Was It Really A Memorial Service?

[Editor's Note:  This article composed by Aaron Carter, friend of a friend.]

After a few minutes of watching what purported to be a memorial service for the slain victims of the “Tucson Massacre,” it looked more like a political convention.

I had to change channels.

Call me crazy but listening to Obama spout off about how we all need to cooperate, come together, and get along with each other and show a greater degree of civility toward one another put my stomach on edge.

Up until the election, he was talking out of the other side of his mouth and so was Harry “the curmudgeon” Reid.  Something about you can come along for the ride but you have to sit in the back.  If last night’s performance wasn’t the beginning of a re-election campaign, you sure could have fooled me.  [Editor's note:  yes, and complete with free t-shirts...no doubt paid for by the American taxpayer!]

What was it Obama’s buddy Rahm Emanuel said recently?  Never let a good crisis go to waste or something to that effect.  Now all of a sudden he wants the country to come together and sing Cumbayah and everyone make nice.

The last two years speaks volumes about his real feelings for our country and the American people.  We need to watch this man like a bulldog watching the mailman.   Before the people even consider allowing this usurper to run for reelection his eligibility needs to be established beyond a reasonable doubt, as many people feel his presidency is illegitimate in the first place.

His presidency is without a doubt the biggest fraud and flim flam that has ever been perpetrated on the American people in the history of our great nation.  Wayne Allyn Root was, like Obama, a political science major at Columbia who also graduated in 1983.  In 2008, Root says of Obama: “I don’t know a single person at Columbia who knew him, and they all know me.  I don’t have a classmate who ever knew Barack Obama at Columbia, EVER!”  Obama’s photograph does not appear in the school’s yearbook and Obama consistently declines requests to talk about his years at Columbia , provide school records, or provide the name of any former classmates or friends while at Columbia.

Obama talks a good game (as most sidewalk hustlers do) but when it comes to producing one shred of evidence about who or what he is, that is where he gets real quiet. WHY?
 

A lot of federal judges have been playing musical benches for two years concerning Obama’s eligibility, and it is time they step up and address the issue, or step down from the bench as they are abrogating the oath they took, and are selling out the American people and the Country.

 

Like many of you, I mourn the loss of the slain victims of this senseless act of a deranged druggie, but that does not relieve us of the responsibility of watching out for the safety of our country and keeping a sharp eye on those who would run it, to make sure they don’t run it into the ground or off a cliff.

WAKE UP AMERICA!!!

States Shooting Themselves in the Foot on Health Care Court Challenges?

If you really want to fix health care, I propose these three things:  (1) repeal ObamaScare, (2) DON’T replace it with the Republicans' plan, and (3) pass massive TORT reform.  True lowering of health care costs won’t happen until you get lawyers out of the health care industry.  Health care costs also won’t be contained until we bridle the onerous cost cutting measures of insurance companies that interfere with the patient/doctor relationship.  I’m not adverse to legitimate malpractice and negligence claims.  I do oppose the “get rich at others’ expense” mentality that permeates our legal industry today.

I question whether bringing these challenges in the U.S. District Court system is really constitutional.  Article III §2 Clause 2 of the U.S. Constitution clearly says that all cases in which a state may be a party have ORIGINAL jurisdiction in the U.S. Supreme Court.  At the time the Constitution was drafted and ratified, the states were the sovereigns.  Under Article III the states retained the vast rights they had regarding being sued and to sue.  Through Article III, the states consented to being sued in the U.S. Supreme Court and only in the U.S. Supreme Court.  Again, I believe the language in Article III is plain and unambiguous, needing no interpretation.

No federal courts inferior to the U.S. Supreme Court were given “subject matter jurisdiction” over the States.  Without subject matter jurisdiction, a court has absolutely no authority to act on a case, and any action the court takes is absolutely null and void from inception.  (The same is true regarding laws passed in contravention of the Constitution and for the same reason.)  This authority may not be taken by the court itself and the parties cannot consent or otherwise give the court this authority.  The court either has it or it does not, period.  The federal district courts do not have subject matter jurisdiction over the states.

In 1821, the U.S. Supreme Court stated:

It is most true that this Court [the Supreme Court] will not take jurisdiction if it should not; but it is equally true that it must take jurisdiction if it should. ... We have no more right to decline the exercise of jurisdiction which is given than to usurp that which is not given.  The one or the other would be treason to the Constitution.  Questions may occur which we [the Supreme Court] would gladly avoid, but we cannot avoid them.  [Emphasis mine. 19 U.S. 264, 404 (1821).]

Thus, in my humble opinion, Obama’s suit against the state of Arizona in the U.S. District Court in Phoenix was filed in the wrong court.  The judge who accepted jurisdiction committed treason by accepting jurisdiction and all rulings made by this judge are null and void.  The same can be said of the Virginia and Florida suits regarding ObamaScare.

Article III was altered by the Eleventh Amendment, but not in a manner that changed the original jurisdiction provision of Article III §2 Clause 2.  I note with some amusement that the U.S. Supreme Court has no part whatsoever in the amendment process.

I’ve had all kinds of people tell me that Congress and/or the U.S. Supreme Court (through precedent) has changed the judicial hierarchy specified in the Constitution.  Really?  Congress is expressly forbidden from enacting legislation that contradicts the U.S. Constitution.  Likewise, the judiciary is prohibited from issuing decisions that contradict the Constitution.

In the 1970’s, the U.S. Supreme Court declared that it could dispense and hand out its original jurisdiction via judicial discretion.  The Court further stated that it needed to do so, as the times and society had changed and it was incompetent to handle original jurisdiction cases.  Even if all the Court said was true, one thing had not changed:  the means to amend the Constitution.  Instead of appealing to Congress or the citizens, the Court took it upon itself to redefine its role.  In so doing, it attacked the very sovereignty of each state in the union and committed “treason to the Constitution.”  Our federal and state legislators violated their oath of office and their duty to the citizens by not supporting and defending the Constitution against this judicial attack.  We The People violated our own duty by not demanding strict adherence to the Constitution.

Today many states actively participate in undermining their own sovereignty (and ours) by filing law suits in the federal district courts regarding “Obama care.”  OR they defend themselves in lawsuits erroneously filed—as is Arizona by participating in the federal district court case filed against it over SB1070.  The states have an absolute sovereign right to file their actions in the U.S. Supreme Court and may only be sued in the U.S. Supreme Court.  By adhering to statutes which deny the sovereign status of the states, and which are repugnant to the Constitution, the states concede, acquiesce, and give implied consent to the validity of such statutes and precedent that undermines their sovereignty.

It is time to re-educate the public regarding their sovereignty.  It is time to re-educate state legislators regarding state sovereignty.  It is time to re-educate Congress regarding state sovereignty.  And...it is time to reign in the U.S. Supreme Court.  The U.S. Supreme Court simply cannot summarily decide (without the intervention of Congress and the People) to change the Constitution.

I know these opinions are “out of the norm,” for we have been so conditioned to do whatever the U.S. Supreme Court says that we never challenge their conclusions.  It is time for this mindset to change, as well.

A Different Christmas Poem

A Different Christmas Poem

The embers glowed softly, and in their dim light,

I gazed round the room and I cherished the sight.

My wife was asleep, her head on my chest,

My daughter beside me, angelic in rest.

Outside the snow fell, a blanket of white,

Transforming the yard to a winter delight.

The sparkling lights in the tree I believe,

Completed the magic that was Christmas Eve.

My eyelids were heavy, my breathing was deep,

Secure and surrounded by love I would sleep.

In perfect contentment, or so it would seem,

So I slumbered, perhaps I started to dream.

The sound wasn't loud, and it wasn't too near,

But I opened my eyes when it tickled my ear...

Perhaps just a cough, I didn't quite know, Then the

sure sound of footsteps outside in the snow.

My soul gave a tremble, I struggled to hear,

And I crept to the door just to see who was near.

Standing out in the cold and the dark of the night,

A lone figure stood, his face weary and tight.

A soldier, I puzzled, some twenty years old,

Perhaps a Marine, huddled here in the cold.

Alone in the dark, he looked up and smiled,

Standing watch over me, and my wife and my child.

"What are you doing?" I asked without fear,

"Come in this moment, it's freezing out here!

Put down your pack, brush the snow from your sleeve,

You should be at home on a cold Christmas Eve!"

For barely a moment I saw his eyes shift,

Away from the cold and the snow blown in drifts...

To the window that danced with a warm fire's light

Then he sighed and he said "Its really all right,

I'm out here by choice. I'm here every night."

"It's my duty to stand at the front of the line,

That separates you from the darkest of times.

No one had to ask or beg or implore me,

I'm proud to stand here like my fathers before me.

My Gramps died at 'Pearl' on that day in December,"

Then he sighed, "That's a Christmas 'Gram always remembers."

My dad stood his watch in the jungles of 'Nam,'

And now it is my turn and so, here I am.

I've not seen my own son in more than a while,

But my wife sends me pictures, he's sure got her smile.

Then he bent and he carefully pulled from his bag,

The red, white, and blue...an American flag.

I can live through the cold and the being alone,

Away from my family, my house and my home.

I can stand at my post through the rain and the sleet,

I can sleep in a foxhole with little to eat.

I can carry the weight of killing another,

Or lay down my life with my sister and brother...

Who stand at the front against any and all,

To ensure for all time that this flag will not fall..."

"So go back inside," he said, "harbor no fright,

Your family is waiting and I'll be all right."

"But isn't there something I can do, at the least,

"Give you money," I asked, "or prepare you a feast?

It seems all too little for all that you've done,

For being away from your wife and your son."

Then his eye welled a tear that held no regret,

"Just tell us you love us, and never forget.

To fight for our rights back at home while we're gone,

To stand your own watch, no matter how long.

For when we come home, either standing or dead,

To know you remember we fought and we bled.

Is payment enough, and with that we will trust,

That we mattered to you as you mattered to us."

[Editor's note: I would gladly give credit for this poem, but I do not know who composed it. Whomever it is, thank you for a job well done.]

The Other Side of Illegal Immigration

[Editor's note: This story was told to me by my new friend, Julia.] Just another example of illegal aliens working jobs that Americans won't lower themselves to do, right? BULL! These people cross the border because THEY DON'T WANT TO WORK!! They want the freebies!

When my oldest son was 13, he was hit by a hit/run driver inside our apartment complex. They found the woman, hiding in her boyfriend's apartment, pretending to have been asleep in a back bedroom. She was illegal, but had 3 anchor babies & was getting subsidized rent, welfare w/food stamps & Medi-Cal, utilities assistance & more, while not having bothered to even TRY to learn English, and of course, having no driver's license or, heaven forbid, CAR insurance. It wasn't even her car, and the owner wasn't who was last registered, either. That owner also had a Hispanic surname, and also had no insurance or current registration. I was at every court hearing for her, and her attorney tried to say, "Well, you have insurance, so why should she be liable for medical bills?" GRRR!! She ended up w/a slap on the wrist; only having to pay back a restitution of 3k over 3 years, and if she missed a payment, she was supposed to be remanded to jail for her sentence. She DID miss payments, but she was never put in jail.

This happened 17 years ago, and her kids have since grown up to become members of La Raza or Mencha or whatever, I'm sure. My son, who's 30 now, had to be Life-Flighted to Children's Hospital in San Diego. I couldn't go with him, so my brother had to come and get me to drive me to the hospital. When I got there, and got to him, he still had glass slivers sticking out of his face, including his lips, which were so dry! He wanted a drink, but he couldn't have one. But due to the glass in his face/lips, I couldn't even use a lemon swab on his mouth. I pulled the glass I could get out of his face with my fingers. He'd had a CT scan, and they found he was very fortunate; he had a bruised/swollen/leaky spleen, but though it came close, it didn't rupture. He had a concussion, a broken wrist, and multiple abrasions/contusions. He was able to recover completely. I don't know that I have, though!

Too Big to Fail? ~David Jeremiah

Friday, October 22 Too Big to Fail? For the money has failed. Genesis 47:15b Recommended Reading 1 Kings 8:55-58 When the economy of Egypt collapsed during the days of Joseph, the inhabitants came to him and cried, "Give us bread, for why should we die in your presence? For the money has failed." Nothing in this world is "too big to fail." Both countries and companies can collapse. Leaders can fall. Economies can crater. Our most revered institutions can and will one day collapse. No single individual can control his or her own ultimate financial destiny. What cannot fail? Joshua told the Israelites "Not one thing has failed of all the good things which the LORD your God spoke concerning you" (Joshua 23:14). According to 1 Kings 8:56, "There has not failed one word of all His good promise." The psalmist said, "My flesh and my heart fail; but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever." The Lord never fails (Isaiah 42:4) nor do His compassions. They fail not, they are new every morning (Lamentations 3:22-23). Heaven and earth may pass away, but Jesus never fails. Tell them I have proved it now in my own experience: the world fails, and friends fail, and the body fails, and the mind fails, and everything fails, but Jesus never fails. This is my testimony.--deathbed testimony of the Scottish saint Hay Macdowall Grant Read-Thru-the-Bible John 12:20-14:31

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Operation Black Storm: The Refounding Begins!

Like most of you, I am tired of being called a racist simply because I'm a tea partier, or because I think the federal government has far exceeded its bounds, or because I think folks on welfare ought to work for their benefits and pass a drug test before they get their checks and/or food stamps. They call me mean spirited. Well, if you think even a little bit like me then I have a big treat you!  Operation Black Storm will absolutely have you standing at attention and saluting every U.S. flag you see!  They are supporting 16 tea party conservative candidates who all need your help.  Watch this introductory video, then visit their website to donate, volunteer, and to see how YOU can get involved.  As my friend Emery says, "Freedom and Liberty, use them or lose them!"  I say, "remember in November=donate & volunteer in October."

Mary Ann Hartzler
Conservative Chick

http://www.operationblackstorm.com/

What Is The "General Welfare Clause?"--John Albert Dummett, Jr.

It’s a wonder why this nation has not descended into total and complete anarchy considering that the original form of government we all signed up for only exists in name only and not in actuality.

The Founding Fathers of this nation, in their wisdom knew that an all powerful government would limit the freedoms and liberties of its citizens. As such they carefully decided what powers that the federal government would have over the union of individual States. There are eighteen such powers listed in the United States Constitution that limit the federal government. All other laws not specifically granted to the federal government belong only to the States.

Most people in America today actually think that it is the federal government that has the last word when it comes to the law, but nothing could be further from the truth. Any school aged child should be able to tell you that this nation was originally comprised of thirteen colonies. Each one of these colonies went by their own rules and regulations and had their own charters or Constitutions. Many had their own form or worshiping God as well. When those original colonies grew to the point to where they were able to carry on trade with the other colonies, a standardized method was needed to help conduct business effectively and to promote harmonious feelings between the different colonies.

It became crystal clear to the individual colonies that they needed outside help to facilitate trade between them. As an example of what they faced many toll roads were built, each with their own rules regulations and provisions. Disputes arose between the colonies where these roads intersected and they realized that they needed a central authority that would regulate trade between the colonies reasonably and fairly. When the colonies decided to relinquish some of their sovereignty to foster prosperity between all the colonies, they gave over some very limited powers to the central government. Each colony codified laws and regulations that governed the day to day business of that colony.

By forming a central government that made rules and regulations to carry out commerce between the States, many of the antagonisms between the States were thwarted. These new States however in no way wanted the newly formed federal government to ever exercise complete and total control over the individual colonies. Before any of the colonies would agree to form a nation they made absolutely sure that the central government created to oversee things, such as trade between the States and defense of the States, would never have absolute power to determine the fate of any State. The States gave to the federal government eighteen enumerated powers that were never to be exceeded without a Constitutional Convention.

Many folks today have been conditioned to think that the government in Washington D.C. has the last word when it comes to running this nation. The many generations of Congressmen who hold office in Washington have hoodwinked us to think they get the authority to implement any law they wish and apply it to the States based upon the General Welfare Clause. They dictate, and we blindly accept, that there is nothing in the Constitution that says they can’t exercise any power not granted specifically to it. There are historical documents that explain the General Welfare clause and the limits placed on Congress, but the people we elect don’t feel the rules in any of those documents apply to them. They think the Constitution, which everyone knows places limits on government, gives Congress unlimited powers. Even Thomas Jefferson feared a strong central government when he said "Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated."

What will dumbfound people is when they examine for them selves the actual powers granted to the Federal government as they are spelled out in the Constitution. One wonders how it could have been so easy to usurp the powers belonging only to the States. The Federal Government continues to usurp the powers of the States to this very day. Now they even stoop to extorting States by denying them federal grants and monies if they do not accept the dictates of the central government.

Here are the 18 powers listed in the Constitution as being granted to the federal government. All other laws not specifically granted to the federal government belong only to the States. The General Welfare clause that the federal government always cites when they exert control over the States, includes the below six items. These were agreed upon in the Constitutional Convention when this nation was formed and were written of in Federalist Paper 41 to pacify the people of New York because they were astute enough to know if you give any strong central government an inch they will take a mile. The six powers of the General Welfare Clause are:

1. Security against foreign danger.
2. Regulation of the intercourse with foreign nations.
3. Maintenance of harmony and proper intercourse among the States.
4. Certain miscellaneous objects of general utility.
5. Restraint of the States from certain injurious acts.
6. Provisions for giving due efficacy to all these powers.

No where in the list does it mention that the Federal Government was to incorporate into our nation’s psyche the idea that there would be huge government welfare programs that would take care of everyone and everything. What we need to do is pound it into every person who is running for public office that the six items mentioned in the General Welfare Clause and the eighteen enumerated powers in the Constitution lets congress know it has limits on what it can and can’t do. If I am elected President of the United States I will beat them over the head with it every day until they get it through their thick skulls and I will not sign any bill into law that is contrary to the powers granted to the federal government.

The specific powers granted to the federal government are defined in Article I, Section 8 of the United States Constitution:

1. The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defense and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
2. To borrow Money on the credit of the United States;
3. To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;
4. To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;
5. To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;
6. To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States;
7. To establish Post Offices and post Roads;
8. To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;
9. To constitute Tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court;
10. To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offences against the Law of Nations;
11. To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;
12. To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;
13. To provide and maintain a Navy;
14. To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;
15. To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;
16. To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;
17. To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings;--And
18. To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.

Please go to my campaign site if you want to see America restored. We do not need change because all we get is a change in faces. We need to restore America to the way it was meant to be instead of what it has become.

John Albert Dummett, Jr.

(785) 783-0554

johndummettjr@gmail.com

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