Sorry for the lack of news today, but it is hot.
Memphis is under a Heat Advisory, the Heat Index is expected to hit 105 today. Which means it will be hotter than an oven in my apartment. I’m going to go and hug the air conditioner in my bedroom. I’ll see you later when I feel a little better.

I heard this on Rush yesterday, and I thought I would pass it along. Here is a press release from Freestar Media. They intend to build a “Lost Freedoms Hotel,” complete with a “Just Desserts Cafe” and a museum to document the lost freedoms we have had in America at the hands of the Supreme Court.
The twist is they intend to tear down Justice David Souter’s home and place it on his property, taking the property under Kelo.
I see no reason why Justice Souter has been singled out for this honor. I think the same thing should happen to the other 4 Justices that voted for Kelo as well. Make it a chain of hotels.
This may be the only way we can hold these justices feet to the fire is to let them experience the fallout of their decisions first hand.
Good Luck to Freestar Media.

The FEC is looking into regulating blogs. FEC Debates Blog Rules.
The big question is this: Are bloggers journalists? Well, they are in the strictest sense of the word. A journalist is someone who journals, or records his experiences. The difference between an amateur and a professional is the pro has someone paying him to write these stories for their publication.
Granted, I think if a blogger is paid by a campaign to build up a candidate and attack the competition, this needs to be disclosed, as with other parts of the law. But if someone is doing it freely, then no regulation should be permitted.
I blog about what interests me. I’m in all likelihood not going to get paid for my efforts here, and beyond an occasional hit on the tip jar (rattle, rattle) I’m not going to get paid. I pay my own way around here and I refuse to accept any regulation as to what I can and cannot say.
The First Amendment has already been curtailed, let’s not let it slide any further.

It was in 1856, in the case of South v. Maryland that SCOTUS ruled that you can’t hold the police responsible for not protecting you. It has been upheld by every decision since. Well, yesterday Castle Rock, Colo., v. Gonzales, 04-278 came along and reaffirmed it, and added restraining orders to the mix.
Police can not be held liable if someone breaks a restraining order and the police do nothing about it. A restraining order isn’t worth the paper it’s written on.
911 is truly state-sponsored Dial-A-Prayer. Dial it and hope they get there in time before you get murdered.
Or you can be a rugged individualist American, and shoot the bastard before he can hurt you and your family. Your choice, your life.
My advice, get a gun and learn how to shoot it. Make the decision now to shoot the criminal who is threatening you so you don’t hesitate when the moment comes.
I wish I could carry a gun again, but I have this little idiosyncrasy of sticking the business end in my mouth. So I have to depend on other things for personal protection. Less-than-lethal options that may or may not successfully drive off any attacker before I am killed.
Protect your family.

The smashing of personal property rights has begun. Economic hype clouds judgment.

Just hours after the Supreme Court’s decision Thursday, Freeport officials began efforts to seize waterfront property from two seafood companies as part of an $8 million marina development,…

Companies that has been in business for over 50 years now must close and be destroyed to “revitalize downtown.”
And all you have to do is believe the developers. Of course they hype all of the positive stuff, how everything is going to go perfectly. But things rarely do. Cost overruns, and the dreaded “we built it, but nobody came.” Or not enough people came. New construction that never gets completed, or quickly becomes blighted. What then? Destroy it all and let the seafood companies back in? I don’t think so.
This is a travesty of justice and some way must be found to stop it. Contact your state legislators and have them at least introduce legislation to stop this Socialization of America.

Well, I just noticed this morning that I am no longer a Flappy Bird in the TTLB Ecosystem. I have been upgraded to an Adorable Little Rodent. I’m #4681 in the system, so I’ve got a ways to go before I can even move up another step in the ecosystem.
Thank You to all who visit my page, and keep coming back. Tell all your friends, and don’t forget to hit the tip jar on the way out!

The court has ruled in the matter of McCreary County v. ACLU, and has found for the American Communist Liberals Union. The Ten Commandments, in the eyes of SCOTUS, constitutes an endorsement of one religion over another, even though the Commandments are in the roots of both Judaism and Christianity. It is also our foundation of common law in this country.
We are seeing the moral underpinnings of this country being knocked out one-by-one. Soon we will have nothing to stand on and the society and law will crash downward into anarchy.
This Constitution we live under was written for a moral people. Without those morals we cannot survive.
Remember that.

Just another example of how the MSM is biased, I learned on Fox News Sunday this week that someone noticed something strange.
ABC, CBS and NBC all carried Karl Roves comments the day after they were made. But what about Dick Durbin and his Nazi comments? ABC and NBC only covered the apology, CBS didn’t cover the story at all.
Classic Liberal bias. make Clarion calls when a Conservative says something, but ignore the most egregious comments and accusations by a Liberal. If they apologize, cover it in passing, if at all.
Things that make you go “Hmmm…”

I found this article, Durbin Apology – Not Accepted!
It nails Senator Durbin to the wall, and gets a few spare nails into his fellow Democrats as well.
Here’s the kicker:

In fact, both Durbin and his spokespeople said he would never apologize.
But after the deluge of protesting letters, faxes, emails and phone calls Durbin received and his “friend,” Chicago mayor Richard Daley (okay, that’s one Democrat!) called his charges “a disgrace” – and probably after he read the respected Rasmussen poll that found only 14 percent of the American public agreed with his egregious comparison of prisoner treatment at Gitmo to Nazi tactics – Durbin finally shed a few crocodile tears as he puled out that: “‘I have learned from my statement that historical parallels can be misused and misunderstood.”
Some apology! The senator who fancied that his statement was based on ideological grounds was not so ideological after all! When he realized that he might not get the money he needs for his reelection and that his slander might result in even more losses for his party in 2006 and 2008, he choked out a mea culpa worth nothing at all: “I have come to understand that was a very poor choice of words…” [bold emphasis mine]

In fact, he never really apologized for his comments, he apologized if you took his comments the wrong way! Of course he’s right in his comments, you just misunderstood him because he’s so smart being a Senator and all, and you’re just a stupid average American.
Feh.

Ed Klein, author of “The Truth About Hillary,” can’t get an interview to save his life. Why not? Because the MSM won’t do anything to tarnish the image of our illustrious next President, Hillary. Only Fox news has had him on, and even that was under great pressure not to do so.
This woman has the collective testicles of the MSM in her lockbox, and she will refuse to give them back if any of them speak with this guy. Of course, the MSM doesn’t want to be locked out of Hillary’s campaign, which is the reason why they are not granting Ed the normal rights of a blockbuster-selling author. Hillary won’t let anybody in how speaks badly of her. So I guess Fox is out. I’m glad that someone has their own testicles around here.

Here is a more in depth story about what is happening in Kelo et al v. City of New London: Supreme Court Rules Cities May Seize Homes.
This is what I mean by Liberals legislating from the bench. We have a clear statement of the Fifth Amendment, limiting government, and the majority of justices ignore it.
Here is the Fifth, for those of you who were asleep in American History and Civics:

No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.

Unfortunately, “public use” now means improving the tax rolls because a property or group of properties aren’t bringing in enough tax revenue.
This will lead to a lot of seizures of private property. Not today, not tomorrow, but soon. A developer no longer has to negotiate with the property owner, he just has to go to the ruling council and say “I can do better with this property than the present owners.”
Yesterday was a dark day indeed for individual rights.

The Liberal double standard has never been more clear. Dems Say Rove Should Apologize or Resign.
After making the remarks that I quoted yesterday, Liberals are coming out of the woodwork, severely stung by Roves’ remarks.
They are calling on Rove to be fired, apologize or resign. For telling the truth. For stating the obvious. But yet all of these Liberals screaming over Roves remarks were strangely silent when Senator Durbin (D-IL) called our servicemen and women Nazis. To call our troops Nazis, to compare them to the likes of Stalin, Hitler and Pol Pot does nothing but stain our troops and make the crimes of Hitler, et. al., a lot less grotesque. Senator Durbin trivializes the millions murdered, exterminated by these three men.
But Hillary, Reid, Pelosi, et. al., think our troops are Nazis. Otherwise they would have said something against Durbin.
So when Rove fully and completely skewers Liberals, they squirm on the spit and try to shift the focus off them. Too bad.
One more quote by Rove that I didn’t put up yesterday:

“Let me just put this in fairly simple terms: Al Jazeera now broadcasts the words of Senator Durbin to the Mideast, certainly putting our troops in greater danger. No more needs to be said about the motives of liberals.”

‘Nuff said.

This just in: SCOTUS upholds the new eminent domain laws, where a persons land can be taken away from you in order to develop a larger tax base. Supreme Court Expands Reach of Eminent Domain.
And so the trot becomes a run. The pace of our loss of rights is accelerating quickly. Soon we won’t have any rights left. The direct violations of our Constitution is becoming frequent and flagrant.
The case is Kelo et al v. City of New London, 04-108.
*cry*

Mike and I are both hermits. We use Wednesdays to get out and meet other people. Both of us love to play Epic:Armageddon. It’s a win-win situation.
Anyway, we held a 5,000 point battle last night and it was a truly epic battle.
I was trying out my new drop pods, so I had to have a spacecraft to drop them from. I picked a battle barge that showed up on turn 3. More about that later.
Both of us spent turn 1 developing positions for our forces. He teleported one set of Terminators in and smashed one of my two Tactical detachments right off the bat. I smashed a thing or two, but the turn went to Mike.
Turn two went to me. I smashed things left and right (the flanks that is). But he made a Thunderhawk drop that smashed my center, getting a battle point for Break My Spirit for destroying my largest point unit. I teleported my terminators in against some Scouts, and the Scouts chased the Terminators off.
Turn three was my moment to shine, but not quite enough. My orbital strike landed dead on his highest point unit. I had to pick a spot before we even laid a single unit on the board and I picked exactly where he sat. I then dropped an entire Company of Tacticals behind his position, but they were a little out of position. I almost got Break Their Spirit, but his Supreme Commander made his invulnerable save.
Mike ended up with a 3-0 Battle Point win, a well-deserved win for him, after all of the pastings I have given him.
I’m still analyzing the after battle reports, and it looks like the orbital drop was not that good of an idea. It worked perfectly, I couldn’t have asked for any better results, but it was too little too late. I couldn’t contest his objectives, and he had firm control of mine. If I had kept these forces on the ground, and used the spacecraft points for something else, I would have had a better chance of defeating him.
Good Job Mike!

During a recent speech, Karl Rove nails the fundamental differences between Conservatives and Liberals. Rove: Democrats Didn’t Understand 9/11 Consequences.

“Liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers,” Rove said Wednesday night. “Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 and the attacks and prepared for war.”

Therapy and understanding doesn’t help in keeping a bully from attacking you. You get back up and knock his ass on the ground. Then you kick him while he’s down and step on his throat. That makes him think twice about attacking you again.

“Conservatives saw what happened to us on 9/11 and said we will defeat our enemies. Liberals saw what happened to us and said we must understand our enemies.”

I understand our enemies perfectly. They hate the US and everything that it stands for. Personal freedom, multiple ways of worshiping God, a strong economy and power in the world. They want to destroy the US. See? I understand. I am also going to help take action to see that it doesn’t happen again.
I understand not only my enemy, but myself as well. I understand that we must defeat these enemies so they cannot strike at us again. We must destroy what created the hate, so that no more terrorists are created. We can never kill all of the terrorists, they are like roaches, always hiding from the light and only coming out when your back is turned.
I understand that it is either them or us. One of us will survive this fight and I am doing everything in my power to make sure it is our side that prevails.
I hope you are as well.