Wednesday, May 31, 2006
I'm Still On Hiatus...
And I feel I owe my Readers an explanation.
I'm a busy guy. I've got a wife to love, kids to raise, a job to do, and a Republic to save.
Republic saving's taking a bit of a back burner these days, as I've got to pace myself a bit. This is a long, hard war, and preserving from burnout is a necessity. Hell, Kim Du Toit's shut down his blog twice (thrice?) in the years I've been blogging.
That's not the main thing though.
The big time eater this go round is the job to do.
I never get into too many particulars about my work. Suffice it to say that I'm a professional geek, whose title is irrelevant, and whose job description is along the lines of "given a pencil, a rubber band, a paperclip, and approximately ten minutes, MacGuyver together a solid, reliable device that achieves the purpose of [redacted], and can be cost effectively fabricated in [redacted] quantities, and will function under [redacted] circumstances.
I'm up to something that's very important to the company, that has entered a critical phase. The pressure will come off in a few weeks. It's an interesting story, that I can probably tell you about next year, after it's all over.
In the meantime, failure is not an option.
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Posted By: geekWithA.45  
RCOB...
How Chavez captures hearts of U.S. citizens (worth the read)
It's not so much as he's capturing the hearts of Americans as he is buying them, from people who don't know any better.
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Donna Santiago, an unemployed single mother from the Kensington section of Philadelphia, never thought much about Venezuela before January, when she received a load of discounted heating oil courtesy of the South American nation.
Santiago was so ecstatic - her family was among a lucky 181,000 low-income households in the Northeast that received 40 million gallons of discounted oil - she told the program organizers she wanted to thank Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez personally.
Much to her surprise, she got her wish.
Last month, Santiago and her two daughters - none of whom had ever traveled abroad before - were flown to Caracas with about 60 other heating-oil beneficiaries at Venezuela's expense. After a two-day whirlwind tour of Chavez's accomplishments, the American visitors got an audience with the charismatic president himself.
"All I had heard about Chavez was that he was a dictator," Santiago, 38, said after returning to Philadelphia. "The man is far from that. He's a really warm person. I wanted to bring him home and stick him in the White House."
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God forbid.
Gwa9 grew up in Kensington. At the time, it was populated mainly by working class stiffs who aspired to be blue collar. I understand it's gone downhill from there.
Sooo, anyway, you take an undereducated, unemployed person with dependents, who has likely never ventured far from Kensington, give her dirt cheap oil, put her on a plane to an exotic locale, dazzle her with the "social justice" that can be purchased for people just like her by merely redistributing wealth, and of course she's going to gush about what a great man he is. Heck, she's going to be so beguiled by the old shell game that she's not even going to ask about what happens when there's no more rich to rob from, or what happens when productivity goes into the dumper, as it has every single time the socialism con game has been played.
Sure, Venezuela might be able to get a good, long extended run out of the con fueled by expropriated oil, but the end result is innevitable.
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Another interesting bit turned up is the kinder, gentler re-education camps:
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Some loyalists are finding work with government-subsidized cooperatives that manufacture items like shoes and clothing, though most of the six-month training involves political indoctrination rather than vocational instruction.
"It's not like we're going to start making shoes right away," said Marbani Castillo, 27, a member of the "My Strength" Cooperative. "First they teach you human values."
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Why on earth NOT start making shoes right away? What are you waiting for? For the shoe muse to piss her blessings down on you?
What a load of crap.
You can get a boatload done in 6 months of intensive training. That's 120 instructional days. That's 20 days more than the 100 classroom days we require of electricians. And this poor sod, Marbani, still doesn't know how to make shoes.
I'll bet he has great "human values" though.
Here's the final slap in the face:
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While the Venezuelan government covered 40 percent of Santiago's $499 oil bill*, she did not lay out a penny for the remainder. The larger portion, about $300, was covered by several crisis grants for low-income people - federal money, paid for by U.S. taxpayers**.
Santiago sees no irony in her gratitude to Venezuela for an oil delivery mostly paid by President Bush's government.
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(*A one shot deal, I might add)
(**A persistent program that has probably covered her ass before, and will continue to do so for the forseable future)
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Saturday, May 27, 2006
Another Brief Hiatus Interruption...
Good Grief!
I'm #1 on google for "McGreevey gay hangouts!"
There are days when I'm really, really afraid to check my blog logs.
Now you know why.
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Tuesday, May 23, 2006
I Briefly Interrupt My Hiatus...
To direct Reader's attention to a newspaperman in Illinois who actually did his homework.
The Myth of the Easy Machine Gun"
:)
As I mentioned in my congratulatory email to Mr. Bowers, failure to do homework leads people to accept all sort of nonsensical propositions across the board.
{h/t: thr::DonP}
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Tuesday, May 16, 2006
Bloggus Interruptus...
As usual, I have more ideas and things to write about than time to write them.
Before I go, though, I want to leave this little morsel for thought, a comment I left @ Kim's re: his fisking of the illegal immigration speech:
{Slightly enhanced and expanded}
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Here's the thing:
We know, deep down in our bones that the tough problems of this world, the southern border, the jihaddis and the general mess that is the mideast, the leviathan of our government, the eroded bill of rights, the leftist fifth columnists, etc ad nauseum are problems that are not amendable to "business as usual solutions".
We know deep down that to tackle them, we need bold, inspired, AUDACIOUS action, which requires a bold, inspired, audacious leader willing to draw his sword and sever the gordian knot.
For one, brief shining moment when Bush stepped up to the plate after 9/11, we thought to ourselves, "Holy smokes! Perhaps this is it!"
Nah.
Flash in the pan.
God, this is going to be long frikking life.
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We know deep down that we live in interesting times, times that call for men who are larger than life, who live the myth, and be the legend, who assume the mantel of hero without self effacement or apology.
Hollywood taps that vein, and shows us the myth, pure and undiluted:
Yeah, sure, it's a movie and fairytale, but it speaks to a real and present need.
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Posted By: geekWithA.45
Wednesday, May 10, 2006
Humor I Gotta Share...
Darth Vader Calls The Emperor...
Fair warning: profanity, and therefore probably not worksafe.
Hysterically funny, if you're a Star Wars geek.
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Posted By: geekWithA.45
Oh, For Christ Sake...
Ga. Student Suspended for Threatening Song
Girl gets 5 days for singing this variant of "On Top of Old Smokey":
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On top of Ol' Smokey, all covered with blood, I shot my poor teacher with a .44 slug."
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What nauseaus nonsense.
I distinctly remember the teacher walking in on us in third grade, the entire class singing this song in full chorus and at the top of our lungs:
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Heigh ho! Heigh ho!
It's off to school we go!
With hand grenades and laser blades!
Heigh ho! Heigh ho! Heigh ho!
Heigh ho! Heigh ho!
It's off to school we go!
We'll kill the cooks and burn the books!
Heigh ho! Heigh ho! Heigh ho!
Heigh ho! Heigh ho!
It's off to school we go!
We'll torch the halls and break the walls!
Heigh ho! Heigh ho! Heigh ho!
Heigh ho! Heigh ho!
It's off to school we go!
We'll get some guns and shoot the nuns!
Heigh ho! Heigh ho! Heigh ho!
etc etc etc
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The teachers response to this was entirely as it should be:
{cocks eyebrow, like Mr. Spock, trying to hide laughter}
"Ok, class, that's enough. Settle down, settle down, and open your reading book to page 23..."
While we're on the topic, does anyone remember this classic?
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Glory, glory hallelujiah!
The teacher hit me with a ruler!
Dad was at the door with his magnum .44,
And she don't teach no more!
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Feel free to leave your treasured songs of schoolyard mayem in comments.
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Posted By: geekWithA.45
God, I Love The Smell of Jury Nullification In The Morning...
It smells like...freedom.
Over @ Kim's place, he has the story of a "felon in posession" of a firearm.
The felon, who by all appearances seems to have gone straight for 20 some odd years, used a handgun to fend off an armed robber who was ransacking his business.
The DA wanted indictments for homicide and unlawful posession, and the Grand Jury told her to go pound sand.
I find this tale particularly enjoyable, as grand juries have pretty much become the DA's rubber stamp committee. In the words of Airboss, "most DA's can get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich".
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Tuesday, May 09, 2006
Unstoppable Flying Robot Angst...
This article describes the angst the so called experts fear over light, cheap, flying bombs.
Apparently, the experts aren't thinking hard enough.
Considering that counter battery radar can detect shells in flight, it seems to me that a scale down and tweaked up version of this is what's called for:
It's CIWS, or Close In Weapons System, whose purpose is to shred incomming fire.
Perhaps 20mm is a bit much for model airplane. Perhaps we've found the perfect role for 5.56?
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Posted By: geekWithA.45
Monday, May 08, 2006
Quote of The Week:
Kim duToit:
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Remember, the difference between the Stupid Party and the Evil Party is simple: the Stupid Party screws things up because, well, they’re the Stupid Party. The Evil Party screws things up as a matter of policy.
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I have to say that he has nailed what appears the essence of the last 25 years of American politics. The Stupid Party delivers only minimally on that they promise, failing to get any traction on any of the really important stuff. Then they bobble a few balls, screws a few things up, and their base stays home on election day in abject disgust.
This of course, ushers the Evil Party into power, which seems to have no problem at all making progress on implementing their agenda. The Evil Party takes great strides wreaking their havoc, strewing blood and mayhem in their wake, until we can bear it no more, and vote them out of office, displacing them with the next iteration of the Stupid Party, giving them the mandate to clean up the wreckage, and undo the mess.
For every 4 strides of damage done by the Evil Party, the Stupid party can perhaps undo a halting toddler step, and we console ourselves knowing that at least the Evil Party is restrained in the amount of damage they're doing for the moment.
This is the cyclic narrative of the electoral meta cycle that we must break.
It is my observation that the Evil party wins not on their merits or strength of argument, but on their opposition (which would be us) yielding the field to them in disgust.
The Republic has not stepped back so far from the brink that we can afford this.
The Evil Party remains in the thrall of committed collectivoLeftism, and I continue to evaluate them to be the greatest danger to the integrity of the Republic. Therefore, the 3 point plan stands:
1) The electoral evisceration of the Democratic party until such time as they are purged of their collectivoLeftists and Rousseaunian base, and return to the fold with a recognizably American premise based on Locke.
2) The internal rehabilitation of the Stupid Party. We need better, smarter, more liberty oriented players there, and the dark authoritarian schmucks must be suppressed and censured.
3) A detachement needs to be dispatched to salvage whatever is of merit out in 3rd party land.
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Posted By: geekWithA.45
NJ Slogan...ROFLMAO!
N.J. Scraps New Slogan; It's Been Used
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New Jersey: We're Not So Good With Slogans.
The state has jettisoned "Come See For Yourself," its second attempt at a tagline in less than a year. It was the product of a statewide contest set up by then-acting Gov. Richard J. Codey last fall, after he rejected a consultant's offering: "We'll Win You Over."
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Codey, now state Senate president, dismissed "We'll Win You Over" because he said it reminded him too much of when he was single and asked girls out on a date.
"Come See For Yourself" was the top choice among more than 11,000 telephone and online votes cast by residents for five finalist entries in the contest. Codey unveiled the slogan with great fanfare in January, saying the Garden State's catch phrase "should hint at our true beauty."
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What a bunch of pathetically incompetent losers.
Minor Update...
After mentioning this to GWA9, we ended up literally doubled over in laughter, and the true slogan made itself known to us, as if from a burning bush:
New Jersey: It just sucks.
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More Cracks In The Dam of MSM News Monopoly...
From an article in Variety
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Beyond reaching the young adults advertisers covet, the concern is that the next generation needs to develop the news-consuming habit."
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Oh, we consume news. Lots and lots of news.
We just don't consume yours.
Back in my undergrad days, I spent a year being a Communications major. One of our class projects was to analyse network news programs with a stopwatch, over the course of a week, classifying the time as either "advertising" "sports" "human interest" or "news" according to the criteria set by the professor. News was further subdivided into several sub categories.
The bottom line is that all news of substance was up first, and was given an average of 3 minutes of airtime.
In other words, if you tuned into a newsprogram @ 6:04 PM, you'd missed everything of consequence, the rest was fluff, crap, and the sort of thing that inspires me to shout "THAT is NOT NEWS!"
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The major nightly newscasts and newspapers continue to grapple with the need to "get younger," from the "CBS Evening News' " planned makeover and the obscene drift of primetime magazines in television to shorter stories and increased page one "pop culture" coverage in top dailies.
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Attention news people: Dumbing your product down even further, (if that's even feasible), shortening topics so retards with miniscule attention spans and the inability to sustain a coherent thought for 10 seconds have a chance to comprehend, and wasting more public airtime with the latest nonsense about how Britney dropped her kid on his head isn't going to save you.
You guys are dinosaurs, who have squandered the legacy left to you by men you're not fit to stand in the background and hold spears for.
Edward R. Murrow is spinning in his grave.
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Posted By: geekWithA.45
Saturday, May 06, 2006
Public Service Announcement...
There will be a Rally Point shoot on Saturday June 10, 2006, at the Langhorne Rod & Gun Club.
Click here for details.
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Posted By: geekWithA.45
Some Perspective...
Our society expends a MASSIVE proportion of its resources, both in terms of material and time and attention on the issue of violent crime.
Politicians of all stripes exploit it for their own purposes, to give the appearance of doing something about it.
The law enforcement kieretzu at all levels justifies their existence, past, present and future increases in funding on it.
Those who have declared themselves the enemies of Liberty by their actions seek to shred the Bill of Rights out from under us, and abuse the rights and prerogatives of the vast, vast majority of people who aren't criminals.
And for what?
FOR WHAT?
There are 295,734,134 people in America, as of when I looked the number up.
According to the FBI crime stats for 2004, there were 1,367,009 violent crimes. Just to be pessimistic, let's assume that each crime was committed by a different criminal. That's not how it works in the real world, but let's just paint the picture as bad as it can be painted.
Of those crimes, according to the FBI, firearms were used in 26.4% of them.
This is 360,890 violent crimes in which a firearm played a part. Of those, 10,650 were murders. (There were 16,137 murders overall, 66% of them by firearm, the remainder mostly by blade, unknown or "other")
Again, for the purposes of pessimism, we assume that each individual crime was committed by a different individual criminal.
This means that all of this nonsense, everything, is to control the activities of 0.12% of the population.
Are we crazy? Is this worth it? Are we fundamentally going about this the right way?
There are those who would argue that without the suppression of criminality provided by our massive web of law enforcement infrastructure, crime would EXPLODE!!! People would go nuts! The streets would run red with blood! It would be like the old west! {Ahem. Where have we heard that before, eh?}
OK. Let's grant that for the sake of argument. Let's say that crime DOUBLES. No, let's say it TRIPLES. Oh, let's go for broke, and say crime QUADRUPLES.
That's still the activity of a whopping 0.48% of the population.
Let me spell that out. That's ZERO POINT FOUR EIGHT PERCENT, under my massively pessimistic assumption that crime QUADRUPLES, and each crime is committed by one individual criminal.
The reality is that most crimes are committed by repeat criminals, and that crime isn't going to quadruple, no matter what we do.
My fellow Americans, I submit that we're doing this all wrong. I submit that there is another way to constrain the activities of what it probably 0.06% of our population without spending our treasury dry, without declaring war on this that or the other domestic problem, and without abusing the Rights to which we are accustomed.
I don't know what that answer is, but it's time to put the Army of Davids to work to figure it out, before we lose our souls.
We, the other 99.94% of America, are damned sick and tired of paying the price.
Update!
A Reader who is in a position to know, meaning that a part of his job is to count criminals for his largish jurisdiction tells me that roughly 80% of crimes are commited by "frequent fliers".
Reworking the numbers to take that into account, I see that my gut estimate of 0.06% of the population is pretty bang on. If you pessimistically assume that the repeat criminals do 2 crimes each (the minimum definition of repeat criminal), you arrive at 0.073%. If you assume 3 or more, the figure settle in at 0.05%.
This roughly means that at any one time, we've got less than 250,000 violent criminals running around. Considering that our jail capacity is in the several millions, we certainly have the capacity if we put the right people in jail and keep them there.
More pieces of the puzzle remain to be identified and slotted into place, but it's a start.
It will take a systematic, holistic realignment of priorities and resources, but a solution exists within the problem domain.
Knowing that is the first step.
Furthermore, going back to the title of this post, the key word is "perspective". We have violent crime, and violent crime is inescapable. What we do NOT have is a "violent crime problem". The tiniest fraction of one percent is not a problem. It is the inevitable sound of shit happening.
Let's put it another way. Any industry that could produce goods that had a serious defect rate of 0.05% would be the envy of the whole freaking UNIVERSE.
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Posted By: geekWithA.45
Fame...
Friend, fellow political refugee from the dark and fascist state of NJ, occassional guest poster, Marine Lt. Corey Steiner has hit the big time, the cover of Concealed Carry Magazine:
Note that the cover story is "Complacency".
I haven't read it yet, but I can bet I know what the general thrust is.
It is Complacency that plowed under and salteed the field of Liberty in New Jersey.
Brother Jim of Smoke on the Water recently pointed out that "Truth outweighs a lie, even a Big Lie. All it takes is a few truth-tellers who just won't quit!"
It is my lifelong observation that the forces of shit, darkness and collectivism never win on their merits or the strengths of their arguments.
When they win, it is usually because decent folks have either vacated the field of battle in disgust, or become complacent.
There, but for the grace of god and our own merits and strengths of argument go we.
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Friday, May 05, 2006
This Essay Gels Some Thought Vectors For Me...
{via Insty}
The longish essay Why Isn't Socialism Dead?, asks an important question, and offers an answer to that complex problem that is probably correct, but incomplete.
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Thus, in the coming century, those who are advocates of capitalism may well find themselves confronted with "a myth gap." Those who, like Chavez, Morales, and Castro, are preaching the old time religion of socialism may well be able to tap into something deeper and more primordial than mere reason and argument, while those who advocate the more rational path of capitalism may find that they have few listeners among those they most need to reach -- namely, the People. Worse, in a populist democracy, the People have historically demonstrated a knack of picking as their leaders those know the best and most efficient way to by-pass their reason -- demagogues who can reach deep down to their primordial and, alas, often utterly irrational instincts. This, after all, has been the genius of every great populist leader of the past, as it is proving to be the genius of those populist leaders who are now springing up around the world, from Bolivia to Iran.
This is why socialism isn't dead, and why in our own century it may well spring back into life with a force and vigor shocking to those who have, with good reason, declared socialism to be no longer viable. It is also why Georges Sorel is perhaps even more relevant today than he was a hundred years ago. He knew that it was hopeless to guide men by reason and argument alone. Men need myths -- and until capitalism can come up with a transformative myth of its own, it may well be that many men will prefer to find their myths in the same place they found them in the first part of the twentieth century -- the myth of revolutionary socialism.
This is the challenge that capitalism faces in the world today -- whether it will rise to the challenge is perhaps the most urgent question of our time, and those who refuse to confront this challenge are doing no service to reason or to human dignity and freedom. Bad myths can only be driven out by better myths, and unless capitalism can provide a better myth than socialism, the latter will again prevail.
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This is a question I've pondered before.
I have also given some serious thought as to the erosion of the capitalistic West's own mythologies (an explicit target of academia and political correctivism), and its relationship to the lack of universal concensus in "societies abiding belief" of the Lockean fundamentals of liberty and self determination.
I need to process this essay some more, but I wanted to get it out there so my Readers could share in my thought food.
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Wednesday, May 03, 2006
Treaty v. Constitution, Part II
{Game, set, and match}
THR Moderator Bartholomew Roberts did the heavy lifting research on this.
Background:
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At issue is the thread discussion case of Missouri v. Holland, which arguably confers upon the Federal Gov't a power not enumerated in the Constitution concerning state v federal regulation of the hunting of migratory birds.
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Quote: {emphasis mine}
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...following your posts I did some more research on Missouri v. Holland and discovered the following:
Apparently you aren't the first person to have the concern that the decision might allow treaty to trump the Constitution, during the 1950s there was enough concern that this might be a problem that there were several attempts to pass the "Bricker Amendment" making it clear that the Constitution was still the supreme law of the land over any treaty.
Apparently, that effort to pass the amendment died off when Justice Black emphasized in the Reid v. Covert decision (1957) that the Constitution supersedes international treaties.
Justice Black went on to emphasize that Missouri v. Holland supports only the proposition that by delegating the treaty power to Congress, the States have given up that power they enjoy under the Tenth Amendment and that a state cannot enact a law in conflict with a treaty duly passed by Congress (this was a big concern at the time of Missouri v. Holland since negotiations over the Treaty of Versailles also contained child labor laws that would impact the states).
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Here's Wikipedia on Reid vs Covert:
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Reid v. Covert was a landmark case, decided June 10, 1957, in which the United States Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution supersedes international treaties ratified by the United States Senate. According to the decision, "this Court has regularly and uniformly recognized the supremacy of the Constitution over a treaty."
The case involved Mrs. Covert, who had been convicted by a military tribunal of murdering her husband. At the time of Mrs. Covert's alleged offense, an executive agreement was in effect between the United States and Great Britain which permitted United States' military courts to exercise exclusive jurisdiction over offenses committed in Great Britain by American servicemen or their dependents. The Court found that "no agreement with a foreign nation can confer power on the Congress, or on any other branch of Government, which is free from the restraints of the Constitution." In particular, Covert's right to trial by jury had been violated, the Court found.
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Monday, May 01, 2006
Hmmmph. CNN shoots straight for once...
Lou Dobb's Editorial:, which is worth reading.
Teaser Quote:
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Most of the mainstream media has been absolutely co-opted by the open borders and illegal immigration advocates. I'm not opposed to demonstrations and protests of any kind, even by those who are not citizens of this country, because one way or another, demonstrations and protests enrich and invigorate the national debate and raise the public consciousness of truth.
But only one newspaper, to its credit, reported that illegal aliens and their supporters' boycott of the national economy on the First of May is clear evidence that radical elements have seized control of the movement. The Washington Post, alone among national papers, reported that ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism) has become an active promoter of the national boycott.
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Just how significant is the impact of leftists within the illegal immigration movement? It is no accident that they chose May 1 as their day of demonstration and boycott. It is the worldwide day of commemorative demonstrations by various socialist, communist, and even anarchic organizations.
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Whipping up proletariate anger, and then jumping in front of the parade to hang a left turn is a classic and time honored commie recruiting method.
And yes, the MSM has chosen to obscure this. It was a conscious, deliberate, editorial choice.
God, this is going to be a long fucking life. And I was reasonably certain I signed up for a vacation incarnation.
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The Violence Veto...
It seems that the jihaddis have managed to wangle themselves a veto over the cultural affairs of the West by threatening violence. This has become known as "the violence veto."
First, they went after Danish newspapers.
Then, they came Barnes & Noble / Waldenbooks wimped out.
After that, the Comedy Channel caved.
The latest victim?
German Brothels.
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...On Friday evening we were threatened by 11 masked men who demand that we take down the Saudi Arabian flag," Lobscheid told the Kölner Express, a local newspaper. Not wanting any trouble, the brothel obliged and removed it and the Iranian one. But that still left the flags printed on the poster. On Saturday night there were 20 masked men armed with knives and sticks. They threatened to get violent and even bomb the place unless we black out the Iranian and Saudia Arabian flags on the poster as well,"...
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You know, I have my own violence veto to apply to the agendas of masked men who come to my door armed, demanding that I live as they desire.
When the Jihaddis are on the porch, there's really only one thing you can do with them.
{h/t: Instapundit}
Minor Update:
It struck me that folks might not be aware of the "courtesy of the flags" that is not universal, but fairly common in other parts of the world, especially in the hospitality industry. Many hotels will put out the flags of their guests. Some of the larger ones will simply display them all, permanently, rather than keep track of who's in residence or not.
When I lived in Japan, the took it to great heights. The gatekeeper at my parents place would run up old glory on the secondary flag mast when we were in residence. Apparently, the company that hosted Dad's HQ had a near retiree who's job was to watch for dad's car (or one of his team) and run up the colors before he got to the door. Apparently, they struck the colors when the last American left for the day.
Kinda cool, huh?
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