The Coronation Speech
(by jcm @ http://littlegreenfootballs.com/showc/400/6559753 - with whom I agree 100%)
...seemed flat in both delivery, and content.
One line did piss me off big time. IMHO it clarifies for me that BHO does not like this country, the things it has accomplished, the things it stands for.
"We remain a young nation, but in the words of Scripture, the time has come to set aside childish things."
Yes, we are a young nation in span of history. We however are not young in our government. Since our inception all other nations have changed their form of government, we are the longest standing form of government. Among governments we are the adults. We have set the mark and all other nations have in the last 200 years moved in our direction not the other way. In that time a competing way has arisen, Socialism - and Socialism has proven to be a bankrupt philosophy. The remainder of the Thugs left, paint their regimes with facade of what we established, holding faux elections.
Among deeds we have been the adults of the planet. Upholding liberty around the world time and again. Spending our blood, our treasure to secure the liberty of others. There is no more mature, adult, selfless deed than that.
What childish things would you have us put aside? Our Rights? Life? Liberty? Property? Happiness? Those are far from childish. We should never, by any means put away those things. Those where bought with blood are the most precious things and in no way childish.
Should we put away the free capitalist economy? The very thing that propelled us to our economy place in the world. That individuals are free to pursue their talents, dreams and abilities to the maximum extent. That these individuals take full responsibility and credit for there lives, failures, and success, that the product of their labor, toil and sweat is theirs and theirs alone. That is not childish.
Are you speaking of charity? No nation is more charitable than we, from blood spilled on foreign lands, to food and medicine sent to disaster areas no nation is more generous than we.
Calling our past childish is a deep insult to the founders, the generations that have upheld and fought for the ideals. It desecrates the blood of patriots who died to establish and protect his nation.
I find this line most telling on the inner thoughts of our President.
I find the line deeply disturbing.
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But not at all surprising. - OI
Labels: Culture, History, Hubris
The last "positive" gun regulation?
I find it somewhat more than karmic that yesterday, December 5, 2008 was the day that possibly the last "positive" bit of "gun regulation" was enacted.
Whether by Luck or Planning,
a partial repeal of the absurd Prohibition against Self Defense in National Parks & Wildlife Refuges was announced 75 years to the day of the Repeal of the onerous, absurd and Organized Crime-Creating Volstead Act (aka "Prohibition")... much to the chagrin and gnashing of teeth by the
armed, professional tree-huggers of the National Park Service.
Unfortunately for the "we know better than you" NPS elitists, who by in large bow down to the Green Lord O, not only will the filthy nature-trampling masses they are forced to call "Guests" continue to sully pristine NPS Domain(s), those same peasants will no longer be forced by Elitist Federal Law to be helpless Prey to the 2 and 4 legged Predators who make those same Parks their hunting grounds. (The National Park Service said there were 11 killings, 35 rapes or attempted rapes, 61 robberies, 16 kidnappings and 261 aggravated assaults in national parks in 2006 - the most recent year for which data are available - and no ability to defend yourself unless you were the reincarnation of Bruce Lee.)
Yet the depth of their paranoia over anyone but THEM having any practical means of self defense is apparent in their feeble and illogical opposition talking points.
"Once again, political leaders in the Bush administration have ignored the preferences of the American public by succumbing to political pressure, in this case generated by the National Rifle Association," said Bill Wade, president of the Coalition of National Park Service Retirees.
Excuse me? Back in February 2008, 50 SENATORS sent letters to Dirk Kempthorne (R-ID) requesting that the NPS regulations be
brought into line with the laws existing in their States. After an exhaustive two month PUBLIC comment period - a period where
the urban anti-self defense crowd was pushing the "no" comments every bit as hard as the NRA was pushing "yes" - the Department of the Interior could not muster enough Rational Objections to the proposal to discard it. But to the Government Elitists at the NPS, the only opinions that matter, the only "American Public" that matters, is Them.
"This regulation will put visitors, employees and precious resources of the National Park System at risk.
In the same way that lawful concealed carry has turned the 48 states that allow it into shooting galleries equivalent to say...
Chicago - where handguns are
illegal? The same way that people are shooting "visitors, employees and precious resources" willy-nilly in State Parks? No, this is just a regulation THEY didn't come up with, so they don't like it and are trying to justify their need for Power.
We will do everything possible to overturn it and return to a commonsense approach to guns in national parks that has been working for decades," Wade said.
So, as per usual, some Federal Employees get told that they must abide by STATE Law and they get pissy and threatening - and insinuate that THEY are the only ones with common sense.
This is the problem with Government in general and the Federal Government in particular. Hubris. "We are the Government. We make the Rules - don't you dare question us."
Well, sorry chaps.
75 years ago The People questioned the Rules and told the "Progressive" Nanny-State Do-gooders to take a teatotaling hike and ended Prohibition.
The end of THIS Federal Prohibition is a fitting tribute.
Labels: Hubris, Politics, RKBA
