Wednesday, June 29, 2005
WNC Citizens Blog is up and running
It finally rained at work yesterday. I was able to go to the public library and create the http://wnccb.blogspot.com WNC Citizens Blog and put some links up. I goofed up the e-mail to Don, who is active in the Weaverville, NC resolution to render the SCOTUS Kelo v New London amendment to the 5th Amendment. I messed up the links I included in the message, and had to call him by phone to give him the corrections. : (I've also solicited assistance from people in the Blogosphere, since I am very new to blogging, and still in a steep learning curve...
Tuesday, June 28, 2005
Ooops! Link doesn't work!
Try this instead:http://straylight.law.cornell.edu/Then search for Keo v New London.The address works when I type it in my address bar, but NOT when I link .Can anyone tell me why??? Besides me being stupid, that i...
Links to Kelo v New London Decision
I have spent the weekend studying the recent above mentioned case, and my head hurts from all the legalese. If I ever bacame dictator or emporer, lawyers would be the first to go, then legalese, plain language would be the language of the court.
The opinions are much easier to read and here are the links to them:
KELO vs NEW LONDON
What can be done about it? IMHO...Not very much. On the local level, people have to become citizen activists and through voter pressure, force their local governments to pass ordinances making it illegal...
Friday, June 24, 2005
Is the American Dream Dying?
About noon yesterday, the news began breaking. the Supreme Court Of The United States (SCOTUS) vastly altered the meaning of eminient dominion, I mean domain. Now local governments have been given permission to 'supersize' their feeding trough, I mean property taxes.Posted here, for both my readers, are some contact numbers to let gummit officials know you are 'displeased' with this ruling by SCOTUS. Reference the Kelo v New London case.202-456-1111 White House Comment Line202-456-1414 White House Switch Board828-251-1988 Representative...
Saturday, June 18, 2005
Comments are now enabled (I'm an idiot!)
.I.feel.like.a.total.idiot. If I had read the instructions, I would've known. I don't know if the old posts will now allow commenting, if they don't, feel free to leave comments on the newest post, and I'll create a new post to continue the conversation.LINK OF THE DAY===> http://davidbrin.blogspot.c...
Friday, June 17, 2005
Even a dog can be grateful
Here is a nice story and photo on http://headsupamerica.com where a dog thanks a firefighter for saving her life.Ughh! That was tiny! Tuesdays' Head Up America has given me a lot of food for thought about how the United Nations is using local government to negate their rejection at a federal level. More details at http://www.americanpolicy.org . Another show on at 3pm on an different station, http://www.themattcave.com is called "Take A Stand With Matt Mittan focuses on local and state issues has given me a idea about combining the two themes...
Wednesday, June 15, 2005
UN uses mayors to end-run the Congress and Presient?
Yesterday was a Good Day. I got a lot done clearing land and was able to listen to the radio all day. Ken Bagwells' show, "Heads Up America" had as a guest a fellow named Tom Deweese of the American Policy Center. He told about the United Nations' use of Mayors to get around the Congree and President by having them to enact the Rio Summit and Kyoto Protocols on a local level. More on that in later posts. I believe I now have a mission.That is why this post is being written now instead of two hours ago, I spent a little time downloading articles...
Friday, June 10, 2005
Sleeper Cell in California
Another sleeper cell has been uncovered in California. I wonder why the media just don't get it. Every Muslim that I have ever met and talked to at length has subscribed to outlandish conspiracy theories before and after 9-11. I know other people who aren't Muslim who subscribe to them as well, but not as universally as the Muslims. There is also the Islamic practice of Taqqiyah (spelling uncertain) that says it is okay to disimulate or lie to unbelievers. So, even if Muslims say they don't believe in terrorism as a legit tactic, how can we believe...
Thursday, June 9, 2005
Rainy Afternoons
This summer pattern of afternoon rain is okay, if it rains instead of just sprinkles. Tuesday, we got rained out at four-thirty with a good downpour, complete with lightning. Yesterday, just sprinkles, with one good 90 second teaser downpour. Enough to make us miserable when the sun returned.Free advice: Never, never, never buy a used trailer and moove it somewhere else!!! trust me, it's just too much trouble. But if you do, please hire a professional who has done it for year...
Monday, June 6, 2005
Maybe this week won't be a rain out
Last week, Ionly worked Tuesday and Saturday due to the persistent passing showers of rain, which would've been fine if I was living in my own place where I could relax. Enough of my whining. The weather forecasts all agree, mornings look good, afternoons chancy. I'll take that and run. I have no deep thoughts for today, but the future looks well. I am working on some essay-type posts that I'll put out beginning next week. The kick that the legacy media is on concerning the Qu'ran abuse is disturbibg to me.....
Friday, June 3, 2005
Torture charges against Bush
I'm not normally into conspiracy theories. This rising crescendo of stories in the Legacy Media, after they had died down when the Abu Graib people started to be tried in court. Then the Newsweek story of a Qu'ran flushing was exposed as false seemed to have ignited a flurry of stories released for the sole purpose of distracting people from the lack of journalistic integrity practiced by Isikoff et al. There are too many stories for that scenario. I am now suspecting that all these stories are coming out now are directed at the Bush administration....
Wednesday, June 1, 2005
Has Amnestry International ever read the Third Geneva Convention?
Amnesty International has not only committed a terrible faux pas, it has put the cross hairs directly on itself with its recent announcement about Gitmo. To sum their latest outrage up, they said the U.S. was violating the rights of detainees held at that location.First of all, they are not detainees, they are "illegal armed combatant detainees" (well not armed anymore), in short TERRORISTS.According to the Geneva Convention of 1949, in Article 43 Section 1, it states that:Such armed forces shall be sunject to an internal disciplinary system which,...