tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26791817603637277952024-03-14T04:56:34.529-04:00KintlaLakeAn independent citizen-patriot, singing in the showerKintlaLakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07741504677001663917noreply@blogger.comBlogger1115125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2679181760363727795.post-91543900411100362362012-09-17T12:54:00.000-04:002012-09-17T12:54:29.487-04:00September 17, 2012<a href="http://www.heritage.org/constitution/#!/" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-right: 0px;"><img border="0" height="484" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGOJ_1Z6dFxC5vAVG9abEUEoXhgCUbY76zB1zJDcG7xRJh3Mz9UKNeK1vnTXfDue_CjSVSBC47g-4wMIv0HYW8VO9Zmw8-7dXULcMouHU2ykLwofWR92L1seh5L4PlQSPEUOX2UDnepoHq/s400/KLBlog+1362.jpg" width="400" /></a><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">On this date in 1787, the Constitutional Convention approved the final draft of the U.S. Constitution. For an excellent educational tool on the Constitution -- and it's the duty of every citizen, in my opinion, to know and understand this fundamental document -- I recommend <a href="http://www.heritage.org/constitution/#!/"><span style="color: black;">The Heritage Guide to the Constitution</span></a>.</span>KintlaLakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07741504677001663917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2679181760363727795.post-58594676129432544052012-09-11T05:00:00.000-04:002012-09-11T05:00:08.106-04:00September 11, 2012<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiezjthFbP2K_j4va16QqtWX5GmlCl3jKhinvOc21wX_rR7HZzRju4Qlg08iai01FIalAPzxQ7XuHwnmO5jITFZC-XiLITUS2rnWHpcET8GapSbjN12pMSfXT_pjs2A7wtkX7nXcUUSTCo/s1600-h/KLBlog+589.jpg"><span style="color: black; font-family: trebuchet ms;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380140579113737970" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiezjthFbP2K_j4va16QqtWX5GmlCl3jKhinvOc21wX_rR7HZzRju4Qlg08iai01FIalAPzxQ7XuHwnmO5jITFZC-XiLITUS2rnWHpcET8GapSbjN12pMSfXT_pjs2A7wtkX7nXcUUSTCo/s400/KLBlog+589.jpg" style="float: left; height: 297px; margin: 0px 10px 5px 0px; width: 400px;" /></span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: trebuchet ms;"><br />
Today I touch the memory of ordinary lives and extraordinary bravery. It's a day for honoring those who serve my community, my state, my nation.<br />
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It's time to visit again the aching grief, to embrace my rage and to shape anger into vigilance that guards my freedoms.<br />
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Whatever else I thought I needed to say can wait until tomorrow.<br />
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<em>Today, I remember</em>.</span>KintlaLakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07741504677001663917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2679181760363727795.post-42992064718237393002012-09-09T16:47:00.001-04:002012-09-09T16:47:22.894-04:00The threat (illustrated)<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZPAsPoX4l3jK1sqX7yUIOqJ8UvyaWcm4lkQMzuQn16n4lOgA702DaimpgivWoPaUEuIrKjJ0TS1AenXuIQt5YuRQAVWiIT5d82WMsG4Nm-kzYn1ieC-jTIpRw0gTm2CAXa32ghM79xGtD/s1600/KLBlog_1361.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-right: 0px;"><img border="0" height="481" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZPAsPoX4l3jK1sqX7yUIOqJ8UvyaWcm4lkQMzuQn16n4lOgA702DaimpgivWoPaUEuIrKjJ0TS1AenXuIQt5YuRQAVWiIT5d82WMsG4Nm-kzYn1ieC-jTIpRw0gTm2CAXa32ghM79xGtD/s640/KLBlog_1361.jpg" width="400" /></a><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i><span style="color: #000066;">(</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZPAsPoX4l3jK1sqX7yUIOqJ8UvyaWcm4lkQMzuQn16n4lOgA702DaimpgivWoPaUEuIrKjJ0TS1AenXuIQt5YuRQAVWiIT5d82WMsG4Nm-kzYn1ieC-jTIpRw0gTm2CAXa32ghM79xGtD/s1600/KLBlog_1361.jpg"><span style="color: #000066;">Cartoon</span></a><span style="color: #000066;"> by Herb Block, from </span></i><span style="color: #000066;">The Washington Post</span><i style="color: #000066;">, June 17, 1949.)</i></span>KintlaLakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07741504677001663917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2679181760363727795.post-84247348388785792392012-09-06T13:28:00.001-04:002012-09-07T09:27:52.913-04:00Quotes of the week, DNC edition<object height="315" width="410"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/xwejQBIyjow?version=3&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/xwejQBIyjow?version=3&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="410" height="315" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i><span style="color: #000066;">"We make it possible."</span></i> (No kidding -- that's the theme of the 2012 Democratic Party National Convention)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i><span style="color: #000066;">"Government is the only thing that we all belong to."</span></i> (from a DNC video shown at the convention)</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i><span style="color: #000066;">"We run this country for the People!"</span></i> (<a href="http://kintlalake.blogspot.com/2011/09/mass-idiocy.html"><span style="color: black;">Elizabeth Warren</span></a>, candidate for U.S. Senate from Massachusetts, with <i>true</i> socialist fervor)</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i><span style="color: #000066;">"We think 'we're all in this together' is a better philosophy than 'you're on your own.' ... If you want a you're-on-your-own, winner-take-all society, you should support the Republican ticket. If you want a country of shared prosperity and shared responsibility -- a we're-all-in-this-together society -- you should vote for Barack Obama and Joe Biden."</span></i> (Bill Clinton, undoubtedly through clenched teeth)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i><span style="color: #000066;">"I always figured that if Bill Clinton landed on Mars, he would know how to do it with them, he would know how to reproduce, he would know everything. He'd just instinctively know how to talk to people."</span></i> (Chris Matthews, gushing incoherently on MSNBC)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We needn't wait for tonight's punchline -- the collectivist rhetoric spewing from the stage at this week's Democratic Party National Convention has been downright frightening.<br />
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While the GOP ticket of Romney-Ryan is no prize, supporters of Pres. Obama are going "all-in" to perpetuate an irresponsible, dependent, entitlement culture -- and damn, they sure are proud of it. To the extent they're successful, at any level, they're destroying our nation.</span><br />
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<div style="background-color:#000000;width:410px;"><div style="padding:4px;"><iframe src="http://media.mtvnservices.com/embed/mgid:cms:video:thedailyshow.com:418737" width="410" height="288" frameborder="0"></iframe><p style="text-align:left;background-color:#FFFFFF;padding:4px;margin-top:4px;margin-bottom:0px;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><b><a href="http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-september-5-2012/hope-and-change-2---the-party-of-inclusion">The Daily Show with Jon Stewart</a></b><br />
Get More: <a href='http://www.thedailyshow.com/full-episodes/'>Daily Show Full Episodes</a>,<a href='http://www.indecisionforever.com/'>Political Humor & Satire Blog</a>,<a href='http://www.facebook.com/thedailyshow'>The Daily Show on Facebook</a></p></div></div>KintlaLakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07741504677001663917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2679181760363727795.post-12505545714836702732012-08-31T12:27:00.000-04:002012-08-31T12:34:33.580-04:00Quote of the week<i><span style="color: #000066; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"None of us have to settle for the best this [Obama] administration offers -- a dull, adventureless journey from one entitlement to the next, a government-planned life, a country where everything is free but us.<br />
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"Listen to the way we're spoken to already, as if everyone is stuck in some class or station in life, victims of circumstances beyond our control, with government there to help us cope with our fate.<br />
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"It's the exact opposite of everything I learned growing up in Wisconsin, or at college in Ohio.<br />
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"When I was waiting tables, washing dishes, or mowing lawns for money, I never thought of myself as stuck in some station in life. I was on my own path, my own journey, an American journey where I could think for myself, decide for myself, define happiness for myself. That's what we do in this country. That's the American Dream.<br />
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"That's freedom, and I'll take it any day over the supervision and sanctimony of the central planners."</span></i><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">(Rep. Paul Ryan, the Republican Party's nominee for Vice President, from his acceptance speech Wednesday evening)</span>KintlaLakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07741504677001663917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2679181760363727795.post-78688357459430155802012-08-24T13:29:00.001-04:002012-08-24T14:30:11.565-04:00Tuesday typo & 'toon<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0xyFX09NWfazAcQgpa2ZSY1UwiK7zVDA7hVA1fTyiYQN7sNBLKeZmagNsEohbU1iuLBso2bkzkQX-y81lRYVlShkPPY73FkFrV9vlX09xk_dauJH5_hB9PIN-DqWJqqS6mpuaMMccAO_w/s1600/KLBlog+1359.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear:left; float:left;margin-right:0px; margin-bottom:0px"><img border="0" height="300" width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0xyFX09NWfazAcQgpa2ZSY1UwiK7zVDA7hVA1fTyiYQN7sNBLKeZmagNsEohbU1iuLBso2bkzkQX-y81lRYVlShkPPY73FkFrV9vlX09xk_dauJH5_hB9PIN-DqWJqqS6mpuaMMccAO_w/s400/KLBlog+1359.jpg" /></a><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzsmdiP3Odsg2XcfLzAyNGAsZfmJMLIpVyDGeiw4FU-3ptMJHFWQyhaebrUwoklYaB9NVUhIjEakcMp-qqkpDfDe2-V2iW6X4Gum17uNqgOKL0NJfaRHcv1QWc9gHY6GnDG0Ts1inC4Jla/s1600/KLBlog+1360.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear:left; float:left;margin-right:0px; margin-bottom:0px"><img border="0" height="286" width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzsmdiP3Odsg2XcfLzAyNGAsZfmJMLIpVyDGeiw4FU-3ptMJHFWQyhaebrUwoklYaB9NVUhIjEakcMp-qqkpDfDe2-V2iW6X4Gum17uNqgOKL0NJfaRHcv1QWc9gHY6GnDG0Ts1inC4Jla/s400/KLBlog+1360.jpg" /></a>KintlaLakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07741504677001663917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2679181760363727795.post-27592643023884877812012-08-23T18:41:00.000-04:002012-09-06T13:46:53.792-04:00Quotes of the day<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i><span style="color: #000066;">"Here's what it boils down to: I think that the country could survive four more years of Obama. But I don't believe the country can survive...full of people that would reelect him."</span></i> (<a href="http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2012/08/23/scary_stuff_in_pew_study_on_middle_class"><span style="color: black;">Rush Limbaugh</span></a>)</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i><span style="color: #000066;">"Let us come to the point. Obama is reaching out to his very own special constituency. It is composed of those who believe that the Republicans would put up as their candidate for the presidency a person who in his business life would engage in fraud, tax evasion, even murder. Mr. Obama is casting his net for the moron vote. I do not believe that there are enough morons out there to reelect him."</span></i> (R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. in <a href="http://spectator.org/archives/2012/08/23/obama-in-high-seas"><i><span style="color: black;">The American Spectator</span></i></a>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I have to agree with Rush Limbaugh (this time) and, regrettably, I must disagree with Bob Tyrell -- there are more than enough moronic American voters to sustain this president's assault on Liberty.</span>KintlaLakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07741504677001663917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2679181760363727795.post-56381491382608228352012-08-17T13:10:00.001-04:002012-08-18T08:33:30.685-04:00Facebook follies<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">During a ritual cruise of <a href="http://www.facebook.com/kintla.lake"><i><span style="color: black;">Facebook</span></i></a> this morning I came across a few posts that had me shaking my head. The first was an image crediting liberal political ideology with the creation of weekends -- <i>seriously</i>.</span><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhOiCvI6nv2dfiInXIHdAvJQLxt3TmwoIhyphenhyphenF7vn6Og5k6yLmPZ6JJgH1F5-3UqTFXHCfmPDvDRnAVWTE6qB9ytECB5Q0RXHd490y1RDZVARzz0WU1TpGkxwwMLfGiIP2anMlUSfEoqUQBn/s1600/KLBlog+1358.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="453" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhOiCvI6nv2dfiInXIHdAvJQLxt3TmwoIhyphenhyphenF7vn6Og5k6yLmPZ6JJgH1F5-3UqTFXHCfmPDvDRnAVWTE6qB9ytECB5Q0RXHd490y1RDZVARzz0WU1TpGkxwwMLfGiIP2anMlUSfEoqUQBn/s400/KLBlog+1358.jpg" width="400" /></span></a><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i><span style="color: #000066;">"In 1886,"</span></i> the <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhOiCvI6nv2dfiInXIHdAvJQLxt3TmwoIhyphenhyphenF7vn6Og5k6yLmPZ6JJgH1F5-3UqTFXHCfmPDvDRnAVWTE6qB9ytECB5Q0RXHd490y1RDZVARzz0WU1TpGkxwwMLfGiIP2anMlUSfEoqUQBn/s1600/KLBlog+1358.jpg"><span style="color: black;">graphic</span></a> claims, <i><span style="color: #000066;">"7 union members in Wisconsin died fighting for the 5-day work week and the 8-hour work day."</span></i></span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In 1886 my great-grandfather was a young man, mining coal to feed his family, working as many hours as the company would give him. One of his sons, my grandfather, became a farmer, raising dairy cattle and coaxing crops from 240 acres behind teams of draft horses.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">After my father left military service, he became the first member of his family to graduate from college. He returned to his hometown and worked over four decades as a veterinarian -- out the door at 4am every day for his farm clients and in the clinic 'til 10pm (or later) every night treating housepets and performing surgery.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As for me, I can't imagine being proud of <i>insisting</i> on working a 5-day, 40-hour week. I guess it's not in my blood.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The second <i>Facebook</i> puzzler, not unexpected in this political climate, also displayed breathtaking ignorance of work and business.</span><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf71jFo6JO7Oqs9ZLCz1V0dg4n5rYJ0sGj_Lvrt-7irmRxfaWggA-UwvCC1Jef95VbwcQccmWz3vkSSxBrJmoDkGk2lu0Bq3KbVCCydI21bI2Mf5Po3OQQgvlRYohAHEKPJcmfU0EMrBYT/s1600/KLBlog+1357.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="308" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf71jFo6JO7Oqs9ZLCz1V0dg4n5rYJ0sGj_Lvrt-7irmRxfaWggA-UwvCC1Jef95VbwcQccmWz3vkSSxBrJmoDkGk2lu0Bq3KbVCCydI21bI2Mf5Po3OQQgvlRYohAHEKPJcmfU0EMrBYT/s400/KLBlog+1357.jpg" width="400" /></span></a><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Reacting to Pres. Barack Obama's "<a href="http://kintlalake.blogspot.com/search?q=you+didn%27t+build+that"><i><span style="color: #000066;">You didn't build that</span></i></a>" speech, Georgia business owner Ray Gaster added a panel to the sign outside each of his three <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/08/01/georgia-businessman-posts-sign-after-didnt-build-that-debate/"><span style="color: black;">Gaster Lumber and Hardware</span></a> locations:</span><br />
<blockquote><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #000066; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>I built this business without gov't help.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #000066; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Obama can Kiss my ass.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #000066;"><span style="color: #000066; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>I'm Ray Gaster & I approve this message.</b></span></span></div></blockquote><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">One of my <i>Facebook</i> friends, a committed statist, posted an <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf71jFo6JO7Oqs9ZLCz1V0dg4n5rYJ0sGj_Lvrt-7irmRxfaWggA-UwvCC1Jef95VbwcQccmWz3vkSSxBrJmoDkGk2lu0Bq3KbVCCydI21bI2Mf5Po3OQQgvlRYohAHEKPJcmfU0EMrBYT/s1600/KLBlog+1357.jpg"><span style="color: black;">annotated photo</span></a> of Ray Gaster and his sign. The altered image features 18 callouts, each presuming to show how the owner couldn't possibly have succeeded without the government's help.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My friend was hoist by his own petard -- the unintended result was a fairly comprehensive illustration of how our federal government meddles where it doesn't belong, how it takes credit for what it doesn't do, how it plunders and squanders and wastes and overspends the citizens' money.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>The Annotated Gaster</i> doesn't deserve even a participant ribbon, much less a gold star.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Finally, it's been entertaining to watch left-wingers' heads explode over Mitt Romney's choice of Paul Ryan. The disinformation, the tortured talking points...let's just say that I may run out of popcorn well before Election Day.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Perhaps the most sideways reaction I've seen, however, came to me from New York City by way of a <i>Facebook</i> thread:</span><br />
<blockquote><i><span style="color: #000066; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"I am personally embarrassed that Paul Ryan was a graduate of Miami of Ohio. Yes, there were many conservatives that attended in my days at the University. However, I developed my liberal and ethical leanings from Miami. He obviously had a different 'Miami experience.' So sad."</span></i></blockquote><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Sad? <i>Really?</i> How arrogant is that?<br />
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Looks like Paul Ryan didn't read the chapter in the student handbook requiring all Miami grads to ply the waters of the world listing to port.</span>KintlaLakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07741504677001663917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2679181760363727795.post-70922952462040230782012-08-16T13:23:00.001-04:002012-08-16T17:30:04.812-04:00'More American Reserve Power'<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This political season seems a good time to scroll back to a vintage ad first depicted on <i>KintlaLake Blog</i> <a href="http://kintlalake.blogspot.com/2011/03/at-last-few-words-from-remington.html"><span style="color: black;">here</span></a> almost 18 months ago.</span><br />
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</span> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCnm2sM9ZQIRe6fPEfkfOHrrqdAznDxzJBDR6Tembq86aBatjnskl3HBYp4-WfvFU6oVs8jv3h_jM93pqaCCUsSUkRdUeLVd5OCrHtVZf6zy9NNN8TBEAR_Ao40uug-EF-l4NK9PovB9jC/s1600/KLBlog+1356.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 20px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCnm2sM9ZQIRe6fPEfkfOHrrqdAznDxzJBDR6Tembq86aBatjnskl3HBYp4-WfvFU6oVs8jv3h_jM93pqaCCUsSUkRdUeLVd5OCrHtVZf6zy9NNN8TBEAR_Ao40uug-EF-l4NK9PovB9jC/s400/KLBlog+1356.jpg" width="168" /></span></a><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The year was 1919. The advertiser was <a href="http://kintlalake.blogspot.com/search?q=remington&max-results=20&by-date=true"><span style="color: black;">Remington UMC</span></a>, the campaign was <i><span style="color: #000066;">"<a href="http://kintlalake.blogspot.com/2011/03/at-last-few-words-from-remington.html"><span style="color: #000066;">For Shooting Right</span></a>"</span></i> and post-war nationalism was the proud refrain. Remington placed a series of unapologetic ads in popular sportsmen's magazines like <i>Outing</i> and <i>Forest and Stream</i>.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The opening paragraphs of one of those ads -- <span style="color: #000066;"><i>"</i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCnm2sM9ZQIRe6fPEfkfOHrrqdAznDxzJBDR6Tembq86aBatjnskl3HBYp4-WfvFU6oVs8jv3h_jM93pqaCCUsSUkRdUeLVd5OCrHtVZf6zy9NNN8TBEAR_Ao40uug-EF-l4NK9PovB9jC/s1600/KLBlog+1356.jpg"><i><span style="color: #000066;">More American Reserve Power</span></i></a><i>"</i></span> -- should ring clear and true with every independent citizen-patriot:</span><br />
<blockquote><i><span style="color: #000066; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"The strength that comes from the hills was never worth more in this country than it is today. Both to the man himself and to all about him.<br />
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"No poison-pollen of Old World imperialism gone to seed can contaminate -- nor any attempt of crowd-sickened collectivism undermine -- the priceless individualism of the American who truly keeps his feet on the earth."</span></i></blockquote><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I can't get those words out of my head. While the current campaign for President of the United States insults my intelligence and promises to assault individual liberties, strangely it's the century-old work of a Remington copywriter that resonates.<br />
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The passage offers me no solutions, of course -- it's merely rhetorical refuge from my frustration with a government gone mad and a People gone to sleep.<br />
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In a 1788 letter to Col. Edward Carrington, a Virginia Delegate, Thomas Jefferson wrote,</span><br />
<blockquote><i><span style="color: #000066; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground. As yet our spirits are free."</span></i></blockquote><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I see a nexus between the Remington ad and Jefferson's letter. Without expressing resignation, both acknowledge the enemies of Liberty, and both celebrate the wellspring of true independence:</span><br />
<blockquote><i><span style="color: #000066; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"...the priceless individualism of the American who truly keeps his feet on the earth."<br />
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"...our spirits are free."</span></i></blockquote><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The key is this: <i>Liberty resides in the individual spirit.</i> Political winds may swirl around us and the burden of bureaucracy may bend our backs, but we remain <i>Americans</i> -- citizens of a nation, not subjects of its government.</span>KintlaLakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07741504677001663917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2679181760363727795.post-20537963197783013592012-08-15T12:53:00.000-04:002012-08-15T14:12:32.986-04:00'May posterity forget that ye were our countrymen'<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Adams" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 9px;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF-CGbBji4jGa3xo4WZX0WqKJhZO8wI_jwwGKSAB7INBo25gu6CSoi2PB77StANYalkkGbDWDmIcuEycAln6yd4hRxzNxucbdb1VThwZDoc6L6gyg_BPIORzLnIbrdrR2NYWunMx0kjIql/s320/KLBlog+1355.jpg" width="165" /></a><i><span style="color: #000066; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen!"</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">(Samuel Adams, whom Thomas Jefferson called <i><span style="color: #000066;">"truly the Man of the Revolution,"</span></i> from a speech delivered at the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia on August 1, 1776)</span>KintlaLakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07741504677001663917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2679181760363727795.post-69111260960118561892012-08-14T11:38:00.000-04:002012-08-14T11:38:19.397-04:00Horace sense, revisited<i><span style="color: #000066; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"...The right to own and bear arms is a natural right of man, guaranteed by our Bill of Rights, but superior to all laws and constitutions. It is our only defence against tyranny, and, as such, will never be relinquished by Americans who respect their birthright."</span></i><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">(<a href="http://kintlalake.blogspot.com/search?q=horace+sense&max-results=20&by-date=false"><span style="color: black;">Horace Kephart</span></a>, from "The Gun: A Fool I' the Forest," published in the <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=-bdUAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA729&ots=FaoDxVNMra&dq=Kephart%20%22will%20never%20be%20relinquished%20by%20Americans%20who%20respect%20their%20birthright%22&pg=PA729#v=onepage&q&f=false"><span style="color: black;">February 1901</span></a> issue of <a href="http://kintlalake.blogspot.com/search?q=outing+magazine&max-results=20&by-date=true"><i><span style="color: black;">Outing</span></i></a> magazine)</span>KintlaLakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07741504677001663917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2679181760363727795.post-43852099560718618132012-08-10T13:18:00.000-04:002012-08-23T12:57:04.558-04:00'From my cold dead hands!'<i><span style="color: #000066; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It looks like I'm back for one more encore. I've been asked to serve a third term as your president.<br />
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I don't think anyone's done that before. But George Washington hung around until the Revolutionary War was won. Roosevelt hung around until World War II was won. Reagan hung around until the Cold War was won. If you want, I'll hang around until we win this one, too.<br />
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<a href="http://www.nrahq.org/transcripts/hestonam.asp" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 10px;"><img border="0" height="197" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3Ko0QiXRf9u6JOFRyKTYifCvvaMkJDB-sEmo4h06gOedqoK_ygz_i2LrvyOlCsoDmxDdsvRNHRNX4eJ6bQVD4yADIWzUPXUrPsHuXGJqOxQClXs3xr8U8lcUSjrWt20hNDqK-WQ0FMAnR/s320/KLBlog+08.jpg" width="213" /></a>Do you feel that incredible energy in the air here today? I'll tell you what it is. It's the feeling you get when you're making a difference in the future of your country.<br />
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That was my goal -- to make a difference -- when I became your president two years ago. So I set some lofty goals. I said I'd do my part if you'd do yours. Now, just two years later, we've accomplished them all.<br />
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All except one.<br />
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First, I asked you to rebuild our NRA membership, and you have. Not by just a few thousand members, but by one million members.<br />
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Second, I asked you to rebuild our NRA war chest, and you have. I don't mean just in dollars, but in sense. The good sense of the NRA leadership you see here today. Your leaders are qualified, competent, unified, and believe me, fearless.<br />
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Third, I wanted to bring the NRA back to the table of mainstream political debate, and we have. You saw Wayne on that tape. I'd say we're not just at the table.<br />
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We're eating their lunch.<br />
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But more than anything else, I asked you to believe in each other again. To believe that gun ownership is as wholesome as it is constitutional. To believe that an NRA sticker on your windshield is a sign of pride. To believe that a kid who wants to plink at tin cans is not a kid gone wrong. To believe that the great flame of freedom our founding fathers ignited has not grown cold.<br />
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I declare that mission accomplished! I look around this great hall and I see the fire is in your eyes, the pride is in your hearts, and the commitment is here in your presence today. The NRA is baaaaaack...<br />
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All of which spells very serious trouble for a man named Gore.<br />
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Didja see that Gore rally in D.C. last weekend? One of the marchers said, "The hands that rock the cradle rule this nation." And I thought, No madam, the hands that rock the cradle rule our families and governments and corporations. The hands that wrote the Constitution rule this nation.<br />
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All the anti-gun celebs came out to march. Tipper Gore was there, Rosie O'Donnell was there (I like to call her Tokyo Rosie). A fine actress, Susan Sarandon, was there and shouted with great diplomacy and stateswomanship, "We Moms are really pissed off!"<br />
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I must ask, pissed off about what? If it's crime, why aren't you pissed off at the failure of this Administration to prosecute gun-toting criminals?<br />
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If it's accidents, why aren't you pissed off at swimming pool owners, or stairway owners, or pickup owners?<br />
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Why aren't you pissed off that gun accident prevention programs aren't in every elementary classroom in America?<br />
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As a matter of fact, why aren't you pissed off at parents who're oblivious that their kids are building bombs in their bedrooms?<br />
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Why aren't you pissed off that Mr. Gore wants registration and licensing instead of parenting and prosecution?<br />
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Which leads me to that one mission left undone: Winning in November. That's why I'm staying on for a third tour of duty.<br />
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Today I challenge you to find your third term, and serve it. Find your extra mile, and walk it.<br />
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Only you know what you can do between now and that decisive November day to turn the tide of these elections in favor of freedom. I ask you to find it and fulfill it.<br />
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Go the extra distance, find that extra member, write the extra check, knock on one more door, work one more hour, make one more call, convince one more friend, turn the other cheek if you must, but find your third term and serve it.<br />
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That's your part to play. What more important role can there be...than to bequeath our freedom to the next generation as pure and intact as it was given to us. As Mr. Lincoln commanded: "With firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us finish the work we are in...and then we shall save our country."<br />
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Each of us in his own way, plus all of us in our collective millions, must give that extra measure that freedom demands of us.<br />
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Let me tell you what I mean. Until a few hours ago I was finishing my 80th film in Vancouver, Canada. I was there because I love my craft and I love to feed my family.<br />
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So you'll forgive me if I'm a little tired. I flew all night, across a continent and three time zones, to be here with you. I'm here because I love my country and I love this freedom.<br />
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But it was just the most recent flight in thousands of flights, the most recent mile on thousands of roads I've travelled in my ten years of active service to this great Association. It's been a helluva ride.<br />
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I remember a decade ago at my first annual meeting in St. Louis. After my banquet remarks to a packed house, they presented me with a very special gift. It was a splendid hand-crafted musket.<br />
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I admit I was overcome by the power of its simple symbolism. I looked at that musket and I thought of all of the lives given for that freedom. I thought of all of the lives saved with that freedom. It dawned on me that the doorway to all freedoms is framed by muskets.<br />
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So I lifted that musket over my head for all to see. And as flashbulbs popped around the room, my heart and a few tears swelled up, and I uttered five unscripted words. When I did, that room exploded in sustained applause and hoots and shouts that seemed to last forever.<br />
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In that moment, I bonded with this great Association. And in thousands of moments since, I've been asked to repeat those five words in airports and hotels and rallies and speeches across this land.<br />
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In your own way, you have already heard them. That's why you're here.<br />
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Every time our country stands in the path of danger, an instinct seems to summon her finest first -- those who truly understand her. When freedom shivers in the cold shadow of true peril, it's always the patriots who first hear the call. When loss of liberty is looming, as it is now, the siren sounds first in the hearts of freedom's vanguard. The smoke in the air of our Concord Bridges and Pearl Harbors is always smelled first by the farmers, who come from their simple homes to find the fire, and fight.<br />
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Because they know that sacred stuff resides in that wooden stock and blued steel, something that gives the most common man the most uncommon of freedoms. When ordinary hands can possess such an extraordinary instrument, that symbolizes the full measure of human dignity and liberty.<br />
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That's why those five words issue an irresistible call to us all, and we muster.<br />
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So as we set out this year to defeat the divisive forces that would take freedom away, I want to say those words again for everyone within the sound of my voice to hear and to heed, and especially for you, Mr. Gore:<br />
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<b>From my cold dead hands!</b></span></i><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">(National Rifle Association President <a href="http://kintlalake.blogspot.com/2008/04/charlton-heston-1924-2008.html"><span style="color: black;">Charlton Heston</span></a>, in <a href="http://www.nrahq.org/transcripts/hestonam.asp"><span style="color: black;">opening remarks</span></a> delivered at the NRA Annual Meeting on May 20, 2000)</span>KintlaLakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07741504677001663917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2679181760363727795.post-83845030220274343522012-08-09T13:37:00.000-04:002012-08-09T14:32:02.773-04:00I miss Barry Goldwater -- and you should, too<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Goldwater" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 10px;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw6znvDd-JKEAKo4k_eTg2DZM3l08cDq1_X3WagZk4_Ibfg-eIahyo0km8uv528LxrQ86dBp4FOehFMctlv0adM_QXamItbzzjzxgnCJSA1n5yzOM7FT9L1weG6jW-XxpRCw9gqv2D_vhh/s320/KLBlog+1354.JPG" width="208" /></a><i><span style="color: #000066; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size. I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them. It is not to inaugurate new programs, but to cancel old ones that do violence to the Constitution, or that have failed their purpose, or that impose on the people an unwarranted financial burden. I will not attempt to discover whether legislation is 'needed' before I have first determined whether it is constitutionally permissible. And if I should later be attacked for neglecting my constituents' 'interests,' I shall reply that I was informed that their main interest is liberty and that in that cause I am doing the very best I can."</span></i><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">(Those are the words of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Goldwater"><span style="color: black;">Barry M. Goldwater</span></a> from his 1960 book, <i>The Conscience of a Conservative</i>. Over a half-century later, Liberty-loving Americans are suffering through a presidential election year dominated by Santa Claus on one side and Wink Martindale on another. With the exception of <a href="http://kintlalake.blogspot.com/2012/03/super-decision.html"><span style="color: black;">Rep. Ron Paul</span></a> and <a href="http://kintlalake.blogspot.com/2012/05/decided-2012-edition.html"><span style="color: black;">Gov. Gary Johnson</span></a>, this campaign shows little evidence of Sen. Goldwater's legacy.)</span>KintlaLakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07741504677001663917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2679181760363727795.post-40027180172903788832012-08-05T10:32:00.001-04:002012-08-05T10:38:02.226-04:00Constitutional illumination (illustrated)<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjS87LREbxvXGSuqCHGvDkUKa-4bxMvI1KINB3AKni_TfD85K46igS2oNbJ88a7v_F7ZOEMeFCY7m9N3DhMTGNwG9NoaH_3IfTih11uswZlI9PF77jmoJkoSMhbWVAvGU-ufkbk7dOfwpC2/s1600/KLBlog+1353.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-right: 0px;"><img border="0" height="440" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjS87LREbxvXGSuqCHGvDkUKa-4bxMvI1KINB3AKni_TfD85K46igS2oNbJ88a7v_F7ZOEMeFCY7m9N3DhMTGNwG9NoaH_3IfTih11uswZlI9PF77jmoJkoSMhbWVAvGU-ufkbk7dOfwpC2/s400/KLBlog+1353.jpg" width="400" /></a><br />
<i><span style="color: #000066; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">[To my fellow <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWqVeplHNbmlzPUO81nhn6Ei0m-eeUX6kUJIVV3il2D4eY7cGfz_38ig1DWhiCGiEgdIDWWcwVWxHOI0CutCMe002oO05UU6h99fveHK35uApiY04htr5YWh3xkavfhtIpHZG1bqO9mEvi/s1600/KLBlog+1353.jpg"><span style="color: #000066;">Ohioans</span></a> committed to protecting their <a href="http://kintlalake.blogspot.com/2012/08/constitutional-illumination.html"><span style="color: #000066;">constitutional rights</span></a> from government abuse: I recommend paying a visit to <a href="http://www.ohioconstitution.org/"><span style="color: #000066;">The 1851 Center for Constitutional Law</span></a>.]</span></i>KintlaLakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07741504677001663917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2679181760363727795.post-13397692762706116022012-08-04T13:16:00.000-04:002012-08-07T11:41:28.931-04:00Constitutional illumination<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Rather than burdening readers with a lengthy introduction, I'll get right to the meat of this post. Here's the Second Amendment to the <a href="http://www.usconstitution.net/const.pdf"><span style="color: black;">Constitution of the United States</span></a>:</span><br />
<blockquote><i><span style="color: #000066; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."</span></i></blockquote><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">You and I know that those 27 words guarantee an <i>individual</i> right. Some still insist, however, on the primacy of the first clause -- that is, the necessity of <i><span style="color: #000066;">"a well regulated militia"</span></i> to be armed somehow trumps <i><span style="color: #000066;">"the right of the people."</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So here we are, 223 years after the Bill of Rights was introduced, applying today's language, culture and politics to our understanding of the Framers' intent. Wouldn't it be helpful to have something resembling a contemporaneous take on this fundamental right?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">To that end I present Article VIII, Section 20 of the first constitution of the newly admitted State of Ohio:</span><br />
<blockquote><i><span style="color: #000066; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"That the people have a right to bear arms for the defense of themselves and the State; and as standing armies in time of peace are dangerous to liberty, they shall not be kept up: and that the military shall be kept under strict subordination to the civil power."</span></i></blockquote><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Adopted in 1802 -- the year before Ohio achieved statehood and just 11 years after the U.S. Bill of Rights was ratified -- that leaves no doubt about the purpose of granting the People an <i>individual</i> right to bear arms: <i><span style="color: #000066;">"for the defense of themselves and the State."</span></i><br />
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Come-lately critics and anti-gun zealots, please take note: There's no mention of "hunting" or "subsistence" in that section -- that's because they were (and are) <i>irrelevant</i> to the right to keep and bear arms.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The 1851 revision of the Ohio Constitution moved the state's Bill of Rights up from Article VIII to Article I -- <i>talk about primacy</i> -- and the section related to arms underwent a slight change at the same time:</span><br />
<blockquote><i><span style="color: #000066; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"The people have the right to bear arms for their defense and security; but standing armies, in time of peace, are dangerous to liberty, and shall not be kept up; and the military shall be in strict subordination to the civil power."</span></i></blockquote><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">That language remains in force today, underscoring that every citizen of The Great State of Ohio rightfully may bear arms <i><span style="color: #000066;">"for their defense and security."</span></i> It also reminds us why military forces must be <i><span style="color: #000066;">"well regulated"</span></i> -- because <i><span style="color: #000066;">"standing armies, in time of peace, are dangerous to liberty."</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I could leave it there, certainly, but <a href="http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/constitution.pdf"><span style="color: black;">Ohio's constitution</span></a> has much more light to shine.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Returning to our nation's founding documents, here's the second sentence of the <a href="http://www.constitution.org/usdeclar.pdf"><span style="color: black;">Declaration of Independence</span></a>:</span><br />
<blockquote><i><span style="color: #000066; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."</span></i></blockquote><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The first Constitution of the State of Ohio (1803) incorporated similar principles, addressing <i><span style="color: #000066;">"natural, inherent and unalienable rights"</span></i> in Article VIII, Section 1:</span><br />
<blockquote><i><span style="color: #000066; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"That all men are born equally free and independent, and have certain natural, inherent and unalienable rights; amongst which are the enjoying and defending life and liberty, acquiring, possessing and protecting property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety; and every free republican government, being founded on their sole authority, and organized for the great purpose of protecting their rights and liberties, and securing their independence; to effect these ends, they have at all times a complete power to alter, reform or abolish their government, whenever they may deem it necessary."</span></i></blockquote><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In the 1851 revision, which saw Ohio citizens' enumerated rights given proper prominence, the <i><span style="color: #000066;">"inalienable rights"</span></i> passage became more concise. This is Article I, Section 1:</span><br />
<blockquote><i><span style="color: #000066; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"All men are, by nature, free and independent, and have certain inalienable rights, among which are those of enjoying and defending life and liberty, acquiring, possessing, and protecting property, and seeking and obtaining happiness and safety."</span></i></blockquote><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Notice that both versions of this section -- the second of which is still in force, by the way, 161 years after its adoption -- codify two fundamental rights before all others: <span style="color: #000066;"><i>"enjoying and </i>defending<i> life and liberty"</i></span> and <span style="color: #000066;"><i>"acquiring, possessing, and </i>protecting<i> property."</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Legal scholars continue to argue over whether the Declaration of Independence represents law or merely principle, but the Constitution of the State of Ohio carries the force of law. Fortunately, the early Ohioans who crafted their state's governing document -- during the same formative era in which the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights were written and ratified -- saw fit to incorporate <i>the inalienable human right to defend life, liberty and property</i>. <br />
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That's because they understood our nation's founding principles. Their understanding is my understanding -- and a legacy of Liberty.</span>KintlaLakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07741504677001663917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2679181760363727795.post-56312740347649615212012-07-29T17:29:00.000-04:002012-07-29T20:30:29.131-04:00Couldn't've said it better<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_YdTKqw7O3joyTDxhyqRkUWeEVCaxmH4rl1CmvFog8pXMYvnAMJwG-3IW9Bj0_J6c2SOaOMLPUh-bMoViZ-ezBnhi3pd4dal6tb12287XyBf92v5cQqaJ3smmFOaoomXqK1ORpZn7r4MX/s1600/KLBlog+1352.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-right: 0px;"><img border="0" height="178" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_YdTKqw7O3joyTDxhyqRkUWeEVCaxmH4rl1CmvFog8pXMYvnAMJwG-3IW9Bj0_J6c2SOaOMLPUh-bMoViZ-ezBnhi3pd4dal6tb12287XyBf92v5cQqaJ3smmFOaoomXqK1ORpZn7r4MX/s400/KLBlog+1352.jpg" width="400" /></a><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i><span style="color: #000066;">"On this morning's edition of Fareed Zakaria GPS, the host reported that the U.S. accounts for 5% of the world's population and 50% of the world's privately owned firearms -- now that makes me proud to be an American. For those who are ashamed of Liberty but don't have the wherewithal to relocate to another country, I offer <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_YdTKqw7O3joyTDxhyqRkUWeEVCaxmH4rl1CmvFog8pXMYvnAMJwG-3IW9Bj0_J6c2SOaOMLPUh-bMoViZ-ezBnhi3pd4dal6tb12287XyBf92v5cQqaJ3smmFOaoomXqK1ORpZn7r4MX/s1600/KLBlog+1352.jpg"><span style="color: #000066;">this graphic</span></a>. (Instructions included at no extra charge.)"</span></i> (via <a href="http://www.facebook.com/people/Kintla-Lake/100000132541002"><span style="color: black;">Facebook</span></a>)</span>KintlaLakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07741504677001663917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2679181760363727795.post-56367660199991061022012-07-22T16:49:00.000-04:002012-07-23T08:28:22.755-04:00Really?<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW7ETsJtmKFPmQ-PqVN8xL_96UXvYpKZQ-fhEWPWy-XNlkFU8zFagfbpJJ6SSje0V9YauB8C32iyspgmym53TGvcXtT3eo_ERRwokr77p2JPbaAhHVHGv6utEOVJpfAW2SFSDLEEFtXKHu/s1600/KLBlog+1351.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-right: 0px;"><img border="0" height="518" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW7ETsJtmKFPmQ-PqVN8xL_96UXvYpKZQ-fhEWPWy-XNlkFU8zFagfbpJJ6SSje0V9YauB8C32iyspgmym53TGvcXtT3eo_ERRwokr77p2JPbaAhHVHGv6utEOVJpfAW2SFSDLEEFtXKHu/s640/KLBlog+1351.jpg" width="400" /></a><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">That <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW7ETsJtmKFPmQ-PqVN8xL_96UXvYpKZQ-fhEWPWy-XNlkFU8zFagfbpJJ6SSje0V9YauB8C32iyspgmym53TGvcXtT3eo_ERRwokr77p2JPbaAhHVHGv6utEOVJpfAW2SFSDLEEFtXKHu/s1600/KLBlog+1351.jpg"><span style="color: black;">poster</span></a> is part of a campaign by USDA <a href="http://www.fns.usda.gov/fns/"><span style="color: black;">Food and Nutrition Services</span></a>, aimed at recruiting applicants for its <a href="http://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/"><span style="color: black;">Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program</span></a> (SNAP), better known as "food stamps."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It must be working. Since January of 2009 the number of Americans living in poverty, statistically speaking, has risen 6 million to almost 16 million. And today almost 46 million Americans are on food stamps, up 14 million over the same period.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Yes, times are tough.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Last week we learned that the USDA made an agreement with the government of Mexico to increase participation in the food-stamps program among Mexican nationals living in this country. As if that weren't enough of a puzzler, few days earlier the House Minority Whip opined that food stamps is one of the <i><span style="color: #000066;">"most stimulative"</span></i> things that our government can do for the national economy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">You read that right.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I'm sure that taxpayer-funded assistance, when used according to directions, helps keep individual Americans and their families from going hungry. You won't convince me, however, that a ballooning and much-abused entitlement program is making our <i>nation</i> stronger.</span>KintlaLakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07741504677001663917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2679181760363727795.post-67984226237440199812012-07-22T10:22:00.000-04:002012-07-23T11:47:07.949-04:00Another voice on Aurora<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>[<a href="http://massadayoobgroup.com/"><span style="color: #000066;">Massad Ayoob</span></a>, noted firearms instructor and prolific author, posted <a href="http://backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/2012/07/21/and-it-happens-again/"><span style="color: #000066;">this</span></a> yesterday on his <a href="http://www.backwoodshome.com/"></a></i><a href="http://www.backwoodshome.com/"><span style="color: #000066;">Backwoods Home Magazine</span><i></i></a><i> blog, "<a href="http://backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob"><span style="color: #000066;">Massad Ayoob on Guns</span></a>." The hyperlinks are mine.]</i></span><br />
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<a href="http://massadayoobgroup.com/" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 10px;"><img border="0" height="288" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVZvwlUDlYzjerHV3Qqz9qcszBEoAZ2FTAKk7BvnIk1Mx6z1pjdTWVU74CmTrl8L5Mg7-fnj4mA1CAD7agKxaKsVY7XwEGGEV2E__FKp1m5JCeSek5hrV2wr3XQB51AbAI6JyxSQECm1nr/s320/KLBlog+1350.jpg" width="215" /></a><b><span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">And it happens again...</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Shortly after the clock ticks into the early morning hours of July 20 during a midnight movie premier at a theater in Aurora, Colorado, a mass murderer opens fire. A dozen or more dead, dozens more wounded, and practically by the time responding officers arrive the anti-gunners are already at their keyboards choreographing their traditional dance in the blood of innocent victims. One, <a href="http://piersmorgan.blogs.cnn.com/"><span style="color: black;">CNN's resident Pommie priss</span></a> -- who has already long since proven himself <a href="http://kintlalake.blogspot.com/2012/04/regarding-sanford.html"><span style="color: black;">totally clueless as to the real-world dynamics of violence</span></a> -- twitters that guns should be 100,000 times harder to access.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Maybe jobs as public-opinion-forming talking heads should be 100,000 times harder to get, as well. By the way, the "Pommie" reference is nothing against the British in general. The pragmatic Brits I know are aware that they have living countrymen who remember when England begged American gun owners to ship them hunting rifles, shotguns, and handguns for their civilians to use as last ditch weapons against the expected Nazi land invasion. It was the Brits themselves who coined POME (Prisoner Of Mother England) to define their brothers and sisters who evinced the mentality we see in <a href="http://piersmorgan.blogs.cnn.com/"><span style="color: black;">the commentator in question</span></a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Overlooked by most is a point discovered by famed Constitutional lawyer Don Kates: <a href="http://kintlalake.blogspot.com/2012/07/on-aurora.html"><span style="color: black;">the theater in question forbade firearms inside</span></a>. They themselves made it impossible for even one good person in the theater to draw a lawfully-carried handgun and put a bullet through the monster's brain, to stop the horror and shortstop the tragedy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Once again, we see that "<a href="http://kintlalake.blogspot.com/2012/07/on-aurora.html"><span style="color: black;">gun free zones</span></a>" are hunting preserves for psychopaths who prey on humans.</span><br />
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<i><span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">[Amen, Mas -- amen.]</span></i>KintlaLakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07741504677001663917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2679181760363727795.post-43312241526631586652012-07-21T10:41:00.000-04:002012-07-21T14:22:01.385-04:00On Aurora<span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>[This was posted by a </i><a href="http://www.facebook.com/people/Kintla-Lake/100000132541002"><span style="color: #000066;">Facebook</span></a><i> friend last night. It echoes "</i><a href="http://kintlalake.blogspot.com/2011/08/heres-your-sign.html" style="font-style: italic;"><span style="color: #000066;">Here's your sign</span></a><i>," which appeared on </i>KintlaLake Blog<i> almost a year ago.]</i></span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDpoEw_1Rduvh3tol-HBaq-OJeBSNh0rCG-BQzcGr5IFq9kznl_AqcchkgrdsKKS3KB1r9f_YIDGzq2q73P5aW8N0LWgVR8cFHxaQAa5lM5aj9TzT9uGi0uxv6xz8qaYbsgx90XzuxPiFP/s1600/KLBlog+1152.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 10px;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="248" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDpoEw_1Rduvh3tol-HBaq-OJeBSNh0rCG-BQzcGr5IFq9kznl_AqcchkgrdsKKS3KB1r9f_YIDGzq2q73P5aW8N0LWgVR8cFHxaQAa5lM5aj9TzT9uGi0uxv6xz8qaYbsgx90XzuxPiFP/s320/KLBlog+1152.jpg" width="185" /></span></a><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I'm sorry to be posting this so soon after the mass shooting in Aurora, Colorado -- please know that my heart goes out to the victims and their loved ones -- but I'm angry.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I'm angry because, according to news reports, the movie theater where 12 people were murdered and another 59 wounded had a "No Guns Allowed" policy. It may well have posted <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDpoEw_1Rduvh3tol-HBaq-OJeBSNh0rCG-BQzcGr5IFq9kznl_AqcchkgrdsKKS3KB1r9f_YIDGzq2q73P5aW8N0LWgVR8cFHxaQAa5lM5aj9TzT9uGi0uxv6xz8qaYbsgx90XzuxPiFP/s1600/KLBlog+1152.jpg"><span style="color: black;">signs like this one</span></a>.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">This sign kills.</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Make no mistake -- even if one or more moviegoers had been lawfully carrying firearms in that theater this morning, there's no guarantee that they could've stopped the shooter or reduced the number of casualties. But we do know two things for sure.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">First of all, permitting lawful carry just might've given those theater patrons a fighting chance. More important, signs like this -- and the policies they represent -- advertise to the world that the facility on which they're posted is full of unarmed people, potential victims, fish in a barrel.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It makes no sense.</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Today's massacre was an act of evil, carried out by a madman. Everyone knows that madmen are shadows and evil is a fact of life, and yet some among us still suggest that we can prevent such violence by restricting or outright banning some or all firearms -- leaving innocents outgunned at best, disarmed at worst.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">That's the equivalent of posting this sign on our houses and on our cars, tattooing it on our foreheads. <i>And it makes no sense.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Madmen and criminal predators always -- <i>and I mean always</i> -- will find a way to get 'hold of the tools of their trade, and incidents like the one in Colorado this morning demonstrate that they sure as hell don’t obey laws and policies, much less signs. Disarming law-abiding citizens by statute, then, can have only one result.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Innocent people will die. When will we learn that?</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I see <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDpoEw_1Rduvh3tol-HBaq-OJeBSNh0rCG-BQzcGr5IFq9kznl_AqcchkgrdsKKS3KB1r9f_YIDGzq2q73P5aW8N0LWgVR8cFHxaQAa5lM5aj9TzT9uGi0uxv6xz8qaYbsgx90XzuxPiFP/s1600/KLBlog+1152.jpg"><span style="color: black;">signs like this</span></a> on businesses every day. Uncomfortable as I am to be entering an "unarmed victims zone," sometimes I patronize the establishment anyway, rationalizing my choice in one way or another.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Not any more. It makes no sense.</span></i>KintlaLakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07741504677001663917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2679181760363727795.post-68268148553632077582012-07-18T17:54:00.000-04:002012-07-18T17:54:51.134-04:00Principle & counter-principle<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Speaking last Friday in Roanoke, Virginia, Pres. Barack Obama now-infamously said, </span><br />
<blockquote><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i><span style="color: #000066;">"If you've got a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen."</span></i></span></blockquote><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Mitt Romney, at a campaign event yesterday in Irwin, Pennsylvania, responded:</span><br />
<blockquote><i><span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"Something happened on Friday -- President Obama exposed what he really thinks about free people and the American vision and government, what he really thinks about America itself.<br />
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"He probably wants to understand why his policies failed. If you want to understand why his policies have failed, why what he has done has not created jobs or rising incomes in America, you can look at what he said.<br />
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"And what he said was this, he said, and I quote -- and he's speaking, by the way, of businesses like this one, small businesses, big businesses, middle-size businesses, mining businesses, manufacturing, service businesses of all kinds. He said this:</span></i><br />
<blockquote><span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">'If you've got a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.'</span></blockquote><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000066;"><i>"That 'somebody else' is government, in his view. He goes on to describe the people who deserve the credit for building this business. And, of course, he describes people who we care very deeply about, who make a difference in our lives -- our schoolteachers, firefighters, people who build roads.<br />
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"We need those things. We value schoolteachers, firefighters, people who build roads. You really couldn't have a business if you didn't have those things. But, you know, we pay for those things.<br />
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"The taxpayers pay for government. It's not like government just provides those to all of us and we say,</i></span></span><br />
<blockquote><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000066;"><i></i>'Oh thank you, government, for doing those things.'</span><span style="color: #000066;"><i></i></span></span></blockquote><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000066;"><i>"No, in fact, we pay for them and we benefit from them, and we appreciate the work that they do and the sacrifices that are done by people who work in government. But they did not build this business."</i></span></span></blockquote><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And that's the truth -- not bankable truth, alas, but truth nonetheless.</span>KintlaLakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07741504677001663917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2679181760363727795.post-22681957294081555142012-07-16T12:56:00.000-04:002012-08-08T14:46:18.842-04:00For once, for cryin' out loud, choose Liberty<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIRD6Wnx_haZjzX4GGxIma2LDaSKuRxxbKgcRUAyJ8zcvXJRVgNg3Bcn4LIfm0zuNglvujzm5XV9FiYHqFZaObW-W7EfPhM2Gz3-aWScMo8U7BJp_Yl_ZNO2rCzp7wua9cOx5h50vXO593/s1600/KLBlog+1349.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-right: 0px;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIRD6Wnx_haZjzX4GGxIma2LDaSKuRxxbKgcRUAyJ8zcvXJRVgNg3Bcn4LIfm0zuNglvujzm5XV9FiYHqFZaObW-W7EfPhM2Gz3-aWScMo8U7BJp_Yl_ZNO2rCzp7wua9cOx5h50vXO593/s640/KLBlog+1349.JPG" width="400" /></span></a><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Shortly after <a href="http://kintlalake.blogspot.com/2012/05/decided-2012-edition.html"><span style="color: black;">declaring my support of Gary Johnson</span></a>, Libertarian Party candidate for President, I began catching flak. The most common reaction (and the easiest to have predicted) goes something like this:</span><br />
<blockquote><i><span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"A vote for a third-party candidate is a vote for Obama."</span></i></blockquote><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">That presumes, of course, that I agonized over the choice between Johnson and presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney -- which I didn't. It wasn't even a contest.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">A second term for Pres. Barack Obama, undesirable at best, isn't the worst thing that could happen to our country. Swapping a big-government Democrat for a big-government Republican <i>and expecting something to change</i> would be far more disastrous. Wishing for such an outcome is symptomatic of our national two-party disorder.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I had a rather strident exchange with one particular fellow, a friend for more than a decade, over <a href="http://kintlalake.blogspot.com/2012/05/this-he-understood.html"><span style="color: black;">the role of government</span></a>. It was prompted by the <a href="http://kintlalake.blogspot.com/2012/06/unlimited-government-affirmed.html"><span style="color: black;">assault on individual liberties</span></a>, as I see it, represented by the Affordable Care Act (aka "Obamacare").</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">My friend reportedly suffers from some sort of <i><span style="color: #000066;">"pre-existing condition"</span></i> and, because he now relies on the federal government to forestall what he describes as a <i><span style="color: #000066;">"death sentence,"</span></i> his physical affliction is indistinguishable from his ideology. That is,</span><br />
<blockquote><i><span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"If you don't support Obamacare, then you don't care if I live or die and you're certainly not my friend."</span></i></blockquote><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">A passion for Liberty, according to him, also means that I hate all <i>sick</i> people, all <i>poor</i> people and all <i>women</i>. On top of that, he says, it makes me a <i>racist</i>.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Seriously.</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I'm not unsympathetic to his suffering (or anyone else's, for that matter), but it's sad to see what happens to a man when self-interest swallows principle.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And then there was the customer who came into our shop late last week. An unapologetic Obama supporter, he summarized his perspective this way:</span><br />
<blockquote><i><span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"What's the problem? Just keep printing money!"</span></i></blockquote><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">That, he said, would avoid the <i><span style="color: #000066;">"unnecessary pain"</span></i> of slashing programs, cutting government jobs and balancing the federal budget.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Naturally, he wants <i><span style="color: #000066;">"rich bastards"</span></i> to pay higher taxes -- <i>a lot higher</i>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So here we have a guy who doesn't get that <a href="http://kintlalake.blogspot.com/2010/11/got-ink.html"><span style="color: black;">printing money</span></a> and deficit spending only <i>postpone</i> pain -- they don't <i>prevent</i> it. He jaws about <i><span style="color: #000066;">"expanding access to the American Dream,"</span></i> but he wants the <i><span style="color: #000066;">"rich bastards"</span></i> who have achieved it to pay for entitlement programs demanded by those who haven't.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The good news, though, is that even if his man doesn't win in November, he should be happy with a <a href="http://kintlalake.blogspot.com/2012/01/quote-of-week.html"><span style="color: black;">Romney administration</span></a>.</span>KintlaLakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07741504677001663917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2679181760363727795.post-85537895742447325872012-07-15T09:43:00.000-04:002012-07-15T09:43:53.207-04:00A stake in the ground<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfp9Z8zdyqLWht7YDuMQtCtsQAE43WI43Ww8EB9_0FY43coyqcWNWpu0QUU5HLnFw2grYx-1ykJdNn7VkoZLKr6Atrih20RZlzEa8Ypuv2UuW8f4V8zSRrAKR4YHjz-iE33M9qkmXBY9RG/s1600/KLBlog+1348.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear:left; float:left;margin-right:0px; margin-bottom:0px"><img border="0" height="74" width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfp9Z8zdyqLWht7YDuMQtCtsQAE43WI43Ww8EB9_0FY43coyqcWNWpu0QUU5HLnFw2grYx-1ykJdNn7VkoZLKr6Atrih20RZlzEa8Ypuv2UuW8f4V8zSRrAKR4YHjz-iE33M9qkmXBY9RG/s400/KLBlog+1348.jpg" /></a>KintlaLakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07741504677001663917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2679181760363727795.post-21649480474632200392012-07-11T13:13:00.000-04:002012-07-11T13:13:18.446-04:00One more from Jeff Cooper<a href="http://www.molonlabe.net/Commentaries/index.html" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-right: 10px;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggD2agZSlfAHKkW5VE1__le2Gdvtc_ScYCt0XnVkZmA7I8SzXHeEL5K2rM8mSdr7I9YlRQp5KzW7hlPkIJ8NeYRvrCa-VIOiZi160480Tqe9cEQBa_Jlhs7F1wjrLdzfCQp0ynO1ImxksS/s200/KLBlog+1343.jpg" width="158" /></a><i><span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"One bleeding-heart type asked me in a recent interview if I did not agree that 'violence begets violence.' I told him that it is my earnest endeavor to see that it does. I would like very much to ensure -- and in some cases I have -- that any man who offers violence to his fellow citizen begets a whole lot more in return than he can enjoy."</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">(<a href="http://www.molonlabe.net/Commentaries/index.html"><span style="color: black;">Lt. Col. John Dean "Jeff" Cooper</span></a>)</span>KintlaLakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07741504677001663917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2679181760363727795.post-3472411541808391172012-07-11T13:12:00.000-04:002012-07-11T13:12:34.278-04:00Problems (illustrated)<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBOLtPeUmrBDyngIampsMKkXPWfx5mZFtR2rglsb6t8EPcpsOP0qceug-NWY04V8sbY1ZqlJRTmqLD7uQDG7tr3I1FZ9Ah0EF9gn3ebgQtmefkkNP-uBADuFbHiG9DkxGSn__jYL_2LFVc/s1600/KLBlog+1344.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear:left; float:left;margin-right:0px; margin-bottom:0px"><img border="0" height="284" width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBOLtPeUmrBDyngIampsMKkXPWfx5mZFtR2rglsb6t8EPcpsOP0qceug-NWY04V8sbY1ZqlJRTmqLD7uQDG7tr3I1FZ9Ah0EF9gn3ebgQtmefkkNP-uBADuFbHiG9DkxGSn__jYL_2LFVc/s400/KLBlog+1344.jpg" /></a><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh56C5Y9rem8gZyRQ696pEuJLCFWdLegX9B61Xq50z8XkRrFw2-RBhuw3hURnx06ysTH2njHvpCkaA3TTp4IOgWZgV1DqFjiJyfXd49H_RrVOFLezeOK1asRiUyL2ee5i7xqnzDThW6BW5f/s1600/KLBlog+1346.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear:left; float:left;margin-right:0px; margin-bottom:0px"><img border="0" height="276" width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh56C5Y9rem8gZyRQ696pEuJLCFWdLegX9B61Xq50z8XkRrFw2-RBhuw3hURnx06ysTH2njHvpCkaA3TTp4IOgWZgV1DqFjiJyfXd49H_RrVOFLezeOK1asRiUyL2ee5i7xqnzDThW6BW5f/s400/KLBlog+1346.jpg" /></a>KintlaLakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07741504677001663917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2679181760363727795.post-65678267319056090472012-07-08T21:11:00.000-04:002012-07-08T21:16:37.429-04:00A bit of Cooper's wisdom<i><span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"We are steadily asked about the age at which to teach young people to shoot. The answer to this obviously depends upon the particular individual; not only his physical maturity but his desire.<br />
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<a href="http://www.molonlabe.net/Commentaries/index.html" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-right: 10px;"><img border="0" height="193" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2MwhqFyaWd-4SQEWcnVi-vujBst1DFZAxGmR_k99LcG462U66qukMg2XpfhyO-OlR_bahcQb73k4Jq6JmO66sVyiPyFfT96QOXlGLRYb-WEAF7WxXz0DyO644xruA8smDVVbk4q1HZ7v0/s320/KLBlog+1342.jpg" width="185" /></a>"Apart from these considerations, however, I think it important to understand that it is the duty of the father to teach the son to shoot.<br />
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"Before the young man leaves home, there are certain things he should know and certain skills he should acquire, apart from any state-sponsored activity. Certainly the youngster should be taught to swim, strongly and safely, at distance. And young people of either sex should be taught to drive a motor vehicle, and if at all possible, how to fly a light airplane. I believe a youngster should be taught the rudiments of hand-to-hand combat, unarmed, together with basic survival skills.<br />
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"The list is long, but it is a parent's duty to make sure that the child does not go forth into the world helpless in the face of its perils.<br />
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"Shooting, of course, is our business, and shooting should not be left up to the state."</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">(<a href="http://www.molonlabe.net/Commentaries/index.html"><span style="color: black;">Lt. Col. John Dean "Jeff" Cooper</span></a>)</span>KintlaLakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07741504677001663917noreply@blogger.com