A Very Good Article On The State Of Our Union

And by “good” I of course mean sad

Haunting this year’s presidential contest is the sense that the U.S. government no longer belongs to the people and no longer represents them. And this uneasy feeling is not misplaced. It reflects the real state of affairs.

We have lost the government we learned about in civics class, with its democratic election of representatives to do the voters’ will in framing laws, which the president vows to execute faithfully, unless the Supreme Court rules them unconstitutional. That small government of limited powers that the Founders designed, hedged with checks and balances, hasn’t operated for a century. All its parts still have their old names and appear to be carrying out their old functions. But in fact, a new kind of government has grown up inside the old structure, like those parasites hatched in another organism that grow by eating up their host from within, until the adult creature bursts out of the host’s carcass. This transformation is not an evolution but a usurpation.

What has now largely displaced the Founders’ government is what’s called the Administrative State—a transformation premeditated by its main architect, Woodrow Wilson. The thin-skinned, self-righteous college-professor president, who thought himself enlightened far beyond the citizenry, dismissed the Declaration of Independence’s inalienable rights as so much outmoded “nonsense,” and he rejected the Founders’ clunky constitutional machinery as obsolete. (See “It’s Not Your Founding Fathers’ Republic Any More,” Summer 2014.) What a modern country needed, he said, was a “living constitution” that would keep pace with the fast-changing times by continual, Darwinian adaptation, as he called it, effected by federal courts acting as a permanent constitutional convention.

read the whole thing and have a depressing weekend.

(via the sidebar at Ace’s)

Remember ~ REPUBLICANS Are the Dysfunctional Ones

And ALL THIS happened before NOON on JUST THE FIRST DAY

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How About Something CHEERFUL? A Memory From When America Was NUMBER 1?!

Do you remember what happened today many…MOONS ago?

The EAGLE FRICKIN’ LANDED
And the crowds went WILD!

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How about a little song to savor the moment.

Let’s pause just for a second and revel in pure, unadulterated CONQUEST like it USED to be, when we could be PROUD of being the BEST at GOD DAMNED EVERYTHING…before the day goes to shit again, shall we?

Plagiarism!

Honestly if I had written that and someone stole it I would never call them out; I’d be too embarrassed to be associated with such banal pablum.

Real Courage

And no, you don’t show it by moving to Canada when someone you don’t like wins

What Happened To The Signers Of The Declaration?

A wonderful reminder of folks who actually had Sacred Honor.

(hat tip to Insta)

Happy Birthday to the FINEST COUNTRY ON EARTH, EVER

Happy Fourth of July, my fellow Americans!

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Public Service Announcement: Dr. Alice Wants to Know

…what everyone’s cooking for the Fourth.

I’ve got Chilton County peaches with blueberries crumble top pie in the oven right now and major dad is smoking ribs. Pictures shortly.

Hot dogs tomorrow.

What’re YOU guys doing? If you’ve got pictures, email me. I’ll put ’em up.

Chilton County Peaches with Blueberries Pah

Chilton County Peaches with Blueberries Pah

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