Posted on 06/26/2015 8:56:15 AM PDT by Voice of Reason1
*Weapons grade sarcasm*
Isn’t great that we can witness history in the making? Many times people don’t realize what is happening at the moment is historic because the are living it. We weren’t at the birth of our Constitutional Republic or at it’s major moments in becoming the greatest country on planet earth.
But now we have the great honor of witnessing it’s death knell..
Of the two decision by the Extreme Court this week, the Obamacare was the most egregious because of two very ominous reasons:
1. The national Socialist left can now try the ‘You have a right to ____’ with anything they want, meaning they have the right to enslave people to provide that right (like healthcare)
2. The Extreme court has now taken to reinterpreting the meaning of words and laws to whatever they want them to mean.
Welcome to the slippery slope Sheeple!
Consider the following quotation (I’m not sure of it authorship but it frames things nicely)
“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years.”And this:
The Fatal Sequence
The historical cycle seems to be:
From bondage to spiritual faith;
From spiritual faith to courage;
From courage to liberty;
From liberty to abundance;
From abundance to selfishness;
From selfishness to apathy;
From apathy to dependency;
And from dependency back to bondage once more.
Henning Webb Prentis, Jr.,
Can someone disagree with may conclusions here?
Please!
“That doesn’t work. If that’s the answer, we may as well sit down, shut up and accept the chains of slavery.”
Well that was kind of my point.
We can’t really do anything except vote and then bitch about the outcome.
We can, to a degree, effect the small things in our everyday life.
America of 50 years ago, or even 10 years ago, isn’t coming back.
We can stand and stand firm - refuse to recognize this ruling, or the validity of SCOTUS and the validity of this evil Administration. If any of them have an issue with that, they are welcome to complain to the business end of a rifle.
You are entirely correct - you only have to examine the end game of what the national socialist left and how everything they want has to be under the auspices of Government Control.
Consider on of their favorite games is to pretend that failed Socialist regimes are ‘Right wing’
(How do they do that you ask? By LIES and endlessly repeated talking points that don’t make logical sense)
“We can stand and stand firm - refuse to recognize this ruling, or the validity of SCOTUS and the validity of this evil Administration. If any of them have an issue with that, they are welcome to complain to the business end of a rifle.”
Well you can do that as an individual citizen. That’s hardly going to have an effect.
I refuse to recognize gay marriage but that really doesn’t matter since I already didn’t recognize it. On the other hand me not recognizing it doesn’t change the fact that it’s constitutionally protected now.
I can however keep to myself, my family, and my friends and not have to have it in my face any more than necessary.
But a far as gay marriage being stopped. That’s not going to happen.
“put things in perspective”
In the filth and perversion of the decaying Roman Empire grew a church that spread His Word throughout the world.
Silence is consent.
“Silence is consent.”
No. Consent is consent. Not running around looking for faces to get into is minding ones own business.
But if that works for you then stick with it.
There are plenty here
They are quiet now for the most part but just check my posting history and you’ll see a few sticking their heads out
Good to see you
That’s very good news.
Thank you for the invite. I could use a boost about now. (not discouraged, just weary. It’s too soon for that.)
You, also. God Bless
Gun-grabbers howled at the US Supreme Court in the DC vs. Heller and McDonald vs. City Of Chicago finding for protection via scrutiny under the 14th Amendment, just like social conservatives did for this latest 'Gay Marriage' ruling.
Gun-grabbers said then that the high court invented language to arrive at the findings, just like social conservatives did for this latest 'Gay Marriage' ruling.
Judge Nap nailed it today. We’ll just just keep redefining words to mean whatever the socialists want them to say.
“Last time around when the government said it was not a tax and the challengers said it was not a tax, the chief justice ruled it was a tax and that saved it,” he continued. “This time around he took the plain meaning of ordinary words, ‘established by the states,’ and somehow held that they were ambiguous, and that he could — and that that the majority could — correct the ambiguity according to what they thought the drafters meant.”
God Bless Judge Nap.
You’re not wrong. Here is why we lost:
First, in 1965, due to Ted Kennedy’s immigration reform act, this country decided to fundamentally alter itself from a white, European republic to something else. Today, we are seeing the impact of that. Whites are now a minority of children under five. The people who established this country decided, in 1965, to give up their control over it, and to replace themselves with people who don’t have our generations-long cultural appreciation for the values on which our country was founded.
Second, in the 1980s when the Baby Boomers decided to put on suits, pick up cocaine habits, and make a bunch of money on Wall Street, we all assumed that the cultural upheaval and radicalism of the 1960s had been defeated. But the 60s radicals didn’t go away. They went into the universities, where they took control of the training of our kids’ teachers (see Bill Ayers). They went to Hollywood, where they took control of our popular culture. And people with our ideology said, “so what? I’m making money. These ex-hippie radicals are harmless.” We let them get away with it.
We’re finished. We’re never going to vote our way out of this. The question is, now what are we going to do about?
Consider how the Extreme court decided to rewrite the meaning of the law to what someone supposedly intended.
Now, apply that kind of rewriting to the second amendment or any of the other amendments...
Do you see the point now?
Thank you for posting that - I haven’t seen that yet so thanks.
I was hoping to be wrong on this point to be honest..
I’m not sure what we’re going to do about it, but we ought to put our ‘betters’ on notice that if they don’t have to follow the law, then neither do we...
I see that we have two US Supreme Court decisions acknowledging an individual right to bear arms protected under the 14th Amendment quite separate from the ‘militia clause’ in Article II of the US Constitution.
Many gun grabbers have bemoaned this as ‘inventing language’ to suit the outcome, thereby ‘rewriting’ the Second Amendment. These holdings were affirmed by the same split decision numbers as the ‘gay marriage’ holding that came out today: 5-4. The gay marriage win is no more or less important than the RKBA being extended to cities where firearms were once prohibited. In fact, it probably only helps the cause of extending RKBA.
My suggestion to both the gun-grabbers and the anti-gay marriage people is to familiarize themselves with Marbury vs. Madison (1803) and understand that it’s nothing new that the US Constitution means whatever the US Supreme Court says it means.
As for me, my wife and I will go to a gay wedding if we’re invited. I bet the catering will be superb. Be aware that I fully plan to carry concealed for my own protection at the ceremony just like I do everywhere else.
In many large state universities, freshman and sophomore classes are now heavily tilted toward attendance online and on demand instead of attendance in person. As state finances become ever more burdened by public employee pension obligations, state funding of education will inevitably be under pressure. Within ten years a distinctively large slice of higher education will be delivered online to students who reside at home.
As comprehensive knowledge and skills testing validates that method of higher education, going away to college will become the domain of affluent and indulgent parents and limited to perhaps a final year or two. Competition between colleges and universities will force a trimming back of weak instructors and bad courses. The culture defining power of higher education will inevitably wane, reliant as it is on having student on campus and away from home.
As for the news media, the continuing decline of newspapers and network evening news will further weaken the power of the news media to set the agenda and terms of debate. Within an election cycle or two, a Republican Presidential candidate will take the Obama approach of treating the news media as dispensable and get away with it. When that happens, their power will be decisively diminished.
You’re most welcome.
I have a soft spot in my heart for Judge Nap. His reasoning on all things constitutional is so strong. A true Patriot.
What are You going to do about It !
I’ll grab My King James !
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