Mitch Daniels has decided NOT to run for Prez.
Is it REALLY due to the issues with his family (which are, in my opinion, valid reasons NOT to run), or is it the fact that about 85% of those of us who live in his home state won’t vote for him? Does he realize that there is no real way that he could win?
Did good sense reign over his ego?
Or was there other considerations?
Either way, I am glad to see that he isn’t running
You should read this.
The whole thing.
Now, read it again.
What will you do if it happens to be your front door?
Ask yourself, why aren’t there any murder charges being brought?
This whole rapture thing happens, I’m not sure if I’ll be around afterwards….or if you will be.
If I am, I figure I can live high on the hog for a while, on what the rest leave behind.
If not, well, thanks for reading. I mean,. I am good with my maker and all that, I think, but you never know.
Hopefully, we’ll connect on the other side, if and when.
I’m still mailing in my car payment tomorrow though, just in case.
Doing what he can to salvage whatever he can so he can get reelected.
People are aware of his intent to raise energy prices in a failed attempt at social engineering the US into a more energy efficient nation.
But raising the cost of energy hurts all of us…. and most of us can’t afford the higher cost.
Now he is pissing off the green folks in a belated attempt to pacify the rest of us voters in order to get reelected.
Because it opens the door to things like THIS.
This sort of attitude by police is EXACTLY why the fourth amendment was written. Any police officer who cannot see that, and would use this ruling to further enhance his power of search is unsuited for his job. Unsuited to be in any position of public leadership or law enforcement.
Look, I am sure that most sheriffs and police want to just do their jobs. They (mostly) have the best interests of the citizens who pay them in mind. But without limits, without lines that they cannot cross, then there will be those who go too far, and ultimately trample those citizens who they are sworn to protect.
And the statements of the Newton County sheriff demonstrate that clearly.
What the Court in Indiana has done is remove the leash from the collar of the guard dog. Guard dogs are an excellent tool. They are needful to protect people and property in some instances. But without restraint, the guard dog may become a menace to those whom he is charged with guarding. It is easy for the sheepdog to return to his wolf heritage.
IMO, the sheriff should be immediately fired. His statements show that he is unsuited to be in law enforcement.
And the judges who unsnapped his leash should be horsewhipped. Publicly. Then fired and disbarred for demonstrating their incompetence.
But then again, I am soft on idiots.
ETA:These rulings will eventually lead to THIS….
Oh, wait, they already HAVE.
Methinks the time is coming when the rule of law will no longer be based on our Constitution….Which will lead to……..?
Mayhaps the time is soon coming when, since the courts are not adjudicating law based on anything but whim, and the police are not enforcing it anyway, that We The People will have to. Even against our own government.
I’d rather not “Vote from the rooftops” but these recent events, along with an ever increasing load on the citizens by other parts of our government, make it seem more and more likely.
“When in the course of human events it becomes necessary……”
Think about it. Will you stand with others to defend your freedoms? Or cower in the shadows and let stronger men that you do the deeds necessary to defend your rights?
(yes, I am angry…that changes nothing).
For the .22 postal match.
Get yer ass out to the range and try your luck.
If nothing else it’ll get you some fresh air.
Yes, Peter, I mean you.
If ya need help, I’ll take the pics of yer targets and email them.
And the lower down on the river, the less important you must be.
Rather than flood a few farm acres farther north, and rather than flood any major town or city, the Army Corps of engineers has decided that farmers downstream are less important than those upstream, and that the cities are more important than the farms.
While I understand that those folks in the cities do not want their homes destroyed, their property flooded, and their possessions waterlogged, that is part and parcel of living behind a levee and near a river. Why are the possessions of folks in a larger town or city more valuable than the possessions and homes of folks in a more rural setting? How do you put a price on someone’s home? Who pays for the damage? Who pays for the loss of cropland for a year or more, much less who determines the real damages when a farmer loses a years worth of crops?
If we are going to have those in government make these value decisions, then we should save the millions and millions of dollars which are spent each year in flood control measures, and let the water inundate everyone as nature intended…..Rather than make decisions based upon who lives where and their relative value. Alternatively, let us remove all of the levees (just think of the temporary jobs that that exercise would create!) and let the water spread out as it did in the past. That way, nearly everyone would flood, but not by tens of feet, but rather by a foot or two at most.
Is that farmer, or those people in the subdivisions about to be flooded by the actions of the Corps of Engineers as protected by those actions as the folks in the cities they are trying to save? Are we not all equal in the eyes of the law?
Someone is getting screwed by the government, to the benefit of others apparently deemed more valuable.
And it ain’t right.
Especially if their damages are paid for by tax dollars.
One of those government GPS units attached to my car, (because they say I don’t have any expectation of privacy on public thoroughfares), can I smash it with a hammer or burn it with a torch or run it through a blender or whatever (perhaps a 30 ton press? Feel free to use your inner child to come up with creative ways to destroy these kinds of electronic devices…But I digress) ? I mean, there would be no expectation of safety for the device once it leaves their possession and they attach it to the property of another person, right?
Unless, of course, I don’t decide to tape it to the back of a semi, or attach it to a cow several counties over or ship it via USPS to….Honduras? or maybe find a privately owned airplane at my local airport which needs special scrutiny…..Maybe attach it to a taxi cab?
Just wondering what the legalities are. Can I be charged with willful destruction of government property? Is it their property if they attach it to my car? (actually, it is OUR property because taxes payed for it, but that is another discussion for another day)
Not that I am that hard to track most of the time, GPS or not. Unless I don’t want to be.
Seems that that pesky fourth amendment is getting in the way of police. Notice that they don’t even have to knock if the officers feel that quick entry is desireable.
Once again, the slow erosion of our rights continues.
I would hate to be the officer (or officers) that enters my home uninvited, at any time of the day. I would hope that for their safety (and mine) that they choose to knock, and ask to enter.