Not enough, but a good start.

you are planning anything, it’s always good to have the proper information.

Hypothetically, of course.

224 years ago:

The most important document ever was adopted by the United States Constitutional Convention.

This piece of parchment, and more importantly the words written upon it, became the foundation for the country to which many people dreamed of living in. Dreamed of emigrating to. Dreamed of becoming a citizen in..

To some, the Constitution is just words, or an impediment. But to  others, it is a scred document.

It doesn’t tell us what our government can do, IT LIMITS what the government can do! This is the magic of the Constitution. It limits what the government can require of its citizens. Think about it.

Our founding fathers forged a mighty document 224 years ago. And in doing so handed our ancestors and also us a mighty country…If we can keep it running.

Which makes me shudder in fear..

But THIS is what they agree with me about.

You should think about what the link says.

What he said:

“All I want to do is mind my business.  I avoid getting into other people’s faces as long as they stay out of mine.  I’m ready and willing to help out when need arises, and I understand that my own success, such as it is, in addition to setting a good example, increases my ability to help those in need.  But that is my prerogative and mine alone.  That goes for me and several million of my closest friends who favor liberty over tyranny.  So go ahead and march for “One Big Global Union”, screaming for revolution, carrying your picket signs attached to baseball bats.  Go ahead and plan ’till you’re blue in the face, and plan to carry out your threats.  I’ll be sitting here quietly minding my own business and respecting other’s right to do the same, until it comes time to act.  I hope you’re not that stupid, but I know from experience that I can’t count on socialists having a lick of sense, even when it comes to self preservation.  They tend to get themselves in far, far too deep before they even begin to understand the implications.”

That about sums up my point of view. Like a hornet’s nest, you really don’t want to kick it too hard or too often, or you really won’t like the resulting action. But leave it alone and you are perfectly safe.

Your choice.

To fit your preconceptions.

Should we let him die? Watch.

What happened is NOT what is stated in the headline, nor, really what is stated in the text.

Seems that an adult making a choice not to get health insurance (and facing the consequences) is viewed differently by the Tea Party folks vs the reporter.

While this might well play well with the (obviously liberal) reporters friends and drinking buddies, it doesn’t play well with anyone with the thought processes and cognitive abilities of a rutabaga.

Watch the video. See where anyone cheers at the thought of “letting him die”. (actually, I think that if he makes the choice to spend his money for other things besides  health insurance he deserves whatever he gets). It is not the responsibility of the society in which he lives to pay for him when he won’t pay for himself.

Interesting how the spin is played though.

What he said:

SO the TSA has decided that they will back off on groping little children patting down kids under 12 “due to public outrage”.

Good.

Except that this really really shows the fallacy that the entire groping/porno-scan concept is composed of: If scanning/groping/patdowns etc are necessary for passengers in general, then they SHOULD be used on children as well. Children are as valid a conduit for contraband as adult. If the invasive measures are not necessary for children, then they are not necessary for the adults either. To exclude a segment of the travelling public, no matter what their age, is foolish and short sighted. Either you have a security issue, necessitating the search, or you don’t. If searching little girls and boys in an invasive manner is wrong, then so is searching men and women in an invasive manner. If there is no need to search these children, then there is no reason to search the adults flying with them. Security is not a “sometimes” issue. You either have complete security (which we already know we don’t) or you have no security, period. A determined “terrorist” would not hesitate to use a child to carry explosives or other harmful substances as a part of their sacrifice to their cause.

Security theater. No two ways about it. That is what we have. Not security.