Crabby Blogging Lady

What DRIVEL! What insanity! It’s outrageous!

People– I live in the stupidest state in the union– yes! It’s even worse than California! Because in California, at least you have fruits and nuts! Here. we have CONTROL FREAKS!

Our state is going bankrupt. The government is totally corrupt. The government is slashing everything, and they’re coming up with billions and billions of new taxes to *try* to pay the bills. OK OK– I exaggerate. The government isn’t slashing EVERYTHING. Their cushy government jobs, with paid vacations and health care plans are all intact. I stand corrected.

But is our government concerned about which foreign country will buy us out to put us in the black ink again? NO! They are concerned about SALT! New York State wants to outlaw SALT!

…a bill [has been] introduced in the New York Legislature that, if passed, would ban the use of salt in restaurant cooking.

“No owner or operator of a restaurant in this state shall use salt in any form in the preparation of any food for consumption by customers of such restaurant, including food prepared to be consumed on the premises of such restaurant or off of such premises,” the bill, A. 10129 , states in part.

The legislation, which Assemblyman Felix Ortiz , D-Brooklyn, introduced on March 5, would fine restaurants $1,000 for each violation.

IDJITS IDJITS IDJITS IDJITS!!!!!!!

I say they should outlaw themselves! New York politicians are terrible for our health. I feel like I’m about to be hospitalized right now!

Salt is not bad for us, you dunderheads! And even if it was, you’d take that wonderful, most elemental seasoning away from us?! It’s the ONLY thing left in this blasted state that makes us HAPPY! Why don’t they just quit their fooling around and outlaw happiness outright?! Why all this pussyfooting around, huh?

IDJITS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Please– Ohio, Montana, even Pennsylvania for God’s sake– save us! Take us over! Get these jerks away from us, PLEASE. I’ll even consider being absorbed by a Greater New Jersey… wait, no. I just can’t go that far. Well, Pennsylvania, at any rate! Save us!!!! We’re drowning in stupidity and wickedness here.

Well, at the insistence of Don E. Chute (he used CAPS AND EVERYTHING!), I took the Nolan Chart Quiz. I think I had taken this a year ago, maybe. I see that my views haven’t changed one bit, thank you very much.

I am NOT a Libertarian, however. I hate it when quizzes marginalize you into a colorful section on a graph.  I do not believe that we should legalize (or encourage) pornography, pot-smoking, “escort” services, polygamy, and blaspheming activities. I think society has every right to ban these activities as unwholesome to a nation and society. (By the way, I am an American history scholar who has read and studied the Constitution and the writings of the Founding Fathers, and they believed the same thing!).

ANYWAY. So the Nolan Chart says I’m a Libertarian. When I’m not.

What I am is a Federalist, for lack of a better word. Read The Federalist Papers: that’s what I believe. I believe in a federal government for the purpose of unification, and defense, and world trade. AND THAT’S IT.

Everything else– all powers not given to the federal government by the Constitution nor prohibited by the States, are GIVEN TO WE THE PEOPLE.

Oh gee, that has a familiar ring to it. *gasp* Could this possibly be the Tenth Amendment?! Why, yes, boys and girls, it IS!

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

Well, the next question to be asked is: Do we still retain the original form of representative government given to use by the founders?

And boys and girls– we do not. The last straw that broke the camel’s back was the Patriot Act. Sorry, we no longer have a Constitutional republic. What a shell game. We can’t do anything anymore without the federal government breathing down our necks: get a job, cash a check, use our transportation, make a phone call, have a baby.

But even before that blasted “Act,” something else radically altered our form of government 100 years previously; it was when the Progressive idjits in government CHANGED state representation to have senators elected by popular vote instead of state legislatures. This occurred in 1913 (gee, the same year as the Federal Reserve Act and Income Tax– those Progressives SURE were busy, weren’t they?). Hello, there was a REASON that the Founders included the state legislatures the way they did– to make sure that the larger states (which had higher population and more urban centers which are the renowned bastions of wicked sinners) did not control the entire federation. It was called the New Jersey Plan, written by William Paterson. You see, back THEN, the states cared about equal representation.

Since the Progressive tyrants have eliminated that check and balance, our nation is basically controlled by the big (liberal) states: Florida, New York, California, and Texas. Even though all the states still retain two senators per state, the state legislatures themselves have lost their representation in the federation, therefore allowing the federal government to usurp power more readily (in such things as education, eminent domain, mandated and/or unfunded social programs, government-funded home insurance quotes, blah blah, etc).

So that was really the beginning of the end, 1913.

Back to the Nolan Chart. Those quizzes are meaningless. I think they have good intentions, but they are meaningless because the people who REALLY know what American government is all about are going to be marginalized, as I was. These quizzes don’t truly represent the original intent of our form of government. Why are we tut-tutting about health care and Social Security?! The larger issue is that the federal government has totally usurped power. Why isn’t that part of the discussion? Why aren’t we spending our time defending the Constitution and Bill of Rights, instead of bickering over government HMOs and Granny’s pension and whether the government can allow teenagers to kill off their unborn babies?

Politics always gets me worked up. Good gravy. I feel so much better. I haven’t had a rant like this in, gee, three or four days! Thanks, Don.

WHAT a CRAPPY reason to spy on people and (once again) break the presidential oath to “preserve, protect and defend” the Constitution.

Even though police are tapping into the locations of mobile phones thousands of times a year, the legal ground rules remain unclear, and federal privacy laws written a generation ago are ambiguous at best. On Friday, the first federal appeals court to consider the topic will hear oral arguments (PDF) in a case that could establish new standards for locating wireless devices.

In that case, the Obama administration has argued that warrantless tracking is permitted because Americans enjoy no “reasonable expectation of privacy” in their–or at least their cell phones’–whereabouts. U.S. Department of Justice lawyers say that “a customer’s Fourth Amendment rights are not violated when the phone company reveals to the government its own records” that show where a mobile device placed and received calls.

You know, the prez doesn’t take an oath to protect the American people from terrorists; he doesn’t take an oath to protect is from ourselves, either. He takes an oath to

“….to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.” Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution

Is that such a difficult thing to do??

The legal question regarding the cell phone surveillance is: do the phone companies have the right to store in their databases our conversations, and give that information to the government? Well, so our conversations are not technically our own, is that it? It all comes down to who OWNS us and who owns our data, doesn’t it? Does this go the same way for the mail– the post office owns our mail, technically, because we use them to deliver it? Information seems to be the key here. You can’t BE a person without information. Information is property, isn’t it? Isn’t this what the Fourth Amendment in the Bill of Rights alludes to?

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

I tell ya, folks, break out those tinfoil hats!

Well, did you play P-BO Bingo last night? I found a website where I could watch the State of the Union address over the Internet (thanks, Marcia!). So we started it up…. and…. tried to watch and listen…. oh, the agony.

I tried. Like Bill Clinton said, “I tried really, really hard. It was the hardest thing I ever tried.” Yeah, I’m lying, too. I didn’t REALLY try hard. I did try, a little. It was just too nauseating. After hearing Nancy Pelosi’s slimy (and thankfully brief) introduction, the applause go on and on and on and on and on and on (like those loud TVs at circuit city or something), and then hearing Obama discuss how he “knows” our “anxieties,” I could bear no more, not even for a game of Bingo.

Mr. Obama, you LIE. You do not “know the anxieties” of Americans. You KNOW OF them, but you do not know them. If you truly KNEW them, then that last thing you would be doing is pushing that idiotic health care takeover and planning another “stimulus” package (“and this time, for the ‘little guys’!”). PUH-LEASE. Just slash taxes, cancel the Federal Reserve Act, ditch the IRS, get the military out of domestic policing actions, and RESIGN! THAT’s what THIS American wants! Americans want to be LEFT ALONE. Quit trying to “create jobs”!! (SEE, I TOLD YOU!!). Quit trying to GOVERN us! I want to govern MYSELF. Isn’t that still allowed in this country?????????

So did anybody play the Bingo game? I’m curious. I wonder how P-BO scored.

ABC News: do only idiots work there? Or just the ones who make the news stories for the website? Like this news story:

U.S. Military Weapons Inscribed With Secret ‘Jesus’ Bible Codes

Coded references to New Testament Bible passages about Jesus Christ are inscribed on high-powered rifle sights provided to the United States military by a Michigan company, an ABC News investigation has found.

A “News investigation has found” them! BUSTED!!!

The sights are used by U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan and in the training of Iraqi and Afghan soldiers. The maker of the sights, Trijicon, has a $660 million multi-year contract to provide up to 800,000 sights to the Marine Corps, and additional contracts to provide sights to the U.S. Army. One of the citations on the gun sights, 2COR4:6, is an apparent reference to Second Corinthians 4:6 of the New Testament, which reads: “For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.”

Other references include citations from the books of Revelation, Matthew and John dealing with Jesus as “the light of the world.” John 8:12, referred to on the gun sights as JN8:12, reads, “Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”

NUMBER ONE: It’s kind of insulting to refer to New Testament references as “Jesus Codes.” They are Bible verses references, you delinquents!

NUMBER TWO: The comments at the news story are filled with dumbkopfs spewing their “separation of church and state” rhetoric. What knuckleheads! For one, having a Bible reference on a piece of U.S. equipment is NOT endorsing a state religion! And the word “separation of church and state” is a lie. Yes, it’s a lie! Pat Robertson is right, haha! It’s not in the Constitution. It’s in an old letter written by Thomas Jefferson, when he was president in 1803, telling the Baptists that the government will never interfere with their right to express their religion freely. The liberals are dead wrong about “separation of church in state” in every way.

NUMBER THREE: Just wait until ABC News discovers the Secret Moses Code on the Liberty Bell!

P.S. I like the idea of “Secret Jesus Codes” on my weapons. I think I’m going to inscribe PS7:11 on my AK-47!

I haven’t gotten my W-2 forms yet, but my stomach hurts already, in anticipation of finagaling through those crappy tax forms. And I live in New York, so it’s DOUBLY painful! I don’t see why I have to claim income tax on money from foreigners who’ve hired me out. It’s not fair. Really, it’s not. And really, I don’t think the Income Tax is legal. Yep, I’m one of those cynical, tea-partying, flag-waving kooks who thinks this country is run by bureaucrats. Voting doesn’t mean a THING anymore! Everyone is “appointed” today, especially those thugs from the IRS!

Where was I?

Oh yes, taxes and death. One and the same.

I saw this news story: not even the IRS Commissioner can do his own taxes, the code is TOO complex!! Well, hell yeah! Duh!

IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman does not file his own taxes in part because he believes the tax code is complex.

During an interview on C-SPAN’s “Newsmakers” program that aired on Sunday, Shulman said he uses a tax preparer for his own returns.

“I’ve used one for years. I find it convenient. I find the tax code complex so I use a preparer,” Shulman said.

Pressed on how he would make the tax code simpler, Shulman responded, “I don’t write the tax laws. Congress writes the tax laws so that’s a whole different discussion.”

Ohhhhh Congress writes the laws, it’s all Congress’ fault! Well, yes, I guess it is! Congress’ first blunder (accidentally on purpose) was to ram that Federal Reserve Act down our throats in 1913. They convened on late Christmas Eve and passed the bill into law, a law that would forever enslave our income to private bankers!! GAH! Don’t you think for one second that your tax money goes to pay for anything in this country– not for defense, not for welfare, nothing. All our taxes go toward the “national debt.” The national debt is a farce, too– you see, according to the U.S. Constitution, ONLY Congress is supposed to coin our money, to issue the currency, and regulate the value of it. But in 1913, after much lobbying by bankers, Congress gave the Federal Reserve Bank the power to coin our money, issue the currency, and regulate the value. And Congress PAYS the Federal Reserve for the favor. On top of all that, when Congress needs money, the Federal Reserve will give Congress ITS OWN money at INTEREST! The interest is now so high that this is where all our taxes are going– to pay off the principal interest.

And that’s all not to mention that a direct tax is unConstitutional…. it is illegal for the government to tax the wages of the American people, because it is not “corporate profit” (which is a Constitutional tax). Are children being taught this in school? NO! They’re being taught about quick weight loss, how to put ******* on bananas, and write letters to politicians, asking them to make snowmen with them!

If the tax code and the stress from overwork PAYING all these taxes doesn’t kill ya, it’ll send you to the looney bin…. sheesh….