Sunday, August 8, 2010

Congress Sneaks Supreme Court Appointment Past Vacationing Citizenry!!

Congress must think we're ALL asleep at the wheel!!  They opted last week to approve the nomination of U.S. Solicitor General Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court.  The reports I've read on Kagan indicate that she is an ardently-left-wing appointment who, in my opinion, could do considerable damage to the rights of individuals and to the rights of States.  I find the timing on this one VERY suspicious:

Constitutional oath: "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God."

Judicial oath: "I do solemnly swear (or affirm), that I will administer justice without respect to persons, and do equal right to the poor and to the rich, and that I will faithfully and impartially discharge and perform all the duties incumbent on me, under the Constitution and laws of the United States. So help me God."


LET'S HOLD HER TO IT!!

You Have the Right To Remain Silent..IF You Know About It!!

A recent U.S. Supreme Court decision has further whittled down the advancement of the rights of individuals and individual freedoms of the last 80 years or so.  YOU may know your "Miranda" rights.  But, chances are you learned them either by seeing them read to someone on TV or, yes, probably more than a few of us have learned them by having them read to US (do they still teach Civics in high school?  And how many of us remember it anyway?).  Plus, even if you know them, would you remember them in a time of duress?  How many of you can recite ALL of them??  Then, of course, there are cases which involve what the original decision involved:  what about people who are arrested here who do not know our constitution and perhaps have only a rudimentary understanding of English?  There are some very specific protections in the fifth and sixth amendments to our constitution which were intended SPECIFICALLY to keep government off the backs of the people and to prevent people from being "railroaded".  But, our "High Court", I suppose to be "tough on crime" or more likely to enhance their popularity or at least avoid public ridicule at a time at which much of the population, not to mention the federal government, seems to think the Constitution and the rights of the individual against the state are a matter of convenience, has decided to ignore the abuses of the past and undo the progress of the last 60 years:  http://www.csmonitor.com/From-the-news-wires/2010/0802/Miranda-warning-rights-trimmed-bit-by-bit-by-high-court  

They Fed A World..But They're Not Important Enough To Save..the Family Farm

Here's another piece of the America most of us have known and loved being allowed to just f-a-a-a-a-a-de away!!  I have many happy memories of spending time on my great-grandparents' farm, which, by the way, to my knowledge is still in operation.  It's been in my family since 1878.  My mom had already told me that, for example, milk didn't come from a carton; it came from a cow.  However, it was on visiting that farm that I learned just how HARD a farmer works to provide us with milk, eggs, cheese, and other food products, as well as, for example, leather and I'm sure some other products.  My great-grandfather was working that farm up until about two or three months before he died at the age of 91.  Yet, I NEVER heard him complain about how hard he worked.  Sure, he complained about the weather, crop prices, possibly that his back hurt, etc.  Farmers do that, especially, I think, as they get on in age.  But I never..and I mean NEVER..heard him complain about how hard the work was..or that he had to work too hard.  NEVER.  I wonder if we will enjoy low food prices and the quality and variety of foods from the corporate farms (foreign-and-domestically-owned) and farms owned by rich foreigners that we have enjoyed courtesy of the American family farmer.  Quality?  Perhaps.  But, is something really "quality" when it is genetically-engineered to be sterile, thus precluding the farmer from "saving over" seed?  Is it "quality" when the farmer is locked into BUYING all his or her (and there are a few FEMALE family farmers!) seed each season, thus raising the farmer's costs?  Is it quality when it tastes like cardboard?  A way of life and a dear ingredient of the American way of life is passing us by and we..and our government..are doing nothing..and I mean NOTHING..to stop it.  A nation can put nothing at risk (except perhaps its' air and water supplies) which is MORE DEAR and MORE BASIC than its' food.  We do so AT OUR PERIL.

GM's New Edsel

Here's GM's thanks to Daddy Government for the loan (part of the payback to the Obama Administration and the Democrat Party).  http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=542325&obref=outbrain