All of My Macho Sauce

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http://www.evansayet.com/home.htm

Worse Than Hitler

For some reason, the RSS or Atom feed for The Daily Gut is not functioning properly, and as a result, redirects you to the FeedBurner home page. Until this is rectified, hop over to Greg Gutfeld's blog from the link above. As always, be sure to catch the funniest bits from his late-night show Red Eye on FNC at Fox News Dot Com.

How To Be Less Dumb

Iowahawk was brilliant today. If you have yet to discover his laugh-out-loud, profane, merciless and divine satire, grab a William Penn and click here. By the time you finish reading, you'll feel like you just smoked Vancouver's finest. But that probably won't be from laughing until your sides hurt. That will more likely be from bong-rips while you're reading.

The Bank Job

I ran across this news story a few weeks ago. I bookmarked it in Firefox with the intent to discuss it here. I'm getting around to it now.

I applaud Mr. Brady Adams for continuing to succeed in tough times by doing things the way that they should be done. I also join with him to decry this rampant spending by our federal government on businesses which falter because of greed, ineptitude, irrelevancy and downright stupidity. I mean, if one loans a crackhead fifty bucks with the expectation of repayment, I expect at least one of the two to be disappointed (if not both - I hear good crack is hard to come by these days). It's one thing if the loan is charity. It's another thing entirely if my fifty bucks is eminent-domained out of my wallet and given to the aforementioned crackhead with the promise of both repayment and rehabilitation.

Congresswoman Pelosi, please stop swinging your gavel like it's a hammer at a Habitat for Humanity building site.

http://www.foxbusiness.com/story/markets/industries/finance/small-banks-refuge-credit-crunch/

Article V

I know the video is a little dated, but I encourage any of you with an interest in the Constitution and/or the function of our government to check out the videos below.

I will summarize:

Article V permits a majority of states (34) to call for a Constitutional Convention. Apparently, what most state legislators do not realize is that the Constitution does not provide any authority to the state legislatures to dictate the substance of the Convention once invoked. Delegates to the Convention can be appointed without any democratic process whatsoever. What this means is that an unwitting representative could be duped into voting for a Convention, restricted by any variety of stipulations, not realizing that the restrictions are stillborn. Article V provides no safeguards against this in its language. This does not necessarily mean that the outcome would be a 'runaway convention,' but the possibility most certainly exists. I mean, we're here now. The Philadelphia Convention of 1787... the Articles of Confederation... anybody?

I admit that sitting through nearly 40 minutes of a late 80's Constitutional documentary sounds about as pleasant as sewing your own eyelids shut with cinnamon dental floss, but at the very least you will [most likely] learn something. In the worst-case scenario, you will become a conspiracy theorist with exaggerated amounts of paranoia and hypochondria. It is alarming to think that the founding fathers omitted more precise language in Article V, but I do not think they envisioned a time when our elected representatives could or would be so aloof and corrupt. There is also that little matter of feeling hypocritical, considering our current Constitution is the direct result of such a process.

And while I'm thinking about it, we declared our independence in 1776. Our final governing document - as we know it today - was completed in 1787 (after completely revamping the original, ratified in 1777). That's 11 years. Our troops invaded Iraq in 2003. I'm just sayin'.

Happy Birthday Mom!

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http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution_transcript.html

part 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za8_pdJ1dPo - 10 min.
part 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flHJrcdfbBg - 10 min.
part 3 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ly1Lh3bqtYM - 11 min.
part 4 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5jKAlgvCgg - 8 min.