Just Shoot Me

Many moons ago, Glenn Beck said that if someone put a gun to his head and asked who he was going to vote for, he would answer Mitt Romney. Glenn Beck’s stand-in Joe “Pags” Pagliarulo said that if someone put a gun to his head and asked “Obama or a third Bush term?”, he would answer Bush.

I wish I could be a stand-in for Glenn Beck, if not for any other reason than to say: “If someone put a gun to my head and said: ‘Obama, McCain, or a third Bush term?’, I’d say ’Shoot!’

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State of the Republic Announcement

"Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable, a most sacred right – a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world. Nor is this right confined to cases in which the whole people of an existing government may choose to exercise it. Any portion of such people, that can, may revolutionize, and make their own of so much of the territory as they inhabit." ~ Abraham Lincoln, (speech in Congress January 1848).

This defines the American ideology of absolute freedom. As the farmer of old tossed the reigns of his plow horse about his back and shoved the plow through the sod, so does mankind bind himself to his government. As it is man’s prerogative to plow his fields, it is also his prerogative, as it says in the Declaration of Independence, that:

“...when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”

As I see it, the Declaration of Independence is our nation’s “official reason of existence”, and if the truths in said document be not truths, then we have no right for existence as a nation. But if it be so true, and if God has favored our cause for absolute freedom, then the Constitution, as the supreme law of the land, must be followed, and that according to God’s word.

But a matter has arisen regarding the portion of the Constitution know colloquially as the 2nd amendment; some feel that the law should be changed to fit their own personal opinions. This would be disobedience to God, because He says to submit to the higher powers, and the powers don’t get any higher than the Constitution in this country.

Now, every state in this Union of States has a "state constitution", each one being unique.
Some state constitutions have guarantees that if the state legislature voted to leave the Union, they could do so. When such a thing was pulled off in the 1860's, though, it was met with absolute hostility, and the most insane war this nation has ever seen ensued.

Now, the Sovereign State of Montana is threatening secession if the Supreme Court of the United States of America rules against the United States Constitution. More than forty politicians, including the Secretary of State, are saying that secession would be their response, because Montana’s statehood hinged on the 2nd amendment when it first became a state.

This, I feel, is the best response that any state in the Union could give to tyrannical despotism.
No bloodshed, no civil riots, just a quiet bowing out.

But what do you think?

Take the poll on the right side of the screen, and if your answer isn’t there, or you want to explain your answer, please place your comments on this post.

[UPDATE] The poll has ended in a tie.

Vote Da! For Presidento Hillarinski Clintonikov U.S.S.A. '08

(Includes actual quotes from Clinton)

Davidian Warfare

"And he took his staff in his hand, and chose him five smooth stones out of the brook, and put them in a shepherd's bag which he had, even in a scrip; and his sling [was] in his hand: and he drew near to the Philistine.", ~1 Samuel 17:40

"And the Philistine said unto David, [Am] I a dog, that thou comest to me with staves? And the Philistine cursed David by his gods." ~1Samuel 17:43


I always thought that when Goliath says “…that thou comest to me with staves,” he was simply referring to the rudimentary weaponry that David carried with him, but recent discoveries on my part have put two and two together and I realized that David may have taken a staff-sling into battle instead of an ordinary hand held sling.

Staff-slings were in use from very ancient times onward to the gunpowder age, though they were mostly used in warfare.
They consisted of a staff to the top of which was tethered a pouch. It would be slung like a lever over the head.

The projectiles could be quite large, so the range was somewhat diminished, but the power and surprising accuracy behind it was likely unmatched. A blow to the head would be absolutely lethal.

For transport, the staff-sling may have been dismantled in such a way which kept the sling attached for quick assembly while avoiding tangling the tethers for use of the staff as a normal walking or herding device.

An amazing little quirk about the staff-sling is that it is difficult to hit a close object your own height, as it tends to send the projectile upwards. That could be helpful when trying to down a giant!

Another observation by a modern day slinger is the possibility that a running shot would give it a greater range and impact, which is what David did in an apparent Kamikaze attack.

I suppose this feature could be used in regular warfare to have a wide angling arch to smash enemies behind a wall or over the heads of your comrades in arms.

Thomas Jefferson: In Heaven or A Heathen?

A very confusing thing: one minute I could swear that good ol’ Thomas Jefferson was a bona fide Christian, the next minute he looks like a Deist, and then again he looks like an all out Heathen! I find such a trend with several of the Founding Fathers.

Heaven knows I have no lack of respect and admiration for the men that instituted such an unrivaled system of governance (despite the state of peril it is in today), but it is a discomforting feeling to think that the very men whom (nearly) every citizen of the United States admires could have possibly been in direct personal rebellion against God. Here’s how I’m looking at it.

It seems to me that Thomas Jefferson was not a Christian for the most aggravating of reasons: he saw little to no difference between the Catholic Priesthood (read: Monopoly, or Monarchy, or Despotism), and the truly Bible-Believing Christians. I see this non-distinction a lot today. These are a collection of quotes that lead me to this conclusion about him:

“But a short time elapsed after the death of the great reformer of the Jewish religion, before his principles were departed from by those who professed to be his special servants, and perverted into an engine for enslaving mankind, and aggrandizing their oppressors in Church and State." --- Thomas Jefferson to S. Kercheval, 1810

In this quote, I thought, when he says “those who professed to be his special servants,” he was speaking of the apostles, but I now wonder if he was directly referring to the Catholics, especially when he uses the term “special servants,” and, certainly, the apostles never referred to themselves as anything other than “glorified dust,“ if you will.

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"It is too late in the day for men of sincerity to pretend they believe in the Platonic mysticisms that three are one, and one is three; and yet that the one is not three, and the three are not one. But this constitutes the craft, the power and the profit of the priests." --- Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 1803

Here, I am still quite puzzled, as the Trinity is quite biblical, and not a specifically Catholic held belief. This shows, clearly, that Jefferson was not a reader of the bible, therefore, not a true Christian. Again, he was so blinded by a dislike of Catholicism that he removed himself from that area of his life to the point of disbelief in God, so I assume. I think he could have understood the Trinity by this simple analogy: Executive, Legislative, and Judicial; three branches, one Government.

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"History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance, of which their political as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purpose." --- Thomas Jefferson to Baron von Humboldt, 1813

Obviously speaking of the Catholic monopoly over men’s very lives. I share his opinion.

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"But the greatest of all reformers of the depraved religion of his own country, was Jesus of Nazareth. Abstracting what is really his from the rubbish in which it is buried, easily distinguished by its luster from the dross of his biographers, and as separable from that as the diamond from the dunghill, we have the outlines of a system of the most sublime morality which has ever fallen from the lips of man. The establishment of the innocent and genuine character of this benevolent morality, and the rescuing it from the imputation of imposture, which has resulted from artificial systems, invented by ultra-Christian sects (The immaculate conception of Jesus, his deification, the creation of the world by him, his miraculous powers, his resurrection and visible ascension, his corporeal presence in the Eucharist, the Trinity; original sin, atonement, regeneration, election, orders of the Hierarchy, etc.) is a most desirable object." --- Thomas Jefferson to W. Short, Oct. 31, 1819

Well, this sums it up in a nutshell; Jefferson was apparently morally upright, apparently well intentioned, and apparently misled by his own worldly mind. This, to me, shows that without the Bible, no one knows God’s truth from Man’s untruth. As far as I can see, he never believed in Jesus as the Son of God, he only admired him as a man.

While Jefferson was not a Christian, at least he was good enough to help make it a law to allow others to be Christians.

Good man morally, Great man politically, pitiful man Spiritually.

Claustrophobia

Is Santa Claus an Illegal Immigrant? Let’s review the subject.

First of all, the man officially is a resident at Santa Claus Village, Finland, but for those in Canada, his address is simply “North Pole, H0H 0H0, Canada”, which would put him somewhere in Montreal.

Anyway, can he simply ride his flying sled into U.S. Airspace without repercussion of some sort?

No one inspects his luggage as he crosses the Canadian border, no one asks for ID, he could be Kris al-Kringle Nickbar al-Sinterclaus for all we know! If it were up to me, he'd be sitting in a tent in the Southwest eating green bologna right now.

I say we make a choice, either give him diplomatic immunity or deport him.

And, PeTA should have him investigated for animal cruelty, as he whips his caribou, and I don’t think it’s legal to own a caribou.

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Next, is Santa Pontiff apparent?

The Gadsden Flag

In 1775, two battalions of Continental Marines were recruited in Philadelphia, in accordance with an act of Congress.

The first Continental Marines that were recruited there carried yellow drums depicting the soon to be famous coiled rattlesnake and the words "DON'T TREAD ON ME".

In the same year, one Colonel Christopher Gadsden, a member of the Marine Committee tasked with organizing the first mission of the newly formed Continental Navy, presented to the freshly appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Navy, Commodore Esek Hopkins, a flag with a field of brilliant yellow, its charge, a coiled rattlesnake of thirteen rattles, below it the infamous words of defiance.

The flag was given with the intent of being the Commodore's personal standard.

The yellow ensign was also presented in Charleston, South Carolina, where it often flies to this day.

Though mostly forgotten, the butternut banner is as old as the nation itself; many men fought and died under its sempiternal phrase. Shamefully, the Betsy Ross flag coaxed it out of history books as the flag of the Revolution.

Not many Americans know what it is or means.

Old Glory remains the flag that symbolizes the Union of States, but the Rattler Flag stands as an emblem of the ideology and aspirations of the Nation thereof.

That is why I fly one of America’s very first flags.

An Article about Confederation

Our government structure is a Federalized Constitutional Republic, not a Democracy. The only form of Democracy involved is in the election process, where majority rule.

But note that we are a Federalized Constitutional Republic; we have a central federal form of government. These United States were not always so, though.

When the Declaration of Independence was written and signed, we were under Articles of Confederation.

Believe it or not, Confederate isn’t another word for a slaveholder.

It means a decentralized form of government, with no concentration of power; each unit of local Government has as much power as the next.

In the late 1780’s, when the Constitution was being written, one could say that there were basically two political parties: Federalists and Anti-Federalists.

The Federalists were those that felt not that the current government wasn’t big enough under the Confederation, but that it wasn’t strong enough to exist as a Union; it had no provisions for the collection of taxes, among other basic things.

The Anti-Federalists were those the felt that the fewer powers that a central government had the better, as the idea of “Americanism”, if you will, was the sovereignty of the individual.

Just so long as the government was in-fighting, they felt, the people couldn’t be oppressed.

As you know, the Federalists won, but with a few compromises with the Anti-Federalists.

The Federalists were against the idea of a Bill of Rights, stating that if an enumeration of an Individual’s writes were put into law, it might cause the Government to take any rights not enumerated.

Never the less, the Constitution was written with a Bill of Rights, (for what it was worth), and the Confederation ended.

Not another Confederacy sprouted up in America until 1861, but that died just five years later due to an overwhelming invasion by an opposing government.

You may have previously noticed a Confederate States of America flag on my blog header; I removed it because the C.S.A. is gone and I have an allegiance to the Constitution. But, I didn’t put up the current U.S. flag in its place, I put up a flag of 1770’s, as it is the flag of what America used to be.

The current flag represents the current state of affairs, as the flag changes with the times , and I don't like the current state of affairs.

I think I would prefer that we still lived under a Confederation, but who knows what it would have been like.

Never the less, I am an individual, free and sovereign, answerable only to the law of God and the law of this land, respectively. I neither owe, nor am I indebted to any state or governing body, past or present.

I support my Constitution, and pray God brings confusion on upon its enemies, be they peasant or prince.

New Term

I’m sure you’re all too familiar with the term “Politically Correct”.

When one is Politically Correct, they go out of their way to make room for everyone and everything to be happy.

But, of course, it never really works, because someone always gets the boot in the end, (sometimes literally).

I feel I am ready to announce the new “PC” word: Patriotically Correct.

This term best describes someone so eager to be called “patriotic” that they would do anything.

To be Patriotically Correct, one would support and defend every word and action of an authoritarian figure regardless of legality or common sense. One would follow the red, white, and blue band-wagon off the edge of a totalitarian cliff.

One would give anything, say anything, do, make, print, wear, or uphold anything that some "Old Glory" monger says or does, just to be Patriotically Correct, almost to the point of near madness.

Far too many people are Patriotically Correct.

But, to be truly Patriotic, you must know and uphold the Law of the Land to the point of ridicule, because in a place such as America, the only things we have to lose are our rights

Lex Rex.

Gold Fevah

I plan to raise about a thousand dollars to get to Alaska, then start panning up some gold.

At the price of gold today, and calculating the amount of gold panned in a day, I shall have paid for my trip up there and back in a couple of hours.

I've seen people extract an ounce of flour gold an hour with simple equipment, so I figure I could buy a house in a few months of prospecting - if I find an adequate spot.

I don't think income taxes can be put on recreational gold panning, so I'll be in the pink...er...gold.













The rush is on!