Will be traveling this weekend, but I wanted to wish my plethora of readers a happy Independence Day!

In the mean time, check out this crazy story!

Great and inspirational words from Col. Oliver North, stolen from Ravenwood.

On the Fourth of July, only a handful of Americans will pause to commemorate the anniversary of our nation’s independence. I used to think it was a shame, how little attention was paid to our national birthday. But on reflection, I’ve decided it’s good that we not dwell on the people and events that gave rise to this little holiday. First, it’s not politically correct. The “founders” as they are sometimes called, were all men — white men — and crediting white men with anything today just doesn’t wash. Second, a careful examination of that handful of patriots who gathered 224 years ago this week to sign that Declaration of Independence invites too many discomfiting comparisons with today’s political leaders.

Few Americans know that the Declaration was actually drafted by a committee of five: Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Philip Livingston, Roger Sherman, and of course, Thomas Jefferson. Fewer still know that most of the work on the document was done between June 10 and July 2 (when the Continental Congress actually resolved to declare independence from Great Britain) in a boarding house at the intersection of Market and 7th Streets in Philadelphia. The draft document was so good that when debate ended late on July 4, the larger body made but 86 changes, eliminating 480 words, and leaving 1,337 of the most dramatic words in any political manifesto.

The Declaration is far more than an assertion of freedom or a bill of particulars levied at a tyrant. No other founding document for any nation reflects on “the laws of nature and of nature’s God.” No other proclamation declares that all people are “endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.” No other national manuscript appeals to “the Supreme Judge of the World for the Rectitude of our Intentions.” And no other mechanism of national design or intent places the fate of its founders in the hand of God with words like this: “And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm Reliance on the Protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our Sacred Honor.” Good thing they weren’t writing this stuff in a public school!

In an era when Fidel Castro and Che Guevara are revered revolutionaries, the 56 who signed the Declaration just don’t cut the mustard. They were all men of means, well educated and wealthy by the standards of the day. Twenty-four were lawyers and jurists; 11 were successful merchants and traders; 9, like Jefferson, were prosperous farmers. Nine of them would die before the war was over; 5 were captured and tortured by the British and 12 had their homes looted and destroyed.

Neither John Morton of Pennsylvania nor Button Gwinnett, the signer from Georgia, would live to see the first anniversary of their signatures. Philip Livingston, the merchant from Albany, New York who served on Jefferson’s drafting committee, was dead before the second anniversary. Thomas Lynch, a farmer from South Carolina died of wounds received in a 1797 naval engagement.

Carter Braxton, a wealthy trader from Virginia saw his armada of trading vessels swept from the seas in battle. To pay his debts, he sold all that he owned and died in rags in 1797.

Thomas McKean, a lawyer from Delaware, served without pay as a member of the Continental Congress. The British forced him to flee with his impoverished family five times during the war. When he died in 1817, his sons had to take up a collection from their neighbors to pay for his funeral.

Thomas Nelson of Yorktown, Virginia borrowed 2 million dollars to provision the French Fleet that would eventually come to our aid. After the war he liquidated his entire estate to pay back the money he borrowed because the Congress refused to reimburse him. He died penniless in 1789.

John Hart, a New Jersey farmer was driven from his wife’s sickbed by a British patrol and lived on the run for more than a year. Upon learning that his beloved wife was failing, he took the terrible chance of returning home to find her dead and his children gone. When he died a few weeks later, on May 11, 1779, his friends said it was of a broken heart.

John Hancock, the merchant from Quincy, Massachusetts, claimed that his bold signature would allow King George to read it without spectacles. When the British burned the port that made him rich, Hancock was reported to have said: “Burn, Boston, though it makes John Hancock a beggar, burn!”

All 56 signers were hunted, hounded and declared criminals. All were indicted, tried in absentia for treason, and all were convicted and condemned. Yet, despite all they endured, not one man broke his pledge.

I didn’t really want to post on Rush Limbaugh’s record breaking contract which was divulged today, but more wanted to post this freakin’ awesome picture in the New York Times Magaine.

It couldn’t be, right? Bias from a news source such as Google?

I mean, these jokers don’t even beat around the bush (no pun intended) in their selected news articles like most mainstream media organizations do. Albeit, Google news mostly acts as an aggregator, but at some point, a group of people selected FITSNews as a source in which it would pull articles. Do you think Google would stand for an article titled “More Proof That Barack H. Obama is An Idiot”? Yeah, me either.

I took the shirt you see above and made my own versions of them. Let me know what you think.

Click them to enlarge.

If you haven’t noticed in the navigation strip above, there is a button called “Fabulous Quotes”. I encourage you all to read these short snippets of genius from the likes of Ayn Rand, Ronald Reagan and a whole new series of quotes from our founding fathers concerning gun rights and the Second Amendment. So really, go check them out.

And when some ass hole tells you that we don’t have the right to own guns, or that we should have Universal Health Care, or we should tax the rich to give to the poor, simply refer to that page and extract a quote from someone much smarter than the socialist you’re talking to and make them feel like the fool that they are.

I hadn’t heard until today. The man did something no one has ever been able to match and he’ll surely go down as one of the greatest businesmen and intelligent figures in history. God speed, Bill Gates. God speed.

As you are most likely keenly aware, the Supreme Court decided yesterday that states don’t have the right to execute child molesters and rapists stating that the Eighth Amendment would consider this to be “cruel and unusual punishment”. Disgusting, I know… I’m peeved beyond belief because of it. I think it’s a blatant infringement on states rights and I would love to see a Constitutional Amendment be passed overriding the Supreme Court and allowing states to decide which crimes are worth the death penalty and which aren’t.

As pissed off as that court decision made me, nothing compares to the statement made by the Texas Association Against Sexual Assault, which applauded the Supreme Court’s ruling. OK, read their group name again. The Texas Association Against Sexual Assault:

“Most child sexual abuse victims are abused by a family member or close family friend,” the group said in a statement. “The reality is that child victims and their families don’t want to be responsible for sending a grandparent, cousin or long time family friend to death row.” [Emphasis added]

This is where our society has gone horribly wrong and where we need to reevaluate who exactly is and isn’t responsible for crimes. Excuse me, Texas Ass. “Against” Sexual Assault, the child isn’t the one “RESPONSIBLE” for sending a POSSIBLE family member to death row, you scum bag mother f*ckers. No, you dumb asses, the responsibility falls on the person RAPING AND MOLESTING A CHILD! That blanket statement is the most abhorrent thing I have ever read because they are essentially putting the stigma of such an act on the child’s shoulders. Shame on you Texas Ass. “Against” Sexual Assault, and shame on anyone who feels the same way.

What the hell is wrong with the people in this country?

Update

I’ve sent the Texas Ass. “Against” Sexual Assault an email informing them of my disgust of their organization, and I encourage you all to do the same thing. Here’s what I wrote:

In a recent article on CNN.com (http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/06/26/scotus.child.rape.ap/index.html?eref=rss_topstories), your organization was quoted as saying:

“Most child sexual abuse victims are abused by a family member or close family friend,” the group said in a statement. “The reality is that child victims and their families don’t want to be responsible for sending a grandparent, cousin or long time family friend to death row.”

Whereas your organization has the right to support and applaud horrible acts of legislation from the Supreme Courts judicial bench, I think your organization is grossly misguided in putting the stigma of the act of sexual abuse, or the subsequent punishment stemming from that sexual abuse, on the shoulders of a child.

News flash since your organization obviously doesn’t understand the concept of blame: the person who raped and or molested the child is the one “RESPONSIBLE” for the outcome of that persons decisions, not the child! That quote by your organization is the most unbelievable thing I have ever read in my life and I am calling on you to retract that statement immediately.

That’s all. Move along.

Without a doubt, civil liberty and the constitution was reinforced today with the Supreme Court’s ruling on Heller v. DC. What’s more, the Supreme Court reaffirmed the meaning of the Second Amendment as quoted below from the ruling:

The “militia” comprised all males physically capable of acting in concert for the common defense. The Antifederalists feared that the Federal Government would disarm the people in order to disable this citizens’ militia, enabling a politicized standing army or a select militia to rule. The response was to deny Congress power to abridge the ancient right of individuals to keep and bear arms, so that the ideal of a citizens’ militia would be preserved.

…Similarly, the requirement that any lawful firearm in the home be disassembled or bound by a trigger lock makes it impossible for citizens to use arms for the core lawful purpose of self-defense and is hence unconstitutional.

This is absolutely outstanding and I appreciate the court accurately interpreting the Second Amendment. But it makes me wonder where the values of our Supreme Court Justices really are, after their ban of allowing states to propose the death penalty for child rapists? Where are the “individual rights” of children who have been physically and mentally tortured by bottom feeding scum bags?

Oh well, all in all, it’s a good day so far.