I talked with a friend Wednesday, who I had not talked to for a couple of years. We talked several times over the next two and he questioned why I had not sent him any rants lately. Truthfully, I have been stressed recently and big-picture-philosophy is bumped down on the priority list when life [...]
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Between Christmas and New Years, I had lunch with one of my oldest friends, home from New Jersey for the holidays. I had not seen him in more years than I would like to admit I have been out of high school. He said something that I let go at the time but later couldn’t shake. It was quite profound and reminded me of the knack he had for saying things that the rest of us talked about when we were younger, long after he had said them. He kept his opinions to himself much of the time, but would not hesitate to give a thoughtful answer if pressed, and never pulled a punch to avoid controversy. His observations could seem clairvoyant, as if he could notice the Emperor removing his cloths before the rest of us. In this uncharacteristic moment, he was wrong. At least I will attempt to prove him so. Continue reading Democracy has not failed us, we have failed democracy It absolutely kills me to see our elected leaders and representatives take the oath to defend the Constitution knowing full well that they have no intention of doing so. Within a matter of days we’ll have a new health bill that will make it a crime not to buy health insurance. Unbelievable! How in the world did we ever get to this? This bill may be argued in the Supreme Court and eventually corrected but consider all the other laws already on the books that allow the Federal Government to override the Constitution. There are many, but let me point out just one – one that the Commonwealth of Virginia has agreed to. Although local school boards are elected to control the district’s schools, they really have no power. It has been usurped by the state and federal government. The No Child Left Behind Act gives the U. S. Department of Education the power to take over any of our schools. Our state government has agreed to give away this power to control local schools in exchange for additional federal funding. Just think, we elected all these brilliant legislators! Well they did it, in the middle of the night, while we slept. I say “they”, I don’t know how to say more correctly, “WE THE PEOPLE”. Our Congress agreed to end debate on 300 pages of replacing amendments which few have read, and no one seems able to explain. “There are 100 senators here and I don’t know that there’s a senator that doesn’t have something in this bill that isn’t important to them,” Reid said. “If they don’t have something in it important to them then it doesn’t speak well of them. That’s what legislation’s all about,” Reid said of the compromises. “It’s the art of compromise.” – Harry Reid. Continue reading Take the day off, with pay, and save the bosses 1,000 times your salary. . . Do you know what a position description is? Should we have one for our Federal staff? Am I arrogant enough to think that I could or should write them? I think you know what one is, that we should, and likely that I am. Thankfully, some before me did a fantastic job. They wrote job descriptions for jobs which took us from a group of low value colonies to world leader in a little over 100 years. Their performance review comes at the ballot box, and like most jobs, if the boss likes you, meeting the letter of the description is less important than if not. (It pays to be drinking buddies with the boss, right up until the business goes under.) So, for reference, and without further introduction, I include, at 17 pages, The Constitution of the United States. We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. Lest we forget that the modern “Progressive” movement wants to take us backwards to the systems we had prior to our independence . . . this is a cartoon, reportedly from 1948 making fun of the very things we are discussing now. The human race has been discussing them as long as [...] |
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