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Terry’s Tidbits

July 10, 2006

Terry Gray

Marxism 101: "We know that no one person can succeed unless everybody else succeeds."  Howard Dean

Funnies and Dummies

          -The government wants to bust the N.Y. Times for printing some “revealing” information about the war on terror.  I thought our national security professionals were supposed to protect this kind of stuff.  My response to the blow-hard politicians who want to damage the first amendment is to tell them that if they don’t want information printed, don’t release it.

          -There are sports fans, television fans, celebrity fans, music fans, and many other fans and then there are gun fanatics.  “Fan” has a harmless connotation whereas “fanatic” is deemed menacing.  Social engineering “fanatics” are busily at work, aren’t they?

          -Alzheimer medication is reported to have many side effects to include diarrhea.  Great, now Alzheimer suffers will be able to remember the last time they messed their pants.

          -On the box of Nu-Finish car wax it reads, “No rubbing or buffing needed.”  I opened the box and looked at the instructions on the can.  It said, “Wipe on, let dry to a haze, and wipe off.”  Translation:  rubbing and buffing.

          -Linksys computer peripheral online support has a call attendant that told me that my wait on-hold would be no longer than 16 seconds.  Forty one minutes later the system hung up on me.

          -Jackie Hayes on Wave3 News reported on Monday the 3^rd during the five o’clock news that the Louisville job line could find you a job just in time for the holidays.  I’m still wondering what she was talking about.

          -Louisville has a smoking ban.  The ban denies the right of business owners to conduct their business as they see fit with regard to the use of a legal product.  City government has the power to ban smoking from city buildings.  It hasn’t done it yet.  City officials want to wait for a year of private business ban on smoking before they ban smoking in truly public buildings.  I guess they want to make sure that a smoking ban in government buildings doesn’t hurt government business.

          -Bush says that we can’t kick out illegal aliens who have been here for awhile.  Yes we can.  I wonder if he’s ever watched “Cold-Case Files?”  The bloodhounds we have in this country that spend their lives settling the justice score can track down and bring illegal aliens to justice.  However, I’m sure he’s speaking from a big-hearted standpoint.  How big was his heart when he executed criminals in Texas?  I heard an illegal alien say that they aren’t criminals.  Lady, someone who breaks the law is a criminal.  How hard can it be to understand this?

          -New Albany Indiana has opened a new “turn in your neighbor” tip line so that crimes can be anonymously reported.  Fantastic!  The cops don’t want you to take the law into your own hands, including defending yourself, but they need help in busting your neighbor.  What will they do for witnesses? 

          -A Louisville police officer has not been charged for driving the wrong way on a one way street and causing an accident.  The reason he has not been charged is that there were no police officers to witness his actions, according to police.  In this country a man can get arrested if his wife or girlfriend simply says that he hit her.  There does not need to be any physical evidence or witnesses.  Yet a cop can drive the wrong way on a one way street, cause an accident, and go on like nothing happened?  Welcome to the Gestapo state.

          -What?  "Newspaper Questions Man Executed in 1983 Slaying" —Associated Press

          -Some people will do anything to get out of going to prison.  But…has anyone seen Ken Lay’s body?

          -The New Jersey state government can’t decide on how to spend New Jersey’s money.  Because of this indecision they decided to shut down the state casinos, a revenue source of $1 million a day.  Wouldn’t this be like you or me quitting our jobs because we couldn’t decide on the color of a new sofa?

Our Flag?

          I heard a Kansas senator say the other day that there are other ways to protest than burning a flag.  Yes, and there are Fords so why are there Chevies?  There are books so why do we need movies?  Who is the government to tell us or try to tell us how to protest?  Aren’t most protests that inspire the burning of a flag the kind of protests that are aimed at rules, rules such as no flag burning?

          Is it really OUR flag if government can tell us what we can do with OUR flag and punish us for violating government imposed rules concerning OUR flag?

          I wouldn’t burn a flag.  But flags are only symbols.  If someone is burning the symbol he is obviously disillusioned with the ideology behind the symbol.

Why a Non-specific Bill of Rights.

          Some folks love to translate, decipher, judge, and etc, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.  Some say that the Bill of Rights is a living document because it was written in general terms.  Some say the Constitution is outdated and cite the non-specific language in which it was written.  Let’s settle this.

          Alexander Hamilton was against a Bill of Rights because he believed that becoming a citizen of this country did not require the surrender of God-given, inalienable rights.  He thought that adding a Bill of Rights to the Constitution was asking for trouble.  With a list of rights there were sure to be those who insisted that the Bill of Rights only pertained to those rights enumerated.  This would be like my wife sending me to the grocery with a list and getting upset if I got more than what is on the list.  He was afraid that the “list” would become the limit of our freedoms.  He was sort of wrong.  Every free citizen needs protection from his government – governments are notorious for ruling.

          Here’s what Hamilton said in the Federalist Papers:

          "I go further, and affirm that bills of rights, in the sense and in the extent in which they are contended for, are not only unnecessary in the proposed constitution, but would even be dangerous. They would contain various exceptions to powers which are not granted; and on this very account, would afford a colorable pretext to claim more than were granted. For why declare that things shall not be done which there is no power to do?"

          Hamilton understood that a Bill of Rights would limit government in what it could do to us.  That wasn’t his beef; he believed that government had no business meddling with God-given rights.  His beef was that if a Bill of Rights protected us from the government kicking us in the shins they would kick us in the knees.  His argument was that there should be no kicking and a Bill of Rights would open the public to abuse in ways not mentioned, the Bill of Rights having established specific “off-limits”.

          Please remember that every time the government wants to mess with the Bill of Rights or any of the Constitution, they are monkeying with the very protections that they are not entitled to monkey with and the non-specifics are there for a reason.

"Guest" workers explained...From anonymous.

Since hearing the plan for treating illegal immigrants as "guest" workers, I now have undergone a complete reversal in my understanding of the proper meaning of words.  I stupidly believed the definition of "guest" is one who is invited.  Now I'm told this is no longer correct. For instance, if a burglar breaks into my home, he really becomes a guest who is only looking for a better life.  Because he broke in for that reason, I must accept the obligation to provide him with living quarters, health care, education, and transportation. He has as much "right" to my house as I do, but I have to pay taxes he doesn't; because the government doesn't really know he is a "guest" in my house and I am not allowed to turn him in. He will get preferential treatment because he is a "guest" in my house, yet I can not say anything against him. If I do vocalize my feelings, I must attend "sensitivity" training because I just don't understand how to accept my "guest" and his customs/religion/culture, etc. I am also required to learn his language so that we may communicate. It is not necessary for him to learn mine because he is a "guest" in my house. I am not allowed to wave my flag, but he may fly or wave his flag anywhere he chooses, because he is my "guest". I am required to subsidize his family and provide for his family's needs. When I get paid, I must give a portion of it to him in the form of welfare and food stamps so he can get his food and supplies free and at reduced prices.
          Because any money he makes is all his, he can buy the luxuries for his family that I can not afford for my family, but I have to be ok with that because he is now a resident in my house.

 I feel SO much better - now that I understand!

 

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