Common Sense: Comedy?

Though he and Lou Dobbs are pretty much the only watchable mainstream news people today, Glenn Beck often ticks me off, and he has done it once again.

Glenn, you just shouldn't take one of our nation's founding images and customize it to bill your comedy tour; neither should you take the title one of our nation's founding writings, Common Sense, and use it to promote stand-up routines. Lectures, perhaps, but not comedy tours.

The things spoken of in Common Sense aren't meant to be funny; men died for the ideology expressed in those papers. They were shot, stabbed, bayoneted, and slowly bled to death because they believed in what was written in Common Sense.

Also, the political image of the rattlesnake representing America, "Join or Die", is now a marketing ploy?

The Revolution wasn't funny to anyone back then, and probably wouldn't be today if anyone actually knew about it.

Why are Americans being drawn to the symbols of our Revolution? Because today we are assaulted daily by cold, heartless thugs, just as we were back then.

Eugenics, disarmament, un-Constitutionality, censorship, unlawful detainment, deception, over-taxation; these things are bringing those symbols and words of the Revolution back to their rightful prominence in the American mind; not for you to use as advertisement for your tacky comedy tour, but to remind Americans of our rocky, bloody, war-racked past, so that at least we can avoid allowing tyranny to come upon us while we sleep.

But no, Glenn, you don't want us to sleep and you don't want us to watch, you want us to laugh? This is no laughing matter.

This is the time when we are supposed to sober ourselves out of our drunken stupor and confront the enemies of Liberty on the ideological battlefield; you cannot do this on a comedy tour!

I'm sorely disappointed and ashamed of you, Glenn.

Abu Omar al-Baghdadi Captured... Again!

(Or, "A Funny Thing Happened to Me on the Way to the Mosque")

I'm having a hard time trying to figure out how to introduce this one.

“Abu Omar al-Baghdadi was arrested today in Baghdad.” ~Major General Qasim Atta (I hope General Qasim Atta is in the Iraqi military.)

The only problem with the above quote, told to AFP today, is that they've kind of captured the guy before. And they killed him two years ago.

To quote Andy Griffith, "Folks jes' don't come back after they's gone, it jes' ain't decent!"

Oh yeah, the U.S. military then said he never actually existed.

Color me overly suspicious, but I think there's a polecat in the henhouse.

I'm going to take this opportunity to open the comments up for best fake Muslim names.

My suggestions:

Baruq Quaqbar al-Puffdadi

Nomar Goat-Formi Iemfull

Qari al-Qlipbord

Iceqreem al-Amode

Al-Sgotta Sqar-On Hiz-Owi

Qrawdad al-Aqart

Falzof Hiz-Qamel al-Lot

Wilson, the Fed, and the End of a Free America: Part 1

Stemming originally from a commenting conversation I had with Mike Powers about the man in days long past, as well as the recent attention he has garnered in the opinionated-media like Glenn Beck, I'm going to express my opinion of Woodrow Wilson's Presidency.

Having gained praise from the Left for his economic plans and his furtherance of globalist agendas, and having gotten rebuked for his policies by the Right, I thought I'd center this post on Wilson's own words:

"A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is privately concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men who, even if their action be honest and intended for the public interest, are necessarily concentrated upon the great undertakings in which their own money is involved and who necessarily, by very reason of their own limitations, chill and check and destroy genuine economic freedom." ~Woodrow Wilson, 1913, quote from his book The New Freedom.

He was speaking of the newly incepted Federal Reserve, which is not only un-Constitutional, but is no more "federal" than Federal Express.

The implications of the Federal Reserve not being federal are more than might be at first thought.

Whether Congress authorizes the monetary powers of the Federal Reserve or not, the fact remains that they have no Constitutional powers to do anything, rendering them a private entity; therefore, what you call "dollar bills" (if you would pull one out and look at the top) are actually "FEDERAL RESERVE NOTES", holding no value, intrinsic or attributed, other that that of de facto imposition by the Federal Reserve.

Furthermore, as it is a private entity, the monetary power in these United States is not in the hands of elected representatives of the people, but appointed officials in the Fed's Board of Governors.

Since our monetary system is not only run but based on un-Constitutional powers, is it any wonder we're going under? What does the Constitution say about who makes the money?

"The Congress shall have power... To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures;... No state shall... make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts" ~U.S. Constitution

Now, today we have little Timmy Giethner testifying before Congress, when asked where it is in the Constitution that he and the Fed get their power, he responds that their power comes from the Congress.

News for ya, Timmy: Congress doesn't get the last say in government!

Lunatic Policeman Assaults Local News Crew

A local news reporter, along with his Constitutional rights, was virtually pummeled by a rabid, power-tripping policeman, who is supposedly a "civil servant".



Why did he do this?

This is one of the more egregious attacks on the American press, especially since he was so physically abusive towards the reporter. An internal investigation is not enough; that policeman should be tried and imprisoned for assault.

He seems to think police have absolute control over non-police citizens, as police, by definition, are themselves regular citizens.

This is a disturbing trend toward a world more violent than George Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four".

But, in this particular case, we must understand the circumstances:

If you watched the video all the way through, you will have seen a man in desert-style camouflage, which I took to be either National Guard or Army; it was then explained that Ft. Bliss soldiers were "heroes" in the traffic incident, rescuing the driver of the overturned vehicle.

Well, whoever ordered those troops deployed should also be incarcerated for violating the Posse Comitatus Act. (If you not quite familiar with that, double-click it.)

I don't think I would have been able to stop myself from tasing or pepper-spraying that policeman; he is a treasonous criminal.

Everything is Muy Bien!

No more Spanish oddities or strange buttons hanging around, mostly due to CarolineNot's help.

I now have my blog where I wanted it in the first place, and we can all heave a sigh of relief!

When in the Course of Blogging Events...

Today was supposed to be a somewhat momentous day, but as the course of events eventually coursed, it has turned into a blogging nightmare.

As you can see, I have reverted to my old blogger template, but not before ruining it further by somehow causing Spanish words to appear in odd places, as well as unsightly buttons at the end of posts.

I'll get it fixed eventually, but until then you'll have to put up with it.

Sorry.

I Maimed and Disfigured My Blog

Being so pleased with myself over the newly found success with YouTube posting, I thought reverting to my old blog template would be a piece of cake -- done in a couple of minutes.

Now I've ruined my blog and I can't figure out how to fix it and everything I do either does nothing or makes it worse and I'm starting to freak because my blog looks like it's a burn victim and I'm to blame because I was poking around with buttons and features so now everything I touch turns to 404-Page-Not-Found's and when I pushed that "Help" button at the top of the screen I got absolutely no help from anyone or anything so now I'm basically a blog-murderer and should be sent to blogger-jail for blog-slaughter though I didn't delete all my posts which I could have done so at least that's a plus that I didn't further ruin my blogging career but that doesn't make me feel any better about ruining my template.

*Sniff* *Sniff*

I'll see what I can do.

Emporia Tax Day Tea Party: Emporia Gazette

From the Emporia Gazette, by Bobbi Mlynar:

A crowd that sometimes swelled to about 150 people gathered at White Memorial Park for more than an hour and a half Wednesday afternoon for Emporia’s version of the national Tea Party, initially billed as a tax protest.

The park was full of signs and flags, ranging from “Taxed Enough Already” to “I’ll keep my $, you keep ‘The Change’” to a flag bearing the motto “Don’t Tread on Me.”

Read the rest of the story at the link provided above.

Emporia Tax Day Tea Party: Part 1

All bugs have been fixed; more videos of the Tea Party will be added in the coming days.

'Bout 150 people there; not bad for Emporia, KS. (The nearest town to us that even had a Tea Party.)



(The wind and traffic dealt the audio a fit; it ain't easy holding still when you're looking into the sun and have a 3'x5' Gadsden Flag blowing in the hurricane force winds, so it's shaky in places... okay, all over the place, but enjoy it anyway.)

Baptist Pastor Abused by Border Patrol

Does this guy look like an illegal Mexican to you?



Why is there a border checkpoint (illegally) so far inside the border?

And, why aren't border agents given anything better to do than harass presumed citizens?

Bad deal.