heard an awful lot of discussion lately about Mayor Bloomberg and his intention to ban “sugary drinks” in excess of 16oz. I think we could hardly find a better example of how we’ve lost sight of the values of our founding fathers as regards individual liberty and limited government.
It seems to me that we fought a revolution over government exerting that kind of control on our lives, and on that basis I began to wonder what the reaction of the founders would be to such an edict.
Postulate, for example, a conversation on the matter, between Bloomberg and Thomas Jefferson. My reading of Jefferson seems to suggest that the conversation would likely as not end rather suddenly with a bayonet through the throat of the Mayor.
Jefferson, you see, understood the value of individual liberty and what’s required to maintain it. He knew despots when he saw them. Whereas, of course, Mayor Bloomberg most certainly does not. And the question becomes where does this kind of logical progression of governmental intrusion into our lives, stop? The answer is it does not. Jefferson himself noted that the logical progression for government is growth. He knew how to counter the problem, too…
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Thing is, Bloomberg is hardly alone. How far away from the concept of the founding does our government have to go, before the people react?
Ohh…. and as an aside, we all know Bloomberg to be a RINO. this is yet another example of such. Of what value is allowing Bloomberg to maintain that (R) in front of his name?
I will be writing to these points and others as well for my July 4 post.
Jennifer Marshall discovers that some groups do not like the idea of the traditional family. That is children living with both their biological mother and biological father. In no case can any non-traditional family provide both a biological mother and biological father, from Heritage Foundation:
The author of a new study showing some negative outcomes for young adults whose parents had same-sex relationships is under attack because his findings conflict with what, in some corners, has become conventional wisdom.
Apparently, the idea that there is “no difference” between children of same-sex parents and their peers raised in traditional married mother-and-father households has become so entrenched among some advocates that new research presenting a contrasting picture is unwelcome—to put it mildly
Every person on this earth has both a biological mother and father. In some cases, fate intervenes to deprive a child of one or both. It however it is quite insane to willfully design a family without both a biological mother and father. Biological parents take better care of their children than to surrogate parents.
The nation’s citizen suffer under the Obama economy. So rather than deal with the problem, the Obama administration resorts to pandering. Dana Milbanks, Washington Post, went looking for substance in Barack Obama’s economic plan and found none, via Neo-NeoCon:
I had high hopes for President Obama’s speech on the economy. But instead of going to Ohio on Thursday with a compelling plan for the future, the president gave Americans a falsehood wrapped in a fallacy.
The falsehood is that he has been serious about cutting government spending. The fallacy is that this election will be some sort of referendum that will break the logjam in Washington
Whereas Obama, a/k/a Dumbo, a/k/a Dim Won has utter no plan to deal with the nation’s failed economy, he does have plan to deal with illegal immigration, from Neil Munro, Daily Caller:
Administration officials tried to head off public protest over their June 15 decision to not deport under-30 illegal immigrants by claiming that the de-facto amnesty is not a legal amnesty.
“This is not amnesty — it is an exercise of [prosecutorial] discretion so that these young people are not in the removal system,” said President Barack Obama’s immigration deputy, Janet Napolitano, the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security.
[…]
The administration’s large-scale amnesty for roughly 800,000 illegals may spur anger among voters already facing high unemployment.Many polls show Americans want to be generous to immigrants, but fear the impact on jobs and their neighborhoods. Even the so-called “DREAM Act” did not win a clear majority of support from the public, despite much much lobbying by industry and hispanic advocates, and despite favorable media coverage that cast it as a minor measure to help younger productive Hispanics.
The Obama message to job seekers: No legals need apply.
Martha Payne is the blog’s Woman of the Day. Nine years old Martha has proven herself be a royal Payne to her school disttrict, from Peter Walker, Guardian(UK)
A nine-year-old Scottish girl who attracted two million readers to a blog documenting her school lunches, consisting of unappealing and unhealthy dishes served up to pupils, has been forced to end the project after the council banned her from taking pictures of the food in school.
Martha Payne, from Argyll, started the blog at the end of April, initially as a writing project with her father. With the permission of teachers she photographed lunches as they arrived on their white plastic trays and gave the contents – generally meagre, often fried – marks out of 10 on a “Food-o-meter” scale for how healthy they were and whether or not she found any stray hairs
Eric, we could use a Scottish blogger.
Tonight, we’ll go a little country. This is Royce and Jeanie Kendall from St Louis, with a tune called “The Heart of the Matter”… a song which was a minor hit for them. I don’t recall exactly where but it didn’t chart high. Middle 20’s, I think. Given the number ones they had, not a hu8ge loss, I suppose, but I was annoyed it didn’t do better. Never did figure why… a beautiful song, and well done.
Royce passed on, in 1998, I think, and Jeanie was still touring, last I knew.
The difference between, Barack Obama, a/k/a Dim Won, a/k/a Dumbo and Edward Smith, Captain of the RMS Titanic, is that at least Smith was smart enough to realize that he had hit an iceberg. Ae for Dombo, he still in denial, video:
Hat tip and reax, Jamie, Jamie Wearing Fool:
I can’t wait for the headlines on November 7 declaring how Mitt Romney “unexpectedly” beat Barack Obama in a landslide.
The first step Dim Won needs to take to fix the nation’s economy, is to admit that it is broken.
Let’s run back to 1962. This is Sounds Orchestral, with the Vince Guaraldi written “Cast Your Fate to the Wind”. Guaraldi, of course is perhaps best known for his “Linus and Lucy” for the “Peanuts” TV shows.
A one, two punch to the political jaw of one Jeb Bush.
First up, Anne Sorock, Legal Insurrection:
Jeb Bush’s definition of Reagan’s brand as one of “finding accommodation” and “common ground” is akin to summing up the Founding Fathers as rabble-rousers who really disliked taxes. He missed the essence of what Reagan provided for Americans
Reagan was more than a charismatic tax-cutter; he was an insurrectionist within the Republican Party, just as the Tea Party movement is in today’s establishment. In 1976, Reagan challenged Gerald Ford for the Republican nomination, and in 1980 he defeated the establishment candidate, George H. W. Bush, who later joined him on the ticket. His 1980 platform called for a return of the citizen activist; in doing so Reagan challenged the political establishment mentality, primarily by returning to this model of the servant-leader.
Second, Karen, the Lonely Conservative:
One of President Reagan’s most famous lines was spoken twenty-five years ago today at the Brandenberg Gate. “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” How many of you knew that most of his top advisers wanted the line left out of his speech?
video:
What say you, Mr. Bush”
If you want people to believe you are proud, you can not act like you are ashamed. And to think they call it a pride event, but evidently they lack any pride in their chosen life style:
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO/AP) – A Wisconsin man will not be allowed to hand out Bibles at the upcoming Twin Cities Pride festival.
On Monday, Chief U.S. District Judge Michael Davis denied Brian Johnson’s request for an injunction that would force the Minneapolis parks board to allow him unrestricted access to festival grounds.
Instead, the judge’s ruling said Johnson can hand out Bibles at a booth just outside of Loring Park, where the festival is being held.
I may be agnostic, but I am not allergic to Bibles. Are you?
OK, this one’s a bit of a guilty pleasure. David Cassiddy always struck me as someone who wanted to be more than his handlers were willing to let him be. Funny thing, my early perception turned out to be correct. (Shrug) We all know how the world of pop music worked, particularly with management. And I never really liked the sound that resulted, because it sounded to me a little too…. hmmm… manufactured.
But this one, shines, as well- crafted pop, production values that were right on even now, much less then, and a wonderful tune, written by Tony Romeo, who also wrote their hit “I think I love you”… which I think got well over-played, as well as hits for a whole list of 60’s and 70’s greats.
But this tune… and this track is a real standout, even in that list.
Self described "Community Organizer"
Stan Greenberg, Erica Seifert and James Carville have a message for Dim Won, a/k/a dumbo, b/k/a Barack Obama, from Alexander Burns, Politico:
“These voters are not convinced that we are headed in the right direction. They are living in a new economy – and there is no conceivable recovery in the year ahead that will change the view of the new state of the country. They actually have a very realistic view of the long road back and the struggles of the middle class — and the current narrative about progress just misses the opportunity to connect and point forward,” they write. “While we hear some optimism, this is framed mostly by the sense that this has to be rock bottom.”
Obama manages to keep the race competitive because Mitt Romney is so distrusted by voters, the strategists contend. But if Obama is going to gain traction in the campaign, they continue, he needs to deploy a message “with minimal discussion of the recovery and jobs created and maximal empathy for the challenges people face.”
The voters want to see an economic recovery. I think it is too late. All Dim Won has offered, and all that he appears to want to offer, is class warfare. Demonizing the Koch brother may make for good press. It neither puts food on the table, nor pays the mortgage.
Call it what you will, this is tyranny and not freedom. Giving the police the unilateral power to punish free speech is not freedom:
MIDDLEBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) – Residents in Middleborough have voted to make the foul-mouthed pay fines for swearing in public.
At a town meeting Monday night, residents voted 183-50 to approve a proposal from the police chief to impose a $20 fine on public profanity.
Supporters say the proposal isn’t meant to censor casual or private conversations, but instead crack down on loud profanity in downtown areas and public parks.
Middleborough has had a bylaw against public profanity since 1968. But it’s rarely, if ever, been enforced, because it essentially makes swearing a crime.
The new proposal would decriminalize profanity, allowing police to write tickets as they would for traffic violations’.
Ef you, Middleborough! It you don’t like my speech, don’t listen to it.
Job Market Gets Even Worse For Law Grads. “This leaves us with 33.75% of all 2011 ABA law school graduates in real legal jobs nine months after graduation. This is, in my view, a conservative estimate of the scope of the disaster that has overtaken America’s law school graduates.”
Glenn Reynolds, Instanpundit.
This is without question one of my all-time favorite tracks, off of one of my all-time favorite disks… one called The Dreams of Children. Thi is Shadowfax in it’s prime. The piece is, for lack of a better description a perfect round, and one that is fairly easy to program on a sequencer. I’m forever fascinated by Shadowfax’s use of quite literally ancient and bleeding edge instruments. It’s that blending, that making it all work, that makes this an outstanding track for me.
The Lord only knows what Barack Obama, a/k/a Dim Won, studied at Occidental, Columbia and Harvard. It sure was not economics, video:
Hat tip and reax, Ace:
Mitt Romney Decides His Last Ad Hitting Obama on “Doin’ Fine” Wasn’t Hard-Hitting Enough
So he’s released one that’s even harsher.
Public sector jobs may fuel Obama’s campaign coffers. However, they are a burden on the economy. They drain tax dollars. It if owned Acme Widget, and wanted to expand your production, you would hire more production workers, not more secretaries, receptionists and security guards.
