11/22/2009
ObamaCare Coup
Number 209
The ObamaCare Coup
We are facing the greatest power grab in the history of the United States. In attempting to seize control of one sixth of the economy, the scoundrels we have elected are not only going to destroy capitalism, they are going to destroy great chunks of the Constitution. If this bill passes, the 3rd, 4th, 5th and 9th Amendments will go by the board as well as many parts of the Constitution guaranteeing personal liberty and the pursuit of happiness without the interference of the State. They say they know what is best for all of us and only require absolute power to do what is best for all of us. Sadly, their goal is not “what is best for all of us” but “absolute power.”
I hope you will pay close attention to the upcoming debate in the Senate. Here are the thoughts of some wise men, many of then whose ideas and integrity formed the foundations of our nation:
“If we don’t learn from our history, we’re doomed to repeat it.”
George Washington
”I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.”Thomas
Jefferson, in 1824
I am for government rigorously frugal and simple. Were we directed from Washington when to sow, when to reap, we would soon want bread"
Thomas Jefferson
“The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.”
President John Adams
“Men will ultimately be governed by God or by tyrants.”
Ben Franklin
"A fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it, when acquired."
Alexander Hamilton
“Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.”
Thomas Jefferson
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.”
THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
“Whoever would over-throw the liberty a nation must begin by subduing the freedom of speech.”
Benjamin Franklin
“When the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.”
Thomas Jefferson
“Government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.”
Thomas Jefferson
“When the government fears the people there is liberty; when the people fear the government there is tyranny.”
Thomas Jefferson
“…we have the rare happiness of living in a republic, where every one’s judgment is free and unshackled, where each may worship God as his conscience dictates, and where freedom is esteemed before all things dear and precious.”
Spinoza
“The state cannot get a cent for any man without taking it from some other man, and this latter must be a man who has produced and saved it. This latter is the Forgotten Man.”
William Graham Sumner
“The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.”
Tacitus
“The typical lawmaker of today is a man of devoid of principle—a mere counter in a grotesque and knavish game. If the right pressure could be applied to him he would be cheerfully in favor of polygamy, astrology or cannibalism.”
H.L. Mencken
“Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber”
Plato
“The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.”
William Hazlitt
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies”
Groucho Marx
“You have rights antecedent to all earthly governments: rights that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws; rights derived from the Great Legislator of the universe.”
John Adams
Brendan Miniter, writing in the WSJ, Monday, April 29, 2002 says:
“John Adams once said the intellectual framework for rebellion was laid in the churches years before it became a political struggle. That makes sense; for America is founded on the idea that man is endowed by his Creator with the right to be free.”
“Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.”
Ayn Rand
“Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But then I repeat myself.”
Mark Twain
“No man’s life, liberty, or properties are safe while the Congress is in session”
Mark Twain
“Nothing is as permanent as a temporary government program.”
Milton Friedman
“The more laws that are written, the more criminals are produced.”
Lao-Tse, Chinese Philosopher
“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.”
Sir Winston Churchill
“Democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding what to have for dinner. Liberty is a well armed lamb.”
Benjamin Franklin
“He knows nothing, and he thinks he know everything. That points clearly to a political career.”
George Bernard Shaw
“The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda.”
Michael Crichton in his speech “Environmentalism as Religion” Common Wealth Club, San Francisco, Ca Sept 15, 2003
Woe unto him who calls evil good and calls good evil...let his days be few; let another take his office.
Isaiah 5.20, Psalm 109.8
Jerry Sweers
Growing Old Ain't For Sissies
Weblog: www.crmudgeon.blogspot.com
The ObamaCare Coup
We are facing the greatest power grab in the history of the United States. In attempting to seize control of one sixth of the economy, the scoundrels we have elected are not only going to destroy capitalism, they are going to destroy great chunks of the Constitution. If this bill passes, the 3rd, 4th, 5th and 9th Amendments will go by the board as well as many parts of the Constitution guaranteeing personal liberty and the pursuit of happiness without the interference of the State. They say they know what is best for all of us and only require absolute power to do what is best for all of us. Sadly, their goal is not “what is best for all of us” but “absolute power.”
I hope you will pay close attention to the upcoming debate in the Senate. Here are the thoughts of some wise men, many of then whose ideas and integrity formed the foundations of our nation:
“If we don’t learn from our history, we’re doomed to repeat it.”
George Washington
”I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.”Thomas
Jefferson, in 1824
I am for government rigorously frugal and simple. Were we directed from Washington when to sow, when to reap, we would soon want bread"
Thomas Jefferson
“The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.”
President John Adams
“Men will ultimately be governed by God or by tyrants.”
Ben Franklin
"A fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it, when acquired."
Alexander Hamilton
“Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.”
Thomas Jefferson
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.”
THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
“Whoever would over-throw the liberty a nation must begin by subduing the freedom of speech.”
Benjamin Franklin
“When the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.”
Thomas Jefferson
“Government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.”
Thomas Jefferson
“When the government fears the people there is liberty; when the people fear the government there is tyranny.”
Thomas Jefferson
“…we have the rare happiness of living in a republic, where every one’s judgment is free and unshackled, where each may worship God as his conscience dictates, and where freedom is esteemed before all things dear and precious.”
Spinoza
“The state cannot get a cent for any man without taking it from some other man, and this latter must be a man who has produced and saved it. This latter is the Forgotten Man.”
William Graham Sumner
“The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.”
Tacitus
“The typical lawmaker of today is a man of devoid of principle—a mere counter in a grotesque and knavish game. If the right pressure could be applied to him he would be cheerfully in favor of polygamy, astrology or cannibalism.”
H.L. Mencken
“Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber”
Plato
“The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.”
William Hazlitt
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies”
Groucho Marx
“You have rights antecedent to all earthly governments: rights that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws; rights derived from the Great Legislator of the universe.”
John Adams
Brendan Miniter, writing in the WSJ, Monday, April 29, 2002 says:
“John Adams once said the intellectual framework for rebellion was laid in the churches years before it became a political struggle. That makes sense; for America is founded on the idea that man is endowed by his Creator with the right to be free.”
“Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.”
Ayn Rand
“Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But then I repeat myself.”
Mark Twain
“No man’s life, liberty, or properties are safe while the Congress is in session”
Mark Twain
“Nothing is as permanent as a temporary government program.”
Milton Friedman
“The more laws that are written, the more criminals are produced.”
Lao-Tse, Chinese Philosopher
“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.”
Sir Winston Churchill
“Democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding what to have for dinner. Liberty is a well armed lamb.”
Benjamin Franklin
“He knows nothing, and he thinks he know everything. That points clearly to a political career.”
George Bernard Shaw
“The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda.”
Michael Crichton in his speech “Environmentalism as Religion” Common Wealth Club, San Francisco, Ca Sept 15, 2003
Woe unto him who calls evil good and calls good evil...let his days be few; let another take his office.
Isaiah 5.20, Psalm 109.8
Jerry Sweers
Growing Old Ain't For Sissies
Weblog: www.crmudgeon.blogspot.com
11/16/2009
MOLD
Number 208
Mold
What we call beautiful is far more than skin deep – it is the music of eternity that we hear because we are made in the image of the Creator. Fragments of beauty and truth may be found all along the sacred journey of our lives, it only takes the seeing eye, the hearing ear, or the open heart to notice them.
This fragment came out of the refrigerator last night when the pineapple chunks were sought for a salad. Alas, they were sought too late to eat but in plenty of time to be seen. If there is a scientist among you, we would love to know the name of this fungus.
What we call beautiful is far more than skin deep – it is the music of eternity that we hear because we are made in the image of the Creator. Fragments of beauty and truth may be found all along the sacred journey of our lives, it only takes the seeing eye, the hearing ear, or the open heart to notice them.
This fragment came out of the refrigerator last night when the pineapple chunks were sought for a salad. Alas, they were sought too late to eat but in plenty of time to be seen. If there is a scientist among you, we would love to know the name of this fungus.
