The Rabid Conservative

Well, the Ninth Circus Court of Appeals has decided that the people don’t have the right to decide for themselves what is constitutional.  A three-judge panel has decreed Prop 8 as unconstitutional because it supposedly treats homosexuals as a lower class of citizen.

Of course, homosexuals have always been pushing to have “class status” – but they want to be treated like some other minority class.  But that’s a different argument for a different day.

Decisions like these stand against everything that the Founders sought to avoid.  The idea behind a constitutional republic that is built around democracy is that majority rules.  Liberals are pretty quick to point that out when it suits them.  However, when it comes to California’s Proposition 8 which bans homosexual marriage by constitutional referendum, suddenly, it doesn’t matter what the people say.  Two judges have effectively overrode 52% of the Californian voting population.

Another sickening reminder that our country has deviated from what the Framers had intended – how a handful of people can defy the will of the people.  When the people decides to amend their constitution through a majority vote, the amendment becomes constitutional because it is part of the constitution.

Or can someone out there explain whether prohibition was constitutional when it was passed.  Or was its repeal constitutional?

This is what happens when the judiciary goes messing around with a constitution.

I’ve regularly have written on The Rabid Conservative critically about the abortion issue.  And I’ve had people regularly comment about how wrong I am, while continuing to justify the slaughter of innocent babies while using the terms “women’s health”, “right to choose” and the like.

But the argument breaks down because the pro-choice (anti-life) and pro-life (anti-abortion) groups have no fundamental agreement on the definitions of life and moralities tied to it.  As I have said before, the pro-choice crowd simply does not believe that the fetus (latin: baby) is alive until it passes through the birth canal or is extracted via c-section and is born.  Up to that time, the legal status in the pro-choice eyes is that the baby is a “thing”.

But it goes deeper than that.  For the liberals, abortion is more akin to a religious conviction than it is a social matter.  It’s almost like what happens when so-called “infidel” dares insult Islam.

When the Susan B. Komen Foundation announced that it was going to stop granting funds to Planned Parenthood, the outcry was so over the top.  What gets me is since Komen is all about curing breast cancer and not so-called “reproductive rights”, Planned Parenthood acted just like how the labor unions react when a company decides to try and cut ties. It’s sickening how much Planned Parenthood extorts – it’s just like taking hostages.

1. Planned Parenthood’s primary purpose in life is to provide abortions, despite the amount of cover PR that they do.  90% of all the women that use PP’s services are coming for abortion-on-demand.
2. Planned Parenthood continues to extort around $350 million every year from the tax payers to fund all the other stuff so they can continue to make money on abortions without having to worry about overhead costs.  Overall, PP’s extortion’s pull in a billion dollars per year.
3. The abortion crowd will continue to attack anyone who attempts to even remotely get in the way of making sure that abortion can continue unabated and fully funded.

How long are we going to allow the atrocious extortion and murder continue?

President Obama just showed us all, once again, how truly evil and immoral liberalism is. He spent yesterday celebrating how wonderful abortion is, how there is a ‘fundamental constitutional right’ and how it is precious to protect so-called ‘reproductive rights and the right to choose’.

First off, there is no fundamental constitutional right to abortion. Where the heck does the Constitution guarantee a woman to kill her baby? I’ve read the constitution lots of times and there is nothing in there about aborting a fetus, reproductive rights, or a right to choose what a woman does with her own body. The Constitution is a document that limits what the government can do, not permits the government to make allowances, just because the text doesn’t actually forbid it. Liberals love a “living Constitution”, but hate life, unless it’s “convenient”.

Second, the Declaration of Independence discusses the fundamental rights of man, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I maintain that this is an ordered list. This means life trumps all, before liberty, before the pursuit of happiness. The pursuit of happiness should never override someone else’s liberty and liberty should never override someone else’s life.

Now, if someone willingly gives their own life for the cause of liberty, that is definitely honorable. But abortion is about sacrificing the baby’s life for the mother’s liberty – and that is detestable.

So, with this milestone of nearly 55 million dead as the result of the holocaust of abortion, I’m going to throw out a series of points that focus on truth, not illusions.

1. The left has made a massive effort to disguise the entire idea sing flowery language such as ‘reproductive rights’ and ‘a woman’s right to choose’ while completely ignoring the life of the baby. I agree that a woman has a right to choose, but maybe she should have chosen to keep her knees together in the first place. No, this isn’t about choice, it’s about having unrestricted sex and not having to face the consequences of that decision.
2. The left calls the pro-life ‘anti-abortion’ as if that’s actually a bad thing. The thing is, if we are ‘anti-abortion’, then they are ‘anti-life’. There is nothing good about destroying life out of convenience – that’s among the highest orders of evil of which humanity is capable.
3. And for all of you drones out there that start talking about the ‘big three’, rape, incest, maternal peril, let me remind you again of the statistics. Less than 5% of all the 1.2 million baby killings in this country are as a result of rape, incest, or maternal peril. But yet, the left keeps throwing this back up in our faces as if this is the majority. That’s a red herring folks. Blood red.
4. Obama makes the point that the government should not interfere in private family matters, and for the most part, I agree. However, in a situation where a family member kills another family member, you can bet that the government, law enforcement, will definitely be involved. A person cannot choose to kill another member of their family and get away with it. So why do we allow it, just because a certain family member has not passed through the birth canal and been born?
5. More of that flowery language stuff, it’s not ‘killing babies’, it’s ‘aborting the fetus’. Because it’s not a “baby”, it’s a “fetus”. (did anyone ever tell these morons that “fetus” is Latin for “baby”. Interestingly when a so-called pro-choicer is pregnant and wants to have the child, she calls it a baby, not a fetus or some other diminishing term.
6. I wonder what would happen if the fetus had a chance to speak on his/her own behalf, what THEY would choose? When a person cannot voice their wishes, it’s generally within the context of the law that we err on the side of safety and caution. But abortion says that the baby’s life is forfeit unless someone else decides it has a right to live.

So there it is – the 39th anniversary of one of the most devastatingly evil pieces of legislation this country has ever known. 55 million dead. Isn’t that worth celebrating?

This has got to be the most awesome picture I’ve seen all week and company policy statement I have seen all year.

West Georgia business owner Bill Looman of US Crane, LLC  is one of many very frustrated business owners who simply cannot hire people because the government’s insane policies, inabilities to balance its books, and the looming threat of Obamacare are slamming the door on the ability for small biz owners to add new people to the payroll.

Watch out, Bill.  The Occupy rabble may end up in your parking lot complaining about how you’re part of the problem.  But if they put up a tent, you can always use a crane and lift it away.

I really hate it when stupid government bureacracy steps in the way when a man hits pay dirt and deprives him of his windfall based on a technicality. It’s even worse when that windfall begins to fund a government-sponsored racket.  But with the way that the government is so hungry for money and wasteful with the resources that it “acquires” from people, this is a story that is more the rule than the exception.

This story begins with one of those catches by a fisherman that go into the newspapers and into fame.  Carlos Rafael, a notable fisherman in New Bedford, Massachusetts unwittingly caught a giant bluefin tuna, coming in at over 800 lbs. He was trolling the waters when the tuna got caught in his net.  It was one of those catches that happens once upon a time and can really propel the career of a commercial fisherman to legendary status.

Rafael filed the proper paperwork, had the tuna permits, and notified the fishery regulators immediately on the catch. However, when he rolled to the dock, the NOAA’s Office of Law Enforcement immediately confiscated the mammoth tuna because it was caught in a net, rather than with a rod and reel. Rafael didn’t try to hide it or anything, nor did he know it couldn’t be caught in a net. But that didn’t dissuade the feds to helping themselves to it.

Thing is, bluefin tuna at that size can go for quite a pretty penny. Enormous catches like this can easily fetch a quarter million or more on the market. So, the NOAA has indicated that if a violation exists (which they surely will), the proceeds for the tuna, which will be sold in consignment overseas, will be put into the Asset Forfeiture Fund. In other words, Rafael’s catch will be a windfall boon for the NOAA’s AFF, which has a long history of misuse and abuse.

Essentially, the AFF is a $50M slush fund that pays the salaries of administrative law judges that decide cases to bring against fishermen. In other words, a good old fashioned conflict of interest where those deciding cases against fishermen are directly compensated from the fund that collects the fines assessed from said fishermen. Additionally, this fund has had very little, if any, oversight and accountability and is used to pay for fleets of boats and vehicles and finance wasteful travel to exotic destinations. And they stand to make another quarter million because Carlos Rafael did the right thing considering the circumstances.  It wasn’t like he tried to catch this tuna; it just happened.  And with the local notoriety of the NOAA OLE’s activities against the commercial fishing industry as of late, they’re not going to let this catch slide through their bureaucratic net, despite all the spin that the NOAA administrators attempt to produce.  In they end, NOAA OLE stole this catch and are using the proceeds to line their own pockets.

The way I see it, if Rafael actually did something wrong, the money should be put towards charities that work towards conservation of ocean life, or relief efforts for cleanup of pollution, or something.  The fact that it’s going to the Asset Forfeiture Fund says that this story’s fishiness isn’t because the fisherman is telling a yarn about catching a whopper, but rather, about collecting a whopper windfall from a citizen.

In the end, Carlos stands on the dock, no fish, no money, and a written warning in hand from the NOAA OLE as the only testament for his fish story. A sad story indeed, but typical of the federal government these days.

…but you see it at an Occupy protest…

• Occupy Atlanta: Tuberculosis?? And you would think with all the “amateur pharmcologists” roaming about, they would be prepared…
• Occupy Burlington: Shooting in Vermont.  And we were led to believe it was a “peaceful assembly”.
• Occupy Wall Street: EMT gets a broken leg.  Medics have always been in harms way – why stop now, right?
• Occupy Portland: Eviction notice.  Mayor Sam Adams has had enough of the crime and the homeless moving in.

Again, when have the Tea Party protests ever been kicked off premises for drugs, shootings, public sex, and become fetid cesspools of homeless and disease?

The Main Stream Media’s willful ignorance in this is astonishing, but not exactly unexpected.

Two things that came out of the news:

1) Occupy New Hampshire: Woman charged with pimping a 16-year old

2) Occupy Madison: Permit lost due to public masturbation

That’s aside from the tremendous other reports of slime, crime, protest areas looking like and smelling like sewers, drugs, and what not in these areas.

By the way, do we know of ANY articles where a Tea Party protest led to someone being arrested, disorderly conduct, violence, or anything that is construed as bad behavior? 

There is the fable of the North Wind and the Sun:

The North Wind and the Sun were disputing which was the stronger, when a traveler came along wrapped in a warm cloak.

They agreed that the one who first succeeded in making the traveler take his cloak off should be considered stronger than the other.

Then the North Wind blew as hard as he could, but the more he blew the more closely did the traveler fold his cloak around him; and at last the North Wind gave up the attempt. Then the Sun shined out warmly, and immediately the traveler took off his cloak.

And so the North Wind was obliged to confess that the Sun was the stronger of the two.

While those on Wall Street are not directly competing with the Occupy movement, it is notable that the Occupiers are just like the North Wind, blustering as they go to try to get us all to appeal to their cause in much the same way as how all the protests from the Tea Party movement have worked to bolster the conservative cause.  However, another foe is about to enter the fray that will really begin to test the resolve of the Occupiers, who is taking the Sun’s position:

Old man winter.

Turns out as the temperatures fall and the nights get colder, fewer and fewer Occupiers are seen in their places of protest.  Disallowed from using tents in public places (a move with which I agree), the Occupy group is beginning to have to decide if their cause is so important that they are willing to risk exposure to inclement weather to continue a tirade that, for the most part, is losing national attention.  It’s not like the “evil lovers of filthy corporate lucre” are really saying to themselves, “oh, look at these poor people, let me hate my own achievement and success, because after all, surely they wouldn’t be as greedy as I am if put in the same position, right”?

Of course not. (lol)

So the winds will blow and the snows will fall.  And maybe the Occupiers will give up their pointless socialistic, redistribute-the-wealth nonsense before they freeze to death.

The only protesters who are ready for Old Man Winter – snowmen protesting global warming.

I’ve not really commented much on the rather silly and meaningless “Occupy” protests going on around the country because it’s really nothing more than a class warfare stunt designed to crucify those 1% of Americans that have been successful in business.  In times of economic chaos, it is inevitable that people with complain and gripe.  It happened in the 70’s and 80’s; it’s nothing new.

My beautiful bride even made a comment to me as I was writing this:  It’s just like Rome.  When the people weren’t fat, happy, and entertained, they rebelled against the government and society in general.  I think she’s right because the human condition hasn’t changed since Adam and Eve decided it would be good to eat the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. 

Essentially, what these protesters are saying is that the wealth is ill-gotten and it needs to be spread around.  They have bought into the Marxist lie of government-mandated fairness.

Now, as a student of human nature and the like, I have found that greed is a trait that permeates throughout the entire of human race, not just a subset of them that have money.  I’ve personally seen greed in my own life and in the lives of those around me.  None of us are rich, so I would suspect that these Occupy protests are nothing more than the “have-not”’s showing their own greed.

It reminds me of this scene from the 1989 movie Batman:

Hubba Hubba Hubba Money Money Money

I bet the Occupiers would love the Joker to roll in on his float and drop $20 million on the crowd.

Why aren’t the Occupy Flea-baggers going after Hollywood celebrities that are ridiculously rich, or after professional athletes/  Why is their wrath exclusively directed at those who have demonstrated the ability, cunning, timing and luck in business? 

What, do we think that these Hollywood morons get their millions because they possess some supernatural ability to act?  Or is it because of the Writers Guild that controls whether new talent can actually make it to the silver screen? 

Or what about the recent players revolt in the NFL and the current player revolt in the NBA?  What, do these players deserve $20 million a year because they can throw a stupid football around?  But they get it because of the NFL Player’s Union that beats the NFL team owners down every year for more money.

The thing is, these idiots, if provided with the same elements to make mega-millions, would do the exact same thing!  Many of these people have their own little businesses out there, selling products or trying to do something to chase that dream of capitalism. Unfortunately, their dream hasn’t cashed in.  So, they gripe and complain, out of greed, anger and frustration to anyone who will listen to their “I-didn’t-lose-they-cheated” gibberish. 

Humans are greed-infested creatures.  Not 1% of them, but 100% of them.

Sometimes, not very often, though, I will read the e-mails that I get from the Lib-Crat opposition to hear the kinds of spin that they put on.  Today, I got an e-mail today from the SEIU with the following silliness:

The New York Times reported on a debt ceiling deal that would make deep cuts to Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security benefits without asking for an ounce of sacrifice from corporations and millionaires.

The bill would add millions to the unemployment rolls and deny medical care to the most vulnerable among us – including many of the people SEIU members care for on a daily basis.

Source: SEIU e-mail from Mary Kay Henry

Once again, lib-crats go after the wealthy as their solution, thinking that the more you make, the more you should have to be taxed.  Thing is, the rich pay more taxes than anyone else.  The top 1% of wage earners pay nearly 40% of all the taxes in this country.  The top 25% pay about 86%.  The top 50% pay 97%.

Sadly, though, the greatest majority of those on Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security are in the bottom 50%. So, basically this is wealth transfer, plain and simple.

So, basically Mary Kay Henry is telling all the SEIU drones to flood the Congress with phone calls to “save the entitlement programs” keeping the rich to pay for them with no return on their money.  Just like SEIU to play the class warfare card.  But then, they are a labor union; it’s what they do.

Even if we took all the money from the rich, we couldn’t save these programs, that’s why they need to be restructured to be financially solvent. But Mary Kay doesn’t get it. In general, the Dems aren’t getting it.

Read the IRS Tax Data – it’s not that tough a read either.