Today marks America’s 235th birthday.  When the 1st Continental Congress announced to the world, that we were removing ourselves from English domination and take our fate into our own hands.   The Preamble declared not only do men ( as in humanity )  have a right to certain rights, they have a duty to demand them. This one piece of paper coppied and distributed as broadsides. laid the foundation of folks all over the world demanding their God given rights.

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

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.—That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it; and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.—Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

The new government, did not come without price or sacrifice, Today we seem a little more willing to yield to oppression, and  make small sacrifices of freedom in the name convenience.

A petition with over 100,000 signatories was enough pressure for Apple to pull ex-gay app from its iTunes store.

Its a shame that a company like Apple stiffles the exchange of ideas and thoughts.  Their belief that they know what is best for us is one reason I’ll never buy their stuff.

CNN will have 400 reporters in to cover the the royal wedding. 50 covered the tsunami, earthquake, and nuclear disaster in Japan.

CNN alone will have a team of roughly 400 reporters, cameramen and crew assigned to the wedding. The network has 50 people on the ground working on the breaking news in Japan,

 

Early this morning blurry eyed I took a cheap shot on another forum at Governor Perry.  While my attempt at humor was rather weak.  Governor Good Hair hasn’t had a reputation as a intellectual heavy weight.  A likable guy, and politically we understand he is more often right than not, but not always getting a lot of respect of intellectually, particualary when he is talking to a national audience.  Well I stumbled across an article where our governor just impressed the hell out of me.

Perry says, “I am a true believer that the Tenth Amendment is being disregarded.” He continues, “I’m impassioned about states competing against each other.” He wants the federal government to be “as inconsequential as possible.” He says with admiration that when he met New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez, she said, “I’m going to steal your jobs!” Perry exclaims, “Now, you’re talking.” He thinks states are where the action is and says he wants to keep Texas as the “most successful state.” He says he therefore is “going to work on making the federal government as innocuous as possible.”

This includes suing the federal government to repeal ObamaCare and to limit EPA’s regulation of Texas emissions. On education he says, “I’m not only against Race to the Top. I’m against No Child Left Behind.” He doesn’t see how a “one-size fits all” education policy is going to meet each state’s needs. He asks rhetorically how “Washington D.C.,1,500 miles away from us” is going to direct all the Texas schools.

This doesn’t mean he wants the federal government to do nothing. In fact, if the federal government, in his view, would stop “meddling” in the states’ businesses it would be able to fulfill its core responsibilities. “We’d love to have the federal government more involved in defending our borders,” he says. And he likewise reasons that once the federal government stopped “doing too many things” it could focus on “building relations internationally.”

Ironic that he states so well the role of States and the Feds so clearly and well as he claims he isn’t interested in being president. States competing for jobs? Sounds so libertarian!