Maggie's Farm

We will see shortly if Congress and the President will uphold the laws of the land or make a mockery of the peaceful process of change.

By and large the Supreme Court operates on the principle of "*stare decisis* et non quieta movere" meaning "stand by decisions and do not move that which is quiet" We simply call it stare decisis

Of course the role of Congress is different. They, almost to a Member view the Constitution as play dough to be formed any way they so desire.
Don't like free speech..nibble at the edges until it is in such a narrow box it becomes meaningless.
Don't like the messy procedures of habeus corpus ... ignore it.
Don't like private gun ownership ..hammer that anvil until it dissappears.

Congress and the President are clearly currently breaking the law by ALLOWING the border laws, the laws that give meaning to sovereign nations, non enforcement. It is purposefully being done

If passed into "legal status" a tax will be incured by the American people without debate on it. It comes with the new law given that someone, meaning the taxpayer must foot the bill to integrate AN UNKNOWN number of alliens into this countries socialist care systems. The number projected so far run into the trillions. *One trillion is a thousand billion*, but the numbers mentioned so far are at minimum triple that.

#1 If it is passed, recall petitions should begin circulating, targeting those who voted for the measure.

#2 If passed on April 15th Americans should not file their taxes, yes a full blown TAX REBELLION.

#3 On election day we are "skunked", "snookered" because we now have two rogue parties. I am not a Libertarian, yet, but I would recommend turning to that party. We can do no worse that we are doing now.

If you want to be ruled then stay the course and continue to believe that Congress and the President are doing the right thing. Polls show 80+% of us DO NOT.
Congress is handing us a giant CON-job.

I would aslo suggest that each of us reread the Declaration of Independence. Note the list of grievences against King George and determine if we are reliving the nascent stages of that bondage.

Here is what Oklahoma has done. One of the most salient points is to remember that eachs state has soverienty.

Oklahoma's Governor Brad Henry has signed a sweeping immigration reform bill, House Bill 1804, that its sponsor believes will go a long way in dealing with the illegal alien problem in the state.

House Bill 1804 was passed by overwhelming majorities in both the House and Senate of the Oklahoma Legislature. The measure's sponsor, State Representative Randy Terrill, says the bill has four maintopical areas: it deals with identity theft; it terminates public assistance benefits to illegals; it empowers state and local police to enforce federal immigration laws; and it punishes employers who knowingly hire illegal aliens.

Oklahoma is no longer "O.K." for illegal aliens, Terrill observes. "When you put everything together in context," he contends, "the bottom line is illegal aliens will not come here if there are no jobs waiting for them, they will not stay here if there is no government subsidy, and they certainly won't stay here if they know that if they ever encounter our state and local law enforcement officers, they will be physically detained until they're deported. And that's exactly what House Bill 1804 does."

The Oklahoma legislator is pleased the bill he sponsored into law was signed by Governor Henry and believes it will go a long way to curb the illegal immigration problem in the state. "I would remind people that states are separate sovereigns in our federal system," Terrill points out. "Anyone who doesn't understand that needs to go back and take an American federal government class in college," he says.

As a result of that sovereignty, the Oklahoma lawmaker insists, "we have as much right - in fact, I would argue, a responsibility - to protect our taxpayers against that sort of egregious waste, fraud and abuse as the federal government should have a responsibility to protect that international border, but doesn't do that."

Terrill says as long as the federal government refuses to do its job of protecting the international borders of the United States, states likeOklahoma must take action to deal with the problem that is costing taxpayers in the state $200 million a year in public benefits, law enforcement costs, and other resources.

Hugo Chavez claims P.R.

How many illegals are simpatico with Chavez. How many will become HIS agents within our borders?

From the American Thinker

Is Puerto Rico really a part of the United States? And if it is, is it worth defending from attack? That's the emerging issue right now because Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez has just made his first threat on the U.S . commonwealth as he seeks to acquire advanced submarines.


Chavez is heading to Russia in the next few days, to discuss the purchase of five kilo-class submarines, and possibly four more advanced amur-class subs. There are questions as to how he would be able to finance them as well as how obtain the advanced training to bring them online, but there is no question from his statments that he wants them. Saturday, he laid it all out as AFP reported:
"They're making all this noise because Venezuela is going to buy some submarines. And I told them, 'Why not?'" Chavez said without confirming or denying the rumor.


"We've got half a million square kilometers of (Caribbean) sea, to the north, we've got Puerto Rico, in other words the empire (as he calls the United States), and France in the western Caribbean islands. We've got a huge sea," he said apparently alluding the use to which Venezuela's submarines would be put.
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http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2007/06/a_new_enemy_patrolling_our_eas.html

Buddy,
Inculcated as our Army is I would imagine many will shoot. Most will be highly conflicted.

A tax revolt with 150 million not paying will send a message. The govenrmment doesn't have enough of anything to enforce that type of civil disodedience.

I would prefer to sned the message via electing as many Libertartians as pssible to Congress...They seem to be the best hope for an alternative that isn't "overboard"...elect enough so that their "swing" votes are always necessary to enact bills.

Financial News

Last week's big economic news was that two Bear Stearns hedge funds worth $20 billion are teetering near collapse. These two Collateralized Debt Obligation (CDO) funds--ironically named the "Bear Stearns High-Grade Structured Credit Strategies Enhanced Leverage Fund" and the "High Grade Structured Credit Strategies Fund"--are in trouble because of their heavy exposure to sub-prime mortgages. A well-publicized rescue plan involving Merrill Lynch fell apart. At one point Merrill Lynch--one of Bear’s credit backers--said that they planned to seize about $850 million worth of collateral assets from Bear Stearns and sell them on the open market. Reuters reported Bear Stearns injected $1.5 billion of cash into the troubled CDO funds. Meanwhile we read that the head of the European Central Bank, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, and about 250 other international banking executives planned to meet at a "Financial Stability Forum" on June 23 & 24 at BIS headquarters in Bale, Switzerland. Much of their conversation will surely center on the derivatives traders, especially the Bear Stearns hedge funds. The results of the BIS meeting? Uncertain. The bottom line: Be ready. Minimize your exposure to market fluctuations. Diversify into precious metals. Minimize you exposure to U.S. dollars. Any U.S. dollar-denominated investment should be specially selected to be resistant to inflation.

Taxpayers ...it's our money that the US Gov'ment uses to bail out PRIVATE financial instituation who they deem to be "too big to fail" Chrysler Motors" ... don't buy into the idea that when the Federal Reserve steps in to "facilitate" a consortium of "private investment companies" to bail out other failing companies that it doesn't afffect your return on investment..it does...
My personal favorite was the saving of "Long Term Capital Management" a private investment company for the ultra rich, headed by two Nobel prize winners in Economics ...it failed but was deemed too big to do so ..it was bailed out.

Oops, I forgot to mention (seems impossible with this mornings output doesn't it?)

When you are investing and see the term "High Yield", or in the above example "Bear Stearns High-Grade Structured Credit Strategies Enhanced Leverage Fund" and the "High Grade Structured Credit Strategies Fund"-- RUN, RUN FAR RUN FAST. These are the RISKY investment that mesmerize the unwary when the broker shows them a chart that looks like a moon launch....well eventually those booster rockets or in the case of staged rockets falls away, empty of fuel and crash back to earth.

In any event I just odered from Blockbuster

1. On the Beach
2. Seven Days in May
3. Gallippoli

plus 300 days worth of MRE's

Will look at it with the cerebrum set on full red alert, and no doubt benefit by your recommendation.

After watching "On the Beach" (my mother could have been Ava Gardners twin)
and
"Seven Days in May",

I'll be ready for some light hearted Gallioplli ..then a nice Hemlock cocktail.

Naw, I'll just rerun the start of Baywatch over and over and over ......

Phoenix,
I wish I could give you advice but I am a licensed securities broker and you are not my client, consequently I am prohibited from offering investment advice to you.

Rules,rules ,rules