"We the People..."

July 4th. Independance Day. What are you going to do to celebrate the 232nd anniversary of "We the People...."? You're probably planning on doing the same thing as the majority of America; maybe sleep a little later, mow the lawn before it gets too hot, in the afternoon you'll go to a relatives house or have friends over and you'll grill some dogs or burgers, drink a few beers, then either light some fireworks or go somewhere and watch your city/county burn up 25 or 50K worth of Chinese product that no one thinks 'twice' about buying.

I'll planning on doing the same. And I'm going to get my money's worth this years because, somewhere in the deep, dark of my aching heart, I have a sad feeling that if "We the People" don't get off our collectives arses and do something fast, this will be the last 4th of July the good ol' US of A is going to be worth celebrating for spit.

I'd planned on writing praises about the Supreme Court's 5-4 decision this week to overturn DC's ban on owning a handgun. Huzzah! For the first time in 200 years, the majority of the court actually "agreed" that the 2nd Amendment gives law abiding American citizens the right to bear arms. Then I got to thinking that maybe it was like an apology for some of their earlier decisions this term, and they thought we'd need them. They also voted 5-4 to allow enemy combatants (ummm....terrorists) to challenge their detention in federal court. Not just the enemy comba....the terrorists held at Guantanamo Bay but also those held at Bagram AFB in Afghanistan or in Bagdad, Iraq. (For thoughts on these poor, wrongly held innocents, you can read a couple of my earlier blogs) Oh...and by the way, a GAO (Government Accounting Office) report released in May says that 37 of the terrorists who have been released from Camp Delta at Gitmo because they were determined not to be so bad, have either been confirmed or reported as fighting "Again" in Afghanistan or Iraq. The latest being a released Kuwaiti who blew himself up in Mosul, Iraq while driving a truck packed with 5 to 10 thousand pounds of explosives. Unfortunately, he killed 13 Iraqi soldiers and wounded another 42. http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/06/released_gitmo_detainee_in_sui.html

Anyway, in another court decision (5-4) they banned the death penalty for child rapists. Guess in a twisted way you can consider it a "good" thing that Michael Jacques of Vermont kidnapped his niece before killing her. If he'd only raped her while initiating her into his sex slave ring, Vermont would have given him 6 months probation and counseling. Oh wait, he had already undergone and "graduated" Vermonts therapy for sex offenders and was on probation.

Last blog I told you about how our southern border is still hemorraging to the tune of 250,000 illegal entrants a year ( Remember...that's only in Tucson Sector ) well, now Fox is warning us that our 4000 mile border with Canada is primed to allow more than just Moosehead Beer and hockey to find it's way south http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,376244,00.html.

What else? Oil topped $145 a barrell today. Average price of unleaded is now $4.10 a gallon

For the sixth straight month, more Americans lost their jobs. We're up to 438,ooo so far this year. Just to keep unemployment at 5.5% we need to generate 100,000 jobs a month. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080703/ap_on_bi_go_ec_fi/economy.

Iraq is improving (but you probably don't know it 'cause good news about the GWOT isn't reported. ) But the Taliban just won't quit in Afghanistan. For the second straight month, more coalition troops died in Afghansitan than Iraq. 28 Americans died there last month. The most since the war began in October 2001. http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/07/02/asia/troops.php

Where am I going with all this? Well, tomorrow is the 4th. Independance Day. And God Bless America, I think it's time for another revolution! I told someone the other day that it's always been my opinion that you shouldn't complain about government if you don't offer any solutions. Well, here you go. Happy 4th of July.

Today, July 4th, 2008, every American worthy of calling him or herself "We the People", needs to declare independance from Republican and Democratic Party political pandering and demand their congressman/congresswoman and senators roll up their sleeves and get to work fixing this nation!

1) To the Supreme Court: The Jihadist at Gitmo are not accused purse snatchers caught on the streets of Atlanta or Chicago or Nashville, TN that have a right to a public defender and Habeas Corpus. Want to close Gitmo? Line 'em all up against a wall. Ready. Aim. Fire. Problem solved.

2) To Michael Jacques and other child rapists: Ready. Aim. Fire. You sick, sorry, perverted, sonsof... ummm....again, problem solved. Call it 7.62mm ventilation therapy.

3) To President Bush and Secretary Chertoff: Put the National Guard back on the border; north and south, 4 man teams every mile. At 24 hrs on 48 hours off, at 5800 miles of border, that's 69,600 guardsmen. Keep them there until you've hired enough BP agents to do the job right and close the damn border! Then figure out what to do about the 12 to 20 million people who are in this country illegally. Besides granting them amnesty!

4) To the US House and Senate: just agreeing to drill for oil in ANWAR and off the coast of Florida, Louisianna, and California and agreeing to build new refinaries and nuclear power plants and agreeing to tax credits for companies to find other alternative fuels (besides the joke of ethanol!) will lower the price of oil below $100 a barrell.

5) Againt to the congress and sentate: doing the above will stop the hemorraging of job losses and rising inflation and put 100,000 people a month back to work. There's a lot more things you can do! Just do it!

6) To Uncle Sam....please for the Love of God and Country! Please quit trying to win the war on terror with the minimum amount of troops to keep them contained! Mobilize the damn military! Mobilize the damn country! And declare war on terrorism. Islamic Fasicst Terrorism! And wipe them out once and for all! Whatever happened to "We will not tire. We will not falter. We will not fail."?

And lastly, to Senator Obama, Senator McCain: stop playing politics and come up with some plan, any plan, that addresses the real problems with real solutions that do not involve taxing us to death or driving the budget so high even the godless Chinese communist won't by our bonds and finance our debt so we'll continue to turn a blind eye to their hunger for world dominion.

Whew.....I'm spent.

Happy 4th of July. Pray it's not the last where "We the People" are still actually free.

God Bless America. And forgive us Father, we know not what we do.