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Wednesday, March 31, 2010

A QUESTION ABOUT PASSOVER FOR OUR JEWISH BRETHEREN

Being Christian, we worship a Jew as Lord Jehovah God. And we believe that hatred of the Jewish people is hatred of Jesus Himself. We are reallly chagrined at so-called "Christians" who call Jews "Christ-killers"; as it was a Roman judge who gave the sentence and Roman soldiers that carried it out. So this post is not meant in an offensive way.

What we would like to know is this: The whole point of matzoh is that the Hebrews ate unleavened bread because there was no time to let the dough rise; seeing as how they were going to have to get the hell out of Egypt fast, before Pharoah changed his mind. We rather doubt that they spent a week scrubbing down the house to make sure there was no yeast around, they just roasted that lamb fast and slapped that dough down on the oven. Let alone have a Rabbi supervise the harvesting of the wheat and the milling.

Oh, we are sure that the cleaning rituals bring family and community together, and that is a good thing. But it seems to run contrary to the commandment given to the Hebrew slaves to hurry the heck up. Wouldn't it be just as according to Moses to just mix the dough and immediately bake it?

We understand most of the origins of Kosher laws. For instance, no cheeseburgers. This stems from the Commandment "thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk". To make absolutely certain that the milk or cheese used in a meat/dairy dish did not come from the meat animal's mother, you use separate sets of crockery and dishes. But it seems to us a long way between "don't wait for the bread to rise" and "make absolutely certain there is no yeast within five miles of you".

We are not asking you to cease and desist, far from it. According to our St. Paul "Unto them (the Jews) were entrusted the Oracles of God".

Just curious. You may respond in "comments".

Saturday, March 27, 2010

ESSAY: The Rise and (inpending) Fall of the Gun Control Movement in the United States of America.

Recent events regarding the open carrying of firearms in public have erupted into a national news story regarding a chain of coffee houses which has decided to allow the carry of firearms when and where allowed in public by the laws of the jurisdiction in which a particular establishment is located. Those who would like to see handguns in particular and all firearms in general banned from private posession are accordingly infuriated.



I grew up in the American Midwest, being born in 1953, What follows are my observations only. While I am not going to cite a bunch of "studies" and include footnotes, I think one does not need to consult a thermometer to determine that one needs a jacket. And indeed much of the anti-firearms argument is based not on fact, but rather on emotion. What follows here is an attempt to show, first; how these emotions came to the forefront, and second; how it came to be that issues are decided as much or more by feelings rather than fact.





Blather and myth about taming the "Wild West" by banning handguns aside, the first major incursion on Second Amendment rights in this country was during Prohibition when, before the government finally figured out that Prohibition itself was to blame for drive-by maachine gunnings, decided to blame the Thompson submachinegun , which at the time could be purchased at a general store along with a bag of fertilizer and a hoe. Yes, make something illegal and the criminals will be stymied. (It didn't work, of course). But right up until Lee Harvey Oswald asassinated JFK, you could send a check to Sears and a couple weeks later have the U.S. Postal Service deliver the rifle, pistol, revolver, or shotgun of your choice right to your door. In 1964 a Federal law was passed, and has since been expanded upon, which changed the way in which firearms were obtained. In 1934 this law would never have had a chance of passage. What prepped the American psyche to accept the Gun Control Act of 1964? The basic answer is three words: World War Two.



The Second World War was - compared to the First World War, which was largely a European conflict - a truly global conflagration replete with unspeakable horrors. It was hard-fought against truly fanatic and evil enemies, and ended with two uses of a new and terrible weapon: the nuclear bomb. Over four hundred thousand Americans lost their lives in that struggle. In terms of percentage of population, it would be as if we spent today four years in a conflict that cost two million American lives.



The end of that war was greeted with jubilation; and the United States of America was suddenly a world power. To commemorate this, an American journalist and writer made a production called "On a Note of Triumph" chronicling the epic struggle and victory. He closed the production with a poem called "PRAYER"; which here I will cite in its entirety (THIS WORK IS COPYRIGHTED AND USED NOT FOR PROFIT OR GAIN):





PRAYER


(Copyright Norman Corwin)



OH LORD GOD OF TRAJECTORY AND BLAST,


Whose Sword has laid open the Serpent so that it withers in the sun for the Just to see;


Sheath now thy swift avenging blade writ with the Names of Nations,


And assist in the preparation of the Ploughshare.




LORD GOD OF FRESH BREAD AND TRANQUIL MORNINGS;


Who walks among the circuits of Heaven with the Worthy,


Serve notice to the fallen young men


That tokens of orange juice and a whole egg appear now before the hungry children;


That night once again falls cooling upon the earth as quietly as when it leaves Your Hand;


That Freedom has withstood the tyrant like a Malta in a hostile sea,


And that surely the Soul of Man is like a Sevastopol which goes down hard and springs up quickly from ruin.




LORD GOD OF THE TOPCOAT AND THE LIVING WAGE;


Who furred the fox against the time of winter


And stored provender of bees in the brightest places of summer;


Do bring sweet influences to bear upon the assembly line'


Accept the smoke of the milltown among the accredited clouds of the sky;


Fend from the wind with a house and a hedge him who You made in Your Image;


And permit him to pick of the tree and the flock


That he may eat today without fear of tomorrow


And clothe himself with dignity in December.




LORD GOD OF TEST TUBE AND BLUEPRINT;


Who joined the molecules of dust and shook them until their name was Adam;


Who taught worms and stars how they could live together;


Appear now in the parliaments of conquerors and give instruction to their schemes,


Measure out new liberties so that none shall suffer for his father's color or the credo of his choice;


Post proofs that Brotherhood is not so wild a dream as those who prosper by postponing it pretend;


Sit at the treaty table and convoy the hopes of the little people through expected straits,


And press into the final seal a sign that Peace will come for longer than posterities can see ahead;


That Man unto his fellow Man shall be a friend forever.









And Amen, say I even today. That poem neatly and eloquently encapsulated the feelings of the American people. Enough bad, enough violence, let's try - with God's help - to do good and not evil. Bread and sunrises trump trajectory and blast every time. And prosper we did, and the largest increase in births this nation has ever known - the "Baby Boom" - gave us a larger, younger population than any other industrialized country on Earth. I am one of those kids, all grown up now.





Our parents wanted a better life for us, one in which we would not have to worry about war nor be in danger of poverty. Noble motives, those; but their execution led to a generation with a large percentage of spoiled brats.





Many families, the adults sick of war and killing, would not allow firearms in the home. Surely, the reasoning went, with our new prosperous society we could train and pay professional police officers to protect us and our property. Surely, if science could construct a horror such as the nuclear bomb; then science could develop means of never again having to use violence. Those who bought into this flawed reasoning were the first "anti-gun" people; and their motives - although not their reasoning - were good. There were, however, those whose motives were not so good.



Almost immediately after World War II began the "Cold War" between the "Communist Bloc" and the Western allies. The basic Communist plan was to weaken the United States from within, to make her citizens soft and reliant on their government, and thus less likely to treasure their freedoms. The dark plotters of World Communism were not the only folks to use this strategy, though. Politicians saw that getting the electorate "free" goodies and "taking care" of them could translate into mega-votes. And it was quickly noted that - as in Prohibition - pointing out an inanimate object and villifying it was easier than actually going after the "root causes". So instead of encouraging community involvement (who had time for that?) the drumbeat grew to get rid of firearms.

A populace whose members were weary of war and viloence proved amenable to some local bans, but nationally extreme abrogation of the Second Amendment was not all that popular. Meanwhile the Communists were frustrated at our stymieing of their efforts to conquer Korea and other places. They knew that, as Mao Tse-Tung said, "Political power grows from the barrel of a gun". And American guns stood between them and world conquest. Consequently the goal of the American left became to instill a revulsion toward firearms in the populace. But there was not a sufficient catalyst to get the ball rolling until November 22nd 1963.

The assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy by Lee Harvey Oswald, who used a mail-order Mannlicher-Carcano bolt action rifle for the deed, resulted in the Gun Control Act of 1964. The killings of Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King spurred further calls for legislation and restrictions. The result of these restrictions was an increase in crime in major cities, which responded by enacting local gun bans. In the case of Chicago, New York, and Washington, D.C; these bans were absolute or nearly so as regarded handguns for common citizens. And the result was that citizens were turned into unarmed prey for criminals who - rather famously - do not care a fig for the law.

However, by the 1980s people began to wise up. They were sick and tired of being unarmed victims, and several states passed "shall issue" requirements for concealed carry permits. The leftist media screamed that blood would run in the streets, but quite the opposite happened. Also, persons in states such as Virginia and Vermont where a citizen could carry openly almost anywhere with no permit required did so increasingly. The most copious flow of innocent blood was in those places where the strictest bans remained in effect. This was blamed on the easy availability of firearms in the states that had no such restrictions. To call this argument specious is to call the Pacific Ocean "damp".

Today more and more states and jurisdictions are recognizing the "bear" part of "to keep and bear arms". We presently have as "president" an avowed "anti" who still signed into law a bill authorizing carry of firearms in National Parks (where authorized by the laws of the host State). Predictably, the Leftist media has been screaming about an incipient "bloodbath". It hasn't happened and it won't; except maybe a trail rapist might wind up getting penetrated himself - by his victim's Ladysmith revolver.

The hokum and twaddle the anti-gun movement uses to foist their views off on the public has been exposed, and continues to be. Bread and sunrises are indeed preferable. But sometimes, God forbid, but sometimes what one needs (if one wants to live) are trajectory and blast.

Monday, March 22, 2010

THIS IS NOT OVER BY A LONG SHOT

WITH THE PASSAGE OF THE SO-CALLED "OBAMACARE" BILL, (Which was originally sent to the Senate by the House as a bill for tax credits for homeowners in order to enable the IRS as an enforcemant agency) this Congress and this "Administration" have crossed the line.

Perhaps the most egregious sin in this dog's breakfast of abuses is the "individual mandate" requiring all Americans to buy health insurance, or else. The justification for this is the "Interstate Commerce Clause" and a Supreme court ruling that insurance is "Interstate Commerce" and so - by the DemonRatz' lights - they may "regulate" it by FORCING PEOPLE TO BUY IT.

THIS IS NAKED ABUSE OF POWER AND LEGISLATIVE FRAUD.

Virginia is poised to file a lawsuit against this as soon as "President" Obama signs it.

Enjoy that champagne you toasted with last night, Ratz. This isn't over, and it will not be until this bill is dead and you are out of office. Assholes.

Sunday, March 21, 2010

THIS MAY EXPLAIN HIOW WE WOUND UP WITH OBAMA, PPELOSI AND REID

THIS MORNING WE EXPERIENCED SOME TROUBLE WITH TH TAXICAB, So we decided to get on the net and do a few things.

It crossed our mind that it might be amusing to googlle "poop a doop". So we did. 105,000 hits came up. Really. For "poop a doop".

One guy even has a blog called "Poop There It Is" wherein he discusses the color and consistency of his - well, you know; as well as the food combinagtions tht produced those characteristics. Believe us, there are some things we don't want to know.

Cripes. No wonder we are in trouble.

Friday, March 19, 2010

THE INFERNAL REVENOOERS ARE SET TO HIRE AGENTS TO ENFORCE MANDATORY HEALTH INSURANCE!

ONE ASPECT OF THE "OBAMACARE" BILL WHICH THE DEMON-RATZ HOPE YOU WILL IGNORE IS THAT IT IS ACTUALLY JUST A TAX BILL. THERE WILL BE TAXES ON "MEDICAL DEVICES" (WHATEVER THOSE ARE, AND IT COULD MEAN JUST ABOUT ANYTHING - READING GLASSES, CRUTCHES, CANES-) ; AND THERE WILL ALSO BE A TAX LAID ON THSE WHO DO NOT PURCHASE INSURANCE COVERAGE IN AMOUNTS AND CONDITIONS SPECIFIED BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. THE INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE IS SET TO HIRE THOUSANDS OF NEW AGENTS IN ORDER TO FACILITATE THIS VILE DEMON-RAT PLAN TO EAT OUT OUR SUBSTANCE AND WRECK THE ECONOMY.

For those of you who are new to this blog, we pointed out earlier that although this bill is called a "Senate Bill"; it is actually a bill that originated in the House. Since most people know that taxes have to originate in the House, they do not see the threat posed by the so-called "Senate Bill". The way this was done was that the House Ways and Means committee wrote up a bill, got it past the House, and sent it to the Senate; where the House language was stripped out and the Senate language inserted. See the foul little trick?

If this turkey gets passed and signed into law; and is challenged on whatever grounds, the Ratz will claim it is just another "tax on incomes" authorized by the 16th Amendment. That's the way they got past challenges to Social Security back in the 1930s.

There is really no gentle way to say this. Let this garbage get passed into law, and you will walk around every hour of every day with some Infernal Revenooer's finger stuck in your ass. Don't like that idea? Get busy calling, writing, and Emailing and faxing your congressional representative.

YOUR FREEDOM IS AT STAKE. DO NOT BE MISLEAD!

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

DON'T BE FOOLED BY THE "SLAUGHTER RULE" VOTE!!

NOT BEING ABLE TO GET ENOUGH DEMOCRAT CONGRESSPERSONS TO COMMIT POLITICAL SUICIDE BY VOTING OUTRIGHT FOR "OBAMACARE", PELOSI AND THE DEMONRATZ HAVE ENGINEERED A SMOKESCREEN FOR THEM TO HIDE BEHIND. IT IS CALLED THE "SLAUGHTER RULE", AND IT IS POLITICAL FRAUD WRIT LARGE.

The "Slaughter rule" was cooked up in the House Rules Committee. Here's how this little trick is supposed to work:

FIRST, a slate of amendments to the "Senate bill" will be voted on BUT
the "Rule for Debate" on this will limit debate to the amendments and NOT the "Senate Bill" and;

SECOND, the "rule" stipulatess that if the amendments are passed, then the "Senate Bill" will be "deemed" to have passed and will be sent to "president" Obama to sign into law, thus

THIRD, allowing Democrat reps who are concerned about their constituents' loud, strident and adamant opposition to this "Obamacare" crap to tell them that they did not vote for Obamacare, when of course the so totally did.

You Congressional staffers who read this had better tell your bosses that people like me are wising people up right and left. The voters are not going to be fooled by this lame excuse in November.

Vote for this, and you're fired.

Thursday, March 11, 2010

CHCANERY, FRAUD AND ABUSE

OBAMA AND THE DEMON-RATZ HAVE SAID THAT ONE WAY THEY WILL "PAY FOR" THIS OBAMACARE FARCE IS BY ELIMINATING "WASTE, FRAUD, AND ABUSE" FROM THE MEDICARE PROGRAM. WE THINK IT ONLY REASONABLE TO ASK WHY IN HELL THEY HAVE NOT BEEN BEAVERING AWAY AT THIS ALREADY.

The answer, of course is that they need the waste, etc to keep going so as to give them something to appear to fight against. Meanwhile there is another bed of fraud and abuse which needs to be uprooted. We are referring to the fraud and abuse being used to try and pass this unconstitutional power-grab into law.

The Ratz have changed Senate rules at their convenience to facilitate passage of this mess. They have offered what are tantamount to bribes to Senators to obtain votes. They have harassed and badgered others until finally they got a real piece of work past the Senate.

Now, over in the House, they have run a Member out of office, ostensibly because of ethics violations (which from all accounts are true); but actually because the Member refused to vote for the Senate bill. We speak here of course of Representative Massa, who is turning out to be a real freak with a taste for 20-something young men and not above trying to force the issue with them. But this is the same party which gave Representative Gerry Studds (D-Massachussetts) a STANDING OVATION after he was - not expelled - but CENSURED for having sexual relations with a SEVENTEEN YEAR OLD MALE PAGE. This is the same party whose current Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi once marched hand-in-hand with an advocate of the North American Man-Boy Love Association. This is the party of Barney Frank, who allowed a younger male lover to operate a whorehouse out of the apartment they shared on Capitol Hill; whose "boyfriend" was a key figure at FNMA while they were helping create the sub-prime crisis. Oh, you can be a complete homosexual lecher and get away with it, so long as (1) they need your vote and (2) you provide it.

As a matter of fact, you can do whatever you damn well please and be A-OK with Obama, Pelosi, Reid et al as long as you meet the above conditions. Charley Rangel, Chairman of the House ways and Means Committee - which writes the TAX LAWS - is under the spotlight (and has been for some time) for violations of the very laws he subjects everyone else to, but up until a few days ago remained Chairman. He was asked to "temporarily" step down; but they are going to wait to throw him completely under the bus until he has rendered his vote on the healthcare boondoggle.

And now, since even with all this chicanery, force, and fraud; they still cannot seem to garner enough votes in the House to pass the Senate bill, they are mulling a parliamentary maneuver wherein the House Rules Committee will propose a change in the rules which will if adopted "deem" the Senate package to be passed.

We have been around for a while and we have never in our life seen such a spectacle. Fraud and abuse? November of this year will see a chance to eliminate it. It is the purpose of this blog and of every patriot to elect sufficient Republican Conservative majorities to both Houses to (1) repeal this nonsense if it is passed and to (2) IMPEACH, TRY, CONVICT AND REMOVE "President" Barack Hussein Obama from office.

Keep pushng, Ratz. Keep pushing.

Thursday, March 4, 2010

OH PLEASE LORD NO. NOT THAT HEALTHCARE CRAP AGAIN.

WITH THE ELECTION OF SCOTT BROWN TO THE SENATE SEAT FORMERLY HELD BY TED KENNEDY, and particularly because he waxed her yenta ass good in a liberal-schmiberal state; and generally because of the loss of the DemonRat vaunted "filibuster proof" majority; we thought that "Obamacare" was dead in the water.

WE SHOULD HAVE KNOWN BETTER. Even though the polling indicates that 75% of the American electorate wants this bullcrap to die, the Ratz keep going. Why?

BECAUSE THEY ARE AFTER ABSOLUTE POWER OVER EVERY ASPECT OF EVERY AMERICAN INDIVIDUAL'S LIFE.. Obamacare was compared by Rush Limbaugh to the third ring in "Lord of the Rings" which would complete the set giving the posessor absolute power. Rush compared the Ratz to the villain in that trilogy, who went completely nutso trying to get that last ring. With the power Obamacare would give the Ratz, they could control what you eat, wear, drink, and smoke. They could at last realize their wet dream of disarming the People by decalring privately-owned firearms a "health hazard". A whole new layer of government offices and employees could be created to eat out the substance of the people. There is much more, but this is a sinister design on our freedoms. No wonder they are so adamant in the face of such great public opposition.

And this and the other expenses they are laying on our Nation threaten to bankrupt this country. And this is Hoyle according to Alinsky, who said that to effect radical change the common folk have to be rendered impoverished and desperate. (Obama has a Public Service ad out urging people to volunteer to become "Part of America's New Foundation". The Nation was founded on the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. What is this "New Foundation" shit? Treason, that's what.)

WELL, EVERYBODY THOUGHT THAT THE UBAMANISTA JUGGERNAUT HAD BEEN STOPPED BY THE ELECTION OF BROWN. Too bad we did not realize (or remember) that the DemonRatz consider rules to be valid only when they suit their purposes. Otherwise they change or just flat ignore them. Now the crap has started up again with the Ratz trying to get around the filibuster by various end-runs and corny, hokey tricks such as having a bunch of "doctors and nurses" (who were given white smocks and OR scrub suits to wear by the White House staff) as an audience for a recitation of lies and half truths by "president" Obama in support of this debacle.

All we at the Alexandria Daily Poop can say is, that when this debate began in earnest we were in big financial trouble driving a cab for a living as people were scared and held onto their money; and when Scott Brown was elected the business picked up dramatically within days. Now this crap is starting up again, and people are beginning to notice the boss's attitude start to swing toward having to lay some people off, and they are starting to hoard their money again. Oh well. The good news is that come November, the Ratz are toast.

The bad news is, we may not last that long.

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