Ann Barnhardt
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
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Where I give you my slightly quirky opinion, and you can give me yours, as long as you're man or woman enough to be civil and control your language.
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About Me
- Joe
- I was born in Miami, Florida, the son of an Air Force officer, traveled the world, was saved at age 17, and have served the Lord since. That's me on the left and my lovely wife, Bonnie...the pretty one...on the right.
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1. Absolutely no foul language (including the use of asterisks). If you are not man or woman enough to control your language, you are not welcome here...go somewhere else.
2. I am not looking for strings of commenters arguing with each other, so confine your comments to the topic at hand and address your comments to me, unless you can be exceptionally gracious and polite.
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4. Within the scope of those rules, you may feel free to have fun here (I sure will). Sarcasm, wit, half-wit, nit-wit, parody, satire, puns (especially puns), etc. are encouraged.
FOUR PRINCIPLES THAT DEFINE TRUE CONSERVATISM:
1. Respect for The Constitution
2. Respect for Life
3. The Smallest Possible Government
4. Individual Responsibility
This blog is about my philosophy of government, which is a very conservative philosophy.
You are not required to agree with me (although you would be better off if you did).
I am biased toward conservatism, and make no apologies for that.
Freedom means not being controlled by the government, that being the very reason we declared our independence from Great Britain.
2. I am not looking for strings of commenters arguing with each other, so confine your comments to the topic at hand and address your comments to me, unless you can be exceptionally gracious and polite.
3. Since this is my blog, I am the sole arbiter of what can be placed on this blog. My decisions are final and without recourse. All anonymous comments, unsigned, will be deleted, as will ad hominem attacks against me or others.
4. Within the scope of those rules, you may feel free to have fun here (I sure will). Sarcasm, wit, half-wit, nit-wit, parody, satire, puns (especially puns), etc. are encouraged.
FOUR PRINCIPLES THAT DEFINE TRUE CONSERVATISM:
1. Respect for The Constitution
2. Respect for Life
3. The Smallest Possible Government
4. Individual Responsibility
This blog is about my philosophy of government, which is a very conservative philosophy.
You are not required to agree with me (although you would be better off if you did).
I am biased toward conservatism, and make no apologies for that.
Freedom means not being controlled by the government, that being the very reason we declared our independence from Great Britain.
Government's job is not to provide things for people, but to provide the opportunity for people to persue the things they want via the vehicles of freedom and responsibility.
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- Contact Your Congressperson
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- Darwin's God
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- Gateway Pundit
- Heritage Foundation
- Hot Air
- Insta Pundit
- Joe's Jottings (My Other Blog)
- Kingdom FM Christian Radio
- Mark Levin
- Michelle Malkin
- News Max
- NewsBusters
- On Racism & Republicans
- Politico
- Real Clear Politics
- Right Scoop, The
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- Sean Hannity
- WINK News Radio
- Wall Builders (A Web Site)
- Weekly Standard
- What's Happening in Congress
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WHY I CALL HIM "PRESIDENT BO"
I call him "President" out of respect for the office. I call him "BO" (as in Body Odor) because his agenda stinks.
I also refer to him as our "Acting President."
I also refer to him as our "Acting President."
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12 comments:
But she can promise us it's $100,000,000,000,000. Just how has she managed that?
Is it possible to listen to her for a full 20 minutes?
Does she ever change wardrobe?
#1. Where does the Constitution say that the federal government is obligated to provide "entitlements" to citizens?
#2. Before Obama took office, how many times did you use the word "trillion" in a sentence, other than when you were discussion astronomy -- or bacteria.
"Promote the general welfare".
Next. That one was so easy even a fringe right winger should have known it.
THANK YOU for posting this! I'm very glad I found your blog!!
Steve
Common Cents
http://www.commoncts.blogspot.com
Hey Ducky: Was the operative verb "Provide" or Promote?"
Are they synonyms?
Ducky: "Is it possible to listen to her for a full 20 minutes?"
People with half a brain can.
Why, I managed to listed twice to make sure I got what she was saying.
Gosh, Ducky. I must have at least half a brain.
Don't you wish everybody did?
Come on Joe, you get the drift. She claims SHE KNOWS the true figure of indebtedness is 100 trillion. Just like she knows there is no music in Muslim countries.
The woman is a kook and it's tough to slog through the poo to get at what little fact she may luck upon.
Provide or promote?
Well if you want to be a pedant you take it into court and they decide. If they go your way, they're righteous. If not, they're activist judges.
We pretty much know the drill, Joe.
Ducky: "Provide or promote?"
Either words have meaning or there is no way to communicate with understnding.
Liberals think words mean whatever they want them to mean.
Marraige, for instance, which for all of human history meant the legal union of a man and a woman, now can refer to the union of two men, two women, a man and a dog, a cat and a woman or whatever you want it to mean.
Now we need a new word for the union of a man and a woman, or else we don't know what we're speaking of.
"Provide" is a "do" word, while "promote" is an advertising or encouragement word.
They have two different meanings, and "promote" had a very, very specific meaning when it was included in the preamble.
'Only in the context of a proposition has a word a meaning.'
--- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ducky: Ludwig was correct in general, but dictionaries exist to help us know the meaning of words in and/or out of context.
The word "dog" cannot mean a large aluminum tube that transports people through the air (unless you put it in the context of "The DC 6 was a real dog to fly.")
In the preamble, the context demands that "promote" mean just that. I cannot mean "provide" in either the context of the preamble or the Constitution as a whole.
"Provide for the common defense," on the other hand, means exactly that, by context of position and the whole.
The Constitution empowers the government to promote welfare and to provide defense.
Liberals love to adjust words to mean what they want them to mean.
For instance, The First Amendment prohibits the federal government from impinging on the freedom of "an establishment," and does not prohibit "the establishment."
That's the difference between a noun and a verb.
Liberals like to overlook that distinction, because they like to adjust the Constitution to their agenda.
Truth be known, liberals don't like our Constitution, because they object to its reason for being.
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