A light hangs in a church, a lone rider in the dark.
The call to liberty echoes through the night.
A patriot rises, laces his boots, puts on his coat, takes up his weapon and departs into the night, never to return.
A nation is born.

Church bells ring on Sunday morning.
The distant drone of airplane engines, the rumble of bombs.
The crushing of steel, the shredding of lives fills the air.
A patriot rises, laces his boots, puts on his coat, takes up his weapon and departs to the East and to the West, never to return.
A nation is defended.

A bright beautiful morning begins the new day, a bustling city of skyscrapers, a bristling seat of government, and quiet lush field.
The explosions of hatred, the sudden devastation of life, jolt the surreal awakening.
A patriot rises, laces his boots, puts on his coat, takes up his weapon and departs, never to return. A country is protected.

The patriot strives in a thankless employ.
They march on to the cadence of Liberty living and dieing for those who yearn to be free.
The cause of Liberty calls and the patriot rises up to answer, departing into the night of oppression to hasten the sunshine of freedom.

Time will not diminish the glory of their deeds, as we the free lift up our patriots in the chorus of Liberty. So they know, they will never be forgotten.

Today keep in remembrance those who paid the highest price for freedom and pray for their families that they may find peace.

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Kagan Says ‘Governmental Motive’ is Proper Focus in First Amendment Cases, Backs Limits on Speech That Can ‘Harm’

(CNSNews.com) – Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan said the high court should be focused on ferreting out improper governmental motives when deciding First Amendment cases, arguing that the government’s reasons for restricting free speech were what mattered most and not necessarily the effect of those restrictions on speech.

Kagan, the solicitor general of the United States under President Obama, expressed that idea in her 1996 article in the University of Chicago Law Review entitled, “Private Speech, Public Purpose: The Role of Governmental Motive in First Amendment Doctrine.”

In her article, Kagan said that examination of the motives of government is the proper approach for the Supreme Court when looking at whether a law violates the First Amendment. While not denying that other concerns, such as the impact of a law, can be taken into account, Kagan argued that governmental motive is “the most important” factor.

In doing so, Kagan constructed a complex framework that can be used by the Court to determine whether or not Congress has restricted First Amendment freedoms with improper intent.

She defined improper intent as prohibiting or restricting speech merely because Congress or a public majority dislikes either the message or the messenger, or because the message or messenger may be harmful to elected officials or their political priorities.

The first part of this framework involves restrictions that appear neutral, such as campaign finance laws, but in practice amount to an unconstitutional restriction. Kagan wrote that the effect of such legislation can be taken as evidence of improper motive because such motives often play a part in bringing the legislation into being.

“The answer to this question involves viewing the Buckley principle [that government cannot balance between competing speakers] as an evidentiary tool designed to aid in the search for improper motive,” Kagan wrote. “The Buckley principle emerges not from the view that redistribution of speech opportunities is itself an illegitimate end, but from the view that governmental actions justified as redistributive devices often (though not always) stem partly from hostility or sympathy toward ideas or, even more commonly, from self-interest.”
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Since this idea makes sense no one will listen.
Simple, fast, cost effective, enviromentally freindly, non-chemical way to easily remove the oil slick from the Gulf of Mexico.

All I will say is March 21st 2010 will forever be known as the autumn of the Constitutional Republic formerly known as The United States of America.

Among all the other pieces of legislation that have been flushed from this congress, now this Health Care Deformation bill drives one more nail in the coffin of our Constitution.

Installing a Seagate FreeAgent Xtreme external hard drive on D*tv HR22 DVR.

It has been stated on a few discussion boards that the FreeAgent prefab external drives will not work on the HR22 and for that matter the HR21 (as the HR22 is basically just an HR21 with a bigger hard drive). I have found out why and that this can be overcome.

I found this article linked from this page: Daily Tech .com

It is a very interesting read and directly corelates to the data that I have found all my life.

All in a Good Cause
By Orson Scott Card

Here's a story you haven't heard, and you should have.

An intelligence source, working for a government agency. He's not a spy, he's an analyst. He uses computers to crunch numbers and at the end of his work, out pops the truth that was hiding in the original data. Let's call him "Mann."

The trouble with Mann is, he has an ideology. He knows what he wants his results to be. And the original numbers aren't giving him that data. So the agency he works for won't be able to persuade people to fight the war he wants to fight.

Well, that's not acceptable.

The news this past year has not been good. I am sure you know that, unless you have been living in a closet. Everyone seems to think they have the solution to your woes. Well guess what, and this may come as a shock, they don’t. They not only do not have a solution to your problems, they really don’t even care about your ills. So to paraphrase the late great Lewis Grizzard, It is time for some common sense and straight talk.

Rush wants Obama to Fail

Well who in their right mind wants a United Socialist States of America?

James Carvelle, the White House and the Democratic Machine want to make political hay out of a comment by noted conservative and talk show host Rush Limbaugh. Good for them, the more publicity they give conservatism the better.