Blog Smith is inspired by the myth of Hephaestus in the creation of blacksmith-like, forged materials: ideas. This blog analyzes topics that interest me: IT, politics, technology, history, education, music, and the history of religions.
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Alex Sink caught breaking debate rules
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Voter reports problem with ballot machine.
Top Official at NJEA (New Jersey Education Association) discussing what he describes as a rigged election in Hudson County, NJ.
The 2002 documentary entitled "The Weather Underground" is now available to watch for free on YouTube. Former members of the Weather Underground reflect candidly about the idealistic passion that drove them to "bring the war home". The documentary relates to the current world situation.
Up to :25 quite standard, oh, except for one little omission. What is the omission?
Robert Gibbs Asked Why Obama Leaves "Creator" out of Declaration of Independence
A Young Person Notices
I do not know if there is any connection to dissenting Christians but recently at least one pastor has been contacted by White House staff after he described Obama as "dangerous."
Would Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, John Jay, Patrick Henry, and other Revolutionary era Founders approve of police checkpoints and warrant-less searches outside of war time invasion?
This is a checkpoint in Keene N.H. where there are random checkpoints (ostensibly for drunk drivers) or the pulling over of people without probable cause. There are those who would argue that this practice is a violation of the 4th Amendment to the Constitution and removes the notion of “limited government.” The fact that some courts have allowed this is an example of how judges are often just another part of the government bureaucracy who do not respect the limits imposed by the Constitution nor do they recognize the limits of their office.
Would Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, John Jay, Patrick Henry, and other Revolutionary era Founders approve of police checkpoints and warrant-less searches outside of war time invasion? The British abused the warrant process and the King granted British troops the power to write their own warrants without the authority of a magistrate or a judge.
The activists also made a sign and stood 100 yards up from the checkpoint warning drivers of the checkpoint so they could turn off ahead of time.
It is somewhat more amusing to view the police detaining the man holding the sign while they try to think up something to charge him with, and seem frustrated when they cannot figure out a way to prevent the man from exercising his First Amendment rights.
It is important to point out that not all police believe checkpoints are constitutional nor do some judges. For many ordinary, average citizens who are pro-police they consider that police have better things to do to real crimes and to protect citizens.
Terrence Bressi went to court and won by fighting the random checkpoints.
On November 26th, I was stopped & seized for about the 50th time since the beginning of 2008. The seizure took place at an internal suspicionless Homeland Security checkpoint along Southern Arizona’s SR86 near mile post 146. SR86 is an East-West public highway located over 40 miles North of the border and never intersects the border at any point.
During the stop, Agent Gilmore admitted he knew who I was & all three agents told me I wasn’t being detained. Nonetheless, these facts didn’t stop the agents from refusing to allow me to go about my lawful business, choosing instead to escalate the encounter by requesting that I move to secondary inspection for more intensive scrutiny absent my consent or any clear suspicion.
While continuing to deny that I was being detained and refusing to allow me to leave, the agents threatened me with arrest for impeding their operations.
After close to eight minutes of being unlawfully detained, a Border Patrol supervisor eventually arrives on-scene and wastes no time in telling me that I’m free to go with no further scrutiny.
Given the circumstances surrounding this extended non-detention, the only reasonable explanation that can be attributed to the agent’s behavior is a desire to train the traveling public to be obedient to the whims of any federal agent.
Agent Gilmore's position
"He can take his endorsement and really shove it as far as I'm concerned," Frank Caprio told talk-show host John DePetro during an interview on WPRO-AM.
There were no cameras allowed unless you had a “press pass”. There were roving camera enforcers that were looking for video cameras and promptly ousting them from the auditorium. The event began without a pledge of allegiance to Old Glory. So the people decided to pledge allegiance anyway.
The moderator stated that the Pledge took too long to recite so the audience was instructed that for the lack of time it would not be said: the Pledge took 12 seconds to recite. The moderator's explanation of her rules took 1:15 seconds.
The video taper was told that his Constitutional right to record the debate in a public forum at taxpayer's expense does not “apply tonight”. He was subsequently removed from the debate and barred from entering again.
Constituents Ask Why the Pledge Was Not Recited on a Taxpayer Funded Event
"Some, who have not denied the necessity of the power of taxation, have grounded a very fierce attack against the Constitution, on the language in which it is defined. It has been urged and echoed, that the power “to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises, to pay the debts, and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States,” amounts to an unlimited commission to exercise every power which may be alleged to be necessary for the common defense or general welfare. No stronger proof could be given of the distress under which these writers labor for objections, than their stooping to such a misconstruction.”
Federalist 41, James Madison
"If Congress can employ money indefinitely to the general welfare, and are the sole and supreme judges of the general welfare, they may take the care of religion into their own hands;they may appoint teachers in every State, county and parish and pay them out of their public treasury; they may take into their own hands the education of children, establishing in like manner schools throughout the Union; they may assume the provision of the poor; they may undertake the regulation of all roads other than post-roads; in short, everything, from the highest object of state legislation down to the most minute object of police, would be thrown under the power of Congress…. Were the power of Congress to be established in the latitude contended for, it would subvert the very foundations, and transmute the very nature of the limited Government established by the people of America.”
James Madison, referring to a bill to subsidize cod fishermen introduced to the First Congress
NPR's Nina Totenberg appears with Charles Krauthammer on the set of Inside Washington, as he asks why NPR did not fire Totenberg along with Juan Williams. Juan made the mammoth PC mistake of saying he gets nervous on airplanes when Muslims-in-garb are on the plane. Totenberg once said the "Good Lord" must be considering Jessie Helms, and maybe Helms or his grandchildren will get AIDS. Nina escaped the crude "mobile-firing - or any firing at all, Juan didn't.
Nina Totenberg
Totenberg's actual quote from NewsBusters:
TOTENBERG: I think he ought to be worried about what's going on in the Good Lord's mind, because if there is retributive justice, he'll get AIDS from a transfusion, or one of his grandchildren will get it.
Krauthammer to Nina:
And I don't understand the inconsistency here. Why is it okay for Nina to express opinions, as she has tartly, sharply, unashamedly and openly, and she’s an honored correspondent there? In fact, they mention your status here on this show in your biography at NPR. And Juan, because he expresses his opinions, gets canned from NPR. That’s what the CEO said yesterday. In fact, the standard ought to be lower in the case of Juan because he’s an analyst, whereas Nina is a correspondent.
Totenberg responds in a manner of speaking along with other panelists. Krauthammer keeps asking why Juan Williams was singled-out, and ends with:
This is all highfalutin journalistic theory.
Most journalism today is in disarray. Andrew McCarthy points out the problem with Juan's firing is not Juan's firing. The real problem is our funding of NPR:
Why does a country that is trillions in debt, and in which people have unlimited options for obtaining information, need NPR? More to the point, why do we need to fund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which keeps NPR afloat?
And let's not forget the National Endowment for the Arts who gives many millions ($155M) to NPR each year, along with CPB's $400M.
Nina Totenberg, Robert Siegel Spoof Lady GaGa!
In a debate between Joe Walsh and Melissa Bean in Illinois a patriotic event occurred.
The League of Women Voters hosted the event, but claimed there was no time for the Pledge of Allegiance before the proceedings. When someone asked why they would not allow the Pledge to be said, the moderator from the League (Kathy Tate-Bradish) harped, hemmed, and hawed for some time…until the audience just rose up against her and said the Pledge anyway.
The full series and other information has been posted online as well.
The import and importance of the Wikileaks make it clear that the lethal contest between Iranian-backed militias and American forces continued after Obama sought to open a diplomatic dialogue with Iran’s leaders and reaffirmed the agreement between the United States and Iraq to withdraw American troops from Iraq by the end of 2011.
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