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On the issues of life and death

Karl Denninger dissects the "Personhood Pledge" and finds more than a few problems with it.

This is list is not exhaustive, but it ought to make people sit down and think.  The founders put forward the declaration of where rights vest ("all persons born or naturalized") under The Constitution not because they were ignorant Neanderthals (they certainly understood that a "quickened" fetus was alive!) but because there were serious and, for them, irresolvable conflicts between the various interests involved.

Nothing in this regard has changed over the intervening 225 years.  If anything technology has made the questions more complex, in that we can now do things that were unthinkable in the times of Washington, Madison and Hamilton.  We can intervene to save life that would otherwise perish, and we can intervene to make the creation of life possible where it formerly was not.  In addition, we have learned to block the transmission of life where it would otherwise occur, and with that knowledge has come the ability to destroy life.

The United States Supreme Court, in Roe .v. Wade, did not, as many people claim, decide that "all abortion is ok."  In point of fact The Court decided quite-narrowly -- that in the first three months, where separate and distinct existence apart from the mother is biologically impossible, the mother's privacy rights and the right to determination of her own body trump those of a fetus.  But the Court's same ruling sets forth that in the second and third trimesters the question does not resolve as cleanly, and that in point of fact in the third trimester, where separate and distinct survival becomes possible, the presumption is exactly in the opposite direction as it is in the first.

RTWT.  Sometimes, things aren't as simple as they're described.

Head vs. Heart

Wild Bill does it again:

Why do we chafe at regulations?

Because common sense is the American way, and regulating every single aspect of human behavior annihilates the whole concept.  My homegirl NOOAI elaborates here:

These questions sound reasonable at first blush, but (aside from the whole running out of money to pay for it problem) we can glimpse the truth of the matter in situations like this one.

When we try to control the behavior of our fellow citizens (yes, even when they are corporation-y or bankish), right down to the smallest detail, we don’t get rid of abuses of power.  We don’t get everyone the healthcare they need.  We don’t get insert a well-meaning goal here.

We get lunacy.  We get a guy who can’t benefit from the good luck of accidentally catching a giant tuna.  We get an amazing charitable cooperative enterprise between individuals, governments, and businesses–stopped in its tracks.

RTWT.  If this doesn't blow up your WTF-meter, you're definitely part of the problem.

How Glenn Beck got his groove back

I Have To Link To This Beck Clip

Posted by Ann Barnhardt - January 6, AD 2012 5:59 PM MST

I was utterly disgusted when Beck accused anyone who would vote for Gingrich over Obama of being racist a few weeks ago. Utterly disgusted.  

But, I have to post the link to this Beck video clip from today, because I agree with every single word. Every single syllable. Every single phoneme. Fair is fair.
 
CLICK HERE AND WATCH EVERY SECOND OF THIS VIDEO TWICE.
 
Many of you put signature footers at the bottom of your emails. I would recommend putting this Osama Bin Laden quote on your emails, on your websites, where ever. Post this quote on ANY thread that a RonPaulbot tries to hijack. Because at the end of the day, this quote from Bin Laden himself is the absolute simple quintessence of the totalitarian political system that is islam. Here it is:

"Our talks with the infidel West and our conflict with them ultimately revolve around one issue—one that demands our total support, with power and determination, with one voice—and it is: Does Islam, or does it not, force people by the power of the sword to submit to its authority corporeally if not spiritually? Yes. There are only three choices in Islam: [1] either willing submission [conversion]; or [2] payment of the jizya, through physical, though not spiritual, submission to the authority of Islam; or [3] the sword — for it is not right to let him [an infidel] live. The matter is summed up for every person alive: Either submit, or live under the suzerainty of Islam, or die."
--Osama Bin Laden
(The Al Qaeda Reader, p. 42)

Beck mis-read the word "suzerainty" as "scrutiny". Wrong. "Suzerainty" is a French-origin word ("suzerain") that means "overlordship". Google it and look it up for yourself. Bin Laden uses exactly the right word in this context.
 
Please note that Bin Laden confirms my premise that islam is NOT a religion, but a completely earthly totalitarian political system:
 
"force people by the power of the sword to submit to its authority corporeally if not spiritually"
"payment of the jizya, through physical, though not spiritual, submission to the authority of Islam"
 
Thank you. Musloids do not give a flying flip if you actually believe any of their pseudo-religious crap. Hell, only the inbred mentally retarded ones actually believe any of that nonsense themselves. Why don't they care if you actually believe any of it? Why are they satisfied with mere physical submission without any spiritual "submission"? Why are they satisfied with "infidels" merely paying a tax (jizya)?
 
BECAUSE IT ISN'T A RELIGION AT ALL. Islam isn't about "allah" or "paradise" or "prayer" or "spirituality" or how human beings should relate to one another or how human beings should relate to a "god" or the eternal fate of the human soul. THEY DON'T CARE ABOUT ANY OF THAT. Islam is about acquiring physical, earthly territory and installing a totalitarian government over the earth that provides a cadre of "elites" masquerading as some sort of "clergy" with massive decadent wealth and as much twisted perverted sex as they want, including homosexual and heterosexual pedohilia, ephebophilia, concubinage, incest, bestiality and necrophilia. There is nothing new under the sun. They want power, they want money and they want sex. The "religious" aspects are a stone-cold con, which Bin Laden himself declared in no uncertain terms.
 
Spread the word.

In case you missed it

Don't even get me started on what we Commercial Drivers have to put up with. No ID, no vote. Period.

The LawDog Files: Hypocrisy, much?

A little bit of ramblin'

One day, more than a decade ago, I awoke in agony.  My guts were cramped and twisted up--not in the "I gotta go" kind of way, but like being impaled on a bunch of knives over and over again.  I called in sick to work, hoping it would go away.  When my wife got home and saw that I was still white-knuckled with suffering, she took me to the hospital.  They pumped me full of insane amounts of morphine, which--thanks to my whacked-out, super-drug-tolerant system--did just about nothing.

By about the 14th hour of pain, I broke.  I honestly, dispassionately, clinically, wanted to die.  It wasn't depression, it wasn't me getting all emo. 

I just simply wanted the pain to stop.

And now, a segue(how much does a seg weigh?):

For most of my 42 years on this Earth, I've been watching America destroy herself.  From both the left and the right, those who wish to control others have been chipping away at our liberties for years and years.  Every four years, we've been promised that this is the year we change course and get back to the founding principles of America. 

Outside of Ronald Reagan, no one has even attempted to deliver on this promise.  Once the votes are counted, it's back to business as usual, namely setting fire to the Constitution and voraciously gobbling up more and more power.  Reagan was never supposed to win, and the Cocktail Party is determined that that kind of thing will never happen again.  Throws all their plans out of kilter, ya know.  So, they're determined to stick us with Barack the Communist or Mittens the Socialist.  Those are going to be our only choices.

Except they're not, as far as I'm concerned.  I won't abstain from voting, like Mark America plans on doing.  I may write in Sarah Palin.  I may vote third party, if a reasonably viable candidate(NOT Ron Paul)shows up.  But if Governor Palin makes it clear that she won't accept a write-in campaign, and there's no one to vote for but Romney or Obama...

...I will vote for Barack Obama.  Yes, you read that right.  I can't stand this slow-motion suicide any more.  If we're going to kill this country, then let's just get it the hell over with.  Sorry, Lord--Your children created their greatest-ever achievement, and we managed to FUBAR the whole deal.

I do not, have not, and never shall harbor any ill will towards America, her people or her principles.

I just want the pain to stop.



UPDATE:  I've made up my mind...if Romney's the nominee, I WILL write in Sarah Palin.  No matter what.

Governor, you wanted an 'earthquake' to change your mind about running?  I intend to shake my little piece of ground until it screams for mercy.  It likely won't work, but if it does, I'm sorry for what you and your family will endure.  If I were eligible to be President(and if anyone knew or cared who I was), I'd gladly take that cup from you.

Think there's no decent alternative for POTUS? 

Ten letters:  S-A-R-A-H   P-A-L-I-N.  So easy, even I can do it. 

And I will.

Gold.

Cold Fury strikes it.

Under the sanction of what right, divine or human, do you and those of your faction undertake to transform a free people into a herd of lowing cattle? By what law, constitutional or legislative, do you and your like-minded philosophes propose to turn a great nation into a vast ward for the feeble-witted, or a prison for three hundred millions of debtors? You join with hordes of warlike Musselmen to beset our Hebrew brethren with chimerical demands, your Department of Justice - Justice, sirrah! – has taken pride of place amongst the criminal caste, and everywhere your rapacious clerks and petit judges harass honest citizens with encroachments on their liberties from which even His Late Majesty, George the Third, would have recoiled in disgust.

Our Garden is become a tangled bed of weeds and thorns as those of your school have beggared the working man, and stood as highwayman to the banker and merchant. Our system of public education is like unto an academy for the teaching of treason, and a university for the manufacture of a large class of impertinent mendicants for whom the taxpayers must serve as unwilling almoners in perpetuity. And you strive, through cunning and secret stratagems, to disarm the people, thereby subjecting them to the caprice of an all-powerful central government, in one stroke imposing tyranny and depriving the citizenry of the capacity for resisting it.

RTWT, and welcome Paco Enterprises to The Infinite Blogroll.

You do WHAT at the grocery store?

I say Grace.  Really.

It never ceases to amaze me that I can walk into a building--one of many in my town--full of fresh produce, milk, cheese and foods from all around the world that wouldn't have been available at any price to anyone not so many years ago.  Further, with a bit of coupon-clipping and smart shopping, I can buy enough groceries to fill the back seat of Mrs. Wraith's Rogue for less than a day's pay.

So, when we leave the store, we always pause a moment to give thanks to the Lord our God, for the blessings He has bestowed upon us.  We live in the greatest country on Earth, with a standard of living never before enjoyed by anyone, at any time in all of human history.  And too many people don't even know it.

Just a little perspective.  Happy New Year, everyone.

Fight! Fight!

I do enjoy the writings of both Mr. Williamson and Mr. Alger.  I consider them both rational thinkers with plenty of great points to make.  But, on the issue of the First Amendment vs. the others, I'm gonna have to agree that Michael Williamson swung and whiffed on his interpretation.

First off, the First Amendment is a limit placed on Congress, and no other entity. It is the only one of the Amendments making up the Bill of Rights that does so. All of the others assert absolute and universal proscriptions on behavior that limits or infringes individual rights. Universal. No actor may infringe -- public or private. A property owner may deny you access, but if he does so because you choose to go armed, he is violating your Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms, and -- as the actual text says -- the right "shall not be infringed." Not by Congress, or the States, or your city government, or your neighbor.

RTWT at BabyTrollBlog...and make sure you're wearing your tactical undies.