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We MUST understand the Constitution!

11/20/2014

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Executive amnesty will pass!  they cry in anguish... 

THIS IS WHY WE MUST UNDERSTAND THE CONSTITUTION!  

The executive branch HAS NO AUTHORITY IN THIS AREA!  It can sign executive orders until the pens fall apart - and IF we understand the Constitution, NONE OF IT will have ANY effect!  We would simply laugh at the tyrant wannabe who thinks the pen is mightier than the Constitution.

I also heard on the radio yesterday someone from the NRA bemoaning the danger of the UN small arms treaty.  The same principle is at work here!  The second amendment SPECIFICALLY PROHIBITS the federal government from having any say in the firearms owned by citizens -- and Article VI clearly states that only treaties made in areas where the Constitution grants authority to the federal government, and in NO OTHER AREAS, are considered law!  They can yak all they want -- if we know the Constitution it is a usurpation of powers not granted, therefore NULL and VOID - of no effect or substance!
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Veterans’ Day/Armistice Day/Remembrance Day

11/11/2014

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Today, November 11th, is known by all three of those names.  Veterans’ Day in honor of our US veterans; Armistice Day commemorating the end of World War I (the “War to End All Wars” as it was SO-inaccurately termed); Remembrance Day as a Veterans’ Day equivalent in the Commonwealth nations.

Please take time to day to remember, and to be thankful for, ALL our veterans.  Particularly today’s vets, but remember all our other wars. 

    Revolutionary War

    First and Second Barbary War – against the Barbary       Pirates – also the inauguration of the US Marines

    War of 1812 (in between the two above)

    Mexican-American War (does not include The Alamo;     that was part of the fracas surrounding the rebellion       of Texas against Mexico and its annexation as part of     the US)

    Civil War (“War of Northern Aggression” for those           from the South)

    Spanish-American War and the related Philippine-           American War

    Boxer Rebellion

    World War I

    World War II – this was the last legally                             Congressionally-declared, war; after this naming 
    wars versus “police actions” versus “troop                       deployments” gets dicey…

    Korean War

    Vietnam War

    Desert Storm

    “War on Terror” under various names and in various       places – with rules of engagement no one should           ever have to fight under.

Remember also those who fought on the home front:  the wives (and husbands) who held the family together, never knowing if their spouse would ever return, or in what condition.  The children who grew up with only stories of a parent.  The parents who put gold stars in their windows for their lost ones.  Everyone who stood, or knelt, or sat, or lay prostrate, before a headstone or memorial, public or private… who traced names with fingers, and cried – or held the tears in. 

All of this was a price paid, willingly, for YOUR freedom, YOUR life, YOUR liberty.  Thank them all, with every fiber of your being, that you are not the subject of a king, theocrat, tyrant, or madman.  And thank also the One who has given us the gift of a noble heart, that we have these heroes for whom to be thankful.

I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. –Faramir, warrior of Gondor (JRR Tolkien, The Two Towers)

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