tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post7465959162067413727..comments2024-03-28T02:27:45.688-07:00Comments on Chant du Départ: Revolting...OldAFSargehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comBlogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-9969032892312892982016-05-21T17:36:32.500-07:002016-05-21T17:36:32.500-07:00So let it be written, so let it be done...So let it be written, so let it be done...OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-25378864148463869272016-05-21T17:15:10.787-07:002016-05-21T17:15:10.787-07:00Move it to the top 5. You won't regret it.Move it to the top 5. You won't regret it.ColoCommentnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-79678430254518883412016-05-21T16:31:02.098-07:002016-05-21T16:31:02.098-07:00As to the second, thanks for the link. I had forgo...As to the second, thanks for the link. I had forgotten that musical (not a big fan of the genre). I also had no idea that William Daniels could (and did) sing.<br /><br />Live and learn. Good points by the way...OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-45157225211149049092016-05-21T16:29:45.918-07:002016-05-21T16:29:45.918-07:00As to your first comment Scott - the answers to th...As to your first comment Scott - the answers to those three questions scares the dickens out of me.OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-56964826395654685782016-05-21T16:27:06.649-07:002016-05-21T16:27:06.649-07:00Congress has never been a friend of the people.
W...Congress has never been a friend of the people.<br /><br />Without the Bill of Rights, I doubt we would recognize the United States. At all.<br /><br />(And I must add that book to the ever lengthening list of things I want, no strike that, need to read.)OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-4089160673250792832016-05-21T15:52:47.742-07:002016-05-21T15:52:47.742-07:00https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=Is+Anybody+Th...https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=Is+Anybody+There+1776+From+the+Movie&&view=detail&mid=2B8AEC458BB070E684192B8AEC458BB070E68419&FORM=VRDGARSCOTTtheBADGERhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12859188068159799373noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-76716530668241610662016-05-21T15:49:38.161-07:002016-05-21T15:49:38.161-07:00Is anybody there? Does anybody care? Does anybody...Is anybody there? Does anybody care? Does anybody see, what I see?SCOTTtheBADGERhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12859188068159799373noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-10322995880272294772016-05-21T15:49:12.448-07:002016-05-21T15:49:12.448-07:00I recommended "The First Congress" by Bo...I recommended "The First Congress" by Bordewich the other day. I repeat that recommendation, and coincidentally enough just recently read the chapter where the first Congress passed the first 10 amendments (after much protest and bellyaching. Madison bullied them.)<br />According to Bordewich, we are lucky to have the first 10 at all. He writes about after their passage:<br />"The collective mood was less one of triumph than of sheer exhaustion. No one in Congress regarded passage of the amendments as much more than an exercise in political housekeeping. Relief was felt at having staved off the Antifederalist assault on the Constitution more than any sense of exaltation at enriching the Constitution with freedoms that had been left inadequately unprotected."<br />...<br />"It would be left to the courts and future generations to interpret and give force to the minimalist language of the amendments. Virtually no members of Congress imagined that they had just passed a set of measures that would become, in their own right, part of the sacred canon of American democracy. The members were practical, impatient, and tired politicians, many of whom had regarded the whole debate as at best a distraction from things that mattered: the national revenue, the protection of codfish and molasses, the establishment of courts, defining (or enlarging) presidential power, and agreeing on a permanent capital. The rights that the amendments described would be nothing more than paper guarantees until the judiciary discovered them: in 1789, they were for the most part only aspirational and unenforceable."<br /><br />I shudder to imagine the country without the "force field" defense of the Bill of Rights to protect the liberty of the individual.ColoCommentnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-2652150700633747692016-05-21T15:38:01.803-07:002016-05-21T15:38:01.803-07:00It's hard to look away, even when you know it&...It's hard to look away, even when you know it's going to be nasty.OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-56529502657639391342016-05-21T13:47:32.391-07:002016-05-21T13:47:32.391-07:00As with the rest of you, I am watching with the fa...As with the rest of you, I am watching with the fascinated horror of a man who sees the train speeding towards the ravine where the bridge is out. There's time enough for the train to stop, but history has shown that enough people will fail to realize the peril until it is too late.Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18057682569143350875noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-8350848540887121102016-05-21T10:48:30.939-07:002016-05-21T10:48:30.939-07:00In theory...In theory...OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-82819144665257467422016-05-21T10:48:01.313-07:002016-05-21T10:48:01.313-07:00Never any harm in that, is there?Never any harm in that, is there?OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-47804781821717535092016-05-21T09:48:57.144-07:002016-05-21T09:48:57.144-07:00OTOH....
"A little Revolution now and then i...OTOH....<br /><br />"A little Revolution now and then is a good thing" <br /><br />T. Jefferson Williamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05720206407574457665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-76556851399704969102016-05-21T09:05:15.306-07:002016-05-21T09:05:15.306-07:00Nice post Sarge. A pause for sanity.
Still, the...Nice post Sarge. A pause for sanity. <br /><br />Still, there is no harm in buying another 500 rounds of ammo....Rumbearhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06512139523154374329noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-34356772336702040572016-05-21T08:31:14.853-07:002016-05-21T08:31:14.853-07:00I hope not but it's better than losing everyth...I hope not but it's better than losing everything. When it remains the only option, we're in deep kimchi.OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-40949326181476978182016-05-21T08:30:08.163-07:002016-05-21T08:30:08.163-07:00Sounds like Judge Kozinski has his act together.Sounds like Judge Kozinski has his act together.OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-67232037217604482412016-05-21T08:29:23.626-07:002016-05-21T08:29:23.626-07:00It does remain "an" answer. Does anyone ...It does remain "an" answer. Does anyone outside Sacramento have a clue as to what the California state legislature up to?OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-690020475649060012016-05-21T08:26:47.160-07:002016-05-21T08:26:47.160-07:00Concur.Concur.OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-37860567858799017832016-05-21T08:26:34.792-07:002016-05-21T08:26:34.792-07:00Too many warm bodies are just along for the ride a...Too many warm bodies are just along for the ride and the free stuff's that's in it.OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-61323007719691329512016-05-21T07:54:01.235-07:002016-05-21T07:54:01.235-07:00What we do not want more than a Revolution is an e...What we do not want more than a Revolution is an entrenched Federal Overlord whose agencies are entangled in and control so much of our lives.<br /><br />Having a Revolution while it is remains an option is preferable to just rolling over and going quietly into the night, with our children and grandchildren having their American Heritage taken away from them, probably permanently.Ron Snyderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01217389199007968254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-63362413636694032282016-05-21T07:17:40.695-07:002016-05-21T07:17:40.695-07:00I forgot to put in this by 9th Circuit judge Kozin...I forgot to put in this by 9th Circuit judge Kozinski:<br />"The prospect of tyranny may not grab the headlines the way vivid stories of gun crime routinely do. But few saw the Third Reich coming until it was too late. The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed -- where the government refuses to stand for reelection and silences those who protest; where courts have lost the courage to oppose, or can find no one to enforce their decrees. However improbable these contingencies may seem today, facing them unprepared is a mistake a free people get to make only once. <br />KOZINSKI, JUDGE ALEX, Silviera v. Lockyer, 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, 2003<br />Joe Lovellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16892419601290744855noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-16903885573906646982016-05-21T07:15:42.364-07:002016-05-21T07:15:42.364-07:00Revolution may not be "the" answer, but ...Revolution may not be "the" answer, but it is always "an" answer. Maybe not a good one, but sometimes the best option among a bunch of options, all bad. <br /><br />Back in 1960 The Happy Warrior said in an interview, "Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and bear arms.... The right of citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard against the tyranny which now appears remote in America but which historically has proven to be always possible." (Hubert H. Humphrey) <br /><br />With his words in mind, one has to wonder about the actions in the California Legislature in this past week. Why is a certain party so intent on making it impossible for citizens to exercise their civil rights protected by the 2nd Amendment?Joe Lovellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16892419601290744855noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-82051439443636532472016-05-21T06:38:22.810-07:002016-05-21T06:38:22.810-07:00+1 PA+1 PAWell Seasoned Foolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16670165728759453075noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-86767726654461127612016-05-21T04:41:06.603-07:002016-05-21T04:41:06.603-07:00If revolution is to be avoided, a lot more people ...If revolution is to be avoided, a lot more people are going to have to get their heads, hearts and backs in the game. Pulling a lever once every four years won't get it.<br /><br />It's unlikely we'll see a reawakening before a revolution though. IMO.<br /><br />Be nice to be surprised though!PrairieAdventurehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06466447251827774900noreply@blogger.com