Clara's Cranny

Choice: Tax by a Tax, or Tax by Devaluation.

2011-07-28T14:34:00.000-07:00

As long as the wealthy hang onto their wealth as it appears on paper, the more wealth they will lose because wealth is in terms of currency. The value of gold is in terms of currency, and when it takes more dollars to buy gold or anything else, it's a devaluation of the currency, not an increase on the value of gold or anything else.

Gold's value is in terms of currency, and somebody should tell Ron and Rand Paul that a gold standard for currency is a recursive downward spiral. Gold's value = terms of currency and with a currency based on the value of gold, you can't get more recursive than that. It's nuts.

People who don't pay taxes force the Fed to print more money, so avoidance of taxes doesn't make them richer--their wealth in terms of currency looks like it's going up but it's actually taking more (devalued) currency to be of equivalent value. People who don't pay taxes are nuts.

3 Unnamed Radio Stations in Enid Area Announced The Event

2009-09-18T19:03:00.001-07:00

In my previous entry, I'd mentioned only the city newspaper. One of the organizers mentioned 3 radio stations which announced the event, and I should mention this in case any of my readers want to do a possble media demographic breakdown regarding how the 1 pm-ers managed to come at 1 pm instead of at the end of the parade, an hour earlier.

It's also worth mentioning that the organizer said that these radio stations were all related, too. I presume he meant under same corporate management. And one of these (at least) was a talk show radio.

Cindy Allen, if you're reading this (she's the editor in chief of the city paper), you might consider this event to be some pretty damning evidence of how ineffective your rag is in the area your paper serves...or...it's testimony to how illiterate Enidiots are. Take your pick.

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Now where was I....ah, yes. Thursday's paper said that Tea Party was to be after the parade, which ended at noon; nobody at the library's grounds at noon, so I asked the head librarian what gives; saw 2 organizer guys, asked them what gives and they said the thing started at 1 pm, and so I had a whole hour to blow between the end of the parade and the beginning of the Tea Party. Talk about a bum steer.

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There were tent events downtown on the county courthouse grounds after the parade, so I decided to grab a carnival hotdog and visit the tents. Lo and behold, I discovered one political tent. ONE. It was the Democratic Party tent.

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As I roamed around the rest of the tents, I noted with interest that there was no Republican tent--and as everybody else in the country knows, Oklahoma is By God Republican.

I was shocked. Totally taken aback.

As I went further on my walkabout, I saw an elderly lady wearing a tee shirt emblazoned with "VOTE REPUBLICAN" and decided to ask her where the Republican tent was. Her response to my inquiries were that they didn't have one this year and it was because it was too much of a hassle to go through the red tape and telephone tag to go through with it. "So your party is that sure of itself, is it?" I asked, and there was a vigorous denial.

With that, I have another correction to post here, besides the bit about adding the radio information in addition to the local newspaper--the lady I just mentioned is the third known local to have shown up at the Tea Party, but it was neither at noon nor at 1 pm sharp. She showed up considerably after 1 pm. Still, when gubernatorial candidate Randy Brogdon got up to speak, he claimed that the crowd numbered 150. Readers who still have their calculators out, make note that it's 3 locals, not two, out of the claimed 150. Me, I'd put the acutal number closer to 100, but that's still not much of a better picture of the locals.

About that pic of the steers running a red light...I missed a better camera shot, alas. The better camera shot would have been the one capturing the cop car bringing up the rear with its rooftop lights flashing. I could have captioned that one "In Hot Pursuit Of Red Light Scofflaws". Wish I could have talked a cop into a pose with a steer, with his ticket book out, too.

Tea-Peed in Enid--The Beginning.

2009-09-17T21:41:00.000-07:00

This article which appeared on Page 2, Section A, on Thursday, September 10, 2009, became Clue One as to how fake the Teabaggers who showed up on the following Saturday were.

The article states that the Tea Party was to begin right after the Cherokee Strip parade. When I walked to the library right after the parade, the grounds looked deserted. I went inside the library to inquire where the Party was. The head librarian wondered what I was talking about, and I told her what I'd read in Thursday's paper. She said she didn't know anything about it, which was odd because she attended the previous Tea Party.

Oh the story gets better, folks.

We went over to the west window of the library and saw two guys setting up card tables, and concluded that this must be the event. I went outside and inquired as to where the Tea Party was supposed to be, and they said it was to be right here, where the setup was. I then wanted to know where everybody was. "It's at 1 pm," one said, and then a man walked up to the three of us and asked the same question. "I'll bet you got your information from the paper," I remarked...and he confirmed with a nod.

Based on the information in the paper, only two people showed up--me and this one guy. Everybody else showed up at 1 pm sharp. Do the math.

....more to come as I process the pics....

2009-09-15T23:11:00.000-07:00

Went to a Tea Party in Enid on the west side of the city library and discovered that the people running it think that Republicans are too liberal. Friends & neighbors, here's a bit of news for ya--the bigtime media keeps wanting to put a Republican face on this Tea Party stuff just because Republicans are caught embracing 'em--but--the people running the show are NOT Republicans.

Watch this space as I add pics and details to this story at a later time. The yellow flag behind this guy, held by a buddy, is New Hampshire's "Live Free Or Die" state flag; the other one, the "lone star flag", he says is the flag for States' Rights. He seems to have not noticed what a failure the Articles of Confederation were....not to mention what a failure the Confederacy was.

2009-07-25T18:12:00.000-07:00

This business of racism regarding the Cambridge Police Dept. needs more context than it has been getting. Never before has the issue of racism from the points of view of all involved has been more important--and yet due to squabbles over copyright type rights, a significant TV program which addresses numerous points of view on racial issues has not been re-run, not even on TVLand.

I refer to the Fox TV series "Alien Nation". The 2-hour pilot of 1989 alone addresses many of the issues addressed by the real-life Cambridge incident.

The movie it was based on, starring Mandy Patinkin and James Caan, also cuts no PC corners on the matter, yet I haven't seen a listing on any of the cable movie channels for it. Could it be that CBS's name is on it as well as 20th Century Fox's? AND gets lead billing?

I can't think of a better time for all aggrieved parties of both the movie and the TV series to resolve disputes YESTERDAY and re-run both on the air. Better yet, some interested 3rd party (BET?) buy 'em BOTH out and air them while the topic is still hot. It's the best chance we've got for making a difference in race relations.

New Google/Blogger crap SUX

2009-06-07T08:09:00.000-07:00

Finally ran the gamut of the new Google hurdles imposed on Blogger, and after pages and pages of generated errors, I'm finally able to access my Blogger blog again.

Blogger couldn't have made a bigger mistake. BLEAH.

2008-07-06T17:57:00.000-07:00

Man--I didn't think I'd be able to blog here again because Google kept telling me that my email account was invalid and that my Blogspot URL was invalid.

Anyhoo, this is a brief note to mention that another Blogspot blog worth looking at (for radio hobbyists) is Arnie Coro's:

http://www.dxersunlimited.blogspot.com

Unable To Leave A Comment Before?

2006-10-18T21:33:00.000-07:00

New Change--

I have just changed my Comment settings from "members only" to "anyone", but they will be moderated.

Petition/Statement Submitted to MoveOn to Submit To Congress & AG

2006-01-18T14:55:00.000-08:00

WHEREAS:
The U.S. Constitution demands that legislation and court decisions comply to it;

WHEREAS:
The U.S. Constitution is not required to comply to legislation or judicial decision;

WHEREAS:
All U.S. citizens are protected and enjoy privileges under the U.S. Constitution;

WHEREAS:
Amendment 4 reads
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, the persons or things to be seized.";

WHEREAS:
Amendments 9 and 10 declare in equivalence that it is Judicial Activism which grants the president more power than is expressly enumerated in the U.S. Constitution;

WHEREAS:
Amendment 9 reads
"The ENUMERATION in the Constitution, of certain rights, SHALL NOT BE CONSTRUED TO DENY OR DISPARAGE OTHERS RETAINED BY THE PEOPLE.";

WHEREAS:
Amendment 10 reads
"The powers NOT DELEGATED to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, ARE RESERVED to the States respectively, or to the people.";

WHEREAS:
The Congress has powers over foreign affairs under Article 1 Section 8 part 10;

WHEREAS:
Article 1 Section 8 Part 10 reads
"The Congress shall have Power...To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offences against the Law of Nations" and is reinforced by Article 1 Section 8 Part 3;

WHEREAS:
Congress has the power to make that which the executive branch should just faithfully execute under Article 1 Section 8;

WHEREAS:
Article 1 Section 8 Part reads
"The Congress shall have Power...To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces";

WHEREAS:
The military has no more power than that of the executive branch to do no more than just faithfully execute laws passed by Congress, given Article 1 Section 8;

WHEREAS:
Article 1 Section 8 Part 15 reads
"The Congress shall have Power...To PROVIDE FOR CALLING FORTH THE MILITIA TO EXECUTE THE LAWS OF THE UNION, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions";

WHEREAS:
The Congress' constitutional power over the military, recognizing again that the chief executive is only a COMMANDER, aka military executor, given Article 1 Section 8;

WHEREAS:
Article 1 Section 8 Part 16 reads
"The Congress shall have Power...To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress" and is reinforced by Article 1 Section 8 Parts 11 thru 15;

WHEREAS:
Whether he acts as simple executive in peace time, OR executive as commander in chief, the president AND the military under him are compelled to faithfully execute all laws and the Constitution, given Article 2 Section 3;

WHEREAS:
Article 2 Section 3 reads, in re presidential powers,
"He shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient; he may, on extraordinary Occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them, and in Case of Disagreement between them, with Respect to the Time of Adjournment, he may adjourn them to such Time as he shall think proper; he shall receive Ambassadors and other public Ministers; HE SHALL TAKE CARE THAT THE LAWS BE FAITHFULLY EXECUTED, and shall Commission all the Officers of the United States;

WHEREAS:
The FISA statute is federal law that binds both the president and the Pentagon and all military under him, given both Article 1 and Article 2;

WHEREAS:
This law was broken BY THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE AND EXECUTIVE STAFF DIRECTED TO DO SO;

WHEREAS:
People who break federal statute are felons;

IT IS INCONCEIVABLE TO ALLOW UNINDICTED FELONS TO CONTINUE TO RUN THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES; THE LAW IS THE LAW. Republicans that fail to recognize the laws of the United States aid and abet felons in the commission of their felonies and should be indicted on such grounds themselves.

"A law repugnant to the Constitution is void." --Justice John Marshall, in Marbury v. Madison

Let's face it--Conservatives are communists.

When there's unpaid or low paid labor, the corporation loses its customer base. The providers of labor are also where the demand comes from, in that supply/demand equation.

Therefore it follows that cheap labor is NOT capitalism. When the corporation doesn't pay a wage a person can live on, the corporation expects the state to support the worker by entitlements, and work done for the corporation is more for the privilege of being "productive" and only for the benefit of the corporate collective, since it is NOT for actual fair compensation for work performed.

That's not capitalism--that's communism.

Never A Strict Constructionist Or States' Rights Crusader When Ya Need One

2005-12-22T14:39:00.000-08:00

I find it most incredible that Bush Appologists are claiming commander-in-chief powers to legitimize warrantless wiretapping of U.S. citizens who are governed by the supreme law of our land, the U. S. Constitution. Unless the NSA is a department of the Pentagon, it doesn't rise to the militia stanards required by Article 2 Section 2.

Of course Dubya might not have lied to the nation--because he might have been advised to do so. More than just Dubya is complicit in these felonies.

For instance, in order for a piece of legislation to claim any kind of War Power from any War Power Act, it would have to have usurped the power granted only to the Judiciary to interpret the Constitution for itself. No piece of legislation or resolution has the power to alter or edit or eliminate any portion of the U.S. Constitution for that would be a violation of Article 5.

This also means that no judge has the power to alter or edit or eliminate any portion of the U.S. Constitution either, by rendering an "interpretation" favorable to the person who appointed him. That, too, is a violation of Article 5, which is the only way to alter, edit, or eliminate any portion of the U.S. Constitution.

No power of any office in the United States is expandable by judicial "interpretation", in fact. That is prohibited by the 10th Amendment, which states that the only powers even the president has are express powers only, as specifically granted by the U.S. Constitution, and all other powers are reserved for the States and the people.

The 10th Amendment argument is what States' Rights conservatives always thump, like the NRA always thumps the 2nd Amendment. Where did all these people disappear to? Can't find hide nor hair of a single one of 'em these days.

The U. S. Constitution is the Supreme Law of the Land--Legislation is to comply to it; it is not to comply to Legislation. Further, Judicial rulings are to comply to it--it is not to comply to Judicial rulings.

Am I surprised? Not only no, but HELL NO.

Gonzales Should Be FIRED.

2005-12-19T11:02:00.000-08:00

Alberto "Tortured Logic" Gonzales just issued his legal opinion that Congress enabled the president to conduct warrantless wiretaps as if Congress can change the 4th Amendment of the Constitution without first the Constitutionally required process of amending the Constitution first.

No legislation can change the Constitution or its amendments. Only a Constitution Amendment can make the 4th Amendment go away.