Posted on 06/04/2005 6:07:03 AM PDT by George Frm Br00klyn Park
Yup!
Since ... um ....
"Yea, hath God said ... ?"
The Bible is front to back full of good and excellent teachings.
I learned very early in my relationship with Christ, that the best and most common way we are induced to fall is to question God.
Some good teachers in my life have been able to articulate how that question by Satan to Eve, in The Garden, has been his (Satan's) favorite and most effective modus operandi .... question authority.
Whether we accept authority or not, the fact is there will always be an authority in our lives.
If we switch our allegience to authority from God to Satan, guess who becomes the more powerful?
We can never win a war by depleting our ranks ... we need to promote the ones already in-service and recruit new soldiers.
The same is true with America, Americanism, Patriotism and simular such ideas.
If America does not promote into leadership (or the potential leaders never step forward), and recruit new ones (I really enjoy those posts that announce a new FReeper has been born ... ), We will continue to get the Nancy Pelosi's and John Kerry's and etc., etc.
Whom will perform their particular brand of recruiting (the same enticements used by Satan ... lust of the eyes, of the flesh and of self) and they will overcome.
"If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; Then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land."
2 Chronicles 2:14
Still very sound teaching (doctrine).
Congress has had 200 years to "begin" and never has. If you think they're going to start now you're mistaken.
Remember that the Constitution gives the people a means to change whatever doesn't work, and the judicial system doesn't work except for liberals. The Framers knew some changes would have to be made, and they had an abiding distrust of a court system that could get out of control.
So, why are you so much against doing what the Framers gave us the means to do, and what's wrong with judicial term limits?
"Rights to a well-paying job, housing, health care, education, recreation . . . are included in this imagined constitution."
Gee, correct me if I am wrong, but I thought every citizen in the US already had these rights.
---This is the most cogent argument I've ever seen for abolishing judicial review. ---
Then we would be in the same shape as the British. The Parliament passes any stupid law they wish and your only recourse is to go beg your Member of Parliament to please reconsider or vote for another one in hopes getting another party in that might change the law.
Look at British gun laws! The Brits beheaded one king that tried to take their arms and dismiss Parliament. Now through Parliament and various bureaucratic regulations they've been almost completely stripped of their traditional rights.
I'm getting real sick of Cass Sunstein and Joshua Micah Marshall.
Thanks for the ping. They're not that bad...they afterall ARE progessive. (rolling eyes icon)
I read the article earlier this morning and have already saved it to my file. Before someone else says it, welcome to the Soviet States of America.
Cheers,
Lloyd
ping!!!
The Constitution version 2.0 come about when Lincoln took office. We are now looking toward version 3.0 or is it 4.0. FDR did even more damage to it.
A billion is good. Why if the government gave every citizen a billion we would all be rich! Yea, that's the ticket!
This would be even better. Then they wouldn't have to work, which would leave more jobs for the 'undocumented workers'. :)
"Why stop at $80,000? Indeed giving each citizen a billion or so is no sillier and not much more self-destructive either."
Because if you make over that you are an evil rich person, except for hollywood elitists pinko commies and New York/New England elitists.
Ladies and Gentlemen, these are the stakes in the judicial confirmation battle. This is why conservatives are so livid at the Gang of 14 who acted as enablers to Our Robed Masters. Mr. Frist, get these fine men and women confirmed!
I like this Constitution Society better:
http://www.constitution.org/
Yes it is - and one of my favorites!
...that question by Satan to Eve,
"Ye shall not surely die:" Gen. 3:4
The beginning of the end.
Well put.
I say hang every last one of these despotic traitors and usurpers, burn down the law schools of Harvard and Yale, and begin anew with professors who teach Constitutionalism instead of watered-down Marxism.
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