Stages of Democracy

I put this on my Facebook page a month or two back but after reading today (Thanks Tara!) that attempts to change the Constitution are underway I decided to repost.

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Stages of Democracy - Please Read/Share

I've been looking for this for weeks and I finally found it. I think I received it originally in an email so I don't know if the references to actual people are accurate, but regardless of who said all this they might have hit it right on the nose. The part that reminded me to find it again was that part about changing our inalienable rights and freedoms. Obama has stated that he thinks the Constitution has major flaws in that it does not provide for redistribution of wealth. You can google "Obama and constitution" if you don't believe me. When you keep digging you can also find him back in 2001 saying much the same and a little more. Now that we clearly have a voting public that is willing to place someone like him in office, what is to stop him from changing our most important document to suit "the times", i.e. his agenda.

If you didn't know here is all that is needed to amend the constitution.

Amending the Constitution is a two-part process: amendments must be proposed and then they must be ratified. Amendments can be proposed one of two ways. The only way that has been used to date is through a two-thirds majority vote in both houses of Congress.

Regardless of how the amendment is proposed, the amendment must be approved by three-fourths of states, a process called ratification. Depending on the amendment, this requires either the state legislatures or special state conventions to approve the amendment by simple majority vote. Amendments generally go to state legislatures to be ratified, only the Twenty-first Amendment called for special state conventions.

Take a look at Congress and the number of states that went to Obama, there ain't gonna be much resistance.

This, right here, is the reason to be aware of current events in our own country as well as those going on around the world. The world is changing right before our eyes and some of us just don't care enough to pay attention. We have become totally apathetic and expect the government to provide for us. So, if you are a friend of mine, conservative or liberal, please read this and think it over.



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"About the time our original 13 states adopted their new constitution, in 1787, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh, had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years prior:

"A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship."

"The average age of the worlds greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence:

1. From bondage to spiritual faith;
2. From spiritual faith to great courage;
3. From courage to liberty;
4. From liberty to abundance;
5. From abundance to complacency;
6. From complacency to apathy;
7. From apathy to dependence;
8. From dependence back into bondage "

Professor Joseph Olson of Hamline University School of Law, St. Paul, Minnesota... believes the United States is now somewhere between the "complacency and apathy" phase of Professor Tyler's definition of democracy, with some 40 percent of the nation's population already having reached the "governmental dependency" phase."
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IF that really is so - then the only stage left is #8 - From dependence back into bondage. What might that look like I wonder? Possibly the welfare state becoming openly socialist and increasingly totalitarian - possibly even a dictatorship? One thing is for sure - our civil liberties will become extinct in the name of "the public good" or "safety."
You know, the Founding Fathers saw this coming and cemented our inalienble human rights in the constitution so that all future laws and govt. actions had to keep these in the center of their thinking and rulings. But social progressives constantly want to redefine these rights and the constitution so that it can be "applied" to modern situations. In the end, all that does is make it easy for some dictator(s) to "redefine" our rights and the constitution so that they can "legally" take them away (so much for inalienable). Pretty scary!
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Ps. This blurb uses both the term "Democracy" and "Republic". By popular convention we refer to ourselves, incorrectly, as a Democracy. While the terms are closely related there is a difference. In a democracy the issues are decided by the people directly. In a republic, which we truly are, the issues are decided by representatives chosen by the people. Just wanted to clear that up. It's really my only gripe with the blurb above. :o) But republic or democracy we still have the same stages......

Even Brain Farts Stink

Today's post is going to be admittedly lame. I'm sorry.

Last night I went to bed a little later than usual and once I got comfortable I started thinking of what I had to do the next day.

Class. Nutrition at 9, Statistics at 11. Wednesday.....date? 11th. OMG, I HAVE A TEST TOMORROW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

How in the hell did I forget I had a test? I blame the government. No, really. It's there fault all I've been doing this week is reading about their stupid spenderific "stimulus" bill.

I spent my morning NOT in Nutrition like I should have been and holed up at the library cramming for a Statistics test that was not what I expected. I don't think I did very well despite feeling good about it when I left the library.

Keep your fingers crossed that my grade isn't so horrible I can't recover.

Peace, love, and doritos

A Quick Post

I read the UA student newspaper everyday as a source of entertainment. Most of it is totally lame but I usually flip to the opinions section for my dose of stupid. First of all, whether the writer is conservative or liberal I can almost always find some fact they are using to back up their argument that isn't true. So much for teaching responsible journalism. It's a good thing I was taught that just because it's in print doesn't mean it's true. It just scares me how many people DO believe everything they read, especially when the student body of UA is exposed to the swill that gets printed in that newspaper. 

I'm just getting around to reading Friday's paper today and my second favorite feature, "Your View", provides todays blog material. In this feature several students are asked a question about a hot topic pertaining to either football or world events. 

This weeks question is:

What do you think of the controversy surrounding some of Obama's nominees?

Here are the answers they decided to print (I'm saving the best for last):

• "I believe their tax evasions taints their own character more than Obama's."
   - James Webb, a freshman majoring in Nursing {not too bad}
  
• "I think he will do the best he can to take care of the issue at hand."
  -Grant Ballard, a senior majoring in apparel and textiles {pretty ambiguous answer}
  
• "I think every politician makes promises that he can't keep in the end. He said he would hire lobbyists during the campaign.
  -Jamie Tarleton, majoring in Physics {Did he hear the question?}

And the final answer....wait for it......

"I think he should change the law so they won't be in trouble."
-Emily McGee, a senior majoring in apparel 

{No bracketed comments from me necessary, I hope.}

Now regardless of what side of the political spectrum you happen to be on you have to agree that this might be the stupidest sentence EVER uttered in human communication. Yes Emily, let's just change the rules mid-game so the people who think they are above paying their taxes can run this country along side the President. 

Holy Mother of GOD......

Proof I'm Not Out of My Mind

So, I was at Publix again. I was looking for a 2 liter of Sprite. Of course it was difficult to find. This time I decided to get some proof. Can some one explain to me how, outside of the aforementioned mentally defective lab rat in product placement at Publix Headquarters, do these things end up on an aisle?