The Wandering Minstrel

As a concerned American citizen, I worry about the ever-increasing overreach by the Federal Government. Last spring, we received the American Community Survey, randomly sent to households. Therein they asked too many questions dealing with information that I do not wish for the Government to know. Not that we have anything to hide, but I believe it’s none of their business.

Our household will fill out the census as is required, but again, we have some concerns about some of the questions. One of those deals with the races of individuals in the household. Mark Krikorian, on The NRO Corner suggests how to answer the illegal race/ethnicity question on the 2010 census.

Question 9 on the census form asks “What is Person 1’s race?” (and so on, for other members of the household). Answer Question 9 by checking the last option - “Some other race” - and writing in “American.” It’s a truthful answer but at the same time is a way for ordinary citizens to express their rejection of unconstitutional racial classification schemes.

The only thing the Founders required was a headcount. I despise giving anything beyond that.

UPDATE: Krikorian expands his thoughts.

We have had Charlie Wilson’s War in our DVD collection for a couple of years at least. After the former Congressman’s recent death, the Better Half and I decided to watch the flick one more time. Sort of like a tribute, I guess, but more for our entertainment since we think it is an excellent film without too much left wing Hollywood crap in it.

In the flick, Tom Hanks plays the role of Charlie, a good ol’ boy politics playing Texas Congressman who gets transformed into a crusader against the Russian invasion of Afghanistan. Julia Roberts plays a role not unlike Kay Huchison, an activist anti communist socialite who prods Charlie into his eventual “war.” Philip Seymour Hoffman plays the gruff and profane CIA agent who acts as a catalyst in the transformation.

There was a sequence near the end of the flick, while Charlie Wilson is standing on the balcony with Gust Avrakotos during a party celebrating the defeat of the Soviet army in Afghanistan, Gust warns Charlie of future problems if he and the other members of Congress do not follow up on giving economic aid to the Afghani’s. As Gust finished this warning, Charlie thinks about what he said, and you hear an airliner flying over Washington DC. It is an obvious, ominous reference to the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center.

As I indicated before, it is very entertaining, has lots of weapons, guns, blowing shit up, doesn’t try and make a twisted political statement and ends on a reminder of where we now live in the age of Islamic terrorism.

I rate Charlie Wilson’s War a quarter star short of five, holding back just because it was directed by the ultra-liberal Mike Nichols.

Charles Krauthammer (center in the photo) regularly appears on the Fox Special Report, in the Fox All-Stars segment. The discussion turned to the Obamination’s declaration that he would rather be a “really good one-term president than a mediocre two-term president.” Mr Krauthammer replied as to what an asinine statement it was:

Well, there is a third option he didn’t consider, which is that he could be a mediocre one-term president, and that’s what he has been thus far in his first year. And because mediocrity does not usually encourage the electorate to re-elect you, that might account for being a one-termer.

Mr. Krauthammer also elaborated on the outcome of the special election in Massachusetts for the People’s Senate Seat:

I think what’s even more astonishing than the result in Massachusetts last week was the Democrats’ response over the weekend in how they understood the election. It was a marvel of obliviousness, obtuseness, and unbelievably condescending arrogance. [more]

Via NRO.

This video has been making the rounds. I first saw it at Sig94’s site and he credits Rotweiler. I don’t know where it originated, but it is powerful.

Motivate and vote in November. Make noise until then. Let ‘em know we’re coming.

p.s. I hate having that ugly bitch’s face on my website, so play the video and make it stop.

I have a few candidates for the list - this will be incomplete, so feedback is welcome.

• Order to close Gitmo
• Buzzing NYC with Air Force 1
• The “Beer Summit” debacle
• 3.5 TRILLION dollar budget
• Nomination of tax evader Dashle to the cabinet
• Stimulus Bill - a.k.a “generational theft act of ‘09″
• Nomination of activist/racist candidate Sotomayor to SCOTUS
• Copenhagen I - Olympic failure
• Copenhagen II - Climate Ponzi scheme
• Genuflection before foreign monarchs except for our allies
• Waffling on Afghanistan policy
• Khalid Sheik Monkey-hammad trials
• Ignoring domestic terrorists - Ft. Hood shooter and crotch bomber

There are many more, I’m sure.

We can only hope that 2010 will bring the change we need. Columbia Conservative Examiner thinks that 2010 may be too late!

I’m sure there are many current events about firearms and the right to keep an bear arms being covered by our comrades in arms. I am struggling for a topic to post, so I thought I would re-post an article I wrote two years ago when the Obamas were saying things they think we want to hear just to get past the Democratic primaries . . .

Obamas Show ‘Concern’ for 9-1-1 Response Times . . .

. . . in Iowa, that is. This is just another case of gun-grabber Democrats telling a segment of voters what they want to hear:

Obama: My wife sees need for rural gun ownership “And by the way, Michelle, my wife, she was traveling up, I think, in eastern Iowa, she was driving through this nice, beautiful area, going through all this farmland and hills and rivers and she said ‘Boy, it’s really pretty up here,’ but she said, ‘But you know, I can see why if I was living out here, I’d want a gun. Because, you know, 911 is going to take some time before somebody responds. You know what I mean? You know, it’s like five miles between every house.’

“So the point is, though, we should be able to do that, and we should be able to enforce laws that keep guns off the streets in inner cities because some unscrupulous gun dealer is, you know, letting somebody load up a van with a bunch of cheap handguns or sawed-off shotguns and dumping them and selling them for a profit in the streets.“

So let me get this straight . . .

Urban and suburban areas have congestion and limited law enforcement resources and lousy 9-1-1 response times - how can that be any more effective than the local county sheriff and his deputies having access to wide open country roads from widely deployed patrol sites? I’ll bet the sheriff and the boys win any 9-1-1 response time contests.

And then there is the serious “unscrupulous dun dealers” loading up vans with “cheap handguns and sawed-off shotguns” problem. Right. This problem is as common as when your Glock jams in target practice. Asshole doesn’t know what the hell he’s talking about.

Obamas are just as bad for our second-amendment rights as the Clintons. Maybe worse.

It is now less than one year until the next election. We will have the opportunity to throw the bunch of liberal bums currently in office OUT. It’s time to get politically independent and to vote for the ISSUES and not the party.

The media, will be feverishly cranking out the rhetoric about ‘all the tea-party racists out there.’ They will try and protect the liberal bastards from those of us who have had enough of left wing socialist bullshit and gun-grabbing idiots. Ignore the media crap and just VOTE THE BUMS OUT.

Time waits for no politician. The clock is ticking.

Oh, and don’t get me started on TERM LIMITS. (Can you say Robert Byrd?)