A new legend
5 years ago
11/30/2009
Ultimate
The Ultimate Right of Force
The ultimate right of force belongs not to government. Rather to the people that enact a government to assist in protecting them.
It has been said that only government has the authority to use deadly force. That is not true. Government may only use that which its' citizens may themselves apply. Acting on behalf of the citizens law enforcement is authorized to use the same force the citizens themselves use for self protection. As with any citizen law enforcement must protect themselves from harm. However, in the case of duly authorized law enforcement personnel they have the additional duty of protecting others from harm when possible. Law enforcement voluntarily put themselves in harms way thereby opening themselves more often to the chance of danger.
The military, likewise, have no more right to self defense than the citizens of this country. As with any citizen people in the armed forces of the United States or any country may only exercise the same rights that the citizens themselves possess.
Who are the police, the FBI, the sheriff, the sailor, the soldier? They are you and I. Our brothers and sisters, our mothers and fathers, our cousins. They grew up in the same house, on the same farm, in the same apartment. They went to public school, private school or maybe they were home schooled just as were those in the next city or town. They saw themselves as the white knight or the men in blue or the last soldier standing in a major battle to protect their loved ones and their way of life. They are indeed our front line. We have asked them to put themselves between us and them. But, they are not the last line. We are.
Many of us have been there and done that. We know some of what they face. That's why we authorize them to protect themselves and us with deadly force. We know, however, that they do not always win the day or are not in the right place at the right time. We know that ultimately it is up to us to protect ourselves.
I, you, we maintain the Ultimate Right of Force.
The ultimate right of force belongs not to government. Rather to the people that enact a government to assist in protecting them.
It has been said that only government has the authority to use deadly force. That is not true. Government may only use that which its' citizens may themselves apply. Acting on behalf of the citizens law enforcement is authorized to use the same force the citizens themselves use for self protection. As with any citizen law enforcement must protect themselves from harm. However, in the case of duly authorized law enforcement personnel they have the additional duty of protecting others from harm when possible. Law enforcement voluntarily put themselves in harms way thereby opening themselves more often to the chance of danger.
The military, likewise, have no more right to self defense than the citizens of this country. As with any citizen people in the armed forces of the United States or any country may only exercise the same rights that the citizens themselves possess.
Who are the police, the FBI, the sheriff, the sailor, the soldier? They are you and I. Our brothers and sisters, our mothers and fathers, our cousins. They grew up in the same house, on the same farm, in the same apartment. They went to public school, private school or maybe they were home schooled just as were those in the next city or town. They saw themselves as the white knight or the men in blue or the last soldier standing in a major battle to protect their loved ones and their way of life. They are indeed our front line. We have asked them to put themselves between us and them. But, they are not the last line. We are.
Many of us have been there and done that. We know some of what they face. That's why we authorize them to protect themselves and us with deadly force. We know, however, that they do not always win the day or are not in the right place at the right time. We know that ultimately it is up to us to protect ourselves.
I, you, we maintain the Ultimate Right of Force.
11/20/2009
Next year
Next year is beginning to look alot like Christmas for the bad little boy.
Coal if were lucky is all we're going to find in the stocking. We're going to need every piece to keep warm.
Vox day is laying an outline for economic doom. He's supported by central banks of europe who are warning that plans need to be made for a total collapse. Peter Schiff and Congressman Ron Paul have become more vociferous of their vision for a Federal Reserve sponsored disaster. People with personal experience in the recent decline of their country point out the parallels.
Congress continues to support spending programs that are larger than any ever envisioned in the past. More bailouts are being considered. The FDIC has no more money. The money in your savings and checking accounts are at risk. The FHA has no more money and presides over tremendous loses from foreclosures that continue to mount. Health Care probably will pass and be signed by our Socialist in Chief this year. Unemployment is above 22% nationwide and appears to be increasing.
If you have money in a 401K or IRA or similiar account be prepared to take it out. When the SHTF the FED and congress are going to take a large portion of it (or all of it) because you are one of the evil dispised RICH. It's happened elsewhere and has been contemplated before in the U.S.
What to do. SAVE EVERY PENNY YOU CAN!!
Cut back on your spending. If you're contemplating a major life changing decision, stop. Think about it again. Then don't do it. If you can move closer to your family do it. Family is going to be extremely important to your wellbeing and theirs. Think about it before you do it!
Where can you stop spending? Do you have a land line and a cell phone? Get rid of one or the other. The new digital broadcast TV is better than cable in quality. Content sucks but, you'll have some tv. Dump the cable or satellite. Do you have any extra items around the house that aren't necessary, sell them. Game players, tv's, DVD's, VHS tapes, books, etc. Sell them.
Store food and water. Dried pinto beans are one of the most versatile. Rice is easy to store. Canned goods are good but must be rotated out before their shelf life ends. Get a book on foraging for food. Put together a survival kit. Most important of all get your mind set for hardship. You are going to have to adapt quickly.
Coal if were lucky is all we're going to find in the stocking. We're going to need every piece to keep warm.
Vox day is laying an outline for economic doom. He's supported by central banks of europe who are warning that plans need to be made for a total collapse. Peter Schiff and Congressman Ron Paul have become more vociferous of their vision for a Federal Reserve sponsored disaster. People with personal experience in the recent decline of their country point out the parallels.
Congress continues to support spending programs that are larger than any ever envisioned in the past. More bailouts are being considered. The FDIC has no more money. The money in your savings and checking accounts are at risk. The FHA has no more money and presides over tremendous loses from foreclosures that continue to mount. Health Care probably will pass and be signed by our Socialist in Chief this year. Unemployment is above 22% nationwide and appears to be increasing.
If you have money in a 401K or IRA or similiar account be prepared to take it out. When the SHTF the FED and congress are going to take a large portion of it (or all of it) because you are one of the evil dispised RICH. It's happened elsewhere and has been contemplated before in the U.S.
What to do. SAVE EVERY PENNY YOU CAN!!
Cut back on your spending. If you're contemplating a major life changing decision, stop. Think about it again. Then don't do it. If you can move closer to your family do it. Family is going to be extremely important to your wellbeing and theirs. Think about it before you do it!
Where can you stop spending? Do you have a land line and a cell phone? Get rid of one or the other. The new digital broadcast TV is better than cable in quality. Content sucks but, you'll have some tv. Dump the cable or satellite. Do you have any extra items around the house that aren't necessary, sell them. Game players, tv's, DVD's, VHS tapes, books, etc. Sell them.
Store food and water. Dried pinto beans are one of the most versatile. Rice is easy to store. Canned goods are good but must be rotated out before their shelf life ends. Get a book on foraging for food. Put together a survival kit. Most important of all get your mind set for hardship. You are going to have to adapt quickly.
11/04/2009
Taking stock
Who do you know? Who do you know locally? It's as good a spot as any to start.
Can you combine your knowledge and abilities with your neighbor? Have you ever been an electrician or plumber or carpenter? What have you done during your life? Can you build or repair an engine or generator? What kind of tools do you have at hand?
Power tools, hand tools wrenches, saws, shovels, etc. allow you to work with machinery or wood or the earth. Your neighbor probably has knowledge and abilities that augment your own. He may have some or many tools that you do not have.
Friends and neighbors often times work together to repair a problem. Some even go into business together to make money.
When you take stock be brutally honest with yourself. Are you a leader or a follower? What are your physical limitations?
Look at yourself. Look around yourself. Look around the neighborhood.
One of the best solutions to government is to not depend on them for anything.
Can you combine your knowledge and abilities with your neighbor? Have you ever been an electrician or plumber or carpenter? What have you done during your life? Can you build or repair an engine or generator? What kind of tools do you have at hand?
Power tools, hand tools wrenches, saws, shovels, etc. allow you to work with machinery or wood or the earth. Your neighbor probably has knowledge and abilities that augment your own. He may have some or many tools that you do not have.
Friends and neighbors often times work together to repair a problem. Some even go into business together to make money.
When you take stock be brutally honest with yourself. Are you a leader or a follower? What are your physical limitations?
Look at yourself. Look around yourself. Look around the neighborhood.
One of the best solutions to government is to not depend on them for anything.
11/03/2009
Global Guerillas
You'll notice that I have Global Guerillas listed as one of the blogs that I visit regularly. I'm particularly interested in the last few days. He has some interesting comments as well as links to other sites.
10/22/2009
Restore the ninth and tenth ammendments
The article that I've attached has inspired me.
We've been sending letters and e-mails and calling our national representatives to fight such as the heath care bill and cap and trade and the U.N. et. al. Don't stop.
Now I ask that the next step be taken. A step that may be much more important because it is more local. Find your local state representative and include him or her in your campaign.All politics is local, or so the saying goes, but what isn't said is that we have more effect at the local level than at the Federal level.
We can't forget the U.S. senate and house, but now we must push as hard or harder on each of our local representatives as well.
The ninth and tenth amendments to the Constitution need to be restored. State and personnal sovereignty are necessary to a free state.
http://www.wnd.com/index.phpfa=PAGE.view&pageId=113606
http://www.votesmart.org/bio.php?can_id=440 (Govenor Riley)
http://www.votesmart.org/bio.php?can_id=5681 (Steve McMillan district 95)
http://www.votesmart.org/bio.php?can_id=27530 (Joe Faust district 94)
http://www.votesmart.org/bio.php?can_id=101243 (State Senator Trip Pittman district 32)
We've been sending letters and e-mails and calling our national representatives to fight such as the heath care bill and cap and trade and the U.N. et. al. Don't stop.
Now I ask that the next step be taken. A step that may be much more important because it is more local. Find your local state representative and include him or her in your campaign.All politics is local, or so the saying goes, but what isn't said is that we have more effect at the local level than at the Federal level.
We can't forget the U.S. senate and house, but now we must push as hard or harder on each of our local representatives as well.
The ninth and tenth amendments to the Constitution need to be restored. State and personnal sovereignty are necessary to a free state.
http://www.wnd.com/index.phpfa=PAGE.view&pageId=113606
http://www.votesmart.org/bio.php?can_id=440 (Govenor Riley)
http://www.votesmart.org/bio.php?can_id=5681 (Steve McMillan district 95)
http://www.votesmart.org/bio.php?can_id=27530 (Joe Faust district 94)
http://www.votesmart.org/bio.php?can_id=101243 (State Senator Trip Pittman district 32)
10/20/2009
Do you like to play Golf?
Uncle Sam wants you.... to buy a Golf Cart for little or no money.
It's bad enough that I have to buy one of those "scooters" for grandma or grandpa next door so that he/she/it can get from the refrigerator to the television between commercials. Now I get to pay for you to get from the eighth to the nineth hole at the golf course.
What's even worse. Government thinks I don't volunteer enough of my life to others. Now I'm supposed to give my time away to someone else for free. Mandating volunteer credits as a requirement to graduate from high school is bad enough. It's called extortion.
From the Wall Street Journal
Cash for Clubbers
Congress's fabulous golf cart stimulus.
We thought cash for clunkers was the ultimate waste of taxpayer money, but as usual we were too optimistic. Thanks to the federal tax credit to buy high-mileage cars that was part of President Obama's stimulus plan, Uncle Sam is now paying Americans to buy that great necessity of modern life, the golf cart.
The federal credit provides from $4,200 to $5,500 for the purchase of an electric vehicle, and when it is combined with similar incentive plans in many states the tax credits can pay for nearly the entire cost of a golf cart. Even in states that don't have their own tax rebate plans, the federal credit is generous enough to pay for half or even two-thirds of the average sticker price of a cart, which is typically in the range of $8,000 to $10,000. "The purchase of some models could be absolutely free," Roger Gaddis of Ada Electric Cars in Oklahoma said earlier this year. "Is that about the coolest thing you've ever heard?"
The golf-cart boom has followed an IRS ruling that golf carts qualify for the electric-car credit as long as they are also road worthy. These qualifying golf carts are essentially the same as normal golf carts save for adding some safety features, such as side and rearview mirrors and three-point seat belts. They typically can go 15 to 25 miles per hour.
In South Carolina, sales of these carts have been soaring as dealerships alert customers to Uncle Sam's giveaway. "The Golf Cart Man" in the Villages of Lady Lake, Florida is running a banner online ad that declares: "GET A FREE GOLF CART. Or make $2,000 doing absolutely nothing!"
Golf Cart Man is referring to his offer in which you can buy the cart for $8,000, get a $5,300 tax credit off your 2009 income tax, lease it back for $100 a month for 27 months, at which point Golf Cart Man will buy back the cart for $2,000. "This means you own a free Golf Cart or made $2,000 cash doing absolutely nothing!!!" You can't blame a guy for exploiting loopholes that Congress offers.
The IRS has also ruled that there's no limit to how many electric cars an individual can buy, so some enterprising profiteers are stocking up on multiple carts while the federal credit lasts, in order to resell them at a profit later. We should note that some states, such as Oklahoma, have caught on to the giveaway and are debating whether to cancel or limit their state credits. But in Congress they're still on the driving range.
This golf-cart fiasco perfectly illustrates tax policy in the age of Obama, when politicians dole out credits and loopholes for everything from plug-in cars to fuel efficient appliances, home insulation and vitamins. Democrats then insist that to pay for these absurdities they have no choice but to raise tax rates on other things—like work and investment—that aren't politically in vogue. If this keeps up, it'll soon make more sense to retire and play golf than work for living.
Printed in The Wall Street Journal, page A12
Copyright 2009 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved
It's bad enough that I have to buy one of those "scooters" for grandma or grandpa next door so that he/she/it can get from the refrigerator to the television between commercials. Now I get to pay for you to get from the eighth to the nineth hole at the golf course.
What's even worse. Government thinks I don't volunteer enough of my life to others. Now I'm supposed to give my time away to someone else for free. Mandating volunteer credits as a requirement to graduate from high school is bad enough. It's called extortion.
From the Wall Street Journal
Cash for Clubbers
Congress's fabulous golf cart stimulus.
We thought cash for clunkers was the ultimate waste of taxpayer money, but as usual we were too optimistic. Thanks to the federal tax credit to buy high-mileage cars that was part of President Obama's stimulus plan, Uncle Sam is now paying Americans to buy that great necessity of modern life, the golf cart.
The federal credit provides from $4,200 to $5,500 for the purchase of an electric vehicle, and when it is combined with similar incentive plans in many states the tax credits can pay for nearly the entire cost of a golf cart. Even in states that don't have their own tax rebate plans, the federal credit is generous enough to pay for half or even two-thirds of the average sticker price of a cart, which is typically in the range of $8,000 to $10,000. "The purchase of some models could be absolutely free," Roger Gaddis of Ada Electric Cars in Oklahoma said earlier this year. "Is that about the coolest thing you've ever heard?"
The golf-cart boom has followed an IRS ruling that golf carts qualify for the electric-car credit as long as they are also road worthy. These qualifying golf carts are essentially the same as normal golf carts save for adding some safety features, such as side and rearview mirrors and three-point seat belts. They typically can go 15 to 25 miles per hour.
In South Carolina, sales of these carts have been soaring as dealerships alert customers to Uncle Sam's giveaway. "The Golf Cart Man" in the Villages of Lady Lake, Florida is running a banner online ad that declares: "GET A FREE GOLF CART. Or make $2,000 doing absolutely nothing!"
Golf Cart Man is referring to his offer in which you can buy the cart for $8,000, get a $5,300 tax credit off your 2009 income tax, lease it back for $100 a month for 27 months, at which point Golf Cart Man will buy back the cart for $2,000. "This means you own a free Golf Cart or made $2,000 cash doing absolutely nothing!!!" You can't blame a guy for exploiting loopholes that Congress offers.
The IRS has also ruled that there's no limit to how many electric cars an individual can buy, so some enterprising profiteers are stocking up on multiple carts while the federal credit lasts, in order to resell them at a profit later. We should note that some states, such as Oklahoma, have caught on to the giveaway and are debating whether to cancel or limit their state credits. But in Congress they're still on the driving range.
This golf-cart fiasco perfectly illustrates tax policy in the age of Obama, when politicians dole out credits and loopholes for everything from plug-in cars to fuel efficient appliances, home insulation and vitamins. Democrats then insist that to pay for these absurdities they have no choice but to raise tax rates on other things—like work and investment—that aren't politically in vogue. If this keeps up, it'll soon make more sense to retire and play golf than work for living.
Printed in The Wall Street Journal, page A12
Copyright 2009 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved
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