An Open Letter to John Roberts

How do you find a bill in violation of the Constitution, requiring citizens buy something, a power specifically limited to states, is permissible because you call it a “tax?”

Nowhere in the bill is it so defined. The authors of the bill have loudly declared it is not a tax, but a mandate to be required by government. That is unconstitutional.

It is not the province of Supreme Court to write law. Nowhere in the Obama Health Care bill is the method of funding defined as a tax. Your action has been to rewrite the bill. That is not allowed.

It can be appreciated that you are bending over backwards to appear fair to President Obama after he castigated you in court before the world watching the State of the Union. 

Although your position is not an elected office. You are not running for anything and are meant to act without such consideration as it appears you have bowed to in this decision. 

The words on which you predicate your finding can not be found in the document! Something else is driving your decision.

ThoughtsjustoffCenter:  Thanks Adrian! I editied your original, yet these are my exact thoughts.

In Need of a Lawyer

ThoughtsjustoffCenter: Darn it! I guess I'll have to get one too, whether I like it or not.

Fixing Stupid is Really Hard

“Climate Change,” will go down as “The Greatest Scam on Earth,” and “The Lawyers Full Employment Act of 1988” the year James Hansen created “man-made global warming” to prey on the science ignorance of America. But, do not see this as an opportunity in educational publishing. Our socialist schools do not want the message and educational publishers know it.

Federal prosecutors now accuse Rodney Hailey of Perry Hall, Maryland of selling renewable fuel credits for $9.1 million as his company, Clean Green Fuel LLC, produced nothing. He used all the money for Ferraris, luxury homes and lush living. The case is of note only because it is so stupid. Many "green" entrepreneurs have gotten away with much more offering much less. They sell mythical “carbon credits” to this day and they don't even give Mr. Obama campaign contributions!

The biggest of them is “The Rain Forest Flim-Flam.” For every pound of fuel you burn they claim to grow several pounds of tree to “Save the planet!” This works well with movie stars and “born rich” folks. Generally, neither is bent-over-double with IQ points.

The scammers get leases on Central and South American jungle, aka “rain forest” lands they claim will hold “in perpetuity,” but said leases will not be valid after the next coup. That happens regularly, but even worse the chemistry, physics, biology and agronomy don’t work.

Jungle trees are very slow growing. The “rain forest” is one of very old trees. The green outfit called RemTec claims to be sequestering carbon by mapping and selling future delivery contracts while this entity is already there unlike a corn crop or oil in shale, and has been for 1,000 years. These trees capture virtually no new carbon; only a few hundred pounds of leaves per acre.

The fastest growing tree is the white pine. An acre of white pine trees make 160,000 pounds of wood over 20 years capturing 64,000 pounds of carbon or 29 metric tons which is 44% carbon; 13 tons or 1.45 tons/year. “Rain forest” scammers surely know these figures. No one would set up such a business without expert consulting. Proof they know is in a new scam calling for turning corn fields into white pine forests. But, it is ridiculous.

An acre of corn produces 250 bushels, at 60 pounds per bushel, 15,000 pounds of corn. Grain is one-fifth of the plant, including roots. The field makes 75,000 pounds of plant matter annually beating wood 4.68:1 in terms of captured carbon every year! 75,000 pounds of stalk and leaves capture 15 tons of carbon, 1034% more than white pines including 15,000 pounds of food with three tons of carbon captured annually,

The “greens” wailing about cutting down jungle to grow corn are at odds with their own objective, which in truth is not the point. There is no fixing stupid.

ThoughtsjustoffCenter: Thanks to Adrian Vance. I have learn a lot reading his blog. America has quite a few smart and accomplished men (and women) just like him, yet we only listen to the politicians. When will America wake up - PLEASE WAKE UP! You can't fix stupid unless you make your children go to school. A school that's not run by the socialist National Extortion (Education) Association (NEA).

Veterans Hats & Morons

A few days ago a friend of mine sent me a 'Vietnam Veteran' hat. I never had one of these before and I was pretty hyped about it, especially because my friend was considerate enough to take the time to give it to me.                

Yesterday, I wore it when I went to Wal-Mart. There was nothing in particular that I needed at the world's largest retailer but, since I retired, trips to Wally World to look at the Wal-Martians is always good for some comic relief. Besides, I always feel pretty normal after seeing some of the people that frequent the establishment. But, enough of my psychological fixes.

While standing in line to check out, the guy in front of me, probably in his early thirties, asked, "Are you a Vietnam Vet?" "No" I replied. "Then why are you wearing that hat?" "Because I couldn't find my hat from the War of 1812." I thought it was a snappy retort. "The War of 1812 huh." the Wal-Martian queried, "When was that?" God forgive but, I couldn't pass up such an opportunity. "1936"

He pondered my response for a moment and responded, "Why do they call it the War of 1812 if it was in 1936?" "It was a Black Op. No one is supposed to know about it." This was beginning to be way too much fun. "Dude! Really!" he exclaimed. "How did you get to do something that COOOOL?"

I glanced furtively around me for effect, leaned toward the guy and in a low voice said, "I'm not sure. I was the only Caucasian on the mission." "Dude!", he was really getting excited about what he was hearing. "That is seriously Awesome! But, didn't you kind of stand out?" "Not really. The other guys were wearing white camouflage." The moron nodded knowingly.

"Listen man," I said in a very serious tone, "You can't tell anyone about this. It's still Top Secret and I shouldn't have said anything." "Oh yeah." he gave me the "don't threaten me look. "Like, what's gonna happen if I do?" With a really hard look I said, "You have a family don't you? We wouldn't want anything to happen to them would we?" The guy gulped, left his basket where it was and fled through the door.

By this time the lady behind me was about to have a heart attack she was laughing so hard. I just grinned at her.

After checking out and going to the parking lot I saw dimwit leaning in a car window talking to a young woman. Upon catching sight of me he started pointing excitedly in my direction. Giving him another 'deadly' serious look, I made the "I'm watching you" gesture. He turned kind of pale, jumped in the car and sped out of the parking lot.

What a great time! Tomorrow I'm going back with a Homeland Security hat. Whoever said retirement is boring just needs the right kind of hat...

ThoughtsjustoffCenter: Thanks Boz! I'm still Laughing!

Food for Thought

"You can not help the poor by destroying the rich.

You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong."

 Abraham Lincoln

Is the Media Starting to Publish The Real News on the President?

“Before he enter on the execution of his office, he shall take the following oath or affirmation — I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.*

“* Unless, you know, 224 years from now, whoever happens to president simply decides he really doesn’t want to do that.”

- Article II, Section 1, Clause 8 of Barack Obama's U.S. Constitution

The Founders set the course in a simple, concise, 35-word affirmation — the president’s top job is to “preserve, protect and defend” the Constitution. The chief executive does, of course, have other responsibilities, but his guardianship of the document they had just written was deemed by the Founders to be of such great import that they made him swear it — aloud, in front of witnesses.

In 1884, Congress, having no set oath of office, wrote its own: “I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same …”

Little did they know then that 128 years later, America would face just that: a domestic threat to the U.S. Constitution.

From the very beginning, the president and his administration made clear they had no intention of enforcing laws they didn’t like. Mr. Obama and his minions decided that they would simply stop enforcing the Defense of Marriage Act, no longer prosecute growers of “medical” marijuana, and let some states walk away from provisions in the

No Child Left Behind law (which, by the way, was co-authored by Democratic Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, and passed the Senate by a 91-8 vote).

Mr. Obama's Justice Department has even more flagrantly flouted the laws of the land -

Out of the blue, the Attorney General, Eric H. Holder Jr., the nation’s chief law enforcement officer, reinterpreted America’s gambling laws (and dumped the decision on Christmas Eve as to avoid scrutiny). 

More recently, Mr. Holder has decided to thwart congressional oversight by refusing to release documents on the disastrous “Fast and Furious” gun-running scheme, and he is actively fighting Florida for trying to expunge dead people from its voter rolls.

Now comes Mr. Obama's decision to stop enforcing America’s immigration laws. The new policy states that illegal immigrants who were younger than 16 when they entered the country are eligible for a two-year exemption from deportation. Of course, the “deferred action process,” as the Homeland Security Secretary, Janet A. Napolitano, called it, will apply to illegals up to age 30. (Think when they legally get their driver’s licenses they will also be handed a voter registration card?)

The increasingly desperate Mr. Obama, once a constitutional professor, (TJOC) knows full well he is circumventing Congress. In March 2011 he told a group of young Hispanics: “America is a nation of laws, which means I, as the president, am obligated to enforce the law. I don’t have a choice about that. That’s part of my job.

TJOC: Actually, it has been proven that he was just a normal guest speaker at the college, he is not a constitutional law professor.

"Congress passes the law. The executive branch’s job is to enforce and implement those laws,” he said. “There are enough laws on the books by Congress that are very clear in terms of how we have to enforce our immigration system that for me to simply through executive order ignore those congressional mandates would not conform with my appropriate role as president.”

ThoughtsjustoffCenter: Is it getting hotter yet? Yesterday Colorado Springs broke the high temp for the day. It was 92 and the high was 96 (I believe). "To Hell in a hand basket we go." The hand basket just hasn't been located yet.

See the rest of this article at Washington Times.com

English is Our Language

ThouthsjustoffCenter: Something I just have to post. It is definitely getting crazier with every waking day. Just when will the American Citizens start paying attention to what the polititians of both parties are doing to us?

More Humor

ThoughtsjustoffCenter: It doesn't happen often, yet when it does - (more ammo please).

Humor

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