Blogging without power

No power here. Since wensday. The power company is saying maybe thursday. Posting will resume whenever I have power again. Later all.

Op return to sender tip off.

Media Report of Raids on Tulsa Illegals Draws Outrage. Come on people a "mistake"?

Am I missing something here.

So you are an illegal immigrant. You rape a girl. And then you do it again. You are arrested, booked, processed ect. And then a judge has you held on bond. Only 25k at that. Humm anyone else heard of a flight risk? Honestly this is one of the worst cases of stupidity I have ever heard. I would not let the little scumbag out on bond. EVER. Let the court system chew him for awhile.

100 billion dollar shortfall.

Yes that is with a b. This kind of hattery just kills me.

Excellent article at Blackfive

Grim has written an awesome article at Blackfive.net. An absolute must read.

Busy week

I have been toooo busy around here this week with on-call. I was hoping that Toad would send me some stuff to post but so is life... I will post more this weekend.

FBI Raid On Congressman Ruled Constitutional

Again I did not see one peep about this in the network news. Newsflash mad rush for shredders in DC seen.

Big fish in a little pond.

Ok this takes hattery to a whole new level. First off the mayor requesting that the police officers issue 4 tickets a day. Ok I can almost see that. I know a few of the areas finest around here and it would be easy to write 4 tickets from just little stuff but that is being petty. Looking for soldiers or minorities that kicks him into the head idiot spot in my book.

Family politcs

Well this takes family politics to a whole new level. The usual slant applies at the end.

Army Goes Above June Recruiting Goal

Wow how did this happen?? I thought no one is joining the armed forces. Go figure, the msm got it wrong again.

Congrats Italy

Well earned Italy.

Detainees tying themselves in knots

The detainees in Gitmo have now found a new way of passing their time and trying to make the present administration look bad. The recent ruling by the supreme court saying that we cannot use military troubles to try the terrorists we have captured on the fields of war just gummed this whole process up. There was a plan to try the people and give them a chance to prove their innocence. That was shot down. Now even though they do not conform to the Geneva convention we must treat them as such. While that sounds great on paper, it means that we can keep them as long as the war continues. No trials or anything, but most didn't get that from the MSM.

Good read

Here is a good read from Military fitness mag. This e-mag is a great one. It is mostly a magazine for fitness and military/public safety training. But if you are into hardcore training it is a magazine for you. Oh yea, go kettlebell!

Last time.

Well the midget in a members only jacket has topped himself. It looks like he may have been pointing his long range missile towards Hawaii. Ok lets do a bit of history. What happened to the last aggressor that bombed Hawaii? Ok yes there is a lot of ocean out there but even more to the south of Hawaii. This in my opinion showed his true colors.

My weird state

Illinois is a great state. It has its share of beauty, resources, people, and just plain weirdness. Weird Illinois is a great site and book. Have a look around.

Little Kid

North Korea's little stunt on the fourth of July just reaffirms the point that Kim Jong-il is a little kid with dreams of being a grown up. The amusing part of it all is that their "deadly" rocket failed about 41 seconds into the launch. If you remember this is the second time they have tried to launch a Taepodong. Again a failure. He just keeps proving that he is not to be trusted, period. So I wonder what will the paper tiger try to do now to stop him?

Citizenship Test

Could you pass the MSNBC citizenship test? Post your scores.

Common Sense

The pamphlet Common Sense was Thomas Paine's work contributing to the revolution of the Thirteen Colonies. In itself it did not start the revolution but helped speed the Declaration of independence and the war itself. In the document he denounces the British rule of the colonies. Here is the link via Gutenberg.

The Declaration of Independence of the Thirteen Colonies

In this present time we as a nation have ceased to know why we fought and needed the freedoms we have been afforded by our fore-fathers. These men risked their lives and families for this experiment in freedom. Just by this spark of revolution the movement of democracy and republic was spread throughout the world. Here is the declaration itself.

The Declaration of Independence of the Thirteen Colonies
In CONGRESS, July 4, 1776

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

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, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. —Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain [George III] is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us, in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.

He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by the Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.