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PAYING RESPECTS

Posted by LadyLiberty on Friday, September 11, 2009 9:22:58 PM

After receiving the belated news, On Poetry Square has been mourning the loss of a loving soul, Mark S. Weber. We are comforted in the knowledge that Mark achieved his artistic vision after years of struggle and a free-spirited perseverance that would petrify most mortals. Regrets that his earthly time was cut short, but glad in the knowledge that he is now in a more spiritually compatible realm. Spirit on, Mark!

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Respects also to those who on 911 gave their lives for this country--in a different but no less soulful and necessary sacrifice. On behalf of those we loved and knew and those we love but didn't know, what we will never forget about 911 were the opposing human flights of creation and destruction and the panicked, but determined exiting to life and liberty.

RIP, all.

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FRISBEE WITH DANTE

Posted by LadyLiberty on Friday, August 21, 2009 12:39:05 PM

Episode 81: Frisbee with Dante

Timeus: Yeah, I think that was the highlight of the vacation--flinging the frisbee with Dante before the last trek of the journey homeward.

Lily: Nice guy, huh. Glad we ran into him at the bridge.

Timeus: To be precise, if you recall, he ran into us.

Lily: Well, to be more precise, we were frisbeed. On the 9th go-around. But hey, better late than never, eh!

Timeus: Yeah, some vacation. You get off Poetry Square and the trolls and ghouls have their way.

Lily: I lost count of the little demons, so let me not count their ways. For

"When you break the big laws, you do not get freedom; you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws." - Daily News, 7/29/05

Timeus: To our many new overlords re-making the foundations of liberty, having to justify or clarify the voluminousness of their good intentions at those parochial townhall circles we ventured into sans angels is not only beyond the pale, but also the nuanced shades of meaning cloaking The Words.

Lily: True. But a busybody has only so much time. It does seem as though the "disruptive" protesters against TotalGov are somewhat heretical concerning the Benevolent Rewrites and the progressives' clear edict that freedom of assembly occurs only when they are against the U.S., but morphs into a mob when patriots are for it.

Timeus: Are you sure you're out of the 9th? Free and clear?

Lily: I'm simply swivelling my head in the circular fashion to which we've grown accustomed.

Timeus: Whoaaa, Lily!!! (she does a slow 180 and flattens) Stars down!!! Lily, Lily, we're home now, c'mon on back, girl! C'mon!

Lily: (groggy) Hhhuuuuhhh? (eyes blinking while looking upward) Wha...ohhhhh. Ha. No, stars up, soldier...try my vantage point...seriously. (laughs) It'll do you some good.

Timeus: (laughs) Ok. (Lies down beside her, looking Heavenward) Paint me your star picture.

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VACATIONS & FAREWELLS FOR THE JOINING

Posted by LadyLiberty on Monday, July 27, 2009 1:02:31 AM

Episode 80: Vacations & Farewells for the Joining

(Back in Michigan, by the Gitcheegoome)

Lily: I'm feeling cerulean, so it's time to go float.

Timeus: Your boat?

Lily: I'd prefer Olam's sailboat. Think he'd mind?

Timeus: Not if I go too. That wouldn't rock you, would it?

Lily: No, I think I'm tough enough to take your straight talk. It should, in fact, be uplifting. But I warn you that my requirement for "vacation" means saying farewell to a lot of nonsense. Some of it, permanently.

Timeus: For example?

Lily: Uh, manipulating statistics to encourage people down and dependent. When 13% of a population commit 56% of the crimes, the President needs to honestly and courageously clarify his use of the word "disproportionate" in regards to that population. And he should practice what he preaches about "obsessions" that prevent such honest appraisals. Life and death are at stake and nobody knows that better than our law enforcement personnel, God bless them.

Or mocking pro-American, traditional values and true feminine liberation by privileged dimbulbs who are the beneficiaries of the very brilliance they demean.

And hey, how 'bout those health snares pretending to be about health when they're really about hostile take-overs of self-government by Big Government. Not the USA way. Are we witnessing an out-of-body politic disorientation here?

Timeus: Seems to have been a slow creeping to that effect. Maybe we should acknowledge the expanionist philosophy with a new phrase:"Total Government", short for the totalitarian kind. No, not very U.S.-friendly, if you're thinking Constitutionally, which, by definition, you should be.

Lily: I'm with Jesus on this. I say we hand Big Gov--Total Gov--a single coin for their troubles. And we turn over their 1,000+ plus page Bible-length laws to God for judgment. It's not like we don't have alternative plans. What say you?

Timeus: Hah! Good separation of Church and state. What else are you going to say farewell to so I can enjoy myself on the sail?

Lily: Waving off the King Canutes and their proclamations to stop the waves of the ocean.

Timeus: Or drop the temps by a couple degrees. You'd better put real science in place of that junk then.

Lily: Farewell to bad politics; hello to good science. If it's good enough for India and China, it's good enough for me. There's ancient wisdom in both.

Timeus: What about good religion? You gonna welcome that aboard?

Lily: Yes, I have just begun the Pope's CARITAS IN VERITATE. Charity in truth. And truth in charity. True compassion that does not come from government coercion--or redistribution. I hope that's what I find there.

One sees why religion is central to the human condition when reading the highest thoughts put to serious reflection. Such an intricate weaving of the subtle changes in meaning that life's experiences render unto words.

I'll have to save the rest for summer reading and viewing. Liberty & Tyranny, Common Sense, The 5,000 Year Leap. Or reviewing all of Uncommon Knowledge's interviews with Charles Kesler, Harry Jaffa and Thomas Sowell. And more on the mark. Not the mark up and mark down of this Demwitted Congress.

You can't join together what is off the mark of liberty, you know. And too much of our present culture and politics are way off the mark.

Timeus: True, but don't take yourself too seriously, or never the twain shall meet.

Now Timeus says, it's time to square away.

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USSA, CUT THE PLANTATION BALONEY

Posted by LadyLiberty on Saturday, July 18, 2009 3:00:45 AM

Episode 79: USSA, Cut the Plantation Baloney

Lily: Oops. A little typo in the title there. (Shoots an arrow to the extra S)

Timeus: Plantation baloney? Oh. Still making cuts, eh? You'll never cut all that fat in one episode. Let's cut to the vacation. Boxer's TKO'd. Again. Opportune moment for a getaway.

Lily: OK. I'm almost ready. Just sweeping out the revised history from the plantation melodrama.

Olam: The President says the GOP has to come up with more than "no, no, no" to all his foundational changes. But the GOP, the Constitution and the American majority have all countered with alternatives. Those alternatives simply don't include Big Socialist Government. So he can't hear them.

Timeus: The NY Post summed it up well: The Demwits' solutions are the problems. If they won't think outside the padded cell, the only sane option for us is to opt out. Whether it's health care or any other self-made problem.

And our Bay State's coercion version needs improving. We could start with not permitting the medical malpractice lawyers anymore of their malpractice.

Lady Liberty: I checked out the stats on that. American Health care is the best in the world on most measures: cancer survival rates, waiting period for treatement, scanning equipment available, neonatal, intensive care unit beds per 100,000, percentage of people getting checkups, percentage of seniors with low incomes reporting excellent health. We beat out Canada and Britain on all those points.

Olam: Perhaps that's the problem. We have simply outperformed the world on all measures and our economy must be levelled by the socialist workers' world so that we share equal outcomes in poor health and poverty. Remember: it's all about unequal means to equal outcomes. Except for the overlords who reap the redistribution.

Link: I guess one man's progressivism is another man's reactionary move backwards to tyranny. So you might better keep the vacation part quiet and holler to the plantation master at the little red, white and blue hen house:

"Oh, Br'er Fox, please don't throw me out on my own! I'd have to fend for myself. Pleeeease, Br'er Fox, do me proud, and care for me cradle to grave! Anything, anything, Br'er Fox, just don't let me venture out into that big, wide, scary world with nothing but a torch of liberty at hand and the shadow of the Almighty behind me! Pleeeease!"

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WHAT TO MARK AND WHAT TO CUT

Posted by LadyLiberty on Friday, July 10, 2009 5:36:08 PM

Episode 78: What to Mark and What to Cut

Olam: How do you hold a dream in your mind so that in life's time you may realize its beauty? If dreams could, they would flow on, sweet Afton, but Truth is the timeless measure of day's light. Graceful is her shine on what to mark and what to cut from dreams.

So mark this: she is not a festering flower to betray fair calls with foul plays for more time, vainly seeking more missteps. The fantasy may fly to its nightmare, but the flower is rooted.

Lily: For my namesake, I will heed your call. The flower's roots, then, bless more than burden, holding that pattern of beauty four-square for a brief timeshare of fragrance.

But Man's roots go deeper and his seeds fly farther than the eye can see.

Link: Out of sight, out of mind.

Lily: Or from that line of sight TO mind...by a leap of faith into Spirit.

Link: But dust to dust...

Lily: If I were a flower, yes. But I am not a lily. I am a woman named Lily who is reflecting on a flower.

Link: And what about a man? Do I not bleed?

Lily: It is my proposition that you do, indeed, bleed as a brother of Man, but that the soil of your tribe cannot sufficiently measure the Spirit of your inheritance. It is good for the grounding, but not meet for the leaping...into realized dreams. It is also my proposition that all of Mankind is equally constrained. Or, one might humbly say, equally endowed.

Olam: Then if I am the call, you are the answer. For those who do not understand American history, let alone the history of Man, and by exception to our exceptional rule, have been steeped in little lies that wish away the foundations of freedom for fear of having to uphold its eroding pillars, to those gone wobbly or low down, we must repeat, instead, the full measure of American devotion.

And we shall in good time. For now, from those who fall by the weight of a sparrow, a peck of returning arrows, spiritually honed, to cut the rot and mark the root.

Lady Liberty: A Jaffan arrow of full devotion. Two great realizations in history: the unity of God on Mount Sinai and the unity of the human race in Philadelphia. A knowable, transcendent truth and moral order at the foundation of this world and a family of humankind containing all the races and ethnicities, none of whom were born as lords over others. Neither master nor slave.

As to God's unity, Jefferson spoke freely. Man was not to impose his politics on religion by sanctioning one over the other. The "separation of church and state", taken from his letter to the Danbury Baptists, was to reassure them that there would be no repeat of a state-run Anglican Church, say, muzzling the Baptists. It was not about removing religious inspiration from politics, but rather political coercion from religion.

If we have to choose between God's hand and the long arm of the law, we Keepers of Liberty will take God's hand. He designed us with self-powered, individual minds, free to find His truth.

As to Man's unity, if one judges by appearance, then one might be inclined to deduce that the problem with "white supremacy" is the "white" part, whereas brown, black, red or yellow supremacy would be a welcome change.

Lincoln, who judged by truth, not self-serving appearance, knew better.

From his second inaugural: It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces,..."Woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh."

Truth requires us to keep our audacity for freedom, not a hyped hope that denies it. This arrow flies to a divisiveness that feigns "diversity".

Curtis: Point taken on deceptions. But some people can start from their "tribal" places, so to speak, and through discipline and unity offer their take on creation. I personally liked that diversity.

Link: Theirs was a different purpose and they stayed true to it: entertainment and art.

Lily: Yes, I agree. I think they won fair and square because they worked hard, stayed true to

their style and kept their focus on achieving their own kind of dance perfection. It's a cautionary tale to all artists: the gift is not so much about you as it is the treasuring and sharing of the inborn gifts from God.

When you live in soulless times, be careful not to wander into the realms of the ego. Like the primal siren song, it will lure you into self-obsessed derangement and God-forsaken fantasy.

I think that all the participants in the final BGT's have been personally adorable and well chosen by God to perform His gifts. May they steal away to remain with Him, protecting their art from the siren song of egotisitcal destruction. Without proper vision and support, it is easy for both the artist and the fans to fall.

Link: I wish Michael had stayed true to his natural gifts. Sharpton deceives strangely when he pretends otherwise. That is no help to his children or ours.

Ann: But no mention needed to be made of that at his wake. It is the duty of friends and family to support and stress what is right and true about the living and the deceased. And to ensure that the true gift lives on. Maybe then the next recipient of such gifts will be stronger. And the hangers-on will not profit from mutual weakness.

Lily: So here's to the gifts of our artists in their purest states. And may others not be fooled by appearances whether it's a Susan Boyle, Paul Potts, little Connie Talbot or Andrew Johnston. God is testing all of us to stay with the drama and rebuke the melodrama. To their credit, I thought that their judges did a great job of distinguishing between the two. They should not lower the standards because of our victim-obssessed mentalities.

Lady Liberty: Whether politically or culturally, may we continue to stand up for what's right and true, like these women, who didn't resort to lowdown and dirty, though they may have been tempted on many occasions.

Lily: My forebears who understood human nature knew that when the men lost their strength that was the beginning of the end, but when the women lost their virtue, it was over.

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MEASURE THIS: INDEPENDENCE FOREVER!

Posted by LadyLiberty on Saturday, July 04, 2009 2:06:21 AM

Episode 77: Measure This: Independence Forever!

Olam: Come on out and see the finished product! Landscaping and all. All five houses done in one week--nice building blitz! The Wake County blitz was a good model. Timeus did his homework on that one. Glad we picked plan #4, the row houses. Really perks up the prairie.

Lady Liberty: He was starting to worry me with the soddies and dugouts.

Olam: You know how he is with historical accuracy.

Lady Liberty: That's fine, but wood frame houses were here in the 1800's so glad you won out on that!

Olam: So come on out already! The Keepers are firing up the grills for our celebration and the troops are here for the housewarming ceremony.

Lady Liberty: Ok, I'm just finishing up. Are the kids here too?

Olam: They're on the road; the parents just called. Should be here shortly.

Lady Liberty: Let me send this email, and I'll get the potato salad.

Olam: That would be without the "e", right?

Lady Liberty: If we have 57 states, then add the "e". We must "mutually pledge" our honor even in trivia.

Olam: (laughing) Ok, Ms. Liberty, celebrate your independence. Now more than ever.

Laby Liberty: How about forever? I do declare. (gives him a kiss and sends the email off to her senators.)

Dear Senators:

We need American-style standup men and women fighting the Chicago mob Way that has conned itself and the American people into this hostile takeover of our government. We need you now, and probably will for another 25 years minimum. If Barack Obama, himself, was conned by the totalitarian forces behind him, then he needs a firm assist in righting himself against the thug impulse. We are just the free people to lend a hand.

The Garden of Piggish Delights is the mark of the American fall.

Mr. Bush kicked it off with Paulson's unconstitutional takeover of the banking system. But this is not a partisan fight any longer. All American citizens must fight to restore our Constitutional governing and remove this reactionary insurgency of statism. (globally backed by thugs and overlords. It ain't your father's revolution anymore, brothers!)

No evidence, no real science backs man-made global warming because computer models based on highly selective (politically-motivated) variables rather than observation and experimentation and those predicting outcomes from complex, unseen data are high tech fortune tellers. Hundreds (and some reports say thousands) of scientists see what anyone can see as plain as day. (A good reference page to apply real science to the issue.)

For just such a listing, God made prudent American "conservatives" whose foremost duty is to stand athwart revised history when "progressive" ideology blinds itself to the light of day. Freedom by unconscionable degrees morphs into anarchy, then tyranny.

Here's a citizens' alert: our American-style "conservatives" also comprise all cognizant and faithful American libertarians, classical liberals and independents. And that's because they are all lovers of liberty, not tyranny. Modern liberalism or "progressivism", however, has drifted "moderately" for 100 years and is now so far off the American reservation, I must echo the scale of freedom's economy to which our founders tuned. It is NOT anarchy or tyranny by rewrites of our Constitution, but rather the truly centrist, grounded position of LIBERTY. By God-blessed liberty and its codified principles, our revolutionary heirs fought and died.

Also plain to any person still possessed of common sense is the revealing folly of a 1500 page bill--that, of course, almost no one has read! If my elected representatives, according to our Constitution of limited government, cannot sort the wheat from the tares and initiate a 1-10 page bill for legislation, then they don't belong in my government. And I will spend the rest of my life, along with fellow citizen patriots deconstructing by repealing this 100-year tower of babbling, anti-Constitutional nonsense from the face of the earth.

Bottom line: NO on ANY cap and trade or energy proposals other than the one coming out of the Republican Party of conservative--ie Constitutional--thinking, or a similar Democratic bill in line with the majority of American citizens. We've already made it clear on these topics, but this administration, and in many respects, the former, have not listened to the majority who respect our Constitutional principles, not its lying, "living" rewritten version.

We said NO on amnesty for illegals, NO on insufficient and political alternatives to our own energy resource development, but yes to nuclear energy, more drilling, clean coal. The pie-in-the-sky wind and solar alternatives, though they may help T.Boone Pickens and Nancy Pelosi to pad their pockets as inside investors, will not ever sufficiently supply rational and inventive solutions for the levels of free market energy production that rational humans require. (We use up more of the earth's resources because we PRODUCE more! And we have raised the standard of living for the entire earth through our inventiveness. That is HUMAN NATURE at work, and while we are human, that is not going to stop!!!!)

We also said NO long ago to Nanny State meddling in our Health Care. We meant it then; we mean it now. Get the lawyers out of our health care, get the government out of our health care, and leave us alone to work with our doctors and nurses as we see fit and as all other generations have managed. (Heritage, our most reputable research guide has all the YES solutions we need.)

The big 3: energy, illegal and unConstitutional invasions by non-citizens (also impacting our health care costs!) and health care. NO, NO, NO to unAmerican takeovers in all 3 areas as well as any others that this confused and/or malevolent administration can conjure. See, the YES part is the American part, not the communist, socialist, fascist, jihadist rewrite of our freedoms. No "moderate" version of tyranny is sane or acceptable.

Stand with us now senators, and keep honest company with our founders--to go forward on the right side of history!

Thank you for your integrity and courage.

Freiah Abramson,

Your Lady Liberty

P.S. As an open-minded patriot, trained in classical liberal arts, I have studied and participated in all the political parties and philosophies. But by the time of my birth at mid-twentieth century, my country had already drifted so far leeward from its moorings that the jabberwocky journey to square 1 for liberty--our original home--has taken a lifetime. The "conservatives", under misguided assault for decades, now definitively but valiantly hold that foundational home base. I am calling all fellow patriots, by whatever name, to quit splitting tyranny's difference and come home to our God-given birthright, the true meaning of liberty for all.

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MEASURING THE DRAMA, MARKING THE MELODRAMA

Posted by LadyLiberty on Saturday, June 27, 2009 12:42:27 AM

Episode 76: Measuring the Drama, Marking the Melodrama

(Celebrating Father's Day at the Rock of Liberty Ranch, around the campfire after a long day of preparing for the building blitz)

Timeus: All right, speaking of our fathers, who wrote the following statement on February 12, 1779?:

A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy. While the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but when once they lose their virtue then will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external or internal invader.

(Silence)

Olam: A subdued people without virtue have no memory of such a father, Timeus. Sorry.

Link: I'm thinking.

Curtis: I'm hungry. Way too hungry to think.

(howl in the distance)

Curtis: What was that? D'jere hear that?

Link: Don't worry. Four-legged external. Not as hungry as you, that little coyote. The internal invaders are far more likely to eat you.

Olam: Whole.

Lily: Samuel Adams, if you please.

Curtis: Wha?

Timeus: Corrrrect! Samuel Adams said that...(to Curtis) and mind your manners with the ladies.

Olam: Our fathers understood the principles of natural law and cultural ideals, ethics, customs and the manners to maintain them.

President Obama gave a good talk today to our nation's fathers and their children. This could be his best legacy to the black community of broken families.

Lady Liberty: And to a nation that increasingly devalues traditional marriage. Mrs. Obama , for her part, wants to encourage public service. She kicked off United We Serve.

Lily: Sometimes the Obamas seem as though they have just crossed the border into the U.S. themselves and are filled with passion about what Americans should be doing. But Americans have always volunteered their time and money to help their fellow human beings. Why the mandate from government?

Timeus: Who said the following?:

We are a nation that has a government — not the other way around. And this makes us special among the nations of the Earth. Our government has no power except that granted it by the people. It is time to check and reverse the growth of government which shows signs of having grown beyond the consent of the governed.

Curtis: Ah! Recent history class--and a great tutor!--serve my memory on that. Ronald Reagan, inaugural address, Jan. 20, 1981 --the most principled president of the 20th century who the now-moderately-sane and increasingly unprincipled Republicrats would like to forget.

Link: He also said,

When people tell me I became president on January 20, 1981, I feel I have to correct them. You don't become president of the United States. You are given temporary custody of an institution called the presidency, which belongs to our people.

Lady Liberty: With all their utopian travels and teachings, the Obamas have gotten quite disoriented, perhaps through naivete or personal ambition that will not serve them in the long run. And serve.gov gets it backwards. Gov serves. The people.

Lily: Our President and first lady, and their adorable family, are the recipients of a great political foundation and tremendous sacrifice by those who came before them to keep our culture of self-governing alive. So when the President, his administration and Democrat party talk of "a new foundation", they betray a willful ignorance of history and ingratitude unbecoming their true positions.

The challenge has been put to them: Will they be honorable and prudent enough to lead life's drama, or will they be followers of an easier melodrama?

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(A week later. The building blitz on the first five houses was delayed because of severe thunderstorms and crew scheduling. The Keepers are getting antsy with cabin fever.)

Olam: Lily, now here's an immigrant orientation that may recalibrate the Obamas.

Timeus: Maharushi mentioned that today, the American Thinker piece.

Lily: I read that piece. Quite a recalibrater, all right. One wonders if Mr. Obama is aware of the cunning forces behind him. Is he with our drama or their melodrama?

As for Africa, she is now cozying up to China as if this will be different from the old colonial master or the tyrannical, tribal war lord, weilding his machete for the rule of man rather than our rule of law. How will that play out, particularly as we witness so many Americans taking the same road to serfdom that the rest of the world refuses to exit?

Curtis: (from his bunk and on his cell to Raina at Gymnaces) So did you hear?

Raina: Yeah...Carbongate!

Curtis: (Yelling) Lily! Carbongate? Drama or melodrama?

Lily: Hidden real life drama so the shyster melodrama could cop votes for the green shirts.

Curtis: The green shirts of global warming??!! Haven't these people stepped outside and put their fingers to the wind lately?

Lily: Some of 'em did. But the green drama--conserving natural law, life and liberty, not to be confused with the green shirts and their progressive tyranny--met up with the red melodrama.

So don't be fooled by flying colors or Humpty Dumpty's sophomoric branding. Know the drama from the melodrama, and you'll pass through this hard knock life with your character in good standing.

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THE EXCEPTION TO THE EXCEPTIONS IS THE RULE

Posted by LadyLiberty on Thursday, June 18, 2009 2:02:32 AM

Blog 75: The Exception to the Exceptions is the Rule

(Tu and Raina have returned to work at Shih & Herbary and Gymnaces in Michigan. Ann is on maternity leave and summer vacation while Link and Curtis manage their web mastery work by remote with frequent Blackberry grabs. The three have remained to assist with the planning and building of the ranch at Rock of Liberty through Father's Day weekend.

More of the Keepers will drive in afterward to pitch in with the huge building blitz modeled on Habitat for Humanity's Builders' Blitz from Wake County. Timeus is reviewing the plans for the next month as they all tour the surveyed land.)

Timeus: We can thank Abraham Lincoln for many things, and the homesteading option in the tradition of Jefferson's yeoman farmer was one of them. Plantation slavery was, indeed, threatened by free farmers since freed slaves qualified. When the South seceded in '61, the resistance to the Homestead Act left with it. Lincoln pushed it through in '62, and Mother's great-great grandfather was one of the claim stakers.

Link: Mother-Sister! I hardly knew ye! Just passin' through all these years?

Freiah: Well, no. My people weren't freed slaves, but my great-great grandfather did bring up a slave through John Brown's tunnel in Nebraska City and his subsequent family staked a claim thereabouts. I think they auctioned off their accumulated section sometime around the 20's and the descendents, who had become quite well-to-do, ventured further east to make their fortunes in the automobile industry just then opening up in Detroit.

Olam: On the "Tin Lizzie" line.

Freiah: I think one of the offspring was the first black male engineering student to graduate from University of Michigan, or some such distinction.

Link: Well, the family fared well; the automobile, not so much.

Lily: Oh, Ford'll do just fine if they hold to their free market line.

Timeus: Well, that assembly appears to have hit bottom. If you've closely followed the downhill trajectory of Motown, you may wonder if your surveyor's compass lost its magnetic bearings a while back. Look for yourselves. North is South now. (Steps aside for all to sight the landscape)

Link: (Peering and sighing) Ah, no worries, Yank. Obama's Commicsar has taken care of the unions, the Chicago Way. The long arm of the strong man now makes law.

Timeus: And more law and more law...

Lily: And all of them exceptions to the original contract. But ordered liberty, private property, contract law and Constitutional protections were all examples of America's revolutionary exception to the old world's anarchy and tyranny.

We've labored under 100 years of meddling exceptions to our exceptionalism. But the exception to the exceptions is the rule. And the rule is the Natural law and order of liberty.

Timeus: Just look at this sweep of history from sea of grass to shining sea of grass, heirs of freedom.

Lily: Which reminds me! Did you all take your Democracy challenge? The winners are in--and Zambia's was good, but I didn't have the video capability. So I could only text my answer to "Democracy is..."

Democracy is your God-given pilgrimage
to the public square from a fork in the road.

One route is marked Rule of Law; the other, Rule of Man.

Liberty takes the former, tyranny the latter.

But both routes lead to the same public square

where the over-arching truth eyed your journey.

Olam: All right, you've set your sights. And we know that they are in line with the great vision of human beings who've come before. Not just my Anglo-Saxon ancestors, but all the ethnic and genetic traces of liberty across the human heart...

Lady Liberty: ...and from your mouth to God's ears.

Olam: And the mouths of Moses, Aristotle, Confucius and King Cyrus.

Timeus: So now like Reagan, Lincoln and our Founders, in the spirit of the carpenter's tasks, we will measure, mark, cut and join.

Olam: How deep and wide shall we survey? Do our porous borders bleed enough to measure the sorrow in the silence that is Iran?

Link: Well, the protestors are saying they want freedom and honest elections. Looks like their marchers don't like "partial recounts" or Acorn-style nut cases anymore than our lovers of liberty and the rule of law. We won't wish the Chicago Way or Gorelioni's Florida on them, but we'll both have to march much farther backward to go forward with our fathers' history.

"To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, the guarantee to everyone the free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it." --Thomas Jefferson

Our president is not yet possessed of an American sensibility or our surveyor's compass. And his training has taught him not to meddle with mad mullahs and theocracies, but rather the free market and our Constitutional republic. So we will make use of those bleeding borders and some all-American orienteering.

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EMPATHY FOR SHE, NOT THEE

Posted by LadyLiberty on Wednesday, May 27, 2009 1:05:39 PM

Blog 74: Empathy for SHE, not Thee

(Heading to the late breakfast campfire at Rock of Liberty Ranch, the Keepers rouse themselves from the nearly finished straw bale bunkhouse after a long night's travel.)

Timeus: (Greeting the weary travellers) Well, hey ho and up they rises.

Ann: I may be up, but I'd like to keep my breakfast down; I'm starving! (Link assists the pregnant Ann with a cushion for comfortable seating near the fire.) Thank you, dear. (kissing him on the cheek)

Lady Liberty: Ann, I've prepared some wholesome oatmeal and fruit for you with soft boiled eggs on the side to avoid the gre...

Link: Ah! Do not utter the word, please.

Ann: (laughing) I'm ok. No morning sickness for several days.

Lady Liberty: Very good. You can start with some orange juice, now that Tu's tea is not needed.

Olam: Were the bunks comfortable?

Raina: Yes, when they weren't taking flight and careening through nightmare alley.

Curtis: I was never over 75 at ANY point during our flight...trip. Road trip. Right, Link?

Link: That's true, you weren't. It just felt like it to the queasier passengers.

Raina: Well, you might have shown more empathy toward Ann.

Timeus: No doubt I do not possess the "richness of her experiences", as the would-be Supreme nominee has reflected, but if empathy were your better guide, Mother should have driven, in which case we'd be looking for you some time toward the end of next week. If you ever arrived at all.

Lady Liberty: You beg my pardon?

Olam: Yes, so much for the qualifications of good drivers. But speaking of bypassing the American dream altogether in favor of the highwayman's nightmare, our new young President, aka The reMaker, shares the pain for she, not thee, Timeus.

Nor should Curtis and Link be deceived by any black-like-me empathy, for you, in this court case, are like Clarence Thomas, though the very embodiment of rich experience and tested by obstacles and barriers. But we all know how much empathy he has received from the presumed followers of identity politics.

Link: The not-so-pale yang to Sarah Palin.

Tu: Ah hah! (laughing)

Curtis: Or La Raza's reject, Miguel Estrada.

Raina: Such empathy does sound more like myopic injustice.

Lady Liberty: Of, by and for Narcissus.

Olam: Then let the qualifications for our meritocracy of character be applied blindly to all so that these recipients of liberty for all may truly see.

Raina: Not filter out responsibility by identity.

Olam: Not foist on U.S. the same old strong man rule by new method actors.

Timeus: Give me their better, Ronald Reagan, and his betters, our Founders. The old, discredited "white males" whose reasoning found its universal way to the rule of law and codified it, not only for themselves, but for the ancestors and descendents of these mere stand-ins. Codified against the bigotry that, by another name, they would institutionalize for their temporary gain.

Lady Liberty: The power trip through history's lessons.

When the independents and the libertarians--when the brothers, sons and daughters of the American Revolution and the wandering "moderates" of moral relativism voted for "change" in the last election, was this hostile takeover by proxy politics what they had in mind?

Olam: Good question. Is such unchecked feeling too fleet for the long haul, my Lady?

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AT THE WELL-SPRING OF THEIR ORIGIN

Posted by LadyLiberty on Friday, May 22, 2009 3:35:13 PM

Episode 73: At the Well-Spring of their Origin

A people must from time to time, refresh themselves at the well-spring of their origin, lest they perish.

--An adage and admonition from our Founders included in The 5,000 Year Leap

(At the Rock of Liberty Ranch)

Lily: Timeus, would you come up for air from those books of yours?! We need to get this design for the courtyard finished and we haven't even settled on the shape of things.

Timeus: Pi.

Lily: Books to food?...we'll never get this done, I swear. Whaduya want, apple, Galileo?

Timeus: No. Circle. As in the circumference divided by the diameter. (peering back into his dog-eared texts)

Lily: Circle. You want a circle design? Helloooo. I'm talking to you, flyboy. Could you land that plane geometry of yours long enough to settle on a plan for this little clump of earth we're actually standing on?

Timeus: Huh?...I happen to be reclining. Just a minute, just a minute, this is interesting; I'd forgotten about infinite series...

Lily: (sighing) I'm calling Tu. He'll help me with the flowers.

Timeus: (looking up) Hold on there. I guarantee you, he'll be of even less help since his design concepts will not be of this world.

Lily: I beg your pardon, but Tu knows quite a bit about the natural world and...and botany and what not.

Timeus: No doubt. But his philosophy is one of a Buddhist. And that's fine, but we aren't in heaven yet. You asked me for a design for this world and more specifically for this little lump of clay over bedrock, and that's what I'm studying on. Consult with Tu on flowers and herbs for the garden if you like. But leave the foundational shape of things to me.

Here, let me show you an example of Buddhist thinking from The Parsimonious Universe, Ms. verse lover. From ancient Buddhist writing:

...A Bodhisattva in accordance with truth knows that form is nothing but holes and cracks, and is indeed like a mass of bubbles, with a nature that has no hardness or solidity.

Lily: Hmmmm. Doesn't sound very hopeful, that way of the fleshless.

Timeus: Or helpful. Especially to the hardhats headed our way.

Lily: And the hard heads under them.

Timeus: That's what I'm talking about. A philosophy of supernatural growth, not form. One of, by, and for the Lord, not His people. Good for travelling to that great consultant in the sky when times get tough and you need a perspective, but not exactly a blueprint for the peoples' house. We may get there to that mountaintop someday, but for now we're earthbound.

Lily: Oh! I remember that book now, Growth and Form, by D'arcy Thompson back in my biology days. Oooh, I wish I'd read it, might come in handy now.

Timeus: It's a classic. (Peering back into his infinite series...)

${\pi} = \frac{4}{1} - \frac{4}{3} + \frac{4}{5} - \frac{4}{7} + \cdots\!$

See, here's the Madhava-Leibniz series for calculating Pi.

Lily: No offense, but I do believe you are going in circles. May I remind you that we are supposed to be constructing a courtyard, which--and maybe this is just me--but that kind of implies squares. Courtyard does. As in keeping with our origins On Poetry Square?

Ah! Look! I'm vindicated. See the 4's in your own airy-fairy infinite series?? There's a reason those 4-cornered fours are in that formula, mister. I can only guess as to what that might be, but I'm sure it's something solid that I--and yes, even you, can hold onto.

Timeus: Uh huh. Interesting perspective.

Lily: (feeling buoyed by the sudden homing) And if I recall my answer to the brief essay question: Why isn't mathematics fun?--Because music is, then all those transcendent, irrational and prime numbers seem to be cut to the quick by the four corners of the earth.

Timeus: Hmmmmmm.

Lily: And so as my ancient Indian forebears instinctively knew--whether North, South, East or West--right here on our earthly stage is where it's at. Square one.

Timeus: Squaring my circle, eh.

Lily: Not at all. Language has meaning in all its flowering fields. Keep to your circle. Just keep it within my square. These two things are not like each other, if you remember the song.

Not to worry. I'll give you a big enough plot within this 160-acre quarter section so that you can leap more than 5,000 years from the Arctic circle to the Bermuda triangle for all I care, but for God's sake, stay grounded in our Founding.

Timeus: You sound like my Mother Nature.

Lady Liberty: (knocking on the nearby foundational rock, since there's nothing else left of the original homestead) You called?

Timeus: Yeah. Where's my American pi, Mom?

Lady Liberty: Here. Keep court with these works. When your Mother Nature says principles, she means American principles which derive from Heaven's ordered liberty. And she'll knock Humpty Dumpty off his eroding church wall if he thinks "principles" mean whatever he wants them to mean for his "living" Constitution.

Timeus: Oh, this looks interesting: the U.S.I.Q. game. Get the free market slackers on the phone and see if they want to play for real.

Lily: (Punching up Tu's Shih & Herbary) Hey, Tu. What's up?

Tu: Lily, I am looking at three depressed faces.

Lily: (Hears Link, Raina and Curtis in the background) Oh? Pretty high on the misery index eh?

Tu: I would prefer your cheerful company, but now I am stuck with them. Thank you very much.

Lily: Well, put them to good use with this quiz, and if they pass it, we'll pop for gasoline-no green shirt taxation added without representation--and you guys can come visit us this weekend. Besides which we need help getting Timeus off his cloud.

Check your email. I just sent you the link, no pun intended. Put him on, and here's Timeus:

Link: Invited to the ranch? No problem with transportion cuz the serfs were just about to retake control of the bus before being run over by it.

Timeus: 'bout time you got off your duffs. Ladies, please, the snorting in the background is quite rude. Ok. quiz time, Keepers. We're Team Patriots. You're what's left of the Free Marketeers.

Link: So the Free Marketeers aren't patriotic?

Timeus: Well, I would've thought so, but looks like you're going to have to prove there's something in a name, pal. Something solid. Like a rock of liberty.

First question under: Intellectual and Ideological Sources of the Constitution: 20 questions, level 4. I should think you all capable of handling 12th grade level.

Link: Ok, you start.

Timeus: In creating the American government, the Founders drew upon the writings of a number of political thinkers. Name one of the prominent political philosophers who did NOT influence the Founders.

Too easy for patriots. (whispers with Lily and Lady Liberty) The red head himself: Karl Marx.

Oh, look at that, history buff. IQ says: You really know your stuff!

Could be a long toll road for ya, wending your way back to the future of freedom fort. Now your question:

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MODERATELY CRUEL TO THE KIND

Posted by LadyLiberty on Thursday, April 30, 2009 2:57:58 AM

Episode 72: Moderately Cruel to the Kind

(Catching up on the news, Rock of Liberty Ranch site)

Olam: Some say moderation in all things. By leaving the Republicans, Senator Specter is judiciously avoiding extreme cruelty to those who uphold our constitutional Republic.

Lady Liberty: You mean the conservatives?

Olam: Well, that's what you call them. I might say libertarians or classical liberals. A moderately cruel person calls them "right wing extremists". Some say "far right idealogues".

Lady Liberty: The extremely cruel say "far right wingers"?

Olam: No. Stateside, the extremely cruel say, "right wing nut jobs", or "religious fanatics" since the agnostic or disbeliever in Man as perfectable savior would qualify as fanatical to them.

Lady Liberty: Interesting take.

Olam: Thank you. And the extremely cruel worldwide would say, "Off with the infidel's head!"

Lady Liberty: Well now that sounds like the real religious fanaticism.

Olam: No, no, no. "Religious fanaticism" is an oxymoron. Religion is about the whole, not a fanatical sliver imposing its will on the whole. Such extreme cruelty is pure political fanaticism. But keep in mind that in a political formulation, if we were to be cruel to the cruel, that very likely might negate the entire problem. And to what purpose?

Lady Liberty: Uh huh. The algebra of human relations...with its busy work to the nth power?

Olam: By strong man rule. How well you deduce. I see how your son became the great tutor he is today.

Lady Liberty: A true community organizer, religiously speaking.

Olam: And speaking of busy work, expect more of it in "post-Christian America".

Lady Liberty: Now wait a minute. I thought that,

The decline and fall of the modern religious right's notion of a Christian America creates a calmer political environment and, for many believers, may help open the way for a more theologically serious religious life.

Olam: Raise your hand if you if you notice a "calmer political environment" in America or, even more so, in the "post-Christian" West? How about the non-Christian Middle East?

Look, ma, no hands.

Go to the head of the class with your son. That'll make room in this Republican tent for the independent and libertarian patriots restaking their American claims.

Whoa now, head down there, Ms. Liberty. Low flying plane on the horizon, and it doesn't appear to take kindly to little, old ladies and the citizens who love them.

Lady Liberty: Oh, don't worry about me. I can hold my own. (Exhibit A: Eternal Torch) Anyway, that photo op with the trailing military for effect, is headed farther South by Southwest for a real show of kindness to all comers. But you might want to text the President. He appears to be operating ex post facto.

Olam: Appearances may deceive but Presidents should not.

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FROM THE DREAM, A REVOLUTION

Posted by LadyLiberty on Wednesday, April 15, 2009 4:27:53 PM

Episode 71: From the Dream, A Revolution
1776177617761776177617761776

(On Poetry Square, addressing the Tea Party gathering)

Olam: Well, Keepers, gathered here from all parts of our globe, on behalf of the human dream of freedom--of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness as God-given qualities that no Man can put asunder--we are here rededicating our lives to that liberty for all, not just the few.

To all who are, themselves, gifts from God, contained often in humble packages of hidden substance. Plain wrappings that we may deride while favoring the glitterati of dust and a learned deception that sleights the good news.

To all, not just the few overlords who rise up unwittingly like noxious gas from the underworld with perfumed words and clever twists on language to make themselves and us believe that somehow they are entitled to the governing of our lives.

Our legacy is to honor that dream our Founders codified in the U.S. Constitution and practiced in their sacred and secular duties. Our fight is to keep that dream alive.

So in that human spirit, let us take our reminders from wherever and whence they come.

Get the connection, people of the world...and the overlords who would run them?

Lady Liberty: Take up your torch, beleaguered U.S. citizens, under assault from all corners of the globe, not the least of which is Washington, D.C. and the imperial benches from here to there.

(Citizen waving his Tea is for Tyranny sign): Huzzah!!

As Abraham Lincoln said, and quoted in Mark Levin's great book Liberty and Tyranny,

Property is the fruit of labor...property is desirable...is a positive good in the world. That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise. Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another; but let him labor diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

How far from our homeland have we wandered!!! And for more than 40 years, so our youth have not noticed the breadth and depth of departure from that charter of good news. Little disordered steps in the name of "change" or "organizing" or "progressive reform" or "new foundation"s.

(Citizen waving No Mandate for Tyranny sign) Huzzah!!!

Humpty Dumpty speakeasy has been our childrens' indoctrination.

But for all the erosion, we still have our rock, solid foundation in codified freedom: free speech, free market, freedom of assembly, freedom of religion, freedom to bear arms and stop the encroachment of overlords who have lost their way.

We have our rock of liberty in a separation of powers, Mr. President, Justices, and Congress. We have our rock of liberty in our Federalism and our 10th amendment that ensures you will not overstep and misstep by disordering our ordered liberty. That you will not mistake innovative applications of our foundational principles for uprooting the very foundation of that liberty and stuffing into that sinkhole your silken, but synthetic plants which will fail to bear any fruit for our offspring. Such "change" is neither new nor foundational to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

(Citizen waving Change Begins with You, Fearless Leader) Huzzah!! Huzzah!!

The new administration is off course, and is not bringing hope for the right change: restoring our Constitution and our culture of freedom. We are a self-governing people, however, because we understand that our God-given rights and responsibilities cannot be usurped by Man. Or woman, Ms. Homeland Insecurity, who couldn't manage to adhere to the few federal laws to which she was bound as a governor, namely, protecting her borders from illegal crossing. And now she is declaring that our soldiers and citizens may be enemies of the state? Or is she, perhaps like the President, towing the line for some other ship of global statism, steered by the geldings for redistributive piracy? That would be a hostile take-over by proxy fight and a loser for the pretenders to the helm.

(Citizen waving No Government Against our Constitution is Legitimate: Quo Warranto?) Huzzah!

(Citizen waving Liberty for All, not Tyranny from the Few!)

(Citizen waving The Revolution was 1776! You're not Changing THAT Foundation, reactionaries!)

(Citizen waving If you Think Liberty is "right wing extremism", you're wrong!)

We are not fooled by appearances with politicians who would squander the good faith and hope of American citizens by overthrowing our government in the name of progress. We are familiar with that old-line "progressive" movement from the 20th century and we witnessed its abject failure to deliver on its childish, other-worldly promises.

The American dream delivers. It is grounded in the spirit of truth that cannot be compromised--self-evident truths when deception has worn out its welcome.

(Citizen waving Not Tax, Spend and Regulate, but Repeal, Limit, Liberate!)

(Citizen waving Join the Patriotic Resistance in that Shining City on the Hill)

Let anarchy's long march to tyranny end here. They, being left and right extremists, are not invited to central casting in this human cause celebre. We will know them by their acts. And we will keep our Republic. As Harry Truman understood, may our "leaders" be servants to the people and follow the good conscience of that great cause.

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Jus Cogens

Posted by LadyLiberty on Friday, April 10, 2009 3:18:18 AM

Episode 70: Jus Cogens

...it is generally accepted that jus cogens includes the prohibition of genocide, maritime piracy, slaving in general...

(At Curtis' apartment)

Raina: What are you watching?

Curtis: Colbert Report.

Raina: Oh, please.

Curtis: C'mon. It's funny. "Attack Dog of the Week": Ted Stevens.

Tom: Aw, just a little kitten in the den of lions. He don't know cats from dogs.

John: You don't know sons of lions. I'll show you a real dog and a son of a lion.

Tom: Yeah?

John: Check it out. Son of a lion. Real dog.

Tom: The Democrat geldings prefer their mock dogs. Don't confuse them with reality. The Daily show or the Colbert Report is the only news they choose.

Curtis: Speaking of which, the geldings want to give their Danegeld to the "pirates" and I don't mean little Johnny Depp sashaying 'round the Carribbean. D'ja see the Somali slackers looking for an easy score off the shores of Tripoli?

Tom: When WILL they learn to do an honest day's work? Get an African plan, brothers. Not American. Not Danish. Not Chinese. African.

Curtis: Too much ironic information here. The Vikings used to be the ones demanding tribute--hence the Danegeld--now they sail their Maersk Alabama cargo ship full of relief aid to Africa and the sailing terrorists blackmail THEM for easy money.

Tom:  Yeah, but the Danes draw gutsy cartoons of violent ideologies that attract mobs of violent people who rage against being portrayed as violent. That counts for coup in dhimmwittitude.

John: Ohhhh. Light bulb. Those wouldn't be Muslim terrorists--as in Barbary "pirates", would they?

Curtis: Sorry. We don't do news here. We do comedy shows. You'll have to seek out Hillary for the "21st century" answers to this age-old problem. I'm sure the administration has something very progressive in mind, though. Internet chat rooms for the Somalis to vent their tribal frustrations, perhaps.

Tom: Maybe Facebook "friendship" chains for the geldings and pirates to link up with, in that slavish way they're so attached to. Or tweets about social justice from the oppressor who won't bail THEM out. Who are you Americans kidding, anyway? Your Constitution has gone global; why not your free market?

Raina: Sorry, there's only so much free money for the Fed to print per the Treasury Czar. And anyway the cap and trade con or the carbon tax from the UN poli-sci majors is intended to break us first.

John: All that illiberal liberalism sure beats our conservative U.S. Navy and Thomas Jefferson, eh!

Curtis: Now wait a minute. Thomas Jefferson's not just your dead, old white male. Keith Ellison, first Muslim U.S. Senator, who refused to carry his Bible to the Senatorial swearing-in cereomony, preferring his Koran, cited Jefferson's ownership of the Koran as proof of Mr. Ellison's own enlightenment.

Tom: Well I think we should put Mr. Ellison's words to the test: since Mr. Obama wants more Muslim representation in our government,  Mr. Ellison ought to pick up on that cue and persuade Mr. Obama to follow Jefferson's good sense all the way toward Tripoli.

But instead of beating back the offenders in Barbary-style Wars, fight the progressive 21st century fight with a rapid strike force of smart bombs strategically placed off the coast of Africa.

Miss the captain, however; he's the good guy. Another son of a lion.

Curtis: Well, that's an idea whose time may have come. But only if our not-so-loyal opposition will practice its blood sport on the aggressors against civilization as opposed to its defenders here at home. A sort of back to the future for the lamb of Good Friday.

Mary:  No, that would be Easter. And we aren't there yet.

Curtis: Oh, yahhh. Easter Under Attack. You saw the Colbert video too eh? A literal, multi-cultist's Revenge of the Easter Rising: Like the son of a lion, fighting the enemies of the human race, the Savior is armed, and He is dangerous.

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HOSTILE TAKEOVER BY PROXY FIGHT

Posted by LadyLiberty on Friday, March 27, 2009 3:45:07 PM

Episode 69: Hostile Takeover by Proxy Fight

Timeus: The conventional wisdom of Man for no seasons now interprets "everyday is a new day" to mean "the sun also does not rise". It's not just that it may be cloudy or sunny. Chaos theory says that we must start from scratch when there are no absolutes.

Perhaps that extra degree of temperature or two was simply too hot for some to handle. Sun and all her sunspots, be gone!

Link: Ah! Good point. The contradiction is within the phrase for those who judge by appearances. If everyday is a new day, then "day" will no longer do.

And what a benefit not to see any absolutes or principles anywhere: you can make it up as you go along. And since you are making it up, why not make it up to your advantage?

Timeus: So when Judge Scalia reads the Constitution as it is written, rather than as his personal etch-a-sketch, he is true to his job description as written in that very document. He recognizes not only limits on the weight of his federal judicial scale vs. those of the Executive and Congressional, but also understands clearly that he may not count as solid what is actually gas. The 10th amendment stakes out his sacred ground.

Curtis: Why is it that when Judge Scalia trues to his calling of interpreting the law rather than socially engineering what he wants it to be, or even legislating constitutionally, Barney Frank refers to him as a homophobe?

Olam: When he does not find a principle in the Constitution for homosexual marriage? Wouldn't we have a lonnnnnng document if he did consider such an example to be a federal, Constitutional principle. It would put the EU Manifesto and our 2009 multi-trillion dollar "budget" to shame. And that's saying something.

Well, for those who find advantage in making the world up their way, they will brook no opposition to that, similar to a spoiled, name-calling, hate-speaking hater of hate speech two-year old.

Curtis: (stamps his feet) YES I CAN!!!!

Olam: Ha! What child likes to hear "No, you can't"? There are limits in this world, by definition, but the little child hasn't yet developed a cortex with which to reason, so mummy and daddy must help him by simple directives and reminders of the civilized world "out there".

Consistently reinforced, this provides a framework for the child's rational understanding of the world as it is and just how far he can push his imagineering "should be's" before being up against Mother Nature and Father Time. The ones who brought him here out of love, regardless of his biological or cultural orientation, I would add.

Lily: A legislative question born of love can be legislated lovingly without jeopardizing its future questioning--by destroying the traditional source for all quests, by defying absolutes and principles in favor of exceptions to the rule.

However, if the exception honors the rule, then the exception must be honored, but with its own words and meanings, to demonstrate love and not defy it.

Lady Liberty: Surely our Father's house has many mansions, and we room, each to his own, in that dwelling-place. Let us act in accordance with that deed and not the activist missteps of those who would toss the torch to burn the house down. Theirs have followed a grave misguidance by the lure of "organizing communities" through disorganization.

Timeus: Let us consider another apparent digression before we close: Re: Global warming/climate change/carbon cap and trade:

Have the global greenshirts understood the premise of the natural world as it is scientifically, or are they advancing a conclusion from their multicultural world as they want it to be politically?

Link: Mr. Gore, the High Priest for Global Warming, has ended debate on that, so some will never know. Please, you just said, there are limits, right? Debate over.

Olam: You've made my case. Whereas the two-year old cannot reason or will not listen and therefore misconstrues facts to his narcissistic advantage, the adult must discern and hold himself and others accountable to those facts contained within the boundaries of truth.

Therefore, leave off with convenient lying about inconvenient truths, incline yourself through that narrow gate, brother, and ye shall find your way in this world unto the next.

Timeus: For the all the bed-climbing among our government/media/business complex, this republic of self-governing citizens was not scripted (by telepromters or otherwise) to lie down for a hostile takeover by indoctrinated, proxy-fighting naifs, babbling global goo-goo.

Lady Liberty: The absurdity of Mr. Obama and the Barney Frank/Chris Dodd Dems in faking their moral outrage at AIG bonuses is exceeded only by their audacity in attempting to override contract law, meddle in the free market of incentives, nationalize industries for their statist ambitions and distract from their insertion of all that into the original STIMYOULOSE package.

THEY created this mess with Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and assorted draconian legislation and mis-regulations through the past 50 years because they really do not like capitalism's free market. They do not like incentives. They do not like honest work and competition. They only like taking the fruits of someone else's labor to leverage themselves to a thuggish overlording and to increase dependency in their constituents. This is only change the U.S. has never seen to this degree and of such a reactionary, anti-American kind.

It is true that their extortionist legislation and litigous front groups like Acorn, the ACLU and La Raza have encouraged through their intimidation a ponzi scheming simulation of governmental "compassion" in the capitalists who betray capitalism. But who do we have to fear more? The narcissist reflected in the free market mirror or the one who outlaws mirrors and replaces them with overseeing micromanagers like Nanny Pelosi?

Olam: Well, let us simplify by naming the alphabet soup our Republic has been feeding this totalitarian beastie for a century.

Curtis: A. Tax B. Spend C. Regulate.

Olam: How do you purge such a beast?

Lady Liberty: A. Repeal. B. Limit C. Liberate!

Lily: Then you tea party, or maybe you convene continentally only to prioritize what you will fight for within our Law and not to rewrite our Constitution. We've had enough of that with the walking dead for the Living Constitution. Then you surround them with love and light.

You take your stand for the Union, not against it. And you understand that the U.S. was neither built nor torn down in a day or a season. The goodness that we gained from our secular western and our sacred eastern traditions is not to be toyed with by tots who know not what they do.

Therefore, we must resolve ourselves to restore ourselves to that charter, in which all citizens, by their unalienable rights from God, could find happiness and prosperity...unshackled by the chains of Man and his government.

Olam: As we freed the slaves, we must not enslave the free.

So Lily, what poetry squares with this rock of liberty?

Lily: Well, I was searching for such a verse, but found first the Requiem on my desktop, which being in 12 parts takes some listening, but should be listened to in toto. And that led me to a further search for the lyrics to its mass. And the domine, Jesu Christi led me to this blog about a priest named Fr. Walter J. Ciszek who had witnessed in the Soviet gulag. And that led me to think of antonyms, like resurrection.

And that is the ending and beginning music which is eternal poetry, sufficient to bring tears to the eyes of a judge supreme.

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IF EVERY DAY WERE A NEW DAY

Posted by LadyLiberty on Saturday, March 21, 2009 12:29:52 AM

Episode 68: If Every Day Were a New Day

(Keeper's Meeting on the back porch at Olam and Freiah's)

Olam: Well, next meeting I shall have taken down the storm windows--if not yet the storm--and we will enjoy our wonderful season of spring. But, as you know, that April 15th rally will be the last Keeper's Meeting until further notice.

Since Timeus intended going on sabattical come June, Lily, Freiah and I decided to join him. We will be working on a long-term project in the heartland beginning with a ranch restoration. The place is called, Rock of Liberty and it still has the original foundation intact. That foundation will serve as the central meeting place for residents and visitors, around which we will build our U.S. clearing house, so to speak, for all things historical and Constitutional. Timeus?

Timeus: Yes, we're very excited about this opportunity. In conjunction with Saulk Creek Academy, Lily and I will be developing and disseminating curricula that fills the gaping hole in junior high and high school American history classes. We will also be developing courses on the American Constitution and a historical film series on our founding and our great American heroes.

As you know, we have lamented the deplorable state of miseducation in America for 50 years, and we are now living with the consequences of having been derelict in our parental and educational duties. We have not kept our Republic because we have allowed those unfaithful to its rigors to degrade her and themselves in the process.

Our home in the heartland is now calling, so we will meet that call with every ounce of intellectual, spiritual and physical discipline that we can muster, in the spirit of gratitude to those who bequeathed to us this inimitable birthplace of freedom. The longest-running democratically-based Constitutional Republic in the history of Man. Like the American Rangers, we aim to keep it running, and we are blessed with the best marksmen in the world for that purpose.

The practical outcome will be a refuge on the range for all the Keepers and an outreach for Liberty and her willing torchbearers. We will return when the physical restoration is complete and the curricula and scripts have found their markets.

Olam: We will leave you, but we will not join up with the amnesic sunshine patriots. For they, as President Reagan so tersely put it on D-Day's remembrance, forget that when we speak about change in the U.S. we 24/7 patriots mean, a changing there! not here. Not a change in our fundamentals. No sir! Not after this long climb.

Over there! Over there! That's where. And pick up the pace while you're at it over there, since the reactionary rigor mortis seems to have spread around the globe even after all these years. Lady Liberty.

Lady Liberty: Our Keepers, in rotating groups, will be assisting with the restoration of Liberty's rock so that the merchants on Poetry Square will not be abandoned. We expect they will continue the fight for our free market and a limited government that knows better than to betray its birthright by meddling with free marketeers and overthrowing the very government they were entrusted to uphold.

Link: We'll hold our own here if more reminders are needed.

Mandeep, Tu, Raina and Curtis: Huzzah! Huzzah!

Link: Along those lines, of late the inverters of history have been harping on some kind of loyalty oaths that we ought to be swearing to our new president. I don't know what country they think they are living in. It's not mine.

In this country, we don't swear oaths to presidents. Presidents, on the other hand, and not under-handedly, I might add, swear oaths to be faithful to our Constitution and to defend the American citizens.

That does not include non-citizens. Nor does it include enemy combatants, no matter what aliases they may have been assigned by the Humpty Dumpty Committee for Newspeaking Ease.

Our Constitution does not apply to them, and many in that homewrecking crew are quite happy about that. May they enjoy the irony of their swift exit.

Riffing off your amnesic theme, I will add that many of us have long memories and would be appalled to know of a "white caucus" in our Congress, since we recall that our only King EVER got it right when he said,

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

Perhaps it is best, therefore, that the brothers in Georgia did depart for a spell. May they get right with themselves. For if others who suffered more than they will ever know...

Keepers: Thanks be to God...and righteous ones--for that!

Link: ...had equally forsaken the spirit of our Freedom's Declaration and even the letter of our Constitution, had not kept up the long human fight, had instead trivialized the notion of "racism" by today's low and extortionist standards and squandered their freedom to usurping demagogues, then the brothers woudn't be free to dissemble in the assembly of God and Man. There would be no more inner angst about how to square the character act with the color code, given the chains that do not require such integrity of purpose.

Lily: The great falling away, and not always of chains. It's not enough to speak, but to speak true, as Will said of a midsummer's night. And more to Patrick Henry's point:

What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!

Chains and slavery can exist in the human mind as well-in the human language that shapes tyranny, not liberty.

Olam: Should be common knowledge today, like common sense once was. But before we get to more of our uncommon knowledge, a question: If every day were a new day, then how could spring return? And why does Antonin Scalia scoff at the conventional wisdom of such change?

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