Following a statement declaring our rights to govern ourselves and stating where those rights come from, the Declaration of Independence enumerates a long list of grievances which the people had against their government in England.  I think that it is time that we write another list of grievances which we, the people, have against our current government.

I have begun the list here with a few of my items.  I know that this is but a small fraction.  If you have items feel free to add them by responding in the comments.  Perhaps we will then compile them in the form of a petition to our government and send it around for signatures.  Add your items to the list!!

Grievances which the people of United States have against their Government:

1. It has extorted personal property in order to give it to others through taxation for the intent of redistributing wealth.
2. It has perpetrated the largest Ponzi scheme in history in the name of Social Security by extorting funds from the population claiming these would be held for retirement all the while absconding these funds to squander on political pork projects to enhance its own power while expecting future generations to cover the void.
3. Members of all branches have violated their oath to uphold and defend the constitution by enacting and signing laws that are not constitutional.
4. The executive branch has appointed officers without the consent and approval of the Senate.
5. The executive branch has initiated legislation, an action not enumerated to the executive branch.
6. It has established bureaucracies with authority beyond any single branch of government,  ie. the separation of powers enumerated in the constitution has been ignored and a single bureaucracy has been empowered to make rules, enforce rules and levy punishments without due process.  Numerous bureaucracies have been established with this power.
7. It has usurped the rights of states by subverting the interstate commerce clause. {This is a biggie folks…the government has gotten away with so much  nonsense just by purporting that it falls under this clause}.
8. It has usurped the rights of states by assuming upon itself powers not enumerated in the constitution which are therefore “reserved to the states and to the people”.
9. The Legislative Branch has allowed the Executive branch to usurp powers from it.
10. The Judicial Branch has usurped Legislative powers.
11. It has allowed the establishment of a central bank, not authorized by the constitution.
12. It has violated the constitution by subverting personal property rights through enacting environmental laws which prohibit the free use of ones own property.

–Commodore

{Another great post from my Dad, Commodore. I chose the picture above. I know it is probably a little disrespectful, but let’s be honest, I don’t have any respect for Obama or his policies, or his lack of values and integrity.  ~journalista}

Thanks for reading. All comments welcome and we’d love to hear your grievances!

I am please to bring you a guest post today. Submitted by my Dad, who writes under the name of Commodore, (and who is NOT a slumlord, for those of you who misread the previous post about housing). Enjoy!

Insights into The Declaration of Independence

If you have read the Declaration of Independence then you know that in the second paragraph it states:

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed”.

There are so many topics that could be discussed based on just these two sentences alone. But what I would like to point out is that our liberty comes from our Creator, not from our Government!! There are many in our government that would have us believe that there is no Creator, in which instance then, our Creator could not have endowed us with Life and Liberty. And it follows then that these things must come from our Government which becomes the benefactor of all things.

The second sentence states that Government derives its powers from us, the people. You can argue that if our Creator did not give us our rights and liberty and that they actually come from our Government then powers must flow from the Government to the People as well and not the other way around.

You can see the motivation of our government to discredit the existence of a Creator. If they can do that then they discredit the authority of the People.

When government receives it powers from the people it acts as a limiting force upon government. If government receives its authority from the people then government can not possess any authority that the people themselves do not possess. The people can not grant authority to the government that they themselves do not have to grant. Yet we see government exercising authority which the people do not have. When you see this happening then you know that government is getting out of control. For example, people do not have the authority to take what belongs to someone else and give it to another or to keep it for themselves. Yet you see this happening all the time by government in the form of redistribution of wealth and in many of the environmental laws which restrict the use of private property.

When we allow the government to destroy our Creator we are simply allowing them to discredit the source of our life, liberty and right to pursue happiness and our right to exercise authority over our own government. Everyone has the right to choose but do not be deceived by the rhetoric of the day. By denying nature’s God you deny your right to freedom and lay your fate at the hands of a government that is swiftly becoming tyrannical.

— here is a link to the Declaration of Independence

-Commodore

Don’t just peer in at the conservatives, open the door, grab a chair and find out what you’re missing!

I’ll have more political insights on Monday, but for now…. I have just one question…

When liberal haters of all things conservative and truth-based take their time reading my blog, and writing nonsense in the comments section, (half of which I delete with out reading), and then hop over to their own blog and write an entire post about me and my post, and my views, and my stories, does that make me famous in the blogosphere?

Sure seems like it… they say there’s no such thing as bad press!

I can certainly tell you that I have better things to do then stalk around crazy liberal blogs where the blogger writes things totally contrary to what I believe in. Who has time for that? Besides, I have no interest in what liberal bloggers have to say.  But they seem to take quite an interest in us conservatives. Is it kind of like them spying on the opposing team’s strategy session before a big game? But usually all they can come up with is “journalista is a bad writer” (like I care what you think…) and “her post infuriated me (lol… maybe you should look at the facts and stop getting so “infuriated”) I don’t really get it, but they continue to cyber-stalk us and our friends, they get infuriated by our posts which I think is totally hilarious, and they leave ridiculous comments, and try to derail the post topic discussion; and then go bad-mouth us on their own blog or their liberal friends’ blogs, and waste even more of their time talking about us over there (sorry, totally a run-on sentence….is that “bad writing?”).

If you’ll notice, liberal-haters-of-conservative-truth can never intelligently argue the real issues, the only thing they can do is launch wanna-be personal attacks and say how insane we are. They always seem never to “get” what exactly we are really posting about, and instead extrapolate all sorts of other ideas for what they think or want the post to be about. Their arguments aren’t based in reality or on facts, it’s all emotional and completely void of logical reasoning and intelligent political theory. Read all you want, comment all you want, just know that we totally know your game.

I ask my liberal readers…where do your liberal values come from? What are they based on?

For me,  my conservative values and beliefs come from my LDS religion, my views on economics and my conservative political ideology. All three of these complement and support each other. I’m not all over the map, I don’t blow around in the wind, I don’t sit on the fence, I don’t change my mind from policy to social program and back again. I am not confused wondering what to vote on this or that , because I have my belief system solidly in place.

So, thanks for the support from all of my conservative, marriage and family, and political blogger friends! You guys are the best. I know most of us have been under attack and it doesn’t really phase us in the least. And for all of the liberal cyber-stalkers and journalista haters…. I’m not writing for you. I’m writing for people who are actually looking for facts and information, and people who want to learn about conservative views and values. Everyone is welcome here, regardless of your political views, just keep an open mind and you might actually learn something new.

Thanks for reading!

~Journalista

{p.s} if you want to get more conservative information, visit my previous posts, my blogger friends’ links in the side bar, and the awesome people at these websites: biggovernment.com, glennbeck.com gatewaypundit.com, breitbart.com

Stolen from my cousin’s facebook post, check this out:

Quiero compartir esto con todos mis amigos ilegales. If you don’t quite understand, than maybe you shouldn’t check out Obama’s new service website. It’s quite confusing in oh so many ways.

http://www.servir.gov/

We are excited to announce the launch of Servir.gov – the Spanish-language companion to Serve.gov. As the nation celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month, this new website will make it easier for Spanish-speakers to find or organize volunteer projects in their communities.

Just what we need, a Spanish version of ACORN, and Obama telling them how to volunteer aka organize! I have to say that it’s amazing that I came out of the Liberal California State University system with a degree in Political Science, unscathed! But in all of my polic sci classes I never once had a lecture on community organizing. In fact, I had never even heard of it until Obama came on the scene. Now we have ACORN. My eyes are wide open! Thanks Glenn!

You’ve got that right! A dot gov website all in Spanish! Are they serious with this? I can not believe that the President is confused about exactly what language we speak in this country…. I’m sure he’s not confused, but he definitely likes to cater to illegal immigrants, give them our money and free health care, while the hardworking and responsible Americans foot the bill for all of it.

I have to admit, I don’t mind them being here. I just think that if they work, they should pay taxes like everyone else. And if they aren’t legal, the government shouldn’t be footing their bill. Living in S. California it’s nice to have someone to clean my house and keep up the yard and help me flip my houses for a really cheap price, and most illegal immigrants that I have  met are really sweet, but I also don’t think that my tax dollars need to go to individuals who broke the law and came to this country illegally. If they’re here illegally, and don’t pay taxes, then they should not benefit from those of us who do put money into the system…I mean, that have our money stolen from us by the government and put into the system.

I believe, as I do about all political things, that the government needs to stick to the writings of the Constitution and that government should be limited. Our governments, state and federal need to stay out of the babysitting-illegal-immigrants business. If health care is going to be provided to non-tax paying individuals, then we need to let capitalism take over. Free health care and other social programs need to come from private charity organizations. They can open and run and fund free clinics and if you don’t have insurance, and if you’re here illegally, and you get sick, you can seek medical care from a private run and funded facility. I’m not saying we shouldn’t be charitable, I’m just saying that the organizations that my money goes to should be MY choice, NOT Obama’s.Those who believe in giving illegal immigrants heath care and other services, should be able to donate their money to those causes. Everyone should not have money stolen for the causes that line the pockets of the politicians friends and eventually their own pockets as well.

What’s wrong with that? Here is my theory, and that of my family: Obama is a communist dictator in disguise right? Yes! So, in order to have us all under the government’s control, they need more people dependent upon them. How do they make us dependent? Make us broke, jobless, and taxed to death and utilizing their social programs.

Because we are taxed to death, we have little discretionary income, and thus less and less of our personal money is being given to charity organizations, the exact same organizations that would be providing free health care to the poor and illegal immigrants. Since non-profit and charity organizations aren’t receiving as much in donations as they could or possibly have in the past, that leaves only one organization to provide these services….the government, how convenient huh? They provide these services with stolen money, money they stole from us. See, the government wants to have their hands in all of these pots, have control over everything, and they are forcing us to pay for it, all the while they reduce our freedoms and increase our dependency on them.

Don’t you think that if you want to give your money to a non-profit/charity illegal immigrant health care facility, that should be your choice? Yeah, it should, but it isn’t because the President of the United States is stealing our money and forcing us to pay for all of these ridiculous, unnecessary and debilitating social programs.

Billions of dollars are Western Union-ed and bank transferred to Mexico each year. That money is not staying here, it is not being taxed, and yet they use our social services, our education system, our health care and crowd up our jails, and in fact are being encouraged to do so by our own government {well, maybe not the jail part}.

The money immigrants send back to their own country is called “remittances.” The following information is provided on the US Immigration Support’s website.

Last year Mexico received more than $17 billion in remittances. The amount of remittances in Mexico exceeds the amount of foreign direct investment in the country.

The majority of the remittances are sent using money transfer companies, but now commercial banks are introducing similar programs which are gaining popularity. Banks like Citibank have started forming partnerships with foreign banks. They have also made it easier for immigrants to open bank accounts by presenting a consulate identification card. At Citibank a remittance of up to $3,000 can be sent for $5 which is significantly lower than what money transfer companies are charging. Bank of America has also introduced a similar program called SafeSend. With this program, remittances can be sent to Mexico at no cost. Customers can transfer money from their checking account and within a few hours the funds are available for pick up in Mexico. Another option is to transfer money to an account of one of Bank of America’s partner banks in Mexico and the funds are available the following day. The customer can simply make a phone call to the bank and request the remittance to be sent. In the process of introducing such programs many banks are hoping to gain new immigrant customers who currently have no bank accounts in the United States. The banks are offering perks like giving out international phone cards or financial education classes to attract immigrants. Other financial institutions like the Federal Reserve also would like to see a greater number of immigrants opening bank accounts so that they can take advantage of services offered by banks and start establishing accounts.

However, one barrier that immigrants often face is that some banks require a Social Security number in order to open a banking account.

No worries there, thanks to Wells Fargo {as reported here}:

It began with Wells Fargo working closely with the Mexican government. But now almost 200 U.S. banks accept the Mexican I.D. card, the matricula consular, as I.D.

But it is clear the U.S. government is, in fact, making it easier to break U.S. immigration laws. Despite the protests of the IRS and anti-terrorism agencies, the Department of Treasury last year allowed banks to accept the matricula consular and to use tax I.D. numbers to open accounts for illegal aliens.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation [FDIC] is encouraging banks to sign up illegal aliens in the banking system, calling the growth of the market “a compelling incentive for U.S. banks to enter this largely untapped market.” And the FDIC program demonstrates that unbanked Latin American immigrants can be brought into the financial mainstream.

If the $17 Billion that illegal immigrants send to Mexico each year was taxed by our government, perhaps these people could start contributing to all of the social services they use. It’s pretty clear that they want illegal immigrants involved in US banking system, so clearly there is a way to track and tax most of that money. The government even has a website for immigration support. I can’t get an SBA Loan, but I could get more help and support if I was an illegal alien, sneaking into this country, breaking the law,using a Mexican ID card to get a bank account and then usurping American social services. Nice! So basically our current government leaders are an “Obamination” and treat the free-loader illegal immigrants better then they do real Americans.

Questions and comments welcome! Tell us what you think!

Source: usimmigrationsupport.org diggersrelm.com

So, the government is trying to convince everyone how much they want to help Americans huh? How helpful was this?

So I had an interesting discussion with my brothers and my Dad today. My Dad has this friend, well actually he’s never met her, but my brother has. She answered the door naked one day when my little bro went over to her apartment to check out an electrical issue. Interesting meeting…… Anyway….

See, she used to be a tenant of my Dad’s in one of his apartment units. Well, she couldn’t make rent, she moved out, found a cheaper place in town, and one day sent my Dad a letter saying that her building had been condemned by the city, and that she had been evicted and had to move by last Sunday. So here’s how the story goes from there:

This lady is divorced, on Social inSecurity, still lives with her ex-husband because he is on Social inSecurity  too and they have to share expenses as a means to get by on what little they have. So, my Dad tells this lady that he has rental property in Indianapolis, and if she can get there, he will let her rent one of his houses. He tells her he won’t charge her for the first little while, and he also won’t charge her a security deposit. The lady decides that’s what they will do. She’s anxious to move away and so they pack up their truck, which the husband drives, she’s driving the car, and they head east to Indianapolis. She has just enough money for gas based on her mileage figures and  she then forwards her SS checks to the new Indy address.

This husband guy has some mental problems and at one point, leaves her at a rest stop in Denver and takes off in the truck with all the stuff. That was the last my Dad heard from her, until today, when she calls from Topeka, KS. Apparently she and the husband meet up again somehow and make their way to KS, where he all of a sudden goes missing….for the past 4 days. The lady files a missing persons report with the police, we never figured out how she lost track of him or if he left again or what, but this woman now has the car and the truck and has been sleeping in a Home Depot parking lot and using their bathroom and phone. The story just goes down hill from there, she can’t find any help, she miscalculated on the gas money situation, she’s stranded and probably scared, and waiting for the police to find her husband. That’s all we know for now…if anyone’s interested I’ll post an update when I get one, but for the point of this post…..

So this all started by the Big Bad Pretend-to-Help-Everyone Government; and what do they do with our tax dollars? First they use them to have lazy government workers stalk around the city all day looking for building code violations and usually harassing property owners unnecessarily. Then they waste more  of the tax payer’s money paying these people to write up and issue citations to property owners explaining what’s wrong with their crappy building or house. The citation goes on to say that the owner has until a certain date to fix said building code violations or else you’ll get fined, etc., etc., etc. (Oh by the way,  Salt Lake City cited my Dad because the lid wasopen on the complex dumpster, apparently that’s a code violation. What? Now property owners need to hire a dumpster monitor to make sure the tenants close the lid every time they dump their trash? Nice…because that’s probably what it will take. What kind of code violation is that anyway?) So now you see the city’s nonsense in checking for “code violations.”

When the code violations are so egregious, (according to the government), they will condemn your property. Then you have to evict all of your tenants and tear down the property, or they will do it for you.

This all goes back to the government, city, state, or federal, staying out of our business. Here you have a building that you own, that nice people live in, and here comes the government saying that people have to move. Why should they have to move if they are perfectly happy living a a building that just happens to be under the city standards. So what if the windows don’t have screens, or the door doesn’t have a separate dead bolt (just some codes in CA for example)? Isn’t that the choice of any American to make, about where and in what conditions they live? Yeah, it should be our choice, not the government’s. If the property owner doesn’t make certain repairs according to the city’s rules, but there are still tenants that want to live there, then that should be absolutely no business of the government’s.

So now we have this lady, (along with who knows how many other people) who can’t find affordable housing, she’s homeless, stranded and scared. Thanks big government for “helping” and forcing her landlord to bulldoze his building, and put all of his tenants out on the street. But the thing is, it wasn’t just the owner’s building that was destroyed, it was this lady’s home, along with other families’ homes as well. The owner bulldozing his building and being forced to pay taxes on an empty, non-income-producing, lot or building new apartments that will be way too expensive for the former tenants, or anyone in their income bracket, is not productive, or helping anyone.

So in the government’s twisted way of allegedly “helping” people, they really aren’t. This scenario is just another way the government is trying to control our lives under the guise of “helping” us. I think it’s pretty typical of the kind of “help” the government purports to give people. How did they help my Dad’s friend? First she had a place to live for the $500 per month including utilities that she could afford, and now she’s homeless, stranded and hopeless. This folks,  is representative of kind of environment that Obama and his cronies are trying to create for us. They want us to be dependent on the government and that gives them the control. They want more people on welfare, more people utilizing their social services and more people giving up their ability to choose for themselves. See the connection to Socialism here?

So I say this building code, bulldozing, homeless deal stacks right up there with Obama and his cronies purporting to want to help you with your end of life issues, and your lack of health care situation, and oh yeah that SBA loan thing, not a chance!!!

{Post Edit} I am in no way promoting slumlords or anything of the like, I am however, trying to demonstrate how the government is always trying to take away our liberties. They want to tell us where we can and can’t live.  They want to impose ridiculous codes and fines on property owners. All as a way to infringe on our freedom and liberties. This post is a demonstration of just another way that the so-called helpful government  makes a bad situation even worse for people.

By now, hopefully you’ve all heard the latest about ACORN’s promotion of prostitution and sexual slavery of underage illegal immigrants. They’re trying to pretend they were set up, and that the tapes were fabricated, but it’s not working….obviously. If you haven’t heard about this scandal and the brave couple who went undercover to expose Acorn for what they really are, check out these videos from biggovernment.com,  and watch Glenn Beck tonight for the latest on the NY tapes.

Click here to see all of their photos and their post. I’ve re-posted a couple here. I think they speak for themselves.

After the 2 million strong conservative freedom rally on 9/12:

source: gatewaypundit.blogspot.com

And, here is the filth left for someone else to clean up after the Inauguration of Barack Obama:

source: gatewaypundit.blogspot.com

Not surprised . . . are we? We sure wouldn’t see this stuff in the newspaper and television media.

A sign from a supporter at the Quincy, IL Rally yesterday. I love it!

I was feeling icky yesterday, so my Dad and my hubby went to The 9/12 Project Rally in Quincy, IL with out me. Here is some info from my Dad about the rally:

We went to the protest rally Saturday in Quincy, Illinois.  It was at the park where the Lincoln/Douglas debates took place.  It was really great with a ton of people there, I’d say about 3 to 5,000.  They had a lot of main stream people there speaking.  One of the best was Andrew Breitbart who is the publisher of Breitbart.com.  He is the one that broke the pimp/prostitute story on Acorn which it helping to bring them down. {Also check out biggoverment.com}  Acron has been fired from the census taking job.  He is also the one that broke a lot of info about the then now resigned green jobs czar Van Jones.

We are making headway.  Our politicians are getting nervous and are starting to run scared and make more mistakes.  Their arrogance continues to astound me but it will be their downfall.   Not too much longer and they will try something desperate like staging an incident that they try to blame on the tea party movement that will  give them an excuse to come down on us.  As we walked up to the rally we heard two guys talking about that subject.  That it would probably eventually come down to bullets but that they would do the first shooting but try to blame it on us.   This is probably the reason that the administration is cutting back on defense, stifling the CIA, limiting interrogation of prisoners, and in general not concentrating on our security.  They hope that something will happen, some new terrorist attack that will give them excuse to increase surveillance on the citizens and limit our freedoms even more, take control of the internet, crack down on talk radio, etc.  The politicians are not stupid.  They are not letting our defenses down for no reason.   They know that letting down our guard will ultimately bring more attacks.  Their ulterior motives are easy to see.  When intelligent people do things that don’t make sense.  It is not that they are stupid.  It is that their motives are concealed.

Keep watching Glenn Beck and you will know what the important issues are and will avoid being side tracked by the politicians who continue to put up diversions.

Andrew Breitbart

ACORN Alert Corrupt Organization Remove them Now!

That’s tomorrow! Click here to find an event near you. Go and support our country, show the corrupt government leaders that we are paying attention, and make your voice heard!

If you want to give your Senators a little kick in the pants and remind them who they work for and what exactly that job is, Glenn Beck has a little assignment for us.

Glenn’s Pledge for Our Elected Officials

It’s time to hold our representatives’ feet to the fire. Remember: They work for you!

The first step is to give them Glenn’s pledge:

Print out the graphic above and send it to your local representatives or attach it to an e-mail.

Click here to contact your Senator or Representative.

Source: The 9/12 Project.com

This is all over the web.  I wanted to share it with my readers…

08.28- Post Edit: I got an email from my friend Pearl who told me that the gentleman’s name who gave the speech is Jody McLoud. He’s a real principal and really gave this speech! Check out the source here... Thanks Pearl!!

Photo Source: nytimes.com

The Hypocritical US Supreme Court
Author unknown

This is a statement that was read over the PA system at the football game at Roane County High School, Kingston, Tennessee, by school Principal, Jody McLeod.

“It has always been the custom at Roane County High School football games, to say a prayer and play the National Anthem, to honor God and Country.”

Due to a recent ruling by the Supreme Court, I am told that saying a Prayer is a violation of Federal Case Law. As I understand the law at this time, I can use this public facility to approve of sexual perversion and call it “an alternate lifestyle,” and if someone is offended, that’s OK.

I can use it to condone sexual promiscuity, by dispensing condoms and calling it, “safe sex.” If someone is offended, that’s OK.

I can even use this public facility to present the merits of killing an unborn baby as a “viable means of birth control.” If someone is offended, no problem…

I can designate a school day as “Earth Day” and involve students in activities to worship religiously and praise the goddess “Mother Earth” and call it “ecology.”

I can use literature, videos and presentations in the classroom that depicts people with strong, traditional Christian convictions as “simple minded” and “ignorant” and call it “enlightenment.”

However, if anyone uses this facility to honor GOD and to ask HIM to Bless this event with safety and good sportsmanship, then Federal Case Law is violated.

This appears to be inconsistent at best, and at worst, diabolical. Apparently, we are to be tolerant of everything and anyone, except GOD and HIS Commandments.

Nevertheless, as a school principal, I frequently ask staff and students to abide by rules with which they do not necessarily agree. For me to do otherwise would be inconsistent at best, and at worst, hypocritical

I suffer from that affliction enough unintentionally. I certainly do not need to add an intentional transgression.

For this reason, I shall “Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar’s,” and refrain from praying at this time.

“However, if you feel inspired to honor, praise and thank GOD and ask HIM, in the name of JESUS, to Bless this event, please feel free to do so. As far as I know, that’s not against the law—-yet.”

One by one, the people in the stands bowed their heads, held hands with one another and began to pray.

They prayed in the stands. They prayed in the team huddles. They prayed at the concession stand and they prayed in the Announcer’s Box!

The only place they didn’t pray was in the Supreme Court of the United States of America – the Seat of “Justice” in the “one nation, under GOD.”

Somehow, Kingston, Tennessee remembered what so many have forgotten. We are given the Freedom OF Religion, not the Freedom FROM Religion. Praise GOD that HIS remnant remains!

JESUS said, “If you are ashamed of ME before men, then I will be ashamed of you before MY FATHER.”