Showing posts with label Donald Trump. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Donald Trump. Show all posts

Monday, October 28, 2024

A Woman's Choice

 It seems to this blogger that the election is coming down to women's choices. 

Which do you want more:

A.) To be safe (and to have your daughters/mothers/wives/etc safe) from having to share locker rooms/bathrooms with men and having to compete against males in sports?

B.) To be able to legally kill your unborn baby?

Vote accordingly.

"I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:" ~ Deuteronomy 30:19

Sunday, October 27, 2024

Definition of Fascism

 "...

The old dictionary defined fascism as being a “system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, and a capitalist economy subject to stringent governmental controls.”  That last part was the important part.  Fascism, like socialism, seeks to control the means of production, but rather than owning the means of production like socialism/communism would, fascism seeks to control the means of production with severe control over the private sector through heavy regulations.

Let’s stop for a moment and think about which political party in America supports heavy regulation over corporations and industry, and which party believes in small government and reducing governmental regulations against the business sector.

..." ~ Douglas V. Gibbs

Read the rest of this essay here:

https://www.douglasvgibbs.com/definition-of-fascism/

Tuesday, November 7, 2017

NOAA Facts Forum Parts 8-14 The Q and A

My apologies both for the delay in posting the remaining videos and for the lack of captioning.


 These videos are the questions that the public in attendance at this meeting had for the speakers.



In spite of the fact that this effort has been ongoing for a number of years, many of these people - including this blogger - had only found out about the proposal to create a National Marine Sanctuary out of the part of Lake Michigan that are adjacent to this section of shoreline(at least for now - who knows how much of Lake Michigan NOAA wants under it's jurisdiction? ) in March of this year.
     

That is not due to a lack of effort on the part of NOAA and etc, but to the fact that most people don't have the time to keep tabs on the machinations of federal government agencies. Most have other, more immediate interests - until those interests are directly threatened. And that is where we are today.


The waters of  Lake Michigan are shared with the state of Michigan. The Wisconsin half belongs to the people of Wisconsin. The federal government wants to control it and this is one way they can do that. By tempting the people of Wisconsin to give up responsibility for our half of the lake to NOAA for this "good" cause - even though we are already preserving those shipwrecks. We don't need to give up our sovereignty of our half of Lake Michigan to do that.


Freedom and responsibility are two sides of the same coin. You cannot spend one without giving up the other.


Those who rose to question the proposal all made good points. This blogger, however, opposes the establishment of a National Marine Sanctuary on the constitutional principle that the federal government is constitutionally limited to owning/exercising sovereign control over forts, ports and ten square miles. The federal government is not to exercise ownership like control over the states. As mentioned earlier in this series states like Nevada have given up their sovereignty over so much of their land to the federal government that it is laughable to even call them a state.

From Article 1, Section 8, this is what the US Constitution says:
" To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings;" 

There is already a Coast Guard station in Sheboygan. It is across the street from where this meeting was held. 


"And it came to pass after these things, that Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard, which was in Jezreel, hard by the palace of Ahab king of Samaria.

2 And Ahab spake unto Naboth, saying, Give me thy vineyard, that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it is near unto my house: and I will give thee for it a better vineyard than it; or, if it seem good to thee, I will give thee the worth of it in money.

3 And Naboth said to Ahab, The Lord forbid it me, that I should give the inheritance of my fathers unto thee."~ 1 Kings 21:1-3



Monday, May 23, 2016

Bedtime for the #NeverTrump Anger Babies - INTELLECTUAL FROGLEGS

If the GOP did not want to have someone like Mr. Trump as the presumptive nominee, then perhaps they should have done a better job of actually standing up for conservative principles instead of bargaining them away in the name of that lopsided bipartisanship in which we lose principled positions while the left gains yet another incremental step towards their overarching goals. The best way to gain trust is to be trustworthy and the GOP has not been.


How can I say that the GOP has not stood up for principle or been trustworthy? As a woman, I now have to risk my safety when I use a public restroom because I can no longer ask to have men removed from the ladies room.

At least not until that man has already done me harm.