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It’s Constitutional… No it’s not…. Yes, it is…
September 5th, 2010 by John P. Schumake
Excerpts from “It’s Constitutional… No it’s not… Yes, it is…”
There is quite a lot being said lately about what is one’s Constitutional Rights…
… Particularly with issues on the border with Mexico, Arizona’s current lawsuit involvement with the Federal government over immigration issues, and matters regarding the proposed ‘Ground Zero’ mosque…
…I have read books on C# with great relish, musing at the differences between this language and C++, so how hard could the Constitution be? …
…The Articles looked to me something like functions in a computer program. This first function provides you not only with the freedom of religion, but also the freedom of speech, and it’s logical that the two should go together. For, without the freedom of speech, you would certainly have no freedom of religion. …
…I found that I had to go back to the very opening words of the Constitution. Though seldom cited with specificity in courts of law the Preamble is often glossed over, and, from what I understand, rarely used in courts to support or argue against a matter, I must say to this that I believe that this will change as more technologically minded people begin to appreciate …
…wondering whether this right was retrieved by value or by reference once the function was executed…
I reflected for a moment that the very freedom that ostensibly gives one the right to build a building to practice a religion is the very same freedom that provides the opponents of this procedure with the right to speak in opposition…
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One More Time
August 29th, 2010 by John P. Schumake
Excerpts from ‘One More Time’ by John P. Schumake
It was an experiment where monkeys, or orangutans were placed in a chair and there was a device built into the chair that simulated the sudden impact of a collision from the rear of a car, and it generally resulted in breaking vertebrae of the orangutans. ..
…There was a court ruling this past Monday by Judge Royce Lambert, U.S. district Court, that will prohibit Federal Grant money for going to use in projects that result in the destruction of a human embryo. ..
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Dropping the Big Ball, or From Ventures to Dentures
July 31st, 2010 by Juan Zapatero
Excerpts from DROPPING THE BIG BALL
…There’s an old story, which I heard down in Mexico, and I am told is true, about a man who daily rode a bike across the border from Mexico into the U.S., and then at night went back…
…The man/hours of productivity lost in this country, due to addictions are a weakening factor in our economy. The drain on the health care system, the lives destroyed and the crimes committed make drugs the single most damaging element in our society
…The guards at the crossing always checked him, and they too seemed convinced that he was somehow smuggling something …
…I would never venture to say that the Arizona Immigration Law is any sort of a panacea to stop the drug traffic…
…If the Obama Administration had made fighting drug use, stopping its importation, educating the youth, defeating the smugglers on the Federal level at the point of origin the priority, the Arizona border law would never have been considered…
…How do you make dentures for vampires… Is plumbing involved?
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What Does He Feed Off Of?
July 17th, 2010 by John P. Schumake
Excerpts from “What Does He Feed Off Of?”
So, “What’s a dog in the manger?”
The dog in the manger doesn’t want to eat out of the manger, but he won’t let anyone else eat. He just sits there and growls, baring his teeth at any entity that ventures close….
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Roll Out the Barrel
July 4th, 2010 by John P. Schumake
…banks have been held entirely responsible for a mortgage crisis that was, in large part caused by the irresponsible persuasions of House and Senate Financial Oversite Bodies …
…We watched as the Federal Government ignored the pleas of Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal to provide sand berms and boom to keep back the oil spill from Louisiana’s marshes and shores. …
…Individuals who are returning from tours of duty in the military and people who are active in Pro-life groups are flagged by our Homeland Security department, according to their own statements as Potentially dangerous;
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as The Fairness Doctrine was presented as a bill with both state and federal versions that liberal groups are trying to foist upon the country, which would force Conservative T.V and radio talk shows to provide equal time for Liberal Points of view, …
What would James Madison think, who authored most of our constitution, and expressed so well those quintessential checks and balances that were designed to help keep one party or group from oppressing another…
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SAFE TO SAY?
June 27th, 2010 by John P. Schumake
Excerpts from: Safe To Say?
It may have gone almost completely unnoticed, but in the former Soviet State of Georgia,
That’s what happens to Socialist leaders. Long after they have been in the ground, when the people finally feel comfortable enough to speak out, and when they believe that someone targeting bankers … are cold in the ground…
… Government comes in and dismantles the machinery, looking at it, trying to understand it, unable to…
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Headed for the Tar Pits
April 9th, 2010 by John P. Schumake
Excerpts from Headed For The Tar Pits
by John P. Schumake
Evidently the Federal government has been using rather outdated methods for calculating Domestic Natural gas Output. ..
…This is a perfect example of a how a large, slow, lumbering bureaucracy, growing ever fatter, and dragging its peg-legged health care across the scarred oak floor of our economy has been unable to keep up…
…There is no way that slow moving court systems can keep pace with industrial, technological, biological, and pharmaceutical changes that are happening now at a geometrically increased blinding rate…
…Eventually, it will become apparent that many branches of the Federal Government serve no purpose, or can’t keep up with, legislate or rule on changes in private sector industries. At that point it will be up to the people to deliberately and surgically scale the Federal Government back to a light-weight, purposeful and usable size, perhaps the size that Thomas Jefferson envisioned …
Drucker stated, “Medieval feudalism was replaced by the unitary sovereign state… But the unitary sovereign state has now itself been replaced y a new pluralism - a pluralism of function rather than one of political power - because it could neither satisfy the needs of society nor perform the necessary tasks of community. That…. is the most fundamental lesson to be learned from the failure of socialism, the failure of the belief in the all-embracing and all-powerful state. The challenge that faces us now, and especially in the developed free-market democracies such as the United States, is to make the pluralism of autonomous, knowledge -base organizations redound both to economic performance and to political and social adhesion.”
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Get your tee-shirts! BFD or NPD!
April 2nd, 2010 by Juan Zapatero
Excerpts from Get your tee-shirts! BFD or NPD!
by Juan Zapatero
We all know what BFD stands for. The White House is selling the tee-shirts.
…Ina display of showing displeasure and anger at Netanyahu because of the embarrassment Biden underwent … (like Biden needs help being embarrassed), Obama announced to Netanyahu that he was going to have dinner with Michelle and the girls, and Netanyahu would be left there to think things over…
…Interestingly, it was almost a year ago to this day that Obama bowed so low to the Prince of Saudi Arabia that he turned into a human jack-knife…
…This would predate the 6 day war, another miracle where God marvelously delivered Israel against astounding odds, Syria, Egypt and Jordan all defeated and humiliated in their attempts to defeat Israel.
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Well, It’s Dinner Time…
March 28th, 2010 by Juan Zapatero
Excerpts from ‘Well, It’s Dinner Time’
As we enter into this time of Passover and the Easter Season, I think it is important to ponder what both of these events mean in terms of being freed from captivity, and staying free.
…a very great and humble leader went to the mighty Pharoah, the mightiest ruler in the known world, to make an appeal for his people, for their preservation, and deliverance.
…for even though he was a humble man, his greatness was known and respected.
…in his anger said to the great leader, “Get thee hence! Thou shalt see my face no more! Incidentally, I am going to dinner and you and your companions are not invited. ”
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Where Wine Is Concerned
March 13th, 2010 by John P. Schumake
Excerpts from WHERE THE WINE IS CONCERNED by John P.Schumake
…and the glass has to be somewhat shapely.
…bourbon and Tennessee whiskies have to go through quite a process to be prepared, distilled and fermented in charred oak barrels…
Still, there is something almost sacred about wine. Most of my friends belong to some religion that in some way associates wine with the Creator…
The wine is sacred; the vessel is sacred…
Sometimes there’s just a tiny amount moving in the glass, fragile, precious, wrought from time, we must never throw it away.
…Death is preached from the pulpits. The wine is poured down the drain
…We must speak out against the FOCA act, the freedom of choice act. This act not only bodes destruction for the unborn, but it is destructive for the collective psychology of the sanctity of womanhood, and indeed, motherhood.
…happy that my own state, Illinois, voted to pass the Sex Crimes Act. The result … women’s privacy and decency in the case of sex crimes would be shielded from exploitation by so-called news sources. Yet our own president Obama did not vote for it when he was an Illinois Congressman. He was the sole hold-out amongst all of the representatives. He did not vote for this act. Thank God, for the sake of women, that the other reps didn’t feel that way.
…Freedom to chose, pro-choice policies, a new progressive age hasn’t brought value to the state of womanhood.
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